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Prominent supporters of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.

Sanders, who served as Trump's White House press secretary, delivered a rebuttal to the president's speech that largely focused on Republican culture war issues and accused Biden of surrendering his presidency to a "woke mob that can't even tell you what a woman is."

For the past 50 years one of the standard key messages of the Republican party is that they stand for the 'common man,' and 'Main Street' and not for big corporations or wealthy interest groups and lobbying organizations.

That is why their new public stance in being more closely positioned with large Fortune 1000 companies that charge service fees that consumers notoriously hate is a new, unchartered territory for the GOP, according to a column published in New Republic.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday vowed to maintain social and health care benefits for elderly and low-income Americans, warning that he would be a "nightmare" for Republicans seeking to take them away.

"I know that a lot of Republicans, their dream is to cut Social Security and Medicare," Biden said during a trip to the Republican stronghold of Florida, which has one of the highest number of people without health insurance.

Since President Joe Biden accused them of wanting to cut Medicare in his nationally televised State of the Union address earlier this week, congressional Republicans have attempted to posture as the program's true defenders by touting their support for privately run plans that are riddled with fraud and abuse.

"It’s Joe Biden, NOT Republicans, who is proposing Medicare Advantage cuts," tweeted Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), referring to a new payment plan that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled last week.

Confronted in an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins about his plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare — which Biden assailed in his State of the Union Address and which Republicans are falsely claiming was not true — Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) deflected and used a quote from CNN's Jake Tapper to try to claim that President Joe Biden also made cuts to Medicare.

On Thursday, a bemused Tapper revealed that Scott was taking his words out of context.

Former President Donald Trump accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of engaging in "grooming" behavior in his latest attack against his top rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

The former president on Truth Social Tuesday reposted a post accusing DeSantis of drinking alcohol with minors when he was a high school teacher.

Although Democrats generally performed much better than expected in the 2022 midterms, Florida was the one state where the red wave that Fox News pundits were predicting really did materialize. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis campaigned from the far right and was reelected by 19 percent; Sen. Marco Rubio, another Republican, defeated Democratic challenger Val Demings by 16 percent.

There was plenty of good news for Democrats in key swing states like Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin, all of which found them winning gubernatorial races. Centrist Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly was reelected in deep red Kansas, and even though Democrats narrowly lost the U.S. House of Representatives, they slightly increased their effective majority in the U.S. Senate when Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia was reelected. But the midterms brought Democrats plenty of bad news in Florida, which some Democratic strategists believe is no longer a swing state, but a full-fledged red state that now has 30 electoral votes.

While President Joe Biden has been taking hits from some Republicans and Democrats over his handling of a Chinese spy balloon that entered American airspace last week, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said that he believed the president had taken the right course.

In an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Romney said that Biden had made the right call to wait to shoot down the balloon until it was over the ocean.

US lawmakers on Thursday unanimously denounced China's use of a suspected spy balloon that flew over North America last week.

The vote allowed lawmakers to agree on a bipartisan stance on Beijing, after several balloon-related political skirmishes.

A hometown columnist took Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to the woodshed for attacking President Joe Biden's response to a surveillance balloon launched by China.

The Utah senator joined his fellow Republicans in criticizing Biden for waiting to shoot down the spy balloon until it had reached the Atlantic Ocean, rather than risk lives or property damage on the ground, and Salt Lake City Weekly columnist John Saltas supplied Lee with a suitable apology.

An attorney representing Hunter Biden is taking a page out of former President Donald Trump's playbook to deny Republicans in the House of Representatives access to his business records.

In a letter sent to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), attorney Abbe Lowell argued that his committee's request for business records was a "sweeping attempt to collect an expansive array of documents and communications from President Joe Biden and his family."

Republicans on the House Budget Committee offered a preview Wednesday of the programs they're looking to cut or overhaul as part of any agreement to lift the debt ceiling, a target list that includes food aid for low-income families, climate justice and electric vehicle funding, student debt relief, and Affordable Care Act subsidies.

The proposed cuts were outlined in a press release issued by Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), the chair of the House Budget Committee.