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☆ It's not just inner-ring suburbs. Trump has also underperformed in key exurban counties during the GOP primaries.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

And this year, Trump underperformed in many inner-ring suburban counties compared to his statewide vote totals. Related storiesIn the 2016 general election, Trump won Emmet County — in the northern reaches of the Lower Peninsula — by 19 points. AdvertisementIn the 2024 Michigan GOP primary, Trump won Emmet by 34 points, but the figure was below his nearly 42-point statewide victory. A similar scenario unfolded in the North Carolina primary, where Trump won statewide by nearly 51 points. Robert Schwartz, the senior advisor for Haley Voters for Biden, a one-time pro-Haley super PAC, is one of those backers.

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☆ A Trump vs. Biden rematch is on, and it's a showdown most Americans didn't want
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewPresident Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have clinched their parties' nominations for the 2024 presidential election — a rematch that long seemed both inevitable and largely disfavored by voters. AdvertisementA Reuters/Ipsos poll published in January indicates that a Biden-Trump rematch is one most American voters didn't want to see. In the nationwide poll of 1,250 US adults, 70% of respondents, including half of Democrats, said Biden shouldn't seek reelection. "Trump also has a loyal, energetic base, whereas Biden's re-election bid generates almost no enthusiasm, even among Democrats," Boskin wrote. "Still, many Americans strongly oppose a second Trump term and more than 20% of those who voted in the Republican primaries say they won't vote for Trump."

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☆ California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Haley is a strong surrogate for Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Kaanita Iyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Gavin Newsom joked Friday that Nikki Haley — the onetime South Carolina governor and the last remaining major rival to Donald Trump in the GOP presidential primary — is a strong surrogate for Democrats. “So I hope she stays in, hope she does well tomorrow,” Newsom said, referring to Saturday’s first-in-the-South Republican primary in South Carolina. Haley, at a campaign stop in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, on Friday made the case that she is the better alternative to Trump. Newsom seized on the issue Friday, criticizing Republicans who argue that the ruling protects rights. “That’s on the Republican Party, that’s on (House) Speaker (Mike) Johnson, that’s on Donald Trump,” Newsom said.

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☆ Trump heads to South Carolina looking to reinforce his dominance in Haley’s backyard
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Alayna Treene | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Trump’s advisers insist that doesn’t mean he’s taking South Carolina for granted. But we see this as a done deal,” a senior Trump adviser told CNN, referring specifically to South Carolina. Earlier this month, the Trump campaign held two press conferences featuring a series of his top South Carolina surrogates. “Nikki is persona non grata at this point,” Justin Evans, Trump’s director of special projects in South Carolina, told CNN. Those remarks reflect the broader view of Trump’s campaign, which wants him to become the presumptive GOP nominee as soon as possible.

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☆ Nevada holds GOP caucuses with Trump poised to extend winning streak
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump is set to add a win in the Nevada Republican caucuses Thursday to his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire as he continues his march to his party’s 2024 presidential nomination. The state GOP opted to ignore the results of Tuesday’s state-run primary, and instead award its 26 delegates based on the results of Thursday’s party-run caucuses. The dueling contests are the result of a 2021 state law that scrapped Nevada’s presidential caucuses in favor of government-run primaries. A pair of ballot drop boxes are displayed at a voter center in Las Vegas during the Nevada presidential primary on February 6, 2024. The lack of competitive primaries in Nevada means major presidential contenders paid little attention to the Silver State.

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☆ Biden has spent millions on gun policy, but future violence prevention depends on who wins the presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementThe future of gun violence prevention policy will likely depend on who works in the Oval Office. But continued federal action hangs on whether Congress passes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention Act of 2023, a bill that would cement an office of gun violence prevention in the US Justice Department. As election season gears up, gun-related injuries have surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of death for young people, and 18,874 Americans lost their lives to gun violence last year, per the Gun Violence Archive. Breaking down Biden's investment in gun violence preventionIt's been almost six months since The Biden-Harris Administration created the first White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention , tasked with reducing gun violence across the country through executive and legislative action. The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, specifically, is funded through Congress' annual executive office appropriations.

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☆ Opinion: Here’s who won’t be Trump’s VP
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Opinion Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Donald Trump vice presidential reality selection show is heating up, with pundits laying out lists of possible people Trump might choose. They range from South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott, to Ohio Sen. JD Vance, to even former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Trump won’t select a running mate who will help expand his voting base, as he did in 2016 when he named then-Indiana Gov. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/APWith those type of schemes, Trump needs a vice president who will not push back like Pence did. In fact, there’s plenty of time for the other contestants vying to be Trump’s VP pick to debase themselves with public displays of affection.

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☆ Nancy Mace's recently departed chief of staff is officially running to throw her out of office
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewDan Hanlon, the former chief of staff for Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, has taken the most official step yet in his bid to run his former boss out of Congress. Related storiesHanlon had worked for Mace since she arrived in Congress in January 2021, before being reportedly fired in December 2023. It's extremely rare for a lawmaker's former chief of staff to launch a campaign against their one-time boss. Hanlon (far left) during a staff meeting in Mace's DC office on April 25, 2023. Despite once being a critic of former President Donald Trump, Mace endorsed him over Nikki Haley — who backed her against a Trump-backed primary challenger in 2022 — earlier this week.

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☆ Opinion: Trump is a strong candidate. Democrats need to take him seriously.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Julian Zelizer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Democrats should not make the mistake of underestimating former President Donald Trump. Moreover, they note, Haley was able to win independent voters who theoretically would be more amenable to President Joe Biden than Trump in the fall. Moreover, the number of Republicans who keep saying they won’t vote for Trump under any circumstances, gives Democrats hope that on Election Day, many voters in the GOP won’t turn out. But these arguments downplay the threat Trump will pose to Biden in November by ignoring several fundamentals. Trump is succeeding even though the United States has never had a major presidential candidate saddled with so much legal baggage.

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☆ Majority of Iowa caucusgoers say Trump conviction wouldn’t affect their support
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Mark-Murray-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Mark Murray | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

By comparison, 19% of likely Iowa caucusgoers say a Trump conviction would make it more likely that they’d back Trump, while 18% say it would make them less likely to support the former president in the general election. As with the other findings from the Iowa poll, the likely caucusgoers backing former U.N. Among Haley’s supporters, 56% say a possible conviction of Trump doesn’t matter to their Nov. 2024 vote choice, but 41% say it would make them less likely to back Trump. By comparison, 70% of DeSantis supporters say it wouldn’t matter to them if Trump was convicted, versus 26% who say it will make them less likely to support the former president. And among Trump’s supporters, 58% say a conviction wouldn’t matter — and an additional 35% say a conviction would make them more likely to support their favored candidate.

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☆ So far, none of the GOP presidential candidates has been willing to confront Trump in person. It may have been their death knell.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump has not shown up to five straight GOP presidential debates. At no point did any of his competitors try to confront him in person during his counterprogramming. When trailing in polls by more than 40 points, campaigns need to try something, anything different. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Instead, by playing it safe pre-Iowa Caucus, if Trump wins, his opponents and their campaigns need only look internally as to why.

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☆ How Taylor Swift transcends America's political divides — barely
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Alexandra Marquez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Taylor Swift attends the "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" Concert Movie World Premiere at AMC The Grove 14 on October 11, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Seventeen percent of those surveyed reported having "very positive" views of Swift, while 22% had "somewhat positive" views. Meanwhile, just 9% reported having "very negative" views, with 7% saying they have "somewhat negative" views of her. The poll also tested voters' views of pop singer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. And 33% of voters reported positive views of her, while 40% said they view her neutrally and 20% said they have negative views of her.

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☆ In China, social media is bursting with support for Palestine — and blame for Washington
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

As war rages in Israel and Gaza, Chinese social media users have come out in support of Palestine. Some commenters compared Israel to Japan, which is heavily disliked in China due for its brutal regime in World War II. On the biggest posts, support for Palestine is clear. "Normal people will support Palestine. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeanwhile, China's Foreign Ministry has urged Israel and Palestine to work toward a two-state solution, which would see an independent state of Palestine formed to co-exist with Israel.

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☆ Opinion: The surprise winner of the debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Opinion Cnn Contributors | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +30 min

CNN —CNN Opinion asked our political contributors to weigh on the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 season. On Wednesday night, on more than one issue, Haley broke with the old guard in some meaningful ways. Karen Finney: Ron DeSantis falls flatKaren Finney Ralph AlswangeAfter weeks of buildup and reports of serious debate preparation with a top Republican debate coach, this was supposed to be the night that Florida Gov. Instead, DeSantis delivered a flat debate performance devoid of any standout moments, demonstrating why he is the best alternative to former President Donald Trump. Asa Hutchinson in a few instances, not one of the GOP candidates sounded like a serious contender for the White House.

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☆ Do Christie and Pence Make It 2016 Again? Not Yet.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Nate Cohn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The party couldn’t coalesce behind one candidate, allowing Mr. Trump to win the Republican primary with well under half of the vote. With Mike Pence and Chris Christie bringing the field up to 10 candidates this week, it’s easy to wonder whether the same conditions might be falling into place again. Now, the likes of Mr. Pence and Mr. Christie — as well as Tim Scott and Nikki Haley — are in the fray and threatening to leave the Trump opposition hopelessly divided, as it was seven years ago. In the end, Mr. Pence or Mr. Christie might well break out and leave the opposition to Mr. Trump as fractured as it was in 2016. So far this cycle, polls have consistently shown Mr. DeSantis with the support of a majority of Republican voters who don’t support Mr. Trump.

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☆ DeSantis slams Trump for dodging question on 6-week abortion ban, doubles down on his support for the issue: 'I was proud to do it'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He criticized DeSantis' six-week ban in Florida as 'too harsh.' Ron DeSantis of Florida put pressure on former President Donald Trump Tuesday to answer whether he'd sign a six-week abortion ban into law. "I signed the bill, I was proud to do it," DeSantis said of the six-week ban. Voters also overwhelmingly support allowing abortions in cases of rape, incest, or when a pregnancy is life threatening. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to an Insider email requestion a response to DeSantis' latest abortion comments.

☆ Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp says he's not running for the White House in 2024, hasn't heard from Trump, and will keep 'an open mind' on the GOP presidential field
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp told The Wall Street Journal he won't run for the White House in 2024. Kemp, who was reelected to a second term last fall, said he was keeping "an open mind" on the GOP field. Kemp's endorsement in swing state Georgia could be a boon to the eventual Republican nominee. So I'm kind of like everybody else, I'm just seeing how things are playing out and keeping an open mind," he added.

☆ House Democrat says it's 'absurd' that his party isn't promoting challengers to aging Joe Biden in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

He would be 82 at the start of his second term. Rep. Dean Phillips is one of the elected Democrats who's publicly called for Biden not to run again. "Considering his age, it's absurd we're not promoting competition," Phillips said of Biden. He would be 82 at the beginning of a second term in 2024 — by far the oldest president in American history. Nikki Haley — is hoping to capitalize on the age of both Biden and former President Donald Trump, age 76.

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