Tag: 2024 Presidential Election

As voters across America prepare to vote on abortion in November, former President Donald Trump prepares as well, with a statement released this morning that calls for national “unity” on abortion and life issues going into this fall’s election season. “Our nation needs help; it needs unity; it needs us all to work closely together: Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, everyone,” ...

Nikki Haley’s most enthusiastic supporters all voted for Joe Biden. That’s why she never gained much traction and dropped out yesterday. She did better than all of the Republicans not named Donald Trump, and she represents a constituency within the party, so the former president damages himself every time he succumbs to the impulse to bash her. He needs every ...

AP Images Former President Donald Trump heads into Super Tuesday tomorrow with 247 delegates in GOP primaries, having swept Nikki Haley in Saturday’s triple-header that featured the Idaho, Missouri, and Michigan caucuses. Trump lost Washington, D.C., on Sunday, but that just means Haley is “Queen of the Swamp,” the Trump campaign said. Haley now has 43 delegates, and D.C is ...

Today’s primary in Michigan offers us a potential forecast for November. Rashida Tlaib, the congresswoman representing a heavily Muslim and more heavily Democrat district, encourages those in her party to vote “uncommitted” in protest over the Biden administration’s support for Israel in its war with Hamas. Should the percentage of the uncommitted rise well into the double digits, this could ...

No one covers politics with the masterful elegance and lively wit of Roger L. Simon. The veteran screenwriter sees the drama in the big picture—another likely Trump-versus-Biden showdown. And as an award-winning novelist, he has a keen eye for the telling details that reveal the inner lives of the 2024 underdogs, like Vivek Ramaswamy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In ...

Ron DeSantis and his presidential campaign have remained upbeat despite his glitch-ridden announcement on May 24. The largest crowd ever tried to sign in to his announcement’s audio room on Twitter Spaces and crashed it. That led to several stoppages, a 25-minute delay, and finally, a reboot in which far fewer people were admitted than had initially tried to get ...

After gaining some ground in the polls, Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is receiving encouragement from an unlikely source—his competition. In a CBS YouGov poll (pdf) published May 1, Ramaswamy—regarded by many as an underdog—pulled in 5 percent of the vote, tying for third place with former Vice President Mike Pence. And although there was a wide margin between the entrepreneur ...