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Republicans and Republican-leaning independents prefer Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over former President Trump to be the GOP presidential nominee in 2024, according to a new poll released Friday. The survey, conducted by YouGov, found that 42 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they would prefer DeSantis over Trump to run in 2024. Just 35 percent said they would prefer Trump over DeSantis. Respondents who considered themselves “strong Republicans” were more likely to support a third presidential run for Trump (45 percent) over the Florida governor, who won his reelection campaign on Tuesday handily. Forty-three percent of “strong Republicans” said...

The same week that Pelosi had his incident, a San Francisco supervisor had his house broken into, and appliances stolen. This Democrat-run city is rampant with crime. THATs what conservative politicians and social media influencers should be talking about, not debating the private life of victim Pelosi Voters care about crime, and this Pelosi incident plays into the theme that Democrats let their cities be overrun by crime. Instead of wasting breath apologizing for harsh political attacks on Pelosi or anybody else, GOP politicians should be hammering on the urban crime issue - hard and loud. Here’s one article from...

Maybe Doomsday preppers aren’t so crazy after all. As nuclear threats loom from countries like Iran and North Korea, the US is knocking the dust off decades-old bunkers intended to protect government officials — and even start a new civilization — in the case of just such a nightmare event. Journalist Garrett Graff takes readers through the 60-year history of the government’s secret Doomsday plans to survive nuclear war in his painstakingly researched book “Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die” (Simon & Schuster), out now. He...