Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took to social media in support of Joseph Ladapo, the Sunshine State’s surgeon general, becoming President Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary. “Retweet if you’d like to see this man — Dr. Joseph Ladapo — serve as the Secretary of HHS in the new Trump administration,” DeSantis wrote. Retweet if you’d like to see this man — Dr. Joseph Ladapo — serve as the Secretary of HHS in the new Trump administration. cc: ⁦@FLSurgeonGen⁩ pic.twitter.com/FP6dC1sZ2W — Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) November 6, 2024 X users reacted to the Florida governor’s pitch: https://t.co/hVXhPpFdJW — Casey DeSantis (@CaseyDeSantis) November 6, 2024 Seems like a good start…https://t.co/vtgZRKgyP8 — Jefferey Jaxen (@JeffereyJaxen) November 6, 2024 No state surgeon general acted with more thoughtfulness and integrity during the Panic than @FLSurgeonGen Joseph Ladopo. Would be a brilliant choice for HHS. https://t.co/APYoErU7ed — Carnal Dancer (@CarnalDancer) November 7, 2024 I know and admire Dr. Ladapo, and would be thrilled to see him at the head of the fight to Make America Healthy Again. https://t.co/yAGuMW7m6N — Bret Weinstein (@BretWeinstein) November 7, 2024 We have the dream team here in Florida. No surprise a lot of them are going to get called up.This man was instrumental in keeping Florida sane while the world went mad. The country needs him. https://t.co/dILYzWdp1Y — Frog Capital (@FrogNews) November 6, 2024 Per Florida Phoenix: Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday endorsed his own controversial State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo for a top health care position in the next Trump administration. DeSantis went on social media, where he called on his followers to repost a picture of Ladapo if they want to see him serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services once President-elect Donald Trump assumes office. The agency’s website shows that HHS is meant to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans by providing effective health and human services and fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services. DeSantis’ promotion of Ladapo comes days after it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a known vaccine skeptic who endorsed Trump for president after mounting his own independent bid for president, had been touting Ladapo. ABC News reported that sources indicated that those working on a Trump transition were taking the recommendation seriously. WATCH: Cry some more ABC…RFK Jr. recommends fellow vaccine skeptic, Florida's surgeon general, to Trump for HHS secretary Kennedy has recommended Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo for the position. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who recently sparked controversy with claims that former… pic.twitter.com/Po6Uss9nrx — Camus (@newstart_2024) November 1, 2024 RFK Jr. told ABC News Ladapo is among those being considered for the position. “We are still talking to people and he is among the people we are talking to,” he said. “He was willing to question some of the government orthodoxies to not close the schools, to not force people to wear masks, to look actually at the safety data from the vaccines, rather than just accept the words that vaccines are safe and effective,” he added. Robert Kennedy Jr. reportedly recommended that Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo be considered for Donald Trump's Cabinet if the former president win Tuesday's presidential election. Read more: https://t.co/bby81B50RZ pic.twitter.com/hUlW4pR1gO — NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) November 1, 2024 From ABC News: Kennedy, who has spent years fueling mistrust around safe vaccines, has recommended Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo to Trump’s transition team as a candidate for the position of United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, multiple sources told ABC News. Sources close to Trump’s transition operation say the recommendation is being taken seriously and the team working on the transition is expected to vet Ladapo, who was appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022, for the position. Trump has echoed Kennedy’s comments that he sees a prominent role for Kennedy in a potential administration. “I said focus on health, focus — you can do whatever you want,” Trump said of Kennedy in a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, adding he was completely committed to bringing Kennedy into a potential new Trump administration when asked by the podcast host. Here’s a flashback: Promising to shut down a highly contagious respiratory virus leads to the expected result: failure. That’s the opposite of what we’ve done in Florida. We prioritized the vulnerable and emphasized living. Thanks for the great conversation @LawrenceBJones3 and @kayleighmcenany. pic.twitter.com/zPYVrt8R8V — Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) January 6, 2022 RFK Jr. explained that Trump asked him to reorganize the federal health agencies, including the FDA, CDC, NIH, and USDA. “President Trump has asked me to reorganize the federal health agencies,” RFK Jr. said. “He’s asked me to clean up the corruption number one. Number two, end the conflicts of interest, return those agencies to their rich tradition of gold standard, empirically-based, evidence-based science, evidence-based medicine, and to end the chronic disease epidemic in this country,” he continued. “He’s asked me specifically to measurably reduce chronic disease in our children within two years,” he added. WATCH: RFK Jr: “President Trump has asked me to reorganize the federal health agencies … CDC, NIH, FDA, some of the agencies within the USDA.” “He’s asked me to clean up the corruption, end the conflicts of interest … and to end the chronic disease epidemic. He’s asked me… pic.twitter.com/4NGv7UM9wO — Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) October 31, 2024

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Horrendous Soros-funded District Attorney George Gascon managed to squeak through two recalls, but he lost by about 23 points last night. The winner was Nate Hochman, a normal Democrat who is a former federal prosecutor and defense attorney. Hochman, who polls long predicted would oust Gascón, held a commanding 23-point lead based on early returns, […] The post LA Voters Kick Out Soros-Tied DA George Gascon appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

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Wednesday's Final Word

PBS brought its familiar News Hour crew to its Election Night 2024 coverage, anchored by Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett. Laura Barron-Lopez reported from Howard University in D.C, Harris’s “victory party” locale, while William Brangham reported from Trump’s actual victory party in West Palm Beach. The anchors checked in with the on-scene reporters roughly every hour, and while the mood remained optimistic through the night at Trump headquarters, one could see the glumness descending in stages at Harris HQ -- and perhaps in Barron-Lopez herself (who had a coughing fit at one point) -- as the confident predictions she passed along from the Harris campaign fell by the wayside and Harris’s victory lane narrowed, hour by hour. Read on, as the air gradually leaking from the Harris presidency trial balloon as the hours on Election Night passed. 6:09 p.m. Barron-Lopez: They are feeling really good this evening. The vice president spent her final day talking to radio stations in swing states across the country, making her final appeal to voters to turn out for her. She also stopped by the Democratic National Committee headquarters in D.C. To thank volunteers who were continuing to phone bank in this final day to get people out and vote. To give you a sense of their confidence in their ground game, Geoff, the campaign said that as of 11 a.m. this morning, that their Pennsylvania team had knocked on some 100,000 doors in Pennsylvania just today, that’s in addition to the 800,000 they had knocked on over the weekend. 7:02 p.m. Barron-Lopez: Harris’s campaign is feeling really good tonight, Geoff. They've been sharing some statistics that they think shows Harris could very well be on the pathway to 270. Specifically, they said there is high Puerto Rican turnout in Philadelphia, that's what some of the campaign sources highlighted and they think that bodes well for them because of the fact Donald Trump ended the last few weeks with that racist and sexist Madison Square Garden rally where the comedian made the racist joke about Puerto Ricans. So they believe high turnout amongst Puerto Ricans could help in a city like Philadelphia…. 8:49 p.m. As 9 p.m. approached and the numbers began turning south for Harris, Barron-Lopez tamped down the doubting. Barron-Lopez: Harris's campaign is still exuding cautious optimism. They aren’t reading too much into these early numbers….Another thing they’re pointing out is that they like the numbers that they’re seeing in the suburbs of Atlanta. I was also texting with a House Democrat, a lawmaker from Michigan, who is also saying that they are cautiously optimistic…. 9:52 p.m. Next stage: Denial: Barron-Lopez: The campaign again, Geoff, is still being very patient, very calm, and they are saying that again, they are seeing good suburban support, specifically when they’re looking at Georgia. Yes, Donald Trump might be up right now, but they’re saying that in some of the larger suburban counties, they’re feeling good. They say, the campaign says, that Harris is currently overperforming Biden's 2020 margin. [Editor’s note: Wrong!] 11:11 p.m.  After getting a drink of water to quell a coughing fit while passing along happy talk from Harris’s campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon about Harris overperforming in Philadelphia, Barron-Lopez returned, sounding a little chastened on behalf of Harris. Barron-Lopez: …. In terms of spin, look, the campaign has gotten a little more quiet lately than they were earlier in the night. That's just the facts. But Jen O'Malley Dillon, as the chair of the Harris campaign, trying to project some calm here…. (Meanwhile, reporter William Brangham found an “incredible sense of optimism” in the Trump camp throughout the night.) 12:09 a.m.  “Cautious optimism” was still hanging on after midnight, despite the undeniable pro-Trump trend. Barron-Lopez: ….the crowd is still going as they hold out hope that Harris can succeed by winning the Blue Wall states as well as Nevada. When it comes to the Democratic sources I am texting, so far a lot of the Democrats are still cautiously optimistic… 12:44 a.m.  Half an hour later, Democratic frustrations finally poked through the PBS façade. Barron-Lopez: ….Supporters are still holding out hope that the Blue Wall is going to come through for Harris, that Nevada will come through for Harris. But again, they are really upset that it's coming down to this narrow pathway for the vice president…. By the early Wednesday morn of 1:36 a.m., reality had finally dawned, as Barron-Lopez reported from the now-empty yard at Howard University, stating “The [Harris] campaign has gone almost entirely quiet,” while ending, rather sadly, that the Harris campaign was “still holding out hope for Nevada, Geoff.”

The media "professionals" are seriously distraught. They deeply believe that they were destined to be the saviors of democracy. They have to be amazed and perplexed that their hours and hours and years and years of negative media bias toward Donald Trump did not sink in with the voters. Since July 21, they energetically pushed Kamala Harris with the most positive bias we've ever seen as they continued their daily bombing of Trump. None of it worked. This caused me to tweet that Kamala’s candidacy was terminated at 15 weeks. (And two days, to be precise). You had to smirk when Dana Bash complained she didn’t get a chance to introduce herself to the country. She’s been VP for four years! Blame Team Biden. And then her own minders who kept her penned away from the press. Broadcast evening news coverage of the candidates was the most wildly imbalanced in history, favoring Harris over Trump by the greatest margin ever recorded. Subtracting Trump’s positive press from Harris’s – 15 and 78 the advantage to the Democratic nominee was 63 points, the greatest in the modern media age. We should point out that in 2020, it was pretty close to that bad. Biden drew 66 percent positive, Trump had only 8 percent. That’s 58 points. We sincerely believe that one reason the leftist media couldn't drag Harris across the finish line is our daily exposure on NewsBusters of their dramatic exaggerations and malicious lies. The Era of Big Media is not over. But their dominance is clearly slipping. Voters have declared their independence from the leftist media narrative. Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts: