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  Nearly 70%. That was the percentage Donald Trump won Sumter County, Florida in 2024. You might know Sumter as home to The Villages, one of the largest retirement communities in the world. Maybe you’ve seen one of their famous golf cart parades. It has voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000. So, not really “friendly” territory for Democrats. But that’s why I went there. When I say I'm going to meet constituents everywhere and do what I can to represent all Floridians, I mean it! Many politicians won’t go places where they might be grilled or asked hard questions. My opponent Ashley Moody hasn’t hosted a public town hall in over a year. That’s not who I am. Donald Trump recently held his first rally in Florida since winning the election. As people were waiting in line, I asked to hear about what keeps them up at night. I listened as veterans, schoolteachers, retirees, and many more told me about their lives. And I heard the same refrain we’ve been hearing across...

Publisher's Roundup, 10 Trump is Lashing Out Because He’s Losing Norman Eisen Mar 22 Friday was a surreal split screen for me. On the one hand, press coverage was dominated  by the capitulation to Donald Trump  of what was heretofore one of our nation’s finest and heretofore most courageous law firms, Paul Weiss . In one form or another, I’ve worked closely with them for years, and as one very senior public official asked me, “What the f**k?” The other side of the split screen was the latest salvo in Trump’s attacks on me. Throughout the day, reporters and others reached out to alert me that Trump was about to make another move against me in retaliation for my legal fights against him. I replied that I would not yield, no matter what Trump had planned, then proved it by   filing with wonderful partners my latest lawsuit  against his administration to reverse the shuttering of Voice of America. By the time   Trump’s Executive Order with my name in it   arriv...