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Ron DeSantis, sole GOP presidential hopeful surviving Tuesday’s MAGA devastation, has smartly come out and pointed the blame where it belongs — at the White House and those in Congress who blindly went along with Trump’s arrogance and blundering. “This midterm, no question, was a rebuke of the president and the Congress by Democrats, independents and some Republicans that crossed over,” he told Fox News. Smart going, there, Mr. Soon-to-Be-Ex-Governor of Florida, you have distanced yourself from the madness that brought down your party in a historic repudiation. With his distance from the Trump administration — not being part of it and not even being seen as an advisor to it — DeSantis can take on JD Vance, who will have Trump errors dripping from him like mud, and hopefully win the nomination and then defeat AOC, Mamdani, or El-Sayed for President in 2028. Yesterday, in another post, I painted DeSantis as the most logical choice for the Republican ticket in 2028. I did this even though Marco Rubio would make the best candidate — and president. But being part of the Trump folly and being unwilling to resign, Rubio is a marked man, muddied like Vance. James Carville, Democrat

The onslaught of artificial intelligence (AI) in just about every aspect of the economy has hinged on the construction of data centers to support AI’s infrastructure. The problem, however, is that data centers — and AI — proved hugely unpopular with voters who went to the polls yesterday. This was especially evident in Texas, home to a growing hoard of data centers because of the abundant availability of electric power, where Democrats captured both the governor’s office and a U.S. Senate seat for the first time in decades. In fact, the Blue Wave was so pervasive that only Florida and Alabama remain solidly red after yesterday’s GOP calamity. Voters in localities in Illinois, Texas, Georgia, Ohio, Maine, Michigan and even Florida approved ballot measures to slow or halt data center construction. In all, 39 data center restriction measures were on ballots nationwide. President Trump has steadfastly supported the data center buildout, but he did try to convince their owners to extend benefits to the communities in which they are erecting the data structures, such as cash payouts and other initiatives. Perhaps his message went unheeded, or proved to be too little, too late. The fear of AI taking over voters’

The rout is on. Both the House and Senate will be in solid Democrat majority status come January, and the Trump agenda will be dead on arrival no matter what he tries to do. Trump himself will no doubt be impeached, at least once, but my guess would be twice or more. If you stay in office, Mr. Trump, the presidency will absolutely be lost to the Democrats in 2028, and not just lost, but lost to the party’s extreme faction. AOC would actually be a welcome relief from the other Democratic Socialists who will be vying for the job. JD Vance will by then be so tarnished by you and your grating personality, coupled with your failing tariff and war policies, that he won’t stand a chance of winning. UNLESS… … you resign immediately and let Vance take over as president. He can then appoint Marco Rubio as vice president, and the two of them would be a formidable pair of candidates going into 2028. It would also give voters time to forget how much they came to resent and, yes, despise you. But you have to act fast. Both the House and Senate are required to approve whoever