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"I saw the video of that cop murdering George Floyd. I was just absolutely appalled by what I saw. But I immediately asked folks -- both FDLE and others -- how in the hell could you even get away with doing that tactic? And sure enough, state of Florida, you do not put knee on a neck like that." - Ron DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went after former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on a local South Carolina radio show on Tuesday and questioned her "leadership" based on a tweet following the death of George Floyd in 2020. "I remember when the George Floyd riots were happening, I called out the National Guard," DeSantis told WORD 106.9's Tara Show in South Carolina on Tuesday. "I said I’m standing with police, she was tweeting that it needed to be personal and painful for every single person. I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why does that need to be personal and painful for you or me?...

NBC brought in 6.86 million total viewers and 1.3 million viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic during the 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. debate, according to Nielsen. The first debate this cycle, hosted by Fox News in late August scored some 12.8 million total viewers and 2.8 million viewers in the demo. The second debate hosted by Fox Business Network in late September brought in 9.3 million total viewers and 1.89 million demo viewers.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley blasted entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy as “scum” after he brought up her daughter on Wednesday night’s third Republican presidential debate stage in Miami. “In the last debate, she made fun of me for actually joining TikTok while her own daughter was actually using the app for a long time. So you might want to take care of your family first,” Ramaswamy said as the candidates clashed over the video-sharing app, which is owned by Beijing-based parent company ByteDance. “Leave my daughter out of your voice,” Haley said. “You’re just scum.”

The escalating feud between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has hit the airwaves, with the super PACs boosting their campaigns launching dueling TV ads over the weekend. SFA Fund Inc., the group backing Haley, is up with a new 30-second spot responding to attacks from DeSantis over her past comments about refugees from Gaza. A narrator says DeSantis is “lying” and “throwing mud,” and the ad then plays footage of Haley saying: “I’ve always said we shouldn’t take any Gazan refugees in the U.S.” The ad has aired in Iowa and in markets covering...

In the escalating feud between Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, the super PAC supporting the Florida governor is going up with a new ad portraying Haley as flip-flopping over aid to Palestinians in Gaza. The social media ad, shared with POLITICO in advance of its release on Friday, comes hours after a pro-Haley PAC put out a spot mocking the Florida governor. The ad wars punctuate a week of intensifying conflict between the GOP presidential candidates, who are drawing closer in early-state polls. For months, DeSantis held steady in second place, trailing Donald Trump but comfortably ahead of his other...

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is reacting to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign after his recent stop in the Palmetto State. DeSantis, who entered the presidential race in May, made a stop at Saltwater Cowboys in Mount Pleasant Friday morning for a meet and greet. In a release, the Haley's team says DeSantis's campaign is "in freefall, plagued by terrible headlines, incompetence, staff firings, and too many reboots to count." The release goes on to say that DeSantis's attacks on Haley are "desperate." “Ron DeSantis’ campaign has been five months of one disaster after another,” Haley's campaign spokesman...

Just Stop Oil have stormed London's historic Pride parade, after issuing threats to the LGBTQ+ event earlier this week. Seven eco-zealots have been arrested after nine blocked the capital's Pride March today amidst calls for the event to condemn new oil, gas and coal. At around 1:25pm, the group sat down in front of the festival's Coca-Cola float, branding it 'the world's worst plastic polluter, accused of numerous human rights abuses'. Black and pink paint was also sprayed across the road as the protestors slammed Pride for failing 'to address and take responsibility' for its damaging relationships. Parade participants and...

Taylor Greene confirmed a report Wednesday calling Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert “a little bitch.” The two GOP lawmakers reportedly got into a dispute on the House floor over similar articles of impeachment for President Joe Biden. “I’ve donated to you, I’ve defended you. But you’ve been nothing but a little bitch to me,” Greene reportedly told Boebert, according to a Daily Beast article. “And you copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to cosponsor them.” “I heard Marjorie call Boebert a bitch right to her face,” a GOP lawmaker told The Daily Beast. Greene was asked about...

The messy feud between two of MAGA world’s biggest stars burst into public view on Wednesday, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) a “little bitch” to her face on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The angry exchange came as the two lawmakers have been swiping at each other over their competing resolutions to impeach President Joe Biden. But tensions came to a head on Wednesday after Boebert leveraged a procedural tool to force a vote on her own impeachment resolution within days—undercutting Greene, who had offered her own resolution, but not with...

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday slammed Target’s chief executive for pulling LGBTQ and Pride Month merchandise off of store shelves after facing backlash and threats of violence from some customers. “CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage. This isn’t just a couple stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country,” Newsom wrote in a tweet Tuesday night. “Wake up America. This doesn’t stop here. You’re black? You’re Asian? You’re Jewish? You’re a woman? You’re next,” the California governor...

A catfight has broken out between the two power-mad best friends forever. Once upon a time, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren were the best of buddies, the gushiest of pals, Ginger and Maryann, Laverne and Shirley, Thelma and Louise, their very own two-phony mutual admirational society. Now Harris isn't taking Warren's phone calls, according to CNN: Elizabeth Warren has called twice to apologize. Over a month later, Kamala Harris hasn’t called back. In a local Boston radio interview in late January, Warren was enthusiastic about President Joe Biden running for reelection but, asked if Biden should keep Harris as his...

The radical left is at it again. In the latest liberal effort to silence conservatives, the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James leaked a confidential list of my policy group’s supporters to the mainstream media. Now we’re asking the Department of Justice to investigate the New York AG’s office. If DOJ refuses, that says the Biden administration is completely fine with illegally targeting conservatives. This is more than just a gross violation of state and federal law — it’s a glaring sign of the left’s win-at-all costs mentality. Liberals are willing to do anything to beat conservatives, and...

Former President Donald Trump continued his attacks against billionaire Elon Musk from his platform Truth Social on Tuesday, saying he’d be “worthless” without government subsidies. Recalling the billionaire’s visit to the White House during his presidency, Trump said that Musk wanted government subsidies for many of his projects that offered big promises without delivering many rewards. Trump said: When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless,...

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Trump slams Elon Musk on Truth Social... Belittles his achievements... Claims Elon would have gotten on his knees and begged for him...

The Kremlin on Friday called comments by U.S. President Joe Biden about his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin "personal insults" and said Biden's remarks appeared to have been fuelled by irritation, fatigue and forgetfulness. -snip- "We hear and see statements that are actually personal insults to President Putin," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "Given such irritability from Mr Biden, his fatigue and sometimes forgetfulness...fatigue that leads to aggressive statements, we will not make harsh assessments, so as not to cause more aggression."

State Department spokesperson Ned Price was pressed in a heated back and forth Monday with The Associated Press' diplomatic reporter on whether the Biden administration lifting some sanctions benefited the Shia Islamist regime. Lee asked, "Ned, are you saying that that long list of things that you said that these waivers give. You're saying that there's no benefit to Iran in any of that?" Price replied, "I am saying that the net benefit of this is a nonproliferation goal for us."

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley had a go at Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday over well wishes she sent out for the holiday weekend.Harris shared a tweet on Saturday that featured a photo of herself and the message: "Enjoy the long weekend."Haley, who served as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, seemingly took issue with the tweet. She retweeted it and wrote, "Unprofessional and unfit."

If you opened the window and listened closely Sunday night, you could hear it: the sound of millions of remote controls changing the channel during the 2021 Oscars. And after last night’s debacle — the worst Academy Awards of my lifetime — they may never return. Producer Steven Soderbergh, the man who directed “Traffic” and “Erin Brokovich,” among many other fine films, helmed the broadcast and was determined to make it more intimate and cinematic than usual. Alright, as movie critic, I’ll play ball. “Steven Soderbergh’s The Oscars” gets 1 star. The night was nearly non-stop drudgery, zero humor and...