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Extremist Republican candidate laid vision for US that is less fair: Harris

Describing the Republican presidential candidates as extremists", Vice President Kamala Harris has said that the participants at the party's maiden primary debate laid out an agenda that makes the country less fair, less free and less safe. No one on stage won' tonight's debate. Instead, the American people heard how much they stand to lose from an extremist agenda, Harris, a Democrat, said on Wednesday after the two-hour-long Republican presidential primary debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The debate included two Indian Americans Nikki Haley, 51, the former Governor of South Carolina, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, 38. One by one, each extremist Republican candidate laid out a vision for an America that is less fair, less free, and less safe. These candidates want to raise costs for working families in order to benefit special interests and the ultra-wealthy. To gut Social Security and Medicare. To strip fundamental rights and basic freedoms from millions of people, Harris, who i

The Trump saga: Indictment, RICO law & future of presidential campaign

Donald Trump faces 91 charges against him. However, he may still be able to run for President in the next US elections

Trump, Ramaswamy lead the race to face Biden in 2024, shows survey

The poll also mention that DeSantis, who despite registering 21 percent in June was in second place has witnessed a drastic fall as he currently stands at 10 per cent

Prosecutors seek Jan 2 trial date for Trump's 2020 election conspiracy case

Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith's team asked a judge on Thursday to set a Jan. 2 trial date for former President Donald Trump in the case charging him with plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss. Prosecutors said in court papers that they want the case before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to move to trial swiftly in Washington's federal court, setting up a likely battle with defense attorneys who have already suggested they will try slow things down. Smith's team says the government's case should take no longer than four to six weeks. The date is just under two weeks before the first votes are set to be cast in the Republican presidential race, with Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses scheduled for Jan. 15. The early front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary faces charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States for what prosecutors say was a weekslong plot to subvert the will of voters and cling to power after he lost the 2020 election t

Uncovered! A plot laid out for Donald Trump to overturn Biden's win

Trump may be on trial in 2024 in three or four separate criminal cases, but so far the indictments appear not to have affected his standing with Republican voters

Biden's son to plead guilty to misdemeanour tax felony, firearm possession

As part of the agreement, made public on Tuesday, Hunter Biden will plead guilty to misdemeanour tax offenses and is expected to reach an agreement with prosecutors

Trump, Republicans conjure familiar enemy, attack Democrats as Marxists

Lashing out after his arraignment on federal charges last week, Donald Trump took aim at President Joe Biden and Democrats with language that seemed to evoke another era: He was being persecuted, he said, by Marxists and communists. Trump has used the labels since he first appeared on the political scene, but it lately has become an omnipresent attack line that also has been deployed by other Republicans. The rhetoric is both inaccurate and potentially dangerous because it attempts to demonize an entire party with a description that has long been associated with America's enemies. Experts who study political messaging say associating Democrats with Marxism only furthers the country's polarization and is simply wrong: Biden has promoted capitalism and Democratic lawmakers are not pushing to reshape American democracy into a communist system. That hasn't mattered to Trump and other Republicans, who for years have used hyperbolic references to the associated political ideologies to ..

Joe Biden returning to his union roots as his 2024 campaign gears up

Joe Biden opened his 2020 presidential run at a Pittsburgh union hall, declaring, I'm a union man. Period." As he gears up for reelection, the president's first political rally is being held at a union gathering on the other side of Pennsylvania, punctuating just how much Biden is counting on labor support to carry him to a second term especially in a critical battleground state. The symmetry is no accident. Rallying labour activists on Saturday at Philadelphia's convention center can help Biden's campaign spark enthusiasm and tap early organizing muscle. That may eventually boost Democratic voter turnout in the city's suburbs and other key parts of Pennsylvania, which in 2020 helped him flip the state where Biden was born from Donald Trump. It speaks to this president's visceral understanding that, when the labor movement in the United States is strong, the economy and our democracy are strong, said Mary Kay Henry, international president of the 2-million-member Service Employees

Who's running for US President? See a rundown of the 2024 candidates

With roughly a year and a half until the 2024 presidential contest, the field of candidates is largely set. Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have dominated the early Republican race as the other candidates look for an opening to take them on. President Joe Biden faces a couple of Democratic challengers but is expected to secure his party's nomination. Here's a look at the candidates competing for the Republican and Democratic nominations: REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FIELD DONALD TRUMP The former president announced his third campaign for the White House on November 15 at his Mar-a-Lago resort, forcing the party to again decide whether to embrace a candidate whose refusal to accept defeat in 2020 sparked the US Capitol attack and still dominates his speeches. The GOP front-runner remains hugely popular in the Republican Party, despite making history as the first president to be impeached twice and inciting the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. In March,

Donald Trump's GOP rivals grapple with response as his legal woes mount

Just last week, former Vice President Mike Pence said he hoped federal prosecutors would not bring charges against former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, a day after Trump was arraigned on dozens of felony counts related to classified documents, Pence described the allegations as a very serious matter". I cannot defend what is alleged, Pence, who is now challenging Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, said on CNBC. The former vice president's evolving message highlights the high-stakes dilemma for Trump's Republican rivals, who are struggling to find a clear and consistent strategy to take on the frontrunner as Trump's unprecedented legal troubles threaten to dominate all other issues in the 2024 presidential contest. Some Republican leaders this week have demonstrated a newfound willingness to criticise Trump over the seriousness of the allegations, which include mishandling government secrets that as commander in chief he was entrusted to protect. Florida Gov.

Ramaswamy pledges to pardon 'indicted' Trump if elected as Prez in 2024

The remarks by Ramaswamy, who is campaigning on 'anti-woke' credentials, came after the DOJ charged Trump with a 37-count indictment, accusing Trump of risking sensitive security secrets

YouTube stops removing fake US presidential election fraud claims

Two years, tens of thousands of video removals, and one election cycle later, "we recognised it was time to reevaluate the effects of this policy in today's changed landscape", the company said

Mike Pence to launch campaign for US president polls in Iowa June 7

Former Vice President Mike Pence will officially launch his widely expected campaign for the Republican nomination for president in Iowa next week, adding another candidate to the growing GOP field and putting him in direct competition with his former boss. Pence will hold a kickoff event in Des Moines on June 7, the date of his 64th birthday, according to two people familiar with his plans who spoke on condition of anonymity to share details ahead of the official announcement. He'll also release a video message as part of the launch. His team sees early-voting Iowa as critical to his potential path to victory and advisers say he plans to campaign aggressively for the state's conservative, Evangelical Christian voters. The campaign is expected to lean heavily on town halls and retail stops aimed at showcasing Pence's personality as he tries to emerge from former President Donald Trump's shadow. The week will be a busy one for GOP announcements. Former New Jersey Governor Chris ...

Trump vows to end birthright citizenship if he wins in US prez polls 2024

"My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming and encourage many of the aliens Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back"

Twitter Spaces team cut down to 'roughly three' employees from 100

Outgoing Twitter CEO, however, said that the technical "fiasco" was actually the "top story on earth" and he welcomes all US Presidential candidates to do so on his platform

Florida Governor to kick off 2024 US Prez polls bid on Twitter with Musk

The Twitter Spaces conversation between Musk and De Santish will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday and will be moderated by David Sacks -- a tech entrepreneur and major political donor

US Senator Tim Scott announces his candidacy for 2024 US presidential run

He defined his personal ethos as "individual responsibility," and his political approach is motivated by the notion that the United States is "the land of opportunity, not the land of oppression"

Trump turns liabilities into laugh lines, underscores GOP rivals' challenge

The Republicans in the audience laughed when former President Donald Trump mocked a woman who accused him of rape. They cheered when he defended his role during the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. And they applauded again after he said he was honoured to terminate Roe v. Wade. Trump's defiant performance at the CNN town hall on Wednesday may ultimately hurt his standing with key groups of voters in next fall's general election, especially women, suburbanites and independents. But the reaction of those who attended also demonstrated his extraordinary grip on the conservative voters who will soon decide the fight for the GOP presidential nomination. The magnitude of the challenge ahead for Trump's Republican rivals was clear as the former president repeatedly turned his greatest political liabilities into jokes and applause lines for the GOP base. On Thursday, a day after the town hall, Trump's Republican critics conceded they don't know how to stop him. GOP voters want wha

Trump's sexual abuse case verdict wouldn't derail his re-election campaign

Many of the women and their supporters marching in 2017 knew that Trump's gleeful boasting about abusing women

My career of 280 years': Biden jokes off 2024 US prez poll age concerns

Joe Biden served in the Senate for 270 years. He used to be three years older than his sister Valerie, but now has 20 years on her. And the fourth U.S. president whom Biden affectionally calls Jimmy Madison is a good friend. All kidding aside, the 80-year-old Biden will tell you, he is at the end of his career, not the beginning. He's been doing this for a long time. And he's gotten a hell of a lot of wisdom over those years, making him deserving of a second term. As Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, embarks on his reelection campaign, he is increasingly musing aloud about his advanced age, cracking self-deprecating jokes and framing his decades in public life as a plus, hoping to convince voters his age is an asset rather than a vulnerability. In short, he's trying to own it. I stand here humbled being the first sitting president of the United States to have an opportunity to speak at Ebenezer Sunday service, Biden said in January at the historic Atlanta church where