Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Democrats are aiming to seize on Republican “financial disarray and leadership chaos” caused by Donald Trump’s takeover of the party’s apparatus, claiming it will give them an advantage in this year’s election...
...At 11.30am ET, Trump had won 68.2 per cent of the Republican vote, while Haley had won 26.6 per cent — showing that he also faces defections from within his party....
...McDaniel comes from a traditional Republican political family in Michigan. She is the granddaughter of the state’s former governor George Romney and niece of Utah senator Mitt Romney....
...The FT-Michigan Ross poll was conducted online by Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling firm North Star Opinion Research between April 4-8....
...Montana senator Steve Daines, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has revived the power of the party boss as he takes charge of the Republican Senate primaries....
...They also note that Trump’s own weaknesses were apparent in Michigan’s Republican primary, which was also held on Tuesday....
...Chair Ronna McDaniel is now gone, replaced by two Maga allies: Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump and Michael Whatley, former chair of the North Carolina Republican party....
...A former chair of the Michigan Republican party, McDaniel was handpicked by Trump to lead the RNC in 2017....
...The Iowa caucuses on January 15 will fire the starting gun on the primary process in which Republican voters will select their party’s nominee for the White House in 2024....
...“I have never seen the Republican party so unified as it is right now.” But Trump’s margin of victory masked disunity lurking in the Republican electorate....
...The FT-Michigan Ross poll, conducted just before Trump in effect clinched the Republican party’s nomination for president on Super Tuesday, also laid bare Biden’s failure to match his 2024 rival in surveys...
...Watch carefully and you can see the Republican party forming a circular firing squad. The trigger was last weekend’s much delayed vote for $61bn in Ukraine aid. Republicans were divided almost evenly....
...But a surge in the cost of living since he took office in January 2021 has led respondents to say they trust his Republican rival Donald Trump more to run the economy....
...The FT-Michigan Ross poll was conducted online by Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling firm North Star Opinion Research between February 2 and 5....
...“If we win Michigan, we win the election,” Trump has said....
...Which raises the question why Republicans are pushing so hard on a sure election loser. The answer is that the party’s evangelical tail is wagging the party’s dog....
...Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats’ leader in the House, said on Friday that his party had “cleared the way” for the legislation, helping it overcome opposition from “pro-Putin MAGA extremists” such as Marjorie...
...This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Swamp Notes — What’s the Republican party’s position on abortion?’...
...“Biden has had the benefit of leading his party and all its apparatus.” The prosecutions against Trump helped him in the Republican presidential primary, as even his rivals came to his defence....
...The US presidential election primary roadshow has pitched up in Michigan and later that day the voting begins....
...So why would some Republicans do China’s work for it? Because what they like, I sense, is the performance of nationalism....
...The re-creation of the Republican Party into a kind of Trump death cult may backfire spectacularly....
...Last week he moved to place his allies, including Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law, at the helm of the Republican National Committee in order to cement his control over the party and try to outflank Democrats...
...(NYT) Trump and the Republican party raised $65.6mn in March, ending the month with $93.1mn in cash on hand....
...Democrats have been more concerned about third-party bids than Republicans, with Kennedy seen as the biggest threat....
International Edition