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desantis
January 24, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Politics

DeSantis Predicted Low Turnout & Lib Dominance in NH… He Was Wrong, Again.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis predicted a low turnout in New Hampshire during what has become a typically bitter media outing on Tuesday, this time on the Steve Deace Show. In reality, President Trump broke records in the Granite State, with DeSantis’s political acumen now under further scrutiny for his bizarre and misguided forecasts.

In his first, soft-ball interview since dropping out of the Republican presidential nomination contest, DeSantis said he believed Republican turnout would fall short of expectations in New Hampshire. He argued that his low turnout prediction is indicative of a greater enthusiasm problem inside the GOP.

“They were conservative, but they did not want to see Trump nominated again, but they had basically been told that it was inevitable, that it was over, so why even bother?” DeSantis told ‘NeverTrumper’ host Deace, arguing apathy caused lower turnout in Iowa. In reality, the sub-zero degree windchill and winter storms depressed turnout in the Hawkeye State. The Florida Governor then predicted New Hampshire would see a similar drop in voter turnout; DeSantis added: “Trump’s going to win… But what’s the overall turnout?”

In fact, the New Hampshire Republican primary saw a record-breaking turnout. Former President Donald Trump handily defeated Nimarata’ Nikki’ Haley by around 12 points. As of early Wednesday morning, the New Hampshire Secretary of State confirmed more than 300,000 voters participated in the Republican primary contest. The previous turnout record was set in 2016, with just over 287,000 voters casting a ballot.

Trump is the only non-incumbent Republican to win both the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary in a single election cycle. The former Republican President outperformed his 2016 primary margins in nearly every New Hampshire locality — winning many by double digits. Pushing past 166,000 total votes, Trump secured the most ballots any Republican has ever received in the New Hampshire primary contest.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis predicted a low turnout in New Hampshire during what has become a typically bitter media outing on Tuesday, this time on the Steve Deace Show. In reality, President Trump broke records in the Granite State, with DeSantis’s political acumen now under further scrutiny for his bizarre and misguided forecasts. show more
January 24, 2024
William Upton
News
Politics

The Democratic Socialists of America are Broke, In Debt, and Beginning Mass Layoffs.

Leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are admitting the far-left political organization is broke and running significant deficits — throwing the group’s future into question. DSA’s National Political Committee members acknowledged the group had seen a “decline in revenue, membership, and overall excitement” in an announcement to the organization’s Bread & Roses Caucus. Layoffs are being floated to solve the group’s fiscal situation.

$2 Million In The Hole.

Budget documents show the DSA is on track to incur $7 million in expenses for 2024, while the group only anticipates total revenue at $5 million. The organization’s Treasurer believes the group can buy itself another year to bring its books in order if it narrows its 2024 deficit to between $821,000 and $921,000. This still leaves a roughly $1.2 million gap that needs to be closed.

Layoffs Seen As The Only Way Out.

Taking a page from the corporate America playbook, the DSA is suggesting the organization adopts voluntary buy-outs for employees — beginning with non-union director-level staff but moving to unionized staff. Additionally, they say they believe the group should delay hiring a new executive director following the departure of Maria Svart.

Addressing concerns that laying off unionized staff runs counter to the DSA’s pro-union political stances, the leaders argue “the situation is more complicated for ‘movement staff’ — that is, staff for democratic membership organizations like unions, grassroots NGOs, and parties.” They contend that organizations governed by “members” have greater legitimacy in enacting layoffs over a business run by a singular CEO.

The DSA Is “Treading Water.”

The current political moment, the DSA leaders argue, should favor the far-left group. However, renewed labor strikes, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and President Joe Biden’s cratering support among voters haven’t translated to success for the DSA. Instead, the DSA leaders argue the group has “been treading water” and claim “[w]orking people are inspired to transform the world, but they are doing it elsewhere.”

While left-leaning political populism might be in decline, populism continues to surge on the American political right — with some caveats. Even some unions allied with Democrats are waking up to the change, with the Teamsters Union having recently sat down with former President Trump to discuss a shared vision.

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Leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are admitting the far-left political organization is broke and running significant deficits — throwing the group's future into question. DSA's National Political Committee members acknowledged the group had seen a "decline in revenue, membership, and overall excitement" in an announcement to the organization's Bread & Roses Caucus. Layoffs are being floated to solve the group's fiscal situation. show more
January 24, 2024
Election 2024
News
Politics

70% Haley Voters in New Hampshire Not Registered Republicans.

New Hampshire exit polling revealed that a significant percentage of voters who participated in the Republican primary in the Granite State were not Republicans, with the vast majority of non-Republican voters voting for Nikki ‘Nimarata’ Haley.

CNN exit polling found that approximately 70 percent of voters who supported Haley were not registered Republicans. Comparatively, 70 percent of voters for former President Donald Trump, who secured victory in the primary race after a record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses, were registered Republicans.

According to the same exit poll, 27 percent of Trump’s voters were registered as undeclared or independent, with only 3 percent unregistered before the vote. Only 27 percent of Haley’s voters were registered as Republicans.

NBC exit polling showed similar results, with Haley winning 60 percent of New Hampshire voters identifying as independent and 73 percent of those identifying as moderates.

Exit polling conducted by Edison Research found that just over half — 51 percent — of those who participated in the Republican primary in New Hampshire identified as Republicans — a 55 percent drop from 2016. Forty-three percent of those who participated in Tuesday’s primary identified as independents.

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New Hampshire exit polling revealed that a significant percentage of voters who participated in the Republican primary in the Granite State were not Republicans, with the vast majority of non-Republican voters voting for Nikki 'Nimarata' Haley. show more
January 24, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

Gingrich: Trump is Next POTUS, ‘Get Over It.’

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says he believes the Republican presidential primary is already over, with former President Donald Trump being the presumptive nominee. The Republican leader, writing for the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph, argues Trump’s back-to-back historic wins in Iowa and New Hampshire seal the deal in the nomination contest.

“The reality is that President Trump is going to be the Republican nominee. He leads in every state for the nomination, “Gingrich writes, before continuing: “He has the only nationwide organization that can mobilize in all 50 states. He is ahead nationally among Republicans with 63.1 percent of the vote. Elected Republicans are beginning to rush to endorse him.”

Gingrich goes on to warn that “Never-Trump Republicans and Trump-hating elite media won’t go down without a fight.” Instead, he argues, they will try to build Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley up as an alternative to Trump, hoping they can make her “a big enough star that she can carry her home state of South Carolina.”

Trump holds a commanding lead in recent polls of South Carolina primary voters. The former Speaker notes: “South Carolina is one of Trump’s strongest states and the Republican establishment in South Carolina deeply dislikes Haley. She is currently trailing Trump in the polls by a 30-point margin.”

“President Trump is the leader of a national movement,” he writes: “Leaders have a much deeper claim on the loyalty and affection of their supporters than mere candidates have.”

“Trump will be the Republican nominee — and from my view, he already is,” Gingrich concludes.

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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says he believes the Republican presidential primary is already over, with former President Donald Trump being the presumptive nominee. The Republican leader, writing for the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph, argues Trump's back-to-back historic wins in Iowa and New Hampshire seal the deal in the nomination contest. show more
January 24, 2024
William Upton
Politics

Adam Schiff Says Standing Up To Trump Justified Russia Hoax Lies.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tried to justify lying to over 300 million Americans regarding his false allegations that former President Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. Steve Garvey – a Dodgers baseball legend and Republican Senate candidate — attacked Schiff during Monday night’s California Senate debate for his censure for perpetuating the Russia hoax. The California Democrat said he was standing up to a “corrupt president.”

“I think you’ve been censured for lying,” Garvey said, leveling the accusation at the California Democrat Congressman. “I was censured for standing up to a corrupt president,” Schiff responded.

The exchange gave the impression Schiff believed it reasonable to lie to the American people simply because he disliked Trump.

In June of 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives censured Rep. Schiff over his alleged “falsehoods, misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information” during the 2016 Russian collusion investigation. House Republicans accuse Schiff of misrepresenting facts and claiming to have evidence that never existed.

Schiff has become the target of ridicule by former President Trump on the 2024 campaign trail. At a recent rally, the former President made light of Schiff’s odd physical stature — calling him “Pencil Neck.” Trump continued, declaring Schiff “a structural marvel,” noting the California Democrat’s tiny neck and “his head is like a watermelon.”

“And how that neck can hold up that big, oversized, ugly head is hard to believe,” Trump observed with his supporters bursting out in laughter.

 

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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tried to justify lying to over 300 million Americans regarding his false allegations that former President Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. Steve Garvey – a Dodgers baseball legend and Republican Senate candidate — attacked Schiff during Monday night's California Senate debate for his censure for perpetuating the Russia hoax. The California Democrat said he was standing up to a "corrupt president." show more
January 24, 2024
William Upton
Culture

‘Wag the Dog’ Writer Says Trump the Best Prez Since Honest Abe.

Famed playwright and filmmaker David Mamet believes Donald Trump is the best president since Abraham Lincoln. Speaking with UnHerd, Mamet lauded the border stability, strong economy, and global peace the Trump presidency achieved.

“He brought peace to the Middle East. He closed the border. He made us an energy exporter,” Mamet said in an interview with the British website, continuing: “He had the best rating among African Americans of any president ever. And the country was at peace and prosperous in the world.”

Mamet defended Trump from critics who claim his brash New York style alienates voters. “He’s got a big mouth, so do I. The question is, who do you like in a fair fight with your back to the wall?” Mamet argued, adding: “Who would you rather have? Joe Biden, who’s a senile old bag-man, or Donald Trump, who’s a scrapper and loves his country?”

Modern Theater ‘Stinks’.

Once a staunch liberal, Mamet penned an essay in 2008 in The Village Voice entitled, “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal” — coming out as a political conservative. Mamet, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross, panned the modern theater industry. “The theatre is not only dead, it stinks,” he told UnHerd, blaming the political left’s embrace of censorship and ‘diversity and inclusion‘ for stifling creativity.

“Now we have political commissars who say, in addition to the Artistic Director, in addition to the Managing Director, we have to have a Director of Diversity, who’s on top of everything,” Mamet lamented, before adding: “And we’re all going to pay attention to this person who tells us, you don’t have enough black women in the play, or you don’t have enough trans people… If somebody’s not telling you a story, then that theatre stinks.”

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Famed playwright and filmmaker David Mamet believes Donald Trump is the best president since Abraham Lincoln. Speaking with UnHerd, Mamet lauded the border stability, strong economy, and global peace the Trump presidency achieved. show more
January 24, 2024
William Upton
Politics

AUDIO: AZ GOP Chair Caught On Tape Trying To Bribe Kari Lake To Not Run For Senate.

Jeff DeWit, chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, has been caught on a secret recording appearing to bribe Kari Lake not to run for U.S. Senate. The state party chairman mentions “very powerful people” who are “back east” — likely referring to establishment Republicans in Washington, D.C. — who want Lake out of the Arizona Senate race and are willing to compensate her financially.

At one point in the recording, DeWit asks Lake if there is a dollar “number” for which she’d abandon her candidacy. DeWit was recorded saying, “Just say, is there a number at which…” before Lake cuts him off. The former Republican gubernatorial candidate interrupts, shocked by DeWit’s question: “I can be bought? That’s what it’s about?”

The chairman replies that Lake could “pause for a couple of years” and then “go right back to” her political advocacy. In response, Lake gives a firm “no,” adding: “Ten million? Twenty million? Thirty? No… a billion? No.”

On the recording, Lake tells DeWit, “This is not about money. ” She continues, “This is about our country.” She goes on to call DeWit’s proposition “disturbing.” Despite the firm rejection, DeWit continues to pressure Lake.

“I’m not going to let these people who hate our f***ing country tell me not to run,” Lake fired back. “You should call them and tell them to get behind me.”

According to DeWit, the D.C. Republican establishment doesn’t view Lake as “being on the team,” prompting Lake to respond: “If they’re pushing a globalist agenda, I can’t do that.” At this point, DeWit again appears to offer Lake a bribe directly, telling her “the people back east” were willing to give her a cushy corporate job in exchange for staying out of Arizona politics for two years.

Again, Lake rejected the bribe, telling DeWit: “I think this is about defeating Trump! And I think that’s a bad, bad thing for our country.”

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Jeff DeWit, chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, has been caught on a secret recording appearing to bribe Kari Lake not to run for U.S. Senate. The state party chairman mentions "very powerful people" who are "back east" — likely referring to establishment Republicans in Washington, D.C. — who want Lake out of the Arizona Senate race and are willing to compensate her financially. show more
January 23, 2024
William Upton
Breaking
Election 2024

His Truth Is Marching On: Trump Emerges Victorious in New Hampshire.

Former President Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire primary, following up his victory just last week in the Iowa Republican Caucus. All eyes are now on Trump’s primary opponent, Nimarata’ Nikki’ Haley, and whether the former South Carolina governor will continue her long-shot bid for the Republican nomination.

On Sunday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dropped out of the Republican presidential primary contest, endorsing former President Trump for the nomination. The Trump campaign is expected to receive additional support from DeSantis voters in the upcoming primary states heading into Super Tuesday on March 5th.

Calls for Republicans to unify behind former President Trump and for Haley to end her primary challenge will likely intensify with Trump scoring his second convincing primary victory in just over a week. Trump has ruled out selecting Haley as his Vice-President.

Up next on the primary calendar is the Nevada primary and caucus. The Nevada primary will be held on February 6th — though no convention delegates are awarded. The Republican party-administered caucus will be held on February 8th, with the convention delegates up for grabs. Nimrata’ Nikki’ Haley is in the primary, while former President Trump is in the caucus.

After Nevada, the South Carolina primary is next on February 24th.

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Former President Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire primary, following up his victory just last week in the Iowa Republican Caucus. All eyes are now on Trump’s primary opponent, Nimarata’ Nikki’ Haley, and whether the former South Carolina governor will continue her long-shot bid for the Republican nomination. show more
January 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024

Poll Shows 0% of NH Haley Supporters Think She Is ‘Best to Beat Biden’, Just Want to ‘Stop Trump’.

A poll of Donald Trump and Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley supporters in New Hampshire reveals that Trump supporters are backing the 45th President because of his record and stances on issues like immigration. The same data reveals that Haley is primarily backed only as a vehicle to “stop” Trump. While Haley has argued she is the candidate best placed to defeat Joe Biden, no poll respondents gave this as their reason for supporting her.

The poll of primary voters in the Granite State by J.L. Partners found Haley supporters are motivated mainly by anti-Trump sentiment, with 54 percent backing the former United Nations ambassador “to stop Trump.” Fifteen percent said they believe she is “more moderate,” but only three percent said she “has good policies.” Just one percent said she would “make a difference.”

The share of Haley supporters who said she was “best to beat Biden” was zero percent.

Trump supporters cited more positive reasons for backing their preferred candidate. Thirty-four percent cited his “strong record” in the White House, while 14 percent said they support him because they believe he would “save the country,” and 11 percent praised his “strong leadership skills.”

“He has proven he can run our country as a leader should,” said one poll respondent. Contrary to efforts to paint Trump supporters as “cultists,” he added he did not like the former president “personally” but “agreed with his policies and how the United States was a strong force in the world and not viewed as weak” under his stewardship.

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A poll of Donald Trump and Nimarata 'Nikki' Haley supporters in New Hampshire reveals that Trump supporters are backing the 45th President because of his record and stances on issues like immigration. The same data reveals that Haley is primarily backed only as a vehicle to "stop" Trump. While Haley has argued she is the candidate best placed to defeat Joe Biden, no poll respondents gave this as their reason for supporting her. show more
iowa
January 23, 2024
Election 2024

DeSantis Heckles Trump, Says He’d Veto Plan to Protect 45th President from Lawfare.

Just one day after suspending his primary campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took to X (formerly Twitter) to boast that he would veto any attempts to help defer the legal costs of the 45th President’s state persecution. Currently, Trump’s legal costs are covered by himself personally and fundraising efforts. Meanwhile, the U.S. government uses the public purse to fund its prosecution of Trump.

An initiative to help Trump, meaning more of his cash-on-hand could be spent fighting the November 2024 election, was launched by Florida State Sen. Ileana Garcia. Garcia argued supporting Trump as a Floridian and presidential candidate would be beneficial for both the state and the nation, especially given how much revenue Trump brings to the Sunshine State with his golf courses, residences, and Mar A Lago Club.

DeSantis, however, disagreed, taking to X last night to announce his opposition. As a result, Garcia announced she would withdraw the bill.

Trump is embroiled in four distinct legal struggles on both federal and state levels. These include state charges in New York related to alleged ‘hush money’ payments, federal allegations over improper handling and retention of classified documents, and two indictments related to his efforts to dispute the establishment’s 2020 election claims.

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Just one day after suspending his primary campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took to X (formerly Twitter) to boast that he would veto any attempts to help defer the legal costs of the 45th President's state persecution. Currently, Trump's legal costs are covered by himself personally and fundraising efforts. Meanwhile, the U.S. government uses the public purse to fund its prosecution of Trump. show more