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Third-party presidential candidates could give President Joe Biden a boost above former President Donald Trump in November, according to a NBC News poll published Sunday.Preliminary polling leading up to Election Day has showed Biden and Trump to be in for a tight race. While the former president has recently appeared to take the lead in several key swing states like Arizona and Michigan, several national polls have favored Biden winning, often by only a handful of percentage points.Several...
South Dakota's Republican Governor Kristi Noem, a potential Donald Trump vice president pick, dodged CNN host Dana Bash's question on Sunday over whether she would have certified President Joe Biden's 2020 election win.Trump became the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee in March following a series of primary wins, sparking renewed speculation about who his vice-presidential pick could be. The business mogul turned politician had a public fall out with Mike Pence, who served as vice...
Donald Trump's usual "bluster" will backfire once he's in his first criminal trial starting Monday, according to the Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life at Albany Law School and the author of Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession.Ray Brescia, an expert on legal ethics and civil procedure, wrote for The Daily Beast that "Trump is actually on a legal losing streak" in the case. "And despite his outrageous public posturing and boastful claims in...
Days away before his hush money criminal case is set to start, defendant Donald Trump's reportedly in panic mode. Former federal prosecutor Norm Eisen sees former President Donald Trump's last-ditch efforts to stall the case as acting out in "extraordinary desperation." Three days in a row, Trump's tried to sway a New York appeals court to put the brakes on his criminal trial, which has already been delayed before. And so far, the attempts haven't worked, setting the stage for the...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- The attorney who shot and killed his ex-daughter-in-law and her husband inside a Las Vegas law office had asked the mother of his grandchildren not to be present days before killing her.
One of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign staffers has been fired after a video circulated of her saying her “No. 1 priority” is for President Biden to lose the election.
The U.S. Senate voted by a wide margin late Tuesday in favor of legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if its owner, the Chinese tech firm ByteDance, fails to divest the popular short video app over the next nine months to a year.Driven by widespread worries among U.S. lawmakers that China could access Americans' data or surveil them with the app, the bill was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday and U.S. President Joe Biden has said he will sign it into law on...
Former President Donald Trump has drawn a difficult jury to defend against, former prosecutor Kristy Greenberg argued to MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Friday evening. "Let's talk about the jury, because we now have 12 jurors and six alternates," said Hayes. "What is your impression — what are your thoughts on how this jury has come together, what the composition looks like?""Well, you have two lawyers on this jury," said Greenberg. "Then you have in addition, three individuals who say close family...
The payments come in spite of the DNC's repeated attacks against former President Donald Trump for using campaign funds to cover legal fees.
Among those who will come forward to speak truthfully as witnesses for the prosecution in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, his former campaign press secretary and White House senior advisor Hope Hicks is perhaps most intriguing and also seasoned. Former litigator and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin laid out a litany of insights into one of former President Donald Trump's most trusted confidantes and battle-tested loyalists. For Rubin, she has no doubts Hicks will be truthful and savvy...
Former President Donald Trump just lost his third effort this week to get the Manhattan hush money trial delayed, clearing the way for it to begin next week. But he has one last plan up his sleeve, argued former Trump impeachment lawyer Norm Eisen for CNN.Specifically, he's going to try to make sure at least one MAGA devotee gets onto the jury, who could deadlock the verdict."It appears to me that he is attempting to reach his supporters in Manhattan in the hopes that at least one will make it...