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☆ Democrats plan to track and corner Republican 2024 candidates on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/3] Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a 2024 presidential campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S. September 20, 2023. Democrats are hoping to exploit what they see as a structural weakness for Republicans in battleground states in 2024: any Republican candidate who criticizes Trump risks losing the party's Trump-loving voter base. But they believe any Republican who doesn't condemn Trump risks losing more moderate Republicans and independent voters they need to beat a Democrat. Republican party officials say Democrats' time would be better spent worrying about their own presidential candidate Joe Biden's popularity. "The amount of damage Trump has done to the Republican Party in the suburbs is extraordinary.

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Congress so far has failed to finish any of the 12 regular spending bills to fund federal agency programs in the fiscal year starting on Oct. 1. "Republicans need to vote for Republican bills" to avert a shutdown, McCaul said on ABC's "This Week" broadcast. They just kick the can down the road," Republican Representative Tony Gonzalez told CBS News' "Face the Nation." Even some of the Senate's most conservative Republicans on Sunday appealed to House counterparts to stop blocking a stop-gap bill. Reporting by Richard Cowan and Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Bill BerkrotOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Biden slams 'extreme' Republicans as shutdown looms
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsBiden slams 'extreme' Republicans as shutdown loomsPostedWith just a week before Washington runs out of money to keep the federal government fully operating, warring factions within the Republican Party in the U.S. Congress on Sunday (September 24) showed no signs of coming together to pass a stopgap funding bill. This report produced by Chris Dignam.

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☆ Eric Cantor: Far-right House Republicans are shooting the country, Republican Party in the foot
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailEric Cantor: Far-right House Republicans are shooting the country, Republican Party in the footEric Cantor, Moelis and Company vice chairman and managing director and former House Majority Leader, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the latest in spending negotiations on Capitol Hill, why a government shutdown is now more likely at the end of next week, the challenges facing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dealing with the hard-liners in his caucus, and more.

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☆ Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp. chairman, sending shockwaves through media and politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Rupert Murdoch, the powerful right-wing media mogul who built and oversaw one of the world’s most influential news empires, announced Thursday that he will step down as chairman of his companies, Fox Corporation and News Corporation. Lachlan Murdoch steps inLachlan Murdoch will take over as chairman of Fox and News Corporation. Evan Agostini/Invision/APStepping into his shoes, Murdoch’s eldest son, Lachlan, who already serves as chief executive of Fox Corporation, will become sole chairman of both companies. In 1986, Murdoch got into the television business after he purchased several US television stations and created Fox Broadcasting. In recent years, under Murdoch, Fox News has advanced baseless conspiracy theories, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

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☆ Republican Party infighting is driving America toward a government shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

More broadly, it could raise fresh doubts about the capacity of a polarized nation – featuring an ever more extreme and performative Republican Party in ex-President Donald Trump’s image – to govern itself. But the Republican majority is so thin – the speaker can lose only four votes with its current margin – and the party is so bitterly divided, that past experience may be a poor predictor of outcomes. So handing a win to the critical Republicans on whom the GOP majority depends may be a poor strategy. Rep. Mike Lawler talks on his way to a House Republican Conference meeting at the US Capitol on September 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Rep. Matt Gaetz talks on his way to a House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol on September 19, 2023 in Washington, DC.

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The Texas Senate voted on Saturday to acquit the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, after a nine-day impeachment trial that focused on allegations of corruption and divided the Republican Party. Mr. Paxton, a three-term incumbent who had been suspended from the post since his impeachment in May, was immediately reinstated. The impeachment case has deepened the rift in the Republican Party in Texas, with those who lined up behind Mr. Paxton attacking Republicans in the Texas House who backed impeachment by a wide margin. The process was overseen by Republicans, with Republicans in both the defense and in the prosecution, but ultimately, most Republicans in the Senate supported Mr. Paxton. With a two-thirds vote required for conviction, no article received even a majority vote.

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2 Senate Republican said on Wednesday. That will be particularly challenging as some hard-line House Republicans are vowing to withhold votes for a stopgap, known as a "continuing resolution," without which the government could shutdown beginning in October. The Senate is only now beginning to move forward on its first spending legislation, which the House managed to pass only one bill before Republican infighting consumed the process. Thune said the Senate is giving the 222-212 Republican House majority room to maneuver on spending for now, but warned that failure to make progress soon could force Congress to resort to an omnibus bill that Republicans have vowed to avoid. Democratic Senate incumbents are vulnerable in as many as eight states next year, while Republicans are not at risk.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) —A state judiciary disciplinary panel has rejected several complaints lodged against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz that alleged she violated the judicial code of ethics for comments she made during the campaign. Protasiewicz on Tuesday released a letter from the Wisconsin Judicial Commission informing her that “several complaints” regarding comments she had made during the campaign had been dismissed without action. Protasiewicz’s win in April flipped majority control of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court from conservative to liberal for the first time in 15 years. That case is expected to eventually reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Its members include two lawyers and two judges appointed by the Supreme Court and five non-lawyers appointed by the governor to three-year terms.

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☆ The 6 Kinds of Republican Voters
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Nate Cohn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

But if the Republican Party is no longer in Reagan’s image, it’s not necessarily a populist-conservative MAGA monolith, either. But if the Republican Party isn’t quite a MAGA monolith, what is it? The groups were defined by how Republican-leaning voters felt on the issues — not how they felt about Mr. Trump. In fact, Mr. Trump leads Mr. DeSantis among every group of Republican voters identified in the analysis. They’re the smallest group of Republicans today, but this group of relatively moderate but anti-woke voters might play an important role in the Republican Party in the years ahead.

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☆ Who Has Been Charged in the Election Inquiry in Georgia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Now he himself faces a racketeering charge for his central role in the plot to keep Mr. Trump in power. Mark Meadows Former White House chief of staff Mr. Meadows was deeply involved in efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power. During a visit to Georgia, he showed up at a vote-counting facility and put Mr. Trump on the phone with a top state elections investigator. Jeffrey Clark Former Justice Department official A former senior Justice Department official who caused outrage among his colleagues by advancing false election fraud claims and seeking to intervene in the presidential election in Georgia. Ms. Latham was also one of 16 fake electors in Georgia who cast their electoral votes for Mr. Trump.

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☆ McCarthy-aligned super PAC could spend $100 million to target blue states in 2024, internal memo says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"In 2024, the House will be won or lost in blue states," Congressional Leadership Fund president Dan Conston, wrote in the Aug, 7 memo addressed to "Interested Parties." This is the challenge facing House Republicans, wrote Conston. "These blue states exist in a vacuum outside of the competitive presidential and senate races ... meaning we must create our own infrastructure." All of those flipped New York seats are 2024 targets of the campaign arm for House Democrats, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The Democratic rival House Majority PAC has said they are investing $45 million in New York and $35 million in California.

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☆ Mitch McConnell was heckled with chants of 'retire' at the annual Fancy Farm picnic in Kentucky days after he froze during a Capitol Hill press conference
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mitch McConnell was heckled at the annual Fancy Farm picnic in Kentucky this past weekend. Booing is not unusual at Fancy Farm, but McConnell spoke after a much publicized health scare. The veteran GOP leader has committed to serving in his leadership role through the 2024 elections. And the reception is definitely not unusual at the Fancy Farm picnic, where Democrats and Republicans have their most fervent supporters cheer and boo candidates from opposing parties during the oft-raucous event. But during McConnell's speech at Fancy Farm, he went into attack mode against Democratic Gov.

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☆ The Republican Party’s Split on Economics
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( David Leonhardt | More About David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has spent the last few months trying to boost Gov. As DeSantis’s campaign has sagged, The Journal’s editorialists have offered him tactical advice for confronting Donald Trump. It will shape the Republican Party in the post-Trump era — however far away that may be — and, by extension, influence the country’s economic policy. A Republican splitThe Journal editorial page represents an outlook that dominated the Republican Party from Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s until Trump’s arrival in 2016. It includes light regulation, low taxes, cuts to government benefits and high levels of trade and immigration.

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☆ DeSantis' Bud Light brawl marks his latest move in anti-corporate gambit
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( James Oliphant | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

DeSantis trails Republican front-runner Donald Trump by more than 20 points nationally in the 2024 primary race. But a Republican lobbyist in Washington who represents several Fortune 500 companies said DeSantis’ approach is sound for winning the Republican primary. “DeSantis is doing what he’s doing because it's good politics,” said the lobbyist, who asked to remain unidentified so as to not take sides in the presidential race. A company spokesman told Reuters that "Anheuser-Busch InBev takes our responsibility to our shareholders, employees, distributors and customers seriously." On the trail, DeSantis has accused the Food and Drug Administration of being “captured” by the pharmaceutical industry.

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☆ Opinion: Here’s what America’s allies think about a potential Trump second term
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

They thought Trump was history. But a second term might be different. I’ll predict that anyone who thought the Trump presidency was disastrous — and polling shows that includes many Americans and most citizens of America’s allies — will find Trump 2.0 even more cataclysmic. Trump now has a strong operation in developing meticulous plans for a possible second term. Before the 2020 election, I wondered if Taiwan might survive a second Trump term.

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☆ Opinion | Democrats, It’s OK to Talk About Hunter Biden
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Many of your liberal acquaintances will shush and shame you: Speak no ill of Joe Biden! Never mind that you’re examining his behavior, not the year on his birth certificate. You’ll be asked: What do Hunter Biden and diminished vim matter next to the menace of Donald Trump and a Republican Party in his lawless, nihilistic thrall? That’s a fair question — to a point. But past that point, it’s dishonest and dangerous.

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DeSantis is scheduled to visit Iowa on Friday, his third trip to the state since declaring his presidential bid. His wife, Casey DeSantis, last week traveled to Iowa to launch a national "Mamas for DeSantis" campaign focused on parental rights, hoping to win over the swing vote of suburban Republican women. DeSantis' supporters are also emphasizing what they see as the similarities between DeSantis and Kim Reynolds, Iowa's popular Republican governor, said one person close to the campaign. "The campaign has the most sophisticated and experienced team ever in Iowa, and is poised to crush DeSantis," Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said. A dearth of reliable polling in Iowa makes it difficult to assess the real strength of both DeSantis and Trump in the state.

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Ron DeSantis of Florida are set to hold dueling events on Tuesday in New Hampshire, but from vastly different political positions: one as the dominant front-runner in the state, the other still seeking his footing. Mr. Trump sees the first primary contest in New Hampshire as an early chance to clear the crowded field of rivals. And members of Team DeSantis — some of whom watched from losing sidelines, as Mr. Trump romped through the Granite State in 2016 on his way to the nomination — hope New Hampshire will be the primary that winnows the Republican field to two. “Iowa’s cornfields used to be where campaigns were killed off, and now New Hampshire is where campaigns go to die,” said Jeff Roe, who runs Mr. DeSantis’s super PAC, Never Back Down. Mr. Roe retains agonizing memories from 2016, when he ran the presidential campaign of the last man standing against Mr. Trump: Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

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At his first town-hall event in New Hampshire, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida talked on Tuesday about illegal immigration in Texas, crime in Chicago, disorder on the streets of San Francisco and the wonders of nearly every aspect of Florida — a state he mentioned about 80 times. Mr. DeSantis’s comments seemed to especially resonate when he connected his actions at home to issues of importance to New Hampshire residents, like the flood of fentanyl and other deadly drugs into their communities. “Every year I’ve been governor, we’ve decreased the assumptions in our pension fund,” he boasted, digging deep into the Florida policy weeds. And we always reduced down to ensure that no matter what happens, our pension system is going to be funded.

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☆ A Year After Dobbs, Republicans Push Into Risky Territory on Abortion
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Katie Glueck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But for a critical slice of Republicans — those who represent competitive districts in state legislatures or in Congress, who support some degree of abortion rights, or, in some cases, presidential candidates — the issue presents a particularly difficult balancing act. Their decisions and calculations are at the heart of the tensions over the abortion debate within the Republican Party in the post-Roe era. “I was hearing from both sides strongly,” said State Representative Mike Caruso of Florida, a Republican who opposed a measure — ultimately signed by Gov. “It was pretty much a ban on abortion.”“I’ve got seven children, been through nine pregnancies,” he added. “We should suffer electoral consequences if we don’t do what we said we would do.”

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☆ Chris Christie, Mike Pence, and Doug Burgum are all about to enter the GOP primary — and that's excellent news for Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Jake Swearingen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The primary is likely a contest between Trump supporters and those who want an alternative. And GOP primary voters know Trump's "brand." The GOP primary base appears to split into two even camps: Trump supporters and those looking for an alternative. Primary contenders not named Donald Trump will likely be fighting over the same group of moderate GOP supporters. As Michael Tesler of FiveThirtyEight points out, Trump now commands a majority of "very conservative" primary voters, despite losing those voters in 2016.

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[1/2] Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at a campaign event in Rochester, New Hampshire, U.S., June 1, 2023. Trump fired back in a sudden escalation of the war of words between the two men that not only heightened tensions in the Republican race but also provided insight into DeSantis’ initial strategy. "I've witnessed Republican after Republican get elected to whatever office and then they all kind of backed down and compromised,” Lambert said. But it was a top talking point in Iowa and South Carolina, where evangelical Christians hold more sway. Bill Hixon, a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives who introduced DeSantis in Gilbert, said he was ready to move on.

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☆ Casey DeSantis emerges as pivotal figure on 2024 US campaign trail
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Nathan Layne | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/4] Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis listens while his wife Casey speaks at a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., June 1, 2023. Casey DeSantis is emerging as a pivotal figure in her husband's nascent campaign, and her prominence on the trail could mark a sharp contrast with Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Reuters/Ipsos polling conducted on May 9-15 showed Trump is backed by 49% of Republicans, with Ron DeSantis in a distant second place at 19%. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey applaud as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally, at Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Florida, October 12, 2020. Afterward, Casey DeSantis stayed in the main hall longer than her husband, greeting voters and posing for pictures.

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☆ Casey DeSantis emerges as pivotal figure on 2024 campaign trail
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Nathan Layne | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Casey DeSantis, wife of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, listens to him speak at his 2022 U.S. midterm elections night party in Tampa, Florida, November 8, 2022. "She is a very strong woman," said Teeman, a 62-year-old retired IT professional who had come to hear Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' presidential pitch. Reuters/Ipsos polling conducted on May 9-15 showed Trump is backed by 49% of Republicans, with Ron DeSantis in a distant second place at 19%. Casey DeSantis has been credited by DeSantis and others around him as his closest adviser and a partner in his political activities. At the Laconia event on Thursday, Casey DeSantis stayed in the main hall longer then her husband, greeting voters and posing for pictures.

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