For any Republican primary candidate not named Donald Trump, getting attention is the name of the game — at least for now. Given former President Trump's commanding lead in national polls and his propensity to drive news cycles, it's vital for his challengers to simply keep themselves in the news. |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a test of his hard-right political brand in New Hampshire, one that requires him to strike a more moderate tone on some of the cultural issues that have come to define his rise to prominence. Since launching his presidential bid last week, DeSantis has leaned into his credentials as a conservative culture warrior, hoping to outflank his chief rival, former President Donald Trump, from the right. |
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Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis touted his state's response to COVID-19 on Saturday, claiming they chose "freedom over Fauci-ism," amid former President Trump's recent attacks on his pandemic record. "We held the line when freedom itself hung in the balance," DeSantis argued during Sen Joni Ernst's (R-Iowa) annual Roast and Ride fundraiser in Des Moines. "We refused to let our state descend into some type of Fauci-an dystopia, where people's livelihoods were ruined and their freedoms were curtailed." |
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's 2024 bid is likely to put his criticism of Donald Trump front and center, offering a test of just how much appetite there is in the GOP for an explicitly anti-Trump candidate. Christie's expected presidential bid has been greeted with skepticism from Republicans, some of whom suggest his candidacy is a mere vanity project, while others are quick to point out that Christie, while a vocal Trump critic now, had worked closely to help reelect the former president in 2020. |
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Fox News host Sean Hannity said he is not "interested in facilitating or listening" to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who is expected to launch a bid for the 2024 GOP nomination for president on Tuesday. Hannity said on Friday that he does not have any problem with giving airtime to any of the candidates who want to come on his show to give their point of view on the issues, but he believes Christie is more interested in attacking Trump than winning the nomination. |
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Several Republican presidential hopefuls slammed former President Trump for his comments praising North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday, after the country received a seat on the World Health Organization's (WHO) executive board. Former Vice President Mike Pence, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis all criticized the former president, who offered his congratulations to Kim in a Truth Social post on Friday. |
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Former President Trump this week tossed a bone to immigration hawks, promising to issue an executive order rescinding birthright citizenship if he returns to the White House. The pledge drew groans from pro-immigration advocates, who quickly pointed out Trump only toyed with trying the move for four years in office, but it heightened fears about the mainstreaming of radical anti-immigrant rhetoric. |
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BY IAN SWANSON AND BRETT SAMUELS |
President Biden on Saturday signed legislation to raise the debt ceiling into 2025 and avert a default, marking a significant bipartisan accomplishment amid divided government in Washington, D.C. The president signed the bill just days before Treasury officials warned the department would run out of money to pay the nation's bills, potentially triggering a recession and harming the economy. |
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Ukrainian war refugees who began arriving in the U.S. over a year ago are completing their first taste of the U.S. education system with the conclusion of the academic year. More than 270,000 Ukrainians, many of them children, have been admitted into the country since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022, with many finding seats in American classrooms. |
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BY KELLY MCMANUS AND SHRUTIKA SABARWAL |
OPINION | "Cataclysmic" — that's how one researcher described the recently reported drop in U.S. college enrollment. "With the exception of wartime," he observed, "the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this." That decline received extensive media coverage — far more than another cataclysm in the higher education system that's gone unaddressed for years: Among the third of full-time U.S. students who attend two-year community colleges, more than 70 percent fail to finish their degrees. |
OPINION | The House and the Senate passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) with large bipartisan margins. The act was based on negotiations between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and suspends the debt ceiling until Jan. 1, 2025, in exchange for certain spending cuts, restraints and other provisions.
The act was a compromise that was unacceptable to far-right and far-left members in both houses of Congress. Reasonable people can and will differ on the bill, but it was clearly in the nation's interest to avoid default. In addition, those who voted against the bill did not have a proposed way forward that was politically feasible. Stated differently, they let the perfect be the enemy of the good. |
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BY ANNIE LINSKEY AND KEN THOMAS |
President's approval ratings show that voters give him little credit for bipartisan compromises as he runs for another term. |
BY HANNAH KNOWLES, COLBY ITKOWITZ AND DYLAN WELLS |
The Florida governor hit back at a heckler, highlighted his family and chatted up voters — but offered limited back-and-forth. |
The Florida governor's campaign said it had around 40,000 donors in May, an average of more than $200 per donor — a figure far higher than is typical for a campaign heavily funded by grass-roots support. |
Wisconsin Republicans still reeling from an April election that saw conservatives lose majority control of the state Supreme Court for the first time in 15 years hope to use their upcoming state convention to unify and refocus on the 2024 presidential race in which Wisconsin will once again be a battleground. |
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