Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Trump +6 Over Biden In New Washington Post/ABC Poll

The Washington Post reports: Throughout the 2020 campaign, Biden generally led Trump in head-to-head pre-election polls — and in November 2020, he won 51 percent of the popular vote to Trump’s 47 percent. Today, Biden is running behind the former president on the question of whom voters prefer for 2024. When asked who they would support in 2024, 44 percent …

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Trump Attacks “Disrespectful” Biden For Skipping King’s Coronation (US Presidents Have Never Attended One)

“He’s not running the country. He’s now in Delaware, sleeping. When you have somebody that’s going to be sleeping instead of coming to the coronation, as president of the United States, it’s a bad thing. I don’t think he can do it physically, actually. I think it’s hard for him to do it physically. Certainly, he should be here. He’s …

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Trump Schedules Iowa Rally Opposite DeSantis Event

The Associated Press reports: The competition between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is intensifying as the former president is scheduling a return trip to Iowa on the same day that the Florida governor was already going to be in the state that will kick off the Republican contest for the White House. A Trump campaign official said Saturday that the …

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Texas Cultists Settle Suit Over Attack On Biden Bus

Courthouse News reports: Two participants in a Texas “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden campaign tour bus in a “madcap game of highway ‘chicken’” announced settlements Thursday in a lawsuit brought by bus riders who say the incident traumatized them. A convoy of at least 40 Trump Train members – American flags and “Trump 2020 – Keep America Great” flags …

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Trump: I Won’t Take Part In Debates, I Won’t Be Libeled

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: I see that everybody is talking about the Republican Debates, but nobody got my approval, or the approval of the Trump Campaign, before announcing them. When you’re leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers, and you have hostile Networks with angry, TRUMP & MAGA hating anchors asking the “questions,” why subject yourself to being libeled …

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Trump +37 Over DeSantis In National GOP Primary Poll

The Hill reports: Former President Trump has expanded his lead over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to 37 points, according to a new Morning Consult poll. The poll, released on Tuesday, found that 58 percent of potential GOP primary voters said they would support the former president, compared to the 21 percent who said they would back the Florida governor. …

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Trump: I’m “Shocked And Surprised” At Carlson’s Firing

“Well, I’m shocked. I’m surprised. He’s a very good person and a very good man, and very talented as you know. And he had very high ratings. So, we’re just learning about it almost as we speak. I just said, ‘Wow, that was something, that’s a big one.’ “I don’t know if it was voluntary or was it somebody fired …

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Supercut: Trump Gushes Over Ron DeSantis [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: The Trump campaign on Friday made news publishing a list, shared by email and on social media, to include Trump’s Truth Social account, under the header “The Real Ron DeSantis Playbook” listing the things Florida is “worst” at under DeSantis. It began with a quote from spox Steven Cheung, who claimed, “the real DeSantis record is one of …

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Romney: GOP Voters Don’t Care If Trump Is A Criminal

“I think it’s a problem for a party to be considered legitimate by people who care about America to have someone who’s been indicted, who’s had to plead the Fifth multiple times, who’s been surrounded by individuals who’ve gone to jail, one after the other, or been convicted of felonies, to be its nominee for president. “I don’t think that …

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Politico: Gun Violence “Much Worse” In Red States

Politico Magazine reports: Listen to the southern right talk about violence in America and you’d think New York City was as dangerous as Bakhmut on Ukraine’s eastern front. In October, Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis proclaimed crime in New York City was “out of control” and blamed it on George Soros. Another Sunshine State politico, former president Donald Trump, offered …

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AP Poll: 44% Of Republicans Oppose Trump’s WH Bid

The Hill reports: A new poll found that 70 percent of Americans, including 44 percent of Republicans, do not want former President Trump to make a White House run in 2024. The poll, released from The Associated Press and the University of Chicago’s research center NORC, also found that 93 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of independents do not …

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Trump: DeSantis Has Turned Florida Into A Shithole

Florida Politics reports: Donald Trump will address Lee County Republicans Friday night, and a new campaign email suggests Ron DeSantis will be top of mind. “The Real Ron DeSantis Playbook” depicts the “complete and total delinquency and destruction” that allegedly is Florida under the current Governor’s watch. “The real DeSantis record is one of misery and despair. He has left …

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Trump Trolls DeSantis With Photo Of FL House Reps

Forbes reports: Former President Donald Trump keeps racking up endorsements from Republicans in Congress as he wages his third run for the White House, including a majority now from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ home state—what some politicos are calling a sign of weakness in DeSantis’ political acumen and a nod to Trump’s aggressive courtship style. Seven GOP Florida Congress members …

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Trump Claims DeSantis Faked Florida’s COVID Numbers

“Actually if you look at the numbers, he didn’t do a great job. If you take a look at the numbers he’s very high on crime. Very high, right at the top. Almost at the top. I think he gets good publicity, although now people are starting cause I’m putting out the COVID numbers, he didn’t do well on COVID. …

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Anti-Abortion Group Blasts Trump On FL Ban Comment

NBC News reports: Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America issued a scathing response to a statement the Trump campaign made to The Washington Post when asked whether Trump supported the six-week abortion ban that a likely 2024 opponent, Gov. Ron DeSantis, signed into law in Florida. “President Donald J. Trump believes that the Supreme Court, led by the three justices which …

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DeSantis Craters Against Trump In New WSJ Poll

The Wall Street Journal reports: Donald Trump has gained command of the GOP presidential-nomination race over Ron DeSantis, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds, with the former president building support across most parts of the primary electorate as the Florida governor has struggled on the national stage. Mr. DeSantis’s 14-point advantage in December has fallen to a 13-point deficit, …

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DeSantis PAC Launches First TV Ad Attacking Trump

Axios reports: The super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis today debuts its first TV ad, charging straight at former President Trump with the loaded question: “What happened to Donald Trump?” Never Back Down, the pro-DeSantis group, launches the ad, “Fight Democrats, Not Republicans,” on “Fox News Sunday.” The ad is the starting shot for a vicious fight between the …

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DeSantis PAC Ad Labels Trump “Gun Grabber” [VIDEO]

Florida Politics reports: Call it a case of “shots fired,” at long last. After months of Donald Trump blasting Ron DeSantis on myriad issues, a Super PAC supportive of the Florida Governor is returning fire, spotlighting the former President’s Democratic affinities on the issue of guns. Timing is everything, of course, and this NEVER BACK DOWN PAC spot was shot …

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Haley Slams Trump: “The Past Is Catching Up With Him”

Real Clear Politics reports: Everyone in the audience here laughed when Nikki Haley took credit for bringing good weather with her on an unseasonably warm Iowa evening, and then as the sun started to set in the watercolor-painted sky, she turned their attention to everything wrong about America right now. In her telling, this meant a nation embarrassed abroad, a …

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Trump PAC Ad Hits “Pudding Fingers” DeSantis [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: “Ron DeSantis loves sticking his fingers where they don’t belong,” the ad, which aired during Fox & Friends on Friday morning, says as a man in a suit sits down to eat pudding with three of his fingers. “And we’re not just talking about pudding. DeSantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlements. Like cutting …

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