Trump campaign says it will deploy thousands of election workers to monitor poll sites The initiative — which the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee described as “the most extensive and monumental election integrity program in the nation’s history” — will ... 04/19/2024 - 9:51 am | View Link
Trump turns his legal woes into a campaign fundraising machine Former President Donald Trump has long used the legal cases against him to drive money to his campaign ... impact on Democrats’ small-dollar lead. Trump’s political operation has fundraised ... 04/19/2024 - 6:35 am | View Link
A bodega, a 2022 stabbing, claims about crime: How Trump brought his campaign to NY “Everything is screwed up in New York and the whole world is watching.” The event was one of a series of campaign events Trump is scheduling, despite being required to attend the New York ... 04/18/2024 - 5:18 am | View Link
Trump campaign asks GOP candidates using Trump’s name and likeness in fundraising to give it a cut Donald Trump’s campaign is asking Republican candidates and committees using the former president’s name and likeness to fundraise to give at least 5% of what they raise to the campaign, ... 04/17/2024 - 10:38 am | View Link
Trump goes on trial: 5 key questions about how it could affect his campaign Donald Trump on Monday became the first former president ever to stand trial for alleged criminal wrongdoing -- a historic moment that raises key questions for his 2024 campaign for the White House. 04/14/2024 - 8:37 pm | View Link
CNN: “For months, President Joe Biden and his team pressed the case for additional aid both publicly and privately, leaning into courting Johnson – whose young speakership was under pressure from his right flank – behind the scenes through White House meetings, phone calls and detailed briefings on the battlefield impacts, administration officials said.”
“Grappling with the leadership dynamics in a House GOP conference increasingly resistant to more aid, Biden directed his team to use every opportunity possible to lay out the consequences of inaction directly to Johnson.
I can’t tell you if Donald Trump will ultimately be found guilty in a his “hush money” criminal trial.
But politically it’s a disaster for him so far.
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“Democrats are increasingly open to the idea of voting to protect Speaker Mike Johnson against an ouster attempt, putting him in a stronger than expected position even with a razor-thin majority,” Politico reports.
“More than two dozen Democrats told Politico they expect a swath of the party to step in and save the Republican speaker following his decision to buck conservative members of his party and support military aid to Ukraine.”
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“A bill to adjust the deadline in Alabama law for political parties to certify their nominees for president and vice president in order to get on the ballot in November has passed the state Senate,” AL.com reports.
“It moves to the House of Representatives. It could get final passage as early as next week.”
Wall Street Journal: “Focusing on the threat to democracy and freedoms, including abortion access, posed by another Trump term has helped Biden—through his campaign committee and a joint-fundraising committee—bring in more than $89 million from small-dollar donors for the 2024 election.”
“Many of those low-dollar Biden contributors aren’t just donating once or twice, but giving dozens of times.”
A new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll found Joe Biden is ahead in just one of the seven states most likely to determine the outcome of his matchup with Donald Trump, leading Michigan by 2 percentage points.
Biden trails the presumptive GOP nominee slightly in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and his deficit in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina is larger.