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In the clash of the two Florida men, former president Donald Trump is beating Ron DeSantis by 35 percentage points, according to a new poll of Republican presidential primary voters that underscores the challenges the governor’s faces in his home state and the early states.“Where DeSantis has been governor and the people know him best, he still can’t beat Trump. And if DeSantis can’t win in his own backyard, where can he win?” asked top Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, who conducted the survey for a private political client. Fabrizio also surveys for the pro-Trump super PAC, but other pollsters say...

On Wednesday, leading Republican presidential candidate and 45th President Donald Trump spoke about the prospect of him potentially becoming speaker of the House after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and his allies ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the role for the first time in American history.Trump, who is currently sitting in court for his New York fraud case, spoke to reporters outside of the courtroom where he agreed that he could step in to help the Republican Party if needed. The speaker of the House does not need to be a sitting representative in order to serve."A lot of people...

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday criticized his former boss-turned-rival, Donald Trump, for calling retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a traitor over phone calls he made to China in the final stormy months of their administration. “Frankly what Donald Trump said about him in that tweet, about treason and death, was utterly inexcusable,” the GOP presidential candidate said at a national security and foreign policy event at Washington’s Georgetown University co-hosted by The Associated Press. Pence also reacted to the news that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had been ousted from his...

Baltimore Police are encouraging people to avoid the area of Morgan State University, where multiple people were shot Tuesday night, and for those in the area of the campus to shelter in place. Baltimore Police and federal agents are on campus after shots were fired around 9:30 p.m., striking multiple people, near a campus residential building and the home of the institution’s fine arts department. It is not yet known how many people have been shot, or what their injuries are. The shots were reported to have been fired on the 1700 block of Argonne Drive, near the Thurgood Marshall...

On Friday, a new report from POLITICO is serving as a scathing warning to Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) as his sinking poll numbers are beginning to affect his standing in the Sunshine State.According to the report, Gov. DeSantis is beginning to lose his grip on the Florida Republican Party as officials and lawmakers once loyal to the governor begin to rescind their stalwart support of the conservative governor.“You don’t get the assumption they are measuring drapes anymore — they are waiting for him to drop out,” an anonymous long-time Republican consultant told POLITICO about those working for the governor.That warning...

Former President Donald Trump mocked the Biden administration over its push for electrified tanks and planes during a speech Friday in California.Trump criticized the push while speaking at the California Republican Party’s fall convention in Anaheim, California. The U.S. Army released a plan in February 2022 to develop electric combat vehicles by 2050, The Washington Post reported.Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm told the Senate Armed Services Committee during an April 26 hearing she backed an effort to make every one of the Department of Defense’s non-tactical vehicles an electric vehicle by 2030.WATCH:Trump speaks to GOP Members in Anaheim“You know they’re...

The purported value of Ivanka Trump’s Park Avenue penthouse came under scrutiny this week during testimony at trial in the New York attorney general’s $250 million civil fraud case against the former president. Donald Bender, a former accountant for Donald Trump at the accounting firm Mazars USA, testified in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday that he saw errors between the value listed for the posh pad on financial documents and its potential sale price. Bender explained from the witness stand that, while he wasn’t in charge of auditing the company financials, he “from time to time” would tell Trump Organization...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then...

Trump, on Truth Social, is attacking Judge Engoron's *clerk," — who is literally in the courtroom with him — while calling her "Chuck Schumer's girlfriend" and posting a link to her Instagram account.I suspect this will be an exhibit in some gag order arguments.— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 3, 2023

On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to continue lashing out against the ongoing New York fraud trial taking place this week. The leading Republican candidate continued to disagree with the extremely low evaluation of his Mar-a-Lago estate, standing firm that he is “WORTH FAR MORE than the numbers put down on the Financial Statements.”As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled that the Mar-a-Lago estate is worth a measly $18 million to $27.6 million despite being much larger than other estates in the area that are similarly priced. Trump has continued...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fell three points after the second Republican primary debate, while former President Donald Trump — who did not participate in the debate but met with auto workers in Michigan instead — remains dominant, the latest Messenger/HarrisX poll found.The survey was taken September 28-29, following the second Republican primary debate, which took place at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, last week.Overall, post-debate, Trump remains dominant, leading his challengers with support from a majority — 56 percent. DeSantis, once again, failed to break through, remaining in the teens and falling three points, moving from 14...

VIDEO"So we'll wait to see if he's going to run."They say "in vino veritas." However, that can now be updated to "in whino veritas" because Chunk Yogurt aka Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks went into a screaming whining rampage at the thought that President Donald Trump would be returning to the Oval Office in a little over a year. In the midst of his LOUD whines Chunk blurted out an important truth, that Merrick Garland is prosecuting Trump because he decided to run for re-election in 2024. In his recent 60 Minutes interview, Merrick Garland PRETENDED (not very convincingly)...

For decades before his presidency, Donald Trump had long been synonymous with the real estate industry — as well as his namesake New York properties, which have been the subject of great discussion since last week. That’s when a New York judge, Arthur F. Engoron of the state Supreme Court, concluded in a 35-page judgment that Trump had exaggerated the value of his holdings to secure favorable loan and insurance terms with financial institutions, with some properties being inflated by an estimated 1,000%. Judge Engoron’s decision was issued as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s $250 million civil...

Too many swamp creatures to vote for him, but the heart attacks and strokes induced in the left just by the nomination may actually help with the 2024 election.

For his latest episode and discussion, Tucker Carlson outlines how and why the U.S. Government is targeting President Donald Trump in a full-frontal effort to remove him from the American political landscape. {Direct Rumble Link}Tucker is joined by Victor Davis Hanson who expands on the insight to explain how we are in a revolutionary phase in American politics. Every government weapon is being deployed against President Trump to take his wealth, destroy his family, remove his political viability and lock him in a prison cell. WATCH:.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday decided to send a Truth Social post during his New York fraud civil trial attacking Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s principal law clerk as Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D) “girlfriend,” sharing an image of Ashley Greenfield and Schumer smiling in a photograph and linking to her Instagram profile. “Schumer’s girlfriend, Alison [sic] R. Greenfield, is running this case against me. How disgraceful! This case should be dismissed immediately,” the post said. While the move is to legal observers likely to spark more gag order talk, as Trump’s social media postings have in his Jan....

45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump to Deliver Remarks in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire Monday, October 9. Granite Staters - get your tickets now!

When Hillary Clinton was (praise the Lord!) denied the presidency on Nov. 8, 2016, the country was spared a wicked fate under the heel of her sensible comfort pumps. Dodging that Hillary-sized bullet was America’s greatest geopolitical victory of the last 50 years. So why is Nikki Rodham Haley following the haggard Hillary playbook? Maybe it’s because no one in American history has ever managed to dodge raindrops quite like Hillary Clinton — and stayed dry. HRC set the contemporary female path to the presidency: kick and claw your way to financial security by swimming in the sewer with the...

Last week the Wall Street Journal published an unsigned op-ed unworthy of one of the best teams of commentators in the country. The subject was some comments Donald Trump made on Truth Social that, by surprise, displayed his trademark turbo-charged hyperbole. The Journal is usually a reliable source of sober, judicious, and fact-based analysis, but this editorial is a troubling portent that Republican Trump-Derangement Syndrome hysteria may have a negative impact on next year’s election. Trump’s heinous sin, according to the editors, is saying “that Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest military officer, deserves execution—as in death. He said NBC...

A contractor for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) escaped significant charges Friday with a single criminal charge from the Department of Justice (DOJ) for leaking thousands of prominent tax records, including those of former President Donald Trump, which were leaked shortly before the 2020 presidential election. Charles Littlejohn, a 38-year-old IRS consultant in Washington D.C., was charged by federal prosecutors with one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information. A press release from the Justice Department claims Littlejohn “stole tax return information associated with a high-ranking government official” and then “disclosed it to a news organization.” Prosecutors...