2024 Elections

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan on Tuesday morning hammered his party for standing by former President Donald Trump even after being indicted four different times on 91 criminal charges.

Appearing on CNN, Duncan once again begged Republicans to find a non-indicted presidential nominee to be its standard bearer in the 2024 presidential election.

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan warned that former President Donald Trump is leading the GOP to ruin on CNN Monday — and the party has to move beyond him to do anything constructive.

This comes after Duncan gave testimony to the Fulton County grand jury ahead of the indictment vote, and after Trump tried to intimidate him out of doing so on social media.

The crash and burn of the Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign, long before the first GOP primary, is not coming as any surprise to an assortment of Republican Party lawmakers who dealt with him when he served in Congress and now during his tenure as Florida's governor.

As three-time indicted Donald Trump is steamrollering the opposition on his way to a third GOP presidential nomination, DeSantis, who looked like a legitimate contender, has seen his poll numbers go into a death spiral.

According to a report from the Washington Post's Josh Dawsey, DeSantis did round up some support for his bid among GOP lawmakers in his state, but a substantial number fell in line behind Donald Trump — some out of fear of the vindictive former president.

As the report notes, DeSantis' personality -- or lack of it --was also a major contributing factor in GOP reluctance to endorse him.

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According to former Florida GOP Chairman Joe Gruters, "The more he is met by people, the more they are not going to like him. The more he’s out there, the more his numbers go down. It’s not a good long-term scenario for him. I fully expected the downfall of his campaign a long time ago.”

While that has been a common refrain since DeSantis hit the campaign trail and people have seen him up-close, GOP insiders describe him as cold and difficult to work with due to his standoffishness.

"Interviews with more than 30 people in Florida and Washington who worked closely with DeSantis — many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe their interactions with him — indicate that expectations were lower among some who knew him closely in Tallahassee — and that they always expected the candidate to be the challenge," the Post is reporting.

The report adds, "... in interviews, Florida Republicans described an aloof governor who believed in 'sticks and no carrots,' according to a senior Florida official, and whose idea of negotiating was 'my way or the highway,' in the words of another. An insular governor who infrequently talked to some senior members in his own Cabinet, including his top law enforcement officials, or other leading Republicans. A congressman who seemed to avoid any opportunity to make friends with others in the delegation. A politician who rarely tried to connect with donors and supporters and seemed to not enjoy being around crowds or attending events. A governor who sometimes declined to participate in a lot of the customary niceties in politics, such as thank you notes and calls to donors."

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. indicated that he believes life begins at conception and said he opposes all abortions after 90 days.

“I believe a decision to abort a child should be up to the women during the first three months of life,” Kennedy told NBC News, referring to those three months as "life."

A staunchly conservative columnist slammed Donald Trump in a sobering assessment of the former president and his continued preoccupation with baseless claims of election fraud in 2020.

Brady Leonard writes for The Washington Examiner that Trump is offering no new ideas for “What exactly would be different in a second matchup against President Joe Biden?”

A conservative strategist said Sunday that Ron DeSantis’ flagging presidential campaign is flirting with irrelevancy.

Sarah Longwell, during an appearance on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” claimed that the once formidable candidate isn’t even being mentioned in focus groups.

Senate Republicans in Arizona and Montana have a couple of "headaches" on their hands, according to a Saturday, August 12 report from Press Pass.

Despite Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's loss last November — and refusal to concede — Press Pass notes the right-winger "doesn't appear interested in waiting for that historic wrong to be corrected before embarking on her new political project: securing the Senate seat that will be up for grabs in Arizona in 2024."

Days after it was reported that Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign is facing a possible cash crunch before the GOP primaries commence because millions of dollars are being diverted to pay his increasing mountain of legal bills, the billionaire ex-president took to Truth Social to whine about his circumstances.

According to a report from the New York Times, "New financial reports show that the former president’s various political committees and the super PAC backing him have used roughly 30 cents of every dollar spent so far this year on legal-related costs. The total amounts to more than $27 million in legal fees and other investigation-related bills in the first six months of 2023."

The former president who has studiously avoided using his platform from attacking anything or anyone that has anything to do with his District of Columbia indictment after being warned by Judge Tanya Chutkan, took a roundabout way to complain about the Department of Justice.