Politics

DeSantis: “Send Kamala Back To Her Liberal Homeland”

Florida Politics reports: The 2024 Republican presidential candidate, in his latest appeal to donors, threatens to send “Kamala back to her liberal homeland” in a breezy turn of phrase that is his latest example of disrespect for the person who is one heartbeat away from the presidency. The dog-whistle wordplay comes as part of a larger excoriation of the Joe …

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Secret Service Opens Fire During DC Vehicle Break-In While Escorting Biden’s Granddaughter Naomi Biden

The Associated Press reports: Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in the nation’s capital, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The agents, assigned to protect Naomi Biden, were out with her in the Georgetown neighborhood late Sunday night when they saw the …

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Inflation Near 140% Boosts Far-Right In Argentina

Reuters reports: The South American nation, the region’s no. 2 economy and a major grains exporter, is facing its worst crisis in decades. Two-fifths of people live in poverty and a looming recession is shaking up Argentina’s presidential election run-off next Sunday. Rising voter anger is propelling a radical outsider, Javier Milei, the slight favorite in polls to beat economy …

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Haley To Go After DeSantis With $10 Million Ad Blitz

The Associated Press reports: Nikki Haley ‘s presidential campaign will reserve $10 million in television, radio and digital advertising across Iowa and New Hampshire beginning in the first week of December, a massive investment designed to give her an advantage over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a critical moment in the GOP nomination fight. Details of the advertising plans, which …

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UK Home Secretary Sacked After Defying Tory PM

The BBC reports: Suella Braverman has been sacked as home secretary, after she defied No 10 over an article accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests. Mrs Braverman was accused of stoking tension ahead of protests in London. James Cleverly has been announced as her replacement, with former prime minister David Cameron unexpectedly replacing him as …

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GOP Sen. Tim Scott Drops Out Of Presidential Race

USA Today reports: Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. announced Sunday that he is suspending his 2024 presidential campaign, less than a week after the third GOP primary debate. Scott made the announcement to Fox News’ Trey Gowdy, his fellow South Carolinian who also served in Congress. Scott on Sunday referenced a passage from the Bible, Romans 8:28, saying “All things work …

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Netanyahu Dodges On His Responsibility For Attack

The Hill reports: CNN anchor Dana Bash pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to respond to Israeli concerns on whether he would accept some responsibility for failing to anticipate the Oct. 7 massacre in an interview on Sunday. In response, Netanyahu repeatedly dodged the issue, saying on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he would discuss those concerns after the …

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Dem Rep. Abagail Spanberger To Run For VA Governor

The Washington Post reports: Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) will not seek reelection in Virginia’s 7th District next year so she can run for Virginia governor in 2025, according to two people familiar with the Democrat’s plans. Spanberger, who won a third term last year in one of the state’s most competitive swing districts, will announce her gubernatorial bid very soon, …

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Louisiana Has 60 Days To Redraw Racist House Map

The Associated Press reports: The Louisiana Legislature has until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map after a lower court last year ruled that the current political boundaries dilute the power of the state’s Black voters, a federal New Orleans appeals court said Friday. However, whether current Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards will call a special session to redraw …

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Johnson Issues Likely Doomed Two-Step Funding Bill

The Hill reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rolled out a two-step government funding stopgap bill on Saturday, settling on an unusual approach to avert a government shutdown that is already getting pushback from Republicans with just days until a Friday funding deadline. The “laddered” continuing resolution (CR) released Saturday would have some funding run out on Jan. 19, and …

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DeSantis Would “Level” Bahamas If They Attacked FL

Florida Politics reports: Ron DeSantis is telling Iowans that in the unlikely event the Bahamas got warlike and attacked South Florida, he would obliterate that island archipelago. During an event Saturday in Muscadine, the Florida Governor and 2024 presidential candidate was discussing the need to stand with Israel as it battles with Hamas, when he floated the unexpected metaphor likening …

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GOP Rep: “Lord Jesus Himself” Couldn’t Manage Us

The Messenger reports: Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Tex., said he doesn’t think “the lord Jesus himself” could manage the House Republican Conference as they went home for a long weekend after failing to make advancements in budget negotiations to avoid a government shutdown. Nehls comments came during an interview with NBC News, which reported similar remarks from other House Republicans. “We’re …

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Ramaswamy Launches “Rebel Scum” Merchandise

The Hill reports: GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has decided to capitalize on former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley’s “scum” comments by selling merchandise on his website. Ramaswamy, 38, called out Haley’s daughter during the third GOP presidential primary debate on Wednesday in Miami for using TikTok, after the former South Carolina governor “made fun” of him for joining it …

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Manchin Begins “Mobilize The Middle” Push In Georgia

The Messenger reports: Sen. Joe Manchin’s launch of a national “movement to mobilize the middle” began in earnest Friday as he spoke at an event in Georgia focused on political civility. “This is going to be the birthplace of civility in the political process now,” Manchin said at the University of Georgia’s inaugural Isakson Symposium on Political Civility, named after …

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Texas GOP Loses Bid To Toss Houston Election Results

The Associated Press reports: A Texas judge has denied a Republican effort to overturn election results in the nation’s third-most populous county, a Democratic stronghold that’s been beset by GOP efforts to dictate how ballots are cast. A losing GOP candidate in a November judicial race had filed a lawsuit calling for a new election in her contest in Harris …

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Ohio Republicans Vow To Defy Abortion Rights Measure: “No Amendment Can Overturn Our God-Given Rights”

The Meidas Touch reports: Days after Ohio voters passed Issue 1 and codified abortion rights into Ohio’s constitution, Republicans are not accepting the election results. In a new, unhinged press release issued by the Ohio House Republican Committee, GOP members rant that “foreign billionaires” impacted the election results and call the results tainted by so-called “foreign interference.” It is unclear …

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FBI Seizes Phones Of New York City Mayor Eric Adams

The New York Times reports: F.B.I. agents seized Mayor Eric Adams’s electronic devices early this week in what appeared to be a dramatic escalation of a federal corruption investigation into whether his 2021 campaign conspired with the Turkish government and others to funnel money into its coffers, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The agents approached the mayor …

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Ohio Catholic Church Blew $1.7M On Abortion Issue

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: Voters who approved Ohio’s Issue 1 Tuesday dealt a blow to Catholic bishops and activists who mounted an unprecedented campaign to stop abortion from becoming a constitutional right in the state. They still lost by a 14-point margin, 57%-43%. The church in Ohio spent more than $1.7 million trying to convince voters to reject the amendment. …

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Florida GOP Rep Shouts All Palestinians Should Die

Newsweek reports: A Florida state representative, identified online as Republican Michelle Salzman, has gone viral on social media for shouting “all of them” after being asked how many dead Palestinians will be enough. The politician was responding to a speech calling for a ceasefire from Democrat Rep. Angie Nixon. Speaking in the Florida Senate a visibly emotional Nixon asked: “We …

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Six-Term GOP Rep. Brad Wenstrup To Retire In 2024

Roll Call reports: Rep. Brad Wenstrup, an Ohio podiatric surgeon representing what is considered a safe Republican Cincinnati-area seat in Congress, announced late Thursday that he will retire at the end of this term. In a nearly three-and-a-half-minute video, Wenstrup, the chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, vowed to “run through the tape” before he leaves Congress, …

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