President Trump

In late June, 16 Nobel economists led by former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz issued a letter warning that a second Trump term would have “a negative impact on America’s economic standing in the world and a destabilizing effect on the U.S. domestic economy.” Among the gripes: Trump’s “fiscally irresponsible” budget plans and the “vagaries of his actions and policies” in relations with other countries.

If the past is anything to go by, this is probably the most powerful endorsement of the Trump presidency yet.

Conservatives believe they are now the counterculture as they take aim at the Biden economy and Democrat ‘lawfare’ against the presumptive Republican nominee

Some of the young volunteers planning to knock on doors for the Republican party in Mayfair, a down-at-heel suburb of Philadelphia, were not legally old enough to buy a drink in the Irish bar where they agreed to meet.

After ordering a round of waters for them, Joe Picozzi, a 29 year-old candidate for the Pennsylvania state senate, got to work on the grizzly older drinkers in the Leneghan’s Crusader Inn.

Young Republicans used to be difficult to find, but many millennials, like Picozzi, and Gen Zers are becoming vocal about their frustrations with the Biden administration, especially over their economic futures, and see a better future with Donald Trump in the White House.

In politics, it’s important to remember that even if your preferred issue or candidate is lagging in the polls, the direction in which it (or he) is moving matters. Currently, candidate Trump is moving up on every metric. I’m mindful of the many warnings against hubris: “There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip”; the Yiddish “Mann tracht, Un Gott Lacht” (“man plans and God laughs”); and, of course, Aesop’s “Never count your chickens before they hatch.” However, optimism is a driving force in momentum, so let’s celebrate a bit.

Former President Donald Trump pledged to release all the assassination files on President John F. Kennedy should he be reelected in November.

‘This time I’m just going to do it,’ Trump promised during a taping of an episode of the All-In podcast, which was released Thursday.

The former president and presumptive Republican nominee was asked by co-host Chamath Palihapitiya what was in the JFK files that Trump didn’t release publicly during his first term.

Recently the New York Times published an article claiming that there is an increasingly high probability of a large turnout in the upcoming election cycle. However, in a surprising turn of events, this eventuality would benefit Donald Trump and not, as has been the historical norm, Joe Biden or the Democrats.

The 18-29 demographic has usually been a huge problem for Republicans. Since the Vietnam War, only one Republican has been able to capture a near majority of the youth vote. Ronald Reagan lost to Jimmy Carter by one point in the 18-21 demo and was tied in the 22-29 age group.

Former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts in New York has changed few minds about the 2024 presidential election according to a spate of recent polls.

While the former president appears to have fallen slightly in at least one national poll, his popularity has increased in three states, including the critical battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada.

Overall, most voters appear to have the same opinion about both major candidates that they had when the trial began on April 15. That bodes worse for President Joe Biden than for former President Trump, analysts say, but could indicate low voter interest, prompting a shift in strategy for both campaigns.

Steve Bannon, a former chief strategist for Donald Trump, has been ordered to report to prison by July 1 to serve a four-month sentence.

The long-term ally of the former president was convicted of contempt of Congress after defying a subpoena from the House of Representatives committee that investigated the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Catholics in the US are drifting to the Right

Bespectacled and berobed, a softly spoken nun may seem an unlikely figurehead for the hard-Right of American politics — but Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God isn’t just any nun. With her broadsides against liberalism, President Biden, and Satan’s hold on the media, she is a fitting representative for the conservative turn of fringe Catholicism in the United States.

One of the interesting aspects of the Trump conviction is the fact that the Left felt secure in the belief that the nation would stand up and cheer when the verdicts were read. They were, of course, disabused of that notion as they watched the donations to the Trump campaign mount over the weekend. They must also be flabbergasted to have to choke on the bitter submarine sandwich of reality that not every member of the Mega Millions is white, rural, and male. Nope, as it turns out, people supporting #45 for the job #47 come from all walks of life and all races.

Calm down, Democrats, Donald Trump will not, as some zealous Maga types fantasise, take New York this election. Nor will he win over New Jersey, although the race may be closer there. California, as we New York natives would say: fuggedaboutit.

But the Trump surge in deep blue places, epitomised by successful rallies in the Bronx and the Jersey shore, reveals a great deal about shifting political allegiances. In New York, which Trump lost by 23 points in 2020, the former president is now within nine points. In New Jersey, where he lost by 16, the margin is down to five. If Trump forces Biden and the Democrats to deploy forces to these places, he is very likely to win a second term.