Trump addressed Republican caucusgoers in the Virgin Islands by video today, saying: “I want to say a very special hello to my friends in the United States Virgin Islands. It’s a very, very special place and even more special today and tonight, because this is the day you’re going to be caucusing, and you’re going to caucus for me, and I appreciate it.”

Voters are caucusing there today in a contest with four delegates to the Republican National Convention at stake.

At a news conference at Mar-a-Lago before he headed to Nevada, a state with its own GOP caucuses today, Trump accused his lone remaining major opponent, Haley, of “playing it very hard” in the Virgin Islands. She has not visited the territory, but she did several virtual events, including one this week.

In his first on-camera remarks after the Hur report was released, Biden said that the special counsel "made clear the stark differences" between this probe and that of Trump.

"Special counsel acknowledged I cooperated completely. I did not throw up any roadblocks. I sought no delays," Biden said at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference, noting that he took part in a lengthy interview in the probe in October shortly after the Hamas attacks in Israel.

Biden referred to Trump's indictment, saying the former president, by contrast, refused to return classified documents that were in his possession over an extended period and allegedly made efforts to obstruct justice by destroying evidence.

“That’s the distinction, among others. Bottom line is a special counsel in my case decided against moving forward any charges. This matter is now closed," Biden said.

Haley said on X today that a special counsel's decision not to prosecute Biden for retaining classified documents revealed special treatment of Biden compared with Trump, who was charged over his handling of classified materials after he left the White House.

"The double standard is glaring. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump were reckless with classified documents," Haley wrote. "If Biden’s defense is old age and forgetfulness, Trump can easily make the same claim. Trump should quickly hire Biden’s lawyers."

Biden managed to avoid any legal consequences in connection with his handling of classified documents, but special counsel Robert Hur’s report echoed concerns about his age and memory that voters have expressed.

In declining to prosecute Biden, Hur's office said he "would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." The report suggested that, by the reasonable doubt standard, a jury might have difficulty convicting Biden "of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness."

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Hur has declined to prosecute Biden for his handling of classified documents, but he said Biden’s practices “present serious risks to national security” and added that Biden portrayed himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory” who would be sympathetic to a jury.

“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” the report said, but the evidence “does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

About a month after he left office as vice president, in a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter in February 2017, Biden remarked that he “just found all this classified stuff downstairs,” the report said. Biden was believed to have been referring to classified documents about the Afghanistan troop surge in 2009, which Biden opposed.

Biden's memory, Hur’s report said, “was significantly limited” in his interviews with the special counsel last year.

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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., announced on X that she'll retire at the end of this term.

McMorris Rodgers has served her Spokane-based district, Washington's 5th, since 2005, including six years in House Republican leadership as chair of the conference. Most recently, she has chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee.

The Biden campaign is preparing to highlight Trump's "commitment to siding with the gun lobby over keeping Americans safe" as the former president delivers a keynote speech at tomorrow's NRA forum, according to plans first shared with NBC News.

The Democratic National Committee will launch a billboard campaign reading "get over it," aiming to underscore how Trump has responded to gun violence in the past. The billboard references the former president's reaction to a school shooting in Iowa earlier this year, where he said that people "have to get over it, we have to move forward."

"If Trump is allowed back in the Oval Office, he’s promised a new plan to arm teachers and allow universal concealed carry permits across the country. More guns, not less," said Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler. "That’s Donald Trump’s plan to make us safe. We simply cannot allow his extreme agenda in the White House that will cost more American lives."

The Biden campaign also plans to work with former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was shot at an event in 2011, as well as Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun violence prevention organization, to fact-check the former president and respond to his speech.

Trump told reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago resort that he was about to head to Nevada to celebrate an expected victory in the state’s GOP caucuses. 

“All polls indicate we’re in the 90s. Maybe more than that,” he said.

The former president also dinged Nikki Haley, who participated in Tuesday’s Nevada primary instead of today’s caucuses, meaning she isn’t eligible to earn any Republican delegates. 

“I don’t know why she continues but let her continue,” he said, adding, “I think she hurts herself but I think she hurts the party, and in a way hurts the country.”

“She did very poorly in Iowa … she did poorly in New Hampshire … and in Nevada, she lost to 'no name,'” Trump said, referencing the fact that more voters selected “none of these candidates” in the primary than voted for Haley.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today signaled deep skepticism that Colorado had the power to remove Trump from the Republican primary ballot because of his actions trying to overturn the 2020 election results.

A majority of the justices appeared during the two-hour argument to think that states do not have a role in deciding whether a presidential candidate can be barred from running under a provision of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment that bars people who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.

Justices raised concerns about states reaching different conclusions on whether a candidate could run and several indicated that only Congress could enforce the provision at issue.

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