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Newsweek reports: Governor Ron DeSantis has released a Top Gun-themed campaign ad taking aim at the “corporate media.” The viral video was uploaded on Twitter by his wife, Casey DeSantis, and has been watched more than 670,000 times. It cuts between clips of DeSantis giving a speech in a hangar and moving around an air base, at one point getting …

Playbook reports: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is set to make a campaign stop next month in Nevada, his first appearance in early 2024 nominating state and part of a broader midterm push that’s coming amid speculation he’s weighing a presidential bid. Youngkin, a Republican who took office this year after winning a November 2021 election, is slated to campaign and …

Politico reports: A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license that it could take action against her. The three retired judges on the Government Accountability Board determined that “appropriate action” could be taken against …

The Northwest Florida News reports: Niceville resident Stephen Alford will serve 63 months, or just over five years, in federal prison for attempting to extort $25 million from Don Gaetz, a former state Senate president and father of Florida’s First District Congressman Matt Gaetz. The plan to extort money from the Gaetz family, spelled out in documents filed with the …

NBC News reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday that he isn’t worried about threats to American democracy after a national NBC News poll revealed voters ranked it as the top issue facing the country. The Republican Senate leader also said that there is “very little election fraud” but that it “happens occasionally,” comments that clashed with ongoing …

Mediaite reports: Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake rescinded her endorsement of an anti-Semitic GOP candidate who said “Jews will go to hell.” Kari Lake had endorsed Jarrin Jackson, the Republican nominee for Oklahoma’s Senate District 2, on Thursday. According to The Oklahoman, Jackson has said “all Jews will go to hell if they don’t believe the gospel of Jesus …

The Washington Post reports: Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker is criticizing the sweeping climate, health-care and deficit-reduction bill signed into law by President Biden arguing that it includes wasteful spending to combat global warming and asking, “Don’t we have enough trees around here?” In a July 9 appearance, he spoke about climate change, suggesting that Georgia’s “good air decides …

The New York Times reports: A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor — an extraordinary sum that could give Republicans and their causes a huge financial boost ahead of the midterms, and for years to come. The source of the money was Barre Seid, an electronics manufacturing mogul, and the donation …

Mediaite reports: An apparently fake poll showing Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz and Democratic Senate nominee Lt. Gov. John Fetterman neck and neck duped Breitbart News. “Fetterman has led Oz in most polls, often by double digits. However, the race may be tightening,” wrote Breitbart senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak in a hopeful Sunday article. “One poll, by former …

Colorado Politics reports: State Sen. Kevin Priola announced Monday he will switch party affiliation and become a Democrat, throwing a major monkey-wrench into his former party’s ambitions of taking control of the state Senate. The announcement from Priola, the freshly minted Henderson Democrat, is likely to come with little surprise. He’s been a major backer of Democratic-led proposals for the …

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports: A Sarasota candidate for Congress says he would have killed the FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s property if they tried to do the same thing to his home. “I wish they’d turn up at my home ’cause they’d have gone home in a body bag,” Sarasota businessman Martin Hyde says in a new …

The Hill reports: Republicans who support former President Trump more than they support the GOP climbed to 41 percent in August, up 7 points from May when 34 percent said they supported Trump more than the party, according to an NBC News poll released Sunday. A slim majority of Republicans, or 50 percent, say they support the party more than …

Axios reports: Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) arrived in Taiwan Sunday as part of a U.S. delegation on a four-day trade trip, officials in Taipei announced. A U.S. congressional trip to Taiwan led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) last week further angered China’s government, which earlier this month conducted military drills near the self-governing island to protest House Nancy Pelosi’s …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Ms. Cheney, in the interview Sunday, cited as potential targets Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri, as well as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, all of whom are Republicans with presidential ambitions. Of the two senators, she said that both “took steps that fundamentally threatened the constitutional order and structure in the …

Mediaite reports: A major new poll finds that Americans consider “threats to democracy” to be the most important issue ahead of November’s midterm elections. In a survey published Sunday by NBC News, voters were asked: “What do you think is the most important issue facing the country?” Their answer? Threats to Democracy. In all, 21 percent of the electorate believes …

“It wasn’t a focused raid, if you will. What we do the know is that the Tennesseans I’m talking to say if they can do this to President Trump, they can do it to me. “We have seen the FBI become politicized – a certain group – a certain cabal in the FBI. We have wonderful men and women who …

“Certainly we all know that every former president has access to their documents. That’s how they write their memoirs. They don’t have, you know, great recall of everything that occurred in their administration. And we don’t know that they were classified. We know according to the FBI documents that they were identified as marked classified.” – Rep. Mike Turner, on …

Mediaite reports: CNN’s Jake Tapper drilled down on Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) — as the congressman attempted to defend Trump over the FBI’s search through Mar-a-Lago. “It’s not a question that it’s bad to have classified material in a non-SCIF environment,” Crenshaw said. “I still haven’t seen any evidence that Trump was even asked to give these documents back. He’s been …

The Hill reports: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said she will focus on keeping election deniers out of office following her loss in her reelection bid, noting that she is still focused on her role on the Jan. 6 committee as well as “tremendous work left to do as Wyoming’s representative in Congress.” “I’m going to be very focused on working …

Florida Politics reports: Days before the Aug. 23 Primary Election, former President Donald Trump has endorsed Congressman Matt Gaetz as the incumbent’s opponent has released ads suggesting Gaetz was “the informant” who led the FBI to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump announced his endorsement on his Truth Social app. Gaetz tweeted a screenshot of Trump’s post but has yet to …