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Trump Calls on Supporters to Vote DeSantis After Quip

By Eric Mack | Sunday, 06 November 2022 05:18 PM EST

One night after labeling him "Ron DeSanctimonious," former President Donald Trump called on his Miami supporters Sunday to vote for the popular Florida GOP governor in Tuesday's midterm election.

"This is beautiful – what a place – hello, Miami," Trump told a Save America rally, which aired live on Newsmax, stumping for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. "And it's a great honor for Marco, I can tell you. It's great to be here in my home state of Florida. This is my homestead.

"With thousands of proud, hard-working American patriots, incredible people – just two days from now, the people of Florida are going to reelect the wonderful, the great, a friend of mine, Marco Rubio to the United States Senate, and you're going to reelect Ron DeSantis as your governor of the state.

"And you're going to elect an incredible slate of true MAGA warriors to Congress."

Trump's "DeSanctimonious" quip in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, made headlines, but he did not repeat it stumping for Republicans in Miami less than 24 hours later.

He was specific, however, to say he was stumping for Rubio in Miami, making a rare call in saying it was his rally.

"Is there any better place to be than a Marco Rubio rally?" Trump said, eschewing his usual "Trump rally" cry. "This is a Marco rally. We've got to make sure you win big against a radical left crazy person – one of the worst."

Rubio is facing Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., as he hopes to help Republicans hold the Florida Senate seat and retake the majority in Tuesday's midterms.

"Every freedom loving American needs to understand that the time to stand up to this growing left-wing tyranny is right now," Trump said. "You have to stand up right now. If you want to save your rights and liberties, you have to start by dealing a humiliating rebuke to the radical-left maniacs that are running in this election, and you have a lot of them.

"Marco has one of them as his opponent, in my opinion. I don't want to hurt her feelings, but that's my opinion. Marco is that your opinion, too? Is that your opinion Marco? He doesn't want to be too controversial.

"Marco says, 'Yes, it's his opinion.' You better believe it's his opinion."

Trump, who has teased he will announce a 2024 presidential campaign after the midterm elections' "red wave," called on voters to stop America from being a "communists" country.

"This Tuesday you have to crush the communists at the ballot box," Trump said. "I don't say socialists anymore. I don't say socialists. The communist and Marxist direction of the radical Democrat Party is one of the biggest reasons that hispanic Americans are joining our movement by the millions and millions and millions of millions and millions."

Trump hailed the crowd size in Miami, giving Rubio credit for having an activated voter base going into Tuesday's final vote, saying "he gets the job done."

"Marco, this is a hell of a turnout for you, especially with football going on, and all of the things happening," Trump said. "This is a hell of a turnout."

Trump hailed Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, as pivotal to reversing the pro-Cuba policies of former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden.

"And working closely with Marco Rubio, and he was an incredible help, we reversed the Obama-Biden administration's horrendous and very weak Cuba policy," Trump said. "It was so pathetic and we canceled their cruel betrayal of the Cuban people. They betrayed the Cuban people. I vowed not to lift sanctions until all political prisoners were freed, freedoms of assembly and expression where respected, all political parties were legalized, and free elections were scheduled.

"And it was all happening, and then the election got rigged, and that was the end of that, but we'll get it back very quickly. It won't take long. By contrast, the Biden administration has completely abandoned the people of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela."

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Trump, DeSantis Won't Fight for '24 GOP Nod (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 06 November 2022 03:56 PM EST

The media is trying to paint a "Republican civil war" between former President Donald Trump and Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis after Trump nicknamed him "Ron DeSanctimonious" on Saturday night.

But DeSantis is not going to challenge Trump, political strategist Dick Morris told Newsmax on Sunday.

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"I wouldn't take it very seriously," Morris, the author of "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback" and host of "Dick Morris Democracy" on Newsmax, said during the networks' election special coverage Sunday.

"The key thing is that the day after tomorrow, all of Trump's candidates will win," said Morris. "That will send a message to the Republican Party that Donald Trump cannot be beaten in a Republican primary."

Further, anyone thinking about running will understand that "Trump is going to win that nomination," said Morris. "If they get in his way they just can be destroying their own political career."

As for DeSantis, "I think he could walk into the nomination in 2028 but if he opposes Trump in 2024, he'll lose and he'll screw it up for the rest of his career," said Morris.

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As for President Joe Biden, after Tuesday, "he'll be under siege not to run again, and they'll force him to make that announcement…the fight will be for the Democratic Party for two years, while Trump has a walk to the nomination," said Morris.

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Trump, DeSantis Won't Fight for '24 GOP Nod (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 06 November 2022 03:56 PM EST

The media is trying to paint a "Republican civil war" between former President Donald Trump and Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis after Trump nicknamed him "Ron DeSanctimonious" on Saturday night.

But DeSantis is not going to challenge Trump, political strategist Dick Morris told Newsmax on Sunday.

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"I wouldn't take it very seriously," Morris, the author of "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback" and host of "Dick Morris Democracy" on Newsmax, said during the networks' election special coverage Sunday.

"The key thing is that the day after tomorrow, all of Trump's candidates will win," said Morris. "That will send a message to the Republican Party that Donald Trump cannot be beaten in a Republican primary."

Further, anyone thinking about running will understand that "Trump is going to win that nomination," said Morris. "If they get in his way they just can be destroying their own political career."

As for DeSantis, "I think he could walk into the nomination in 2028 but if he opposes Trump in 2024, he'll lose and he'll screw it up for the rest of his career," said Morris.

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As for President Joe Biden, after Tuesday, "he'll be under siege not to run again, and they'll force him to make that announcement…the fight will be for the Democratic Party for two years, while Trump has a walk to the nomination," said Morris.

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JD Vance: 'Idea This Race Was Close' Was 'Bit of a Mirage' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Sunday, 06 November 2022 02:26 PM EST

A confident GOP senatorial-nominee J.D. Vance is hailing his final-week midterm momentum as no real surprise, saying Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, never truly had a chance to earn the support of Ohio voters.

"The energy is higher as you get closer to Election Day, but I've always thought the idea this race was close was a bit of a mirage," Vance told the Washington Free Beacon on Saturday. "A lot of our base just wasn't really paying attention to politics. They were on vacation or hanging out with their kids."

Vance told the Beacon he "loves the polls," as RealClear Politics (RCP) polling average has Vance as a solid 5-point favorite going into Tuesday's final vote. RCP projects Vance will hold the seat of retiring Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who has endorsed him.

"We've hammered Ryan on the airwaves over his record," Vance told the Free Beacon. "So now when I talk to voters they're aware he's anti-energy, anti-cop."

Trump twice won Ohio by 8 points and the seat Vance is running for has been Republican since 1999.

Ohio is famously an election bellwether state, although Trump's 2020 victory came despite President Joe Biden's controversial victory.

"I was told all my life that 'so goes Ohio, so goes the nation,'" Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Saturday in stumping for Vance. "I know on Tuesday, you're going to be a bellwether again.

"There is one thing I think Biden actually got right, when the man can complete a sentence: He says this election is about the soul of America, he’s right about that," Hawley continued.

"What we're gonna tell him on Tuesday is we're not the problem; he's the problem."

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Russian Trolls Home in on Biden, Dems, Ukraine Aid (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Sunday, 06 November 2022 01:37 PM EST

Russia's online disinformation efforts have been reenergized ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections, particularly in influencing results against President Joe Biden and Democrats and damaging public support for Ukraine aid, according to researchers.

"It's clear they are trying to get them to cut off aid and money to Ukraine," Providence Consulting Group's Alex Plitsas, an Army veteran and former Pentagon information official, told The New York Times.

Russian online disinformation efforts are designed to sow discord in American democracy, experts have long warned. The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have also warned of the use of "dark web media channels, online journals, messaging applications, spoofed websites, emails, text messages, and fake online personas."

Researchers told the Times they fear the efforts on smaller, conservative social media networks like Gab, Parler, or Gettr. Former President Donald Trump's Truth Social was not mentioned in the Times' report.

"The audiences are much, much smaller than on your other traditional social media networks," Recorded Future senior intelligence analyst Brian Liston told the Times. "But you can engage the audiences in much more targeted influence ops because those who are on these platforms are generally U.S. conservatives who are maybe more accepting of conspiratorial claims."

Graham Brookie, senior director of the Digital Forensics Lab at the Atlantic Council, told the Times the renewed Russian disinformation efforts is "recidivist behavior."

"Since 2016, it appears that foreign states can afford to take some of the foot off the gas, because they have already created such sufficient division that there are many domestic actors to carry the water of disinformation for them," OSET Institute board member Edward P. Perez told the Times.

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Sen. Rick Scott: Focused on Election, Not Push for Leader Seat (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 06 November 2022 01:23 PM EST

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott Sunday continued to insist that Republicans will have "52-plus" seats in the Senate after Tuesday's elections, but he would not commit to whether he'll push past current Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to become the chamber's majority leader if that happens.

"I'm not focused on anything except getting a majority Tuesday night," the Florida Republican said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

He insisted Republicans will win Senate races in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, and Nevada and said there is a "good shot" for wins in Arizona, New Hampshire, Washington, Colorado, and "maybe" in Connecticut.

However, Scott would not commit to supporting a 2024 reelection bid from former President Donald Trump at this time, saying there will be "a lot of people" who will announce campaigns.

Scott also said he'll accept the results of all Senate elections but also make sure the voting was "free and fair."

Meanwhile, under a GOP majority, there are several priorities that must be handled, including inflation, the border, crime, and stopping the legislation that funded the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents, said Scott.

He also insisted Sunday that no matter who holds the majority, Ukraine must continue to have U.S. support against Russia.

"I don't want to end up in a war with Russia," Scott said, pointing out that if Russia enters Poland or another NATO country, the United States will end up in at war.

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Sebastian Gorka: US Should Stand With Ukraine, Reagan Would (Newsmax/"The Gorka Reality Check")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 06 November 2022 08:15 PM EST

The late President Ronald Reagan would have supported Ukraine in its fight against Russia, and modern-day America should as well, Sebastian Gorka, the deputy assistant for strategy under former President Donald Trump, argued Sunday on Newsmax.

"Conservatives today, those who say Ukraine doesn't matter, what if Reagan were the president, would they say the same thing to Ronald Reagan?" Gorka said during the monologue to his program, "The Gorka Reality Check," which airs Sundays at 7 p.m. ET. "Would they say 'oh, no, please Ronnie, don't irritate Moscow?' He would laugh in their faces."

Gorka said conservative talk show host Mark Levin posed the question during a panel discussion the two were involved in last week in California, along with Dennis Prager, Charlie Kirk, and Larry Elder, and he felt the question was a vital one.

Reagan, Gorka said, "pushed back on communism everywhere, in Latin America with the Sandinistas; in Afghanistan against the Soviets, who had more nuclear weapons back then, and across the planet."

He also noted, in 1776, the American Revolution's patriots could not have defeated England without the help of the French, so "if 1776 matters to you, so should Ukraine."

The United States must also continue to support Ukraine as a "question of honor," according to Gorka.

"In 1994, we, America, along with the U.K. and Russia, signed the Budapest Memorandum in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons to Russia," Gorka said. "At that time, Ukraine was the third-biggest nuclear power in the world, after the former Soviet Union and America."

In exchange, the United States and the British agreed to protect Ukraine from Moscow.

"If they had kept those nuclear weapons against our wishes they never would have been invaded," Gorka said.

The Trump White House was not interventionist, but still understood that bullies must be dealt with, and countries that are fighting for their freedom should be supported, he concluded.

"We should help them fight for themselves with ammunition, not pallets of cash like the crazy Biden administration," Gorka said.

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Sebastian Gorka: US Should Stand With Ukraine, Reagan Would (Newsmax/"The Gorka Reality Check")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 06 November 2022 08:15 PM EST

The late President Ronald Reagan would have supported Ukraine in its fight against Russia, and modern-day America should as well, Sebastian Gorka, the deputy assistant for strategy under former President Donald Trump, argued Sunday on Newsmax.

"Conservatives today, those who say Ukraine doesn't matter, what if Reagan were the president, would they say the same thing to Ronald Reagan?" Gorka said during the monologue to his program, "The Gorka Reality Check," which airs Sundays at 7 p.m. ET. "Would they say 'oh, no, please Ronnie, don't irritate Moscow?' He would laugh in their faces."

Gorka said conservative talk show host Mark Levin posed the question during a panel discussion the two were involved in last week in California, along with Dennis Prager, Charlie Kirk, and Larry Elder, and he felt the question was a vital one.

Reagan, Gorka said, "pushed back on communism everywhere, in Latin America with the Sandinistas; in Afghanistan against the Soviets, who had more nuclear weapons back then, and across the planet."

He also noted, in 1776, the American Revolution's patriots could not have defeated England without the help of the French, so "if 1776 matters to you, so should Ukraine."

The United States must also continue to support Ukraine as a "question of honor," according to Gorka.

"In 1994, we, America, along with the U.K. and Russia, signed the Budapest Memorandum in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons to Russia," Gorka said. "At that time, Ukraine was the third-biggest nuclear power in the world, after the former Soviet Union and America."

In exchange, the United States and the British agreed to protect Ukraine from Moscow.

"If they had kept those nuclear weapons against our wishes they never would have been invaded," Gorka said.

The Trump White House was not interventionist, but still understood that bullies must be dealt with, and countries that are fighting for their freedom should be supported, he concluded.

"We should help them fight for themselves with ammunition, not pallets of cash like the crazy Biden administration," Gorka said.

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NBC Poll: Democrat Enthusiasm Rising Ahead of Midterms (Newsmax)

By Brian Pfail | Sunday, 06 November 2022 12:14 PM EST

The last national NBC News poll of this year’s midterms found enthusiasm among democrats is starting to pick up.

Democrats have pulled even with Republicans in enthusiasm, although dissatisfaction with President Biden and the state of the country remains.

Forty-eight percent of likely voters say they prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress, while 47% prefer a Republican-controlled Congress. Previously, the October polling found 48% preferred a GOP-controlled congress versus 47% who wanted Democrats to control. The shift is well within the poll’s margin of error.

Registered voters remained tied at 47% to 47%, similar to last month’s polling, where Democrats held a 1-point lead.

Seventy-three percent of Democrats and Republicans expressed a high interest in the midterms. October’s NBC News poll had Republicans leading with a 9-point advantage with 78% to 69%.

Forty-four percent of voters approve of President Biden, while 53% disapprove. More than 70% of the U.S. think the country is headed in the wrong direction, with 81% saying they are “very” or “somewhat” dissatisfied with the economy.

Forty-seven percent say they want a “great deal” of change in the direction in which the country is led. Those numbers are higher than Donald Trump's 44% and Barack Obama’s 41% for their first midterms.

Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies said, “President Biden and the Democrats are in for a miserable election.”

McInturff, along with Democrat pollster Jeff Horwitt and his team at Hart Research Associates, conducted the aforementioned survey.

“The Democrats have to run way ahead of the president to win a statewide race,” said McInturff. “I would expect to see a large number of losses in the House and possibly a switch in control of the Senate.”

The margin of error for the Nov. 3-5 poll of 1,000 register voters is +/- 3.1 percentage points.

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Virginia Gov. Youngkin: Biden Will Get 'Wake-up Call' With Election Day (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 06 November 2022 10:36 AM EST

Voters on Tuesday will send a "wake-up call" to President Joe Biden by returning GOP majorities to both chambers of Congress, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Sunday.

"I think there will be a larger majority in the House than people may have thought a few months ago," the Republican governor said on ABC's "This Week." "I hope that President Biden sees what Americans are going to say to him on Tuesday, which is 'we're not happy' and we need a different agenda."

The governor has been campaigning with several GOP hopefuls, including Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who believes that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, but he said Sunday he doesn't agree with that stance.

"I've said that President Biden is our president. He was elected our president," Youngkin said, but he does think Biden has "done a bad job."

Youngkin, though, refused to speculate about talk of a GOP-controlled House pushing to impeach Biden, saying he's focused on his job as a governor.

When asked what he thinks about Trump running again for the White House, Youngkin said that this is a Nov. 8 moment" and people thinking beyond that are "missing the priority of today's moment."

He also said he's not supporting anyone at this time in the 2024 race, and wouldn't say if he's planning to run himself for the White House at some point.

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Fred Fleitz to Newsmax: Biden's Democracy Warnings 'Ridiculous' (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 06 November 2022 09:45 AM EST

President Joe Biden, by taking aim at supporters of former President Donald Trump, missed a "real opportunity" to speak out about serious threats to national security, while making "ridiculous" claims about dangers to democracy, America First Policy Institute senior fellow Fred Fleitz said on Newsmax Sunday.

"North Korea fired over 70 missiles this week this year, 25 last week," Fleitz, a former chief of staff to the National Security Council, said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "Russian generals recently talked about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Mr. Biden could have stepped above all of this and talked about these threats to our nation to unite the country. Instead, he makes a ridiculous claim that if you vote for his political opponents after 246 years, democracy in this country will end. I think every American knows that's ridiculous."

Fleitz on Sunday, also discussed the war in Russia, saying it is becoming "worse and worse" for President Vladimir Putin.

"I think there could be a major showdown this spring after the Russian army rebuilds and after the winter, but I think ultimately Russia's prospects in Ukraine are very negative," he said, adding that he's concerned that the Biden administration has no "endgame plan" for the war.

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Manchin: Biden's Coal Comments 'Divorced From Reality'

AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW DALY Sunday, 06 November 2022 08:27 AM EST

President Joe Biden on Saturday was criticized by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democratic antagonist and ally, for being “cavalier” and “divorced from reality” after vowing to shutter coal-fired power plants and rely more heavily on wind and solar energy in the future.

The powerful coal-state lawmaker said Biden's words “ignore the severe economic pain” for people from higher energy prices and are why Americans “are losing trust” in Biden. Manchin's stinging rebuke of his party's leader comes at precarious time for Democrats on the final weekend of campaigning before Tuesday's elections that could put Republicans back in power in Congress.

Manchin called for a public apology, and the White House later released a statement saying Biden's words had been “twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended” and that the president “regrets it if anyone hearing these remarks took offense."

Biden raised Manchin’s ire with his reference to coal power during a speech Friday in Carlsbad, California, to spotlight his $280 billion plan to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific research.

“I was in Massachusetts about a month ago on the site of the largest old coal plant in America. Guess what? It cost them too much money,” Biden said. “No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of their existence of the plant. So it’s going to become a wind generation,” Biden added. “We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.”

Biden had visited a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts in July. The former Brayton Point power plant in Somerset is shifting to offshore wind power manufacturing, and Biden chose it as the embodiment of the transition to clean energy that he is seeking, including in the sweeping climate-and-health law he passed with Manchin’s help in August.

Former President Donald Trump promised to revive coal and restore mining jobs, but the industry’s decadelong decline continued as utilities increasingly turn to cheaper natural gas — and now renewable energy such as wind and solar power — to generate electricity. The Energy Information Administration, a government agency, reports a yearly average of 39,518 employees at U.S. coal mines in 2021, compared with 91,611 in 2011, 51,795 in 2016 and 42,159 in 2020. Wyoming is the leader in coal production.

Manchin, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement that Biden's remarks were “not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs.”

Such remarks, Manchin said, "are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden. … It seems his positions change daily depending on the audience and politics of the day.”

Manchin, whose support was crucial to Biden winning passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which included the biggest investment in climate programs in U.S. history, slammed Biden for “offensive and disgusting" words and said the president owed West Virginia coal workers “an immediate and public apology.”

“Let me be clear, this is something the president has never said to me. Being cavalier about the coal jobs for men and women in West Virginia and across the country who literally put their lives on the line to help build and power this country is offensive and disgusting,” Manchin. He added that "it is time he learn a lesson that his words matter and have consequences.”

The White House said Biden was “commenting on a fact of economics and technology” at a time when the country is undertaking an “energy transition” that he is working to ensure means “more jobs and better opportunities. … No one will be left behind.”

The EIA projects that coal generation is expected to decline from 22.5% of U.S. electricity in 2021 to 21.1% in 2022, before falling to 19.9% in 2023 -– the same coal generation share as 2020 when production hit its lowest level in decades, in part because of COVID-19. Natural gas is expected to make up for some of coal’s declining share in 2022 and beyond. Coal produced more than 40% of U.S. electricity though 2011 before a steep decline caused by the fracking boom.

In late 2021, Manchin torpedoed Biden's big domestic policy bill, leading to a hardball response from the White House to a lawmaker whose vote is crucial in the 50-50 Senate. Biden's press secretary called Manchin's opposition, first announced on a Sunday news show, as "a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position” and “a breach of his commitments” to Biden and congressional Democrats.

Then, this past summer, Manchin suddenly reversed course and backed a revised bill that became law with only Democratic votes.

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Trump Coins New Opponent Nickname: 'Ron DeSanctimonious' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 05 November 2022 09:16 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump dropped a nickname on Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis Saturday night — and the crowd went wild.

"We're putting them up," Trump told his Latrobe, Pennsylvania, crowd at his Save America rally, which aired live on Newsmax, as he showed the latest 2024 hypothetical presidential polls. "We're winning. We're winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for the nomination like nobody's ever seen before.

"Let's see: There it is: Trump at 71%. Ron DeSanctimonious at 10%. Mike Pence at 7% — oh, Mike's doing better than I thought. Liz Cheney, there's no way she's at 4%. There's no way. There's no way, but we're 71% to 10% to 7% to 4%. Ted Cruz is doing a good job, by the way, he didn't like me for a while, but we get to be friends."

Trump famously trolls his political rivals and DeSantis was no exception.

This one targeting the very popular Florida governor Trump had once endorsed as a House member and the next governor of his new home state using the word sanctimonious.

To date, Trump has held off criticism of DeSantis — and held off making an official 2024 presidential campaign declaration.

DeSantis still needs to win reelection in Florida as governor Tuesday night and Trump said Saturday night, "I promise you" will hear soon after Tuesday's midterm elections about his own 2024 presidential campaign.

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Trump Coins New Opponent Nickname: 'Ron DeSanctimonious' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 05 November 2022 09:32 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump dropped a nickname on Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis Saturday night — and the crowd went wild.

"We're putting them up," Trump told his Latrobe, Pennsylvania, crowd at his Save America rally, which aired live on Newsmax, as he showed the latest 2024 hypothetical presidential polls. "We're winning. We're winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for the nomination like nobody's ever seen before.

"Let's see: There it is: Trump at 71%. Ron DeSanctimonious at 10%. Mike Pence at 7% — oh, Mike's doing better than I thought. Liz Cheney, there's no way she's at 4%. There's no way. There's no way, but we're 71% to 10% to 7% to 4%. Ted Cruz is doing a good job, by the way, he didn't like me for a while, but we got to be friends."

Trump famously trolls his political rivals and DeSantis was no exception: This one targeting the very popular Florida governor Trump had once endorsed as a House member and the next governor of his new home state using the word sanctimonious.

To date, Trump has held off criticism of DeSantis — and held off making an official 2024 presidential campaign declaration.

DeSantis still needs to win reelection in Florida as governor Tuesday night and Trump said Saturday night, "I promise you" will hear soon after Tuesday's midterm elections about his own 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump's mocking nickname of his longtime ally comes on the eve of a Save America rally in Miami on Sunday (starting at 5 p.m. ET on Newsmax). Trump will be stumping for Florida GOP midterm candidates, but notably DeSantis will not be there.

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Trump on '24: 'I Promise You' Will Hear 'in Very, Very, Very Short Period of Time' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 05 November 2022 08:51 PM EDT

In the latest iteration of his 2024 presidential campaign announcement tease, former President Donald Trump said "I promise you" will be "very happy" in the next "short period of time."

But he wanted to make Saturday night's Save America rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, about GOP Sen.-nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz and GOP Gov.-nominee Doug Mastriano.

"I ran twice, I won twice, and did much better the second time than I did the first, getting millions and millions of more votes than we got in 2016 – and likewise getting more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far," Trump told the crowd in the rally, which aired live on Newsmax.

"And now in order to make our country more successful and safe and glorious, I'm just going to tell you, I really believe – I'm not going to say it right now."

Trump pointed to a man dressed up as Uncle Sam, as the crowd anxiously awaited an official 2024 presidential campaign declaration – which Newsmax's Mark Halperin has reported will come shortly over next Tuesdsay's midterm election results flip the House, if not the Senate, too.

"But I'm telling you," Trump continued. "Uncle Sam said, 'No, you are;' Uncle Sam just said, 'No, you are going to say it.'

"Uncle Sam, you'll be very happy," Trump said as the crowed was egging him on to declare.

"So, everybody, I promise you in the very next very, very, very short period of time, you're going to be so happy, OK?"

Trump wanted the focus to remain on the candidates needing to secure victory in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

"And one of the reasons I don't want to do that right now, because I'd like to do it, but you know what?" Trump continue. "I really mean this: I want to have the focus tonight on Dr. Oz and on Doug Mastriano.

"I want the focus to be on them, absolutely," he concluded, before returning to his another segment of his speech. "All right, now you can sit down, everybody. That was quite exciting.

"Very, very soon – you're going to be surprised at how soon, but first we have to win a historic victory for Republicans on Nov. 8 – 3 days from now."

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Trump on '24: 'I Promise You' Will Hear 'in Very, Very, Very Short Period of Time' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 05 November 2022 08:53 PM EDT

In the latest iteration of his 2024 presidential campaign announcement tease, former President Donald Trump said "I promise you" will be "very happy" in the next "short period of time."

But he wanted to make Saturday night's Save America rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, about GOP Sen.-nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz and GOP Gov.-nominee Doug Mastriano.

"I ran twice, I won twice, and did much better the second time than I did the first, getting millions and millions of more votes than we got in 2016 – and likewise getting more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far," Trump told the crowd in the rally, which aired live on Newsmax.

"And now in order to make our country more successful and safe and glorious, I'm just going to tell you, I really believe – I'm not going to say it right now."

Trump pointed to a man dressed up as Uncle Sam, as the crowd anxiously awaited an official 2024 presidential campaign declaration – which Newsmax's Mark Halperin has reported will come shortly over next Tuesday's midterm election results flip the House, if not the Senate, too.

"But I'm telling you," Trump continued. "Uncle Sam said, 'No, you are;' Uncle Sam just said, 'No, you are going to say it.'

"Uncle Sam, you'll be very happy," Trump said as the crowed was egging him on to declare.

"So, everybody, I promise you in the very next very, very, very short period of time, you're going to be so happy, OK?"

Trump wanted the focus to remain on the candidates needing to secure victory in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

"And one of the reasons I don't want to do that right now, because I'd like to do it, but you know what?" Trump continue. "I really mean this: I want to have the focus tonight on Dr. Oz and on Doug Mastriano.

"I want the focus to be on them, absolutely," he concluded, before returning to his another segment of his speech. "All right, now you can sit down, everybody. That was quite exciting.

"Very, very soon – you're going to be surprised at how soon, but first we have to win a historic victory for Republicans on Nov. 8 – 3 days from now."

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Trump Mocks Biden's Speeches: 'The Anger, He's So Angry' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 05 November 2022 08:32 PM EDT

Railing on the Biden administration, former President Donald Trump called President Joe Biden a very "angry" president amid rising inflation, a crumbing economy, and an upcoming midterm election red wave.

"I watched Biden two days ago in a fit of rage, the anger; he's so angry," Trump told his Save America rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night. The event aired live on Newsmax.

"'We've got to stop MAGA, called it mega MAGA, ultra MAGA, MAGA king: I'm the MAGA king, he said. I'm the MAGA king … it was a very good compliment."

Trump mocked Biden for weaponing the Justice Department and the FBI to try to stop his political opponent — albeit Trump has yet to officially announce a 2024 presidential campaign and Biden has been less and less certain he will run for reelection as the oldest president in history.

"We've got to stop the MAGA king; we're going to stop the MAGA king: Get the FBI loaded up, get the Justice Department loaded. For six years, I've been going through this stuff."

Trump's rallies now feature a video lowlighting Biden's cognitive struggles and difficulty speaking before the media and America.

"So, in many ways, it's really not funny; it's sad, because we could end up in a nuclear war, and this would be a war like no other — the power of these weapons — what's going on?" Trump said. "And the word nuclear was never mentioned. That never was supposed to be mentioned.

"We could end up in a nuclear war the way they're handling things right now, with Russia every day mentioning the nuclear word now."

Trump called Biden's foreign polices failures "the greatest danger that this country has faced, from its founding," because of the power of the weaponry.

"And we have a man that doesn't know what the hell he's doing," Trump added. "It's a very, very sad situation that would have never happened in Ukraine.

"Russia would have never, ever even thought to have gone in."

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Peter Navarro to Newsmax: Biden Lost Pa. Votes With Coal Comment U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with dignitaries and employees at ViaSat on November 4, 2022 in Carlsbad, California. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 05 November 2022 07:23 PM EDT

President Joe Biden didn't just infuriate Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., with his comments about shutting down coal-fired electric plants this week, but he probably cost Democrat candidates in Pennsylvania some votes, Peter Navarro, a White House adviser under former President Donald Trump, said on Newsmax Saturday.

"In some sense, Biden seemingly channeled Hillary Clinton's comment back in 2016 in West Virginia and Ohio, when she was talking about shutting down the coal mines, and she lost West Virginia by 70% to 30%," Navarro said on Newsmax's "The Count," speaking before Trump's rally in Latrobe, Pa., located near Pittsburgh.

Manchin is demanding an apology from Biden, who said in a speech in Carlsbad, Calif. Friday that "no one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of their existence of the plant. So it’s going to become a wind generation," reports The Washington Post.

"This is a gift to all Republicans running in Pennsylvania because they have coal mines, but they also have a lot of frackers who heard them loud and clear," said Navarro.

Meanwhile, many Trump-backed races in Pennsylvania will help remove Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker, and "I think Biden just help them get another 2% points each in terms of their totals," said Navarro.

He also predicted Democrat John Fetterman will lose "decisively" to Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Senate race and that GOP contender Doug Mastriano will defeat Democrat Josh Shapiro in the "big one," the race for governor.

And Trump will welcome all the major candidates on stage at the Latrobe rally, and they'll bring the races home because of his endorsement, said Navarro.

"The Trump endorsement plays in Pennsylvania," he said. "That's his state, not Joe Biden's."
Biden, he added, has "revealed himself as the radical progressive puppet of the far left that we thought he was and said he was when I was in the White House."

The comment in California about coal plants was "beyond the pale," Navarro continued.
"What's he doing, running for president in California?" he said. "Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, these are the battleground states that were in 2020. They're going to be it again."

Navarro also predicted that, as news stories indicated this week, Trump will be announcing his next presidential candidacy before Christmas.

"I said that Trump would announce his candidacy after the election and before Christmas as a Christmas present to the American people," he said. "I maintain that and he will make a lot of people happy with that announcement."

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Trump in Pennsylvania: 'Your Commonwealth Is Being Totally Destroyed' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 05 November 2022 07:46 PM EDT

Mocking the crowd for Democrats rallies in Pennsylvania and hailing his own, former President Donald Trump warned the commonwealth of being destroyed by radical left policies.

"You know, they had a little rally here: Nobody showed up for their rally; look at this rally," Trump told his Save America rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night that aired live on Newsmax. "And then they'll say how many votes they got and tell you it's wonderful, right?

"This is the biggest poll you can have. And we always had this poll. Except now it's bigger and better and stronger than we've ever had before."

Trump began by promising to end House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's political career and stripping away the power of President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

"Under Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and the radical Democrat Congress, your commonwealth is being totally destroyed," Trump told the crowd. "Our country is being destroyed. Biden and the far-left lunatics are waging war on Pennsylvania energy, crushing Pennsylvania jobs, gutting Pennsylvania communities, and strangling Pennsylvania families with soaring prices like you've never seen before.

"Inflation is costing the typical household nearly $800 every single month. Congratulations!

"Who the hell voted for these people? What are we doing?"

Trump repeated his America First agenda items of curbing illegal immigration, protecting Americans and making cities safe again, and defend parental rights in education.

"The southern border is wide open — millions of illegal aliens are pouring into our country," Trump continued. "Your commonwealth is enduring a massive and bloody crime wave. And the far left is indoctrinating our children with twisted race and gender insanity in our schools. Other than that, they're doing a fantastic job."

Trump, stumping for GOP Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz and GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, said voting for Republicans is the only way to turn back the damage the Biden administration and Democrat congressional control has done.

"There is only one choice to end this madness, and it is indeed madness," Trump said. "If you support the decline, fall of America, then you must vote for the radical-left Democrats.

"If you want to stop the destruction of our country and save the American dream, then this Tuesday, you must vote Republican in a giant red wave."

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NY House Race 'One of the Most Competitive In Country'

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By John Gizzi | Saturday, 05 November 2022 05:08 PM EDT

With polls throughout New York indicating a statewide swing to the Republicans on Tuesday, the race for Congress in the Syracuse-based 22nd District is now considered up in the air.

"[O]ne of the most competitive House races in the nation," is how the contest between conservative Republican Brandon Williams and liberal Democrat Francis Conole was characterized Friday by the Syracuse.com news site.

Syracuse.com was referring to the recently completed independent poll showing U.S. Navy veteran Conole leading high-tech executive Williams by 46% to 42%. This is the first time the Democratic hopeful has been ahead in the race for the seat of retiring GOP Rep. John Katko.

In late September, a Siena poll showed Williams leading Conole 45% to 40%.

Williams, who also carries the ballot line of the New York Conservative Party, is considered to the right of Katko (who, among other things, voted for Donald Trump's impeachment).

In recent weeks, Conole has hit hard at Williams' pro-life stance on abortion — opposing abortion except in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother and supporting the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision (placing the legality of abortion in the hands of states rather than having it under a federal ruling). In winning the GOP nomination earlier this year, Williams overcame a better-funded opponent supported by House Conference Chairman Elise Stefanik of New York and other national party leaders.

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