Former President Donald Trump said in an interview on Thursday that President Joe Biden should be drug tested before the two compete in presidential debates this fall.
Trump, who made the remarks during a radio interview with conservative host Hugh Hewitt, said he hopes Biden takes part in the debates before suggesting the president might be a cocaine user.
&#8220;I think what happened is that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on there, because I watched this State of the Union, and he was all jacked up at the beginning,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;By the end, he was fading fast. There’s something going on there. I want to debate. And I think debates, with him, at least, should be drug tested. I want a drug test.&#8221;
The remarks come after the Secret Service discovered cocaine in the White House last July in the lobby area of the West Executive Avenue entrance.
When asked if he was suggesting that Biden was using cocaine, Trump responded: &#8220;I don’t know what he’s using, but that was not, hey, he was higher than a kite.&#8221;
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&#8220;And by the way, it was the worst, it was the worst address I’ve ever seen, the State of the Nation,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;I’ll tell you, State of the Union, that’s not State of the Union, because he doesn’t represent us properly. That, I can tell you. But he’s obviously, he’s being helped in some way, because most of the time, he looks like he’s falling asleep. And all of a sudden, he walked up there and did a poor job. But he was all jacked up.&#8221;
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Trump says Biden should be drug tested before the presidential debates because he might be using cocaine:
&#8220;I think what happened is you know that white stuff that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine in the White House, I don’t know, I think something’s going on… <a href="https://t.co/SrNyZKLfEg">pic.twitter.com/SrNyZKLfEg</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1775930758244233281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2024</a></blockquote>

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A political action committee backing former President Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign has rolled out a new website highlighting the dramatic increase in grocery prices since President Joe Biden took office. 
The <a href="https://www.biden-mart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, which was created by Make America Great Again Inc, is called “Biden-Mart.&#8221; It allows visitors to compare the prices of fruits, vegetables, and meats at the end of Trump’s presidency to current prices under Biden. The website cites data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture from January 2021 and January 2024. 
“Every time you go grocery shopping you are reminded of the failure of &#8216;Bidenomics,&#8217;” Alex Pfeiffer, spokesman for MAGA INC, told The Daily Mail, which first <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13250027/trump-super-pac-biden-mart-grocery-shopping-expenses.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on the website. “Joe Biden&#8217;s inflation is robbing hard-working Americans of their money.”
The interactive site allows people to compile their weekly grocery lists to “see how much more expensive your bill has become under Joe Biden.” Foods listed on the website include chicken, eggs, ground beef, potatoes, carrots, onions, oranges, milk, grapes, sweet corn, cheese, yogurt, butter, eggs, coffee, and other meats and vegetables. 
According to the website, some of the products with the most significant jumps under Biden include apples (111% increase per 2 pounds), boneless chicken thighs (91% increase per 2 pounds), ribeye steak (82% increase per pound), and ground beef (66% increase per 2 pounds). 
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Last month, the USDA said that food prices would likely continue to increase in 2024, but at a slower pace. In 2023, food-at-home prices, food purchased at grocery stores as opposed to food purchased at restaurants, increased by 5%, and those prices are expected to continue to tick up by 1.6% in 2024, <a href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the USDA. 
While Biden blamed corporations for increasing food prices, Trump said that Biden&#8217;s policies caused inflation. Biden has attacked several large companies over &#8220;shrinkflation,&#8221; saying that they have reduced the amount of product while prices remain the same. 
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“Likewise, the sight of a feeble Joe Biden talking about ‘shrinkflation’ — the term he uses — is one of the most ridiculous things this country has ever seen,” Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2908660/state-of-union-trump-biden-border-inflation-prebuttal-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> ahead of Biden’s State of the Union last month. “Shrinkflation is just another way of saying inflation — it means that you’re losing a lot of money because these people don’t know what they’re doing.”
“Under my leadership, there was no inflation. We had the greatest economy in the history of the world,” Trump said. “It’s time to tell crooked Joe Biden, ‘You’re fired.’”

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Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon and Trump administration official, says that putting former President Donald Trump back in the Oval Office would be the country&#8217;s &#8220;best chance&#8221; to clear out the federal bureaucracy and replace it with something that works for the people.
&#8220;This will be the best chance to transform Washington back into something that actually works for the people,&#8221; Carson told The Daily Wire during a sit-down interview. &#8220;It’s become so polluted now. They call it a swamp but I think that’s a compliment, it&#8217;s really a cesspool.&#8221;
Carson’s comments come amid wide-reaching efforts from the Biden administration to embed leftwing ideologies, such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), throughout the practices of the federal bureaucracy. Carson said that he experienced bureaucrats attempting to obstruct the Trump administration’s agenda while serving as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
&#8220;Their tendency would be to try to slow-walk things that they disagreed with,&#8221; he said of bureaucrats who opposed Trump, though he noted that other agencies faced harsher opposition from their own staff to undermine the president’s agenda.
“This is the chance to bring in people who actually believe the Constitution and understand the concept of representation and will work for the benefit of the people,” he added. “We need effective people if we’re going to try to save this republic.&#8221;
Trump has signaled that he will take steps to gut the administrative state if he is reelected, using tools like <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/22/trump-presidency-schedule-f-federal-employees">Schedule F</a>, an executive order, to strip civil service employment protections from bureaucrats who have influence over the policy-making process.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> the plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Carson explained that Trump’s plan to gut the administrative branch of leftwing bureaucrats has caused panic among those on the Left.
“That’s one of the reasons that I think a lot of people on the Left are so terrified of the concept of Trump getting back into office,” Carson noted. “They do not want him in there, believe me, there is nothing that they won’t do to try to keep him out,” he said, before adding, “I think it&#8217;s almost unimaginable what they’ll do.”
The former president would have no shortage of agencies and leftist bureaucrats to scrutinize in the event he is reelected and sets out to fire those who may otherwise undermine his agenda.
The intelligence agencies have pushed far-left dogmas under the Biden administration, with a Daily Wire investigation recently revealing that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence sent out a DEI newsletter to the entire intelligence community, including the FBI, CIA, and DOJ, instructing agents to avoid using “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internal-docs-show-entire-intelligence-community-warned-to-avoid-problematic-phrases-on-islamic-terrorism">problematic phrases</a>” when discussing Islamic terrorism. The same DEI document also featured an article from an anonymous intelligence official who claimed that crossdressing makes him a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">better intelligence officer</a>.”
There’s also the National Security Agency, which produced a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">DEI glossary</a> exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire with terms like “ze/zir,” “settler colonialism,” and “white fragility,” which directly cited infamous Critical Race Theorists.
Other federal agencies have poured millions of taxpayer funds into DEI initiatives, with the Pentagon spending as much as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda">$270 million</a> under Biden to advance the leftwing agenda. There’s also the State Department, which The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-department-forced-to-disclose-multi-million-dollar-cost-of-bidens-diversity-agenda">exclusively revealed</a> had spent over $77 million over two years under Biden on DEI programs, with hundreds of millions more in requests for DEI-related initiatives.
DEI trainings have become commonplace throughout the federal bureaucracy, with the Internal Revenue Service hosting a mandatory training for criminal investigators that pulled material from a radical transgender academic who called for the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mandatory-irs-diversity-training-includes-material-from-trans-academic-who-called-for-death-of-whiteness">death of whiteness</a>” in an article titled “Dead Honky.”
While Trump is preparing to gut the administrative state, others are preparing to fill the vacancies Left by bureaucrats who could be fired under a future Trump administration. The <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> Presidential Transition Project, an initiative from the Heritage Foundation, seeks to “pave the way for an effective conservative Administration” and is building a personnel database of those who could work in a future administration.
“It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration,” Project 2025 <a href="https://www.project2025.org/about/about-project-2025/">states</a>.

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Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguliar, a Democrat, was sued by the Republican National Committee (RNC) last week as the party alleges the 2024 battleground state has “impossibly high” voter rolls.
The <a href="https://prod-static.gop.com/media/documents/1_1710786804.pdf?_gl=1*5emnih*_gcl_au*NDQ2OTY4MTU4LjE3MDc4MzM4MDQ.&amp;_ga=2.198330927.1627804447.1710856647-1306212077.1707833805" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed in U.S. District Court, alleges that Aguliar and five county clerks failed to properly maintain the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
“Section 8 of the NVRA requires States to maintain clean and accurate voter registration records,” the lawsuit begins. “Nevada has failed to live up to the NVRA’s requirements. At least five counties in Nevada have inordinately high voter registration rates.”
The RNC goes on to allege that three Nevada counties count more registered voters than there are adult citizens, and two additional counties “have voter registration rates that exceed 90 percent of adult citizens over the age of 18,” a number that “far eclipses the national and statewide voter registration rate in recent elections.”
“Based on this and other evidence, Defendants are failing to make a reasonable effort to conduct appropriate list maintenance as required by the NVRA,” the lawsuit states.
Nevada, which has been won by Democratic candidates in every presidential election since 2008, is currently a toss-up in the 2024 presidential race. Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in the state by just over four points, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/nevada/trump-vs-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average.
Newly-elected RNC Chair Michael Whatley <a href="https://gop.com/press-release/rnc-files-election-integrity-lawsuit-in-nevada/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the lawsuit, saying that looking into the voter rolls “is a critical step towards ensuring that it will be easy to vote and hard to cheat.”
“Election integrity starts with clean voter rolls, and that’s why the National Voter Registration Act requires state officials to keep their rolls accurate and up-to-date. Nevada has universal mail voting and no voter ID requirement, which makes Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar’s failure to comply with the NVRA and provide accurate voter rolls all the more concerning,” Whatley said.
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The lawsuit mirrors one the RNC filed against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson earlier this month, alleging that multiple counties in the vital swing state have “inflated voter rolls,” The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/19/state-official-rnc-nevada-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The outlet also <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/14/republican-national-committee-rnc-donald-trump-election-integrity-2024-lawsuit-voting-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the RNC is working with the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee on an expansive effort to combat voter fraud ahead of the 2024 election as the Trump campaign reshapes party leadership.
Last week, the RNC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rnc-hires-lawyers-focused-election-related-concerns-rcna143130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired</a> two new lawyers, Charlie Spies, who will serve as the RNC&#8217;s chief counsel, and Christina Bobb, a Trump campaign lawyer who has challenged the results of the 2020 election. The new additions to the RNC’s legal team came as Whatley, the former chair of the North Carolina GOP, took over for Ronna McDaniel as the party’s national chair, and Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump was elected RNC co-chair.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> locked up the Republican presidential nod on Tuesday after winning four more primaries, giving him enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee. 
Trump’s primary victories in Georgia, Mississippi, Hawaii, and Washington pushed him to 1,241 delegates, more than the 1,215 needed to earn the nomination. President Joe Biden also locked up the Democratic nomination, setting up a rematch for the 2024 presidential race. 
In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said it was an &#8220;honor&#8221; to be representing the GOP and attacked Biden over the border crisis, inflation, and economy. 
“It is my great honor to be representing the Republican Party as its Presidential Nominee. Our Party is UNITED and STRONG, and fully understands that we are running against the Worst, Most Incompetent, Corrupt, and Destructive President in the History of the United States,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112086325351192822" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. “Millions of people are invading our Country, many from prisons and mental institutions of other Countries. High Interest Rates and Inflation are choking our great middle class, and ALL, our Economy is bad, and our Stock Market is rising only because Polls are strongly indicating that we will WIN the Presidential Election of 2024.”
“We are now, under Crooked Joe Biden, a Third World Nation, which uses the Injustice System to go after his political opponent, ME! But fear not, we will not fail, we will take back our once great Country, put AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN &#8211; GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. November 5th will go down as the most important day in the history of our Country! GOD BLESS AMERICA,” Trump added. 
Trump won Georgia by 71 points, Hawaii by 95, Mississippi by 87, and Washington by 52. The former president has so far won every Republican nominating contest except Washington, D.C., and Vermont, both of which were won by former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. 
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“It’s your favorite president speaking to you on a really great day of victory,” Trump said in a video posted by his campaign on X. “The Republican National Committee has just declared us the official nominee and so we’re the official nominee of the Republican party, which is a big deal. But most importantly we now have to go on to victory because our country is in serious trouble. We have millions and millions of people flowing in. We have no respect on the world’s stage.” 
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New RNC Chair Michael Whatley congratulated Trump and looked ahead to the convention in Milwaukee in July. 
“Congratulations to Donald J. Trump for securing the delegates necessary to be the presumptive Republican Nominee for President,” Whatley said. “I am looking forward to the<a href="https://twitter.com/GOP"> @GOP</a> Convention where we will formally nominate him to be the 47th President of the United States!”

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New York Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/letitia-james">Letitia James</a>, who celebrated the more than $350 million fine handed down to former President Donald Trump, promised years before the ruling to help remove him from office if given the opportunity. 
On Friday, New York Judge Arthur Engoron <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fires-back-after-judge-orders-him-to-pay-350-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> Trump and the Trump Organization to pay more than $350 million in damages and banned Trump from being able to hold any high-level positions in any company in the state of New York for three years. The order comes after James’ office filed a civil fraud suit against the former president in September 2022 after a multi-year investigation. 
In comments after Engoron’s order, James <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4473859-new-york-ag-lauds-fraud-ruling-against-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> the outcome of the case. “Today, justice has been served. Today we proved that no one is above the law. No matter how rich, powerful or politically connected you are,” she said at a press conference. 
In a response to the order, Trump said that the justice system in America was under attack and that James had been obsessed with prosecuting him for years. 
Throughout her campaign for attorney general, James said that she would challenge Trump and that charges should be brought against him. At one point, she even went as far to say she would help remove him from office. 
“America is in uncharted territory,” James said in a video during her campaign in 2018. “We are angrier and more deeply divided than we’ve ever been at any point in our history since the Civil War. And at the eye of the storm is Donald Trump ripping families apart, threatening women’s most basic rights. I’m running for attorney general because I will never be afraid to challenge this illegitimate president when our fundamental rights are at stake.”
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Letitia James has won the Democratic primary for NY attorney general. If elected in November, she’ll be the first Black attorney general in NY history. She has promised to reform NY’s criminal justice system and to investigate and prosecute Trump’s family businesses. <a href="https://t.co/M8UMHJQuIN">pic.twitter.com/M8UMHJQuIN</a>
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“I believe that this president is incompetent. I believe that this president is ill-equipped to serve in the highest office of this land. And I believe that he is an embarrassment to all that we stand for. He should be charged with obstructing justice. I believe that the president of these United States can be indicted for criminal offenses and we would join with law enforcement and other attorneys general across this nation in removing this president from office.”
She then said that she believed Trump was laundering foreign money through his real estate deals and promised to investigate the then president. 
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“It’s important that everyone understand that the days of Donald Trump are coming to an end, but we can only do it if all of you exercise your most fundamental right, a right which is basic to democracy, and that is the right to vote,” she said. 
James said that people who wanted to change the country could start by “electing an attorney general who will never back down when Trump or anyone else threatens our rights” before urging people to vote for her. 
Throughout the investigation and trial, Trump has blasted both James and Engoron, saying that they are engaged in a partisan effort to damage him as he attempts to mount a comeback presidential campaign against President Joe Biden. 
“The Justice System in New York State, and America as a whole, is under assault by partisan, deluded, biased Judges and Prosecutors,” Trump said on Friday. “Racist, Corrupt A.G. Tish James has been obsessed with ‘Getting Trump’ for years, and used Crooked New York State Judge Engoron to get an illegal, unAmerican judgment against me, my family, and my tremendous business. I helped New York City during its worst of times, and now, while it is overrun with Violent Biden Migrant Crime, the Radicals are doing all they can to kick me out.”

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Former President Donald Trump slammed the Senate&#8217;s bipartisan border bill on Monday, calling it a &#8220;trap&#8221; set by Democrats for Republicans.
Senators released the final version of a long-awaited border bill on Sunday afternoon. The bill will likely face a full Senate vote soon, but it is unclear whether it will pass, especially as it continues to bleed Republican support.
&#8220;Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill, which only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day, when we already have the right to CLOSE THE BORDER NOW, which must be done,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111879340091575646" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social on Monday morning.
&#8220;This Bill is a great gift to the Democrats, and a Death Wish for The Republican Party,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;It takes the HORRIBLE JOB the Democrats have done on Immigration and the Border, absolves them, and puts it all squarely on the shoulders of Republicans. Don’t be STUPID!!!&#8221;
The former president said Republicans need a separate border bill that is not &#8220;tied to foreign aid in any way, shape, or form,&#8221; saying Democrats &#8220;broke Immigration and the Border. They should fix it.&#8221;
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111879769015903043" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> again later Monday morning, saying the &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; border bill is &#8220;nothing more than a highly sophisticated trap for Republicans to assume the blame on what the Radical Left Democrats have done to our Border, just in time for our most important EVER Election. Don’t fall for it!!!&#8221;
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the bill will have its first procedural vote on the floor on Wednesday.
However, some Republicans have already said they will not support it.
The $118 billion deal would tighten asylum requirements, shut down the southern border if immigrant encounters hit certain levels, and send billions of dollars to not only the border but Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
The bill faces an uphill battle in the Senate, with several conservative senators already casting doubt on whether they will support it.
“This is an open-borders bill if I’ve ever seen one. The Democrats are celebrating already,” Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said on X.
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said she will &#8220;never vote to make illegal immigration legal, and I will not support this deal.&#8221;
The two top Republicans in the House both said the bill is a non-starter in the lower chamber.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the bill is &#8220;dead on arrival&#8221; in the House and called it &#8220;even worse than we expected.&#8221;
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) also <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1754319765894578181" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> the bill, vowing it will not receive a vote in the House and calling it &#8220;a magnet for more illegal immigration.&#8221;

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As an early supporter of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candidate Trump</a>, back in 2016, it was impossible not to appreciate what he was bringing to the public arena — not just in the United States, but in Europe as well. He had an impact that went beyond American shores and inspired a new wave of conservatism, emboldening the so-called forgotten men and women. At certain moments in history, God, fate, or chance cause certain people to take an essential role in shaping the times in which they live. They clearly divide history into two different eras and leave an indelible mark for decades to come. One may not like Donald Trump, or his style, but he made people feel seen and heard, restoring a lost relevance to their vote. 
As a result of a perceived collusion between governments, financial interests and Big Tech, many nations across the West are rising up, voting for the same ideas and principles that the center-right and conservative parties have always defended such as individual freedoms, accountability, free markets, free and fair trade, tradition, culture, border protection and rule of law. They are, however, choosing individuals who are shouting these common sense notions louder than the old polished and well-articulated politicians.
Voting for candidate Trump in 2016 was the defense mechanism of many who were seeing their rights and freedoms eroded and under attack, while the so-called politically correct establishment was ignoring their every plea. I believe this is why Republican voters still stood by the former president.
In my opinion, Governor Ron DeSantis was the most conservative candidate in the race. He has a great record as a Governor of Florida and would have made an incredible president. More importantly, I strongly believed two things about him: First, he could win against any Left-wing candidate in November, something I, as a foreign observer of this election cycle was skeptical the former president could achieve. Secondly, in my view, DeSantis presented an improved Reaganite fusionism that I think is the way forward for conservatism. 
Undeniably, supply-side economic principles have once again turned out to be a recipe for success in Florida, just as they had been during the Reagan administration. Tax cuts, deregulation, balanced budgets, incentives to invest, hire and produce have resulted in freedom, prosperity and expanded opportunities.
On the cultural side, DeSantis has not shied away from fighting against a new reincarnation of the old foe of civilization – communism. Wokeism and cancel culture are two notions that do not manifest in society as a need of the many, but rather an imposition of the few for political and financial gains. His fight to hold accountable those who committed immense injustices during the COVID pandemic is to be commended. 
These policies, some of which candidate Trump had also put forward during his 2016 campaign and had actually enacted in his four-year term, I found lacking in the third bid for the Republican nomination of the 45th president. Now that his main rival has withdrawn from the race, the Trump campaign message needs to change and improve in order to win, reflecting the improved fusionism DeSantis showed could work.
First, any Republican campaign – and as the frontrunner, Trump’s more than anyone’s – should avoid the mistakes of the 2020 campaign, such as giving a free pass to the Left to use all legal mechanism at their disposal, while the GOP did not. If ballot harvesting and mail-in ballots are legal, there is no reason why the Republicans should not make use of them, just as the Democrats do.
Secondly, President Trump needs to appeal to all conservatives, moderates and independents. No one can win an election just by ensuring the base turns out on election day. He ran practically as an incumbent, and his numbers dropped from more than 90% two years ago. First, he needs to unify the Republican Party. Subsequently, the campaign needs to acknowledge they have a problem with suburban areas, with women, and the youth. He needs to run a campaign that is disciplined and on message, also considering the legal troubles the former president faces and their implications.
More importantly, not everybody who disagrees with the former president is an enemy, a RINO, or a sellout. This rhetoric from him and many surrogates does more harm than good, alienates allies and potential supporters – a luxury President Trump does not have. There are so many people waiting for a sign and the chance to support the 45th president. At various times Mr. Trump has shown his presidential side, something the vast majority of the electorate is waiting for.
This brings me to the third element – a unifying conservative platform that inspires, is optimistic and proven to be successful. At the end of the day, each citizen asks how their lives will be better if a politician gets elected, more so when it comes to the president of the United States. Trump needs to articulate ideas that resonate with the vast majority of the people. He needs to make the tax cuts permanent, propose how to eliminate wasteful spending and decrease to a minimum the administrative state and the impact and influence unelected bureaucrats have on each person. Trump needs to lay out a plan how to decrease the public debt and budget deficits. The border needs to obviously be an important issue, with a credible solution. Moreover, he needs to staff his administration with serious, competent people with integrity who will not undermine him every step of the way.
Furthermore, he needs to ensure that what transpired during the COVID pandemic will never happen again. United States Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4011035-gorsuch-slams-pandemic-emergency-power-as-intrusion-on-civil-liberties/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently stated</a> that “since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches, even though they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too.”
To the shame of not only Americans, but citizens everywhere, individual freedoms were violated with tacit approval from almost all. The few dissenters were silenced, and any discussion was verboten, by a scary coalition of the media, politicians, Big Tech and Big Pharma. This deeply Left-wing — I dare say even socialist — viewpoint was imposed on us all, as we forgot Benjamin Franklin’s <a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-06-02-0107" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warning</a> that “those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. To this very day, no one has been held accountable.
His platform should also include a robust foreign policy. He achieved some great things in his first term. Trump himself said at the beginning of his presidency that America First does not mean America alone. 
To outperform Chinese and Russian advancements in both quantity and quality, America can revert to an updated version of the fusionist principles and policies that proved successful in winning the Cold War and encourage Europe to do so as well. Embracing a principled realism centered on peace through strength is key. To do that, he needs to reform the whole State Department and undo the dangerous influence of radical Left-wing lobbying.
This does not necessitate a binary choice between interventionism and isolationism; rather, a principled realist approach that collaborates with allies, deters adversaries, and aims to maintain the balance of power in the West. Leaders in the United States must navigate the delicate balance between the imperative for American leadership on the world stage and the calls for prudence, transparency, accountability, and improved economic and social policies domestically. America should lead and encourage a coalition of countries each upholding their individual dignity, values, and interests while collaborating on shared objectives.
Not often does one get a second chance at running for president. Donald Trump is getting his third. He can make it a successful, spectacular campaign and an even better term than the previous one. He has the chance to show everyone how successful conservative policies can be, how safe the world is when conservatives run it and inspire a wave of conservative wins throughout the world. If he chooses this path, conservatives and moderates alike will be behind him.
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Nikola Kedhi is an economic expert and financial consultant, a coauthor of the Constitution of the Center-Right Values and a contributor to several media outlets in the US, UK, and Europe. Kedhi’s articles reflect solely his own opinions.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Biden campaign is attempting to tie former President Donald Trump to state abortion bans in a new ad as a part of a broader campaign strategy to hammer the abortion issue as the 2024 race heats up.
On Sunday, the Biden campaign debuted a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrtvE4bSwKY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new spot</a> titled &#8220;Forced,&#8221; which features Dr. Austin Dennard, a Dallas OBGYN and mother of three, who obtained an abortion out of state for an unborn child she says had a fetal condition with &#8220;absolutely no chance of survival.&#8221;
&#8220;In Texas, you are forced to carry that pregnancy, and that is because of Donald Trump overturning Roe v. Wade,&#8221; Dennard says in the 60-second video.
&#8220;I was to continue my pregnancy, putting my life at risk,&#8221; she adds.
&#8220;We need leaders who will protect our rights and not take them away, and that&#8217;s Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,&#8221; Dennard says.
Dennard&#8217;s baby was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/us/politics/biden-abortion-ad.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> diagnosed at 11 weeks with anencephaly, a condition where a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull.
Dennard is one of several women suing Texas to clarify the “medical emergency” exception to the state’s abortion ban.
She <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/texas-abortion-ban-doctor-testimony/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> in July that her pregnancy would have put her at “significant risk,&#8221; but that she did not think she would be granted an abortion under the exception because she was not &#8220;critically ill.&#8221;
“I was not hemorrhaging, I was not septic. I was pregnant with a lethal anomaly, and I did not believe that I would be able to receive an abortion in my state at that time for the sole purpose of my lethal anomaly,” she said at the time.
It is not clear what specific health risks the pregnancy posed to Dennard.
Texas had a six-week abortion ban that was triggered into effect when the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in 2022. The law bans all abortions after six weeks, except those performed to protect the life of the mother.
The new Biden ad will run for a week in seven battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
The campaign <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/21/politics/biden-campaign-abortion-rights-donald-trump/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hopes</a> to target suburban women and young voters, so the ad will run on programs and channels known to attract women, including the season premiere of &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; and HGTV, TLC, Bravo, Hallmark, and the Food Network. It will also run during Sunday&#8217;s NFL conference championship games.
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The ad&#8217;s release comes around the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade&#8217;s decision in 1973.
Trump has vaunted Roe vs. Wade&#8217;s demise on the campaign trail, emphasizing that he appointed the justices that gave the court the conservative majority needed to overturn it.
“For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it. And I’m proud to have done it,” the former president said during a recent Fox News town hall.

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Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri endorsed former President Donald Trump for president on Tuesday.
Hawley had previously said he believed Trump would win the GOP nomination but had stopped short of officially endorsing him. Hawley became the 18th Republican senator to back Trump in an interview with <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/12/12/congress/hawley-endorses-trump-00131430" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
“President Trump doesn’t need to worry. I’m with him. He&#8217;s asked me several times to support him. I said yes. And I&#8217;ve been saying for a year that I think he’s gonna be the nominee. I support him. I&#8217;m gonna vote for him,” Hawley said. “Don&#8217;t worry — you can put me down as support, endorsed, stand with.”
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On Sunday, the former president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111557139378057622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a warning to Hawley and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) about upcoming election battles they face, saying the senators should be &#8220;very careful.&#8221;
&#8220;So interesting that the Democrats are looking hard at the Senate races in both Missouri and Texas. Josh and Ted must be very careful, stranger things have happened!!!&#8221; Trump wrote.
Trump is leading the primary field with 60% support nationally, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley are battling for second at 12.6 points and 12.1 points, respectively. The rest of the field sits under 5 points.
Haley’s campaign received a boost in New Hampshire, the second primary state, on Monday with the endorsement of New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu.
“This is an opportunity for New Hampshire to lead this country, for New Hampshire to say we’re not looking in the rearview mirror anymore,” Sununu said at a town hall event in Manchester alongside Haley. “You bet your a** I am. We’re all in for Nikki Haley.”
The primary race is closer in New Hampshire, but Trump still leads the field by about 26 points, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/nh/2024_new_hampshire_republican_presidential_primary-7396.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average. Trump leads with about 44% support, Haley is in second at about 19%, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is in third with 13%.
DeSantis has invested heavily in early states, especially in Iowa, where he is sitting second in polling behind Trump, though the state nominates by caucus instead of popular vote. DeSantis has received endorsements from influential names in Iowa, such as Republican Governor Kim Reynolds and evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday invited former U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Ukraine to make good on his vow of settling the Eastern European nation&#8217;s ongoing conflict with Russia in &#8220;24 hours&#8221; — a repeated claim that Trump said would happen if he takes back the White House in 2024.
&#8220;Former President Trump said that about 24 hours, that he can manage it and finish the war,&#8221; Zelensky <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/zelenskyy-says-he-only-needs-24-minutes-to-explain-to-trump-he-can-t-bring-peace-in-ukraine-197150277504" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during an interview with NBC. &#8220;For me, what can I say? So he&#8217;s very welcome as well.&#8221;
Trump, who currently holds the lead for the 2024 presidential GOP nomination, has said a number of times that he could strike a deal between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky to solve the international war overseas in &#8220;one day&#8221; if re-elected to the White House.
&#8220;If I&#8217;m president, I will have that war settled in one day – 24 hours,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-cnn-town-hall/h_9832474de73ae094f7e9593ff2c37b57" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins earlier this year during a town hall, adding he would meet with the two presidents who &#8220;have weaknesses and they both have strengths&#8221; to settle the war.
&#8220;It&#8217;ll be over, it&#8217;ll be absolutely over,&#8221; Trump said.
Trump added during the interview that he doesn&#8217;t view the war &#8220;in terms of winning and losing.&#8221;
&#8220;I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;Russians and Ukrainians, I want them to stop dying. And I&#8217;ll have that done in 24 hours.&#8221;
But Zelensky signaled doubt in Trump&#8217;s ability to end hostilities if re-elected.
&#8220;If he can come here, I will need &#8230; 24 minutes to explain to President Trump that he can&#8217;t manage this war,&#8221; Zelenskiy said. &#8220;He can&#8217;t bring peace because of Putin.&#8221;
Trump has been critical of U.S. support of the war, saying the Biden administration&#8217;s involvement has led to a &#8220;reckless escalation&#8221; in Ukraine.
In July, President Joe Biden signed an executive order making as many as 3,000 reservists from the U.S. military available to travel to Europe and support NATO efforts to end hostilities between Russia and Ukraine. This comes as Ukraine has received nearly $350 billion in foreign aid, including $113 billion from the U.S., which has been crucial to its continued war effort.
But with a potential second Trump administration retaking the White House in 2025, Zelenksy said he was unsure if Ukraine would lose U.S. support.
&#8220;Really, I don&#8217;t know. Really, I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Zelenksy told NBC on &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; &#8220;I hope that it depends not only on the president institutionally. I think it depends on the opinion of Americans, of your society. I think that is most important. I think it&#8217;s important in the United States and EU, the attitude of just ordinary people. It&#8217;s their support. It&#8217;s their money. It depends on them.&#8221;
&#8220;And they are sure in Ukraine. I know that they support Ukraine — love us. And really, they understand our difficult war against Russia. And I think only after that, society is pushing the leaders and leaders make right decisions,&#8221; he added.
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According to Gallup, support for more aid has steadily declined for more than a year. A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-u-s-and-european-officials-float-peace-terms-for-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plurality of Americans</a> — 41% — believe the U.S. is too involved in the war in Ukraine, including 62% of Republicans and 44% of independents. While only 14% of Democrats say the same, more than 60% of Democrats, Republicans, and independents believe neither side is winning the war.
The Biden administration and Democrats on Capitol Hill have pushed for a joint $106 billion aid package to Israel and Ukraine, but the Republican-controlled House passed a standalone bill to support Israel while leaving aid to Ukraine on the negotiating table, possibly as part of a deal for increased border security.
Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have said that proposal is dead on arrival. Still, allies of Ukraine are worried that the debate itself shows unqualified support for Ukraine is becoming unsustainable. The U.S. still has about $5 billion of outstanding allocated aid waiting to be sent to Ukraine due to an accounting error by the Pentagon. Still, once that runs out, further funds would have to be approved by the divided Congress.
Zelensky said if Washington, D.C., refuses to send more aid, U.S. soldiers could eventually get involved in a greater conflict with Russia.
&#8220;If Russia will kill all of us, they will attack NATO countries, and you will send your sons and daughters [to fight],&#8221; Zelensky told NBC.
 Michael Whittaker contributed to this report.

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NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker claimed &#8220;no one&#8221; is arguing for legal abortion up to birth in her new interview with former President Donald Trump, but that claim is demonstrably false.
The new &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; moderator sparred with Trump for over an hour on abortion and other issues in an interview released Sunday.
&#8220;The radical people on this are really the Democrats that say after five months, six months, seven months, eight months, nine months, and even after birth, you’re allowed to terminate the baby,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/09/17/nbcs-welker-attempts-fact-check-trump-live-fails-miserably" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Welker during the interview.
&#8220;Mr. President, Democrats aren&#8217;t saying that,&#8221; Welker responded.
Moments later Trump said, &#8220;I said with Hillary Clinton when we had the debate, I made a statement, &#8216;rip the baby out of the womb&#8217; in the ninth month. You&#8217;re allowed to do that, and you shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to do that.&#8221;
&#8220;Again, no one is arguing for that. That&#8217;s not a part of anyone&#8217;s platform, Mr. President,&#8221; Welker said.
Besides the <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/many-abortion-advocates-back-abortions-up-until-birth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">untold number</a> of abortion activists who advocate for abortion on demand up to birth, a slew of states currently allow abortion at any point in the pregnancy.
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Alaska, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. all <a href="https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/dc/abortion-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allow</a> abortion with no gestational limits.
While high-profile Democrats often hedge on whether they support any gestational limits on abortion, some have come right out and admitted they support abortion up to the moment of birth.
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) was direct about his stance during a Fox News segment in June.
&#8220;Is there a cutoff for you before [the due date]?&#8221; host Shannon Bream <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/democratic-senator-admits-he-opposes-any-legal-limit-on-abortion-before-a-babys-due-date/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Cardin.
&#8220;No, to me, it&#8217;s a reproductive, it&#8217;s a health care decision. It&#8217;s up to women to make that decision,&#8221; Cardin responded.
Dozens of House and Senate Democrats <a href="https://johnfetterman.com/issue/protecting-womens-reproductive-freedom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also</a> <a href="https://democraticwomenscaucus-frankel.house.gov/media/press-releases/democratic-womens-caucus-joins-house-democrats-introduce-womens-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support</a> the Women&#8217;s Health Protection <a href="https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/whpa_of_2023_bill_text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Act</a>, which would legalize abortions after fetal viability, usually around 23 weeks, if in the abortionist&#8217;s &#8220;good faith medical judgment&#8221; the pregnancy poses a risk to the mother&#8217;s health. Mental health is not excluded in the bill&#8217;s language.
The Biden administration supports the Act as well, and President Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/11/statement-from-president-biden-on-the-senate-vote-on-the-womens-health-protection-act/#:~:text=The%20protections%20that%20the%20Women%27s,access%20to%20women%27s%20reproductive%20care." target="_blank" rel="noopener">lamented</a> Senate Republicans blocking the bill last year.
&#8220;The protections that the Women’s Health Protection Act would ensure are essential to the health, safety, and progress of our nation,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/11/statement-from-president-biden-on-the-senate-vote-on-the-womens-health-protection-act/#:~:text=The%20protections%20that%20the%20Women%27s,access%20to%20women%27s%20reproductive%20care." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.
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In Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; interview Trump also said, &#8220;the Democrats are able to kill the baby after birth. Nobody wants that.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrats don&#8217;t want that either,&#8221; Welker responded.
No Democrat lists infanticide on their platform, but some have appeared to support it, most infamously former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.
Northam, a physician, was asked in 2019 whether he would support abortion occurring when the mother is already in labor.
&#8220;In this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen,&#8221; Northam <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democratic-va-governor-endorses-murder-born-ben-shapiro">told</a> WTOP. &#8220;The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that&#8217;s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.&#8221;
The same year, all but three Senate Democrats <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-blocks-bill-on-medical-care-for-children-born-alive-after-attempted-abortion/2019/02/25/e5d3d4d8-3924-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> a bill that would have protected babies born alive after a failed abortion, requiring doctors to “exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child” as they would to “any other child born alive at the same gestational age.”
At least 10,000 late-term abortions <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/23/abortion-democratic-position-rfk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are performed</a> every year. Democrats like to claim most late-term abortions happen because of a fetal abnormality or to save the life of the mother, but there is data to the contrary.
&#8220;Data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment,&#8221; reads 2013 <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1363/4521013/abstract" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> published by Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a journal</a> of the Guttmacher Institute.
As far as the American public goes, NBC&#8217;s Welker is correct in downplaying the popularity of legal late-term abortion — a recent Associated Press poll <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-americans-dont-support-unrestricted-abortion-even-though-most-dont-want-total-bans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> only half of Americans want abortion to be legal after 15 weeks, which is still just the beginning of the second trimester.
Democratic politicians, however, are another matter.

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