Ron DeSantis

"The View" co-host Ana Navarro ripped Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for glomming on to culture war clashes to get attention.

The Florida governor is helping to raise money for Daniel Perry, a Marine Corps veteran who choked Jordan Neely to death on a New York City subway, and the panelists condemned his action as he prepares to face off against Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Recognizing the vast majority of Americans remain committed to abortion as a constitutional right yet desperate to appeal to his base, Donald Trump is now taking direct credit for the U.S. Supreme Court having overturned Roe v. Wade last year while falsely claiming many in the "pro-life" movement sees a six-week ban, which his likely 2024 opponent Ron DeSantis recently signed into law, as too extreme.

"I was able to get us to the table by terminating Roe v. Wade. That's the most important thing that's ever happened for the pro-life movement,” Trump told The Messenger, a new news outlet that launched Monday.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has accused the Republican Party of developing a "culture of losing" -- but he's still refusing to say exactly who is responsible for developing that culture.

During a news conference on Monday, DeSantis was asked whether he believed former President Donald Trump really lost the 2020 election, and he refused to give a direct answer.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) is touting his support for legislation that was proposed in February which Higher Ed Dive explained at the time "would upend some of the longest standing conventions of American higher education and introduce an unprecedented degree of state control, like forcing institutions to abandon gender studies programs."

House Bill 999 would "ban state colleges and universities from using funds to 'promote, support, or maintain any programs or campus activities that espouse diversity, equity, or inclusion [DEI] or Critical Race Theory rhetoric.' The bill would also give the state's board of governors the ability to remove 'any major or minor that is based on or otherwise utilizes pedagogical methodology associated with Critical Theory,'" CBS News added.

Former President Donald Trump started his Monday morning by melting down on his Truth Social app about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — his likely principal rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — and Fox News' departure with right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson.

Fox fired Carlson in April shortly after the network settled a massive civil defamation lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems filed in response to Fox spreading Trump's conspiracy theories about its tabulation machines, which were used in the 2020 election.

A newly-signed bill by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that sharply cracks down on the ability of immigrants to work is setting off alarm bells in the state's agriculture industry which relies heavily on immigrant labor, reported Scripps News West Palm on Monday.

"From farming to construction, the law is expected to have a wide-ranging impact on a number of industries vital to Florida's economy," said the report. "Some farm workers are already too scared to go to work and are considering leaving the state, which could cause a huge staffing crisis for Florida agriculture."

Although Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has yet to formally announce a 2024 presidential run, the far-right MAGA Republican certainly acted like he was running when he visited Iowa over the May 13/14 weekend and hosted two different GOP events. DeSantis' team made sure that the trip was well-publicized, obviously trying to show Republican voters that he would be a better presidential nominee than Donald Trump next year.

DeSantis' cheerleaders, including author/pundit Ann Coulter, have been arguing that in the general election, he would perform much better against incumbent President Joe Biden than frontrunner Trump would. But according to Politico's Sally Goldenberg, DeSantis' electability argument has a "fundamental problem": he "can't bring himself to say" that Trump lost the 2020 election.

The dispute between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Disney World heated up last month when the company sued DeSantis and other government officials, accusing them of retaliation against the company for exercising its constitutional rights last year when it criticized a Florida law that bars classroom discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity.

According to The Washington Post, what started as a feud between DeSantis and Disney has now become a war between DeSantis and Disney's CEO Bob Iger.

Carolyn Mickey, a school librarian at Alpine Crest Elementary School in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area, was shocked when a far-right group targeted her over a Mother's Day lesson that they claimed was "Leninist" indoctrination and an attack on Western civilization.

The lesson, designed to be inclusive to kids with nontraditional families, included two books: "Stella Brings the Family" about a girl with two dads, and "Mother Bruce," about a male bear who adopts a brood of goslings who call him their mother. Mickey even notified parents beforehand and allowed them to opt out, but that wasn't good enough for Moms for Liberty, who successfully pressured the school to cancel the lesson.

Ron DeSantis is clearing a path to the presidency by altering Florida law to allow him to campaign for the White House while remaining governor and to help shield his political spending and travel.

The Republican state legislature passed a new bill that would exempt DeSantis from a law requiring him to resign before running for president, along with a slate of sweeping new voting restrictions, and he has already signed a bill that exempts all of his past and future travel from disclosure, as well as the names of people he meets, reported The Guardian.

A crowdfunding effort supporting the man charged over the chokehold death of a homeless person in New York has raised more than $1.6 million on a platform known for facilitating funding of far-right figures.

The death earlier this month of Jordan Neely, a Michael Jackson impersonator who often performed on the subway, sparked outrage after it was caught on camera.

Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) explained that one of the biggest barriers to taking down Donald Trump in a 2024 Republican primary is that whoever does, risks alienating the MAGA supporters. So, they'll be sacrificing their own political careers at the same time.

Gov. Ron "DeSantis (R-FL) is really hammering, I guess, not totally in his face, but I guess in a veiled sort of way Trump on electability rather than questions of policy," said CNN host Jim Acosta. "But, you know, pro-business conservatives don't like this feud with Disney, and others have been griping about his icy personality. What do you think? Is DeSantis more electable than Trump? Does he have the potential there to be more electable?"

Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry (R-TX) told CNN's Jim Acosta that he was pondering whether to run for president again.

Acosta asked Perry if he was endorsing Trump in 2024 and Perry hedged, but not because he was thinking about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).