• ICYMI: The future isn't bright for Kari Lake, and remember when Trump said COVID is fake?

    Arizona GOP Senate candidate is getting outgunned—and she's not alone For Kari Lake, it’s looking like a second time is not going to be the charm. You've got to try hard to raise as little as this Republican Imagine raising only $52! Michael Cohen testifies in Trump's New York Trial He testimony confirms that there’s no rest for the wicked. Cartoon: Voter discretion advised Basically, just cover your eyes. Abandoning Biden could repeat the 1968 mistakes that helped elect Nixon ...

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    Kari Lake keeps showing why she may be the worst Senate candidate in Arizona history

    I used to think former Arizona Senate candidate Martha McSally had earned the title of the worst political candidate in Arizona history. Then creepy gun whisperer Blake Masters entered the scene and arguably took the title in 2022. Now, I’m convinced Kari Lake is in pole position. Over the past few months, Republicans from Donald Trump to Mitch McConnell have expressed annoyance or uncertainty about Lake’s campaign, questioning if she has what it takes to challenge probable Democratic nominee...

  • How Trump's lawyers tried to paint Michael Cohen as a liar who was an obsessed Donald Trump fanboy but struggled: The key takeaways from fixer's second day of testimony

    Lawyer Todd Blanche tried going for the jugular with his first questions. But he had trouble rattling Cohen by bringing up foul-mouthed insults. Read DailyMail's coverage of the Stormy Daniels trial

  • Watch GOP witnesses struggle to answer for Trump's vow to be a dictator

    During the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan invited several witnesses to testify, including former Trump attorney James Trusty, Trump ally Robert Costello, and the executive director of right-wing activist group America First Legal, Gene Hamilton. All three testified that the numerous legal cases against Donald Trump amounted to a weaponization of our government to practice “lawfare,” a term the GOP has bandied about...

  • Arizona's economy is booming. But Biden struggles to reap benefits from voters

    Aaron McDonald thinks back to when he came to Maricopa County nearly 20 years ago as a young ironworker hoping to get work building a new football stadium. Driving in from Wyoming for the first time, he was struck by the overwhelming desert expanse that surrounded Phoenix. Today, those sweeping vistas are dotted with industrial development that is transforming Arizona's economy. A region that was devastated by the 2008 financial crisis is teeming with massive projects under construction, fueled...

  • Kari Lake keeps giving Republicans new reasons to worry

    Lake keeps reversing her own positions and stirring up feuds, and some in the GOP see other states as better targets this fall.

  • John Eastman denies charges in Trump 'fake electors' case in Arizona

    LOS ANGELES — A lawyer who was the architect of a plan to subvert the 2020 election and return Donald Trump to the White House denied all charges against him when he appeared in an Arizona court Friday. John Eastman is the first of 18 people charged in the battleground state to appear in court over the scheme to empanel fake electors to support their favored candidate. Others include Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, one-time Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney...

  • Trump leads MAGA supporters in vulgar chants at New Jersey rally

    Donald Trump launched a slew of vulgar jabs at his legal and political opponents and encouraged crude chants at a rally Saturday evening in Wildwood, New Jersey.Thousands of MAGA supporters listened as Trump referred to the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, as "fat Alvin," calling him "radical" and "a corrupt guy."The presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 elections then turned his attention to the judge presiding over his hush-money trial, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan...

  • Kari Lake earned a senator’s salary for talking and writing: documents

    Kari Lake, the probable Republican candidate this year for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, made more money last year just from speaking and writing than she would make as a senator, according to Raw Story’s analysis of her most recent financial disclosure.That’s $175,000 for Lake — and $174,000 for a U.S. senator.Lake disclosed the specific terms of her book deal royalty agreement in an amended personal financial disclosure report filed Friday. She reported receiving a $100,000 advance, against 25...

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    Former Trump lawyer John Eastman pleads not guilty in Arizona election case

    John Eastman, Donald Trump, and Trump allies such as Rudy Giuliani, also are charged in Georgia with crimes related to the 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.

  • 'Set up': Trump's MAGA base is second-guessing his Biden debate decision

    Donald Trump's closest allies and surrogates appear to be questioning the former president's debate strategy.Trump on Wednesday agreed to debates, as well as the conditions that came with them, that had been proposed by President Joe Biden. Trump also claimed Biden can't "put two sentences together," prompting his former aide to say he's setting Biden up for a win if they ever finally debate.But even the ex-president's current team of surrogates is expressing concerns.ALSO READ: Judge rejects...

  • RNC Brings Trump’s Non-Citizen Voting Fixation To Arizona Courts

    The Republican National Committee is bringing Donald Trump’s Non-Citizen voting myth—a baseless narrative and an increasingly rabid area of fixation for Republicans headed into 2024—to the Arizona