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“One of things I’ve learned in this job is that when you’re leading, when you’re getting things done, you take incoming fire. That’s just the nature of it. None of that stuff matters. All that’s just noise. We’ve focused on results and leadership. At the end of the day, I’ll just tell folks to go check out the scoreboard from …

Bloomberg News reports: Citadel’s billionaire founder, Ken Griffin, called Donald Trump a “three-time loser” and said he hoped the former president would “see the writing on the wall” and not run for the White House again, making way for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “I’d like to think that the Republican party is ready to move on from somebody who has …

The New York Post reports: A new national poll gives Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a 7-point edge over former President Donald Trump in a potential presidential primary battle, the first survey of the 2024 cycle to do so — and the first poll since February 2016 to point to a weakening of Trump’s GOP dominance. The YouGov poll, released Friday, …

The New York Post reports: DeSilence is golden. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his team have ignored Donald Trump’s ongoing rhetorical offensive because they believe the former president is only damaging his own brand, an insider told The Post Friday. “There is no upside to rolling around in the mud with Trump at this point,” the DeSantis source said. “Only …

From right wing commentator Erick Erickson: Either the GOP heads to the future, or it stays in the past. That is a choice for its voters. Independent voters went against the GOP because it turns out they’d rather stay in a terrible economy with leadership who won’t start World War III by tweet than hand the country over to a …

“We lost in ’18. We lost in ’20. We lost in ’21 in Georgia. And now in ’22 we’re going to net lose governorships, we’re not going to pick up the number of seats in the House that we thought and we may not win the Senate. “There’s only one person to blame for that and that’s Donald Trump. The …

Media Matters has the transcript: BRIAN KILMEADE (FOX NEWS HOST) Now with President Trump, I would think the first thing – indication I would look for to see if he was serious about being savvy and being – and recalibrating is if he puts off his announcement Monday. If he puts up his announcement Monday, it’s putting team first. If …

Fox News reports: As the midterm results rolled in Tuesday night, and the “red wave” long hoped for by Republicans had not materialized, many pundits and journalists across the spectrum pointed their fingers at former President Trump. As several Trump-backed candidates in major races lost or lagged behind other Republicans in their states, a consensus appeared to emerge that Trump …

From right wing commentator Erick Erickson: GOP, you must be done with Trump. This has to be a key takeaway. Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, and Brian Kemp all did very well. They did well as their own men in their own right. The voters thoroughly rejected trump-backed candidates. Bo Hines, the young man in North Carolina who Trump backed, got …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump in a new interview warned Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) against running for president in 2024. “I don’t know if he is running. I think if he runs, he could hurt himself very badly. I really believe he could hurt himself badly,” Trump told Fox News. “I think he would be making a mistake. …

Rolling Stone reports: Donald Trump ended his pre-midterm rally blitz in disgusting fashion, calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “an animal,” championing the death penalty, and giddily imagining the prison rape of the journalist who reported on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “The leaking from the Supreme Court is unbelievable,” the former president said Monday night at …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Sunday taunted Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during a rally in Florida, days after her husband was attacked with a hammer at their home in San Francisco. At a rally in Miami to support Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in his re-election bid, Trump said Republicans were “going to end Crazy Nancy Pelosi’s political career …

Rolling Stone reports: Donald Trump is calling his top allies in Congress to push for details on their plans for impeaching President Joe Biden and top administration officials, two sources with knowledge of the conversations tell Rolling Stone. Specifically, Trump in recent months has repeatedly asked “how many” times Republicans plan to impeach the president if they take control of …

Mediaite reports: Saturday was Trump’s most direct shot yet as he bestowed a nickname upon the Florida governor — the ultimate sign of one’s status as an enemy in Trump-world. Yet given DeSantis’s immense popularity in Florida and among Republicans nationally, Trump’s attack did not go over well on the Right — particularly among those Republicans who believe the party …

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is spending the last weekend before Election Day on a “Don’t Tread on Florida Tour.” He’ll share the stage with country stars and Cabinet members, but won’t come near a rally hosted by former President Donald Trump. DeSantis will return to the trail at 3 p.m. for a pit stop at Sun City Center …

Law & Crime reports: Donald Trump, his son Eric Trump and his ex-counselor Hope Hicks have completed their depositions in a lawsuit accusing the former president and his family of promoting a pyramid scheme, a new court filing indicates. Filed in 2018, the lawsuit alleged that the Trump Corporation promoted a multi-level marketing scheme, also known as a pyramid scheme, …

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s inner circle is discussing announcing the launch of a 2024 presidential campaign on Nov. 14 — with the official announcement possibly followed by a multi-day series of political events, according to three sources familiar with the sensitive discussions. Trump and his top advisers have been signaling for weeks that a 2024 announcement is imminent. But …

Raw Story reports: During an appearance on The Chris Stigall Show this Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was asked about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband. “The glass it seems was broken from from the inside to the out, so it wasn’t a break-in, it was a break-out,” Trump said. Stigall then brought up the 911 recording from the attack …

The Hill reports: Republican aides and strategists privately expect Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue an indictment of former President Trump within 60 to 90 days after Election Day, predicting the window for prosecuting Trump will close once the 2024 presidential campaign gains momentum. GOP aides also warn that an indictment of Trump by the Biden administration would further polarize …

Axios reports: A senior White House lawyer expressed concerns to President Trump’s advisers and attorneys about the president signing a sworn court statement verifying inaccurate evidence of voter fraud, according to emails from December 2020 obtained by Axios. Why it matters: The emails shed new light on a federal judge’s explosive finding Wednesday that Trump knew specific instances of voter …