MICHELLE L. PRICE

National political reporter

Price is a national political reporter for The Associated Press. She is based in New York.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally in Conway, S.C., Feb. 10, 2024. A major anti-abortion group is praising Trump after a New York Times report Friday, Feb. 16, that Trump has privately told people he supports a national ban on abortion after 16-weeks of pregnancy, though his campaign denied the report and said Trump plans to "negotiate a deal" on abortion if elected to the White House again. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Abortion rights opponents and supporters seize on report that Trump privately pushes 16-week ban

A major anti-abortion group is praising a published report that Donald Trump has privately told people he supports a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks of pregnancy — though his campaign denied the report and said Trump plans to “negotiate a deal” on abortion if elected to the White House again

FILE - Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks during the Politics and Eggs event, Jan. 12, 2024, in Manchester, N.H. Manchin announced Friday, Feb. 16, that he is not running for president, according to his spokesman Jon Kott. Manchin is not running for reelection in 2024. His Senate seat in a heavily Republican state is expected to be a prime pickup opportunity for the GOP. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announces he won’t run for president in 2024

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says he is not running for president. Manchin announced his decision in a speech Friday at West Virginia University, saying he didn’t want to be a “spoiler.”

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Charleston Area Convention Center in North Charleston, S.C., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/David Yeazell)

Donald Trump stands by remarks about not defending NATO members after backlash

Former President Donald Trump is defending saying he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to NATO allies that don’t meet defense spending targets days after his comments set off alarm in the U.S. and among its allies.

FILE - Jared Kushner listens as former President Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. Kushner defended on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, his business dealings after leaving government with the Saudi crown prince who was implicated in the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Jared Kushner, former Trump adviser, defends business dealings with Saudi Arabia

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, is defending his business dealings with the Saudi crown prince after leaving the U.S. government.

FILE - Former President Donald Trump, right, listens as his daughter-in-law Lara Trump speaks at the North Carolina Republican Convention, June 5, 2021, in Greenville, N.C. Donald Trump is calling for a shakeup at the highest levels of the Republican National Committee. And party leaders are taking it very seriously. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, Fike)

What is happening at the Republican National Committee and could Lara Trump become its co-chair?

Donald Trump is calling for a shakeup at the highest levels of the Republican National Committee. And party leaders are taking it very seriously.

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 UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event in Newberry, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)

Haley challenges Trump on her home turf in South Carolina as the Republican primary looms

With two weeks to go before the South Carolina Republican primary, Nikki Haley is trying to challenge Donald Trump on her home turf while the former president tries to quash his last major rival’s narrow path to the nomination.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night rally in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Trump demonstrates his grip on the GOP base in Nevada’s caucuses

Donald Trump has won Nevada’s Republican presidential caucuses after he was the only major candidate to participate.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley addresses a gathering during a campaign rally, Jan. 19, 2024, in Manchester, N.H. Haley used her speech to step up her questions about Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump's mental fitness, highlighting her calls for mental competency tests for politicians — her way to point to both Trump's and President Joe Biden's ages (77 and 81, respectively). (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

‘None of these candidates’ wins Nevada in a blowout defeat to Haley

Nikki Haley has been swamped in Nevada’s symbolic Republican presidential primary as GOP voters resoundingly picked the “none of these candidates” option on the ballot.

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event in Conway, S.C., Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Kelley)

Republican megadonor Ken Griffin gave $5 million to super PAC backing Nikki Haley

After initially staying out of the 2024 presidential race, billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin has thrown his support behind Nikki Haley as she takes on Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.

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.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump during a campaign stop in Rochester, N.H., Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump celebrates DeSantis’ decision to drop out, ending a bitter feud that defined the 2024 campaign

Donald Trump is setting aside months of criticism and mockery of Ron DeSantis after the Florida governor dropped out of the presidential race.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, pointing to South Carolina Gov Henry McMaster, right, during a campaign event in Manchester, N.H., Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump is joined by South Carolina leaders at New Hampshire rally as he tries to undercut Haley

Donald Trump surrounded himself with leaders from Nikki Haley’s home state in a show of strength before Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Portsmouth, N.H., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Donald Trump tops a long day in court with a rambling New Hampshire rally

Former President Donald Trump is cramming campaigning and court into a single day. That led him to be more than two hours late for a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after he spent the day in court in New York.

Supporters cheer as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Atkinson, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

DeSantis and Haley have a one-week sprint ahead of the New Hampshire primary as Trump leads the way

Donald Trump has scored a record victory in the Iowa caucuses and said Tuesday that he wants another big win in New Hampshire.

Greg Jennings poses for a photo before a rally for Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump in Mason City, Iowa, on Jan. 5, 2024. "At this stage, if we're going to continually lose elections because of that issue, I'd say dump the whole damn thing and let God be the judge," said Jennings, a 68-year-old retired painting contractor from Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/Steve Peoples)

Iowa’s Republican voters are less interested in talking about abortion

Republican presidential candidates these days are barely discussing abortion in Iowa just days away from the state’s caucuses.

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, looks at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, at the CNN Republican presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Haley and DeSantis tear into each other’s records in a hostile head-to-head Republican debate

DeSantis and Haley called each other liars and insulted each other’s records and character in the opening minutes of the debate.

First Church of God Pastor Charles Hundley leads the morning service, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. Former President Donald Trump and his rivals for the GOP nomination have pushed for endorsements from pastors and faith communities. Evangelicals and religious Christian groups are traditionally critical to the Republican caucuses. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Iowa’s Christian conservatives follow their faith when voting, and some say it leads them to Trump

Former president Donald Trump and his Republican rivals for the 2024 election have for months been heavily courting social conservatives and white evangelical Christians, seen as the most influential group in Iowa’s Republican caucuses.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump signs autographs after speaking at a rally at Des Moines Area Community College in Newton, Iowa, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump downplays Jan. 6 on the anniversary of the Capitol siege and calls jailed rioters ‘hostages’

Former President Donald Trump campaigned in Iowa and spent time there marking the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S.

Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a town hall campaign event, Tuesday, Dec.12, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Some 2024 GOP hopefuls call for ‘compassion’ in Texas abortion case but don’t say law should change

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have called for “compassion” in the case of a woman whose health deteriorated as she unsuccessfully sought an abortion in Texas, but they stopped short of criticizing the state’s law.

Former President Donald Trump arrives at a commit to caucus rally, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in Coralville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump rails against opponents while urging Iowans to ‘put big numbers up’ in caucuses next month

Donald Trump is urging his supporters in Iowa to turn out in “big numbers” when Republicans cast the first presidential nomination votes in 33 days.

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. The trial will determine how much Giuliani will have to pay two Georgia election workers who he falsely accused of fraud while pushing President Donald Trump's baseless claims after he lost the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jurors in a Giuliani damages case hear the threats election workers got after his false claims

Lawyers for two Georgia election workers are asking jurors in a federal case to make Rudy Giuliani pay the women tens of millions of dollars in damages for false accusations he made against them that led to threats and racist harassment.

Former President Donald Trump greets supporters during a stop at the Front Street Pub & Eatery, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump’s campaign is distancing him from allies who have sketched out plans for a second term

In a memo from senior advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, the campaign said messages about a potential Trump government that come from anyone but the Republican or his team should not be considered official and are “an unwelcomed distraction.”

FILE - Kash Patel speaks at a rally in Minden, Nev., Oct. 8, 2022. Patel, said Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, that if the former president is elected again, his administration will retaliate against people in the media "criminally or civilly." Patel said on Steve Bannon's podcast that a future administration would "go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media" over the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, File)

A second Trump administration will ‘come after’ people in the media in the courts, an ally says

A Donald Trump ally who worked in his Justice Department says that if the former president is elected again, his administration will retaliate against people in the media “criminally or civilly.”

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during a caucus event, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Geoff Stellfox/The Gazette via AP)

Trump calls Biden the ‘destroyer’ of democracy despite his own efforts to overturn 2020 election

Former President Donald Trump is trying to turn the tables on President Joe Biden by arguing the Democratic incumbent is the actual threat to democracy.

Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the final event of a 99-county tour of Iowa, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Newton. (Lily Smith/The Des Moines Register via AP)

DeSantis marks an Iowa milestone as the caucuses near. Trump says his rival’s campaign is in trouble

Ron DeSantis has completed his campaign promise to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties. He held an event to celebrate crossing a symbolic but also tactical threshold.

Republican presidential candidate and ormer President Donald Trump waves during halftime of an NCAA college football game between South Carolina and Clemson, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Artie Walker Jr.)

What if Donald Trump is convicted? The 2024 Republican convention rules don’t address the issue

Rules for next year’s nominating contest and convention have been released, but a major question is unaddressed: Can delegates vote for a different candidate if the party’s presumptive nominee is convicted of a felony?

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, right, after he received Abbott's endorsement at the South Texas International Airport Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, in Edinburg, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Trump picks up the endorsement of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to a US-Mexico border town

Donald Trump has returned to the U.S.-Mexico border for a visit and he’s picked up the endorsement of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters ahead of the debate and vote on supplemental aid to Israel, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New Speaker Mike Johnson formally endorses Donald Trump, a step beyond predecessor Kevin McCarthy

House Speaker Mike Johnson has endorsed Donald Trump for president, a move that was a symbolic departure from his ousted predecessor leading the House.