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🚨Rumor: Vivek Ramaswamy might drop out of the GOP Presidential race tomorrow and officially endorse Donald Trump for President.— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) June 12, 2023I will host a press conference tomorrow at 10:30 AM EST at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. US Courthouse in Miami, FL to discuss the politicized prosecution of the former president. I’ll make another announcement there as well. If the captured media fails to do its job, real leaders in this country need to step up and do it instead. Principles over politics. — Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) June 12, 2023

At least 34 people injured during strikes on eastern city of Pavlohrad Russian shelling has struck warehouses that are believed to be storing ammunition in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad in an apparent attempt to slow an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive. The pre-dawn shelling, in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, injured at least 34 people including three children and damaged dozens of buildings, according to regional administration officials. In a separate attack in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, one person was killed and three others wounded. Pavlohrad was struck twice during the night, Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipro council, said....

Another HUGE ENDORSEMENT for President Trump. President Trump is the LEADER of the Republican Party and SOON he will be BACK in the White House. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!! https://t.co/nf14KAXiIh— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) April 6, 2023I am honored to endorse President Donald J. Trump for President in 2024, and I ask my fellow Americans to join me today.Read my entire statement here: https://t.co/OAsUwWuoUk pic.twitter.com/DwyTZ804mO— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) April 6, 2023

I noticed Jonah Goldberg last week checking the altimeter in his spiral dive as he wondered why everyone is so angry if we’ve been having a “Super-Decade.” Maybe you don’t know what’s going on, Jonah, but James Delingpole thinks The 2010s were the Twilight of the Elites. By the way, level the wings before you pull back on the stick. So I am here to tell the confused elites what is really going down. You readers may agree with me, if you like. The modern era started with the Rise of the Bourgeoisie. The folks that were transforming the world...

Watching the final debate, the more I considered Barack Obama's deplorably non-presidential affect and attitude; his reliance on corny, crudely-made zingers; and his almost pathological string of lies and distortions, the more it struck me that, at some level, he knows this is over. His speeches since then show an edge that belies the old “No Drama Obama” who was going to heal the bitter partisan divisions of the past.The aura of a losing campaign is unique, and Ross Douthat pegged it today: Losing campaigns have a certain feel to them: They go negative hard, try out new messaging...