Vance ‘Probably Favored at This Point' for 2028 Nomination, Trump Says
'I think most likely, in all fairness—he's the vice president,' Trump said, when asked whether Vance was the heir apparent to his Make America Great Again movement.
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The Hill
27 minutes ago
- The Hill
Comer: Clintons should think ‘long and hard' about defying subpoena
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Wednesday urged former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to comply with a subpoena requesting their testimony detailing their connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 'If someone doesn't comply with a subpoena, we've seen it happen in the past, in both my committee, as well as on the Jan. 6 committee, when the Democrats had the majority, and you can hold them in contempt of Congress, and with a Republican attorney general, that's something that I think that the Clinton legal team is going to think long and hard about,' Comer said during an appearance on NewsNation's 'The Hill.' 'You're not going to have a lot of sympathy, probably from the Trump DOJ, if the Clintons failed to comply with a bipartisan, congressionally approved subpoena, which is what that was,' he added. Comer said bipartisan support is going to make it hard for the former president to dodge the congressional investigation. 'Obviously, when you subpoena a former president, your odds aren't the best at getting them in if you look at history. But what makes this different is this subpoena was approved in a bipartisan manner by a subcommittee vote,' the chair told anchor Blake Burman. 'So you had Democrats and Republicans on the record voting to subpoena that whole list you showed and there were Republicans and Democrats on that list. In addition to those subpoenas, I also subpoenaed [Attorney General] Pam Bondi for Epstein files,' he continued. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has been facing intense backlash over how it has handled information related to Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in 2019. The backlash has come from both MAGA faithful and left-wing progressives. Comer has taken the lead in a lengthy committee-led investigation. The Kentucky lawmaker told Burman that 'at the end of the day, I've been ordered by Congress to take the lead in this investigation, and we expect to get everything that we could legally get.'
Newsweek
28 minutes ago
- Newsweek
JB Pritzker Reacts to Possibility of FBI Arresting Texas Democrats
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker brushed off the possibility of the FBI coming into his state and arresting Texas Democrats who left the state and headed to Illinois and other Democratic-led states in a last-ditch effort to block Republicans' redistricting efforts in Texas. "They're grandstanding," the governor said when asked about President Donald Trump's suggestion that the FBI "may have to" get involved to bring the Texas Democrats back to their home state. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email on Wednesday. Why It Matters The confrontation between Democratic and Republican state representatives in Texas highlights the national stakes of partisan redistricting battles ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Redistricting occurs once every 10 years following the census to adjust boundaries based on population changes. But when Texas Republicans began trying to redraw the congressional map mid-decade in a way that would give their party more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic legislators left the state to prevent formation of a quorum required to pass the plan. Under Texas law, the state House needs 100 representatives accounted for to conduct official business, but has only 88 Republicans, requiring Democrats' presence to revise the voting map. Republican U.S. Senator John Cornyn of Texas asked the FBI to help "locate and arrest" the Democrats who fled the Lone Star State. Trump also signaled his support for the request. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, left, looks on as Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu along with others speak about Texas Republican plans to redraw the House map, during a news conference at the Democratic... Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, left, looks on as Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu along with others speak about Texas Republican plans to redraw the House map, during a news conference at the Democratic Party of DuPage County office in Carol Stream, Illinois, on August 3. More Mark Black/AP What To Know Asked what he thought of Trump's remarks and the possibility of FBI involvement in the matter, Pritzker added, "There literally is no federal law applicable to this situation, none." Speaking on the News Not Noise podcast with Jessica Yellin, Pritzker added: "They can say that they're sending FBI. FBI agents might show up just to, I don't know, again, to put a show on. But the fact is that, you know, our local law enforcement protect everybody in Illinois." "Our state troopers protect everybody in Illinois and anybody who's here in Illinois," the Democratic governor said. "And so, whether it's federal agents coming to Illinois or state rangers from Texas, if you haven't broken federal law, you're basically unwelcome and there's no way that our state legislators here, the Texas state legislators, can be arrested." Pritzker's comments on Wednesday came amid an escalating legal battle between Republican officials in Texas and Democrats who left the state. Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday sought rare emergency relief from the state's Supreme Court to remove Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu and other absent legislators. Wu hit back at Abbott, saying the governor's move was "just purely insanity" and portrayed the ongoing legal and political pressure as "unconstitutional racial gerrymandering." More than 50 Texas Democrats have scattered to Illinois and other blue states like California and New York as part of their effort to block Republicans in their state from gerrymandering the congressional map to gain more U.S. House seats. Pritzker applauded their efforts during an appearance on CBS' The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, telling the host on Tuesday: "Donald Trump is trying to steal five seats from the people—frankly, of the country, not just the people of Texas—to disenfranchise people." "We're talking about violating the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution," he added. What People Are Saying Pritzker also told Colbert on Tuesday: "The great heroes of the Texas House Democratic Caucus decided the only thing they could do in order to stop it was, leave Texas. And where did they decide to come to? The safe haven of the state of Illinois, where we are going to protect them and take care of them." The governor added: "I'm very proud of them." Trump, referring to the 2024 presidential election, told CNBC on Tuesday: "I won Texas. I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know, and we are entitled to five more seats." New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a Monday news conference: "If Republicans are willing to rewrite these rules to give themselves an advantage, then they're leaving us no choice; we must do the same." What Happens Next Texas' redistricting efforts have kicked off a nationwide battle between blue and red states across the country, with the governors of New York and California pledging to redraw their own congressional maps to offset Republican efforts in Texas. In all, at least nine states have considered redrawing their maps, according to officials in those states and media reports: Texas, California, New York, Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin and Maryland.
CNN
28 minutes ago
- CNN
Rep. Nancy Mace touts ties to Trump in campaign-style town hall
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, fresh off an announced bid for South Carolina's governor's mansion, jockeyed for an endorsement from President Donald Trump and sought to tie herself closely to him in a public meeting with a friendly crowd Wednesday. While members of her party have been encouraged to hold town halls over their August break from Washington to sell Trump's agenda out in the country, Mace's event – billed as 'The Mother of All Town Halls' – more closely resembled a campaign event. Mace spoke at length about her plans for governor and answered some questions from a crowd of supporters at a venue outside of South Carolina's First Congressional District, which Mace has represented since 2020. She teased plans to hold similar events across the state. The three-term congresswoman spent much of her remarks aligning herself with Trump and touting what she's done for the president, specifically citing her 2024 interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos that resulted in a $15 million defamation settlement, paid toward Trump's presidential library. 'Trump won that defamation suit, right, and how Nancy Mace will not back down, and Nancy Mace will hold the line,' Mace said. She continued, 'I haven't told the president this, but my one ask, I just want one ask, because the $15 million is supposed to be used to build his presidential library. I just want my name over a women's bathroom,' she continued, nodding to her pushes to ban transgender women from women's restrooms. Mace lobbied for an endorsement from Trump, one that will be critical in a crowded GOP gubernatorial primary that includes fellow Trump ally and South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman and state Attorney General Alan Wilson, who was the target of multiple Mace jabs Wednesday. 'I'm just saying, I've done a lot for the president,' Mace said. 'If you talk to him, I would really like his support for governor.' In her speech, the congresswoman also continued to claim credit for a $195 million infrastructure grant in the Palmetto State, a grant only possible because of former President Joe Biden's infrastructure law. 'One of the things the press will not tell you: I am one of the leading members of Congress who's gotten resources for our state,' Mace said. 'In fact, our office assisted in getting the largest infrastructure grant in South Carolina history, at $195 million earlier this year. The press won't tell you that.' Mace at the time joined some of her House Republican colleagues in voting against the measure. Asked by CNN about her ability to tout the grant as an accomplishment despite having not voted for the bill, Mace said she 'absolutely' could. 'We fight over how we spend the money, how we appropriate it, but once the appropriations happen, I'm gonna make sure that South Carolina, that we get our fair share, because that money's getting spent and our tax dollars in South Carolina is equal to anybody else's in California, New York, Tennessee,' she said. She later continued, 'Just because we disagree on how the money's spent means we shouldn't get money for our roads and bridges? Isn't that kind of hypocritical, that's ironic?' Mace on Wednesday also backed Texas' efforts to redraw its congressional map, telling reporters she 'would arrest the Texas Legislature' and supports '[Texas GOP Gov. Greg] Abbott in the Texas Legislature to do what's fair, what's right.' The congresswoman set herself apart from Norman, who pushed Wednesday for the South Carolina State Assembly to redraw the Palmetto State's congressional lines. 'I think our lines are good. We did a great job. The state. Congress doesn't do anything with drawing the lines. We don't have any legal authority, alright? It's done by the state legislature, the judiciary specifically. But the lines were drawn.' Mace later further separated herself from Norman, who singled out Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn's district as one to target. 'Well, constitutionally, there has to be a seat for a Democrat in a Black, you know, census for Jim Clyburn for a Democrat seat,' Mace said. 'So that's constitutionally, civil rights that exists. It's always going to be a Democrat seat.'
