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Ron DeSantis has some catching up to do. The Florida governor entered the 2024 presidential race last week with polls showing him down about 30 points on average to Donald Trump in the GOP primary. DeSantis had trailed by closer to 10 points at the end of last year.
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 Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesIt has been said that Donald Trump is more of a charismatic cult leader than a traditional politician. When it comes to trying to replace him, could it be that Ron DeSantis is, once again, taking a page from the master by trying to build his own cult following?
I've spent the last several days trying to understand why Ron DeSantis would announce his campaign on Twitter Spaces—and then spend his time focused on very online topics that are generally reserved for right-wing podcasts—and nothing else makes sense.
Most Americans aren't on Twitter, and average Republican voters are presumably more interested in stemming inflation than in ESGs, bitcoin, debanking, and other insidery topics that DeSantis focused on.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 via Telegram Russians visiting an official website of the Russian Orthodox Church this weekend were greeted with what must have been a jarring message: Vladimir Putin's top holy man, Patriarch Kirill, cheering on Ukraine's counteroffensive.
The main page of the official website for Patriarch Kirill's residence in Peredelkino near Moscow was hacked to show a message to visitors that read, "Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia blesses the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counter-offensive."
A video of Ukrainian troops preparing to "take back what's theirs" was still playing on the website as of Saturday night. The video, released by Ukraine's Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhny, was widely seen as heralding the start of a large-scale counteroffensive to take back territories currently under Russian occupation.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Photo by @AlexThomp/TwitterOn Friday, Donald Trump Jr. shared a deepfake video of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis edited into a scene from The Office in which Michael Scott, played by Steve Carrell, is humiliated by his coworkers for accidentally wearing a woman's pantsuit.
"DeSantis does seem to spend a lot of time in high heels ??????," Trump Jr. added in his tweet.
Both former president Donald Trump and Trump Jr. have consistently torn into DeSantis as the governor plans to contend with Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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