Tag Archives: 2024 elections

The Charleston Post & Courier reports: Cementing what has been in the works for months, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will formally announce she is running for president and will seek the Republican nomination for her party’s 2024 ticket, The Post and Courier has learned. According to an invitation soon going out to her backers, Haley’s advertised “special announcement” …

Florida Politics reports: A potential political rival for Gov. Ron DeSantis acknowledged the Florida Governor has the momentum for a presidential run. “Obviously Ron DeSantis is looking to run for President, which is fine,” said New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu. “He’d probably win New Hampshire right now, without a doubt.” Sununu spoke about the 2024 presidential election in an appearance …

The Washington Post reports: Advisers to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are actively preparing for a possible presidential run, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the conversations who described meetings and preliminary staffing moves — the latest indication that DeSantis is laying a foundation for a national campaign. DeSantis’s political team has already identified multiple potential hires in early primary …

The Hill reports: A majority of Democratic voters say President Biden should be the party’s 2024 White House nominee, according to a new Emerson College poll released on Tuesday. Fifty-eight percent of registered Democrats said Biden should be the nominee, while 42 percent said it should be someone else. “Biden has solidified his support among minority voters in his party,” …

Fox News reports: Nikki Haley said she’s close on making a decision to run for president in 2024. “Well, when you’re looking at a run for president, you look at two things. You first look at, ‘does the current situation push for new?’ The second question is, ‘am I that person that could be that new leader?’ “So do I …

Playbook reports: A new national University of Massachusetts Amherst poll shows DeSantis and former President Donald Trump locked in a tight battle for the Republican presidential nomination. In a one-on-one matchup, the poll found DeSantis edging Trump 51 percent to 49 percent, which is inside the poll’s margin of error. When other Republican candidates are added, Trump leads the field …

The Orange County Register reports: Rep. Katie Porter is running for U.S. Senate in 2024. The Orange County Democrat announced her campaign on Tuesday, Jan. 10. Sen. Diane Feinstein, 89, has not yet said what her plans are for 2024, although she is expected to retire. Porter recently won reelection to the 47th District, a coastal area that includes Irvine, …

The Independent reports: Former US national security adviser John Bolton has vowed to launch a presidential bid and confront Donald Trump, whose support he alleges is in “terminal decline”. The 74-year foreign policy hawk has never held elected office, but has said he believes he could win in two years, by pushing for America to adopt a tougher line against …

The Washington Post reports: A spokesman for former vice president Mike Pence’s campaign denied reports on Monday that the Republican had filed to run for president in 2024, responding to an apparent hoax after screenshots of a Federal Election Commission posting began to circulate. The FEC filing Monday was under “Mike Richard Pence” and included a post office box address …

The Washington Post reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just restarted his Google and Facebook ads, targeting a national audience ahead of a state legislative session he believes will highlight causes that will help him in a presidential primary, according to a Republican consultant familiar with his operation. Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s team has reached out to potential staff …

Semafor reports: “Ron to the Rescue,” founded by Republican strategist John Thomas, emerged just after the midterms with an ad declaring that “America needs Ron DeSantis” and pitching his success as Joe Biden’s failure to keep a good state down. According to Thomas, the super PAC will likely focus on “exploit[ing] some of the former president’s vulnerabilities” on topics like …

NBC News reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, beaming with confidence after having proved his doubters wrong and expanded his majority in the midterm elections, vowed without hesitation that the Democratic Party will keep control again in two years. “Yes, I absolutely do [believe it will] if we stick to our North Star, which is: help people with things that …

Axios reports: Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is “thinking of running” for U.S. Senate, according to a fundraising text his campaign sent out on Friday. The text comes just hours after Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced she is leaving the Democratic Party to sit as an independent, which roiled Arizona Democrats already infuriated with the centrist senator. “Ruben Gallego here, humbly …

The Associated Press reports: Democrats voted Friday to remove Iowa as the leadoff state on the presidential nominating calendar and replace it with South Carolina starting in 2024, a dramatic shakeup championed by President Joe Biden to better reflect the party’s deeply diverse electorate. The Democratic National Committee’s rule-making arm made the move to strip Iowa from the position it …

The Hill reports: Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that she will consider whether to launch a 2024 bid for the presidency over the winter holidays next month. “We are taking the holidays to kind of look at what the situation is,” the former South Carolina governor said at an event at Clemson University. “If we decide to …

Fox News reports: Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will chronicle his life in public service in a new book that will publish in late February in what will be seen by political pundits as another step by the conservative champion toward a possible 2024 presidential run. The autobiography by DeSantis, who was overwhelmingly re-elected three weeks ago to a …

The Hill reports: Members of President Biden’s party are openly pining for Trump to become the 2024 Republican nominee, believing he is just too flawed to win a general election. They argue that the situation today is markedly different from 2016, not least because voters now know what they get with Trump in office. And Democrats are eager to have …

Politico reports: Gov. Gavin Newsom has won three elections in five years in America’s largest state, is apoplectic about his party’s messaging defects and follows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the right-wing media ecosystem with a zeal that would put some opposition researchers to shame. But Newsom wants the word to go forth: He’s not going to challenge President Biden …

Morning Consult reports: Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign announcement appears to have been a dud, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico survey, which found his support against a hypothetical 2024 Republican field weakened a bit over the course of a week. According to the Nov. 18-20 survey, 45% of potential Republican primary voters said they would vote for Trump …

The Hill reports: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley addressed a possible 2024 presidential run, saying on Saturday that she’s “never lost” an election and is looking at a White House bid “in a serious way.” “A lot of people have asked if I’m gonna run for president. Now that the midterms are over, I’ll look at …