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.
GOP presidential hopeful Tim Scott (S.C.) debuted his girlfriend on the debate stage Wednesday night, in a moment that will likely become his most memorable of the evening. As the five candidates on the stage greeted their spouses and families, the South Carolina senator appeared arm-in-arm with a blonde woman as they posed for photos....
NewsNation, the cable news channel launched in 2021 by Nexstar Media Group, will host the fourth Republican presidential primary debate next month in Alabama, the network announced on Thursday. The Dec. 6 debate will air from 8 to 10 p.m. on NewsNation and be simulcast in the Eastern and Central time zones on Nexstar’s broadcast television network, The CW. The debate will have three moderators,...
Instead of just forcing Uyghurs detained in re-education camps to perform forced labor, Beijing has increasingly coerced them into work settings that appear voluntary, but are not.
A new survey shows a deep divide within the Democratic Party on President Biden’s response to the war between Israel and Hamas. Almost half of all Democrats — 46 percent — disapprove of Biden’s handling of the war, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs, published Thursday. Fifty percent...