Florida to the rescue

NEWS AND OPINION:

The Sunshine State is searching for the Lone Star State.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has introduced that Florida itself “stands ready to help defend the southern U.S. border and is deploying assets to aid Texas’ border security crisis.”

The governor has launched a selected checklist of these “assets” which may assist Texas grapple with the challenges at hand. And right here they’re these property, verbatim from the governor’s checklist:

101 Florida Highway Patrol troopers, 200 Florida Department of Law Enforcement officers, in groups of 40; 20 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers; 800 Florida National Guard troopers, 20 Emergency Management personnel — together with radio technicians, logisticians, mechanics and planners; 5 obtainable fixed-wing plane with monitoring tools and downlink capabilities with two aviation crew groups, two Mobile Command automobiles and two command groups, 17 obtainable unmanned aerial automobiles (drones) and assist groups and 10 vessels — together with airboats, shallow draft vessels and mid-range vessels.

“The impacts of President Biden’s border crisis are felt by communities across the nation, and the federal government’s abdication of duty undermines the sovereignty of our country and the rule of law,” Mr. DeSantis stated in a written assertion.

“At my direction, state agencies including law enforcement and the Florida National Guard are being deployed to Texas, with assets including personnel, boats and planes. While Biden ignores the crisis he created, Florida stands ready to help Texas respond to this crisis,” the governor suggested.

“We stand with Texas as they work to repel illegal aliens at the border,” stated Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie, additionally in an announcement.

“We are prepared to assist however needed,” he famous.

104 DAYS LATER

Some proceed to surprise why President Biden waited so lengthy to launch some sensible problem-solving ways to handle the nationwide debt.

“On February 1, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met with Mr. Biden and asked him to start negotiations to responsibly raise the debt limit. On Tuesday, the president finally agreed to a negotiation structure – 104 days later. That’s 104 days of obstruction and baseless fear-mongering for what? To play politics? So Biden can threaten default to double down on his destructive, inflationary agenda?” requested Tommy Pigott, speedy response director for the Republican National Committee.

“In the meantime, House Republicans handed a invoice to responsibly elevate the debt restrict, save taxpayers cash, and develop the economic system.

But now, you will have some Democrats suggesting two weeks isn’t sufficient time to succeed in a accountable debt restrict deal,” Mr. Pigott stated in an announcement shared with Inside the Beltway.

“This is yet another failure of leadership from Joe Biden. Thankfully, we have a Republican House majority that is willing to lead,” he suggested.

FOXIFIED

Fox News Digital — the community’s on-line outreach — completed up the month of April as soon as once more because the top-performing information group among the many aggressive set of on-line rivals similar to CNN.com and NYTimes.com, this in keeping with Comscore, an business supply. Fox News Digital accrued 1.6 billion complete multiplatform views, and drew 103 million multiplatform distinctive guests — who spent a complete of three.2 billion minutes perusing the numerous choices on the web site.

This marks a 34% enhance of tourists in comparison with a yr in the past right now. That marks seven consecutive months that Fox News Digital was the highest information model with multiplatform views, and 26 straight months because the chief in multiplatform minutes. Additionally, the Fox News Mobile App reached 6.4 million distinctive guests in the course of the month of April.

The community additionally guidelines social media with 35.3 million complete social interactions, marking the 104th consecutive month that Fox News was in first place, in keeping with Emplifi. Here are the specifics: Fox News drove 8.7 million interactions on Facebook for the month, together with 22.5 million Instagram interactions and 4.2 million Twitter interactions. On YouTube, Fox News secured the highest spot amongst information manufacturers in video views for the twenty seventh straight month with over 230.4 million views, this in keeping with Shareablee, one more business supply.

WHY SHE’S RUNNING

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Hayley faces a crowded discipline in her quest to grow to be a U.S. president. But why is she doing it?

Fox News host Will Cain needed to search out out.

Here’s how the dialog went throughout Ms. Hayley’s look on the community on Tuesday evening.

“If you can tell me, why do you want to be president?” requested Mr. Cain.

“You know, my parents came here 50 years ago to an America that was strong and proud and full of opportunity. I want them to know that country again,” Ms. Hayley replied.

“I’m doing this for my husband and his military brothers and sisters. They need to know their sacrifice meant something. They need to know we love our country. I’m doing this for my daughter who just got married and I saw how hard it was for her and her husband to buy a home,” she continued.

“And I’m doing this for my son who is a junior in college and I see him writing papers on things he doesn’t believe in just to get an A. That’s not us. That’s not America — 78% of Americans right now don’t think their children will have as good of a life as they did. We have to change that — and I’m determined to do it,” Ms. Hayley stated.

POLL DU JOUR

• 65% of those that at present attend church within the U.S. say their church discusses poverty and inequality ”usually or typically.”

• 44% of churchgoers say their church discusses racism usually or typically.

• 41% of churchgoers say their church discusses abortion usually or typically.

• 11% of churchgoers say their church discusses elections and voter fraud usually or typically.

• 8% of churchgoers say their church discusses former President Donald Trump usually or typically.

Source: A PRRI survey of 5,872 U.S. adults performed Aug. 9-30 2022 by the Public Religion Research Institute and launched Tuesday.

• Contact Jennifer Harper at jharper@washingtontimes.com.