• 'Trump tax': MSNBC host Chris Hayes shows how Trump winning would increase costs

    How much would former President Donald Trump's proposed 10 percent tariff plan actually cost the average American household?The wave of tariffs Trump enacted when he was last president caused chaos, but there are many complexities that muddy this somewhat. However, MSNBC's Chris Hayes took an educated and simple guess at just how badly the country would be hit in the pocketbook under Trump's second-term plans."We don't know exactly how much everything would cost," said Hayes, but "just add 10...

  • Perceptions that the economy’s bad can cost you an election, even if the economy isn’t actually bad

    “Perceptions are more important than reality,” said Marc Hetherington at UNC Chapel Hill. “People vote on their perceptions, not on the the actual data itself.”

  • ‘Bidenomics’ has ‘hurt’ more voters, and Trump ‘helped’ them

    People have long memories when it comes to their wallets. And that appears good for former President Donald Trump, but not President Joe Biden. As sticky inflation holds and prices on grocery shelves and at the pump rise, voters are recalling how good they had it before “Bidenomics.” In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of […]

  • Trump is snubbing Haley voters—and it could cost him the election

    It’s been three weeks since former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley suspended her bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Despite her departure, Donald Trump has continued to lose significant numbers of primary voters to Haley.  As Daily Kos’ Kerry Eleveld has reported, President Joe Biden has reached out to appeal to these Haley voters. Trump not so much. According to The New York Times, Trump has made no move to contact Haley or to reconcile with the voters who sought another option...

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    Donald Trump faces an over $400 million judgment for his civil fraud trial Monday while he’s in court with Stormy Daniels in his criminal hush money case. Former Senior Trump White House Official Omarosa Manigault Newman joins Alex Witt to discuss what can be expected on Trump’s busy day.

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    Anthony Scaramucci: Trump will hurt anybody, anything in his way

    Former WH Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci joins Morning Joe to discuss the dangers of a second Trump term and why Trump is being rejected by his own former cabinet officials.

  • Ex-Trump Lawyer John Eastman Gets Bad News in Court

    A California judge has recommended that John Eastman, former lawyer for ex-president Donald Trump, lose his law license over accusations that Eastman attempted to help overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.Eastman, former dean of Chapman University School of Law, is facing 11 misconduct charges from the State Bar of California, accused of pushing to keep Trump in power by "executing a strategy, unsupported by facts or law, to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020...

  • Easter egg costs could rise as cocoa prices spike after bad harvests

    The cost of Easter eggs could increase again as bad harvests continue to dent global cocoa supplies, sending prices to a new all-time high.

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    Trump's plan for Republican National Committee donations could hurt state GOPs

    Over the last couple years, several local Republican Party chapters have fallen into financial ruin, in many cases after squandering their money promoting Donald Trump’s bogus allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. Now the former president’s new fundraising arrangement with the Republican National Committee could worsen the GOP’s financial woes at the local level, according to NBC News: So state parties will be last in line to receive funding. And that’s bad news for the many state-level GOP...

  • Trump leads in polls but badly trails in crucial 2024 money race

    Financial woes have become a major vulnerability for the presumptive Republican nominee as he enters what is expected to be the most expensive presidential election in history.

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    Lara Trump's potential new RNC hire is more bad news for the Republican Party

    The news keeps getting better and better for the Democrats following Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican National Committee. On Thursday, RNC co-chair Lara Trump announced she hopes to hire Scott Presler, a conservative activist who has shared QAnon messages on social media, organized "anti-Sharia law" protests and appeared outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, to lead the party’s so-called “legal ballot harvesting” initiative — essentially a get-out-the-vote effort aimed at getting...

  • Bad HMRC advice cost me £10,000 on an inheritance tax bill: SALLY SORTS IT

    I was the executor for the estate of a friend. Because of advice from HMRC, I have ended up paying interest I estimate at about £10,000 on the inheritance tax owed, when I shouldn't have paid any.