The far-right Alternative for Germany party surged to a resounding victory in a regional election Sunday, but fell a little short of winning a majority in its quest to form the country's first far-right state government since World War II.
An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said.
President Trump on Sunday posted a map of New Mexico labeled "New America" following the spread of a since-debunked online hoax claiming he had signed an executive order renaming the state. The map Trump shared on Truth Social showed a large "X" over "Mexico" in the state's name, with the word "America" labeled below it....
After Houthi terrorists shot down a US drone, Joe Biden responded with yet another weapons-dump strike. SecDef Lloyd Austin said the president cares about...
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley sure looks like former President Donald Trump’s top challenger for the Republican presidential nomination, judging by the tone of Wednesday night's debate, in which the former governor and ambassador was the chief target of the other candidates.
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GOP DEBATES REACH A DEAD END. The first unique thing about the 2024 Republican race is that at no time in living memory has a former president, popular with the party base, run for the office he used to occupy. The second unique thing is that former President Donald Trump is so far ahead of his GOP competitors that the Republican contest is essentially a one-candidate race. According to the RealClearPolitics average of national polls, Trump is 43.7 points ahead of second-place Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and 48.9 points ahead of third-place former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. He is more than 50 points ahead of everybody else. The third unique thing about the race is that Trump has skipped every debate, including the third one, held Wednesday night in Miami.
On Tuesday night, the ruby red dominion of Ohio became the seventh state in a row to codify abortion access in local law. In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the abortion issue back to the states, voters have made clear that however opposed they are, in theory, to unfettered abortion, they do not trust pro-life Republicans with one iota of control over the issue, turning the previously dormant matter into a political winner for Democrats.
The third Republican debate most likely didn’t change the trajectory of anyone in the race, and nothing will until it’s time for Iowa voters to make their decision.
After Tuesday’s election, abortion became a popular topic in conversations. Many claimed that the GOP needs a new strategy on abortion because there’s been a failure to connect with voters on the issue, according to the results of recent referendums around the country. Others wondered if Republicans should avoid the topic or change their approach. If that was the strategy, Vivek Ramaswamy didn’t get the memo. Furthermore, he was the only candidate who proudly offered the male perspective on why protecting the lives of the unborn is so essential.
The two-hour extravaganza starring five of the six front-runners in the Republican presidential primary certainly had a high production value, but by the technical definition of the term, NBC News's revue was not actually a debate. One would assume that if the Republican National Committee, which has aggressively threatened candidates from participating in conclaves ranging from Fox News to Bob Vander Plaats's famous Thanksgiving Family Forum, decided to grant rare debate hosting honors to a network as hostile to conservatives as NBC, that NBC would be expected to force the field to actually spar against each other. Yet NBC's Lester Holt and Kristen Welker seemed less interested in the candidates differentiating themselves and more in asserting their own authority.
While former President Donald Trump proudly pledges not to reform entitlements, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has boldly called out such a pledge for what it really is: allowing Social Security and Medicare to collapse and drive our debt-to-GDP ratio to the highest point in our nation's history.
The third Republican presidential primary debate, which took place in Miami on Wednesday night, was the best one so far. The NBC moderators may have lingered too long on foreign policy during the first hour of the debate, but their questions weren’t the biased gotcha questions that we’ve come to expect from their organization, and more importantly, the moderators didn’t let the debate get out of hand by letting the candidates speak whenever they wanted.
