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Post by Admin on May 3, 2021 22:57:55 GMT
Trump holds campaign event in New Hampshire
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Post by Admin on May 4, 2021 6:00:40 GMT
The first competitive special of the new election cycle has quickly turned into a 2020 redux: It's the Donald Trump show all over again.
Trump made a late foray in the 23-candidate scramble for a vacant congressional seat in North Texas, transforming a once-quiet race into a major test of his post-presidency king-making power. After endorsing Susan Wright, a Republican activist and widow of the late incumbent, Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), Trump joined her and the anti-tax Club for Growth at a tele-town hall on Thursday night to rail against his rival, President Joe Biden, and remind listeners of the stakes.
"It's just my honor to also get involved and be involved in this race," Trump said, touting his partnership with the Club for Growth. "We've worked together. We've never had a loss together. Every time we've gone after someone and, you know, supported and worked for someone, we've had victory. So I hope everybody can get out on Saturday, May 1, and vote for Susan Wright."
Though several Republican candidates were openly running in the MAGA lane, Trump and his legacy didn't dominate the race until the final weeks. There was a behind-the-scenes jockeying for his endorsement by allies of some leading GOP candidates, and on Monday he made his allegiance known and endorsed Wright, a clear power play that comes with some risk.
Saturday's voting almost certainly won't be the final word on the race — in Texas special elections, the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, advance to a runoff if no candidate wins a majority. Prior to receiving Trump's endorsement, Wright had high name recognition but less campaign cash than her GOP opponents.
The Club for Growth lured Trump off the sidelines after spending some $150,000 on ads painting Wright's main opponent, state Rep. Jake Ellzey, as an "anti-Trump" Republican, citing a donation from Bill Kristol, the conservative commentator and Trump critic.
"He wants to be with winners, but he also wants to show that he's still the leader of the party," said David McIntosh, the Club president and former Indiana congressman who encouraged Trump to back Wright. "That was our goal — to make it a race where Trump's endorsement really mattered."
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Post by Admin on May 15, 2021 0:42:51 GMT
Then-President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., last June after days of anti-racism protests against police brutality. President Biden has rescinded several orders Trump made during his last year in office, including moves to protect Confederate statues targeted by protesters. President Biden has revoked a number of executive actions taken by former President Donald Trump in the last year of his administration, mostly in response to the protests over systemic racism and police violence. The orders include Trump's move to establish a National Garden of American Heroes, an order related to conservative complaints about social media censorship and orders he signed to protect monuments and statues when protesters were targeting Confederate symbols last year. Those demonstrations intersected with the summer protests against the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. The president also revoked a 2019 Trump proclamation that purported to prevent immigrants "who will financially burden the United States healthcare system" from entering the United States.
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Post by Admin on May 15, 2021 19:46:51 GMT
Johnny Damon, Donald Trump Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump acknowledges former professional baseball player Johnny Damon during a campaign stop in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP A sex-trafficking scandal that is inching closer to Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters, includes an investigation of a 2019 event billed as a “Trump Defender Gala,” which named ex-Yankees and Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon as an honored guest. According to the Daily Beast, Gaetz was a featured speaker at the Oct. 26 fundraiser at the Westgate Lake Resort in Orlando. The Daily Beast further reports: Two witnesses present recalled friends reconvening at Gaetz’s hotel room for an after-party, where [Megan] Zalonka prepared lines of cocaine on the bathroom counter. One of those witnesses distinctly remembers Zalonka pulling the drugs out of her makeup bag, rolling a bill of cash, and joining Gaetz in snorting the cocaine. Damon, according to a handout included in the Daily Beast report, was the top name in a list of featured guests that included six other current or former government officials. On Friday, it was announced that Joel Greenberg, an indicted confidant of Gaetz, has struck a deal with federal prosecutors to reduce his criminal exposure and plans to help investigators. Damon, who played for the Yankees from 2006-09 and the Red Sox from 2002-05, has been public in his support for Trump. In a DUI stop in February, Damon told police, “I know people are trying to target me because I’m a Trump supporter.” Damon was charged with resisting an officer without violence. He also was cited for driving under the influence of alcohol and running a stop sign. His wife, Michelle Mangan-Damon, was charged with battery on an officer and resisting with violence.
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Post by Admin on Jun 5, 2021 17:03:49 GMT
LIVE: President Donald Trump, Others Speak at the 2021 NC State GOP Convention 6/5/21
Saturday June 5, 2021: Please join RSBN at the North Carolina Republican Party for their annual State Convention in Greenville, North Carolina. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem and former President Donald J Trump scheduled to speak.
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