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Video Report: GOP Blasts Biden on Restructuring Cuban Broadcasting Office (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Leonardo Feldman Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:36 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

Members of Congress, including Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., blasted the Biden administration over the restructuring of the Office of Cuban Broadcasting, Newsmax Miami correspondent Leonardo Feldman reports Wednesday.

Leonardo Feldman is an Emmy Award-winning journalist. As Newsmax's Miami correspondent, he covers the southeastern United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Get his latest reports here!

Video Report: GOP Blasts Biden on Restructuring Cuban Broadcasting Office (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Leonardo Feldman Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:36 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

Members of Congress, including Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., blasted the Biden administration over the restructuring of the Office of Cuban Broadcasting, Newsmax Miami correspondent Leonardo Feldman reports Wednesday.

Leonardo Feldman is an Emmy Award-winning journalist. As Newsmax's Miami correspondent, he covers the southeastern United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Get his latest reports here!

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Rep. Van Drew to Newsmax: Dems 'out of Step' With Electric-Vehicle Push (Newsmax/"John Bachman Now")

By Jay Clemons | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:34 PM EDT

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., understands that most American families don't have household incomes exceeding $150,000 per year; and even if they did, the majority of consumers likely wouldn't favor owning an electric car over a gas-powered vehicle right now.

And yet, Van Drew said he believes President Joe Biden and the other Democrats, are happily going all-in on transforming the American marketplace to only electric vehicles over the next decade — while attempting to make gasoline-powered cars obsolete.

"[The Democrats] are so out of step, and everything to them is almost a political statement," Van Drew told Newsmax Wednesday afternoon, while appearing on "John Bachman Now" with hosts John Bachman and Bianca de la Garza.

Backing up the above statement, Van Drew — formerly a Democratic Party congressman, before switching to the Republican side during the Trump administration (2019) — cites four reasons why electric-vehicle mandates are doomed to fail in America:

• The cars are too expensive. Van Drew said, "A lot of people can't afford" EVs, which, according to Electrek.com, have an average retail price of $66,000.
• There aren't enough charging stations in the United States. He says the infrastructure doesn't exist.
• The various electric grids in the U.S. wouldn't be able to handle the extra electricity burden of mass EVs. Not enough support.
• The U.S. would be "beholden" to China, due to the rare-earth mineral elements required to power electric vehicles. "We'd be on our knees more to other countries" than the U.S. already is under the Biden administration, warned Van Drew.

"There's no reason for that, since we have the ability to be energy-independent," explains Van Drew, who oversees New Jersey's 2nd District.

Also, Van Drew said that mandating electric vehicles would have a minimal impact on improving climate change — at best, "one fraction of 1 percent."

Electric-vehicle mandates aren't the Democrats' only blind spot, according to Van Drew.

From the congressman's perspective, Tuesday's public celebration of the Inflation Reduction Act's passing — on the same day when the Stock Market plunged more than 1,200 points, and the consumer inflation rate for August surged 8.3% from a year-to-year standpoint — was all things "weird" and "bizarre."

President Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the other Democrats partying on the White House lawn are just a bunch of "wealthy, woke people who don't understand the average Working Joe … and that's sad, because they're hurting [the workers] and their country," said Van Drew.

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Pompeo Tells Chicago Crowd He's Prepping for 2024 Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives the keynote address at South Carolina GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan's Faith & Freedom BBQ fundraiser on Aug. 22, in Anderson, South Carolina. (Meg Kinnard/AP)

By Nicole Wells | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 01:10 PM EDT

Trump-era Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a crowd in Chicago on Tuesday that he's laying the groundwork for a possible 2024 presidential run, according to Politico.

"We've got a team in Iowa, a team in New Hampshire and South Carolina," Pompeo told 1,100 guests at Navy Pier for the Navy Seal Foundation Midwest Evening of Tribute. "And that's not random. We are doing the things one would do to get ready."

The former secretary of state noted that any announcement from him about running in 2024 would need to be fairly obvious.

"Unlike others, if I go down an escalator, no one will notice," Pompeo said, gently poking fun at former President Donald Trump's 2015 announcement that he was running.

Pompeo continued by telling attendees that he is trying to figure out if the presidency is the "next place for us to serve."

"If we conclude it is, we'll go make the case to the American people of why that is," he said. "And, in the end, the American people, I pray, will make a good decision about who's going to be their next leader."

The night pulled in $6.3 million for the organization that helps returning warriors make the switch to the private sector and supports their families if they don't make it home. GOP donor and Citadel hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin donated $1 million, according to Politico.

Pompeo's remarks came during a Q&A session with Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown, who pelted him with questions about his career.

Saying he had a good professional relationship with Trump, Pompeo steered clear of disparaging his former boss or airing dirty laundry.

He expressed gratitude for having been appointed secretary of state and joked, "I hope he enjoys retirement," prompting laughter from the gathering.

Pompeo also mentioned his time as a senior diplomat for the Trump administration, during which he traveled to more than 100 countries. Remarking more than once that he views China as the U.S.' greatest outside threat, the greatest threat Pompeo sees from within the country are "teachers unions," he said.

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Report: Republicans Plan to Grill Milley If They Regain House Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty)

By Charlie McCarthy | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:53 PM EDT

Lawmakers who are allies of former President Donald Trump plan to question Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley if Republicans regain control of Congress in the midterms, NBC News reported.

Milley, a critic of the former president, would face grilling about several issues, including the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, the military becoming too "woke," and military readiness, sources told NBC News.

"For our members, he is a big lightning rod," one Republican familiar with the House GOP plans told NBC News.

"Republicans want answers on a lot of things, and Mark Milley, because of his position and public comments, including in books, is the person to answer."

A spokesperson for Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said the Defense Department would be part of investigations if Republicans capture the House in November. The top GOP members on the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees have requested that the Biden administration preserve documents relating to the Afghanistan withdrawal.

"If House Republicans are entrusted with the majority, we will conduct thorough oversight of the Biden administration’s actions and that includes those of the Department of Defense," McCarthy spokesman Mark Bednar said.

In several books about the Trump administration, Milley is cited as defying some of the then-president's orders and comparing his actions to those of Adolf Hitler.

In one book, Milley is quoted as saying in the final year of Trump’s administration that he would "fight from the inside" against what he saw as an increasingly erratic president.

Some of Trump’s allies in Congress view Milley as having been insubordinate and disrespectful of the commander in chief, sources told NBC News.

"President Trump was his boss, his commander in chief, and Milley was his subordinate. Milley’s role is to provide his military advice and then carry out his orders, not undermine the president when he disagreed with him," according to another Republican familiar with the plans.

Regarding the Afghanistan withdrawal, Republicans plan to question Milley about his role in shaping the conditions for the troops to leave, and whether he did enough to prepare for the effort.

Two defense officials told NBC News that Milley is aware of Republicans' plans to probe his actions, though he isn't taking any additional steps to prepare.

NBC News said that a new course at the U.S. Naval Academy will examine whether Milley’s actions, as chairman as portrayed in the books, violated the norms that govern civil-military relations and further politicized the military.

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Superintendent Races Drawing More Attention, Campaign Dollars A voter fills in her ballot at a school cafeteria being used as a polling location on election day in McLean, Virginia. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:15 PM EDT

State superintendent races used to be a bit off the political radar until COVID-19 lockdowns happened.

Now, big dollars are being spent on campaigns, especially by Democrats seeking to beat back Republicans' push for parents and voters to have more say in their children's education.

Conservative states are moving to retake state government offices that conservatives like former President Donald Trump, Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin, and Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis strongly believe are a line of defense against liberal indoctrination in the public school system by powerful teacher's unions that heavily fund Democrat campaigns.

Most superintendents are appointed by governors or education boards, but a few states let the voters decide who oversees the billions in public funding – and those are attractive larger campaign dollars and Trump's political cachet.

"We are in a time where the issues that impact education are seeing a higher profile — and that is impacting a whole host of electoral circumstances," National Association of State Boards of Education chief Paolo DeMaria told Politico. "If I am running in a state and I know that to win I have to accumulate a certain number of votes, then that goes into the platform-setting and the representations that are made.

"But the ultimate question is how will you influence the overall success of each child in your state."

Youngkin ran on parent's rights in education and now Democrats are responding to the movement.

Polling in battleground states this summer showed voters of color and parents are far more likely to trust Republicans on education policy, according to Politico.

Notably, blue states keep the superintendent decision in the hands of bureaucrats and not voters. California is the lone blue state with a superintendent election this year.

Politico broke down six red states that will allow democracy to decide superintendents – and the course of education for parents – in November:

• Oklahoma
• Wyoming
• South Carolina
• Arizona
• Idaho
• Georgia

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Trafalgar Poll: Majority Says Biden Is Divider in Chief President Joe Biden (Getty Images)

By Nicole Wells | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 11:03 AM EDT

Rather than being the great unifier that he promised to be, President Joe Biden has divided the nation, a majority of voters believe, a new poll shows.

According to a Convention of States-Trafalgar survey, nearly 60% of voters say Biden has divided the nation, while 20% say he has united it and 20% are unsure.

"Joe Biden came into office assuring us that the adults are now back in charge, and that he is the man to unify the country," said Mark Meckler, president of the Convention of States. "He has done the exact opposite, and voters see that clearly. Joe Biden is perhaps the most divisive president in U.S. history.

"Dividing the electorate may work politically in the short-term, but it's dangerous and crippling for the nation. It's one thing to attack a candidate who is your political opponent. It's wholly different to attack 50% of the electorate and expect that it will not divide the country."

Meckler added that Biden is "uniquely dangerous" in that he attacks "every single American who disagrees with him."

In an interview on "The Truth with Lisa Boothe" last week, Missouri State Attorney General and Senate candidate Eric Schmitt blasted Biden for his "divisive" speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

"I think it's meant to distract from his abysmal record as president," Schmitt said. "Look, coming out of the Trump presidency, we had record job growth and wage growth, you had a secure border, you had energy dominance and that has all gone away. And you now have record inflation. You have a struggling economy.

"So all [Biden] has left is really an unprecedented assault by an American president on half of the country. That is essentially categorizing 75 million people as the enemy."

The poll found that, in addition to Republicans, a strong majority of independents believe Biden has pitted the nation against itself. Almost 93% of Republicans say Biden has divided the country, along with 64% of independents.

Among Democrats, nearly 18% say Biden has split the country during his time as president, while 43.6% say he has unified it. Nearly 40% of Democrats say they are unsure.

The poll was conducted Sept. 2-5 and surveyed more than 1,000 likely 2022 election voters. No margin of error was given.

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Will 'Gen Z' Trumpster Capture NH-1 In Fall? New Hampshire Republican 1st Congressional District candidate Karoline Leavitt smiles as she speaks during a debate last week in Henniker, New Hampshire. (/Mary Schwalm/AP)

By John Gizzi Wednesday, 14 September 2022 10:38 AM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

The national media reported the Republican primary results from New Hampshire's 1st District (Manchester) emphasizing the historic nature of triumphant contender Karoline Leavitt.

At 25, the St. Anselm College graduate and onetime Assistant Press Secretary in the Trump White House would be, if elected, one of the first two "Generation Z" (turning 25 this year) U.S. Representatives. The other is Democrat Maxwell Frost, a community organizer and self-styled fighter against "our racist system of criminal justice," who won the primary in Florida's 10th District and is assured of election this fall.

Leavitt, who would be the youngest female member of Congress, rolled up a win of 34% to 25% over 2020 nominee Matt Mowers in an eight-candidate race. Her victory is particularly impressive in that Mowers, a former executive director of the Granite State GOP and State Department official under Trump, lost a tight (52% to 48%) contest to Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas.

This year, Mowers, 33, had the support of House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and his Congressional Leadership Political Action Committee. Also weighing in for Mowers was the Defending Main Street PAC, which is run by centrist Republicans in the House. In touting Mowers, both PACs ran independent TV salvos that also slammed Leavitt as "immature" and "irresponsible."

But Leavitt overcame all this by, in-effect, "out-Trumping" Mowers. While both candidates were alumni of the Trump Administration and voiced their support for the 45th president, Mowers, when asked about his confidence in elections, said "I have confidence in New Hampshire elections" but agreed there was room for improvement.

Clearly sensing an opening, Leavitt said without hesitation that "the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump" and charged that Mowers was in league with President Biden for believing he "legitimately won more votes than Donald Trump."

"Hard work," former State Attorney General Tom Rath told Newsmax, was key to Leavitt's upset victory.

Rath added that "… enthusiasm and enthusiasm were key to her win, and an unapologetic total embrace of Trump. Mowers failed to create a viable alternative. She also had plenty of money, which was a surprise to a lot of folks."

While McCarthy and House GOP Whip Steve Scalise had strongly endorsed Mowers, the third-ranked official in the House Republican hierarchy, Conference Chairman Elise Stefanik, weighed in strongly for Leavitt (who worked for the New York congresswoman after leaving the Trump White House). Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also jetted to New Hampshire to campaign for Leavitt.

The major question is whether Pappas, widely considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats facing voters this fall, can be defeated by someone so identified with Trump in a district Biden carried over Trump 56% to 44% two years ago.

"She will be a big underdog in the general," conceded Rath, but quickly added: "Democrats better take her seriously."

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Durham: Primary Steele Dossier Source Was Paid FBI Informant Special counsel John Durham (AP)

By Charlie McCarthy | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 10:42 AM EDT

The alleged principal source of the discredited Steele dossier later became a paid FBI informant, according to a filing by special counsel John Durham.

Igor Danchenko has been charged with five counts of lying to the FBI as part of Durham's probe into the origins of the original investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russian agents during the presidential race.

A filing unsealed Tuesday said the FBI paid Danchenko as a "confidential human source" (CHS) during the years then-President Donald Trump was under investigation. The Russian had supplied the most salacious accusations in the Steele dossier.

Durham claims that Danchenko, hired by the FBI In March 2017, remained a CHS during special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into the accusations against the Trump campaign.

"The news [in the filing] shocked many of us who have closely followed the Russian collusion controversy for years," legal analyst Jonathan Turley wrote Wednesday. "The FBI showed a zeal to investigate Trump and his campaign that seemed to border on the blind obsessive."

Turley said it was "particularly concerning" because the FBI also had former British spy Christopher Steele on its payroll.

"So the FBI cut off Steele as a paid source after he allegedly worked with the media to spread these unproven [Russian collusion] claims," Turley wrote. "It then turned around and hired his principle source for the dossier."

Breitbart reported Wednesday that one online writer, known as Techno Fog, speculated that Danchenko might have been retained as a paid CHS to keep him from revealing that Mueller and the FBI knew the information in the "dossier" was false, even as the bureau used it to obtain electronic surveillance warrants on Trump foreign policy aide Carter Page.

Durham's filing also cited Danchenko, as a then-employee of a "prominent think tank," being the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation after a colleague alleged that Danchenko asked if he would be willing to sell him classified information. The FBI closed the probe in 2011 after Danchenko left the U.S.

"The 'prominent think tank' appears to be the Brookings Institution," Turley wrote. "I have previously written about the prominent role of Brookings in spreading the Russian collusion claims and hiring an array of people who played critical roles in these investigations.

"That also included former FBI general counsel James Baker. For some, it seemed like not just friends but 'friends with benefits.' It seems that everyone in this scandal was six degrees from Brookings."

Durham is accusing Danchenko of lying to the FBI to protect Charles Dolan Jr., a communications consultant with close ties to the Clintons.

The special counsel also alleges that Danchenko lied to the FBI about communications with Sergei Millian, then president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, whose supposed evidence helped convince the FBI to seek a surveillance warrant against Page.

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Ad in Pennsylvania Governor's Race Shows Republican in Confederate Uniform Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano gives a victory speech at his election-night party at The Orchards in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on May 17. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty)

Jarrett Renshaw and Phil Stewart Wednesday, 14 September 2022 08:59 AM EDT

Pennsylvania Democrat gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro on Wednesday plans to debut a new online ad aimed at Black voters that features his Republican rival posing in a Confederate military uniform, the campaign told Reuters.

The ad features a photo first reported last month of Doug Mastriano, a Donald Trump-backed candidate and state senator, wearing the uniform in a faculty photo at the Army War College. The photo obtained by Reuters showed Mastriano in a 2013-14 portrait for the Department of Military Strategy, Plans, and Operations, where he worked.

Faculty at the time had been given the option of dressing as a historical figure and at least 15 of the 21 faculty in the photo opted to appear in regular attire. Mastriano was the only one wearing a Confederate uniform.

Mastriano, who has not responded to Reuters requests for comment, came under fire from Shapiro, who said it was a "traitor's" uniform that has come to symbolize racism.

The new ad features a close-up view of Mastriano in the Confederate uniform with a voice over that notes the War College said the photo failed to meet the War College's values.

"Does it reflect your values?" the narrator asks.

The six-figure ad campaign is part of $1.2 million that Shapiro, the state's attorney general, has budgeted for digital ads.

Pennsylvania plays an outsized role in U.S. politics as a swing state in presidential elections, and Mastriano is trailing in polls and in fundraising ahead of the Nov. 8 contest.

The winner of the governor's race will choose the state's top elections official, who will oversee its 2024 presidential election. The governor will also have the power to block or advance efforts by the Republican-led state legislature to severely restrict abortions.

Displays of Confederate symbols are painful reminders to many of racial oppression and the Civil War, which saw 11 rebelling Confederate states fight to keep Black people enslaved.

The U.S. military issued a de facto ban on displaying the Confederate flag and has sought to remove segregationist symbols from bases and academic institutions following the murder in May 2020 of George Floyd, a Black man whose killing by a white police officer in Minneapolis triggered protests worldwide.

The War College removed the photo from a display after Reuters inquired about it.

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Retired Gen. Don Bolduc Wins Senate GOP Primary in New Hampshire Retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc debated his opponents on Newsmax late last month. (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:13 AM EDT

Retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc held off a strong field of Republican Senate GOP primary candidates Tuesday night to win the New Hampshire nomination in a bid to flip the seat of Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Decision Desk HQ projects.

Bolduc, a staunch conservative, held off the more moderate state Sen. President Chuck Morse and will now bid for the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, who did not make a choice in a field of candidates bidding for his support.

Republicans see Hassan as beatable in the general election, now just eight weeks away.

New Hampshire's Senate seat could prove pivotal for whichever party controls the chamber after November. President Joe Biden carried the state by more than 7 percentage points and Bolduc has campaigned on a platform that aligns with Trump's Make America Great Again and America First platform.

Hassan clinched her party's nomination against only token opposition while Gov. Chris Sununu won the Republican party's nomination for another term. He is heavily favored against Democrat Tom Sherman, who was unopposed for his party's governor's nomination.

Republican primary voters have similarly chosen conservative candidates this year in moderate or Democrat-leaning states including Massachusetts and Maryland.

Neil Levesque, director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, said Bolduc is a type of candidate who would have struggled to succeed in GOP politics before Trump's rise. He has never held elected office and had just $75,000 in cash on hand last week. Bolduc has nonetheless been able to make inroads by positioning himself as an ally of Trump and seeking election integrity.

"That is because the theme of his campaign and messaging is very similar to former President Trump," Levesque said. "If it mirrors the former president, it's been effective."

Known for kicking off the primary season during presidential campaigns, New Hampshire is instead concluding the nominating process for this year's midterms.

But New Hampshire's Senate race is perhaps most revealing about the direction of the GOP. Morse was endorsed by Sununu, who called him "the candidate to beat Sen. Hassan this November and the candidate Sen. Hassan is most afraid to face."

Bolduc was not formally endorsed by Trump, who propelled many primary candidates to victory in key races throughout the summer, but the former president has called Bolduc a "strong guy."

Some Democrat groups sponsored primary ads promoting Bolduc, predicting he would make an easier November opponent for Hassan. That was consistent with Democratic-aligned organizations backing pro-Trump candidates in key races around the country — a strategy some have criticized, arguing it could backfire if those candidates go on to win their general elections.

Republicans in New Hampshire and around the country scoff at the notion that being a Trump loyalist — or not — could be a deciding general election factor, noting that the still unpopular Biden will be a drag on his party regardless.

The New Hampshire Republican Party has tweeted Hassan "votes with Joe Biden 96.4% of the time."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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Trump WH Staffer Karoline Leavitt Wins House GOP Primary in N.H. Rep.-nominee Karoline Leavitt, R-N.H. (Mary Schwalm/AP)

By Eric Mack | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 11:18 PM EDT

A former White House press officer staff from Trump administration, Karoline Leavitt, has won a contested Republican primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, Decision Desk HQ projects.

Leavitt outdistanced a crowded GOP primary field in New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District and will face incumbent Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., whose seat is considered vulnerable in November's general election. Pappas won unopposed.

The district encompasses Manchester and the southeastern part of the state. Former President Donald Trump did not make an official endorsement in the race.

The GOP field included former TV broadcaster Gail Huff Brown, wife of Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand during the Trump administration. Also running was Matt Mowers, who won the district's congressional 2020 Republican nomination and was a Trump administration State Department adviser.

But the candidate closest to Trump might be Leavitt, who worked in his White House's press office and has also campaigned with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

"Her compass always points to Trump," said Dante Scala, a University of New Hampshire political science professor. He added, in reference to the former president's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan, "She, in a very kind of crisp, sharp, confident way, will say the most MAGA thing that can be said in any situation."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: GOP Could Deliver Several Upsets to Dems (Newsmax/"Prime News")

By Nick Koutsobinas | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 10:49 PM EDT

Republicans have the potential to deliver several upsets to Democrats come midterms, presidential adviser Dick Morris predicted on Newsmax.

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"I think there is the usual suspects – New Hampshire, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia – and those four seats are regarded as the most vulnerable of the Democrat seats," Morris told Tuesday's "Prime News" about potential Senate seat pickups for the GOP in the midterm elections.

If Republicans win seats in Georgia and Nevada it will put Republicans ahead, Morris told host Jenn Pellegrino.

"There are a lot of states that are supposed to be walks for the Democrats, and they may be walks off a plank," Morris added.

"I think Leora Levy, the Republican in Connecticut, has a heck of a chance against" Rep. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., according to Morris, who added, "I think Tiffany Smiley, the Republican Senate candidate in Washington, has a very good shot" against Rep. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

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"And most of all, in Colorado, I think [Joe O'Dea] has an excellent shot of winning," Morris said, against Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.

"Those are three seats nobody's counting on, but I think those dark horses may well come in," Morris concluded.

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Biden Flies to Delaware to Vote in Primary Elections President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Tuesday, to travel back to Washington after voting in the Delaware primary election. (AP)

Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:46 PM EDT

President Joe Biden traveled to Delaware aboard Air Force One Tuesday to vote in an election season that will decide the fate of his remaining time in office.

The president cast his ballot in Delaware primary elections as his party scrambles for every possible vote in the November midterms, which will determine control of Congress and the future of Biden's legislative agenda.

In Delaware, he addressed the issue of inflation, which remains high and is a key issue for voters of all political stripes.

Biden said he was not concerned about the latest data, and that "we're talking one tenth of one percent" — an apparent reference to the consumer price index rising by 0.1 percent in August compared to the month before.

The midterms usually go poorly for the incumbent president's party, and this was until recently forecast to be the case for Biden as well. But Democrats have begun to hope that all is not lost.

The party has heavily emphasized Republican opposition to the right to abortion in their messaging, while Biden has sought to turn the vote into a referendum on his predecessor Donald Trump.

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Biden Flies to Delaware to Vote in Primary Elections President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, Tuesday, to travel back to Washington after voting in the Delaware primary election. (AP)

Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:46 PM EDT

President Joe Biden traveled to Delaware aboard Air Force One Tuesday to vote in an election season that will decide the fate of his remaining time in office.

The president cast his ballot in Delaware primary elections as his party scrambles for every possible vote in the November midterms, which will determine control of Congress and the future of Biden's legislative agenda.

In Delaware, he addressed the issue of inflation, which remains high and is a key issue for voters of all political stripes.

Biden said he was not concerned about the latest data, and that "we're talking one tenth of one percent" – an apparent reference to the consumer price index rising by 0.1 percent in August compared to the month before.

The midterms usually go poorly for the incumbent president's party, and this was until recently forecast to be the case for Biden as well. But Democrats have begun to hope that all is not lost.

The party has heavily emphasized Republican opposition to the right to abortion in their messaging, while Biden has sought to turn the vote into a referendum on his predecessor Donald Trump.

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Foreign-Born Population Grows to Highest Level Ever Under Biden (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

By Jack Gournell | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:18 PM EDT

The total foreign-born population in the United States has hit its highest level ever at 46.8 million under the Biden administration, according to just-released Census figures.

The numbers include both illegal and legal immigration, showing at least in part the effect of illegal crossings along the southern border with Mexico, writes Steven A. Camarota at the Center for Immigration Studies.

Republicans have criticized President Joe Biden for abandoning former President Donald Trump's tough border policies that held those trying to cross the border without documentation in Mexico while they awaited hearings. Border surges have coincided with Biden's policy reversals.

During the past year, 2 million new foreign-born residents have been added to the population, according to the Census Bureau's Annual Social and Economic Supplement survey.

The foreign-born population has quintupled since 1970 and tripled since 1980. It has doubled since 1990, according to the data.

"The foreign-born share of the U.S. population is approaching the record highs reached in 1910 (14.7 percent) and 1890 (14.8 percent)," Camarota writes.

Mass immigration, whether legal or illegal, can hurt the native-born working class by depressing wages and pushing up the need for social services since immigrant households are statistically larger and earn less, thus contributing less in taxes, Breitbart News' John Binder writes.

But it aids wealthier Americans who are able to hire lower-wage foreign workers, Binder argues, and it provides them with more consumers and more families who need housing.

"Just the sheer number of people overwhelms communities," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said earlier this week. "This idea of mass immigration — whether it’s illegal immigration or whether it’s just mass immigration through the legal process like the Diversity Lottery or chain migration — that is not conducive to assimilating people into a civil society."

A recent Rasmussen Reports survey found that 54% of likely Republican voters want to see legal immigration cut by more than half to fewer than 500,000 a year, while swing voters want them cut to at least 750,000 a year.

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Gov. Chris Sununu Overcomes GOP Primary Challenge Incumbent GOP Gov. Chris Sununu (Charles Krupa/AP)

By Eric Mack | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:12 PM EDT

New Hampshire GOP Gov. Chris Sununu retained the Republican nomination for governor in Tuesday night's primary election, Decision Desk HQ projects.

DDHQ called the race shortly after 8 p.m., when the final polls in the state closed.

Sununu, a moderate who was originally elected governor in 2017, held off primary challenges from five candidates, including: Karen Testerman, Thaddeus Riley, Julian Acciard, Richard McMenamon, and Jay Lewis.

Sununu will face Democrat Tom Sherman in November's midterm general election.

Former President Donald Trump, who Sununu has criticized, did not make an endorsement in the race.

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Dershowitz to Newsmax: Ken Starr Had a 'Deeply, Deeply Principled' Legal Mind (Newsmax/''The Record With Greta Van Susteren'')

By Jay Clemons | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:58 PM EDT

Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard University and one of the nation's foremost authorities on constitutional law, had a unique professional relationship with Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to the House impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.

In the late 1990s, Dershowitz worked against Starr — who died Tuesday at age 76, according to a family statement — in the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

And then, some 20-plus years later, Dershowitz and Starr worked together on the impeachment defense of former President Donald Trump.

Starr ''was a great scholar, great thinker, and just a wonderful man," Dershowitz told Newsmax on Tuesday evening while appearing on "The Record With Greta Van Susteren."

Going further with his recollection, Dershowitz — who is promoting a book, "The Price of Principle" — fondly remembers Starr being "very religious" in his personal life and "deeply, deeply principled" about the legal profession.

There were also a number of disagreements between the two legal minds, Dershowitz said, but Starr "wasn't disagreeable," personality-wise.

Dershowitz then used a Yiddish word to describe Starr's honorable persona: "He was a mensch."

From a political and philosophical standpoint, Dershowitz said he and Starr "disagreed about almost anything … but the arguments [Starr] always made were sound and compelling."

Starr's patient, cerebral approach to professional life paved the way for him to serve as solicitor general of the United States during George H.W. Bush's presidency (1989-93).

And after leaving the political scene, Starr had two high-profile stints as the law school dean at Pepperdine University and president of Baylor University.

"This man did everything," Dershowitz marveled.

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