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Donald Trump’s allies are attempting to minimize the former president’s reported praise of Nazi dictator Adolf Hiter, and discredit John Kelly after the former White House chief of staff went on the record with multiple outlets regarding his concerns about Trump’s fascist ambitions.

This week, the retired general told The New York Times that Trump fit the definition of a fascist, and would rule like a dictator if reelected. In a separate interview with The Atlantic, Kelly elaborated on past assertions that Trump expressed admiration for Hitler.

On Monday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart took on Donald Trump’s trending moments from the campaign trail in recent days: the former president’s staged shift at a McDonald’s and his lewd comments about former pro golfer Arnold Palmer, both in Pennsylvania. However, Stewart didn’t have the same reaction to these incidents that a number of news outlets did.

Instead, the host, calling this the “fever dream” portion of the 2024 election, criticized the media for not focusing on Trump’s dangerous rhetoric like him calling elected officials the “enemy within.”

“Kamala Harris is out there sweating the details over her new opportunity economy. Trump’s just out there farting around,” Stewart said. “That’s his whole campaign right now. ‘Ave Maria’ dance party, ‘I’m going to deport everybody,’ football tailgate, blame the Jews if I lose, McDonald’s drive-thru. He’s out there having the time of his life,...

Vice President Kamala Harris has responded to new statements from former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly detailing Donald Trump’s fascist ambitions.

In a televised address delivered from the vice president’s residence, Harris told reporters that it’s clear her Republican opponent “wants a military that is loyal to him,” one that “will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders, even when he tells them to break the law.”

“Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable,” Harris said. “In a second term, people...

Gov. Chris Sununu (R-New Hampshire) appeared on The View on Thursday and engaged in a tense and lively exchange with the show’s hosts about the recent political landscape.

The interview came a year after Sununu was previously booed by the audience at a May 2023 appearance on the long-running talk show.

In the latest discussion, Sununu delved into his perspective on the Democratic party’s nomination process and suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris was “pushed” into place as the likely Democratic nominee, rather than being the choice of the voters.

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He claimed that “three phone calls were made from [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer and [former House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi” to orchestrate this, a claim that was swiftly disputed by moderator Whoopi Goldberg, who firmly reminded Sununu, “That’s actually not what happened,” and that “the other choices decided she...

Whoopi Goldberg has only said Donald Trump’s name on “The View” once in the last year or so, give or take a few months, and according to the ABC moderator, she “turned Black” the second she did it.

Typically, in discussing the former president, Whoopi only refers to him as “You-Know-Who,” if she can help it. She did break that rule this summer though, to note when he officially became a convicted felon. But, when New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu stopped by the show on Thursday morning, she reverted to her normal habit.

And that amused Sununu pretty thoroughly, as he joked, “I love that he’s like Voldemort. You don’t mention the name.”

At that, Whoopi noted that she almost never has, and her cohosts readily backed her up.

“She said it once and she was struck by lightning,” Joy Behar joked. However, Whoopi revealed the consequence...

Three prominent Republicans are unbothered that Donald Trump promised in four years, his supporters “won’t have to vote anymore” because “we’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”

On Sunday, Gov. Chris Sununu called the comments “a classic Trumpism,” while Sen. Tom Cotton said Trump was “obviously making a joke,” and Sen. Lindsay Graham laughed and claimed that Trump meant, “Give me four more years, and I’m going to right the ship called America and pass it on to the next generation.

Olivia Nuzzi is best known for her work with the written word, but she’s going to try her hand at on-screen chatter.

Nuzzi, the Washington correspondent for New York magazine, will lead “Working Capital,” a six-episode interview series that focuses on candid exchanges with political and business leaders. The series debuts Wednesday, July 17 at 8 p.m. eastern and will subsequently stream Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on Bloomberg Originals platforms and air on Bloomberg Television Wednesdays at 6 p.m.

“I am interested in how political power works and what it feels like to wield it,” said Nuzzi, in a prepared statement. “Through these interviews, I hoped to go deeper than the political media usually has the time or ability to in order to truly understand the people who make decisions that impact our world.”

The new series will feature interviews with New York City Mayor Eric Adams; New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu; U.

Update: TheGrio will simulcast CNN’s presidential debate on Thursday while providing pre- and post- event coverage.

TheGrio will start live coverage at 8:30 p.m. Et with a preview show hosted by April Ryan, Washington, D.C. bureau chief and senior White House correspondent, and senior correspondent Natasha Alford. The pre show will focus on issues affecting the Black community and provide background on the candidates’ positions.

The coverage will air on TheGrio television network, streaming Fast channel and digital platform Local Now.

After the debate at 10:30 p.m. Et, Ryan and Alford will get reactions, including from those in politics and advocacy.

Columnists for theGrio, Touré and Michael Harriot, will provide additional commentary.

Byron Allen, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group, said that the coverage “will provide comprehensive analysis to ensure that viewers gain a deeper understanding of the political landscape and the stakes involved for America.

CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash welcomes Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, and Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff of California and Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts, as well as Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, for insightful discussions and analysis. The episode, airing on Sunday, June 2nd, at 9:00 […]

State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash: Lara Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff...

Holly Thompson Rehder was a sophomore when she dropped out of high school and married her 21-year-old boyfriend. Today, she’s a GOP state senator and the sponsor of a bill that would ban child marriage in Missouri — a bill that she has been surprised to see blocked by her Republican colleagues who argue there is nothing wrong with the practice.

“I know firsthand. I was married at 15. My sister was married at 16. My cousin was married at 16,” Rehder says. “I understand how a teenage girl being married off is harmful to her life,...

Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said he would vote for President Joe Biden instead of former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Duncan explained his decision in an op-ed he wrote for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution titled, “Geoff Duncan: Why I’m voting for Biden and other Republicans should, too.”

In his op-ed, he stated how it was “disappointing to watch an increasing number of Republicans fall in line behind former president Donald Trump,” including “some of his fiercest detractors.”

He mentioned detractors such as “U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, who raised eyebrows during a recent interview by vowing to support the Republican ticket.”

“Yes, elections are a binary choice,” Duncan admitted. “Yes, serious questions linger about President Biden’s ability to serve until the age of 86. His progressive policies aren’t to conservatives’ liking.

Update: A tradition of each White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is for media outlets to invite a guest list that includes politicians, government officials and celebrities.

Networks are starting to reveal who will be coming to the annual event, which we’ll continue to update.

Politico: RNC chair Mike Whatley, RNC co-chair Lara Trump, UK Ambassador Karen Pierce, Domestic Policy Adviser Neera Tanden, DNC executive director Sam Cornale, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-mi), Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Mn), Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-pa), Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-fl), Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Northern Ireland Special Envoy Joe Kennedy III, Ola Director Shuwanza Goff, Saloni Sharma, senior adviser to the chief of staff, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the honorable Francois-Philippe Champagne of Canada, and Stephen Benjamin, senior adviser to the president and director of public engagement.

ABC News: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Andrew McCarthy, Hiro Sanada, Molly Ringwald, Rosario Dawson, Quavo,...

After repeatedly saying Donald Trump is unfit to be president, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) was confronted by ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos about his new support for the former president.

Interviewed on ABC’s This Week, Sununu was questioned for his support of Trump. Sununu previously backed former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and criticized Trump for contributing to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. In January, Sununu claimed Trump has “no energy” and can “barely read a teleprompter.”

Trump criticized Sununu far before the New Hampshire governor backed his then-presidential campaign opponent. Now, Sununu says he believes Trump should not drop out of the election race even if he is convicted in his classified documents case.

Stephanopoulos: Just to sum up. You support Trump for president even if he's convicted in the classified documents case. You support him for president even though you believe he contributed to an insurrection. You...

Whoopi Goldberg didn’t let a little play-off music stop her from finishing her impassioned thoughts on the state of current affairs in the United States on Monday’s episode of The View. The cohosts had some hotter-than-usual “Hot Topics” to start the show with — chiefly, the history-making beginning of the first criminal trial against Donald Trump in New York, who stands accused of crimes associated with a hush-money payment to an adult film star. The cohosts each presented their perspectives on the matter of Trump’s trial, largely agreeing that it is an “unprecedented” and “shameful” situation. They ran into some friction, however, when they got to the second segment of the discussion about New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s pledge to support Trump, even if he’s convicted on all of the dozens of crimes he is accused of in his four separate cases. Alyssa Farah Griffin, for one,...

Whoopi Goldberg openly scolded a member of the audience on The View during Tuesday’s live show, effectively pausing the broadcast. She picked the person out of the crowd and called them out for unwelcome behavior while her co-hosts were speaking. Keep reading to see why the seasoned panelist stopped the show to shame one of the audience members.

Whoopi Goldberg Calls Out An Audience Member For Shocking Behavior

The individual was trying to secretly record the Hot Topics portion of the show from his phone. Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sunny Hostin were talking about former President Trump’s legal issues. Whoopi interrupted them mid-sentence, staring at someone out in the audience.

“Hold on a second, hold on,” Whoopi Goldberg said. She got up from her seat at the table and approached the person, who stayed off-screen. “Sir, I have to stop you with the camera. Because I can see you.

No Labels is moving forward with its plan to offer a third-party ticket in the 2024 election, despite its failure to attract top-tier candidates and struggles to make good on its state-level ballot access goals.

On Friday, the dark-money group’s unnamed delegates voted to proceed with a so-called “unity” ticket — even as a No Labels official acknowledged they have not managed to find a candidate yet and may not be able to, according to Politico.

The No Labels pitch is, on its face, fair: Americans want and deserve an alternative to the presumptive 2024 nominees,...

It’s Grammy Week, with the actual awards on Sunday, and Bill Maher had a message for the music industry in his “New Rules” editorial – maybe it’s time now to teach kids you’re not only as good as how much stuff you have.

Maher took issue with the materialistic content of much of today’s music, which shifted from an emphasis on imagining no possessions to making acquisition the sole focus of existence.

“When you turn 12, you’re done with your parents and start being raised by pop stars,” he said. “Kids rule the charts,” and lyrics from those formative years tend to get burned into your brain.

Maher allowed that the rise of hip-hop ignited the trend, and how the tendency to brag about things you were denied is a human one. “But everyone does it now,” he lamented, noting the country song “Rolex on a Redneck...

Real Time With Bill Maher continues Friday, February 2 (10:00-11:00 p.m. Et/7:00-8:00 p.m. Pt). Allowing Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, the show continues with its opening monologue, one-on-one interviews with notable guests, roundtable discussions with panelists, and its signature “New Rules.” The series airs on HBO and is available to stream on Max. This week features a one-on-one interview with Michael Render (a.k.a Killer Mike), entrepreneur, musician, and one-half of the group “Run the Jewels,” whose self-titled solo album “Michael” was recently released across digital platforms. This week’s panel discussion includes Gov. Chris Sununu, Republican Governor of New Hampshire; and Jessica Tarlov, co-host of “The Five” on Fox News and ... Read more...

Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu claimed that Donald Trump does not have any “energy” in the 2024 presidential race.

Sununu has become the top surrogate for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley for president in the 2024 election race.

Just before the New Hampshire primary, Sununu ramped up his attacks on Trump.

“There have only been three goals here, right,” Sununu told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “One was to make sure she got a second place, we got that. Two was to make sure there were only two candidates left in the race, and we’re ahead of – we’re ahead there, she’s wiped 12 candidates off. And then she wants to build on that momentum out of Iowa – she got 20% – she’s gonna more than double or exceed that here. The last point is … their polls, last time I checked, they’re always wrong, right? So you never know, the...

Update: Donald Trump mocked Nikki Haley’s remarks to supporters after she lost the New Hampshire primary, telling supporters that “she was doing a speech like she won.”

“She didn’t win, she lost,” Trump said.

“Who the hell was the imposter that went up on the stage before and claimed victory. She did very poorly. She had to win. The governor said, she is going to win. She is going to win. And she failed badly.”

He seemed especially irritated during the speech, telling the crowd, “I don’t get too angry. I get even.”

He explained why he decided to focus on Haley in his speech, given that he’s all but assured to get the nomination.

“I find in life you can’t let people get away with bullshit. You just can’t do that. And when I watched her, in her fancy dress that probably wasn’t so fancy,...

Nikki Haley said last week that New Hampshire voters would have an opportunity to “correct” the results of the Iowa caucuses when they headed to the polls Tuesday. Whether they did depends on Haley’s definition of a course correction. Trump secured a solid — although not a total landslide — victory in the Granite State, further thinning the former South Carolina governor’s already-long odds of unseating the former president atop the Republican Party.

The Associated Press called the race for Trump a little after 8:00 p.m. local time.

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A small contingent of journalists gathered near the Canadian border earlier this morning to watch as Dixville Notch, Nh, continued its tradition of casting the first ballots on an election day.

Nikki Haley cleaned Donald Trump’s clock in this hamlet — 6 votes to none.

As the day goes on, network correspondents are fanning out across the state at precincts to talk to actual voters, after months in which the first-in-the-nation primary was judged and assessed by polls. Commentary and analysis is focusing on whether

Haley and her top surrogate, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, blitzed the airwaves on Monday, while Trump held a final rally in Laconia, Nh, where he predicted that Haley would be out of the race after tonight. He was interrupted by climate protesters, who have been a frequent presence at events in recent days.

There is a Democratic race, too. Joe Biden is not on the ballot,...

With Ron DeSantis conveniently out of the GOP primary race, Donald Trump set his sights on Nikki Haley, his nearest opponent who still trails him by double-digits in the polls. The former South Carolina governor and Trump cabinet member has recently questioned the former president’s mental fitness after he confused her name with Nancy Pelosi’s at a rally.

“Here in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley has made an unholy alliance with RINOs, Never Trumpers, Americans for No Prosperity,” Trump said, referring to Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group that endorsed Haley in December.

As former Un Ambassador Nikki Haley took the stage at CNN’s town hall in New Hampshire, her chief rival in the state’s primary took to another interview on Fox News.

It was yet another bit of counter-programming on the part of Trump, as well as Fox News, which billed Sean Hannity’s interview as the former president’s first since his victory in the Iowa caucuses. Last week, as Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis participated in CNN’s pre-Iowa debate, Fox News did a town hall with Trump.

Shortly after Haley took the stage, host Jake Tapper asked Haley about Trump’s dog whistle attacks on her, including advancing a conspiracy theory that questioned her eligibility to be president as the child of Indian immigrants. Trump also referred to her as “Nimrada,” misspelling her given first name, Nimarata, clearly reviving birtherism and the “otherness” of his opponents.

Chris Christie won’t make it to the Iowa caucus next week. The former New Jersey governor will reportedly announce at a press conference on Wednesday that he is dropping out of the Republican presidential primary.

Christie’s decision to exit the race hilariously comes just one day after he vehemently denied speculation that he was set to exit the race. New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu had suggested the Christie campaign was considering shutting down on CNN, prompting Christie to say in a radio interview, “It pains me to say this,...

A federal jury Friday awarded two Georgia election workers a total of $148 million in their defamation case against Rudy Giuliani, as they said they were subject to harassment and death threats over false claims that they were involved in rigging the state’s results in the 2020 presidential election.

The election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, sued Giuliani over the statements. The trial was largely to determine damages. They had previously testified before the January 6th Committee about the threats that they faced.

CNN and MSNBC went to breaking news of the huge verdict, while Fox News initially stuck with Neil Cavuto’s interview with New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who has endorsed Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential race. Cavuto went to the story once that interview wrapped up.

The verdict was well above the $48 million in damages sought by by Freeman and Moss. The jury awarded Freeman $16.2 million for defamation,...

In August, the Prager University Foundation, a right-wing media organization that describes itself as “the world’s leading conservative nonprofit that is focused on changing minds,” was designated as an official vendor to the Florida Department of Education, and approved for use in classrooms. The move alarmed many parents and educators given that PragerU, founded by radio host Dennis Prager, is an unaccredited, nonacademic institution dedicated to promoting conservative social and political views many feel are ahistorical and anti-scientific.

The group is now looking to repeat its triumph in Florida across the country.

Not all Republicans are impressed with Donald Trump. New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu bashed the former president, blaming him for the party’s losses in special elections and local elections this year.

“Republican school board members… have lost their seats because they felt like they had to constantly answer for being a Trump Republican,” Sununu said of races in his state during an appearance on Sunday’s Meet the Press.

Watch: Democrats have overperformed in special elections.@GovChrisSununu (R-N.H.) says it's because the "Trump brand doesn't work."

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“The View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg may typically align more with liberal candidates running for political office, but that doesn’t mean she won’t ever support a Republican. On Tuesday’s episode of the ABC talk show, the host admitted that Republicans can get her vote — they just have to own up to some things first.

Goldberg’s sentiments came as the panel was discussing the decision of New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu to not enter the ever-expanding pool of GOP candidates for president in 2024. Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin was heartbroken by Sununu’s decision, having been a vocal proponent of his for weeks, including when he stopped by “The View” itself.

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As discussion continued, the women once again debated who, if anyone, in the GOP has a real chance of beating twice-impeached,...

Republican presidential hopeful Tim Scott will sit down at “The View” table on Monday, TheWrap can exclusively reveal. Scott will be the second Republican presidential candidate to appear on the show in recent weeks. He is set to appear on Monday, June 5.

Scott’s appearance on the ABC talk show comes just days after he called out host Joy Behar for comparing him to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (in which she said that he “doesn’t get” systemic racism), but talks with the politician to appear on the show began as soon as he announced his presidential run on May 22.

Behar will not be present for the interview Monday, as it is her day off. Interviewing Scott will be the regular Monday panel for “The View”: Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro, led by Whoopi Goldberg.

“Every president elected in the past 15 years has...

The audience of “The View” wasn’t pleased with New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s response to a question from the table about gun control on Thursday morning, but the hosts of the ABC talk show weren’t tolerating any booing. According to the women, it’s important to hear all sides on the issue.

The panel, of course, hasn’t been shy about their disdain for how Republican lawmakers have handled gun control, and their beliefs that at the very least, assault weapons like Ar-15s should be banned entirely. So, when Sununu — who is said to be considering throwing his hat in the ring of Republicans running for president in 2024 — appeared on the show, the women asked him for his thoughts directly.

“I’m not banning any guns,” he said. “I’m gonna provide access to mental health care, we’re gonna get at the core of the issue.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, The View‘s Republican cohost, CNN contributor and former aide to Donald Trump, didn’t feed her old boss’ hunger for publicity today, choosing instead to ignore the ex-president’s weekend tirade against her.

On Friday, Trump posted a message on his Truth Social platform boasting about his “absolutely lovely” CNN town hall before attacking Griffin as a “loser” and “backbencher” in his administration. Griffin broke ranks with Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Following Trump’s May 10 town hall on CNN, Griffin defended her network for airing the event, saying, “America got to see who he is last night: a ranting, raving lunatic, who sided with Vladimir Putin.”

Trump’s subsequent post about Griffin, in which he misspelled her name, included unsubstantiated allegations about her status at The View and CNN.

“Word is that they are revolting at the View and CNN, and want Farrah [sic] Out!

The governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu (R), called out voters from his state that jeered and clapped when Donald Trump mocked author E. Jean Carroll at CNN’s town hall earlier this week.

Trump was found liable for sexual battery against Carroll, who accused Trump of having raped her in the dressing room of a New York Department store in the Nineties. During Wednesday’s town hall, the former president reiterated his unfounded claims of election fraud and insisted the author’s allegations made against him were fabricated, calling...

While Donald Trump may be prospective 2024 candidate Ron DeSantis’ greatest political rival, the Florida Governor’s mind is currently consumed by a much wilier foe: Mickey Mouse.

DeSantis’ feud with the Walt Disney Company has escalated into a full first amendment lawsuit brought by the company against the governor. The entertainment giant moved to sue the governor and other state officials last week, alleging the DeSantis administration waged a “campaign of government retaliation” against Disney in violation of the company’s right to free speech.

Now a board packed with DeSantis loyalists,...

Exclusive and Updated: Brittney Griner will attend tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which draws a list of sports and entertainment celebrities, media figures and politicos.

The WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist, whose arrest and detention in Russia last year led to a high stakes State Department diplomatic effort to secure her release, will be a guest of CBS News, per the network. She will attend along with her wife, Cherelle.

In her speech, Tamara Keith, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, plans to speak about the current detention of another figure in Russia: The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich, who has been held since last month. Members of his family are expected at the event. Griner spoke to reporters earlier this week about his arrest. “No one should be in those conditions, hands down,” she said, per The New York Times.

Others expected to attend the Whca: Benjamin Hall,...

If the 2024 presidential election once again comes down to President Joe Biden and twice-impeached-once-indicted former president Donald Trump, “The View” host Alyssa Farah Griffin won’t be voting for either of them. On Wednesday morning’s episode of “The View,” the host admitted that she’d likely write someone in.

Her statement came as the women at the table discussed Biden’s announcement on Tuesday morning that he is officially running for reelection in 2024, in hopes to “finish the job” he started in 2020. In announcing his campaign, Biden ran a new ad, calling out Republican handling of issues like LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, and more.

For Farah Griffin, that ad “signals to me that Joe Biden is chomping at the bit to run against Trump or Ron DeSantis,” because of the specific issues Biden’s team chose to target.

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On Monday, a shooter killed five people with an Ar-15 style rifle in a Louisville, Kentucky, bank. On Friday, Donald Trump and other Republican leaders will take the stage at a National Rifle Association leadership forum in Indiana, where they are likely to tout the role of guns in American life.

Mike Pence, Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, and Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson are among the others speakers. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley,...

It was a week full of news, from the looming Donald Trump indictment through the Nashville school shooting. Or as Bill Maher put it on Friday’s Real Time, “March came in like a lion, and went out with Trump on the lam.”

Maher was obviously delighted that Trump, one of his favorite targets, had a real bad week. He noted the irony of “the most boastful man in history is indicted by a man named Bragg.” Also ironic: “He spent his whole life stiffing people, and the one time he pays them….”

Maher was ready to spar Friday, and for once, he had panelists ready to push back. The show started with Republican Governor of New Hampshire Chris Sununu, who admitted that the Trump indictment is “an absolute circus.” Sununu, although a loyal Republican, voiced that he didn’t think Trump will be the GOP nominee in 2024, saying that...

As Republicans pour party resources into the Georgia Senate runoff, Donald Trump is getting irritated at the idea that virtually no one of importance in the GOP wants him to campaign in Georgia.

In the lead-up to the contest between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Trump-endorsed challenger Herschel Walker, several GOP figures and Trump allies have already implored him not to hold a Georgia rally ahead of the runoff, according to two people familiar with the matter and another person briefed on the situation. Trump — who helped recruit Walker to...

CNN’s new morning show CNN This Morning launched Tuesday with a news-heavy three hours that nevertheless played up an essential element of rival shows: conversation and chemistry.

“I probably got two hours sleep,” Don Lemon, formerly part of the network’s nighttime lineup, said in the opener, flanked by his co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, as they each quipped about their new gigs at the network.

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On a comforting, blond wood set and behind an acrylic desk, with the requisite branded coffee cups at the ready, the three hosts chatted for a bit about Halloween but appeared mindful of striking the right balance of small talk and seriousness,...

Alton, N.H. — On a sparkling September Friday, seven weeks out from election day, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is on the trail — literally. We’re shuffling our way down the slope of Mount Major when a retired couple stops him to chat. The governor greets them playfully. “You! I know you — no, just kidding, I’m Chris,” Sununu teases as he extends a hand.

Clad in trail sneakers, gray cargo pants, and a steel-blue button-down cut from moisture-wicking cloth, his sandy gray hair matted to his head, Sununu has...

2Nd Update, 2:05 Pm: So far at least 14 attendees of Saturday’s Gridiron Club dinner have tested positive for Covid.

In a note sent to Gridiron members, club president Thomas DeFrank wrote, “As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, we know of 14 guests at Saturday’s dinner who have tested positive for Covid. There is no way of being certain about when they first contracted Covid. But they did interact with other guests during the night and we have to be realistic and expect some more cases. Except in cases of public officials who have on their own disclosed their status, we will protect the privacy of guests who test positive.”

DeFrank said that the Gridiron will alert “anybody who was in close proximity with a positive case.” He urged those sitting across the table or on either side of the positive person to get tested.

“Our top concern is the health...

As the president took his potential super-spreader events on the road, Trump supporters in New Hampshire on Friday not only ignored their own state’s mandate to wear masks, they jeered an announcement requesting they do so.

The Republican governor of New Hampshire, Chris Sununu, imposed a mask mandate for events with more than 100 people, but according to CBS News, the fire department said more than 1,400 attended the rally in Londonderry and “most people are not wearing” masks, reporter Weijia Jiang tweeted.

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President Donald Trump’s rally in Portsmouth, Nh on Saturday is off, with plans to reschedule in the coming weeks.

“The rally scheduled for Saturday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire has been postponed for safety reasons because of Tropical Storm Fay,” Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, said on Twitter.

The event was to be his first rally since a June 20 event in Tulsa, which drew a lower-than-expected crowd to an indoor arena amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus.

The recent uptick in cases of the virus also have shadowed the plans for the New Hampshire event. The campaign had planned to hand out masks and hand sanitizer, while the state’s Republican governor, Chris Sununu, said that it was “imperative” that attendees wear face coverings. He told reporters that he did not plan to attend, citing health concerns.

The tropical storm is moving north along the mid-Atlantic coast,...