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The infamous right-wing network of organizations created by the Koch brothers is wading back into politics — and committing tens of millions in a last-gasp effort to deny former President Donald Trump the 2024 nomination, reported The New York Times Tuesday.

Presently, Trump tops all competitors by nearly 50 points in polls. However, the race to consolidate the anti-Trump vote is up for grabs, with Nikki Haley battling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for second place.

There was no quid pro quo, and Gov. Ron DeSantis is offended anyone implied there was.

The Florida Republican blasted former President Donald Trump for insinuating he paid six figures to win the endorsement of Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of The Family Leader.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo also holds a side gig as a tenured professor at the University of Florida -- but a new report from Politico suggests he's done little at the university to earn his hefty $262,000 annual salary there.

In dozens of interviews, Politico found deep concern among both faculty at the university and some Florida state lawmakers that Ladapo was given a sweetheart appointment with little scrutiny that has allowed him to rake in money despite apparently doing little work.

Donald Trump appears to be aware that his far-right policies aren't going to work in a general election against Joe Biden, so he is ready to begin moderating himself when it comes to women's rights.

Rolling Stone reporters Tessa Stuwart and Asawin Suebsaeng spoke to "people familiar" who say Trump has privately complained about anti-abortion leaders and said he should be able to do whatever he wants on the issue. He thinks they have no "leverage" to force him to do what they want.

Peter Antonacci left a meeting with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Sept. 23, 2022, and several moments later, he was dead mere steps from the room. No one noticed. It has been over a year, and the information about the incident is only now being revealed.

Florida Bulldog reported Sunday that the man DeSantis hired to head up his so-called "elections fraud unit" lay dead or dying in the governor's office before anyone noticed. With security cameras turned to watch, for 24 minutes, Antonacci lay motionless on the ground.

On Saturday afternoon Donald Trump launched an assault on Bob Vander Plaats, head of the Iowa-based nonprofit Family Leader Foundation, for endorsing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) before the Iowa caucuses begin.

On Nov. 21 the influential evangelical leader threw his support behind the Florida governor who has been fighting an uphill battle in the state to overtake the former president in a key battle for the 2024 Republican party presidential nomination.

According to Vander Plaats, "I think America would be well served to have a choice, and I really believe Ron DeSantis should be that guy. And I think Iowa is tailor-made for him to win this.”

Trump apparently took exception to the idea of DeSantis being the "guy" and took to Truith Social to attack the evangelical leader while also accusing him of selling his endorsement.

"Bob Vander Plaats, the former High School Accountant from Iowa, will do anything to win, something which he hasn’t done in many years. He’s more known for scamming Candidates than he is for Victory, but now he’s going around using Disinformation from the Champions of that Art, the Democrats," he wrote.

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Even though former President Donald Trump is currently leading his 2024 Republican primary opponents by a large margin in both early state polls and national polls, a major GOP donor says his fellow Republicans don't need to cling to Trump to win next November.

Eric Levine — a prominent bankruptcy attorney who is hosting a December fundraiser for former UN ambassador Nikki Haley — told the New York Times that he believes Haley's recent surge in polls shows that the 45th president of the United States is beatable in a primary.

Of all the 2024 GOP presidential primary candidates competing with frontrunner Donald Trump, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is by far the most aggressive in his attacks. Most of the criticism of Trump during the primary has been mild or tepid, but Christie has been downright scathing at times.

In a Daily Beast opinion column published Friday, Never Trump conservative Matt Lewis praises Christie for his anti-Trump comments. And he argues that Christie's "brash style" could help him win "contrarian" New Hampshire's GOP primary.

Right-wing school board members who were ousted from the board of Pennsylvania's Central Bucks School District are being accused of giving a golden parachute to an outgoing superintendent who was supportive of their agenda.

The Associated Press reports that the recently elected Democratic majority on the school board are trying to block a $700,000 severance payment package to superintendent Abram Lucabaugh that was rushed through shortly after the board's right-wing members, who had been backed by the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, were voted out of power.

A new book alleges former President Donald Trump ripped into Iowa evangelicals who wouldn't endorse him in a profane tirade, according to The Guardian.

"The new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, by Tim Alberta, an influential reporter and staff writer for the Atlantic, will be published on 5 December," reported Martin Pengelly. "Early in the book, Alberta describes fallout from an event at Liberty University, the evangelical college in Virginia, shortly before the Iowa vote in January 2016."