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Anaheim (United States) (AFP) - Donald Trump received a rapturous welcome at California's Republican Party Convention on Friday, mocking party rivals and dishing out red meat for an adoring audience in this Democratic stronghold. The former reality TV star, who holds a commanding poll lead in the race to become the 2024 Republican presidential candidate, called rival Chris Christie a "loser" and claimed credit for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's electoral victories. "I'm the one that turned Florida red, not him," the 77-year-old told party members in Anaheim, days after he skipped the Republic...
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Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-North Carolina) reportedly bought a home worth more than a million dollars in Florida, in an apparent departure from his home state after he lost the Republican primary earlier this year. Cawthorn leaves office in January after a controversial term representing North Carolina’s 11th district. He lost the primaries to state Sen. Chuck Edwards in May despite being endorsed by former president Donald Trump. Edwards ultimately won the election in November, maintaining the seat controlled by GOP. With the new house — a $1.2 million three-bedroom home in Cape Coral — Cawthor...
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The Republicans have won back majority in the House, setting the stage for a divided government. The GOP was able to gain eight seats to give them a slim majority over the Democrats, but the Democrats will remain in control of the Senate. The results of the midterm elections surprised many as the Republicans were projected to win big. Many of the races took days to finalize ballot counts, but the deciding race came down to Rep. Mike Garcia (R-California) defeating Democrat Christy Smith. Garcia won by a conclusive eight points. Republicans were poised to take over Congress as the party cited P...
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Republicans in states where the votes are expected to be extremely close in Tuesday’s midterm elections are heading to the courts in efforts to disqualify mail-in ballots from being counted. This is playing out in a variety of scenarios, which critics are saying is voter suppression. In Pennsylvania, the Republican National Committee won their bid with the state Supreme Court ruling that thousands of ballots will go uncounted due to dates not being written on the outside of envelopes. The decision that came on November 1 will stay intact for this election cycle only. This applies to ballots th...
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Republicans drew criticism last week after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday. Orban was warmly welcomed by the crowd in Dallas, Texas, but he is known to be a controversial figure on the international scene. Just last week he made comments regarding racial purity, causing one of his longtime advisers to resign. “This is why [Europeans] have always fought,” Orban said. “We are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed race.” Orban has also previously contended that same-sex couples ...
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On Wednesday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) struck back at a comment made by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) advocating for the end of the separation of church and state. Kinzinger’s criticism comes after Boebert spoke at the Cornerstone Christian Center in Basalt, Colorado. Boebert stated that she was “tired” of the separation between church and state. She also claimed that the framers of the constitution never intended the separation. “It means nothing like they say it does,” she said. Her comments were made during a preaching session with members of the Cornerstone Christian Center, wh...
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In a striking finding, more than net one million voters have switched their registration to the GOP. The change is mostly from suburban swing voters who helped Democrats win critical elections in past decades. Republicans gained around 1.6 million switchers, while Democrats saw 600,000 new voters. The report shows a substantial shift in voters’ political leanings since 2020. The data reports the switch mainly comes from suburbanites all across the country. Notable cities include Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Raleigh, North Carolina, Augusta, Georgia and Des Moines, Iowa. In their study, The Associ...
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Missouri Republican Senate candidate Eric Greitens recently posted a new campaign ad where he asks the audience to hunt for “RINOS” as a team of heavily armed men storm a house. “Today, we’re going RINO hunting,” Greitens said in the ad. The “RINO” stands for “Republican In Name Only.” “The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice,” Greitens continued. “Get a RINO hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.” Greitens’ campaign posted the video to both Facebook and Twitter. After the first initial hours o...
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After the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, legislators are attempting to find a compromise amid a steep divide over gun control in the U.S., promising to provide bipartisan legislation to prevent future shootings. The calls for compromise come nearly after a decade of GOP stonewalling on gun reform legislation. The shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo renewed rifts and ignited strong emotions on the current state of the Second Amendment. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) made an emotional appeal on the Senate floor, expressing frustration over the lack of action. “There are 14 kids dead in an elemen...
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Michigan’s Board of State Canvassers rejected five Republican candidates for state governor, including high-profile candidates former Detroit police chief James Craigand businessman Perry Johnson, citing signature fraud. The panel, which is comprised of two Republicans and two Democrats, was split along party lines at the Elections Bureau’s recommendation to disqualify the candidates. A majority was needed to keep a candidate on the ballot. Michigan election officials completed a review of signatures on nominating petitions for the candidates, reporting that 68,000 invalid signatures from 36 p...
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