Attorneys for Donald Trump appeared in Michigan court on Thursday to fight twin lawsuits that seek to keep him off 2024 presidential ballots, citing an insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution. The judge expects to rule “quickly.”
Former President Donald Trump sued Michigan on Tuesday in an attempt to ensure he will appear on the 2024 ballot, despite separate lawsuits seeking to disqualify him over the Capitol “insurrection.”
The suit argues that the former president is ineligible to run again under a Civil War-era Constitutional clause barring insurrectionists from holding office.
Former President Donald Trump campaigned in Michigan on Wednesday, urging the striking UAW to endorse his return to the White House while promising to fight Joe Biden’s EV push.
Working class voters have helped tip presidential elections in Michigan, and that could happen again. Former President Trump is trying to recapture the magic that fueled his surprise Michigan victory in 2016.
President Biden walks the picket line with striking autoworkers and backs a 40 percent pay hike proposal as Michigan approves additional incentives for Marshall megasite despite Ford’s announcement to “pause” work on a planned EV battery factory.
The Michigan Republican Party capped a conspiracy-filled Mackinac Island retreat by approving a caucus plan that will give Donald Trump loyalists more power than primary voters.
Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy delivered ‘red meat’ at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Pro-Trump crowd eats it up but suggests his ceiling may be a number two.
Every Michigan Republican serving in Congress is backing Trump’s bid to return to the White House, according to his campaign. The former president is leading in national polls while battling criminal indictments.
In an appeal to blue-collar voters, former President Donald Trump told Michigan supporters the Biden administration’s push toward an electric vehicle future will kill jobs and cost state taxpayers ‘hundreds of billions’ of dollars.
Former President Donald Trump returns to Oakland County, claiming that Joe Biden’s ‘ridiculous crusade to force everyone into electric cars’ will mean ‘decimation’ for Michigan.
In a plan critics say will benefit Trump, the state Republican Party wants to hold 13 congressional district caucus meetings to help decide the party’s next presidential nominee.
The Michigan Republican Party is planning to award its delegates to a national presidential nominating convention based on the results of congressional district caucus meetings, not just a public primary.
Former president and current candidate Donald Trump’s list of legal woes got longer. He’s due in Oakland County on June 25, and supporters again are standing by him.
Closing the presidential contest to only registered Republicans would increase the power of the grassroots, conservative wing of the party. Critics say it would disenfranchise more than 1 million voters.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has not yet declared himself a presidential candidate. But he sure sounded like one Thursday in Michigan, where he touted his work in “the free state of Florida.”
As news spread Thursday that the former president had been indicted on charges related to payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, Michigan Republican officials cried foul while Democrats urged restraint.
He didn’t make the ballot in his campaign for governor. But he’s now setting his sights on president and will unveil a campaign ad in Iowa during the Super Bowl.
