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☆ Opinion: He’s been booked. His mug shot has been taken. And incredibly this might not end Donald Trump’s race for the White House
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Julian Zelizer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Editor’s Note: Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. CNN —On Thursday evening, Donald J. Trump had his mug shot taken as he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. The sheriff office’s record listed the former president as “White Male 6’ 3” 215 lbs” with “Blond or Strawberry” hair and “blue” eyes. He attacked investigators through his public rhetoric, refused to follow traditional decorum and seemed to say whatever he wanted to. As a result, when many Americans see a mug shot like this, the photograph barely causes a stir.

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☆ It’s Not Reagan’s Party Anymore
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Nate Cohn | More About Nate Cohn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Mr. Trump’s first primary campaign amounted to a hostile takeover of the old Republican Party. Perhaps surprisingly, the poll found little evidence that Republican voters who still sit upon Mr. Reagan’s stool make up an outsized share of the G.O.P. Either way, Mr. Trump has more than 50 percent of the primary vote among the Reaganites — and more than 50 percent of the anti-Reaganite vote. Mr. Trump’s support among the vestigial, traditionally conservative wing of the party is a reminder that his takeover of the party didn’t necessarily amount to a total repudiation of the conservative agenda. After all, Mr. Trump still cut income taxes, attempted to repeal Obamacare and appointed Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade.

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☆ DeSantis is crushing Trump among college-educated Republicans in Iowa. It's still not enough to win the caucuses.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis has a double-digit lead among Iowa college-educated Republicans in a hypothetical matchup with Trump. Ron DeSantis holds a double-digit lead over former President Donald Trump among college-educated Republicans in a hypothetical one-on-one match-up in Iowa. There simply aren't enough college-educated Republicans in Iowa. As Atlantic senior editor Ronald Brownstein previously pointed out, part of DeSantis' national struggle is that there are not enough college-educated Republicans still in the party. Among the larger field in Iowa, Trump holds a 40-point lead over DeSantis.

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He may soon face more charges in Georgia, where a state prosecutor is investigating his attempts to overturn the election there. TRUMP STILL THE REPUBLICAN FRONT-RUNNER Trump's legal woes have done little to damage his status as Republican front-runner. The indictment describes a phone call in which Pence told Trump there was no legal basis for the theory that Pence could block certification of the election. Although Pence repeatedly told Trump he lacked the authority to reject electoral votes from certain states, Trump kept repeating the claim. On Jan. 6, as he spoke to his supporters before they attacked the Capitol, Trump said: "If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election."

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☆ 21 Donald Trump election lies listed in his new indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The indictment of Trump on four new federal criminal charges, all related to the former president’s effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election, lays out some of those lies one by one. Even in listing 21 lies, the 45-page indictment does not come close to capturing the entirety of Trump’s massive catalogue of false claims about the election. The lie that the Justice Department had identified significant concerns that may have affected the outcome of the election. (Page 16)The indictment notes that Trump made this claim on his infamous January 2, 2021 call with Raffensperger, whose staff responded that the claim was inaccurate. The lie that Pennsylvania “want[s] to recertify.” (Page 38) Trump made this false claim in his January 6 speech.

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CNN —Donald Trump has been indicted on federal charges related to 2020 election subversion, a stunning third time this year that the former president has faced criminal charges. “The Constitution has very few requirements to serve as President, such as being at least 35 years of age. Could a president serve from prison? “How someone would serve as president from prison is a happily untested question,” Hasen said. If Trump were to be convicted before the 2024 election and win the contest, he could try to grant himself a pardon, according to Hasen.

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☆ DeSantis touts his blue-collar upbringing on the campaign trail, but it hasn't made a dent with working-class voters. Trump still reigns supreme among likely GOP primary voters, a new poll says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis has sought to paint himself as a protector of middle-class values in the 2024 race. But Trump retains a huge 65% to 9% edge over DeSantis among GOP voters making under $50,000, per a new Times/Siena College poll. Even among GOP voters making over $100,000, which had previously been a brighter spot for DeSantis, he trailed Trump, albeit by a narrower 23 points (46%-23%). Overall, Trump retains a sizable edge in the GOP primary, with 54% selecting the former president as their top choice, followed by DeSantis at 17%. Nikki Haley of South Carolina are each sitting at 3% support among likely primary voters, with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former Gov.

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☆ New poll reveals the sheer extent to which Fox News viewers remain loyal to Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Meanwhile, 83% of Fox News-watching respondents believe that after the 2020 election, Trump “was just exercising his right to contest the” results. And, perhaps most importantly, 85% of Republican-leaning poll participants who primarily watch Fox News say the GOP needs to “stand behind” Trump. The remarkable data underscores the grip that Trump continues to exert over the influential right-wing network’s audience. Even as he faces mounting legal problems, including potential charges stemming from his post-2020 election actions, Trump still commands the loyalty of the Fox News audience. “But,” Sargent wrote, “the role of Fox News and right-wing media in this disaster for democracy seems painfully clear.”

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☆ Pennsylvania town wants Trump to pay in advance of rally after his campaign stiffed them in 2018
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania, wants the Trump campaign to pay the city for service before his rally on Saturday. Trump's campaign has more than enough cash on hand — $22.5 million — to remedy the request. According to a recent report from the Erie Times-News, Erie Mayor Joe Schember wants to be reimbursed for any fees related to the upcoming rally ahead of time, after Trump's campaign failed to repay the city more than $35,000 following a campaign event in 2018. "We're going to see whether we can get some payment from them in advance this time," he told the Erie Times-News. Erie isn't the only city Trump's campaigns have failed to reimburse.

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☆ Opinion: Trump’s enthusiasm for bringing back Michael Flynn is a revealing sign
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Opinion Peter Bergen | Erik German | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Which raises the question: Who would Trump bring back into his orbit should there be a second Trump term? Flynn was handsomely repaid by Trump when he won the 2016 presidential election, gaining the critical position of national security adviser. That is, they agree or strongly agree with statements such as “the federal government should declare the US a ‘Christian nation….’”The “ReAwaken America Tour”The ReAwaken America crowd looks to be a highly energized vanguard within this population. For an Audible podcast that we produced about Flynn and his role in ReAwaken America, Clark told us he considers Flynn “to be kind of like a father figure to [him],” and he hopes that Flynn will be Trump’s vice-presidential candidate. On tour, Flynn is dubbed, without irony, “America’s general,” and, at the event we attended in May, America’s general was the unquestionable star of the show.

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☆ These are the big ideas Republicans are pushing for 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Pilots have a mandatory retirement age of 65, although that could be raised in the near future to deal with a pilot shortage. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesVivek Ramaswamy, a biotech founder, wants to raise the legal voting age to 25. It’s hard to imagine how this would work since the current voting age of 18 is guaranteed in the 26th Amendment. Democrats like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have in recent years pushed to go in the opposite direction, arguing to lower the voting age to 16. She said more calculations are needed to come up with a specific retirement age for people currently in their 20s.

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☆ The Donald Trump view of elections was just rejected again
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The news Tuesday is that the US Supreme Court squarely rejected the fringe legal theory by which far-right activists and supporters of Trump hoped to be able to ignore election outcomes. What exactly did the Supreme Court do? The case at hand – Moore v. Harper – had to do with a 2022 North Carolina congressional map rejected by the state’s Supreme Court. Trump supporters thought a riff on the independent state legislature theory, written by the former Trump lawyer John Eastman, could have kept him in office past 2020, even though he lost the election. “(Pence) should have put the votes back to the state legislatures and I think we would have had a different outcome.

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☆ In Nevada, DeSantis Sells Republicans on Ending ‘Culture of Losing’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Neil Vigdor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In black boots, jeans and an untucked shirt — the fund-raiser dress code specified “ranch casual” — Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Saturday tried to persuade Republican voters in Nevada still loyal to former President Donald J. Trump that the party’s formula for winning elections was beyond its shelf life. Headlining a conservative jamboree in the swing state, where loyalties to Mr. Trump still run deep, Mr. DeSantis never mentioned his rival for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination during a speech in Gardnerville, Nev. But the Florida governor sought to draw a not-so-subtle contrast between himself and the former president, a onetime ally who is the party’s overwhelming front-runner in a crowded Republican field. “We’ve developed a culture of losing in this party,” Mr. DeSantis said, adding, “You’re not going to get a mulligan on the 2024 election.”

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☆ Opinion: Why are so many Republicans running against Trump?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Julian Zelizer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

On Thursday, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced that he is running alongside 12 other Republican candidates. Unlike the crowded 1976 Democratic primaries or the 2016 Republican primaries, which turned into a WWE-style battle royal of aspiring presidents, there is a clear frontrunner this time around: Trump. And despite his invincible self-image, Republicans know that Trump can lose — he was defeated in 2020 and Republicans under his banner did poorly in the 2018 and 2022 midterms. Like President Joe Biden, Trump is relatively old for a US president, having turned 77 on Wednesday. Republicans understand that while Trump remains the leading contender, there is a desire and a need for younger leaders to step up.

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Shortly after John F. Kelly took over as Mr. Trump’s chief of staff in July 2017, Mr. Kelly and other aides grew concerned that some documents were likely presidential records and might go missing if they were kept in the residence. They impressed upon Mr. Trump that the papers had to be tracked, but he was not especially interested, the people said. Aides started examining the boxes to check for presidential records, but Mr. Trump still found ways to bring items to the residence. The same was true when Mr. Trump left the White House, according to one person briefed on how he behaved. The charging document includes photos detailing just how many dozens of those cardboard boxes Mr. Trump had amassed.

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☆ Opinion | The Impossible Task of Defending Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Jesse Wegman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In this account, the “deep state” has always had it in for Mr. Trump, targeting him for things that other officials, especially Democrats, get away with. “If you’re Donald Trump, they’re going to come get you for anything,” Byron Donalds, a Florida congressman, said on CNN on Tuesday. In contrast, it has taken the government more than a year to get the hundreds of classified documents Mr. Trump took from the White House. Even now, it would be foolish to assume that everything in Mr. Trump’s possession has been turned over. And what of Mrs. Clinton, against whom Mr. Trump still seems to believe he is running, seven years later?

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☆ Trump post-arraignment donor dinner was full of crab cakes, burgers and rage
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Trump hosted the group, as well as aides, for a "candlelight dinner" at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump had just returned to his golf course after being arraigned and pleading not guilty in a Miami federal courthouse. "Voters, donors, and activists are all energized to send President Trump back to the White House," Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, said in a statement to CNBC. "My message to President Trump this evening at Bedminster 'Damn the Torpedoes, Full speed ahead'!" The support from core Trump supporters contrasts with big money efforts to take him down.

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[1/4] The motorcade former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Courthouse in Miami, Florida, June 13, 2023. Tuesday's appearance in Miami was on federal charges. Supporters wearing Make America Great Again hats and carrying American flags chanted "Miami for Trump" and "Latinos for Trump" as the motorcade paused outside the courthouse. The indictment of a former U.S. president on federal charges is unprecedented in American history. Trump accuses Democratic President Joe Biden of orchestrating the federal case to undermine his campaign.

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REUTERS/Marco BelloJune 13 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. Federal prosecutors can be expected to begin handing over evidence to Trump’s lawyers. That could include years of correspondence between Trump’s lawyers, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and prosecutors as they haggled over the documents. At some point, Trump's lawyers are expected to file a motion to dismiss the case for a variety of reasons, including perhaps his claim he declassified the documents before taking them. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CASE IF TRUMP WINS THE ELECTION?

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Federal prosecutors can be expected to begin handing over evidence to Trump’s lawyers. That could include years of correspondence between Trump’s lawyers, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and prosecutors as they haggled over the documents. Most of Trump's Republican presidential rivals have lined up behind him and accuse the FBI of political bias, in a sharp turn from the party's traditional support for law enforcement. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CASE IF TRUMP WINS THE ELECTION? Federal prosecutors generally serve at their pleasure.

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☆ Donald Trump’s criminal cases, explained
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

Trump was indicted back in March by the Manhattan district attorney on state charges related to hush-money payments to a former adult-film star in 2016. Smith is also overseeing other investigations related to Trump, including those regarding the January 6, 2021, insurrection and the 2020 election. That federal law deals with the illegal retention of “national defense information,” a broad term that encompasses classified documents and other sensitive government materials. Federal charges related to classified documents likely do not either. But people do routinely serve prison time for retention of classified documents, conspiracy and obstruction.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to guests at the 2023 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on April 14, 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Donald Trump has become the first U.S. president, former or otherwise, to be indicted on federal criminal charges. Trump announced in Thursday posts on his Truth Social platform that prosecutors had notified his attorneys he had been indicted. Trump, the leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination next year, is scheduled to appear at a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday. Last month, a grand jury in New York indicted Trump on state charges for allegedly falsifying business records.

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☆ Trump said he's 'just going to say nice things' about fellow presidential candidate Tim Scott: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump had kind words for Tim Scott in the lead-up to the senator's WH campaign launch, per The Times. We're just going to say nice things about Tim," Trump reportedly told the newspaper. Ron DeSantis of Florida over his now-declared presidential campaign, calling his onetime ally "disloyal" and dismissing the ex-congressman's readiness for national office. And according to a recent New York Times report, Trump still had positive feelings regarding Scott in the lead-up to the conservative lawmaker launching his presidential campaign last week. We're just going to say nice things about Tim," Trump said, according to an unnamed individual who spoke with The Times.

☆ Ron DeSantis: What to expect from his presidential campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Ron DeSantis is expected to make his presidential campaign official next week. WOLF: More than any other Republican, DeSantis has generated national media scrutiny and buzz that he could be the candidate best positioned to challenge Trump. Are he and his advisers concerned that all that attention has not translated to a stronger position in GOP primary polls? CONTORNO: As we previously reported several months ago, DeSantis’ political operation believes he has the money and the name recognition to launch a national campaign out of the gate. CONTORNO: Some of Trump’s top advisers once ran DeSantis’ political operation, and several former Trump operatives and donors are now in DeSantis’ camp, so the sniping is already becoming pronounced.

☆ The Durham Report Offered Few Conclusions. The Right Drew Its Own.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With Mr. Durham’s investigation now officially finished, no court cases or indictments will advance such claims. But the Republican interpretation of the final Durham report will feed a narrative of “Deep State” corruption that is fueling not only Mr. Trump’s quest for the White House in 2024 but that of many of his rivals for the Republican nomination. Regardless of Mr. Durham’s actual conclusions, his report appears to serve that theme. On his Truth Social website, Mr. Trump said the special prosecutor had concluded that “the FBI should never have launched the Trump-Russia Probe!” In fact, Mr. Durham said he agreed that the F.B.I. “I, and much more importantly, the American public have been victims of this long-running and treasonous charade started by the Democrats — started by Comey,” Mr. Trump told Fox News Digital.

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