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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, hugs Michaelah Montgomery, a local conservative activist, as he visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jason Allen)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, hugs Michaelah Montgomery, a local conservative activist, as he visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jason Allen)

Trump promised big plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are waiting to see them

Donald Trump has promised big plans for recruiting voters in Black, Latino and Asian communities. But five months before the first general election votes are cast, the former president’s campaign has little apparent organization to show for those ambitions.

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FILE - Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., speaks during a hearing on April 20, 2023, in Washington. Padilla is taking practically every opportunity to put his stamp on the Democratic Party's approach to immigration. The son of Mexican immigrants and the first Latino to represent his state in the Senate, he has emerged as a persistent force at a time when Democrats are increasingly focused on border security and the country's posture toward immigrants is uncertain. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

As border debate shifts right, Sen. Alex Padilla emerges as persistent counterforce for immigrants

FILE - People gather in front of the Puerto Rico's Capitol on April 30, 2015 in San Juan. Puerto Rico will hold a Democratic presidential primary Sunday, the only opportunity for Democrats on the island to officially weigh in on the race for the White House. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

FILE - People gather in front of the Puerto Rico’s Capitol on April 30, 2015 in San Juan. Puerto Rico will hold a Democratic presidential primary Sunday, the only opportunity for Democrats on the island to officially weigh in on the race for the White House. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary

Puerto Rico will hold a Democratic presidential primary, the only opportunity for Democrats on the island to officially weigh in on the race for the White House.

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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Pennsylvania’s presidential and state primaries

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Michigan’s state house special elections

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Trump challenges Biden to debate ‘any time he wants’ as he leaves the NY courthouse for the week

As he left the courthouse for the week, Donald Trump declared again that his hush money case is politically motivated and challenged President Joe Biden to debate “any time he wants,” even Friday night or at the White House.

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Trump wishes Melania a happy birthday, blasts ‘rigged’ hush money trial and ‘freezing courthouse’

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Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Friday, April 26, 2024. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)

Inside the head-spinning week of Donald Trump’s legal drama

Donald Trump’s criminal trial began in earnest with opening statements and testimony. But the unprecedented moment of a former president standing trial unfolded this past week amid a crescendo of developments in other legal cases.

FILE - Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., speaks during a Republican Indiana gubernatorial candidate forum in Carmel, Ind., Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)

Indiana voters to pick party candidates in competitive, multimillion dollar primaries

The results of some primary elections in Indiana could determine the outcome of the general election in a deep red state where Republicans hold a supermajority in both chambers of the state legislature and GOP politicians lead many top offices.

Utah state Rep. Phil Lyman, a candidate for governor, addresses nearly 4,000 delegates at the Utah Republican Party Convention, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

Moderate Republicans look to stave off challenges from the right at Utah party convention

Moderate Utah Republicans will look to stave off farther-right challengers at a state GOP convention that tends to favor the most conservative contenders.

FILE - Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., speaks with the media late Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Meijer withdrew his name from the U.S. Senate race on Friday, April 26, 2024, ending a longshot bid to become the Republican nominee and return to Congress after being ousted by voters for supporting an effort to impeach then-President Donald Trump. (Katy Batdorff/Detroit News via AP, File)

Former Rep. Peter Meijer ends his longshot bid for the GOP nomination in Michigan’s Senate race

Former Rep. Peter Meijer has withdrawn his name from a U.S. Senate race in Michigan. Meijer was seen as a longshot to win the Republican Party’s nomination after voting to impeach then-President Donald Trump in 2021.

President Joe Biden steps off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 26, 2024, as he returns from a trip to New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Joe Biden says he’s ‘happy to debate’ Donald Trump. Trump says he’s ready to go

President Joe Biden says he is willing to debate Donald Trump later this fall. Biden’s comment Friday is the most definitive he’s been on whether he would debate his presumptive Republican opponent.

Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves State Supreme Court in New York, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, during his trial on charges of allegedly falsifying business records. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally by comparing it to campus protests over Gaza war

Donald Trump on Thursday claimed a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was “nothing” compared to the college campus protests that have sparked around the country over the Israel-Hamas war.

David McCormick, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, speaks at a campaign event at the Beerded Goat Brewing Co., April 25, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Debates to play a major role in Pennsylvania’s 2024 US Senate election

Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania wants a series of three debates with his Republican challenger David McCormick ahead of the November election, and McCormick is readily accepting.

FILE - Kelly Daughtry, Republican candidate for North Carolina's 13th District U.S. House of Representatives seat, speaks at a rally, Jan. 26, 2024, in Roxboro, N.C. Early in-person voting started on Thursday, April 25, across North Carolina for next month's runoff elections, including one congressional and two statewide primary contests. Daughtry and Brad Knott are seeking the 13th District nomination. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

Early voting begins for North Carolina primary runoff races

Early in-person voting has started across North Carolina for next month’s runoff elections, including one congressional and two statewide primary contests.

Planned Parenthood Votes South Atlantic spokesperson, Emily Thompson, announces a $10 million investment into a state voter engagement campaign at a press conference in Bicentennial Plaza in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The campaign will focus on canvassing, mailers, digital ads and phone banking to block a GOP legislative supermajority and Republican governor in the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)

Planned Parenthood announces $10 million voter campaign in North Carolina for 2024 election

Planned Parenthood affiliated groups have announced a $10 million voter engagement campaign in North Carolina for the 2024 election.

Another Republican candidate to challenge Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Another Republican candidate has jumped into the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race. Ian Cain on Wednesday formally launched his campaign.

FILE - Chester County, Pa. election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots at West Chester University in West Chester on Nov. 4, 2020. A form Pennsylvania voters must complete on the outside of the envelopes used to return mail-in ballots has been redesigned, but that did not keep some voters from failing to complete it accurately for this week's primary, election officials said. Some votes will not count as a result. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Pennsylvania redesigned its mail-in ballot envelopes amid litigation. Some voters still tripped up

A form Pennsylvania voters must complete on the outside of the envelopes used to return mail-in ballots has been redesigned, but that didn’t prevent some voters from failing to complete it accurately for this week’s primary.

FILE - The William McKinley Monument is silhouetted in front of the west side of the Ohio Statehouse, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. Republican legislative leaders in Ohio say they are negotiating with Democrats to assure President Joe Biden appears on the state's November ballot, but the exact shape of the solution remains murky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Ohio lawmakers negotiate to assure Biden makes the state’s fall ballot

Republican legislative leaders in Ohio are negotiating with Democrats to assure President Joe Biden appears on the state’s November ballot.

FILE - A man carries a Free TikTok sign in front of the courthouse where the hush-money trial of Donald Trump got underway April 15, 2024, in New York. The House has passed legislation Saturday, April 20, to ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn't sell its stake, sending it to the Senate as part of a larger package of bills that would send aid to Ukraine and Israel. House Republicans' decision to add the TikTok bill to the foreign aid package fast-tracked the legislation after it had stalled in the Senate. The aid bill is a priority for President Joe Biden that has broad congressional support. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Biden just signed a bill that could ban TikTok. His campaign plans to stay on the app anyway

President Joe Biden’s signing of legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. runs counter to his campaign’s embrace of the platform and outreach to influencers.

President Joe Biden talks with NABTU President Sean McGarvey after speaking to the North America's Building Trade Union National Legislative Conference, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden picks up another big union endorsement, this one from building trades workers

The North America’s Building Trades Unions has endorsed President Joe Biden. It adds to Biden’s roster of support from organized labor.

FILE - Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 8, 2022. A Philadelphia state representative lost his Democratic primary on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 one day after prosecutors announced that a pending warrant against him with allegations he violated a protective order had been issued in error and was withdrawn. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Primary voters take down at least 2 incumbents in Pennsylvania House

At least two incumbent Pennsylvania state lawmakers are losing their seats after primary voters elected opponents. Democratic state Rep.

FILE A couple watches the sun set from a park, July 10, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. A quarter of U.S. adults over the age of 50 have no retirement savings, according to a new AARP survey — and 70% of people surveyed are worried about prices rising faster than their income. New research from the AARP released Wednesday reveals how a graying America is worrying more and more about how to make ends meet, even as economists and policymakers say the U.S. economy has all but achieved a soft landing after a period of record high inflation. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

About 1 in 4 US adults 50 and older who aren’t yet retired expect to never retire, AARP study finds

About one-quarter of U.S. adults age 50 and older who aren’t yet retired say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference, March 6, 2024, in Charleston, S.C. Haley suspended her presidential campaign, she refused to endorse Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination and apparently so did some of her supporters. Haley won almost 17% of Pennsylvania’s primary vote Tuesday, to Trump’s 83%, despite not campaigning for president since she ended her bid March 6. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Some Nikki Haley voters are hanging on to her candidacy and, like her, refuse to endorse Trump

When Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign, she refused to endorse Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination — and apparently so did some of her supporters in Pennsylvania.

FILE - Former Massey CEO Don Blankenship speaks during a town hall to kick off his Republican U.S. Senate campaign in Logan, W.Va., Jan. 18, 2018. Blankenship is running in the May 14 primary as a Democrat for the seat being vacated by Sen. Joe Manchin. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Disgraced coal CEO lost races as GOP and third party candidate. He’s trying again as a Democrat

Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship is making another attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, this time as a Democrat.

FILE - Police in Riot gear stand guard as demonstrators chant slogans outside the Columbia University campus, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. U.S. colleges and universities are preparing for end-of-year commencement ceremonies with a unique challenge: providing safety for graduates while honoring the free speech rights of students involved in protests over the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Biden tries to navigate the Israel-Hamas war protests roiling college campuses

Student protests over the war in Gaza have created a new and unpredictable challenge for President Joe Biden.

FILE - U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., stands for a portrait overlooking the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Monday, April 8, 2024. An election later this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel’s war with Gaza poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who have criticized the war. Lee is facing a primary challenge from Bhavini Patel. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Why AP called the Pennsylvania 12th District primary for Summer Lee: Race call explained

In her primary victory Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, first-term Democratic U.S. Rep.

Alabama lawmakers advance bill to ensure Biden is on the state’s ballot

The Alabama Senate has voted for legislation meant to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot.

FILE - Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., departs Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 11, 2023. On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the former U.S. representative said he's dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months after he was expelled from the House while facing a slew of federal fraud charges. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

George Santos ends comeback bid for Congress after raising no money

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos says he’s dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months after he was expelled from the House while facing a slew of federal fraud charges.

FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., speaks at South Carolina's "First in the Nation" dinner at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C., Jan. 27, 2024. Phillips will receive at least three delegates from the Ohio Democratic primary, but he is encouraging those delegates to support President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention this summer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Dean Phillips gains his first delegates. Here’s why they’ll likely vote for Biden at the convention

Rep. Dean Phillips will receive at least three delegates from the Ohio Democratic primary, but he is encouraging those delegates to support President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention this summer.

President Joe Biden arrives to speak at Prince William Forest Park on Earth Day, Monday, April 22, 2024, in Triangle, Va. Biden is announcing $7 billion in federal grants to provide residential solar projects serving low- and middle-income communities and expanding his American Climate Corps green jobs training program. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden’s Morehouse graduation invitation is sparking backlash, complicating election-year appearance

President Joe Biden will be the commencement speaker for Georgia’s Morehouse College and at West Point next month.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Trump meets with a senior Japanese official after court session in his hush money trial

Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he’s in New York for his criminal hush money trial.

FILE - This photo combo shows. Republican David McCormick, left, addressing supporters at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Sept. 21, 2023 and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., speaking during an event at AFSCME Council 13 offices, March 14, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa.. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, Marc Levy, file)

Casey and McCormick to face each other as nominees in Pennsylvania’s high-stakes US Senate contest

Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger David McCormick will face each other in Pennsylvania’s high-stakes U.S. Senate contest this fall.

People listen as President Joe Biden speaks about reproductive freedom on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla. Biden is in Florida planning to assail the state's upcoming six-week abortion ban and similar restrictions nationwide. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden blames Trump for Florida’s 6-week abortion ban, says women nationwide face health crisis

President Joe Biden is blaming Donald Trump for Florida’s upcoming abortion ban and other restrictions across the country that have imperiled access to care for pregnant women.

Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Trump could avoid trial this year on 2020 election charges. Is the hush money case a worthy proxy?

Former President Donald Trump faces serious charges in two cases over whether he attempted to subvert the Constitution by overturning the results of a fair election and illegally remain in power.

Brad Chambers speaks during a debate organized and hosted by the Indiana Debate Commission, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, Pool)

Indiana GOP candidates for governor make their pitch to voters at debate in Sen. Braun’s absence

Sen. Mike Braun has missed the final GOP debate in the race to become Indiana’s next governor, instead attending a vote in Washington on a foreign aid package.

Former president Donald Trump speaks to the media after the first day of opening arguments in his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court for falsifying documents related to hush money payments, in New York, NY, on Monday, April 22, 2024. The former President is expected to spend the next 6 or so weeks in attendance at his trial for falsification of business records, to cover up payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who allegedly had an encounter with the President before he was in office. Photographer: Victor J. Blue for The Washington Post/ Pool

Trump called this visa ‘very bad’ for Americans. Truth Social applied for one

The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict.