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college
July 21, 2023
Raheem J. Kassam
News
Politics

College-Educated Republicans Drop DeSantis En Masse, Joining Non-College Grads in Their Trump Support.

College-educated Republicans have now joined their non-college-educated cohorts in supporting former President Donald J. Trump over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, according to three new Republican primary polls and previously unpublished data from McClatchyDC.

DeSantis dropped a whopping 18 points amongst college-educated Rs over the first half of 2023 according to Morning Consult, while Ipsos concurred the governor had more than halved his support amongst the same group since mid-March. Quinnipiac showed DeSantis with 51 percent of support amongst the college-educated in February, down to just 29 percent today.

“College-educated Republicans were looking for an alternative to Donald Trump, and they initially thought Governor DeSantis, after his 19-point win in Florida, made for a good one,” Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster, told the Miami Herald.. “But the way he has run his campaign, constantly tacking to the right, has turned off many of those people who were initially attracted to him.”

Ayres comments imply the college-educated group were looking for more of a common sense candidate to support, and found DeSantis to be far more ideological, and far less pragmatic than they originally hoped. The news comes as DeSantis announces yet another campaign shake-up, with Donald Trump now performing better with non-college and college-educated Republicans.

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College-educated Republicans have now joined their non-college-educated cohorts in supporting former President Donald J. Trump over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, according to three new Republican primary polls and previously unpublished data from McClatchyDC. show more
desantis
July 20, 2023
Raheem J. Kassam
News
Politics

‘On the Brink’: DeSantis Plans ANOTHER Reboot as Cash Crunch Hits.

Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is “on the brink,” and attempting another reboot, with campaign manager Generra Peck releasing a statement to NBC News on Thursday admitting, “Ron DeSantis has never been the favorite,” before curiously adding: “No one in this race has been under fire more and won than Gov. DeSantis.”

A source present when around a dozen DeSantis staffers were fired last week told NBC: “The entire campaign is on the brink… I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Meanwhile, the staffers who remain insist they’ll succeed with their latest reboot, which is forcing the Governor to join other, pre-planned events by external groups to save on his own campaign costs after burning through $8 million in his first six weeks. In that time, he only lost points in national polling. As a result, he’ll do fewer of his own events, and participate in far smaller ones.

The “new” DeSantis campaign is also expected to feature more “diners and churches,” with Peck concluding her comments to NBC with the phrase: “Buckle up,” which is not usually something you would associated with small events in restaurants and places of worship.

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Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign is "on the brink," and attempting another reboot, with campaign manager Generra Peck releasing a statement to NBC News on Thursday admitting, “Ron DeSantis has never been the favorite," before curiously adding: "No one in this race has been under fire more and won than Gov. DeSantis." show more
arizona
July 19, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics

Arizona’s ‘Fake’ Electors Are The Next Target.

An investigation launched by Arizona’s Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes is seeking another round of indictments against so-called “fake electors” in Arizona, or rather, people who believed former president Donald Trump won the state in 2020.

Mayes – who campaigned during the 2022 midterms on a pledge to investigate the Republican electors – assigned a team of investigators in May to consider charges against a group who lawfully contested the 2020 election results in Arizona. The investigators are said to have already made “direct” contact with the electors involved.

These so-called “fake electors” include current state representative Jake Hoffman, former state representative Anthony Kern, US Senate candidate Jim Lamon, the chairman of the Arizona GOP Dr. Kelli Ward, and Tyler Bowyer, CEO at the Arizona-based Turning Point USA.

Some of the potential charges the electors may face include forgery, tampering with a public record, and impersonating a public servant. These are not dissimilar to the charges brought against the 16 Michigan electors on Wednesday, which included forgery, conspiracy to commit forgery, and election law forgery.

The charges are not expected to be announced for some time as Mayes’s investigations are “not as far along as the federal one led by Jack Smith or Willis’ in Georgia.”

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An investigation launched by Arizona's Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes is seeking another round of indictments against so-called "fake electors" in Arizona, or rather, people who believed former president Donald Trump won the state in 2020. show more
trump
July 19, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

Here Are The Charges Trump May Face in His Jan 6 Indictment.

The target letter sent to Donald Trump by special prosecutor Jack Smith suggests the former president will be charged with conspiracy, obstruction, and civil rights offenses – but not insurrection or sedition.

Leaks to Rolling Stone indicate that Trump is accused of violating three federal statutes:

  1. Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States;
  2. Deprivation of rights under color of law;
  3. Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant.

The target letter does not explain how Trump, who was told he must report to a grand jury by Thursday, is supposed to have violated these statutes.

While Trump’s critics have often accused the 45th President of having incited the “insurrection” on January 6th there are reportedly no allusions to insurrection and sedition charges in the target letter.

Trump believes he will almost certainly be arrested and indicted when he appears.

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The target letter sent to Donald Trump by special prosecutor Jack Smith suggests the former president will be charged with conspiracy, obstruction, and civil rights offenses – but not insurrection or sedition. show more
trump won
July 19, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

Michigan Charges 16 People – Average Age 69 – for Believing Trump Won.

Sixteen Republicans in Michigan — including former state co-chairwoman Meshawn Maddock — are being prosecuted by Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel for putting themselves forward as alternative electors after the 2020 election results were contested.

AG Nessel accuses the would-be electors – who average out at 69 years old between them – of having “undermined the public’s faith in the integrity of our elections,” and has hit each of them with eight felonies, among them forgery, conspiracy to commit forgery, and election law forgery.

Several of the charges carry prison terms of up to 14 years.

“Undoubtedly, there will be those who claim these charges are political in nature, but where there is overwhelming evidence of guilt in respect to multiple crimes, the most political act I could engage in as a prosecutor would be to take no action at all,” the Democrat claimed.

The move has been blasted by observers as a state intimidation tactic ahead of the 2024 election.

The full list of Republicans facing prosecution, and their ages, is provided below:

  • Meshawn Maddock, 55
  • Kathy Berden, 70
  • William ‘Hank’ Choate, 72
  • Amy Facchinello, 55
  • Clifford Frost, 75
  • Stanley Grot, 71
  • John Haggard, 82
  • Mari-Ann Henry, 65
  • Timothy King, 56
  • Michele Lundgren, 73
  • James Renner, 76
  • Mayra Rodriguez, 64
  • Rose Rook, 81
  • Marian Sheridan, 69
  • Ken Thompson, 68
  • Kent Vanderwood, 69

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Sixteen Republicans in Michigan — including former state co-chairwoman Meshawn Maddock — are being prosecuted by Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel for putting themselves forward as alternative electors after the 2020 election results were contested. show more
July 19, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

DeSantis Megadonor: ‘No One Believes He Believes the Vaccine Stuff… It’s Politics.’

Ron DeSantis and his team do not really believe the narrative they have constructed against Donald Trump around COVID, with one of his top financial backers telling the media the ruse is just “politics”.

“No one believes he actually believes any of the stuff about the vaccine,” said one “megadonor” on the condition of anonymity, adding: “If you talk to the non-crazy people he’s got working for him, they don’t believe it, either. It’s politics.”

The donor didn’t say who the crazies or non-crazies were, in their estimation, but told Rolling Stone they now have doubts about the DeSantis campaign having been an early, big money backer.

GOP pollsters are also questioning the wisdom of DeSantis focusing on the topic, observing it as an increasingly low priority for Republican voters amidst  inflation, crime, the economy, and America’s border crisis. The topic may also damage DeSantis by inviting scrutiny of his own pandemic record.

While the Florida Governor has claimed he would have fired Anthony Fauci in Trump’s position — with his team even circulating AI-generated images of Trump kissing the retired technocrat — questions are now being raised as to why he did not fire “Florida’s Fauci”, Dr. Alina Alonso.

The Palm Beach County health director hailed Fauci as her “patron saint,” and said her job persuading Governor DeSantis to go along with the mandates and other restrictions was “a piece of cake” compared to Fauci’s job persuading then-President Trump to do the same.

DeSantis has slumped to 14 points in a recent national poll of likely voters.

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Ron DeSantis and his team do not really believe the narrative they have constructed against Donald Trump around COVID, with one of his top financial backers telling the media the ruse is just "politics". show more
farage
July 18, 2023
Jake Welch
News
Politics
UK

Farage ‘Debanked’ For Friendships With Trump… and Novak Djokovic!?

Brexit leader Nigel Farage had his personal bank account closed by Coutts due to his friendship with former President Donald J. Trump, as well as tennis legend and vaccine refuser Novak Djokovic. The bank’s “reputation risk committee” kept a “Stasi-style surveillance report” on Farage, 59, which also bemoans his position on Brexit and LGBT issues.

Farage recently obtained access to the 40-page document which cites the company’s Equality, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) policies, as well as dedicating nine pages to alleged links to Russia before concluding: “NF seemingly has no direct links to Russia.”

Farage’s surveillance report makes negative mentions of his friendship with Novak Djokovic, appearances on Alex Jones/InfoWars, and his critical comments of Black Lives Matter.

The dossier mentions the 45th President 39 times, and Farage himself wrote on Tuesday: “The fact that I support Donald Trump is part of this charge sheet.”

The Brexit crusader concluded: “This story is not just about me. You could be next. Refinitiv, which monitors creditworthiness, can examine social media posts made by any of us on Facebook or elsewhere. If this situation is left unchecked, we will sleepwalk towards a China-style social credit system in which only those with the “correct” views are allowed to fully participate in society.”

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Brexit leader Nigel Farage had his personal bank account closed by Coutts due to his friendship with former President Donald J. Trump, as well as tennis legend and vaccine refuser Novak Djokovic. The bank's "reputation risk committee" kept a “Stasi-style surveillance report” on Farage, 59, which also bemoans his position on Brexit and LGBT issues. show more

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jan 6
July 18, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

Ron DeSantis Just Parroted the Democrat Line on Jan 6.

On the day President Trump announced he received a target letter from Biden prosecutor Jack Smith pertaining to the events of January 6th 2021, his Republican primary competitor Ron DeSantis was heard to echo the establishment line on the incident.

“For example, I think it was shown how he was in the White House and didn’t do anything while things were going on,” DeSantis said directly echoing the Democrat-led January 6th Committee line. He added that Trump “should have come out more forcefully,” before going on to accept that “to try to criminalize that [is] a different issue entirely,” and that having a situation where “one side [is] just constantly trying to put the other side in jail” is wrong.

Contrary to DeSantis’s claims, Trump issued a video statement on Twitter during the disorder, urging protesters: “[Y]ou have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order.”

Twitter took down the video and permanently suspended Trump’s account. The video was not restored even after Elon Musk reinstated the account, though it can still be viewed in the Miller Center presidential archive.

WATCH: 

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On the day President Trump announced he received a target letter from Biden prosecutor Jack Smith pertaining to the events of January 6th 2021, his Republican primary competitor Ron DeSantis was heard to echo the establishment line on the incident. show more
wall street
July 17, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

Wall Street DUMPING Cash Into Trump’s Rival Campaigns.

Dozens of Wall Street executives have lined up to funnel as much money as legally allowed to Donald Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.

Ron DeSantis, the leading contender to Trump, was a popular choice, attracting 15 significant donations from the likes of Paul Tudor Jones, a hedge fund manager who has previously bankrolled Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.

Nikki Haley also secured 12 maximum donations from Wall Street. Even Vivek Ramaswamy, who has retained a much more positive relationship with Trump than most of the GOP field – and accused Wall Street of having “birthed a new woke-industrial complex” together with Silicon Valley – has received support.

NBC News, which analyzed the FEC filings in collaboration with CNBC, noted that financiers’ backing of Trump rivals is “a continuation of the anti-Trump trend that saw just over $74 million from Wall Street leaders go to support Joe Biden” in 2020 – far greater than the $18 million finance gave to the Trump campaign.

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Dozens of Wall Street executives have lined up to funnel as much money as legally allowed to Donald Trump's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. show more
desantis
July 17, 2023
News
Politics

NEW LOW: DeSantis Sinks to 14 Points.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appears to have hit a new polling low, coming in at just 14 points in a TIPP Insights likely voter poll from early July. President Trump’s lead has increased to 39 points in the data, showing the 45th president with 53 percent, and 37-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy gaining to reach seven percent.

The news comes as DeSantis announces major shake-ups in his campaign due to overspending and fractious donor relations.

TIPP insights was described by the right-leaning Spectator magazine as “the pollster who doesn’t suck,” in 2020.

The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam discussed many of the DeSantis camp’s pitfalls on the latest episode of ‘The Campaign Trail’ podcast and even predicted that DeSantis would be down to 10 percent by mid-summer, in an appearance on Human Events Daily show with Jack Posobiec:

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appears to have hit a new polling low, coming in at just 14 points in a TIPP Insights likely voter poll from early July. President Trump's lead has increased to 39 points in the data, showing the 45th president with 53 percent, and 37-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy gaining to reach seven percent. show more

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