Republicans

The New York Post reports: Donald Trump’s final decision on his 2024 running mate is between North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), insiders tell The Post. Barring a last-minute surprise, the sources say, the 67-year-old Burgum and the 39-year-old Vance are the clear front-runners for the GOP’s VP slot, with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) still having …

Politico reports: Members of the House Freedom Caucus ousted Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) on Monday night — less than a month after he started a firestorm within the group by endorsing Chair Bob Good’s primary challenger. The vote to oust Davidson took place during the group’s weekly closed-door meeting, two Republicans speaking on the condition of anonymity told POLITICO. Davidson’s …

The Meidas Touch reports: The new Trump-controlled RNC rolled out their party platform today for the 2024 elections, and it left many lifelong party activists furious. Anti-Abortion activists took to social media today to express frustrations. The Trump party platform opposes a federal abortion ban, and simply states that the Republican Party opposes late-term abortions and leaves the rest up …

Law & Crime reports: The families of Louisiana schoolchildren who sued to challenge a new law requiring that the Ten Commandments are displayed in every classroom are now asking a federal court to block the law before children return to school in August. When Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, signed the law, he said it was a way of respecting …

The Guardian reports: Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota who has been dogged by controversy since recounting how she chose to shoot dead a puppy and a goat, attracted new questions when it was noted that some of her official social media accounts appeared to have been deleted. On Monday, a link from Noem’s official website led to …

Just in via press release: Attorney General Ashley Moody today led a 23-state coalition of attorneys general opposing the Biden administration’s latest overreach into the livelihoods of middle-class Americans. This time, the administration is weaseling its way into laundry rooms in an attempt to further its radical energy policies by implementing harmful and costly standards on washing machines. Attorney General …

The Washington Post reports: The 2024 Republican convention platform that aides to Donald Trump have drafted stops short of explicitly calling for a constitutional amendment to give embryos or fetuses constitutional rights and does not call for any national bans on abortion, confirming the concerns of antiabortion activists. The document, with a long introduction in the voice of Trump, the …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: State officials said they passed up millions of dollars in new federal food assistance money because they have more than enough programs to feed Florida’s hungry children this summer. But advocates for the hungry say the numbers tell a different story. “The perception put forward by the state is that there is no need for other …

The Huffington Post reports: Conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tried to celebrate American history over the Independence Day weekend ― but got schooled by critics after she botched some basic details. “The average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 was 44 years old, but more than a dozen were 35 or …

ABC News reports: The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee issued a letter on Sunday to President Joe Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, requesting a transcribed interview and documents, citing reports that he has not recommended the president take a cognitive test. In the letter to O’Connor, obtained by ABC News, Chairman James Comer wrote: “Americans question President Biden’s …

“Now, I believe before this is all said and done, that President Biden most likely will be replaced. And Kamala Harris is going to be very vigorous, but she’s for the green New Deal. She’s for Medicare For All. She’s more like Bernie Sanders on policy. Harris is going to have to pick somebody to help her, if she does …

“You asked about Project 2025, and I want to be clear here that Trump explicitly has said his own transition team runs the Trump transition and will run the Trump administration. Again, you have a whole host of organizations, some of which have good ideas, some of which have bad ideas and some who have both. On the question of …

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: On Friday evening, Utah Sen. Mike Lee used his personal X/Twitter account to amplify a baseless claim that President Joe Biden was having a “medical emergency” on Air Force One. The claim started with far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who posted without attribution that “Joe Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on …

AlterNet reports: On Friday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) amplified a baseless, debunked claim that President Joe Biden was experiencing a medical episode on board Air Force One. Now, the senator is getting roasted for his tweet by both journalists and commentators. At 7:41 PM Eastern Time yesterday, far-right activist Laura Loomer tweeted: “Joe Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency …

“I raised $112 million in my last race, the highest in the history of the Senate, except my opponent, who raised $132 million. We had money from all over the country, $5 and $10, a bunch of money coming in. “You know what got me elected by over 10 points? It was people who knocked on doors and made phone …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: As Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson runs for governor, questions are being raised about his past bankruptcies and his failures to pay taxes. But there’s another problematic part of Robinson’s history that hasn’t received attention – how he and his wife were cited for numerous violations at the child care center they operated from …

The New York Times reports: Allies of Donald J. Trump are proposing that the United States restart the testing of nuclear weapons in underground detonations should the former president be re-elected in November. A number of nuclear experts reject such a resumption as unnecessary and say it would threaten to end a testing moratorium that the world’s major atomic powers …

Religion News reports: Robert Morris, former senior pastor of the prominent nondenominational Gateway Church headquartered in Southlake, Texas, resigned two weeks ago after Cindy Clemishire accused him of molesting her for four years, beginning when she was 12. The case has prompted calls for reforms not only in the church but at the state Capitol. “These actions demand public exposure, …

The Washington Post reports: Top advisers to Donald Trump have begun to discuss draft language for the 2024 Republican platform that antiabortion leaders expect will abandon the party’s decades-long call to amend the U.S. Constitution to extend personhood protections to the unborn. The escalating behind-the-scenes disagreement over the abortion language has become so tense and acrimonious in recent weeks that …

Playbook reports: Trump campaign manager Susie Wiles has told people that she has called Blake Masters to urge the Arizona Republican to pull or change ads that falsely imply that he has Trump’s endorsement in his congressional campaign. Trump endorsed Abe Hamadeh, Masters’ primary opponent, in December. But Masters, a Peter Thiel protégé and ally of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), …