The United States Supreme Court has rejected an effort by Colorado to remove Donald Trump’s name from the state’s Republican primary ballot, delivering the former president a major victory as he seeks his party’s nomination. The justices on Monday unanimously reversed a December 19 decision by Colorado’s top court to kick Trump off the ballot under the 14th Amendment of ...
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Trump wins three states in Republican primary, edges towards nomination
Donald Trump on Saturday inched ahead in his quest to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, winning internal party elections in the states of Missouri, Michigan and Idaho, US media reported. The former president has now won every state nominating contest heading into next week’s “Super Tuesday,” when voters in 15 US states choose their preferred candidate for each party. ...
Read More »Trump appeals judgement ordering him to pay $454m in penalties
Donald Trump is appealing against a New York judge’s ruling that he must pay $454m (£360m) in penalties and interest in a civil fraud case. This month’s judgement was $355m, but the amount has soared with interest, which will keep accruing by at least $112,000 per day. New York Attorney General Letitia James has said if Mr Trump does not ...
Read More »US 2024: Supreme Court sets to decide Trump’s fate
The US Supreme Court will wade into uncharted legal waters on Thursday as it considers if Donald Trump should be barred from running for president. The justices will weigh if Colorado can strike Mr Trump off its ballot after finding he engaged in insurrection over the US Capitol riot, BBC reports. Their decision will also determine if similar bids to ...
Read More »US 2024: Trump leads Biden in CNN poll
Former President Trump is holding a narrow 4-point lead over President Biden in a new poll. Forty-nine percent of registered voters in the CNN poll, conducted by SSRS, said they would be “more likely to vote” for Trump, while 45 percent said they would be “more likely to vote” for Biden. In the same poll, 38 percent of respondents said ...
Read More »US 2024: Trump wins Republican’s primary in New Hampshire
Former President Donald Trump has been projected to win Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary just a few minutes after the final polls closed, defeating Nikki Haley – his final remaining major rival for the Republican Party nomination. Trump is the first non-incumbent GOP candidate in the modern era to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. At the time of filing this ...
Read More »US 2024: Vivek Ramaswamy suspends campaign, backs Trump
United States Republican presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, on Monday suspended his campaign, throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump. The development came after he fell short at Monday’s Iowa Caucuses. Ramaswamy, however, chose to endorse Trump, who kickstarted his bid to win his party’s presidential nomination, cruising to an easy victory in the lead off contest in the 2024 ...
Read More »Trump cancels plan to testify at civil fraud trial
Former United States President Donald Trump has decided against testifying for a second time at his civil fraud trial in New York, saying he has “nothing more to say”. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, said on Sunday that he saw no need to testify as he had done so “very successfully & conclusively” ...
Read More »US 2024: Trump leads Biden in four key swing states- Opinion poll says
Former President Donald Trump holds an edge over President Joe Biden in a series of hypothetical matchups among registered voters in four key swing states, new polling from The New York Times and Siena College shows. According to CNN, in Nevada, a state Biden narrowly carried in the 2020 presidential election, Trump boasts 52% support to Biden’s 41%. Trump also ...
Read More »I never thought anything like this could happen in America- Trump
Former President Donald Trump condemned the criminal charges he faced in New York Tuesday night, saying to a crowd of supporters that “the only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it.” Trump flew back to his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida following his arraignment in Manhattan. “I never thought anything ...
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