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I am sending best wishes to my good friend and former Governor Larry Hogan. I endorsed @GovLarryHogan today and pledged the maximum amount of $10,000 from my PAC. I look forward to helping Larry in any way I can. https://t.co/0lKzmjPtX2 https://t.co/k9WsQSQ2Zi— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) February 9, 2024

@GovLarryHogan I am running for the United States Senate – not to serve one party – but to stand up to both parties, fight for Maryland, and fix our nation's broken politics. It’s what I did as Maryland’s governor, and it’s exactly how I'll serve Maryland in the Senate. Let’s get back to work.

...During his interview with Stephanopoulos, Christie discussed his plans for the upcoming New Jersey Republican primary in June and the November general election. He stated that he doesn’t anticipate having anyone on the primary ballot to support and has no intention of writing himself in. However, he emphasized that he would not support Donald Trump under any circumstances in the November election... Christie also mentioned that No Labels had yet to approach him about being on the organization’s presidential ticket, despite previous statements from founding chairman Joe Lieberman. While Christie did not explicitly reject running under the No Labels banner,...

Senior Biden administration aides summoned Amazon officials to the White House during the height of the pandemic to discuss “propaganda and misinformation” in books for sale on the retail giant’s website that questioned the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. White House officials “spent a week berating Amazon” in March 2021 over books related to “vaccine misinformation” and asked what steps company officials could take “to reduce the visibility of these titles,” according to Amazon emails released Monday by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican. The Amazon pressure campaign overseen by Andy Slavitt, who was Mr. Biden’s senior...

The opening paragraph is a hoot! Have you heard? The Travis Kelce-Taylor Swift tie-up is some kind of deep state psy-op that will culminate in a Swift endorsement of Joe Biden at midfield at the end of a victorious Super Bowl victory in which Kelce will set new pass reception records with the help of an officiating crew drawn from suspended UNRWA staff. But this is just one giant misdirection, and I can’t believe people are falling for it. With north of 100 million people tuned in, the Kelce-Swift 2024 ticket will be announced, replacing Biden-Harris. Their first campaign pledge...

BEDFORD - About 350 iRobot employees are going to lose their jobs after the Bedford-based company announced a 31% cut to its workforce. iRobot was set to merge with Amazon, but the technology giant said it was calling off the deal as a result of increased merger scrutiny in the United States and European Union. Boston College professor and economist Peter Ireland told WBZ-TV's Paula Ebben that it's a frustrating turn of events for workers at the business that invented the hugely popular Roomba robot vacuum. "When you hear news like this about a company, particularly a Massachusetts company, immediately...

The former president now controls the Republican Party by virtually every conceivable measure. He has a commanding lead in fund-raising and polling. His policies are a beacon to which most conservative lawmakers orient themselves in affairs both foreign and domestic. His endorsement remains the single most coveted asset that any Republican could hope to brandish in a primary race, and he has already received support from an overwhelming majority of prominent elected Republicans. In this election cycle, Mr. Trump has received endorsements from 130 House members and 31 senators, a majority of both Republican caucuses, according to an analysis by...

Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday arguing that former President Trump is disqualified to run for public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, argued the Supreme Court justices, when they hear arguments next month in the case involving the Colorado Supreme Court decision to bar Trump from the ballot, should take a “textualist” approach to interpreting the constitution. “The ‘textualist’s touchstone’ is to give every constitutional provision its ‘fair meaning,’” Luttig wrote. “A narrow...

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was willing to take responsibility for the potential demise of a bipartisan border deal that's being ironed out in the Senate.During a campaign appearance in Las Vegas, Trump spoke out against congressional efforts to broker an immigration agreement amid the former president's sustained attacks against President Joe Biden on the explosive issue."As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America," the former president told his supporters. "I'll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say,...

Megyn Kelly is joined by Andrew Klavan, author of "The House of Love and Death,” to discuss major layoffs at the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated potentially shutting down, media outlets losing audience and money after going woke, and more.

The fact-check outlet had previously stated Biden wore the hat in standard fashion. Misinformation hall-monitor website Snopes was forced to reverse a fact-check on Saturday after making the false claim the Joe Biden did not wear a hard hat backwards during a recent photo-op with construction workers. When Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) posted the photo of Biden to X with several other construction workers, users responded slamming Biden for wearing the hard hat backwards. One user zoomed into the photo and posted, "Why his hard hat is wore backward?" Others were quick to respond to Biden's often middle-class image that...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who has been shunned by former President Trump’s allies, called House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) a “total crackpot” in an online post Tuesday. Cheney, who was a leader of the probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, posted a link to a statement Stefanik previously made condemning the mob that stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of President Biden’s election over Trump in 2020. “One day she will have to explain how and why she morphed into a total crackpot,” Cheney wrote on X,...

Don’t take it just from me. Here are direct quotes from WSJ editorial board tonight. It’s all hiding in plain sight: “If she can remain competitive, there’s an argument for Ms. Haley to stay in the race through the July convention. Mr. Trump faces a treacherous legal road…Ms. Haley could stay in the race, rack up delegates, and see what happens if he is found guilty. “Strange things can happen with candidates who are this old and this disliked by a majority of the public. The 2024 election may have more twists before the Trump vs. Biden die is cast.”

Haley also claimed she was ‘disqualified’ from a beauty pageant because she wasn’t white or black. “If you wanna know what it was like growing up, I was disqualified from a beauty pageant because I wasn't white or black because they didn't know where to put me.” “So look, I know the hardships, the pain that come with racism.”

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said on Sunday that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are “equally bad” for the nation. Speaking in an interview with CNN, Haley claimed the two were focusing too much on the past and not talking about “solutions of the future.” She said that she has “no drama” and “no vendettas”. Pressed further on whether Biden and Trump are “equally bad,” she replied that they were and attacked them both over their age. “I mean, if they were — if either one of them was good I wouldn’t be running. Yes, they are...

The government on Sunday approved the appointment of May Golan (Likud) to the position of Minister of Social Equality. At the meeting, Golan stated that she is entering the Ministry with an "immense sense of mission" and emphasized that all the programs and allocation of budgets she initiated as minister, to promote the status of women and for the evacuees from the south and north of the country, will continue as planned. "As someone who grew up from the bottom [of society] and was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, I am proud to be appointed today...

OK, when I saw this photo of Scott Wagner, the CEO and chairman of DeSantis's Super PAC, busy working on a 1,000 piece puzzle in the critical days leading up to the Iowa Caucus (this photo is from January 9), I just had to laugh. It's not like he was working on this during lunch breaks either. He apparently spent hours a day working on it. But even if it was only during breaks, the optics of it is just terrible. This is such a humiliating and sad way for a once promising presidential campaign to end. And yes, it...

First lady Jill Biden spoke to teachers and students at a high school in Utah on Tuesday, but the visit came with some unfortunate optics that apparently no one who organized the event considered beforehand. The wife of President Joe Biden paid a visit to a school in West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City. The school chosen was Hunter High School.

LeVar Burton got a glimpse into his lineage in “Finding Your Roots” and discovered something about his ancestors that shocked him. The former “Reading Rainbow” host, freedom-to-read advocate and actor knew little about his lineage. He’d been estranged from his father, Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, since he was 11, and his mother, Erma Gene Christian, had been tight-lipped about her own history. Burton said it was “impossible” to get her to open-up about her upbringing.

The internet has been a huge boon for the accessibility of information. There are very few barriers to consuming classic literature or detailed scientific analyses or catalogues of news reports. There is also an exorbitant amount of garbage information, of course, and an entire universe of people who say stuff that they think will get people to click links that will earn themselves money. Cut through the 2024 election noise. Get The Campaign Moment newsletter. While confidence in American institutions has been in decline for some time, it’s not hard to imagine how the economic incentives of the internet contribute....