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“Most Republicans were clearly unaffected by his association with Trump,” said Saul Anuzis, former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party. "They probably even benefited from it." Delivering the State of the Union response is, in most cases, a terrible job, one fraught with political pitfalls. The most memorable speeches are remembered for all the wrong reasons: a little spit on the lips, a frantic toss for a bottle of water on the nearby table. But being chosen for the answer is still an honor. And it gives a snapshot of the trend of the opposition party at that time. When…

Former President Donald Trump is the only major-party candidate to have announced a 2024 run so far, though a cast of potential Republican contenders have publicly teased possible campaigns. | Photo by Alex Brandon/AP Americans for Prosperity, a fundraising organization established by powerful conservatives Charles and David Koch, is not endorsing former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primary, the organization hinted in a memo Sunday. "The best thing for the country would be to have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter," says a letter from the organization's executive director, Emily Seidel. But the memo did…

The press secretary-turned-governor was a polarizing figure during her tenure behind the White House Briefing Room podium, where she often sparred with the Washington press corps while defending then-President Donald Trump amidst the controversy and scandal of his administration. Sanders herself finally found herself embroiled in controversy in 2019, when a report released by special counsel Robert Mueller revealed that the press secretary admitted to misleading reporters during a 2017 briefing discussing Trump's decision to fire FBI director James Comey. Sanders said at that briefing that “the FBI rank and file had lost trust in their director” and that the…

If the International Olympic Committee allows the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes, the use of official Russian or Belarusian flags, emblems or anthems should be prohibited, Jean-Pierre said during his press conference on Thursday. In recent weeks, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the International Olympic Committee to ban athletes from the two countries from competing at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. But last week, the IOC issued a statement saying: "No athlete should be prevented from competing just because of their passport," and proposing that participants from Russia and Belarus be allowed to compete as "neutral athletes."