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Trump asks Maine judge for pause to let Supreme Court rule on ballot access

Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked a state judge to halt proceedings on ballot access in Maine to allow the U.S. Supreme Court time to rule on a case out of Colorado in which Trump was kicked off the ballot over his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Maine Democrat Shenna Bellows last month became the first secretary of state in history to bar someone from running for the presidency under the rarely used Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That provision prohibits those who engaged in insurrection from holding office. In Colorado, the state supreme court reached the same conclusion in a 4-3 decision, and that case already has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court by Trump's attorneys. The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled arguments in the Colorado case, and Trump's lawyers asked a Maine Superior Court judge to pause the state proceeding because issues before the Supreme Court are identical to the federal issues raised in this case, the resolution of ..

With a week to go for Iowa's caucuses, Donald Trump appears strong

When Donald Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign after a disappointing midterm election for Republicans, his trajectory was something of a mystery. But seven days before Iowa's kick-off caucuses, his standing among the GOP faithful is hardly in doubt. Voters, campaign operatives and even some of the candidates on the ground here overwhelmingly agree that the Republican former president is the prohibitive favourite heading into the January 15 caucuses whether they like it or not. Everybody sees the writing on the wall, said Angela Roemerman, a 56-year-old Republican from Solon, Iowa, as she waited for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley to arrive for a weekend rally at Field Day Brewing Co. in North Liberty. It's a little depressing, Roemerman said as her order of tortilla chips arrived, lamenting all the drama surrounding Trump. We don't need another four years. But Trump's going to win. Just beneath all the perceived certainty about Trump's victory, however, lie

Former Prez Trump downplays Jan 6 on anniversary of the Capitol siege

Former President Donald Trump, campaigning in Iowa Saturday, marked the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol by casting the migrant surge on the southern border as the real insurrection. Just over a week before the Republican nomination process begins with Iowa's kickoff caucuses, Trump continued to claim that countries have been emptying jails and mental institutions to fuel a record number of migrant crossings. There is no evidence that this is the case. When you talk about insurrection, what they're doing, that's the real deal. That's the real deal. Not patriotically and peacefully peacefully and patriotically," Trump said, quoting from his speech on January 6, before a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol as part of a desperate bid to keep him in power after his 2020 election loss. Trump's remarks came a day after Biden delivered a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where he cast Trump as a grave threat to democracy and called .

Nikki Haley draws more attacks from Republican rivals after town hall

Nikki Haley's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination are ratcheting up their attacks on her as Iowa's first-in-the-nation voting draws closer. The barbed news releases, attack ads and amped up back-and-forth come as the former South Carolina governor and Florida Gov Ron DeSantis battle for a distant second place to former President Donald Trump with less than two weeks until Iowa's leadoff caucuses. DeSantis and Haley each appeared on CNN Thursday night for separate town halls in Iowa. For months, Trump has trained his focus on DeSantis, who has long argued that he's the party's best chance at unseating Trump from atop the field. But in recent weeks, Trump's campaign has increasingly shifted its target to Haley, calling her a sellout and criticizing her stances on taxes and the US-Mexico border. Her campaign on Thursday said Trump's attention to Haley, who served as his United Nations ambassador, reflects his concern that she is gaining on him. DeSantis, who is preparing

Ramaswamy asks rivals to withdraw from ballots that removed Trump's name

Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has urged his rivals to follow him and withdraw from the ballots of the US states of Maine and Colorado which disqualified the party's frontrunner Donald Trump from contesting this year's race for the White House. Maine and Colorado disqualified the 77-year-old former president from the presidency this year in the states because of his role in the attack on the US Capitol in 2021. Trump's disqualification was based on the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which says officials who take an oath to support the US Constitution are banned from future office if they "engaged in insurrection." In an interview with a news channel on Monday, the 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur said his goal was to "nullify" the two states that have removed Trump from their ballots by boycotting their elections. Trump, who is facing several legal hurdles ahead of the November 5, 2024 Presidential election, is currently the frontrunner among the .

Biden and Trump poised for potential rematch that could shake US politics

US presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic disaster, stunning gaffes, secret video and a pandemic. But for all the tumult that defined those campaigns, the volatility surrounding this year's presidential contest has few modern parallels, posing profound challenges to the future of American democracy. Not since the Supreme Court effectively decided the 2000 campaign in favour of Republican George W. Bush has the judiciary been so intertwined with presidential politics. In the coming weeks, the high court is expected to weigh whether states can ban former President Donald Trump from the ballot for his role in leading the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court is weighing Trump's argument that he's immune from prosecution. The maneuvers are unfolding as prosecutors from New York to Washington and Atlanta move forward with 91 indictments across four criminal cases involving everything from Trump's role in the ...

Trump barred from GOP primary in 2 states. Can he still run for prez?

First, Colorado's Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump wasn't eligible to run for his old job in that state. Then, Maine's Democratic secretary of state ruled the same for her state. Who's next? Both decisions are historic. The Colorado court was the first court to apply to a presidential candidate a rarely used constitutional ban against those who engaged in insurrection. Maine's secretary of state was the first top election official to unilaterally strike a presidential candidate from the ballot under that provision. But both decisions are on hold while the legal process plays out. That means that Trump remains on the ballot in Colorado and Maine and that his political fate is now in the hands of the US Supreme Court. The Maine ruling will likely never take effect on its own. Its central impact is increasing pressure on the nation's highest court to say clearly: Can Trump still run for president after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol? WHAT'S THE LEGA

Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to put off hearing case on immunity claim

As per Trump's brief, Smith's desire for expedited treatment was driven by political considerations

Donald Trump's 2024 win means loss of US democracy, warns Joe Biden

The Biden campaign has increasingly focused on Trump as the likely, if not certain, Republican nominee as it braces for a rematch of 2020

Donald Trump ineligible to serve as US prez, says Colorado Supreme Court

Colorado's Supreme Court issued the ruling, barring Trump from the state's primary ballot, but stayed the decision to allow the former president to appeal, which his campaign said he plans to do

Trump's lawyers ask appeals court to review gag order curbing his speech

Lawyers for Donald Trump asked the full federal appeals court in Washington to review a gag order restricting the former president's speech in the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election. The request on Monday follows a decision by a three-judge panel of the appeals court that upheld but narrowed a gag order that barred Trump from verbally attacking witnesses over their participation in the case and imposed other restrictions on what he may say. In requesting that the entire court take up the matter, Trump's lawyers argued the panel's decision earlier this month contradicted Supreme Court precedent and rulings from other appeals courts. They said a fresh consideration was needed both to secure uniformity of this Court's decisions and because of the question's exceptional importance. This petition presents a question of exceptional importance: Whether a district court may gag the core political speech of the leading candidate for President of the United States

Trump wants New Hampshire voters to put him on a path to the nomination

Donald Trump asked New Hampshire voters on Saturday to help him secure the Republican presidential nomination before any rivals find their footing with the 2024 campaign's opening contest just weeks away. The appearance in Durham was part of a swing taking the former president through early nominating states as he cites his wide polling lead over a dwindling field of GOP hopefuls. They are trying to block his political comeback as Trump navigates multiple indictments and looks ahead to a potential rematch with President Joe Biden, the Democrat he lost to in 2020. We are going to win the New Hampshire primary, then we are going to crush crooked Joe Biden next November, Trump said, reminding supporters that he ensured their state would continue to host the nation's first primary after Iowa's kickoff caucuses. New Hampshire is going to weed out the insincere RINOs ... Republicans in name only," Trump said, referring to rivals Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who was endorsed by Trump

Biden's 2024 dilemma: US economy looks solid, voters still not feeling it

President Joe Biden goes into next year's election with a vexing challenge: Just as the US economy is getting stronger, people are still feeling horrible about it. Pollsters and economists say there has never been as wide a gap between the underlying health of the economy and public perception. The divergence could be a decisive factor in whether the Democrat secures a second term next year. Republicans are seizing on the dissatisfaction to skewer Biden, while the White House is finding less success as it tries to highlight economic progress. Things are getting better and people think things are going to get worse and that's the most dangerous piece of this," said Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, who has worked with Biden. Lake said voters no longer want to just see inflation rates fall rather, they want an outright decline in prices, something that last happened on a large scale during the Great Depression. Honestly, I'm kind of mystified by it, she said. By many measures, the

Biden's approval ratings hit new low as new poll puts Trump narrowly ahead

It is pertinent that Biden's approval currently stands only at 37 per cent among registered voters, according to the poll

US polls: Haley and Ramaswamy qualify for 2th Republican Party debate

Indian-American presidential hopefuls Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy are among the four candidates who have qualified for the fourth Republican primary debate scheduled to take place in Alabama on Wednesday, the smallest debate stage lineup so far this year. The Republican Party's third presidential debate took place in Miami, Florida, on November 8. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, two-term former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy will participate in the fourth primary debate of the 2024 election cycle, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced on Monday. The four candidates, comprising the smallest debate stage lineup so far this year, will face off at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, CBS News reported. Former President Donald Trump, who continues to be the most popular leader in the Republican Party with an approval rating of over 60 per cent, is not expected to participate in the ..

Helped lower inflation: Biden as he hosts meeting of supply chain council

President Joe Biden opened the first meeting of his supply chain resilience council by warning companies against price gouging and saying that his administration was working to lower costs for US families. "We know that prices are still too high for too many things, that times are still too tough for too many families," Biden said on Monday. "But we've made progress." The president has blamed inflation on issues such as supply chains and Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, while Republican lawmakers say the run-up in prices was triggered by the USD 1.9 trillion in coronavirus relief that Democrat Biden signed into law in 2021. Biden used the council meeting to announce 30 actions to improve access to medicine and needed economic data as well as other programmes tied to the production and shipment of goods. He said he was tackling "junk fees", hidden charges that companies sneak into bills just because they can and customers have no alternative. The council follows an earlier task f

Prez candidate Ramaswamy struggles to gain traction with Iowa Republicans

Ten minutes before Vivek Ramaswamy was to take the stage in a dated casino hotel in western Iowa, no one was in the conference room except for two staffers from the Iowa GOP, which organised the event, and a group of journalists. Guests started trickling in at the time the event was scheduled. By the time Ramaswamy began his remarks an hour later, there were about 60 people. While Ramaswamy is packing his schedule with stops across Iowa, he has failed to move up in the 2024 Republican primary race and is increasingly at risk of becoming an afterthought. He is polling in the mid to high single digits and has left critics asking what his endgame is or if he is staying in the race only to boost former President Donald Trump. Ramaswamy is falling behind just as the GOP campaign enters the critical final weeks before the Iowa caucuses on January 15. After an earlier flurry of attention, the 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur and first-time political candidate is gaining more notice for h

Appeals court to decide whether to reinstate gag order against Trump

A federal appeals court is hearing arguments on Monday on whether to reinstate a gag order against Donald Trump in the federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith's team will urge a three-judge panel of the Washington-based appeals court to put back in place an order barring the former president from making inflammatory statements about lawyers in the case and potential witnesses. The prosecutors say those restrictions are necessary to prevent Trump from undermining confidence in the court system and intimidating people who may be called to testify against him. Defence lawyers have called the gag order an unconstitutional muzzling of Trump's free speech rights and say prosecutors have presented no evidence to support the idea that his words have caused harm or made anyone feel threatened. The gag order is one of multiple contentious issues being argued ahead of the landmark March 2024

US election: Trump energises campaign after Colorado ballot case win

Former President Donald Trump celebrated a win in a closely watched election case during a return visit to Iowa Saturday, where he blasted his political foes and encouraged his supporters to not move past their grievances with President Joe Biden. A Colorado judge Friday rejected an effort to keep the GOP front-runner off the state's primary ballot, concluding that Trump had engaged in insurrection during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol but that it was unclear whether a Civil War-era constitutional amendment barring insurrectionists from public office applied to the presidency. It was Trump's latest win following rulings in similar cases in Minnesota and Michigan. Trump, campaigning in west-central Iowa, called the decision "a gigantic court victory" as he panned what he called "an outrageous attempt to disenfranchise millions of voters by getting us thrown off the ballot." "Our opponents are showing every day that they hate democracy," he charged before a crowd of abo

Trump leads Indian-American Nikki Haley in her home state: CNN poll

Former US president Donald Trump leads Indian-American politician Nikki Haley by more than 30 percentage points in her home state of South Carolina as they vie for the Republican Party's nomination for the 2024 presidential election, according to the latest opinion poll by CNN. The 77-year-old former president, currently the front-runner among the Republican Party candidates, has the support of 53 per cent of its responders in South Carolina as opposed to 22 per cent who support Haley, who is the former governor of South Carolina. Vivek Ramaswamy, the The 38-year-old Indian-American, is trailing far behind with about one percentage point in the CNN polls of South Carolina, which is one of the early primary states. The US presidential elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024. Trump's base of support in South Carolina is far more solid than his rivals' pool of core supporters. An 82 per cent majority of his current backers say that they will definitely support him. Jus