Former President Trump’s allies are looking at his selection of Sen. JD Vance as a key appeal to Midwestern voters – and some New York Republican lawmakers are hopeful it’ll give the GOP a boost in their own state as well. House GOP lawmakers representing the Democratic stronghold state held a media event on the...
A gunman tried to take down President Ronald Reagan in March 1981. The president instead rose physically, spiritually and politically after surviving the near-death experience, according to one of the people who knew him best. “Surviving the assassination attempt deepened his faith and drove his faith even deeper into his soul,” historian and Reagan biographer...
MILWAUKEE — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s “America First” foreign policy positions are taking the spotlight as he prepares to deliver his first major prime time speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night. Vance was announced as former President Trump’s running mate on Monday, and since, numerous politicians and media outlets, especially...
Sen. JD Vance, running on the GOP ticket alongside former President Trump, could help Republicans in “vulnerable Rust Belt states” this cycle, but he might not play as big a role in his home state of Ohio, according to strategists familiar with campaigns. Vance currently serves as the junior senator from Ohio, a state where...
Donald Trump is on an epic winning streak. Not only did the former president by the grace of God just escape a would-be assassin’s bullet, but the Supreme Court recently ruled in his favor regarding presidential immunity. In addition, Trump trounced Joe Biden three weeks ago in their first presidential debate. That calamitous encounter for...
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien has kicked up controversy by breaking with tradition and speaking at the Republican National Convention, while his organization indicates it will endorse no presidential candidate during this campaign season. “No final decision has been made,” Kara Deniz, a spokesperson for the Teamsters told Reuters, adding that any reports to the contrary...
The New York Times on Monday published a scathing guest essay on former President Trump just two days after an attempted assassination of the Republican nominee. “This is not an election with a wrongheaded but well-meaning Republican. It’s an all-out war with an illiberal megalomaniac who will happily destroy American democracy if it buys him...
Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden said on Tuesday that he was assaulted by an anti-war protester at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee — but the protester said she was shoved past by the lawmaker. Van Orden, R-Wis., said in a statement that he was assaulted by a protester, who he identified as coming from...
Republicans elevated former President Trump to “martyrdom” by their claims “divine intervention” saved him from assassination, a Politico article reported. The former president was nearly assassinated at a campaign event Saturday night after a shooter fired multiple shots in his direction. Trump was hit in the ear and quickly rushed off-stage by Secret Service. Trump...
ROCHESTER, Pa. – A speaker at President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally where he was injured by an attempted assassin’s bullet spoke out Monday after treating the attendee who was fatally shot in the head. Rico Elmore, a hydraulic mechanic with the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 171st Air Refueling Wing, said he was seated in the VIP...
