Politics

Florida Politics reports: The DeSantis campaign is marketing official “Team DeSantis” membership cards. They’re sleekly designed, black and show anyone who asks that cardholders are on board with what the candidate calls the “Great American Comeback.” DeSantis has a lot of deep-pocketed backers, but the membership card is targeting those of more modest means. “By donating $47 or more today, …

ABC News reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis was not injured after he was involved in a car crash in Tennessee on Tuesday morning, according to his press secretary. The governor was on the way to an event when the crash happened in Chattanooga. His team was also uninjured. Campaign press secretary Bryan Griffin released the following statement: “This morning, the governor …

The Texas Tribune reports: Lawyers for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton are pushing to disqualify three Democratic state senators as jurors in his upcoming impeachment trial. Paxton’s lawyers filed a motion Friday that asks Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to disqualify Sens. Nathan Johnson of Dallas, Roland Gutierrez of San Antonio and José Menéndez of San Antonio, arguing they have a …

“In their quest for power, radical elements within the Democrat Party have abandoned any pretense of fairness, tolerance, and justice. “In their woke new world, Democrat strategists use unscrupulous lawfare tactics to skew our election system, even as weaponized bureaucracies like the Department of Justice, FBI and National Archives—now under Democratic control—seek to destroy the Republican Party and its de …

The New York Post reports: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is begging GOP megadonors to help stop former President Donald Trump from easily clinching the party’s nomination in the 2024 race. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee urged party powerbrokers to condition their donations on a demand that candidates promise to drop out and coalesce around the most viable anti-Trump contender by …

Sportskeeda reports: An elderly woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Roberta Pfanstiel, is facing the ire of netizens after a video of her assaulting a veteran went viral. 2023. The incident took place on Saturday, July 2021, at a press conference for Tulsa Public Schools where a Roberta from “Moms for Liberty,” spit on and assaulted two veterans. The original clip was …

The Hill reports: GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she would support former President Trump if he becomes the Republican nominee for president in 2024. But she also said she doesn’t believe the former president can win a general election. Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina, said in an interview on …

New Hampshire Public Radio reports: Kelly Ayotte is officially back in campaign politics. The former U.S. Senator and New Hampshire Attorney General is announcing her campaign for governor Monday, aiming to succeed Gov. Chris Sununu when he leaves office in 2025. Ayotte, whose last campaign for office was in 2016 – a U.S. Senate re-election bid she lost by fewer …

The Texas Tribune reports: A vote to impeach Paxton, Jonathan Stickland wrote on Twitter, “is a decision to have a primary.” “Wait till you see my PAC budget,” he later added. Stickland is the leader of Defend Texas Liberty, a political action committee that has donated millions of dollars to far-right candidates in the state. It is a key part …

The New York Times reports: The Israeli Parliament passed a law Monday that limits the Supreme Court’s ability to overturn decisions made by government ministers, completing the first stage of a wider and deeply contentious effort to curb the influence of the judiciary. The court is now barred from overruling the national government using the legal standard of “reasonableness,” a …

The Ohio Capital Journal reports: Early voting figures for the Ohio Aug. 8 special election are surpassing even the most optimistic expectations. Through seven days of early voting more than 116,000 Ohioans have shown up at their local board to cast a ballot. Another 38,000 have absentee ballots have made their way in as well. As Secretary of State Frank …

The Hill reports: The House this week will be flooded with talk about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), as a House panel gets set to hold a hearing on the increased sightings of such objects. The hearing — titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency” — is set for Wednesday …

CNN reports: Spain appears destined for painful political negotiations after Sunday’s elections, when no single party won enough parliamentary seats to form a government. Prospects for coalition-building now remain uncertain. With over 99% of the vote counted, the center-right Partido Popular (PP) is set to come in first, winning 136 seats. The upstart far-right Vox party, a possible coalition partner …

Politico reports: The mesh trucker hats, “Bud Right” koozies and “Abolish the FBI” yard signs Republican presidential candidates are feverishly hawking are, on the surface, all about amassing enough small-dollar donors to qualify for the first debate. But in the modern GOP, owning the libs is what sells. “Forty years ago, it would’ve been ‘Free Ukraine,’ next to Reagan’s picture,” …

“This is about being afraid. As I’ve said before, Donald Trump is the puppeteer and what does he do all of the time but shine the light on the strings. These people look pathetic. Kevin is playing politics. It is not even clear if he constitutionally can expunge those things. If he wants to put his members on the spot, …

Raw Story reports: The DeSantis campaign deleted a video that flashed a number of concerning images. Just a few weeks ago, another video surfaced using photos of shirtless men previously mocked by Secretary Pete Buttigieg. In the latest video, however, a Nazi symbol flashes on the screen with a row of marching soldiers on either side of it and Gov. …

“First of all, ‘I didn’t do it and I’m not involved in it’ are not the words of leadership. You know, look, Governor DeSantis started this fire with the bill that he signed, and now he doesn’t want to take responsibility for whatever is done in the aftermath of it. “And from listening and watching his comments, he’s obviously uncomfortable. …

The Hill reports: “My primary interest in this topic is if there are … object[s] operating over restricted air space, it’s not ours and we don’t know whose it is, that’s a problem that we need to get to the bottom of,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “If there’s an explanation for it …

“I’ve been consistent all along that I would have made different judgments than Donald Trump made. That is why I am running in this race for the presidency, the same race that he’s in, because I would have made different – and I believe better – judgments for the country. But a bad judgment is not the same thing as …

The New York Times reports: Throughout the spring, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and his advisers waved off his sagging poll numbers with the simple fact that he wasn’t yet an actual candidate for president. Two months in, however, his sputtering presidential campaign is still struggling to gain traction. One recent move that drew intense blowback, including from Republicans, was …