Seven candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024 are squaring off Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, for the second debate of the primary cycle. The candidates participating in Wednesday’s debate include: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum … Read more
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The conventional wisdom is that retail politics — the door-knocking, hand-shaking grassroots campaigning for months before the primaries — make Iowa and New Hampshire different from what we see nationally. And like a lot of conventional wisdom these days, that’s looking outdated. Today, national frontrunner and former President Donald Trump also leads the Republican primary … Read more
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he wants to avoid a US government shutdown because it would undermine his party’s leverage in negotiations over spending cuts sought by Republicans. “I want to make sure we don’t shut down,” McCarthy said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “I don’t think that is a win for the American … Read more
Former President Donald Trump may have skipped the GOP debate last night, but details of his 2024 campaign’s strategy on trade are sharing the spotlight anyway. In an interview on Fox Business last week, Trump floated an automatic, 10% tariff on goods imported to the US from all countries. He likened the plan to “a … Read more
For nearly all of the Biden presidency, Americans have generally felt that things in the country are going badly — seven in 10 say so today — and related to this, they say that the economy is not in good shape. Sentiment on these two questions is very intertwined, as shown in the chart below. … Read more
This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, economy reporter Reade Pickert sketches out the prospects for a government shutdown. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here. Congress has backed itself against the wall, again. That means the countdown to a government … Read more
This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, White House reporter Jordan Fabian looks at the challenge facing President Joe Biden when he lands in Maui on Monday. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here. President Joe Biden has some urgent tasks … Read more
America’s response to this week’s indictment of Donald Trump is providing a window into more than just how Americans view his alleged actions per se — but also into what they think it means for democracy itself. Half the nation believes Trump tried to stay in office beyond his term through illegal and unconstitutional means. … Read more
Donald Trump’s place at the top of the polls for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination makes him a central figure in the policy debates among the other contenders. Following in Trump’s footsteps, Republican candidates have shifted their views toward favoring a tough trade-policy stance on China while embracing Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. Source link