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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, …

From the far-right Christian site Charisma News: What does it say when the world’s largest “conservative” news network openly practices the occult during it’s primetime television slot? Well, it shows you the sad spiritual state that American conservatism is in. In a recent Fox News primetime show, host Jesse Watters invited a medium to predict former President Donald Trump’s chances …

“When I asked the DeSantis people, ‘How in the world did you waste six months between November (2022) and this 20-point victory in Florida and May (2023), when he announced, why did you waste those six months?’ And they say to me, ‘Well, he had a state to run.’ “Well, he still has a state to run and he’s living …

The Meidas Touch reports: Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw posted attacks on his Instagram Story against Fox News host Jesse Watters in response to a segment Watters aired implying Crenshaw unethically used his elected position to profit from stocks trades. Crenshaw called Watters, a “fucking hack” and “a fucking clown” for not confronting him to his face. Crenshaw told Watters to …

Mediaite reports: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson declared that conservative commentator Ben Shapiro’s focus on the war in Israel in recent days revealed that Shapiro doesn’t “care” about the United States “at all” in an appearance on Breaking Points this week. Carlson was asked by host Saagar Enjeti about Shapiro’s previous criticism of Carlson — who has persistently attacked …

The Messenger reports: Former UN Ambassador and 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley is drawing criticism from her political opponents, including GOP White House hopeful and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign after she made no mention of slavery as a cause of the Civil War at a town hall on Wednesday. “On today’s scoreboard, Donald Trump complained about his treatment in …

Rolling Stone reports: His former aide has been making bank off his name for years and he wants his cut, right now. At least that’s how former President Donald Trump sees it. “It’s my fucking money!” the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner privately vented in October, referring to an alleged sum in the tens of millions of dollars. Trump wasn’t talking …

Politico reports: Republicans are desperate to avoid nasty primaries next year. But the architect of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster from the speakership has other plans. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is continuing to buck party leadership, which has tried to coalesce early this cycle behind candidates in key races. Gaetz has instead thrown his support to other congressional hopefuls. Gaetz, a prominent …

CNN reports: Kristina Karamo – a former community college professor with limited political experience – became the head of the state party in February after pushing far-right election conspiracy theories and promising to end the party’s reliance on traditional wealthy donors. Now, some of the pro-Trump party members who voted Karamo into office have soured on her leadership and accuse …

“How can Lindsey Graham in Washington, D.C. on Meet the Press say that he hasn’t seen a smoking gun of evidence, that he doesn’t think that we produced enough evidence to impeach Joe Biden? Let me ask the American people, do you think that we have produced enough evidence to impeach Joe Biden? Well, I think somebody better run for …

Politico reports: House Republicans are scrambling to fix a potential nightmare that’s unfolding in a must-win race in northwestern Ohio. The GOP is eager to block J.R. Majewski from winning its nomination to challenge veteran Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur. Majewski lost his previous bid for Congress last year, after a news report on his military records indicated he lied about …

The Messenger reports: McCarthy, in a nearly hour-long interview with a small group of reporters in his hideaway Capitol office on Thursday afternoon, took aim at Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., the man who spearheaded the push to dispose him as speaker. “He’s just, you know, people study that type of crazy mind — maybe at the FBI,” McCarthy said of …

Newsweek reports: Representative Matt Gaetz has a new Republican enemy in Senator Markwayne Mullin. Gaetz criticized Mullin for profiting off stocks while serving as a member of Congress this week, renewing his long-held position against lawmakers trading stocks. Retweeting a post on X from Quiver Quantitative that found Mullin increased his net worth by $51 million between 2018 when he …

“If you had the stones and the balls, you could shut this thing down right now. The NDAA just passed. It just passed. This is Mike Johnson, and don’t tell me you’re a Christian. “I don’t want to hear you’re Christian. Don’t wear your faith. Don’t give me the bible. I don’t want to hear more Bible verses when you’ve …

Axios reports: House Freedom Caucus members are slamming Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) handling of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), likening him to former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a list of internal talking points obtained by Axios. “This is an obvious play to end-run conservative objections and pass liberal ‘woke’ military policy with the help of House Democrats — …

“So it’s interesting, I heard this and then I was like, well how did it get there? Is that even a religion? And lo and behold, the Trump administration gave them approval to be under the IRS as a religion. So that gave them the legal ability to potentially do it. “So I don’t know what the legislature– what they, …

Politico reports: Former president Donald Trump seized on an apparent blunder by Casey DeSantis, accusing Florida’s first lady of attempting to “commit organized voter fraud” with her invitation to out-of-state voters to participate in next month’s Iowa caucuses. Appearing on Fox News on Friday along side her husband, Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, Casey DeSantis claimed that …

“You’re a loser. A professional Romney infiltrating loser. Is there any difference now between the RNC and the DNC? I have a real question. Is Ronna McRomney there to make sure we lose in 2024? I am telling president Trump privately and publicly that he better remove her. Does Ronna Romney want Donald Trump in prison? That’s a really interesting …

Politico reports: Tensions between Ron DeSantis’ struggling presidential campaign and his allied super PAC are boiling over, with the campaign losing confidence in Never Back Down’s leadership and ability to orchestrate a TV advertising campaign, according to two people close to the Florida governor. The criticism comes amid mounting questions about the strength of DeSantis’ campaign, and that of Never …

Axios reports: After Fox News and Fox Business hosted the first two debates, the RNC proposed that Newsmax co-sponsor the third debate as the junior partner to ABC News, four people familiar with the matter told Axios. Newsmax executives were wary of being a junior partner with a mainstream media outlet, and thought the $2 million co-sponsor fee the RNC …