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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she will not drop out of the race regardless of the results of Saturday’s South Carolina primary, even as polls show her trailing former President Trump by a large margin in her home state. Haley told The Associated Press in an interview that she will remain in the race for the GOP nomination at least until Super Tuesday, March 5, when more than a dozen states will hold their primaries and caucuses. She noted that most states have not yet held their contests and many will vote shortly after South Carolina. “Ten days after...

EXCLUSIVE — A group of 12 prominent conservatives, including a former governor, media executives, and a former U.S. attorney general, have issued a letter calling for Nikki Haley to drop out of the race for president. The former U.N. ambassador is the last remaining GOP opponent in former President Donald Trump‘s quest to win a nonconsecutive second term in the White House. She has vowed to remain in the race and is continuing to raise money, but the group argues she is only damaging her party. “While you have waged a spirited campaign for the 2024 Republican Party nomination, it...

Salem, New Hampshire—The top echelon of the DeSantis campaign has begun having frank conversations with donors about whether the Florida governor should remain in the race, National Review has learned. In recent days people close to the governor have begun making calls to top donors laying out what the campaign sees as their options at this point, which include possibly dropping out of the race in the coming days. The campaign continues to tell reporters that their candidate will stay in the race through South Carolina, force rival and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley to drop out should she...

Ron DeSantis planning to drop out of Republican race and endorse Donald Trump, sources say. An announcement could come before Tuesday

Chris Christie to make 'announcement' at 5PM ET in New Hampshire, expected to drop out of White House race

One of J.P. Morgan strategist Michael Cembalest's predictions on his list of "Ten Surprises for 2024" is getting a lot of attentwidion beyond just folks interested in the market and investing. It's because Cembalest's third predicted "surprise" is that Joe Biden will pull out of the election between Super Tuesday and November, for health reasons.pic.twitter.com/QvUyY1ZJBI— Dr. Nickarama (@nickaramaOG) January 7, 2024Super Tuesday is the day that you have a lot of the states holding primaries and caucuses. This year, that's March 5. Cembalest says that after Biden steps down due to health, the Democratic National Committee will name a replacement...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in the 2024 presidential race to stay. Just ask him. In a new ad released digitally on Thursday, the 61-year-old directly responded to recent calls for him to withdraw and clear the field for a more popular alternative to former President Donald Trump. “Some people say I should drop out of this race. Really? I’m the only one saying Donald Trump is a liar,” Christie said, looking directly at the camera. The White House hopeful — who has focused his long-shot campaign on New Hampshire — will go on air Friday in the...

URBANDALE, Iowa — Longshot Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum insists he’s staying in the 2024 race at least long enough to “beat expectations” in January’s Iowa caucuses — a goal which he joked should be easy to meet, since he has “the lowest expectations.” The billionaire North Dakota governor failed to qualify for the third RNC debate earlier this month, is unlikely to make the stage for the next debate Dec. 6 in Alabama, and is averaging just 2.7% support in the Hawkeye State, according to RealClearPolitics — a mere 44.3 percentage points behind former President Donald Trump. So what,...

Former Vice President Michael Pence announced Saturday he is suspending his 2024 presidential campaign. The Republican presidential candidate made the announcement while at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s leadership conference. “I came here to say it’s become clear to me: This is not my time,” Pence said.

'We're working really hard to qualify for the debate,' the former vice president told NBC's Kristen Welker -------------------------------------------- Pence got asked directly on Sunday if he would drop out of the 2024 presidential race should he fail to qualify for the upcoming third Republican primary debate. The former vice president wouldn't directly answer the question. "We're working really hard to qualify for the debate," Pence said in response to the question on NBC's 'Meet the Press' posed by host Kristen Welker. "I don't have the most money in this campaign, but I do have the most experience." To qualify for...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is losing his clout in Florida. College boards, stacked with DeSantis appointees, are rejecting job candidates with ties to the governor. The chair of the Republican Party of Florida urged executive committee members to attend all GOP candidate events — giving cover to party faithful who want to attend a dinner at Mar-a-Lago with former President Donald Trump. And the board that oversees many of Florida’s affordable housing programs this month placed on leave its executive director, who was helped into the job by a top DeSantis adviser. Interviews with nearly two dozen...

Few Presidents as unpopular as Joe Biden have ever sought re-election. In the modern history of polling, only Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump rival him with their disapproval ratings at this point in their respective presidencies. What’s more, “Bidenomics” is already making Trump look much better by comparison. This reality has many Democrats nervous, looking for some way to ditch their current standard bearer and replace him with (almost) anyone else. Biden’s loss of mental acuity has reached a point where it can no longer be denied or defended. Concerns about Biden’s age and sharpness are turning up in every...

Former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), running in Pennsylvania’s GOP gubernatorial primary, is calling on his fellow Republican candidates to drop out of the race and endorse him against State Sen. Doug Mastriano. In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Saturday, Barletta called on Republicans Dave White and Bill McSwain to drop out of the GOP gubernatorial primary and endorse his candidacy so the party can unite around one candidate against Mastriano, whom former President Trump endorsed on Saturday.

California Sen. Kamala Harris is suspending her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Fox News has learned. The Democratic senator informed her staff of the decision on Tuesday.

Kamala Harris is dropping out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, reports from outlets including Politico and the Atlantic said Tuesday. CNBC reported earlier that Harris, a California senator, had canceled a big-money fundraiser in New York amid reports of campaign turmoil. Harris is polling at around 3% nationally, far behind front-runners Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

To combat the growing number of young people who leave the church, leaders must invest in student ministry and make an intentional effort to focus on individuals during traditional college years, the director of student ministry at LifeWay has said.A 2017 LifeWay Research survey released on Tuesday reveals that 66 percent of Americans between 23 and 30 years old said they stopped attending church on a regular basis for at least a year after turning 18, compared to 70 percent in 2007.The five most frequently chosen specific reasons for dropping out were: moving to college and no longer attending (34...

Michael Avenatti announced that he is out of the race for president in 2020 even though he never officially entered the race to begin with. Avenatti became a household name as Stormy Daniels attorney in her legal battles with President Donald Trump. Because the lawyer had such a contentious relationship with the president, many hinted that he should run for president against Trump in 2020. Of course, Avenatti did nothing but add fuel to those fires by making visits to Iowa and posting several heavyhanded tweets.

The first major Democratic candidate to launch a bid for Wisconsin governor has ended his campaign. Milwaukee businessman Andy Gronik announced his decision to withdraw from the race on Thursday, following a Marquette University Law School poll that found he was supported by 4 percent of Democrats who plan to vote in the Aug. 14 primary election. "The response to my candidacy has been incredible, and we’ve been picking up momentum and supporters every day, but just not fast enough," Gronik said in a statement. "It’s time for me to step down and give someone a legitimate chance to win...

On Sunday, Wikileaks gave Hillary Clinton less than a 24-hour window to drop out of the race or they will dump something that will destroy her “completely.” Recently, Julian Assange confirmed that WikiLeaks was not working with the Russian government, but in their pursuit of justice they are obligated to release anything that they can to bring light to a corrupt system – and who could possibly be more corrupt than Crooked Hillary?

Based on current delegate counts and poll numbers Ted Cruz will be mathematically unable to reach the delegate count required for him to win the Republican Presidential nomination. By the end April it will be clear that Ted Cruz has no chance of reaching the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination.