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Washington (AFP) - As Donald Trump faces a historic criminal trial, senior Republicans are beating a path to his New York courtroom to hammer home the narrative of a witch hunt and launch proxy attacks on witnesses he is barred from targeting. A succession of US lawmakers, state-level officials and other figures with designs on a job in the presidential candidate's next administration have made the pilgrimage to circle the wagons and question the legitimacy of the proceedings. US House Speaker Mike Johnson -- who is second in line to the presidency -- raised eyebrows Tuesday when he became the...
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Washington (AFP) - Nikki Haley prided herself on being the last challenger standing between the "chaos" of Donald Trump and the 2024 Republican White House nomination. Now her dreams of becoming America's first female president have evaporated for now. Following a slew of losses in the United States' drawn out, state-by-state primary season, including defeats to Trump in almost all 15 state contests waged on "Super Tuesday," the former governor of South Carolina announced Wednesday she was suspending her presidential campaign. The 52-year-old was little known outside her native South Carolina ...
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Washington (AFP) - Republicans used to be the party of cold warriors, democracy-building, and movies showing patriotic Americans tackling the Russian bear. Today? They're more likely to trade "Red Dawn" for isolationism and even fawning over Vladimir Putin. The remarkable transformation can be seen daily -- from Donald Trump expressing support for Russia invading NATO members who don't pay enough to conservative media star Tucker Carlson sitting with Putin for two hours of softball interview questions. Most tangible of all, Republicans are blocking renewal of US aid for Ukraine's beleaguered m...
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National Harbor (United States) (AFP) - It is Friday morning at America's largest conservative gathering and speakers talk law and order, religious freedom and small government on the main stage as convention-goers crowd a pinball machine downstairs that makes light of the 2021 assault on the US Capitol. "J6 Insurrection" -- an "educational documentary game" -- is one of the hottest attractions among a cornucopia of merchandise available a short escalator ride from the main hall at the four-day Conservative Political Action Conference in the Washington suburbs. "You're making America proud," a...
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Columbia (United States) (AFP) - Nikki Haley tried to fire up the crowd at a South Carolina barbecue joint -- even though the polls say Donald Trump is set to smoke her in the Republican presidential primary in her home state. "Head-to-head, Trump does not beat Joe Biden. I defeat Biden," the former South Carolina governor told supporters on Thursday, as steam rose from piles of fried chicken and pulled pork on a buffet nearby. The former UN ambassador in Trump's presidency is now the sole challenger to her former boss, with Haley, 52, hoping a home advantage will help her in the Palmetto Stat...
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Tuscaloosa (United States) (AFP) - US presidential hopefuls limbered up Wednesday for the fourth debate in the 2024 Republican primary, with the race narrowing to a head-to-head battle to be the main alternative to runaway frontrunner Donald Trump. The former president -- who is running to retake the White House despite facing 91 felony charges -- maintains a historically large lead and has seen his polling go from strength to strength with each new indictment. But he has skipped the debates, seeing no advantage in sharing the stage with distant rivals, and rendering them a sideshow to the bat...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - Donald Trump used a speech to a Republican Jewish convention Saturday to promise reimposition of a controversial travel ban that targeted a slew of mostly Muslim countries if he gets re-elected. "We will keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country," Trump told the audience attending the annual summit of the Republican Jewish Coalition. "You remember the travel ban? On day one I will restore our travel ban." At the start of his presidency in 2017, Trump imposed sweeping restrictions on the entry of travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and, initiall...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - Donald Trump used a speech to a Republican Jewish convention Saturday to promise reimposition of a controversial travel ban that targeted a slew of mostly Muslim countries if he gets re-elected. "We will keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country," Trump told the audience attending the annual summit of the Republican Jewish Coalition. "You remember the travel ban? On day one I will restore our travel ban." At the start of his presidency in 2017, Trump imposed sweeping restrictions on the entry of travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and, initial...
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Ashland (United States) (AFP) - With Pixie the Chihuahua curled nearby and studio walls covered in mementos, Jeff Katz leans into the radio microphone and delivers a rather less cozy message to his conservative audience: Joe Biden and Democrats are corrupt villains destroying America. "I don't like him," Katz tells his Newsradio WRVA audience from his home studio in central Virginia, referring to the 80-year-old president. "I think he brought a gang of grifters to the White House.... He's a bad guy." Katz is a veteran foot soldier in an airwaves army saturating talk radio with thousands of usu...
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Washington (AFP) - The overthrow of the US House speaker by a cabal of far-right agitators has left Republicans aghast at the party's chaotic approach to governing -- and its prospects for next year's presidential election. Rudderless and wracked with division, the "Grand Old Party" (GOP) has spent the aftermath of Tuesday's historic removal of Kevin McCarthy bickering over the tactics of the eight insurgents behind the plot. Meanwhile the rank-and-file has voiced little hope over the possibility of a new era of unity as talk of expelling the plotters adds to the sense of a party at war with ...
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