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Neil W. McCabe, National Political Correspondent
UPDATED 11:00 AM PT –Monday, September 26, 2022

The man behind the Revolver news site told an audience at the National Conservatism Conference held in Miami that it was an open question whether American nationalists should back American corporations, who are pushing woke ideology on the rest of the world.

“That’s true especially acute this problem with the term nationalist because we’ve reached such a stage of corruption and degeneration of this country,” said Darren Beattie, the founder and editor-in-chief at Revolver.com.

“There’s really a profound disconnect that’s emerged from the key stakeholders and institutions in the United States of America and American people who would identify themselves as nationalists,” Beattie said.

“What does it mean to be a nationalist in a situation in which the nation’s dominant institutions and stakeholders have become fundamentally hostile to the would-be nationalist?” he asked.

“During the summer of George Floyd riots, America’s top corporations pledged to donate a collective $50 billion to Black Lives Matter-related causes,” he said.

“It’s risen to the level of a farce how corporate advertisements stumble over themselves, attempting to demonstrate fealty to the latest woke orthodoxies, whether it be BLM, feminism, transgenderism, and so forth,” said the former speechwriter for President Donald J. Trump.

“Ought an American nationalist support such corporations over potential foreign competitors. The big tech companies, Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, that de-platformed Donald Trump while he was sitting President of the United States were American companies?” he asked.

Another question for the American nationalists is what to do about foreign companies that are less offensive than American companies, the former Duke University political professor said.

“Chinese TikTok is a favorite whipping boy among many on the right, though it is actually far less censorious than the American tech platforms—and the censorship they do engage in all likelihood isn’t being pushed from China, but rather comes from woke Western employees catering to the demands of the Western market,” he said.

Beattie said despite the long odds and the strength of the large and work American corporations, he has hope the wokes can be beaten.

“Well, Keynes once said on a long enough timeline, everybody dies and that includes wokeness,” he said.

“It’s a question of timeline. It’s a question of strategy. I don’t think we should dilute ourselves into thinking that it will be an easy task, but I think ultimately it can be defeated.”

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Stephanopoulos: Polling Shows Trump Beats Biden in '24 George Stephanopoulos (Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)

By Nick Koutsobinas | Monday, 26 September 2022 04:49 PM EDT

Host of ABC's "This Week," George Stephanopoulos, said during a Sunday airing of his program that according to his network's polling, former President Donald Trump beats President Joe Biden in a 2024 presidential run.

"You know Donna, Chris Christie says this is slowly moving away from Donald Trump. And I think I actually agree with him. But the polling right now is not really showing that. It's showing, among Republican voters, he's holding firm. Our poll shows him defeating Joe Biden in 2024," Stephanopoulos said.

During the program, Stephanopoulos's statement was swiftly met with rebuke from guest and former Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Donna Brazile. But still, the former DNC chair offered no pushback that Trump would defeat Biden in 2024.

"Look," Brazile says, "Donald Trump — his house of cards is really crumbling down. He's under investigation just about everywhere. Too bad he's not in Louisiana. We'll put him under investigation just for showing up."

"Donald Trump is, at this point, the major player in the Republican party." Brazile continued. "… Donald Trump has got these candidates into the dance. Now they have to figure out if they know the groove. That's where Democrats will have an advantage because we have better candidates."

The report comes in light of others that Democrats may be pushing for another candidate in the upcoming presidential election. Recently, Dick Morris, an adviser to former President Bill Clinton, said that Democrats would try to run Hillary as a centrist in place of Biden, who ran his 2020 campaign on the moniker as a "uniter."

According to FiveThirtyEight's recent aggregate polling for Monday, 53% disapprove of Biden, while 42.7% approve of the president.

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France's Macron Lands 1st State Visit of Biden's Presidency (AFP via Getty Images)

AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Monday, 26 September 2022 03:52 PM EDT

French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Washington in early December for the first state visit of President Joe Biden's tenure, an occasion marked by pomp and pageantry that is designed to celebrate relations between the United States and its closest allies.

The Dec. 1 visit, following the U.S. midterm elections and the Thanksgiving holiday, will be the second state visit for Macron, who was first elected to lead his country in May 2017 and won a second term earlier this year. Macron also had a state visit during the Trump years.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the visit Monday, saying it will “underscore the deep and enduring relationship with France, our oldest ally.” It will be the first time the White House has hosted a world leader for a state visit since the coronavirus outbreak.

The invitation comes as a sign that relations between Biden and Macron have come full circle. The relationship tanked last year after the United States announced a deal to sell nuclear submarines to Australia. The decision by the U.S. undermined a deal that had been in place for France to sell diesel-powered submarines to Australia.

After the announcement of the deal, which was born out of a new security agreement between the U.S., Australia and Britain, France briefly recalled its ambassador to Washington, Philippe Etienne, to Paris. Biden also sought to patch thing up with France by eventually acknowledging to Macron that his administration had been “clumsy” in how it handled the issue.

The Biden administration since has heaped praise on Macron for being among the most vociferous Western allies in condemning Russia's 7-month-old war in Ukraine and pressing broad sanctions on the Russian economy and officials close to President Vladimir Putin.

Central to Biden’s pitch for the presidency was a vow to restore America's global leadership after four years of Donald Trump’s “America First” worldview. But Biden has acknowledged that Macron and other allies remain skeptical about whether he can make good on robust U.S. leadership worldwide.

Biden is fond of telling the story of how, at a world leader meeting he attended soon after taking office, he declared that “America is back.” He says his counterparts, starting with Macron, countered by asking, "For how long?”

Macron also was the first world leader to earn a state visit under Trump, though their relationship later became fractious.

The French leader had sought to cultivate a close partnership with Trump and hosted the Republican in 2017 for Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. Trump reciprocated with Macron's state visit.

But the relationship soured after Trump pulled U.S. troops from Syria without coordinating with France and other NATO allies. Trump disparaged NATO.

In one of their last face-to-face encounters, at a gathering of NATO leaders in London in 2019, Trump and Macron hardly hid their frustration with each other.

Not long before that meeting, Macron had complained that the alliance was suffering “brain death” caused by diminished U.S. leadership under Trump. Trump snapped back after a meeting with Macron that the French leader had made “very, very nasty” and “disrespectful” comments.

When Macron visited in April 2018, Trump and his wife, Melania, planned a double date with Macron and his wife, Brigitte, at Mount Vernon, the Virginia estate of George Washington, America’s founding president.

The couples helped plant a tree on the White House lawn before they departed on a helicopter tour of monuments built in a capital city designed by French-born Pierre L’Enfant as they flew south to Mount Vernon, situated along the Potomac River. Macron was welcomed at the White House the next day with a booming 21-gun salute, his first Oval Office meeting with Trump, a joint news conference with the president and a state dinner for 150 guests in the White House State Dining Room.

Scott Morrison, then the prime minister of Australia, also came on a state visit at Trump's invitation in September 2019. Trump had announced a third state visit, by Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, but it was postponed due to the pandemic and could not be held before Trump lost reelection in 2020.

President Barack Obama also afforded France the honor of a state visit, in 2014.

Obama and French President Francois Hollande celebrated ties between their nations by touring Monticello, the sprawling Charlottesville, Virginia, estate owned by Thomas Jefferson, the former U.S. president and famed Francophile. Jefferson was an early U.S. envoy to France.

Hollande’s visit was the first such recognition for France in two decades. But it proved a bit of a diplomatic challenge as he traveled without a female companion following a very public breakup with longtime partner Valerie Trierweiler. Holland and Trierweiler were a couple when the White House extended the invitation, but the relationship ended after a gossip magazine revealed a secret tryst between Hollande and a French actress.

The last-minute change of plans – Hollande coming solo — caused heartburn for U.S. officials planning the diplomatic event. The Obamas tried to put the issue to rest by seating Hollande between them at a state dinner for 350 invited guests in a heated pavilion on the White House South Lawn on a frigid February night.

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Rep. Cheney: I'll Do 'Whatever it Takes' to Stop Trump (Newsmax)

By Nicole Wells | Monday, 26 September 2022 01:28 PM EDT

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., pledged to do "whatever it takes" to ensure that former President Donald Trump is not the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, according to The Texas Tribune.

During a festival Saturday hosted by the news outlet, Cheney was asked by Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith if she would run for president in a bid to block Trump.

"I certainly will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump isn't anywhere close to the Oval Office," she reportedly said.

Though she recently lost her Republican primary, Cheney will continue to serve as vice chair of the House Jan. 6 Committee until she leaves office in January. She told the Tribune that she continues to see herself as a Republican, in the spirit of Ronald Reagan and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

If Trump receives the party's nomination in 2024, however, Cheney said she would change her party affiliation.

"I'm going to make sure Donald Trump … is not the nominee," she said. "And if he is the nominee, I won't be a Republican."

While Cheney maintained that she is a committed conservative on policy issues, she cautioned that a Republican majority in the House would give excessive power to Trump-allied members, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Jim Jordan.

Cheney slammed Trump for not doing more to quell the protesters who breached the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, and said any decision on criminal prosecution of the former president would be unanimous for the committee's seven Democrats and two Republicans.

Cheney also had words for others in her party, such as Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who have not questioned the 2020 election results but have supported other Republicans who have.

"He's demonstrated that he's somebody who has not bought into the toxin of Donald Trump — but he campaigned recently for Kari Lake, who's an election denier, who is dangerous," Cheney said. "I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that Kari Lake is not elected."

Lake responded on Fox News on Sunday, saying that Cheney "probably should change her voter registration," before calling the congresswoman's remarks a "gift."

"That might be the biggest, best gift I've ever received," Lake said. "The people of Wyoming can't stand her. I'm pretty much sure that the people of Arizona don't like Liz Cheney."

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a frequent critic of Cheney, questioned her vow to defeat Lake after her own primary loss.

"Liz Cheney gets crushed in her 'home' Wyoming by 40+ points … But now we are supposed to believe she has the juice to take on @KariLake," Gaetz tweeted.

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Claver-Carone Ousted in IDB Vote After Probe of Intimate Relationship Inter-American Development Bank President Mauricio Claver-Carone (Patrick Fallon/Getty Images)

Cassandra Garrison and Andrea Shalal Monday, 26 September 2022 01:25 PM EDT

The governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) voted on Monday to fire Mauricio Claver-Carone, a person with knowledge of the vote said, after an investigation showed the only American president in the bank's 62-year history had an intimate relationship with a subordinate.

The governors of Latin America's largest development bank began voting early on Thursday and reached the required quorum and majority vote Monday, the source told Reuters. Nominations for Claver-Carone's replacement, likely a politically charged process, were expected to begin as early as next week.

Some members are pushing for Claver-Carone to be replaced with a woman, several sources briefed on the search for his replacement told Reuters.

Headquartered in Washington, the IDB is a key investor in Latin America and the Caribbean, behind nearly 600 ongoing infrastructure, health, tourism and other projects. It was responsible for $23.4 billion in financing and other financial commitments in 2021, and was expected to lend billions to Argentina in 2022 and 2023 to help ease economic turmoil.

Cuban-American Claver-Carone was nominated for a five-year term then-President Donald Trump and took office in October 2020. He had tried to wrest power away from Argentina and Brazil, which have dominated the bank's agenda in the past, and provide more of a role for smaller countries.

The 14 directors voted unanimously on Thursday to recommend firing Claver-Carone after an independent ethics investigation found evidence he had engaged in an intimate relationship with a senior staffer for whom he had made employment decisions, including salary increases totaling more than 45% of base pay in less than one year.

Investigators found that Claver-Carone created a hostile environment at the bank, with numerous staff members fearing reprisals and retaliation for participating fully and honestly in the probe, three sources said. Ten of the 50 people interviewed for the probe expressed such concerns, one source added.

"Across the bank, everyone is celebrating this," one source said about his departure.

Claver-Carone could not be reached by phone on Monday and did not respond to a text message. He has previously denied the allegations, blasting the investigation for failing to "meet international standards of integrity." The bank's executive vice president, Reina Irene Mejia, from Honduras, is expected to take over as acting president until a successor is chosen, a source said.

The bank had no immediate comment.

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Claver-Carone Ousted in IDB Vote After Probe of Intimate Relationship Inter-American Development Bank President Mauricio Claver-Carone (Patrick Fallon/Getty Images)

Cassandra Garrison and Andrea Shalal Monday, 26 September 2022 01:25 PM EDT

The governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) voted on Monday to fire Mauricio Claver-Carone, a person with knowledge of the vote said, after an investigation showed the only American president in the bank's 62-year history had an intimate relationship with a subordinate.

The governors of Latin America's largest development bank began voting early on Thursday and reached the required quorum and majority vote Monday, the source told Reuters. Nominations for Claver-Carone's replacement, likely a politically charged process, were expected to begin as early as next week.

Some members are pushing for Claver-Carone to be replaced with a woman, several sources briefed on the search for his replacement told Reuters.

Headquartered in Washington, the IDB is a key investor in Latin America and the Caribbean, behind nearly 600 ongoing infrastructure, health, tourism and other projects. It was responsible for $23.4 billion in financing and other financial commitments in 2021, and was expected to lend billions to Argentina in 2022 and 2023 to help ease economic turmoil.

Cuban-American Claver-Carone was nominated for a five-year term then-President Donald Trump and took office in October 2020. He had tried to wrest power away from Argentina and Brazil, which have dominated the bank's agenda in the past, and provide more of a role for smaller countries.

The 14 directors voted unanimously on Thursday to recommend firing Claver-Carone after an independent ethics investigation found evidence he had engaged in an intimate relationship with a senior staffer for whom he had made employment decisions, including salary increases totaling more than 45% of base pay in less than one year.

Investigators found that Claver-Carone created a hostile environment at the bank, with numerous staff members fearing reprisals and retaliation for participating fully and honestly in the probe, three sources said. Ten of the 50 people interviewed for the probe expressed such concerns, one source added.

"Across the bank, everyone is celebrating this," one source said about his departure.

Claver-Carone could not be reached by phone on Monday and did not respond to a text message. He has previously denied the allegations, blasting the investigation for failing to "meet international standards of integrity." The bank's executive vice president, Reina Irene Mejia, from Honduras, is expected to take over as acting president until a successor is chosen, a source said.

The bank had no immediate comment.

Sen. Toomey Blasts Biden's 'Irresponsible' Use of Cold War-Era Defense Law Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., holds a press conference with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz on Sept. 6, 2022 in Philadelphia. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Andrea Shalal Monday, 26 September 2022 12:19 PM EDT

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., on Monday blasted President Joe Biden for what he called the increasing and "irresponsible" use of a Cold War-era defense law to boost production of baby food, solar panel components and other non-defense items.

Toomey, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, told Biden that using the Defense Production Act in this way disrupted supply chains and violated the intent of the law to make goods available in actual national security emergencies.

"If your administration continues to abuse the DPA and skirt legitimate questions surrounding its use, Congress may have to curtail the executive branch’s ability to so easily invoke it," Toomey wrote in a letter obtained by Reuters.

Democrats now control the Senate, but unexpected losses in the November midterms could give Republicans more power to curb use of the DPA.

Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, invoked the DPA in 2019 to stockpile rare earths, the specialized minerals used to make magnets found in weaponry and EVs, and then again in March 2020 to order General Motors to produce life-saving ventilators.

Biden has made broader use of the DPA in his presidency, including using it to ramp up production of supplies used in the response to COVID-19, infant formula and solar panel components. The 1950 law gives the Pentagon wide powers to procure equipment necessary for national defense.

The White House had no immediate comment.

Toomey said Biden had waived a requirement to notify the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the law, prior to any DPA expenditures, on six separate occasions since March, and expressed concern he was using the law to advance a partisan agenda.

He said a future Republican president could decide the DPA is a convenient means for funding construction of a border wall or finishing a long-stalled natural gas pipeline, even though these projects were not related to the defense-industrial base.

Toomey asked Biden to answer a series of detailed questions about the administration's reasons for invoking the law by Oct. 11.

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White House: New Rule Will Show 'True Cost' of Plane Tickets An American Airlines plane approaches the runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on April 2, 2022. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)

SEUNG MIN KIM Monday, 26 September 2022 12:09 PM EDT

President Joe Biden will announce a new initiative Monday that would eventually allow consumers to see a more complete price on airline tickets – including baggage and change fees – before they buy, as the White House continues to search for ways to lower costs for Americans amid persistently high inflation.

The White House says the proposed rule from the Transportation Department will prevent airlines from hiding the "true cost" of airline tickets, which would help consumers save money up front and encourage more competition among airlines to offer better fares. The requirement will apply not only to airlines directly but also on third-party search sites such as Kayak and Expedia.

Airlines made nearly $700 million on cancellation and change fees last year, according to the White House.

The proposal, which dates back to the Obama administration before it was scrapped in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump, would need to go through a 60-day comment period before final approval.

The president will make the announcement on Monday afternoon at a meeting of the White House Competition Council, established last year as a way for his administration to find cost-saving measures for consumers. It will be the third time that the group, chaired by National Economic Council director Brian Deese, has met.

At the meeting, Biden plans to push other federal agencies to take similar cost-saving actions, particularly by increasing transparency on hidden fees that can balloon the true cost of goods and services.

One example is a proposal from the Federal Communications Commission that would require internet service providers to better outline fees and charges on what the administration calls a "broadband nutrition label." And the Agriculture Department on Monday will also unveil new actions meant to encourage competition in various agricultural markets.

The administration has taken similar actions when it comes to bank and credit card fees, which the White House says have saved consumers $3 billion annually compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Pollsters Worried About Inaccurate Predictions Ahead of Midterms (Newsmax)

By Theodore Bunker | Monday, 26 September 2022 11:56 AM EDT

Pollsters at major public firms, academic institutions, and campaign consultants expressed their concerns to Politico about polling errors causing inaccurate predictions about the upcoming midterm elections.

"There's no question that the polling errors in [20]16 and [20]20 worry the polling profession, worry me as a pollster," Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll, told Politico. "The troubling part is how much of that is unique to when Donald Trump is on the ballot, versus midterms when he is not on the ballot."

Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners said that finding the right balance of voters, specifically Trump voters, for its samples "was less [of an issue] for a long time. It looks to us like it is getting to be more of a problem recently, with the Mar-a-Lago thing, with his candidates winning a lot of these primaries, with the Jan. 6 committee."

Don Levy, the director of the Siena College Research Institute, added that he's "as careful as careful can be" when it comes to getting the right share of Trump voters, noting that it's not as simple as calling more Republicans.

"It's not partisan nonresponse. It's hardened Trump-backer nonresponse," he said. "A small majority of those are self-identified Republicans, but a significant number of them are self-identified independents or Democrats. You can't correct that by saying, 'Let's weight up the Republicans.' That doesn't work."

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Trump Reminds He Predicted Biden Market Crash (Newsmax)

By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 26 September 2022 09:16 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump reminded people that he predicted the stock market would "crash" if Joe Biden won the White House.

Trump took to Truth Social and posted a Sunday story from the Daily Wire, which reported that a clip of Trump arguing that the election of Biden would lead to a plummeting stock market circulated online on Friday after Wall Street saw a bloodbath.

"They said the stock market will boom if I am elected," Trump said during a 2020 presidential debate. "If he's elected, the stock market will crash."

Trump began his stock market posts with two images comparing the financials under Trump to their performance under Biden.

The first image showed Trump's stock market numbers much higher than Biden's on cumulative and annualized performances with the S&P 500, DOW, and NASDAQ.

The second image showed a NASDAQ comparison chart with Trump's trajectory skyrocketing and Biden's crashing.

A tweet on Friday by InteractivePolls included a clip from a 2020 presidential debate said:
"Nasdaq Performance 612 days in office

President Trump: +44.17

President Biden: -19.24%"

U.S. stock index futures fell on Monday, kicking off another week on softer footing, as investors worried that the Federal Reserve's aggressive push to curb inflation may tip the American economy into recession.

Reuters contributed to this story.

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Twitter Might Reinstate Trump's Account: Report (Newsmax)

By Fran Beyer | Monday, 26 September 2022 08:20 AM EDT

A financial news site posting early Monday stirred talk that Twitter may reinstate former President Donald Trump's account after being banned for over a year.

"TWITTER INC SAID TO REINSTATE DONALD TRUMP TWITTER ACCOUNT," First Squawk posted, without citing a source for the bombshell news.

There was no announcement on Twitter itself, which — along with Facebook and YouTube — banned Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the Capitol.

Reactions were mixed in hundreds of replies, including one poster who cheered, writing "Yea, Now twitter is gonna be fun. Missed his ridiculous tweets."

The posting follows news last week that Facebook's parent company Meta is weighing whether it will lift its platform ban on Trump, saying it's proceeding with "great caution" in deliberations.

Nick Clegg, the current Meta president for global affairs, told Semafor last week he's considering the reinstatement.

"It's not a capricious decision. We will look at the signals related to real-world harm to make a decision whether at the two-year point — which is early January next year — whether Trump gets reinstated to the platform," Clegg stated.

The prospect of a Trump return to the platform first surfaced last April when Elon Musk announced an offer to buy the platform, but soon imploded and is headed to court in October, the Verge noted.

Musk trashed Twitter's boot of Trump, telling a Financial Times conference he'd undo the ban, the Verge noted.

Trump himself, who now uses Truth Social to communicate online, in June vowed he'll "never go back" even if all was forgiven.

"Far more bots and fake accounts on Twitter than originally thought," Trump wrote on the platform. "That place is a disaster (and boring!). I will never go back!"

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Trump Reflects: Running for President Was a Good Idea

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By Jack Gournell | Sunday, 25 September 2022 10:21 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump tells New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman in her upcoming book that running for president was good for him.

"The question I get asked more than any other question: 'If you had it to do again, would you have done it?' The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here's the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are," Trump stated, according to an excerpt from the book in a Sunday edition of The Atlantic.

The excerpt comes as a collection of three interviews Haberman had with Trump following his leave from the White House.

According to the excerpt, Trump mentions how easy life would be had he not run but notes that he enjoyed "getting things done" as president.

While Haberman's book "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" is expected to be published next month, the book is anticipated to contain interviews on such matters as to why, according to Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., "kisses my ass" or how Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is a "piece of s***."

Despite the title, Trump said that he "loved" being interviewed by Haberman. "She's like my psychiatrist."

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Dick Morris: Dems to 'Dump' Biden, Pick up Hillary in '24

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By Nick Koutsobinas | Sunday, 25 September 2022 04:51 PM EDT

Former President Bill Clinton's ex-adviser, Dick Morris, predicted on Sunday that the Democrat establishment will "dump" President Joe Biden in favor of Hillary Clinton for a 2024 presidential run.

Speaking om "Cats Roundtable" on WABC radio, Morris told the show's host, John Catsimatidis, that the 79-year-old Biden would not seek another term.

"It's pretty clear now the Democrats are preparing the party to dump Biden," Morris said. The author of "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback" then went on to say the Democrats would run Clinton as a centrist if no other candidate emerged.

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"Once Biden pulls out, the polling will show that the Democrats are leaning toward some crazy radical like Gavin Newsom, Bernie Sanders, maybe even AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] herself.

"That's going to drive the Democratic Party leaders to go to Hillary and say, 'Hey, look. Please run again. We need you to save us from the crazy left,'" Morris continued. "'Otherwise, we'll have Sanders as our candidate. We'll lose Congress by a ton. And we'll get wiped out in the presidential race.'"

Despite Morris's prediction, the 74-year-old Clinton has insisted she would not run for president again.

Still, Morris insists that Clinton is "waiting for the wipeout" of Democrats in the November midterms "to justify her candidacy and say, 'Only I can save you from this happening again.'"

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Rep. Stefanik Denies Claims of Party Divisions; Blames Dems, Media

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By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 25 September 2022 03:20 PM EDT

Rep. Elise Stefanik, who chairs the House Republican Conference, denied reports indicating that more conservative members in the chamber feel like they are being taken for granted by other members of the GOP, and she accused the media and Democrats of making such claims while "trying to divide us."

"We are united, the House Republicans," Stefanik, R-N.Y., told Fox News Sunday, adding that all members can provide input to the party's agenda.

She also rejected arguments from Democrats that the party's new "Commitment to America" agenda, released this past week, does not include a fully detailed plan.

"There are ample details," she said, noting the agenda plan outlines proposals that will reduce inflation through cuts to government spending, lowering energy costs and introducing bills that support a parental bill of rights, law enforcement and eliminating spending for 87,000 new IRS agents outlined in President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.

But Democrats, said Stefanik, have no plan but are "attacking us because they have created crises across this country."

Stefanik Sunday also defended moves by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to transport migrants to Democrat-led cities and states, including New York City, Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.

Her defense came after a slam by House Democratic Caucus chair Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who has called on GOP governors to "start behaving like governors and stop behaving like human traffickers."

"Hakeem Jeffries should start acting like a leader rather than a partisan hack," Stefanik said, while blaming the situation at the border and the growth of immigration issues as being "the result of Joe Biden's failure" after "we had the most secure border" under former President Donald Trump.

"We know the policies that work: build the wall and catch and release," she said. "Republicans will absolutely work to secure the border."

There were "significant inroads" made under Trump, but illegal crossings have "skyrocketed under Joe Biden."

"We were addressing the crisis and that has unraveled since Day 1 under Joe Biden, creating this crisis," she said. "The American people know that, and they will hold Democrats accountable for this [in] November."

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Barrasso Rejects Administration's Arguments on Iran Nuclear Deal (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 25 September 2022 12:50 PM EDT

There are no arguments that are convincing enough for the United States to keep trying to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, Sen. John Barrasso, who chairs the Senate Republican Conference, said Sunday.

"No deal with Iran is a good deal," the Wyoming Republican said in an interview with ABC News's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." "Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. They continue to claim 'death to America.' We cannot allow them to have a nuclear weapon."

But, he said that he's "always felt this administration was too eager for a nuclear deal or any deal with Iran. I think we should not go forward with one. If they do, it needs to come to the Senate for ratification."

The Biden administration, Barrasso added, "wants to send tens of billions of dollars to Iran for a deal that I think is going to be a bad deal for America."

His comments came in response to an interview on the Sunday program with national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who rejected the idea of backing away from talks on the nuclear deal because of the number of protests that are growing over the rights of women and the citizens of Iran.

"The fact that we are in nuclear talks is in no way slowing us down from speaking out and acting on behalf of the people of Iran," Sullivan said. "We’re not going to slow down one inch in our defense and advocacy for the rights of the women and citizens of Iran."

Meanwhile, Barrasso discussed the ongoing call for resources for Ukraine to keep fighting against Russia and disagreed with the contention of Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who warned this week that if Republicans win control of Congress, they'll hold up additional aid.

"There continues to be bipartisan support in the House and the Senate for weapons to Ukraine," said Barrasso. "I thought President [Joe] Biden was right at the United Nations when he told other world leaders they had a responsibility to do more in terms of weapons to Ukraine and condemning Russia because Putin will not stop until he is stopped."

There has also been bipartisan criticism of the administration for being too slow with weapons to Ukraine, said Barrasso, adding that Putin has been using energy as a weapon.

"We ought to be producing more American energy to help our European allies, also to help get prices down at home," he said. "

However, Barrasso said he's not sure if Putin's power is stable.

"He's in a deep hole right now and he’s dug this hole," he said. "I thought his statement to the country there was desperate. It didn't show confidence or strength, and desperate people do desperate things. That's why I think we've seen this nuclear threat."

Meanwhile, the Foreign Relations Committee, of which Barrasso is a member, will hold a hearing Wednesday to discuss options on sanctions, and will have a secure briefing Thursday to examine what is happening on the ground in Ukraine, he said.

"China is watching closely, and what we do will have an impact on what China decides to do with regard to Taiwan," the senator said.

Finally, Barrasso discussed the investigation into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents and said that he doesn't "know anything about the rules for when a president declassifies documents and information.

He also said he wants the Department of Justice to speak to senators, in a classified setting, about the raid, and rejected Trump's comments that a president can declassify documents by "thinking" about them, telling Stephanopoulos that "I don't think a president can declassify documents by saying so, by thinking about it."

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Tom Fitton to Newsmax: Biden Using COVID 'Emergency' for Political Gain (Newsmax/"Wake Up America")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 25 September 2022 12:07 PM EDT

President Joe Biden is minimizing the COVID pandemic for political purposes by saying it's over, but wants to keep the emergency declaration alive to keep his spending push open, "also to help himself with the election," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said on Newsmax Sunday.

"This is a case where the president wanted to have his cake and eat it too," but that also gives people who challenge some of his moves, including student loan forgiveness, a stronger argument, Fitton told Newsmax's "Wake Up America."

"They're using the pandemic emergency declaration as an excuse, rather than as a reason for, in the case of loan forgiveness, granting $1 trillion in benefits to American citizens and others without congressional authorization," Fitton argued. "And then, of course, you are on the other side of that, not only at the federal level but at the state and local level with many vaccine mandates that seemed to me to depend on the theory that there's an emergency so people have to be forced to take an irreversible medical treatment."

But when Biden says that the pandemic is over, he added, "it doesn't necessarily mean it's over as a matter of government policy."

Fitton also on Sunday discussed New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and called it an "abuse of power."

"If I were Trump, I would push back hard against this abuse of power by the attorney general, going after him on trumped-up charges a month or so before an election," said Fitton. "It doesn't get any worse than this, or maybe it does with the [Mar-a-Lago] raid, in terms of political abuse of power."

Fitton compared James' lawsuit against Trump, his business, and three of his adult children to when other efforts "harassed him on his foundation and they shut it down."

"That is the goal here, which is to shut down his major business, the Trump Organization, through which he conducts most of his real estate.," said Fitton. "What they're doing is they're going after him over his real estate valuations, which anyone who owns a home knows rise and fall depending on the time of day or even the weather."

Further, James campaigned on the promise to target Trump, said Fitton.

When asked if Trump can countersue to recoup the legal fees he's spending, Fitton said the former president is trying to keep his business open, but "someone like [James] should be held accountable."

"Prosecutors, not only in New York but you have the outrageous prosecutor in Fulton County, Ga., and of course, you got the DOJ, and they have to be reined in," said Fitton. "Governors can do that, and certainly Congress can as well here in D.C."

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Tom Fitton to Newsmax: Biden Using COVID 'Emergency' for Political Gain (Newsmax/"Wake Up America")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 25 September 2022 12:07 PM EDT

President Joe Biden is minimizing the COVID pandemic for political purposes by saying it's over, but wants to keep the emergency declaration alive to keep his spending push open, "also to help himself with the election," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told Newsmax on Sunday.

"This is a case where the president wanted to have his cake and eat it too," but that also gives people who challenge some of his moves, including student loan forgiveness, a stronger argument, Fitton told Newsmax's "Wake Up America."

"They're using the pandemic emergency declaration as an excuse, rather than as a reason for, in the case of loan forgiveness, granting $1 trillion in benefits to American citizens and others without congressional authorization," Fitton argued. "And then, of course, you are on the other side of that, not only at the federal level but at the state and local level with many vaccine mandates that seemed to me to depend on the theory that there's an emergency so people have to be forced to take an irreversible medical treatment."

But when Biden says that the pandemic is over, he added, "it doesn't necessarily mean it's over as a matter of government policy."

Fitton also on Sunday discussed New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and called it an "abuse of power."

"If I were Trump, I would push back hard against this abuse of power by the attorney general, going after him on trumped-up charges a month or so before an election," said Fitton. "It doesn't get any worse than this, or maybe it does with the [Mar-a-Lago] raid, in terms of political abuse of power."

Fitton compared James' lawsuit against Trump, his business, and three of his adult children to when other efforts "harassed him on his foundation and they shut it down."

"That is the goal here, which is to shut down his major business, the Trump Organization, through which he conducts most of his real estate," said Fitton. "What they're doing is they're going after him over his real estate valuations, which anyone who owns a home knows rise and fall depending on the time of day or even the weather."

Further, James campaigned on the promise to target Trump, said Fitton.

When asked if Trump can countersue to recoup the legal fees he's spending, Fitton said the former president is trying to keep his business open, but "someone like [James] should be held accountable."

"Prosecutors, not only in New York but you have the outrageous prosecutor in Fulton County, Ga., and of course, you got the DOJ, and they have to be reined in," said Fitton. "Governors can do that, and certainly Congress can as well here in D.C."

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ABC Poll: 56 Percent Majority of Dems Don't Want Biden to Run in '24 (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Sunday, 25 September 2022 11:00 AM EDT

A "clear" majority of President Joe Biden's own Democratic Party registered voters (56%) want the party of nominate a new candidate in the 2024 presidential election, according to the latest poll by The Washington Post/ABC News.

Just 35% of registered Democrat voters and Democrat-leaning independents want Biden to run again in the next presidential election, a flashing alarm for midterm Democrats. Republicans edged Democrats by 1 point on the generic House midterm ballot among U.S. adults (47%-46%) and a 5-point edge to Republicans (51%-46%) among likely voters in the poll.

In a prospective rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump, the race is a statistical tie within the margin of error. Biden leads by 2 points (48%-46%) among U.S. adults, while Trump leads by 2 points (48%-46%) among voters actually registered to vote legally.

Among the issues, Democrats are voting on abortion, while most other American adults are voting on the economy in general and inflation specifically – both which weigh in favor of Republicans – according to ABC News.

Biden is 14 points under water on his job approval (39%-53%), and 21 points under water on his handling of the economy (36%-57%).

When a sitting president had more than 50% approval in a midterm election, the ruling party loses on average 14 seats in Congress – and when approval is under water like Biden's is right now, the sitting president's party loses an average of 37 seats, according to ABC News analysis.

"It's the economy stupid," according to a famed campaign mantra of Democrat strategist James Carville which is bad news for Democrats, as 74% of adults say the economy is in bad shape – up from 58% in the spring of 2021 after Biden first took office.

Also, 84% call the economy a top voting issue for them on congressional ballots, while 76% say the same for inflation and 63% call abortion a key voting issue.

The Washington Post/ABC News poll surveyed 1,006 adults and 908 registered voters Sept. 18-21. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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Fred Fleitz to Newsmax: Biden's UN Speech 'Probably Infuriated' Putin (Newsmax/"Wake Up America")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 25 September 2022 10:42 AM EDT

President Joe Biden should emphasize de-escalating the war in Ukraine, but his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week "probably infuriated" Russian President Vladimir Putin "and will cause him to dig in further," Fred Fleitz, the vice-chair of the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security, said Sunday on Newsmax.

"Biden should be emphasizing de-escalating and a cease-fire and nobody wants to talk about that because we don't want to see Ukraine making concessions," Fleitz told Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "But when a megalomaniac threatens to use nuclear weapons, we have to take that seriously. We cannot let that happen. We can't allow a situation to develop where this madman decides to go down that road."

Pushing Putin to the point where he would consider the use of nuclear weapons is not the answer, Fleitz said, but he's "worried that's where we're going."

Fleitz, a Newsmax contributor and former chief of staff to the National Security Council, said he found Biden's speech "disappointing."

"We know that as president of the United States he had to speak out on the war, Ukraine, and the things Putin is saying, but this over-the-top series of condemnations, this diatribe against Putin, this was not helpful right now," said Fleitz. "This isn't going to convince Putin to do anything."

Instead, Biden's speech was made while he was "compensating for his weak foreign policy and his weak leadership," said Fleitz. "He wanted to act tough on the world stage…what we need now is an effort to de-escalate to get Putin to the bargaining table, not to engage in name-calling."

Meanwhile, nobody knows how the United States would respond if Putin does deploy a nuclear weapon, said Fleitz.

"Tactical nuclear weapons are part of Russian military doctrine," he said. "We don't have weapons like that, or maybe we have a couple of hundred. They have thousands of them to be used on the battlefield."

During the Trump administration, work was being done to develop such weapons through the defense budget, Fleitz added, but he believes the current White House is working to withdraw that funding.

"It worries me that once Putin crosses the line to use one of these weapons, he may use more of them," said Fleitz. "It also will open the floodgates for other nations to think that tactical nukes are okay on the battlefield, and you can be sure that China will be watching that."

Fleitz also spoke out about the administration's push on climate change, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken's complaints last week that Putin's invasion of Ukraine is "distracting" the United Nation from "working on the serious issues that we all want to focus on like preventing a climate catastrophe."

"It's just mind-boggling, the insane things we hear people from this administration saying," Fleitz responded. "Climate change is not a top national security threat. The fact that they think the conflict in Ukraine is distracting them from climate change just goes to show why our national security is in such trouble right now and it's why we've lost so much prestige on the world stage."

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Fred Fleitz to Newsmax: Biden's UN Speech 'Probably Infuriated' Putin (Newsmax/"Wake Up America")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 25 September 2022 10:42 AM EDT

President Joe Biden should emphasize de-escalating the war in Ukraine, but his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week "probably infuriated" Russian President Vladimir Putin "and will cause him to dig in further," Fred Fleitz, the vice-chair of the America First Policy Institute Center for American Security, said Sunday on Newsmax.

"Biden should be emphasizing de-escalating and a cease-fire and nobody wants to talk about that because we don't want to see Ukraine making concessions," Fleitz told Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "But when a megalomaniac threatens to use nuclear weapons, we have to take that seriously. We cannot let that happen. We can't allow a situation to develop where this madman decides to go down that road."

Pushing Putin to the point where he would consider the use of nuclear weapons is not the answer, Fleitz said, but he's "worried that's where we're going."

Fleitz, a Newsmax contributor and former chief of staff to the National Security Council, said he found Biden's speech "disappointing."

"We know that as president of the United States he had to speak out on the war, Ukraine, and the things Putin is saying, but this over-the-top series of condemnations, this diatribe against Putin, this was not helpful right now," said Fleitz. "This isn't going to convince Putin to do anything."

Instead, Biden's speech was made while he was "compensating for his weak foreign policy and his weak leadership," said Fleitz. "He wanted to act tough on the world stage … what we need now is an effort to de-escalate to get Putin to the bargaining table, not to engage in name-calling."

Meanwhile, nobody knows how the United States would respond if Putin does deploy a nuclear weapon, said Fleitz.

"Tactical nuclear weapons are part of Russian military doctrine," he said. "We don't have weapons like that, or maybe we have a couple of hundred. They have thousands of them to be used on the battlefield."

During the Trump administration, work was being done to develop such weapons through the defense budget, Fleitz added, but he believes the current White House is working to withdraw that funding.

"It worries me that once Putin crosses the line to use one of these weapons, he may use more of them," said Fleitz. "It also will open the floodgates for other nations to think that tactical nukes are OK on the battlefield, and you can be sure that China will be watching that."

Fleitz also spoke out about the administration's push on climate change, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken's complaints last week that Putin's invasion of Ukraine is "distracting" the United Nation from "working on the serious issues that we all want to focus on like preventing a climate catastrophe."

"It's just mind-boggling, the insane things we hear people from this administration saying," Fleitz responded. "Climate change is not a top national security threat. The fact that they think the conflict in Ukraine is distracting them from climate change just goes to show why our national security is in such trouble right now, and it's why we've lost so much prestige on the world stage."

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