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During a recent campaign rally, former President Donald Trump appeared to suggest that voting in elections will be a thing of the past if he gets a second term in office. The 45th president of the United States made the remarks while addressing a crowd of evangelical supporters at the Turning Point Action summit in West Palm Beach, Florida. After former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson introduced Trump, he launched into a speech that culminated with him calling on evangelicals to vote for him. The former president insinuated that 2024 would be the last election they would have to participate in because society would be “fixed.”

Sen. JD Vance's (R-Ohio) idea to "punish" Americans with higher tax rates if they choose not to have children isn't going over well — particularly with one MAGA-aligned social media personality.During a podcast segment with far-right activist Charlie Kirk in 2022 before announcing his run for Senate, Vance suggested that he would be in favor of alternate tax rates for Americans with children vs. Americans who don't have children. "We need to reward the things that we think are good and punish the things that we think are bad. So you talk about tax policy, let’s tax the things that are bad and not tax the things that are good," he said. "If you’re making $100,000, $400,000 a year and you’ve got three kids, you should pay a different, low

While Hurricane Beryl crossed into Louisiana as a tropical storm, Republican Governor Jeff Landry was on vacation in Europe, according to a new report.Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based newspaper the Advocate reported Friday that Landry and his wife, Sharon were on a "weeklong jaunt" through Croatia, Greece and Italy when Beryl hit Louisiana, killing one person and damaging homes and businesses and leaving thousands without power. Beryl — which hit southeast Texas as a category 1 hurricane earlier this month, later moved east into the Bayou State and caused

Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Donald Trump declared World War III is “close,” and issuing a warning suggesting if he does not win re-election in November it could erupt.Video of his full remarks was published by Florida’s WPTV. A shorter clip is below.Trump’s meeting, criticized by some as a violation of the Logan Act, comes at a critical time for the U.S. and Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu,

Vice President Kamala Harris is seizing on controversial comments Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) made in a 2022 podcast, and called the GOP's 2024 vice presidential nominee a "creep."In a press release entitled "JD Vance Is a Creep (Who Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide)," Harris said the Ohio senator is "weird," and described him as "the most unpopular VP pick in decades." She then noted: "we're all finding out just how creepy JD Vance and his Project 2025 plans are.""In newly unearthed audio, Vance calls for a "federal response" to block women in red states from traveling to another to get an abortion — in the grossest way possible," Harris' campaign stated, with a link to th

Trump vice presidential running mate JD Vance, under fire for his 2021 remarks calling Democrats “childless cat ladies” and saying parents should be given more voting rights than those without children, is now being criticized after video resurfaced of him suggesting people who don’t have children should be punished, because not having kids is “bad.”Vance, closely tied to the “

A comment Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) made in a 2021 interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has caused a significant headache for former President Donald Trump's campaign, and now Vance is trying to walk back his comments. But in doing so, he may have made the 2024 GOP ticket's woman problem even worse.In the interview, Vance attacked Vice President Kamala Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) primarily on the basis that they don't have biological children (Harris is a stepmother and Buttigieg and his husband adopted two children in 2021). Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared t

When 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump chose Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate, MAGA Republicans were hoping that having the "Hillbilly Elegy" author on the ticket would improve Trump's chances of winning key Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.But when Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made a late July appearance on MSNBC, he slammed Vance as a faux-populist who doesn't understand the economic realities of working-class Rust Belt Americans.Walz told MSNBC's Jen Psaki, "They scream socialism; we just build roads, and we build schools. And we build prosperity i

More than 40 U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) alumni, according to NBC News, have signed a letter endorsing presumptive 2024 Democratic Kamala Harris as "the best choice to defeat Donald Trump and lead the nation."But one former DOJ official who didn't sign that letter is Bill Barr, who served as U.S. attorney general under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump. Although Barr was highly critical of Trump in 2021 and 2022 and was hoping that someone else would receive the GOP's 2024 presidential nomination, he is now endorsing him — as he believes a second Trump term would be preferable to a continuation of the Biden Administration's policies.

Pete Buttigieg says Donald Trump’s decision to “pull out” of a previously agreed presidential debate is an “extraordinary show of weakness,” especially for a candidate whose “calling card” is being a tough guy. The Transportation Secretary also observed the Trump campaign has been unable to adapt to President Joe Biden withdrawing from the race and endorsing his Vice President for the top of the ticket.“Former President Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday said it will not commit to a debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, at least until the Democratic Party makes a formal decision on its nominee,”