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Charlie McCarthy writes @newsmax.com: “[M]ultiple sources say the Club for Growth has regularly tested Trump v DeSantis in its polls in different states.”

"Through a spokesman, a Club official says Trump wins ‘handily’ in every state but Georgia."

“However, DeSantis defeated Trump 71% to 67% during the weekend in a GOP presidential straw poll among attendees of the Western Conservative Summit. No other candidate earned 30% support.

“DeSantis (38%) also beat Trump (32%) in a May 21 survey of Wisconsin GOP state convention straw poll voters.

“Last month, Ed Rollins, one-time campaign chairman for former President Ronald Reagan, and conservative activist Lilian Rodriguez-Baz helped launch a political action committee in DeSantis' honor.

“Florida Politics reported that DeSantis also had been competitive with Trump in prediction markets tracking the 2024 election.”

While either one would serve the nation tremendously well, as a Floridian it would be preferable for DeSantis to stay here.

And then reader, Miket, provided the perfect solution. “Trump Pres & DeSantis VP 2024. DeSantis 2028 & 2032.”

Larry Bell, quoted here often, is greatly appreciated because of compiled data he posts which when taken together, provide an astounding summary of damage done to the nation by the far-left. His article @newsmax.com on June 6, is titled: “How's Progressive Paradise Working Out for You So Far?”

Bell asks, “[W]hy do a vastly disproportionate number of crimes seem to be happening in progressive Democrat-controlled cities?”

“Of six notable examples for rising homicide rates, including Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Indianapolis, victims in each were disproportionately Black, and all but two had cut police budgets through defund movements.

“This is occurring at a time when the same administration is inviting Mexican cartels to deliver fatal narcotics, juvenile sex slaves, and unvetted illegal immigrants — including known terrorists — across our open southern border to a neighborhood near you.

Bell then presents some staggering numbers. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in South Texas reported a 1,066% 2021 fiscal year increase in fentanyl seizures, a deadly drug. With no thanks to Biden actions halting wall construction and rescinding Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy that exempted most aliens from arrest and deportation, Border Patrol agents encountered more than 220,000 migrants at the border in April … the highest number reported since 2000.which, along with other synthetic opioids, led to more than 71,000 American deaths last year.”

Then covered is the incredible cost to the public resultant of the purely political, fictional climate change issue. Here Bell writes: “Following Germany’s failed Green Party model, Joe Biden’s war on fossil energy which provides about 80% of all U.S. electricity (compared with a paltry 4% from wind and solar combined) contributed to raising power costs by 11.1% last year. This extra expense (and unreliability) will hit this summer’s California homeowners who already pay 80% more per kilowatt-hour than the national average.

“Destructive Democrat energy policies add to the costs of virtually everything that must be grown, manufactured, and transported to American consumers.

Bell then provides his opinion, predicated on homework performed: “Seems to me that we are the ones getting the worst of it,” he writes, “while climate isn’t benefitting a bit.”

“The Northern Hemisphere was just as warm, or warmer, two thousand years ago during the Roman Warm Period when sandals became fashionable, and again, a thousand years ago during the Medieval Warm Period when Eric the Red and his Nordic Viking band raised sheep and goats on Greenland’s coastal grasslands.

“These events occurred long before the advent of the Industrial Revolution invented fossil-fueled smokestacks and SUVs. Since then, temperatures have been up and down, but overall, the past century has seen negligible difference … nothing like the theoretical climate models predicted.

“And no, if anyone bothers to check the records, extreme weather events have not become either more frequent or severe.”

Bell’s climate conclusions remind one of both Rush and Donald Trump, having that same opinion themselves. But as far as climate issues are concerned specifically, considering that one would have to be dumber than a tree stump to “buy” any of the Progressives beliefs in the first place, it’s not surprising that their leadership keeps selling any of their ridiculous gibberish to those they’ve conned already.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios