Trump Surges Against DeSantis
Trump Surges Against DeSantis
And the race hasn't even really started yet
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Donald Trump has retaken the lead over Ron DeSantis in a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, while an Emerson College poll has Trump with a clear majority of GOP support even in a multi-candidate field, topping DeSantis by 30 points.
Trump will make his first visit to Iowa since declaring his 2024 candidacy later this month.
The White House is considering economic relief for those impacted by the Ohio train derailment, and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) suggests a Paycheck Protection Program-style program.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan blasted Attorney General Merrick Garland for declining to appoint a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe, while Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said President Biden’s other son Beau, an Army veteran who died of brain cancer in 2015, should also have been prosecuted.
Chicago voters ousted Mayor Lori Lightfoot Tuesday, sending Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson to an April runoff. Lightfoot took just 17% of the vote, with Vallas at 34% and Johnson at 20%, in a field of eight candidates.
A Republican state legislator in Florida has introduced a bill that would decertify the Democratic Party in the state.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says journalists are just jealous of Tucker Carlson.
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Gonna be as nice about this as I can. Jordan & Ted Cruz can shut it & I hope Garland keeps making them look foolish. The Florida state senator needs a real history lesson to fix his ahistorical nonsense(my lily-white movement substack post was in response to that). Lastly these people & their obsession with drag queens is getting on my last nerves. We have scores of problems crippling communities & they’re starting drama over losing at drag queen bingo. 😑 I know it’s more serious than that, I’m just trying not to curse. Though with some of these “legislators” & their whining I wonder sometimes.