Lara Trump Is All About Meritocracy
Lara Trump speaks at the NCGOP state convention in front of former US President Donald Trump on June 5, 2021 in Greenville, North Carolina.Melissa Sue Gerrits/Stringer/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Before she married Eric and became a Trump, Lara Trump was a dabbler.…
Nikki Haley Suspends Campaign, Withholds Endorsing Florida Man Facing 91 Felony Counts
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley addresses supporters during a campaign stop in Beaufort, South Carolina.Jim Lo Scalzo/EFE/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.She’s…not running anymore. Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has dropped out of the GOP presidential race, ending her increasingly hopeless quest to…
Florida Man Facing 91 Criminal Counts Dominates Super Tuesday Primaries
Mother Jones illustration; Fulton County Sheriff’s Office Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump is coasting to victory in Super Tuesday primaries across the country—a decisive, if not unexpected, showing that follows his overwhelming wins in GOP nominating contests in states like Iowa, New…
Nikki Haley Just Won a Primary
Michael Dwyer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley just won the Washington, DC, primary, beating former president Donald Trump by almost 30 points, with nearly 63 percent of the vote. It’s her first success in a primary that has so…
Ohio GOP Candidate Who Used a Slur Drops Out (Again)
Tom E. Puskar/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ohio Republican J.R. Majewski dropped out (again) on Saturday, after he used a slur for intellectually disabled people on a podcast last week. Majewiski was running for the GOP nomination to fight Democratic incumbent Rep. Marcy…
Thank You, SNL, for This Perfect Skit About Trump’s Grip on Senate Republicans
As I watched Donald Trump’s South Carolina victory speech this weekend, I was struck by how many back-handed compliments he doled out to his Republican allies. In introducing Sen. Lindsey Graham, for instance, who has represented South Carolina for more than 20 years, Trump referred to him as a man “not a lot of people”…