Ron DeSantis

In response to Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies, State Sen. Colton Moore and other far-right MAGA Republicans are pushing for her impeachment. But Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a conservative Republican, has resisted Moore's anti-Willis efforts.

In an article published by The Conversation on September 6, Rodney Coates — a professor at Miami University — stresses that efforts to oust Willis should not be viewed as an anomaly, but rather, as part of a pattern to "undercut" Black officials in state governments.

Former President Donald Trump has refused to debate any of his challengers in the 2024 Republican primary, but he's open to going head-to-head with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex who are not seeking any political office.

In an interview with conservative Hugh Hewitt, the two men discussed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) debating Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who has been needling the GOP presidential candidate for the past year. The two governors have yet to agree on debate rules, with Newsom claiming DeSantis' proposal "is littered with crutches to hide his insecurity and ineptitude."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed the leader of a right-wing fringe group to the Florida Ethics Commission, a press release from his office said.

Orlando Weekly reporter McKenna Schuler posted a screen capture of the release showing the Republican put Tina Descovich and Luis Fuste on the commission.

One of Ron DeSantis' signature policies as Florida governor is coming back to haunt with with Republican donors.

GOP megadonors were eager to lavish DeSantis with campaign cash once he announced his presidential primary challenge to Donald Trump, but many of those big donors are backing away due to the six-week abortion ban he signed a month before entering the 2024 race, reported Politico.

As Labor Day weekend concluded, Donald Trump made an appeal to autoworkers to push their union leadership to endorse his third presidential run despite the fact that he has been indicted in four separate jurisdictions.

After spending the greater part of the holiday weekend posting memes and poll results on his embattled Truth Social platform, the former president literally begged for help from the autoworkers union that endorsed President Joe Biden in 2020 late Monday night.

In a Monday, September 4 report for The Atlantic, staff writer David A. Graham points out that it's rare for anyone to "turn down $346 million in free money. But that's effectively what" Florida Republican governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis did.

Graham references a recent Politico report noting that the GOP leader last week "blocked his state from getting energy-efficiency incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, the signature [President Joe] Biden-administration policy that passed in 2022."

From August 24-30, the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal conducted a poll that showed former President Donald Trump leading second-place candidate Ron DeSantis by 46 percent among 2024 GOP presidential primary voters. But what the Journal reports and what its conservative editorial board would like to see happen are two different things.

The board, which has often been critical of Trump but without going full-fledged Never Trumper, is hoping that a major alternative to the former president will emerge in the primary. But Trump remains the frontrunner, and only a few rival candidates — namely, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) — have been outright scathing in their criticism of him.

Book ban "zealots" were blasted by a Florida newspaper Monday for crippling the state's schools with crusades it said barely anybody supports.

The Tampa Bay Times editorial hit out after its own investigation showed just two people accounted for 600 of the 1,100 book removal requests made in the state since July 2022.

Republican governors are now so committed to pursuing their ideologies and criticizing opponents that they would rather make their constituents suffer than collaborate with political rivals, wrote David A. Graham for The Atlantic on Monday.

Graham's key focus is Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who he said deliberately turned down $346 million in energy efficiency and weatherization funding from the Inflation Reduction Act at a time when his own state is being battered by hurricanes.