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Republicans in one of the reddest states are feeling far from confident about their ticket heading into the midterms, and according to GOP insider Rick Wilson, their longstanding worries led to a "secret meeting" earlier this year that ended up causing a "red alert."
Rep. Byron Donalds is the GOP's candidate for governor in Florida, running to replace the term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis. While polls have consistently given him the edge in the race, there have been major concerns about his ability to win the general election, given that there were several counties across the state where he failed to secure 50 percent of the primary vote. Some of the late-breaking polls in the race have put Donalds neck-and-neck with his Democratic opponent, David Jolly.
Speaking with Axios, anonymous GOP officials in the state said that the gubernatorial election will be a massive experiment in how "racist" their voters really are, given that Donalds is Black.
"We're about to run the biggest experiment to see how racist some of our voters are," the longtime consultant told the outlet, noting that some of the counties where Donalds has struggled are "more culturally Confederate" than the rest of the state.
During his appearance on the latest episode of the "Fast Politics" podcast with host Molly Jong-Fast, Wilson, himself a veteran of Florida Republican politics, called that remark to Axios "the most amazing fricking quote," and revealed what he has heard about the state GOP's alarm about Donalds' candidacy.
"I was told the other day about a secret meeting that DeSantis and his team held in the late spring, and I'm trying to still pin down the date, I'm told it's like late May, while the primary is still going on, where they studied this, they went out and checked out, they went out and tried to run some numbers on this, and it came back like red alert," Wilson said. "And Byron Donalds is a black guy running in North Florida. And these people, on a good day, they're gonna be torn between thinking, 'Well, I gotta vote against the communists, and I gotta vote for that black guy.' And they're not happy."
Early voting discrepancies have also caused major alarm among Republicans, as Democrats have turned out significantly more than the GOP base in the lead-up to Election Day, something DeSantis himself has publicly fretted about. Some estimates currently find that Republican voters will have to outnumber Democrats on Election Day in order to make up the difference. Wilson said the actual turnout needed for the GOP might be a little lower than that estimate, but said that Donalds would be in big trouble even if the needed ratio was around 1.8-to-one.
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- Sarah Ewall-Wice @ The Daily Beast: Top MAGA Ally Delivers Jaw-Dropping Snub to Trump in Home State
The president’s pick for governor in Florida is giving himself a clean slate.
Top Donald Trump ally Byron Donalds has revamped his campaign website to scrub any clues of his support for the president from the homepage.
The ultra-MAGA congressman who is running for governor in Trump’s adopted home state of Florida once had “Trump-endorsed” prominently displayed multiple times at the top of his website.
However, the new version of the Republican candidate’s campaign page doesn’t mention the president at all. There are also noticeably fewer photos of Donalds with the increasingly unpopular president.
Trump backed Donalds for governor early last year, but the Florida congressman is just the latest in a series of GOP candidates to wipe mentions of Trump from their websites.
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- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Byron Donalds blames measles outbreak on ‘illegal immigration,’ joining a shameful club
There’s a reprehensible tradition in this country of blaming diseases on immigrants. The Florida Republican added to this ignominious record.
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Republican Darren Bailey thinks humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, and he’s very upset people keep bringing it up.
- Miles Taylor @ Defiance News: Trump has resumed killing people without trial. The moment Dems take Congress, the subpoenas should fly.
The president’s illegal boat strikes resumed this weekend after a mysterious two-month pause. Somebody inside the administration knows why the murders were paused — and it's time for them to speak up.
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The hospitals are performing “reverse surgery” to stop “transgender for everybody.” And it’s all because of Trump.
- Ben Van Bloem and Monica Rodriguez @ Media Matters: Right-wing media liken Massachusetts law expanding abortion access to Satanism, murder, and “human sacrifice”
Women attending the signing of the law, which will allow more patients to receive care in the Bay State, were called “witches” and “shrieking harpies”
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After VRA ruling, Benny Johnson suggests the Trump administration “should go full speed ahead in bringing the full force of the federal government against these DEI districts”
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BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Harmeet Dhillon, who, of course, is a favorite of our show ... she said that she is going to be suing in order to ensure that there are reparations for hard-working Americans who have been disenfranchised through Eric Holder and Barack Obama's racism in creating congressional ghettos and DEI districts. Your take on that, how should Harmeet Dhillon ensure that maps are as fair and equitable as possible for the 2026 elections?
MIKE DAVIS (GUEST): I love Harmeet Dhillon, and I always say this: my favorite Americans are women and minority conservatives because they are absolutely the most bold and fearless people on the planet. They're great -- whether it's Byron Donalds or Harmeet Dhillon -- these are the types of people who I want in these offices. People who are going to fight every day for America, for the West, for our way of life, for our Judeo-Christian traditions. Harmeet is phenomenal.
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The best thing about Harmeet, the best thing about this new version of the Trump administration, is prior Republicans, George W. Bush Republicans — and I worked in the George W. Bush White House — we were, those Republicans who were so scared of being labeled as racists or sexist or homophobe or transphobe or whatever phobe the Democrats come out with. And my response to those Republicans is to say to those Democrats, ‘Go to hell. You're not going to be able to use your Marxist division and cow us like you've done in the past.' We are the party of opportunity for poor Black people trapped in these Democrat ghettos and these DEI districts. Democrats want to keep minorities trapped in intergenerational poverty. They want victims. They want misery. Because that's the Marxist playbook. So, people like Harmeet Dhillon, people like Byron Donalds, they are the all-stars.
JOHNSON: So, Harmeet should go full speed ahead in bringing the full force of the federal government against these DEI districts and lawfare Democrats who want to sue in order to create these congressional ghettos?
DAVIS: Absolutely. The Supreme Court just ruled that we, you can have political gerrymandering, but you cannot have racial gerrymandering. It was a brilliant opinion by Justice Sam Alito, and Harmeet can go after every one of these districts, these House districts where these Democrats in these blue states intentionally sliced and diced the population to have a DEI district, to have some loser Democrat minority be the House representative and go grift and make millions of dollars and do nothing for their poor Black or poor Hispanic constituents.
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On Thursday, August 21, conservative Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) made a major announcement: He is running for Texas attorney general, a position presently held by far-right Ken Paxton — who is challenging incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in the state's 2026 GOP U.S. Senate primary.
Roy is a prominent player in the House Freedom Caucus and is known for being a relentless budget hawk. In an article published on August 22, The Hill's Emily Brooks stresses that Bolton's announcement is a major shakeup for the Freedom Caucus and the U.S. House of Representatives' small GOP majority.
"Several other notable Freedom Caucus members are seeking higher office, too: Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Byron Donalds (Fla.), and Ralph Norman (S.C.) are running for governor; Rep. Barry Moore (Ala.) launched a Senate bid last week; and Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) is interested in being appointed to the Senate if Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) wins the governorship," Brooks explains. "Some members hope that the departures of those members who have often cause headaches will lead to greater GOP harmony and less chaos in Congress."
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At times, Roy has butted heads with President Donald Trump over budgetary matters.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisconsin) told The Hill, "The outcome of Chip leaving is a more productive Congress. He's been a contrarian, and he's been an obstructionist."
But some GOP lawmakers, according to Brooks, view Roy "as an important bridge between the Freedom Caucus and the rest of the House GOP and someone who negotiates in good faith."
Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Oklahoma) told The Hill, "My hope is that we'll have members from the Freedom Caucus step up to fill that void, because there's a need for us to continue to work together."
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Although he’s already been endorsed by Donald Trump for governor, Southwest Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds is just now beginning to introduce himself to Floridians who don’t know much more about him other than his ubiquitous appearances on cable news over the past few years.
Speaking on the back of a small flatbed truck outside of Conservative Grounds, the MAGA-flavored coffee shop in Pinellas County on Saturday afternoon, Donalds was intent on responding to a criticism voiced by Ron DeSantis earlier this year that he “hasn’t been part of any of the victories” that Republicans have enjoyed in Florida in recent years.
“A lot’s been made about what I’ve been doing the last couple of years,” Donalds acknowledged about halfway through his 22-minute speech. He said the choice before him a year ago was whether he should stay in Florida and work for GOP candidates or “do I go on the road with Donald Trump and campaign to make sure that we save the United States of America?”
He said that, after conferring with his wife Erika and his team, he went all in for Trump.
“I told the president and I told his campaign, I said, ‘Listen: You can have the entire calendar. Just take it. It’s yours,” he said.
“Because Florida is wonderful. We have leadership that has protected this state. Gov DeSantis is to be commended for that. He’s done a tremendous job. But the fight this last November was not in Florida. The fight was across America. And so it didn’t matter where the liberals were, that’s where I was. If they were in Detroit, I was there. If they were in Philadelphia, I was there.”
Donalds, 46, is a Brooklyn native who moved to Florida to attend Florida State University, where he graduated in 2002 before beginning a career in banking, finance, and insurance, according to the biography listed on his congressional website. He got involved in politics in 2010, the year of the Tea Party, which led to his first run for Congress in 2012 (when he lost in a Republican primary in Congressional District 19 to Trey Radel).
He was elected to the state House representing all of Hendry and a part of Collier County in 2016 and was re-elected in 2018. In 2020, he opted to run for Congress in Florida’s 19th District in Southwest Florida after GOP incumbent Francis Rooney announced he was resigning. He narrowly defeated fellow Republican Dane Eagle in a nine-person GOP primary in 2020, and has been re-elected to that seat twice since.
Few details
In speaking about his plans if elected governor in 2026, Donalds touched on a variety of subjects without delving too deeply.
The property insurance situation? “We’re going to fix it once and for all.”
Transportation? “We’re going to continue the work from Gov. DeSantis. We’re going to expand these roads. We’re going to make it easier for people to move through, not just here in Clearwater, not just here in Pinellas, but all through Florida. We’re going to make it clear for everybody.”
The economy? “We’re going to make sure that our economy is the number one economy in the entire [nation],” he said. “We’re going to have more businesses coming here employing more people.”
Donalds is the only major declared Republican candidate in the race, although how long that remains the case remains to be seen here in the spring of 2025.
First Lady Casey DeSantis has kept the idea alive that she might enter the race. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says he is still considering getting into the contest. Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson was reportedly considering his own bid, although that was before Trump stepped in and endorsed Donalds (before the congressman himself had officially announced).
Early polls show that the Trump endorsement is a big deal for Donalds.
As Donalds begins his campaign, Florida’s top Republicans are in disarray, with a tentative budget deal between the state House and Senate now off the table, according to state legislative leaders in comments made on Friday.
Donalds assured the audience that “they’re going to figure this out, I promise you that.”
No RINOs
He added that “there will be no RINO (Republicans in Name Only) activity in Tallahasee,” drawing large cheers. “None of that is going to occur.”
He dismissed Democrats, inaccurately claiming that they have now grown so low that they’re behind registered independents in the state.
“We are going to make sure that the Democrats stay exactly as they are in the state of Florida. And that’s not number two, it’s number three,” he said. “Because there are actually more independents than Democrats now.”
As of April 30, the Florida Division of Elections website shows that there are 5.5 million people registered as Republicans and 4.32 million registered Democrats in the state, with 3.58 million registered as No Party Affiliation. Another 425,882 are listed as registered with minor parties.
Donalds was introduced to the crowd by his wife, Erika, a former member of the Collier County School Board who now serves as the chair of the Florida state chapter of the America First Policy Institute. She described the Tea Party movement that they joined.
“We got angry at what we saw the government doing, making decisions that were ruining our economy, bailing out people and companies that didn’t deserve it, while we were working our butts off to pay all of our bills and do things the right way. That’s what got us involved in politics,” she said.
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- Nathalie Baptiste @ HuffPost: Trump Signs Executive Order To Dismantle The Department Of Education
Congress would need to act to fully eliminate the critical agency, but Trump could still stop many of its key functions.
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Rumor of Joseph Ladapo landing the gig comes after the president’s first pick for the role had his appointment suddenly pulled.
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Trump Strong-Arms Big Law Firm Into Doing Millions in Pro Bono Work for His Administration
President Donald Trump took a victory lap on Thursday and announced that a major law firm he targeted via executive order had capitulated to his demands.
- Joe Jervis: Byron Donalds To Headline Hate Group’s Annual Gala
The Honorable Byron Donalds will be the keynote speaker at Liberty Counsel’s Annual Gala, A New Birth of Freedom, on Saturday, April 5 at 6 p.m. at the Waldorf Astoria Orlando.
Via press release from the Liberty Counsel:
The Honorable Byron Donalds will be the keynote speaker at Liberty Counsel’s Annual Gala, A New Birth of Freedom, on Saturday, April 5 at 6 p.m. at the Waldorf Astoria Orlando.
Erika Donalds, a former elected member of the Collier County School Board and advocate for high-quality school choice, will introduce her husband.
Congressman Donalds has been endorsed by President Donald Trump to run as Florida’s next governor. Because of his value-based policy positions, Congressman Donalds was invited to speak before he declared his intent to run for governor and prior to President Trump’s endorsement.
Liberty Counsel and Liberty Counsel Action do not endorse political candidates, but they do address legal and policy issues relevant to their respective missions.
Erika Donalds is the Founder and Chairman of OptimaEd, an online virtual charter school, and the Chair of America First Policy Institute’s Center for Education Opportunity.
Erika has met with President Donald Trump and offered her expertise to help further the expansion of school choice options and to improve accountability and governance in America’s schools.
Erika is an advisor for Heritage Foundation Advisory Council on Education Reform, Classical Learning Test, Moms for Liberty, and the Independent Women’s Forum Education Freedom Center.
Read the full press release.
As longtime JMG readers know, the Liberty Counsel has filed countless lawsuits seeking to overturn same-sex marriage, ex-gay torture bans, and laws protecting LGBTQ Americans from discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations.
They claim that the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Obergefell v Hodges legalized pedophilia, incest, and bestiality.
They also claim that hundreds of thousands have died from COVID vaccinations, which they say contain graphene nanobots intended to “connect people to the internet” for mind control purposes.
Tickets for the gala run from $125 to $2750 for a “preferred table.” The Waldorf Astoria is a Hilton brand.
- Kayla Gogarty @ MSNBC: How right-wing influencers are exploiting the Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively feud
Members of the right's massive media ecosystem are attracting even bigger audiences by stretching outside their comfort zones.
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An interview between a CNN host and a Republican member of Congress quickly grew heated as the two discussed budget cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
On Thursday, CNN host Pamela Brown spoke with Donalds about President Donald Trump's administration slashing tens of thousands of jobs at the agency. She also asked him about Trump's decision to halt tariffs on Mexico until April 2, 2025.
“New employment data shows recession level cuts for February, with more jobs lost than any month in 15 years, are you worried about that?” Keilar asked.
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“Let's be clear about the numbers that you're reporting. The reason why the job growth numbers are down is because government workers are the ones who are starting to lose their jobs at the federal level," Donalds responded. "But the other elements of our economy are very, very strong, and they're going to remain that way."
Brown pushed back, noting that "consumer sentiment is down," and is "the lowest it's been in three and a half years." But Donalds insisted that the "tariff policy is one piece of the overall economic picture."
"You have deregulation at the federal level, which is critical for the future health of our economy,” the Florida Republican said.
“I just spoke to a farmer who said American farmers are being hammered by Trump's policies right now, and that will only cause the price of food for Americans to go up,” Brown countered. “How do you answer this farmer?”
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“What I will say is that when you have to unwind the terrible inflation from the previous administration, you have to go through several processes," Donalds said, opining that South African centibillionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was the "first piece." And when Brown asked if he could assure his constituents who are veterans that the VA's cuts wouldn't affect their services, he said they "absolutely" wouldn't.
“The VA has been an albatross of an agency. It is heavily bureaucratic,” Donalds said.
Brown then pivoted to trade, and asked Donalds about the news that Mexico "will not be required to pay tariffs on any products that fall under the USMCA [United States-Mexico-Canada] agreement" inked during Trump's first term. She then asked Donalds if "Trump's back-and-forth decision" was "the right call, especially given the volatility of markets."
“Well, look, I'm going to repeat myself a little bit here. It is important that we stabilize not just our economic relationships around the globe, but also the fact that we got to secure our border and we got to stop the flow of fentanyl, give Donald Trump the opportunity to actually negotiate with the Mexican president, and with Canada, and with China. You've gotta give him that opportunity," he said. "Because when prices we're rising in the United States, I didn't hear CNN talking about that much, and as a matter of fact, you ignored it. That’s not my opinion. That’s a fact. Okay?”
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“[That’s] not a fact," Brown said, before ending the interview.
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In the final weeks of the 2024 campaign cycle, former President Donald Trump has made ominous threats against "the enemy from within." He specifically assigned that description to top Democrats like Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Adam Schiff.
The ex-president doubled down on those remarks during a Fox News town hall hosted by Harris Faulkner that was packed full of his supporters. And Vice President Kamala Harris used her interview with Fox News' Bret Baier to draw attention to those remarks and remind viewers that Trump has called for deploying the military against U.S. citizens.
Now, Trump's campaign surrogates are publicly defending his remarks on national cable news. On Tuesday, CNN host Jim Acosta gave Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Florida) three different opportunities to denounce the ex-president's "enemy from within" comment. And each time, Donalds deflected and demurred.
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"Congressman, do you consider Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi to be the enemy from within?" Acosta asked Donalds.
Donalds didn't answer yes or no, but rather pivoted to a litany of talking points in which he accused Schiff of leaking classified material. This echoes similar claims by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Schiff leaked classified information, though he admitted it was "difficult to pin down precisely what happened."
The Florida Republican referenced Schiff being removed from the House Intelligence Committee over the supposed leaks by then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California), but as Axios reported, that was seen more as a retaliatory move for Pelosi stripping Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) of their committee assignments for amplifying threats of political violence and trafficking in racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, respectively.
"Congressman, I asked you a yes or no [question]," Acosta said again as Donalds continued speaking about the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
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Acosta reminded Donalds that he did not oppose Pelosi and Schiff being characterized as "the enemy from within" before then asking him whether he would support having them "rounded up" and arrested under a potential second Trump presidency. Donalds replied by saying "absolutely not," and notably again did not dispute Acosta telling viewers that Donalds agreed with Trump calling Democrats "the enemy from within."
Trump's "enemy from within" comments mirror a direct quote from Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. In 2012, the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom noted that during World War II, Hitler repeatedly warned of the "enemy within" in reference to Jewish people. Those remarks came just before Hitler recommended the "final solution," which was the extermination of the Jewish community.
Watch the clip of Donalds' interview below, or by[clicking this link.
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September 16, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): We have heard a lot about Donald Trump from the leftists leading up to this second assassination attempt, including, Congressman, from a well-known commentator, Keith Boykin, [gay AA BC staff] who says that if Trump is popular, it's obviously just because of racism. Watch.
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INGRAHAM: Congressman, that's the kind of stuff that these crazed lunatics are marinating in.
BYRON DONALDS (GUEST): Laura, listening to Keith Boykin frankly is listening to the hysteria from the Democrat Party and the radical left. Kamala Harris is losing Black voters because they destroyed the economy. She's losing Hispanic voters because she destroyed the border. And quite frankly, she's losing Jewish voters and a lot of other ethnicities because of the terrible foreign policy. They want to throw out race as the reason, but the true reason is their policies are a disaster.
Their rhetoric is dangerous, and their leadership is nonexistent. This is why Donald Trump is still popular today, in my opinion, that's why he is going to win this presidential election. But, obviously the story today is this is the reason why you have crazies from the left who are now attempting to assassinate him. That rhetoric is out of control, it is dangerous, and we're not going to be lectured to by Keith Boykin or anybody else on the Democrat side of the aisle. Clean up your own house before you come talk to us.
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Donalds, a second-term representative, has made nearly 200 Fox weekday appearances
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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is emerging as the right-wing media favorite among the clown car of House Republicans currently vying to become House speaker. Donalds, a second-term member who voted against certifying the electoral votes following the January 6, 2021, insurrection, has little legislative experience but maintains a constant presence on right-wing outlets such as Fox News.
The House has been mired in chaos for weeks since a handful of attention-seeking Republican members ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). First House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and then Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) were selected speaker-designate by the GOP caucus, but each stepped down after it became clear he could not amass enough votes on the floor. Nine declared candidates for the post will make their case to their peers on Monday night.
Former President Donald Trump reportedly opposes the candidacy of House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), who was quickly denounced by pro-Trump media figures including Steve Bannon. Notably, Emmer, who was No. 3 in the caucus leadership before McCarthy’s speakership collapsed, is one of only two would-be speakers who voted to certify the 2020 electoral votes.
Meanwhile, Donalds, who still denies that President Joe Biden’s election was legitimate, is picking up Jordan's mantle as the speaker candidate favored by the right-wing press. Donalds, like the Ohio Republican and other members of what I call the Fox News Caucus, uses his regular interviews on right-wing outlets to bootstrap himself to national relevance.
Donalds has appeared on weekday Fox News programs 193 times since August 2017. He’s been interviewed nearly four times as frequently as Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), the speaker candidate with the second-most Fox appearances, and nearly nine times as frequently as Emmer, who has the third-most.
The disparities are all the more startling given Donalds’ recent entry to national politics — both Emmer and Johnson are members of the House Republican Caucus leadership and entered Congress in 2015 and 2017, respectively.
Donalds has the fifth-most weekday Fox appearances of all elected officials since January 2021, when he began his first term in office. Only Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Jordan, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) received more interviews on the network during this time.
Donalds is a particular favorite of Fox’s prime-time hosts, who serve as influential kingmakers within the GOP. He has appeared in Fox weekday prime time at least 67 times, including 38 interviews on The Ingraham Angle and 25 interviews on Hannity. The only other speaker candidates who have appeared in prime time are Johnson (14 times) and Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) (once).
Donalds has promoted those Fox appearances to solicit funds from donors, telling supporters that “the next time I go on Hannity, I want to show Sean a list of all the grassroots patriots who stood with me in my hour of need.”
Sean Hannity, the Fox prime-time host and GOP operative who functioned as Jordan’s biggest booster, has floated Donalds for speaker.
“Byron Donalds' name is probably the name I hear the most,” he told his radio audience on Friday.
Donalds’ profile in right-wing media is not limited to Fox; he’s made dozens of appearances on the far-right One America News Network and drawn fulsome praise from right-wing influencers including Charlie Kirk and Roger Stone. He was lauded by conspiracy theorists like Dom Lucre and Benny Johnson over the weekend for going on Fox and saying that as speaker, he would release all security footage from the January 6 insurrection.
Right-wing media demagogues have spent years encouraging their audience to demand leaders who embrace the same brand of radicalism. Donalds is just the latest in a long line of Republican politicians to grasp that Fox and other propagandists constitute their real path to power.
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legal and political experts are raising red flags about all nine Republican candidates now running for Speaker of the House, warning of their positions, histories, and voting records.
The nine are: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (MN), Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson (LA), Republican Study Committee Chair Kevin Hern (OK), Jack Bergman (MI), Byron Donalds (FL), Dan Meuser (PA), Gary Palmer (AL), Austin Scott (GA), and Pete Sessions (TX).
“All vote suppressors, most election deniers. MAGA, MAGA and more MAGA,” warns Democratic elections attorney Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket. Elias famously won over 60 cases that Trump and his allies filed in the 2020 election, losing just one.
“It’s probably an accurate reflection of today’s GOP that 6 of 9 candidates for speaker come from the South and 2 from the Midwest,” notes Michael Li, redistricting and voting counsel at the Brennan Center at NYU School of Law.
With the exception of one, the candidates are all white. And as former U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) observed, “9 men running for Speaker. Where are the women candidates?”
Noticeably absent from running: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who serves as the Chair of the House Republican Conference.
The candidates are far older than the average American, who is just under 39 years old. Bergman is the oldest, at 76. Emmer is 62. Johnson is 51. Hern is 61. Meuser, 59. Palmer, 69. Scott, 53. Sessions, 68. Donalds is the youngest, at 44.
All come from strongly Republican-leaning districts, as University of South Carolina Professor and Political Science Department Vice Chair David Darmofal notes.
“It’s 2023 and only one of the 9 Republican candidates for Speaker of the House voted to federally codify same-sex & interracial marriages,” Darmofal adds, pointing to former pollster Adam Carlson’s spreadsheet which details just how far-right all nine candidates are.
According to Carlson’s chart and one for Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman (both below), just two voted to certify the 2020 presidential election on January 6 after the insurrection, which The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent calls “Another mark of the GOP’s descent.”
“Don’t be fooled,” warns activist and political commentator Victor Chi. “While 2 of the 9 Republicans didn’t decertify the election results on January 6, BOTH of them signed an amicus brief demanding SCOTUS overturn the 2020 election. That means ALL 9 Speaker candidates are election deniers. This is not normal. But it’s who they are.”
None voted to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection. None voted to establish the January 6 Commission.
Just five of the nine voted to avert a government default related to the debt ceiling, and five voted to avert a government shutdown by supporting the current 45-day continuing resolution. That’s an ominous possible predictor of what could happen in less than four weeks, when the federal government will shut down if the House (and Senate) do not pass legislation to fund the government.
Only four voted to support additional aid to Ukraine.
None voted for bipartisan gun control. None voted for the bipartisan Infrastructure Act. Just one voted for reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.
None voted for ensuring the right to contraception, which some warn is a battle Republicans are gearing up to wage.
What are some other experts saying overall?
“The worst is Donalds. The best of the lot is Emmer,” writes political scientist Norman Ornstein of The Atlantic. Reflecting on the bigger picture of why Speaker Nancy Pelosi was successful while Speaker Kevin McCarthy was not, Ornstein writes:
“Blowing up government is the larger goal. Purity is a virtue. So is disruption. So it is not a great surprise that McCarthy, who spent much of his career, encouraging disruption, and who has no core values, failed. Nor is it a great surprise that they cannot find a replacement.”
House Republicans will meet behind closed doors for a “candidate forum,” Monday starting at 6:30 PM. They hope to elect one nominee who must get a majority of their fellow Republicans’ votes. Tuesday morning, exactly three weeks after Kevin McCarthy was ousted, the House is expected to convene to attempt, for the fourth time this year, to elect a Speaker.
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Watch: Here’s how 5 House Republicans are responding to the TN school shooting that left 6 dead
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: U.S. Rep.-elect Andy Ogles (R-TN) casts his vote in the House Chamber during the fourth day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2023 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives is meeting to vote for the next Speaker after House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) failed to earn more than 218 votes on several ballots; the first time in 100 years that the Speaker was not elected on the first ballot. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
David Badashand
The New Civil Rights Movement
March 29, 2023
There are 535 seats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and another six non-voting seats for delegates. After Monday’s horrific mass shooting at a private Christian elementary school, where three nine-year olds and three adults were shot to death, very few Members appeared on-camera to talk with reporters about the tragedy.
The Democrats who did advocated for various gun control measures, including reinstating the federal assault weapons ban signed into law in 1994 by President Bill Clinton that Republican lawmakers and President George W. Bush refused to renew in 2004, after which mass shootings and gun violence skyrocketed.
President Joe Biden this week repeatedly called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, a call he has made over and over again.
In addition to calling for an assault weapons ban, House and Senate Democrats responded to the mass shooting at Covenant Presbyterian Elementary in Nashville by calling for tighter gun control measures including implementing red flag laws.
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The parents of the Nashville shooter have said their child had an emotional disorder and should not have had any firearms. Three were used in the assault and another four were found at the shooter’s home.Tennessee has no red flag law so police were not legally allowed to take the guns away.
After last year’s school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two adults were shot to death, some states took action. Tennessee, where the Nashville school shooting became the nation’s 130th this year, did little.
“We’re not looking at gun restriction laws in my administration right now,”Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, a Republican, said after the tragedy. “Criminals don’t follow laws, criminals break laws. Whether they are a gun law, a drug law, criminals break laws.”
“We can’t control what they do.”
But in a sense, Governor Lee did control what they do.
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In 2021 ago he signed into law a permit-less open-carry law: no permit required, no training required, no background check required.
A Tennessee Republican U.S. Congressman, Tim Burchett this week repeatedly decreed there’s nothing that can be done.
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Echoing almost word-for-word Governor Lee’s remarks from three years ago, in now-viral video, Rep. Burchett infamously on Monday declared, “We’re not gonna fix it. Criminals are going to be criminals.”
He did, however, invoke religion, calling for a Christian revival, and declaring that was the answer to fixing mass shootings and gun violence.}:
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“I don’t know what law we could pass,” he said. “Evil people are going to do evil things.”}:
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U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) appeared on CNN this week and responded to the Nashville slaughter by defending his threat to President Biden to try to take his AR-15 away.
In a rare example of excellent journalism, CNN’s Phil Mattingly pressed Buck after the far-right Republican tried to change the topic.
“If Joe Biden is interested in reaching a resolution on the issue let him deal with the Southern border,” Buck defiantly declared, literally blaming President Biden’s border policies for gun violence.
He also tried to link the Nashville mass shooting to a mental health problem and then tried to link that to drug laws and a lack of funding for states for mental health services.
Rep. Buck last year voted against two mental health bills, and since 2019 has voted against the vast majority of 40 or so health care bills.}:
“What’s the burden on you?” Matttingly asked Buck.
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Unyieldingly, Buck replied, “My burden is to follow the Constitution, and the Second Amendment protects – there are more than two million AR-15s.”
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Rep. Ogles’ response was to answer the question with another question: “Why not talk about the real issue facing this country?” which he declared, like Rep. Buck and others, ismental health. He then walked away.}:
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) took a different tact on the GOP’s do-nothing policy while supporting the GOP’s walk-away response.
He equated assault weapons with politics and emotions.
“If you’re gonna talk about the AR-15 you’re talking politics now,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju. “Let’s not get into politics. let’s not get into emotion, because emotion feels good, but emotion doesn’t solve problems.”
He then just walked away.
But perhaps the greatest example of the Republican response to gun violence and mass shootings came from House Republican’s leader, Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
On Tuesday, McCarthy stood in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall to pose for photos with some tourists.
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McCarthy’s response?
He refused to provide one, then walked away.}:
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GOP Freedom Caucus is reaping its reward for holding House speaker election ransom, with even holdout Boebert given plum committee role
Sinéad Baker Jan 18, 2023,
GOP Freedom Caucus members initially held out on voting for Kevin McCarthy for House speaker.
Many have now received key appointments, including Lauren Boebert on the Oversight Committee.
McCarthy reportedly flipped members of the group by pledging committee seats for ultraconservatives.
Members of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus have benefited from holding back on supporting Rep. Kevin McCarthy's bid for House Speaker, with members, including Rep. Lauren Boebert, now receiving roles on key committees.
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Boebert and several other Freedom Caucus Republicans have been given seats on the House Oversight Committee, the main oversight body in the House of Representatives.
The committee will lead any investigations that Republicans launch into President Joe Biden and his administration.
Boebert has regularly criticized Biden, both questioning his competence and suggesting that his family are a "crime family."
Reps. Byron Donalds, Paul Gosar, and Scott Perry, other members of the Freedom Caucus, were also put on the committee, Axios reported.
Members of the Freedom Caucus, which include vocal Trump supporters and 2020 election deniers, repeatedly refused to support McCarthy in his bid for House speaker.
It took 15 rounds of voting for McCarthy to eventually get the support he required. Boebert never voted for him, even in the final ballot, when she was one of six holdouts.
McCarthy's bid to become the House speaker earlier this month was one of the most drawn out votes for the position in history. Most of the holdouts were members of the Freedom Caucus, with many of those flipping to vote for McCarthy in later ballots only after he agreed to key demands.
The New York Times reported in January that among the concessions McCarthy agreed to was granting ultraconservative members of the party approval over a third of the seats on the Rules Committee, which controls which legislation reaches the House floor.
Rep. Andy Bigs, a caucus member who didn't vote for McCarthy, and Rep. Dan Bishop, a caucus member who eventually gave his support, have kept their roles on the House Judiciary Committee,NBC News reported.
Meanwhile, Rep. Josh Brecheen, who voted for McCarthy on the 12th ballot, was given a seat on the Homeland Security Committee, while Reps. Mike Cloud and Andrew Clyde, who both eventually voted for McCarthy, have been given seats on the House Appropriations Committee.
Caucus member Marjorie Taylor Greene, who supported McCarthy throughout the process, was given a seat on theHomeland Security and Oversight Committees, and pledged on Tuesday to investigate Biden.
It is still not clear how much power McCarthy had to concede to finally get the role he has long coveted, Insider's Taiyler Simone Mitchell reported earlier this month.
Republicans won control of the House in the November midterms, but only by a slim majority, meaning that internal disagreements could limit their chance of pushing ahead with stated goals, including launching investigations into the Biden administration.
Republicans have 222 seats in the House, compared with 213 for the Democrats.
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The House speaker battle showed a 'schism within a schism' in the GOP as MTG and Matt Gaetz were on opposite sides and even a plea from Trump couldn't sway some of his biggest supporters
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https://rollcall.com/2023/01/13/house-freedom-caucus-goes-full-swamp/
The House Freedom Caucus has gone native — for now, at least.
“We’re just having a nice day, behind closed doors, doing our jobs,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said Jan. 5, according to the Texas Tribune. How times have changed on the House side of the Capitol.
The conservative Republicans and their allies complained for years that leadership often crafted major legislation behind closed doors. Its members groaned that such tasks were done by leaders who only consulted a handful, if any, GOP rank-and-file members — and sometimes not even relevant committee heads.
Then came last week.
The conservatives methodically negotiated behind closed doors with now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his top lieutenants. Never did one of the GOP holdouts voice a single concern that their efforts were not happening in a more transparent manner.
“Concessions to the GOP’s extreme tail weaken McCarthy as speaker,” wrote Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Needing their votes to become speaker, McCarthy does not appear to have demanded anything from the Freedom Caucus in return for sharing the procedural reins.”
James Wallner, a political science professor at Clemson University, said via email that “some decisions will always be made in private,” adding: “In the past, conservatives [and] the Freedom Caucus have criticized closed-door negotiations that produce compromise agreements that are then rubber-stamped on the House floor.”
Last week, “conservatives negotiated with McCarthy in private to increase their ability to participate in the legislative process in the future in public — in committee and on the floor,” Wallner added. “The negotiations do not differ from their stated positions.”
They were so successful that one of the holdouts — for 14 ballots, at least — Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, boasted during a Jan. 6 Fox News appearance that he had run out of things to demand McCarthy give up in return for cooperation to secure the speakership. (Gaetz is not a Freedom Caucus member.)
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., said during a Jan. 5 floor speech that GOP leadership’s tactics in recent years meant that “the voices that were sent here to equally — equally — represent each of the 435 districts across this nation have become diminished ... through the consolidation of power into the hands of the speaker and a fortunate few who happen to serve on the Committee on Rules, which controls every aspect of legislation that travels through this body.”
“The debate and the discussion have been all but eliminated, and the balance of us are left to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Those are our options. That is what has led to the disintegration of the relationships that we see across this floor,” he added. “We have had more discussion and debate over the last three days than I have participated in on this floor for the last two two years. It is healthy.”
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told Fox News on Jan. 6 that lawmakers “haven’t had a chance to have these debates. The Democrats have pushed everything, for the most part, without objection [from] us. We didn’t see the bills until they ... were on the floor. We’re tired of it. And that’s why all this is taking place.”
Sophomore Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., whom the holdouts repeatedly nominated as an alternative to McCarthy, said that early in his first term he “gave Kevin the benefit of the doubt, but it came pretty quickly clear to me that we were getting nowhere.”
“And so, at that point, it was saying, OK, how long is this going to go? What’s this going to play out like?” he told Fox Business on Jan. 8. “And so, it was really about trying to make sure that we can get people to the table in order to construct a framework that everybody in our conference can get behind. ... What people are seeing now is one of the most transformative reshufflings in the people’s House.”
'Backroom deals'
Yet, moderates who were shut out from the Freedom Caucus’ turn at some backroom dealing claimed they remained in the dark about the deal’s full contents for several days after McCarthy cut his final deal with the rebels.
“What backroom deals were cut, did they try to cut, and did they get those? Because we shouldn’t be operating like Nancy Pelosi, this small faction,” South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace told CBS News on Jan. 8. “And they’re the ones that are saying they were ‘fighting the swamp,’ but then yet went and tried to act like, you know, like, they actually are the swamp by trying to do these backroom deals.
“And we don’t know what they got or didn’t get. We haven’t seen it,” said Mace, a McCarthy backer on all 15 floor ballots. “We don’t have any idea what promises were made or what gentlemen’s handshakes were made. We just have no idea at this point. And it does give me quite a bit of heartburn.”
The secretiveness of the dealmaking comes with risks. For instance, newly installed House GOP Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota confirmed Tuesday that the final parts of the Freedom Caucus agreement lie somewhere between being “no addendum” and “more than just aspirational.”
“Publicly releasing the details is for their own benefit. If it’s not public, you can count on McCarthy later to pretend it never happened,” former Freedom Caucus member and former Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., warned in a Jan. 10 tweet.
And while Freedom Caucus and other conservative members last week delivered a master class in all the tactics they had long railed against, doubts abound about whether they will help their party actually pass legislation — especially the spending bills that so irk them.
“There are many in the House GOP caucus who simply object to the routine function of governing,” former GOP Rep. David Jolly of Florida said by email. “It will inevitably lead to a severely compromised GOP speaker, or more likely, a very short-tenured speaker.”
But Clemson’s Wallner said, “The negotiations appear to have produced a more open process — the accountability link between lawmakers and constituents is not diluted nor undermined.”
Time will tell on that.
'Not a weakened speaker'
Paradoxically, Emmer suggested Tuesday that the concessions conservatives extracted from McCarthy were all secured in public view, for the entire country to witness. Typically, he argued, such negotiations “take place behind closed doors, long before anyone gets to see how the sausage is made.”
That is correct. But it ignores the fact that Freedom Caucus members met with McCarthy and his consiglieres in private all week.There was no negotiation broadcast live on C-SPAN and cable news networks. Both sides kept telling reporters they would not answer their questions and negotiate through the press.
That did not stop Emmer on Tuesday from contending that Pelosi had secured her second speakership in 2019 by “giving away all sorts of things” in private meetings. Fact check: While true, McCarthy did exactly the same thing.
Emmer defended McCarthy, saying the agreement the speaker worked out with the Freedom Caucus and its allies would make McCarthy “arguably not a weakened speaker.” Operative word: “arguably.”
In what your correspondent hopes is a preview of what Emmer will bring to the leadership team’s media engagements, he went even further, saying the agreement will make McCarthy “perhaps the strongest speaker in modern times — more on that to come.” Operative words: “to come.”
Freedom Caucus members’ gripes are not exclusively about McCarthy.
“This is no different from being in any congressional Republican district,” Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said in a brief interview. “They’re hearing directly from people back home that want to see more fight and less wag. The wag is trying to get things so you can get them to pass.”
“There are those that want something that’s different,” he added.
The unresolved problem for House Republicans is that the McCarthy-Freedom Caucus deal did little, if anything, to resolve the conflict between “different” and “the wag.”
Editor-at-Large John T. Bennett writes a weekly column for Roll Call, parts of which first appeared in the subscription-based CQ Afternoon Briefing newsletter.
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Crazy Democrat Carolyn Maloney After She Thugs Out Against Oil Execs at House Committee Hearing–VIDEO
By Jim Hoft
Published October 28, 2021
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Carolyn Maloney and House Democrats thugged out against the top oil company executives on Thursday at the House Oversight Committee blaming the oil companies for spreading misinformation on global warming.
These are the same people who spread disinformation that the world will end in 9 years if we don’t buy more Chinese windmills.
Maloney and Democrats are attacking oil executives as gas prices continue to surge to record highs under the misguided Biden administration.
It’s as if they WANT Americans to be destroyed. Weird.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) took his time to BLAST Maloney and Democrats for harassing the oil company executives and deny them their freedom to speak out and spend their company money as they wish.
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Rep. Byron Donalds: Let’s be clear you need an apology because what I witnessed here today was just rank intimidation by the chair of this committee. Trying to get you to pledge on what you are going to spend your money on is a gross violation against the First Amendment… It is disgusting. It is absolutely disgusting. Somebody needs to call Merrick Garland and tell him to get in here and watch the intimidation that came from this very panel today. Because this is not about defending big oil or defending big anything. It is about the people in this country to be free, say anything they want, think what they want, spend their money how they choose. And if we’re not going to be any better than the Chinese, how do we ever expect to beat them on the world stage.
Rep. Donalds was terrific! Truly a rising star.
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Rising Star Rep. Byron Donalds DESTROYS Crazy Democrat Carolyn Maloney After She Thugs Out Against Oil Execs at House Committee Hearing -VIDEO. by October 29, 2021. written by October 29, 2021.
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gop have a, shall we say,...relationship. But that relationship went from snuggly to downright NSFW on Thursday at a hearing ostensibly about...The House Oversight Committee welcomed executives from four fossil companies and two trade groups as well as a pipeline welder to probe decades of campaigns to confuse the public. There’s plenty of fodder. The past few years have seen...$59,956 in oil and gas money in the 2020 election cycle) said, thanking the company for increasing production. “I want to thank those companies that are actually increasing production,” Jordan later added.
“These companies being villainized,” said Rep. Jody Hice (recipient of $5,000 from the oil and gas industry in 2020, which talk about getting your money’s worth). Hice did not ask a question.
“It’s just people who don’t have anything better to do than type on their keyboards,” Rep. Byron Donalds ($18,110 from oil and gas interests so far this cycle) said of climate activists before turning to the oil CEOs. “Let’s be very clear, you need an apology. What I witnessed today is rank intimidation by the chair of this committee. ... It is disgusting, it is absolutely disgusting. Somebody better call Merrick Garland, tell him to get in here, and watch the intimidation that came from this very panel today. It’s not about defending Big Oil. ... I’m sorry for you. And I’m sorry for the people in our country who have to witness shenanigans like this.”
“While this committee may not like you because you’re executives, because your companies have been successful, I just want to apologize for the decorum. Because thank you for what you’ve done,” said Rep. Yvette Herrell ($115,126 from the industry she was overseeing, making her the second-biggest oil and gas recipient in the House so far this cycle). “There are people here who believe in you. Thank you. ... In fact, I would just submit to saving anybody who has gotten a vaccination or who is going to get tone, thank you to the oil and gas industry because I would bet that almost every single one of the syringes has been touched by a petroleum product. ... I just want to thank all of you for being here today.”
“You guys all have a good story to tell. Don’t be afraid to tell people how much cleaner things are than in the past. It doesn’t do any good for you any good to get all woke on us,” Rep. Glenn Grothman ($30,576 from oil and gas in 2020 and $3,570 so far this year.)
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“It’s been very shameful how the other side wants to demonize our oil and gas industry. I’m very proud of our oil and gas industry, the innovators that adopt new tech, provide a higher standard of living, and jobs throughout our country,” saidRep. Bob Gibbs, the $28,558 oil and gas man in 2020. He later added, “I’m disappointed the chair failed to recognize that and demonize them on that.”
“I apologize to our witnesses that were called and asked to take part in this today,” said Rep. Pete Sessions, who has so far received $11,400 from oil and gas interests and raked in $237,375 in 2018. (2020 data was unavailable.)
“There is a moral case to be made for the fossil fuel industry and fossil fuels as a whole,” Rep. Pat Fallon, who has taken in $5,600 in oil and gas money. “If we want more abundant and inexpensive and cleaner energy—which we all should do—these witnesses here should be the ones that we are supporting and applauding and not demonizing.”
“These very important energy companies and the [American] Petroleum Institute understand you’ve got yourself here, you’ve seen the attitude of the folks on the left of this committee. When you get asked this morning that, aren’t you embarrassed, that’s really an irrational question to ask CEOs about their company,” said Rep. Andy Biggs, the receiver of $27,253 in oil and gas money in 2020.
“My, my, my. Good lord help us to be protected from this threat from within. American patriots are so done with career politicians and Democratic socialist insanity... We are nauseated by the continuous attacks on working Americans and American industry. This entire debacle of a hearing today of why my colleagues across the aisle will lose their majority status very soon,” Rep. Clay Higgins predicted. (Higgins has received $10,426 in fossil fuel cash so far this cycle and $40,773 in 2020.)
“Did President Biden or anyone from the White House apologize to you?” Rep. James Comer, who received $18,500 in fossil fuel cash in 2020, asked the welder Republicans invited. (For the record, he did not....
a United Nations report out this week warns the world as a whole is facing a “production gap,” with more fossil fuels on tap to be produced than is compatible with a safe climate. Other reports have warned that new fossil fuel exploration must stop next year, emissions must fall at unprecedented rates over the next decade, and that cutting fossil fuel production and use is the most surefire way to do that. The reason we’re at this precipice is because the fossil fuel industry pursued a misinformation campaign while further entrenching their product with the global economy, fully aware that it would cause major climate damage.
It is also because Republicans (and a handful of Democrats) have blocked climate action, and have maintained a grip on power in no small part thanks to millions of dollars from the fossil fuel industry. The industry has directed roughly 85% of its donations in 2020 to Republicans, and is on track to do the same this year (and has done the same in past years, too). Those same Republicans who apologized to the industry and thanked it on Thursday.
Anyways, this is all very cool and very legal.
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byron Lowell Donalds (born October 28, 1978)[1] is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 19th congressional district since 2021.[2][3] His district serves most of the heart of Southwest Florida, including Cape Coral, Fort Myers and Naples. Donalds previously was the Florida State Representative for the 80th district, which encompasses Hendry County and part of Collier County,[4] from 2016 to 2021.[5][4][6]
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Early life and education
Donalds was born and raised in the Crown Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.[7][8] One of three children, he was raised by his single mother.[7] In 1996, Donalds graduated from Nazareth Regional High School in East Flatbush.[9] He attended Florida A&M University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and marketing from Florida State University in 2002.[10][7]
Career
Donalds andPresident Donald Trump in 2019 with a former inmate freed by the First Step Act
Prior to entering politics, Donalds worked in the finance, insurance, and banking industries.[1] He has worked at TIB Bank, CMG Life Services, and Moran Wealth in Naples, Florida.[7]
After Donalds became politically involved as a participant in the Tea Party movement, he was encouraged to run for office.[7]
In 2012, Donalds was a candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida's 19th congressional district. He finished fifth of six candidates.[11] In 2014, Donalds was reported as a likely candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida's 19th congressional district following the resignation of Trey Radel, but decided against running.[11]
Donalds was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2016. During his Florida House tenure, Donalds chaired the Insurance and Banking Subcommittee.[12]
U.S. House of Representatives
Elections
2020
Main article: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida § District 19
In the November 2020 general election, Donalds defeated Democratic nominee Cindy Banyai. Donalds has said he will focus on policy related towater quality in Southwest Florida.[17] However, he had effectively assured himself of a seat in Congress with his primary win. Republicans have a 100,000-voter advantage over Democrats in registration, and Florida Gulf Coast University professor Peter Bergerson noted that the Republican primary is almost always the real contest for most races in the area.[13] Upon his swearing-in on January 3, 2021; Donalds became only the sixth person to represent this district since its creation in 1983 (it had been the 13th District from 1983 to 1993, the 14th from 1993 to 2013, and has been the 19th since 2013).Donalds was the Republican nominee for Florida's 19th congressional district in the 2020 election, running to succeed retiring incumbent Francis Rooney.
He won a crowded nine-way Republican primary by 770 votes over fellow Republican state representative Dane Eagle, finishing just over the threshold to avoid a recount.[13][14] In August 2020, anonymous text messages were sent out to constituents in the 19th district claiming that Donalds was dropping out of the race. Donalds later clarified via tweet that he was not dropping out and characterized the messages as "illegal".[15][16] During his campaign, Donalds stated his support for economic freedom, clean water, nuclear power and decreased government involvement in health care. He opposed the Green New Deal.[7]
Tenure
In late 2020, Donalds was identified as a participant in the Freedom Force, a group of incoming Republican members of the House of Representatives who "say they’re fighting against socialism in America".[18][19][20]
In January 2021, Donalds voted to object to the certification of electors from the states of Arizona and Pennsylvania in the 2020 presidential election.[21]
Donalds was blocked from joining the Congressional Black Caucus.[22][23]
Iraq
In June 2021, Donalds was one of forty-nine House Republicans who voted in favor of the repeal of the AUMF against Iraq.[24][25]
Committee assignments
- Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- **Committee on Budget**
- Committee on Small Business[26]
Caucus memberships
Personal life
Donalds and his wife, Erika, have three sons. They live in Naples, Florida.[29] Donalds became a Christian at the age of 21.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ "Donalds, Rommel win state House seats". Naplesnews.com. 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
- ^ "Florida House of Representatives - Byron Donalds - 2016-2018". Myfloridahouse.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
- ^ :{Jump up to::(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:^a b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Donalds#cite_ref-auto2_4-1) "Byron Donalds - 2020 - 2022 ( Speaker Sprowls ) | Florida House of Representatives". Retrieved Feb 2, 2021.
- ^ Conradis, Brandon (November 3, 2020). "Republican Byron Donalds wins House race in Florida". TheHill.
- ^ "Black-American Members by Congress, 1870–Present | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives". history.house.gov. Retrieved Feb 2, 2021.
- ^ :{Jump up to::(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:^a b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Donalds#cite_ref-auto1_7-1) c(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Donalds#cite_ref-auto1_7-2) d(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Donalds#cite_ref-auto1_7-3) e(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Donalds#cite_ref-auto1_7-4) f(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Donalds#cite_ref-auto1_7-5) g(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Donalds#cite_ref-auto1_7-6) Williams, Amy Bennett. ":{':(style="padding-left:0.2em"):}:Almost an oxymoron': Rising star Byron Donalds is a Black conservative aiming for national office". The News-Press.
- ^ "Byron Donalds leading in Florida GOP primary, raising party's diversity hopes". Roll Call. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ^ "Nazareth Alumni Byron Donalds '96 Elected Florida State Representative - Xaverian Brothers Sponsored Schools". Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ^ Buzzacco-Foerster, Jenna (2016-08-04). "Meet Byron Donalds, Republican running in House District 80". Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ^ :{Jump up to::(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:^a b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Donalds#cite_ref-auto3_11-1) "Byron Donalds decides not to run for Congress". archive.naplesnews.com.
- ^ "Republican Byron Donalds wins District-19 Congressional seat". November 4, 2020.
- ^ :{Jump up to::(style="user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:^a b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Donalds#cite_ref-NewsPress_13-1) Bennett Williams, Amy. "Byron Donalds wins Republican primary election for U.S. Congressional District 19, will face Democrat Cindy Banyai". The News-Press. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- ^ Ogles, Jacob (2020-01-06). "Byron Donalds announces bid for Francis Rooney's congressional seat". Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ^ Alex Marquardt and Paul P. Murphy. "Fake texts and YouTube video spread disinformation about Republican primary candidate on election day". CNN. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ^ "Fake text claims Byron Donalds dropped out of Congressional race, he calls it illegal". NBC2 News. 2020-08-18. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ^ Williams, Amy Bennett. ":{':(style="padding-left:0.2em"):}:Blessed and highly favored' Byron Donalds wins election for U.S. Congressional District 19, pledges water quality No. 1 priority". Naples News. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ Jankowicz, Mia. "A group of incoming GOP House members, calling themselves the 'Freedom Force,' are trying to counter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Squad:{':(style="padding-right:0.2em"):}:". Business Insider.
- ^ Parke, Caleb (December 1, 2020). "GOP Congresswoman-elect on forming 'Freedom Force': Left is 'totally out of line' with mainstream". Fox News.
- ^ "The 'Freedom Force': Republican group takes on the Squad and 'evil' socialism". the Guardian. November 30, 2020.
- ^ Skoneki, Mark (January 7, 2021). "Florida Sen. Rick Scott votes yes on objection to Biden's presidency; Rubio votes no". Orlando Sentinel.
- ^ Goba, Kadia (June 9, 2021). "The Congressional Black Caucus Is Blocking A Black Republican From Joining The Group". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- ^ Lonas, Lexi (2021-06-09). "Congressional Black Caucus blocking Black House Republican from joining group". The Hill. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
- ^ Rebecca Shabad (June 17, 2021). "House votes to repeal 2002 Iraq War authorization". NBC News. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 172". Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Committees and Caucuses | U.S. Congressman Byron Donalds". donalds.house.gov. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ 2020 (2020-11-04). "House Freedom Caucus Could Add 7 New Conservative Members". The Daily Signal. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
- ^ "Membership". Republican Study Committee. 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
- ^ Ceballos, Ana. "Five questions for State Rep. Byron Donalds". Naples News. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Byron Donalds. |
- Representative Byron Donalds official U.S. House website
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Byron Donalds for Congress
- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Profile at Vote Smart
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
- Florida House of Representatives - Byron Donalds
| Florida House of Representatives | Florida House of Representatives | Florida House of Representatives |
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Preceded by | Member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 80th district 2016–2020 | Succeeded by |
| U.S. House of Representatives | U.S. House of Representatives | U.S. House of Representatives |
Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 19th congressional district 2021–present | Incumbent |
| U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial) | U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial) | U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial) |
Preceded by | United States representatives by seniority 383rd | Succeeded by |
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Donalds, a political grassroots leader and Republican candidate for Florida's District 19 Congressional Seat, has been endorsed by Richard Mack, a conservative activist, author and public speaker and the former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona.
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From 2004 to 2016, Byron served as a youth leader in his church where he mentored middle school and high school students. In his spare time, he enjoys volunteering as a coach in youth football and basketball leagues. Byron Donalds lives in Naples, Florida, with his wife, Erika, and their three sons, Damon, Darin, and Mason.