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In blasting the unprecedented FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home this week, Florida Republican leaders revived a familiar theme: The targeting of a former president and political foe is something that could only happen in a “Third-World country.” Gov. Ron DeSantis, a rising star in the national Republican Party, said the scene was akin to one in a “banana republic,” ...

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About 50 people rallied outside the Riverside FBI office Wednesday morning, Aug. 10, to protest what they see as the agency’s “tyranny” after the Monday, Aug. 8, search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. The execution of a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago sparked outrage from Trump supporters and conservatives who see the ongoing criminal investigation of the 45th president as a ...

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It’s reckless to speculate about the legal justification behind the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Monday execution of a search warrant at the Florida home of former President Donald Trump without seeing the warrant itself. Not that it’s stopped some prominent Virginia Republicans from plunging head-first into those murky, brackish waters. Gov. Glenn Youngkin joined the chorus of ...

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Wilting slightly in the August sun, Sen. Alex Padilla, Rep. Tony Cárdenas, Assemblymember Luz Rivas and Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez gathered Wednesday in front of their former high school to endorse Rep. Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor's race. San Fernando High School — their shared alma mater — has been an unlikely breeding ground for political power in the state. The ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Democratic Party has filed a lawsuit to remove Labor Party candidates from the November 2022 ballot. The Labor Party nominated Gary Votour for governor and his running mate Harold Geddings for lieutenant governor, and Lucus Faulk in the 1st Congressional District race during a nominating convention last month despite a dispute among party leaders whether to ...

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In their defense of former President Donald Trump following an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, congressional Republicans showed how close they remain to Trump and previewed how the next Congress could proceed under Republican control. Republican leaders, responding to Monday’s search, quickly tied it to broader criticism of the Biden administration’s Justice Department and its handling of issues ...

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Aug. 10—The stage for the Nov. 8 general election is now set following Tuesday night's primaries that saw Democrats support their endorsed candidates and Republicans lean further to the right than some political observers expected. The next three months will be filled with press conferences, political attacks, TV ads and two parties that appear to be on opposite ends of the spectrum in terms ...

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The U.S. magistrate judge who signed off on the warrant allowing the FBI to search Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home recently took himself off the former president’s defamation lawsuit against political rival Hillary Clinton and critic Adam Schiff. Bruce Reinhart is a former federal prosecutor who was appointed to the bench in 2018 by the judges of the Southern District of Florida, a body of up ...

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Aug. 10—Not long after Donald Trump's 2016 election, Vox's Zack Beauchamp traveled to Hungary, where its authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán, had implemented many of the populist-right policies that had energized the American president's most ardent supporters. Notably, Orbán militarized Hungary's southern border to stop the "invasion" of migrants — and he has made base racial appeals. After a ...

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Wisconsin Republicans nominated for governor Tim Michels, who still questions the results of the 2020 election and won’t say whether he will certify the 2024 presidential election, adding to the number of key battleground states where election results are at risk of interference. Governor nominees in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan as well as secretary of state nominees in Arizona, Nevada ...