2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread

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Here's the NBC article being referenced:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-e ... rcna141276

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Michigan GOP holds its presidential caucuses amid intraparty chaos

Source: NBC News

March 2, 2024, 8:00 AM EST

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Chaos and confusion threaten to upstage Michigan Republicans on Saturday as they determine how to award delegates to former President Donald Trump and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. An ugly leadership dispute is fueling the disarray.

Pete Hoekstra, who has the Republican National Committee’s blessing to chair the Michigan GOP, will preside over one convention set to kick off here at 10 a.m. Kristina Karamo, the deposed and defiant former state party chair, had planned to convene at the same time in Detroit. Meanwhile, GOP groups representing two of Michigan’s 13 congressional districts announced plans to hold their own conventions elsewhere this weekend.

Two party operatives aligned with Karamo, Jim Copas and Ann Clark, told NBC News on Friday that it was their understanding that Karamo’s convention was off. Karamo, in a post on X, encouraged her supporters to “keep fighting” and go “where your district chair recommends.” And talk of rogue and rival mini-conventions rattled around local GOP circles mere hours before would-be delegates had to decide which convention to attend Saturday morning.

“Delegates have been getting conflicting and confusing emails for weeks — promoting different agendas, different staff, different conventions,” Jason Cabel Roe, a veteran Republican strategist in Michigan, said. “You have to pay close attention to even know who is sending what and what the legitimate directions and events are.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-e ... rcna140418

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Nikki Haley Receives First Endorsement from a Senator
by Molly Bohannon
March 1, 2024

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(Forbes) Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley secured her first endorsement from a sitting senator Friday afternoon when Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, announced her support for the former South Carolina governor in her campaign against former President Donald Trump.

Murkowski said in a statement she was proud to endorse Haley, adding: “America needs someone with the right values, vigor, and judgment to serve as our next President.”

She said Haley was the best option in the race and would “uphold the ideals of the Republican Party while serving as a President for all Americans.”

Murkowski is widely considered one of the most centrist Republicans in Congress.

Haley’s only other congressional endorsement has come from Rep. Ralph Norman, R.-S.C., a member of the House Freedom Caucus who endorsed Haley over Trump in February, saying “it’s time for a reset and a new chapter in national Republican politics, and there’s no better person to help write that new chapter” than Haley.

Read more here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollyboha ... 9c2c77508

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Donald Trump Wins Missouri Caucuses
March 2, 2024

Introduction:

(AP via Boston Herald) Donald Trump has won Missouri’s Republican caucuses, one of three events Saturday that will award delegates for the GOP presidential nomination.

The former president, who is especially strong in caucuses, was adding to his delegate lead in Republican caucuses in Missouri as well as at a party convention in Michigan. Idaho was scheduled to hold its caucuses later Saturday. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, meanwhile, is still seeking her first win.

There are no Democratic contests on Saturday.

The next contest is the GOP caucus Sunday in the District of Columbia. Two days later is Super Tuesday, when 16 states and American Samoa will hold primaries on what will be the largest day of voting of the year outside of the November election. Trump is on track to lock up the nomination days later.

Read more here: https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/03/0 ... ial-race/

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Michigan R convention-caucuses have finished, Trump wins everything:

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GRAND RAPIDS — Delegates in the fractured Michigan Republican Party rallied behind a common goal Saturday, voting in overwhelming numbers to make Donald Trump the party’s presidential nominee.

Trump won all 39 delegates at stake in 13 separate congressional district caucus meetings at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids. He was the unanimous choice of four districts and won more than 89% of votes in each of the caucuses.

The sweep follows Trump's big win in Michigan's primary on Tuesday over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, earning him 51 of the state's 55 delegates at the Republican National Convention in July in Milwaukee, where the party selects its presidential nominee.

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NBC NEWS: Trump now 1,000 Delegates away from securing the Republican Nomination

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-p ... te-tracker

Trump 215
Haley 24
DeSantis (withdrew) 9
Ramaswamy (withdrew) 3

Trump picked off +39 from Michigan and +51 from Missouri.

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Full article by NBC:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-e ... rcna141372

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And he's won

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... op-caucus/

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caltrek: Fact check - I don't think Biden has actually called Trump a fascist. Dangerous to democracy, yes, but not actually a fascist.

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Huh she won something???

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Some good news perhaps:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-BB1jfMid

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