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ABC forced to cancel after Nikki Haley says she will not take part unless Trump, who has not participated so far, does the sameABC News has cancelled the next Republican presidential debate after Nikki Haley said she would not appear on stage unless Donald Trump takes part.Trump has refused to participate in any of the Republican primary debates so far, making Ron DeSantis the...

Ex-president beats Republican rivals as DeSantis finishes a distant second, Haley slides into third place and Ramaswamy drops outIowa results tracker: how the candidates rankTrump wins in Iowa as contest kicks off 2024 election raceFlorida senator Marco Rubio formally endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign on Sunday, effectively snubbing his state’s own governor Ron DeSantis.In a social media post, Rubio cited his work with...

Youthful entrepreneur briefly threatened to disrupt primaries with relentless engagement in culture warsVivek Ramaswamy, the youthful entrepreneur who briefly threatened to disrupt the Republican primaries, has suspended his campaign for president, his team said on Monday after disappointing results in the Iowa caucuses.“As of this moment we are going to suspend this presidential campaign”, Ramaswamy said. “There’s no path for me to be the...

As the Florida governor tries to get Trump votes, Republicans worry he doesn’t have what it takes to beat Joe Biden in NovemberAmid a campaign that has, from its very first minutes, not gone quite as planned, Ron DeSantis took the stage on Saturday before a crowd of supporters in an Iowa office complex to inform them that the latest obstacle – a historically...

US media reports congressional leaders have agreed on a ‘continuing resolution’, which extends deadlinesUS congressional leaders have agreed on a two-tranche stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government funded into March and avert a partial government shutdown starting late next week, US media reported on Saturday.Politico, CNN and Punchbowl reported that congressional leaders have agreed on what is called a “continuing resolution” or...

President’s son switches gears and says he will speak to Congress members seeking to impeach his fatherHunter Biden offered on Friday to comply with any new subpoena and testify in private before House Republicans seeking to impeach his father over alleged but unproven corruption, an attorney for Joe Biden’s son said.“If you issue a new proper subpoena, now that there is a duly authorised...

Hours before Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis took to the debate stage in Iowa on Wednesday night, more than 1,000 miles away in New Hampshire Chris Christie shocked his supporters by announcing he was dropping out of the race. The former New Jersey governor was the only candidate to consistently attack Donald Trump, in a field of Republicans trying to beat the former president,...

Ex-UN ambassador calls Florida governor a habitual liar as each tries to make up ground on absent Trump days before Iowa caucusThe fifth Republican presidential debate started and ended with barbed exchanges between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, with neither likely to have moved closer to eclipsing frontrunner Donald Trump in the Iowa caucus next week.The Florida governor slamming Haley for running “to do...

With less than a week to go before the first-in-the-country Iowa caucuses two challengers to Donald Trump make their caseFact checks: ImmigrationHaley said that millions of people who cross the border should be deported “because they are jumping the line”. This is a mischaracterization of how immigration policy works. Migrants at the border are allowed to just show up and ask for asylum, per...

Critics say the QAnon conspiracy theorist, in the position less than a year, failed to deliver on funding promisesA group of Michigan Republicans voted on Saturday to remove Kristina Karamo as state party chair after months of infighting and slow fundraising raised concerns her leadership would hurt the party’s chances in the key swing state in 2024.Karamo, a former community college instructor and election-denying...