Vivek Ramaswamy is leaning into economic populist messaging as he looks to distinguish himself from the other Republican primary contenders in the presidential contest. He's talking about "revolution" and labels his opponents "super PAC puppets." He applauds small-dollar donations and calls his campaign a "grassroots uprising." He criticizes the mainstream media and praises anti-establishment figures on both the right and left. |
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BY NIALL STANAGE AND IAN SWANSON |
The next presidential election won't take place for another 14 months, but it's safe to say this fall could do much to shape the race for the White House. Here are five political narratives that will dominate politics in coming months as Congress returns to avoid a shutdown, Republicans debate their presidential nominee and former President Trump does battle in a colliding series of legal fights. |
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A battle over abortion rights is set to play out on multiple fronts this coming November with votes that could affect access to the procedure in several states. Voters will go to the polls for key elections in half a dozen states this year, but abortion rights advocates in particular are looking at votes in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Those states are already being seen as bellwethers for where the country stands on the issue heading into 2024, as Democrats hope to rally voter anger from the overturn of Roe v. Wade. |
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President Biden and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) kept their distance from one another on Saturday when the president traveled to Florida in the wake of Hurricane Idalia. The two were expected to meet on the ground after DeSantis had met with Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell earlier this week. But, DeSantis' office on Friday said the governor didn't have plans to meet with Biden, saying having the two meeting up could put strain on the state's disaster response. |
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President Biden on Saturday praised Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) while visiting Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia after he was snubbed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. "I'm very pleased, the guy who we don't agree very much at all, the distinguished former governor and senior senator, he came, talked about to me and to you all [about] what an incredible job the federal government was doing and I found that reassuring," Biden said in remarks in Live Oak, Fla. "And, so, I think we can pull all of this together, I really do." |
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The Russian people are skeptical over the circumstances of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's death, according to Western-based survey groups that are probing Russian public opinion and gauging the strength of the Kremlin to shape the public narrative. Prigozhin's violent death in a plane crash was hardly a surprise given his short-lived armed rebellion against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Critics and enemies of Putin in Russia have a tendency to end up dead or in prison. |
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While all eyes are on the 2024 presidential race, several consequential elections are also taking place in the coming days and months. In Rhode Island, 13 Democrats are competing against each other for the opportunity to represent a House district. A special election for the Pennsylvania state House will determine partisan balance of the state's lower chamber. And elections for the Virginia General Assembly will have enormous implications for Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R) political future. |
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The release of former President Trump's mug shot could serve as his sharpest tool yet in beefing up his political brand ahead of his bid to recapture the presidency next year. Trump began fundraising off his mug shot, taken in Georgia in connection with his efforts to overturn the state's election result, almost as soon as it was taken, and his campaign has raked in more than $2 million since its release. |
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John Eastman, previous attorney to former President Trump, said he believes all of the Georgia racketeering case's 19 co-defendants will be found not guilty at trial. "I think if we get a fair trial in Fulton County, whether that's in state court or federal court, I'm confident that we'll be fully vindicated," Eastman said in a Fox News interview Friday. "Not just me, but all the defendants." |
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) responded Saturday to recent White House criticism of her saying she would vote against funding the government if the House decides not to open an impeachment inquiry against the president. "The White House is attacking me for demanding an impeachment inquiry before I'll vote to fund one penny to our over bloated $32 TRILLION dollar in debt failing government," Greene wrote in a lengthy thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. |
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OPINION | Last year, at an event at the White House, former president Barack Obama jokingly referred to the current president as "Vice President Biden." At the time, it was described as the more popular politician "reminding Biden who's boss." Yet, this needling carried an added bite, given reports of Obama's private doubts about Biden's judgment. In 2020, Obama had famously warned fellow Democrats, "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f— things up." |
OPINION | At a recent court hearing in the January 6 case, Judge Tanya Chutkan told former President Donald Trump's counsel, John Lauro, that "your client's defense is supposed to happen in this courtroom, not on the internet." But that ship may have already sailed. Trump's defenders have already flooded the media with his purported "defense" to the charges: that Trump genuinely believed he won the election, and therefore he was not acting with the requisite "corrupt intent." This argument has been treated with far too much credulity by the media, as well as the legal commentariat. In fact, it matters not at all whether Trump really believed he won the election. |
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President Joe Biden on Saturday saw from the sky Hurricane Idalia's impact across a swath of Florida before he set out on a walking tour of a city recovering from the storm. Notably absent was Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate who declined to join Biden after he suggested that the Democrat's presence could hinder disaster response efforts. |
Gap between federal spending and revenue is widening, but not for reasons that stimulate economy. |
Beijing sees forces bent on weakening it everywhere: embedded in multinational companies, infiltrating social media, circling naïve students. And it wants its people to see them, too.
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BY ANTHONY FAIOLA AND ELINDA LABROPOULOU |
As flames approached the 19th century Monastery of Panagia Ipseni, the nuns inside steeled themselves. A village seer in the 1990s dreamed of women in charge of the sanctuary's cloistered life, prompting the Orthodox church to replace its male monks with sisters. Now those nuns refused to leave — vowing to keep the wildfire at bay with prayer and water buckets. |
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