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Leaked audio has emerged from the DeSantis donor strategy meeting in Miami on Thursday. In the clip you can hear below, DeSantis strategists tell high dollar donors making calls for the campaign that:DeSantis’s position is keeping abortion decisions at a state level (following Trump’s position);That the Governor will shift to the middle during a general election;The campaign’s position on abortion can be described as “safe, legal, and rare in Florida” – a stunning deployment of President Bill Clinton’s infamous pro-abortion catchphrase.During the session, the hosts – including DeSantis pollster Ryan Tyson amongst others – can be heard lauding this a...

Two days after the special election, the California Chamber of Commerce held its post-election powwow in the former Four Seasons hotel in Newport Beach. The talk of the two-day affair was the keynote speech from campaign strategist Mike Murphy, who told the room full of business leaders that they were to blame for the governor’s defeat. Numerous sources in attendance said Murphy chided the business community for not matching the spending by labor unions during the election. And because of the governor’s defeat, Murphy warned the room that they should prepare for some uncomfortable moments in the year ahead. Murphy...

There was uproar in Republican circles last week when California Governor Arnold Scharzenegger (search) was quoted in a German newspaper saying that the Republican Party should "move a little further left." But the reporter who conducted the interview now says Schwarzenegger never actually said that. Marc Hujer translated Schwarzenegger's English remarks into German and says he changed the phrasing to make the interview more understandable to a German audience. Schwarzenegger actually said he'd like to "Keep [the Republican Party] to the right where it is, but ... cross over that centerline a little bit, because that would immediately take away...

BERLIN (AP) - A German reporter who interviewed California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says the governor did not say the Republican Party should "move a little further left" as his newspaper reported. What Schwarzenegger said in the interview with Sueddeutsche Zeitung was that the Republicans reach "all the way from the right to the center" and "I'd like the Republican Party to cross that center line," according to a transcript released Thursday by the governor's office. But reporter Marc Hujer said Schwarzenegger never talked explicitly about a need for the party to edge toward the left, even though the remark appeared...