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Before DeSantis could say he kicked migrants out of Florida, he had to pay to fly them in

MIAMI — Documents released this week by the aviation company that helped manage Florida’s $12 million migrant relocation program shed new light on behind-the-scenes dealings as the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis, working with the politically connected vendor, wriggled around a requirement that Florida use the money to export Florida…

Miami Herald

Once Donald Trump's closest ally, now his biggest threat, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has his eyes on 2024

Four years ago, Florida's Ron DeSantis was a little-known US congressman. Now, he's being floated as Trump 2.0 — and his former mentor is reportedly furious.

ABC News

The Lincoln Project Demonstrates How Anti-Trump Fixation Can Lead to Lousy Policy

Reflexive opposition to the 45th president was terrible for Covid policy and basic ethics.

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Vaccines used to be apolitical. Now they're a campaign issue

Advocates for inoculation are distressed by what they see as a new political focus on an old public health measure.

WEKU

Biden campaigns for Democrats in South Florida. Is he too late for it to matter?

MIAMI — President Joe Biden made a last-minute pitch Tuesday to Florida voters to reject the state’s top GOP leaders in the Nov. 8 election and emphasized to donors the state’s ongoing importance in national politics during a jam-packed day trip to South Florida to boost Democrats on the ballot.

Miami Herald

Oil suppliers got best of Florida’s gas-tax ‘holiday,’ experts say

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida’s one-month gas tax holiday ended Monday without consumers ever seeing the full 25-cents-per-gallon break Gov. Ron DeSantis promised at the beginning of October.

Orlando Sentinel

Satellite maker drops Florida plans in favor of California alternative

Terran Orbital, a publicly traded satellite maker based in Boca Raton, is dropping Florida’s Space Coast as the site for a proposed factory in favor of a location in Southern California.

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Biden calls DeSantis ‘Donald Trump incarnate’ as he campaigns in South Florida for Crist and Demings

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President Joe Biden delivered a searing indictment of Republican policies on Tuesday, charging they’re a threat to Social Security and Medicare, then delivering a closing argument aimed at mobilizing Florida voters to turn out for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist and Senate candidate Val Demings.

Tribune News Service

Sen. Ben Sasse chosen as University of Florida president in unanimous vote of trustees

The University of Florida’s board of trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to name U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse as the flagship school’s 13th president after weeks of growing criticism over his views on LGBTQ issues and a national search conducted largely in secret.

Tribune News Service

How a 2013 US Supreme Court ruling enabled states to enact election laws without federal approval

Since 2019, legislators and election officials in Florida have revised, passed and enforced restrictive voting laws that make it harder for poor people, former felons and people of color – who traditionally favor Democrats in elections – to vote.

The Conversation

Political spat over climate risks in investments gets hotter

The political fight is only getting fiercer over whether it’s financially wise or “woke” folly to consider a company’s impact on climate change, workers’ rights and other issues when making investments

The Independent UK

Editorial: DeSantis hides abuse of power behind ‘executive privilege’

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” — Lord Acton, British historian, parliamentarian and philosopher, 1887.

Tribune News Service

Who is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ wife Casey?

Casey DeSantis, 42, has been married to Florida Gov Ron DeSantis for more than a decade and was declared breast cancer free in March 2022

The Independent UK

Pence blames Trump for events leading to January 6 in new memoir

Former vice-president says meeting at which advisers led by Giuliani urged Trump to not accept election defeat was ‘a new low’

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After voter fraud arrests, Florida issues new forms that could bolster future cases

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A week after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the arrests of 20 people for alleged voter fraud, his administration quietly made a change that some say could help the state go after more people.

The Independent UK

A Trump-endorsed Republican could end up running New York. Inside the wild rise of Lee Zeldin

Lee Zeldin voted to overturn the 2020 election results, supports anti-abortion legislation and would fire a recently elected district attorney in deep-blue New York City. Polls show a tight race against Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK

South Carolina's Mace gets boost from McCarthy, Gabbard

Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is getting a reelection boost from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Orlando Sentinel

Floridians with past convictions wary of voting after wave of arrests

ORLANDO, Fla. — The upcoming 2022 midterm election brings a feeling of unease to Debra Bennett-Austin.

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Miami Herald

Fabiola Santiago: Miami’s radicalization is astonishing: Cuban Americans won’t get off the Trump train

Cuban Americans in Miami are proving Donald Trump right on one issue.

The Independent UK

Florida board of medicine votes to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors

The decision was met with protests at the Orlando Internation Airport, where the meeting was held

The Independent UK

Self-proclaimed ‘socialist’ to ‘red pill’ anti-lockdown crusader: What are Elon Musk’s politics?

The Tesla and SpaceX tycoon has donated to both parties and attacked everyone from Joe Biden through Donald Trump to trade unions and ‘pronouns’, but underneath it all there is a consistent ideology, writes Io Dodds

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Proud Boys, allies rally in support of GOP canvasser in front of South Florida voting site

MIAMI — About three dozen people gathered outside John F. Kennedy Library in Hialeah Saturday to rally in support of Christopher Monzon, the GOP canvasser brutally beaten earlier this week about a mile away — an attack that Monzon’s family and Sen. Marco Rubio said was politically motivated.

Tribune News Service

Florida Republicans register 9 new voters for every 1 new Democrat in months leading to midterms

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Prospects for Republicans in Florida are shining brighter than ever as Democrats face difficult-to-overcome numbers.

Tribune News Service

Ted Cruz barnstorms to boost conservatives in midterms and himself, maybe, in 2024

DUMFRIES, Va. — Hundreds of Virginia Republicans filled a church parking lot as the party bus turned down the long driveway.

Tribune News Service

Florida Republicans cut further into Democratic support among Hispanics

TAMPA — In a nondescript strip mall in suburban Tampa, with a green “Space Available” sign still hanging above the doorway, lies a small battlefield in the tug-of-war for Hispanic voters in Florida.

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