Category: presidential race

Vivek Ramaswamy to Let Fundraisers Keep 10 Percent of Money They Raise

Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy told The Epoch Times in late June that his campaign was “decentralizing the process of getting people to support us.” “What does that mean? Actually make volunteers accountable for bringing more people into the movement,” said the biotech entrepreneur and anti-ESG investor. A July 10 announcement from his campaign makes it…


Trump Touts Farm Record in Iowa Rally

With the Iowa caucus slowly drawing nearer, 2024 hopeful Donald J. Trump made the case that he was “the most pro-farmer president that you’ve ever had” at a rally in Council Bluffs, a town across the Missouri River from Nebraska. To support his case, Mr. Trump ran through a long list of actions he’d taken…


Prospect of an Unlikely Trump-RFK Ticket Remains a Hot Topic

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. draws unusual bipartisan support in the race for the White House, there is a swell of sentiment that he should be former President Donald Trump’s running mate. “They would be an unstoppable duo,” Carla Gericke, both a Republican and Libertarian out of New Hampshire, told The Epoch Times, “I think…


DOJ Reveals How Much Jack Smith’s Special Counsel Probe Is Costing Taxpayers

Special counsel Jack Smith’s wide-ranging investigation into former President Donald Trump has cost taxpayers over $9 million since he was appointed last year, according to a newly released government report on Friday. His team has incurred some $5.4 million in rent, personnel, and other costs, while another $3.8 million in “component expenses” was also incurred…


DeSantis Defends Controversial Anti-Trump Ad Some Conservatives Complain is Anti-LGBT

After taking criticism for a campaign ad attacking Donald Trump’s performance on LGBT issues, Ron DeSantis defended the video, saying it was “fair game.” He responded to backlash about the ad in an interview on July 5 with Tomi Lahren on her show “Tomi Lahren is Fearless,” a production of the conservative news organization Outkick, owned…


DeSantis’s Presidential Campaign Raises $150 Million—One of the Biggest GOP Totals in Years

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign for president on July 6 announced strong fundraising results, raising $20 million in its first six weeks. His independent Super PAC meanwhile raised $130 million since launching in early March. Mr. DeSantis’s campaign said in a written statement that his fundraising “is the largest first-quarter filing from any non-incumbent Republican candidate…


Struggling Campaigns Scrambling to Qualify for First GOP Presidential Debate—$1 at a Time

After nearly six months of grueling state primaries, the GOP’s 2024 presidential candidate will be formally confirmed as the party’s nominee during the July 15–18, 2024, Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But while there are 376 days of campaigning between now—July 6, 2023—and then, another far more pressing timeline is posing an existential challenge…


IN-DEPTH: Struggling Campaigns Scrambling to Qualify for First GOP Presidential Debate—$1 at a Time

After nearly six months of grueling state primaries, the GOP’s 2024 presidential candidate will be formally confirmed as the party’s nominee during the July 15–18, 2024, Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. But while there are 376 days of campaigning between now—July 6, 2023—and then, another far more pressing timeline is posing an existential challenge…


Trump Pledges to Deny Entry of ‘All Communists and Marxists’ Into US

Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference in Washington on June 24. During the speech, he pledged to deny entry of all “communists and Marxists” into the United States. …


IN-DEPTH: Attendees at Moms for Liberty Event Rank 5 Republican Presidential Candidates

Republican and Democratic presidential candidates were all invited to speak at the Moms for Liberty national summit in Philadelphia, organizers say, and five Republicans said yes. The summit took place June 29 through July 2 at the Museum of the American Revolution, and the candidates who spoke were, in order of appearance, Florida Gov. Ron…