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☆ Pence intensifies attacks on Trump as GOP primary heats up
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Paul Leblanc | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday intensified his attacks on his former boss, hitting former President Donald Trump over everything from his abortion messaging to comments about the war in Ukraine. “When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he promised to govern as a conservative. And he wants to marginalize the right to life,” Pence said. The comments from Pence represent a significant escalation in his campaign attacks on Trump. More than 4 in 10 in the potential GOP primary electorate say they have definitely decided to support Trump for the nomination (43% are definite Trump backers, 20% are firmly behind another candidate, and 37% have no first choice or say they could change their minds).

Persons: Mike Pence, Donald Trump, “, ” Pence, Jake Tapper, ”, Pence, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump, Joe Biden, Biden Organizations: CNN, Union, Trump, Indiana, Republican, NBC, Iowa Faith Locations: Ukraine, “ State

Biden said that when negotiations began, he encouraged leaders of the two sides to stay at the bargaining table as long as possible. The head of the UAW said the union's negotiators “are hard at work at the bargaining table.”The UAW strike is just one of many labor disruptions. Still, a wider strike by the UAW could cause parts of the U.S. economy to shudder. The chain reaction across parts suppliers to the stores and restaurants that auto workers patronize could hurt local economies in Michigan, Wisconsin and other states that could be pivotal in next year’s election. Former President Donald Trump, the early Republican front-runner, said that union workers jobs are at risk because of Biden’s push to use of government incentives to build more EVs.

Persons: Joe Biden, autoworkers, ”, ” Biden, Stellantis, Biden, Julie Su, Gene Sperling, Shawn Fain, “, ’, Suzanne Clark, Joshua Bolten, ” Fain, Joe Brusuelas, Donald Trump, Trump, Jill Colvin Organizations: WASHINGTON, Big, White, United Auto Workers, General Motors, Ford, UAW, GM, Fiat Chrysler, Workers, Labor Department, Democratic, Business, U.S . Chamber of Commerce, RSM, Oxford Economics, Republican, NBC News Locations: Detroit, California , Oregon, Washington, U.S, Michigan , Wisconsin, China, United States, America

☆ McCarthy needs to pull off his most impossible balancing act yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

That’s why, today, I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” McCarthy said. The confrontation could trigger a government shutdown in the coming months – a potential political headache for McCarthy heading into an election year. So even if he wanted to initiate impeachment against Biden to save himself, McCarthy may not have the power to do it. It’s often been impossible to see a clear path ahead in which McCarthy can appease competing political forces with the minuscule majority Republicans secured in last year’s midterm elections. Ahead of an autumn that could turn into a political migraine for McCarthy, he is back in a familiar position.

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☆ Trump is explaining exactly how wild and extreme his second term would be
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Stephen Collinson | Trump S Authoritarianism May Make The Election A Profound Choice | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“It’s really a threat to democracy while they trample our rights and liberties every single day of the year,” he said. This followed a March rally in which he billed his 2024 campaign and potential second term as a vessel of “retribution” for supporters who believe they’ve been wronged. In a recent CNN poll, for example, only 28% of Republicans thought Biden legitimately won sufficient votes to win the 2020 election. This comes after years of Trump incessantly denying he lost, and despite courts throwing out his multiple challenges to the result. “Indict my opponent, he’s doing well,” Trump said, implying that was exactly what Biden had done.

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☆ Covid Hero or ‘Lockdown Ron’? DeSantis and Trump Renew Pandemic Politics
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | More About Nicholas Nehamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But there are questions about whether a pandemic that many Americans see as long over will resonate with the electorate in 2024. Now, a recent resurgence of Covid-19 cases is giving Mr. DeSantis a chance to press the argument. Mr. DeSantis and other Republicans have seized on that as evidence that the Covid-19 debate, which they frame as a civil rights battle, is far from over. Mr. DeSantis emphasized that point during his swing through Iowa on Saturday. He has appeared repeatedly this past week on Fox News and other conservative media outlets lauding his pandemic policies, and has done interviews with local news media outlets in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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Haley's stance on military aid to Ukraine after Russia's 2022 invasion in particular puts her at odds with much of her party's rank-and-file. The campaign is making a strategic wager, advisers said, that Haley's full-throated support for Ukraine is more popular among voters looking to move past Trump, than with the Republican Party writ large. That position puts her in conflict with rivals, Republican front-runner Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign town hall meeting in Claremont, New Hampshire, U.S., September 5, 2023. Haley is getting more attention from Republican voters since the first Republican primary debate on Aug. 23, where she strongly asserted the importance of confronting Russia and China.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Central African Republic is facing a humanitarian crisis with 2.4 million people in need of assistance and the U.N.’s $534 million appeal only 36% funded, a U.N. official said Wednesday. Mineral-rich but impoverished CAR has a population of 6 million. CAR's President Faustin Archange Touadera has developed close ties to Russia and its Wagner mercenary group whose forces have served as his personal bodyguards. He said there are armed groups and security issues around CAR’s borders with Sudan, Chad and South Sudan and minefields and explosives in the west. The U.N. announced Tuesday it was giving CAR $6.5 million from its emergency relief fund.

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☆ Clashes mount between Trump and his legal nemesis
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

A dramatic series of legal developments in the Fulton County, Georgia, investigation – in which Trump and 18 co-defendants are also awaiting trial – encapsulated the breadth of the former president’s legal exposure. And 61% of Republican-leaning adults said that Trump is facing so many charges largely because of political abuse of the justice system. Trump uses criminal plight to fire up supportersTrump continually dials up the heat, underscoring how his legal defense and presidential campaign have merged. Smith may remain the ex-president’s greatest threat as the prosecutor with the best chance to complete a case against Trump early in the election year. New charges were also filed against Trump aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance manager Carlos De Oliveira.

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☆ Opinion: Forget Haley or Ramaswamy. Trump is still the face of the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Julian Zelizer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Republicans are trying to read the tea leaves after the first GOP primary debate. Former President Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner who is contending with four indictments, skipped the debate entirely. And with a dozen other candidates still vying for the GOP nomination, political pundits are trying to figure out where the party is headed. Join us on Twitter and FacebookAny news that emerged from the debate was soon overwhelmed by Trump and his booking in Fulton County, Georgia. Right now, the other GOP candidates can’t compete with the media attention, the love of Republican voters and the campaign dollars that are being heaped onto Trump.

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☆ New York says Trump should be found liable for fraud, even before a trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

$250 MILLION SOUGHTJames filed her lawsuit last September, accusing Trump of lying about property values, including for his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and Trump Tower penthouse apartment in Manhattan, and his own net worth. The attorney general is seeking at least $250 million from Trump, his adult sons Donald Jr. and Eric, the Trump Organization and others, and to stop the Trumps from running businesses in New York. A trial before state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron is scheduled for Oct. 2. The New York civil case is New York v Trump et al, New York State Supreme Court, New York County, No. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Leslie AdlerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Eminem tells GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy to stop rapping his music
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Stefan Sykes | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Rapper Eminem has demanded Vivek Ramaswamy stop using his music on the campaign trail — and the Republican presidential candidate looks ready to let the issue go. In a cease-and-desist order sent to Ramaswamy's lawyer on Aug. 23, music publisher BMI said Eminem took issue with the use of his music during Ramaswamy's campaign events. In response, the Ramaswamy campaign signaled the GOP hopeful will not perform the song again. To the American people's chagrin, we will have to leave the rapping to the real slim shady," a spokesperson for the Ramaswamy campaign told NBC News. Many politicians have been sent similar cease-and-desist orders in past election cycles over their campaign song choices.

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☆ A dramatic day in prospect Monday as Trump cases enter new phase
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Almost as soon as Trump left Atlanta after surrendering at the Fulton County jail Thursday, his team began to monetize his mug shot. Meadows to provide first major test of Georgia caseThe hearing in Georgia that could yield major revelations does not involve Trump directly, but rather Meadows. Meadows and Trump are among 19 co-defendants in a vast racketeering case built by Willis. Extensive pre-trial litigation in the Georgia case could also end up frustrating attempts by Willis, who initially sought a March 2024 trial date, to bring the case before the 2024 election. Trump’s attorneys are also arguing that Smith’s proposed timeline for the trial would conflict with other criminal and civil cases in which the former president is embroiled.

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☆ Biden campaign will not concentrate on Trump's legal woes, aide says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

U.S. President Joe Biden convenes the fourth virtual leader-level meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) on Energy and Climate at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign will not concentrate on the legal cases against Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who faces four sets of criminal charges, a top Biden campaign aide said on Sunday. "We're not going to focus on Donald Trump's legal problems," Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" program. In most opinion polls, Trump holds a nearly 40-point lead against his rivals for the Republican nomination to challenge Biden, the Democrat who defeated him in 2020. Reporting By Arshad Mohammed in Saint Paul, Minn.; editing by Grant McCoolOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Republican debate live updates: DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Christie, and other primary candidates step onto the national stage
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Emma Kinery Amanda Macias Kevin Breuninger | Emma Kinery | Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Eight Republican presidential hopefuls will share a debate stage for the first time Wednesday night as they seek to boost their campaigns and batter their rivals. It's a rare chance to massively disrupt a primary cycle that, despite featuring more than a dozen GOP candidates, has often looked more like a two-man race between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. But Trump is refusing to participate, treating his potential nomination as a foregone conclusion. Instead, the current Republican frontrunner taped an interview with former Fox host Tucker Carlson that is set for broadcast on X, formerly Twitter, at 8:55 p.m.

Persons: Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Trump, Tucker Carlson Organizations: Republican, GOP, Florida Gov, Fox Locations: It's

☆ Ukraine war divides Republicans heading into first GOP debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Ukrainian Presidency | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — The Republican primary debate in Milwaukee Wednesday is expected to showcase the deep divisions within the party over America's role in the Russian war on Ukraine. Scott Olson | Getty ImagesFormer Vice President Mike Pence was the first Republican candidate to travel to Ukraine after Russia invaded. He says the Russia-China axis is by far the top threat to U.S. national security and merits more focus than the Ukraine war. Tim ScottLikely Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Getty ImagesThe former New Jersey governor was the second Republican candidate to visit Ukraine after Pence.

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☆ Trump says he'll impose huge new tariffs if elected in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump is proposing a universal baseline tariff for imports into the US. He also told Fox News he'd implement a "matching tax" on certain countries. He also proposed a "matching tax" on certain countries that would be equivalent to high tariffs on US products. While Trump laid out the idea of a universal tariff months earlier, he appeared to get more specific last week. In February, Trump floated the universal tariff idea as he began laying out an economic agenda for his campaign platform.

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CNN —Former President Donald Trump on Monday was criminally charged for the fourth time this year in a sweeping Georgia indictment accusing him of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis included 18 defendants in addition to Trump, 41 charges in total and 30 unindicted co-conspirators. Willis’ indictment also went well beyond what transpired in Georgia as she used racketeering violations to charge a broad criminal conspiracy. Here are the takeaways from the Georgia indictment:Another indictment against the 2024 Republican front-runnerAfter the Georgia indictment, Trump is now facing four separate indictments at the same time that he’s running for president in 2024. Indictment highlights under-the-radar breach of Georgia voting systemsSeveral of former Trump’s co-defendants in the indictment are facing charges in connection with the breach of a voting system in rural Coffee County, Georgia, that took place after the 2020 election.

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☆ Donald Trump: A stunning possible fourth indictment looms over the former president and the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Trump believes he will be among them and is already fundraising off of the possibility of more criminal charges, casting them as Democratic efforts to interfere in the 2024 election. But there will be key differences between the potential case in Georgia and Trump’s previous indictments. Investigators have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in the Republican stronghold. Smith, for example, has asked a judge to open a trial into the election interference charges in January – just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses. It’s too early to speculate how headlines about these cases could weigh on Trump or Biden in November 2024.

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☆ Special counsel appointed in Hunter Biden case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Justin Porter | More About Justin Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Attorney General Merrick Garland elevated David Weiss, the federal prosecutor investigating President Biden’s son Hunter, to special counsel status. It was a stunning reversal for Garland, who last month had brushed off the idea of appointing Weiss to the role. Shortly after, prosecutors said that they’d reached an impasse with defense lawyers over a plea deal that would have settled tax and gun charges against Hunter Biden. Weiss said in court papers the case “will not resolve short of a trial.”The appointment all but ensures that a yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden’s conduct — including his foreign business dealings, drug use and taxes — will continue. While Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner, will be dogged by criminal cases as he campaigns, President Biden will have to worry about a separate special counsel investigation into classified documents, and whether the case against his son will become more serious.

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Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicDonald Trump was impeached twice. He has been indicted three times. And yet he’s the clear Republican front-runner for 2024. Today on “Matter of Opinion,” Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat and Carlos Lozada explore how Trump has created a winning political strategy and what his potential nomination could mean for Joe Biden, the Republican Party and the future of the country. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

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agent on Wednesday fatally shot a man in Provo, Utah, who officials said was armed and had threatened to assassinate President Biden just hours before the president was scheduled to speak in nearby Salt Lake City. Craig D. Robertson, 75, was also charged with threatening to shoot other elected officials, including Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, as well as with making threats against law enforcement officials, according to court documents filed a day earlier in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. The shooting comes at a moment of intense polarization in American politics. The three indictments of former President Donald J. Trump have offered fodder for supporters and allies, who have seized on his mounting legal peril to fan a narrative of a Justice Department weaponized against him and bent on derailing the Republican front-runner’s campaign to retake the White House.

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☆ A day of legal action in Trump imbroglio previews a chaotic 2024 election year
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

All of this frenzied activity unfolding on one day represents just a snapshot of the complex legal morass now surrounding Trump. And while Monday was notable for a head-spinning sequence of legal maneuvering, it did not even encompass all of the pending cases against Trump. When it comes to Smith’s indictment, Trump’s lawyers are arguing that he was within his rights to claim the election was stolen. Trump’s legal plight reverberates in 2024 campaignAny normal political candidate would have seen their political ambitions crushed by even one of the cases in Trump’s bulging portfolio of legal jeopardy. Thanks to Trump’s unfathomable and widening legal nightmare, nothing about the 2024 election is going to be anywhere near normal.

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☆ Opinion: All the speculation about a grand Trump deal is far-fetched
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Opinion Jill Filipovic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Will former President Donald Trump accept a plea deal, potentially sparing himself prison and sparing us all a repeat of his presidency? It’s a compelling argument, and one that would certainly be better for the nation than Trump winning in 2024 and pardoning himself; it would be better for Trump than winding up behind bars. Trump has been embroiled in thousands of lawsuits; he’s the first former president to face federal charges. Betting on a 2024 win is a big gamble for Trump, especially if the consequence of that loss isn’t just humiliation, but a jail cell. Join us on Twitter and FacebookThere is also the question of whether prosecutors would even offer a deal Trump might consider.

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☆ Live updates: The latest news on Trump's indictment in 2020 election probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Aditi Sangal | Matt Meyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Donald Trump is seen in court on Thursday in this courtroom sketch. America now faces the prospect of an ex-president repeatedly going on trial in an election year in which he’s the Republican front-runner and is promising a new White House term of retribution. He is responding with the same kind of extreme rhetoric that injected fury into his political base and erupted into violence after the last election. If he wins back the White House, the already twice-impeached new president could trigger a new constitutional crisis by sweeping away the federal cases against him or even by pardoning himself. Any alternative Republican president could find themselves besieged by demands from Trump supporters for a pardon that, if granted, could overshadow their entire presidency.

Persons: Donald Trump, Bill Hennessey, Trump, pardoning, “, ”, Geoff Duncan Organizations: Washington, Republican, Trump Locations: America, Georgia

☆ Trump’s surreal arraignment day in Washington augurs ominous days ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

He was irked, sources familiar with his mindset told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, that the judge referred to him simply as “Mr. Any alternative Republican president could find themselves besieged by demands from Trump supporters for a pardon that, if granted, could overshadow their entire presidency. The California Republican compared Trump’s behavior to the complaints by supporters of past Democratic presidential nominees Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, who complained of electoral irregularities. A few Democrats objected to certifying Trump’s election in Congress is 2016, but Clinton did not challenge it in the courts. But their blind spot on Trump’s far worse, Constitution-threatening conduct shows just how far he has changed their party.

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