Hints and tips:
...None of those were on display last night,” Dan Pfeiffer, former Democratic president Barack Obama’s communications director, wrote in his newsletter on Tuesday....
...The Biden campaign last month raised $25mn at a glitzy fundraiser in New York’s Radio City Music Hall, which featured former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton....
...Ron DeSantis speaks in a sort of monotone nag. Rishi Sunak can sound adenoidal....
...Earlier that week, Biden said he raised more than $25mn at an event with former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama at New York’s Radio City Music Hall....
...Trump has also claimed falsely that Haley could be ineligible for the presidency, reviving the “birther” conspiracy theories he propagated about Barack Obama....
...US presidential campaign history is littered with cases of campaigns that struggled to gain steam early only to triumph in the nomination contest a few months later — including both John McCain and Barack...
...His other targets have included Jeff Roe, the Texas-based Republican strategist who worked in support of Ron DeSantis and the Florida governor’s drifting presidential campaign....
...A former Democrat who publicly supported Barack Obama, Lake later switched her voter registration to Republican and became a committed Trump supporter and Maga movement figurehead....
...Well, the next Republican president will be unilateralist, even if it is Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis. But isolationist?...
...Both George W Bush and Barack Obama’s administrations obfuscated on Afghanistan....
...Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Donald Trump? Albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm, it’s a yes. Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Kamala Harris, Ron DeSantis? An emphatic no....
...In 2008 there was Nate Silver, the statistician who became famous for predicting Barack Obama’s victory....
...Over the weekend, David Axelrod, who was a political strategist for former president Barack Obama, sounded alarm bells over Biden’s electability and suggested that he should consider dropping his campaign...
...But both Barack Obama and Trump himself raised far more during the same months in the year before the 2012 and 2020 elections....
...*This article has been amended to clarify Barack Obama’s fundraising period in the second quarter of 2011...
...From Harry Truman to Barack Obama, every US president based their foreign policy on a network of global alliances — in particular Nato and the US-Japan security treaty....
...The White House had always expected Trump to win the Republican primary contest, even months ago when rivals like Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, and Nikki Haley, the former UN ambassador, were still...
...Klain had also worked for Biden when he was vice-president under Barack Obama....
...The White House is planning to appoint Jeff Zients as chief of staff after the expected departure of Ron Klain, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday, in what would be a pivotal reshuffle at one...
...Ramaswamy has dismissed Berwick’s criticism as “politically motivated”, pointing out that he headed up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid during Barack Obama’s administration....
...Although governor Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers in 2022 tried to stem the loss of insurance coverage, the threat of hurricanes has insurance companies rushing for the exits....
...When provocateur interviewer Piers Morgan asked Ron DeSantis this week about Donald Trump’s nicknames for him — from “Meatball Ron” to “Ron DeSanctimonious” — the Florida governor laughed....
...Arm patches bearing the orange insignia of Florida Highway Patrol agents — sent to the city by Florida’s governor Ron De Santis — are commonplace....
...Such moves practically constitute the presidential campaign of Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis....
...Unlike a Barack Obama or a Hillary Clinton, he cannot be easily dismissed as a privileged member of the coastal elites. As president, Biden has remained true to his middle-class Pennsylvania roots....
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