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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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UPDATED 1:41 PM PT – Friday, November 4, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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Saturday Presidential Influence Clash Coming to Pennsylvania

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, 04 November 2022 08:19 PM EDT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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UPDATED 11:49 AM PT – Friday, November 4, 2022

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

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

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Massive Midterm Fundraising Haul Gives DeSantis Early '24 Advantage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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UPDATED 10:55 AM PT – Friday, November 4, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Newsmax/"American Agenda")

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Conservatives Begin to Question Musk's Twitter Decisions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Biden Admin Plans Ambitious Post-Midterm Push on Antitrust Tech Bills

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By Solange Reyner | Friday, 04 November 2022 03:43 PM EDT

The Biden administration is planning an "ambitious" post-midterm push on a pair of antitrust tech bills stalled in Congress as Republicans gain ground with less than a week to go in the 2022 midterm elections, reports Bloomberg.

The report comes after the Cook Political Report this week altered its rating in Arizona, where Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly is fighting to hold his Senate seat against Trump-backed Blake Masters, from "lean Democrat" to "toss-up" and in Wisconsin, where incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is going up against Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes to retain his seat, from a toss-up to "lean Republican."

Those battleground races could determine which party will control the upper chamber.

"We are very committed to moving ambitious legislation in this area," Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, told Bloomberg in a phone interview in reference to the American Innovation Act and Choice Online Act and open App Markets Act.

The bills would prevent tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, Twitter and others from using their platforms to thwart competitors.

Republicans say they will not support the bill should they take control of Congress.

"There is bipartisan support for antitrust bills and no reason why Congress can't act before the end of the year," said White House spokesperson Emilie Simons. "We are planning on stepping up engagement during the lame duck on the president's agenda across the board, antitrust included."

Versions of both bills have made it through the committees but have been stalled after tech companies poured tens of millions of dollars into lobbying against them and other priorities took precedence.

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., said Biden strongly supports the bills.

"President Biden is the most pro-competition president we've had in a generation, and he and his administration have strongly supported this bipartisan legislation," said Cicilline, the lead Democratic co-sponsor of the bills in the House. "We will be working around the clock with the White House to get it across the finish line during the final weeks of the Congress."

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Pa. GOP Gov. Candidate Mastriano to Newsmax: Ballot Ruling 'Huge Victory' (Newsmax/"John Bachman Now")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Friday, 04 November 2022 02:41 PM EDT

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling that undated mail-in ballots can't be counted in the upcoming midterm elections is a "huge victory for voting integrity," GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, also a state senator, said on Newsmax Friday.

"This is a huge decision, especially because it's a seven-member Pennsylvania state Supreme Court," Mastriano said on Newsmax's "John Bachman Now." "They are elected and are 4-2 Democrats, but despite having the odds in their favor, even the Democrat left-leaning court said the ballots have to be filled out correctly to be counted."

Mastriano, a retired military officer with 30 years in the Army, said the rules have always been the same for service members and their families voting absentee ballots.

"It was very clear in the instructions if you do not date and sign it properly, our votes from military members and family members would be cast aside," Mastriano said. "It should be no different for this no-excuse mail-in voting. So this is a huge victory for voting integrity. Things are looking up in Pennsylvania."

Mastriano is campaigning against Democrat Attorney General Josh Shapiro for the governor's seat, and on Friday said his campaign is "surging" with numbers that are near recent polls' margins of error.

He also noted that former President Donald Trump is coming to the state on Saturday, "arguably the best day before an election, when people are really paying attention."

Trump will "motivate people," he added. "I'm a retired Army colonel. I don't spin. I'm not prone to hyperbole, but we're going to have a big turnout."

Mastriano also on Friday spoke out about how inflation and energy costs are affecting Pennsylvanians, and promise that if he's elected governor, he'll return the state's energy production, rather than keeping it stifled.

"Pennsylvania is blessed with massive natural gas resources, high-quality coal, high-grade oil so in my administration, unlike my opponent who's against unleashing our energy potential, on my watch, we're going to have an economic renaissance by opening up our entity sector," said Mastriano. "We're going to roll back regulations and open up state lands. We're going to build a pipeline to Philadelphia into the Delaware base. We can export that to our allies overseas."

That will mean high-quality, high-paying jobs returning to Pennsylvania, said Mastriano.

"If we get this right in Pennsylvania, we could help drive down inflation and it will make it cheaper to heat your homes rather than being hard-pressed to make ends meet," he said. "I'm hearing from people who are heating their homes with oil. That they don't know how they're going to pay their bills. They're going to have to skip Thanksgiving and not buy presents for their kids. I mean, this is a serious issue here."

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Rep. Biggs to Newsmax: Report on DOJ Politicization Points to 'Very Top' Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. (Getty Images)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Friday, 04 November 2022 01:17 PM EDT

A 1,000-page report from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee focusing on the politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI shows that the problem begins "at the very top" with President Joe Biden, Rep. Andy Biggs, a member of the committee, told Newsmax on Friday.

It could also mean examining the FBI and determining what sections should be dismantled, the Arizona Republican said on Newsmax's "National Report."

"You want to keep some of the areas that are relied on by local law enforcement, but you're going to have to clean that up and maybe disband certain sections of the FBI," Biggs said. "You're going to have to address it financially.

"They're claiming that they want to build a brand-new facility that's going to cost over half a billion dollars. Well, that can't happen until you clean up your act internally. So you have a leverage point with that."

The report, compiled from information ranking committee member Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, gathered from whistleblowers, claims that the FBI has abused its authority to spy on American citizens, including some with former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

It also outlines concerns about the progress of the investigation into President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.

"Right now there's dissension in the ranks in the FBI because of this politicization," Biggs said Friday. "Don't forget that they're trying to purge people who have conservative points of view."

He added that leverage to clear away "this mess" could include using federal rules that would allow stopping the salaries "of bureaucrats like Christopher Wray, who refused to clean up this mess that's been there for some time."

The report also addresses the matter of Hunter Biden, saying that mounting evidence shows that the federal agencies appear to be turning a blind eye to the potential dangers to national security from his dealings with China, Russia, and other foreign nationals.

"They apparently have been suppressing the evidence," said Biggs. "They didn't bother to look at the evidence, the evidence being the laptop that was there, plus additional evidence in the second laptop.

"It was in the FBI's position for over a year without them actually even looking into it, even though there had been allegations that it contained criminal conduct or records of criminal conduct on that laptop. Then when they did begin to look, they actually suppress that evidence and they didn't ever transfer for further investigation and prosecution where necessary."

But still, the FBI and DOJ worked to "elevate and misconstrue and mischaracterize parents who were showing up at school board meetings to protest woke policies," said Biggs. "That's just such a blatant political abuse of power that's going on there, and that's got to come out. We're going to have to hold the FBI and DOJ accountable."

Biggs added that Hunter Biden "almost assuredly" will have to be subpoenaed to Congress to answer allegations that have been made about him, said Biggs.

"We won't do it like the Democrats do," he said. "He'll have the right to have a counsel there, and we'll do the appropriate due process. But the bottom line is, you have to get to what's gone on here, find out if there was suppression, and then we have to hold people accountable."

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Trump Ally Tom Barrack Acquitted of Foreign Agent Charges

Tom Barrack leaves U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Sept. 19. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

TOM HAYS Friday, 04 November 2022 12:20 PM EDT

Donald Trump's inaugural committee chair, Tom Barrack, was acquitted on all counts Friday at a federal trial in which he was accused of using his personal access to the former Republican president to secretly promote the interests of the United Arab Emirates.

The jury deliberated three days before finding Barrack not guilty of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Barrack had vehemently denied the charges.

Barrack, 75, is an old friend of Trump and is a California billionaire who chaired Trump’s inaugural committee. He was among of a long line of Trump associates to face various criminal charges.

In closing arguments on Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Harris told jurors that Barrack schemed to become the “eyes, ears and the voice” for the Emirates as part of a criminal conspiracy to manipulate Trump’s foreign policy. At the same time. he leveraged his back-channel connections to get the UAE to funnel tens of millions of dollars into an office building he was developing and into one of his investment funds, he added.

The prosecutor pointed to what he characterized as a steady steam of shady texts and other communications that showed that Barrack was under the direction and control of Rashid al Malik, a businessperson from the UAE who acted as a conduit to the rulers the oil-rich Persian Gulf state.

Barrack “marketed himself as politically connected. Someone who could open doors for the UAE. Someone who could offer access to Donald Trump. … He was going to be their man on the inside,” Harris said.

Al Malik asked Barrack “to do things for the UAE again and again,” he said.

Defense attorney Randall Jackson said Barrack made no attempt to conceal his relationships with Al Malik, someone in a network of business connections he had cultivated throughout the Middle East. He also said it “makes no sense” that his client would try to infiltrate the Trump campaign on the behalf of the UAE at a time when Trump’s chances of winning the presidency were considered a longshot.

“He was involved in the campaign because he’s loyal to his friends — maybe to a fault,” the lawyer said.

Last week, Barrack testified that “dozens” of people asked him for help in getting pardons from the former president. He also said he never sought a pardon for himself, even after he learned he was under investigation.

Asked why, he responded, “I never did anything wrong.”

Barrack, an Arabic speaker of Lebanese descent, also described efforts to arrange for Trump to meet with UAE national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan and other officials from more moderate governments in an effort to persuade Trump to tone down his his anti-Muslim rhetoric.

“I was trying to get common ground, to try to get him to step back from what he didn’t believe,” he said.

The defense called former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to testify there was nothing suspicious about his interactions with Barrack over Trump's stance on UAE relations. Mnuchin described Barrack as a friend who was among hundreds of businesspeople offering him “thoughts and advice” while he served in the Cabinet. In those discussions, “I would never share anything … that I thought was confidential,” he testified.

Before being indicted, Barrack drew attention by raising $107 million for the former president’s inaugural celebration following the 2016 election. The event was scrutinized both for its lavish spending and for attracting foreign officials and businesspeople looking to lobby the new administration.

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Conn. Candidate Levy to Newsmax: Winning Every Poll With Independents Republican Connecticut Senate candidate Leora Levy speaks during a debate against Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Wednesday in Rocky Hill, Conn. (Jessica Hill/AP)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Friday, 04 November 2022 11:39 AM EDT

Leora Levy, the GOP candidate challenging long-time Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal for his seat in Connecticut, said Friday on Newsmax that independent and unaffiliated voters are the largest bloc in her state, and she's "winning them in every single poll."

"They are also upset with Democrat policies that are making their lives unaffordable, making our communities unsafe, educating our children with woke politicization — not a traditional education that will prepare them for their future," Levy said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America."

Connecticut, she added, is "more of a purple state" than others near it like Massachusetts and New York, and aside from the urban areas is "primarily red."

However, the Hispanic vote is big for Republicans who are "upset about the Democrat policies and what they are doing to our lives," Levy added.

Voters are also upset over the "invasion at the border that's bringing fentanyl into our communities," said Levy.

"We're losing a generation of our children to fentanyl, and that's because of the open border that my opponent has never once spoken out about," Levy said.

Voters are also concerned about the rising cost of energy, particularly with home heating-oil prices climbing and leaving people to decide whether to buy food or heat their homes this winter, she added.

"These are real-life decisions that my opponent is completely out of touch with," Levy stated.

Inflation is also a large concern, the candidate said, noting that she and others weren't discussing the matter in recent years because the rate was at 1.4% under former President Donald Trump, where it's now 8.2%.

"Inflation is high prices for everything from food to gasoline to home heating oil, natural gas, which are in short supply, historically short supply," said Levy. "Life is unaffordable, and it's a direct result of the Biden policies, rubber-stamped and voted for by my opponent, Dick Blumenthal."

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CNN: DOJ Eyes Naming Special Counsel If Trump Runs in 2024 (Newsmax)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Friday, 04 November 2022 11:21 AM EDT

Justice Department officials have discussed whether a new White House run by Donald Trump would create the need for a special counsel to oversee two major federal investigations relating to the former president, CNN is reporting.

The news network noted the DOJ is bringing in experienced prosecutors to the investigations so it is prepared for any decisions sparked by the probes, including a potential move to indict Trump.

Trump has ratcheted up his 2024 presidential campaign tease.

And his Save America rally line Thursday in Sioux City, Iowa, was the closest he has come to officially declaring his intentions to run for the White House again.

"In order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, I will very, very, very, probably do it again, OK?" Trump told the crowd.

CNN said Trump was inching closer to launching another run for the White House after the midterms on Tuesday.

The investigations center on his handling of national security documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, CNN said.

While DOJ officials have remained mum on the probes in the weeks leading up to the midterms, behind the scenes investigators have remained busy, CNN said.

They have used aggressive grand jury subpoenas and secret battles in court to compel some witnesses to testify in both probes.

The CNN sources insist that no decision has been made yet regarding the appointment of a special prosecutor. However, CNN said it has been debated whether doing so could insulate the DOJ from claims that President Joe Biden's administration is targeting his chief political rival.

Meanwhile, Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee released a 1,000-page report on Friday of potential investigations into how the Biden administration has politicized the Justice Department and the FBI.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member of the committee, has been gathering information from FBI and DOJ whistleblowers, detailing allegations of politicized justice under President Joe Biden.

"This report is a road map of where [Jordan] will go," a GOP House Judiciary staffer told Axios ahead of the document's release. "Lots of whistleblowers are coming out of the woodwork to complain about the FBI. Jordan is pursuing these vectors into the FBI."

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