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While Boebert’s fundraising has slowed, she still holds big cash lead in new district
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While Boebert’s fundraising has slowed, she still holds big cash lead in new district

By Sandra Fish | The Colorado Sun Lauren Boebert started the year with a large campaign cash advantage over her Republican primary opponents in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, even as the congresswoman’s fundraising slowed in the last three months of 2023, according to federal campaign finance reports filed Wednesday. Some of Boebert’s opponents in the 4th District, which includes the Eastern Plains and sweeps into Loveland and Douglas County, received financial help from big-name GOP donors, while others injected money into their own campaigns.  The reports, covering federal campaign fundraising and spending from Oct. 1 through the end of the year, are the first filed since U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a Windsor Republican who represents the 4th District, announced in November...
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Six in 10 live ‘paycheck to paycheck,’ 24% have $0 in bank
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Six in 10 live ‘paycheck to paycheck,’ 24% have $0 in bank

By Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner "Bidenomics" isn’t working well, and now there’s proof. Despite records being broken on Wall Street, those on Main Street are living and working for their next paycheck and have little saved for an emergency. In the latest Issues and Insights/TIPP poll, released early Wednesday, 64% said they are “living ‘paycheck to paycheck’ these days.” READ FULL ARTICLE ON GAZETTE.COM
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Trump survives Illinois Board of Elections vote determining his 2024 ballot status
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Trump survives Illinois Board of Elections vote determining his 2024 ballot status

By Jack Birle, Washington Examiner The Illinois Board of Elections unanimously decided to allow former President Donald Trump to remain on the ballot in the state, arguing it did not have the authority to determine his eligibility under the Constitution. The petitioners had argued Trump was ineligible to run for president, alleging he committed an insurrection with the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, in violation of section three of the 14th Amendment. The board, made up of four Democrats and four Republicans, voted 8-0 to heed the recommendation of its general counsel and leave eligibility questions up to the courts. "I think that we do not have jurisdiction to wade into the constitutional issue to decide the question of whether the candidate engaged in ins...
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Investor Griffin gave $5 million to pro-Haley group in January -source
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Investor Griffin gave $5 million to pro-Haley group in January -source

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - Hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin gave $5 million to an outside group supporting Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley this month, a person familiar with the donation said on Tuesday. The support from Griffin, a Republican mega donor, may help Haley assuage concerns of running out of money after she lost the first two Republican nominating contests to runaway frontrunner Donald Trump and faces a steep path to clinching the party's presidential nomination ahead of the November election. However, it remains unclear when in January Griffin made the donations, a potentially important fact given Haley lost the Iowa and New Hampshire contests, on Jan. 15 and Jan. 23, respectively. READ FULL ARTICLE ON GAZETTE.COM
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Judge questions DOJ leniency in Trump tax leaker case, gives five-year prison sentence
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Judge questions DOJ leniency in Trump tax leaker case, gives five-year prison sentence

By Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE A judge grilled a Department of Justice prosecutor on Monday over why the government charged Charles Littlejohn with just one count of unauthorized disclosure of taxes after Littlejohn leaked the private information of more than a thousand taxpayers to media in 2020. "The fact that he is facing one felony count, I have no words for," Judge Ana Reyes said during Littlejohn's sentencing hearing. Littlejohn, a former Internal Revenue Service contractor, is set to be sentenced Monday for the single charge, and the DOJ has asked Reyes to give him five years in prison, which is the maximum sentence for it. Littlejohn admitted to prosecutors last fall that he carried out a plot that involved carefully work...
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Rumored Biden replacement Gavin Newsom tells Joe how he would beat Trump
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Rumored Biden replacement Gavin Newsom tells Joe how he would beat Trump

By Misty Severi, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he would focus on telling voters about the “extraordinary successes” of President Joe Biden’s administration if he was in the president’s shoes. The California governor claimed Biden had “the best three-year record” of any modern president, and that Democratic and independent voters needed to be more aware of those successes as the president sees low approval ratings. “We need to lift up the issues, the successes, the extraordinary successes of the last three years, [of] the Biden-Harris administration,” Newsom told ABC’s This Week on Sunday. “It’s not even a complicated campaign. We have the receipts. We have the best three-year record of any modern American...
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RFK Jr. says Trump team reached out about VP spot
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RFK Jr. says Trump team reached out about VP spot

By Luke Gentile, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would not accept the vice presidential spot on former President Donald Trump's 2024 ticket, despite already having been approached by Trump's team. "I would not take that job," Kennedy, 70, said in a recent interview with NewsNation. "I'm flattered that President Trump would offer to me, but it's not something that I'm interested in." The idea of a Trump-Kennedy ticket had been floated by the Trump campaign, according to Kennedy. READ FULL ARTICLE ON GAZETTE.COM
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The politics complicating the $78 billion child tax credit and business tax bill
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The politics complicating the $78 billion child tax credit and business tax bill

By Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE Election-year politics threaten the passage of the bipartisan $78 billion child tax credit and business tax break bill. The bill faces hurdles in the Senate and the House, even after clearing the House Ways and Means Committee in an overwhelming 40-3 vote. Two big political winners of the legislation's passage would be Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), who crafted the plan during weeks of negotiations. And the White House, at least from a messaging standpoint, also stands to gain a political advantage whether the legislation passes or not. READ FULL ARTICLE ON GAZETTE.COM
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Another state could try to boot Trump from the 2024 ballot
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Another state could try to boot Trump from the 2024 ballot

By Peyton Sorosinski, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE Retired Republican Judge Clark Erickson, who said former President Donald Trump’s name should be removed from the Illinois ballot ahead of the March 19 primary for inciting an insurrection, recommended Sunday that a higher court should make the decision, not the state board of elections.  The objection to Trump’s ballot eligibility was brought forth by five Illinois voters who filed a petition earlier this month seeking to remove the former president from the state’s primary ballot. Trump’s attorneys, along with the group of objectors, presented their arguments on Friday to Erickson, the hearing officer.  “[Trump] does not dispute that he knew violence was occurring at the Capitol. He und...
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Voters back Texas border wall, feel Biden starting ‘civil war’
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Voters back Texas border wall, feel Biden starting ‘civil war’

By Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE A sizable majority of the public supports Texas’s construction of a wall along its border with Mexico and feels that President Joe Biden’s efforts to stop it are the first step toward civil war. In a sobering analysis of the escalating topic, 69% of likely 2024 voters said that they support the border wall and razor-wire fence that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has ordered. Among those, a majority, 51%, said they “strongly” back Texas in its fight to stop illegal immigration and the surge of "gotaways" getting past federal border agents. The White House won the Supreme Court's support for stopping Texas, but not voters. Besides fighting voters, Biden has clashed with members of his own party over ...
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