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Vice President Harris leads former President Trump by 9 points among young voters in a new poll, marking the latest shift in support from a demographic President Biden struggled to capture before withdrawing from the 2024 race. In a SocialSphere survey, released by Democratic super PAC Won’t Pac Down, Harris garnered 51 percent support from registered voters ages 18-29 in battleground states in a two-way race against Trump, who had 42 percent of support from this group. Seven percent did not know which candidate they would back. Pollsters noted this is a 13-point shift to Harris since the poll was...

The Trump White House issued a warning to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2021 urging him to enact mask mandates in the Sunshine State, a letter shows. The directive, dated Jan. 10, 2021, states that “aggressive mitigation must be used” to combat the virus. It advised “uniform implementation of effective face masking” and “strict physical distancing.”DeSantis, 44, released the letter Thursday, as he accused former President Donald Trump, 77, of being a “power-hungry” bureaucrat. “Even in January of 2021, the Trump-Fauci White House Coronavirus Task Force attacked Florida for being open and demanded Florida impose a mask mandate and enact...