Ron DeSantis rises out of GOP’s election night rubble

MAGA once rejected Ron DeSantis. Now, after America’s sweeping rebuke of President Trump, that outsider status could work in his favor. 

Claire HeddlesTimes/Herald Tallahassee Bureau 

Liv CaputoTimes/Herald Tallahassee Bureau 

While Donald Trump’s MAGA movement woke up to ruins from Tuesday’s nationwide wave of support for Democratic candidates, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political star rose dramatically after RepublicanRead more here. s narrowly evaded the same fate in Florida.

Since the election, the governor — who was on the outs with Trump and key figures in his administration after DeSantis’ bruising 2024 presidential run — has been positioning himself as the conservative oracle of the post-MAGA moment.

After Trump, “I think we’re going to move into an ideas-based future because I don’t think there’s anybody that would be able to take up all the oxygen in the room the way the president can,” DeSantis said on CNN this week. DeSantis himself is known to be wonky, frequently waxing poetic about his conservative policy ideas in ways that didn’t appear to resonate in the 2024 cycle. 

For years, DeSantis has been fending off the MAGA machine, a rebellious Legislature and claims that he, the erstwhile “future of the Republican Party,” Read more here. 

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[[[ As expected, President Trump is now blaming the current US stock market plunge on the Democrats wiping out the Republicans in Tuesday's midterm election. I, however, blame Trump himself for causing both the Republican wipeout and the current stock market plunge by his turning this election into a not only self perceived love-fest of himself, but one coupled with both his total mismanagement of the Iran War, and his NOT successfully following through on any of his economic promises made...thus proving once again that the "pocketbook" is indeed mightier than the sword. 

 

In this election the Democrats did not have to cheat...Trump's blunders gave them all the ammunition they needed. My thought and I stand by it. ]]]

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Democrats Are About to Throw Out the Electoral College Without Touching the Constitution

Larry O'Connor / Townhall Tipsheet  

Well, congratulations. They won. And now that they've secured control of several critical state governments, they have an opportunity to deliver on those promises.

But don't look now. Democrats may have something else in mind.

How about fundamentally changing the way we elect the president of the United States?

No constitutional amendment. No two-thirds vote in Congress. No ratification by three-fourths of the states. And certainly no meaningful national debate about whether Americans actually want to abandon the presidential election system we've used for more than two centuries.

They may be able to accomplish the whole thing with a handful of votes in several newly Democratic state legislatures.

And thanks to Tuesday's election results, they're closer than ever.

The Electoral College Is Just 48 Votes Away From Becoming Irrelevant. Read more here.

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Just a Thought

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[[[ I received an e-mail earlier today from President Trump...via his Trump National Committee JFC...asking me for a "continuing donation" to help him, and I quote, "𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀 𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀 over the next two years." 

 

Is he and his people freakin' kidding me...this man's ego knows no bounds as he still cannot accept as fact that he was the very reason why we Republicans lost it all! on Tuesday.

 

I would NOT send him or his Israel-hating...and in my opinion...antisemitic VP JD Vance, even one penny after Tuesday's humiliating rejection of all things Trump! In fact, my great Florida Governor Ron DeSantis... whose state he, DeSantis, helped keep "red," said this defeat is so bad that, “Let’s just be clear, that it is going to hurt - not just for the next two years, but that it is something that can reverberate for the next decade or more."

 

So I have an idea for our president...bankroll your own damn "trying to save face" campaign, you've got the personal monies to do it...or maybe not as thanks also to you and your making this midterm all about yourself, we see the "stock market" today red-lining straight thumbs down...something else we can thank you for. 

 

2028 cannot come fast enough especially if this time we pick our candidates based upon merit, and not based upon silly name-calling for ratings theatrics! I and others tried to warn people about Trump not being he right man for the job...maybe next time...if we even get to have a next time...they'll listen. ]]]

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Trump says he has ‘every intention’ of keeping Pete Hegseth as pressure grows to oust War Secretary

Ryan King / NEW YORK POST 

WASHINGTON — President Trump insisted Thursday that he has “every intention” of retaining Secretary of War Pete Hegseth as pressure grows to make the Pentagon chief the scapegoat for Tuesday’s sweeping Democratic victories in the midterm elections.

“I have every intention to keep him,” Trump told ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl. “I get these calls, you know, about him. I don’t understand why.”

Hegseth has faced an avalanche of criticism over his handling of the war in Iran, for which he has been a strong advocate and for which top administration figures like Vice President JD Vance have blamed Democrats racking up wins in House and Senate races across the country.

Several Republicans, such as retiring Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, have nudged Trump to sack Hegseth and replace him while Republicans still have a Senate majority.