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FOR THE RECORD

“The Monday before the election we could declare a state of emergency for [Hurricane] Nicole, conduct an election, count like 7.7 million votes by midnight... And these other states are still counting their votes from the election! How pathetic is that?” – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

“When DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before House and Senate committees that the border is ‘secure,’ and pictures show the opposite, it is akin to claiming American astronauts never landed on the moon. … We have become hyphenated Americans with too many clinging to their native land in language and culture. No nation can be sustained in its character without controlling who is allowed to enter. Other nations have far more restrictive immigration laws and paths to citizenship than ours.” – Cal Thomas

“Republican House candidates won 58% of the popular vote in the South and 53% in the Midwest, two regions that together account for 298 of the 538 electoral votes. Duplicating that support is one way an unproblematic Republican nominee could top 270 electoral votes in 2024.” – Michael Barone

“Trump’s inner circle appears to be of the belief that other possible 2024 candidates must yield to the former president, and that doing otherwise would be ‘disloyal.’ They maintain this while Trump himself throws schoolyard insults at the extraordinarily popular DeSantis, mocking him repeatedly as ‘Ron DeSanctimonious,’ and veers off on other diatribes against popular Republicans, including a truly bizarre social media post about Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (entirely normal) surname. All the while, substantive issues usually take a backseat to an intense focus on ‘stop the steal’ and other flavors of ‘doomerism,’ more broadly. Shaming the Republican base into blindly standing by a past president with such a checkered electoral record, no questions asked, is not going to cut it.” – Josh Hammer

 

DUMB & DUMBER

“Reparations for African Americans could have cut COVID-19 transmission and infection rates both among blacks and the population at large.” – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee

“Beware, DeSantis is as much a threat to America as Trump.”  – Jennifer Rubin, November 21