Republican Governor of Mississippi Tate Reeves secured a second gubernatorial term in the Magnolia State, winning a clear majority of the vote against Democratic challenger Brandon Presley and therefore avoiding a run-off election. The sitting governor took 52 percent of the vote (404,926 votes) compared to Presley’s 47 percent (362,601).
“Mississippi has momentum, and this is Mississippi’s time,” Governor Reeves announced after the results to cheering supports in the state capital of Jackson on Tuesday night.
“This victory … it’s really about the direction that our state will go over the next four years,” he added.
Republicans have held the Mississippi governorship for the last two decades. The last Democrat to win in the state was Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election. The race was unusually close between Reeves and Presley, though the state’s electorate preferred Reeves’ focus on job creation, low unemployment, and improvements to education.
Reeves was also endorsed by former President Donald Trump going into the race, with Don Jr, the son of the 45th President, posting on X (formerly Twitter), “Hey Mississippi don’t let some psychopath democrat take over and destroy your great state. It’s Election Day, get out and vote for Trump-endorsed [Tate Reeves] for Governor! MAGA!
Hey Mississippi don’t let some psychopath democrat take over and destroy your great state. It’s Election Day, get out and vote for Trump-endorsed @tatereeves for Governor! MAGA! pic.twitter.com/p6oFGG2INb
Republican Governor of Mississippi Tate Reeves secured a second gubernatorial term in the Magnolia State, winning a clear majority of the vote against Democratic challenger Brandon Presley and therefore avoiding a run-off election. The sitting governor took 52 percent of the vote (404,926 votes) compared to Presley's 47 percent (362,601).
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Donald Trump’s net worth has increased by approximately $500 million since he left the White House, despite a Democrat attorney general and judge trying to undermine his business empire in New York.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index – unlikely to be especially sympathetic to Trump, given his public humiliation of ‘Mini’ Michael Bloomberg – reports the former president’s fortune has risen from $2.6 billion to $3.1 billion.
“Trump’s businesses are proving resilient in the face of a gloomy real estate market,” Bloomberg concedes, noting the MAGA kingpin’s Mar-a-Lago Club is prospering and revenues from his golf course have “surged,” leaving him “sitting on more cash and less leverage than at any point in the past decade.”
In New York, Attorney General Letitia ‘Tish’ James is taking Trump and his business empire to court for civil fraud, claiming he overvalued his net worth. Judge Arthur Engoron, who has donated thousands of dollars to the Democrats, ruled Trump was liable before hearings even began, and had a red-faced courtroom meltdown when the former president testified in person yesterday and called out his bias.
Engoron’s valuation of Mar-a-Lago at less than $30 million has proven one of the most controversial aspects of the case, with Bloomberg not agreeing with Trump’s $612.1 million valuation but still going far beyond the New York valuation with an estimate of $240 million.
The outlet could offer little defense of the New York valuation, quoting a Palm Beach real estate expert who said it was “a shock to the real estate community and anybody with any understanding of the island and its values.”
Trump: He said Mar-a-Lago is worth $18 million, what a fraud. As President of the US, we did a great job. Just look at the president we have today. It's a terrible thing you've done. You believed that political hack back there [Silence]
Donald Trump's net worth has increased by approximately $500 million since he left the White House, despite a Democrat attorney general and judge trying to undermine his business empire in New York.
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Robert Bigelow – who gave Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a whopping $20m and never even so much as received a phone call of thanks – has told the Financial Times that President Donald J. Trump “would probably be the strongest commander, with the most experience… that’s only one guy.”
Bigelow had warned the DeSantis team as early as three months ago that he would be taking his support elsewhere if the campaign issues were not resolved. Now, it appears he is ready to pull the trigger on that pledge.
“Who would you want as a commander? I’d want somebody that would be a hell of an ass kicker if he needed to be,” Bigelow told the FT over a four hour conversation. “On the face of it, you lean toward Trump.”
“I think Trump is too strong,” he continued, “I think Trump has the momentum, the inertia, to beat [DeSantis],” he added, referring to the Governor of Florida as “dinner” and the 45th President as a “bull.”
And the hotel tycoon gave a fascinating insight into the way DeSantis treats his supporters: “Bigelow said he expected the governor to contact him. But it was DeSantis’s wife Casey who called, two weeks later.”
“Not having him bothering to call me for an explanation taught me that he’s more of a user of people, actually, and that I didn’t matter enough for him to pick up the phone,” Bigelow said.
The Bigelow Aerospace founder – the single largest donor to DeSantis to date – is not alone in abandoning hope in the Florida Governor. Two previously strong supporters – Keith Rabois and Jacob Helberg – defected to Nikki Haley’s campaign last month.
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Robert Bigelow – who gave Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a whopping $20m and never even so much as received a phone call of thanks – has told the Financial Times that President Donald J. Trump "would probably be the strongest commander, with the most experience... that’s only one guy."
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Democrats have regained full control of the Virginia General Assembly in a blow to Governor Glenn Youngkin, who poured millions of dollars into securing the legislature for his final two years in office. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell also saw his Kentucky Governor candidate, Daniel Cameron, lose to Democrat Andy Beshear.
Anti-Trumpers within the GOP ranks have rushed to somehow blame the 45th President for the GOP’s pitiful displays on Wednesday, including an abortion rights blow-out in Ohio.
But Trump’s endorsement of Cameron was a last ditch attempt to save a struggling GOP campaign that has been stymied by its establishment backers, including recent DeSantis endorser Kim Reynolds, head of the Republican Governor’s Association, who failed to campaign or even mention Cameron’s race once, preoccupied with campaigning with DeSantis across Iowa.
Youngkin, who many had tipped to enter the Presidential race if his slate of candidates did well on Tuesday, is also a client of DeSantis’s chief strategist Jeff Roe, which is likely why the Florida Governor’s online operation has been told to trash Trump on the back of Tuesday night, rather than have the limelight aimed at Roe and his network.
The Democratic Party not only maintained its slim majority in the Virginia State Senate, but also seized control of the House of Delegates, held by Republicans since 2021.
Youngkin did not immediately comment on the results. The chairman of his PAC, Dave Rexrode, however, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that “[w]e had hoped for a stronger outcome this evening but are proud of the effort all of our candidates put in to these extremely competitive districts.”
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Democrats have regained full control of the Virginia General Assembly in a blow to Governor Glenn Youngkin, who poured millions of dollars into securing the legislature for his final two years in office. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell also saw his Kentucky Governor candidate, Daniel Cameron, lose to Democrat Andy Beshear.
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The United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper is the latest corporate media outlet to acknowledge former President Donald Trump is not just running away with the Republican presidential primary, but now looks poised to defeat President Joe Biden in the 2024 general election as well. The paper’s Washington, D.C. bureau chief, David Smith, laments “…Trump appears politically bulletproof and Democrats sweat over the disconnect between Biden’s record and his flagging numbers.”
A series of recent swing state polls has set off a panic among Democrat Party leadership and their media allies. According to the newest NYT/Siena poll Trump leads Biden by 10 points in Nevada, 5 points in Arizona, 4 points in Pennsylvania, 6 points in Georgia, and 5 points in Michigan – Biden has a slim 2 point lead in Wisconsin. If the election were held today, Trump would likely win the White House in an electoral landslide.
Catching up to Trump’s lead may be difficult for the Biden campaign. The same polling indicates voters are unconvinced by Biden’s insistence the state of the economy is strong– just 37 percent said they trust Biden over Trump on economic issues. Even more troubling – and more difficult to overcome – for Biden is the 71 percent of voters who say he is too old to serve as President – only 39 percent of voters think Trump is too old.
Despite acknowledging Trump is likely leading Biden in the 2024 presidential contest, the corporate media hasn’t yet come around as to why. The Guardian‘s David Smith, unwilling to acknowledge that Trump’s foreign and economic policies remain popular, blames the former President’s political resurgence on the American voter, writing, “….it is increasingly hard to deny that something strange and perverse is happening in American politics.”
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The United Kingdom's Guardian newspaper is the latest corporate media outlet to acknowledge former President Donald Trump is not just running away with the Republican presidential primary, but now looks poised to defeat President Joe Biden in the 2024 general election as well. The paper's Washington, D.C. bureau chief, David Smith, laments "...Trump appears politically bulletproof and Democrats sweat over the disconnect between Biden’s record and his flagging numbers."
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In 2015, the judge now overseeing the Trump case in New York – Arthur Engoron – was inducted into the State Supreme Court of New York. A former cab driver, Engoron was appointed to the New York City Civil Court in 2003 and ran unopposed for State Supreme Court.
The judge, whose temper flared with former President Trump on the stand on Monday, exclusively thanked far-left, New York Democrat clubs for his ascent during the 2015 induction. One of the groups he mentioned was the Barack Obama Democratic Club, an upper-Manhattan far-left group that supported the election of Gabriela Rosa in 2012. In 2014 it was revealed Rosa bought a sham marriage for U.S. citizenship for just $8,000. She took a plea deal and received just 366 days in prison.
Another organization Engoron thanked is the Sojourner Truth Democratic Club, named for an abolitionist who also became the inspiration for the Sojourner Truth Organization – a communist group which gained traction in the 1960s.
Here’s the full list of them:
Alice Wragg Kornegay Democratic Club
Ansonia Independent Democrats
Arturo Schomburg Democratic Club
Audubon Reform Democrats
Barack Obama Democratic Club
Broadway Democrats
Chelsea Reform Democratic Club
Coalition for a District Alternative
Community Free Democrats
Concerned Democratic Coalition
Democrats In the Heights
Downtown Independent Democrats
East Harlem United Democrats
East Side Democratic Club
Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club
Four Freedoms Democratic Club
Frederick E. Samuel Community Democratic Club
Gramercy Stuyvesant Independent Democrats
Harry S. Truman Democratic Club
Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club
Lenox Hill Democratic Club
Lexington Democratic Club
Lower East Side Democratic Club
Martin Luther King Jr. Democratic Club
McManus Midtown Democrats
Northern Manhattan Democrats for Change
Nuevo Caribe Democratic of El Barrio/East Harlem
Park River Independent Democratic Club
Samuel .J Tilden Democratic Club
Sojourner Truth Democratic Club
Three Parks Independent Democrats
Tioga Carver Democratic Club
United Democratic Organization
Village Reform Democratic Club
Village Independent Democrats
Engoron’s staff are also closely linked with the far-left of New York City – a matter the judge imposed a gag order on Donald Trump for pointing out.
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In 2015, the judge now overseeing the Trump case in New York – Arthur Engoron – was inducted into the State Supreme Court of New York. A former cab driver, Engoron was appointed to the New York City Civil Court in 2003 and ran unopposed for State Supreme Court.
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The allegedly “historic” endorsement of Ron DeSantis by Governor Kim Reynolds in Iowa, where the Floridian has less than half the support of Donald Trump, appears to have been attended by only around 150 people.
A simple headcount of the crowd present for the much-hyped endorsement shows around 150 people, give or take a handful of photographers, journalists, and campaign and venue staff. The modest turnout suggests Reynolds, trailed as a possible running mate for DeSantis, will be unlikely to galvanize a significant increase in support for the Floridian, who is currently on 18 percent in the Hawkeye State.
Trump, meanwhile, is on 44 percent – a much greater gap than the one between DeSantis and Nikki Haley, who is just a few points away from overtaking him at 15 percent.
The Florida Governor’s situation is even more dire in New Hampshire, the other early battleground state in the GOP race, where he is in third place behind Haley, and has at time polled as low as fifth place.
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The allegedly "historic" endorsement of Ron DeSantis by Governor Kim Reynolds in Iowa, where the Floridian has less than half the support of Donald Trump, appears to have been attended by only around 150 people.
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United States federal government agencies co-ordinated with so-called “disinformation” experts at Stanford University to actively monitor and censor the speech of conservative writers and commentators in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, according to an interim staff report from the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, published on Monday evening.
The report reveals the federal government “effectively outsourced” mass online censorship to the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), led by academics at the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), which pressured social media companies into labeling truthful information, political opinions, and even jokes as “misinformation.”
The EIP, established in the summer of 2020 at the request of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), operated in tandem with the Department of Homeland Security and the Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency entity within the State Department, to allow the federal government to censor information while bypassing public scrutiny and the First Amendment.
Federal agencies and organizations funded by the U.S. government submitted “misinformation reports” directly to the EIP, who would then contact major social media platforms, such as Twitter (now known as ‘X’), YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook, with recommendations as to how posts should be dealt with. This included reducing the information’s “discoverability,” temporarily suspending accounts, monitoring particular accounts, as well as removing posts.
The taxpayer-funded federal agencies were quick to justify their actions, arguing they have a responsibility to combat potential interference in American elections by hostile foreign actors.
However, the EIP disproportionately targeted conservatives. Vast quantities of truthful information posted by those on the right was marked as disinformation while “false information posted by Democrats and liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors.” Those actively censored included Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk, Benny Johnson, and even former President Donald Trump, among a large number of others.
“The pseudoscience of disinformation is now — and has always been — nothing more than a political ruse most frequently targeted at communities and individuals holding views contrary to the prevailing narratives,” the report argues. Yet, the unjust surveillance of conservatives by the federal government or agencies thereof is not merely limited to 2020 as the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has begun weaponizing its resources to target supporters of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in the run-up to November 2024.
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United States federal government agencies co-ordinated with so-called "disinformation" experts at Stanford University to actively monitor and censor the speech of conservative writers and commentators in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, according to an interim staff report from the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, published on Monday evening.
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Tempers flared today as former President Donald Trump testified today in the civil fraud prosecution against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Arthur Engoron – the far-left Manhattan Supreme Court Judge overseeing the trial – lost his temper at several points, slamming his hand on a court room table while yelling at Trump defense attorney Alina Habba.
For nearly five hours, the former President of the United States faced off under cross examination against prosecutors from the New York Attorney General’s Office. Letitia James herself sat in the front row observing the proceedings. Trump pushed back against the prosecutors, questioning why the case ever moved forward when not one of his lenders claimed financial injury or harm. “We’re trying to figure out, why are you doing this,” the former President pondered in response to questioning by state attorney Kevin Wallace. “No one understands it. Well, I understand it — it’s called pol-i-tics.”
At one point, Wallace pressed Trump as to whether he had actually paid off all of his loan agreements with lenders, asking: “We’ve seen multiple loan agreements, and your signature. You paid all these off?” Trump fired back, “Yes. With cash… I think this case is a disgrace. People are leaving New York due to this kind of thing. The only complainant is you.”
The prosecution’s examination veered far afield with Trump being questioned regarding the number of homes included in the valuation of his golf course property in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was unclear what legal interests or purview the New York Attorney General’s office has with loan agreements in the United Kingdom. When Trump defended the value of his Aberdeen property as it sits in the midst of one of the most oil rich regions of Europe, Judge Engoron declared that location is “irrelevant” to the value of property.
In the most heated moment of today’s testimony, Judge Engoron demanded Trump’s defense team step in and rein in the former President’s lengthy responses: “I beseech you to control him. If you can’t, I will. I will excuse him and draw every negative inference.”
Trump attorney Alina Habba suggested the prosecution should instead ask better questions. It was at this moment that Engoron lost his cool and slammed his hand down on a table and shouts at Habba, “SIT DOWN!” Before the prosecution could continue with questioning, Trump responded to the heated exchange saying, “This is a very unfair trial.”
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Tempers flared today as former President Donald Trump testified today in the civil fraud prosecution against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Arthur Engoron – the far-left Manhattan Supreme Court Judge overseeing the trial – lost his temper at several points, slamming his hand on a court room table while yelling at Trump defense attorney Alina Habba.
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Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis, a self-styled enemy of woke culture and politics, gave a women’s community spirit award to a transgender activist for the biological man’s contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the Sunshine State last year, lauding the man’s “shining example of a positive role model,” and referring to him as “Ms.”.
Ashley Brundage, a former vice president of DEI in the financial industry and board member of the LGBT advocacy group GLAAD, who claims to have “worked tirelessly to promote awareness and acceptance of gender identity and expression,” received a letter from the Florida Governor after being nominated for the prize. The letter from Governor DeSantis stated:
“I appreciate your dedication and hard work as a mentor and advocate to children and women.”
– Ron DeSantis to transgender man, 2022.
“As Governor, and the father of three children, I believe that community involvement is essential as we work to improve and enrich the lives of others and engage in the issues that impact Florida families… Keep up the great work,” his letter added.
DeSantis has forced his embrace of DEI and transgenderism deep into the closet, preferring to build much of his governorship and presidential campaign around his supposed “anti-woke” policies. He has regularly called for the elimination of DEI in the Sunshine State and remarked earlier this year, for example, “The whole experiment with DEI is coming to an end in the state of Florida.”
Asked by POLITICO to comment on the letter, the DeSantis campaign ignored requests.
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Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis, a self-styled enemy of woke culture and politics, gave a women's community spirit award to a transgender activist for the biological man's contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the Sunshine State last year, lauding the man's "shining example of a positive role model," and referring to him as "Ms.".
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