Nikki Haley stars in Saturday Night Live skit opposite ‘Donald Trump’
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Tensions between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly ramped up behind the scenes, with the president telling advisers and others that the Israeli prime minister is ignoring his advice and obstructing efforts to stymie the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.
Mr Biden has not criticised Mr Netanyahu publicly, but has become increasingly critical of Israel’s tactics, CNN reported via sources. Last week the president said he believes the campaign in Gaza is “over the top.”
Meanwhile, over in the Republican camp presidential candidate Nikki Haley has blamed rival Donald Trump for the GOP’s disastrous recent run in Congress, which saw the House fail to impeach homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the state of illegal immigration at the US southern border and the collapse of a major funding bill last Tuesday.
“Republicans had a really bad day,” Ms Haley told a crowd in Newberry, South Carolina, while campaigning on Saturday afternoon ahead of her home state’s primary on 24 February.
Over the weekend, she and Mr Trump were embroiled a further argument after the latter questioned her husband’s absence from the campaign trail.
Major Michael Haley is currently serving his country overseas.
Super Tuesday: When is it, which states are participating and how many delegates are at stake?
Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the US presidential primary season, arrives early next month and promises to have a decisive if perhaps somewhat anticlimactic impact on the respective Republican and Democratic races.
All but one of his challengers have fallen away, leaving only the well-funded but under-performing ex-UN ambassador Nikki Haley still swinging.
But even she may not make it to Super Tuesday (although she has promised she will), as the next Republican primary takes place in her home state of South Carolina and current polling indicates the Palmetto State’s former governor could be in for another trouncing on her home turf, a further humiliation after she scored fewer votes than the “none of these candidates” box on Nevada ballot papers.
“Is there any way we can call the election for next Tuesday?” a cocky Mr Trump gloated on stage in Las Vegas after that result.
“That’s all I want. I want to call the election for next Tuesday.”
However, if Ms Haley can somehow conjure a surprise victory in either South Carolina on 24 February or Michigan on 27 February, it will be game on for Super Tuesday and we could find ourselves with a very interesting evening indeed.
The Democratic contest is looking equally one-sided, with President Joe Biden seemingly nailed-on to be his party’s candidate again as he seeks a second term in the White House, despite concerns about his advanced age and consistently poor polling.
Robert F Kennedy apologises to his family after ‘JFK’ Super Bowl ad
The attorney and Covid-19 conspiracy theorist claimed he had not been consulted on the advert – though it remained pinned to the top of his profile on X/Twitter on Monday
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Liz Cheney hits Trump: ‘No sane American President would encourage Putin to attack our Nato allies’
The final line of this is an overt challenge to Republicans to stand up to their orange leader. Will they listen?
Biden faces trust gap on key issues including immigration and inflation, new poll finds
An ABC News/Ipsos poll that was released on Sunday provided several vexing results for the incumbent president, writes John Bowden.
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Haley goes after Trump for disrespecting military: ‘The closest he has ever come to harm’s way is a rogue golf ball hitting his cart’
Tension builds between Biden and Netanyahu as Israel’s Gaza campaign rages on
Tensions between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly ramped up behind the scenes, with the president telling advisers and others that the Israeli prime minister is ignoring his advice and obstructing efforts to stymie the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.
According to CNN, per officials, Mr Biden has been more open with his thoughts on Mr Netanyahu in private, including his irritation that the Israeli prime minister has not followed through on American recommendations to de-escalate military tactics in Gaza.
Mr Biden has not criticised Mr Netanyahu publicly, but has become increasingly critical of Israel’s tactics, CNN reported. Last week the president said he believes the campaign in Gaza is “over the top.”
There is now speculation as to how long he will keep his reported discontent with Mr Netanyahu behind closed doors.
Republicans insist Biden’s reportedly failing memory is ‘security risk’
Democrats, however, consider such arguments in the wake of Robert Hur’s report “cheap trash” and are already producing the superior derisory slogans.
Eric Garcia and Katie Hawkinson have the latest.
Kimmel reacts to Haley ripping off his ‘Mean Tweets’ segment
Jimmy Kimmel had a thing or two to say to Republican candidate Nikki Haley after she uploaded a video that looked very similar to the host’s own show segment “Mean Tweets”.
Amelia Neath was watching.
Trump claims it will be ‘disloyal’ if Taylor Swift endorses Biden. So what is the Music Modernization Act?
Hours before Sunday’s Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, Trump made one last, desperate appeal for the political support of pop superstar Taylor Swift, knowing she was flying in to watch her boyfriend Travis Kelce in action and would dominate coverage of the big game.
“I signed and was responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and all other Musical Artists,” the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination wrote on Truth Social.
“Joe Biden didn’t do anything for Taylor, and never will. There’s no way she could endorse Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt President in the History of our Country, and be disloyal to the man who made her so much money.
He continued, bizarrely: “Besides that, I like her boyfriend, Travis, even though he may be a Liberal, and probably can’t stand me!”
Here’s an explainer on precisely what the Music Modernization Act is and why Trump’s claim to have been behind it all are, predictably, bogus.
RFK Jr apologises to family over Super Bowl campaign ad
The independent presidential candidate has issued an apology to the extended Kennedy clan after the PAC American Values 2024 ran a 30-second ad during yesterday’s Super Bowl that relied heavily on imagery from his late uncle John F Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign.
That’s this one, incidentally, which, at the time of writing, he still had pinned to the top of his X feed.