01/22/2024 05:10 CDT/Online version

DESANTIS DROPS OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST, ENDORSES TRUMP; HALEY’S NH CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR LOBBIED FOR DEMS

TODAY’S TOP TEN

DESANTIS DROPS, ENDORSES TRUMP

FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS DROPS OUT of presidential race, endorses Trump. Legal Insurrection.

• DeSantis video announcement. Fox News.

NIKKI HALEY’S NEW HAMPSHIRE DIRECTOR lobbied for dark money giant who helped Biden win 2020 election. Washington Examiner.

FANI WILLIS’ HIRED PROSECUTOR AND ALLEGED LOVER paid for airplane tickets in her name, bank records show. Daily Caller.

INFAMOUS “ZUCKBUCKS” GROUP TRYING TO INTERFERE in our elections again — this time with federal tax dollars. The Federalist.

STATE OF OREGON USES AI TO FLAG ELECTION “misinformation,” raising fresh concerns about censorship. Just the News.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NATIONAL CHAMPION FOOTBALL coach champions the unborn at DC March for Life. The Federalist.

“GLOBAL WARMING” EMERGENCY? North America snow coverage hits highest level in decades. ZeroHedge.

STUDY FINDS THAT THOUSANDS OF COMPANIES are monitoring every Facebook user. Breitbart.

HERE’S WHAT I SAW AT A MOMS FOR LIBERTY TOWN HALL in New York City about its failing schools. The Daily Signal.

GO WOKE, GO BROKE?: Iconic sports magazine Sports Illustrated lays off entire staff. ZeroHedge.

TRANSGENDER GOLFER BUMPS FEMALE COMPETITORS from championship, spot in LPGA qualifying tour. Daily Caller.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• “Misinformation”? We’ll be the judge of that. Matt Himes.
• DEI boomerang. James Piereson.
• DEI destroys excellence, military cohesion at service academies. Bruce Fleming.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Maine pushes to become “transgender safe haven.” Fox News.
• Former FBI agent: FBI is still fixated on J6. Fox & Friends.
• Trump calls Nikki Haley a globalist. Fox News.

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• Host Nick Givas talks to famed pro-life advocate Father Frank Pavone about the post-Roe landscape in America. Rumble.

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• Florida man “launched” into garbage truck during trash pickup gone wrong. The Messenger.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@bennyjohnson) Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll is financially backed by Democrat Mega Donor Reid Hoffman. You know who else is backed by Reid Hoffman? Nikki Haley. Tweet.
• (@CashLorenShow) The left relies on lying, for the most part. Because if they were honest about their intent most people would not go along with it. How many parents would be ok with the gay trans the kids insanity being pushed in public school? So they have to lie and say the right is trying to ban books. That's how the left works. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM FRIDAY

• NEW EVIDENCE CASTS EVEN MORE DOUBT on feds’ official J6 pipe bomb story. revolver.

BONGINO REPORT TOP HEADLINE AT TIME OF EMAIL

• Ron DeSantis Drops Out of Republican Primary, Endorses Trump BONGINO REPORT.