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Republicans and political pundits mercilessly mocked former Gov. Nikki Haley on Wednesday for moving her campaign to South Carolina instead of dropping out of the GOP primary. The mockery underscores Haley’s lack of viability in the South Carolina primary, despite being the state’s former governor. After former President Donald Trump gave Haley a sound drubbing in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the consensus among Republicans, media personalities, and Trump opponents was that Haley should graciously concede to Trump.

Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips vowed to press on after garnering about 21 percent of the vote in Tuesdsay's Democratic primary in New Hampshire. Phillips and self-help guru Marianne Williamson were the only Democrats to appear by name on the Granite State ballot due to the Democratic National Committee's decision to skip over New Hampshire and make South Carolina first. As soon as polls closed at 8 p.m., CNN and The Associated Press almost immediately called the race for President Joe Biden, as his supporters mounted a write-in campaign in the state. 'Joe Biden is a good man. He is a...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) endorsed Donald Trump for president moments after the New Hampshire primary was called within minutes of polls closing. “I have seen enough,” Cornyn said on X. “To beat Biden, Republicans need to unite around a single candidate, and it’s clear that President Trump is Republican voters’ choice.” A majority of Senate Republicans have now endorsed Trump, but Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) had been the only senior member of Senate GOP leadership to endorse the former president’s reelection bid before Tuesday night.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s campaign is urging supporters in a new memo to “take a deep breath” amid New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, assuring “we aren’t going anywhere” as Haley goes head-to-head with former President Trump in the Granite State. “The political class and the media want to give Donald Trump a coronation. They say the race is over,” Haley’s campaign manager, Betsy Ankney, wrote in the memo. She noted Trump’s win in last week’s Iowa caucuses, where Haley came in a distant third place — but highlighted that only 110,000 Iowans had weighed in on the contest. “That isn’t...

...Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building, where the 2018 shooting — the deadliest in Florida — took place, and spoke with some of the survivors and victims’ relatives about ways to improve school safety nationally. “To say that this morning was one of the most impactful moments of my life is an understatement,” said Cardona, 48, during a round table Monday at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel and Convention...

Several Democrat lawmakers have expressed unease with President Biden's campaign and its operations as he faces sagging poll numbers and low popularity. It's a viewpoint that aligns with other left-leaning individuals who have previously sounded the alarm, including a former aide to first lady Jill Biden. Still, Biden's re-election vehicle appears to have not made any significant changes despite the public outcry. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is one such politician who worries about how Biden has approached the election. The Vermont independent, who caucuses with Democrats, said Biden needs to change course and believes the Israel-Hamas war has hurt the...

Rep. Gaetz to speak in Keene this weekend on Trump's behalf 3 points from Marianne Williamson's pitch Thursday to local voters Nikki Haley to visit Keene on Saturday 3 key points from Dean Phillips' campaign stop in Peterborough

The Republican presidential candidate stirred talk of a refocus when he signaled he would visit South Carolina, which holds the first GOP votes in the South, directly after scoring second place in this week’s Iowa caucuses. Days later, a DeSantis campaign official reportedly said that most of the campaign staff would also be relocating to the Palmetto State. “So we went to South Carolina, knocked out a couple events and then did what we were planning to do in New Hampshire. That was somehow caricatured as ‘skipping’ New Hampshire when it wasn’t. It was adding South Carolina in addition to...

I’ve written in the past that during the early GOP presidential campaign debates, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum came across as the adult in the room. Burgum proved himself to be articulate, authentic and funny. He spoke atop a platform of vast experience and came across as presidential. And yet most Americans don’t know his name. Why? Well, unfortunately for Burgum, most of the media — including much of the conservative media — unfairly relegated him to second-tier status in a class of candidates that included Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Gov....

A disabled man in a wheelchair and a conservative podcaster, Matt Kim, were removed from Ron DeSantis’s campaign event on the eve of the Iowa caucuses. The reasons behind this unexpected removal remain unclear, sparking confusion and frustration among the individuals involved. The incident, which was caught on video, shows the disabled attendee, who had just entered the venue, being promptly escorted out by security personnel. The individual was reported to be wearing a hat bearing the name of Brenden Dilley, host of The Dilley Show and a Trump supporter. Dilley took to social media to express his disbelief.

DeSantis was on the latest This Week on ABC and told host Jon Karl that Trump wants a party defined solely by loyalty to him, and not by commitment to principles or “delivering” on them for voters. “Is that what’s going on?” asked Karl. “Because we are now seeing this stampede of elected Republican officials endorsing Donald Trump.” DESANTIS: Well, you’ll have to ask them. I mean, I can tell you this. I mean, I do know elected officials who encouraged me to run and say they’re going to vote for me in a primary, but yet have endorsed Donald...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday vowed to stay in the presidential race for the “long haul” despite a poor showing in the final Iowa poll before Monday’s caucuses. “We’ve got a huge number of people that have committed to caucus, and we expect that these are the people that turn out,” DeSantis told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” before a slate of events in Iowa. “We’re in this for the long haul. We understand that you got to win a majority of the delegates. We understand that that there’s a long process here, but we’re going...

Trump is Dylann Roof and believing the 2020 election was stolen is the Civil War. Who is writing these talking points? It’s surreal. ABC News: In his first visit to an early voting state this year, President Joe Biden on Monday in Charleston, South Carolina, warned MAGA Republicans led by former President Donald Trump “tried to steal an election” and “now they’re trying to steal history.”

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will barnstorm the campaign trail in Iowa with social media influencer and boxer Jake Paul on Sunday, the night before the Iowa Caucuses. TMZ first reported that Paul will join Ramaswamy in the Hawkeye State, where they will attend rallies at four universities throughout the day.

President Biden’s reelection campaign bashed former President Trump on Tuesday after he said he hoped the U.S. economy crashed in the next 12 months, arguing he doesn’t care about people. “Donald Trump should just say he doesn’t give a damn about people, because that’s exactly what he’s telling the American people when he says he hopes the economy crashes. In his relentless pursuit of power and retribution, Donald Trump is rooting for a reality where millions of Americans lose their jobs and live with the crushing anxiety of figuring out how to afford basic needs,” campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez...

The power play is here. Former president Barack Obama has raised questions about the structure of President Biden’s reelection campaign, discussing the matter directly with Biden and telling the president’s aides and allies the campaign needs to be empowered to make decisions without clearing them with the White House, according to three people familiar with the conversations. Obama grew “animated” in discussing the 2024 election and former president Donald Trump’s potential return to power, one of the people said, and has suggested to Biden’s advisers that the campaign needs more top-level decision-makers at its headquarters in Wilmington, Del. — or...

The Biden campaign reportedly holds off-the-record meetings with establishment news reporters and editors to provide them with spreadsheets about where they think their reporting fell short. The media’s willingness to take direction from Biden suggests why Americans do not trust the establishment media, as Gallup polling shows: Only 32 percent trust the establishment media “a great deal” or “a fair amount.” 50 percent say the national media intend to mislead, misinform, and persuade the public. Just 35 percent say most news organizations can be relied upon. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and other outlets participate in the meetings,...

If President Joe Biden — who has polled as the least popular president in modern history — is reelected in 2024, his top priority on day one of his second term is the killing of the unborn. During an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Biden deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said Biden would prioritize abortion and restoring Roe v. Wade on the first day of his second term. When the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs decision in June of 2022, it overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 decision that had invented the Constitutional “right” to abortion. “You...

Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is laser focused on two issues: the chaos caused by President Joe Biden’s open border and the inflationary disaster of Bidenomics, Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and Breitbart Finance Editor John Carney explained in a wide-ranging interview Thursday with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.The discussion focused on the many revelations in Marlow and Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle’s exclusive sit-down interview with Trump.How Democrat “Lawfare” Gave Trump 2024 MomentumKudlow kicked off the conversation with Trump’s claim in the Breitbart interview that if he wins the election he will fire Special Counsel Jack Smith.“I think that...

Is there any hope left for the U.S.S. Biden? It's not just that his polling numbers are reaching the point of no return. Now his campaign staff are fleeing -- "in droves." According to Newsweek:A group of staffers working on President Joe Biden's reelection campaign warned the president that his volunteers are quitting "in droves" over his handling of Israel's military response in the Gaza Strip.Biden has faced immense pressure from members of his own party over the United States' policies in light of the surprise Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, which killed about 1,200 people and resulted...