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‘Running for VP’: Haley hammered over Trump rape case comment

Despite currently holding second-place in the polls and coming in a close third in the Iowa Republican Caucuses Monday night, former Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley appears to have shifted gears. Critics are citing remarks she made Tuesday that, some suggest, show she may be trying to run for vice president.

"You're the only woman in this race," CNN's Dana Bash reminded Haley in a face-to-face interview. "How do you feel about your party's frontrunner being held liable for sexual abuse?"

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'They are all in on it with Jack Smith': Trump ally says Ron DeSantis is working with DOJ

Trump world has come up with a new oppression theory: Ron DeSantis is helping Special Counsel Jack Smith in his prosecutions of the former president.

Donald Trump's campaign in July issued a statement on the purported "unholy alliance" between DeSantis and the Justice Department's work.

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'I know these people': Ex-GOP strategist warns that Trump's campaign team means business

Trump's campaign is being run by pros.

Stuart Stevens, who was the lead strategist in Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign (before he ran for the Senate), marveled to MSNBC's Alex Wagner about how the ground game to reelect the 45th president is tip-top.

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These Republican lawmakers are 'uneasy' about Trump's success in GOP primary: report

There's more than enough time for some GOP lawmakers to support their presidential candidate, whoever it may be.

While Trump won Iowa by a 30-point margin over Florida Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, some in D.C. believe the contest isn't over and therefore aren't endorsing Trump yet, according to CNN.

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Florida Democrats clinch win in key swing legislative district special election

Florida Democrats scored a win on Tuesday night as aerospace engineer Tom Keen was elected to a battleground state House district in a special election, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

"Keen, who works in the aerospace training and simulation industry, defeated Republican Erika Booth, a teacher and member of the Osceola School Board. Unofficial totals had Keen with 51.3% of the vote to Booth’s 48.7%," reported Steven Lemongello. "The special election for the district in eastern Orange and Osceola counties was triggered when former Republican state Rep. Fred Hawkins resigned last year to become president of South Florida State College in Highlands County."

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'Field of nightmares': Insiders say DeSantis campaign is a dead man walking

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis efforts building a $130 million springboard designed to catapult him into the White House resulted only in a political bellyflop that will likely see him sink, Iowa Caucus insiders say in a new report.

"Iowa instead became a field of nightmares for DeSantis," writes The Messenger's Marc Caputo. "The more he built his campaign there, the more voters didn’t come."

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DNC buried for 'wrong-headed' response to anti-Trump Republican dropping out of 2024 race

Nobody is digging the Democratic National Committee (DNC) dancing after former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson bid adieu to the 2024 presidential race.

The DNC's National Press Secretary Sarafina Chitika almost came after Hutchinson like a has-been whose political journey to win the White House croaked long ago.

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MTG claims U.S. will be plunged into war as way to stop Trump: 'It's their next move'

In the wake of Donald Trump's Iowa caucuses win, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X and warned of the "next war" in America.

"War. It's their next move now that Trump won so decisively in Iowa and will continue to dominate," Greene wrote in reference to Trump's critics.

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Disney gets new weapon in bitter legal fight with Ron DeSantis

Disney received a legal boost in its First Amendment fight against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the controversial law dubbed “Don’t Say Gay,” court records show.

Attorneys for the House of Mouse last week submitted a new filing in their federal lawsuit alerting the court to former prosecutor Andrew Warren’s victory in a parallel freedom-of-speech fight, court records and reports show.

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Ron DeSantis' own allies are urging him to drop out of presidential race — he says 'no'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) proudly proclaimed success Monday even though he finished 30 points behind Donald Trump in the Iowa Caucuses Monday — still, he's in it to win it.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that DeSantis doesn't have much of a campaign in New Hampshire after having gone all-in on Iowa. Former Gov. Nikki Haley, who finished third Monday, is getting more credit for finishing so closely behind DeSantis without spending more than $150 million on her campaign.

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Trump diehards think Iowa caucus was rigged — even after his massive victory

If you thought that supporters of former President Donald Trump would lay off election conspiracy theories after his big win in the Iowa caucus, think again.

Vice News reports that MAGA diehards on Tuesday morning were still cooking up voter fraud schemes even after their candidate beat the nearest competitor by 30 points.

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Capitol cops investigating Roger Stone over 'assassination' rant: report

Mediaite reports that right-wing dirty trickster and Trump ally Roger Stone is now under investigation from Capitol Police after he was caught in a recording ranting about the need to assassinate Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Eric Swalwell.

While the publication doesn't have any details about how far along the investigation is or what it encompasses, it does say that the FBI is assisting the Capitol Police in the matter.

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Trump supporters 'are fed up with democracy': former GOP lawmaker

Republicans in New Hampshire are sounding the alarm about former President Donald Trump and his movement, warning ahead of the primary in the state that Trump's supporters are no longer supportive of the democratic system itself, reported The New York Times on Tuesday.

This comes after former President Donald Trump coasted to victory in a low-turnout contest at the Iowa caucuses, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis squeaking out a narrow second-place finish above former U.N. Ambassador and ex-South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

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