Former President Donald Trump has emerged as the most prominent advocate in the United States of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to broker a cease-fire as hostilities between the two sides recently ratcheted up.

The former president’s push for some kind of truce cuts against the public views of many Republicans, who have backed support for Ukraine in the war, and reflects some of the schisms within the party between Trump and his staunchest defenders and other prominent conservatives. 

Trump has used both his social media platform, Truth Social, and recent public appearances to broadly criticize the Biden administration’s handling of the war, but so far the U.S. and its allies have been unwilling to budge on ceding Ukrainian territory to Russia as part of any negotiation. Read Full Story

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Former President Donald Trump is imploring Republicans to focus relentlessly in the final weeks of the midterm elections on solving America’s crime scourge, saying the growing fear of simply going out on the streets could drive historic numbers of Hispanics and blacks to the GOP in November.

Trump, whose 2016 election fundamentally transformed the base of the Republican Party, said Democrats’ embrace of open borders, no-cash bail, and defunding police during the Biden years has opened a door to major electoral gains among urban and minority populations worn out by rising assaults, murders, home invasions, carjackings, and smash-and grab robberies in their neighborhoods. 

“Nobody can live like that,” Trump said during an exclusive interview with the “Just the News, No Noise” television show. “People are afraid to walk outside to buy a loaf of bread. And we have to change that.” Read Full Story

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More Americans trust the Republican Party to handle the economy and national security as Americans’ approval of the Democratic Party continues to fall, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.

The poll, conducted in September, found that since last year the Republican Party’s favorability went up 4 points to 44% while the Democratic Party’s fell by the same amount to 39%. When asked which party would do a better job protecting the nation against international terrorism and military threats, 57% of participants favored the GOP, outpacing the Democratic Party by 20 points. Americans also trust the GOP to do a better job handling the economy by a 10-point margin.

Gallup reports that the Democratic Party’s approval ratings are 12 points below their 51% trend average, their worst rating since March 2015. The Republican Party’s ratings remain consistent with their trend average since 1992. Read Full Story

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