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Former President Donald Trump seeks to end it on Tuesday and formally become the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee for the third straight election as New Hampshire primary voters decide between Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley, the last remaining challenger to Trump in the GOP primary, is showing sheer desperation in her flailing presidential bid as she tries to project a pathway beyond New Hampshire into her home state of South Carolina and further out on Super Tuesday. Polls ahead of New Hampshire’s primary show Trump far eclipsing majority support in the Granite State and Haley trailing well into double digits. ---------------------- A bill that would ensure protection and preservation for all historical monuments and memorials in Florida passed through a Senate committee Monday. Sen. Jonathan Martin, R-Fort Myers, filed the bill, SB 1122, entitled the “Historical Monuments and Memorials Protection Act.” Reps. Dean Black, R-Jacksonville, and Webster Barnaby, R-Deltona, filed a similar bill in the House, HB 395. “Accurate history belongs to all Floridians in perpetuity,” Martin said. “And accurate and factual history belongs to all Floridians and future generations.”

As Dixville Notch goes, so goes New Hampshire? That’s what former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will be hoping after the tiny village near the Canadian border carried on its five-decade-old tradition of midnight voting early Tuesday. All six eligible voters in the precinct — four registered Republicans and two undeclared voters — pulled the lever for Haley, 52, who is desperate for a shock victory in the Granite State to halt what many observers see as former President Donald Trump’s unstoppable march to the GOP nomination. -------------------------- Self-professed Catholic President Joe Biden marked the fifty-first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s now-defunct 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by pledging to fight for the supposed “right” to kill unborn babies via abortion. ------------------- A bill requiring a person identifies on their drivers license by their biological sex rather than their gender passed its first committee assignment on Monday. The legislation also requires Health care insurers provide a de-transition treatment option for people who have participated in sex-reassignment surgery.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, one of the two remaining challengers to former President Donald Trump, dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday, before the New Hampshire primary, and endorsed Trump. In a video DeSantis released from Florida on Sunday afternoon, he endorsed Trump over the last challenger—former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley—saying that while he has disagreements with Trump he thinks Trump is better than Haley and certainly better than Democrat President Joe Biden. ---------------- A male-born transgender golfer is one more step closer to winning membership as a Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) competitor after winning a woman’s tournament in Florida. Hailey Davidson, 30, won the NXXT Women’s Classic on Jan. 17 at the Mission Inn Resort and Club, near Orlando, Florida, with a one-over-73 score and finishing the three-round event at a +4, the New York Post reported. -------------- A bill sponsored by Reps. Taylor Yarkosky, R-Montverde, and Douglas Bankson, R-Apopka, creating offenses for lewd and lascivious grooming passed its first committee assignment on Friday. The legislation, HB 1135, passed the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee by a vote of 15-2. Reps. Michelle Rayner, D-St. Petersburg, and Lavon Bray Davis, D-Ocoee, voted against it. Sen. Jonathan Martin, R-Fort Myers, filed the senate version of the bill, SB 1238.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) once again rejected a deal to fund Biden’s continued border operations coupled with tens of billions in foreign aid on Wednesday. Johnson had shot down a deal on Saturday, tweeting “absolutely not” after details emerged of a draft deal crafted by Senate negotiators. ----------------- LGBTQ activists flooded a committee on Wednesday, demanding the board vote down a bill that would ban the display of political flags on government buildings. The legislation, HB 901, was sponsored by Rep. David Borerro, R-Sweetwater and Rep. Randy Fine, R-Melbourne Beach. It passed the House Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law and Government Operations by a vote of 9-5.

The overwhelming majority of Americans said on Tuesday they are unlikely to consider buying an electric vehicle (EV). The poll comes as EVs strand drivers at their homes and off the sides of roads amid a winter freeze sweeping the United States -------------- A Never Trumper who served in the Trump Department of Homeland Security is claiming that former President Donald Trump would assemble his own mercenary force if re-elected, according to a report.

The Iowa caucuses kick off the 2024 GOP presidential nominating process for Republicans as former President Donald Trump looks to pull off the greatest comeback in modern political history by retaking the Oval Office while fending off challenges from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. ------------------ Sixty-eight percent of Iowan caucusgoers do not believe President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election, while 30 percent think he did, a CNN entrance poll found Monday evening. The poll also asked respondents if former President Donald Trump is fit for the presidency, even if convicted of a crime. Sixty-four percent said he was, while 34 percent said “no.” The top issue for Republican caucusgoers was immigration (40 percent), followed by the economy (35 percent), foreign policy (11 percent), and abortion (11 percent) ---------------- MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said on her network’s election night coverage that she believed former President Donald Trump would be both the Republican presidential nominee and convicted of crimes.

The final poll from a definitive pollster before the Iowa caucuses on Monday shows former President Donald Trump way out in front of the GOP pack with all the momentum the day before the first votes are cast in the contest. In second place is former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and down in third place is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. -------------------- A tense exchange between Commissioners Joe Carolla and Miguel Gabela Thursday nearly ended in blows at the conclusion of the City of Miami Commission meeting. “A lot of nasty hateful people. That all they know to do is hate,” Carolla said. “The 8th street boys and Mr. Gabela,” he said before Gabela interjected. ------------ Heading into the 2024 Legislative Session, Florida Republican Senate President-Designate Ben Albritton told Florida’s Voice he is looking into helping the citrus industry recovery as part of the state’s budget. On Florida’s Voice with Brendon Leslie, Albritton said the citrus industry has been “pummeled by citrus greening over the last 15 or 17 years.” He said this year, the industry is expecting around 20 million citrus production boxes, when about 16-17 years ago, it produced 242 million boxes.

The ability of Iran proxy Houthi terrorists to threaten merchant shipping “has taken a blow”, the MOD said after a major strike against 60 targets in Yemen by the U.S. and UK by warships, aircraft, and a submarine. The United States and the United Kingdom made good on days of warnings that continued attacks on global trade in the Red Sea would incur “consequences” overnight into Friday morning with what had been described as a “massive retaliatory strike” on Houthi targets in Yemen. --------------------- A bill creating a health care innovation council within the Department of Health favorably passed the Senate’s Fiscal Policy committee on Thursday. The Health Policy committee sponsored the bill, SB 7018. It is part of the Live Healthy legislative package that Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, and others have championed through the 2024 session. “The goal of the bill is really to create a forum for innovators and developers and health care policymakers and stakeholders to harness the creativity and innovation and to improve health care in Florida,” Sen. Gayle Harrell, R-Stuart explained while the bill was still in committee.

Chris Christie, who dropped out of the GOP primary on Wednesday evening, was caught on a hot mic mocking “petrified” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and former Gov. Nikki Haley about their slim chances of defeating former President Donald Trump. -------------- Republican lawmakers confronted Hunter Biden at Wednesday’s hearing to hold him in contempt of Congress for defying a congressional subpoena.

White House chief of staff Jeff Zients is launching a review of protocols for cabinet members delegating authority, after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin hid an emergency hospitalization from President Joe Biden for several days last week, according to a report. Axios, which first obtained a memo outlining the parameters of the review, reported Tuesday that the Pentagon is under growing pressure from members of Congress to explain why he hid his January 1 hospitalization from them, Biden, and White House officials. ------------------ A man targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to a year of probation for joining the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters. Ray Epps, a former Arizona resident who was driven into hiding by death threats, pleaded guilty in September to a misdemeanor charge. He received no jail time, and there were no restrictions placed on his travel during his probation, but he will have to serve 100 hours of community service. He appeared remotely by video conference and wasn’t in the Washington, D.C., courtroom when Chief Judge James Boasberg sentenced him.

Media outlets buried the revelation that an accuser of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had retracted former President Donald Trump from her allegations. On Monday, multiple media outlets ran reports of Trump having been named in the latest Epstein documents, but failed to note in the lede of their articles that the accuser had actually retracted those allegations in 2019. --------------- Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in several key swing states — including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania — and more of these voters believe Trump would emerge as the victor in a head-to-head matchup than Biden, a Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey released Monday found.

A victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s claimed that the convicted pedophile told her that former President Bill Clinton “likes them young.” Released on Wednesday night, the document from May 2016 quotes Johanna Sjoberg when she testified about being recruited by Epstein to work as a massage therapist. “Sjoberg told the lawyers in 2016 that Epstein told her ‘Clinton likes them young, referring to girls,'” noted the Daily Mail. Clinton’s name has been mentioned as many as 50 times in the newly released documents. In response, a spokesperson for the former president told CNN that he knew nothing of Epstein’s “terrible crimes” when they met, asserting that it has “been nearly 20 years since Clinton last had contact with Epstein.”

Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday, following antisemitism scandals at the Ivy League university, a disastrous congressional testimony, and scores of plagiarism allegations being unearthed in recent months. Her six month tenure marks the shortest tenure in Harvard’s history. ----------------- In response to the news that former President Donald Trump won’t participate in CNN’s Jan. 10 Iowa GOP debate and rather participate in a Fox News town hall, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign berated Trump for not defending his record on stage. ------------- Political commentator and host of the Rubin Report, Dave Rubin, said Tuesday that the growing list of conservative-pushed legislation in Florida for the upcoming legislative session is one more reason he wants Republicans to get behind Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2024.

Former President Bill Clinton will be identified as “John Doe 36” in a trove of court documents related to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein which are expected to be released this week, according to a report. Clinton, 77, is mentioned more than 50 times across redacted documents related to a 2015 lawsuit from Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, according to ABC News. ----------------- Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., announced he is talking with law enforcement to consider what legislation can be put forth to combat “swatting” incidences, following his own personal experience over the Christmas season.

With no signs of slowing, the latest migrant surge into Texas’ busiest border sector forced the agency to suspend operations at highway checkpoints. Nearly all Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector have been redirected from border enforcement duties to focus on processing, transporting, and providing humanitarian care for more than 7,000 migrants in custody at local facilities and at a temporary outdoor staging site near Eagle Pass, according to a source within CBP. --------------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wants former President Donald Trump to tell supporters if he has publicly ruled out the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, as his pick for vice president if Trump wins the nomination in 2024. ------------- Sen. Corey Simon, R-Tallahassee, filed a bill that limits when citizen’s arrest can be used in Florida. SB 834 declares that it is the legislature’s intent to repeal any common-law remedy of citizen’s arrest. The proposal said a private person who is not a law enforcement officer may not arrest another person for violating Florida laws.

Former President Donald Trump is dominating the Republican primary polls with 69 percent support, up seven points from November, a Fox News survey released Sunday revealed. The Republican is the clear favorite among GOP voters, with his support having grown by a whopping 26 points since February. ------------------- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined calls for the resignation of Republican Party of Florida Chairman Christian Ziegler amidst an ongoing sexual assault investigation. According to a search warrant for Ziegler’s telephone, police said the investigation revealed the victim and Ziegler have known each other for 20 years and they agreed to have a sexual encounter that included Ziegler’s wife, Bridget. ---------------------- Three teachers filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Education over a new pronoun law. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of the teachers challenging the law, which was signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May. The group is seeking an injunction preventing enforcement of subsection 3, which prevents employees from telling students that the employee uses preferred pronouns. One of the teachers is seeking damages from their employer, who fired them for violating the law.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden by a vote of 221 to 212. The formally adopted status will enable House investigators to enforce subpoenas and gather evidence about whether the president is compromised and “traded official acts for foreign dollars,” according to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). ---------------- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a Democrat, has come under fire for planning a “no whites” Christmas Party that specifically sought to exclude white members of the city government. Wu’s aide issued an apology this week after she mistakenly sent an invite for the mayor’s “no whites” Christmas Party to all members of the Boston City Council when only the “Electeds of Color” were meant to receive the invite. ------------------ Monarch High School was fined and put on administrative probation following an investigation that concluded a biological male played on the girls’ varsity volleyball team, according documents Florida’s Voice obtained. On Tuesday, the Florida High School Athletic Association notified Monarch High School and its principal, Moira Sweeting-Miller, that the school violated FHSA bylaws and Florida Statute.

In the 2020 election, more than 1-in-5 voters who submitted ballots by mail say they did so fraudulently, a survey from Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute reveals. The survey asked those who voted by mail in the 2020 election if they filled out a ballot “in part or in full, on behalf of a friend or family member, such as a spouse or child?” to which 21 percent said they had done so. -------------------- A new piece of Florida legislation would implement new restrictions on political advertisements and communications that utilize artificial intelligence, or AI. Sen. Nick DiCeglie, R-St. Petersburg, filed SB 850, which would require civil penalties for violators of the proposed law.

Former President Donald Trump has a double-digit lead over President Joe Biden in the key swing state of Michigan, the latest CNN Poll found. The survey showed Trump leading Biden nationally by eight points, 39 percent to Biden’s 31 percent, in a race that includes independent candidates. That gap, however, only grows in individual states such as Michigan, where Trump is now leading Biden by ten points — 50 percent to Biden’s 40 percent. Another ten percent said they would not support either candidate. ---------------- The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has called for the removal of Harvard President Claudine Gay following allegations of plagiarism. In an open letter released on Monday, NAS said that Claudine Gay’s botched testimony before Congress on December 5, wherein she refused to say that calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s policy on harassment, made her unworthy of her administrative position. -------------- Florida House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, accused the Republican Party of Florida for not addressing the concerns of Floridians during a press briefing on Monday. The lawmaker said Republicans have not listened to Democratic proposals. Democrats experienced staggering losses in the 2022 election across Florida.

President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has been indicted on nine charges, including three felonies, for allegedly failing to file taxes, evading an assessment, and filing a fraudulent form. The 56-page indictment filed in a federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday alleged that the president’s son “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle” rather than pay his taxes, per NBC News. The indictment also alleges that Hunter Biden “willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes.”

And then there were four. Wednesday evening in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, only four GOP challengers to former President Donald Trump remain on the debate stage, as each of them desperately seeks a moment to change the trajectory of the race, while, for now, it seems all but certain that Trump is mere weeks away from wiping them all out. ---------------------- Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) backtracked and caved to the deep state and Democrats, moving to slip a deep state authorization into the defense bill. Reports say that congressional leaders, including Johnson, agreed to put an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill would extend Section 702 until April 19. -------------------- Randi Weingarten, the leader of the second-largest teachers’ union in the United States, is broadly blaming a worldwide drop in math scores on the COVID-19 pandemic despite fiercely lobbying against the return of in-person learning.

The House will vote the week of December 10 on formalizing the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to strengthen subpoena power over the stonewalling Biden administration, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) stated during a Tuesday press conference. ---------------- Despite Congress having allocated billions to building electric vehicle (EV) chargers across the United States at the behest of President Joe Biden, not a single charger has been built so far with the funds. ----------- Former President Donald Trump endorsed Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott for reelection in 2024 Tuesday. Trump made the announcement on his social media platform Truth Social. “I am proud to give my Complete and Total Endorsement to U.S. Senator Rick Scott of Florida in his bid for Re-Election,” Trump said. “I have known Rick for a long time, as both a businessman and great Governor of FLORIDA, and there are few like him!”

Leftist media outlets — the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Atlantic — are stoking fear about a second Trump administration as former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in key polling. ------------------- Florida elected officials expressed their thoughts on the recent sexual assault investigation involving Republican Party of Florida Chairman Christian Ziegler. Ziegler’s attorney maintained the chairman’s innocence in a statement last week, saying Ziegler would be “completely exonerated” once the investigation is complete. ----------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis said the U.S. is being “invaded” in response to a video released Monday depicting a “large group of migrants” mainly composed of Chinese nationals crossing the border. The video was released by NewsNation correspondent Jorge Ventura. It shows a group of men lined up with their belongings. Ventura reported that they bridged through open gaps in the U.S. southern border barrier.

The NCAA shocked college football by leaving undefeated Florida State out of its College Football Playoffs, and now some state lawmakers are demanding answers. When the NCAA College Football Playoff Selection Committee elevated Alabama’s Crimson Tide to the playoffs after a one-loss season but left the undefeated Seminoles out, cries of foul erupted from state officials, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott, and Reps. Byron Donalds and Jared Moskowitz, Fox News reported. ------------------------ Kristin Davison was reportedly fired on Friday as the interim CEO for the pro-DeSantis Super PAC Never Back Down, just over a week after she filled the role, signaling continued dysfunction within the organization. Politico’s Alex Isenstadt first reported that Davison was fired Friday, nine days after assuming the position, citing two sources familiar with the move. A vague description of “management and personnel issues” from one of the sources was noted in the article as the reasons for her termination.

Black Lives Matter Rhode Island leader Mark Fisher said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” that he was endorsing former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race. Co-host Lawrence Jones asked, “This is my favorite story of the day because it identifies what I have seen in the barbershop. All the brothers, for some reason right now are turning tides right now. I just wonder what is the big reason?” ---------------- ep. Bob Rommel, R-Naples, filed a bill that aims to increase penalties on groups of people that commit retail theft. HB 549 makes it a third degree felony if the crime has five or more people within one or more establishments for the purpose of “overwhelming the response of a merchant, merchant’s employee, or law enforcement officer in order to carry out the offense or avoid detection or apprehension for the offense.”