Trump Effectively Clinches Nomination, Potentially Giving GOP A Convicted Felon Atop Its 2024 Ticket
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Trump still needs to collect 1,215 delegates to lock up the nomination, but that now appears to be a formality.
Donald Trump has effectively clinched the GOP nomination for president for the third straight cycle, meaning Republicans could well have a convicted felon at the top of their ticket heading into the November election.
Late Tuesday, Trump had won 11 contests of the 16 taking place across the country to Haley’s one, in Vermont.
Though Trump still needs to win 1,215 delegates to become the presumptive nominee, that task now appears to be little more than a formality and will likely take place either next week or the week after.
Trump, while claiming at the start of his 18 minutes of remarks from his South Florida country club home that his Super Tuesday wins were unprecedented, proceeded to give a rambling, low-energy speech that hit his favorite lies about immigration, the size of his tax cuts, China paying billions in tariffs ― but almost nothing about the state of the Republican primaries.
“We want to have unity, and we’re going to have unity, and it’s going to happen very quickly,” apparently alluding to when he would wrap up the nomination.
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The vice president and his wife, Usha Vance, got hit with a harsh tune as they took their seats for a concert.
A judge in Maryland has blocked for now the mass firings of probationary federal workers and ordered thousands of fired probationary workers to be reinstated, marking the second decision of its kind in a day.
The prospect of a government shutdown grew on Thursday after nearly a dozen Democratic senators came out against a GOP funding package.
Wall Street’s sell-off hit a new low following President Donald Trump’s latest escalation in his trade war.
Former state Sen. Brian Kelsey said he believed "God used Donald Trump to save me."
The community is uniting against Mahmoud Khalil's abduction, demanding the government stop its free speech crackdown disguised as fighting antisemitism.
The Republican senator condemned college protesters opposed to Israel's war in Gaza on Wednesday and brazenly argued "all of them" belong behind bars.
"What you just said is important," CNN's Kaitlan Collins pointed out.
When asked whether Democrats or Republicans are historically better for the U.S. economy, X's Grok didn’t mince words.
"I think it would be very devastating for me and for him to meet his first child behind a glass screen," his wife, who is eight months pregnant, told Reuters.
The president would have likely "gotten very upset" had a Democrat done it, the New York Times journalist told CNN's Anderson Cooper.