Former President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) appeared together for a joint press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, to promote an election integrity bill.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is no recent convert to Donald Trump’s gospel of the Big Lie; after the 2020 election, Johnson led 100 House Republicans in filing an amicus brief supporting an effort to invalidate the results of four swing states President Joe Biden won. So it was little surprise to see him standing next to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, trying to link election conspiracy-mongering to immigration fear-mongering. Johnson and Trump were there to propose new legislation...
(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson have raised the alarm about non-citizens voting in U.S. elections, citing the border crisis. They did so after Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week that his policies were impacting U.S. elections and after Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, reintroduced a bill to require proof of citizenship to vote. DHS Secretary...
It comes as the Republican House speaker faces internal dissent and calls for his removal.
Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson raised concerns Friday about the integrity of US elections in a joint appearance at Mar-a-Lago that featured false claims about voting, immigration and other topics. Trump’s team billed the event as being about “election integrity”– a phrase he often uses to describe the lie that the 2020 election was rigged, as well as his unfounded claims about future mass voter fraud. Here’s a breakdown of some of the false claims from their...
The ex-PM warns the "world was safer" under Donald Trump's presidency, and the West is "on the cusp" of conflict.
President Donald Trump's endorsement of the "God Bless the USA" Bible has been met with a storm of criticism. Some are calling it "sacrilege" and "heresy," and others claim he is taking advantage of people's faith for the sake of money. Others claim that by associating America with the Bible he is promoting Christian nationalism, which they insist is dangerous and un-American. I am not writing here to speculate about Trump's motives in partnering in the promotion of this Bible. My concern is the...
Former President Donald Trump on Friday said that he gets along well with both Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and House Speaker Mike Johnson amid Greene's push to oust the Republican leader.The Georgia congresswoman has publicly criticized Johnson for working across the aisle with Democrats to put forth legislation on issues like foreign aid, and she recently filed a motion to remove him from his position as speaker.During a joint press conference with Johnson at Mar-a-Lago, Trump was...
High-profile right-wing influencers were briefed on House Speaker Mike Johnson’s voter registration bill well in advance of its announcement in what appears to be a coordinated social media campaign meant to drum up support for the legislation, which is dead on arrival on the Senate. Conservative influencers posted dozens of times before Johnson, R-La., publicly announced the bill alongside former President Donald Trump at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, calling on Congress to...
CNN, NBC and Fox News among outlets to make plea as Trump campaign calls for earlier debates and Biden remains uncommittedTwelve US news organizations are urging Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to TV debates ahead of the November presidential vote, a typical feature of an election year and one that can sometimes play a crucial role.“If there is one thing Americans can agree on during this polarized time, it is that the stakes of this election are exceptionally high,” the organizations...
“We’re going to defeat crooked Joe Biden and we’re going to make America great again,” Trump said to a cheering crowd of thousands at the Schnecksville Fire Co. fairgrounds on Saturday night.
Vice-president visited key swing state as part of reproductive freedom-focused 2024 campaign