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“I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is really appalling.”
— Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), to CNN.
47%
A new Navigator Research poll finds 40% of registered voters support House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Biden while 47% oppose it and 13% say they’re not sure. Also interesting: House Republicans have a net -29% job approval rating, down seven points from last month.
“One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in is they shut down all the press and any means of conveying information.”
— “Elon Musk said that X, his social media platform, could have saved Jews from the Holocaust after visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Monday,” The Forward reports.
“Scott’s willingness to endure Trump’s ritual humiliation of him raises a number of important questions. … How many Republicans left in the party are willing to tell the truth about Trump? How much further will Scott and his competition go in pursuit of the vice presidency? How much can abasement can any one person take before collapsing in on themselves like a dying star? And, of course, how funny will it be if this ends with Scott earning the same reward Chris Christie did back in 2016? Or, crueler still, a stint as Commerce Secretary?”
3.3%
“The economy grew much faster than expected in the final three months of 2023, as the U.S. easily skirted a recession that many forecasters had thought was inevitable,” CNBC reports. “Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced, increased at a 3.3% annualized rate in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to data adjusted seasonally and for inflation.”
“Winston Churchill once remarked that, ‘Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.’ While this campaign has ended, the mission continues.”
— In a fitting end to what has been called the worst presidential campaign in modern times, Ron DeSantis ended his campaign as it started — ineptly — by misquoting Winston Churchill and instead quoting from a 1939 Budweiser advert, reports Pink News.
26,313
“Texas saw an estimated 26,313 rape-related pregnancies during the 16 months after the state outlawed all abortions, with no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association,” the Houston Chronicle reports.
“DeSantis’s departure from the race revealed another problem with his candidacy. He was graceless throughout, especially so on his way out the door.” Said DeSantis: “Trump has my endorsement because we cannot go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.”
— John Ellis, on Substack
“Donald Trump plumbed new depths of degradation in his savage takedown of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a yearlong campaign of emasculation and humiliation that helped force one of the party’s rising stars out of the presidential race after just one contest and left him to pick up the pieces of his political future.”
$5 million
“Florida Republicans may set aside millions in taxpayer money to help pay for former President Donald Trump’s multiple legal battles,” Politico reports. “A Miami Republican who endorsed Trump’s reelection has filed a bill for this year’s legislative session that could allow the state to hand out up to $5 million to the embattled Republican frontrunner for president.”
