Ron DeSantis

Rolling Stone reported that there is a war for online influencers between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis as the two campaigns kick into high gear.

DeSantis is reportedly "offering access and (in one case) a job to buttress the governor’s online army," Rolling Stone reported.

The wave of right-wing populism that carried Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) to a decisive reelection victory in November appears to have hit a wall.

A Tuesday night school board meeting held in a county DeSantis won handily saw furious teachers, students and parents railing against right-wing efforts to reshape the Sunshine State’s educational system – a clear sign of an emerging “backlash to the backlash, Washington Post columnists Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman wrote Thursday.

It isn't hard to see why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' cheerleaders view the Sunshine State as a "blueprint" for right-wing politics. Florida was the one state where the "red wave" that Fox News pundits spent months predicting really did materialize in the 2022 midterms.

But in many battleground states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada — Democrats performed much better than expected in 2022. Then, in April 2023, liberal Janet Protasiewicz enjoyed an 11 percent victory over far-right Republican Dan Kelly in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday lashed out at a reporter who asked him about taking questions from voters in New Hampshire.

As reported by NBC News' Jonathan Allen, a reporter in New Hampshire asked DeSantis about his decision to not take audience questions immediately after his first campaign event in the Granite State.

As much as Donald Trump's critics mock him for harping on trivial, unimportant things, the president's adolescent-like name-calling can be effective with his MAGA base. Trump's names for political opponents are designed to diminish them — for example, "Sleepy Joe" for President Joe Biden, "Crooked Hillary" for former Secretary of State/ex-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, "Crazy Bernie" for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), or "Pocahontas" for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts).

Trump has two names for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running against him in the 2024 GOP presidential primary: "Ron DeSanctimonious" and "Meatball Ron." And according to Axios, his campaign has found a new line of attack against DeSantis: the fact that his last name has been pronounced different ways.

Former President Donald Trump's frequent bragging that he destroys opponent Ron DeSantis in polling is relying on some dubious math, the Washington Post revealed Thursday.

Polling has largely shown Trump leading Florida Gov. DeSantis for the 2024 primary, but DeSantis' argues that he's never lost an election and, since he won his governorship by about 15 points more than Trump carried the state of Florida in 2020, he is a safer bet for voters.

Hernando County, Florida, a Gulf Coast area just north of Tampa Bay, is not known for being a liberal place, as it hasn't backed a Democrat for president in over two decades, and Gov. Ron DeSantis carried the county by over 40 points last year.

But parents and teachers there have had enough of the far-right culture war against LGBTQ people — and they demanded an end to the campaign of intimidation in their local schools at a contentious board meeting this week, wrote columnists Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman for The Washington Post.