Ron DeSantis

The House select committee referred Donald Trump for prosecution, but comedian and talk show host D.L. Hughley doesn't think they went far enough in their recommendation.

The panel issued a criminal referral for the former president on four charges, including inciting an insurrection, but Hughley said Trump should be charged with manslaughter for the death of Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, reported TMZ.

Right-wing activist Chaya Raichik said that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) offered to "hide" her after she was exposed as the person behind the @libsoftiktok Twitter account.

In an interview that aired on Tuesday, Raichik told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that a DeSantis staffer offered her help despite her California residency.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is receiving backlash from health experts after he petitioned an investigation into the validity of COVID-19 vaccines earlier this month, The Hill reports.

The governor was blasted by the Washington Post Editorial board after he demanded that “a grand jury investigate 'criminal or wrongful activity in Florida' involving the 'development, promotion and distribution' of coronavirus vaccines.'”

According to a report in the Palm Beach Post, advisers to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) have convinced him to hold his fire on Donald Trump if he hopes to successfully supplant the former president as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee in 2024.

The report notes that DeSantis is being advised to hold back on any attacks on Trump that might turn into open warfare as well as dial back some of his commentary over fears he may peak too soon with the national primaries over a year away.

This hasn't been the best year for Donald Trump, and next year is shaping up to be even worse.

The former president's company was convicted of tax fraud this month and faces civil charges from New York attorney general Letitia James, he faces possible prosecution from the Department of Justice and in the state of Georgia -- and his political fortunes seem to be slipping with Republicans, reported CNN.

From Florida governor Ron DeSantis to Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur and Britain's Prince Harry, here are 10 people who are expected to make headlines in 2023.

Ron DeSantis

Will Donald Trump's former apprentice, popular Florida governor Ron DeSantis, turn on his one-time mentor by challenging him for the Republican nomination for president?

On CNN Monday, longtime Mitch McConnell strategist and GOP insider Scott Jennings said that former President Donald Trump is bleeding institutional Republican supporters in large part because they are no longer able to defend him amid a mountain of electoral losses and criminal investigations.

This comes as Trump received another blow last week, with the House Select Committee on January 6 releasing its final report and referring the former president to the Justice Department on four criminal offenses for his role in provoking the insurrection and trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Former Republican Congressman David Jolly (FL) saw the new poll showing Donald Trump at just 40 percent in the 2024 matchup against Ron DeSantis' 35 percent.

Meanwhile, people like Mike Pence and Nikki Haley are hovering around 7 percent and 4 percent respectively.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, soon to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said Sunday that the Electoral College is a "danger" to U.S. democracy and should be abandoned in favor of presidential elections decided by the popular vote.

"The Electoral College now, which has given us five popular vote losers as president in our history, twice in this century alone, has become a danger, not just to democracy, but to the American people," Raskin (D-Md.) said in an appearance on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "It was a danger on January 6. There are so many curving byways and nooks and crannies in the Electoral College that there are opportunities for a lot of strategic mischief."

A Florida federal judge has refused to drop criminal charges against former Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum, rejecting his argument that he was politically targeted because he's Black, the Associated Press reports.

Gillum and another person were indicted earlier this year on federal charges that included conspiracy, wire fraud and making false statements to FBI agents. Prosecutors also say he funneled donations through third parties back to himself for personal use. "According to prosecutors, Gillum met with undercover FBI agents posing as developers while he was mayor of Tallahassee and during his campaign for governor. His associates sought donations from the agents, and suggested ways to provide money without listing them as political contributions, including paying for a fundraising dinner, according to the indictment," the AP's report stated.

Appearing very early on MSNBC on Monday morning, the Guardian's Hugo Lowell reported that there are some members of Donald Trump's inner circle who are willing to gamble that his being hauled into court by the DOJ would jumpstart his moribund 2024 presidential campaign despite the legal peril.

Days after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot issued its final report -- including damning transcripts from cooperating witnesses -- Lowell was asked what the mood was like in Trump's camp and what happens next..

In his column for the Daily Beast, conservative Matt Lewis warned the Republican Party is setting itself up for a fall unless they coalesce behind one or possibly two presidential nominees who aren't Donald Trump.

As Lewis sees it, there are too many GOP lawmakers poised to jump into the 2024 Republican Party primaries which could splinter voters and allow the twice-impeached Trump to get the nomination for the third time -- only to lose again in back-to-back races.

A “silent majority” that supported Donald Trump in his 2016 and 2020 presidential runs is now quietly bowing out, Vanity Fair reports.

The University of Chicago Divinity School’s magazine reported that nearly 81 percent of “self-identifying white evangelical voters” voted for Trump in 2016.