Despite the sordid details, former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial has come as a welcome relief to Republicans, a new analysis contends. Political commentator S.E. Cupp Wednesday made this claim in a New York Daily News editorial Wednesday unpacking GOP responses to Trump's ongoing trial in Manhattan criminal court.Trump stands accused of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election, and...
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The move highlights the deepening divide between the more socially conservative wing of the party, which opposes abortion on moral grounds, and the more populist, MAGA branch.
Abortion politics and policy are clashing here like in no other state as the Republican-led Legislature convenes Wednesday to sort out the aftermath of a ruling allowing a statewide ban to take effect within weeks. It adds more uncertainty for a state that has sometimes felt like the center of the political universe since President Biden’s 2020 victory here helped seal his election, prompting the first false cries from former President Trump that the election was rigged. Republicans here are...
Terry’s platform is almost exclusively dedicated to his anti-abortion stance and activism.
CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen talks with Alex Marquardt about the first criminal trial of former President Trump.
After a conservative majority of the Arizona Supreme Court ruled April 9 to uphold an antiquated near-total abortion ban from 1864, the shockwaves on both sides of the political aisle were immediate and obvious. Democrats decried the court’s decision, vowing to redouble efforts to pass an amendment to the state’s constitution. If passed, the Arizona Abortion Access Act would effectively negate the court’s ruling and guarantee abortion access to all Arizona citizens. Republicans faced a far...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is continuing his campaign to make Republican lawmakers pay for their abortion bans, with new initiatives targeting Arizona and Alabama. On Sunday, Newsom announced forthcoming legislation that would make abortion care more accessible to residents of Arizona, which shares a border with California. The proposal, a response to Arizona’s Civil War-era abortion ban, would shorten the amount of time it takes for Arizona doctors to be approved to perform abortions in...
The Republican convention of the 7th Congressional District in Minnesota failed to make an endorsement on Saturday. Rep. Michelle Fischbach will now face Steve Boyd in the Aug. 13 primary election.
Republican attorneys general from 17 states filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions, calling the rules an illegal interpretation of a 2022 federal law.
Disgraced coal CEO lost races as GOP and third party candidate. He's trying again as a Democrat
By JOHN RABY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship is making another attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, this time as a Democrat. Blankenship finished third out of six candidates in the 2018 Republican primary for Democrat Joe Manchin’s Senate seat. Manchin decided last