Former President Trump Donald Trump Trump announces new tranche of endorsements DeSantis, Pence tied in 2024 Republican poll Lawmakers demand changes after National Guard troops at Capitol sickened from tainted food MORE is pressing Republican Party organs to stop using his name and likeness for fundraising and merchandise sales. Two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill that lawyers for Trump sent cease-and-desist letters Friday to the Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). The three groups are the largest fundraising bodies for the Republican Party. ADVERTISEMENT Trump has long been known to tout his marketing expertise from his long career in real estate and was protective even while in office of how lawmakers and party organs used his name to benefit themselves and other candidates. “President Trump remains committed to … [Read more...] about Trump presses GOP to stop using name for fundraising
Trump campaign emails
The Coronavirus Election
Looking at cold statistics, it seems the Trump-Biden race in 2020 is where the Trump-Hillary race was in mid-October 2016. Hillary had an approximately 10 point advantage in national polls; Biden has an 11 point lead in several national polls. MAGA Source: Visuals/Unsplash Democrats are rightly nervous and running scared, not taking anything for granted this time around in the battleground states. Former V.P. Joe Biden has been conducting scenic bus tours, long train journeys, and drive-in rallies throughout the countryside to avoid crowded settings due to coronavirus health guidelines, and to gather much needed suburban and rural voters. President Trump , on the other hand, is going back to what worked for him in 2016, airport-hanger rallies, despite “the super-spreader effect” at the White House where as many as 34 of his staff members may have been infected and his own diagnosis of two weeks ago, from which he claims he has fully recovered. His administration … [Read more...] about The Coronavirus Election
Cyber threat looms large over German election
When Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) met online to elect a new party leadership in January, hackers carried out a series of massive attacks aimed at throwing the summit into chaos. The attacks picked up speed every time delegates were about to vote. According to CDU spokespeople, the assailants, operating mostly from abroad, bombarded the party's website with internet traffic to overwhelm its server. At some point, they succeeded. The site collapsed and the livestream of the event cut out. In the end, the CDU managed to push the intruders out: The party's technical staff got the website back up by blocking access from outside Germany and specific locations inside the country. Meanwhile, undeterred by the attacks, delegates elected a new party leader through a voting system hosted on a separate server — a safeguard that had been set up to fend off cyberintruders. The digital CDU party conference in January was attacked by hackers Yet the … [Read more...] about Cyber threat looms large over German election