Ron DeSantis

As the 2024 presidential primary season begins to heat up, Donald Trump is going to need a larger platform to keep all the focus on himself and off of his rivals, which means his war with Fox News may need to be set aside because his options are severely limited.

According to a report from the Guardian's David Smith, the on-again, off-again love affair between the former president and the ratings-rich conservative news network is now complicated as Fox's hosts are increasingly showing signs of throwing their support behind Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

MSNBC political and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner is warning Americans Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' threat to democracy, Newsweek reports.

In response to author Brynn Tannehill's Twitter thread outlining the ways DeSantis exudes fascism, Kirschner tweeted, "Great thread here about the danger to democracy posed by DeSantis. Plus, when I saw him say, with a stupid smirk on his face, that, just for fun he, 'sent 50 illegals to Martha's Vineyard,' it reinforced that he's an inhumane man. Let's defeat this heartless aspiring autocrat."

During a press conference held to provide updates on the status of charges in a recent shooting which left two people dead and one injured, per The Daily Beast, Worrell said DeSantis is specifically targeting her "because she's a Democrat."

The news conference comes after Worrell's recent interview with The Daily Beast, in which she discussed a letter she received from DeSantis' general counsel blaming her for the incident.

DeSantis, along with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, spoke to more than 600 Iowans at the Iowa State Fairgrounds’ Elwell Family Food Center in Des Moines about the partisan divides in American culture.

Liberals and national media attacked him for actions like reopening schools and banning vaccine mandates, DeSantis said, but he didn’t let those criticisms stop him from taking action. And the 2022 election proved voters didn’t want him to stop, he said.

During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump famously joked that he "could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK."

"It's, like, incredible."

On tonight's episode of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, Democratic strategist Fernandi Amandi noted that as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) decides to run for president, he's facing off against his own kind of Oedipus complex.

"He is absolutely setting the stage for a presidential run, but there's a little bit of an Oedipus Rex DeSantis complex going on here because Donald Trump is the political father of Ron DeSantis," said Fernandi.

The end of the week panel on Joy Reid's Friday MSNBC show discussed the Republican Party's move further right.

The chat began with the group trashing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for not being ready for primetime as he prepares for a potential presidential run. DeSantis recently had supporters of Donald Trump's thrown out of an event, which isn't likely to grow his audience. DeSantis is also at war with Disney, claiming that people are "sexualizing children."

The revelations from the New York Times report about possible criminal charges coming down the pike for former President Donald Trump sent legal analysts searching for more specifics to conclude what's happening at the New York District Attorney's Office.

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman explained that Trump could claim "witch hunt" all he wants, but he's never been indicted on criminal charges.

Grassroots leaders across the nation appear to be turning away from Donald Trump and toward Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis as a presidential candidate, according to results of a Politico survey of Republican country chairs.

Among those who responded to the survey, half said they weren't yet committed to a candidate. Of those who had chosen a favorite, 19% said they were committed to DeSantis, and 17% picked Trump, according to the results published Friday.

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley apparently won't be getting the vote of at least one Iowa man who wants no part of helping Ukraine beat back Russia's year-long military invasion.

As reported by CBS News' Robert Costa, an unidentified man stood up and began shouting when Haley, during an appearance in Iowa with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), outlined her rationale for backing Ukraine in its war by saying failing to do so could potentially lead to a "bigger war" in the future.

Right-wing extremists are latching onto culture war issues and preying on lonely young men to boost their ranks.

Josh Nunes, the leader of a group of white nationalists in Florida, told NPR that he regularly coordinates with other right-wing extremist groups and intentionally piggybacks on cultural issues pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to recruit new members to their neo-Nazi cause.