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Ahead of this year’s US presidential polls, Biden wins Wyoming’s caucuses | World News
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Ahead of this year’s US presidential polls, Biden wins Wyoming’s caucuses | World News

Joe Biden, Biden (Photo: Reuters)2 min read Last Updated : Apr 14 2024 | 12:05 AM IST President Joe Biden nudged further ahead in the Democratic nomination for reelection by winning the party caucuses in Wyoming and was the only choice on the ballot later Saturday in Alaska. As two of the least populated states, Alaska and Wyoming play minuscule roles in both intraparty and general election voting in presidential election years. Biden effectively clinched the Democratic nomination on March 12 with the Georgia primary and is now all but certain to face former President Donald Trump as the Republican nominee in November. ALASKAAlaska Democrats are holding a voice vote for their party-run preference poll at in-person and virtual district meetings. Biden's is the...
Christianity Today Editor Rips Republicans For Lacking ‘Moral Vision’ In Abortion Stances
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Christianity Today Editor Rips Republicans For Lacking ‘Moral Vision’ In Abortion Stances

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Steve Doocy, Nudes And A Ford Raptor: The Year In Impeachment
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Steve Doocy, Nudes And A Ford Raptor: The Year In Impeachment

Nothing that happened in Washington this year better encapsulates the modern Republican Party than the impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. And nothing will better symbolize former President Donald Trump’s control over the party than if the GOP goes through with it in 2024. Republicans have used their quest for dirt on the Biden family to jockey among themselves for power in Washington and to gratify Trump by writing an alternate history of his presidency while casting Biden as corrupt. The material Republicans are working with, however, isn’t the evidence of corruption they keep saying it is. Their own expert witnesses even said at a hearing in September that Republicans hadn’t uncovered any high crimes or misdemeanors. It doesn’t matter. The impeachment inquiry is gaining mo...
The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump
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The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump

Four years ago, on the threshold of a critical election year that would decide whether Donald Trump won another term in the White House, I asked a German friend, Constanze Stelzenmüller, of the Brookings Institution, to come up with one of those long Teutonic words for the state of constant, gnawing anxiety that Trump’s disruptive tenure inspired. She came back with a true mouthful, a thirty-three-letter concoction that pretty much summed it up: Trumpregierungsschlamasselschmerz. Helpfully, she suggested that it would be fine to shorten this to Trumpschmerz. It means something like “Trump-worry,” but on steroids. At the time, I defined it as “the continuous pain or ache of the soul” that comes from the excessive contemplation of the slow-motion Trump car crash. Well, here we go again. Hea...
As Conflicts Rage Abroad, A Fractured Congress Tries To Rally Support For Historic Global Challenges
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As Conflicts Rage Abroad, A Fractured Congress Tries To Rally Support For Historic Global Challenges

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Senate wrapped up its work for the year, Sen. Michael Bennet took to the floor of the nearly empty chamber and made a late-night plea for Congress to redouble support for Ukraine: “Understand the stakes at this moment."It was the third time in recent months the Colorado Democrat has kept the Senate working late by holding up unrelated legislation in a bid to cajole lawmakers to approve tens of billions of dollars in weaponry and economic aid for Ukraine. During a nearly hour-long, emotional speech, he called on senators to see the nearly 2-year-old conflict as a defining clash of authoritarianism against democracy and implored them to consider what it means "to be fighting on that freezing front line and not know whether we're going to come through with the ammuni...
RNC Heads Into Presidential Election Year With A Small Fraction Of What It Had Four Years Ago
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RNC Heads Into Presidential Election Year With A Small Fraction Of What It Had Four Years Ago

WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee heads into the 2024 presidential election year with just $7.6 million available, barely a tenth of what it had four years ago, after accounting for inflation.Even compared to the end of 2015, the last time it was entering a presidential election year with the opposite party controlling the White House, it has just a third of the $21.3 million the party had then in inflation-adjusted dollars.“There’s significant anxiety,” said Oscar Brock, a committee member from Tennessee.Party leaders are keenly aware of the financial picture and how it makes the voter-registration and turnout operation it will need next November more difficult. And while members point to a number of factors for the weak fundraising, one name comes up frequently: Donald Trum...
Top Strategist For Pro-DeSantis Super PAC Resigns Less Than A Month Before Iowa Caucuses
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Top Strategist For Pro-DeSantis Super PAC Resigns Less Than A Month Before Iowa Caucuses

NEW YORK (AP) — The top strategist for the embattled super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis′ campaign for the White House resigned Saturday night in the latest sign of trouble for the GOP hopeful less than one month before voting begins with Iowa’s kickoff caucuses.Jeff Roe, the top adviser to Never Back Down, is the latest senior staffer to exit Never Back Down, which has been the largest outside group supporting DeSantis’ candidacy.He announced his departure on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, hours after The Washington Post published a story focused on internal disputes and suspicions between Never Back Down, the campaign, and other DeSantis allies that included accusations of “mismanagement and conduct issues, including numerous unauthorized leaks containing false informati...