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The Independent
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- The Independent
Obama destroys Trump in head-to-head race if both were to run for a third term in 2028, poll finds
Barack Obama would blow Donald Trump out of the water if the two men were to go ahead for a third term in 2028, a new poll has found. The hypothetical poll, conducted by Daily Mail and J.L. Partners, found the former president would beat the current commander-in-chief by a double-digit margin. Of the 1,013 registered voters who participated in the survey, 52 percent favored Obama, while just 41 percent backed Trump. Such a lead fell well outside the 3.1 percentage point margin of error. Obama performed particularly well among Hispanic voters with almost three quarters, or 73 percent, backing the former president. Around 68 percent of Black voters would vote for Obama again and 50 percent of Independent voters favor him compared to 39 percent for Trump. It comes after Trump has repeatedly mused over the possibility of a third presidential term despite being barred by the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution – which prohibits anyone from being elected president more than twice. "A lot of people want me to do it. But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it's very early in the administration,' Trump told NBC News in March. Such a change to the Constitution would require a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of Congress and ratification by at least 38 state legislatures . But some within the Republican Party do not seem to be deterred. While Obama defeated Trump comfortably in the hypothetical race for 2028 other potential Democrat challengers did not fare as strongly. Per the poll, Trump would narrowly defeat both former presidential candidate and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former president Joe Biden in hypothetical matchups. The Mail/ J.L survey follows a previous survey by Overton Insights, conducted from March 24 to March 28 with 1,103 registered voters, which also put Obama ahead of Trump in such a hypothetical head-to-head. But in that instance the former president placed just six points ahead of Trump in a theoretical 2028 election, with 53 percent backing him and 47 percent backing the president.
The Independent
4 hours ago
- The Independent
A new $200M White House ballroom to break ground in September, the first major upgrade since 1948
The White House on Thursday announced that construction on a new $200 million ballroom will begin in September and be ready before President Donald Trump 's term ends in early 2029. It will be the latest change introduced to what's known as 'The People's House' since the Republican president returned to office in January. It also will be the first structural change to the Executive Mansion since the addition of the Truman balcony in 1948. Trump has substantially redecorated the Oval Office through the addition of golden flourishes and cherubs, presidential portraits and other items and installed massive flagpoles to fly the American flag on the north and south lawns. Workers are currently finishing a project to replace the lawn in the Rose Garden with stone. Trump for months has been promising to build a ballroom, saying the White House doesn't have space big enough to hold large events and scoffing at the notion of hosting heads of state and other guests in tents on the lawn as past administrations have done for state dinners attended by hundreds of guests. The East Room, the largest room in the the White House, can accommodate about 200 people. As he and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held talks in the ballroom of the hotel on his golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, on Sunday, Trump praised the space and said it was what he envisioned adding to the White House. 'The White House has wanted a ballroom for 150 years, but they never had a real estate person. You know, nobody, no president knew how to build a ballroom,' he said, harkening back to his early career in real estate and construction. He said the Turnberry ballroom had been 'quite the success' since it opened a short time ago. That ballroom 'boasts a generous capacity of up to 500 guests,' according to the hotel's website. 'I was just saying I could take this one, drop it right down there and it would be beautiful,' Trump said. 'This is exactly what they've wanted.' The 90,000-square-foot ballroom, announced on Thursday, will be built where the East Wing currently sits and will have a seated capacity of 650 people. The East Wing is home to several offices, including the first lady's. Those offices will be temporarily relocated during construction while that wing of the building is modernized and renovated, said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. 'Nothing will be torn down,' she said. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said the president and his White House are 'fully committed' to working with the appropriate organizations to preserve the mansion's 'special history.' 'President Trump is a builder at heart and has an extraordinary eye for detail,' Wiles said in a statement. Leavitt said at her briefing Thursday that Trump and other donors have committed to raising the approximately $200 million in construction costs. She did not name any of the other donors. Renderings of what the future ballroom will look like were posted on the White House website. Trump has chosen McCrery Architects, based in Washington, as lead architect on the project. The construction team will be led by Clark Construction. Engineering will be provided by AECOM.
Daily Mail
4 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Report: GOP Rep. Massie broke Trump truce
President Donald Trump 's top Republican nemesis in Congress reportedly broke a truce that the two had struck after vicious infighting. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a maverick who frequently clashes with GOP leadership and Trump, asked Speaker Mike Johnson to mediate a political ceasefire between the president and himself, Axios reports. The Kentucky Republican has been the frequent target of Trump tirades on Truth Social after voting against every major policy priority of the president. He is also the victim of TV attack ads from MAGA Kentucky, a Trump-aligned Super PAC focused on ousting the congressman. The 79-year-old president lashed out at Massie for voting against the 'One Big, Beautiful Bill,' earlier this summer and swore to find another Republican to take his place in Congress. Trump has labeled Massie as a 'grandstander,' a 'loser' and other names. 'Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is not MAGA, even though he likes to say he is. Actually, MAGA doesn't want him, doesn't know him, and doesn't respect him,' Trump wrote in late June. 'He is a negative force who almost always votes 'NO,' no matter how good something may be. He's a simple-minded 'grandstander.'' So to avoid the repeated barrages Massie approached GOP leadership on July 3 and asked for them to appeal to Trump on his behalf, multiple sources told the outlet. The speaker later spoke with the president and both sides agreed to stop the attack ads, a source revealed to Axios. Massie even seemed to play ball by helping his party that day advance a vote he'd typically not support. But after a leaked memo by the DOJ and FBI on July 6 sparked backlash for claiming the disgraced [sexual] offender Jeffrey Epstein did not have a 'client list' as many on the right have speculated, Massie began questioning their narrative. 'Was Jeffrey Epstein an asset of a government intelligence agency?' Massie posted on X on July 8. In his bold critiques of the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files after the deal with Johnson, Massie began questioning who Epstein worked for. Soon after he apparently violated the agreement with Trump and GOP leaders by raising alarm about the files. By July 14 Trump's attack ads resumed, and a $800,000 TV commercial campaign hit airwaves in Kentucky slamming Massie. 'We all deserve to know what's in the Epstein files, who's implicated, and how deep this corruption goes. Americans were promised justice and transparency,' Massie posted on X a day later on July 15. He posted a bill that he drafted to force the Trump DOJ and FBI to release a stunning array of Epstein-related documents. His measure would force the Trump administration to post the Epstein files online in 30 days. 'We're introducing a discharge petition to force a vote in the US House of Representatives on releasing the complete files,' the post continued. Soon multiple Republicans signed on to the Epstein petition, and it will likely get a vote when Congress returns from recess in September. Republicans and Democrats in both chambers of Congress have signaled they would vote for the measure. In addition to Trump, Massie has lashed out at the speaker. '@SpeakerJohnson, why are you running cover for an underage [sexual] trafficking ring and pretending this is a partisan issue? MAGA voted for this,' the Kentucky lawmaker wrote last week on X. Despite this, Johnson has defended Massie to the press and has noted how leadership always intends to back incumbents, no matter the threat from the president. The speaker has also called Massie's discharge petition 'reckless.' If the bill gets 218 signers, it should get a vote on the floor. Senators have expressed interest in releasing the files as well. 'I filed the discharge petition for one reason, and that's to deliver justice and transparency for the American people,' Massie told the Daily Mail in a statement. 'Speaker Johnson wants to sweep the Epstein files under the rug, but in doing so he will create voter disillusionment that will cost us the majority.' Serving since 2012 and representing the northern part of Kentucky and the neighborhood south of Cincinnati, Ohio , Massie has positioned himself as a deficit hawk keen on cutting federal spending. Massie regularly wears a lapel pin with the national debt ticking up and has consistently voted against spending measures, even those pushed by Republicans, for years, and did so again in July when he voted against the OBBB. The Republican rebel has been garnering a lot of publicity with his Epstein claims. 'This was a campaign promise that the president made, and it's a promise that his administration has made, his vice president has made, his son has made. And it's a promise that's not been kept,' Massie told Kentucky Public Radio in mid-July. 'If it's a hoax, I would say [Epstein accomplice Ghislaine] Maxwell needs to be pardoned,' Massie said, using Trump's description. 'And if it's a hoax, the vice president fell for it, Trump's own children fell for it, the deputy director of the FBI fell for it, the FBI director fell for it, and the AG fell for it. I suspect it's not a hoax.'
