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Keith Olbermann is fed up with the New York Times and their "grudge" against President Joe Biden and has retaliated by canceling his subscription to the leftist rag.
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President Joe Biden roasted former President Donald Trump while addressing celebrities and journalists attending the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday evening.
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Former President Donald Trump endorsed Riverton, Utah, Mayor and Senatorial candidate Trent Staggs, who is running to replace Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).
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Democrats are attacking "the entire American system of justice" in their targeting of Donald Trump, former Gov. Eric Greitens said.
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Mercedes Schlapp slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's business records trial against Donald Trump, calling it "authoritarian."
The post Exclusive — Mercedes Schlapp: New York Trial Against Donald Trump Is ‘Authoritarian’ appeared first on Breitbart.
It would send a strong message if former President Donald Trump visits minority communities in New York, showing he is a "man of the people," Lee Zeldin said.
The post Exclusive — Lee Zeldin: Trump Should Hold Madison Square Garden Rally, Visit Black Churches appeared first on Breitbart.
Chief Justice John Roberts expressed concern about language in the appeals court's presidential immunity ruling that he says directs that "a former president can be prosecuted because he's being prosecuted."
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New York has been trending right, and Donald Trump should "keep the strategy up," former Rep. Lee Zeldin said on Breitbart News Saturday.
The post Exclusive — Lee Zeldin: New York Has Been Trending Right; Donald Trump Should ‘Keep the Strategy Up’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Former President Donald Trump on Friday labeled independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a Democrat "plant."
The post Donald Trump Labels RFK Jr. a Democrat ‘Plant’ Placed to Help ‘Crooked Joe Biden’ appeared first on Breitbart.
The Biden administration decided to delay a ban on menthol cigarettes after receiving criticism from black voters and cigarette companies.
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The poll confirms a widely held belief that Trump will not receive a fair criminal trial in Manhattan. President Joe Biden won more than 86 percent of the Manhattan vote in 2020.
The post CNN Poll: Majority of Americans Doubt a Fair Trump Trial Outcome appeared first on Breitbart.
Friday, during an appearance on FNC's "Hannity," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, criticized the political motivations behind the Trump trials underway in New York State.
The post ‘Keep Biden in the Basement and Trump on Trial’: Jim Jordan Says Trump Trial ‘Driven by Politics’ appeared first on Breitbart.
The CNN poll appears to confirm the diminishing impact of prosecuting former President Donald Trump to prevent his reelection.
The post CNN Poll: More Americans See Trump’s Trial as Irrelevant to His Fitness for Reelection appeared first on Breitbart.
Former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove said Friday on Fox News Channel's "The Story" that a debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden would be the most significant in decades.
The post Karl Rove: Biden, Trump Debate Would Be ‘Most Important’ Since 1980 appeared first on Breitbart.
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" that the Supreme Court should be moved to the Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters after their questions during the oral arguments on immunity for former President Donald Trump.
The post Raskin: Supreme Court Should Be Moved ‘Over to the RNC Headquarters’ appeared first on Breitbart.
President Joe Biden suggested Friday he would have liked to fight former President Donald Trump when they were children, echoing similar rhetoric he has used, fantasizing about a physical confrontation with his rival.
The post Biden Wishes He Could’ve Met Trump ‘Head to Head’ ‘In the Neighborhood’ appeared first on Breitbart.
CPAC Hungary is a “global coalition of anti-globalist forces” aiming to catalyze a “nightmare” for liberals.
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Trump immediately asked Biden, 81, to make good on his promise and debate him on live television at the Manhattan courthouse Friday night.
The post Donald Trump Accepts Biden’s Debate Pledge: ‘Courthouse Tonight … I’ll Wait Around’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Republicans in Arizona are growing their voter registration advantage, data from Arizona’s secretary of state reveal.
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Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe said Friday on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" that he believes the Supreme Court is following former President Donald Trump's "strategy of delay, delay."
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A majority of Supreme Court justices sympathized with Trump's lawyers' argument that a president does enjoy some level of immunity past the term of office.
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A majority of the Supreme Court justices appeared to sympathize with Trump's attorneys' arguments that a president does enjoy some level of immunity that continues past the term of office.
The post Justice Samuel Alito Cites ‘Old Saw About Indicting a Ham Sandwich’ in Trump Immunity Case appeared first on Breitbart.
President Joe Biden, 81, is willing to debate former President Donald Trump, he claimed Friday on the Howard Stern Show.
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The survey appears to confirm former President Trump's argument that efforts to bankrupt and throw him in jail are politically motivated by the White House.
The post CNN Poll: Only 13% Say Trump Treated Same as Other ‘Criminal Defendants’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday questioned if the criminal prosecution of an incumbent — who narrowly lost an election — could lead to the destabilization of the country as a whole as opposed to the incumbent knowing he could leave office peacefully.
The post Justice Samuel Alito Questions if Criminal Prosecution of Former President ‘Destabilizes the Functioning of Our Country’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Former President Donald Trump wished to celebrate Melania Trump's birthday in Florida on Friday, but he is unable to spend the day with her due to his "rigged" criminal trial in Manhattan, he told reporters.
The post Donald Trump Wishes to Celebrate Melania Trump’s Birthday but is ‘at a Courthouse for a Rigged Trial’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Emmy-winning actress and "The Sopranos" star Drea de Matteo told Donald Trump Jr. that she knows from personal experience that many Hollywood stars "want to fight" against the "divisive" Biden administration implementing a social agenda, but "are petrified" to go against the leftists in control.
The post ‘Sopranos’ Star Drea de Matteo: People in Hollywood Want to Fight Against Biden But ‘Are Petrified’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Budapest, HUNGARY -- Former President Donald Trump delivered an upbeat message to attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Hungary on Friday morning.
The post Trump Addresses CPAC Hungary: We’re in An Epic Struggle to Liberate Our Nations from Sinister Forces appeared first on Breitbart.
The Biden campaign is again working to contrive a false narrative about former President Donald Trump by twisting his remarks.
The post Biden Campaign Tries to Spark Another Donald Trump Hoax by Manipulating Charlottesville ‘Little Peanut’ Quote appeared first on Breitbart.
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. said Thursday on MSNBC's "José Díaz-Balart Reports" that the Supreme Court considering arguments in Donald Trump's presidential immunity case was "really American democracy in the balance."
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Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said Thursday on CNN's "The Lead" that the Supreme Court acted like "partisan hacks" during the oral arguments on Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution.
The post Dem Rep. Lofgren: Supreme Court Looked Like ‘Partisan Hacks’ During Trump Immunity Argument appeared first on Breitbart.
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said Thursday on MSNBC's "The Beat" that Justice Samuel Alito's comments about SEAL Team 6 were "mocking our military" during the Supreme Court oral arguments on former President Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution.
The post Brinkley: Justice Alito’s ‘Irresponsible’ SEAL Team 6 Comments ‘Mocking Our Military’ appeared first on Breitbart.
A majority of Supreme Court justices sympathized with Donald Trump's attorneys' arguments that a president does enjoy some level of immunity that endures past the term of office.
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Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Thursday for echoing the Charlottesville hoax.
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Thursday on MSNBC's coverage of former President Donald Trump’s immunity case in the Supreme Court, one unidentified man in a hoodie with a sign loudly chanted behind host Andrea Mitchell and legal analysts Joyce Vance and Neal Katyal sitting outside the court.
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A New York union leader says that Democrat policies are pushing voters toward Republicans and that the vast majority of his 9,000 members back former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden.
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A majority of voters say a conviction in any of former President Donald Trump's various legal cases would have "no effect" on their vote.
The post National Poll: Majority of Likely Voters Say a Trump Conviction Would Have ‘No Effect’ on Their Vote appeared first on Breitbart.
I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged the former president with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
The case began with Michael Cohen, Trump’s onetime fixer, making a “hush money” payment to the former adult film actress known as Stormy Daniels to keep her from revealing information about an alleged sexual relationship with Trump in 2006. Bragg used the fact that Cohen paid $130,000 to Daniels in 2016, when Trump was running for president, as a pretext to turn a moldy misdemeanor offense into a felony.
But is it even illegal? This trial showcases something rich men and big corporations have been doing for years—paying off mistresses or wronged staffers with cash settlements with little public scrutiny, thanks to nondisclosure agreements.
I don’t like it, but it’s not a crime.
On Tuesday, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified that during a 2015 meeting in Trump Tower, he told Trump, Cohen, and campaign stalwart Hope Hicks that he wanted to help the Trump campaign, if behind the scenes.
What followed was “catch and kill,” the term for the scheme of paying to get dirt on a public figure, then killing the story, as happened with another alleged Trump gal pal, Karen McDougal. The National Enquirer paid her $150,000 for a story that never ran.
Trump has denied that anything extramarital occurred with McDougal and Daniels. But as Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, told CNN, “You don’t pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.”
Back to Cohen. He’s a flawed witness to be sure, who in 2018 pleaded guilty to charges that included tax evasion and lying to Congress when he testified about Trump, his former master. Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison.
Then, last year, Cohen claimed that he lied when he admitted to tax evasion. A more careful prosecutor would not hang a case on an accomplished liar.
Given his capacity for self-pity and self-sabotage, it’s no surprise that Trump told reporters after the second day of trial, “I’m not allowed to defend myself.”
Trump also continued to throw shade at Judge Juan Merchan, whose gag order, Trump maintained, robbed him of his “right to free speech.” Trump also offered that Merchan “should recuse himself.”
Pecker testified that he was glad to help by running “positive stories about Mr. Trump,” as well as negative stories about his campaign rivals. I’m guessing many Big Media hotshots feel the same way—about President Joe Biden.
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Former President Donald Trump made an early morning surprise appearance at a New York City construction site on Thursday to rally union workers before appearing for trial.
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Former President Donald Trump leads in six of the seven 2024 swing state races, a Morning Consult/Bloomberg poll found Wednesday, signifying Trump's continued dominance over President Joe Biden.
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At least 13 financial institutions are being investigated for colluding with the federal government to spy on Trump supporters.
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A New York City construction worker delivered a harsh message to President Joe Biden on Thursday morning in Manhattan.
The post WATCH — NYC Construction Worker Shares Message to Joe Biden: ‘F*ck You’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Armenian organizations were outraged by President Joe Biden’s Armenian Remembrance Day statement on Wednesday because he did not mention modern genocide against Armenian Christians of the Nagorno-Karabakh region completed this year by the conquering armies of Muslim Azerbaijan.
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Donald Trump stuck to campaign messaging Thursday before walking into his trial, announcing plans to hold rallies in the Bronx and at Madison Square Garden.
The post Donald Trump Plans Historic Rallies in Bronx, Madison Square Garden: ‘Good Chance of Winning’ New York appeared first on Breitbart.
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann said Wednesday on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" that Donald Trump's former Attorney Kenneth Chesebro is likely cooperating with the Arizona prosecutors who indicted 17 individuals in an election case.
The post Weissmann: Arizona Indictments Mean Kenneth Chesebro Likely Cooperating appeared first on Breitbart.
Former President Donald Trump said sarcastically he will remove "lethargic" for the list of insults of former Attorney General Bill Barr, after his "wholehearted endorsement."
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Former President Donald Trump will be back in a New York City courtroom Thursday as his business records trial resumes after a day's break.
The post Trump Trials: NY Jury Hears Tabloid Publisher’s Testimony, Supreme Court Hears Immunity Arguments appeared first on Breitbart.
An Arizona grand jury indicted several important allies of former President Donald Trump for their roles in disputing the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The post Former Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows Indicted for Role in Alternate Electors Case appeared first on Breitbart.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, said Wednesday on CNN's "The Source" that it was really sad that people who are loyal to former President Donald Trump end up as "bodies around him" while discussing Arizona indicting 17 individuals including her former boss in an election case.
The post Cassidy Hutchinson: Trump Loyalists Are Becoming ‘Bodies Around Him’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday on Fox Business Network's "Kudlow" that Republicans had to win the November elections because Vice President Kamala Harris was in the "batting circle with Joe Biden."
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said it was "stupid" of President Joe Biden not to reach out to him since he declared he was not supporting former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
The post Chris Christie: ‘Pretty Stupid’ that Joe Biden Has Not Reached Out to Me appeared first on Breitbart.
A group of anti-Trump lawyers and media analysts are secretly convening weekly via Zoom to discuss and strategize over former President Donald Trump's legal cases, according to a report.
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Those who intend to vote for Donald Trump in 2024 are more enthusiastic than individuals who intend to vote for Joe Biden.
The post Poll: Donald Trump Supporters More Enthusiastic to Vote than Joe Biden Voters appeared first on Breitbart.
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The New York Police Department appears to show President Donald Trump the courtesy of protecting him from undue media attention as he enters and exits the Manhattan courthouse each day, according to a report.
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Former President Donald Trump met with former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso on Tuesday evening, discussing the relationship between the two countries.
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Stephen A. Smith apologized Monday for saying that blacks could relate to Trump because the former president has faced legal persecution.
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Attorney George Conway said Tuesday on CNN's "Out Front" that he was donating $929,600 to President Joe Biden's reelection campaign because former President Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy."
The post George Conway: I’m Donating $929,600 to Biden Because Trump Is a ‘Threat to Democracy’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Retired California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell said Tuesday on MSNBC's "All In" that she would give former President Donald Trump jail time for violating a gag order but stay it until the end of the New York trial.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who is up for reelection against Trump-backed Republican businessman Bernie Moreno, was silent on Capitol Hill Tuesday when asked if he thinks gas-powered cars "should be banned."
The post Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown Refuses to Answer Whether ‘Gas Cars Should Be Banned’ or Not appeared first on Breitbart.
Floridians "are not buying what Joe Biden is selling," DeSantis told reporters ahead of the president's abortion-focused visits to Tampa.
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) believes that former President Donald Trump is guilty, something he stated clearly publicly, even before Trump's trial is really underway.
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Biden, a self-professed Catholic, made the sign of the cross while Florida Democratic Party chairperson Nikki Fried decried the state's six-week abortion limit.
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Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Tuesday on CNN's "News Central" that his assessment of former President Donald Trump's character is you don’t pay someone to not to have sex with you.
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Though most Americans expect our judges to be neutral arbiters of the law, Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the New York trial against President Trump, is anything but.
The post Exclusive—Matthew Whitaker: Conflicts of Interest Abound in Judge Merchan’s Handling of the Trump Sham Trial appeared first on Breitbart.
Former President Donald Trump vowed to "reclaim" the educational system in the United States from the "radical left" that was responsible for "indoctrinating America's youth."
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President Joe Biden took the opportunity during a speech promoting abortion to mock former President Donald Trump for promoting Bibles.
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New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan could fine former President Donald Trump up to $11,000 for violating a gag order that his legal team argues prevents him from defending himself publicly in a case where a Democrat district attorney is seeking to put him in jail.
The post Judge Juan Merchan’s ‘Manifestly Unfair’ Gag Order on Trump Comes Under Serious Legal Scrutiny appeared first on Breitbart.
A recent study conducted by the Media Research Center (MRC) has uncovered 39 instances of Facebook interfering with U.S. elections since 2008, raising concerns about the platform's influence on the democratic process.
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Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is lighting up President Joe Biden for only accepting an invitation to give the commencement address at Atlanta’s Morehouse College because it’s in the same neighborhood Trump visited when he made an iconic stop at a Chick-fil-A recently.
The post Exclusive: Trump Campaign Rips Biden for Morehouse College Address in Same Atlanta Neighborhood as Chick-Fil-A Visit appeared first on Breitbart.
During an appearance on Fox News Channel's "Hannity" on Monday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) argued Americans were seeing through these prosecutions that he deemed to be efforts to undermine Trump's reelection bid.
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Justice Juan Merchan appeared to show his dark side during a Tuesday gag order hearing concerning former President Donald Trump.
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Former President Donald Trump is more "competent" and "effective" than President Joe Biden, up about 21 points since 2020, an NBC News poll reveals.
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Former First Lady Melania Trump headlined a fundraiser on Saturday evening, her first solo event of the 2024 campaign.
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District Attorney Alvin Bragg reportedly backed down from asking New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to jail former President Donald Trump for allegedly violating a gag order.
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Donald Trump slammed Joe Biden as incompetent and highlighted his failure to properly manage anti-Israel protests at elite universities.
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A hybrid political action committee (PAC), focused on messaging through music and culture, is launching to target groups of Americans previously chilly to the Republican Party and get them to vote for Donald Trump for president.
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The only two states that apportion Electoral College votes in presidential races by congressional district are poised to scrap what makes them unique.
In these systems, presidential candidates get one electoral vote for each congressional district they win in the state. Unlike in other states, the Democratic, Republican, and other party candidates could end up splitting a state’s electoral votes among them.
The usually blue Maine and generally red Nebraska each had one battleground congressional district that would sometimes draw presidential candidates.
But the Maine Legislature moved to give its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote—regardless of who carries the state.
Nebraska lawmakers are considering becoming like 48 other states with winner-take-all elections, meaning the candidate who captures the majority of the state’s popular vote takes all of the state’s electoral votes. Nebraska’s change—if adopted—would affect the 2024 presidential election, while the Maine change likely wouldn’t.
Last week, Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced she would let a bill making Maine the 18th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact become law without her signature after it narrowly passed the state Legislature.
Maine Joins National Popular Vote Compact https://t.co/e6tvfYRH6H via @democracynow
— NationalPopularVote (@NatlPopularVote) April 21, 2024
Under the multistate compact, Maine agrees to give its four electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote. The states that make up the compact thus far represent a combined 209 electoral votes. Those votes will only activate when the compact reaches the required 270 electoral votes needed to elect a president.
Meanwhile, Nebraska’s Republican Gov. Jim Pillen is considering calling a special session of the state Legislature, which already adjourned on April 18, to adopt a winner-take-all system for the state’s five electoral votes.
Pillen said he would only call a special session “when there is sufficient support in the Legislature to pass it.”
Prominent conservative commentators such as Charlie Kirk and Mark Levin have supported the change in Nebraska.
JUST IN—The Great One, Mark Levin, gets behind turning Nebraska into a winner-take-all electoral college state.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 9, 2024
The coalition is growing. Listen to @marklevinshow break down why this is critical ahead of November? pic.twitter.com/97PbsKAp3P
Maine enacted its rule to divide its electoral votes by congressional district ahead of the 1972 election. It took another 20 years for Nebraska to follow suit, which it did ahead of the 1992 election.
However, split votes have been rare.
The first time Nebraska had a split came when Democrat Barack Obama won the swing Nebraska district in the Omaha area in the 2008 election, the first time since 1964 that a Democrat won an electoral vote in the state.
In 2016, Republican Donald Trump won Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes most of the state outside of Portland or Augusta, netting one electoral vote from the state. He was the first Republican since 1988 to win a Maine electoral vote.
In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden captured Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District and its electoral vote.
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New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Tuesday could fine and send former President Donald Trump to jail for up to 30 days for allegedly violating his gag order.
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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, a witness in the Donald Trump New York trial, has been attacking his former boss publicly, calling him "Von ShitzInPants" as recently as Monday as Trump faces a hearing on Tuesday on whether he has violated gag orders on attacking witnesses like Cohen.
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President Joe Biden faces a much "tougher" path than his opponent to obtain the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the presidential election, longtime Democrat adviser Doug Sosnik wrote in the New York Times.
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