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  • Republican delegates urged to make case for Trump, reach out to disenfranchised Democratic voters

    Republican delegates urged to make case for Trump, reach out to disenfranchised Democratic voters

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    OAK CREEK, Wisc. — Republicans had an energized meeting on Tuesday as former New York Senator and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin gave the keynote address urging Republicans to make the case for Donald Trump to disenfranchised Democrats.

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    “There are these longtime Democratic voters disenfranchised by democratic policies, ready to vote for conservative solutions, but we can’t just expect them to show up on their own and start voting for us,” Zeldin said.

    It was a call to action for leaders to reach out to voters that maybe for years have voted for democrats just out of habit.

    The push comes after an inspiring end to after former president Donald Trump made a surprise appearance with his injured right ear covered in a white bandage.

    His presence left a lingering reaction on the members of the Illinois delegation.

    “He’s injured and he didn’t care. He had a bandage on his ear, and he was there for the party, for American people, and we loved it,” Balwinder Chhokar-Sahota Alternate Delegate said.

    The sense of unity that Illinois Republicans have been talking about was called into question with many of the so-called establishment Republicans seemingly absent from the convention.

    “So, you don’t have to love Donald Trump because I’ve talked to a lot of people say I don’t like the man by loved his policy and I’m going to vote for him. We need those people to vote for this platform and help bring other Republicans in with it,” State Rep. Charlie Meier said.

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    Newly elected Illinois GOP Chair Kathy Salvi made her first convention appearance, chatting with delegates, but declining to take questions on Tuesday.

    “I think America is going to see very clearly that the big tent party is here. We’re strong. We’re united and honestly someone like Cory Brooks, speaking on the stage tonight should send a message that we are united in that message, and we’re united going forward,” State Senator Terri Bryant said.

    Corey Brooks, a Chicago rooftop pastor who has been a strong anti-violence voice will be the final speaker on Tuesday by offering the closing prayer.

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  • The Supreme Court could decide Monday whether Trump can be barred from the 2024 ballot

    The Supreme Court could decide Monday whether Trump can be barred from the 2024 ballot

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    WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump could learn Monday whether the Supreme Court will let him appear on this year’s ballot as the leading Republican presidential candidate tries to close in on his party’s nomination.

    The justices are expected to decide at least one case Monday, with signs strongly pointing to a resolution of the case from Colorado that threatens to kick Trump off some state ballots because of his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020. Any opinions will post on the court’s website beginning just after 10 a.m. EST.

    Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said he is disqualified from being president again and ineligible for the state’s primary, which is Tuesday.

    The resolution of the case on Monday, a day before Super Tuesday contests in 16 states, would remove uncertainty about whether votes for Trump will ultimately count. Both sides had requested fast work by the court, which heard arguments less than a month ago, on Feb. 8.

    The justices seemed poised then to rule in Trump’s favor.

    RELATED: Takeaways from the Supreme Court oral arguments on the Trump 14th Amendment case

    The Colorado court was the first to invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision aimed at preventing those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office. Trump also has since been barred from primary ballot in Illinois and Maine, though both decisions, along with Colorado’s, are on hold pending the outcome of the Supreme Court case.

    The Supreme Court has until now never ruled on the provision, Section 3 of the 14th amendment.

    The court indicated Sunday there will be at least one case decided Monday, adhering to its custom of not saying which one. But it also departed from its usual practice in some respects, heightening the expectation that it’s the Trump ballot case that will be handed down.

    Except for when the end of the term approaches in late June, the court almost always issues decisions on days when the justices are scheduled to take the bench. But the next scheduled court day isn’t until March 15. And apart from during the coronavirus pandemic when the court was closed, the justices almost always read summaries of their opinions in the courtroom. They won’t be there Monday.

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    Separately, the justices last week agreed to hear arguments in late April over whether Trump can be criminally prosecuted on election interference charges, including his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The court’s decision to step into the politically charged case, also with little in the way of precedent to guide it, calls into question whether Trump will stand trial before the November election.

    The former president faces 91 criminal charges in four prosecutions. Of those, the only one with a trial date that seems on track to hold is his state case in New York, where he’s charged with falsifying business records in connection with hush money payments to a porn actor. That case is set for trial on March 25, and the judge has signaled his determination to press ahead.

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