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At the first two debates, Mr. DeSantis played the front-runner, attacking his opponents only when he was hit first. This has not been an easy stretch for Mr. DeSantis, in no small part because of the attacks from Mr. Trump on everything from his foreign policy credentials to his height. Mr. DeSantis has staked his bid on his performance in the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses on Jan. 15. Mr. DeSantis offered a similar criticism of the president while campaigning in New Hampshire in October. Unless Mr. Trump makes a dramatic last-minute appearance on the stage, that seems unlikely to change.

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The third Republican presidential debate will take place Wednesday evening in Miami with the smallest field of contestants yet — just five candidates. That’s down from the clamorous field of eight who shouted and jostled their way through the first encounter in Milwaukee in August. (The former president, who has skipped the two previous debates, will be hosting a rally outside Miami while his rivals spar.) Here are some things to watch over the course of the two-hour debate. She has a chance to use her momentum to eclipse Mr. DeSantis, her most serious rival in the race, to be the top Trump alternative.

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In remarks before a gathering of Jewish Republicans in Las Vegas, Ms. Haley highlighted remarks by Mr. Trump criticizing Israeli intelligence and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as weak just days after the attack. We have no time for personal vendettas,” she told the crowd of nearly 1,500 donors, activists and officials. The annual gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition has become perhaps the highest-profile gathering of the Republican primary season, taking on greater urgency after Hamas’s attack on Israel three weeks ago. Support for Israel unifies a broad coalition of Republican voters and officials, including foreign policy hawks, business leaders and evangelical Christians. Over a Shabbat dinner on Friday night, several Republican officials pledged their support for Israel and the Jewish people before an audience of 1,500 donors, activists and officials.

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☆ All the people Donald Trump can't insult anymore or he'd risk violating court orders
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The federal judge in Trump's election interference case issued a gag order against him on Monday. Another gag order was issued by the judge in Trump's New York civil fraud trial earlier this month. AdvertisementAdvertisementThanks to a couple of gag orders against him, there's a bunch of people Donald Trump can't insult anymore — unless he wants to risk violating court orders. Earlier this month, Justice Arthur Engoron issued a gag order in Trump's New York civil fraud trial when Trump singled out one of Engoron's clerks online. At a campaign rally soon after Chutkan's order, Trump attacked her, calling her ruling "unconstitutional" and saying "her whole life is not liking me."

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☆ Biden, Trump and the 2024 Field of Nightmares - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A half-dozen at-bats later, a Mookie Wilson ground ball went through Buckner’s wobbly legs, sending the World Series to Game 7 and a certain 6-year-old Red Sox fan to bed in desperate tears. Those tears were my first acquaintance with the harsh truth of a baseball aphorism: The ball will always find you. Obviously, this is a column about President Biden’s age. But not only about Biden, because America has been running a lot of Buckner experiments of late. And she almost did — but in the end, her legacy was reshaped and even unmade by a decision to stay too long on the political field.

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☆ I watched the newly-public security camera footage from January 6. I saw things I hadn't seen before — including eerie scenes of lawmakers fleeing for their safety on one of the darkest days in Americ
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

House Republicans have begun to make January 6 security camera footage publicly available. I watched as lawmakers fled for safety — and banded together — while rioters besieged the Capitol. AdvertisementAdvertisementRoger Stone in front of the O’Neill House Office Building, where the January 6 security camera footage can be viewed, in December 2021. Upstairs, I focused on a lone security camera in front of the House chamber. On another security camera in Longworth House Office Building, I watched lawmakers of both parties gathering near the secure location where they sheltered for the duration of the riot.

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☆ The awkward debate moment where GOP candidates reluctantly backed Trump shows why they don't stand a chance to unseat him
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

During the first GOP debate, most candidates said they'd support Donald Trump if he were convicted. The awkward moment was a coup for Trump, who skipped the debate entirely to chat with Tucker Carlson in a pre-recorded interview. Trump has argued that the candidates challenging him for the GOP nod were no threat to him. AdvertisementAdvertisementSince he stunned the Republican establishment in 2016, Trump has built his political brand on being the brash, tough outsider. It's a bizarre situation: A group of politicians running to unseat Donald Trump who all say they'll still back him even if he's a convicted criminal.

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Bret: And yet there are some crimes that are so premeditated, hateful and cruel that I think society has to respond in the severest way possible. The country can get past a president who breaks the law in his private life, hides official documents and hides the evidence that he hides official documents. Bret: I thought the right remedy for Jan. 6 was political, via immediate impeachment and conviction, as I wrote at the time. Gail: All this drama keeps bringing me back to Mike Pence — and believe me, I never thought I’d be in a world where I wanted to be back with Mike Pence in any way, shape or form. But when the critical moment came, he followed through and declared the actual election winner the actual election winner.

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☆ Fans of a thrice-indicted Trump are once again floating violent rhetoric about hanging Mike Pence: 'I want to watch his toes dangle in the breeze'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Die-hard Trump supporters are threatening to kill former Vice President Mike Pence — again. The calls for violence were made on "The Donald," a popular internet forum for Trump supporters. But when Trump was indicted this week, those violent calls to kill Pence rang out again — this time on "The Donald," a popular extremist pro-Trump internet forum. According to the final report on the Capitol riot by the House January 6 committee, The Donald forum users "openly discussed surrounding and occupying the U.S. Pence, for his part, has had a strained relationship with Trump ever since he defied Trump, and certified the 2020 vote.

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☆ Trump's new indictment says he knew he was lying about 2020 election fraud. But prosecutors don't need to prove that to convict him.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The new indictment against Trump argues he knew his claims of fraud in the 2020 election were lies. According to the indictment, Trump knew that his opponent Joe Biden won the contest, but lied anyway in a last-ditch effort to cling to power. If he does prove that Trump knew he lost, then it's off to the races." Proving Trump knew he was lying helps prove criminal intentConvincing a jury that Trump knew the election results were legitimate would be one of several ways that Smith could prove Trump acted with criminal intent. Even your own counsel is not saying I have that authority," Pence told Trump, according to the indictment.

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☆ Mike Pence, who Trump supporters said they wanted to hang during the Capitol riot, is still defending Trump post-indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Aditi Bharade | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Following Trump's indictment, Mike Pence is still defending his former boss. Pence is still displaying loyalty to Trump — even after Capitol rioters threatened to hang him. Pence narrowly escaped the Capitol rioters, and has since rebuked Trump for endangering him and his family during the riot with "reckless" statements. "They were saying 'hang Mike Pence,'" Karl told Trump. "Mike Pence is an innocent man," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in January.

☆ Indiana's Senate race will show the depths of the fault lines within the GOP. Early signs show it's still Trump's party.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Mitch Daniels would have been an ideal GOP Senate candidate. Daniels' decision offers a look at the obstacles that the party continues to face headed in 2024. Mitch Daniels would have been seen by most traditional conservatives as an ideal candidate to run for the Senate. Eric Holcomb is a potential candidate in the 2024 Indiana Republican Senate primary. AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaIndiana could drive the GOP Senate roadmapAhead of the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans anticipated making major gains in Congress, which eventually didn't come to pass.

☆ Liz Cheney calls on Kevin McCarthy to condemn Trump for meeting with 'neo-Nazi' Nick Fuentes: 'I know you want to be Speaker, but are you willing to be completely amoral?'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Liz Cheney is calling on Kevin McCarthy to condemn Donald Trump for meeting with Nick Fuentes. Fuentes is widely known as a white supremacist and anti-semite. McCarthy has previously said Republicans should avoid Fuentes, but he hasn't spoken out against Trump. "Hey @GOPLeader - where is your condemnation of Donald Trump for meeting with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, the pro-Putin leader of the America First Political Action Conference?" The Anti-Defamation League describes Fuentes as a white supremacist, anti-semite, and 2020 election-denier "who seeks to forge a white nationalist alternative to the mainstream GOP."

☆ Mike Pence wouldn't give a straight answer when asked if he thought Trump is a 'good man'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mike Pence didn't give a straight answer when asked if he still thinks Trump is a good man. Pence was asked about a 2016 RNC speech, where he called Trump a "good man." NPR's Steve Inskeep asked Pence on Monday about a 2016 speech the latter made when accepting the nomination for the vice presidency. Inskeep brought up how, in that speech, Pence called Trump a "good man." Some Trump supporters erected makeshift gallows and chanted "hang Mike Pence" during the Capitol riot — actions that Trump privately expressed support for, the January 6 panel revealed.

☆ Attack on Pelosi's husband echoes threats pro-Trump rioters made on Jan. 6 while stalking the Capitol's halls
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

after breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home. Paul Pelosi was hospitalized; Speaker Pelosi was in Washington, DC, with a security detail. "Where's Nancy Pelosi?" as he confronted the House speaker's husband, Paul, who was hospitalized following the violent attack. Testifying against Capitol rioter Guy Reffitt, the witness specifically remembered joking about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's head hitting the stairs on the way out of the building.

☆ Trump asked British Prime Minister Theresa May to 'imagine if some animals with tattoos raped your daughter' in conversation about abortion: book
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A new book from Maggie Haberman details Trump's first meeting with UK Prime Minister Theresa May. He reportedly brought up abortion, saying "imagine if some animals with tattoos raped your daughter." The graphic statement suggests a private sympathy with abortion rights, despite his record. "Imagine if some animals with tattoos raped your daughter and she got pregnant?" As president, Trump often sought to satisfy his evangelical base, most of whom are strongly opposed to abortion rights.

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