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...Michael Whatley, who was previously chair of the North Carolina Republican party, was selected as RNC chair, and Lara Trump was picked as RNC co-chair last week during a meeting in Texas....
...Robinson, the North Carolina lieutenant-governor, had won more than 63 per cent of Republican votes, with 54 per cent of ballots counted....
...“The fact that Haley lost by a solid margin shows that the Republican party of South Carolina is very much mirroring the Republican party nationally,” said Scott Huffmon, a political-science professor at...
...Donald Trump is under a hell of a lot of investigations that could not go his way,” said Alex Stroman, the former executive director of the South Carolina Republican party....
...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....
...Voters in North Carolina have backed the Republican candidate in 10 of the past 11 presidential elections, besides in 2008, when Barack Obama narrowly won the state....
...The Democratic National Committee wanted to strip New Hampshire of its “first in the nation” status and hold the party’s first primary of the year in South Carolina, rather than New Hampshire....
...win the Republican party’s nomination for the White House....
...Trump is narrowly leading Biden in five swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina — according to RealClearPolitics’ average of polls — and in effect tied in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin...
...“If Donald Trump is at the top of the Republican ticket, the risk of one-party rule by a Democratic party captured by the Progressive Left is severe and would do irreparable damage to the country,” Seidel...
...Art Pope, chair of a North Carolina-based retail chain and a Haley donor, says he will never vote for Biden, but is undecided on Trump....
...New Hampshire’s Republican governor Chris Sununu endorsed Nikki Haley for president, in a boost for the former South Carolina governor as she challenges Donald Trump for the GOP nomination for the White...
...It showed his continued grip on the Republican party, with voters backing a man facing dozens of federal criminal charges....
...Virginia Foxx, the conservative North Carolina Republican who chairs the committee, has asked three Ivy League schools — Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia — to disclose any Qatari donations...
...The candidate who secures the most delegates in state-by-state voting will become the Republican nominee at the party’s convention in July....
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...With less than a month to go until the Iowa caucuses, Trump remains the undisputed frontrunner in a shrinking field of Republicans vying to be the party’s presidential nominee in 2024....
...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....
...None of those were on display last night,” Dan Pfeiffer, former Democratic president Barack Obama’s communications director, wrote in his newsletter on Tuesday....
...Speaking on Thursday before a trip to North Carolina, Biden warned of a “disaster” if no deal was reached. “I think the vast majority of members of Congress support aid to Ukraine....
...Patrick McHenry, a Republican congressman from North Carolina and close McCarthy ally, has been designated “Speaker pro tempore” to lead the chamber in the absence of an elected Speaker....
...The Iowa caucuses — to be held on Monday night — will mark the Republican party’s first step towards picking its challenger to face Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Democratic president....
...In post-Ronald Reagan political history, only Barack Obama in 2008 (winning nominally Republican states such as Florida, North Carolina and Ohio) and George HW Bush in 1988 (who won Democratic strongholds...
...One alternative that has been floated would be to empower Patrick McHenry, the Republican congressman from North Carolina, to preside over legislating in the chamber....
...term in Kentucky rather handily last year over a rising Maga star, and Roy Cooper, who is finishing his second term in North Carolina....
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