Former Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson will win Texas state House primary runoff, CNN projects
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Katrina Pierson, who served as Donald Trump’s spokesperson during his 2016 presidential campaign, will win the Republican primary runoff for Texas’ 33rd state House district, CNN projects.
Katrina Pierson, who served as Donald Trump’s spokesperson during his 2016 presidential campaign, will win the Republican primary runoff for Texas’ 33rd state House district, CNN projects. Pierson will unseat incumbent state Rep. Justin Holland in the Dallas-area district, and with no Democrat on the ballot, she is almost certain to win the general election in November. Pierson was a highly visible Trump surrogate during his first campaign, regularly appearing on cable television to defend Trump and promote his White House bid. After the 2020 election, she played an integral role in the “Stop the Steal” movement, which falsely claimed that Joe Biden’s win was illegitimate due to widespread fraud. In one email to her fellow rally organizers on January 2, 2021, Pierson wrote, “POTUS expectations are to have something intimate at the ellipse and call on everyone to march to the capitol.” She eventually testified before January 6 committee, with her text messages offering insight into the role of different Trump advisers in the lead up to the Capitol attack. Earlier this election cycle, Pierson was noncommittal about endorsing Trump again.
A California woman told police that Trump Cabinet pick Pete Hegseth physically blocked her from leaving a hotel room, took her phone, and then sexually assaulted her even though she “remembered saying ‘no’ a lot,” a police report obtained by CNN shows.
For more than a decade, Chinese students have flocked to the United States, drawn by the prestige of an overseas education and the glamor of the American Dream. But that’s changing now – and recent statistics suggest the allure may be wearing off.
After rarely being seen in public in the two weeks since he delivered a brief, 46-second victory speech on election night, JD Vance reemerged this week to play one of the most important roles he will be expected to fill as Donald Trump’s No. 2: His point person on Capitol Hill.
A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged in a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange this week, according to the FBI.
The Senate on Wednesday voted down an effort led by Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders to block a series of planned US weapons sales to Israel.
Republicans on the House Ethics Committee fell in line behind GOP leaders and voted not to release the results of their investigation into Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, Matt Gaetz, despite growing calls from the Senate GOP to make the findings public ahead of his confirmation hearing.
Senate Democrats have confirmed some of President Joe Biden’s picks for the federal bench this week in the face of President-elect Donald Trump’s calls for a total GOP blockade of judicial nominations – in part because several Republicans involved with the Trump transition process have been missing votes.
A former University of Virginia student pleaded guilty Wednesday to fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other students on the Charlottesville campus in 2022.
Donald Trump is considering a right-wing media personality and people who have served on his US Secret Service detail to run the agency that has been plagued by its failure to preempt two alleged assassination attempts on Trump this summer, sources familiar with the president-elect’s thinking tell CNN.
The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, on the grounds it would not have secured the release of hostages.
A Democratic election official in Pennsylvania offered an impassioned apology Wednesday for claiming “precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country” to justify counting about 600 faulty ballots in defiance of state Supreme Court rulings.