
Republican candidates can ignore Trump -- but he won't go away
CNN
One Republican is trying his hand at lifting the curse that Donald Trump has inflicted on his party in America's suburbs -- by just pretending he doesn't exist.
But even as Virginia gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin sprinted into the final two weeks of the campaign, talking about local issues like parents' pandemic-related angst over their kids' interrupted schooling, he who shall not be named was rearing his head.
Trump on Tuesday lashed out at former Secretary of State Colin Powell -- one of America's true military heroes and one of Virginia's most famous residents, who died on Monday -- and for the millionth time made some of his fellow Republicans cringe.

The retired Air Force general announced as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Donald Trump after the abrupt Friday night firing of his predecessor is a respected career F-16 pilot who is described by current and former officials who served with him as a professional with a “strong moral center.”

Over the past 10 days, Vice President JD Vance put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on notice, rattled the confidence of century-old allies in Western Europe during his first foreign trip, decamped to Capitol Hill to help in delicate budget talks and delivered a spirited defense of the Trump administration’s first month to a gathering of conservatives outside the nation’s capital.