President Joe Biden addressed police officers on Wednesday gathered in Washington to honor slain colleagues as he tries to prevent his Republican rival former President Donald Trump from capturing high-profile endorsements from their unions in the coming weeks. President Biden’s speech, at the annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol honoring slain […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will go head-to-head in two scheduled debates. We spoke with NTD news contributor Mike Leon about the debates, which are set for June 27 on CNN and Sept. 10 on ABC. Mr. Leon is also the policy and strategy director for the Free and Equal Elections Foundation, […]
The Senate Intelligence Committee holds an open hearing on “Foreign Threats to the 2024 Elections” at 2:30 p.m. ET on May 15. Witnesses: Avril Haines Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence ODNI Jen Easterly Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Department of Homeland Security Larissa Knapp Assistant Director, National Security Branch FBI
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) questioned former Michael Cohen-lawyer Robert Costello during a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee hearing on the weaponization of the federal government. Mr. Gaetz sought to determine whether Mr. Cohen, who operated as a lawyer to former President Donald Trump, had lied to prosecutors about the former President in the run-up to the […]
The Maryland and West Virginia races for the U.S. Senate are set to be crucial in deciding the balance of power in the upper chamber. NTD gets an update on the results of the primaries there from Jeff Crouere, a political analyst and TV and radio host. Mr. Crouere says that in the face-off between […]
Former President Donald Trump vowed to take regulatory actions against offshore wind power projects once back in office, pointing out that the technology was expensive as well as detrimental to surrounding wildlife. Offshore wind power projects “destroy everything. They’re horrible and the most expensive energy there is. They ruin the environment. They kill the birds. […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) paid a visit Tuesday to the New York courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial. He says the New York case is an illegitimate sham, and that it’s not about justice, but about politics. Terry Schilling, the president of the American Principles Project, tells NTD there has been […]
The earliest presidential debate in televised history will take place on June 27 on CNN, a press release from the outlet on May 15 confirmed. The announcement came hours after former President Donald Trump accepted an invitation from President Joe Biden earlier in the day for two debates in June and September. The debate will […]
On May 14, three states—Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia—held primary contests for Democrats and Republicans. On the presidential level, the contest was largely uneventful, despite some warning signs for both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. In other races down-ballot, the results were largely predictable, with a few unexpected shake-ups. Here are the […]
Three-term State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey appears set to move his Capitol complex office into the executive suite after winning a six-candidate Republican race to succeed Gov. Jim Justice in West Virginia’s May 14 primaries. Mr. Morrisey, notching 33 percent of the tally with 70,294 votes, was declared the winner in GOP gubernatorial primary by […]
BALTIMORE—Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks won the Democrat Senate primary in Maryland on May 14, while April McClain-Delaney and Neil Parrott won the Democrat and Republican primary, respectively, in the state’s Sixth Congressional District —races that could determine which party controls Congress next year. Ms. Alsobrooks defeated Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) to take on […]
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), the incumbent in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, on May 14 secured the Republican nomination in a district that gave its Electoral College vote to President Joe Biden in 2020. Mr. Bacon prevailed over challenger Dan Frei, a businessman and former U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter pilot, by a vote of 18,406 […]
Incumbent Rep. Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) swept past a conservative challenge, and State Treasurer Riley Moore emerged victorious from a five-candidate field in West Virginia’s two May 14 congressional primary races. Ms. Miller was declared the winner in her Congressional District 1 (CD 1) primary against former state lawmaker Derrick Evans by the Associated Press at 9:03 […]
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, recruited by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to enter politics as a Democrat in 2016, is now the overwhelming favorite to succeed the retiring Manchin in the U.S. Senate in 2025 as a Trump-endorsed Republican. Mr. Justice easily outpaced Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) in the May 14 GOP Senate primary in […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) criticized the prosecution’s star witness Tuesday in former President Donald Trump’s New York trial, accusing former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen of being “a man who is clearly on a mission for personal revenge,” and alluded to Mr. Cohen’s history of perjury. Mr. Johnson attended the morning’s court proceedings, where Mr. […]
A New York court on Tuesday upheld a gag order that a lower court judge placed on former President Donald Trump in his ongoing criminal trial. The order, imposed on the former president in March by Judge Juan Merchan, prohibits him from commenting on court staff, prosecutors, potential witnesses, and members of the jury. It […]
In a brief press conference held outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s New York trial is ongoing, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) strongly criticized the proceedings, calling them a “travesty of justice” on Tuesday, May 14. Mr. Johnson, a former litigator and the current highest-ranking Republican, expressed his outrage at the legal proceedings […]
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s plan to set a tariff on electric vehicles made in China was a case of too little, too late, as he spoke to reporters before entering a New York City courtroom for his so-called hush money trial. “He should have done it a long time […]
