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12:10 PM ET, April 6, 2024

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Axios:
Trump's team shows growing pains in pivot to general election … - It's the latest in a series of reversals by Trump's team at the RNC, now led by chair Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law.  — Those who've been rehired include most of the RNC's staff in key states …
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Washington Post:
Trump in ‘full sprint’ to close Biden's money lead as legal bills mount  —  Donald Trump is in a “full sprint” to narrow President Biden's substantial fundraising advantage, and talked to or met with big-money donors almost every day this week ahead of a planned blowout gala in Palm Beach on Saturday night …
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Biden campaign announces pulling in $90M in March  —  The president's war chest swamps that of former President Donald Trump — even if Biden is still struggling in the polls.  —  President Joe Biden's campaign said it raised $90 million in March, a sum that's likely to grow …
NPR:
March fundraising numbers show Biden significantly outpacing Trump  —  The Biden reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee significantly outraised former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the month of March, according to new fundraising numbers released by the Biden campaign today.
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
The Trump Docket: A window into Trump's ‘private’ acts on Jan. 6 may soon be opened by a federal judge  —  Very soon, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., is expected to issue a ruling that could expose key pieces of discovery that some lawyers say prove Donald Trump acted in his “private” …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:   Trump embraces woman convicted of Jan. 6 crimes, helps raise money for legal costs
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Robert F Kennedy Jr vows to investigate January 6 prosecutions for political bias
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP  —  House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is the latest to point out such a problem in his party  —  During the first impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump in 2019, former Trump national security aide Fiona Hill made an extraordinary plea.
Discussion: Fox News and PoliticusUSA
ProPublica:
Trump's Lawyers Told the Court That No One Would Give Him a Bond.  Then He Got a Lifeline, but They Didn't Tell the Judges.  —  An appeals court reduced Trump's bond by more than 60% after his attorneys claimed it was a “practical impossibility” to pay the full amount.
Rachel Leingang / The Guardian:
Trump's bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed  —  Excerpts from his speeches do not do justice to Trump's smorgasbord of vendettas, non sequiturs and comparisons to famous people  —  Donald Trump's speeches on the 2024 campaign trail so far have been focused …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bloomberg:
China Providing Geospatial Intelligence to Russia, US Warns  — Blinken briefed European allies on scope of Chinese support  — China said to have stepped up help for Russian war on Ukraine  —  The US is warning allies that China has stepped up its support for Russia …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump relies on a doctor who is a member of his golf club to vouch for his health  —  Former president has declined to release details about his own condition beyond a short letter from his physician, contrasting with Biden's detailed report  —  BEDMINSTER, N.J. — As former president Donald Trump escalated …
Discussion: Raw Story
Sandra Fish / The Colorado Sun:
Lauren Boebert secures top spot on Republican primary ballot in Colorado's 4th Congressional District  —  PUEBLO — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert's name will be first on the June 25 Republican primary ballot in Colorado's 4th Congressional District after she won the district's GOP nominating assembly Friday.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Biden Will Try Again to Wipe Out Student Loan Debt for Millions of Borrowers  —  The Supreme Court blocked President Biden's first attempt at large-scale student debt relief last summer.  —  President Biden will announce a new effort on Monday to reduce or eliminate student loan debt …
Erin Mansfield / USA Today:
Voter ID and absentee-ballot limits: the South tightens key voting laws ahead of election  —  When Michael McClanahan was growing up, his grandmother would tell him stories about what it was like to vote during the pre-Civil Rights era in their small town in northwest Louisiana.
Discussion: Wisconsin Watch
Isabelle Khurshudyan / Washington Post:
With no way out of a worsening war, Zelensky's options look bad or worse  —  KYIV — As Russia steps up airstrikes and once again advances on the battlefield in Ukraine more than two years into its bloody invasion, there is no end to the fighting in sight.  And President Volodymyr Zelensky's options …
NBC News:
Trump again asks hush money judge to recuse himself less than two weeks before trial starts  —  His lawyers cited Judge Juan Merchan's daughter's job at a company that does work for Democratic candidates as the main reason he should step aside.  —  Lawyers for Donald Trump have again asked …
Discussion: Raw Story
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The Hill:
Trump mounts new push to recuse judge in hush money case
 
 
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Major mail delivery delays raise concerns about voting in the 2024 elections
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Sen. Bernie Sanders's Office In Vermont Caught Fire. Arson Is Suspected, But The Motive Is Unclear.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Wants to Jail His Opponents and Nobody Seems to Care
MJ Lee / CNN:
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Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
Melania Trump returns to campaign trail with pro-LGBT Republican event appearance: report
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