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A new Fox News poll, conducted earlier this month, shows that Mr Trump has four times the support of his nearest rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, among Republican primary voters.

Mr Trump is lapping the competition, leading with 59 per cent support among polled voters, compared with Mr DeSantis’s 13 per cent support.

What’s new in the poll is Joe Biden appears to narrowly edge out Mr Trump in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, whereas other Republican frontrunners are projected to beat the president.

Joe Biden has raised more money for his re-election campaign than any previous Democratic candidate in history, and has also outraised his chief rival — former President Donald Trump.

Mr Trump, who is far and away the front-runner for the GOP heading into 2024, announced earlier in October that he has raised $46m in the past three months, with $38m cash-on-hand.

Mr Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, however, have brought in more than $71m in the same time period, bringing their total campaign war chest to $91m.

Attorney General Jeff Landry, who ran with the backing of Donald Trump, has won Louisiana’s governor’s race.

The Republican defeated a crowded field of competitiors, but ultimately delivered a major win for the GOP as they retake the governor’s mansion from the Democrats for the first time in eight years.

Mr Landry will replace Governor John Bel Edwards, who was unable to run again due to term limitations.

Mr Edwards was the only Democrat serving as governor in a Deep South state.

“Today’s election says that our state is united,” Mr Landry said during his victory speech on Saturday night. “It’s a wake up call and it’s a message that everyone should hear loud and clear, that we the people in this state are going to expect more out of our government from here on out.”

Senator Lindsey Graham, an on-again-off-again ally of Donald Trump, said he would back the former president’s preferred pick for Speaker of the House “tomorrow” if he was a member of the House.

“He’s a good man but we need to get a speaker,” Mr Graham told Meet the Press.

Mr Jordan is a leading candidate to take the job after former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted, but he has yet to secure the 217 votes necessary to win the spot.

Retired General Frank McKenzie, who formerly was the commander of US Central Command, said that Donald Trump was incorrect when he claimed Israel refused to participate in the assassination of Iranian commander Quassem Soleimani in 2020.

He appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation, where he insisted that the operation was purley a US endeavour.

“This was a U.S. operation. It involved only U.S. forces,” Mr McKenzie said.

Mr Trump faced backlash when he criticised Isreali PM Benjamin Netanyahu following Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October.

Donald Trump appears to be backpedalling his criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu following the attack on Israel after an angry reaction to his remarks at an event in Florida on Wednesday.

Just days after the sudden escalation of the conflict between Hamas and Israel resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, the former president accused the Israeli Prime Minister of being unprepared and recalled he had allegedly failed to stand with the US during the latter part of his presidency.

He also called Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah “very smart”, further infuriating the White House, Israeli officials and his rivals for the Republican Party presidential nomination.

The pointed criticism of Mr Netanyahu and other his remarks drowned out Mr Trump’s pledge of unwavering support for Israel earlier in the speech.

Republicans in New Hampshire kicked a 15-year-old journalist out of a candidate showcase, though he was later allowed to return, according to the New York Times.

Most of the Republican presidential primary candidates — including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis but excluding Donald Trump — were at the event.

Quinn Mitchell, the teen reporter who runs his own blog and podcast from his home in Walpole, New Hampshire, had had two previous interactions with Mr DeSantis. In June, Quinn asked whether or not Mr DeSantis thought Mr Trump had tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power in the US. In July, Republicans shooed him away from Mr DeSantis during an Independence Day parade.

On Friday, Quinn was removed from the First in the Nation Leadership Summit, hosted by the New Hampshire Republican Party.

“They said, ‘We know who you are,’” Quinn told the Times.

He was ultimately escorted out by police.

Jimmy Thompson, the New Hampshire Republican Party spokesperson, said the incident was a mistake by an “overzealous volunteer.”

“During the course of the two-day event, an overzealous volunteer mistakenly made the decision to have Quinn removed from the event, thinking he was a Democrat tracker,” Mr Thompson wrote. “Once the incident came to our staff’s attention, NHGOP let him back into the event, where he was free to enjoy the rest of the summit.”

Donald Trump released a statement on Truth Social on Saturday saying he believed his primary rival Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would soon drop out of the Republican presidential primary race.

“Ron DeSanctimonious has the Poll numbers of a wounded bird falling from the sky. It’s pretty sad to watch,” Mr Trump said in a video posted to his social media platform.

He said he was leading Mr DeSantis by “more than 57 points” and said Mr DeSantis has “proven to be a terrible and inept candidate who “even fought Social Security and Medicare, wanted to raise the age to 70.”

“He will soon be out of money and dropping out of the race for president,” Mr Trump predicted.

He then took credit for getting Mr DeSantis elected.

“After single-handedly getting him elected governor with no thanks or glory, it has been a beautiful thing to watch him not do so well. So I say: good luck Ron, but I think you’re pretty much finished.”

Michael Cohen, a former attorney turned critic of Donald Trump, will not be testifying next week in Mr Trump’s civil fraud case, according to two unnamed sources who spoke with NBC News.

“Unfortunately I need to attend to a pre-existing medical condition that impedes my ability to testify this upcoming week. Rest assured, I will testify at the earliest opportunity,” he told NBC News.

Mr Cohen’s testimony before Congress sparked New York District Attorney Letitia James’ investigation into the Trump Organisation’s financials.

Donald Trump appears to be backpedalling his criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu following the attack on Israel after an angry reaction to his remarks at an event in Florida on Wednesday.

Just days after the sudden escalation of the conflict between Hamas and Israel resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, the former president accused the Israeli Prime Minister of being unprepared and recalled he had allegedly failed to stand with the US during the latter part of his presidency.

He also called Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah “very smart”, further infuriating the White House, Israeli officials and his rivals for the Republican Party presidential nomination.

The pointed criticism of Mr Netanyahu and other his remarks drowned out Mr Trump’s pledge of unwavering support for Israel earlier in the speech.