5d ago12.42 ESTNikki Haley has responded to Donald Trump’s attacks against her in which he said that she will be unable to win the White House.
Speaking to Fox, Haley said:
Everybody is talking about the fact, ‘Is she a conservative?’ … How am I not conservative? I was a Tea Party governor, I passed voter ID, I passed the toughest illegal immigration law in the country, I cut taxes, I passed tort reform …
Just because the media says it, because Donald Trump says it, it’s wrong. We’ve got to start telling the truth. The problem with Donald Trump and Joe Biden is, they think if they tell Americans something, that it’s the truth. But the problem is, both of these guys are lying to the American people.
There are multiple instances that we need to start asking Donald Trump the questions and stop taking what he’s saying to be golden … I think it’s important that the media be responsible … But the fact that Donald Trump’s lying, it’s another reason why he won’t debate me because he knows I’ll call him out on it.”
“There are multiple instances that we need to start asking Donald Trump the questions and stop taking what he's saying to be golden ... I think it’s important that the media be responsible...”
— Nikki Haley, when asked to respond to Donald Trump attacking her on Fox News pic.twitter.com/P7luakacY1
— The Recount (@therecount) January 19, 2024A handful of Jewish members of Congress have issued a statement in response to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal of a Palestinian state.
On Friday, representatives including Jerry Nadler, Jake Auchincloss, Becca Balint, Suzanne Bonamici, Steve Cohen, Daniel Goldman, Seth Magaziner, Mike Levin, Dean Phillips, Jamie Raskin, Jan Schakowsky, Adam Schiff, Kim Schrier, Brad Sherman and Elissa Slotkin said:
We strongly disagree with the prime minister. A two-state solution is the path forward.
Updated at 12.28 EST5d ago11.52 ESTFollowing Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public rejection of US calls for a Palestinian state, Waleed Shahid, Democratic strategist and former spokesperson of Justice Democrats, released the following statement:
With his approach to climate, student debt, and economic policy, [Joe] Biden has broken in important ways with the Democratic party establishment from the Clinton and Obama presidencies.
On Israel-Palestine, on the other hand, Biden and the Democratic party have doubled down on a set of failed policies, and do so even as any of the predicates of that policy – namely, the existence of an Israeli government interested in peace and Palestinian statehood – have vanished.
If Biden continues to unconditionally fund Israel’s war in Gaza, he will break a fundamental trust with many Democrats, and little lecturing about the greater evil in 2024 will repair it.
The future of American democracy is at stake; we need Democrats – Muslim Americans and young people – to turn out in record numbers in states like Michigan and Georgia.
I pray, for all our sakes, that Biden corrects course – because our country cannot afford to pay the bill for disregarding Palestinian lives should it come due in November.
Updated at 11.55 EST5d ago11.26 ESTMassachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has hailed Joe Biden’s latest student debt cancellation, writing on X:
Woo-hoo! President Biden is cancelling $4.9 billion more in student debt, including for 44,000 public servants - teachers, nurses, and firefighters - who’ve devoted their lives to service.
I’ll keep working to deliver as much student debt relief to as many people as possible.
Woo-hoo! President Biden is cancelling $4.9 billion more in student debt, including for 44,000 public servants - teachers, nurses, and firefighters - who’ve devoted their lives to service.
I’ll keep working to deliver as much student debt relief to as many people as possible. https://t.co/AEEyiMDH20
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 19, 2024Joe Biden approves debt cancellation of 74,000 student loan borrowers
Joe Biden has approved the debt cancellation for another 74,000 student loan borrowers across the country.
The latest announcement brings the total number of people who have had their debt cancelled under the Biden administration to 3.7 million.
Out of the 74,000 borrowers that were approved for relief, nearly 44,000 of them are teachers, nurses, firefighters and other individuals who earned forgiveness after 10 years of public service.
Additionally, close to 30,000 of them are people who have been in repayment for at least 20 years but never got the relief they earned.
In a statement released on Friday, Biden said:
From day one of my administration, I vowed to improve the student loan system so that a higher education provides Americans with opportunity and prosperity – not unmanageable burdens of student loan debt.
I won’t back down from using every tool at our disposal to get student loan borrowers the relief they need to reach their dreams.
Updated at 11.36 EST5d ago10.39 ESTPennsylvania senator John Fetterman said he plans to go to the floor next week to force a vote on his resolution that proposes international sanctions for senators indicted for crimes affecting national security.
Speaking to CNN’s Manu Raju and referring to New Jersey senator Bob Menendez, who was charged with acting as an agent for Egypt, Fetterman said:
We should have chucked that sleazeball long ago. But now we’re looking to move my resolution to the floor, and I’m going to call on unanimous consent so we can stop any senator that is being accused of being a foreign agent attending classified briefings.
Sen. John Fetterman told me he plans to go to floor next week to force a vote on his resolution that would bar senators indicted on national security issues from attending classified briefings — aimed at Bob Menendez. The move would force a member to object.
“We should have…
Andrew Yang endorses Dean Phillips' Democratic presidential bid
Former 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang has endorsed the presidential bid of Minnesota’s Democratic representative Dean Phillips.
Calling himself a former “campaign surrogate for Joe [Biden]” at a campaign event on Thursday, Yang said:
Joe is a good decent man, a true public servant, has gotten a lot of things done. But I don’t think he is the right fit for 2024 as opposed to 2020 …
Joe Biden, who I supported last time, in my view, is going to deliver us to ‘Trump the Sequel’ … Dean Phillips is the only one with the courage, the character and conviction to go against the grain, to go against the legion of followers in Washington DC who would put their careers above their country, and say, ‘You know what? America deserves a choice. America deserves a choice in its leaders.’
“I was a campaign surrogate for Joe [Biden]. Joe is a good, decent man...But I don’t think he is the right fit for 2024, as opposed to 2020. In 2020, the Patriots were 12-4 & 1st in the AFC East. 2020 & 2024 are not the same years.”
— Andrew Yang stumping for Dean Phillips in NH pic.twitter.com/ZFbSzDgMev
— The Recount (@therecount) January 18, 2024Ahead of his campaigning weekend in New Hampshire, Donald Trump unleashed another tirade on Truth Social – this time directed towards New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu, as well as Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.
Misspelling Haley’s first name, Trump wrote:
Governor Chris Sununu, the now failing Governor of New Hampshire, where I am beating his endorsed candidate, Nimbra, by big numbers, and DeSanctimonious by even bigger numbers, should spend more time keeping Democrats from voting in the Republican Primary - How ridiculous is that? Anyway, it doesn’t matter, because Nimbra doesn’t have what it takes … ”
Updated at 09.55 EST5d ago09.27 ESTDonald Trump urging Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis allies that race is over - report
Donald Trump is trying to convince allies of Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis that the Republican race for a presidential nominee is over, according to a new report by Vanity Fair.
As Trump continues to face mounting legal troubles, the ex-president is reported to have been pressuring Haley and DeSantis to drop out of the race.
According to multiple sources who spoke to the outlet, Trump has also been calling South Carolina senator Tim Scott in attempts to win his endorsement ahead of the primary next month in Haley’s home state (Haley was formerly governor of South Carolina).
Meanwhile, according to a major poll from Suffolk University, the Boston Globe and NBC, Trump is enjoying a 16-point lead in New Hampshire ahead of the state’s presidential primary next Tuesday.
Trump is due to campaign in New Hampshire on Friday, writing on Truth Social: “BIG crowds tonight and Saturday!”
Updated at 09.29 EST5d ago09.25 ESTGood morning,
Donald Trump is quietly pressuring his Republican opponents to drop out of the 2024 presidential race amid his mounting legal troubles, according to reports.
The ex-president has been calling allies of Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley to convince them that the race is over, Vanity Fair reports.
“The plan is to back all the donors and Fox off [the other candidates] and close it out by next Wednesday,” a Republican source close to Trump told the outlet.
Reports of Trump pressuring rivals to drop out as he seeks a quick win in the race come amid his legal woes surrounding election interference, fraud, defamation and hush money payments, among other charges.
Earlier this week, Trump made a glowering appearance in a Manhattan courthouse as E Jean Carroll testified in her defamation trial against him. At one point, Trump responded to Judge Lewis Kaplan’s threat to kick him out of court by saying: “I would love it.”
Here are other developments in US politics:
Fulton county judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the 2020 racketeering case against Trump and his allies, has scheduled a hearing for next month over district attorney Fani Willis’s conflict-of-interest claims.
The upcoming 51st anniversary of Roe v Wade has become a focal point for both Democratic and Republican lawmakers as both sides once again turn up the heat on abortion-related campaigning.
Hunter Biden, who has insisted on testifying publicly, has agreed to appear before House Republicans for a private deposition next month.
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