Ron DeSantis

Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday appeared to be unaware that for over a week multiple nationwide and local news outlets have been reporting on Duval County pulling a book about baseball great Roberto Clemente from all its school shelves in response to the Florida Republican's laws, which he claims are designed to protect parents and children.

The far-right Florida governor lashed out in response to a reporter asking him about the Roberto Clemente book, first blaming "politics," then "teachers' unions," then claiming the story itself was "a joke" and "manufactured" while never accepting the impact the legislation he has supported, promoted, signed into law, and used to brand himself as a protector of children has had a devastating effect on those very children he claims to want to protect.

As Raw Story noted earlier on Tuesday, "Donald Trump loves to denigrate and define his opponents with mocking nicknames, and he's reportedly got a new one for his strongest would-be rival."

The New York Times reports Donald Trump is calling his potential 2024 rival “Meatball Ron” in private.

Haley, who also served as South Carolina's governor before joining the administration of former President Donald Trump in 2017, has advanced right-wing policies both domestically and abroad, and since leaving public office four years ago, has used her platform to promote "extreme hardline positions on foreign policy," wrote Daniel Larison at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

The Republican has strived to center her response to the 2015 Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston by a white supremacist as evidence of her moderation, including in her campaign launch video footage of the speech she gave weeks after the massacre when signing a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), one of former President Donald Trump's most outspoken Republican critics in the Senate, is sounding off a warning, reported the Huffington Post on Tuesday: Trump could win the nomination again for 2024 — the exact same way he did in 2016.

"A large field of presidential contenders in 2024 could lead to a redo of the 2016 presidential race and help make Donald Trump the Republican presidential nominee once again, according to Sen. Mitt Romney," reported Igor Bobic. "'The only way that [scenario] could be prevented is if it narrowed down to a two-person race eventually. That means donors and influencers say to their candidate ― if they’re weakening: ‘Hey, time to get out,’' Romney told HuffPost in an interview on Tuesday."

Black and Latino lawmakers decried Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent order to Texas universities and state agencies to strike down diversity, equity and inclusion policies from their hiring practices.

At a press conference Tuesday morning at the state Capitol, lawmakers in the Texas Legislative Black Caucus and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, representatives with the Texas chapter of the NAACP and faith leaders across the state said the governor’s assertion that DEI policies are illegal is incorrect, a “lie” and a “diversion” from addressing the issues facing Texans.

As Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to chastise the century-old College Board and its related programs — from honors-level Advanced Placement courses to college entrance exams — eliminating those activities could create a dramatically different school experience for Florida high schoolers.

In just 2022, nearly 200,000 students in Florida took the college entrance exam called the SAT, and tens of thousands of high school students have participated in Advanced Placement courses that could lead to earning college credits ahead of schedule.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) credited Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) with his decision to expand AP African American studies in the state.

During an announcement on Tuesday, Murphy said that the courses would be taught in additional schools. The increase will expand AP African American studies from one school to 26 schools.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responded to the fifth anniversary of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida by calling for more people to be killed with capital punishment.

At a press conference Tuesday, DeSantis was asked if enough had been done to stop future gunmen like the one who killed 17 people in Parkland.

The term “culture war” or “cultural war” can be traced back to 1992, when far-right Patrick Buchanan ran against President George H.W. Bush in a bitter, divisive GOP primary before railing against Democratic nominee Bill Clinton during the general election. Speaking at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Buchanan declared that the United States was facing a “cultural war” in which liberals and conservatives had radically different visions for the country.

Buchanan told the crowd, “There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as was the Cold War itself. For this war is for the soul of America.”

Former President Donald Trump will not receive the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination without a challenge.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has officially declared her candidacy for the presidency, despite having earlier pledged not to run in 2024 should Trump decide to throw his hat into the ring.

Donald Trump loves to denigrate and define his opponents with mocking nicknames, and he's reportedly got a new one for his strongest would-be rival.

The former president has denied a New York Times report that he's workshopping a new swipe against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who seems to be his most viable challenge, but Daily Beast columnist Matt Lewis examined the reasons he might have chosen to slur an Italian-American politician as a meatball.