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‘The behind-the-scenes work starts today’: The 2028 shadow primary is underway

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Josh Shapiro is already fielding calls from Democratic Party leaders in Pennsylvania urging him to run for president. Gavin Newsom held a Friday call with about 50,000 people in his small-donor network and called a special legislative session designed to Trump-proof California. And Pete Buttigieg is set to tout his Cabinet accomplishments in a series […]

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Trump announces Tom Homan as incoming border czar

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who backed his controversial “zero tolerance” policy, will be his administration’s “border czar.” “I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the

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Biden's White House invitation to Trump continues a tradition Trump shunned in 2020

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of Democratic President Joe Biden, who had hoped to defeat his Republican predecessor a second time and reside there for four more years. That may make for an awkward encounter, especially

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Republican David Schweikert wins reelection in affluent Arizona congressional district

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PHOENIX (AP) — Republican David Schweikert has won an eighth term in an affluent congressional district in the Phoenix area by fending off a challenge from a Democratic former state lawmaker. Schweikert defeated Amish Shah, an emergency room doctor, Sunday in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District that includes north Phoenix, Scottsdale, Fountain Hills and Paradise Valley.

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Arizona attorney general says she has 'no intention' of dropping fake electors case

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said Sunday that she has “no intention” of dropping the criminal case against a group of President-elect Donald Trump’s allies who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Arizona. “I have no intention of breaking that case up. I have no intention of dropping that case,” Mayes,

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Rep. Jim Jordan leaves the door open for special counsel Jack Smith to testify before Congress

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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, on Sunday said that he and his House Republican colleagues are “not taking anything off the table” related to investigating special counsel Jack Smith. “We want the facts,” Jordan told CNN’s “State of the Union,” days after Smith and the Justice Department started the

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Sweep of swing states rubs salt in Democrats’ wounds as Trump prepares to meet Biden

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Donald Trump was declared the winner in Arizona early on Sunday, completing the Republicans’ clean sweep of the so-called swing states and rubbing salt in Democrats’ wounds as it was announced that the president-elect is scheduled to meet with Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the presidential handover. In a national

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The blue wall was Kamala Harris' clearest path to the White House. Here's why it faded away.

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Democrats hoped Vice President Harris could win the White House through the blue wall. But once again, Donald Trump made inroads in three key states and flipped them into the GOP column. Harris would have secured the presidency if she had won Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential

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Bernie Sanders says he opposes urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down

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Bernie Sanders said he opposes any move to force Sonia Sotomayor, the senior liberal justice on the US supreme court, to step down so that Joe Biden could nominate a younger liberal replacement before he finishes his term as president. Sotomayor, 70, is known to suffer from health issues, and some Democrats fear a repeat

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