High costs have dogged Trump’s political operation this cycle, driven by the high legal bills paid by Save America. The former president’s web of political committees spent more than they collectively raised last year, and the campaign finance filings submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday showed the large spending, including on legal fees,
With help from Shawn Ness The new Congressional maps proposed by the Independent Redistricting Commission are headed to the state Legislature next week. | Independent Redistricting Commission Backroom negotiations and gamesmanship are in full throttle as New York’s new congressional plan heads toward a vote in the state Legislature next week. As the process moves
But few seem eager to see the party make major structural or policy changes after Democrat Tom Suozzi won the special election convincingly. Instead, lawmakers accused Republican Mazi Pilip of running a bad campaign, noted that now-President Joe Biden won the district by more than eight points in 2020, and pointed to myriad isolated factors
Oscar Brock, another committee member who has been critical of Trump, said the budget that the RNC passed two weeks ago during a meeting in Las Vegas did not allocate any money to cover Trump’s legal fees. But he acknowledged the possibility of the committee eventually amending its financial plan to do so, were Trump
Notably, 42 percent of those who believe in the Swift theory also say they had not heard about it before being contacted for the poll. The poll comes after the spread of conspiratorial thinking on the right that Sunday’s Super Bowl was fixed in favor of Swift’s boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce,
And Trump’s own last GOP rival, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, has made both Biden’s and Trump’s age an issue, renewing her calls for mandatory cognitive tests for politicians over the age of 75. Unlike in years past, when propriety dictated treading cautiously around the issue, now campaigns are going to age immediately — and
Republicans were willing to pass the new maps only after being cornered by legal challenges in state court. “Republicans were not stuck between a rock and hard place. It was a matter of choosing to be stabbed, shot, poisoned or led to the guillotine. We chose to be stabbed, so we can live to fight