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The damaging revelations of the Jan. 6 committee hearings are fueling skepticism among Senate Republicans that former President Trump can win the GOP nomination in 2024 or even run for another term in the White House. One Republican senator, who requested anonymity to comment on the former president, said the “cascade” of embarrassing details about Trump’s conduct in the weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, and during the attack on the U.S. Capitol will seriously damage his political viability ahead of the 2024 election.

It may not be the guarantee of success in some states, but the endorsement of former President Donald Trump in Arizona is proving to be solid gold among likely Republican primary voters who agree that the 2020 election was flawed. In two new state surveys, the four top Trump-backed GOP primary candidates are winning with comfortable margins over others, including a gubernatorial candidate backed by former Vice President Mike Pence. A new Rasmussen Reports survey of Republican and conservative primary voters out today said that gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake tops Pence-backed Karrin Taylor Robson by 9 percentage points, 43%-34%.

Known for her aggressive Twitter comments and brusque treatment of the media, the Florida governor’s press secretary has used taunts to solidify a tough image

https://youtu.be/2-54gVEfDDY Skinflint Benny is seeking free tickets to Disneyland

Charles Blow wrote that Trump supporters are 'suckers' and Trump 'affirmed their white nationalism' and 'white fragility'

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw sent a message to liberal reporters who were not invited to a GOP convention in the Sunshine State: “Try crying about it.”

The concept of America First embodies the American people’s aspirational goals to see policies that primarily benefit them, especially in an era when it feels as if they are being overshadowed by special-interest groups, corporate lobbyists and foreign agendas. It’s undoubtedly linked with President Donald Trump, but the question remains for the 2024 election: Can this idea thrive with someone else’s leadership?

Neo-Nazi demonstrators in Florida climbed out from under their rock again on Saturday, this time outside a major Republican conference, Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit, held in Tampa. They put their hate-filled ideology on full and repugnant display, waving flags with swastikas and white-supremacist SS bolts, hoisting placards with anti-Semitic slurs. And somewhere in the mix of demonstrators, a “DeSantis Country” flag was unfurled. A spokesman for Turning Point USA, a right-wing student group, disavowed the hate mongers. “Turning Point 100% condemns these ideologies in the strongest of terms,” Andrew Kolvet said. He said his group didn’t know who...

Video at link BREAKING: @KariLake calls Mike Pence a liar Lake: “I thought VP Mike Pence was an honorable man and a Christian. He’s a liar.” Reporter: “You didn’t support Clinton?” Lake: “Never. That woman is disgusting and frankly she should be behind bars”

DeSantis: "Gender Affirming Care" Is A Euphemism For Castration And Sterilization Video at link

U.S. Rep Liz Cheney’s recent decision to abstain from voting on two pro-choice abortion bills caught heat during a Republican U.S House debate in Evanston on Tuesday night. Cheney did not participate in the debate sponsored by the Uinta County Republican Party, but GOP primary challenger Harriet Hageman criticized her for being absent from Congress for the two votes. “I believe she’s attempting to shore up support from the Democrats and that’s why she stayed away from voting for that,” candidate Harriet Hageman said.

House Democrats' marquee summer show of primetime investigative hearings ended Thursday night where it began: unable or unwilling to answer essential questions about the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. Chief among them: If Donald Trump wanted to incite violence that fateful day, as his critics suggest, then why did he order the Pentagon to have a large military force ready to quell a disturbance? And why did a Democrat-led Congress turn down the assistance of pop National Guard troops in the face of intelligence warnings about violence?

Jul. 24, 2022 - 4:04 - Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake discusses her campaign for governor and the impact Biden’s border policy has had on the state on ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’ Video at link

Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, continued to have harsh words for former President Donald Trump on Sunday, accusing him of the "most serious misconduct" in the history of the United Cheney, an outspoken GOP critic of Trump and one of the two Republican members of the House select committee investigating January 6, appeared on CNN's State of the Union. During her interview, host Jake Tapper pressed her about whether or not she believes Trump committed crimes while in office, as her fellow GOP committee member, Representative Adam Kinzinger, has said in the past.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called out China for reportedly buying up massive amounts of property in the Sunshine State, telling "The Ingraham Angle" he signed legislation to curb what he deemed "undue influence from rogue states" like the Chinese Communist Party.

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At a rally Friday night in Arizona, former President Donald Trump railed against the panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot — and his vice president, Mike Pence, who is also contemplating a presidential run, made a rival appearance in the Grand Canyon State. Speaking in Prescott Valley in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters, Trump attacked the House select committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021. Trump said he had watched Thursday night’s hearing, which focused on what he was doing while the violent mob breached the Capitol as Congress...

Daily Caller co-founder and Fox News host Tucker Carlson may have dealt a death blow to former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley’s presidential hopes Friday in Iowa. Tucker first made the statements about Haley during his keynote speech at the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday night. “We spoke about some of the politicians who should not be running the country. We were pretty specific about it,” Tucker reiterated on his Monday night show, a clip of which was shared on Twitter. “I’ll never forget it as long as I live,” Tucker told the audience in Iowa,...

BUENA PARK, Calif. (CNS) -- In the aftermath of a brawl among teenagers over the weekend that prompted the park to close early, Knott's Berry Farm has announced a "chaperone policy" that will require all guests aged 17 or under to be accompanied by a 21-or-older chaperone throughout their visit to the park on Fridays and Saturdays. Any teens found unaccompanied in the park on Fridays or Saturdays "will be subject to ejection" under the policy, which will take effect Friday.

Florida first lady Casey DeSantis hit out at California Governor Gavin Newsom after he explained why he attacked Ron DeSantis in a July 4 ad. Newsom paid for an ad to air in Florida during the July 4 weekend where he criticized Ron DeSantis' governing of the state. He urged Americans to move from Florida to California as he claimed their freedoms were under attack. He said they were under attack on issues like abortion, book banning and the easiness of voting. Over the weekend, Newsom spoke to the Sacramento Bee and gave his explanation for why he aired the...