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JILL COLVIN

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Colvin is an Associated Press national political reporter covering the 2024 presidential campaign. She is based in New York.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump salutes at a campaign rally March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)
Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House
Having previously vowed to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, Trump promised to help them “the first day we get into office” at an Ohio rally.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Buckeye Values PAC rally on Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
Trump says Jews who vote for Democrats ‘hate Israel’ and their religion
Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)
Trump ramps up dark rhetoric in Ohio stump speech for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno
Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio.
 
FILE - President Donald Trump listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a briefing at the White House, March 29, 2020, in Washington. In an interview with Fox News Channel Friday, March 15, 2024, Pence said he will not be backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election. "It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year," he said. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Former Vice President Mike Pence says he’s not endorsing Trump
Former Vice President Mike Pence says he will not be backing Donald Trump in the 2024 election. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence said in an interview with Fox News Channel Friday.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally Saturday, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Trump wins delegates needed to become GOP’s presumptive nominee for third straight election
Donald Trump will lead the GOP in a third consecutive presidential election after clinching the nomination Tuesday.
 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., right, arrives to meet with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
House Republicans move ahead with TikTok vote even as Trump voices opposition to possible ban
House Republicans are moving ahead with a bill that would require Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the United States even as former President Donald Trump is voicing opposition to the effort.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Trump blasts Biden over Laken Riley’s death after Biden says he regrets using term ‘illegal’
President Joe Biden says he regretted using the term “illegal” during his State of the Union address to describe the suspected killer of Laken Riley.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, March 2, 2024, in Richmond, Va. A lawsuit settlement offers new details about how two attorneys for former President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there and in other swing states. The agreement settles a civil lawsuit filed by Democrats against the attorneys and the fake electors. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Trump keeps making incendiary statements. His campaign says that won’t change
Candidates on the verge of winning their parties’ nominations generally change their messaging as part of a so-called pivot. Not Donald Trump.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump looks to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., during a Fox News Channel town hall Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Tim Scott lost his own presidential bid. But he’s gotten Donald Trump’s attention for vice president
Donald Trump easily won South Carolina’s GOP primary. but the biggest winner on that night last month might have been Tim Scott.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Trump escalates his immigration rhetoric with baseless claim about Biden trying to overthrow the US
Former President Donald Trump has further escalated his immigration rhetoric, baselessly accusing President Joe Biden of waging a “conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America” at the border as he campaigned ahead of next week’s Super Tuesday contests.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
On the Rio Grande, 300 miles apart, Biden and Trump try to use immigration to election advantage
Three hundred miles apart, on the bank of the same winding Rio Grande, President Joe Biden and GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday surveyed the U.S.
 
FILE - Donald Trump Jr., speaks at a rally for his father, Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, in Laconia, N.H., Jan. 22, 2024. Emergency crews responded Mondaym Feb. 26, after a letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to the Florida home of Donald Trump Jr. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Letter containing white powder sent to Donald Trump Jr.'s home
Emergency crews responded Monday after a letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to the Florida home of Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former president and GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
 
In this combination of photos, President Joe Biden, left, speaks on Aug. 10, 2023, in Salt Lake City, and former President Donald Trump speaks on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, N.J. Biden and Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, following the failed border deal that was opposed by the Republican front-runner. (AP Photo)
Biden and Trump both plan trips to the Mexico border Thursday, angling for advantage on immigration
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday following the failed border deal that was opposed by the Republican front-runner.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump hugs and kisses the American flag as he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump calls himself a ‘proud political dissident’ in CPAC speech
Former President Donald Trump cast November’s presidential election as “judgment day” and declared himself a “political dissident” during a speech before conservative activists outside of Washington.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Mich., Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
In a post about dead Russian opposition leader Navalny, Trump talks of his own legal problems
Former President Donald Trump has mentioned Alexei Navalny’s death in a social media post more than 72 hours after the Russian opposition leader died in an Arctic penal colony.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Mich., Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Trump rails against New York fraud ruling as he faces fines that could exceed half-a-billion dollars
Trump was making his pitch in a state that is expected to be critical in November as he pivots toward a likely general election rematch against President Joe Biden.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump holds gold Trump sneakers at Sneaker Con Philadelphia, an event popular among sneaker collectors, in Philadelphia, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at ‘Sneaker Con,’ a day after a $355 million ruling against him
As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop.
 
Former President Donald Trump speaks before entering the courtroom at Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. A New York judge says former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Delay tactics and quick trips: Takeaways from two Trump case hearings in New York and Georgia
Donald Trump’s unprecedented tangle of overlapping cases was on full display Thursday with simultaneous court hearings in New York and Georgia.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, with Eric and Lara Trump. Trump is calling for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists — including his daughter-in-law — at the top of the GOP’s political machine even before he formally secures the party’s next presidential nomination. T(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
Trump wants to install new RNC leadership including his daughter-in-law as co-chair
Donald Trump is calling for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists — including his daughter-in-law — at the top of the GOP’s political machine even before he formally secures the party’s next presidential nomination.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump walks off the stage after speaking at a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Trump’s threat to NATO allies draws little condemnation from GOP, reflecting his grip on the party
Donald Trump’s claim that he once told a NATO ally that he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to “delinquent” members of the group sent shockwaves through Europe over the weekend.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the National Rifle Association's Presidential Forum in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Trump says he once told a NATO ally to pay its share or he’d ‘encourage’ Russia to do what it wanted
Republican front-runner Donald Trump says he warned NATO allies as president that he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to members who are “delinquent.”
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association's Presidential Forum in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Trump tells NRA members ‘no one will lay a finger on your firearms’ if he returns to the White House
Former President Donald Trump told thousands of members of the National Rifle Association that “no one will lay a finger on your firearms” if he returns to the White House, and bragged that during his time as president he “did nothing” to curb guns.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak after meeting with members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at their headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Asked if he supports RNC chairwoman, Trump suggests there will ‘probably be some changes made’
Former President Donald Trump has issued a warning to the Republican National Committee’s chairwoman.
 
Supporters cheer after learning that Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire primary,at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
How Donald Trump went from a diminished ex-president to the GOP’s dominant front-runner
When Donald Trump left the White House three years ago, he was a one-term president whose refusal to accept his reelection defeat culminated in an insurrection at the U.S.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump motions before speaking at a campaign event Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
After Teamsters meeting, Trump says of possible union endorsement, ‘Stranger things have happened’
Former President Donald Trump met with members of the Teamsters Union in Washington Wednesday as he looks past the GOP primary and toward a general election rematch against President Joe Biden.
 
FILE - Edward X. Young, of Brick, N.J., arrives before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Laconia, N.H., Jan. 22, 2024. Before launching his ill-fated campaign for the White House, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a star. Again and again, Republican voters said they saw him as the future of the party. But after a bitter scorched-earth primary in which Trump pounded DeSantis viciously for the better part of a year, interviews with voters across early-voting states suggest the Florida governor may have an uphill battle if he chooses to run again in 2028. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
‘Traitor': After bitter primary, DeSantis may struggle to win over Trump supporters if he runs again
Before launching his ill-fated campaign for the White House, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a star. Again and again, Republican voters said they saw DeSantis as the future of the party.
 
FILE - House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., walks on Capitol Hill, Jan. 18, 2024, in Washington. Former President Donald Trump is racking up Republican endorsements in Congress for his 2024 presidential campaign. On Jan. 24, after Trump won the New Hampshire primary, the number of endorsements climbed even higher, a solid majority of the Republicans in Congress. "It's past time for the Republican Party to unite around President Trump," said Johnson, setting the tone. (AP Photo/Yuri Gripas)
Trump’s quiet campaign to rack up Republican endorsements is working
After Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden and inspired a mob of supporters to attack the Capitol trying to overturn the 2020 election, the defeated president started laying the groundwork for the support in Congress he would need for a return.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Trump rematch with Biden appears increasingly likely after New Hampshire win
Donald Trump has easily won the New Hampshire primary. He has swept the opening contests for the Republican presidential nomination and delivered a fresh setback to his last major rival, former U.N.
 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Laconia, N.H., Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Haley hopes to stop Trump’s march to nomination in New Hampshire
On the eve of New Hampshire’s presidential primary, almost every top Republican has lined up behind former President Donald Trump.
 
FILE - Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, right, speaks as former President Donald Trump listens during a rally, Oct. 9, 2022, in Mesa, Ariz. While vice presidential candidates typically aren't tapped until after a candidate has locked down the nomination, Trump's decisive win in the Iowa caucuses and the departure of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from the race has only heightened what had already been a widespread sense of inevitability. Lake is considered a close ally of the former president who is among those being considered for the job. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
With Trump closing in on nomination, the effective audition to become his vice president is underway
Vice presidential candidates typically aren’t tapped until after a candidate has locked down the nomination.
 
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