DeSantis Won’t Hesitate to Race Trump to the Bottom

Trump’s Abortion Turn • Paxton’s Acquittal • Noem Scandal

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DeSantis Won’t Hesitate to Race Trump to the Bottom

Good morning from the Hive newsroom! Donald Trump, who sometimes brags about ending a constitutional right to an abortion, said yesterday on Meet the Press that Ron DeSantis passing a six-week abortion ban in Florida was “a terrible mistake,” writes Jack McCordick.

Speaking of the Sunshine State, author and Florida native Carl Hiaasen breaks down the potential horrors of electing DeSantis, “a hands-on autocrat” who “built the most regressive, intrusive, and punitive state bureaucracy in the nation.” And over in Texas, Ken Paxton’s acquittal, writes McCordick, “underscores Texas’s hard-right GOP faction’s stranglehold on the party.” Thanks for reading.

DeSantis Won’t Hesitate to Race Trump to the Bottom

Take it from this native Floridian.

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Ken Paxton, Texas’s MAGA Attorney General, Acquitted in Impeachment Trial

The stunning dismissal underscores Texas’s hard-right GOP faction’s stranglehold on the party.

Donald Trump Denounces DeSantis Abortion Ban As “a Terrible Mistake”

Evangelical voters still prefer the former president, although Ron DeSantis and Mike Pence have more ardent anti-abortion views.

Governor Kristi Noem, “God-Fearing” Family Woman, and Corey Lewandowski, Trump Creep, Reportedly Had “Yearslong” Affair

It’s always the ones who insist that marriage is “a special, God-given union between one man and one woman” that forget how to count.