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GOP Senators Seek to Block Iran's President From US Visit Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran on Aug. 29. (Getty)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:05 AM EDT

Six Republican senators have introduced a bill to ban Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi from entering the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which runs through Sept. 27.

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Joni Ernst of Iowa, John Barrasso of Wyoming, and Marco Rubio of Florida, joined together to introduce the Strengthen Entry Visa Enforcement and Restrictions [SEVER] Act on Wednesday.

“Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would already be excluded from entering the United States for the U.N. General Assembly if President [Joe] Biden and his administration were enforcing existing statutes in good faith," Cruz said in a statement.

“Raisi has a record of terrorist activities, including his advocacy for the assassination of [former] President [Donald] Trump and other U.S. officials. He is also listed by the State Department as ineligible for entering the United States because of mass atrocities he committed. Nevertheless, the Biden administration seems set on circumventing these restrictions.

“The SEVER Act will deny entry to Raisi and the few dozen individuals who are hand-picked by the Ayatollah to repress the Iranian people and pose threats to American national security, to ensure they cannot get into the United States. It is well within the rights of the United States to deny them entry, and we absolutely should.”

Cruz told The Washington Free Beacon:"The United States is absolutely able to deny entry to anyone who threatens our national security. Raisi is a mass-murdering terrorist who was handpicked by the ayatollah—and he's coming to the United States while there are Iranian agents trying to murder former American officials and dissidents on American soil. Joe Biden should not grant him a visa, and Congress should pass the SEVER Act to ensure he doesn't do so now or in the future."

A bipartisan group of lawmakers and more than 500 Iranian-American professionals have already sent letters to Biden asking that Raisi be denied entry into the country for the meeting.

Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., wrote to Biden on behalf of 51 other members of Congress asking Biden to "deny Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation entry into the United States."

"Given Ebrahim Raisi's record of supporting terrorism and violating human rights, he should not be afforded the privilege to step onto American soil nor the privilege to address the United Nations General Assembly," Young's letter said.

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GOP Senators Seek to Block Iran's President From US Visit Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran on Aug. 29. (Getty Images)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:33 AM EDT

Six Republican senators have introduced a bill to ban Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi from entering the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which runs through Sept. 27.

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Joni Ernst of Iowa, John Barrasso of Wyoming, and Marco Rubio of Florida, joined together to introduce the Strengthen Entry Visa Enforcement and Restrictions [SEVER] Act on Wednesday.

"Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would already be excluded from entering the United States for the U.N. General Assembly if President [Joe] Biden and his administration were enforcing existing statutes in good faith," Cruz said in a statement.

"Raisi has a record of terrorist activities, including his advocacy for the assassination of [former] President [Donald] Trump and other U.S. officials. He is also listed by the State Department as ineligible for entering the United States because of mass atrocities he committed. Nevertheless, the Biden administration seems set on circumventing these restrictions.

"The SEVER Act will deny entry to Raisi and the few dozen individuals who are hand-picked by the Ayatollah to repress the Iranian people and pose threats to American national security, to ensure they cannot get into the United States. It is well within the rights of the United States to deny them entry, and we absolutely should."

Cruz told The Washington Free Beacon:"The United States is absolutely able to deny entry to anyone who threatens our national security. Raisi is a mass-murdering terrorist who was handpicked by the ayatollah — and he's coming to the United States while there are Iranian agents trying to murder former American officials and dissidents on American soil. Joe Biden should not grant him a visa, and Congress should pass the SEVER Act to ensure he doesn't do so now or in the future."

A bipartisan group of lawmakers and more than 500 Iranian-American professionals have already sent letters to Biden asking that Raisi be denied entry into the country for the meeting.

Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., wrote to Biden on behalf of 51 other members of Congress asking Biden to "deny Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation entry into the United States."

"Given Ebrahim Raisi's record of supporting terrorism and violating human rights, he should not be afforded the privilege to step onto American soil nor the privilege to address the United Nations General Assembly," Young's letter said.

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DeSantis Sends 2 Private Planes of Illegals to Martha's Vineyard

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Getty)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 10:03 PM EDT

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a pair of flights of illegal immigrants Wednesday to Martha's Vineyard in the latest move to get Democrat-run areas away from the southern border to bear some responsibility for President Joe Biden's "open border policies."

"Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," a statement from DeSantis' office read, ABC's WCVB-5 in Boston reported.

"States like Massachusetts, New York and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as 'sanctuary states' and support for the Biden administration's open border policies."

Charter flights arrived Wednesday afternoon on Martha's Vineyard, a Massachusetts state senator confirmed to WCVB.

The charter flights reportedly originated in Texas and made a stop to load migrants from Florida's panhandle, too, according to flight records.

There were an estimated 50 Venezuelan migrants, some of them children, brought to Martha's Vineyard Regional High School for snacks and shelter before being cared for by migrant shelters in Edgartown, WCVB reported.

"We're going to take care of you," Dukes County Sheriff Robert Ogden told the migrants, The Martha's Vineyard Times reported.

DeSantis has funded $12 million for a migrant relocation program that intends to send undocumented migrants to sanctuary cities and states around the country.

Martha's Vineyard is widely regarded as an upscale vacation destination and weekend escape for wealthy progressives, including being one of the homes for former President Barack Obama along with so-called Hollywood elites.

Legal expert Alan Dershowitz, sharing stories from his book, "The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences," has repeatedly told Newsmax he has been ostracized on the island for having once defended former President Donald Trump against what he called an unconstitutional impeachment and not toeing the line of liberalism.

"The Baker-Polito Administration is in touch with local officials regarding the arrival of migrants in Martha’s Vineyard," Massachusetts GOP Gov. Charlie Baker wrote in a statement Wednesday night, saying it will support efforts to provide shelter and care for the migrants flown there.

Baker, once one of the most popular governors in the U.S., has decided against running for another term in the deep blue state. Trump-endorsed Geoff Diehl won the GOP gubernatorial primary earlier this month and will face Democrat state Attorney General Maura Healey in November's midterm election to be the next governor.

DeSantis Sends 2 Private Planes of Illegals to Martha's Vineyard

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Getty)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 10:03 PM EDT

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a pair of flights of illegal immigrants Wednesday to Martha's Vineyard in the latest move to get Democrat-run areas away from the southern border to bear some responsibility for President Joe Biden's "open border policies."

"Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," a statement from DeSantis' office read, ABC's WCVB-5 in Boston reported.

"States like Massachusetts, New York and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as 'sanctuary states' and support for the Biden administration's open border policies."

Charter flights arrived Wednesday afternoon on Martha's Vineyard, a Massachusetts state senator confirmed to WCVB.

The charter flights reportedly originated in Texas and made a stop to load migrants from Florida's panhandle, too, according to flight records.

There were an estimated 50 Venezuelan migrants, some of them children, brought to Martha's Vineyard Regional High School for snacks and shelter before being cared for by migrant shelters in Edgartown, WCVB reported.

"We're going to take care of you," Dukes County Sheriff Robert Ogden told the migrants, The Martha's Vineyard Times reported.

DeSantis has funded $12 million for a migrant relocation program that intends to send undocumented migrants to sanctuary cities and states around the country.

Martha's Vineyard is widely regarded as an upscale vacation destination and weekend escape for wealthy progressives, including being one of the homes for former President Barack Obama along with so-called Hollywood elites.

Legal expert Alan Dershowitz, sharing stories from his book, "The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences," has repeatedly told Newsmax he has been ostracized on the island for having once defended former President Donald Trump against what he called an unconstitutional impeachment and not toeing the line of liberalism.

"The Baker-Polito Administration is in touch with local officials regarding the arrival of migrants in Martha’s Vineyard," Massachusetts GOP Gov. Charlie Baker wrote in a statement Wednesday night, saying it will support efforts to provide shelter and care for the migrants flown there.

Baker, once one of the most popular governors in the U.S., has decided against running for another term in the deep blue state. Trump-endorsed Geoff Diehl won the GOP gubernatorial primary earlier this month and will face Democrat state Attorney General Maura Healey in November's midterm election to be the next governor.

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Jon Voight to Newsmax: Potential for 'Real Peace for First Time' in Middle East (Newsmax/''Rob Schmitt Tonight'')

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 08:50 PM EDT

Peace in the Middle East has been considered unachievable for decades, if not centuries, but the Trump administration's Abraham Accords changed the paradigm, actor Jon Voight told Newsmax on Wednesday.

"Peace has never been there it seems from the beginning," Voight said on "Rob Schmitt Tonight," previewing the special "The Abraham Accords" that will air Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern time exclusively on Newsmax.

"There's always been trouble and violence and difficulty for the Jewish people. And now with Donald Trump and the Abraham Accords, there's a possibility of peace in that region — real peace for the first time."

Voight's special, in cooperation with JLTV's (Jewish Life Television's) Stephen Paul and Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy, sits down with the former president to dig into the peace deals that President Joe Biden is effectively damaging but will not be able to suppress or make go away, Voight told host Rob Schmitt.

"It won't, obviously, something is changing," Voight said. "It gives us all hope, and it was brought about because of the administration of Donald Trump and many, many people in the region all of the work of Bibi Netanyahu and this Arab friends and the friendships they've made, and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the president — many people working very, very hard for years."

Biden's foreign policy is getting in the way of the progress toward peace, but the administration will fail to unwind it all, according to Voight.

"This normalization diplomatically has meant economically a boon to that area and all of the signatories of the Abraham Accords were the recipient of billions of dollars for their treasuries. So it's going to stay," he said.

Voight also appeared on Monday's "Eric Bolling The Balance," saying that the documentary will show Americans Trump's "grace" and "humility" the mainstream media does not show.

"You'll see a side to him that you've never seen before, or most people haven't seen, a side of patience, of grace, even humility," Voight told host Eric Bolling. "I must say it's a very beautiful side to him that is exposed here, because most of the time he's talking about very rough stuff, and he's being attacked quite a lot. So this is a different kind of time with him.

"It'll be a revelation to many people. There is no coincidence that this happened under Donald Trump."

Voight said that the mainstream media has tried to downplay the Trump-era peace deals to avoid praising him.

"When they signed the accords, the mainstream media, of course, didn't want to do anything to encourage any praise for Trump, so they kept it quiet," Voight said.

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Rep. Jordan to Newsmax: GOP-Controlled House to Expose DOJ, FBI Biases (Newsmax/''The Record With Greta Van Susteren'')

By Jay Clemons | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 08:12 PM EDT

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Newsmax on Wednesday that Republican investigators will focus on "border and crime" oversight hearings in January — if GOP officials win the majority in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

"Those two issues are front and center on voters' minds," Jordan said on "The Record With Greta Van Susteren."

Regarding the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, Jordan said, "I always tell people 'we went from having a border to no border at all,'" a comment that evokes comparisons between the Trump and Biden administrations' handling of migrants unlawfully crossing the southern border.

Beyond border chaos and spiraling crime in big cities, Jordan — who is up for reelection — anticipates the Department of Justice and FBI being subject to more oversight and scrutiny in a GOP-controlled House.

For starters, Jordan wants to know what events made the above organizations focus more on the "political nature" of law enforcement, and not equal application of the justice system.

"I don't know anyone who likes what the Justice Department is doing now," Jordan said.

To illustrate Jordan's point, House GOP investigators have already heard from 14 FBI whistleblowers regarding the agencies' internal conduct over the last few years.

"[The whistleblowers] are willing to come to us while we're in the minority, even though there's not a whole lot we can do now [until January]," Jordan said.

He added the whistleblower complaints largely cover the DOJ's run-ins with concerned parents at school board meetings last year, the handling of the Jan. 6, 202,1 riot at the Capitol, and field agents feeling internal pressure to classify cases involving American conservatives as "domestic violence extremism."

The recent rash of DOJ and FBI searches are designed to promote the narrative that ''f you're a Trump voter, you're an extremist … and that's frightening," Jordan said.

Van Susteren then pressed Jordan on what might be first question directed toward Attorney General Merrick Garland next year, if he came before the House for sworn testimony.

Jordan rattled off the hypothetical query of asking Garland about the origin of the DOJ and teachers unions' "coordination" in terms of classifying concerned parents as "domestic terrorists."

"That [incident] was our first [FBI] whistleblower," Jordan said while revealing that DOJ went after parents peacefully seeking answers from school board administrators.

DOJ was "targeting moms and dads," Jordan said.

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Navarro to Newsmax: If Trump Insider Traded, He'd Be Charged

(Newsmax/"American Agenda")

By Nick Koutsobinas | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 06:10 PM EDT

The FBI and Department of Justice are pulling a dragnet on former President Donald Trump and his close associates to extract any information they can from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, but they are not paying any attention to clear indications of possible insider trading by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of Congress, former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro told Newsmax.

"We got Pelosi and her husband and key Democrats making money off the backs of the American people in the stock market, based on insider information. So I would ask the FBI, the Department of Justice and everyone in between, 'Where the hell are the subpoenas there on insider trading?'" Navarro asked in his "American Agenda" appearance on Wednesday.
"If anybody in the Trump administration ever done anything like that, they would have been all over them."

On Wednesday, Pelosi, who was exposed in January for possible insider trading, told Newsmax that efforts to produce stock ban legislation for members of Congress were still ongoing.

"There's been discussion about it and this — just recently, this morning, actually, in the committee," the California Democrat told Newsmax's Kilmeny Duchardt at a Wednesday press conference. "We've been going back and forth and refining things and talking to members about what they think will work, and we believe we have a product that we can bring to the floor."

Navarro he equates Pelosi's apparent insider trading with an elitism that endows her to act negligently toward her constituents and outside the interest of the Justice Department's scrutiny.

Speaking on the "stagflationary" market, Navarro said, "People are getting killed; pensions funds are going to get hurt. And Nancy Pelosi and those frigging Democrats: How dare they! How dare they sit there and insider trade and make millions, so they can buy a house — a big mansion down on the beach — and get the hell out of San Francisco because it's a, it's a destroyed state.

"This," Navarro said, "this is the story."

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Fetterman Agrees to Oct. 25 Debate With Oz in Senate Race

MARC LEVY Wednesday, 14 September 2022 04:54 PM EDT

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said Wednesday that he has agreed to an Oct. 25 televised debate against his Republican rival, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

The debate, coming two weeks before the general election, follows weeks of cajoling by Oz, who has raised questions about the severity of Fetterman’s lingering effects from a May stroke and pushed for as many as seven debates.

It will be held in the studio of a Harrisburg TV station.

Oz's campaign said in a statement that Fetterman had agreed to the debate only “after being hit with massive criticism from state and national editorials and commentators for ducking.” The Oz campaign also complained that Fetterman had “insisted on accommodations for his health condition,” though neither campaign immediately clarified what those were.

Nevertheless, “Doctor Oz looks forward to being in Harrisburg on October 25th to share his vision for a better Pennsylvania and America, and he is ready (to) expose Fetterman's record as the most far-left Senate candidate in America," Oz campaign manager Casey Contres wrote in a statement.

Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, and Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, are vying to replace retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey in a race Democrats see as one of their best chances nationally to flip a Republican-held seat. The winner could help decide the chamber’s partisan control next year.

Fetterman’s campaign has said Oz was operating in bad faith by insisting on so many debates and said Oz’s motivation is to mock Fetterman for having a stroke. Fetterman still speaks haltingly and struggles to quickly respond to words he hears.

To accommodate that, Fetterman asked the station for closed-captioning during the debate and two practice sessions in the studio ahead of time, Oz's campaign said.

In response, Oz's campaign issued three requests.

It wants a moderator to tell the audience that Fetterman is using closed captioning to explain delays in his responses; practice sessions to not use actual debate questions; and the debate to be 90 minutes, instead of 60, because of closed-captioning delays.

In Pennsylvania’s last four U.S. Senate contests, debates have not been a major feature. All the debates took place in mid- to late October, with two debates in each race — except for the 2012 contest, which had one debate.

Fetterman has been recovering and was off the campaign trail for most of the summer following his May 13 stroke, which required surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator and prompted a revelation that he had a serious heart condition. Fetterman has provided no access to his doctors or health records and has said he almost died.

He has done just a handful of media interviews and no press conferences since the stroke and has used closed-captioning in video interviews with reporters.

Fetterman’s campaign maintains that his doctors have said he is expected to make a full recovery.

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FILE – In this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo, Hunter Biden waits for the start of the his father’s, Vice President Joe Biden’s, debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Damning information from a second Hunter Biden laptop may be circulating around on the web. New York Magazine contributing editor Andrew Rice appeared on CNN to discuss the latest “laptop from hell.” Rice penned an article on the laptop saga alongside Olivia Nuzzi, verifying at least one personal electronic device has fallen into someone else’s hands.

The editor confirmed numerous aspects of Hunter’s life were extracted, including emails, texts, transactions and explicit content. Given the younger Biden’s history of reported substance abuse, Rice said its entirely likely the initial laptop was not the only sensitive data cache he misplaced.

“People close to him have propagated the idea that perhaps actually there is a second laptop out there that might actually trace back too, which goes back to the general point that Hunter Biden was capable of losing more than one laptop that potentially contained devastating information about himself during this time period in his life,” continued the contributing editor.

In fact, laptop whistleblower Jack Maxey claims an additional 450 gigabytes of additional data was recovered from a hard drive allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden. The drive also contained 80,000 previously unseen images that Maxey described as more disturbing than what was contained in the initial leak.

Additionally, the U.K. Daily Mail has released a video of Hunter confessing that Russian drug dealers confiscated another one of his laptop during a Las Vegas bender.

Some have claimed laptop repair man John Mac Isaac could not positively identify the first son due to the fact that he is legally blind. While Rice acknowledged Mac Isaac is visually impaired, his affliction does not completely obscure his sight. Furthermore, Rice asserts the FBI would not have seized the initial laptop from Mac Isaac if it was little more than right wing disinformation.

“He has a subpoena that the FBI served on him and they came and took away this laptop. In passed into the hands of the FBI, presumably because it had some kind of relevance they thought to the ongoing federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden’s finances that status of which we really don’t know much about.”

Federal prosecutors are currently considering leveling charges against the first son for tax violations and providing a false statement to purchase a firearm. Meanwhile, this story has barely made waves outside of non-mainstream bubbles while Democrat-aligned actors have worked to call the authenticity of the original story into question.

Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have also been probing into Hunter Biden’s usage of his father’s influence to secure foreign business deals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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