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Republicans Blast FBI for Alleged $1M Steele Dossier Offer Christopher Steele, former Russia analyst and intelligence officer for the British government. (Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images))

By Solange Reyner | Wednesday, 12 October 2022 03:41 PM EDT

Republicans on Wednesday said the bombshell revelation that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate Trump allegations in a dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign is further evidence of the agency's corrupt and political ways.

"You can't make this stuff up. But I think it just underscores how out of touch and how political the FBI has become," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in an appearance on Fox Business, later adding the episode "further validates what we all know, which is that the FBI is purely political now, going after their political opposition."

FBI senior intelligence analyst Brian Auten on Tuesday during opening statements in Igor Danchenko's trial said Steele, a former Russia analyst and intelligence officer for the British government who played a major role in the creation of the flawed dossier, was offered as much as $1 million if he could supply corroboration for the allegations in the document, but none was provided.

The trial in Alexandria, Virginia, is likely Special Counsel John Durham's final prosecution in his investigation into the FBI's probe into potential Trump-Russia collusion. Danchenko was the primary sub-source of the Steele dossier and has pleaded not guilty to five counts of lying to the FBI about who his main source of information was for his contributions to the document.

Auten interviewed Danchenko in January 2017.

"Fascinating revelations out of the first two days of the Durham trial: FBI offered Chris Steele $1 million to prove his bs "Steele dossier" (which was relied on to defraud a FISA court) and he couldn't!" tweeted George Papadopoulos, a former Trump adviser.

Donald Trump Jr., called Auten's revelation a "disgrace" and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said Americans need accountability now.

"For two years, Adam Schiff and the Democrats peddled the Russian collusion hoax," he said. "Now we know the FBI offered Christopher Steele a million dollars to produce evidence for his dossier — evidence that didn't exist. We need accountability now."

The House Judiciary GOP account tweeted: Steele never got the money because he could not 'prove the allegations.' "

"Well, duh."

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Gabbard Shows US 'Unrecognizable' Under Biden

(Newsmax/"John Bachmann Now")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Wednesday, 12 October 2022 03:50 PM EDT

Former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard's decision to resign from the Democratic Party is further proof that President Joe Biden has "made America unrecognizable," political strategist Dick Morris, the author of "The Return: Donald Trump's Big 2024 Comeback," said on Newsmax Wednesday.

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"It's a phrase I use in my book," the Newsmax host said on "John Bachman Now." "You wouldn't recognize it if told you this is a country where the government goes after political opponents and baits them and searches their homes.

"Children are told that we are in favor of racism, not against racism, where you look at gender-change surgery for children in the fourth grade … you would say I have no idea what country you're talking about," Morris added. "But you're talking about America, and I think Tulsi is really onto something when she says, 'Look, I haven't changed; the Democratic Party has changed underneath me.'"

Morris also talked about the heated race for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, where both Republican candidate Herschel Walker and incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock are facing scandals as Election Day nears.

Walker has been accused of paying for an ex-girlfriend's abortion, while Warnock has been accused of evicting people from their homes at a time when he was making $90,000 a year as pastor of the famous Emmanuel Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Morris said he doesn't think the claims about Walker will cost him votes in the way Warnock's will because the accusations against the pastor "could be devastating," since they hit him with his reputation for helping to care for the poor.

"Very few people are going to vote against Herschel Walker who aren't already against him over the issue of abortion," said Morris. "I mean, it's a well-known position. And the fact that he may have encouraged his common-law wife to have an abortion, I don't think there's anything wrong with that; but a lot of people do."

But in Warnock's case, "this whole deal is that he helps the poor and the middle class and he's a class warrior," said Morris. "That's his whole approach. And to find out that he was evicting people from their home as the leader of the church while he was getting a $90,000 a year salary and a very generous housing allowance hits him in the spot where he has no protection. He's not invulnerable."

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GOP Megadonor Miriam Adelson Staying Out of '24 Primary (Newsmax)

By Theodore Bunker | Wednesday, 12 October 2022 02:52 PM EDT

Miriam Adelson, a longtime major fundraiser for the Republican Party, has no plans to get involved in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, Politico reports.

Two sources told the outlet that Adelson, the widow of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, has talked to multiple potential candidates in the past year to inform them that she has no plans to take part in the primary, no matter who runs. Politico noted Adelson spoke with former President Donald Trump, Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Arkansas GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson.

Adelson and her husband contributed over half a billion dollars to Republican campaigns and causes over the last decade, according to Politico, and she has reportedly been flooded with requests for meetings. The Adelsons supported former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign in 2012 and sat out the 2016 primary, though they did spend more than $100 million to help Trump once he became the GOP nominee, and they supported his 2020 campaign as well.

Forbes reports Adelson donated $10 million to a Republican super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, this year ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

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GOP Megadonor Miriam Adelson Staying Out of '24 Primary (Newsmax)

By Theodore Bunker | Wednesday, 12 October 2022 02:52 PM EDT

Miriam Adelson, a longtime major fundraiser for the Republican Party, has no plans to get involved in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, Politico reports.

Two sources told the outlet that Adelson, the widow of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, has talked to multiple potential candidates in the past year to inform them that she has no plans to take part in the primary, no matter who runs. Politico noted Adelson spoke with former President Donald Trump, Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Arkansas GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson.

Adelson and her husband contributed over half a billion dollars to Republican campaigns and causes over the last decade, according to Politico, and she has reportedly been flooded with requests for meetings. The Adelsons supported former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign in 2012 and sat out the 2016 primary, though they did spend more than $100 million to help Trump once he became the GOP nominee, and they supported his 2020 campaign as well.

Forbes reports Adelson donated $10 million to a Republican super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, this year ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

Judge Rules Trump Must Be Deposed in E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case Author E. Jean Carroll attends the 2019 Glamour Women Of The Year Summit at Alice Tully Hall on Nov. 10, 2019, in New York City. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Glamour)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Wednesday, 12 October 2022 02:28 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump must sit for a deposition in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by author E. Jean Carroll over comments he made about her while denying her claims that he raped her in a store in the mid-1990s, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

"Given his conduct so far in this case, Mr. Trump's position regarding the burdens of discovery is inexcusable," U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote in his ruling that rejects a request from the former president's attorneys to delay the deposition, reports The Washington Examiner. "As this Court previously has observed, Mr. Trump has litigated this case since it began in 2019 with the effect and probably the purpose of delaying it."

Kaplan said in the ruling that Trump has tried several times to delay the collection for the ruling, and said he "should not be permitted to run the clock out" on Carroll, who made the claims of rape in a book she released in 2019.

Carroll claims that she encountered Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman store in New York City in either 1995 or 1996, and that he had pushed her against a changing room door before sexually assaulting her.

Trump has insisted that Carroll was "totally lying" and dismissed a photo of the two of them at a party years before, claiming that he had "no idea who she is."

He also told reporters that the author was not "my type," and after she sued him, he claimed she could not proceed with her claims because he was president at the time of his comments and that they were protected.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 27 voted 2-1 to seek input from an appeals court in Washington about whether Trump was protected, after determining that while his office could give him immunity as a government employee, it could not determine if the statements fell within his job description.

Carroll also plans to sue Trump under New York's New Adult Survivors Act, which lets people over the age of 18 sue people they claim sexually assaulted them.

There is no statute of limitations under the new law, and Carroll's attorney wrote in August to a New York Judge that the team plans to file its lawsuit on Nov. 24, the date when all residents can start their legal proceedings.

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Trump Blasts 'Junior' Sen. Romney for Not Endorsing Sen. Mike Lee Newsmax

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 12 October 2022 02:16 PM EDT

While Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has resorted to publicly begging for the endorsement of Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, in order for the GOP to regain a majority, former President Donald Trump is urging Lee to move on.

Trump mocked Romney as the "junior senator from the great state of Utah" and vowed to never endorse the failed 2012 GOP presidential nominee in two years — when Trump himself might return to the top of the ticket.

"Mike Lee is an outstanding senator who has been abused, in an unprecedented way, by a fellow Republican senator from his own state, something which rarely has happened in political history," Trump wrote in a Save America PAC statement posted to Truth Social on Wednesday. "Such an event would only be understandable if Mike did not perform his duties as a United States senator, but he has, and he has performed them well."

Trump's statement, reiterating his own endorsement for Lee, comes after Lee begged for Romney's endorsement in his midterm race against another failed presidential candidate Evan McMullin, who left the Republican Party when Trump became the 2016 GOP nominee.

"Mitt Romney is the junior senator from the great state of Utah, which I won twice in a landslide, once by beating the candidate, Evan 'McMuffin' McMullin, who is currently running against Sen. Lee," Trump's statement continued. "McMuffin does not represent the values of Utah, but neither — as you will see in two years — does Mitt Romney, who refuses to endorse his fellow Republican Sen. Mike Lee.

"Mike should now accept that fact and go on to win a race against a man who should have, based on his failed career as a politician, no chance of winning. Mike Lee is outstanding and has my complete and total endorsement."

Romney and McMullin "never will," Trump concluded.

"Mitt Romney and Evan McMullin can count on the fact that they never will have my endorsement," Trump wrote.

Romney's Senate reelection campaign in 2024 would come the same year Trump himself would be back on the ballot to run for president.

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Former Dem Gabbard Barnstorming for GOP Senate Nominee Bolduc (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 12 October 2022 12:17 PM EDT

New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc announced Wednesday the newly independent Tulsi Gabbard is going to go on a barnstorming campaign tour to stump for the conservative Senate candidate.

"@TulsiGabbard is a fellow change agent and independent-minded outsider willing to speak truth to power," retired Army Brig. Gen. Bolduc tweeted Wednesday morning, linking to an official press release. "I'm honored to have her support and looking forward to barnstorming NH with her! #NHSEN."

The announcement comes just one day after Gabbard made her departure from the Democratic Party official. Gabbard, who is a frequent guest on Newsmax, had run in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary as a moderate.

"We don't agree on every issue, but I am honored to have the support of Tulsi Gabbard who shares my view that the status quo is broken, and we need a change of direction," Bolduc, who is running to flip the seat of Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., wrote in a statement.

"Tulsi is a fellow change agent and independent-minded outsider willing to speak truth to power. I am going to spend every day between now and election day building a wide coalition of supporters that includes Republicans, independents, and even disaffected Democrats who know that Sen. Hassan is a career politician and must be retired."

Bolduc has not received an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, but Trump has called Bolduc a "strong" and "tough" guy.

Gabbard, who served eight years as a Democrat House member, is in the U.S. Army reserves and a former major of the Hawaii National Guard.

Polling has Hassan leading in the final weeks before the Nov. 8 vote, but The Trafalgar Group's most recent poll has Bolduc down 3 points, just outside the margin of error (2.9 points), and Gabbard had been a heavy buyer during the 2020 Democrat presidential primary. Gabbard billboards peppered the New Hampshire highways more than any other candidate.

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SPAC Delays Vote Over Donald Trump's Truth Social Again A photo illustration of the social media platform Truth Social logo seen displayed on a smartphone with a photo of former President Donald Trump displayed in the background. (Rafael Henrique/Sipa via AP)

By Nicole Wells | Wednesday, 12 October 2022 11:59 AM EDT

The merger between Digital World Acquisition and former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform has been put on hold, as the company on Monday delayed its shareholder vote until Nov. 3, according to the New York Post.

Shareholders in the publicly-traded company are being asked to consider a 12-month extension that would allow more time for federal regulators to review the merger with Trump Media & Technology Group.

According to the Miami Herald, the extension is considered essential to Trump's goal of creating a conservative Florida-based Twitter alternative.

The Post reports that at least 65% of Digital World's shareholders needed to agree to the extension and the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) pushed back the vote in an effort to try to gain more support.

Having already moved the deadline several times over the past month, Digital World fell short of the needed votes on Monday.

"We are working diligently to record all the votes that are continuing to come in from our stockholders and are adjourning this meeting to provide additional time for stockholders to cast their votes," Patrick Orlando, CEO and chairman of Digital World said during a webcast and audio conference of the company's shareholder meeting.

Trump's media and technology firm stands to receive a private investment of more than $1 billion in public equity financing from Digital World, which signed a deal with the fledgling social media company to go public in October, 2021, according to the Post.

Last month, Digital World said it had received termination notices from investors who withdrew approximately $140 million of the total financing.

Citing filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and published reports, the Herald reports that federal regulators and prosecutors in New York have escalated their investigations into Digital World and its deal with Trump Media. The ongoing twin investigations are examining potential securities and trading violations and no one has been accused of wrongdoing, according to the Herald.

According to the Post, Digital World is scheduled to liquidate on Dec. 8, after postponing its demise by three months in September.

Reuters reported last month that Digital World executives had failed to pay Saratoga Proxy Consulting for the company's work in readying shareholders for the vote.

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RNC's Alvarez to Newsmax: Midterms' Momentum With Republicans Republican logo (Dreamstime)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Wednesday, 12 October 2022 11:18 AM EDT

The momentum is on the side of Republicans, not Democrats, with the midterm elections being less than a month away, Republican National Committee Communications Director Danielle Alvarez insisted on Newsmax Wednesday.

"With the state of the race as it is today, I'd rather be the Republicans than the Democrats," Alvarez said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "We have fantastic candidates. The RNC is invested in all of our battleground states and we are going to run through the finish line and make sure that we elect Republicans up and down the ballot. My bet is on Republicans taking back the House and Senate majorities."

Meanwhile, she said she agrees with pollster Jim McLaughlin, who has said that people who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 aren't taking part in polls, telling Newsmax that the committee is "also seeing that a little bit internationally."

"I think that voters are just saturated with polling calls, and so maybe they're not responding," Alvarez said, adding that when it comes to public polling, one must also look at cross tabs to determine if pollsters are speaking with likely voters and to determine the breakdown of the polls.

But even though Alvarez believes the Republicans will take back control of Congress in November, "we can't take anything for granted," and encouraged voters to volunteer their efforts, "because it is going to be close."

Alvarez also discussed the races for the U.S. Senate in Georgia and Pennsylvania, considered two of the key races for the party to regain control of the chamber.

In Georgia, Alvarez said the party remains committed to GOP nominee Herschel Walker, who has come under fire for allegations that he paid for an ex-girlfriend's abortion, claims he's denied.

"What we have is a failed senator," Alvarez said about Sen. Raphael Warnock, the Democrat being challenged by Walker. "He has taken some really bad votes. He votes in lockstep with [President] Joe Biden and so again, we have to focus and work hard. I hope everyone listening can go to Herschel Walker's website and donate if they have the opportunity because again all of those polls are within the margin of error. We have to flip Georgia to regain control of the Senate."

In Pennsylvania's race, GOP nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman are neck-in-neck, but Alvarez said she feels "incredibly bullish" about the state.

"I think Dr. Oz is a fantastic candidate," she said. "Our Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was out in Pennsylvania and we'll be there again campaigning with him. He works hard. He is crisscrossing the state."

Oz is a "huge contrast to Fetterman," Alvarez added, as Fetterman, the state's lieutenant general, is "soft on crime."

"He's just not the right fit for Pennsylvania," she said. "Dr. Oz has the momentum and he's just on a rocket ship, so we've got to keep that momentum on our side."

Women's votes will also play a large role in the November election, said Alvarez.

"I've heard our chairwoman say 'they have awoken the sleeping giant," she said, noting that during the pandemic, children were locked out of classrooms, and mothers were shocked by seeing first the woke ideology being pushed by school boards and teachers' unions. When they showed up to those school board meetings to voice their concerns, the Biden administration tagged them as domestic terrorists. We now know that third-grade reading and math scores have dropped. We now know, unfortunately, that over a million students never logged back in. So I think that this is the underlying issue of this election."

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Dead Heat, Again, in Wisconsin Senate Race

Ron Johnson, left, and Mandela Barnes prepare for a recent debate. (AP)

By John Gizzi Wednesday, 12 October 2022 09:00 AM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

Five weeks before Wisconsin voters the U.S. Senate race and days after the first of two televised debates between the candidates, all signs point to a cliffhanger that will almost certainly be decided by a small margin.

A new CBS News/YouGov poll of likely voters showed Republican Sen. Ron Johnson with 50% and Democratic Lieutenant Gov. Mandela Barnes at 49%.

Conservative Republican Johnson, a successful businessman before before winning his first Senate term in 2010, has broken his pledge of two-terms-and-I’m-out promise of that year to run again. This apparently has not hurt him among fellow Republicans and Barnes has not made a major issue of it. He hit the incumbent hard on his joining Donald Trump in claims the 2020 election was stolen and defense of the protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Johnson has yet to back down on casting doubts about the 2020 election. However, at a fund-raising event last week at the Milwaukee home of Groupware Technologies CEO Andy Nunemaker, the senator was asked whether or not Trump should come to the state for an event.

"Johnson said Trump did a great job as President but was sometimes his own worst enemy as well as his own best advocate," a guest at the event told Newsmax. "Johnson doesn't think he needs Trump to help him win, thinks Trump might cost him votes, and doesn't want a visit from what I can tell."

Barnes, 37, is an unabashed left-of-center Democrat (he proudly supported Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 and 2020) with a strong following on college campuses throughout Wisconsin. During their recent televised encounter, Johnson hit Barnes hard for his support of the Green New Deal and Medicare-for-All and for Barnes' condemnation of police in the Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooting of Jacob Blake and the failure of the local district attorney to prosecution them.

Barnes, as he did in the debate, underscoring his support for ending the Senate filibuster to enact pro-choice legislation. This is expected to enhance the Democratic turnout in Madison, Milwaukee, and other reliable Democratic bastions.

As it was in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, the outcome in the Wisconsin Senate race this year is not likely to be finalized until the day after the election.

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

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Dead Heat, Again, in Wisconsin Senate Race Ron Johnson, left, and Mandela Barnes prepare for a recent debate. (AP)

By John Gizzi Wednesday, 12 October 2022 10:01 AM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

Five weeks before Wisconsin votes in the U.S. Senate race and days after the first of two televised debates between the candidates, all signs point to a cliffhanger that will almost certainly be decided by a small margin.

A new CBS News/YouGov poll of likely voters showed Republican Sen. Ron Johnson with 50% and Democrat Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes at 49%.

Conservative Republican Johnson, a successful businessman before winning his first Senate term in 2010, has broken his pledge of two-terms-and-I'm-out promise of that year to run again. This apparently has not hurt him among fellow Republicans, and Barnes has not made a major issue of it. He hit the incumbent hard on his joining Donald Trump in claims the 2020 election was stolen and defense of the protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Johnson has yet to back down on casting doubts about the 2020 election. However, at a fund-raising event last week at the Milwaukee home of Groupware Technologies CEO Andy Nunemaker, the senator was asked whether or not Trump should come to the state for an event.

"Johnson said Trump did a great job as President but was sometimes his own worst enemy as well as his own best advocate," a guest at the event told Newsmax. "Johnson doesn't think he needs Trump to help him win, thinks Trump might cost him votes, and doesn't want a visit from what I can tell."

Barnes, 37, is an unabashed left-of-center Democrat (he proudly supported Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 and 2020) with a strong following on college campuses throughout Wisconsin. During their recent televised encounter, Johnson hit Barnes hard for his support of the Green New Deal, Medicare-for-All, and for Barnes' condemnation of police in the Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooting of Jacob Blake, and the failure of the local district attorney to prosecution them.

Barnes, as he did in the debate, underscored his support for ending the Senate filibuster to enact pro-choice legislation. This is expected to enhance the Democrat turnout in Madison, Milwaukee, and other reliable Democrat bastions.

As it was in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, the outcome in the Wisconsin Senate race this year is not likely to be finalized until the day after the election.

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

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Trafalgar Poll: Walker-Warnock Virtually Tied; Kemp Leads Abrams (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Tuesday, 11 October 2022 09:57 PM EDT

Despite some talk in the mainstream media about Democrat momentum, Republicans are holding up well in the key battleground state of Georgia, according to Tuesday's poll result from The Trafalgar Group.

Herschel Walker is in a statistical tie with incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, while incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp enjoys a 8.9-point lead in the rematch with Democrat firebrand Stacey Abrams, who claimed her past loss to Kemp was rigged and stolen in 2018.

Walker, endorsed emphatically by former President Donald Trump, trails Warnock by just 1.5 points (46.3% to 44.8%), which is well within the margin of error of 2.9 percentage points. That means the two are in a virtual tie with just weeks remaining in the campaign, which has featured both candidates attacking the other on family matters.

There remains 5.3% of likely voters undecided in a race that could determine which party holds the Senate majority come January. Also, the race in November could wind up in a runoff on Jan. 5, 2020, if neither candidate reaches 50% support on Election Day.

Kemp's rematch against Abrams is far more decisive right now among the likely voters in the poll. Kemp leads 52.5% to 43.6%, despite Kemp not having the endorsement of Trump. Just 2.2% of likely voters are undecided in that race.

While Trafalgar is considered a pollster friendly to Republicans, it has been one of the most accurate polls in the most recent election cycles. Also, this particular poll surveyed more Democrats 43.9% than Republicans 42.2%. The Pew Research Center has the party split with both Republicans and Democrats making up 41% of the electorate, making turning key to winning in these midterms.

Also, notably, a more left-leaning pollster Emerson College Polling released similar results in both races Tuesday.

The Trafalgar Group polled 1,084 likely midterm voters Oct. 8-11, and the results have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

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Megyn Kelly to Newsmax: Liberal Media Serves 'Corporate Masters,' Not Us (Newsmax/"Eric Bolling The Balance")

By Eric Mack | Tuesday, 11 October 2022 09:10 PM EDT

Late-night television hosts' liberal activism is costing them viewers, but they do not care because they are there to just please their "corporate masters" – more than half the country be damned – former TV host Megyn Kelly tells Newsmax.

Kelly told Tuesday's "Eric Bolling The Balance" the hosts have "abandoned the right half of the country – and I include the center."

"You know the center is more right leaning just by virtue of how far left the left has gone right now," Kelly told host Eric Bolling. "So they've abandoned more than half the country. Their desire to inflame our tempers was greater than their desire to tickle our funny bones."

Kelly, once critical of former President Donald Trump herself when she was at Fox News during the 2016 presidential election cycle, now admits the media used an agenda against Trump.

"You know, they wanted the smattering of applause as tempers rose over the items that they were outlining and using to bash Trump more than they wanted to bring the country together and during a difficult time and give us a laugh," Kelly said.

"And now, just like with CNN, the country has abandoned them. The right half of the country would never watch these people."

Kelly said the mainstream late-night hosts "hate" the average American and will continue to do so, regardless of whether the country tunes them out.

"Nobody's watching," Kelly said, adding they are getting "more leftist, more ardent, more angry, more vehement, more hateful."

And more ignored, she said.

She also bashed more television talk shows for being scripted and "rehearsed," like Biden's quip against sending people that refuse to follow his agenda to Monopoly "jail."

"I've been on all these shows from 'The View' to every show you just showed, and they usually give you the questions in advance," Kelly said. "Joe Biden, that thing, 'They should go to jail,' guarantee you that was a total setup. He knew that was coming. That was his great line that was given to him either by the producers or his own team. It was all rehearsed."

Kelly said "The View" is also scripted.

"With me, I remember going on 'The View,' being like: 'What are you giving me the questions for? I'm a journalist. I can answer my own questions. You don't have to give me the questions in advance. Is this some weird test I need to ace with an A? Just throw them at me. We're good.'

"With all that stuff on those kinds of shows is rehearsed."

Primetime news talk shows on major networks are equally choreographed by puppet strings of liberal "corporate masters," according to Kelly.

"Same thing with the journalists," she said. "The journalists, too, who are at these organizations only get the pats on the head if they say the things that they know – for example, in the Jeff Zucker era of CNN – Jeff Zucker would like.

"That's why so many people are now getting fired because all those people submitted to his will. And now that there's new management they've made themselves unhirable, right?

"So there's a parallel course there, and that's one of the joys of being independent media these days is I don't care about access journalism. I couldn't give two figs whether any of these people ever comes on my show. Whether it's Biden or [Florida GOP Gov. Ron] DeSantis. I can say about them whatever I want, because I don't have to please any corporate masters."

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Sen. Graham Requests Appeals Court Reject Georgia Subpoena (Newsmax)

By Luca Cacciatore | Tuesday, 11 October 2022 07:35 PM EDT

Sen. Lindsey Graham asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to revoke a subpoena from Fulton County, Georgia's investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged 2020 election interference, The Hill reported.

The South Carolina Republican's move follows a partial rejection of the subpoena last month by federal District Judge Leigh Martin May in the Northern District of Georgia, who barred questioning related to Graham's own vote to certify the election.

However, Graham's attorneys believe that ruling was insufficient, arguing in their latest appeal that May failed to consider several constitutional arguments that could each independently merit a complete blocking.

The first involved the motivation of the subpoena, which Graham's attorneys claim is a backdoor way "to question Senator Graham about the motives for his legislative activity" and thus outside the special grand jury's scope.

Another argument involved the sovereign immunity rule, which prevents a state court from probing a federal official about their legislative actions taken in office.

But the third argument went even further – floating a precedent that protects high-ranking officials from testimony except in "extraordinary circumstances."

The request comes amid a local probe stemming from Trump's leaked call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, where the former president appears to ask the state official to "find" the necessary 11,000 votes needed to win the state.

District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat who runs the special grand jury, has already requested subpoenas from former House Speaker New Gingrich, R-Ga., former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, and former Trump White House attorney Eric Herschmann.

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Donald Trump Jr. has endorsed Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R-LA.) for Governor.

On Monday, Don Jr. announced his support for his friend. Trump claimed that Landry will make Louisiana great again.

Landry has proven to be an ally to Don Jr.’s father, President Donald J. Trump. Landry filed a friend of the court brief in favor of Trump over the Mar-A-Lago raid. He has also openly challenged the 2020 election.

The Gubernatorial Primary Election is expected to take place in October 2023.

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Stephen Miller to Newsmax: Lawsuit Shows FBI Election 'Scheme', Coverup (Newsmax/"Spicer & Co." )

By Jack Gournell | Tuesday, 11 October 2022 07:11 PM EDT

A lawsuit filed earlier this month by America First Legal that alleges the FBI colluded with Facebook to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story is really an "intelligence op" against the "American people," Stephen Miller tells Newsmax TV.

Miller, president of America First Legal and a former senior adviser in the Trump administration, said the FBI has "stonewalled" requests for information, making the lawsuit necessary.

"This is one of the great dastardly intelligence operations in modern history," Miller said Tuesday on "Spicer & Co." "And the fact that this administration has compounded the terrible crime of the illegal election interference in 2020 by now breaking the law to cover up the extent" of the scheme "should terrify all Americans."

Miller disputed claims that the government has a role in monitoring election speech, even when it comes from foreign governments.

"The FBI was engaged in the very thing with which they accused foreign nations of doing," he said.

"Other countries are always trying to engage in various activities, just like we are. The evil here, the danger here, is our own government engaged in election subterfuge," Miller said. "That's something that you see in dictatorships. That's something that you see in third-world states.

"We're so used to the idea of living in a free country we can't even envision what this portends that we end up in a world where (an) unelected security state decides for itself who becomes the president of the United States."

It's not the job of the FBI to have any involvement in the dissemination of free speech online, Miller said.

"I think that we can all agree now that the true interferers in our elections are the FBI," he said. 'They are the ones that are interfering in the election and if they continually interfering in the election and still are right now, for example, with these outrageous intimidations, arrests of pro-life Americans — a clear attempt to try to pressure pro-life voters not to show up and vote not to organize not to engage in grassroots activity ahead of the midterm election."

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Dems No Longer Party of JFK, Bill Clinton (Newsmax/"The Chris Salcedo Show")

By Jay Clemons | Tuesday, 11 October 2022 07:23 PM EDT

Dick Morris can relate to former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's high-profile defection from the Democratic Party, since he made a similar exodus from the Democrats a number of years ago.

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"[Nearly] all of us were 'boat' people," Morris told Newsmax's "The Chris Salcedo Show" on Tuesday, relaying how the vast majority of American citizens have roots and heritage stories outside the United States. "And very few of us were originally Republicans."

Morris, a best-selling author, TV host, and former adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, says that disenchanted Democrats "didn't shift [their ideals]. The party shifted under our feet. … The party of [President John F. Kennedy] and Bill Clinton" now aligns with the modern-day Republican agenda.

As for Gabbard's next political move, Morris — the author of "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback" — says, "I'd love her on [the Republicans'] side. I thought she was very good" as a politician.

Before her party exit, Gabbard had the reputation of being a pragmatic moderate Democrat. It might be more difficult, however, to characterize Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., amid reports of him pulling funding from Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters' campaign and subsequently bolstering the electoral efforts of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska — whose most prominent challenger for the Nov. 8 midterm elections is also a Republican (Kelly Tshibaka).

Morris argued Masters had a "tremendous advantage" in the last debate with incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., "because he took the abortion issue away from [Mark] Kelly."

From Morris' perspective, Masters' public transparency in saying he supports abortion in cases of rape or incest, but also agrees with the current Arizona law of banning abortions after 15 weeks, essentially painted Kelly — who reportedly favors "late-in-pregnancy" abortions — into the proverbial corner.

"And Kelly didn't say anything else for [another] 30 minutes," added Morris, the host of "Dick Morris Democracy" on Newsmax.

Regarding the battleground Senate races in Arizona (Kelly vs. Masters), Pennsylvania (Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman vs. Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz), and Georgia (incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., vs. Republican Herschel Walker), Morris predicts Republicans will carry the Senate in the midterms, thanks to the "MOW" triumvirate of Masters, Oz, and Walker.

As in, the Republicans "will mow them down" next month, Morris quipped.

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Dems No Longer Party of JFK, Bill Clinton (Newsmax/"The Chris Salcedo Show")

By Jay Clemons | Tuesday, 11 October 2022 07:23 PM EDT

Dick Morris can relate to former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's high-profile defection from the Democratic Party, since he made a similar exodus from the Democrats a number of years ago.

Note: Get Dick Morris' new book "The Return" on Trump's secret plan for 2024. See It Here!

"[Nearly] all of us were 'boat' people," Morris told Newsmax's "The Chris Salcedo Show" on Tuesday, relaying how the vast majority of American citizens have roots and heritage stories outside the United States. "And very few of us were originally Republicans."

Morris, a best-selling author, TV host, and former adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, says that disenchanted Democrats "didn't shift [their ideals]. The party shifted under our feet. … The party of [President John F. Kennedy] and Bill Clinton" now aligns with the modern-day Republican agenda.

As for Gabbard's next political move, Morris — the author of "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback" — says, "I'd love her on [the Republicans'] side. I thought she was very good" as a politician.

Before her party exit, Gabbard had the reputation of being a pragmatic moderate Democrat. It might be more difficult, however, to characterize Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., amid reports of him pulling funding from Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters' campaign and subsequently bolstering the electoral efforts of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska — whose most prominent challenger for the Nov. 8 midterm elections is also a Republican (Kelly Tshibaka).

Morris argued Masters had a "tremendous advantage" in the last debate with incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., "because he took the abortion issue away from [Mark] Kelly."

From Morris' perspective, Masters' public transparency in saying he supports abortion in cases of rape or incest, but also agrees with the current Arizona law of banning abortions after 15 weeks, essentially painted Kelly — who reportedly favors "late-in-pregnancy" abortions — into the proverbial corner.

"And Kelly didn't say anything else for [another] 30 minutes," added Morris, the host of "Dick Morris Democracy" on Newsmax.

Regarding the battleground Senate races in Arizona (Kelly vs. Masters), Pennsylvania (Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman vs. Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz), and Georgia (incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., vs. Republican Herschel Walker), Morris predicts Republicans will carry the Senate in the midterms, thanks to the "MOW" triumvirate of Masters, Oz, and Walker.

As in, the Republicans "will mow them down" next month, Morris quipped.

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National Archives Calls Trump Claims 'False and Misleading' Former President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

By Nicole Wells | Tuesday, 11 October 2022 05:09 PM EDT

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) weighed in on former President Donald Trump's claims about the way other former presidents have handled documents, calling Trump's statements "false and misleading."

According to the Washington Examiner, Trump claimed during a rally in Nevada on Saturday night that several of his predecessors, including former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, stored documents similarly to how he did at Mar-a-Lago.

"When will they investigate and prosecute Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, George Bush, and look into what took place with George Bush's father?" Trump asked. "And what about Barack Hussein Obama?"

On Tuesday, the National Archives pushed back against the 45th president's assertions.

"Reports that indicate or imply that those Presidential records were in the possession of the former Presidents or their representatives after they left office, or that the records were housed in substandard conditions, are false and misleading," the agency said in a statement.

Trump told the Nevada crowd that other former presidents stored presidential documents in insecure locations after they left office.

"Barack Hussein Obama moved more than 20 truckloads, over 33 million pages of documents, both classified and unclassified, to a poorly built and unsafe former furniture store located in a bad neighborhood in Chicago. With no security, by the way," Trump said, according to the Examiner.

The former president also claimed George H.W. Bush kept documents in a bowling alley.

"George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them," Trump reportedly said at the rally. "So, they're in a bowling alley/Chinese restaurant."

Daniel Dale, a senior reporter for CNN, tweeted that Trump's statement was a "dishonest claim."

"The truth: *the National Archives* sorted Bush docs for his library in a heavily secured facility (patrols, cameras, sensors) that happened to be a former alley/restaurant," Dale wrote. "As with Obama docs the Archives took to Chicago, Bush didn't take them himself."

While the archives did not mention Trump by name, it emphasized that the records of the predecessors he named during the rally were securely handled within its custody.

"NARA securely moved these records to temporary facilities that NARA leased from the General Services Administration (GSA), near the locations of the future Presidential Libraries that former Presidents built for NARA," the agency said. "All such temporary facilities met strict archival and security standards, and have been managed and staffed exclusively by NARA employees."

Trump took thousands of pages of documents to his Palm Beach home Mar-a-Lago after leaving office. In January, the National Archives removed 15 boxes from the estate and found classified materials, which caused the Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation.

NBC reported that after Justice Department officials were given a statement certifying that Trump was no longer in possession of classified material, the FBI determined it was untrue.

On Aug. 8, a phalanx of FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago and seized more than 103 documents with classification markings, according to court documents.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing, insisting that a president can declassify documents "even by thinking about it."

Court filings show that the DOJ is considering potential charges such as obstruction of justice and violations of the Espionage Act.

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Justice Dept. Asks Court to Deny Trump Plea Over FBI Search (Getty)

Tuesday, 11 October 2022 04:58 PM EDT

The Biden administration on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to steer clear of a legal fight over classified documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.

The high court is weighing an emergency appeal from Trump asking it to overturn a lower court ruling and permit an independent arbiter, or special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings that were taken in the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.

The Justice Department said in a 32-page filing that Trump's claim has no merit, noting the case involves “extraordinarily sensitive government records.”

A three-judge panel from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last month limited the special master’s review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents. The judges, including two Trump appointees, sided with the Justice Department, which had argued there was no legal basis for the special master to conduct his own review of the classified records.

But Trump’s lawyers said in their application to the Supreme Court that it was essential for the special master to have access to the classified records to “determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified, and regardless of classification, whether those records are personal records or Presidential records.”

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