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Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Trump loses slim lead over Biden as 1st criminal trial gets underway
Asked which candidate they would vote for “if Trump is convicted of a serious crime in the coming months,” just 36% of voters now say the former president — fewer than ever before.
Yahoo News4 min read
Will the primary 'protest vote' against Biden and Trump make a difference in November?
It could matter in a razor-thin contest. Just don’t expect a big swing in either direction.
Yahoo News7 min read
Florida Supreme Court clears the way for a 6-week abortion ban — and for a November ballot measure that could invalidate it
The Florida Supreme Court on Monday issued a pair of key decisions in the fight over abortion rights. The first allows a six-week abortion ban to soon take effect in the Sunshine State, while the other would allow voters in November to weigh in on a ballot initiative that would abortion expand access. Here's what else to know.
Yahoo News3 min read
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VP Harris visits Florida as abortion ban limits women's options
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris sought to blame Republican candidate Donald Trump for Florida's six-week abortion ban that took effect on Wednesday, saying his Supreme Court picks when he was president cleared the way for the policy. The remarks in Jacksonville, Florida, were the latest effort by Harris and President Joe Biden to keep their re-election focus on abortion rights, an issue Democrats are hoping will galvanize voters to pick them.
Reuters4 min read
Trump returns to his campaign facing a warning of jail time if he violates a trial gag order
Donald Trump on Wednesday is using a one-day break from his hush money trial to rally voters in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan, a day after he was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order. In imposing the fine for posts on Trump's Truth Social account and campaign website, Judge Juan M. Merchan said that if Trump continued to violate his orders, he “will impose an incarceratory punishment.” Trump frequently goes after Merchan, prosecu
Associated Press4 min read
Firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene to force vote to oust US House Speaker Johnson
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conservative firebrand, Wednesday on Wednesday called for a vote to oust Republican Mike Johnson as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a move that could embroil their party in chaos months before the November election. The move is a rare open act of defiance of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has publicly backed Johnson as speaker and dismissed the ouster threat as "unfortunate." "Mike Johnson is not capable of
Reuters3 min read
'Election interference': GOP senator launches push to shut down noncitizen voting in DC elections
Legislation introduced by a Republican lawmaker would require citizenship for Washington, D.C., residents to vote in municipal elections, after a legislative change in the city.
Fox News2 min read
Inside the far-right plan to use civil rights law to disrupt the 2024 election
Experts describe the plan as a legal long shot, but say it could sow doubts about the integrity of a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump.
LA Times10 min read
Trump on political violence in 2024: 'If we don't win, you know, it depends'
Donald Trump said he doesn't think there'll be political violence this election because he'll win — but that it "always depends on the fairness of an election."
NBC News7 min read
RFK Jr. hires GOP operative who called Jan. 6 'Democrat misdirection'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign has hired a former spokesperson for hard-right Republicans who has called the Jan. 6 Capitol riot “Democrat misdirection.”
NBC News3 min read
