Browsing: 2024 Presidential Election

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent candidate running for president, sent out a fundraising email Thursday that called the defendants who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, “activists,” but his team later backtracked, saying it was an error. The emails, sent to his supporters Thursday, said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a “political prisoner”…

President Biden leads former President Trump by 10 percentage points in a hypothetical 2024 general election match-up in a poll of registered Pennsylvania voters released Thursday. The Franklin & Marshall College poll found Biden garnered support from 48 percent of voters surveyed, compared to Trump’s 38 percent. Meanwhile, 13 percent of voters surveyed said they…

Republican strategist Karl Rove urged Democrats to “go hard” at former President Trump’s rhetoric surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, calling the former president’s pledge to free imprisoned rioters a “critical mistake.” “If they were smart, they’d take the Jan. 6 and go hard at it. And they would say, ‘He wants…

Former President Trump advised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resolve the conflict in Gaza quickly and “get back to normalcy,” warning that Israel was doing poorly in the public relations battle with its war against Hamas. Trump called into conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show Thursday morning, where he was…

Former President Trump once again criticized special counsel Jack Smith, accusing the prosecutor of attacking the judge overseeing his documents case. The post came after Smith urged U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to reject arguments from Trump asserting that the more than 300 highly classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate could be…

Former President Trump narrowly beat President Biden in a new national poll by only 1 point. The Emerson College survey, released Thursday, found that 46 percent of voters support the former president, compared to Biden’s 45 percent. Roughly 8 percent of respondents said they were undecided ahead of the November’s general election. Trump’s razor-thin lead is…

Republicans are slightly more enthusiastic ahead of November’s general election, edging out Democrats, according to a new survey. In the poll, released Thursday by Gallup, 59 percent of Republicans said they are more enthusiastic about voting in the upcoming election than in previous years. That is four points higher than the 55 percent of Democrats…

A new poll found most Americans agreeing on most of the country’s core values including the right to vote and freedom of religion. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 91 percent of U.S. adults said the right to vote is either extremely or very important to the nation’s identity. Eighty-four percent of…

Former President Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised $65.6 million in March, leaders for the two operations announced Wednesday, a sizable haul after fundraising lagged in the first two months of the year. The two organizations, which merged last month after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, ended March with $93.1 million…

Nearly 30 percent of Americans say they don’t believe President Biden or former President Trump would be good in the White House if elected in November, according to a new Gallup poll published Wednesday. Slightly more respondents said they believe Trump would be effective than Biden — 35 percent to 30 percent. That’s a change…