Category: Election 2024

CNN prime­time host Kait­lan Collins gushed over for­mer White House aide Cas­sidy Hutchin­son for 20 min­utes on April 24. Hutchin­son nailed all the CNN-pleas­ing talk­ing points. Collins intro­duced her as “now a fre­quent tar­get of Don­ald Trump’s, after her explo­sive tes­ti­mo­ny before the Jan­u­ary 6 Com­mit­tee.” Hutchin­son warned: “It’s real­ly impor­tant to stress that the Amer­i­can […]

Peter Mei­jer, a for­mer con­gress­man and scion of the Mei­jer super­mar­ket chain, announced on Fri­day that he would be with­draw­ing from the Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry race for U.S. Sen­ate in Michi­gan.  Mei­jer shared in a post on Face­book that he lacked a “strong path­way to vic­to­ry” and that the “fun­da­men­tals” of the race have sig­nif­i­cant­ly changed […]

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has report­ed­ly can­celed a plan to ban men­thol cig­a­rettes after his admin­is­tra­tion feared that ban­ning them could cause black vot­ers to revolt against the pres­i­dent ahead of the upcom­ing elec­tion. The Wall Street Jour­nal report­ed that men­thols account for rough­ly a third of all cig­a­rette sales in the U.S. and that black […]

EXCLUSIVE — A low-key pri­ma­ry con­test for North Dakota‘s sole House seat has inten­si­fied, with Repub­li­can can­di­dates launch­ing ads and web­sites attack­ing each oth­er as both look to replace out­go­ing Rep. Kel­ly Arm­strong (R‑ND). For a seat that Cook Polit­i­cal Report rates as sol­id Repub­li­can with R+20, either Bis­mar­ck plas­tic sur­geon and for­mer state Rep. […]

One Michi­gan Demo­c­rat run­ning for Sen­ate in the state has been accused of start­ing a small busi­ness to gain favor from vot­ers before start­ing her House bid in 2017. Rep. Elis­sa Slotkin (D‑MI) start­ed a busi­ness called Pin­point Con­sult­ing in June 2017 and then, a month lat­er, announced a run for a House seat using […]

Long­time Rep. Bill Posey (R‑FL) is not seek­ing reelec­tion in 2024, becom­ing the lat­est House Repub­li­can to announce retire­ment after this Con­gress. Posey announced his retire­ment on Face­book on Fri­day, cit­ing “cir­cum­stances beyond my con­trol” as his rea­son for sus­pend­ing his reelec­tion cam­paign to the Cape Canaver­al area dis­trict. “It has been the great­est hon­or […]

The New York crim­i­nal hush mon­ey tri­al against for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump resumed Fri­day with the cross-exam­­i­­na­­tion of David Peck­er, the for­mer pub­lish­er of the Nation­al Enquir­er, as defense attor­ney Emil Bove attempt­ed to dis­man­tle the prosecution’s case. Under ques­tion­ing from Bove on Fri­day, Peck­er acknowl­edged his tabloid had already been run­ning neg­a­tive arti­cles about Hillary Clin­ton, […]

Is it crazy to think that for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump could win half the gay vote in November’s nation­al elec­tion? Not to Charles Moran, the pres­i­dent of Log Cab­in Repub­li­cans, the pre­em­i­nent Repub­li­can LGBT lob­by. “In 2020, we raised a low sev­en-fig­ure fund to do the first-ever LGBT engage­ment cam­paign to engage gay vot­ers for the Repub­li­can Par­ty and the […]

A defense attor­ney grilled David Peck­er on Fri­day as part of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump‘s hush mon­ey tri­al in New York and iden­ti­fied an incon­sis­ten­cy in Pecker’s tes­ti­mo­ny regard­ing his prac­tice of bury­ing neg­a­tive sto­ries about pub­lic fig­ures. Peck­er, the for­mer CEO of tabloid pub­lish­er Amer­i­can Media, Inc., faced ques­tions from Trump attor­ney Emil Bove […]

MRC Free Speech Vice Pres­i­dent Dan Schnei­der went after Face­book for not only repeat­ed­ly engag­ing in elec­tion inter­fer­ence but also for relent­less­ly cen­sor­ing con­ser­v­a­tives.  Dur­ing the April 24 edi­tion of WJLA-TV’s The Nation­al Desk, Schnei­der ham­mered this point again. “Basi­cal­ly, 98% of the fire­pow­er is direct­ed to con­ser­v­a­tives,” he said. “There are instances where Face­book has […]