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Deleted WH Tweet May Be Against Law

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By Charles Kim | Saturday, 05 November 2022 01:00 PM EDT

The White House deleted a tweet Wednesday crediting President Joe Biden's leadership for a large increase in Social Security benefits that was actually an automatically triggered cost-of-living increase tied to inflation and based on a 1972 law. In doing so, it may have violated the Presidential Records Act, according to a government watchdog group.

In a Friday letter to U.S. National Archives Records Administration head Debra Wall and Attorney General Merrick Garland, among others, Protect the Public's Trust, a nonpartisan group, said it is calling for a federal investigation regarding the now-deleted tweet based on the same laws that caused Garland and the FBI to execute a search warrant on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year.

"Maintaining and preserving all official records pursuant to the Presidential Records Act is an important duty that is the responsibility of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration," the letter read. "Outside of the unprecedented reliance on the Act to support a subpoena to search the home of a former U.S. President, the Act and its enforcement have historically received little attention. However, now that strict enforcement of the Act appears to be a high priority for the Archivist of the United States, and by extension the Department of Justice, we would like to bring to your attention a matter of serious concern as it applies to preserving the historical record of President Joseph Biden."

On Tuesday, the White House posted on Twitter: "Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden's leadership."

Users on the site quickly debunked the claim, and Twitter noted alongside the tweet that the increase was triggered automatically from a law signed by former Republican President Richard Nixon, tying benefit increases to the consumer price index.

Shortly thereafter, the White House deleted the tweet.

In its letter the group said the deletion runs afoul of the Presidential Records Act, which requires 60-day written notice to the Archives before any presidential record is destroyed.

"Presidential records may be disposed of if the president submits copies of the intended disposal schedule at least 60 calendar days before the proposed disposal date to the statutorily specified committees (44 U.S.C. §2203(d)). Further, in the event of improper removal or disposal, an investigation must be conducted," the group said, citing the federal law in the letter.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the reason for the deletion was that the tweet was "incomplete."

"The tweet was not complete," she said during a White House press briefing. "Usually when we put out a tweet, we post it with context; and it did not have that context."

Despite the reason, the group's director said in the letter that the protocols in place for a document's destruction must be followed.

"Whether the deleted post was an effort to boost the political prospects of those associated with the president's political party, mal-information that could constitute an attack on America's democratic institutions, or simply an ill-conceived self-promotion effort, the deletion of a public and official presidential record must still follow the destruction process laid out under the Act," Michael Chamberlain wrote. "This is true regardless of whether the record was 'incomplete' in providing the context to achieve its desired objective."

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Poll: Momentum With GOP's Michels In Wis. Gubernatorial Race

Tim Michels

By John Gizzi | Saturday, 05 November 2022 12:06 PM EDT

Four years ago, Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker was narrowly unseated in large part because of lingering fury from unions over his reforms requiring participation of public sector employees in their retirement and health care plans. Walker's brief and disastrous bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2015 was also a factor in his defeat at the hands of liberal Democrat Tony Evers in 2020.

Now, with just days to go before Wisconsin votes, the much-respected Marquette University Law School poll shows among voters statewide, Evers and GOP businessman Tim Michels are deadlocked with 48% each.

The X-factor in the race is independent candidate Joan Ellis Beglinger, who suddenly withdrew from the race in September to endorse Michels. But state election law requires her name to remain on the ballot, and Marquette's latest findings have the retired nurse and health care company executive at 2%.

The Marquette poll clearly shows movement in the direction of Trumpster Michaels since a month ago, when it showed Evers at 47%, Michels 46% and Beglinger 4%.

Van Mobley, president of the Board of Trustees of Thiensville, Wisconsin, and one of Donald Trump's earliest backers in the Badger State, told us that inflation was a key issue driving support for Michels.

"'Inflation' is, of course, a code word for 'the economy,'" said Mobley. "Voters here think the Biden administration is a shoddy bunch of wretches ruining us while telling us everything will be better when they are completely ruining us."

He added that rising crime and the quality of education were hurting Evers and the Democratic Party.

John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.

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Abe Hamadeh Newsmax Town Hall Key Points, Highlights (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 05 November 2022 11:45 AM EDT

Arizona GOP nominee for attorney general Abe Hamadeh is ready to back the Republican campaign vow to declare an invasion on the state's souther border, denouncing Democrats efforts to demonize the GOP on immigration.

"I think that we're in this new 1776 American revival and we're so proud to be Americans, but the left has made it so difficult," Hamadeh, running against Democrat Kristin Mayes, told Newsmax moderator John Bachman, host of "John Bachman Now," on Friday night in a town hall debate that aired exclusively on Newsmax. "I mean, they're so they're so ashamed to fly the American flag, but all of us right here in the audience we know what's at stake.

"I'm the son of Syrian immigrants. I have family from Venezuela. I see what socialism does. I see how quickly it can bring ruin to countries. Just look at California, for instance. How many of you remember California being actually peaceful, right?

"I mean [former President Ronald] Reagan was governor of California, remember that?"Hamadeh, seeking to replace GOP AG Mark Brnovich, continued. "It's changed so fast, so I'm excited because I know that there's an army of people who just support common-sense solutions.

"All we're saying is we need to secure the border, that criminals belong in jails, not on our streets."

On Declaring an Invasion of Arizona

"I see it as a state sovereignty issue," Hamadeh told Bachman. "Once you have 250,000 illegal immigrants crossing our border, bringing in fentanyl, bringing all the crime, it's a problem with the state level.

"Imagine for one moment, the federal government removing every single border patrol from south of our border, and they're going to say, you know, that Arizona has no ability to protect our own sovereignty. I don't think that's right.

"So I think when you declared an invasion – and Gov. Kari Lake, when she is elected, she's already said she would declare it an invasion on day one – and for me, I'm going to have to back that up and I will.

"But besides this, the invasion declaration, I've also said we have to classify the drug cartels as terrorist organizations."

Expanding State Department Definition on Terrorist Organization

"I'm saying that Arizona should have the ability to expand that definition to include the drug cartels south of our border," Hamadeh said.

"There's so many facets along the border. It's not just the illegal immigrants are just walking into the arms of law enforcement.

"We talk about solving the problem at the source, and all of this is coming from China. Remember, the Chinese Communist Party has been, they're poisoning us, because they're partnering with a drug cartels and then bringing it across our southern border, and it's affecting all of America, not just Arizona."

On Arizona Crises of Drugs, Mental Health, Homelessness

"I was a prosecutor: My jurisdiction was downtown Phoenix," Hamadeh said. "I saw a lot of homeless. I saw a lot of the mental illness, and a lot of that can be tied to the drug problem, and it's so sad to see that we've just accepted homelessness as a solution.

"I mean, there's nobody wants to tackle it. You look at California you know, it's so sad how once thriving cities like San Francisco, they have homeless defecating on the streets. This is unacceptable.

"And here in Arizona what I've been talking about is the mental health crisis. I was a prosecutor. I saw what happened. After they get picked up for a crime, they're deemed incompetent to stand trial, sent to the state hospital system, forcibly injected, and they're set back into the community with no resources.

"So that's the problem. Nobody wants to tackle this taboo subject. That's primarily going to be with the legislature and the governor to tackle it, but as attorney general, I want to have input on it as well from my experience."

On Democrat Candidate Mayes

"The reason why she doesn't know the laws is because she's never practiced law," Hamadeh said. "You know, it's quite amazing – it's not a dramatic statement to say. She's a professor of environmentalism. Before that she was a corporation commissioner, and then she was a journalist at The Arizona Republic, so she doesn't understand her role as attorney general.

"I've said I don't create the law. I enforce the law. Whatever the law is, the legislature and the governor pass and sign that's constitutional, I will enforce. And you know it's unfortunate to see her putting her personal beliefs into that office, because that's really dangerous when you become a somewhat super legislator.

"The voters are electing me for a specific purpose, and it's to uphold the rule of law, and that's exactly what I'll do as attorney general."

GOP Sen.-nominee Blake Masters on Hamadeh, GOP Ticket in Arizona

Masters is seeking to flip the seat of incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., as Republicans seek to retake control of the Senate.

Masters, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, mocked former President Barack Obama's attempt to campaign against the GOP candidates in Arizona as futile and weak.

"They almost filled up a high school gymnasium, by the way," Masters told Bachman. "When Trump comes to rally with me and Kari and Abe Hamadeh, the statewide team, and we have these rallies and wide open fields and it's just Arizonans as far as the eye can see.

"So props to the Democrats for almost filling up a high school gym."

Masters called for a straight GOP party-line vote down the ticket to enact change in one of the biggest battleground states in America.

"When voters look around, do they want more of what they've seen in the last 20 months? No, they want to vote for a change," Masters said. "And if you vote for me, if you vote for Kari Lake, Abe Hamadeh, well, you're going to get safe streets, good schools. You're going to get a secure border, and you're going to get a healthy economy where you can afford to actually raise a family again."

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Trump ally Tom Barrack is acquitted of all charges in his trial stemming from allegations of foreign lobbying.

On Friday, a federal jury found Barrack not guilty of acting as a unregistered agent of a foreign government. Prosecutors alleged that Barrack offered the United Arab Emirates access to the Trump campaign and later to the Trump administration.

During the trial, the 75-year-old testified in his own defense. He denied any agreement to work for the U.A.E. He also noted that his contact with Emirati officials was related to his private equity firm.

Following his acquittal, Barrack praised the jury and the American justice system.

“These 12 people, normal people, with such complex and believable facts in front of them somehow fight through all of the quagmire to find lady justice’s torch burning, and a judge who protects that, who takes that complexity and puts it in threads of simplicity,” Barrack said.

Barack also told reporters he is finished with politics.

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Blake Masters: Dems 'About to Get a Dose of Democracy' Tuesday (Newsmax)

By Luca Cacciatore | Friday, 04 November 2022 10:48 PM EDT

Blake Masters emphasized Republican hopes of a red wave during his Newsmax town hall on Friday, warning the Democratic Party that "they're about to get a dose of democracy next Tuesday."

Joining Newsmax host John Bachman, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate told the network on Friday that, alongside gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and attorney general nominee Abraham Hamadeh, there will be "a red sweep in Arizona."

"How funny is it that they had to trot out [former President Barack] Obama?" Masters noted. "They had to dust him off and drag him out of retirement to come and try to invigorate [Democratic governor candidate] Katie Hobbs and [Democratic Sen.] Mark Kelly's floundering campaigns."

However, "Obama's presence here really was just a distraction for who wasn't here — [President] Joe Biden," he continued. "Where's Joe Biden? Why didn't he come rally? They sent him off to states the Democrats can't possibly win … so that he can feel busy doing something."

Masters also emphasized the importance of crime, inflation and water rights. But most of all, the senate nominee told Bachman that Republicans must deliver an ultimatum to Biden on the border and energy policy.

"We need to be willing to grind his government to a halt unless and until he does two things: secure the border and re-implement [former] President [Donald] Trump's America First energy policies," he proclaimed. "If we don't do that — if we're not able to get those things done — we're not going to have a country."

Masters also declared that he "hopes someone else runs" to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as head of Senate Republicans, arguing that the conference "needs new leadership."

"Mitch McConnell cut $18 million in reserve funding for Arizona. Apparently, he doesn't want me in the Senate. But you know what, I think he's about to be stuck with me in just four days," the Senate candidate stated.

"I don't feel entitled to other people's money. … So, I said my job is to win this race with Mitch McConnell's money or without it," Masters shared. "And I think we're on track to win without it, so that's just as good in my book."

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Blake Masters: Dems 'About to Get a Dose of Democracy' Tuesday (Newsmax)

By Luca Cacciatore | Friday, 04 November 2022 10:48 PM EDT

Blake Masters emphasized Republican hopes of a red wave during his Newsmax town hall on Friday, warning the Democratic Party that "they're about to get a dose of democracy next Tuesday."

Joining Newsmax host John Bachman, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate told the network on Friday that, alongside gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and attorney general nominee Abraham Hamadeh, there will be "a red sweep in Arizona."

"How funny is it that they had to trot out [former President Barack] Obama?" Masters noted. "They had to dust him off and drag him out of retirement to come and try to invigorate [Democratic governor candidate] Katie Hobbs and [Democratic Sen.] Mark Kelly's floundering campaigns."

However, "Obama's presence here really was just a distraction for who wasn't here — [President] Joe Biden," he continued. "Where's Joe Biden? Why didn't he come rally? They sent him off to states the Democrats can't possibly win … so that he can feel busy doing something."

Masters also emphasized the importance of crime, inflation and water rights. But most of all, the senate nominee told Bachman that Republicans must deliver an ultimatum to Biden on the border and energy policy.

"We need to be willing to grind his government to a halt unless and until he does two things: secure the border and re-implement [former] President [Donald] Trump's America First energy policies," he proclaimed. "If we don't do that — if we're not able to get those things done — we're not going to have a country."

Masters also declared that he "hopes someone else runs" to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as head of Senate Republicans, arguing that the conference "needs new leadership."

"Mitch McConnell cut $18 million in reserve funding for Arizona. Apparently, he doesn't want me in the Senate. But you know what, I think he's about to be stuck with me in just four days," the Senate candidate stated.

"I don't feel entitled to other people's money. … So, I said my job is to win this race with Mitch McConnell's money or without it," Masters shared. "And I think we're on track to win without it, so that's just as good in my book."

Sarah Palin to Newsmax: 'Mama Grizzlies' Moving To GOP, Want Change

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By Charles Kim | Friday, 04 November 2022 10:37 PM EDT

Former GOP Alaska Gov. and House candidate Sarah Palin told Newsmax Friday that the surge of women saying they will vote Republican in the midterm elections reflects "mama grizzlies" rising in defense of their families and demanding change.

"I think of it more as a bunch of mama grizzlies out there looking to support and defend that next generation, and we will rear up on our hind legs and we will do anything that we can to defend our cubs," Palin said during "Eric Bolling: The Balance" Friday. "That's what you see reflected in the polls, and you will certainly see this on Tuesday: that reflection of a mindset that has changed."

Palin was reacting to a Wall Street Journal report Thursday that found a dramatic shift among suburban white women going to the GOP from Democratic support.

"We're talking about a collapse, if you will, in that group on the perceptions of the economy," Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, who conducted the poll with Democratic pollster John Anzalone, told the publication.

According to the report, the same voters who helped former President Donald Trump win in 2016 and helped President Joe Biden win in 2020 have returned to voting Republican because of kitchen table issues like inflation and the economy, with 54% saying the country is currently in a recession and 74% believing the country is going in the wrong direction.

"Well, it doesn't surprise me. I don't know what the color of somebody's skin … has to do with their judgment on the direction that the country's going; but, yeah, white suburban women [are] the ones in the grocery store," Palin said. "They're the ones out there making sure that their kids are safe walking to school and getting home, and they see that the trajectory that we are on in our country. It's not good; it's going down; and something has to change. We're not embracing the status quo. We want to change, and that's why you're going to see a change in direction. Politically, the red wave is coming."

She said that in addition to the economic issues, women throughout the country — especially parents — are concerned with what is being taught in the nation's schools and the move to transition children's genders with medicine and surgery.

"These are frontline issues for a mom when we go to, say, a high school ballgame and we see boys wanting to compete on the girls' team against the girls; and we say, 'Wait. Something's askew with that. No. We don't want that to happen. We're actually living what the problem is, and we want to fix the problem.'"

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45th President Donald J. Trump’s inner circle has indicated that he is expected to announce his 2024 presidential campaign on November 14th.

Three sources familiar with the matter told Axios about the launch date. However, his spokesperson Taylor Budowich has declined to confirm the information.

On Thursday, the Republican teased a run for president in the 2024 election during a rally in Sioux City, Iowa. Trump excited the crowd when he said he will ‘”very probably” run again.

“In order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, I will very, very, very probably do it again,” Trump said. “Get ready that’s all I’m telling you, very soon. Get ready.”

Trump held the rally primarily in support of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Grassley is hoping to maintain his seat in next week’s elections.

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Saturday Presidential Influence Clash Coming to Pennsylvania

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By Charles Kim | Friday, 04 November 2022 08:51 PM EDT

President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama are scheduled to team up in Philadelphia Saturday to support Democratic candidates Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who is running for U.S. Senate, and gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Josh Shapiro, while former President Donald Trump stumps in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for Republican candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is running for U.S. Senate, and state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is running for governor of the key swing state, The Hill reported Friday.

"If you look at all of the swing states … Pennsylvania is really the biggest," The Hill reported former Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell saying in an interview. "It is a good microcosm of the election. … I think Pennsylvania is the best test. It's the biggest prize and it's going to be purple for a while."

The eleventh hour visits by the three presidents come just days before voters go to the polls in the Keystone State, featuring some of the closely watched midterm races in the country.

The Hill reported Wednesday that Oz passed Fetterman in the polls for the first time, leading by just two percentage points, 48% to 46%, in a survey from Emerson College Polling and The Hill.

The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3 percentage points, and 4% of those surveyed claimed to be undecided as Election Day looms, according to the report.

Oz, whom Trump has endorsed, has steadily improved five points on Fetterman since September; and 54% of the state's voters now believe he will beat Fetterman in the race, compared to 47% who believe Fetterman will prevail, according to the report.

The change also comes a week after Fetterman, who is still recovering from a stroke in May, struggled through the only debate with Oz due to some audio processing issues related to the stroke.

"Of those who say they have heard, seen or read a lot about the debate, Oz leads Fetterman 55% to 41%," Spencer Kimball, the executive director of Emerson College polling, told The Hill.

The state is garnering national attention because of its seemingly fickle nature, going for Trump in 2016 and then going for Biden in 2020.

While Biden took the state, and effectively the presidency when he won it in 2020, The Hill reports that just 39% of voters approve of the job he has done as president the past two years, with one Republican strategist saying the visit Saturday may prove "too much Biden" to help Democrats in the state.

"At the end of the day, too much Joe Biden," the national Republican strategist told the news outlet when asked about the visit. "Nobody needs any more Joe Biden. Wrong message. Wrong messenger. I can't imagine how that's helping anybody in Pennsylvania if you're a Democrat."

Democrats, on the other hand, are excited to see the Obama-Biden team back together again.

"People are going to see the Obama-Biden duo again," one Democratic operative told The Hill. "That's a valuable image."

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1/6 Panel Presses Trump to Produce Documents by Next Week (Getty)

Friday, 04 November 2022 08:19 PM EDT

The House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol said on Friday it had given the former president until next week to begin producing documents requested under a subpoena.

The Jan. 6 committee announced on Oct. 21 that it had sent a subpoena to Trump requiring documents be submitted by Nov. 4 and for him to appear for deposition testimony beginning on or about Nov. 14.

The panel said then it had "overwhelming evidence … that (Trump) personally orchestrated" an effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Trump has denied inciting violence or instigating the event, in which protesters sought to disrupt congressional certification of Joe Biden's 2020 election win over Trump.

Trump has called efforts to pin the protest on him part of a political vendetta. He also continues to assert that his election loss was due to widespread fraud.

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GOP's Barrett to Newsmax: Michigan Voters Want War Hawks Out of Office (Newsmax/"Spicer & Co.")

By Jay Clemons | Friday, 04 November 2022 07:20 PM EDT

Michigan Republican congressional candidate Tom Barrett, a current state senator, sees minimal downside in Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. crossing party lines to endorse his opponent, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., for the 7th district race in Tuesday's midterm elections.

After all, it's the same Cheney who led the House committee's Jan. 6, 2021, investigations against former President Donald Trump, and subsequently lost her reelection campaign in the Wyoming Republican primary … by nearly 65,000 votes.

Plus, Michigan's 7th congressional district has a pro-Trump track record.

"[Cheney's endorsement] has done nothing but energize the Republicans in this district, along with independent voters," Barrett told Newsmax Friday afternoon, while appearing on "Spicer & Co." with hosts Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith.

"Voters are sick and tired of this war-hawk machine in Washington that intends to send more troops into battle," said Barrett, while adding "the Cheney family never saw a war opportunity where they couldn't send other people's kids to fight."

Barrett has secured the endorsement of Tulsi Gabbard, the former Hawaii congresswoman and presidential candidate who recently left the Democratic Party.

And Barrett — who just concluded a 22-year stint in the United States Army — revealed that Gabbard has plenty of experience in dealing with Slotkin.

Gabbard recently said, according to Barrett: "Elissa Slotkin is the embodiment of everything that's wrong in Washington, with the permanent war-hawk-feeding machine."

Barrett added: "I don't want any more [American] troops fighting in these endless wars that have been going on for the last two decades. … I want to keep America safe, and keep our troops out of foreign entanglements."

The Barrett-Slotkin battle has been contentious … and expensive.

According to Open Secrets, via The Center Square, as of Oct. 19, Slotkin has already spent nearly $8.5 million of her war chest, and also has $2.43 million of cash on hand.

Barrett, in turn, has reportedly spent $2.4 million on his campaign.

"We need all the energy we can get," says Barrett, "and we're on the verge of flipping the entire state."

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45th President Donald J. Trump railed against the justice system in New York amid a judge’s decision to appoint an independent monitor to keep tabs on the Trump organization.

On Friday, in a series of Truth Social posts, Trump accused the judge of being politically biased and not wanting to let go of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit alleging fraud against his business.
Trump then claimed that the New York’s court system is “rigged and corrupt.” He also mentioned that it is “being ridiculed all over the world.”
The former president admonished the judge for granting James’ motion for an independent monitor. This comes just as the midterm elections are right around the corner.

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Massive Midterm Fundraising Haul Gives DeSantis Early '24 Advantage

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By Luca Cacciatore | Friday, 04 November 2022 06:23 PM EDT

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis boasts a considerable dollar advantage heading into the 2024 Republican primaries after bringing in a record-breaking $200 million for his reelection campaign, Politico reported.

In contrast, the GOP governor's Democratic opponent Charlie Crist brought in roughly $31 million. That amount raised by the former governor and congressman would be sufficient in almost any other gubernatorial race in the country — except Florida.

But DeSantis has spent only around half, $100 million, of his total raised. He also currently has more than $90 million left in the bank.

It stems primarily from his commanding lead in the polls against Crist. A recent InsiderAdvantage poll for Fox's WOFL 35 showed DeSantis leading Crist by 10 percentage points, 53% to 43%, less than a week from Election Day.

Politico notes that DeSantis' excess money might prove helpful for a potential 2024 presidential bid in the future.

"If you look at where the money is coming from, it's indicative of Gov. DeSantis being seen by national donors as the de facto frontrunner for president," Republican lobbyist Slater Bayliss from Florida told the outlet.

Bayliss said that any potential DeSantis challenge to former President Donald Trump would focus on authenticity, arguing Republican voters have the impression their candidates "cut deals and are more pragmatic."

"Former President Trump's whole brand on the Republican side was that he does not sell out," he acknowledged. "Gov. DeSantis has built on that and is taken more seriously by many Republican donors."

The news of DeSantis' deep pocket comes in the wake of several sources disclosing to Newsmax on Friday that Trump plans to announce the launch of his 2024 presidential campaign on Nov. 14, six days after the midterm elections.

Polls on the 2024 Republican primary have consistently shown Trump with a commanding lead over other prospective candidates, leading DeSantis by 31.8 percentage points in a RealClearPolitics average.

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Republicans Could Sweep All Iowa House Districts (Wellesenterprises/Dreamstime.com)

By John Gizzi Friday, 04 November 2022 06:08 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

Four days before Iowans go to the polls, signs are strong that Republicans will not only maintain the three U.S. House seats they now hold but pick up a fourth — thus placing the Hawkeye State's U.S. House delegation completely in GOP hands.

"The Iowa Poll was printed in The Des Moines Register on October 18," noted former Polk County (Des Moines) GOP Chairman Kim Schmett. "They also did not name the candidates, but simply asked which way you would vote for Congress, R or D.

"If I had to call it I'd still say Republicans are going to win all four congressional races, most by narrow margins, simply because they have momentum during the final two weeks and stronger candidates for governor and senator to lead the ticket.

In the 2nd District (Northeastern Iowa), freshman Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson faces state Sen. Liz Mathis, who is also a former TV news anchorwoman. The Iowa Poll found likely voters slightly (48%-46%) favor a Democrat over a Republican for Congress.

The split is even tighter in the 3rd District, with 49% favoring a Democrat and 48% a Republican. Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne won two terms in tight contests with Republican former Rep. David Young. Now she faces former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and State Sen. Zach Nunn. Axne won twice by carrying Polk County (Des Moines), but her Republican opponent captured the other 15 counties in the district.

The 1st District drew nationwide attention in 2020. Its House race was the closest in the nation in 2020, when Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks — on her fourth try for Congress — was elected by six votes. Now she faces state Rep. Christina Bohannan, with whom she differs sharply on gun control and abortion.

The Iowa Poll shows 1st District voters favor a Republican over a Democrat 50%-41%.

Rep. Randy Feenstra's 4th District (Northwestern Iowa) is solidly Republican and the only one of the four districts in Iowa not considered competitive.

"All congressional districts should be close, but Iowa has become a red state the past two elections with almost two thirds of both legislative houses now being held by Republicans," said Schmett.

"President Joe Biden has abysmal polling numbers in Iowa. This, combined with a weak top of the ticket and underfunded Democrat legislative candidates will create a Republican wave that should carry all four Republican congressional candidates. The only question is whether the wave will be a tsunami or knee deep."

John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.

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The House Republican’s 1,000 page report shows proof of the corruption of the FBI and DOJ against 45th President Donald J. Trump.

A GOP lead analysis released Friday, highlighted a few key points against the federal agencies. Some of those key points included inflating numbers about domestic extremism, the abuse of counterterrorism power against parental rights at school board meetings, spying on Americans who were tied to the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Donald Trump, firing FBI employees who refused to give in to leftists and politicizing cases over criminal ones that posed a real danger to the country.

Congressional Republicans stated that the analysis on the FBI and the DOJ is the first report that drew attention to the internal problems of domestic law enforcement.

It further showed how out-of-touch Washington, D.C. has become. The report showcased the persecution of conservatives in Biden’s America.

Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, is leading the investigation. Probing Democrat-controlled government agencies will be a top priority for Republicans if they win the majority in the House of Representatives.

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Trump Ally Patel Confirms Talking to Grand Jury in Trump Documents Probe (AP)

Sarah N. Lynch and Luc Cohen Friday, 04 November 2022 05:39 PM EDT

Donald Trump adviser Kash Patel on Friday confirmed that he testified to the grand jury hearing evidence in the federal probe of whether the former president illegally took classified records with him when he left the White House in 2021.

The FBI in August seized more than 11,000 documents, including about 100 pages marked as classified, from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, and the U.S. Justice Department is probing whether Trump broke federal law by taking them as well as whether he obstructed the investigation into the missing papers.

Patel would be a key witness because he was one of Trump's representatives to the National Archives.

"His testimony was compelled over his objection through the only legal means available to the government – a grant of limited immunity," spokesperson Eric Knight said in a statement issued on Patel's behalf.

Prosecutors have said they have evidence that Trump or his associates may have tried to conceal or hide records from the FBI even after receiving a May 2022 grand jury subpoena ordering him to return the materials.

In the FBI's sworn statement underpinning the search, investigators explicitly cited public statements Patel made claiming, without evidence, that Trump had declassified all of the seized materials.

Trump, who is flirting with another run for the White House,has filed a civil lawsuit asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to appoint a special master to review the seized materials for anything that could be subject to either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.

Cannon later appointed U.S. Judge Raymond Dearie as special master; he is reviewing all of the seized materials, except for those marked as classified. The Justice Department is also currently appealing Cannon's order to appoint a special master.

Prosecutors previously tried to compel Patel to testify before the grand jury, but he had asserted his right against self-incrimination, protected by the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a person familiar with the matter said.

In a closed-door court hearing, the U.S. District Court's chief judge recently ruled that prosecutors could not compel Patel to testify without offering him immunity, the person said.

Trump is contemplating kicking off another run for president in the weeks between Tuesday's midterm elections and the Nov. 24 Thanksgiving holiday, three Trump advisers said this week.

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GOP's Allen to Newsmax: Working Families Are Taking Back Massachusetts

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By Jay Clemons | Friday, 04 November 2022 05:21 PM EDT

Leah Cole Allen, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in the state of Massachusetts, has had interesting an professional journey over the past decade.

In 2013, Allen was elected into the Massachusetts House of Representatives (12th district), but ultimately resigned from her post two years later to focus on her burgeoning career as a registered nurse.

And this seemed like the proper path to take, at least until the coronavirus pandemic upended the country in 2020.

A few months later, Allen was removed from an occupation she loved because she refused to take a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine.

But Allen soon converted this personal loss into a political rebirth. She's now running again for political office, with the hopes of serving under Republican gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl.

And as a selling point, when talking to the masses, Allen plans to represent the factions of spouses, mothers, medical workers and freedom-loving Massachusetts residents, along with those who had their occupational livelihoods cut short due to mandate vaccines.

"The biggest voting bloc that we're going to capture with our message is families and working people in Massachusetts," Cole Allen told Newsmax Friday afternoon, while appearing on "American Agenda" with hosts Bob Sellers and Katrina Szish.

Allen said she'll also be fighting for Massachusetts parents who didn't like their children being locked out of schools during the pandemic or forced into vaccine-mandate scenarios.

From Allen's perspective, the same holds true for the Massachusetts citizens who are tired of President Joe Biden's indifference toward high inflation and a sagging economy.

If Allen emerges victorious after Tuesday's elections, she says she and Gov.-elect Diehl would immediately seek to rehire every Massachusetts worker who had been previously fired over vaccine mandates.

Our campaign is about "getting the government out of the private sector," said Allen, who has garnered the endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

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GOP's Diehl to Newsmax: Day 1 Gov Agenda Includes Parental Bill of Rights (Newsmax/"American Agenda")

By Jay Clemons | Friday, 04 November 2022 04:46 PM EDT

Massachusetts might bear the look of a politically liberal, or "blue" state, but Geoff Diehl — the current Republican gubernatorial candidate — also likes to remind the public that a Republican has occupied the governor's office for 24 of the last 32 years.

"You need a challenge to the left-leaning [state] Legislature," Diehl told Newsmax Friday afternoon, while paired with his running mate (lieutenant governor candidate Leah Cole Allen) and appearing on "American Agenda" with hosts Bob Sellers and Katrina Szish.

Various media polls list Diehl as an underdog in the Massachusetts gubernatorial race. But he's not putting much stock into the surveys.

For example, the Democratic Party recently sent Vice President Kamala Harris to campaign on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Maura Healey, and Diehl characterized the event crowd in Boston as "pathetic."

"There's a huge energy gap for Republicans right now," said Diehl, while adding that Healey — currently the state's attorney general — has caused "economic stress" to Massachusetts residents over the last 20-plus months, due to the implementation of President Joe Biden's policies.

"We feel really good" about our chances of pulling the upset on Tuesday, says Diehl.

If Diehl prevails this week, he already has a two-step plan for his Day 1 agenda.

Step 1: Rehire every state worker that was fired for not submitting to the vaccine mandate.

"It was wrong to fire them," lamented Diehl.

Step 2: Establish a "parental bill of rights" for Massachusetts families.

The crux of the legislation: If public-school parents aren't satisfied with their kids' curriculum, Diehl says "they can take the state tax dollars and either use it for private schools or even homeschooling. That's one thing we must do: We need to bring competition to the education marketplace."

Reading and math scores are way down in Massachusetts, compared to pre-pandemic numbers; and Diehl believes that everything would change for the better, if he's elected governor.

"We're going to give the parents a much stronger voice for their kids' education," says Diehl, who has secured the personal endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

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Conservatives Begin to Question Musk's Twitter Decisions

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By Luca Cacciatore | Friday, 04 November 2022 04:46 PM EDT

Right-wing users and influencers on Twitter are turning against billionaire Elon Musk just one week after cheering his acquisition of the platform, citing concerns with staff moves.

Musk's defense of Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of safety and integrity, is specifically causing a stir. Roth, 35, once tweeted that former President Donald Trump was a "racist tangerine" and warned of "actual Nazis in the White House" during his tenure.

"Dear @elonmusk, I want you to succeed at Twitter," Newsmax's "The Benny Report" host Benny Johnson wrote in a Twitter thread. "This critique is based only on cold hard facts: You will never restore 'public trust' at Twitter when the guy in charge thinks 100,000,000 Americans who support America First are 'Literal Nazis' Not possible. @yoyoel must go."

Johnson also encouraged Musk to place at least one conservative on Twitter's new safety board in order to restore trust "with 100M Americans who have been denigrated by this platform."

Although Musk replied back to Johnson agreeing with his assessment "that the Twitter safety board should have people from all viewpoints," he defended Roth in a separate post over the weekend.

"We've all made some questionable tweets, me more than most, but I want to be clear that I support Yoel. My sense is that he has high integrity, and we are all entitled to our political beliefs," the new Twitter CEO stated.

Turning Point USA influencer Lauren Chen condemned Musk's decision to keep Roth and continue working with organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP to "combat hate & harassment."

"Why is it in anyway part of Twitter's goal to 'combat hate'? Or have anything to do with election integrity?" Chen queried. "This is not sounding like a triumph for free speech."

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Pat Fallon to Newsmax: 'Border Will Be on the Ballot' (Newsmax/"American Agenda")

By Theodore Bunker | Friday, 04 November 2022 04:04 PM EDT

Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Friday that the number of illegal border crossings and the ongoing opioid crisis will help propel Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.

Fallon said on "American Agenda": "I'll tell you what'll be on the ballot on Tuesday: The border will be on the ballot."

The Texas Republican said earlier, "Look at just the numbers in April of this year; it was 234,000 illegal border crossings. So that's a lot, it was the most we ever had in history.

"But what does that mean in comparison to, say, the last April [former President Donald] Trump was in office, in April 2020? Well it was 1,258% worse, and then, if you look at May, it was 241,000 illegal border crossings, which was the worst month … it eclipsed April, it was 930% worse."

He added, "We also see with fentanyl, there's been almost 25,000 pounds of fentanyl seized in Joe Biden's presidency, which is enough to kill every American about 10 times over; but it led to 107,000 opioid overdose deaths last year alone, 80,000 from fentanyl."

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