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A pollster with ties to former President Donald Trump observed that former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley “has surged” in Iowa and New Hampshire since last week’s first 2024 GOP primary debate, closing in on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and conservative businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, according to…
Read More Trump World Sees Haley Catching Up With DeSantis, Ramaswamy Post-Debate
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has effectively rejected nearly $350 million dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) designated for use in Florida, according to Politico. The IRA, President Joe Biden’s signature climate spending bill, sets aside money for rebates for consumers to buy more efficient…
Read More Florida Gov. DeSantis Turns Down Millions In Incentives From Biden’s Signature Climate Bill
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ripped President Joe Biden, saying he lived in a “bubble” and talked with “donors,” not regular Americans. Kennedy trails Biden by 53% in the Real Clear Politics average of polls from Aug. 2 to Aug. 26. Kennedy filed paperwork with the Federal…
Read More RFK Jr. Rails Against Biden For Living In ‘Bubble,’ Talking Only To ‘His Donors’
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said that there were “substantial constitutional questions” to be worked out if former President Donald Trump were to win the White House in 2024. Trump turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail to be booked Aug. 24…
Read More Jonathan Turley: Count On ‘Constitutional Questions’ If Trump Wins White House In 2024
Attorney Sidney Powell, who represented former President Donald Trump during his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday in Georgia. Powell and Trump were among those charged for allegedly seeking to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia after…
Read More Former Trump Attorney Sidney Powell Pleads Not Guilty In Georgia Election Case
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday evening it was “crunch time” as Hurricane Idalia prepared to wallop North Florida’s Big Bend region with damaging winds and massive storm surge. “You really got to go back to the late 1800s to find a storm of this…
Read More Florida Gov. DeSantis Says It’s ‘Crunch Time’ For Hurricane Idalia
Billionaire Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is laying the groundwork for 2024 election censorship, according to recent policy and hiring posts. X will be implementing additional censorship policies during the time period around the 2024 election, it announced on Tuesday. The company intends to guarantee…
Read More Elon Musk’s X Is Laying The Groundwork To Censor ‘Harmful’ Election Content
Fox News host Mark Levin called the handling of the indictment of former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, “a perfect case” of “grand jury abuse,” citing the leak of a document. Trump turned himself in at the Fulton County jail to be booked…
Read More Mark Levin Says Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is ‘A Perfect Case For Grand Jury Abuse’
North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Anita Earls filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the state commission that oversees judicial ethics after she was investigated for her public comments, including those on the judiciary’s “lack of diversity.” Earls has been subject to “a series of…
Read More North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Who Pushed For ‘Diversity’ Sues Ethics Commission
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called out MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell Tuesday for linking a hurricane approaching Florida to climate change. Hurricane Idalia is nearing the west coast of Florida, prompting evacuation orders in multiple Florida counties. A second hurricane, Franklin, is off the coast of the Carolinas,…
Read More Vivek Ramaswamy Calls Out MSNBC Host For Linking Climate Change To Major Hurricane