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Maine’s Democratic secretary of state ruled that former President Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot in 2024. 

Maine ruled that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s ballot, fueling a national effort to disqualify him from the 2024 election due to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday disqualified former President Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot.  In her ruling, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows cited Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which bans from office those who “engaged in insurrection.”  Bellows made the ruling after some state residents, including a … Read more

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is facing scrutiny after leaving out slavery as a root cause of the Civil War during a town hall in New Hampshire. Haley attempted to explain what she meant afterwards, but her opponents seized onto the comments. NBC News’ Ryan Nobles reports.

House Republicans on Thursday sent a letter to Michael Lewitt, a Biden family business associate, demanding a transcribed interview as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

An American intelligence assessment found that the Chinese spy balloon used a commercially available U.S. network to communicate, primarily for navigation, U.S. officials say.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has moved from Colorado’s third Congressional District to its fourth after narrowly winning re-election in 2022. “Boebert may be counting on a fractured primary field to allow her with her existing high profile to retain a seat in Congress,” said Cook Political Report Senior Editor & Elections Analyst Dave Wasserman.

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones on Wednesday became the latest victim to be targeted in a “swatting” incident, he said. The Republican tweeted Thursday that his home was “swatted” the previous night and a bomb threat was called in to his office.  “Let me be clear – I will not be intimidated by those attempting … Read more

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is cleaning up comments she made about the U.S. Civil War after catching heat from both sides of the political aisle. Haley faced a backlash from the White House and fellow Republicans on the campaign trail after she declined to mention slavery as the reason for sparking the Civil War … Read more

Trump had asked the court to halt the case for 90 days while he decided whether to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on his rejected presidential immunity argument.