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“This is an issue that’s been going on for 52 years. I was able to end it. That gave tremendous negotiating power to the pro-life movement, tremendous negotiating power because they can’t do the things that they used to be able to do. The pro-life was fighting it. We have these groups fighting this thing for so many decades, but …

“Let us not forget that DeSantis also shut the beaches down. DeSantis took a page out of Gavin Newsom’s playbook. Despite what he says he shut the beaches down. He did force vaccines. He did force face masks on our kids. “So he tries to act like he was perfect. He forced vaccines on people, on workers. He forced face …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: After a turbulent week, the relationship between former President Donald Trump and pro-lifers took another testy turn on Saturday night. Days after calling Florida’s six-week abortion limit “terrible,” the 45th president launched into a lengthy post on Truth Social warning Republicans that it will “be very hard to win Elections” if the party …

The Texas Tribune reports: Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove said Friday that Attorney General Ken Paxton only has himself to blame for his impeachment. At the Texas Tribune Festival, Rove pushed back against claims Paxton made in recent interviews that Rove colluded with other Texas officials to bring about the charges against him. Rove’s comments come six days after the …

Lynchburg’s ABC affiliate reports: There is a new development in a lawsuit filed by Jerry Falwell Jr. over allegations that Liberty University exploited Dr. Jerry Falwell Sr.’s trademarked name and image. Now, Falwell Jr. is calling out high-ranking university officials for alleged sexual misconduct, questionable financial decisions, and mistreatment of the Falwell family. The Amended Complaint, filed on September 13, …

“Donald Trump knows what Murdoch and what Fox have tried to do to him, calling him a non-person, and to go and to destroy him when he was at his weakest. Right when he left the White House in those first couple of months, right? “Think about what, think about that mentality. Everything Donald Trump had done for this country …

The Hill reports: Presidential candidate Nikki Haley criticized Trump’s foreign policy during a campaign stop in Portsmouth, N.H., on Thursday, saying he is “weak in the knees” on Ukraine policy. When asked how Trump will be remembered, she gave the former president several compliments, tip-toeing around being too overtly negative about the GOP primary’s frontrunner. But she also had her …

Media Matters has the transcript: He is constantly berating women about their looks, their appearance, their clothing, all of this. You know Trump apologists never come out and say, hey, you know, I get it. Like, I like it. I like what he does. But that’s really bad. I mean, these are supposedly Christians. These are supposed conservatives. We should …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump knocked conservative pundit Megyn Kelly on Wednesday, calling her “nasty” just days after sitting with her for an extensive interview. “I sat down for an hour and then I did a Megyn Kelly one,” Trump told a crowd of supporters during a campaign event in Iowa on Wednesday, apparently referring to his previous interview …

“The knucklehead caucus is back together. The five Republican congressmen who are to the far right of the party, you may like them, you may hate them — it doesn’t matter. There are five. They are stopping the Republicans from funding the Department of Defense. “It’s the Gaetz caucus, the knucklehead caucus. Now I know some of you like Matt …

The Guardian reports: Rupert Murdoch loathes Donald Trump so much that the billionaire has not just soured on him as a presidential candidate but often wishes for his death, the author Michael Wolff writes in his eagerly awaited new book on the media mogul, The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty. According to Wolff, Murdoch, 92, …

Radio Iowa reports: Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis says Donald Trump’s recent statements on the abortion issue show the former president’s “values” are out of step with Iowa GOP voters. Trump said during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the six week abortion ban DeSantis signed into law this spring was a terrible mistake. “Donald Trump may think …

The Insider reports: A conservative commentator has taken aim at US Rep. Lauren Boebert, calling her an “embarrassing bimbo” after she was kicked out of a Denver theater last week. Ann Coulter, a conservative pundit and writer, responded to news of the incident with a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, writing: “Totally embarrassing bimbo.” Former president Donald Trump’s …

The Texas Tribune reports: Hours after his acquittal in the Texas Senate, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s far-right supporters doubled down on their promises for swift retribution against fellow Republicans who supported his removal from office. In particular, they vowed a scorched-earth campaign against House Speaker Dade Phelan, casting him as the ringleader responsible for the impeachment process and calling for …

The Texas Tribune reports: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick broke his personal silence Saturday on Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment after the Senate voted for acquittal, blasting the House’s impeachment process as deeply flawed. “The speaker and his team rammed through the first impeachment of a statewide official in Texas in over 100 years while paying no attention to the precedent …

GOP Rep. Ken Buck writes for the Washington Post: The House is back in session, and Americans are getting an up-close look at Washington’s dysfunction. We are barreling toward a government shutdown without making progress on cutting our out-of-control spending. Yet Republican leadership has decided to divert attention to an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. What’s missing, despite years of …

“I know him well as a friend, as a former boss, I have great love and respect for him personally. But everything that you just said resonates with me as exactly why I simply can’t support him for elected office again. “Why I have chosen to distance is because of that, frankly, malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s …

The Hill reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday dubbed the House Freedom Caucus the “burn-it-all-down caucus,” a swipe at the conservative group that ousted her from its ranks over the summer. “I’m not a member of the burn-it-all-down caucus anymore,” Greene told reporters. “I’m a greatly, very happily a free agent and I want to do my job …

The Messenger reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Thursday dared members from his own party who have been threatening to oust him to bring a motion to vacate to the House floor. According to a source in the room during a House Republican Conference meeting Thursday morning, the speaker said he’s not scared of the motion, which — if …

“I am the most investigated man in the entire Congress. And right there you saw Kevin McCarthy lying like a dead dog, because I have never asked him to interfere in any ethics matter. “That is an abject lie from a sad and pathetic man who lies to hold on to power. He lied to get power in January when …