Wall Street Journal reports/speculates? that Trump is looking to replace Hegseth with Ron Desantis. Man, that would make it a real Florida-fest at the Cabinet meetings. Trump, Bondi, Desantis. His DEA pick was from Florida too but he got driven out by Republicans who do not like the fact that he closed churches in covid.
I am not a DeSantis fan. However I will state that DeSantis would be a far better choice than Hegseth. Trump considers DeSantis for the Pentagon with Hegseth under pressure over a series of allegations https://www.wcjb.com/2024/12/04/tru...gseth-under-pressure-over-series-allegations/
Jared Golden, Maine, wins 2nd district house race. It's a "hold" rather than "flip to pubs". Nevertheless it is a good thing because they had to go to recount and dems had a shot at it.
So based on what we are seeing now with House race results and GOP legislators leaving to work for the Trump administration (Gaetz, etc.) -- there will be a 217 to 215 split between Republicans and Democrats, just one GOP lawmaker's dissent could be enough to tie a House vote 216-216, thus tanking the legislation. GOP House Majority May Drop Below 218 Seats. Here's What That Means https://www.newsweek.com/gop-house-majority-drop-below-218-seats-1996040
While there is some truthyness therein, it is also true that it is visibly astounding to see the number of dems rushing toward the center or to find common ground with Trump to avoid being in the crosshairs at midterms. So there is that. As always, the ones in solid blue districts can do whatever they want. Not so, elsewhere without paying a price. And as we know a surprising number of districts either went or teetered on red.
Gawd, are we back to this crapola again? A hundred members of the swamp signing a letter to object to Tulsi Gabbard. Do these clowns have no shame knowing full well how their letter writing campaign on Russia, Russia, Russia turned out? Now they are doing Russia, Russia, Russia on Tulsi Gabbard. Whatever, Most of them belong in prison anyway and, in fact, do have good reason to be worried about her revealing their dirty work. I almost thought this article was something out of the Onion. No normal intel person would sign on to such a letter given their total ass-clown humiliation from the last such letter. But, they are off in some kind of swampy world serving the dems. They have been investigating Tulsi for years, and putting her on the no-fly list to mess with her, etc. Now she is going in the intel community where she will have access to all their shit and it will be payback for that letter. Nearly 100 former national security officials 'alarmed' at prospect of Gabbard leading intel community https://www.yahoo.com/news/nearly-100-former-national-security-072515042.html