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More Republicans express confidence in former President Donald Trump to handle several major issues in the country — from energy to China relations — than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the latest Morning Consult data found. Read More.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday picked a longtime ally who oversaw Texas' elections in 2022 to temporarily serve as attorney general following Republican Ken Paxton's historic impeachment on allegations of misconduct and crimes. Read More.

Former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are preparing to launch bids for the 2024 Republican presidential slot. A strategist knowledgeable of Christie’s plans told The Epoch Times on May 31 that Maria Comella will run his upcoming campaign. Comella worked on Christie’s 2016 presidential bid. She was also chief of staff for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Read More.

President Joe Biden insisted Monday that there were "a lot of competent" Republicans seeking the White House in 2024, a potential slight at former President Donald Trump. "I'm not being facetious. I'm being very serious. I haven't focused on it that much," Biden told reporters, acknowledging that he was not closely following the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Read More.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he is prepared to advance contempt of Congress charges against Christopher Wray if the FBI director misses a May 30 deadline to hand Congress a document alleging a criminal scheme involving President Joe Biden. “I personally called Director Wray and told him he needs to send that document, today’s the deadline,” McCarthy said during a May 30 appearance on Fox News. “Let me tell Director Christopher Wray right here, right now: If he misses the deadline today, I’m prepared to move contempt charges in Congress against him.” Read More.

Former President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday to enact an executive order ending birthright citizenship guarantees for children of illegal aliens if he regains the White House in 2024, despite past constitutional objections and failures to follow through on the move. Trump, 76, said the agenda for his second nonconsecutive term would end both birthright citizenship and so-called “birth tourism” in the US on his first day in office — a proposal he also floated before and during his first term in the Oval Office. Read More.

Nikki Haley, the first and only woman in the 2024 presidential race, knows there's still a long way to go until election day. "This is a marathon, it’s not a sprint. I’m not concerned with where things are now. I’m concerned about touching as many voters as we can and watching that go," the candidate told USA Today on Thursday. "It’s slow and steady wins the race." Read More.

President Joe Biden is too old to serve a second term as president of the United States, according to a majority of voters sampled by Quinnipiac polling this week. Sixty-six percent of respondents said, “Biden is too old to effectively serve another 4-year term as president.” Only 31 percent said Biden is not too old. Read More.

Amid Texas' impeachment push against Attorney General Ken Paxton, former President Donald Trump vowed to oppose Texas state "Republicans in name only" ("RINOs") who vote to impeach Paxton. Read More.

An Arizona judge has dismissed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's only remaining legal claim in her lawsuit challenging her loss to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs in the 2022 election. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter A. Thompson said Lake did not provide evidence that the signature review process for mail-in ballots in Maricopa County was tainted by misconduct. Read More.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee, said in the wake of Special Counsel John Durham’s report that Republicans should use the power of the purse to limit what the FBI can do. Read More.

Former South Carolina Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s campaign bashed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Tuesday ahead of his likely presidential announcement, according to a campaign memo. The Florida governor is widely expected to file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission Wednesday to run for president, and Haley’s campaign manager Betsy Ankney sent out a campaign memo arguing that DeSantis isn’t a “credible alternative” to former President Donald Trump that the GOP is looking for, the memo reads. Read More.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis would defeat President Biden in a 2024 general election matchup in Georgia, while former President Trump would narrowly lose to the incumbent, according to a new poll. Read More.

MSNBC’s The 11th Hour Friday panel previewed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis impending presidential campaign announcement declaring him to be “pro-racial hierarchy” and “pro-white supremacy.” It wasn’t just on matters of race that MSNBC sought to attack DeSantis. Host Stephanie Ruhle lamented, “Transgender is now this giant thing that we’re talking about every single day and we have bigger issues in this country we don't address.” Read More.

Former President Donald Trump warned the "radical left Democrats" will step up "fake investigations" and attacks on him because of his strong polling numbers. "A poll just came out where I am way up on Biden in the general election," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. Read More.