The National Pulse Editor in Chief joins Donald Trump Jr. for what the former has referred to as a “spicy” interview that will likely trigger the liberal media.
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Jeff Roe, the chief strategist for Ron DeSantis’s Super PAC Never Back Down, has taken responsibility for co-ordinating online attacks and spreading dirt on the Republican outsider and DeSantis’ rival, Vivek Ramaswamy. Roe undertook similarly dirty tactics in 2016 against then-candidate Ben Carson.
In a leaked conversation before the recent GOP primary debate, Roe told a number of DeSantis donors and supporters, “Everything you read about [Ramaswamy) is from us… Every misstatement, every 360 he’s conducting or 180 that he is going through in life, is from our scrutiny and pressure. And so, he’s not going to go through that very well, and that will get worse for him.”
Roe, who runs the legally embattled Axiom Strategies, also admitted to his audience that “a big night” for Ramaswamy may prove problematical for the Florida Governor, who required a breakout moment during the debate. The opposite happened, however, with Ramaswamy dominating national and international media coverage, handing DeSantis a rather forgettable performance.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for Ramaswamy, responded: “America watched Vivek dominate the debate stage, it’s no wonder Never Back Down is pissing away another $20+ million after Labor Day.”
Roe recently demanded another $50 million from donors, as his PAC shifts resources to Iowa with a $12 million ad spend, and an admission that he has fewer than 60 days to defeat Donald Trump.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is betting the farm on winning the 2024 Iowa Caucuses, according to leaked audio from a meeting between the leadership of pro-DeSantis SuperPAC Never Back Down and donors held just before the first Republican primary debate.
Jeff Roe, DeSantis’s Never Back Down PAC chief strategist, also admitted to donors the campaign has just 60 days to defeat former President Donald Trump and that the SuperPAC would need an additional $50 million before the second Republican primary debate on September 27th.
Never Back Down has also halted its paid door-knocking efforts in Super Tuesday primary states, as well as in the critical early state of Nevada. The SuperPAC’s cost cutting moves come as it shifts resources into Iowa – including a nearly $12 million ad-buy announced earlier this week.
Roe told donors: “If you have an education, if you have higher income, if you read the Bible and if you go to church regularly, you happen to be a DeSantis supporter.”
What the DeSantis campaign considers to be a ‘likely DeSantis supporter’ might explain why the Florida Governor has failed to gain traction in polling and trails former President Donald Trump by double digits in most state primary contests. According to the Pew Research Center the majority of American Catholics and Evangelical Protestants earn less than $50,000 per year. Mainline Protestants are early evenly split with with 49 percent estimated to earn less than $50,000 and 51 percent earning more. Only Mormons and Eastern Orthodox Christians have populations with sizable majority earning over $50,000. As far as education, the Pew data indicates well over 40 percent of Catholics and Evangelical Protestants have only a high school education or less – and nearly 40 percent of Mainline Protestants.
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The second Republican presidential primary debate on September 27th will be co-moderated by Univsions’s Ilia Calderón – a rabid political partisan who has said that former President Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric “empowers white supremacists.” The Spanish language network Univision is partnered with the Fox Business Network to host the debate – Stuart Varney and Dana Perino will join Calderón, who is from Columbia, as moderators.
Calderón – who Fox Business bills as “the first Afro-Latina to anchor an evening newscast for a major broadcast network in the United States” – has a long history of flaunting her far-left bias on social media. In 2018, as then President Trump pushed for tighter border controls to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S., Calderón claimed on X (formerly Twitter) that “Trump does not want whites to stop being the majority,” adding that this was the reason for his opposition to mass immigration.
Trump no quiere que los blancos dejen de ser mayoría, y sería el motivo de sus medidas contra la inmigración. https://t.co/GBw7jEWnvC
— ilia calderon (@iliacalderon) February 8, 2018
The Univision anchor isn’t just critical of Trump and Republicans, she has plenty of praise for Democrat politicians. In 2009 Calderón praised Barack Obama, saying, “…it is a pleasure to listen to a great speaker!” In another instance of pro-Democrat bias, she reposted a claim that the U.S.’s political and economic struggles were the fault of Republicans for obstructing then President Obama’s radical political agenda.
In the aftermath of January 6, 2021, Calderón claimed that Republicans were “silent about those responsible” and insinuated that the protestors who stormed the U.S. Capitol Building committed a “deadly attack.” The only person to die as a direct result of the events on January 6 was protestor Ashli Babbitt who was shot and killed by U.S. Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd.
Former President Trump is expected to skip the September 27th Republican presidential primary debate. Polling after the first debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin suggests that Trump’s absence had no negative impact on his commanding lead over the rest of the Republican candidates.
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Never-Trump “Republicans” are pushing Democrats to ditch President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and turn to Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) and Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in yet another desperate bid to try and beat Donald Trump in 2024.
A.B. Stoddard, writing at the anti-Trump blog The Bulwark, frets that voters see Biden’s advanced age as disqualifying and warns that former President Donald Trump is a more formidable candidate than Democrats assume.
“…A new standard-bearer is required to decisively beat Trump next year,” she declares, claiming Gov. Whitmer as her standard-bearer:
Whitmer, 52, is one of the most experienced, exciting, and winning Democrats in the country. She is as tough a candidate, and leader, as the Democrats can find, and she was vetted as a potential VP pick in 2020. Warnock, who has won pluralities or majorities in five elections in three years, is the cerebral 54-year-old senior pastor at Martin Luther King Jr.’s church.
– A.B. Stoddard, September 2023.
She adds: “Young. Dynamic. Diverse. Competent and experienced. Broadly appealing. Can mobilize core voters. Would deliver two battleground states. Those are seven big boxes already checked.”
Stoddard and her NeverTrump allies in the corporate media are right to worry about President Biden’s chances of winning re-election in 2024. Polling is increasingly showing former President Trump to be the favorite to win the White House, though Stoddard hilariously warns: “If Trump beats Biden next year, there won’t be another free and fair election.”
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Efforts to disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment are gaining momentum, with officials in key states, including New Hampshire, Arizona, and Michigan, preparing to respond to legal challenges to Trump’s candidacy based on Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
Advocacy groups claim Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021 constitute engagement in insurrection and therefore disqualify him from holding public office. Trump has denied any involvement in the attack on the Capitol, nor has there been any actual evidence that implicates him in the maelstrom, though plenty of proof suggests FBI and other state-actor involvement.
Legal scholars and election officials have raised concerns about the practicality of the emerging lawsuits. Procedural aspects of litigation challenging Trump’s eligibility, such as who has standing to bring the challenges, remain unclear. Secretaries of state in several states have started discussions and taken steps to prepare for the possibility of administering elections without Trump as a candidate. The lawsuits based on the 14th Amendment provision are expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, where a uniform rule could potentially be set for subsequent state primaries.
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COVID-19 pandemic era restrictions appear to be returning in Florida, with the Palm Beach Gardens High School, part of the Palm Beach County school district, announcing its Friday night football game against Vero Beach is postponed until September 6th “out of an abundance of caution.”
The news comes shortly after the Florida Governor took aim at former President Donald J. Trump in absentia, for his pandemic handling from the Milwaukee GOP debate stage.
COVID precautions are back in #Florida with canceled high school football games “Out of an abundance of caution”
Hey @FLSurgeonGen who is reporting these cases and advising this?@GovRonDeSantis– I thought you said this wouldn’t happen again? pic.twitter.com/EzqrWYguaO
— Here I go, so (@here_I_go_so) August 31, 2023
DeSantis has made his response to the COVID-19 pandemic a cornerstone of his campaign’s message to voters, expressing staunch opposition to new lockdowns, school closures, mask requirements, and vaccine mandates. During debate, he said: “It should have never happened. And in Florida, we led the country out of lockdown, kept our state free and open.”
In 2022, DeSantis pushed back against Florida school districts that sought to reinstate mask mandates and closures during outbreaks of COVID-19, telling the press at the time: “Our schools will be open in the state of Florida… If you’re healthy, you need to be in school.”
Despite his bravado, the latest news from Palm Beach Gardens High School suggests that DeSantis’s fight against pandemic restrictions has been less successful than advertised. The National Pulse previously reported that Governor DeSantis failed to fire his state’s very own Dr. Fauci, Palm Beach County Department of Health director Dr. Alina Alonso.
Dr. Alonso, known as “the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palm Beach County,” was given free rein during the COVID pandemic to enforce arbitrary restrictions upon millions of Floridians, including the implementation of mask mandates, establishment of a COVID hotline for lockdown snitches, and even creating an armed COVID compliance police force. In 2023, Dr. Alonso retired, stating her replacement Dr. Jyothi Gunta, “will make a great new director.”
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Washington Post‘s “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler has admitted President Joe Biden regularly lies to the public regarding his past, not simply embellishing, but outright fabricating details about his personal and family history.
Kessler begins with Biden’s lie over his Delaware home nearly being burned down, claiming: “I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette and my cat,” and adding in another speech: “We had to be out of that house for about seven months while it was repaired, because so much damage was done to the house… Half the house almost collapsed.” 
No such thing happened, with AP reports from the time confirming a small kitchen fire was put out within 20 minutes.
WaPo also derides Biden’s story of Amtrak conductor Angelo Negri, who supposedly informed Biden he had traveled more on Amtrak than he had on Air Force planes while serving as Vice President of the United States. The story is impossible. “Biden did not pass the 1.2 million-mile mark until 2016; Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993, 16 years before Biden became vice president. Negri died in 2014, two years before Biden claims they had this conversation.”
Biden’s claims to have been arrested in a Civil Rights protest were false; he was never arrested trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison; and the stories he tells about people such as “Corn Pop” and indeed his outright plagiarism have scarcely bothered the corporate media until recently. But concerns over Biden’s age, mental competence, and involvement with his son’s foreign business deals appears to have given the press the green-light on such stories.
Even then, Glenn Kessler and the Washington Post can’t help but defend Biden’s penchant for lying to the public: “…like many politicians, [Biden] likes to tell stories — stories that attempt to connect his life story with his audiences and make up an essential part of his persona.”
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Brian Kemp, the supposedly Republican Governor of Georgia, is rejecting calls to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the RICO prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 other individuals accused of interfering the 2020 presidential election.
“Up to this point, I have not seen any evidence that DA Willis’s actions – or lack thereof – warrant action by the Prosecuting Attorney Oversight Commission,” Kemp said at a press conference on Thursday before adding, “But ultimately that will be a decision that the commission will make.”
Gov. Kemp (R-GA) in his hurricane presser squashes idea of calling a special session targeting DA Willis, which Trump & his allies have pushed:
“A special session of the General Assembly to end-run around this law is not feasible and may ultimately prove to be unconstitutional.” pic.twitter.com/DqUTLveNAl
— The Recount (@therecount) August 31, 2023
The Georgia Governor specifically rejected the call by Republican State Senator Colton Moore for a special legislative session to review the actions by District Attorney Willis, arguing that the move would “…ignore current Georgia law and directly interfere with the proceedings of a separate but equal branch of government.” Kemp declined to mention Moore specifically by name in his remarks.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not escape criticism from Kemp, however. The Governor said Willis’s decision to prosecute former President Trump during an election “…sows distrust and provides easy pickings for those who see the District Attorney’s action as guided by politics.”
On August 14th, a Fulton County grand jury handed down indictments of former President Trump and 18 other individuals for interfering in the 2024 presidential election in Georgia. Last week, when former President surrendered himself at the Fulton County jail, The National Pulse was the first to confirm and report Trump’s mugshot.
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New York Attorney General Letita James, who campaigned for office during the Donald Trump administration on a platform of going after the “illegitimate president” in the courts, is pressing a judge to rule against the now-former president before he even goes to trial.
AG James has been pursuing Trump, his children, and their family business for years now, claiming the MAGA kingpin overstated his net worth by $812 million to $2.2 billion from 2011 to 2021 and seeking sanctions including a $250 million payment and a near-ban on the Trumps doing business in New York in a civil trial scheduled for October.
She wants the courts to issue a summary judgment against Trump related to fraud the trial starts, however, citing a supposed “mountain of undisputed evidence”.
Her pursuit of Trump has likely cost millions already, based on reporting of Trump’s ongoing legal fees related to the case, representing a significant strain on the law enforcement budget at a time when crime in New York City is recovering from a 22 percent spike in major crime in 2022.
Five of seven categories of major crime have receded since this surge over the course of 2023 – so far – but felony assault and especially grand larceny auto offenses were still on the rise in statistics released early August.
Crime is also likely significantly greater that law enforcement figures suggest, due to both underreporting and undercharging – an issue even Democrat state governor Kathy Hochul had to acknowledge after rapist refugee Van Phu Bui was initially released without bail after almost killing a man in the street.
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