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A number of Ron DeSantis supporters have taken to social media to announce they will vote for Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before they unify behind Donald Trump, despite the DeSantis camp pitching the Florida Governor as a facsimile of Trump with less “baggage” and more “effective” administration.“Since I have been reliably told for months by Trump supporters that they would write him in even if DeSantis or anyone else won the GOP primary, it’s good to have permission to support RFK in the general if DeSantis doesn’t win the GOP primary,” wrote DeSantis booster Scott Morefield, a...

Florida blogger and Ron DeSantis campaign influencer Chris Nelson was ejected from the Republican primary debate in Simi Valley, California after harassing Kari Lake and other debate guests. In the hours prior to the event, Nelson posted a series of videos to X (formerly Twitter) that show him shouting at Lake and others. In one video, he can be heard ranting about former President Donald Trump – suggesting his supporters intend to make him ‘Emperor of the United States.’Nelson has become a fairly regular figure among the DeSantis campaign’s online trolls, routinely attacking Trump supporters. Sources close to Nelson have...

Chris Nelson is not afraid to ask politicians tough questions. During the first few months of the COVID-19 shutdown, he demanded answers from Broward County officials, asking, “Why is it OK to go to Walmart during the shutdown, but I can’t go to church or the beach? By what authority did these people shut things down? What right did they have to put these rules into effect?” Chris Nelson, who works in the entertainment industry, is a self-proclaimed “Freedom Fighter” who frequently attends public demonstrations to confront the hypocrisy of elected officials. “I’m just a regular guy who wants to...

A rowdy group of anti-maskers marched through a Target in Florida and shouted at other shoppers to “Take off that mask,” viral video shows. Footage on Twitter Tuesday showed the crowd parading around the aisles of the store — located in Ft. Lauderdale, according to HuffPost — and disregarding the store’s face mask requirement as one of them exclaims, “We’re not going to take it anymore!” “Anti-maskers in Florida invade a Target,” wrote a user who shared the video, which has received more than 6.6 million views as of Wednesday afternoon. Another video posted to YouTube showed the same group...

Blake Curd is “On the Radar” of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Chris Nelson is not. .... Nelson reported $56,000 raised during the first few months of his campaign, compared to $181,000 reported by Curd. Nelson said then that he was relying on hundreds of smaller campaign donors and long-standing GOP connections to power his primary run. After hearing of the committee release, Nelson said his optimism and focus in the primary had not changed.

Special Report Goes on the Offensive By Al Kamen Wednesday, June 29, 2005; Page A19 The U.S.-Asia foreign policy establishment here is positively gaga over a teensy transmission error last week by consultant Chris Nelson , author of the highly authoritative Nelson Report, a must-read for those involved in foreign affairs, especially on Asia.Nelson, who works for Samuels International, prepared an exceptionally frank "special report for the embassy of the Republic of South Korea" titled "Players on Korea Policy in Washington, D.C."Acknowledging his brutal assessments -- his survey left few untrashed -- he warned the embassy that "if ANY of...