Category: 2024 election

CNN Defends Hosting Trump Town Hall

May 12, 2023
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CNN’s on-air personalities are defending the network’s decision to host a town hall-style interview with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night. While many Republicans and conservatives cheered on Trump’s performance on the stage, numerous Democrat politicians criticized the cable news network for giving him such a platform. For instance, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) posted that…

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ANALYSIS: Floridians Fear Being Left Behind as DeSantis Reportedly Prepares for 2024

May 12, 2023
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Florida’s governor has just cut ties with a political action committee (PAC) bearing his name. Many Floridians see this as an indication that he’s preparing to abandon Florida for a presidential run. On May 9, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis severed ties with “Friends of Ron DeSantis,” a major state-level PAC “committed to advancing” the governor’s…

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GOP Presidential Candidate Calls for Voting Age to Be Raised to 25

May 12, 2023
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Ohio businessman and 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is touting a plan he says will spark patriotism in young voters. Ramaswamy is proposing a “Civic Duty Voting” Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. “The United States faces a 25 percent recruitment deficit in the military, and just 16 percent of Gen Z say they’re proud to…

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Ramaswamy’s New Idea on the Voting Age Merits Consideration

May 12, 2023
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Commentary One thing we don’t often get in our campaigns—residential or otherwise—is a fresh idea worth thinking about. Mostly, campaigns consist of boilerplate laced with invective toward opponents in endless mind-numbing ads. When such ideas do turn up, they’re frequently ignored, especially by our ultra-conformist mainstream media that abhors originality as much as nature abhors…

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Trump Dismisses Critics of His Appearance on CNN Town Hall

May 12, 2023
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Former President Donald Trump on May 11 dismissed criticism over his appearance on the CNN town hall. “People are criticizing CNN for giving me a Forum to tell the TRUTH. I believe it was a very smart thing that they did, with Sky High Ratings that they haven’t seen in a very long time. It…

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ANALYSIS: Trump Disrupts Russia-Ukraine Narrative with Human Cost Argument

May 11, 2023
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News Analysis Ending the war in Ukraine is more important than determining who won, according to former President Donald Trump, who promised, if elected, to quickly settle the conflict by pressuring both sides to end hostilities. “If I’m president, I will have that War settled in one day—24 hours,” Trump said during a May 10…

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Pentagon Leaders Say Tuberville’s Hold on Military Promotions Threatens National Security

May 11, 2023
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) indefinite hold on military promotions in protest of the Department of Defense’s (DOD) “reproductive health” policy is having a definite effect on national security “in every theater, every domain, and every service,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told a Senate panel on May 11. Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff…

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House GOP Budget Plan Would Derail $630 Billion in Planned Defense Projects, Pentagon Leaders Say

May 11, 2023
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Dialing spending back to Fiscal Year 2022 levels would cost the Department of Defense (DOD) at least $100 billion next year and set back weapons procurement by more than $630 billion over the next five years, the Pentagon’s chief number-cruncher told a Senate panel on May 11. But the 14 percent slash in the military’s…

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Key Moments From Trump’s CNN Town Hall

May 11, 2023
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Former President Donald Trump participated in a CNN town hall at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on May 10. Here are some of the key moments from the town hall. …

McConnell Says Americans Will Decide About Trump’s Verdict in E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit

May 11, 2023
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on May 10 declined to comment on the verdict by a New York jury that found former President Donald Trump civilly liable for battery and defamation in a lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. “That’s about presidential politics and that will all be settled in the primaries next…

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