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☆ Why did early presidents not campaign? It’s all modern presidents seem to do
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

I talked to Brendan Doherty, a professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy and author of the books, “The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign” and “Fundraiser in Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash,” about why early presidents stayed off the trail and how this became the permanent campaign. Our conversation, conducted by email, is below:WOLF: Why didn’t early presidents personally campaign? DOHERTY: In the early decades of the republic, presidential candidates adhered to the norm that they should not actively campaign for office. DOHERTY: While early presidential candidates didn’t actively campaign, their supporters got the word out on their behalf. DOHERTY: Modern presidents campaign for themselves and for their fellow party members throughout their term in office.

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Fox held separate pre-Iowa town halls for DeSantis and Haley, but at 6 p.m. before prime time. Frustration boiled over when DeSantis' campaign manager, James Uthmeier, felt that a Fox graphic didn't show the extent of the candidate's appearances in Iowa. Asked by Ainsley Earhardt if she would withdraw if she lost New Hampshire, Haley said she would not. “I don't care how much y'all want to coronate Donald Trump,” Haley said. “I don't need any advice from RINO Kayleigh McEnany on Fox,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referencing the conservative slur Republican in Name Only.

Persons: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Haley, Trump, Kayleigh McEnany, It's, Brian Stelter, questioners, ” Trump, He's, ”, Erick Erickson, Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, —, Fox, surrogates, James Uthmeier, “ Fox, ” Uthmeier, Fox’s Laura Ingraham, she’s, ” Ingraham, “, Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt, Kilmeade, ” Haley, that's, ” Kilmeade, ” Erickson, “ They've, I've, DeSantis aren't, Chris Sununu, Fox's Harris Faulkner, Sununu, Joe Biden, ” Sununu, ” Faulkner, Jean Carroll, Fox's, Biden, RINO, Steve Doocy, ” Fox, “ Trump, ” ___ David Bauder Organizations: Fox News, Republican, Fox, White House, DeSantis, Trump, CNN, Twitter, GOP, “ Fox, New, America, New Hampshire Gov, FOX, Voting Systems, MSNBC, New York Times, Truth, Friends, Associated Press Locations: Florida, Trump, Fox's, Iowa, Fox, weren't, New Hampshire, New York

☆ House subpoenas James and Hunter Biden in GOP-led probe of the president's family
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Ryan Nobles | Summer Concepcion | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

House Republicans on Wednesday issued subpoenas to Hunter and James Biden — President Joe Biden's son and brother, respectively — as well as a Biden family associate, Rob Walker, in an escalation of Republicans' impeachment inquiry into the president. A representative and attorney for Hunter Biden and James Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The subpoenas and interview requests come a day after the special counsel overseeing the probe into Hunter Biden testified before the House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors. The panel further alleges that the Biden family, their business associates and their companies received more than $24 million from foreign nations over approximately five years. "These records reveal how the Bidens sold Joe Biden around to the world to benefit the Biden family, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of U.S. interests," Comer said in the statement.

Persons: Jason Smith, Joe Biden, Hunter, James Biden, Joe Biden's, —, Biden, Rob Walker, James Comer, Walker, Sara Biden, James, Hallie Biden, Beau ), Elizabeth Secundy, Melissa Cohen, Hunter's, Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden, Ian Sams, Sams, Comer, should've, David Weiss, Weiss, " Weiss, Daniel Goldman, Mary Gay Scanlon, Ted Lieu, Ted Lieu of California —, Scanlon, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Jordan, — Tom Winter Organizations: House Republicans, Biden, Republicans, Judiciary, Justice Department, Committee, United, United States Attorneys, Department of Justice, NBC News, Trump, Democratic, Florida Republican Locations: Longworth, Ky, United States, New York, Ted Lieu of California, Ohio

WASHINGTON (AP) — A low-key lawmaker in Congress for less than a decade, new House Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t recognizable to most Americans. But the social conservative and devoted ally of former President Donald Trump has been a quiet force within the Republican conference he now unexpectedly leads. “A friend to all and an enemy to none,” Republican conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik said when nominating Johnson ahead of the speaker vote Wednesday. A constitutional lawyer and former member of the Louisiana state House, Johnson was first elected to the U.S. House in 2016. Among the more conservative members of the GOP conference, Johnson has consistently opposed a woman’s right to abortion — “we will get the number of abortions to ZERO!

Persons: Mike Johnson, Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy, “, Elise Stefanik, Johnson, ” Johnson, Newt Gingrich, —, Trump’s, Jim Jordan, Trump, ”, Doug Collins, Collins, Mike, ” Collins, Biden, Virginia Foxx, Hakeem Jeffries, Matt Gaetz, McCarthy’s, I’ve, ” Gaetz, ” McCarthy, Mario Diaz Balart, Jordan’s, Thomas Massie, Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves, Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, Jill Colvin, Matthew Daly Organizations: WASHINGTON, Republican, Louisiana Republican, GOP, U.S . House, Twitter, Committee, Trump, ” Former Georgia, Capitol, North Carolina Rep, Democratic, Florida, Associated Press Locations: Louisiana, Israel, Georgia

☆ Supreme Court returns for first private meeting of the term amid even more controversy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Ariane De Vogue | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The Supreme Court returns to Washington to face a new term and the fresh reality that critics increasingly view the court as a political body. Earlier this year, Roberts declined an invitation to appear before the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss Supreme Court ethics, citing separation of powers concerns. Even if he did believe a formal ethics code is necessary, it’s unclear whether he would need a unanimous vote to move forward. Instead, they say, critics of the court are manufacturing a controversy to delegitimize the institution and staunch the flow of conservative opinions. Last week, she told an audience in Indiana that she thought it would be a “good” idea if the court were to adapt the ethics code used by lower court justices to fit the Supreme Court.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Roe, Wade, John Roberts, Roberts, Joe Biden’s, ”, Justice Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, “, ” Kagan, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, ” Cate Stetson, Hogan Lovells, Dick Durbin, Durbin, recuses, Carrie Severino, Alito, forthrightly, ” Alito, “ I’ve, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Conservative, Cato Institute, Democrat, Judicial, Crisis Network Locations: Washington, Congress, Indiana, Lake Geneva , Wisconsin, Ohio

☆ Biden’s Staff May Be Giving Ammunition to Trumpsters - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Since he became president, Biden has sharply curbed how much he talks to the press, rarely giving interviews. He limits his press conferences mostly to duets with foreign leaders, where he can put his foreign policy relationships and experience on display. There’s something poignant about watching a guy who used to delight in his Irish gift of gab be muzzled. He knows his staff thinks he has a problem of popping off, and I think that has made him more timid and more cloistered. And when he’s more isolated, he seems sadder maybe because he’s not drawing energy from crowds and journalists the way he used to; perhaps his overprotective staff has gotten into his head.

Persons: Biden, preselect questioners, nix, “, ”, he’s Organizations: White Locations: Covid

☆ RFK Jr. pledges to gut agencies that regulate vaccines and order the DOJ to investigate medical journals if he becomes president
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Robert F. Kennedy Jr pledged to gut funding for federal health agencies if he's elected president. The long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful told NBC News that he would not make his anti-vaccine stance the focal point of his campaign. In an interview with NBC, Kennedy said that he would not be "leading with" vaccines as a presidential candidate. "Let me address that, because first of all, I'm not anti-vax," Kucinich told NBC. Kennedy told NBC — and has touted for years — of a conspiracy that aspires to defend vaccines and silence people such as himself, even as the studies he points to are corrected or retracted.

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kennedy, —, Brandy Zadrozny, Robert Kennedy, John F, Dennis Kucinich, Kucinich, Zadrozny, NBC —, Cheryl Hines Organizations: NBC News, DOJ, Service, Democratic, and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, Justice Department, NBC, Rep, RFK Jr, Facebook

☆ Bestselling author: Here’s the No. 1 reason you aren’t as successful as you want to be—and how to fix it
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Instead, she recommends, focus on the motivations that you know have already worked for you before. "A lot of times when people want to make a change, they want to make or break a habit," Rubin tells CNBC Make It. "They want to do something because it worked for a good friend of theirs or they read an article about [it]. The trick, in other words, is figuring out what motivates you and applying it to a wide variety of situations. "The people who are the most successful are the ones who have figured out what they need to achieve their aims," says Rubin.

Persons: Gretchen Rubin, Rubin, you've, —, they're, Warren Buffett Organizations: CNBC

☆ CNN's CEO stands by Trump town hall but acknowledges production weaknesses, sources say
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Alex Sherman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Nearly a week after CNN's town hall with Donald Trump, CEO Chris Licht has acknowledged internally there are some things he wished the network had done differently. Licht continues to stand by the concept of the town hall, telling people both inside and outside of CNN that history will look kindly on the network's decision to interview Trump in front of cheering supporters in a live town hall format. That way, CNN could draw the audience's focus to the substance of the question rather than the spectacle of Trump. CNN could have also graphically shown each question while Trump spoke, emphasizing his answers didn't always match the topic at hand. NBC isn't likely to do a Trump town hall, given how CNN's went, said the person.

[1/2] The remains of the Ninel Hotel, a hotel taken over by Russian security officials that was hit by the Ukrainian military on October 5, are seen in downtown Kherson, Ukraine November 17, 2022. Ukraine's SBU and Russia's FSB did not respond to requests for comment on Dollar’s account or other partisan operations. Pavlo Zaporozhets served in the Ukrainian army from 2014-17 and joined Ukraine's GUR military intelligence during the occupation of Kherson, Ladin said. While some details about the FSB account were true, Ladin said, the FSB falsely accused Zaporozhets of deliberately targeting civilians as well as the night patrol. Despite the liberation of Kherson, Dollar said he and Kosatka would continue aiding the resistance until Ukrainian troops recover Crimea, where the couple owns an apartment.

With the term “personal taxes,” however, Mr. Garten appears to be conflating income taxes with other federal taxes Mr. Trump has paid — Social Security, Medicare and taxes for his household employees. Fragments of Mr. Trump’s tax returns have leaked out before. Mr. Agalarov’s father, Aras, a billionaire who boasts of close ties to Mr. Putin, was Mr. Trump’s partner in the event. Mr. Trump’s avoidance of income taxes is one of the most striking discoveries in his tax returns, especially given the vast wash of income itemized elsewhere in those filings. When they got to line 56, the one for income taxes due, the amount was the same each year: $750.

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