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With former President Donald Trump pulling into a clear lead as the Republican nominee, calls from within the party are growing to draft a candidate who could appeal to moderates in a general election.

Among the biggest names floated that some believe can reach the middle without alienating the base is Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who famously stood up to Trump in 2020 when the former president tried to overturn the results of the state’s election he lost to Joe Biden.

Supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign continue to hope that he will pull ahead of former President Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP primary, but so far, that isn't happening. An Economist/YouGov poll released on July 12 shows DeSantis trailing Trump by 26 percent.

That poll is hardly an anomaly. A Fox News poll from late June found Trump with a 34 percent lead over DeSantis.

After a seven-month investigation, a group of congressional Democrats and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders released a bombshell report Wednesday showing that private tax prep firms have been secretly sharing U.S. taxpayers' sensitive personal information with tech giants for years, a practice that the lawmakers condemned as outrageous and possibly illegal.

The report, spearheaded by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in the Senate and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) in the House, notes that TaxAct, H&R Block, and TaxSlayer "used computer code—known as pixels—to send data to Meta and Google." The lawmakers' investigation was sparked by recent reportingin The Markup.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said this week that she is "truly" qualified to preserve U.S. freedoms because she is a Christian.

"My number one job is to secure the rights of Americans and make sure that they remain free. That is exactly why I'm here," Boebert told the Christian program Flashpoint on Tuesday. "I love freedom, not because I'm a Republican, not because I'm a conservative. I love freedom because Jesus set me free because I am a Christian."

For the second time this year, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is being forced to explain his comments about white nationalists and white supremacy – and by his own admission, he's not doing it well.

It all began in May, when Tuberville said that he sees white nationalists as Americans and nothing more than "Trump Republicans."

Economists are expressing excitement as the June inflation report shows annual inflation dropped even more than expected, to the lowest level since March of 2021. The inflation rate for June was just 0.2%, bringing annual inflation to just 3%. One year ago it was over 9%. The New York Times calls it a “pronounced cooling” and “good news for consumers.”

“That’s an incredible drop from a year ago when inflation was 9.1% [year over year] in June 2022,” The Washington Post’s economic columnist Heather Long exclaimed. She adds another important note: “Wages are now rising faster than inflation.”

Donald Trump came “a few sentences away" from deploying the military against migrants as top officials raced to stop him, according to a new book.

White House aides notified Miles Taylor, then chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, that Trump intended to announce at the State of the Union address in February 2019 that he was invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy troops to “forcibly expel” migrants from a caravan traveling toward the southern border, according to excerpts from a forthcoming book published by Politico.

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, who infamously peddled false claims about Dominion Voting Systems based on the musings of a woman who claims to have conversations with the wind, started pushing a new conspiracy theory on Wednesday.

During an interview with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Bartiromo complained that House Republicans are getting "stonewalled" in their investigations of President Joe Biden, and suggested that there was something nefarious about the fact that Republicans' purported "whistleblower" had been indicted as an unauthorized agent of the Chinese government.

Following up on a report from Rolling Stone about Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch souring on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential prospects, the New York Times is reporting that Murdoch is pushing for another Republican governor to enter the race.

According to the Times' sources, Murdoch "has privately told people that he would still like to see Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia enter the race" despite the fact that such late entries do not have a history of success.

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers who were falsely accused of committing election fraud by former President Donald Trump and his allies, are pushing for former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to face "severe sanctions."

In a new court filing flagged by Politico's Kyle Cheney, attorneys representing Freeman and Moss argue that Giuliani deserves punishment for his failure to produce key evidence in their defamation lawsuit against him.