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During an October meeting of Sarasota MAGA Patriots — a rightwing coalition pursuing a range of issues, from anti-vaccine activism to emergency preparedness — attendees railed against a new state law curbing local oversight of development and the Republican lawmakers who backed it.Their ire reflects tensions inside Florida’s dominant party, between Tallahassee’s power brokers and the populist base that helped put them there.
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A Florida political contingency greeted President Donald Trump as he landed in the state’s new Immigration Detention Facility, known as Alligator Alcatraz.
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Trump himself described the experience as “SURREAL” as he traveled from Trump Tower to a lower Manhattan courtroom, where he was to face a judge as the first former president in American history to be criminally prosecuted.
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In his Thursday evening address to the nation, President Biden chose a risky strategy of criticizing elected GOP officials while trying not to alienate Republican voters.