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Senate GOP Pushing Back on McConnell as Red Wave Dissolves

(Newsmax/"The Chris Salcedo Show")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:09 AM EST

Several Senate Republicans pushing for next week's leadership elections to be delayed as dissatisfaction grows with current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the wake of disappointing midterm election results after the Kentucky Republican refused campaign financing for candidates who wouldn't pledge to elect him as the party's leader in the chamber.

The longtime feud between McConnell and former President Donald Trump spilled over to the midterms, with funding pulled from such candidates as Blake Masters in Arizona, who was outspent by 5-to-1 by incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly, who Friday was declared the winner in the race.

The Senate campaign arm also pulled money from New Hampshire candidate Don Bolduc in the final weeks of the race, which went to Democrat incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan.

In a letter obtained by Politico, Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah and Rick Scott of Florida pressed colleagues to sign off on postponing the party's leadership elections, which are for now scheduled for Wednesday morning.

However, several other GOP senators are calling for the leadership elections to be delayed, including Marco Rubio of Florida, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri.

Hawley and Eric Schmitt, who just was elected to Missouri's other Senate seat, have publicly come out about replacing McConnell.

Scott, the leader of the powerful National Republican Senatorial Committee, has often had his differences with McConnell. He had said in a video he intended to challenge McConnell for the leadership spot, but Friday backed out as questions continue whether Republicans will take majority control of the Senate.

With Kelly's win in Arizona, the race for party control of the Senate hinges on the final outcome of the race in Nevada between GOP candidate Adam Laxalt and incumbent Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, which is within hundreds of votes and too close to call, and on a recall election in Georgia between incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.

"We are all disappointed that a Red Wave failed to materialize, and there are multiple reasons it did not," the senators said in the letter. "We need to have serious discussions within our conference as to why and what we can do to improve our chances in 2024."

As matters stand now, the Senate GOP leadership slate is expected to keep McConnell as leader, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as whip, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming as conference chair, Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa as policy committee chair, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia as conference vice chair and Sen. Steve Daines of Montana as chair of the Senate Republicans' campaign arm.

Johnson and Lee, meanwhile, have also often disagreed with how McConnell manages the Senate Republicans. Both senators won reelection, and Johnson received $25 million from the Senate Leadership Fund.

Rubio, speaking out against the leadership election being held now, said the party must make sure that people who want to lead it are "genuinely committed to fighting for the priorities and values of the working Americans."

Cruz, meanwhile, said it "makes no sense" to have the elections before the Warnock-Walker runoff is decided.

David McIntosh, a former congressman and leader of the conservative Club for Growth, said he doesn't anticipate a change in leadership, but said McConnell's power as leader could be diminished.

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Greg Kelly: Trump v. DeSantis 'Is Politics,' 'No Big Deal' (Newsmax/"Greg Kelly Reports")

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:28 AM EST

The media, and even conservative media, is "getting it all wrong and overreacting" to former President Donald Trump firing salvos against Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to Newsmax's Greg Kelly.

"All right, calm down, everybody – they don't know what they're talking about," Kelly said in his Friday night "Greg Kelly Reports" opening monologue. "Going after Ron DeSantis? You call this an attack?"

"This is child's play, what's happening between the DeSantis and Trump right now, and it's also politics. It's no big deal."

Kelly detailed Trump's scathing rebuke of Fox News and conservative media concerned about him preemptively challenging potential 2024 presidential primary opponents, noting people are forgetting Trump is New York fighter, a billionaire beholden to no one, and not a politician.

"Ultimately, he's always right," Kelly said, expressing no panic the conservative media is sharing over looming GOP primary in-fighting. "I am very, very confident in him and whatever he wants to do next, and I have been quite clear: I hope that includes running for and winning the presidency.

"So as usual, the mainstream media certainly can't figure it out, but also the conservative media, surprisingly and very disappointingly. And actually, when it comes to Fox, not that surprisingly."

The media spends time attacking Trump, but they should spend more time trying to understand where he is coming from, Kelly said, noting "DeSantis really studied trump, and he copied him a lot" and he should be a bit more respectful to Trump and not foment a 2024 GOP primary with silence.

"Now the media – conservative media too – are having a meltdown about Donald Trump," Kelly continued. "They still haven't figured him out after all of these years. Instead of being outraged by him all the time, why don't you study him? Why don't you learn something?

"But this statement that Donald Trump put out that's getting everybody all upset, it's fine," Kelly added. "It's nothing really that crosses the line."

The "Ron DeSanctimonious" nickname is not only harmless by political standards, but it is fitting, according to Kelly, after a Florida gubernatorial campaign ad suggested DeSantis was delivered to Florida by the hand of God on the eighth day.

"Whoa! Whoa! He's the governor of a state, relax, all right?" Kelly said after playing portions of the sanctimonious campaign ad. "And there's a lot of politicking and glad handing. Easy there, please.

"I mean, 'DeSanctimonious' that totally works."

Kelly broke down Trump's lengthy statement this week that caused a political firestorm on cable TV this week, saying, "what I'm trying to do here is show you that this is actually a reasonable statement – it is."

DeSantis' silence and Fox News attackers are turning on Trump, and he is fighting back on it, Kelly continued.

"I agree with President Trump," Kelly said. "Now, in political circles, this happens all the time, people just turn their back on [you].

"You forget what you did for them. That's politics. But remember, Donald Trump is not a politician, and he has to play by their rules – and if they break the rules, actually their own rules – he's free to point it out.

"Fox News is turning on him now and, yes, they turned on him. They were never really with them until, as he said he got elected."

DeSantis has "copied" Trump's policies and even mannerisms to achieve his victories, according to Kelly.

"If you haven't noticed this, DeSantis has picked up everything he does as governor from Donald Trump – in terms of substance and policy, and oh, yeah, style," Kelly said, noting DeSantis' accordion-like hand motions during a news conference, just like Trump has done for years.

"Look at that. Now. You think DeSantis was talking in this? Hey, I'm fine with that. And I like Ron DeSantis for president someday, but I believe he owes it to President Trump to sit this one out."

And, like Trump's statement mentioned this week, Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin does, too, Kelly concluded.

"Everything that he said about Youngkin, about DeSantis, quite frankly, is factual, and measured and responsible – certainly when compared to what the Democrats say about each other," Kelly said. "It's amazing. They try to depict him as some sort of barbarian."

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Greg Kelly: Trump v. DeSantis 'Is Politics,' 'No Big Deal' (Newsmax/"Greg Kelly Reports")

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:28 AM EST

The media, and even conservative media, is "getting it all wrong and overreacting" to former President Donald Trump firing salvos against Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to Newsmax's Greg Kelly.

"All right, calm down, everybody – they don't know what they're talking about," Kelly said in his Friday night "Greg Kelly Reports" opening monologue. "Going after Ron DeSantis? You call this an attack?"

"This is child's play, what's happening between the DeSantis and Trump right now, and it's also politics. It's no big deal."

Kelly detailed Trump's scathing rebuke of Fox News and conservative media concerned about him preemptively challenging potential 2024 presidential primary opponents, noting people are forgetting Trump is New York fighter, a billionaire beholden to no one, and not a politician.

"Ultimately, he's always right," Kelly said, expressing no panic the conservative media is sharing over looming GOP primary in-fighting. "I am very, very confident in him and whatever he wants to do next, and I have been quite clear: I hope that includes running for and winning the presidency.

"So as usual, the mainstream media certainly can't figure it out, but also the conservative media, surprisingly and very disappointingly. And actually, when it comes to Fox, not that surprisingly."

The media spends time attacking Trump, but they should spend more time trying to understand where he is coming from, Kelly said, noting "DeSantis really studied trump, and he copied him a lot" and he should be a bit more respectful to Trump and not foment a 2024 GOP primary with silence.

"Now the media – conservative media too – are having a meltdown about Donald Trump," Kelly continued. "They still haven't figured him out after all of these years. Instead of being outraged by him all the time, why don't you study him? Why don't you learn something?

"But this statement that Donald Trump put out that's getting everybody all upset, it's fine," Kelly added. "It's nothing really that crosses the line."

The "Ron DeSanctimonious" nickname is not only harmless by political standards, but it is fitting, according to Kelly, after a Florida gubernatorial campaign ad suggested DeSantis was delivered to Florida by the hand of God on the eighth day.

"Whoa! Whoa! He's the governor of a state, relax, all right?" Kelly said after playing portions of the sanctimonious campaign ad. "And there's a lot of politicking and glad handing. Easy there, please.

"I mean, 'DeSanctimonious' that totally works."

Kelly broke down Trump's lengthy statement this week that caused a political firestorm on cable TV this week, saying, "what I'm trying to do here is show you that this is actually a reasonable statement – it is."

DeSantis' silence and Fox News attackers are turning on Trump, and he is fighting back on it, Kelly continued.

"I agree with President Trump," Kelly said. "Now, in political circles, this happens all the time, people just turn their back on [you].

"You forget what you did for them. That's politics. But remember, Donald Trump is not a politician, and he has to play by their rules – and if they break the rules, actually their own rules – he's free to point it out.

"Fox News is turning on him now and, yes, they turned on him. They were never really with them until, as he said he got elected."

DeSantis has "copied" Trump's policies and even mannerisms to achieve his victories, according to Kelly.

"If you haven't noticed this, DeSantis has picked up everything he does as governor from Donald Trump – in terms of substance and policy, and oh, yeah, style," Kelly said, noting DeSantis' accordion-like hand motions during a news conference, just like Trump has done for years.

"Look at that. Now. You think DeSantis was talking in this? Hey, I'm fine with that. And I like Ron DeSantis for president someday, but I believe he owes it to President Trump to sit this one out."

And, like Trump's statement mentioned this week, Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin does, too, Kelly concluded.

"Everything that he said about Youngkin, about DeSantis, quite frankly, is factual, and measured and responsible – certainly when compared to what the Democrats say about each other," Kelly said. "It's amazing. They try to depict him as some sort of barbarian."

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Trump Calls for Arizona Election 'Do Over,' Says It's 'Tainted' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 12 November 2022 09:47 AM EST

Railing on the slow-walking of election results in Arizona, including voting machines in Republican districts coincidentally failing, former President Donald Trump says the "tainted" Arizona election should be all over again if the U.S. wasn't a "third-world country."

"So in Maricopa County they're at it again," Trump wrote in a series of Truth Social posts Friday night into Saturday morning. "Voting machines in large numbers didn't work, but only in Republican districts. People were forced to wait for hours, then got exhausted or had other things to do and left the voting lines by the thousands.

"Even Kari Lake was taken to a liberal Democrat district in order to vote. Others weren't so lucky. This is a scam and voter fraud, no different than stuffing the ballot boxes. They stole the election from Blake Masters. Do election over again!"

The troubles in Nevada are going to come to a head next, Trump warned, and if Adam Laxalt's shrinking lead is overcome in the count in the next hours or days, Democrats will have secured the Senate majority for the next two years.

"Now they're finding all sorts of ballots in Clark County, Nevada," Trump wrote in another Truth Social post. "They are pulling out all stops to steal the election from Adam Laxalt. Mitch McConnell, the Republicans' Broken Down Senate Leader, does nothing about this."

Outside of Georgia's Dec. 6 runoff between Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Herschel Waker, the Alaska Senate race between Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka remains stuck in ranked-choice voting purgatory. Murkowski trailed in the first round of voting, but the ranked-choice voting she helped put in place could get her over the top.

Trump blasted McConnell for pulling funding from Masters' Arizona race to help fund an anti-Trump Senate campaign of Murkowski in Arizona.

"He's too busy spending vast amounts of money on bad Sen. Lisa M of Alaska, when Kelly S is far better," Trump's Truth Social post continued, using the phonetic "S" sound of Tshibaka's last name. "Should have fought and stopped the steal in 2020. Gave Dems 4 trillion dollars, never used debt ceiling. He is the worst!"

There is a growing effort to challenge McConnell's GOP Senate leadership position, which is looking more and more likely to be a minority one with the Senate projections currently split 49-49 with Alaska's seat sure to remain Republican and only Nevada and Georgia left to call, according to Newsmax projections.

"Rigged elections, open borders = Third-world countries," Trump wrote in another Truth Social post. "The USA is a failing nation!"

"Idiot, and possibly corrupt, officials have lost control of the tainted election in Arizona," Trump wrote in one final Truth Social post, before turning his attention to his daughter's wedding that will take place Saturday night at Mar-a-Lago. "Machines broken in Republican areas. A new election must be called for immediately!"

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Trump Calls for Arizona Election 'Do Over,' Says It's 'Tainted' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 12 November 2022 09:47 AM EST

Railing on the slow-walking of election results in Arizona, including voting machines in Republican districts coincidentally failing, former President Donald Trump says the "tainted" Arizona election should be all over again if the U.S. wasn't a "third-world country."

"So in Maricopa County they're at it again," Trump wrote in a series of Truth Social posts Friday night into Saturday morning. "Voting machines in large numbers didn't work, but only in Republican districts. People were forced to wait for hours, then got exhausted or had other things to do and left the voting lines by the thousands.

"Even Kari Lake was taken to a liberal Democrat district in order to vote. Others weren't so lucky. This is a scam and voter fraud, no different than stuffing the ballot boxes. They stole the election from Blake Masters. Do election over again!"

The troubles in Nevada are going to come to a head next, Trump warned, and if Adam Laxalt's shrinking lead is overcome in the count in the next hours or days, Democrats will have secured the Senate majority for the next two years.

"Now they're finding all sorts of ballots in Clark County, Nevada," Trump wrote in another Truth Social post. "They are pulling out all stops to steal the election from Adam Laxalt. Mitch McConnell, the Republicans' Broken Down Senate Leader, does nothing about this."

Outside of Georgia's Dec. 6 runoff between Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Herschel Waker, the Alaska Senate race between Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka remains stuck in ranked-choice voting purgatory. Murkowski trailed in the first round of voting, but the ranked-choice voting she helped put in place could get her over the top.

Trump blasted McConnell for pulling funding from Masters' Arizona race to help fund an anti-Trump Senate campaign of Murkowski in Arizona.

"He's too busy spending vast amounts of money on bad Sen. Lisa M of Alaska, when Kelly S is far better," Trump's Truth Social post continued, using the phonetic "S" sound of Tshibaka's last name. "Should have fought and stopped the steal in 2020. Gave Dems 4 trillion dollars, never used debt ceiling. He is the worst!"

There is a growing effort to challenge McConnell's GOP Senate leadership position, which is looking more and more likely to be a minority one with the Senate projections currently split 49-49 with Alaska's seat sure to remain Republican and only Nevada and Georgia left to call, according to Newsmax projections.

"Rigged elections, open borders = Third-world countries," Trump wrote in another Truth Social post. "The USA is a failing nation!"

"Idiot, and possibly corrupt, officials have lost control of the tainted election in Arizona," Trump wrote in one final Truth Social post, before turning his attention to his daughter's wedding that will take place Saturday night at Mar-a-Lago. "Machines broken in Republican areas. A new election must be called for immediately!"

Democrat Wins Arizona Elections Post Over Trump-Backed Candidate

Democratic Adrian Fontes, candidate for Arizona Secretary of State, speaks at an election night watch party. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

BOB CHRISTIE Saturday, 12 November 2022 08:36 AM EST

Democrat Adrian Fontes won the top elections post in Arizona on Friday, defeating a Republican rival who attended the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and who said he would not have certified Joe Biden’s win in the state.

Fontes, who formerly oversaw parts of the election system in Arizona’s most populous county, had said Republican Mark Finchem represented a danger to democracy if he had won. The secretary of state, working with the governor and attorney general, has broad authority to rewrite the state’s election rules and plays a role in the certification of results.

Finchem had emerged as one of the most prominent Republicans running for secretary of state positions around the country who claimed that Biden was not elected legitimately. He had argued for significant changes to Arizona’s elections after Biden won the state in 2020 and had been endorsed by Trump.

After winning the state’s primary election in August, Finchem said he wanted to restore the rule of law to elections in the state, declaring: “Right now, we have lawlessness.”

There was no evidence of widespread fraud found in the 2020 elections, including in Arizona, where reviews of the voting upheld Biden’s narrow victory.

He joined with Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor, in a lawsuit seeking to get rid of the machines that tabulate votes for the midterm elections and replace that process with a hand-count of all ballots in the state. Election experts say full hand-counts can be painfully slow, are prone to human error and are not as accurate as machine tallies.

The lawsuit alleged that the vote-counting machines used in Arizona aren’t reliable. They are appealing a decision by a federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit.

Fontes is a former Marine and local prosecutor who staked his campaign on pledges to protect voting rights. He lost his seat as Maricopa County recorder after one term to a Republican in 2020.

Arizona’s secretary of state race was one of several around the country featuring Republican candidates who pushed claims that former President Donald Trump was cheated out of reelection. Many of those candidates ended up losing, including those in Michigan and New Mexico, although several went on to win the posts in heavily Republican states.

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Kelly's Win in Arizona Leaves Dems 1 Seat Shy of Senate Control Sen. Mark Kelly on election night. (Getty Images)

Tim Reid and Richard Cowan Saturday, 12 November 2022 06:21 AM EST

Incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly defeated Republican Blake Masters on Friday to win a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, a contest that left Democrats one seat short in the battle for control of the chamber with two more races to be decided.

Former President Donald Trump blasted the results and called for a new election "immediately."

The win by Kelly, a former astronaut whose wife, Gabby Giffords, survived an assassination attempt when she was a U.S. lawmaker, meant Democrats had battled to a 49-49 tie in the race for the Senate.

"I'm humbled by the trust our state has placed in me to continue this work," Kelly said on Twitter.

Control of the Senate — and the shape of President Joe Biden's next two years in office — will now hinge on contests in Nevada and Georgia. Biden's party avoided historical trends by limiting their losses in Tuesday's midterm elections, shocking Republicans who had expected big gains.

Democrats needed one more seat for control, since Vice President Kamala Harris can cast the tie-breaking vote.

In Nevada, incumbent Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto had closed to within about 800 votes of the Republican state attorney general, Adam Laxalt. Georgia's outcome is weeks away as Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock will face Republican Herschel Walker in a Dec. 6 runoff.

In the Nevada governor's race, Republican Joe Lombardo defeated Democrat Steve Sisolak, Edison Research projected. Sisolak conceded the race.

"Whether you voted for me or Sheriff Lombardo, it is important that we now come together to continue moving the state forward," Sisolak said in a statement posted on Twitter. "That is why I reached out to the sheriff to wish him success."

Political analysts anticipate a rush of campaign funds into Georgia as Republicans and Democrats gear up for the final battle of the 2022 midterm elections.

In Arizona, law enforcement officials remained on high alert for potential protests, with barricades and security fencing erected around the Maricopa County elections department, where dozens of officials are working 18-hour days to verify outstanding ballots and tabulate votes.

Trump blasted the results on his Truth Social platform, saying, "Idiot, and possibly corrupt, officials have lost control of the tainted Election in Arizona. MACHINES BROKEN IN REPUBLICAN AREAS. A NEW ELECTION MUST BE CALLED FOR IMMEDIATELY!"

Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for Arizona governor, has criticized election officials in Maricopa County, the state's most populous, as "incompetent" and "despicable," accusing them of deliberately delaying the vote counting.

Bill Gates, chairperson of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and a Republican, bristled at Lake's comments. "Everybody needs to calm down a little bit and turn down the rhetoric. That's the problem with what's going on with our country right now," he told reporters.

In the fight for control of the House of Representatives, Republicans were inching closer to becoming the majority and ending four years of rule by Democrats. That would give Republicans veto power over Democrat Biden's legislative agenda and allow them to launch potentially damaging investigations into his administration.

Republicans had secured at least 211 of the 218 House seats they need for a majority, Edison Research projected late on Thursday, while Democrats had won 199. Many of the races where winners have not yet been determined are in Arizona, California and Washington state.

Despite the real possibility that they may lose the House, Democrats have still cheered their success in curbing their predicted losses after they galvanized voters angry over the Supreme Court's decision in June to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.

The Republican House leader, Kevin McCarthy, has already announced his intention to run for speaker if Republicans take over, an outcome he has described as inevitable.

It is unclear whether a challenger to McCarthy will emerge, but some of the most conservative House Republicans have expressed doubts that he has enough votes yet to become speaker, the most powerful official in the House.

Meanwhile, Republican infighting in the Senate broke into the open on Friday as senators urged the postponement of a Wednesday leadership election so that they have time to discuss why the party did not fare better on Tuesday.

Mitch McConnell is hoping to continue as Republican leader, despite sniping from Trump and other conservatives.

UNCOUNTED BALLOTS

Officials overseeing vote counting in the Arizona and Nevada Senate races, where Democratic incumbents are trying to fend off Republican challengers, have said it could take until next week to tally some 520,000 uncounted mail-in ballots. Most of those were in Maricopa County, which encompasses Phoenix.

Their work is slowed by the need to match signatures on mail-in ballots to voter registration signatures after high numbers of such votes were dropped off on Election Day.

Some of Trump's most high-profile endorsed candidates lost pivotal races on Tuesday, marring his status as Republican kingmaker and leading several Republicans to blame his divisive brand for the party's disappointing performance.

The outcome may increase the chances that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who routed his Democratic challenger on Tuesday, opts to challenge Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination.

While Trump has not officially launched a third White House campaign, the former president has strongly suggested he will do so and is planning a "special announcement" at his Florida club on Tuesday.

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UPDATED 9:50 PM PT – Friday, November 11, 2022

According to AP News, Mark Kelly has won Arizona’s Senate seat.

Incumbent Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) faced off against Trump-endorsed Senate candidate Blake Masters (R- Ariz.) in Arizona’s Senate race.

Kelly has been serving in Arizona’s Senate since 2020. While on the campaign trail, Kelly has pledged to fix Arizona’s economy, cut taxes and to lower costs. Prior to having a career in Congress, he was an astronaut and he served in the U.S. Navy.

The Democrat is pro-abortion, a view his counterpart doesn’t support.

According to Masters’ campaign website, he said “Democrats in power have failed us.” He added that Mark Kelly is Joe Biden’s “sidekick.” Masters has also said that Kelly has helped Democrats contribute to the ongoing inflation and has made America “dangerous and unaffordable.”

Masters’ said he hopes to make Arizona safe, prosperous and free by ending illegal immigration, cracking down on crime and by boosting national defense.

The Associated Press called the race in Kelly’s favor on Friday night. Masters has yet to comment on the results.

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Representative Elise Stefanik kicks off the GOP Presidential primary race with her endorsement of former President Donald J. Trump.

On Friday, in a statement shared with Breitbart, Stefanik (R-N.Y.) pointed out that under Trump’s presidency, America saw a “red hot” economy, strong southern border and a strong image at home and abroad.

She went on to remind Republicans that several polls show overwhelming support for Trump’s leadership of the GOP. She added that he will dominate all primary opponents. According to Stefanik, this fact proves that Republicans should unite around Trump now to get an early start in the campaign in order to oust President Joe Biden from the White House.

In the meantime, Trump is expected to make a big announcement on Tuesday. Experts believe he will officially throw his hat in the ring for president.

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Rep.-Elect D'Esposito to Newsmax: GOP's Nassau Sweep a 'Long Island Wave'

(Newsmax/"Eric Bolling The Balance")

By Jay Clemons | Friday, 11 November 2022 10:22 PM EST

Congressman-elect Anthony D'Esposito is a former New York Police Department officer and detective.

He's also a byproduct of the Nassau County Republican Committee, which D'Esposito proudly touts as one of this nation's most formidable entities.

"There is no better political organization anywhere in this country. … We deliver [election] wins in places that you normally don't think" would prevail in New York, D'Esposito told Newsmax Friday evening, while appearing on "Eric Bolling The Balance" with guest host John Tabacco.

On Tuesday, D'Esposito flipped the District 4 House seat from blue to red, defeating Democrat Laura Gillen. From a national perspective, it had the makings of a significant upset.

But D'Esposito — who notched 70% of the total vote in his previous three state races — always felt comfortable with his ambitious move to a higher rung on the political ladder.

"I was confident throughout the race," said D'Esposito. At first,"everyone told me, 'You're out of your mind.'"

In his doubters' defense, New York's 4th Congressional District had been under Democrat control for a quarter-century; and during the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden topped then-President Donald Trump by 15-plus percentage points in that district.

"As a young cop, I was always taught that even on the coldest of nights, the hottest of days … you're always driving around in your patrol car with your windows down, so you can hear the noise, listen to the streets," said D'Esposito.

"The people in this district wanted change," added D'Esposito.

A Republican-dominated "red wave" may not have occurred on a national scale. But in his region, "it was legitimately an American Long Island wave," said D'Esposito, alluding to how the GOP candidates swept all four Long Island-based races.

The secret to that success: D'Esposito said the Republican candidates understood that Nassau County residents were "laser focused" on forward-thinking politicians who would prioritize curbing crime, reducing high inflation, keeping the streets and communities safe, and precluding lethal drugs — such as fentanyl — from wreaking havoc in neighborhoods.

"The Democrats have always been on the wrong side" of the above issues, said D'Esposito, "and the people of [Long Island] knew that."

As for D'Esposito's pledge to keep the Nassau County streets and communities safe, he quipped, "When you want to fight crime, who better to elect than a crime-fighter."

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Trump-Endorsed Sheriff Defeats Dem. Nevada Gov Lombardo (AP)

KEN RITTER Friday, 11 November 2022 09:44 PM EST

Republican Joe Lombardo, a career police officer and sheriff in Las Vegas who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been elected governor in Nevada.

Lombardo defeated Steve Sisolak, regaining the governorship of the Silver State for the GOP and making Sisolak a one-term Democrat amid two decades of Republicans.

“It appears we will fall a percentage point or so short of winning,” Sisolak said in a statement conceding the race to Lombardo shortly after batch of vote results was reported in Clark County. “That is why I reached out to the sheriff to wish him success.”

The count of ballots in Nevada took several days partly due to a provision of a broad mail voting law passed by the state Legislature in 2020. It requires counties to accept ballots postmarked by Election Day if they arrive up to four days later.

Lombardo, 60, started as a police officer in Las Vegas in 1988 and served two terms as Clark County sheriff, the nonpartisan elected head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the largest police agency in the state.

He weathered campaign attacks on rising crime by acknowledging the increase during the last two years and blaming funding limits and mandates from a Democratic-controlled Legislature.

Lombardo sometimes distanced himself from Trump during the campaign, and never offered an endorsement of unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was marred by fraud. Lombardo said during his only campaign debate with Sisolak that any irregularities were not enough to change the outcome of the election.

Lombardo, who emerged for the general election from a crowded GOP primary field, derided a state public health insurance option that the Legislature passed and Sisolak signed, and said he looks at abortion through a “pro-life lens.”

But he acknowledged that state law approved by Nevada voters in 1990 allows abortions up to 24 weeks into pregnancy. “There’s nothing the governor can do,” he said, to change that law.

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Trump Files Lawsuit to Avoid Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena (AP)

JILL COLVIN Friday, 11 November 2022 09:23 PM EST

Former President Donald Trump is suing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block a subpoena requiring him to testify.

“Long-held precedent and practice maintain that separation of powers prohibits Congress from compelling a president to testify before it,” Trump attorney David A. Warrington said in a statement announcing Trump's intentions.

He said Trump had “engaged with the committee in a good faith effort to resolve these concerns consistent with Executive Branch prerogatives and separation of powers,” but said the panel “insists on pursuing a political path, leaving President Trump with no choice but to involve the third branch, the judicial branch, in this dispute between the executive and legislative branches.”

The committee voted to subpoena Trump during its final hearing before the midterm elections and formally did so last month, demanding testimony from the former president. Committee member members allege Trump “personally orchestrated” a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Trump has denied such claims, while also continuing to assert that the election of Joe Biden was due to widespread voter fraud.

The 1/6 panel said Trump had to testify, either at the Capitol or by videoconference, “beginning on or about” Nov. 14 — continuing for multiple days if necessary.

The letter also outlined a sweeping request for documents, including personal communications between Trump and members of Congress as well as extremist groups.

The lawsuit comes as Trump is expected to launch a third campaign for president next week.

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Court Revisits Wildlife Refuge Decision After Carter Opposition (Newsmax)

By Nicole Wells | Friday, 11 November 2022 07:36 PM EST

Following opposition from former President Jimmy Carter, a federal appeals court will reexamine a decision that upheld the approval of a road that would run through a national wildlife refuge.

According to The Hill, on Thursday a majority of non-recused judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the case that authorized the building of a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska be reheard.

Supporters of the building project say the road would connect the small King Cove community to an airport they claim is important for emergency medical evacuation, while opponents argue the road would be detrimental to the plant and animal species and natural resources of the wildlife refuge.

Carter took the rare step of weighing in after a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit upheld a Trump-era decision that supported the road's construction.

"The understanding adopted by the panel majority here is not only deeply mistaken, it is also dangerous," Carter wrote.

The former president argued that the panel's interpretation could be applied to future decisions, in direct contrast to the law's intent.

"The secretarial powers the decision recognized would apply equally to National Parks, National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, as well as Wilderness Areas and other conservation lands, and to all manner of development and extractive activities, not just road building," he wrote.

"Congress's landmark action — the culmination of years of study and struggle — to designate for permanent preservation specific unrivaled national interest lands would be negated."

In the original ruling, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) allowed the Interior Department to determine the balance between environmental interests and economic and social ones.

Carter maintained thatANILCA's language described what the law achieved and did not permit additional economic issues to overrule ecological concerns.

David Raskin, president of the Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges, called the move the beginning of rescinding the approval of an "unnecessary and destructive road," in a statement.

Della Trumble, the head of the King Cove Corp., an Alaskan Native corporation that supports the road, told the Anchorage Daily News that it's "really sad that the national and local environmental groups keep upholding this."

"It's very frustrating and disheartening that this continues," Trumble said.

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Growing Number of GOP Senators Call for a Hold on McConnell Vote (Newsmax)

By Jay Clemons | Friday, 11 November 2022 06:58 PM EST

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. isn't the only prominent Republican calling for a pause in next week's Senate leadership elections.

On Friday, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., reportedly circulated a letter to their Senate colleagues, imploring them to postpone the leadership votes, which are slated to run Wednesday morning.

"We are all disappointed that a Red Wave failed to materialize [on Election Night], and there are multiple reasons it did not," the senators wrote in the letter, according to Politico. "We need to have serious discussions within our conference as to why and what we can do to improve our chances in 2024."

According to the Newsmax elections tracker, the Senate Republicans currently lead the Democrats by a 49-48 count — with the races in Georgia, Nevada and Arizona still too close to call.

In Nevada, Republican candidate Adam Laxalt owns a slim lead over incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., with approximately 94% of precincts reporting.

In Arizona, Republican candidate Blake Masters trails incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., but that race could come down to the wire, if the majority of the remaining 570,000-plus ballots favor the Republican ticket.

And the Georgia race will have a Dec. 6 runoff, since neither incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., nor Republican challenger Herschel Walker cleared 50% of the total vote in Tuesday's election.

To overtake the majority in the Senate, the Republicans would need to win two of the three final races, since all ties would be broken by Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat.

And should the Republicans carry all three Senate battles in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada, it would full fulfill's Sen. Scott's recent prediction of the Republicans holding 52 seats, while appearing on Newsmax.

The Johnson-Lee-Scott letter seemingly has odd timing, given how Politico also reported Friday that Scott would be withdrawing his interest in replacing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. as the "Senate Majority Leader" next year — if the Republicans won the Senate majority in the midterm elections.

Scott's actions aside, McConnell's leadership legacy could be in peril. Former President Donald Trump has often criticized McConnell for favoring "establishment" Senate candidates, instead of embracing "America First" or MAGA candidates.

Also, a number of U.S. senators have spoken out against McConnell, questioning his methods for investing in certain Senate candidates — while pulling funds from others.

One prime example: McConnell recently caught heat for giving extra attention to the Alaska Senate race, even though two Republicans — incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and challenger Kelly Tshibaka — were competing against each other for the Senate seat.

The Newsmax elections tracker currently has Tshibaka leading Murkowski by more than 1 percentage point, with 70% of precincts reporting.

According to Politico, the quartet of Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., also prefers to delay next week's leadership vote.

Earlier this week, Hawley publicly stated he would vote against McConnell as leader. Also, Senator-elect Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., has requested the Senate Republicans seek out new leadership, heading into 2023.

As a counter, Senate Republican Conference Chair John Barrasso, R-Wyo. reportedly wrote the GOP senators on Friday.

In the letter, Barrasso said he supports the notion of a "robust" discussion about the Senate GOP's agenda, moving forward.

However, Barrasso had no plans of delaying next week's leadership vote.

"After presentations from candidates, and there is every opportunity to address questions from every member, we will complete leadership elections," wrote Barrasso, according to Politico.

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NY Times: Stacey Abrams Failed to Connect With Black, Brown Communities (Newsmax)

By Solange Reyner | Friday, 11 November 2022 05:55 PM EST

Stacey Abrams' second bid for governor of Georgia failed because she neglected the Black and brown communities in the state, instead focusing more on her national political ambitions, community leaders, campaign aides, state lawmakers and other Abrams allies told The New York Times.

Abrams, 48, lost decisively to incumbent Brian Kemp, a Republican, 53.4% to 45.8%, in Tuesday's midterm elections. Abrams lost by nearly 300,000 votes this time around compared with 54,000 votes in 2018 against Kemp.

Abrams was in the national spotlight after that loss four years ago — she delivered the Democratic Party's response to then-President Donald Trump's State of the Union address and told the hosts of ABC's "The View" that she'd like to be president one day.

She also wrote a book about voter suppression, "Our Time is Now," a New York Times bestseller. Her 2021 book tour did not include stops in Georgia.

She campaigned with Oprah Winfrey and Kerry Washington leading up to the midterms and made regular appearances on MSNBC and Fox News.

But she trailed Kemp the entire time and didn't spend much personal time with Georgians, according to the Times. Plus, her campaign was insular and reluctant to take advice, the report said.

"She shot herself in the foot multiple times," conservative radio host Martha Zoller told the Times. "And the question was asked in many circles: If you really believe this about Georgia, why would you want to be governor?"

David Brand, a veteran Atlanta Democrat strategist, told the Times he offered Abrams' campaign help connecting to local Black business owners and civic organizations. The gatherings were virtual and didn't happen often.

"She's having Zoom meetings with Black businesspeople," Brand said. "Brian Kemp's having cocktails with them."

Derrick Jackson, an Atlanta-area state representative, said he told Abrams' campaign that it needed to engage more with Black fraternities and sororities. He invited her to several gatherings, but she never attended.

"Stacey must own some of this," said Jackson, the vice chairman of the state legislative Black Caucus. "If you're running a statewide race, if you venture off and you nationalize it, then that's problematic."

Jason Carter, a former colleague in the Georgia Legislature and 2014 Democratic Party nominee for governor, told the Times Abrams "spent an enormous amount of time being a national figure on really crucially important issues."

"That national profile is really important and has enormous value, but it also has consequences."

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Trump to Announce 2024 Presidential Bid Tuesday, Top Aide Confirms (Getty)

Friday, 11 November 2022 05:39 PM EST

Donald Trump will announce next week that he is taking another shot at the presidency with a White House run in 2024, his longtime advisor Jason Miller said Friday.

The divisive former president, who will be 78 when the next election is held, has been hinting at another presidential run while campaigning for Republican candidates ahead of this week's midterm elections, and has said he will make a "very big announcement" on Tuesday.

"President Trump is going to announce on Tuesday that he is running for president," Miller told former Trump aide Steve Bannon on his popular "War Room" podcast.

"It's gonna be a very professional, very buttoned-up announcement," he added.

Miller said Trump told him, "there doesn't need to be any question, of course I am running."

Trump's big announcement in Florida comes after a disappointing run for several candidates he backed in the midterms.

A hoped-for Republican "red wave" failed to materialize, and the party achieved a much smaller victory than had been predicted.

With 211 seats so far, Republicans appear poised to secure a slim majority in the 435-seat House of Representatives. However, control of the Senate may come down to an early December runoff in the southern state of Georgia.

The former president's major media ally — the powerful media empire of conservative billionaire Rupert Murdoch — turned on him in the wake of the polls.

Pointing to the party's disappointing midterms showing, The Wall Street Journal, the flagship of Murdoch's News Corp, declared in an editorial on Thursday that "Trump Is the Republican Party's Biggest Loser."

The cover of the tabloid New York Post depicted Trump on a precarious wall as "Trumpty Dumpty" who "had a great fall."

Trump's early entry into the race would appear designed in part to fend off possible criminal charges over taking top secret documents from the White House, his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the attack on the US Capitol by his supporters on January 6 last year.

It may also be intended to undercut his chief potential rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who emerged as one of the biggest winners from Tuesday's midterms.

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Trump Lawyers Ordered to Pay $66K From Dismissed 'Russiagate' Lawsuit Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media during an election night event at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

By Jay Clemons | Friday, 11 November 2022 05:33 PM EST

A group of attorneys for former President Donald Trump have been sanctioned by a federal judge over their handling of a since-dismissed 2016 lawsuit that was brought against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and dozens more defendants.

In Thursday's sanctions determination, four attorneys (Alina Habba, Michael Madaio, Peter Ticktin, Jamie Alan Sasson) from two law firms were ordered to pay a $50,000 court penalty, along with more than $16,000 in attorney fees to one of the named defendants in Trump's lawsuit.

"Legal filings like those at issue here should be sanctioned … both to penalize this conduct and deter similar conduct by these lawyers and others," wrote Florida-based U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton.

In his 19-page sanctions order, Judge Middlebrooks characterized the core tenets of Trump's lawsuit as "frivolous."

The lawsuit reportedly accused dozens of individuals and entities of "conspiring" to undermine the results of the 2016 presidential election.

For that 2016 race, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party nominee, by an electoral-vote count of 334-227 — with 270 needed to clinch the presidency.

From his perspective, Judge Middlebrooks reasoned that Trump's lawsuit contained factual assertions that were "either knowingly false or made in reckless disregard for the truth."

Habba, who currently serves as a senior adviser to Trump, issued a statement following the sanctions order.

"It should be no surprise that we will be appealing this decision," said Habba.

Charles Dolan, an American billionaire who's likely best known for founding HBO and Cablevision, along with previously owning Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians (now Guardians), was among the 29 defendants listed in the Trump lawsuit.

Within Middlebrooks' determination, the Trump attorneys listed "inaccuracies" about Dolan — a onetime campaign volunteer for Clinton who initiated the sanctions motion against Trump's attorneys, according to The Hill,

As part of the restitution, Dolan was awarded $16,274 in legal fees.

At the time of the case dismissal in September, Middlebrooks referred to Trump's amended complaint as "a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him."

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Club for Growth: McConnell Failed to Hold Biden, Democrats Accountable

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By Michael Katz | Friday, 11 November 2022 05:41 PM EST

Mitch McConnell is taking plenty of lumps after an expected Republican red wave in the midterm elections turned into a ripple.

David McIntosh, president of the conservative Club for Growth, said the Senate minority leader from Kentucky failed to make the midterms an indictment of President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats.

"Mitch failed to make this a referendum on why Republicans were better than the Biden agenda and the Democrats, and he knocked down anybody's efforts to have a platform to run on," McIntosh said Wednesday during a news conference, Breitbart reported.

McIntosh's criticism comes on the heels of former President Donald Trump calling McConnell a "lousy leader." And on Friday, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called for a delay in next week's Senate Republican leadership vote, expressing his disappointment in the party's performance in the midterms.

During the news conference, McIntosh said he does not believe McConnell will face a leadership challenge, but said McConnell failed to present a case for Senate Republicans, who are in a dogfight to gain control of the chamber after pundits expected them to pick up at least three seats.

McIntosh, a former U.S. representative from Indiana elected during the Republicans' takeover of Congress in 1994, said many new Senate Republicans elected in 2018 and 2020 are getting "restless" after not being in the majority.

"They don't like serving in the minority," he said. "And they don't see the vision of getting back to the majority. And I think they'll quietly distance themselves from their support of it."

McIntosh said McConnell's "style of campaigning" is "spend money and go back and use that money to try to get yourself elected. It didn't work in a lot of these close races."

Ahead of the midterms, McConnell did not release a legislative agenda of how a Senate Republican majority would operate. Further, the Senate Leadership Fund, a McConnell-aligned super PAC, declined to back Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters and New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc. Bolduc lost and Masters' race is undecided, although he is trailing Democrat Mark Kelly. The Club for Growth PAC endorsed Masters.

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Former Sheriff Arpaio to Newsmax: Arizona Politics 'Dirty' (Newsmax/"American Agenda")

By Charles Kim | Friday, 11 November 2022 05:01 PM EST

Former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Newsmax Friday politics in that state was "dirty," though he expects GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to eventually win the tight race with Democrat Katie Hobbs.

"It's not over yet, but I have full confidence that Lake and the other [Republicans] will pull it out," Arpaio said during "American Agenda" Friday. "But it's very dirty out there."

As of Friday, the New York Times has Hobbs about 27,000 votes ahead of Lake, 1,031,985 votes to 1,005,075 votes with 78% of the results reported.

According to the report, a record 290,000 ballots were dropped off in Maricopa County on election day alone, delaying the final count.

The report said that around 20% of the county's election sites saw dozens of machines malfunction on election day.

"I'm furious as hell that it takes this long," Darrell Cate, 56, told the Times. "This is a county that can't seem to get it done in a week. I can't understand that. It irritates me to no end."

Arpaio said that he was proud of Lake, and that she can "handle" the adversity from the race and counting of ballots.

"She can handle it. She's got the courage to speak out," he said. "She doesn't hide. She's a different type of campaigner and candidate. I'm very proud of her."

Arpaio said he endorsed Lake for being "tough on the border," and that there "is a lot of politics involved in the whole situation."

Lake, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been outspoken about the problems in the 2020 presidential election, and has taken the media, of which she used to be a part of, to task for how it has covered the race and politics in general.

According to the Times, Lake said in a recent television interview that she was "100%" confident she will emerge from the race victorious.

Arizona Central is reporting that the vote count will likely "continue for days," as county officials again revised their estimate for determining the results in the race.

According to the news outlet, the ballots dropped off on election day typically favors Republicans and could put Lake over the top.

"Today, staff verified nearly all of the 290,000 early ballots dropped off on election day," the county said in a press release Thursday. "We will complete signature verification of the historic number of early ballots dropped off on election day [on] Friday morning."

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Republican AGs Back Lawsuit Against School District Transgender Policy

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By Michael Katz | Friday, 11 November 2022 04:54 PM EST

Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit that advocates for parental rights in education, received backing from 17 Republican attorneys general in its lawsuit against an Iowa school district's policy allowing students to hide their gender transitions from their parents.

The attorneys general filed an amicus brief Thursday in support of the lawsuit against the Linn-Mar Community School District over its "Transgender and Students Nonconforming to Gender Role Stereotypes" policy.

The brief obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, argued parents have a right to be involved in their child's care under federal law.

"Parents have a fundamental constitutional right to direct the upbringing and care of their children," Knudsen told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "School policies cannot intentionally leave parents in the dark about their child's mental and emotional well-being. The courts must step in to protect these kids and stop the violation of parental rights at the hands of woke school administrators."

In September, Judge C.J. Williams of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, where the lawsuit will be heard, denied the parent group's request for an injunction to the school district's policy.

In his opinion, Williams, appointed by former President Donald Trump, wrote, "Plaintiff has not shown irreparable harm will occur absent a preliminary injunction. Plaintiff has only provided evidence that harm is possible. Plaintiff has not, however, shown that there has been or will be impending, certain harm under the policy."

The district's policy stated it "shall not disclose information that may reveal a student's transgender status to others including but not limited to other students, parents and school staff unless legally required to do so (such as national standardized testing, drivers permits, transcripts, etc.), or unless the student has authorized such disclosure."

The policy also allows students to choose which restrooms, locker rooms or changing facilities match their gender identity, and any student in seventh grade or older will have priority of their support plan over their parent/guardian.

The attorneys general argued that by leaving the decision of when to involve parents up to the student, the policy erodes the relationship between the student and parent. The brief said parents should have access to information about their child's gender status under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

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