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Trump Lauds Rubio's Significant Poll Lead in Senate Race

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By Jeremy Frankel | Sunday, 30 October 2022 08:49 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump applauded Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for his double-digit lead in a recent poll regarding his reelection, an 11-point lead over Rep. Val Demings, a Democrat.

Trump is planning to headline a rally for Rubio next week.

"Wow, Senator Marco Rubio has taken an 11 point lead in his run against a weak on crime Radical Left Impeacher, someone who is incapable of doing the job that needs to be done, since we announced the Big Rally for him on the following Sunday (November 6th) in Miami. He deserves to win, and win BIG. See you at the Rally!!!" Trump posted on Truth Social.

Demings served as an impeachment manager during Trump's first impeachment in early 2020.

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Musk Denies Allegations of Avoiding Stock Grant Payout

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By Brian Pfail | Sunday, 30 October 2022 08:16 PM EDT

A recent New York Times article claimed Elon Musk avoided paying out stock grants to Twitter employees by laying them off before the Nov. 1 cutoff. Elon Musk responded in a tweet, "This is false."

Musk told investors that he plans to fire 75 percent of Twitter's staff; still, it is unclear how many of the 7,500 employees will be laid off. Managers have already been asked to provide a list of Twitter employees set to be let go.

Citing unidentified people familiar with the matter, The Times reported the cuts could begin as soon as Saturday.

According to media reports on Saturday, Musk fired top executives in an effort to avoid hefty severance payouts, while lining up other layoffs as soon as Saturday.

The billionaire mogul started his new job as "Chief Twit" just last week and has fired several top executives at Twitter, including now-former CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal and head of legal and public policy Vijaya Gadde, who is responsible for President Donald Trump's ban.

The executives were allegedly fired "for cause," meaning they may not receive the multimillion-dollar "golden parachute" severance package that employees receive when they're fired through no fault.

He had accused them of misleading him and Twitter investors over the number of fake accounts on the platform. According to research firm Equilar, the executives stood to receive separation payouts totaling some $122 million.

Citing unidentified people familiar with the matter, The Information reported that Elon Musk terminated four top Twitter executives, including Agrawal and Segal "for cause," in an apparent effort to avoid severance pay and unvested stock awards.

In a tweet on Saturday LightShed analyst Rich Greenfield said Musk fired top Twitter execs "for cause," preventing their unvested stock from vesting as part of a change of control.

Twitter did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.

Reuters wasn't immediately able to contact the fired executives.

Director of research at Equilar Courtney Yu told Reuters on Friday that the fired executives "should be getting these (severance) payments unless Elon Musk had cause for termination, with cause in these cases usually being that they broke the law or violated company policy."

Musk has not elaborated on the topic.

He has announced plans to overhaul Twitter into what he called a "digital town square," making the company private, reducing content moderation and overturning bans on Twitter accounts like Trump's.

Many have expressed concern over trolls and misinformation, but in a message to Twitter advertisers, Musk promised Twitter would not be a "free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences."

Musk plans to create a content moderation council with "widely diverse viewpoints." He hopes Twitter will someday become a "warm and welcoming" platform.

Information from Reuters was used in this report.

N.H. Gov. Sununu Calls on Americans to 'Take Down the Heat'

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By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 30 October 2022 04:31 PM EDT

The riots in the nation's streets in the summer of 2020 set a "new standard" for political violence that is continuing now with the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and "people have to just take down the heat," New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Sunday.

"The line for folks that were disagreeing with what might have been happening and were not happy with what was happening in their communities, the line completely moved with very little accountability," the governor, a Republican, said on NBC News' "Meet the Press." "That set kind of a new standard in a very dangerous way, and then that carries over into the politics and what happened in 2020, the insanity of what we saw on Jan. 6."

Such violence is nothing new, he noted, and "it's on both sides of the aisle," but still, "this is America."

"This is one of the most amazing places on the planet Earth. We should all wake up and be grateful," he said. "We can disagree and have heated arguments of course, but when you cross that line into violence it does your cause no good, it does the system no good, and it just brings everything to a more fragile state."

When asked if he sees any connection between the Pelosi attack and former President Donald Trump and his rhetoric, Sununu responded that there is a "connection to everyone in this."

"People are getting upset about inflation," he said. "They're getting upset with, you know, issues that happened on what we would consider a very minor level. But to them it's passionate; it's just the end of days for them."

But the answer is a cultural solution, not one from the government, and "we all, all 300 million of us, have to take a very deep responsibility toward that," Sununu added.

He said he's also concerned that the nation is becoming "numb" to acts of violence, and said he finds that to be scarier than the acts themselves.

"If you have a disagreement, get involved in your local community, get involved, run for office, have the debates, whatever it might be," he said. "Keep it civil, of course. It can be heated. It can be passionate. But you've got to keep it civil because it's the only way that, as a society, we're going to move forward."

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Sen. Cruz: Hunter Biden Probe a 'Prelude' for Indicting Trump (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 30 October 2022 02:58 PM EDT

The Department of Justice's leaks about investigating Hunter Biden for drug and tax offenses, and the potential for him facing criminal charges are a "prelude" to President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland doing what they want to do, indicting former President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday.

"They want to say, 'look how even-handed we are,'" the Texas Republican said on Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo." "That is politics, not law enforcement."

In the last month, Biden's DOJ leaked that it planned to indict the president's son, Hunter, and those leaks are troubling, as the department should not be leaking anything, and the substance of what was leaked means little, the senator said.

"By any measure, Hunter Biden is a deeply troubled soul, a soul who has struggled with addiction all his life," said Cruz. "What is concerning about their focus on the drug and tax issues is that it is very carefully walling off why this is a matter of public concern. If Hunter Biden was just a regular guy who struggled with addiction, it wouldn't be a matter of public interest."

What makes an investigation into Hunter Biden a matter of national concern, said Cruz, is that there is "significant and overwhelming evidence" that he was "actively involved in official corruption with his father, Joe Biden."

That involved the Ukraine natural gas company Burisma that paid Hunter $83,000 a month "when he spoke no Ukrainian, knew nothing about oil and gas and his father was actively doing favors on behalf of the oligarch who was paying Hunter Biden," said Cruz.

Then there is the matter of China, where Hunter and his family made more than $5 million, "including 10% for the 'big guy,' Joe Biden," said Cruz. " The Biden DOJ is saying, oh, this is a drug matter, don't pay attention to the big guy, don't pay attention to the corruption, just make it one poor person struggling with addiction. That's highly concerning."

Cruz also discussed his new book, "Justice Interrupted: How the Left Weaponized our Legal System," in which he describes how former President Barack Obama began using the DOJ, FBI, IRS, and the CIA to attack political enemies, and how that action is continuing.

"When Trump became president, those hard-core partisans burrowed into senior career positions at those agencies, and they waged war against him both personally and against his administration, and now under Joe Biden, they are out in the open," said Cruz. "This is the most political and the most corrupt Department of Justice we've ever seen. We see the FBI storming President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago. That's never happened in the history of our nation."

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Rep. Fallon to Newsmax: Biden Mistaken to Remove Oil from Reserves (Newsmax/"Wake Up America Weekend")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:13 PM EDT

Rep. Pat Fallon, who has introduced legislation to require an act of Congress to remove oil from the nation's strategic reserves supply, said on Newsmax Sunday that President Joe Biden's moves to use the supplies show a "fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works.

"He's never signed the front of one paycheck in all of his 174 years of life," the Texas Republican told Newsmax's "Wake Up America Weekend." "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was established in 1975 to protect the United States in case of an act of God, a national emergency, and in time of war. It is not to be used for political expediency by any party two weeks before an election that they're about to lose."

The reserve, at its height under former President Donald Trump, held 695 million barrels, but now it sits at 401 barrels, and that's because Biden is taking out the supplies "by fiat and decree."

Biden last week claimed that gas was already at $5 a gallon when he took office, but Fallon pointed out that wasn't true, as it was $2.38 a gallon then.

He also noted that Biden didn't mention that prices are up everywhere, with inflation at 8.2%, and "real wages down 5,000" for a year.

Biden also wants to rely on "mini-Putins" like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for oil, "when we can unleash the American energy sector," said Fallon.

Fallon also discussed the national races, with just 9 days left before the midterm, and said there are several Democrat incumbents in trouble, but he also spoke out about the "debacle" shown in the debate matchup in Pennsylvania between Dr. Mehmet Oz, the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Democrat candidate John Fetterman.

"I've been watching politics and debates for over 30 years and I have never seen anything like that," said Fallon, calling it "short-sighted" to have Fetterman on stage so soon after his stroke during the primary election.

"I wish him the best but I wouldn't want him to fly a plane that I'm on and I don't want him voting for our country when he's going to be 1% of the Senate," said Fallon. "Oz just ran circles around him and he's going to be the far better choice."

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Rep. Fallon to Newsmax: Biden Mistaken to Remove Oil from Reserves (Newsmax/"Wake Up America Weekend")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:13 PM EDT

Rep. Pat Fallon, who has introduced legislation to require an act of Congress to remove oil from the nation's strategic reserves supply, told Newsmax on Sunday that President Joe Biden's moves to use the supplies show a "fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works."

"He's never signed the front of one paycheck in all of his 174 years of life," the Texas Republican told Newsmax's "Wake Up America Weekend." "The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was established in 1975 to protect the United States in case of an act of God, a national emergency, and in time of war. It is not to be used for political expediency by any party two weeks before an election that they're about to lose."

The reserve, at its height under former President Donald Trump, held 695 million barrels, but now it sits at 401 barrels, and that's because Biden is taking out the supplies "by fiat and decree."

Biden last week claimed that gas was already at $5 a gallon when he took office, but Fallon pointed out that wasn't true, as it was $2.38 a gallon then.

He also noted that Biden didn't mention that prices are up everywhere, with inflation at 8.2%, and "real wages down $5,000" for a year.

Biden also wants to rely on "mini-Putins" like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for oil, "when we can unleash the American energy sector," said Fallon.

Fallon also discussed the national races, with just nine days left before the midterm, and said there are several Democrat incumbents in trouble, but he also spoke out about the "debacle" shown in the debate matchup in Pennsylvania between Dr. Mehmet Oz, the GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Democrat candidate John Fetterman.

"I've been watching politics and debates for over 30 years and I have never seen anything like that," said Fallon, calling it "short-sighted" to have Fetterman on stage so soon after his stroke during the primary election.

"I wish him the best but I wouldn't want him to fly a plane that I'm on, and I don't want him voting for our country when he's going to be 1% of the Senate," said Fallon. "Oz just ran circles around him, and he's going to be the far better choice."

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Rick Scott: GOP Will Hold '52-Plus' Senate Seats After Midterms (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 30 October 2022 12:14 PM EDT

Republicans will have "52-plus" Senate seats after the upcoming midterm elections, including with victories in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, as well as other states, Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Sunday.

"Herschel Walker will win in Georgia," the Florida Republican told CNN's "State of the Union." "We’re going to keep all 21 of ours. (Mehmet) Oz is going to win against (John) Fetterman in Pennsylvania. Adam Laxalt will win in Nevada.”

Scott on Sunday asserted wins for GOP nominees Don Bolduc in New Hampshire, Tiffany Smiley in Washington, and Joe O'Dea in Colorado, even though they're now trailing in the polls.

The wins will come, said Scott, as "Democrats can't run on anything they've done," and Americans aren't happy with their party's performance as a result.

"They don't like high inflation, gas prices, food prices up," said Scott. "The public doesn't like an open border. They don't like high crime. That's what the Democrats are known for. They've done all these things. Democrats did it. They did it and they want to run away from it."

The FiveThirtyEight model is now suggesting Democrats have a 53% chance of keeping their Senate majority to 47% for Republicans, but many poll numbers are starting to shift nationally, and the GOP is highly favored to win control of the House, if not both chambers.

Scott, also appearing Sunday on ABC's' "This Week," said that as a result of the high inflation and crime rates, as well as the border situation, the Democrats are due for a "rude awakening," as such policies are "not what the American public wants."

He also said that while there still are disputes over former President Donald Trump's 2020 loss, including with several GOP candidates denying the election's legitimacy, he said his goal is to make sure people feel comfortable that there are free and fair elections.

"What I tell everybody, if you want to make sure we have a fair and free election, go vote," said Scott. "Be a poll watcher. I'm optimistic."

And if Republicans take back the Senate, they will work to get inflation down and to secure the border, said Scott.

"We have to live within our means, and we (must) get a secured border so we can get some immigration reform done," said Scott.

Scott, on both programs, spoke out about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, in their San Francisco home this past week.

"It's disgusting," he told CNN. "This violence is horrible. That's happened. We had a door knocker in Florida that was attacked. This stuff has to stop."

He noted that when he took his part as head of the senatorial committee last year, he went to the Federal Elections Commission and asked if candidates and senators could use campaign dollars to pay for security.

"House and Senate members don't have security, most of them, outside of D.C.," said Scott. "We can have a heated conversation about the issues, but this violence has got to stop. This is horrible. My heart goes out to Paul Pelosi and I hope he has a full recovery."

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Rick Scott: GOP Will Hold '52-Plus' Senate Seats After Midterms (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 30 October 2022 12:14 PM EDT

Republicans will have "52-plus" Senate seats after the upcoming midterm elections, including victories in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, as well as other states, Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Sunday.

"Herschel Walker will win in Georgia," the Florida Republican told CNN's "State of the Union." "We're going to keep all 21 of ours. [Mehmet] Oz is going to win against [John] Fetterman in Pennsylvania. Adam Laxalt will win in Nevada."

Scott on Sunday asserted wins for GOP nominees Don Bolduc in New Hampshire, Tiffany Smiley in Washington, and Joe O'Dea in Colorado, even though they're now trailing in the polls.

The wins will come, said Scott, as "Democrats can't run on anything they've done," and Americans aren't happy with their party's performance as a result.

"They don't like high inflation, gas prices, food prices up," said Scott. "The public doesn't like an open border. They don't like high crime. That's what the Democrats are known for. They've done all these things. Democrats did it. They did it and they want to run away from it."

The FiveThirtyEight model is now suggesting Democrats have a 53% chance of keeping their Senate majority to 47% for Republicans, but many poll numbers are starting to shift nationally, and the GOP is highly favored to win control of the House, if not both chambers.

Scott, also appearing Sunday on ABC's "This Week," said that as a result of the high inflation and crime rates, as well as the border situation, the Democrats are due for a "rude awakening," as such policies are "not what the American public wants."

He also said that while there still are disputes over former President Donald Trump's 2020 loss, including with several GOP candidates denying the election's legitimacy, he said his goal is to make sure people feel comfortable that there are free and fair elections.

"What I tell everybody, if you want to make sure we have a fair and free election, go vote," said Scott. "Be a poll watcher. I'm optimistic."

And if Republicans take back the Senate, they will work to get inflation down and to secure the border, said Scott.

"We have to live within our means, and we [must] get a secured border so we can get some immigration reform done," said Scott.

Scott, on both programs, spoke out about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, in their San Francisco home this past week.

"It's disgusting," he told CNN. "This violence is horrible. That's happened. We had a door knocker in Florida that was attacked. This stuff has to stop."

He noted that when he took his part as head of the senatorial committee last year, he went to the Federal Elections Commission and asked if candidates and senators could use campaign dollars to pay for security.

"House and Senate members don't have security, most of them, outside of D.C.," said Scott. "We can have a heated conversation about the issues, but this violence has got to stop. This is horrible. My heart goes out to Paul Pelosi, and I hope he has a full recovery."

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Horror Show: 'SNL' Fears Nightmare of Next Dem Presidential Candidate (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Sunday, 30 October 2022 12:05 PM EDT

Things are so scary for Democrats before the midterms' final vote Nov. 8, even "Saturday Night Live" – long derided by former President Donald Trump as a liberal activist group – is mocking Democrats in a Halloween spoof, albeit only to the point of fear Democrats will not win.

Using themes from Halloween and horror movies, the "SNL" cast parodied a movie called "2020 Part 2: 2024."

It used Democrats' fear of losing political power to parody the horror of the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke, or Hillary Clinton running for president. But, while it showed "fear" of President Joe Biden being the Democrat nominee again, the "SNL" skit ultimately concluded Biden is a reasonable alternative to the scarier candidates.

The cold open of the show also blasted Republican candidates Herschel Walker, Dr. Mehmet Oz, and Kari Lake, using Democrat campaign talking points to maintain its strong support for Biden-like Democrats.

"Sometimes a familiar face can be the most terrifying," the horror movie spoof narrator says in the skit.

"According to this article, he's not actually going to run in 2024," a liberal character says. "He's just saying he has to present a united front before the midterms. Oh, what a relief."

The skit then runs through the lists of potential Biden replacements, trashing them all as if they were Republicans to the activist "SNL" writers.

The skit shared a narrative Trump was not a threat to beating Biden in 2024, but the characters did question – with faux panic – if a Democrat could beat Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.

"I don't know!" a character screeches.

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Pollster Zogby to Newsmax: 'Not Betting the Farm' Yet on Election Day (Newsmax/"Wake Up america Weekend")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 30 October 2022 11:08 AM EDT

There is "very little wiggle room," in this year's midterm elections, so anything can happen between now and Election Day, pollster John Zogby said on Newsmax Sunday.

"I'm not betting the farm on anything for Tuesday, Nov. 8," Zogby, the founder of the Zogby International Polls and a senior partner at John Zogby Strategies, told Newsmax's "Wake Up America Weekend." "You start with 42-43% who just absolutely hate Joe Biden and 40-43% who absolutely hate Donald Trump. There's very little wiggle room between them."

The good news, he added, is that "it looks like voter turnout is going to be huge again despite talk of the threats to our democracy."

Zogby pointed out that even polling numbers can change drastically heading into election day, noting that in 2016, then-Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton was leading by double digits in many battleground states, but "we watched her slowly and steadily ebb away. Anything can happen."

Pollster John McLaughlin, also appearing on Newsmax Sunday, said the polls don't show that people feel good about the country under Biden and that they plan to vote for Republican candidates.

"We had the generic vote for the Republicans, 49 to 43, which is the highest we may have seen since 1990 for tracking. So uh, so people are not feeling good and they're going to take it out at the polls."

However, Zogby said he questions why Republican candidates aren't running away with their races, considering the polling number being over 70% of people saying they don't agree with the way the country is heading.

"In our congressional generic poll as of last week, we had the Democrats leading by two," said Zogby. "That's not enough for them to maintain their majority, but I guess the real question is, why with the wrong track being so high, are Republicans not running away with this, at least in the congressional generic and the battleground states where these are still very close races?"

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NY Times: Hasidic Jewish Vote Remains Highly Sought in Elections (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Sunday, 30 October 2022 09:50 AM EDT

The Hasidic Jewish community in New York has become a political force in New York, drawing the attention of politicians because they tend to loyally vote as a unified bloc – even if that voting bloc is not as large as the perceived political influence, according to The New York Times.

There are around 200,000 Hasidic Jews in New York, making up 10% of the Jewish population and 1% of the state's total population, according to the Times, which reported keeping their vote has long been a priority for political candidates.

Notably, Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., the grandson of an Orthodox rabbi, is gaining support of New York's Hasidic Jewish community, and now that voting bloc is expressing concern over crime in the state – a difficult issue for Democrats this midterm election cycle.

"They should be fair, they should be sure to keep us safe, protect us from all of the violence and crime, especially the hate-crime spike," Rabbi Moishe Indig, a leader of the Satmar Hasidic group in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, told the Times. "The only thing we ask is that they should be sensitive to our culture."

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani reached out to the Hasidic Jewish community in his 1993 mayoral campaign, and invited Hasidic leaders on stage at hi inauguration, the Times reported.

"It was a critical moment in the city's history in relation to the rising influence and power of the Hasidic community," Bruce Teitelbaum, a top Giuliani aide told the Times. "We were working hand in glove with them, and they were highly organized and highly motivated."

Former President Donald Trump, like Giuliani, also tapped into the Hasidic vote in New York, according to the report.

Hasidic Judaism has its roots in Poland and territory now recognized as western Ukraine.

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Rep. Tenney to Newsmax: 'False Choice' to Decide Between Border, Ukraine

(Newsmax/"Saturday Agenda")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 29 October 2022 06:28 PM EDT

It's a "false choice" to believe that an administration that doesn't take care of the southern border shouldn't be helping Ukraine; but if President Joe Biden hadn't projected weakness and had kept former President Donald Trump's energy policies in place, Ukraine would not be in the situation it is in now, Rep. Claudia Tenney said on Newsmax Saturday.

"I think there's a misinterpretation of what it means to be 'America first' and that's what President Trump stood for, and I know a lot of them and many of us are allies of his policies," the New York Republican said on Newsmax's "Saturday Agenda." "He was strong. He rebuilt our economy. He created energy independence and gave us strength to leverage and negotiate that around the world, particularly with Russia."

And although the Biden administration refuses to give resources to protect the southern border, Tenney asked, "What do we do?

"Do we just let everybody die in Ukraine and not deal with this issue?" asked Tenney. "All Biden simply had to do was to employ and use the policies put in place that were working at the southern border."

But if Biden hadn't created a "war on energy," then "we wouldn't see the situation we have in Ukraine, where people like Vladimir Putin and diabolical dictators like Putin feel emboldened to go in and invade a country in modern-day Europe," said Tenney.

The United States thought World War II would end such invasions; but the United States is projecting weakness under Biden, "and I think there's sometimes a false choice that if we don't take care of our southern border, then we shouldn't be taking care of Ukraine," said Tenney.

But, she said, the United States must do both "because we are the beacon of freedom. We are also the law and order country."

Tenney said she has proposed a bill calling for spending the money earmarked for 87,000 new IRS agents to instead spend it to patrol the border.

"When you project weakness, you have a problem and it's costly and lives are going to be lost," said Tenney. "We as a country cannot do what we did during World War II. We got into it too late, and it cost a lot of lives."

Instead, she said, "We have to find a way to a middle ground. I think we take back the House. And we can take back the Senate. We can put in reasonable policies and push our Democratic friends to come to the middle, because the biggest fallacy going on right now is somehow the Republican Party is extreme. We're actually reasonable, commonsense. We have a commitment to America."

Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who will be the next House speaker if the GOP regains control of Congress, has said that he wants more accountability for the money the United States has been sending for the war in Ukraine, and Tenney said there is "evidence that this money isn't going where it's supposed to be."

"We also have supply chain issues, so the resources that we're trying to get to Poland and allies and others to fight this war for us. It's, you know, not putting our U.S. troops on the ground, which I oppose; but we want to see the accountability before any more money goes in there."

McCarthy, she added, "has seen the concern there, and that's what I think the major focus of his comments are."

Meanwhile, Democrats are putting forth "any issue they can" in their attacks on Republicans, said Tenney.

"They're denying inflation," she said. "They're attacking Republicans on abortion. I come from a state like New York where there is late-term abortion, and I support the states' rights issues. So we have to, you know, there's just a lot of issues that they're trying to distract voters with instead of the real issues that plague Americans. But ignoring this Ukraine issue is not going to make it go away. It could hurt the United States in the long run, so I think a better strategy coming from us in the majority would certainly be better guidance for the Biden administration."

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Kari Lake Thanks Liz Cheney for Anti-Endorsement

(Newsmax/"National Report")

By Charles Kim | Saturday, 29 October 2022 02:43 PM EDT

Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake sent Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., a letter Friday thanking the lame-duck Republican for supporting her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs.

"Thank you for your generous in-kind contribution to my campaign," Lake wrote in the letter to Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and open critic of former President Donald Trump and the candidates he endorsed in the midterms. "Your recent television ad urging Arizonans not to vote for me is doing just the opposite. Our campaign donations are skyrocketing, and our website nearly crashed from traffic as people rushed to learn more about my plan to put Arizona first and join our historic political movement."

In the video titled "Honor," Cheney said that while she has never voted for a Democrat, Arizona voters should support Katie Hobbs in the race for governor.

"I don't know that I have ever voted for a Democrat," Cheney said in the 30-second ad. "But if I lived in Arizona, I absolutely would."

Cheney said in the ad, which was announced on Friday by a leadership PAC sponsored by Cheney, that Lake and GOP secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem "have said that they will only honor the results of an election if they agree with it," and that voting against them shows you care "about the survival of our republic."

Lake, who has been endorsed by Trump and promises to look at state election laws following claims of fraud during the 2020 election, has a slight 3.2 percentage point advantage over Hobbs in a race that is now considered a "toss up" that Lake is likely to win, Real Clear Politics projects on its website.

Cheney lost her GOP primary in Wyoming after spending the past year as co-chair of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6.

Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Il., were appointed to the mostly Democratic committee by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., over the objections of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who wanted other caucus members to serve on the panel but were vetoed by Pelosi, NPR reported.

Both Republicans were previously openly critical of Trump and his role in the events of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

"While we appreciate your in-kind contribution, the $500,000 ad buy likely exceeds Arizona’s $5,300 individual contribution limit," Lake said in the letter. "Enjoy your forced retirement from politics. I know America will rest easier knowing that one more warmonger is out of office."

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NH Candidate Leavitt to Newsmax: Rival Backed All of Biden's Policies

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By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 29 October 2022 01:46 PM EDT

New Hampshire GOP House candidate Karoline Leavitt Saturday on Newsmax slammed her Democrat rival, incumbent Rep. Chris Pappas, for having voted for the policies of President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "100% of the time," saying they have led to "devastating consequences for families like my own."

"We have a lot of momentum; and it's because voters in my home district of New Hampshire, the first seat, are ready for change," the 25-year-old candidate, who if elected will be the youngest woman elected to Congress, said on Newsmax's "America Right Now."

Families are being hurt by 8.2% inflation and skyrocketing energy costs that are leaving New Hampshire residents with a home heating oil shortage heading into the cold winter season, said Leavitt.

"New England and New York are facing a home heating oil shortage and suppliers are rationing the home heating oil, telling folks they should only be partially filling up their tanks because there's not enough supply," said Leavitt. "That's a direct result of what my Democratic opponent has supported: a real war on our domestic energy production. And it doesn't have to be this way."

But Democrats, including Pappas, "have decided that we're going to have this big switch to renewables, which is unsustainable and unrealistic; and now people are paying for it literally," Leavitt added. "We need to get back to energy independence on day one … Folks are choosing right now between heating and eating, and it does not have to be this way."

When asked about her age and the track records of other younger people, like New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who have won seats, Leavitt rescinded that it's "very personal" for her to run in the midterm election.

Leavitt was an assistant press secretary in the Trump White House and then went to work as Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.

"Since the day that I launched this campaign, I've called myself in our campaign 'the homegrown fighter.' And it's very personal to me to be running for this office," she said. "My family's a small business family. I'm the first in my immediate family to graduate from college. And I grew up in the district I'm running to represent; so the issues the folks that are facing our personal to me and my family, as I know they are to them."

Further, Levitt said she takes the responsibility "very seriously, and I look forward to advocating for fiscally conservative policies to end this runaway inflation to pass a truly about sense budget and to stand up for hardworking families like my own. I look forward to doing great work on behalf of my home district, and we've proven ourselves over the past year to do just that."

She also said she laughs and has "rolled my eyes" at claims from Pappas that she is an extremist.

"This is what the Democrats are doing to every Republican across the country right now," said Leavitt. "They're calling us names because they don't have a policy to stand on. They have no record of results. My opponent refers to himself as a bipartisan problem solver. He is a partisan problem creator."

But voters in New Hampshire are "very smart," she said. "They see through the political name calling, and they want to hear from you directly. And that's what I've been giving to them: talking to them one on one, blocking out the negativity and offering real solutions to the problems that we're facing. And that's why we'll be victorious."

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: 'Arrogance' to Suggest We Tolerate Biden or Vote Fetterman (Newsmax/"Saturday Report")

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 29 October 2022 12:44 PM EDT

Democrats are showing "arrogance" in suggesting that Americans should tolerate the speaking and cognitive struggles of President Joe Biden or vote for stroke victim John Fetterman for Senate in Pennsylvania, according to presidential campaign adviser Dick Morris on Newsmax.

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"I think the arrogance of the Democrats in saying that they want us to vote for Fetterman to give them control of the Senate — even though they see that this guy's now totally incapable of performing the duties of senator — is incredible," Morris told "Saturday Report."

"It's matched only by the arrogance of the Democrats in saying that we should put up with Joe Biden as president, despite his obvious infirmities."

Morris was reacting to the debate this week, which saw Fetterman — the Democrat opponent of former President Donald Trump-endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz — struggle with answering simple questions and still showing cognitive deficiencies after he suffered a stroke in the spring.

"I think that had this debate been in September, I don't think that Fetterman would have been strong challenger to Oz," Morris told host Rita Cosby, noting "it's only that it's at the end" when Fetterman finally submitted to showing his cognitive inability in a debate.

Biden's struggles are problematic for American leadership even more, because he did not have the bright lights and pressure of a debate to explain away his gaffes.

"They're very similar: Neither one can utter an English sentence, really; in Fetterman it was in a debate — with Biden it is not in the debate," Morris continued. "When he doesn't have a teleprompter to rely on, he really can't speak."

While it is potentially unfair Fetterman received early votes in Pennsylvania before his true struggles were on display, Morris stressed Republicans cannot activate against early voting. Republicans must vote early.

"We can't let the experience of 2020 stop us from early voting," Morris said, noting Republican weary of 2020 are "worried that their vote will be stolen," but added, "I believe that not voting is a hell of a way to protect yourself."

"We can't go into election day with the Democrats channel 15 million votes ahead."

Morris noted there has been some progress in the early voting data suggesting more Republicans are voting, but early voting is still being dominated by Democrats by about a 13-point margin.

"On election day we'll catch up, but that's a heck of a margin to make, and it makes a vast difference," Morris said. "As I point out in my book, 'The Return,' the Democrats have this whole structure to remind you, to badger you, to basically camp on your doorstep until you vote, and you can do that with early vote.

"But with election day voting, no matter how good your intentions are, if the kids are sick, you get the flu, or things pile up at work, you don't vote and there's no backup to it. You can't go to the next day, because there is no next day, so I think the Republicans are really playing dangerously with delaying early voting.

"There's been a little bit of progress. When I started sounding this alarm last week, I think on your show, the Democrats were casting 50% of the early votes and Republicans 30%. Now the Democrat percentage is down to about 47%, the Republicans up to about 34%.

"So it's a little bit of progress, but there has to be a lot more. You can't wait until election day. You gotta get out there now and vote. God knows what's going to happen on election day?

"Can you tell your future in a week and a half from now? I can't."

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: 'Arrogance' to Suggest We Tolerate Biden or Vote Fetterman (Newsmax/"Saturday Report")

By Eric Mack | Saturday, 29 October 2022 12:44 PM EDT

Democrats are showing "arrogance" in suggesting that Americans should tolerate the speaking and cognitive struggles of President Joe Biden or vote for stroke victim John Fetterman for Senate in Pennsylvania, according to presidential campaign adviser Dick Morris on Newsmax.

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"I think the arrogance of the Democrats in saying that they want us to vote for Fetterman to give them control of the Senate — even though they see that this guy's now totally incapable of performing the duties of senator — is incredible," Morris told "Saturday Report."

"It's matched only by the arrogance of the Democrats in saying that we should put up with Joe Biden as president, despite his obvious infirmities."

Morris was reacting to the debate this week, which saw Fetterman — the Democrat opponent of former President Donald Trump-endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz — struggle with answering simple questions and still showing cognitive deficiencies after he suffered a stroke in the spring.

"I think that had this debate been in September, I don't think that Fetterman would have been strong challenger to Oz," Morris told host Rita Cosby, noting "it's only that it's at the end" when Fetterman finally submitted to showing his cognitive inability in a debate.

Biden's struggles are problematic for American leadership even more, because he did not have the bright lights and pressure of a debate to explain away his gaffes.

"They're very similar: Neither one can utter an English sentence, really; in Fetterman it was in a debate — with Biden it is not in the debate," Morris continued. "When he doesn't have a teleprompter to rely on, he really can't speak."

While it is potentially unfair Fetterman received early votes in Pennsylvania before his true struggles were on display, Morris stressed Republicans cannot activate against early voting. Republicans must vote early.

"We can't let the experience of 2020 stop us from early voting," Morris said, noting Republican weary of 2020 are "worried that their vote will be stolen," but added, "I believe that not voting is a hell of a way to protect yourself."

"We can't go into election day with the Democrats channel 15 million votes ahead."

Morris noted there has been some progress in the early voting data suggesting more Republicans are voting, but early voting is still being dominated by Democrats by about a 13-point margin.

"On election day we'll catch up, but that's a heck of a margin to make, and it makes a vast difference," Morris said. "As I point out in my book, 'The Return,' the Democrats have this whole structure to remind you, to badger you, to basically camp on your doorstep until you vote, and you can do that with early vote.

"But with election day voting, no matter how good your intentions are, if the kids are sick, you get the flu, or things pile up at work, you don't vote and there's no backup to it. You can't go to the next day, because there is no next day, so I think the Republicans are really playing dangerously with delaying early voting.

"There's been a little bit of progress. When I started sounding this alarm last week, I think on your show, the Democrats were casting 50% of the early votes and Republicans 30%. Now the Democrat percentage is down to about 47%, the Republicans up to about 34%.

"So it's a little bit of progress, but there has to be a lot more. You can't wait until election day. You gotta get out there now and vote. God knows what's going to happen on election day?

"Can you tell your future in a week and a half from now? I can't."

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VP Harris to Replace Biden at Last of Three Asia Summits U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty)

AFP Saturday, 29 October 2022 11:20 AM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris will represent the United States next month in Bangkok in the third in a trio of Asian summits, the White House confirmed Friday, as President Joe Biden returns for his granddaughter's wedding.

Biden will travel on November 11 to the annual UN climate conference in Egypt before heading to the East Asia Summit in Cambodia and the Group of 20 in Bali, the White House said.

But he will not attend the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum taking place in the Thai capital on November 18-19.

Harris will attend instead and travel afterward to the Philippines, a longtime US ally, with her husband, Doug Emhoff.

The White House said in a statement that her visit would "re-affirm and strengthen the US-Philippines Alliance and underscore the breadth of our cooperation as friends, partners and allies."

The United States is hoping for a smooth relationship with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. after rough patches with his abrasive predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte.

Marcos scrapped a deal to buy military helicopters from Russia, the target of a US pressure campaign over its invasion of Ukraine, and has instead sealed a deal with the United States.

Thailand is also a treaty ally of the United States. Diplomats say that Thailand has been resigned to if not pleased with Biden's decision to skip the APEC summit.

His eldest granddaughter, Naomi Biden, earlier this year announced plans to get married on November 19 on the White House's South Lawn, only the 19th wedding ever held at the US executive mansion, according to the White House Historical Association.

Biden will likely have a chance to visit Thailand in 2023 when the kingdom takes over from Cambodia as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which leads the annual East Asia Summit.

Asian diplomats and experts put high value on US presidents' attendance at such summits, seeing them as proof of Washington's stated commitment to the region at a time when China is seeking to exert its clout.

But then US president Donald Trump also skipped the last in-person APEC summit, in 2018 in Papua New Guinea, with vice president Mike Pence attending instead.

It looks improbable that Biden will miss the APEC summit next year as the host is the United States.

The summit venue has not been announced but the State Department said that APEC top diplomats will hold a preparatory meeting in August 2023 in Seattle, three months after the bloc's trade officials gather in Detroit.

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Herschel Walker: 'Even Schumer' Told Biden Warnock Will Lose in Georgia

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By Charles Kim | Saturday, 29 October 2022 10:40 AM EDT

Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker told his rally audience Friday that "even" Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told President Joe Biden that his opponent, Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., will lose the race.

"Even Chuck Schumer had to tell the president that Raphael Warnock is going to lose this race," Walker said during a rally for his Senate campaign Friday. "Chuck Schumer, when he's talking low, tells the truth. That's when they tell the truth: when they're whispering to each other. But he should have known he was going to lose this race when I got in; because unlike Raphael Warnock, I'm not a politician. I'm a warrior for God."

The former NFL superstar, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, is locked in a tight race, up by just an average of 1.6 percentage points over the Democratic incumbent, in a contest Real Clear Politics now calls a "toss up."

The FiveThirtyEight political polling website shows Warnock losing his advantage in the race since the middle of the month and is now calling the race "dead even."

Warnock's precipitous drop is being noticed by Democratic leaders including Schumer, who was caught on a hot mic Thursday while campaigning with Biden for New York's Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul when he approached the president on the tarmac of Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York, CNN reported.

"The state where we're going downhill is Georgia," Schumer told Biden. "It's hard to believe that they will go for Herschel Walker. But our vote, our early turnout in Georgia is huge, huge."

A Monmouth University poll on Oct. 26 found that while the race is tightening, and even moving in Walker's favor, Warnock is still ahead with his favorability rating coming in at 52% compared to 43% for Walker.

"Walker's path to victory is narrow, but it's still there," Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute said in a press release announcing the poll. "He needs to get enough voters to overlook their misgivings about him to come over to his support or benefit from a turnout disparity among the two parties' base voters. At this point, the latter option looks like his better bet."

According to the polling, most early voters appear to be backing Warnock, which could be as many as 25% of all voters this cycle, according to the university.

"It's pretty reasonable to come up with turnout scenarios where either candidate is slightly ahead," Murray said. The unknown question is to what extent Republican enthusiasm on Election Day is able to overcome the Democratic advantage in early voting."

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US Rushes Nuclear Warheads to Europe, Russia Warns of Response (Newsmax)

Guy Faulconbridge Saturday, 29 October 2022 12:07 PM EDT

Russia said Saturday the accelerated deployment of modernized U.S. B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe would lower the "nuclear threshold" and Russia would take the move into account in its military planning.

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered the gravest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when the two Cold War superpowers came closest to nuclear war.

Russia has around 2,000 working tactical nuclear weapons while the United States has around 200 such weapons, half of which are at bases in Italy, Germany, Turkey, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Politico reported Oct. 26 the United States told a closed NATO meeting this month it would accelerate the deployment of a modernized version of the B61, the B61-12, with the new weapons arriving at European bases in December, several months earlier than planned.

"We cannot ignore the plans to modernize nuclear weapons, those free-fall bombs that are in Europe," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told state RIA news agency.

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The 12-ft B61-12 gravity bomb carries a lower yield nuclear warhead than many earlier versions but is more accurate and can penetrate below ground, according to research by the Federation of American Scientists published in 2014.

"The United States is modernizing them, increasing their accuracy and reducing the power of the nuclear charge, that is, they turn these weapons into 'battlefield weapons', thereby reducing the nuclear threshold," Grushko said.

The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment out of U.S. business hours. Politico quoted a spokesman as saying nuclear details would not be discussed but that the modernisation of B61 weapons had been underway for years.

Amid the Ukraine crisis, President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said Russia will defend its territory with all available means, including nuclear weapons, if attacked. The comments raised particular concern in the West after Moscow declared last month it had annexed four Ukrainian regions that its forces control parts of. Putin says the West has engaged in nuclear blackmail against Russia.

Nuclear Weapons

President Joe Biden said Oct. 6 that Putin had brought the world closer to "Armageddon" than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, though Biden later said he did not think Putin would use a tactical nuclear weapon.

Putin has not mentioned using a tactical nuclear weapon but has said he suspects Ukraine could detonate a "dirty bomb," a claim Ukraine and the West say is false.

The U.S. B61 nuclear bomb was first tested in Nevada shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Under Barack Obama, U.S. president from 2009 to 2017, the development of a new version of the bomb, the B61-12, was approved.

Russia's Grushko said that Moscow would also have to take account of the Lockheed Martin F-35 which would drop such a bomb. NATO, he said, had already strengthened the nuclear parts of its military planning.

NATO "has already made decisions to strengthen the nuclear component in the alliance's military plans," Grushko said.

Russia's ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, said on Saturday on Telegram that the new B61 bombs had a "strategic significance" as Russia's tactical nuclear weapons were in storage, yet these U.S. bombs would be just a short flight from Russia's borders.

The B61-12 will replace three other variants of the B61 currently in stockpiles, numbers 3, 4, and 7, according to the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration in a factsheet last year.

The United States, according the U.S. 2022 Nuclear Posture Review published Thursday, will bolster nuclear deterrence with the F-35, the B61-12 bombs and a nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile.

"These flexible, tailorable capabilities are key to ensuring that Russia's leadership does not miscalculate regarding the consequences of nuclear use on any scale, thereby reducing their confidence in both initiating conventional war against NATO and considering the employment of non-strategic nuclear weapons in such a conflict," the review said.

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45th President Donald J. Trump encourages supporters to buy a new book by Senator Ted Cruz.

In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump said Cruz (R-Texas) had the courage and wisdom to write the book ‘Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized our Legal System.’

Trump claimed that the book explains topics that people, including Republicans, are afraid to discuss. Some of those topics include lawless prosecutors, arrogant judges and the politicized justice system.

The former president extended his support, saying that the book is a must-read for those interested in election fraud.

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