Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo violated state law when she endorsed a candidate challenging District Attorney Kim Ogg during a press conference that used public funds, the Texas Ethics Commission said this week. Hidalgo endorsed Sean Teare, Ogg’s opponent in the Democratic primary in March, at a November press conference held at the Harris County […]
Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman is leaning to supporting Donald Trump. According to multiple reports, Ackman is considering a public announcement backing Trump. He would join a growing list of Wall Street titans that have lined up behind the former president. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is considering endorsing former President Donald Trump, according […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential ambition may have gained him national attention — especially given the threat that Democrats believe he poses to President Joe Biden’s re-election — but it certainly has not endeared him to all of his family. On Thursday, 15 Kennedy family members — including six of RFK Jr.’s 10 siblings — […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose joined other GOP statewide officeholders Thursday in endorsing his former rival, Republican Senate nominee Bernie Moreno — after a bruising and expensive primary in which he repeatedly attacked his rival as untrustworthy. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, LaRose said he joined the Senate […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence says he will not be backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Mr Pence said in an interview with Fox News Channel on Friday, commenting publicly for the first time since the former president […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence says he will not be backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence said in an interview with Fox News Channel Friday, weighing in for the first time since the […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday scolded Donald Trump for endorsing “the worst Deep State candidate” after the ex-president backed former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in his U.S. senate bid. On Truth Social, Trump bestowed his “complete and total endorsement”on Rogers. On X, Paul pushed back hard against the judgment of the presumptive GOP nominee […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leader Mitch McConnell is the highest-ranking Republican in Congress who has yet to endorse Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House — having once called the defeated president “morally responsible” for the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. But that’s potentially about to change. McConnell’s political team and Trump’s campaign […]
The Republican Party’s transformation into an anti-government populist movement has been a bottom-up phenomenon: Conservative voters, radicalized by right-wing radio, Fox News, social media and opportunistic demagogues, rose up for their tea party takeover. Then the biggest demagogue of all, Donald Trump, harnessed those voters to make the party his own. That merger of man […]
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the US Senate, will “look past a load of shit” to endorse Donald Trump for president, a GOP colleague said. Related: US voters face a stark choice on foreign policy – and they might prefer Trump’s offer | Emma Ashford “He’ll look past a load of shit to improve […]
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) had CNN’s Kaitlan Collins laughing on Monday with his reason for not endorsing Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley. Collins asked Roy who he’d now back to become the GOP nominee in the 2024 election after his preferred candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, bailed on the race amid sagging poll numbers. Roy […]
Feb. 5—Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis is not endorsing in the hotly-contested March primaries for county GOP party chair or any of the contested precinct chair seats. A Facebook post Sunday stated Griffis and Odessa Fire and Rescue Chief Jason Cotton were endorsing Odessa City Councilwoman Denise Swanner who is seeking to be precinct chair […]