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Arizona GOP Picks Former Trump Aide to Lead Party
“Arizona Republicans on Saturday selected former state treasurer and Donald Trump aide Jeff DeWit to be the party’s next chairman, turning to a familiar face with relationships across the fractured…
Do Abortion Rights Hang On State Constitutions?
“When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion in June, it declared that it was sending the issue back to the “people and their…
Trump’s Speech Showed He’s Unsure of What Base Wants
Time: “It was, in essence, a standard Trump speech, but with a more uneven pacing, and a little weirder and meandering.” “For a fragile frontrunner facing criticism for the shaky…
Warren Stops Short of Backing Kamala Harris
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) declared her support for President Biden to run for reelection but avoided officially backing Vice President Harris to stay on the ticket, saying she wants to…
GOP Hopefuls Wait for Trump or DeSantis to Stumble
Dan Balz: “Eight years ago, the 2016 race began as an apparent free-for-all with an enormous field of well-experienced candidates. Today, the 2024 nomination campaign looks like a contest dominated…
Paul Pelosi Attack Suspect Has No Remorse
“The man accused in the attack of Paul Pelosi, the husband of the former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made a disturbing surprise phone call to a California television station on…
Trump Takes Aim at DeSantis
Former President Donald Trump took aim at Ron DeSantis Saturday, claiming the Florida governor and his team are “trying to rewrite history” regarding their Covid-19 pandemic response, and called the…
Trump Kicks Off 2024 Campaign
“Donald Trump took aim at President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, U.S. foreign policy and undocumented immigrants Saturday as he kicked off his bid for a return to the White House…
Biden Hones Policy Themes for Re-election Effort
“President Biden is weeks, perhaps even months, away from a formal announcement on his 2024 campaign. But the building blocks of his pursuit of a second-term bid are coming into…
Air Force General Predicts War with China by 2025
A four-star Air Force general sent a memo on Friday to the officers he commands that predicts the U.S. will be at war with China in two years and tells…
Nikki Haley Ready to Launch 2024 Bid
The Dispatch: “She could make her 2024 presidential bid official as soon as next month. Haley possesses the architecture of a robust, White House campaign operation through the Stand For…
McCarthy Loses Another Vote to Block Omar
The GOP effort to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee took another blow Friday, with Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) pledging to oppose it, NBC News…
Trump Hits the Trail After Slow Start
“Donald Trump is set to campaign in New Hampshire and South Carolina on Saturday, hitting the trail for the first time since launching his run to return to the White…
Ron DeSantis Preparing for a Presidential Bid
“Advisers to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are actively preparing for a possible presidential run, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the conversations who described meetings and preliminary staffing moves…
Russia Turns to the Architect of the War
“Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, the architect of President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, took over the day-to-day running of Russia’s war effort this month by convincing his boss that…
Yellen Warns of Debt Ceiling Catastrophe
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Axios she is “nervous” about the U.S. defaulting on its debt and cautioned that Americans likely will face a scary and spiraling recession if Congress…
Trump Shifts to Policy Issues
New York Times: “Over the past six weeks on his social media platform, Truth Social, Mr. Trump has been posting videos about his policy positions, including plans to protect Social…
How Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign Bounced Back
Matthew Continetti: “Trump’s rivals in both the Democratic and Republican parties are repeating the mistakes they made in the run-up to the 2016 election. The Democrats assume that there is…
Biden’s Notebooks Were Seized by FBI in Search
“Notebooks that President Joe Biden wrote in during his time as vice president are among the items the FBI took from one of his Delaware homes during a search there…
Many of George Santos’ Donors Don’t Seem To Exist
Mother Jones: “The contributions are among more than a dozen major donations to the 2020 Santos campaign for which the name or the address of the donor cannot be confirmed,…