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“They really truly believes that Donald Trump was elected president again. What you saw yesterday was a recycling of all his old talking points. It was a rally of a loser president. He’s the first president to lose re-election in decades. “And I don’t know why these folks would go there and just short of worship a loser. They did. …

Politico reports: DeSantis is crisscrossing the country to deliver red-meat speeches. Iowa leaders begged him to visit. He just beat Trump in a key straw poll. And now the popular governor is getting close to overshadowing the former president in the 2024 presidential sweepstakes. All of that could be dangerous for DeSantis’ political health, as Trump continues to ponder a …

The Daily Beast reports: The head of Arizona Republicans’ controversial “audit” of 2020 presidential ballots was revealed Saturday as the anonymous star of a new movie claiming the election was stolen, raising questions about how credible any upcoming report from the supposed audit could be. The revelation of Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan’s involvement in the conspiracy theory movie The …

Axios reports: Nearly three-dozen corporate PACs have donated at least $5,000 to Republicans who objected to certifying the 2020 election, yet Toyota leads by a substantial margin. Toyota gave more than twice as much — and to nearly five times as many members of Congress — as the No. 2 company on the list, Cubic Corp., a San Diego-based defense …

ABC News reports: GOP Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio) on Sunday said former President Trump is “definitely the leader” of the Republican Party, one day after Trump held his first post-presidential rally in Ohio. Portman, asked by ABC’s “This Week” host Jon Karl about Trump, said the ex-president remains the party leader given his “high popularity among the Republican base.” “That’s …

Fox News reports: Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his record on handling the COVID-19 pandemic, remarking that if he did not stand up to the continued overreach by the federal government, the U.S. as a whole would be as severely locked down and economically depressed as Canada. “We were the leading state fighting against coronavirus lockdowns,” DeSantis recounted. “I …

CNN reports: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said on Sunday that claims made by former President Trump and other Republicans about the 2020 election being rigged against the former New York real estate mogul to “a bit like WWF.” “Here in the U.S., there’s a growing recognition that this is a bit like WWF, that it’s entertaining, but it’s not real,” …

Oregon Public Radio reports: Former state Rep. Mike Nearman has emerged as his party’s top choice to retake the House seat he just lost. Nearman garnered the most votes among local Republican party members who’d assembled Friday to choose nominees for the now-vacant House District 23. The four-term lawmaker was expelled from the seat earlier this month, after video footage …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Wellington, Oh. on Saturday, and used her time on stage to attack Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as a “little communist” and “not an American.” After polling the crowd to make sure they agreed that Trump was “still their president” and falsely claiming that “Democrats stole …

Roll Call reports: “No, none whatsoever,” McCarthy said Friday of whether the select committee announcement gave him any pause on opposing an independent 9/11-style commission that one of his own colleagues helped negotiate. He did not answer a question about whom he would appoint to the select committee and said he has not been briefed by Pelosi on the panel. …

Newsweek reports: “I asked [McCarthy] specifically for a commitment to denounce [those comments] publicly, and he said that he would address it at a personal level with some of those members,” Fanone told reporters after the meeting. “But again, I think that as a leader of the House Republican Party, it’s important to hear those denouncements publicly.” Fanone said that, …

Via press release from GOP Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp: This lawsuit is born out of the lies and misinformation the Biden administration has pushed against Georgia’s Election Integrity Act from the start. Joe Biden, Stacey Abrams, and their allies tried to force an unconstitutional elections power grab through Congress – and failed. Now, they are weaponizing the U.S. Department of …

Politico reports: Some confusion over the bipartisan infrastructure negotiations led an outburst from Sen. Lindsey Graham directed at his fellow Senate Republicans involved in the talks. Democrats have linked passage of a bipartisan bill with a separate budget resolution that would pass through the reconciliation process, which would require only Democratic votes to pass. Biden said on Thursday that he …

Politico reports: Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley reaffirmed her support for former President Donald Trump in a speech Thursday night, just months after flaying him for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and predicting that his political career was finished. The potential 2024 presidential candidate lavished praise on Trump during an evening appearance before the Iowa Republican Party’s …

The Texas Tribune reports: A group of Texas House Democrats and legislative staffers is asking the Texas Supreme Court to override Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent veto of a portion of the state budget that funds the Legislature, staffers there and legislative agencies. More than 50 Democrats, a number of state employees and the Texas AFL-CIO have signed on to a …

Vice News reports: A prominent Republican congressman recently gave an extended tirade that argued Democrats are disloyal, unpatriotic, dangerous traitors to America—and twice invoked Nazis to make his point. “They are not the loyal opposition. They are the opposition to everything you love and believe in,” Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry said of Democrats as he concluded a speech to …

The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department will file a federal lawsuit Friday against the state of Georgia for its efforts to enact new voting restrictions that federal authorities allege discriminate against Black Americans, according to people familiar with the matter. The legal challenge takes aim at Georgia’s Election Integrity Act, which was passed in March by the Republican-led state …

The Associated Press reports: A police officer who was injured in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and has pushed for an independent commission to investigate the attack will meet with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday, according to two people familiar with the meeting. Officer Michael Fanone has said for weeks that he wanted to meet with McCarthy, who …

The New York Times reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday night made his most forceful attempt yet to separate himself from his former boss, Donald J. Trump, on the issue of certifying the 2020 election results. Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Mr. Pence defended the constitutionally mandated role he played in certifying the Electoral College vote …

The New York Times reports: A New York appellate court suspended Rudolph W. Giuliani’s law license on Thursday after a disciplinary panel found that he made “demonstrably false and misleading” statements about the 2020 election as Donald J. Trump’s personal attorney. The court wrote in a 33-page decision that Mr. Giuliani’s conduct threatened “the public interest and warrants interim suspension …