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primary
June 5, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Trump Primary Foes Are ‘Ass Backwards’ and ‘Asinine’, Says Ex-Congressman.

Congressman Devin Nunes, the CEO of Truth Social, has described the primary campaigners against Donald Trump as “asinine and ass backwards” and reliant on Biden Department of Justice overreach to keep Trump out of the 2024 presidential race. His comments came in a fiery new episode of the Steak for Breakfast podcast (episode 244).

Nunes described the opposition with which Donald Trump is dealing as the “underbelly of the beast, the lobbyists, the Woke [corporations], and all of the so-called ‘right-wing’ consultants that have been out of the money during the Trump years” trying to field candidates who have no chance of winning despite spending up to $500 million against the former President.

The former Congressman also suggested some primary candidates should “get out of the Republican Party” if “you don’t see this corruption at the highest levels, how they are coordinating the Department of Justice, the Intelligence Agencies, the Democratic propaganda also with the fake news media. If you don’t see how that’s working, you are clueless, and I’m never voting for you.”

Nunes further expressed his incredulity at Republicans “running over to Zuckerberg and Facebook” or Twitter spaces and begging to be promoted or receive support from Big Tech. “You wanna lead this nation… and you don’t even understand the basic battlefield: it’s kinda sad and pathetic,” he added.

The Steak for Breakfast show is available here, or on Apple Podcasts, Google, Spotify, and all other major podcast platforms.

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Congressman Devin Nunes, the CEO of Truth Social, has described the primary campaigners against Donald Trump as "asinine and ass backwards" and reliant on Biden Department of Justice overreach to keep Trump out of the 2024 presidential race. His comments came in a fiery new episode of the Steak for Breakfast podcast (episode 244). show more
desantis
June 5, 2023
Raheem J. Kassam
Exclusive

EXC: DeSantis LOSES Support Post Launch, Trump Adds 13 Points in Head-to-Head.

Ron DeSantis starts off the week with yet more bad news for his campaign, as the first Rasmussen Reports head-to-head since his glitch-ridden campaign launch shows the Florida Governor actually losing support.

A like-for-like study released by Rasmussen on Monday morning reveals DeSantis’s February 2023 numbers at 32 percent with likely Republican voters, whereas he slips to 30 percent in the latest, May poll.

And while the Florida Governor’s slippage is with Rasmussen’s three point margin of error, former President Donald Trump’s massive spike in support is definitely not. The 45th President rose a whopping 13 points in comparison to February, and since DeSantis’s campaign launch. He now stands at 58 percent, versus 45 percent just three months ago.

Amongst all likely voters – including Democrats and independents – DeSantis was actually slightly leading Trump before his announcement (30% vs 26%). In the latest poll, however, Trump has taken the lead, even increasing his appeal amongst Democrat voters. The numbers now stand at 34 percent to Trump and 33 percent to DeSantis.

Curiously, the Florida Governor’s biggest strides appear to be with self-identified liberal voters, per Rasmussen, though he still is unable to beat Joe Biden in a head-to-head in the same data set. Additionally, only around 60 percent of Trump voters say they would vote for DeSantis in a general election, raising questions over the Florida man’s ability to bring ‘MAGA’ voters into his coalition, were he to defeat Donald Trump in a primary.

The news comes after a few weeks of turmoil in Tallahassee, where DeSantis’s campaign is based. A few ago, his chief strategist Jeff Roe removed his long-time advisor Phil Cox. Since then, his surrogates have been in open online warfare against Trump supporters, to strikingly little avail.

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Ron DeSantis starts off the week with yet more bad news for his campaign, as the first Rasmussen Reports head-to-head since his glitch-ridden campaign launch shows the Florida Governor actually losing support. show more

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This is precisely the disaster scenario that the DeSantis team had hoped to avoid following their botched Twitter launch with Elon Musk a few weeks back
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desantis
June 2, 2023
Raheem J. Kassam
Analysis

DeSantis Says Trump Should’ve Fixed America in One Term. Then Says He’ll Need Two.

Governor Ron DeSantis is either getting his messaging mixed, or admitting he would be half as effective a President as Donald Trump.

Trump, playing to his experience in the job, goaded the Florida governor this week, stating: “When [DeSantis] says eight years, every time I hear it, I wince… because I say, if it takes eight years to turn this around, then you don’t want him… as your president.”

When told about Trump’s remarks, DeSantis snapped back: “Why didn’t he do it his first four years?”

But speaking on stage in Iowa, DeSantis said: “Let’s just be clear, it really does take two terms as president to be able to finish this job… And I don’t think he could fix it in one single four-year term.”

His messaging doesn’t seem to be working.

“Trump’s strength is his term as president,” George Pierson, a college student from Waukee told CNN.

Still, good news that DeSantis admitted Trump’s four years in office were his “first”. Conceding so soon, Ron?

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Governor Ron DeSantis is either getting his messaging mixed, or admitting he would be half as effective a President as Donald Trump. show more
May 31, 2023
Jake Welch
News

Sh*t Peter Griffin Runs for President.

The former Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, who’s expected to announce his presidential campaign next Tuesday, has a current net favorability rating of -26, according to the Monmouth University Polling Institute.

Former Governor Christie — once lampooned by TV comic Family Guy — was favorable to just 21 percent of Republican voters, down from 24 percent in March.

Forty-seven percent of voters found him to be “unfavorable”, however, with a further eight percent telling pollsters that they have “not heard of” Chris Christie.

Christie, a one-time hanger-on Donald Trump, is now branding him a “coward” and “puppet of Putin.” Christie himself is far behind Trump in terms of voter sentiment.

Donald Trump is currently leading among Republicans with 77 percent, and rising. In March this year, Trump’s favorability was 71 percent – an overall six percent increase in the last two months.

Worse still for Christie is another survey conducted by Marquette Law School, which found his favorability among potential Republican voters to be -22 percent with him likely to receive .5 percent  of Republican primary support alongside Asa Hutchinson.

Christie is expected to announce his candidacy for president next week in New Hampshire, according to Axios.

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The former Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, who's expected to announce his presidential campaign next Tuesday, has a current net favorability rating of -26, according to the Monmouth University Polling Institute. show more

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Chris Christie is a sh*t version of Peter Griffin, without any of the cuteness or bumbling charm
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birthright citizenship
May 30, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Trump to End Birthright Citizenship, Stop Illegal Alien ‘Birth Tourism’ on ‘Day One’.

Donald Trump has vowed to put an end to birthright citizenship for children born to illegal aliens on the first day of his return to office.

“As part of my plan to secure the border, on day one of my new term in office I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that, under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” he said in his latest Agenda 47 video.

“Joe Biden has launched an illegal foreign invasion of our country, allowing a record number of illegal aliens to storm across our borders,” Trump blasted.

“Under Biden’s current policies, even though these millions of illegal border crossers have entered the country unlawfully, all of their future children will become automatic U.S. citizens… They’ll be eligible for welfare, taxpayer-funded healthcare, the right to vote, chain migration, and countless other government benefits, many of which will also profit the illegal alien parents,” he explained, describing the current policy as “a reward for breaking the laws of the United States [and] obviously a magnet helping draw the flood of illegals across our borders.”

Many Western countries, such as the United Kingdom, reserve the right to strip people born on their soil of citizenship if they are dual nationals or eligible for citizenship elsewhere.

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Donald Trump has vowed to put an end to birthright citizenship for children born to illegal aliens on the first day of his return to office. show more
desantis
May 29, 2023
Jake Welch
News

GOP Rep Drops DeSantis, Endorses ‘Real Deal’ Trump.

Sandra Panek, a Republican New Hampshire State Representative, announced a change in her endorsement from the Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis, in favor of former President Donald Trump this week. She argued, “[w]ith DeSantis, you’re getting Trump without the charisma. I want the real deal.”

In her announcement, Panek explained”

“After being less than impressed with Ron DeSantis’s official announcement... I am hereby switching my endorsement to President Donald J. Trump. We can’t expect someone to run the country if they can’t properly run their own campaign launch. The stakes are simply too great in 2024 to take a chance on someone as unreliable as DeSantis – we need a proven winner like President Trump to take back the White House and Make America Great Again!”

The announcement, welcomed by the Trump camp, highlights another New Hampshire State Representative, Juliet Harvey-Bolia’s recent endorsement of the 45th President.

“I’m around to announce my full endorsement from President Trump, and only Trump. He’ll’ keep up out of war and prosperous as he has in the past., Ron DeSantis will make a great candidate in 2028. I expect Republicans will unite behind President Trump.”

The DeSantis campaign has already begun a “shake up” in Tallahassee, as reported by The National Pulse. Long-time DeSantis advisor Phil Cox was shown the door this week after a rumored spat with campaign chief strategist Jeff Roe. Roe is a serial loser on the campaign stage nationally, having run campaigns for Rick Perry and Ted Cruz for the White House.

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Sandra Panek, a Republican New Hampshire State Representative, announced a change in her endorsement from the Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis, in favor of former President Donald Trump this week. She argued, "[w]ith DeSantis, you're getting Trump without the charisma. I want the real deal." show more

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It’s been nothing short of a nightmare week for the DeSantis campaign
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campaign launch
May 26, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Trump’s Campaign Launch Reached Over 13 Million More Americans Than DeSantis.

Donald Trump’s presidential announcement at Mar-a-Lago last November was viewed by around 4.5 times the number of people as that of Governor Ron DeSantis’s on Twitter this week, according to the data.

DeSantis said his glitch-ridden Twitter Space, or a recording of it, had been watched by “probably over 10 million people”. There’s no evidence of this. In fact, the Space managed only just over 300,000 concurrent listeners, with Twitter showing a currently tally of 3.9 million people tuning in.

Trump’s announcement, despite many news networks not carrying it in full, interspersing it with adverts, or not carrying it at all, achieved millions more concurrent viewers. Fox News alone pulled in over 5.16 million people in the time slot, with CNN piling on 2.43 million more.

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The number of people who tuned in after the fact is harder to determine, but some indication of the level of interest in Trump’s annoucement can be determined from looking at the numbers for networks which streamed Trump’s announcement on YouTube: Fox News pulled in 1.2m views, Fox Business another 826,000, and CNBC 612,000, for example.

Video of the full speech uploaded to the site by CNN adds 660,800 viewers, ABC Action News another 923,000, with hundreds of thousands more spread out across channels for relatively obscure broadcasters, with uploads of the speech by the likes of Fox 2 Detroit, for example, boasting 117,000 views. Video streaming platform Rumble showed a further 2.05 million views on the official account of Donald J. Trump alone, while the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) announced that it hit more than 3.8 million viewers for the speech.

Trump again demonstrated this “ratings gold” again in April 2023, with a major speech following his indictment in New York being viewed by 6.6 million viewers on Fox alone, with another 2.125 million watching on CNN – “far higher than the network ha[d] seen in prime time in months,” Forbes observed.

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Donald Trump's presidential announcement at Mar-a-Lago last November was viewed by around 4.5 times the number of people as that of Governor Ron DeSantis's on Twitter this week, according to the data. show more
desaster
May 25, 2023
Jake Welch
News

How the World Reported Ron’s Twitter Space ‘DeSaster’.

Ron DeSantis’s claim that he broke the internet during his campaign launch “because so many people were excited about being on the Twitter space” has failed to catch on both at home and abroad. The spin flopped after an even larger Twitter Space with Trump world advisors and influencers achieved around double the listenership immediately after the Florida Governor’s botched launch on Wednesday night.

The campaign launch was led by Hillary Clinton donor David Sacks alongside Elon Musk on Twitter last night. The first 20 minutes were mostly dead air and saw the app crash and fail several times. Audiences were left in a state of total confusion, with many leaving when they heard nothing, and never coming back.

The vast majority of the coverage across the world has been negative, with words such as “incompetent,” “disastrous,” and meltdown being used to describe it.

A Sampling of the Headlines:

The Guardian (United Kingdom) – Failure to Launch: Twitter glitches deal double blow to Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis.”

Sky News (United Kingdom) – “Ron DeSantis claims campaign launch ‘broke the internet’ – but did it hint at an incompetent candidate from the off?”

Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany) – “A found food for Trump” which is a German idiom. Translated, it refers to something that one can exploit or use to one’s advantage, especially with a sense of opportunism. A more contextually accurate translation might be, “A golden opportunity for Trump” or “easy pickings for Trump.”

9 News Australia – “‘Disaster’: Twitter meltdown derails presidential campaign launch.”

Franceinfo – “Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign launch turns into a fiasco and draws mockery from Donald Trump.”

Arab News – “Twitter meltdown mars DeSantis’ launch of 2024 GOP presidential bid to challenge White House.”

Al Jazeera – “DeSantis launches US presidential bid in glitch-filled broadcast.”

SOHU (China) – “DeSantis’ candidacy announcement tripped up by Twitter glitch: live stream disconnected multiple times, Trump mocks ‘disaster scene.”

Mainichi (Japan) – “DeSantis, Mask and ‘run-off delivery’: connection failure disrupts stakes.”

Reuters – “Ron DeSantis joins White House race, tripped up by chaotic Twitter launch.”

CBC (Canada) – DeSantis kicks off 2024 U.S. presidential campaign after Twitter event plagues by technical problems.”

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Ron DeSantis's claim that he broke the internet during his campaign launch "because so many people were excited about being on the Twitter space" has failed to catch on both at home and abroad. The spin flopped after an even larger Twitter Space with Trump world advisors and influencers achieved around double the listenership immediately after the Florida Governor's botched launch on Wednesday night. show more
cnn
May 25, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

CNN to Host Pence for Jan 6 Struggle Session Town Hall.

CNN has announced a Republican Presidential Town Hall with Mike Pence in June – though the former vice president is yet to officially declare his candidacy for the Republican nomination.

Pence, 63, will appear from Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa on  Wednesday, June 7th, at 9 p.m. ET, for an event moderated by Dana Bash.

The CNN press release announcing the town hall emphasizes that Pence and his former president had “a public falling out” over January 6th, and that Pence has “said the Republican Party needs to move on from Trump.”

Given this framing, the town hall is likely to take on the characteristics of a struggle session, with Bash, who has made disparaging remarks about what she terms “Trump’s 2020 election lies”, likely to press Pence to repudiate Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was “rigged”.

Trump repeated these accusations at his own CNN town hall earlier this month, criticizing Pence for certifying votes from states where he regarded the results as questionable instead of sending them back their legislatures for reexamination.

“Mike Pence… says that you endangered his life on that day… do you feel that you owe him an apology?” asked that town hall’s moderator, Kaitlan Collins.

“No, because he did something wrong. He should have put the votes back to the state legislatures,” Trump said.

“I like Mike Pence very much. He’s a very fine man. He’s a very nice man. He made a mistake,” he added.

“Mike had the right to do it. They convinced him he didn’t, and it was a horrible thing for our country.”

Pence, who insists Trump “was wrong that day”, has said he will decide whether or not to make a play for the presidency “before the month of June is out.”

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CNN has announced a Republican Presidential Town Hall with Mike Pence in June – though the former vice president is yet to officially declare his candidacy for the Republican nomination. show more
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May 24, 2023
News

DeSantis’s Own Spokesman’s Daughter Just Endorsed Donald Trump, While Ron Was Launching His Campaign.

The Washington, D.C. Young Republicans organization endorsed President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday, as Governor Ron DeSantis was kicking off his glitch-riddled campaign launch on Twitter. Kingsley Cortes, the daughter of DeSantis PAC spokesman Steve Cortes, is on the board which unanimously endorsed the 45th President.

Cortes defected to team DeSantis earlier in May, resulting in a war of words with MAGA stalwarts such as Steve Bannon, who accused Cortes of taking “thirty pieces of silver,” an allusion to Judas Iscariot.

The DCYR’s released the following statement Tuesday:

When President Donald J. Trump was elected in 2016, the Establishment was brought to its knees and the Deep State curtain was ripped down the seam. Our enemies were exposed, and like rats and snakes, they scurried and slithered for cover. Soon after, the United States entered a “Pax Americana” until the election was “fortified” in 2020 and the traitors were reinstalled.

Since then, our country, our people, and the world have suffered. The power and influence of the United States abroad has waned. Europe is in turmoil, endless wars are again a feature of our foreign policy, and our allies and adversaries no longer respect us. At home, the American people are being crushed under the weight of open borders, replacement immigration, record-setting crime, and inflation. The elites maintain their status, the bureaucrats maintain their control, and the working class struggles to stay afloat.

Now, more than ever, we need a champion. We need a leader that knows how to fight and who to fight. We need a Caesar with the experience to navigate the battlefield and the instinct and vigor to charge forward like a young crusader. We need a President that puts America First. We need Donald J. Trump in 2024.

President Donald J. Trump once promised that “We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism.” It’s time to finish the job. It’s time to Make America Great Again!

Therefore, the Washington D.C. Young Republicans club gives its Complete and Total endorsement for President of the United States to Donald John Trump.

-The Washington, D.C. Young Republicans Executive Board

Brian Oakes

Alex Kroll

Joel Valdez

John S. Wilson V

Kingsley Cortes

Matt Arbos

Isaac Smith

Isabela Belchior

Gilbert Fiedler

The DC Young Republican backing follows the endorsement from the largest young Republican club in the country: the New York Young Republican Club. The DCYRs were recently overtaken by America First enjoyers, rather than the beltway Republican establishment. The New York Young Republican Club hosts its annual gala in December.

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The Washington, D.C. Young Republicans organization endorsed President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday, as Governor Ron DeSantis was kicking off his glitch-riddled campaign launch on Twitter. Kingsley Cortes, the daughter of DeSantis PAC spokesman Steve Cortes, is on the board which unanimously endorsed the 45th President. show more