Mr. Trump and his supporters say that mixing tariffs with tax cuts will revitalize American businesses and manufacturing, boosting jobs and benefiting working-class Americans. And they see tariffs on foreign products as a lucrative source of revenue, one that could be used to offset a drop in tax receipts.

A 137 mètres, un tireur moyen armé d’un fusil AR-15 ne peut normalement pas rater une cible de la corpulence de Donald Trump, surtout peu mobile devant un pupitre. Thomas Matthew Crooks est pourtant parvenu à réaliser ce double exploit ce samedi 13 juillet à 18h00 locale à Butler (Pennsylvanie) : parvenir à tirer sur un ancien président des États-Unis à nouveau candidat et parvenir à le rater à aussi courte portée.

Nous sommes dans un pays qui a, dès sa naissance, mis en avant les Minutemen, ces citoyens capables de prendre les armes dans la minute pour défendre la Patrie et la liberté, alors que l’armée régulière permanente était longtemps interdite, car soupçonnée d’être l’instrument potentiel de la tyrannie. Dans cette conception où on se méfie plus de l’État que d’ennemis extérieurs, le monopole légitime de la force n’est pas attribué au gouvernement mais aux citoyens.

Donald Trump exhorte Taïwan à « payer pour sa défense »
 
Le candidat républicain à l’élection présidentielle américaine vient de rappeler dans une interview à Bloomberg que les pays d’Asie profitant du « parapluie » américain feraient mieux de compter sur eux-mêmes.

À la suite de la tentative d’assassinat de Donald Trump survenue le samedi 13 juillet, Elon Musk et Ken Griffin semblent avoir fait don de 100 000 dollars chacun à une cagnotte GoFundMe créée pour soutenir les victimes et les familles des personnes blessées ou tuées lors de la fusillade, qui a fait un mort et plusieurs blessés, dont l’ancien président américain.

Elon Musk (100 000 dollars), Ken Griffin (100 000 dollars), le magnat des casinos Steve Wynn (50 000 dollars), le gouverneur de Floride Rick Scott et son épouse Ann Scott (50 000 dollars), la fondation conservatrice Heritage Foundation (50 000 dollars), le président de l’UFC Dana White (50 000 dollars), Kid Rock (50 000 dollars), l’ancien candidat à l’investiture républicaine pour l’élection présidentielle Vivek Ramaswamy (30 000 dollars), Ben Shapiro (15 000 dollars) et le site d’information conservateur fondé par Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire (15 000 dollars).

Rep. Adam Schiff calls for Biden to end his 2024 candidacy
 
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday joined the ranks of Democratic members of Congress calling for President Biden to exit the 2024 presidential race.
 
Why it matters: Schiff is the most high-profile elected Democrat to call for Biden's withdrawal and the first to do so publicly since former President Trump was shot in an assassination attempt on Saturday.
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Almost two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to step down, poll finds
 
A whopping 65% of Democrats believe President Biden should withdraw from the 2024 presidential race and let the party pick a different nominee, according to an AP-Norc poll out Wednesday.
 
Why it matters: The findings add more evidence to the damage done by Biden's disastrous debate performance last month, which highlighted longstanding concerns about his age and fitness for office.
 
The results based on a survey of 1,253 adults also fly in the face of Biden's own claim that the "average voter" wants him to stay in the race.
The big picture: Overall, 70% of U.S. voters want Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, while only 57% want to see former President Trump withdraw.
 
However, Trump enjoys high support from within his own party. Only 26% of Republicans think he should exit the race and let the GOP pick a different candidate, while 73% of Republicans want him to keep running.
Only 35% of Democrats want Biden to stay in the 2024 race.
 
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New polling bolsters ‘Dump Biden’ push
 
The topline findings from interviews with over 15,000 voters in seven battleground states:
 
“Alternative Democratic candidates run ahead of President Biden by an average of three points across the battleground states. Nearly every tested Democrat performs better than the President. This includes Vice President [KAMALA] HARRIS who runs better than the President (but behind the average alternative).”
 
“Some of the gains are coming from winning undecideds and those previously supporting a third party. However, alternative candidates are also pulling votes from Donald Trump. All candidates continue to hold the Democratic base.”
 
“Voters are looking for a fresh face. Those more closely tied to the current administration perform relatively worse than other tested candidates.”
 
The data here opens a new front in the fight to replace Biden, strongly arguing that the best chance to defeat Trump is with a new Democratic nominee independent of the incumbent administration.
 
In other words: not Kamala Harris.
 
The strongest potential candidates are (in alphabetical order) Arizona Sen. MARK KELLY, Maryland Gov. WES MOORE, Pennsylvania Gov. JOSH SHAPIRO and Michigan Gov. GRETCHEN WHITMER. All four outpaced Biden “by roughly 5 points across battleground states.”
 
This data supports the views of strategists like JAMES CARVILLE and those arguing that blindly rallying around Harris would be as big a mistake as blindly supporting Biden’s reelection was. “Nearly twice as many voters say delegates should nominate the best candidate over picking the next in line,” the memo says. This faction of the #DumpBiden movement wants an open process to replace Biden — who, by the way, still says he has no intention of stepping aside.

Former President Donald Trump didn’t just select a running mate here – he doused political kerosene on the raging Republican fire over foreign policy.
 
By tapping the 39-year-old Sen. J.D. Vance, one of the party’s leading national security doves, Trump strengthened the hand of the isolationist forces eager to undo the hawkish GOP consensus that has endured since the Reagan era.
 
Should Trump prevail in November, the non-interventionists will have one of their most articulate advocates at Trump’s side. What worries the hawks is that Vance may also be the last adviser in the former president’s ear.
 
While toeing the party line and praising Vance in their public comments, in private the interventionists ranged from horrified to merely alarmed that one of the loudest critics of aiding Ukraine could soon be first in line for the presidency. The grimaces, sighs and whispered frustrations from the old guard as they made their way through the convention reception circuit were easy to find in the day after the selection.
 
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), who oversees military spending as the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee chair, told one associate, according to a person familiar with the exchange: “The Ukrainians better hurry up and win.”
 
Another influential congressional Republican simply told me about the Vance selection: “I’m scared to death.”
 
While he had it on before Trump announced his running mate, the Ukrainian flag pin on the lapel of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, neatly illustrated without the necessity of words the gulf between so much of the GOP and Vance on the war in Europe.
 
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In a series of interviews, Republicans from the Reaganite wing openly urged Trump to counter Vance’s influence by appointing more hawkish national security officials.
 
After praising the former Marine’s political talent and up-from-poverty story — trumpeting the value he brings to the campaign — the lawmakers turned to governing.
 
“I would love to see more like-minded people in cabinet positions,” Sen Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told me, citing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), both hawks, as “Ernst-esque” picks.
 
After insisting that Trump believes in “peace through strength,” the Reagan credo, I asked Ernst if Vance does.
 
“He does because Trump does,” she shot back.
 
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When I wondered how ferocious the internal debates would be between Vance, Cotton and Pompeo, Thune, who’s running for Senate Republican Leader, acknowledged they’d be “very robust,” adding that Trump would surely delight in presiding over the Situation Room scrum. “He thrives on that,” he said of the former president.
 
The hawks are eager to install Pompeo at the Defense Department, see Cotton at the CIA or inside the White House and are supportive of Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) or Robert O’Brien, Trump’s first-term national security adviser, as Secretary of State. The fiercest clash may be over Ric Grenell, the troll-happy ambassador to Germany in Trump’s first term who is widely thought to covet the State Department or National Security Adviser.
 
The loudest voice for maintaining the party’s traditional posture on national security also happens to be a talented Republican in-fighter, but outgoing Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has little direct influence with Trump.
 
McConnell (R-Ky.) has been boasting in recent weeks about how his faction was on the march, citing the strong Senate majority for Ukraine aid, Speaker Mike Johnson’s hawkish turn on the issue and how every congressional Republican supporting the package emerged unscathed through the primary season.
 
Yet he had little to say about the Vance pick, only raising an eyebrow when I asked him about it immediately after it became public and declining to speak any further. For all his dedication to the Reaganite cause, McConnell is a party man first and was unwilling to distract from the unity of the week.
 
In a private session Tuesday with the International Republican Institute, an internationalist group founded in the Reagan era, McConnell walked attendees through history, reminding them that the party has long had brushes with isolationism. He cited one of Vance’s Ohio Senate predecessors, Robert A. Taft, as an illustration of how powerful the currents had been in the World War II era.
 
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SCOOOP on Saturday assassination attempt :   Local police warned
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Per a source close to Pelosi: “Schiff piece was news to her, he did not consult her before”

“.. Trump told the publication that cutting interest rates before the November election would boost the economy and President Joe Biden’s odds of victory. ‘It’s something that they know they shouldn’t be doing,’ Trump said ..”

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Présidentielle américaine : Nikki Haley et Ron DeSantis prêtent allégeance à Donald Trump, lors de la convention républicaine
 
Au deuxième jour du congrès, le gouverneur de Floride et l’ancienne ambassadrice à l’ONU, tous deux défaits et malmenés pendant les primaires, ont fait l’éloge du candidat républicain.

“By 3 p.m. on Saturday, roughly three hours before the shooting, Crooks was at the security screening area for the rally. He first aroused suspicion when he passed through the magnetometers carrying a rangefinder, which looks similar to a small pair of binoculars and is used by hunters and target shooters to measure distances when setting up a long-range shot, according to a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.”