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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump on Thursday urged the United Auto Workers union to back his campaign, a day after the union’s president met with President Joe Biden after raising concerns about electric- vehicle policies. Trump, the former Republican president seeking a return to office in 2024, said Democrat Biden was “waging …

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By Moira Warburton and Josephine Walker WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Thursday he did not promise Donald Trump that he would pass a measure aimed at expunging the former president’s two impeachments. “There’s no deal,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told NBC following a report by the Politico …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders of the U.S. Senate said on Wednesday they expected a sweeping defense policy bill to pass the chamber with strong bipartisan support, which could mean a clash with a largely party-line bill approved by the House of Representatives. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican leader Mitch …

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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump is dominating the U.S. Republican presidential nomination contest with 47% support within his party, well above 19% for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The seven-day poll completed on Monday showed Trump, who was president from 2017 to 2021, rising from a June …

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By Jason Lange and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The steady U.S. economy and voter anger over threats to abortion rights are buoying Democratic President Joe Biden, but voters are receptive to a host of culture-war issues his Republican rivals are campaigning on, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. The Republicans fighting for their party’s nomination …

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By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced criminal charges against 16 people on Tuesday for submitting a phony slate of electors to try to help Republican Donald Trump overturn his 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. WHAT ARE ELECTORS? U.S. presidents are not elected by direct popular vote. …

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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came to the defense of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, assailing as politically motivated attempts to hold his rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination legally accountable for trying to overturn the 2020 election. “I hope he doesn’t get charged,” DeSantis told CNN in …

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By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, who is advising Joe Biden on his re-election campaign, says he sees opportunity in what many consider to be the U.S. President’s biggest vulnerability in the 2024 presidential race – his age. Biden, a Democrat who turned 80 in November, is already the oldest Oval …

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By David Morgan and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. Senate Republicans are moving to try to line up high-quality candidates for next year’s elections after untested candidates with fringe views cost them seats in 2022, with Pennsylvania next on their wish list. Senator Steve Daines, who chairs the Senate Republican campaign arm, already …

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