Republican National Committee plans to soon consider declaring Trump the ‘presumptive 2024 nominee’

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on January 26, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By MEG KINNARD and THOMAS BEAUMONT (Associated Press) COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican National Committee is expected to consider a resolution next week to declare Donald Trump the party’s “presumptive 2024 nominee,” even though only two states have voted and the former president has nowhere near the requisite number of delegates to clinch the mantle. If approved, the measure would further solidify Trump’s control of the party and its operation at a time when former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is still competing against Trump for the GOP nomination. The measure, according to a...

Leading DeSantis supporters in Florida quickly shift to Trump as governor ends presidential bid

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on January 22, 2024. Posted in Election, Florida News, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, National News, National Politics, News, Politics, Ron DeSantis.

Outspoken Florida supporters of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ failed presidential campaign mourned his decision, announced Sunday, to drop out. Many quickly endorsed former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination. “I’m proud of the work that he did,” said state Rep. Chip LaMarca, the only Republican elected official in a partisan office in Broward County. “As he said, there’s not necessarily a path forward for him, so I think he’s doing the right thing.” “To be honest, I’m disappointed,” said Joe Budd, the elected Republican state committeeman from Palm Beach County. Both were...

Democrat Keen wins state House 35 special election over GOP’s Booth

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on January 17, 2024. Posted in Election, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, News, Politics.

In a race seen as a bellwether for Democratic chances in November, Democrat Tom Keen flipped what had been a Republican state House seat in Central Florida in a special election held Tuesday. Keen, a Navy flight officer who works in the aerospace training and simulation industry, defeated Republican Erika Booth, a teacher and member of the Osceola School Board. Unofficial totals for the District 35 seat had Keen with 51.3% of the vote to Booth’s 48.7%. “A huge THANK YOU to all our supporters, volunteers, and voters who believed in our vision for a better, brighter District 35,” Keen wrote...

Trump leads GOP rightward march and other takeaways from the Iowa caucuses

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on January 16, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By Nicholas Riccardi and Brian Slodysko, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s iron grip on the Republican Party has been clear since the day he announced he would make another run for the White House 14 months ago. It can be seen in the party’s ideological shift even further to the right on cultural issues and, especially, on immigration policy. Iowa Republicans were a clear reflection of that on Monday night, delivering the former president an emphatic victory. They channeled his anger, and his view that basically everything President Joe Biden has done has been a “disaster.”...

Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, dies at 100

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on November 30, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Obituaries, Politics.

By NANCY BENAC (Associated Press) Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting firm said. He was 100. With his gruff yet commanding presence and behind-the-scenes manipulation of power, Kissinger exerted uncommon influence on global affairs under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, earning both vilification and the Nobel Peace Prize. Decades later, his name still provoked impassioned...

‘You’re going to waltz right in’: Randy Fine talks of how FAU presidential bid fizzled out

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 27, 2023. Posted in Education, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Local News, News, Politics.

State Rep. Randy Fine applied for the job of Florida Atlantic University president after the governor’s office assured him he was a shoo-in, only to discover those at FAU had other plans, the lawmaker said. Fine gave his first detailed account about his role in FAU’s search for a new leader in a phone interview Thursday with the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office said in March that Fine would make a good president of FAU, but the decision was ultimately up to a search committee and Board of Trustees at FAU. When the search committee announced three finalists July 5 for...

Former President Donald Trump speaks at rally in West Palm Beach | PHOTOS

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 12, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, News, Photos and Videos, Politics.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a Club 47 USA rally at the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.

Rep. Matt Gaetz files motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, throwing House into new turmoil

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on October 3, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Politics.

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing an extraordinary referendum on his leadership of the House after a conservative member of his own Republican majority, a longtime critic, moved to launch a vote to oust him from the helm. Late Monday, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., rose in the chamber as the House was almost done for the day to file the motion — a resolution that would set a snap vote in coming days that even Gaetz acknowledged may not have enough support to remove the speaker from the job. “I have enough Republicans where at...

DeSantis says he would sign a 15-week abortion ban as president

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 29, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, News, Politics.

LOS ANGELES — In the chaos of Wednesday night’s noisy Republican presidential debate, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott interrupted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to pose a question on abortion that DeSantis had dodged directly answering for months. Would the Florida governor sign a “15-week limit” on abortion as president, Scott asked, talking over both DeSantis and Dana Perino, one of the moderators, in a way that made his full remarks difficult to hear. “Yes, I will,” DeSantis replied. The moment — which largely escaped attention in real time but was noted by The Daily Signal, a news website...

DeSantis knocks Trump, GOP moves on from Reagan and other presidential debate takeaways

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on September 28, 2023. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, National News, News, Politics.

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI (Associated Press) Seven Republican presidential hopefuls gathered at the Reagan Library in California on Wednesday for the second of the party’s primary debates. The contest’s dominant front-runner — former President Donald Trump — skipped the event again. With less than four months until the Iowa caucuses officially jumpstart the GOP nomination process, the pressure is building on Trump’s rivals to show they can emerge as a genuine alternative. Here are some early takeaways from the debate: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had an aggressive start,...

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