Steve Contorno
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JD Vance embraces tricky role as Trumpâs midterm messenger â and potential successor | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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Behind closed doors on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance urged a room full of Republicans to sell voters on the administrationâs more popular achievements that he worried werenât always breaking through. One person, however, has proved particularly difficult to keep on message: President Donald Trump. Since joining Trumpâs ticket in 2024, Vance has taken on the role of disciplined translator for a president whose instinct-driven improvisational style enthralls his admirers but often pulls
After a decade as GOPâs main character, Trump gets one more starring role at midterm convention | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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For a decade, President Donald Trump has made himself his partyâs main character â a singular force around whom its rallies, conventions and political identity have revolved. Republicans are taking that devotion a step further this week, gathering in the Lone Star State at Trumpâs behest for an unprecedented midterm convention conceived by him and to celebrate him. Trump will appear both nights of the event and watch from a suite as the loyalty from party leaders and allies is on display.
Without Charlie Kirk, Turning Point is building a future for his movement â and JD Vance | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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Charlie Kirk sat before a Salt Lake City audience of restaurateurs last September 10, dispensing business advice drawn from his own unlikely rise. The conservative activist argued that a company needed a deep connection to the founderâs âenergy and visionâ to endure, but he also warned that âseparating the brand from the founderâ was among the greatest challenges an entrepreneur could face. âWe have not done this successfully yet,â Kirk acknowledged of Turning Point USA, the organi
Log Cabin Republicans, a leading group for gay conservatives, abandons transgender advocacy | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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Log Cabin Republicans, a leading organization for gay conservatives, will no longer advocate for transgender people, a significant break within the LGBTQ movement as the GOP makes opposition to trans rights a political and policy priority. The influential group added support for transgender issues to its platform more than a decade ago amid growing cultural acceptance. But Log Cabin Republicans President Ross Hemminger told CNN that in recent years his members have grown increasingly uncomfortab
Georgia GOP candidate and immigration hardliner faces an immigration scandal of his own | CNN Politics (opens the original)
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As billionaire Republican Rick Jackson blanketed Georgiaâs airwaves this spring with ads vowing a crackdown on undocumented immigrants if elected governor, a company in his healthcare empire was in the throes of a costly legal battle over the treatment of its immigrant workforce. A lawsuit filed by foreign-born nurses accused Avant Healthcare Professionals of luring them to the United States with the promise of the American Dream, only to pay them substandard wages and trap them in rigid contr
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