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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The GOP's post-Trump lesson: Power isn't dependent on voting  —  Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) serves as Republican Conference chair, the party's third-highest leadership position in the House.  She earned that position in part by doing what her predecessor, former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney …
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CNN:
Trump wants Georgia election subversion case dismissed, arguing he has presidential immunity  —  Former President Donald Trump is seeking to have the sweeping criminal conspiracy case against him in Georgia thrown out by arguing he is protected from prosecution under presidential immunity.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats question whether Biden should agree to debate Trump  —  Democratic lawmakers are leery about the prospect of President Biden debating former President Trump, fearing that putting the two on stage together would only elevate the likely GOP nominee.  —  Trump has skipped every …
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Latest US Swing States Voting Intention (28-30 December 2023)
Mariana Labbate / The Messenger:
Trump Says He Will Attend Presidential Immunity Hearing
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Landrieu to join Biden's campaign as national co-chair
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Can Biden Convince Americans His Brand of Populism Is Better Than Trump's?
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
NBC News:
Meet the Press - January 7, 2024
Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Florida Republican Party ousts Christian Ziegler as chairman after rape allegation  —  The move was widely expected after news broke last month that Ziegler was under investigation by the Sarasota County Police Department.  —  The Republican Party of Florida on Monday formally voted …
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Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:
Florida GOP ousts chairman under investigation for alleged rape
Discussion: The Messenger
NBC News:
Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing Trump's federal election interference case, appears to be victim of ‘swatting’  —  Police and fire trucks responded to reports of a shooting at Chutkan's home, but police determined no shooting had taken place.  —  WASHINGTON — Police and fire trucks showed …
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Politico:
Biden won't accept an Austin resignation if offered  —  The president is not considering sacking his defense secretary, officials say.  —  President Joe Biden is not considering firing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after he did not tell the White House about his emergency hospitalization …
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David Strom / HotAir:
Newsflash: America Actually Doesn't Need a Defense Secretary
Will Sommer / Washington Post:
Business Insider story on Harvard antagonist's wife draws owner's scrutiny  —  The news site's German owner, Axel Springer, plans to review a story about alleged plagiarism by former MIT professor Neri Oxman, whose billionaire husband, Bill Ackman, sought to oust Harvard's president for similar academic transgressions.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Why Iowa Turned So Red When Nearby States Went Blue  —  Over the past 15 years, the Upper Midwest has seen a remarkable state-by-state sorting of voters along partisan lines.  —  With the Iowa caucuses six days away, politicians will be crisscrossing the state, blowing through small-town Pizza Ranches …
James D. Zirin / The Hill:
To disqualify or not to disqualify: The Supreme Court confronts the ‘laugh test’  —  The reactionary Supreme Court is in a quandary as to how to decide the Trump disqualification case while retaining whatever credibility it has left.  The court just voted to review the Colorado Supreme Court decision, but it really didn't want to.
Discussion: IJR and CBS News
ABC News:
DeSantis swipes at Trump's Civil War comments, says he won't drop out and endorse  —  “Don't even know what he's talking about,” the governor said of his 2024 rival.  —  Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event at McDivot's Indoor Sports Pub on Jan.7, 2024 in Grimes, Iowa.
New York Times:
Trump Is Connecting With a Different Type of Evangelical Voter  —  They are not just the churchgoing, conservative activists who once dominated the G.O.P.  —  Karen Johnson went to her Lutheran church so regularly as a child that she won a perfect attendance award.  As an adult, she taught Sunday school.
Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report:
Rightwing Billionaires & Trump Want a Nation Where Everything is For Sale  —  Donald Trump and his fellow rightwing billionaires have a plan for America.  They want to turn the United States from a prosperous, middle-class nation into a country of paupers, where bribery is common and the wealthy can get away with anything.
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Pope Francis Calls For Global Ban on Surrogacy  —  The pope said that an unborn child must not be “turned into an object of trafficking,” expanding his condemnation of a practice already illegal in Italy and some other European countries.  —  Pope Francis on Monday called surrogate motherhood a …
Politico:
Say it ain't snow.  Iowa's forecast is terrible and it's impacting the campaign.  —  If you like a foot of snow and single digit temperatures, then this is the caucus for you.  —  The current forecast in Iowa could best be described as frigid bordering on terrible.
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and who13.com
 
 
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