Sen. Ted Cruz supports Pam Bondi's confirmation as attorney general, calling her Trump's most crucial nominee and praising her strong hearing performance.

Ms Bondi’s rise has brought her far from Temple Terrace, the city where she grew up on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Her father, a teacher, was the mayor. While an undergraduate at the University of Florida she considered becoming a paediatrician. But she went to law school, and an internship at the state prosecutor’s office in Tampa sealed the deal.

In 2020, Bondi supported Trump's efforts to overturn the election, embracing false claims of voter fraud and asserting that " we won Pennsylvania ," a state Trump in fact lost by 80,000 votes. Durbin responded to Bondi's deflection by saying that he thought his question “deserved a yes or no.”

Bondi, a former Florida state attorney general, weathered often heated questioning from Democrats on the Judiciary Committee Wednesday over her refusal to admit Joe Biden won the 2020 election, among other issues,

Trump said Bondi would “refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again” in her role as attorney general.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, said she accepted the results of the 2020 election that Trump lost to President Joe Biden but suggested during a confirmation hearing Wednesday that she had witnessed significant problems in Pennsylvania when she traveled to state as an advocate for the Republican’s campaign.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is testifying to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Wednesday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a second day of its confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi, on Thursday.

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and RCP senior elections analyst Sean Trende start with a review last night's prime-time address by President Joe Biden about his legacy and accomplishments.

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, on Wednesday refused to admit Trump lost the presidential election in 2020. During her confirmation hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee,

Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff engaged in fierce verbal combat Wednesday with Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi, as they fought over her views on the 2020 elections, immigration and presidential pardons. At one point, a frustrated Bondi told Schiff “You were censured by Congress for comments just like this that are so reckless.”