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In honor of PRIDE Month (June 2023), History Fort Lauderdale presents “Take PRIDE! A Retrospective of LGBTQ Life in South Florida.” The multimedia exhibit, located near Swarovski, between Macy’s and Dillard’s, will include over 100 historical photographs plus videos and costumes chronicling the growth, awareness and struggle of the LGBTQ community through the years.

Former GOP strategist turned Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt ripped into Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in a new episode of his political podcast, "The Warning." "There he is," said Schmidt, showing an image of DeSantis during his interview with Fox News in which he claimed he would "smash" leftism in the United States as president. "Governor Ron DeSantis. The Mussolini of Tallahassee, using a U.S. Navy war vessel as a visual prop just days after his disastrous launch, which spawned the fantastic hashtag, "#DeSaster." "Who is it that he wants to smash?" said Schmidt. "Is he going to arrest Bernie...

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis drew laughs from an audience in Iowa after hitting back against criticism from former President Trump on his record as Florida governor. "He used to say how great Florida was," DeSantis told a reporter following a speech Tuesday night on the campaign trail in Iowa. "Hell, his whole family moved to Florida under my governorship. Are you kidding me?" he Florida Republican’s comments drew a loud laugh from the crowd. "Look, I’m going to respond to attacks," DeSantis added. RON DESANTIS SAYS HUNTER BIDEN 'WOULD HAVE BEEN IN JAIL YEARS AGO' IF HE WERE A...

One of the key aspects to noticing a controlled candidate is the speech, cadence and distinct linguistics used during prepared remarks.When a candidate is authentic in delivery of advocacy points, their speech is a natural flow of thoughts and ideas they create in verbal delivery. However, when a politician is delivering a speech constructed for them, using the thoughts of others, you will notice a cadence constructed around a series of soundbites that are strung together.Ron DeSantis kicked-off his official Iowa campaign today literally reading prepared remarks that did not come from his own thought processes. When delivering a speech...

A Florida man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly staged a pair of house fires and claimed they were racially motivated attacks when he fell behind on home payments. George Carneiro was arrested in connection with the March 13 blazes that caused “extensive property damage” at two newly built, vacant homes he owned in Clay Hill, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday. The incidents were initially investigated as hate crimes after deputies found signs with swastikas and emblazoned with the words “Latinos are not welcome” at the scene, WTLV reported. Officials now believe that Carneiro staged the...

President Trump is up big against Ron DeSantis in a post-announcement Twitter poll - the same platform where DeSantis announced his campaign on a Space with Elon Musk.GOP Primary Polling conducted after Ron DeSantis’ presidential announcement shows Trump leading DeSantis by 40 plus points. Team DeSantis claimed that the Florida Governor’s polling numbers would improve once he entered the race, however, instant polling from Wednesday night proves this is not the case.The Twitter account Catturd, whose polls have been shared by Donald Trump in the past, released the results of their Twitter Poll that showed Donald Trump beating Ron DeSantis...

Supporters of former President Donald Trump are spreading an altered image that purports to show Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in a room with billionaire George Soros. The image, which was shared to Twitter on Friday, has been seen by more than 219,000 users after being posted by the pro-Trump user @ThroughCheated. "No disrespect to DeSantis supporters but don't u think it's odd that George Soros is right there supporting the meatball?" the user tweeted. An individual that appears to be Soros can be seen sitting at a table in the background as a grinning DeSantis is visible on the...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is struggling to gain any appreciable support in West Virginia.2024 West Virginia GOP primary polling from ECU shows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis polling at 9%. DeSantis has attempted to brand himself as a champion of the working class. However, West Virginia polling results show working class voters are not buying what DeSantis is trying to sell. Generally, West Virginia polling has a good read on America’s Rust Belt region that stretches into Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, signaling DeSantis could be in significant trouble.ECU polling from West Virginia shows Trump — 54% (+45), DeSantis — 9%, Pence...

She’s his new Mc-Enemy. Former President Donald Trump has turned on his one-time White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany — accusing her of inflating poll numbers for his key Republican rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews,” Trump fumed on Truth Social late Tuesday, just after his longtime supporter appeared on Jesse Watters’ Fox News show. Milktoast appeared to be a misspelling of “milquetoast,” a term for a timid or meek person. “I am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up,” he said, using his nickname for the Florida...

Former President Donald Trump is dominating the Republican primary race in West Virginia, the latest East Carolina University (ECU) survey found. The survey showed a majority of Republicans, 54 percent, backing Trump in the 2024 primary. No other candidate comes remotely close. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who jumped into the presidential race last week after months of speculation, comes in 45 points behind with nine percent support. Former Vice President Mike Pence comes four points behind DeSantis with five percent support, followed by South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (four percent), former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (three percent), anti-woke businessman...

President Donald Trump’s all-business approach to fixing the sinking American economy is preferred by GOP voters by a wide margin in several key battleground states, new data from National Research has found.In a summary from Interactive Polls, National Research found that Trump was the overwhelming favorite when asked who was “best to improve the economy” between the 45th president and newly declared presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.On this issue, Trump dominated GOP primary support in South Carolina by a whopping 49-point spread. He also snagged overwhelming support in New Hampshire (+41 points), Iowa (+42 points) and even in DeSantis’s...

DeSantis is taking money from a legion of globalist donors.Globalist Billionaire Ken Griffin attended Bilderberg 2023 this past weekend. Griffin has called Donald Trump a three-time loser and pledged to back Ron DeSantis for president.Ken Griffin joined other global elites at the shadowy Bilderberg Conference in Europe this past weekend. The topics discussed at the meeting were reportedly AI, Banking, China, Energy Transition, Europe, Fiscal Challenges, India, Industrial Policy and Trade, NATO, Russia, Transnational Threats, Ukraine, and United States Leadership.Speculation is building that Griffin is aiming to be Ron DeSantis’ Treasury Secretary if the Governor of Florida is elected president....

Former President Donald Trump leads the crowded Republican primary field by 34 points over his closest potential competitor, according to a Morning Consult poll that surveyed Republican voters after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) presidential bid on May 24.The poll, which sampled respondents from May 26-28, found little movement for DeSantis after he launched a presidential bid last week. It also showed Trump maintaining a large lead over GOP hopefuls.-- snip --In other words, that means DeSantis’s announcement–which face serious technical issues on his Twitter Spaces move with Elon Musk–does not seem to have changed the trajectory of the race at...

President Trump's commanding lead over Ron DeSantis and the rest of the GOP field continues to skyrocket.Last Updated on May 29, 2023A new 2024 national GOP Primary poll shows President Trump with a commanding 38-point lead over his closest competitor, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and an even larger lead among the rest of the candidates in the field, all of whom failed to even get the support of 10% of likely GOP Primary voters.President Trump registered at 54% in the large 18-candidate poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, which showed that the 45th President’s lead has been increasing on a...

A white man was sentenced to probation in South Florida Tuesday for pulling a gun and yelling racial slurs in a traffic confrontation with a [black] teenagers protesting housing inequality on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2019. ...Milian ruled that Bartlett did not act reasonably in getting out of his SUV and pulling a pistol on the teenage protesters who had stopped traffic near the Brickell Bridge in downtown Miami. Bartlett had testified that he was...

6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Virginia, activist with WeCount worker’s center, asked not to use last name: “Now is the moment in which we all must unite in a single force to tell this governor that we are a strong force, that we immigrants are united, are integral for the Florida economy and that we are here and are not leaving.”

A man who wielded a gun on Miami’s Brickell Avenue Bridge while yelling racial slurs to protesters on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2019 accepted a plea deal Tuesday, pleading guilty to all five counts in the case and was sentenced to a total of 20 years of probation... On MLK Day in 2019, a group of teenagers, boys, and girls ― some as young as 11 years old — protested the lack of affordable housing in Miami. The group rode their bicycles to Brickell as part of “Bikes Up, Guns Down,” a nationwide movement for public MLK Day...

The Florida Supreme Court will consider a legal challenge issued by state Attorney General Ashley Moody that contends a ballot initiative seeking to legalize recreational marijuana violates the state constitution. According to the Florida Courts’ information system, opponents must file their briefs on or before June 12. Following the deadline, the court will subsequently determine whether to conduct oral arguments on the matter. Earlier this month, Moody formally requested a review of a proposed recreational marijuana initiative by the Florida Supreme Court, signaling her intent to challenge its legal adequacy for the 2024 ballot. The political committee sponsoring the initiative,...

A lawyer for former President Donald Trump reportedly said he was “waved off” of searching his Mar-a-Lago office for classified documents after the feds issued a subpoena demanding their return. Attorney Evan Corcoran told two colleagues he was barred from looking for secret documents in Trump’s personal office at the Florida resort club as he sought to respond to the subpoena, the Guardian reported Tuesday. The new report did not say whether it was Trump himself or some other aide who told Corcoran not to search the office, or why he complied with the request. Corcoran wound up searching only...

A majority of Republican voters believe former President Donald Trump is the best Republican presidential primary candidate to defeat President Joe Biden in 2024, a Monmouth poll found Tuesday.The poll asked respondents, “Regardless of whether you currently support Donald Trump, which of the following statements comes closest to your view about which Republican has the best chance to win in 2024”Donald Trump is definitely the strongest candidate to beat Joe BidenDonald Trump is probably the strongest candidate to beat Joe BidenAnother Republican would probably be a stronger candidate than TrumpAnother Republican would definitely be a stronger candidate than TrumpOverall, 63...