Donald Trump won the Pennsylvania Republican primary with 82.8% of the vote. The Keystone State's primary is closed, meaning only Republicans can vote.
Former President Donald Trump seems unable to prevent his campaign from struggling as he instead focuses on "playing the victim" in the throes of his hush-money criminal trial in New York, according to former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin.Trump's trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which began in Manhattan this week with jury selection, is expected to continue into June. The former president and presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee has pleaded not guilty to all...
When former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley ended her presidential bid in early March, Donald Trump and his allies emphatically told her supporters and "those" Romney-esque Republicans to take a hike. Those supporters listened, as Pennsylvania proved yet again this week, when more than 16% of Republican voters in the state's closed primary cast a ballot for Haley and against Trump. The Washington Post's Aaron Blake assembled a list of states with Republican-only primaries so far and highlighted the...
Stephanie Grisham, former Trump White House Press Secretary and former chief of staff to Melania Trump, joins CNN’s Erin Burnett to discuss how Melania could react to the latest details of her husband’s hush money trial.
Melania Trump's former chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, told CNN there's a reason why the former first lady hasn't been by Donald's side during his trial.
When Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign, she refused to endorse Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination - and apparently so did some of her supporters in Pennsylvania.
The great Winston Churchill was reputed to have observed, "If a man at twenty is not a liberal, then he has no heart. If a man at forty is not a conservative, then he has no brain." That's an apocryphal statement, of course, but that doesn't mean it's untrue. Younger people tend to skew more politically to the left than their elders - at least, if you look at the broad strokes. But there is also a political pendulum that swings back and forth; as recently as the '80s, there was a trend wherein...
Judge Juan Merchan, the jurist overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case in New York over an alleged hush-money cover up scheme, is hanging something over the head of the former president's attorneys, a former prosecutor said on Saturday. Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti appeared on MSNBC, where he was asked why Merchan hasn't ruled on whether Trump has violated an expanded gag order imposed upon him in the case. The order limits Trump's attacks on potential witnesses...
A key member of Donald Trump's legal defense team has reportedly dropped one of the former president's associates, Boris Epshteyn, as a client as it became clear that the two were considered adversarial to each other due to a recent Arizona criminal indictment.Hugo Lowell, political investigations reporter for The Guardian, reported after Epshteyn was indicted in Arizona that "Trump lawyer Todd Blanche may soon have to choose whether loyalty is [with] Trump or Boris Epshteyn — clients who are...
Former President Donald Trump is likely to be held in contempt of court soon, former Apprentice contestant and White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman told MSNBC's Jason Johnson on Thursday evening — if not for what he has already done, then because he will be incapable of behaving himself in a courtroom setting for very long.This comes after a contentious few days of jury selection during which prosecutors argued to Judge Juan Merchan that the former president has already violated his gag...
Former President Donald Trump feels uniquely powerless and helpless in the New York hush money trial, with no ability to control the situation or command the narrative, former GOP White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Thursday.This came after the former president gave a disgruntled and disorganized rant just outside the Manhattan courthouse, where he complained about the temperature of the courtroom, reiterated that he was being persecuted, and waved around...
John Nichols Haley is not campaigning, but she just won almost 158,000 GOP primary votes in the critical state of Pennsylvania. Democrats think they can swing many of them to Biden.