Trump: Republican Political Kingmaker or Political Meddler?

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Is former U.S. President Donald Trump a Republican political kingmaker or just a political meddler?  The first answers are coming in the month of May.   The United States is about to get its first significant reading on how much political clout Trump retains over the Republican Party 16 months after he played a role in hundreds of his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol to protest his 2020 election defeat and then left Washington as Democrat Joe Biden became president.  Trump, who retains a wide Republican following, to this day claims he was cheated out another four-year term in themore

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Biden Calls Former VP Mondale ‘Giant’ of Political History 

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President Joe Biden saluted his “friend of five decades” Walter Mondale on Sunday, traveling to the University of Minnesota to remember the former vice president and Democratic Party elder whose memorial service was delayed for a year due to the pandemic.  Mondale died in April 2021 at age 93. He is credited with transforming the office of the vice presidency — which Biden himself held for eight years under President Barack Obama — expanding its responsibilities and making himself a key adviser to President Jimmy Carter.  Mondale “was a giant in American political history,” Biden said of Mondale, known tomore

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