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Donald Trump slammed Disney and his main rival in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, claiming he is responsible for the entertainment giant’s “wake up.”
“Disney has become an awakened, disgusting shadow of its former self, with people hating it. It needs to go back to what it used to be, or the ‘market’ will be irreparably damaged,” he wrote on Truth Social. “This all happened during the governorship of ‘Rob’ DeSanctimonious. Instead of complaining now, just for publicity reasons, he should have stopped it a long time ago. It would have been easy to do, it still is!”
Trump also congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the leader claimed victory in Sunday’s election.
“Congratulations to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his great and well-deserved victory in Turkey. I know him well, he is a friend and I have learned firsthand how much he loves his country and the great people of Turkey, which he has raised to a new level of prominence and respect!” said Mr. Trump.
Meanwhile, Texas Republicans ignored Mr. Trump’s pleas and fired their own state attorney general, Ken Paxton, on corruption charges.
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Liz Cheney urges graduates not to compromise on truth in commencement speech
Old USA Representative Liz Cheney implored new college graduates not to compromise when it comes to the truth, excoriating their House Republican colleagues for not doing enough to combat former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen.
In a commencement speech at Colorado College, the Wyoming Republican repeated her fierce criticism of Trump but shied away from talking about her 2024 re-election campaign or her own political future.
Cheney, who graduated from Colorado College in 1988, recalled as a political science student entering a building on campus that had a Bible verse inscribed above the entrance that read, “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”
“I had to choose between lying and losing my leadership position in the House,” Cheney said Sunday in Colorado Springs, connecting his experiences as a student with his work in the U.S. House of Representatives. “When I spoke to my colleagues on my last morning as chairman of the Republican Conference in May 2021, I told them that if they wanted a leader who would lie, they should elect someone else.”
“I may not like you as an individual, but I like your problems”
In Chicago, Tyrone Muhammad, who heads Ex-Cons for Social Change, blasted Republicans as “losers” for not seizing a very real opportunity to win over more African Americans. While sitting next to Vivek Ramaswamy on stage, he also declared that the Republican Party is racist.
She later said she voted for Trump in 2020 because Trump enacted a criminal justice bill that aimed to shorten prison terms for non-violent drug offenders and address racial disparities in the justice system . While the GOP has since adopted tough-on-crime rhetoric, Muhammed noted that Biden as a senator helped pass the 1994 crime bill that led to the mass incarceration of black people.
Muhammad said he might vote Republican again in 2024, despite the party’s shortcomings. He pointed to the GOP’s fight against illegal immigration as a primary reason for support.
“I may not like you as an individual, but I like your issues, I like your policies,” he said.
Republican supported by 14 percent of black voters in 2022
A majority of Latino voters supported Biden in the 2020 presidential contest, according to AP VoteCast, an extensive national survey of the electorate. But Trump eroded that support in some competitive states, including Florida and Nevada, revealing major shifts among Latinos from many different cultural backgrounds.
In last fall’s midterm elections, support for Republican candidates grew among black voters, even as they continued to overwhelmingly support Democrats, AP Votecast found. Overall, Republican candidates received the support of 14 percent of black voters, compared to 8 percent in the midterm elections four years earlier.
While the changes may be relatively small, strategists in both parties acknowledge that any change is significant given how close some elections in 2024 may be.
Biden, GOP reach deal on debt ceiling, now Congress must pass it to avoid calamitous default
Any deal would have to be a political compromise in a divided Congress. Many Trump-aligned Republicans in Congress have long been skeptical of the Treasury projections and are pressing McCarthy to hold off.
Lawmakers are not expected to return to work from Memorial Day weekend until Tuesday at the earliest, and McCarthy has promised lawmakers that he will abide by the 72-hour rule to release any bill before to vote
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Debt ceiling tests McCarthy, as GOP speaker gleefully recounts career struggle
While conservatives are frustrated with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, he still has an important voice in his corner: former President Donald Trump.
As an early backer of Trump’s first bid for the White House, McCarthy has tried to stay close to the former president despite their on-again, off-again relationship. She said they spoke in recent days and Trump told her, “Make sure you get a good deal.”
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Right-wing populist Javier Milei gains support in Argentina with ‘political caste’
He believes selling human organs should be legal, climate change is a “socialist lie”, sex education is a ploy to destroy the family and that the Central Bank should be abolished. He could also be the next president of Argentina.
Javier Milei, an admirer of former US President Donald Trump, is the latest example of how right-wing populists are making inroads in Latin America, appealing to a citizenry angry with politics as usual and eager to outsiders shake up the system.
A libertarian economist and self-described “anarcho-capitalist,” Milei made a name for himself by railing against the “political caste” on television. His presidential bid seemed like a sideshow until recently. Polls show his popularity is rising, and his proposals are dominating discussions ahead of the October election.
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“There are several shades of melanin in this Republican race”
Federal officials were preparing to move hundreds of migrants from the US-Mexico border to Chicago’s South Side, even as many local residents struggled with violence and difficult economic conditions.
“It’s true that there are multiple shades of melanin in this Republican race,” Vivek Ramaswamy said in an interview. “I think it kind of dispels the myth that a lot of the left will perpetuate that this is somehow, you know, a racist party or whatever nonsense.”
He added: “But personally, I could care less what someone’s skin color is. I think what matters is what they’re going to achieve? What’s their vision?”
For now, the GOP has no Hispanic candidates in the 2024 contest. But Francis Suarez, the mayor of Miami, said that may change in the coming days.
“I think it’s important for the field to have candidates who can connect and motivate Hispanics to continue a trend that’s already happening,” he said in an interview, noting that he is “very strongly” considering a run for the White House “Democrats have failed miserably to connect with Hispanics.”
“Some think our ideas are not only wrong, but racist and evil”
In her announcement video, Nikki Haley noted that she was raised in a small town in South Carolina as “the proud daughter of Indian immigrants, not black, not white, I was different.” Like Scott, he has defended the GOP against charges of racism.
“Some think our ideas are not only wrong, but racist and evil,” Haley said. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Larry Elder is quick to criticize the Democrats’ “woke” agenda, Black Lives Matter and the notion of systemic racism.
Critics say these messages are actually designed to win over white suburban voters rather than attract voters of color. But on Chicago’s South Side on a recent Friday afternoon, there were signs that some black voters were open to the GOP’s new messengers, given their frustration with both political parties.
One attendee at Vivek Ramaswamy’s town hall waved a placard calling for a “Boycott Biden” because the Democratic president has not indicated whether he supports reparations for the descendants of slaves, even though Biden supported a congressional effort to study the matter. None of the GOP presidential candidates support reparations either.
Others condemned Democrats, in Chicago and Washington, for doing more to help immigrants who are in the country illegally than struggling African-American citizens.
New Hampshire governor emphasizes campaign outings, not inswings, to beat Trump
As the anti-Trump coalition within the Republican Party begins to figure out who will be their favorite standard-bearer, some worry that 2024 will be a repeat of 2016, when Trump was able to win, as the no vote was split between several candidates. in primary school
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu said The New York Times that “everyone says: ‘We have to prevent people from entering'”.
“This is the wrong message, the wrong mentality and this will not work”, he added, before admitting that a consolidation will have to be done to beat Trump.
“Discipline is coming out,” he said.
Gustaf KilanderMay 29, 2023 00:30
