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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.”

Economists have turned much more optimistic about the economy in recent months. The average probability of a recession over the next 12 months assigned by the business and academic survey conducted each quarter by the Wall Street Journal slipped to 48 percent from 53 percent in the July survey and 61 percent in April. Yet growth is not expected to be particularly robust. In fact, some economists expect less growth next year than they did in prior surveys, probably because they are no longer expecting the economy to be rebounding following the widely-expected 2023 recession that never materialized. --------------- The 21st Statewide Grand Jury delivered another scathing report calling for new laws after an investigation into illegal immigration. The report said many Floridians are “almost dangerously naive and unaware of the true magnitude and malevolence of the illegal immigration industry.” --------------- Rep. Sam Killebrew, R-Winter Haven, introduced legislation Wednesday that would implement a sales tax holiday for personal mobility vehicles such as bicycles and electric scooters. The bill also provides a sales tax holiday for personal safety equipment used when operating micromobility vehicles, like helmets and knee pads.

University of Southern California (USC) economics professor John Strauss, who is Jewish, has been barred from campus because of a doctored video circulated by anti-Israel activists who claim he said all Palestinians should be killed. In fact, as the full video (clumsily included here by an anti-Israel activist) shows, Strauss was referring specifically to the Hamas terrorist organization. ------------------- Floridians have begun to feel mild relief at the pump this holiday season as gas prices have dropped to near $3 per gallon, according to data from AAA. -------------- U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will visit Sarasota on Monday to tour the city’s airport expansion. He will be accompanied by Florida Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan for a construction update and tour of the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport. The airport is undergoing a nearly $100 million renovation project for a new terminal, which will have five new gates across over 75,000 square feet, Buchanan’s office said.

A NBC News poll conducted November 10-14, 2023, shows over half of Americans–52 percent–say they or someone in their household owns a gun. NBC News noted that this was the highest level of gun ownership ever recorded in one of their polls. In 2013, NBC News found the percentage of Americans owning guns was at 42 percent. In 2019, 46 percent of Americans said they or someone in their household owned a gun. ------------ The Israeli government approved a deal Tuesday night that will see the Palestinian Hamas terror group release at least 50 female, child, and elderly hostages over four days, in return for a pause in the fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Elon Musk's X Corp. sued Media Matters for America for defamation on Monday after the left-leaning nonprofit released a report on ads on X running next to pro-Nazi content and helped trigger an advertiser exodus. ----------------- Sen. Nick DiCeglie, R-St. Petersburg, and Rep. Berny Jacques, R-Clearwater, filed legislation Monday to prevent juveniles who are convicted of crimes as an adult from playing high school sports. HB 545 and SB 530 bar high school students who are convicted or held responsible in an adult court for homicide, sexual battery, or lewd and lascivious offenses from participating in high school athletics. -------------- New evidence shows that some Lee County students are more than likely to end up in a “school to prison pipeline.” A Fort Myers City Council meeting on Monday night discussed efforts to keep kids out of the criminal justice system. Councilwoman Debbie Jordan told WINK News that Streets is floating an idea for bringing truant officers in as part of his fight to stop what he calls the “school to prison pipeline.”

Rep. Tyler Sirois, R-Merritt Island, filed a bill this week for the 2024 Legislative Session that would ban the manufacturing and sale of cultivated meat, also called lab-grown meat. As outlined in the bill, “cultivated meat” is defined as any meat or food product produced from cultured animal cells. Under HB 435, it would be illegal to manufacture, sell or distribute cultivated meat in Florida.

Chinese flags parading through the streets of San Francisco ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping have been met with backlash as videos circulate on social media. “Oh look, San Francisco turned into China for President Xi’s arrival,” the Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt wrote on X, along with a video of Chinese flags lining the city’s streets as Xi’s motorcade drives by. -------------- Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) cannot bar Donald Trump from the primary ballot based on a novel interpretation of an obscure clause in a Civil War-era amendment, a judge ruled Tuesday. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford ruled that Secretary of State Benson must list all candidates running for the presidency on the primary ballot, citing Michigan law. ------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis agreed to a one-on-one debate with former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as the two have got into multiple spats with the GOP primary heating up. Laura Ingraham of Fox News initially proposed the debate Wednesday afternoon. “Count me in!” DeSantis said.

Tuesday’s “March for Israel” on the National Mall in Washington, DC, reached an estimated total of 290,000 participants — three times what organizers had expected and the largest pro-Israel gathering in U.S. history. The rally was larger than similar events to support Israel during the terror of the second Palestinian intifada in 2002, and a rally to support Soviet Jews trying to leave the USSR in 1987. ---------------- The House passed a continuing resolution Tuesday to extend spending levels from a lame duck session last December by Democratic House and Senate majorities into 2024.

The House voted 209-201 Monday night to sideline a resolution introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his disastrous mishandling of the border, even as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) greases the skids on a funding package that punts a broader border policy battle until the new year. -------------- Former President Donald Trump would win the electoral college over President Joe Biden, but Biden would trounce Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), according to an analysis from Stack Data Strategy among 15,205 registered voters nationwide.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race after failing to pick up steam over the course of several debates. Scott made his decision to suspend the presidential campaign known during an appearance on former Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-SC) Fox News show. --------------- Anthem protester and left-wing activist soccer player Megan Rapinoe questioned the existence of God after suffering an injury three minutes into her final professional soccer game. As the Trump critic and trans activist sat fielding questions at her post-game press conference, attempting to smile while in obvious pain, Rapinoe lamented her plight and said, “I mean, I don’t deserve this, I’ll tell you that much,” she told reporters. “I’m not a religious person or anything, but if there is a God, this is proof that there isn’t.” ----------------- Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott pointed to former President Donald Trump’s “track record” as the prime rationale for endorsing Trump in the 2024 election. A large part of Scott’s endorsement was Trump’s record on Israel in light of war breaking out between the Jewish state and terrorist organization Hamas, sparking in early-October. Scott previously called Trump the most “pro-Israel” president.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced a resolution Thursday to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Greene introduced the resolution after two constituents of her Northwest Georgia district were killed Wednesday near the border by a human smuggler who crashed head-on with their vehicle while evading police. --------------- The New York Times issued a statement Thursday denying that photographer Yousef Masoud had accompanied Hamas terrorists to the October 7 terror attack on Israel, among other photographers identified by the pro-Israel watchdog Honest Reporting. ------------------- Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, filed legislation to seek mandatory employer notification when an employee of a school district has a risk protection order issued against them. A risk protection order temporarily removes firearms and ammunition from those who “pose a danger to themselves or others.”

The GOP clown car primary for everyone not named Donald Trump is getting roomier, ever so slightly, as now there only remain five Trump opponents on the debate stage as candidates meet in Miami, Florida, for the third GOP presidential primary debate. Former President Donald Trump, the far-and-away frontrunner who is essentially the presumptive GOP nominee with his gargantuan polling lead even though nobody has voted yet, will hold a counter-programming rally down the street in nearby Hialeah, Florida. Most Republicans will probably watch Trump instead of the debate, which is set to be moderated by NBC News’s Lester Holt and Kristen Welker and Salem’s Hugh Hewitt. Nonetheless, here we are for the first GOP debate this cycle not moderated by one of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News or Fox Business properties. --------------- Both chambers of the Florida Legislature approved a bill changing the cap for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program for students with unique abilities. Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, and Rep. Josie Tomkow, R-Polk City, carried the legislation.

Voters in several key states from Kentucky to Mississippi, Virginia to New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to Ohio vote Tuesday to determine the outcomes of many major races including two governor’s races, majorities in a bunch of state legislatures, and ballot initiatives and judicial races that could help steer the future of the country. It is the last major national regularly scheduled election before the 2024 presidential election, when incumbent Democrat President Joe Biden will likely face off against former GOP President Donald Trump a year from now. Insiders from both political parties and media figures will be looking for clues from the results about the mood of the electorate and whether or not the recent spate of terrible polls for Biden rings true with actual voters ------------------ A federal judge dismissed a legal challenge to Florida’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act this week, noting that the 2021-signed law applies indiscriminately. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a teenage student athlete by her family, who attends public school in Broward County. The student identifies as a “girl,” but was born a “biological male,” the ruling said.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD) released a statement Monday afternoon indicating the broadly circulated images–purportedly of the Nashville shooter’s manifesto–are “not MNPD crime scene images.” Earlier in the day, Breitbart News reported that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) would not confirm that the purported leaked pages from the Nashville shooter’s manifesto were real during a Monday morning phone call. --------------- Voters in several states on Tuesday will head to the polls for the last major regularly scheduled general election before the presidency is on the ballot a year from now, and analysts and insiders are looking for clues about what may lie ahead from the results in many key races. ------------- Several Florida Democrats voted against a bill in committees that would increase sanctions on the Iranian government. Reps. Anna Eskamani, D-Miami, Ashley Gantt, D-Orlando, Michelle Rayner, D-St. Petersburg, Felicia Robinson, D-Miami Gardens, voted against the passage of HB 5-C.

“Biden is trailing Donald J. Trump in five of the six most important battleground states one year before the 2024 election, writes DNYUZ. Biden is “suffering from enormous doubts about his age and deep dissatisfaction over his handling of the economy and a host of other issues[.]” On the age issue, only 19 percent of Trump supporters and 39 percent of all those polled said 77-year-old Trump is too old to be president. But. A massive majority of the electorate, 71 percent, said 80-year-old Biden is too old, including 54(!) percent of Biden’s own dumb supporters. Nearly two-thirds, 62 percent, say (accurately) that Biden lacks the “mental sharpness” to be an effective chief of state ------------------ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that it would take 24 minutes to explain to former President Donald Trump he can not end the Ukraine war in 24 hours because Russian President Vladimir Putin can’t be managed. ---------------- Political activist and failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that she believed the criticisms leveled at Vice President Kamala Harris were based on “misogyny and racism.”

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained private communications and other personal records of multiple Republican House and Senate staffers who were investigating the department’s role in the origins of the Russia collusion hoax, according to former senior Trump administration official Kash Patel. ----------------------- President Joe Biden’s administration is now advising schools across the United States to keep the overdose reversal drug naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, in stock amid a surging number of fentanyl deaths among American children. -------------- Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio reiterated his belief that TikTok should be banned in the U.S. amidst the platform “being used to downplay Hamas terrorism.” “TikTok needs to be shut down. Now,” Rubio said. The senator referenced a report from the New York Post that pro-Palestine content has been favored in trending and the algorithm over “stand with Israel” content.

After investing billions to adhere to President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda, General Motors (GM) is backtracking on all fronts when it comes to Electric Vehicles (EVs). As GM was the last of the Big Three to strike a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers (UAW), the automaker’s green energy dreams — championed by the Biden administration — have come crumbling down. -------------- An Israeli airstrike on Hamas targets Tuesday who had taken over civilian buildings in the northern Gaza Strip appears to have killed several terrorists — and caused underground tunnels to collapse, apparently expanding the initial damage caused by the strike. -------------- Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds and his wife, Erika Donalds, announced their endorsement of Yvette Benarroch in her bid to represent State House District 81. Benarroch, a Republican, would represent the Naples and Marco Island area.

Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds said he projects a higher level of Black support for former President Donald Trump in 2024. Republicans have been hopeful for the former president making inroads with the African American community over the past several years. During his presidency, Trump namely touted low African American unemployment. ------------- Members of both parties of the Florida Legislature Monday filed bills for the 2024 legislative session that would appoint courtroom advocates in criminal proceedings for cats and dogs. “As an animal lover, I’m pleased to sponsor legislation that allows an advocate to participate in proceeding regarding animal neglect or abuse,” said Sen. Jennifer Bradley, R-Fleming Island, in a press release.

According to a source within CBP, the influx of Special Interest Migrants across the U.S./Mexico border continues early in the NEW fiscal year as nearly 100 Syrian and 50 Iranian nationals have been apprehended by the Border Patrol since the beginning of October. The source says the influx of Syrian and Iranian Special Interest Migrants is concerning, considering the turmoil unfolding in the Middle East. ------------------- Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds indicated Friday he would vote in favor of censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., following her comments towards Israel. “I have no personal animus towards Rep. Tlaib but frankly her recent commentary towards Israel has been vile,” Donalds said on X. “Israel is our greatest ally in the Middle East. Hamas is barbaric terrorist organization that beheaded babies. If a censure vote hits the floor, I will be voting YES.” --------------- In an effort to continue growing the Republican base in Lee County, local activists began the Conservative Leadership Caucus, which has expanded since its inception in February. Vice Chair Doris Cortese said people are drawn to the group because of its focus on grassroots efforts.

The United States carried out airstrikes Thursday against Iranian proxy forces in Syria in response to a number of drone attacks and provocations against our forces as the Israel-Hamas war heats up. F-15s and F-16s were reportedly involved ---------------- At the White House press briefing Thursday afternoon, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby fielded questions from reporters regarding the conflict in the Middle East and the current and anticipated involvement of the U.S. -------------- Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the Wednesday night shootings in Lewiston, Maine “could be another example of a failure of our nation’s mental health system.” “Casey and I were shocked to hear the news coming out of Lewiston, Maine,” DeSantis said. “We are praying for those injured, the comfort of the families of the victims, and the law enforcement officers who are working to bring this evil individual to justice.” The shootings reportedly took place across multiple location in Lewiston. The were reportedly at least 18 killed and more than a dozen others injured. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., also commented on the tragedy in Maine.