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US President Donald Trump’s re-election effort allegedly hid nearly $170m in spending from mandatory public disclosure by routing payments through companies tied to his former campaign manager, a government oversight group claimed on Tuesday. The use of firms linked to former campaign manager Brad Parscale masked the ultimate recipients of …

US President Donald Trump’s long-in-coming campaign shakeup rearranged some big job titles but isn’t likely to change the identity of the person truly in charge of day-to-day operations: Jared Kushner. Kushner wields his influence quietly and is rarely a presence in the campaign’s suburban Washington headquarters. Fittingly, he was nowhere …

US President Donald Trump shook up his campaign staff amid sinking poll numbers less than four months before the election, replacing campaign manager Brad Parscale with veteran GOP operative Bill Stepien. “I am pleased to announce that Bill Stepien has been promoted to the role of Trump Campaign Manager,” Trump …

Faced with sliding poll numbers and multiple national crises, U.S. President Donald Trump is set to hold his latest rally on Saturday in New Hampshire, a state he narrowly lost to Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 and hopes to flip this year. The rally will take place at an airport …

The Republican National Committee announced Saturday that the Trump campaign, RNC and joint fundraising committees raised $74 million in May, a record for them in monthly fundraising. But for the first time in this election cycle, Joe Biden and the DNC brought in more money in a month than Mr. …

US President Donald Trump’s campaign says six staff members helping set up for his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have tested positive for coronavirus. The campaign’s communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said in a statement that “quarantine procedures” were immediately initiated and no staff member who tested positive would attend …

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has opened up a 13-point lead over President Donald Trump – the widest margin this year – according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll as Americans grow more critical of Trump over the coronavirus pandemic and protests against police brutality. In the June 10-16 poll, 48% …

US President Donald Trump has postponed his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma by one day to June 20. He said on Twitter it was done out of respect for African Americans since the original date coincided with Juneteenth, the day when the emancipation of slaves is celebrated. We had previously scheduled …

Joe Biden’s campaign says President Donald Trump’s effort to campaign on an improving economy is a “desperate scheme” that ignores how his handling of the coronavirus pandemic contributed to the economic downturn, according to a memo sent Friday to surrogates. The Democratic presidential nominee’s team argues that Trump “bungled” the …

Joe Biden, the presumptive presidential candidate for the Democratic party in the 2020 election, told a black reporter that African-Americans who don’t know if they’re on his side or Trump’s “ain’t black.” The exchange happened on an episode of The Breakfast Club, a radio show featuring celebrity interviews during which …

The group of high-profile Republican strategists-in-exile who oppose Donald Trump released another advertisement this week to get under the president’s skin, this time playing to his reported insecurities about his 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale. “Meet Brad Parscale — from dead broke, to the man Trump can’t win without,” the …

Expect unprecedented spending as President Trump and Joe Biden kickstart their campaigns. It will be to no great effect, though, as opinions on both are set in stone. The cost of the 2020 presidential campaign had already outpaced the total cost of the 2016 presidential campaign by nearly $20 million …

A violent and disturbing video of a fake President Donald Trump shooting, assaulting and stabbing his critics and the media was played at a conference held by a pro-Trump group at his Miami resort last week.

US President Donald Trump responded to the Democrats-led impeachment inquiry by posting an ominous quote from a church leader who warned that removing him from office would inflict “Civil War-like” wounds on the nation. Known for regularly watching shows on Fox News, Trump apparently liked how the Southern Baptist minister …

Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has been accused of “interfering” in the next US presidential election after he gave a speech in Texas that critics say tacitly endorsed Donald Trump for re-election in 2020. Mr. Modi made the comments as he appeared onstage alongside the US president during a rally …

Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, has dropped out of the race to become the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate – and leaves the campaign with a scornful message from the current president ringing in his ears. Mr. de Blasio made his announcement in a television interview, saying: “I …

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a request by President Donald Trump’s administration to fully enforce a new rule that would curtail asylum applications by immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, a key element of his hardline immigration policies. The court said the rule, which requires most immigrants who want …

Donald Trump has suggested he should be given “stolen time back” due to “how unfairly” he has been treated by the FBI and its investigations into him. “The disastrous IG Report on James Comey shows, in the strongest of terms, how unfairly I, and tens of millions of great people …

US Sen. Bernie Sanders will unveil a policy proposal that would eliminate all $1.6 trillion worth of American student debt. The 2020 hopeful is set to announce the bill in the House on Monday together with Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, …

US President Donald Trump says he would be willing to accept damaging information from a foreign government on his opponent in the 2020 presidential election, after years of denying allegations that Russia helped him get elected in 2016. “I think you might want to listen… there’s nothing wrong with listening,” …