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November 21, 2023
William Upton
Politics

Infighting Breaks Out in Team DeSantis as Witnesses Describe Fractious Board Meeting & New Spin Off PAC.

Senior staff with the pro-Ron DeSantis campaign Never Back Down SuperPAC nearly came to blows as frustration within the organization mounts over their close competition with Nikki Haley for second place in the Republican presidential primary contest. Senior strategist Jeff Roe reportedly got into an altercation with Scott Wagner – a friend and confidant of Governor DeSantis – while board members present discussed the super PAC’s finances and strategy for putting distance between their candidate and the insurgent Haley campaign.

“You have a stick up your ass, Scott,” Roe is alleged to have shouted at Wagner, according to witnesses in the room, to which Wagner fired back, taunting, “Why don’t you come over here and get it?” Wagner also reportedly rose from his chair and had to be restrained by other board members.

The blow-up between Wagner and Roe is just the latest internal conflict for a super PAC and presidential campaign that have spent almost as much time searching for a scapegoat for their candidate’s lack of appeal as they have actually campaigning. Three consultants close with Ron and Casey DeSantis recently formed a new pro-DeSantis super PAC called Fight Right Inc, ostensibly competing for the same donors which fund Never Back Down.

For the DeSantis campaign’s part, they appear to hope the new super PAC will give a boost to the governor’s branding after attack ads run against Nikki Haley by Never Back Down backfired in Iowa, leaving some in the campaign to believe they actually hurt DeSantis in the end.

Last month, Roe and Never Back Down suffered public embarrassment after an arbitrary 60-day deadline set by Roe to defeat Donald Trump expired without any ground gained. Former President Donald Trump continues to run away with the Republican nomination with a near insurmountable lead over the rest of the field according to polling.

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Senior staff with the pro-Ron DeSantis campaign Never Back Down SuperPAC nearly came to blows as frustration within the organization mounts over their close competition with Nikki Haley for second place in the Republican presidential primary contest. Senior strategist Jeff Roe reportedly got into an altercation with Scott Wagner – a friend and confidant of Governor DeSantis – while board members present discussed the super PAC's finances and strategy for putting distance between their candidate and the insurgent Haley campaign. show more
November 20, 2023
William Upton
Politics

Senator Demands End to GOP Primary ‘Charade’, Endorses Trump.

“Let’s end the political primary charade and focus on retiring Joe Biden,” Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) declared on Monday while endorsing former President Donald Trump as the 2024 Republican Party presidential nominee. The Kansas Republican added, “While others may try to imitate him, only President Trump will put our country back on track on day one. It’s time for the GOP to unite behind President Trump.”

Sen. Marshall’s endorsement comes on the heels of Texas Governor Greg Abbott backing Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign at an event on the United States’s southern border over the weekend. ““…If you go back to four years ago, we had the lowest illegal border crossings…in something like thirty years,” Abbott said while praising the former President’s border control policies.

Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign continues to rack up endorsements from high-profile Republican Party leaders. Last week, the newly-elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced he was supporting Trump during a live-interview on CNBC, telling the hosts: “I’m all in for President Trump.” Earlier this month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign suffered a serious blow when his Florida Republican colleague Sen. Rick Scott announced he was endorsing Trump instead of the governor’s now-long-shot primary bid.

Last week, Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign was left with egg on its face after it falsely claimed New Hampshire businessman Thomas Estey had endorsed the Florida Governor’s presidential bid. Estey denied making the endorsement, and instead announced he intends to vote for Donald Trump. “Ron DeSantis’s team kept bugging me for my endorsement, but I am 100 percent voting for President Trump,” Estey told local press.

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"Let’s end the political primary charade and focus on retiring Joe Biden," Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) declared on Monday while endorsing former President Donald Trump as the 2024 Republican Party presidential nominee. The Kansas Republican added, "While others may try to imitate him, only President Trump will put our country back on track on day one. It’s time for the GOP to unite behind President Trump." show more
November 20, 2023
William Upton
Politics

DATA: Trump Polls Just 10 Points Behind Biden… in New York!

Former President Donald Trump is running just 10 points behind incumbent Joe Biden in heavily Democrat New York state according to a new poll. Conducted by Siena College, the poll shows Biden capturing just 46 percent of the vote, with Donald Trump on his heels at 36 percent.

In 2020, Biden won New York’s 29 presidential electors with just over 60 percent of the vote compared to Trump’s 37.7 percent. The Siena College poll comes on the heels of several 2024 general election surveys showing former President Trump pulling ahead of Biden. Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP) modeling conducted by Stack Data Strategy indicates that Trump is by-and-large the favorite to win the 2024 presidential election with 292 electoral votes, flipping Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Gavin Wax, President of the New York Young Republican Club in Manhattan, told The National Pulse on Monday: “New Yorkers are waking up to the carnage around them. Increasingly, people are turning to Trump as the only viable way to save America and this once great city. That’s why we’ll be honoring the 45th President at our gala next month, and why we continue to work week-in week-out to take the MAGA message out into this state. Sometimes against the odds, but no longer against the trend.”

Two weeks ago, the New York Times/Siena College survey found Donald Trump defeating Joe Biden in five of the six critical 2024 swing states. The poll also found support for Trump hitting unprecedented rates among ethnic minorities and young Americans, with voters under 30 preferring Biden by just one percentage point. Biden’s lead among Hispanics has dwindled to single digits, and almost one-quarter of black voters – 22 percent – intend to vote for Trump, which is “a level unseen in presidential politics for a Republican in modern times.”

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Former President Donald Trump is running just 10 points behind incumbent Joe Biden in heavily Democrat New York state according to a new poll. Conducted by Siena College, the poll shows Biden capturing just 46 percent of the vote, with Donald Trump on his heels at 36 percent. show more
November 17, 2023
William Upton
Breaking

TRUMP WINS Colorado Case As Judge Orders ‘Insurrection Clause’ Cannot Keep Him Off The Ballot.

Colorado District Court Judge Sarah Wallace, a left-wing jurist who contributed to an radical organization that has worked to prevent Republicans connected to January 6th from running for election, has ruled that the “insurrection clause” of the 14th Amendment does not apply to the President of the United States. Therefore former President Trump cannot be barred from appearing on the 2024 presidential ballot. Judge Wallace wrote in her ruling:

To lump the Presidency in with any other civil or military office is odd indeed and very troubling to the Court because as Intervenors point out, Section Three explicitly lists all federal elected positions except the President and Vice President. Under traditional rules of statutory construction, when a list includes specific positions but then fails to include others, courts assume the exclusion was intentional… The Court holds that it is unpersuaded that the drafters intended to include the highest office in the Country in the catchall phrase ‘office . . . under the United States.’

Last week, the Minnesota Sate Supreme Court dismissed a similar lawsuit brought by voters seeking to remove Trump from the state primary ballot.

The court ultimately decided that there was no provision under the 14th Amendment that prevented the former President from appearing on the primary ballot, but left the door open to challenges to his appearance on the general election ballot.

“There is no state statute that prohibits a major political party from placing on the presidential nomination primary ballot, or sending delegates to the national convention supporting, a candidate who is ineligible to hold office,” the Minnesota Supreme Court wrote in its ruling.

The New Hampshire Secretary of State has also ruled that the 14th Amendment does not bar former President Trump from the 2024 election ballot.

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Colorado District Court Judge Sarah Wallace, a left-wing jurist who contributed to an radical organization that has worked to prevent Republicans connected to January 6th from running for election, has ruled that the "insurrection clause" of the 14th Amendment does not apply to the President of the United States. Therefore former President Trump cannot be barred from appearing on the 2024 presidential ballot. Judge Wallace wrote in her ruling: show more
November 17, 2023
William Upton
Politics

DATA: Majority Believe Cheating ‘Likely’ In 2024 Election.

The integrity of American elections continue to be a dominant concern among the electorate as we head into in to the 2024 election cycle. According to new data from Rasmussen Reports, 56 percent of Americans believe the outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be impacted by cheating.

Mail-in ballots are of special concern to respondents with 51 percent saying they believe the practice made cheating in elections more likely. Just 15 percent think the use of mail-in-ballots made cheating harder to accomplish. Nearly two-thirds of voters say they believe it is important to ensure there is no cheating int he 2024 election.

According to Rasmussen, the results of the November survey show little change from their September findings, indicating voter concern over election integrity remains strong among the likely 2024 electorate. The Heritage Foundation maintains a database documenting over 1,400 confirmed cases of voter fraud that have resulted in 1,264 criminal convictions.

Last week a ‘coding error’ caused voting machines in a Pennsylvania county to erroneously tabulate votes on a ballot question asking whether two Superior Court Judges should be retained.  The Pennsylvania Department of State said the error was isolated to machines in Northampton and only impacted the retention question for the two judges. County officials said the ballots would be hand tabulated with votes in the judicial retention question switched back to compensate for the tabulation error.

The National Pulse previously reported most voting machines will not meet new federal standards in time for the 2024 election, renewing concerns about legitimacy of the results. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has refused to address serious concerns about vulnerabilities in the state’s Dominion voting machines raised in the Halderman Report.

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The integrity of American elections continue to be a dominant concern among the electorate as we head into in to the 2024 election cycle. According to new data from Rasmussen Reports, 56 percent of Americans believe the outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be impacted by cheating. show more
November 16, 2023
William Upton
Politics

Nikki Haley Hires Romney-Ryan Money Man Amidst JP Morgan Endorsement Chatter.

Spencer Zwick, a GOP fundraiser with deep connections to mega-donors, is reportedly joining Nikki Haley’s 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign. A founding partner of Solamere Capital, Zwick served as National Fundraising Chair on Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, and is known to have connections to GOP mega-donors with deep pockets.

In early October, Zwick hosted several of the Republican presidential candidates at his annual E2 Summit in Deer Valley, Utah. The question of ‘How to defeat Donald Trump‘ dominated much of the discussion at the event. According to Zwick, those in attendance were “sincerely looking for an alternative to Donald Trump.” In joining the Haley campaign, Zwick appears to have not just found his Trump-alternative, but hoping to convince the Republican establishment that she is the alternative as well.

The Haley campaign staffing news comes amidst chatter that JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has been holding private, informal phone conversations with the candidate. The private conversations have lead to increasing speculation that Dimon is close to endorsing – and financially backing – the former Governor of South Carolina and U.N. Ambassador’s presidential bid.

While Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s campaign continues to falter, Haley has used two relatively strong debate performances to build some momentum among ‘Anti-Trump’ primary voters. Polling now shows Haley and DeSantis in a close battle for second place nationally, while the former-U.N. Ambassador has pulled ahead of DeSantis in the early primary states of New Hampshire and South Carolina. Former President Donald Trump continues to hold a near insurmountable lead in primary polling and is by-far-and-away the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

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Spencer Zwick, a GOP fundraiser with deep connections to mega-donors, is reportedly joining Nikki Haley's 2024 Republican presidential primary campaign. A founding partner of Solamere Capital, Zwick served as National Fundraising Chair on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, and is known to have connections to GOP mega-donors with deep pockets. show more
November 16, 2023
Politics

Senator Joe Manchin Says He’s Down to Run for President.

Democratic Senator of West Virginia Joe Manchin announced in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker his potential consideration for running for president as a third-party candidate in 2024.

Manchin has previously skirted questions on presidential aspirations. Despite acknowledging that there’s ample time for a third-party candidate, he maintained, “It’s not about me.” However, his participation in a July event hosted by the centrist group “No Labels” did raise questions about his potential White House campaign.

He suggested that President Joe Biden had been “pushed too far to the left” on policies ranging from engird to migration, citing the unprecedented levels of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. He also said he does not believe Biden and Harris are in the strongest position to defeat former President Donald Trump.

“I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure, to mobilize that moderate, sensible, commonsense middle,” he explained.

“The business of politics has gotten so big because the business model is a Democrat business and a Republican business and it’s really forgotten about the people to a certain extent,” he added.

This comes as his most explicit potential presidential ambition statement, following last week’s declaration that he would not pursue reelection in 2024. This decision sets the stage for an almost certain switch of his seat to a Republican holder, sparking further speculation about his potential presidential bid.

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Democratic Senator of West Virginia Joe Manchin announced in an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker his potential consideration for running for president as a third-party candidate in 2024. show more

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November 16, 2023
Jake Welch
NatSec

FBI Forced Out Trump Supporting Agents, Claims Whistleblower.

High-ranking Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) officers have been targeting former members of the U.S. military who became FBI agents, apparently discriminating against their for their political beliefs. Some were even targeted for removal from the agency, according to whistleblower disclosures presented to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee this week.

The disclosures state several former servicemen were accused by Jeffrey Veltri, the deputy assistant of the FBI’s Security Division, alongside Dena Perkins, an assistant section chief, of “disloyalty to the United States” after displaying characteristics similar to those of a Donald Trump supporter.

The characteristics are said to have included refusing to wear a face mask, refusing to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, and participating in religious activities.

Agents were even stripped of security clearances following the accusations, and were forced out despite there being “no indication that any of the individuals had any affiliation to a foreign power or held any belief against the United States,” the disclosures explain.

The claims add that Ms. Perkins ordered investigations to contact ten police departments where employees lived to ascertain whether there were allegations or legal violations by the agents. “During the process, Perkins was attempting to provide evidence so she could terminate this employee because he was ‘Disloyal to the United States,'” the disclosures continue.

The FBI denied the allegations to The Washington Times, referring to them as “outrageous and demonstrably false.” However, the agency has been found to be weaponizing its resources to monitor and surveil supporters of the 45th President in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.

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High-ranking Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) officers have been targeting former members of the U.S. military who became FBI agents, apparently discriminating against their for their political beliefs. Some were even targeted for removal from the agency, according to whistleblower disclosures presented to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee this week. show more
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November 15, 2023
William Upton
News

REVEALING: Trump Slammed ‘Communist & Fascist Thugs’ as ‘Vermin’ and Joe Biden Attacked Him For It.

U.S. President Joe Biden criticized former President Donald Trump for comparing “communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs” to “vermin”. The Democrat President, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, said Trump’s use of ‘”vermin” was “a specific phrase with a specific meaning”, adding: “It echoes language you heard in Nazi Germany in the ’30s.”

Trump made the comparison between America’s enemies and “vermin” during a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire on Veterans Day. He then followed up the remarks by posting them nearly verbatim on TruthSocial. Meidas Touch – a liberal dark money group that poses as a news outlet – was quick to jump on the former President’s remarks, smearing Trump with comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

Firing back at both the corporate media and White House criticisms of the former President and current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

When viewed in context, former President Trump’s remarks appear to be little more than an enthusiastic pitch for part of his campaign’s ‘Agenda 47’ policy platform. If elected, Trump has promised to rein in rogue federal agencies, expose and dismantle the ‘Deep State’, and use the “Schedule F’ federal employment designation to remove career bureaucrats who actively work against the President’s agenda.

This isn’t the first time President Biden has compared Trump to Nazis. During the 2020 election, Biden said Trump reminded him of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

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U.S. President Joe Biden criticized former President Donald Trump for comparing "communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs" to "vermin". The Democrat President, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, said Trump's use of '"vermin" was "a specific phrase with a specific meaning", adding: "It echoes language you heard in Nazi Germany in the '30s." show more
November 15, 2023
William Upton
Politics

PLEASE CLAP: DeSantis Camp Uses ‘Canned’ Crowd Noise In New Ad.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign has gone on air with its second television ad in Iowa. The 30-second ad-spot features Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds who endorsed DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination at a sparsely attended event last week. The ad is a part of a $2 million campaign blitz announced by DeSantis in October, despite his campaign committee only have about $5 million cash-on-hand at the time.

The Iowa ad-spot has struck some political observers, including The National Pulse’s editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam, as being some what ‘off’. The clips featuring Govs. DeSantis and Reynolds in the video were pulled from the Iowa endorsement event, which appears to only have attracted about 150 people. In the ad, however, the audio alludes to far larger and enthused crowd one might see at a full-scale campaign rally.

Attempting to portray a greater degree of support and enthusiasm than there is, the DeSantis campaign appears to have inserted ‘canned’ crowd audio from an unrelated event. After comparing the relevant ad clips with actual video from Reynolds’s endorsement of DeSantis, Kassam was able to confirm that the Florida Governor had indeed substituted the crowd noise from the original.

The National Pulse has previously reported the political relationship between DeSantis and Reynolds is more complicated than what was previously known. Reynolds, who has served in leadership roles at the Republican Governors Association (RGA), appears to have directed an unusual amount of campaign funds to DeSantis’s 2022 Florida Governor re-election campaign. Some of that money was later transferred from his gubernatorial PAC to the pro-DeSantis presidential Never Back Down PAC. Gov. DeSantis’s decision to redirect state pension money to financial firms that made large contributions to the RGA raises additional questions.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign has gone on air with its second television ad in Iowa. The 30-second ad-spot features Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds who endorsed DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination at a sparsely attended event last week. The ad is a part of a $2 million campaign blitz announced by DeSantis in October, despite his campaign committee only have about $5 million cash-on-hand at the time. show more