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Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on GOP rival Ron DeSandis after the Florida governor’s impressive showing in the midterm elections. The one-term president called him “Ron DeSanctimonious” on the Truth Social on Thursday, explaining exactly how the Florida politician owed him his entire career. Mr. DeSantis is now seen as a strong challenger to Mr. Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Long-time allies and fans of MAGA began to turn against former US President Donald Trump after the midterm elections proved to be no red tide as many turned their focus to the potential challenger on the GOP ticket in 2024. Florida Governor Ron DeSandis. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire – which includes Fox News on TV and the New York Post in print – made its feelings about Mr Trump clear with a scathing cover story on Thursday morning. “TRUMPTY DUMPTY,” read the front page in bold letters as a cartoon of the 45th president showed him as Humpty Dumpty perched precariously on a brick wall. Elsewhere, an allegedly benevolent Mr. Trump spent the day after the midterm elections lashing out at those he believes gave him bad advice as several of the candidates he endorsed in key races came up short. Trump is reportedly blaming his wife Melania Trump for advising him to support Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race, which he lost to Democrat John Fetterman. New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted Wednesday that there are people urging Trump to reschedule his expected 2024 presidential campaign, which is currently slated to take place next week.
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The endorsements that helped and hindered during the interim period
Leading up to the midterm elections, Republican candidates battled for the endorsement of former President Donald Trump. However, rather than being a golden ticket, it appears that Mr Trump’s support is more of a coin flip. According to polling data from midterm contests that have been called, the former president’s preferred candidates have been successful in only about half of the House and gubernatorial races, though they have fared well in Senate races so far. His longtime critic, outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney, fared better with her endorsements, though she earned far less than the former president. Graeme Massie November 11, 2022 12:01 am 1668124845
Kinzinger says more GOP losses needed to ‘completely exorcise’ Trump from party
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Allies are pushing Trump to delay the 2024 announcement
Republican leaders and allies are urging former President Donald Trump to delay his 2024 presidential announcement to “examine the realities on the ground” amid setbacks for the GOP in the midterm elections. Trump has been eager to announce his 2024 presidential run as he seeks to capitalize on the supposed success of Republicans in the midterm elections. But Republican leaders blocked him from announcing his candidacy at a rally in Ohio, and a Nov. 15 announcement followed. Graeme Massie10 November 2022 23:50 1668123645
“Trump must either make a bad decision or be seen as a weak coward”
The Lincoln Project co-founder tweeted Thursday that “you don’t want to be at Mar-a-Lago right now. Trump either needs to make a bad decision or be seen as a weak coward.” Trump was prompted to delay his 2024 campaign announcement, which had been scheduled for Tuesday next week, after Republicans fared worse than expected in the midterms. Pundits on the left and right both agreed that the former president was the biggest loser of the night despite not being on the ballot. Graeme Massie10 November 2022 23:40 1668123071
Trump Launches Furious Attack on DeSantis and Murdoch ‘Medium’ Press Amid Midterm GOP Civil War
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at New York Post and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch and Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis after the newspaper magnate’s real estate undercut the twice-impeached ex-president’s impact in his midterms 2022 and promoted the governor of Florida as a possible 2024. Republican standard bearer. Andrew Feinberg has the story.
Trump launches a furious attack on DeSandis and Murdoch’s “average” press
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at New York Post and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch and Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis after the newspaper magnate’s real estate undercut the twice-impeached ex-president’s impact in his midterms 2022 and promoted the governor of Florida as a possible 2024. Republican standard bearer. Graeme Massie10 November 2022 23:31 1668122397
Trump launches explosive attack on DeSantis and Murdoch media
Donald Trump did not take well to Republican love for Ron DeSandis after the Florida Governor’s impressive showing in the midterm elections. The one-term president unleashed a scathing rebuke of “Ron DeSanctimonious” on Truth Social Thursday, explaining exactly how the Florida politician owed him his entire career. Mr. DeSantis is now seen as a strong challenger to Mr. Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. “Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games! Fake News asks him if he’s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, “I’m just focused on the Governor’s race, I’m not looking at the future.” Well, as far as faith and class goes, that’s not really the right answer…This is just like 2015 and 2016, an attack on the media (Conspiracy!), when Fox News fought me to the hilt until I won , and then they failed to be nicer or more supportive,” Trump wrote. He added: “I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart. I was for Ron and he beat Gillum, but after the Race when the votes were being stolen by the corrupt election process in Broward County, and Ron was down ten thousand votes a day, along with Senator Rick Scott. I sent in the FBI and the US Attorneys and the ballot stealing ended immediately, just before they ran out of votes needed to win. I stopped his election from being stolen…” Graeme Massie10 November 2022 23:19 1668121245
DOJ and House committee ask Supreme Court to release Trump taxes
The Justice Department and the House Ways and Means Committee in separate legal filings asked the Supreme Court to throw out Donald Trump’s attempt to avoid being forced to comply with the committee’s request for his tax returns. Trump’s lawyers filed an emergency motion on Oct. 31 to throw out a lower court’s ruling that the refund request was valid, Reuters reported. The committee said in its filing that the deal with Trump would undermine the authority of a co-equal branch of government “by effectively preventing Congress from completing any investigation of a former president whenever there are allegations that the investigation was politically motivated.” Gustaf Kilander November 10, 2022 11:00 pm 1668117645
VIDEO: Biden on the possible presidential candidacy of Donald Trump
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Conservative Writer Says ‘Trump May Be the Most Deeply Repressed Vote in Modern American History’
In an essay for the New York Post, conservative writer John Podhoretz said that “Trump is perhaps the most profound turnout in modern American history.” “The surest way to lose in this midterm election was to be a Trump-backed politician,” he added. “Since his improbable 2016 victory against the widely disliked Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump has had a perfect record of electoral defeat,” The Journal added. “The GOP was hit in the 2018 midterms by its low approval ratings. Mr. Trump himself lost in 2020. Then he sabotaged the 2021 Georgia runoffs by blaming party leaders for not somehow reversing his defeat.” Gustaf Kilander 10 November 2022 21:00 1668112845
“If it gives you power, why oppose it?”
In a CNN analysis, Chris Cillizza wrote Thursday that “the only thing that matters to Trump is power — and how to wield it.” An excerpt from former Vice President Mike Pence’s upcoming memoir was published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. “Texas Rep. Louis Gohmert and other Republicans had filed suit asking a federal judge to declare that I had ‘sole authority and sole discretion’ to decide which electoral votes should be counted,” Pence writes. “I don’t want to see ‘Pence opposes Gohmert suit’ as a headline this morning,” the president said, he added, referring to a conversation he had with Mr. Trump while both were in office. “I told him I did object. “If it gives you the power,” he asked, “why oppose it?” “If you only had one quote to understand Trump and how he sees the world, this would be a very good one,” Mr Cillizza wrote. Gustaf Kilander10 November 2022 20:40
