Tag Archives: 2024 elections

The New York Times reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday crossed the threshold of 40,000 unique donors required to take part in the first Republican presidential primary debate, his campaign said. Mr. Pence had already met a polling threshold required by the Republican National Committee, his team has said. Hitting both benchmarks means that Mr. Pence is the …

Axios reports: Ron DeSantis’ gubernatorial office recently hired three people who’d been laid off by the campaign, according to three sources familiar with the situation. The Florida governor is leaning on his taxpayer-funded office to keep select aides in his orbit as the campaign goes through a cash shortfall that led it to dump one-third of its staff in July. …

The Hill reports: The super PAC supporting presidential candidate Nikki Haley launched its first ad of the 2024 campaign cycle Tuesday, highlighting the former United Nations ambassador’s tough stance on China. “Communist China won’t just lose. Like the Soviet Union before it, Communist China will end up on the ash heap of history,” Haley says in a clip featured in …

Bloomberg News reports: A super political action committee with close ties to billionaire Charles Koch raised $78 million in the first half of 2023, money the group is using to try and prevent former President Donald Trump from becoming the Republican nominee. Americans for Prosperity Action received the bulk of its funding from two $25 million donations, according to its …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump is dominating his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, leading his nearest challenger, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, by a landslide 37 percentage points nationally among the likely Republican primary electorate, according to the first New York Times/Siena College poll of the 2024 campaign. Mr. Trump held decisive advantages across …

“First of all, I mean, I think a lot of this stuff when he hits me with it with juvenile insults, I think that helps me. I don’t think voters like that. I think they look at it and they realize, like, you know what, that’s not effective. And so I don’t think it’s effective. So I actually don’t mind …

“We have to move forward. We’ve got to quit living in the past, and I don’t want there to be all of this division over the fact that we have a president serving years in jail over a documents trial. “None of us want to be talking about indictments. I don’t even know if it’s the third, fourth, or fifth …

“The standard I use as our next president is what moves our country forward. What is the right thing for the United States of America? Absolutely the right answer is to move on and I would pardon him. I would. “I intend to be our next president. And yes, I do believe I will move us forward. “And yes, I …

Mediaite reports: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — who is currently polling in the single digits — told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that he is “confident” he will be the next president of the United States on Tuesday. Reacting to conservative commentator Dave Rubin’s suggestion that Ramaswamy has been coordinating with Trump to attack their mutual Republican primary rival …

Axios reports: Seven Republican presidential candidates appear to have qualified for the Republican National Committee’s first 2024 debate on August 23. The Fox News debate presents an opportunity for Republican 2024 hopefuls to try to launch their campaigns — but they’re likely to face the absence of Republican frontrunner Trump. Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, …

Politico reports: Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is expanding the number of staff it’s cutting to include more than a third of his payroll as the Florida governor looks to get his primary bid back on track. The cuts, which were confirmed by advisers, will amount to a total of 38 jobs shed across an array of departments. They will include …

New Hampshire Public Radio reports: Kelly Ayotte is officially back in campaign politics. The former U.S. Senator and New Hampshire Attorney General is announcing her campaign for governor Monday, aiming to succeed Gov. Chris Sununu when he leaves office in 2025. Ayotte, whose last campaign for office was in 2016 – a U.S. Senate re-election bid she lost by fewer …

ABC News reports: “I would love to see you be president of the United States. I’m just gonna give you an honest comment. I don’t believe you ever will be until the day you stand up to that man,” Tom Loughlin, a 77-year-old part-time New Hampshire resident, told Pence in reference to Trump. “Maybe you’re too good a Christian to …

Politico reports: President Joe Biden is eyeing redemption in North Carolina next year. Biden lost the Tar Heel state to Donald Trump by just 1.4 percentage points in 2020, and a Democrat at the top of the ticket hasn’t managed to turn North Carolina blue since Barack Obama did in 2008. Now Biden’s team sees opportunity in 2024 amid a …

Florida Politics reports: New polling shows fewer than 1 in 4 women approve of Ron DeSantis, and that women are twice as likely to disapprove of him than regard him favorably. A Yahoo! News survey conducted between July 13 and July 17 shows just 24% of the U.S. adult women polled approve of DeSantis, with 48% disapproving. Meanwhile, a “very …

Bloomberg News reports: A new poll finds just 16% of registered voters would consider supporting a fusion third-party ticket with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin for president, highlighting the uphill path for the Democrat if he were to enter the 2024 race. The Monmouth University poll released Thursday highlights dissatisfaction among a significant bloc of American voters at the prospect …

“Joe Biden had the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete. Programs to address education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, labor unions, and he still is working on it.” – Marjorie Taylor Greene, speaking at this …

Politico reports: President Joe Biden will make his longtime residence of Wilmington, Del., the headquarters of his 2024 campaign, he announced Tuesday. “My family’s values, my eternal optimism and my unwavering belief in the American middle class as our nation’s backbone comes from my home — from Delaware,” Biden said in a statement. “That’s why there is no better place …

Semafor reports: The growing sense of crisis around Ron DeSantis’s campaign intensified over the weekend with reports that his campaign side is burning through cash, running out of big donors, and laying off staff. And, in another interesting twist, DeSantis — who in March derided corporate media as “very, very untrustworthy” and urged conservatives not to “play into it” — …

Popular Information reports: Through June 30, Kennedy’s campaign has collected the maximum, $6,600, from 96 individuals. Of that group, 37 individuals have previously only donated to Republican candidates for federal office. Only 19 have a history of consistently supporting Democratic candidates. The remainder either have no giving history (30), have donated to members of both parties (8), or supported Libertarian …