Republicans

Axios reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has invited President Biden to deliver the State of the Union address on March 7, days after Super Tuesday, when more than a dozen states will hold nominating contests. It’s a month later than last year’s Feb. 7 State of the Union and is set to follow two critical government shutdown deadlines. “In this …

Florida Politics reports: Legislation filed late Friday would prohibit minors in Florida from having social media accounts. Fiona McFarland, a Sarasota Republican, filed the legislation (HB 1). Of note, the designation of HB 1 is normally held for priority legislation for House leadership. As written, the bill would require tech companies to enact reasonable age verification methods, prevent anyone under …

The Messenger reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was fined $12,000 after the Federal Election Commission determined she illegally fundraised for the Stop Socialism Now PAC, which is aligned with Greene, according to a conciliation agreement made public Friday. The fine was levied over online ads for the super PAC in which Greene asks for donations to finance the Georgia …

Florida Politics reports: During an interview on The Big Show on KCPS, the Governor pointed to Colorado as an illustration of how legalized cannabis in that early adopter state didn’t destroy the illegal market for the product. Last month on the trail, he suggested that patients in Florida’s Medical Marijuana Program use medical conditions as a “pretext” for getting high. …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump works his endorsements through both fear and favor, happily cajoling fellow politicians by phone while firing off ominous social media posts about those who don’t fall in line quickly enough. In October, he felled a top candidate for House speaker, Representative Tom Emmer, by posting that voting for him “would be a tragic …

Politico reports: Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has told multiple people he would withdraw the U.S. from NATO as president, the furthest anyone vying for the Oval Office has gone on the idea of ending America’s role in the alliance. The remarks made to different groups experts and supporters, detailed to POLITICO by three people familiar with his comments, signal NATO’s …

CNN reports: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise will undergo a stem cell transplant, his office announced on Friday, which is expected to keep him out of Washington and working remotely until February. In April 2023, the Louisiana Republican announced that he had been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer and had started treatment. “Last month, Leader Scalise successfully completed …

Multiple political sources on Twitter are reporting that Colorado GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn will not seek reelection, with one reporter quoting him as saying, “I’m not getting any younger.” Now in his ninth term, Lamborn has a 0% rating on LGBTQ issues from the Human Rights Campaign. In December 2020, Lamborn was among the 126 House Republicans who signed onto …

Click On Detroit reports: Members of the Michigan Republican Party are scheduled to meet this weekend in an attempt to remove party Chairwoman Kristina Karamo as a major election year gets underway. The move to oust Karamo, an election conspiracist who pushed former President Donald Trump’s “big lie” of election fraud, comes less than a year after she was selected …

The Hill reports: The House Judiciary Committee will mark up a resolution next week to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena by failing to appear for a deposition. Biden, the president’s son, was due to appear last month before investigators from a trio of committees investigating his business dealings. Instead, he spoke on the …

“These are some of the most corrupt, disgusting, evil people in the world. They’re pushing this globalist agenda and they don’t care who they destroy in the process. They’ve got to win and get that globalist agenda moved forward. And the one man who is most dangerous to that globalist agenda – which by the way will be the end …

“I should have said slavery right off the bat, but if you grow up in South Carolina, literally in second and third grade you learn about slavery. You grow up and you have– you know, I had Black friends growing up. It is a very talked about thing. “We have a big history in South Carolina when it comes to, …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump’s Republican rivals are scrambling for every vote they can get in Iowa, where the first Republican presidential nominating contest is now just days away. But when it comes to his actions involving the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, they are largely giving him a pass. They are not alone. At campaign events and …

“I respect the Supreme Court’s decision. We’ve abided by that in Florida even though our Constitution defines it as between a man and a woman. But I think what we need to recognize is, you know, you are going to have people try to wield power against our religious institutions and try to marginalize them simply by upholding the biblical …

NBC News reports: A central Florida venue has canceled an event that was to have featured Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., after it learned the event was intended to commemorate the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The event was set to be hosted by the Republican Party of Osceola County at the Westgate …

NBC News reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis escalated his attacks on former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, calling her “phony” and “a darling of the Never Trumpers” in a joint interview with NBC News and The Des Moines Register. “I’m just thinking to myself, you know, ‘She’s phony.’ You know, she doesn’t have a core set of convictions,” DeSantis said, …

Axios reports: Vivek Ramaswamy sold $33 million worth of shares in the biotech company he founded, as he fights to stay competitive in the GOP presidential primary race. Ramaswamy will use some of the proceeds to make a “significant investment” in his campaign, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios. Ramaswamy sold three million shares in Roivant Sciences at $11.05 per share …

“I don’t think I’d be on TV or sitting here if I didn’t look the way I look. I think I caught attention. I’m very honest about that and I don’t mind. I’m not a feminist, okay, I believe in strong women but I want my door open. “I’m very much an old school – my parents are Middle Eastern …

The Insider reports: Rep. Elise Stefanik, the No. 4 House Republican, has yanked her endorsement from an Ohio Republican whose caught on a leaked tape dissing former President Donald Trump. Craig Riedel, a former Ohio state lawmaker, had once been a leading candidate to win the GOP’s nomination to take on longtime incumbent Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a House Democrat who …

The Daily Beast reports: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says Donald Trump needs to pick someone who “tells him the truth” as his 2024 running mate—someone just like her –  telling a reporter that Trump should seek out a vice presidential candidate “who tells him the truth.| “Honestly, the people that are my closest advisers… tell me stuff I don’t …