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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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The heightened concerns over the RNC’s latest financial problems are just the tipping point in a yearslong struggle between Trump and the committee. Trump has asked allies and aides in the past why the RNC must remain neutral in the GOP presidential primary. Trump had previously endorsed both Gruters and Whatley for officer positions at the RNC, but both lost their respective bids. Still, two people familiar with Reed’s departure stressed that his move to the private sector was unrelated to the tensions between Trump and McDaniel. Trump and the RNC need each otherDespite the broader tensions that are playing out both privately and publicly, the Trump campaign and the RNC have a lot to gain from each other.

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☆ Haley says showing in South Carolina needs to be better than New Hampshire
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Aileen Graef | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Sunday said that while she doesn’t need to beat former President Donald Trump in her home state’s Republican presidential primary next month, the results need to be better for her than they were in New Hampshire. Polls show Haley has a major gap to close in South Carolina, which holds its GOP primary February 24, if she intends to shave off some of Trump’s momentum following his 11-point victory in the far less conservative New Hampshire race last week. Haley said Trump can’t “bully his way to the nomination” as he ramps up pressure on supporters to abandon Haley. When asked Sunday whether she would be willing to be Trump’s running mate, Haley said she was running to win.

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☆ Biden needles Trump in hopes of pushing him off message
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | Alayna Treene | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Biden is “not doing it just for the sake of making Donald Trump mad or for the satisfaction of punching him in the nose. “Loser” is at the top of the Biden campaign lists of attacks. “It is Donald Trump who continues to deny the truth about the 2020 election. He lost that one,” said senior Biden campaign adviser T.J. Ducklo. “The joke’s on Donald Trump.

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Haley’s campaign leaned into those attacks Thursday, releasing T-shirts emblazoned with the words“Barred. “We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is Donald Trump,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Tuesday on Fox News. In the final days before the GOP primary there, Trump paraded a series of South Carolina Republican officials onstage at his rallies, including Gov. Worst of all, no one returned my calls.”Fundraising dried up, and Haley’s campaign directed most of its funds to TV. “Any other person probably would have just quit and caved in there, but she knew that South Carolina needed her,” Ballentine said.

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But Iowa caucusgoers and New Hampshire primary voters also exposed noticeable chinks in Trump’s electoral armor and worrying general election headwinds that he and his campaign will face in the coming months. Yes, Trump handily won a head-to-head matchup in a New Hampshire primary contest that wasn’t limited to just Republicans. “Twenty percent of GOP voters will not vote for him,” the Republican member told CNN. Visibly miffed by Haley’s conviction to continue on after New Hampshire, Trump spent the evening lashing out at her online and trashing her appearance in his victory speech. Of the 30% of New Hampshire GOP primary voters who named immigration as their top concern, nearly 8 in 10 voted for Trump, according to CNN’s exit poll.

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CNN —Former GOP presidential candidate and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott endorsed Donald Trump on Friday in New Hampshire. We need Donald Trump,” Scott said while appearing on stage with the former president at a campaign event in Concord, New Hampshire. Trump’s inner circle had originally hoped that Scott would endorse before the South Carolina primary, sources familiar with internal discussion told CNN. Prior to the 2024 campaign, Scott had long been friends and political allies with Haley. In 2012, Haley appointed Scott to the vacant seat left by Sen. Jim DeMint, saying Scott had “earned the seat” from his personality and record.

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☆ Haley brushes off Trump calling her ‘not tough enough,’ says he ‘knows he’s in trouble’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Jack Forrest | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“He’s saying this because now he knows he’s in trouble. At a Sunday rally in Iowa, Trump told his supporters, “Nikki did a good job, she was okay, but she’s not right to be president. I know her very well, the wrong thought process, the wrong policy.”“And honestly she’s not tough enough. She’s not tough enough. Notably, Haley endorsed Rubio ahead of the South Carolina primary in 2016, which Trump won handily.

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☆ Trump attacks Ramaswamy for first time, calls his campaign ‘deceitful’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Alayna Treene | Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Donald Trump lashed out at GOP rival Vivek Ramaswamy for the first time on Saturday, arguing on social media he is “not MAGA” as the former president and his campaign have grown increasingly frustrated with what they claim are Ramaswamy’s disingenuous campaign tactics, Trump campaign advisers told CNN. Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday. Vote for ‘TRUMP, don’t waste your vote! Ramaswamy had previously stayed away from bashing Trump, instead often praising him on the campaign trail. Trump’s campaign is hoping to win Iowa by record margins to set the tone for the primary season and stunt any momentum from his rivals.

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☆ DeSantis says he will replace Obamacare with a ‘better plan,’ cautions House GOP on Biden impeachment inquiry
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Kit Maher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

At a stop in Sioux City, Iowa, on Saturday, DeSantis dismissed Trump’s renewed focus on repealing Obamacare. The resurrection of the health care battle has given Democrats fresh political ammo, and the Biden campaign quickly seized on Trump’s threats. The campaign also released an ad focused on health care and prescription drug costs, attempting to draw a sharp contrast with Trump. … We’re gonna have a comprehensive plan to lower costs, and yes, Obamacare hasn’t done it, so we’ll transcend Obamacare,” DeSantis told Fox Carolina. On Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said he believes he has the votes to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into Biden.

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☆ Trump plots mass detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants should he regain power
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Alayna Treene | Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The plans, first reported by The New York Times, would necessitate building large camps to house migrants waiting for deportation and tapping federal and local law enforcement to assist with large-scale arrests of undocumented immigrants across the country. Should Congress refuse to fund the operation, Trump could turn to a tactic used in his first term to secure more funding for a border wall — redirecting funds from the Pentagon, the source confirmed. Trump’s plans would face fierce political and legal challenges. During Trump’s first term, he relied heavily on executive orders to implement immigration policy. Many of those moves were challenged in the courts, something Miller acknowledged would be likely to happen again in a second Trump term.

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☆ Trump returns to New Hampshire with eyes on primary and potential Biden rematch
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Alayna Treene | Daniel Strauss | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

While Trump and his team may be looking ahead to a potential general election rematch – and he has maintained a robust lead in GOP primary polling – the former president is still courting voters in the early nominating states. Trump’s campaign believes that winning Iowa and New Hampshire would effectively force his primary opponents to drop out and donors to rally around him, his advisers said. Alternatively, New Hampshire is also a key state for Trump’s rivals looking to make headway in their own races. “In New Hampshire, we have a lot of people that say that, yes, they support President Trump, but that doesn’t mean they’re voting for him,” Haley said last month while filing for the Granite State GOP primary. He also predicted during the Merrimack event that independents would vote in “record numbers” in the New Hampshire primary, arguing that most of them don’t want to see Trump as president again.

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☆ Trump’s legal team asks for federal election subversion trial to be televised
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has formally told a federal court that he would like his election subversion trial in Washington, DC, to be televised. Court rules do not allow for broadcasting of federal proceedings, and the Justice Department is opposed to allowing cameras. Several media outlets have asked the court to consider allowing cameras at the historic trial, set for March. “President Trump absolutely agrees, and in fact demands, that these proceedings should be fully televised,” his attorneys wrote in the filing late Friday night. Special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the case, opposes televising the federal election subversion trial.

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☆ How Trump’s lawyers and campaign staff manage the chaotic collision of his trial and political operations
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Kristen Holmes | Alayna Treene | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“The legal cases have increasingly become a big part of the campaign strategy,” a Trump campaign adviser told CNN. The line between Trump’s political campaign and his legal operation gets blurrier by the day. But those plans are reliant on trial schedules that are out of their hands, forcing Trump’s campaign team to respond to potential summons with little lead time. ‘Cross that bridge when we get there’Trump is surrounded by what is widely viewed as his most disciplined political campaign team to date. Trump’s legal peril is a necessary issue that has to be dealt with in the eyes of many of his advisers.

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“It’s a slap in the face [to the RNC],” one Republican operative with ties to the committee told CNN. Trump appointed McDaniel as chair after he was elected in 2016, and dozens of establishment Republican committee members were replaced by Trump loyalists. “There would be a new RNC chairman that I imagine Trump would be influential and in choosing just like he was influential with [McDaniel].”The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. McDaniel had told Trump personally that the debates would start in August, according to two sources familiar with the conversation. The conversation turned into a heated back-and-forth between David Bossie, who is in charge of the RNC debate committee, and Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita.

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Another conceded that Kennedy could be a real threat to Trump, particularly when it comes to vaccines. They’re less likely to answer the phone for pollsters.”Trump had initially praised Kennedy after he launched his Democratic primary bid. The Biden campaign declined to comment. Third Way, which has been leading the charge against No Labels for Democrats, has had only informal and indirect contact with the Biden campaign and the president’s top advisers. The DNC’s involvement so far has been participating in a couple of video calls Third Way has hosted with groups of state Democratic Party officials, according to Matt Bennett of Third Way.

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☆ House speaker: What the heck is going on? How will it affect you?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The House is without a speaker, the person who, according to the Constitution, is required to be its leader. For as long as the House is trying to find a new speaker, it’s unable to do much of anything else. What happened to the last House speaker? Rep. Kevin McCarthy had been House speaker since January, when he won the gavel after 15 rounds of balloting. McHenry booted Pelosi and former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Marlyand out of offices they kept in the Capitol building.

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CNN —Former President Donald Trump endorsed Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid for speaker of the House Friday. The former president is not expected to go to Capitol Hill, a source close to Trump said Thursday night. Republicans are slated to hear from speaker candidates at a forum next Tuesday, setting up the next possible House-wide speaker vote on Wednesday, October 11. Trump is “entirely focused” on running for president, the two sources said, characterizing his public posturing on the narrative that he could be elected speaker as Trump relishing the attention. All I can say is we’ll do whatever is best for the country and the Republican Party,” Trump told reporters outside the courthouse in lower Manhattan on Wednesday during a break from his civil fraud trial.

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CNN —Former President Donald Trump is making plans to appear in person for his civil fraud trial in New York on Monday, multiple sources familiar with the planning told CNN. Law enforcement and court employees have been making security preparations for Trump’s potential appearance at the courthouse in Lower Manhattan on Monday and possibly Tuesday. The former president has not yet confirmed that he will attend the trial. The civil fraud case – brought in September 2022 by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Trump, his eldest sons, their companies and several executives – will begin at 10 a.m. Monday. Last week, the judge overseeing the case dealt Trump a major blow in ruling that the former president is liable for fraud and that he overvalued his properties on his financial statements for a decade.

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☆ Trump claims to be pro-worker. His record says he’s anti-union
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —Donald Trump arrives in Michigan Wednesday with a lot more support among blue collar union members than a lot of Republican presidential candidates before him. The Trump Supreme Court also issued a devasting ruling against public sector unions, which represent almost as many union members as found at private businesses. The state gained 1,800 auto jobs from February 2021, Biden’s first month in office, through February of this year. And Trump urged UAW members to stop paying their union dues. They’re predominantly anti-abortion,” said Brian Pannebecker, a staunch Trump supporter and president of Auto Workers for Trump.

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☆ Trump campaign backtracks claim that he bought a Glock handgun in South Carolina after it became clear that would be illegal
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Trump campaign claimed that he bought a Glock handgun from a South Carolina gun store. In a video posted on X, a Trump spokesman wrote: "President Trump purchases a @GLOCKInc in South Carolina!" In the video, Trump pointed to the Glock and said "Wow," before adding: "I've got to buy one. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the now-deleted X post, Cheung wrote: "President Trump purchases a @GLOCKInc in South Carolina!" Insider reached out to the Trump campaign for further comment.

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CNN —Special counsel David Weiss intends to seek an indictment against President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, relating to gun charges by the end of the month, the Justice Department said Wednesday. However, after his plea deal to resolve two tax charges fell apart in court, the future of the gun deal has been in limbo. Hunter Biden’s gun-related legal troubles relate to a firearm he purchased in October 2018. In addition to the gun case, Weiss is still weighing whether to charge Hunter Biden with tax crimes. Hunter Biden’s tax-related legal jeopardy emerged after he repeatedly missed IRS deadlines to pay his taxes on time.

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CNN —In an urgent appeal to wealthy Republicans who had assembled in Milwaukee ahead of the first GOP presidential primary debate, top brass for the super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told donors they needed an injection of $50 million over the next four months, according to leaked audio obtained by CNN. The tension spilled into the open just days before the Milwaukee event, when the super PAC released a memo with debate pointers for DeSantis. The pitch appeared structured to convince donors the super PAC had a plan for their dollars if they would open up their pocketbooks. Many Republican strategists and campaign veterans have questioned the arrangement between DeSantis’ campaign and the super PAC, pointing to the limitations of running a political operation from the outside.

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CNN —Former President Donald Trump has attracted a lot of attention for his lead in the polls and the money race, but he’s also already ahead in an essential area that’s gotten less notice: the delegate process. Republicans often point to Jeff Roe, who is leading the pro-DeSantis super PAC, as an expert on the delegate process. The delegate process rivalry between DeSantis and Trump speaks to the overall strategy of many of these campaigns. Trump’s state party advantageIn 2016, the idea that Donald Trump would eventually have deep roots with state Republican party officials seemed outlandish. The Trump campaign denies the former president ever made such a comment.

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☆ Trump expected to skip debate and do interview with Tucker Carlson instead
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Alayna Treene | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump is planning to skip the first Republican presidential debate on Wednesday and is instead expected to sit for an interview with former Fox News Host Tucker Carlson, multiple sources familiar with his plans tell CNN. The timing for the Carlson interview has yet to be determined, the sources said, but it is expected to air around the same time as the debate. The New York Times first reported the details of the Carlson interview. CNN previously reported that Trump was not expected to participate in the debate and that his campaign had engaged in conversations with Carlson about a potential interview as counterprogramming for the event. The second presidential debate is scheduled for September at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.

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