Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and first lady Casey DeSantis played golf and had lunch with President Donald Trump on Saturday amid speculation that she is preparing to launch a bid to become the state&#8217;s next governor.
The three spent the time together at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach, an administration official told Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan.
When asked by reporters on Friday about running for governor, Casey DeSantis said, “To quote the late and great Yogi Berra: ‘When you come to a fork in the road, take it.’”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey DeSantis had lunch and golfed with President Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Club today, a White House administration official confirms to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>.
“Well, I would say one thing,” Florida’s First Lady told…
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1895937192759083398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
The news comes after Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) announced this week that he was running to become the state&#8217;s next governor, a choice he made after Trump encouraged him to run in a social media post where he said that Donalds had his support.
DeSantis touted Casey as his potential replacement, and poured water on electing Donalds, when asked last week about Trump&#8217;s endorsement.
“We have such a narrow majority that to be trying to campaign other places and missing these votes, I think, is not something that’s advisable at all,” he said. “And so the reality is we’ve achieved victories in Florida. We need to start achieving those victories up there.”
DeSantis said that Donalds “hasn’t been a part of any of the victories that we’ve had here over the Left, over these last years.”
“He’s just not been a part of it,” he said. “He’s been in other states campaigning, doing that, and that’s fine, but okay, well then deliver results up there. You know, that’s what I want to see. I want to see them delivering results for the people of Florida. We deliver it here all the time for the people of Florida, and that’s what we need to be doing.”
He warned that the state could easily revert back to being a swing state if it was not managed effectively, despite the massive surge in Republican registration there in recent years.
“People ask me all the time about our wonderful first lady, who has done a fantastic job as first lady of Florida,” DeSantis later added.
“I will tell you this — you’re talking about somebody like her — I won by the biggest margin that any Republican’s ever won a governor’s race here in Florida, she would do better than me, like there’s no question about that, that would happen,” he said. “And she’s somebody that has, I think, the intestinal fortitude and the dedication to conservative principles that, you know, anything we’ve accomplished, she’d be able to take to the next level.”
DeSantis said that former conservative icon Rush Limbaugh had once told him that the only other person he would rather see run Florida other than him was Casey.
“His eyes are lighting up because Rush would always say the spouses are more liberal, and it pulls the office holder to the left,” he said. “And on this case, he’s saying, like, that is not true. And so at the end of the dinner, he put his finger in my chest. He’s like, the only person I would rather have as my governor than you is her. And he pointed to her, and I was like, that’s a pretty good endorsement there.”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) says that First Lady Casey DeSantis would win by even larger margins than he did during his 20-point victory in 2022 and that she would be able to take the state to the &#8220;next level.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/7DMKcGbSdd">pic.twitter.com/7DMKcGbSdd</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1894190514192171285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this report.

Ron DeSantis Holds Election Night Event In Tampa

Ron And Casey DeSantis Golf, Eat With Trump Amid Speculation She Is Preparing Bid For Governor

Byron Donalds

Casey DeSantis

Donald Trump

Elections

Florida

Politics

Ron DeSantis

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis touted his wife Casey DeSantis this week when asked at a press conference about who may replace him as the state&#8217;s governor in the 2026 elections.
The matter came up when a reporter asked DeSantis about President Donald Trump endorsing Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) to be the state&#8217;s next governor.
&#8220;We have such a narrow majority that to be trying to campaign other places and missing these votes, I think, is not something that&#8217;s advisable at all,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so the reality is we&#8217;ve achieved victories in Florida. We need to start achieving those victories up there.&#8221;
DeSantis said that Donalds &#8220;hasn&#8217;t been a part of any of the victories that we&#8217;ve had here over the Left, over these last years.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s just not been a part of it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He&#8217;s been in other states campaigning, doing that, and that&#8217;s fine, but okay, well then deliver results up there. You know that&#8217;s what I want to see. I want to see them delivering results for the people of Florida. We deliver it here all the time for the people of Florida, and that&#8217;s what we need to be doing.&#8221;
DeSantis said that he wants to back someone who is going to &#8220;be able to continue and build off the success that we&#8217;ve had here in Florida.&#8221;
He warned that the state could easily revert back to being a swing state if it was not managed effectively, despite the massive surge in Republican registration there in recent years.
&#8220;People ask me all the time about our wonderful first lady, who has done a fantastic job as first lady of Florida,&#8221; DeSantis later added.
&#8220;I will tell you this — you&#8217;re talking about somebody like her — I won by the biggest margin that any Republican&#8217;s ever won a governor&#8217;s race here in Florida, she would do better than me, like there&#8217;s no question about that, that would happen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And she&#8217;s somebody that has, I think, the intestinal fortitude and the dedication to conservative principles that, you know, anything we&#8217;ve accomplished, she&#8217;d be able to take to the next level.&#8221;
DeSantis said that former conservative icon Rush Limbaugh had once told him that the only other person he would rather see run Florida other than him was Casey.
&#8220;His eyes are lighting up because Rush would always say the spouses are more liberal, and it pulls the office holder to the left,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And on this case, he&#8217;s saying, like, that is not true. And so at the end of the dinner, he put his finger in my chest. He&#8217;s like, the only person I would rather have as my governor than you is her. And he pointed to her, and I was like, that&#8217;s a pretty good endorsement there.&#8221;
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) says that First Lady Casey DeSantis would win by even larger margins than he did during his 20-point victory in 2022 and that she would be able to take the state to the &#8220;next level.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/7DMKcGbSdd">pic.twitter.com/7DMKcGbSdd</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1894190514192171285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2025</a></blockquote>

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, holds a press conference to speak

DeSantis Touts Wife Casey When Pressed About Who Will Replace Him In 2026

In response to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire&#8217;s reporting</a> that a supervisor at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fema" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FEMA</a> ordered relief workers to skip houses with signs supporting President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a>, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/byron-donalds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Byron Donalds</a> (R-FL) said the agency should be torn out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and report directly to the White House.
FEMA has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fema-fires-official-who-told-hurricane-relief-workers-to-skip-trump-homes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired the official</a>, identified as Marn’i Washington, after The Daily Wire revealed through messages and whistleblowers that she told federal employees under her supervision to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida, to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid during a of the damage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-hurricane-milton-makes-landfall-over-florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused by Hurricane Milton</a> last month.
&#8220;I want to make sure I ask you about something reported by The Daily Wire,&#8221; &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; anchor Shannon Bream said during an interview with Donalds that aired on Sunday. &#8220;They broke a story a couple of days ago about FEMA. My home state, as well as where you serve — Florida — and your district has been hit very hard by numerous big storms the last couple of years. Daily Wire [was] reporting that people were told when they&#8217;re out canvassing in central Florida looking for people who may need help, that FEMA workers were told to avoid homes that had Trump symbols or Trump flags.&#8221;
Bream noted that FEMA responded to The Daily Wire&#8217;s reporting, saying, &#8220;We are horrified that this took place and therefore have taken extreme actions to correct the situation&#8230;&#8221; Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis &#8220;says he&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-desantis-warns-biden-to-preserve-all-evidence-on-fema-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launching an investigation there</a>,&#8221; she added. &#8220;What extreme actions do you think should be taken? Is that something Congress gets involved with?&#8221; Bream asked.
&#8220;Anybody involved with that should be fired immediately, not asked to resign, not brought in front of a congressional hearing, they should be fired immediately,&#8221; Donalds exclaimed. &#8220;We are not going to have a country where we&#8217;re going to decide who gets help and &#8230; who doesn&#8217;t based upon who you support politically or what you look like or anything else.&#8221;
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ByronDonalds</a> lays out the Republican agenda, as President-elect Trump prepares for his return to the White House. <a href="https://t.co/1wRqGuVpbg">pic.twitter.com/1wRqGuVpbg</a>
&mdash; Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1855631513108590991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Then-President Jimmy Carter <a href="https://www.fema.gov/about/strategic-plan/about-fema#:~:text=On%20April%201%2C%201979%2C%20President,civil%20defense%20and%20emergency%20management." target="_blank" rel="noopener">established</a> FEMA in 1979 to assist with civil defense and emergency management. More than two decades later, the agency was brought under DHS upon its creation after the 9-11 terrorist attacks in 2001. But now, according to Donalds, that needs to change.
&#8220;When it comes to FEMA, my recommendation for the Trump transition team is that FEMA becomes a standalone agency that directly reports to the White House. You have to get it out of Homeland Security. That agency is a massive labyrinth with a bunch of different departments,&#8221; he said. &#8220;FEMA should be a direct report agency to the White House because when disaster recovery needs to take place, we need quick answers out of FEMA, not bureaucratic ones that go through the labyrinth of federal departments.&#8221;
Donalds added: &#8220;My district dealt with this firsthand a couple years ago during Hurricane Ian. It was very hard to get answers out of FEMA, still somewhat hard to get answers out of FEMA. I think if you talk to any governor, they would agree with this. FEMA needs to be a direct-report agency to the White House. That way, the people of America, when disaster strikes, they know that this has the first priority of the president. The president has eyes on it, and they&#8217;re going to get the help that they need immediately.&#8221;

Rep. Byron Donalds

Byron Donalds Says FEMA Should Be Ripped Out Of DHS, Report Directly To White House

Congress

FEMA

U.S.

U.S. House of Representatives

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) slammed former President Barack Obama over the weekend for his recent claim that he left former President Donald Trump an amazing economy when he left office.
Donalds made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with Dana Bash when asked to respond to Obama&#8217;s remarks.
&#8220;Yes, it was pretty good, because it was my economy,&#8221; Obama claimed. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t something he did. I spent eight years cleaning up the mess that the Republicans had left me the last time.&#8221;
Donalds responded: &#8220;I was working in finance during Barack Obama&#8217;s administration. Let me tell you, the economy under his last &#8212; especially the last five years was growing at about 1 to 1.5 percent per year.&#8221;
&#8220;I think, at the time, President Obama was saying that this era of large economic growth is something of the past. We&#8217;re going to have a more consistent economy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In his words, a consistent economy meant one that barely grew.&#8221;
&#8220;So, when Donald Trump came in, he brought his tax cut policy in, which cut taxes across the board for everybody in our country. Couple the fact that he did cut massive regulations from the Obama administration, and what did we see?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Economic growth in the United States went from 1-1.5 percent under Barack Obama to 3-3.5 percent under Donald Trump. Wages adjusted for inflation, like I said, because it&#8217;s the truth, increased for every subgroup of Americans in our country.&#8221;
&#8220;The wealth gap was closing. We were actually booming economically far more than we did under Barack Obama,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;So that&#8217;s a cool statement he made on the stump, but it&#8217;s not true.&#8221;
Bash was unable to argue with any points that Donalds made.
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I was working in finance during Obama.
Obama&#8217;s economy grew VERY SLOWLY (under 2%).
Trump&#8217;s economy grew at nearly 2X THE PACE, wages adjusted for inflation were up, &amp; the wealth gap was closing.
Why?
Successful tax-cuts. 
Successful regulation-cuts. 
Successful energy policy. <a href="https://t.co/hCt7iago2L">pic.twitter.com/hCt7iago2L</a>
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds/status/1845499139636756862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2024</a></blockquote>

CBS Hosts Vice Presidential Debate

Byron Donalds Rips Obama Over His Economic Claims

Barack Obama

Florida Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/byron-donalds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Byron Donalds</a> (R) on Tuesday rebuffed Left-wing commentator and lawyer Angela Rye during an appearance on popular New York City radio show &#8220;The Breakfast Club.&#8221;
Co-host Charlamagne tha God and Rye both insisted that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat&#8217;s presidential nominee, has nothing to do with the struggling economy. Rye, in particular, suggested Donalds was lying about his explanation, which was factually true.
&#8220;I would argue we&#8217;re not really thriving right now,&#8221; Donalds said of the current economic climate. &#8220;This inflation, which by the way was brought to us by Kamala Harris, has really slowed people down from being able to excel.&#8221;
&#8220;By Kamala?&#8221; Charlamagne questioned Donalds. &#8220;She&#8217;s vice president. There&#8217;s still a president.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, Charlamagne,&#8221; Donalds responded, before explaining that Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on the near-2 trillion dollar &#8220;American Rescue Plan.&#8221; &#8220;She broke the tie that started this inflation that has hurt so many people in our country,&#8221; the representative said.
Rye interjected to suggest Donalds wasn&#8217;t being honest, quietly uttering that his statement is &#8220;not true.&#8221;
&#8220;You sure you want to go there?&#8221; Donalds asked Rye, before pulling out a stack of notes from his jacket pocket.
&#8220;He got notes!&#8221; Charlamagne, giving off a laugh, told Rye.
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Donalds told Rye that economic minds, including Larry Summers, a financial advisor to former President Barack Obama, warned that the legislation would create massive inflation. Donalds noted that he knew this, too, and therefore voted against the bill.
Donalds reiterated how wages adjusted for inflation were higher under Trump, and said Harris &#8220;broke the economy&#8221; and shouldn&#8217;t be hired again to try to fix what she broke.
Rye struggled to address Donalds&#8217; arguments and replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to do this, this morning.&#8221;
Donalds posted the clip to X this week, captioning the post: &#8220;On Mar 4, 2021, Kamala cast the TIE-BREAKING vote on the $1.9T American Rescue Plan. Democrat economists warned her it would cause inflation. And it did.&#8221;
&#8220;It caused 20+% inflation. It created a cost-of-living crisis. It crushed hardworking Americans,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Kamala broke our economy.&#8221;
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On Mar 4, 2021, Kamala cast the TIE-BREAKING vote on the $1.9T American Rescue Plan.
Democrat economists warned her it would cause inflation.
And it did..
It caused 20+% inflation. 
It created a cost-of-living crisis. 
It crushed hardworking Americans.
Kamala broke our economy. <a href="https://t.co/Zhu5QKLUNo">pic.twitter.com/Zhu5QKLUNo</a>
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds/status/1841113594949198177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-guest-claims-americans-are-better-off-now-than-4-years-ago-and-byron-donalds-cant-hold-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN Guest Claims Americans Are Better Off Now Than 4 Years Ago, And Byron Donalds Can’t Hold Back</a>

Byron Donalds, Angela Rye

Byron Donalds Schools Lefty After She Insists Kamala Not To Blame For Economy

Rep. Byron Donalds Schools Lefty After She Insists Kamala Not To Blame For Struggling Economy

Charlamagne Tha God

Economy

Inflation

Kamala Harris

Former Clinton White House aide Keith Boykin claimed on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> that the American people are better off now than they were four years ago, prompting an audible reaction from Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL).
Both Boykin and Donalds — along with Republican commentator Scott Jennings and anchor Abby Phillip — participated in a panel discussion, and the topic turned to Tuesday evening&#8217;s vice presidential debate and potential questions about the state of the U.S. economy.
Jennings shared video of the exchange, captioning the clip, &#8220;Come for my point-by-point takedown of why Trump is more trusted on the economy, &amp; stay for @ByronDonalds&#8217; reaction to assertion &#8216;we are better off than we were four years ago&#8217; on @CNN.&#8221;
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Come for my point-by-point takedown of why Trump is more trusted on the economy, &amp; stay for <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ByronDonalds</a> reaction to assertion “we are better off than we were four years ago” on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> <a href="https://t.co/8zSX0F0T9l">pic.twitter.com/8zSX0F0T9l</a>
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1841147075926348264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I think if you look at it holistically, the two campaigns are having a debate about the economy,&#8221; Jennings began. &#8220;And Trump has things to say, Harris has things to say, and right now, according to all the polling, Trump is more trusted on the economy. Trump&#8217;s term in office, people look back on it more fondly than they look upon the Biden and Harris term, largely because of the economy and largely because of inflation.&#8221;
Jennings went on to say that one of the reasons Harris has been struggling on economic issues is that she has thus far failed to convince voters that if elected president, she would chart a different course than the one she navigated alongside President Joe Biden.
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&#8220;She may think that&#8217;s a good path, it&#8217;s just that the American people do not believe that, and it&#8217;s not even close,&#8221; he concluded.
Boykin jumped in then, claiming that Harris had laid out her economic plan in the debate — but Jennings stopped him, reminding him that Harris had not had an answer when she was asked directly in the very first question of the night whether she believed Americans were better off than they&#8217;d been four years earlier.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you what though, people are better off than they were four years ago,&#8221; Boykin asserted. He kept going, but the camera panned to Donalds, whose eyes widened as he simply said, &#8220;Wow. Wow.&#8221;

House GOP Sept 18

CNN Guest Claims Americans Are Better Off Now Than 4 Years Ago, And Byron Donalds Can’t Hold Back

CNN Guest Claims Americans Are Better Off Now Than 4 Years Ago, And Byron Donalds Can't Hold Back

Joe Biden

Media

WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> on Friday told hundreds of moms from across the country that Democrat policies are harming children, and that a second Trump administration will prioritize the rights of parents.
He spoke for an hour at a conference organized by Moms For Liberty just two blocks from the White House, which some pledged to “fight like a mother” to make his home once again.
Trump said that the Biden-Harris open border policies, which include letting any child across the border as long as they are “unaccompanied” by a parent, cruelly lead to Hispanic children being placed in vulnerable situations.
“Massive percentages of women are being raped and beat to hell coming up in the caravans,” he said. “Mothers give their daughters big bottles of birth control because they know it’s bad coming up.”
The loophole for “unaccompanied minors” persists even under Biden’s recent executive order tightening the border, and Harris’ Democratic National Convention platform reaffirms its commitment to it. Trump suggested that the exemption induced family separation, encouraging children to split off from their parents and come to the U.S. alone, where they are at the whims of traffickers. “We’re getting them to come up, telling them you’ll get free [things],” he said.
Nearly 500,000 “unaccompanied minors” have crossed the border, and Biden eliminated DNA testing requirements and reduced vetting, sending them to live with unrelated “sponsors.” About a third of children <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblowers-detail-how-85000-unaccompanied-minors-went-missing-after-biden-admin-dropped-them-off-with-sponsors">go missing</a> after being sent to live with sponsors.
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Trump said American children also suffer from the migrant influx. “They’re going into the classroom, carrying disease and they don’t even speak english. It’s crazy,” he said. “I thought New York had no money, yet they’re spending billions of dollars on illegal immigrants. … When you think that 21 million people came into our country, that’s bigger than New York. Nobody can take that.”
Trump said foreign leaders are getting rid of criminals in their society by dumping them on the U.S., and that American youth are “being killed by illegal aliens” &#8212; two words he said Democrats don’t want people to use because “they want to take away all the words so you can&#8217;t talk about the subject.” He said that two days ago, he was at the border with parents who had lost a child due to migrant crime.
He said he believes 85-90% of the country does not want to be flooded with illegal immigrants, and that he will deport them. “The highest deportation was a pretty moderate guy, but he hated that our country was being swamped, Dwight Eisenhower,” he said.
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Trump said he would restore rights to parents, citing the story of the Loudoun County transgender rape coverup broken by The Daily Wire in which the victim’s father was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/glenn-youngkin-grants-absolute-pardon-to-loudoun-dad-arrested-at-school-board-meeting">prosecuted</a>.
“You have these parents that get in fistfights at school board meetings, and they mean well. Especially in Loudoun County,” he said. “The parents truly love the kids. Some of these people on the boards, I think they don’t like the kids very much, with what they’re doing. You have to give the rights back to the parents. This administration, the FBI goes after the parents. We’ll change that on the first day.”
He also said he would ensure that girls can compete in sports without being thwarted by mediocre boys. “Who would want men playing in women’s sports?” he asked. “The Olympics was the best thing I’ve seen because you really see when these boxers come out, it was so ridiculous … it’s so demeaning to women.”
Parents are a key constituency for Republicans as Democrats have rapidly politicized public education, even fighting against merit and rigor — such as gifted and talented schools — in the name of “equity.”
Trump was introduced by Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who attributed his own success to his mother vigilantly monitoring his treatment at the hands of New York’s public schools.
Moms for Liberty formed three years ago out of anger at extended school closures pushed by Democrats at the behest of teachers unions. It is now widely accepted that the moms’ position was the correct one.
Democrats have sought to simply act as if the misstep never occurred, but many at the Moms for Liberty convention believed that children are still suffering from a year of lost learning, and that Democrats should pay a price at the ballot box.
Yet one person wore a mask to Trump’s speech in 2024: a reporter camped in a press area, who was also one of the few not to stand for the national anthem.
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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) slammed ABC News host George Stephanopoulos, who was the Press Secretary for President Bill Clinton (D), during an interview over the weekend after Stephanopoulos yelled at and scolded Donalds for responding to his questions about former President Donald Trump&#8217;s remarks on Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; race.
Donalds made the remarks during a Sunday interview on &#8220;This Week&#8221; when asked about Trump&#8217;s remarks last week about Harris&#8217; racial identity.
Donalds said that the entire ordeal was a &#8220;phony controversy&#8221; that most people do not care about but added that in the past, even publications like the Associated Press had referred to Harris in headlines the &#8220;first Indian-American US Senator.&#8221;
&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t really matter. The president mentioned it,&#8221; Donalds said. &#8220;What he also talks about far more frequently is the fact that Kamala Harris is the person who created this massive inflation which is destroying black families, white families, Hispanic families. It&#8217;s her failure as border czar that has left our southern border wide open. More than 10 million illegal immigrants coming into our country. Record fentanyl coming into our country which has killed more Americans than at any other point in the history of our country with respect specifically to fentanyl.&#8221;
Stephanopoulos fired back at Donalds and accused him of having &#8220;just repeated the slur again&#8221; and demanded to know why Donalds was questioning Harris&#8217; racial identity.
&#8220;Well, George, first of all, this is something that&#8217;s actually a conversation throughout social media right now,&#8221; Donalds said. &#8220;There were a lot of people who were trying to figure this out. But again, that&#8217;s a side issue, not the main issue.&#8221;
Stephanopoulos exploded at that point, yelling on live television: &#8220;You just did it — you just did it again. Why do you — why do you insist on questioning her racial identity?&#8221;
He demanded that Donalds answer his question, to which Donalds responded: &#8220;George, now that you&#8217;re done yelling at me, let me answer. He talked about it on the stage yesterday in Atlanta for, what, two minutes? He spent more than 35, 40 minutes going after her record, talking about how radical of a senator that she was. She was the most liberal senator in the United States Senate. That is a fact. He talked about the job that she did as vice president of the United States. A job, I will add, which has been a failure for the American people. I know you guys like to glom on to this, that he talks about in jest or in a serious manner for about a minute or so. What you do not cover is the litany of failures of Kamala Harris. That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re not covering, George.&#8221;
&#8220;So questioning somebody&#8217;s racial identity for a couple of minutes is OK?&#8221; Stephanopoulos asked.
Donalds again noted that prior mainstream media coverage, like the AP headline, is what started the entire conversation to begin with.
&#8220;I mean, George, we could have this conversation for the entire segment, but none of this matters to the American people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What matters to the American people is, are we going to have the same policies of the Biden-Harris administration that has been destructive of the American people? Or are we going to have the policies of the Trump administration which put America first, had low inflation, prosperous Americans no matter your race, no matter your color, no matter your creed, and a foreign policy that kept America safe?&#8221;
&#8220;Those are the facts that truly matter because this issue is going to come and go, the lives of the American people is what&#8217;s going to remain and that&#8217;s what matters more than anything else,&#8221; he added.
Stephanopoulos then accused Donalds of repeating it the issue, even though it was Stephanopoulos who had first brought up the matter and then repeatedly hounded Donalds over it.
&#8220;George, actually, I&#8217;m not the one who keeps repeating it,&#8221; Donalds responded. &#8220;George, you&#8217;re the one that&#8217;s bringing it up now.&#8221;
&#8220;Sir, you&#8217;ve done it — you&#8217;ve done it three times, every single answer you gave me,&#8221; Stephanopoulos claimed. &#8220;Every single answer you gave, you repeated the slur.&#8221;
Donalds responded: &#8220;George, you asked me the question three times.&#8221;
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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) during an interview over the weekend called for Congress to defund jurisdictions across the country that do not protect Americans&#8217; rights.
Donalds made the remarks while speaking to Peter Alexander on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; about Trump asking House Speaker Mike Johnson to overturn his conviction in Manhattan.
&#8220;One very important thing: It&#8217;s not about Speaker Johnson,&#8221; Donalds said. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t have that power to overturn anything. But what it&#8217;s about is that Congress does fund a lot of jurisdictions around the country, and if there is a jurisdiction that takes federal money and it does not also protect the constitutional rights of all Americans, whether that&#8217;s President Trump or any other American, they shouldn&#8217;t receive federal funds.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that&#8217;s something that every American would agree with, and you do have to understand President Trump&#8217;s frustration,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;What happened in lower Manhattan was a violation of his constitutional rights. They didn&#8217;t even identify the &#8216;crime&#8217; until the very end of the process, which is a violation of constitutional norms. Judge Merchan did not do that. And so yes, he&#8217;s frustrated. Any American would be frustrated.&#8221;
Donalds said that the entire case was unconstitutional because &#8220;in the original indictment, they never identified an underlying crime.&#8221;
&#8220;Under our Bill of Rights, under our rule of law, a defendant is entitled to know what he&#8217;s being charged with,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Donald Trump was never afforded that ability, so how can his legal team prepare a defense if you don&#8217;t even know what the actual crime is? That is why what happened in lower Manhattan was so terrible. And the only time the prosecution could even assert a crime was at the end of the trace – of the case in closing arguments. You&#8217;re not allowed to do that.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Byron Donalds Calls For Defunding Jurisdictions That Don’t Protect Americans’ Rights

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The following is an edited transcript of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/gop-rising-star-potential-trump-vp-interview-sunday-extra">Morning Wire Sunday Extra</a> interview between Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley and Florida Congressman and potential Vice President candidate Byron Donalds.
After winning a congressional seat in 2020, Florida’s Byron Donalds has rapidly risen up the ranks in the Republican Party – and now finds himself at the center of vice presidential speculation. We sat down with the Florida Congressman in our Nashville studio to discuss the Trump Veepstakes – and why he thinks Trump’s message appeals to all Americans, including minority voters.
JOHN: Congressman, thank you for joining us. So look, the latest report out of the AP is that you&#8217;re one of the magnificent seven – or eight – being considered for VP. Would you accept that role if Trump asked you to step up and play it?
BYRON: I would. I would accept. We&#8217;re at a really interesting point in the country. I think politics in general is shifting, like people are shifting underneath the political parties. You can see where the largest growing party is among independents or non-affiliateds. Demographic groups, racial groups — everybody&#8217;s shifting in their political thought. I think we&#8217;re at this point in the country where common sense is the true desire, not political ideology. And I think it&#8217;s a good thing for America. Secondarily, being a member of the House and having been involved in the legislative process. I think what is an asset to the president is somebody who can make sure the wheels of Congress are moving to get the agenda done and get the agenda across. The third part is, in this environment especially, you’ve got to be able to go campaign and help him get across the line. It would be a great honor, but it&#8217;s his decision. He&#8217;ll decide what he wants to do. Whatever his decision is, I&#8217;m going to support that. I just want to win. I&#8217;m a real simple dude. I just want to win, be successful. That&#8217;s it.
JOHN: You&#8217;ve risen up the ranks really rapidly, gained national attention in a remarkably short number of years. Has it been just four years?
BYRON: This is year four in Congress, yes.
JOHN: So what are the lessons that you&#8217;ve learned so far that would help you on the national stage?
BYRON: Lesson number one is, when you know you&#8217;re right about something, you cannot give any quarter to the media or to the Left. You have to stand very firm. And there&#8217;s a point where you&#8217;re standing alone. When you stand firm on what&#8217;s right, then people see that and they will rally around you. But if there’s a momentary hesitation, they&#8217;re gonna watch to see what you do first. Then, that&#8217;s gonna set the tempo for everything else. I think, secondarily, in D.C. in particular, it&#8217;s not about the actual bill that gets to the floor, it&#8217;s how you seeded the battleground for the bill. Everything that you see happen in the news cycle really started two and three months ago, four months ago, six months ago in its infancy. So, how you prepare for that legislative battle is everything. The votes are really just the culmination and the outcome of all the work that was done before. Those are the two big ones I&#8217;ve learned. Third, I think in part I&#8217;m helping Republicans. Not president Trump, he&#8217;s fine, he doesn&#8217;t need me. I think helping Republicans understand that you can go on CNN, you can go on MSNBC, you can do tough interviews. It&#8217;s important actually to go and do those tough interviews because there are viewers who watch those channels. They&#8217;re Americans. I totally believe they love the country, but they just have never heard a conservative view or they have never heard the Republican view on an issue. Going into those areas is really important for the country going forward.
JOHN: Bursting bubbles in a sense. About that, every four years we hear talk of minorities potentially voting for Republicans. Often it doesn&#8217;t happen. We have seen some major shifts with Hispanic voters. Black voters, though, have continued to be sort of a firewall for Democrats. Do you see that changing recently?
BYRON: Yes, I do. It&#8217;s because of a couple things. First of all, Joe Biden — I call him the “Master of Disaster.” Everything&#8217;s gone wrong in his presidency and people know it, they inherently know it, they instinctively know it. Are they quick to assign blame? That&#8217;s the political question. So, I think that in this environment, if we do our jobs, they&#8217;re going to correctly see that it is the Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC policy agenda that has failed America. It is failing families all throughout our country, and is failing us overseas on a global scale. I think those voters are now taking a look at their economic prospects. Generational wealth is a big issue for minority voters, for minority people in our country anyway, because they want to be able to have something. They want to be able to build a net worth for their family, build a family business with their kids. And you cannot do that with the Biden agenda. It just does not work. And immigration has been the touchstone that has had those thought processes change, because every city is overwhelmed with illegal immigrants. It is siphoning off some of the programs that were actually just going to American citizens, and it’s being redirected. And people are looking at that and saying, ”Wait a minute. That&#8217;s not fair. They&#8217;re not even supposed to be here.&#8221; And that&#8217;s all because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the policies they put into place. So, I do think you&#8217;re going to see that shifting and be accentuated in 2024.
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JOHN: It’s a notable insight to say that there&#8217;s a convergence of the immigration issue and the economic issue in terms of priorities for voters this year – in a way that we&#8217;ve maybe never seen this starkly. And it’s impacting people on every level, including inner city, rural areas. Do you think in the end economics are going to decide this election – or will it be a mishmash of some of the cultural issues?
BYRON: You know the old adage, “It&#8217;s the economy, stupid.” I think that part is going to be the main driver. Obviously, the Democrats would love this to be a campaign about abortion or about race. But that&#8217;s just not the number one or number two issue — even if you look at some polling, it&#8217;s not the economy that&#8217;s the number one issue, it&#8217;s immigration. Which I think obviously bodes well for President Trump and bodes well for Republicans. As long as we keep that as the focus of what&#8217;s happening in 2024 it will do well for Republicans up and down the ballot.
JOHN: How do you feel about Trump&#8217;s messaging so far on the issues that matter most to voters? Do you think he&#8217;s hitting those priorities adequately?
BYRON: Yes, he is. I think that the message and the message discipline has been the best. He&#8217;s focused on all Americans. He&#8217;s talking about not just blasting Joe Biden for how terrible he is, but also talking about what he did when he was president and what he&#8217;ll do again being the 47th president. And I think that&#8217;s important because voters remember the Trump presidency and are now living the Biden presidency. In some respects COVID kind of gave a mental reset of what America looked like with Donald Trump and what America looks like with Joe Biden. You have a real dichotomy that you can measure and look at very clearly. There are clear lines of difference and he has spoken directly to that. I think that has been the most effective messaging. What he&#8217;s done is then layer the lawfare on top of that, but the lawfare is not the message. It&#8217;s the icing. The cake has been his economic policies, his foreign policy, his handling of foreign issues, his domestic policies, and the deep contrast with Joe Biden and the Democrats. And I believe that message has been very effective. It&#8217;s going to continue to be effective. It&#8217;s going to bode incredibly well for him.
JOHN: Speaking of lawfare, you went to Manhattan to show solidarity with Donald Trump on this issue. How do you think American voters are going to respond to this series of lawsuits and recent conviction — the first ever for a former president and a leading presidential candidate?
BYRON: I think they were already responding. You don&#8217;t raise $70 million in low dollar contributions in two days. Laura Trump was saying that 30% of that were new donors, people who&#8217;ve never donated. You don&#8217;t do that unless you have a revolting taste in your mouth. The American people know when stuff is not fair. People know when stuff is not right. And what happened in lower Manhattan was a violation of Donald Trump&#8217;s constitutional rights. Period. Point blank. So, when people realize that they are just so fixated on getting their political rival, while in Manhattan and in New York there are crimes that are not being prosecuted by Alvin Bragg. Crimes are being taken from felonies down to misdemeanors by Alvin Bragg, but then you want to take some misdemeanor with a statute of limitations and then tie that in with some federal crime that you can&#8217;t identify? One that he FEC (the governing jurisdictional body) already said there is nothing here? And you want to make that a felony? People know that stinks. They don&#8217;t like it. And this is past politics. Whether you&#8217;re a Democrat, an Independent, a Republican, people have their opinions of Donald Trump. They have their opinions of Joe Biden. But they don&#8217;t want to see sham, kangaroo court elections in the United States, especially people who have immigrated to the United States over the past 50 years — because they&#8217;ve seen this stuff happen in other countries. They don&#8217;t want it here. So I think it&#8217;s completely backfired on them. Standing with Donald Trump on this was the complete right decision. He is being victimized because he’s Donald Trump and he&#8217;s running for president and that&#8217;s disgusting. I think the American people see that.
JOHN: There&#8217;ve been some pretty damning reports lately about President Biden&#8217;s mental fitness. The Wall Street Journal, citing over 40 officials from Capitol Hill, has reported on major concerns about his mental capacity and how it&#8217;s diminished. Have you heard similar rumblings – and do you see this impacting the campaign?
BYRON: Oh, I&#8217;ve heard the rumblings, no doubt about it, in conversations with Speaker McCarthy, Speaker Johnson. I heard the stories about how he doesn&#8217;t do anything without a staff member being in the room. We all see the videos of how he&#8217;s looking for directions from off camera. The other day, when he did this immigration executive order, and then at the end of it he looks right and he&#8217;s mouthing, “Do I take questions?” And they&#8217;re like, “No.” And then he says, “Oh, okay.” That&#8217;s not the symbol of strength and leadership that America needs. I&#8217;ve seen it. A lot of my colleagues have seen it. During the State of the Union he comes in and he&#8217;s running that talk at about 100 miles an hour. Then, once it hits the 30 minute mark, he starts slowing down. I think that&#8217;s why you have some people asking if they are giving him something to be able to get through these times where he has to be out there in front? The other thing is, we&#8217;ve never seen an American president not be in control of the bully pulpit. Donald Trump had control of the bully pulpit. Barack Obama had control of it. George W. Bush had control of it. Bill Clinton had control of it. Joe Biden&#8217;s nowhere to be seen. The only reason why people know he&#8217;s president is because Karine Jean-Pierre and Merrick Garland and Tony Blinken do all the talking. You don&#8217;t see him talking to the American people a lot unless things get into a crisis mode, which, under his presidency happens every three to four months. There is always some new crisis. I think there&#8217;s a legitimate concern about his mental abilities today. Take a look at the last two press conferences. Better yet, watch the debate that&#8217;s going to happen on June 27th and compare that to the debates from 2020. Then compare that to the vice presidential debate against Paul Ryan back in 2012. You will see from 2012 to 2020 to 2024 this is a very different Joe Biden. It&#8217;s not just about age.
JOHN: Final question. What do you think is not being discussed enough on the national stage in terms of the presidential campaigns right now?
BYRON: The thing that&#8217;s not being discussed enough — and that&#8217;s because having a discussion typically flows through media sources — is the lack of trust people have in old media. That&#8217;s one of the reasons why you&#8217;re seeing the shift in public polling. I watch MSNBC, I watch CNN, I watch Fox, I watch them all. And when they go through their polling breakdowns, they&#8217;re not apoplectic yet, but they&#8217;re like, “Uh oh, what&#8217;s going on here? This doesn&#8217;t look right.” It’s because I think they still yearn for the days of ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Now, what the Daily Wire has done along with a lot of different outfits, the divergence in media and the divergence in thought process in media is leading to a divergence in political thought amongst the country. That&#8217;s a very good thing in my opinion. That&#8217;s the thing that&#8217;s not been talked about enough. Like Elon buying X. It has been revolutionary in terms of thought actually getting out there for people to truly compare and have debates online or read other pieces of information. The ability for the United States to maintain true freedom of speech is monumental for this presidential election and every other election to follow.
JOHN: Congressman, thank you so much for talking with us.
BYRON: Thank you.
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He’s On Trump’s VP Short List. An Interview With GOP Rising Star, Congressman Byron Donalds.

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The big political news last night was that Donald Trump has supposedly started <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-paperwork-vetting-b1e21a7e9eae7141c4f144735671b330" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sending</a> &#8220;vetting materials&#8221; and questionnaires to a variety of potential vice presidential nominees. The names include Doug Burgum (R-N.D.), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.). Of course, the list is subject to change, so it probably doesn&#8217;t mean much. At this stage, we have no idea what to make of it. Most of the names on the list — but not all — are rather uninspired, and a few of them would be actively bad and harmful choices.
At the same time, what we can be pretty sure of is that right now — and for the last several months — the Democratic Party has been working on ways to attack every single one of these potential nominees.
None of the names on the shortlist are a surprise, so they&#8217;ve presumably been digging up opposition research and monitoring everything these politicians say, hoping they can catch a slip-up or take something out of context. That&#8217;s to be expected at this point.
Even with that expectation in mind, the attack that&#8217;s unfolding right now on one of these potential vice presidential candidates — congressman Byron Donalds of Florida — is worth talking about. It&#8217;s maybe the single most revealing smear campaign of the election cycle so far.
On Tuesday, Donalds was speaking at an event in Philadelphia, along with Texas congressman Wesley Hunt (R-TX). The point of the event, apparently, was for the Trump campaign to reach more black voters by speaking honestly about the challenges that black communities are facing right now.
Of course, the main challenge in black communities — as I&#8217;ve said many times — is the epidemic of fatherlessness. Black Americans have the <a href="https://cis.org/Camarota/Births-Unmarried-Mothers-Nativity-and-Education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highest rate</a> of out-of-wedlock births as compared to every other racial group, by far. Roughly 77% of black children born in 2015 were out-of-wedlock. That&#8217;s the most recent year I found data for this. Hispanics had a much lower rate, at 56%, followed by whites at 30% and Asians at 27%. It is not a coincidence, by the way, that if you were to look at a list of average household incomes in the USA by race, it would be the exact inverse of the fatherless list. Asians have the highest household income, followed by white, then Hispanic, then black.
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As far as I can tell, these numbers have held steady for decades. They&#8217;ve been consistent long enough that many people have come to believe that they&#8217;re inevitable. But that&#8217;s not true. There was in fact a time in American history when whites and blacks had roughly the same chances of growing up in a single-family home. This was a period when most black women got married before they had kids. And this isn&#8217;t ancient history. I&#8217;m talking about the first half of the 20th century, and in particular the 1950s and 60s.
At the event in Philadelphia, Byron Donalds addressed all of this directly. He began by talking about his own personal experiences with fatherhood. Then he pointed out that two-parent black households weren&#8217;t always an anomaly. Watch:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJeffries</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/harrisonjaime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@harrisonjaime</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/DerrickNAACP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DerrickNAACP</a> are gaslighting Black America.
I was talking about Black families, conservative mindsets, and conservative voting.
Receipts are a beautiful thing! And don&#39;t clip my words to keep lying. I&#39;m watching 👀👀 <a href="https://t.co/W2Fr5uAHE8">pic.twitter.com/W2Fr5uAHE8</a>
&mdash; Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds/status/1798454459908956376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Everything Byron Donalds just said there is true. It&#8217;s not even remotely debatable, in fact. From 1890 to 1950, black women had an even higher <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-breakdown-and-americas-welfare-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marriage rate</a> than white women. And in the 1950s the rates were about equal. As the Hoover Institution <a href="https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817998721_95.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>:
<blockquote>In 1950, the percentages of white and African American women (aged fifteen and over) who were currently married were roughly the same, 67 percent and 64 percent, respectively. [But] by 1998, the percentage of currently married white women had dropped by 13 percent to 58 percent. But the drop among African American women was 44 percent to 36 percent—more than three times larger.</blockquote>
Additionally, between 1950 and 1997, the proportion of black births to teenage unwed mothers rose by 166%.
Any political party that wanted to reduce black crime rates and ensure that more black children go to school and get good jobs would be talking about these figures nonstop. They&#8217;re clearly the key to understanding what&#8217;s wrong in black communities, and how to fix them. But Democrats very desperately don&#8217;t want to have this conversation, because as Byron Donalds said, it implicates them — starting with Lyndon Johnson and the &#8220;Great Society&#8221; welfare programs that arose from the Civil Rights era.
As the Harvard professor <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/family-breakdown-and-americas-welfare-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Peterson</a> <a href="https://www.educationnext.org/government-subsidize-not-tax-marriage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it:</a>
<blockquote>&#8230;some programs actively discouraged marriage&#8221; because &#8220;welfare assistance went to mothers so long as no male was boarding in the household… Marriage to an employed male, even one earning the minimum wage, placed at risk a mother’s economic well-being.</blockquote>
Peterson crunched the numbers and found that:
<blockquote>&#8230;in 1975, a household head would have to earn $20,000 a year to have more resources than what could be obtained from Great Society programs.</blockquote>
Adjusted for inflation, that means households would need to bring in $100,000 to match what the government would give them for free.
In other words, the government was providing a massive economic incentive for poor mothers to raise children alone, in single-parent homes. And because black mothers are an extremely poor demographic group, the incentive affected black families the most. 
That&#8217;s not to say this is the only explanation that explains the decline in black family units. You can also look at the decline of industry, the offshoring of manufacturing jobs, the rise of feminism, the influence of the entertainment industry, and so on. But no reasonable person can doubt that a $100,000 government incentive to break up family homes was indeed a major factor that contributed to broken homes. And a serious political party — one that cared about black communities — would learn from that disaster and immediately reform these kinds of welfare programs.
But the Democratic Party has no interest in acknowledging any responsibility for their role in creating the crisis in the black community. After all, a core plank of Democratic Party mythology is that the civil rights movement was an unbridled good, and that no mistakes whatsoever were made in the process of creating the welfare programs that have persisted for generations. Instead, the Democrats&#8217; top representative in the House, Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), just decided to simply lie about everything Byron Donalds said. Watch:
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Jeffries: It has come to my attention that a so-called leader has made the factually inaccurate statement that black folks were better off during Jim Crow. How dare you make such an an ignorant observation. You better check yourself before you wreck yourself <a href="https://t.co/TfxOwHGCl8">pic.twitter.com/TfxOwHGCl8</a>
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It&#8217;s kind of incredible how bad this guy&#8217;s Obama impression is. Or maybe it&#8217;s supposed to be MLK. He kind of has the cadence down, I guess. But then he starts repeatedly attacking a statement that no one made. Byron Donalds did not say that black Americans were &#8220;better off&#8221; during Jim Crow. He said black families were together in Jim Crow, and they&#8217;re not together now. Those are two distinct statements. But apparently Jeffries can&#8217;t grasp the distinction. 
So he just makes a complete fool of himself, attacking a strawman over and over again, until he ends by somehow embarrassing himself even further. &#8220;You better check yourself before you wreck yourself&#8221;? Really? Are we quoting Ice Cube songs now on the House floor? This is what passes for rhetorical genius in the Democratic Party, post-Obama. This is the guy they&#8217;ll make the Speaker of the House if they ever get the majority back. He doesn&#8217;t speak very well, frankly.
But Hakeem Jeffries wasn&#8217;t alone. The brain trust at the Congressional Black Caucus put out a statement demanding that Byron Donalds <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/4706438-cbc-donalds-jim-crow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologize</a> for telling the truth. They <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/4706438-cbc-donalds-jim-crow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, 
<blockquote>This is a pattern of embracing racist ideologies that we see time and again within the MAGA Republican Party. &#8230; Rep. Donalds is playing his role as the mouthpiece who will say the quiet parts out loud that many will not say themselves. His comments were shameful and beneath the dignity of a member of the House of Representatives. He should immediately offer an apology to Black Americans for misrepresenting one of the darkest chapters in our history for his own political gain.</blockquote>
Well, they got one part right. Byron Donalds did indeed &#8220;say the quiet parts out loud.&#8221; He said the one thing that Democrats simply cannot allow anyone to say, which is that the policies of the Democratic Party drastically increased black dependency on the government and, in the process, destabilized the family structure. 
That is the third rail that Democrats don&#8217;t want any politician to go anywhere near, even though with every passing year, it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to deny. The Democratic Party has controlled pretty much every major urban center in this country for decades, and after all that, they&#8217;ve only made things worse. 
Remember Selma? The site of the famous civil rights marches? The city that&#8217;s been run by Democrats in perpetuity? They just went to virtual classes a few weeks ago — not because of COVID, but because too many children are getting shot. Watch:
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Hakeem Jeffries and the Democratic Party never talk about Selma, even though Democrats have been running it for decades. The city that became famous during the Civil Rights movement remains, to this day, one of the poorest places in the entire country. It&#8217;s so dangerous now that they&#8217;re keeping children home from school. 
That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean the people of Selma were better off under Jim Crow, however Jeffries wants to define &#8220;better off.&#8221; But it does mean that the government certainly hasn&#8217;t helped matters in the wake of the civil rights movement. If there&#8217;s ever going to be a return to normalcy in Selma and dozens of other cities like it, then it&#8217;s necessary to first acknowledge that LBJ&#8217;s &#8220;Great Society&#8221; and its offshoots haven&#8217;t actually created great societies. They&#8217;ve done the opposite. Byron Donalds made that case this week. And by completely melting down in response, Democrats in the House have admitted that he was right.

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Outrage Erupts Over Black Republican Who Says Black Family Was In Better Shape During Jim Crow. He’s Right.

Outrage Erupts Over Black Republican Who Says Black Family Was In Better Shape During Jim Crow. He's Right.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> campaign has reportedly requested documents from several individuals who he is considering to be his vice presidential running mate.
Among those who have so far received requests are North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and former cabinet member Ben Carson.
Those listed may not be the only ones who have contacted thus far as ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/vp-contenders-burgum-vance-rubio-asked-documents-trump/story?id=110870278" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that &#8220;others are likely to be considered for the No. 2 job.&#8221; The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-paperwork-vetting-b1e21a7e9eae7141c4f144735671b330" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the list is &#8220;fluid and evolving,&#8221; meaning that it will likely change as Trump sees fit.
A Trump campaign spokesperson said that &#8220;anyone claiming to know who or when President Trump will choose his VP is lying, unless the person is named Donald J. Trump.&#8221;
Polling last month from an I&amp;I/TIPP Poll indicated that 15% of Republican voters choose Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as their first choice for VP, while 14% choose him as their second choice for VP — both numbers were the highest of all the candidates listed.
Out of the candidates who were listed by the Associated Press, Carson had the highest ranking for first choice in the poll at 5%, followed by Scott at 4%, Rubio at 2%, and the remaining contenders at 1% or less.
Another name that has generated headlines in recent weeks and might be moving up Trump&#8217;s board for contenders is Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), especially after his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-blasts-manhattan-prosecution-theres-no-question-donald-trump-should-win-on-appeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passionate defense</a> of Trump during a Sunday interview on NBC News.
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When asked during the interview if he would accept the job offer, Cotton responded: &#8220;Any great patriot, if offered a chance to serve our country by the president, would have to consider it seriously. But what I’m focused on, like the president, is making sure that we win this election in November, and I want to help him govern successfully to restore the peace and prosperity that he brought to America for four years that Joe Biden has destroyed.&#8221;