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Former GOP Sen. Scott Brown Hired as High School Girls Hoops Coach Former Senator Scott Brown, R-Mass., in 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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

While deep-blue New England is seeking to pull off flipping some seats in Congress next week, former Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., has secured a new role.

Brown, 63, has been hired to be a girls' varsity high school basketball coach for Amesbury, Massachusetts, a small public school in the northeast of the state.

"We are excited to have someone with his level of athletic experience, strong character, and diplomatic skills joining our program," Amesbury athletic director Glen Gearon said in a statement to The Boston Globe.

The former senator served as President Donald Trump's U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa 2017-2020. He then was the head of New England Law Boston before being a junior varsity boys' basketball coach in New Hampshire.

"I am excited to join the great tradition of excellence at Amesbury High School," he said in a release. "Basketball has always played an important role in my life and I look forward to the challenges of the job."

Brown remains supportive of Republicans in the New England area who are seeking to help flip the majority in the House and Senate from Democrats.

"As the election enters its home stretch, @gailhuffbrown and I are rooting hard for our entire GOP ticket: @GenDonBolduc, @GovChrisSununu, @KLeavittNH @Burns4NH #NHPolitics," Brown tweeted last week.

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UPDATED 2:59 PM PT – Tuesday, November 1, 2022

A Trump-endorsed Senator is pulling away from his opponent with midterms fast approaching.

In the latest Emerson College Survey published on Monday, incumbent Utah Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) leads his independent challenger Evan McMullin by 10 points. The poll also showed that 71% of Republican voters claimed they would vote for Lee next week, with 23% saying they would vote for McMullin.

The Emerson College Polling survey was conducted from Oct. 25th until Oct. 28th. A total of 825 respondents participated in the survey. The poll’s margin of error was 3.3 percentage points.

The Republican hopes to be elected to a third term in the Senate.

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UPDATED 2:14 PM PT – Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Trump-endorsed Senate hopeful J.D. Vance is gaining more momentum on the campaign trail to represent the people of Ohio in Congress.

According to a recent poll from Cygnal, Vance (R-Ohio) had just over 48% support among likely general election voters. His opponent, Representative Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), had just under 44%

The race is at a statistical dead heat. The gap in support lies within the margin of error.

Analysts are suggesting that independent voters are up for grabs in the race. Many of those respondents say they are undecided.

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Trump: Ye Made Some 'Rough Statements' About Jews (Newsmax)

By Nicole Wells | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 07:36 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump described rapper Kanye West’s recent comments about Jews as “rough,” in an interview on Tuesday.

“He made some statements, rough statements, on Jewish [people],” Trump said during an interview with conservative podcaster Chris Stigall.

The artist now known as Ye has repeatedly made antisemitic comments and promoted conspiracy theories in recent weeks, to increasing backlash.

Last month, Ye’s Instagram account was restricted for claiming that rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was controlled by Jews and days later he was locked out of his Twitter account for saying he was “going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”

According to The Hill, the rapper pushed several antisemitic conspiracy theories in parts of his interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson that were not aired.

“I prefer my kids knew Hanukkah than Kwanzaa,” Ye reportedly said. “At least it would come with some financial engineering.”

A number of companies have cut ties with Ye because of his remarks, including Adidas, Balenciaga, Gap, CAA, MRC Entertainment, TJ Maxx and Footlocker, and he claimed he lost $2 billion in a single day, according to The Hill.

In Tuesday’s interview with Stigall, Trump suggested that Ye was being punished for supporting the former president.

“So then you ask, well, would it have been the same thing if he didn’t say all those good things about Trump?” he asked. “You know, you just don’t know.”

Similarly, Trump was recently accused of making antisemitic comments on his social media platform Truth Social.

“No President has done more for Israel than I have,” the former president said. “Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S.”

He added, “U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — Before it is too late!”

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Sen. Ted Cruz to Newsmax: Dem Panel Wants Trump's Taxes to Smear Him (Newsmax/"The Record With Greta Susteren")

By Jack Gournell | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 07:33 PM EDT

The Democrat-run House Ways and Means Committee wants former President Donald Trump's tax records only for political reasons, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tells Newsmax.

"It's clear that what the House Ways and Means committee is doing is a fishing expedition," Cruz told Tuesday's "The Record With Greta Van Susteren," calling the entire process political.

"It's the entire purpose of it, not legislative," he said. "They're not considering legislation. It is trying to get dirt to smear Donald Trump. The purpose is to leak it. It's why they want it."

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts earlier Tuesday issued a temporary hold on Trump's tax returns being turned over to the committee while the Supreme Court considers an appeal.

Cruz said it is not clear the high court will end up blocking the turnover of the documents, the situation is "extremely likely" to be rendered moot if the Republicans, as expected, win control of the House, thus controlling the committee. GOP allies would then drop the request.

"That would be a good thing," Cruz said, "because allowing the Democrats to play games and to weaponize anyone's tax return is wrong."

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Sen. Ted Cruz to Newsmax: Dem Panel Wants Trump's Taxes to Smear Him (Newsmax/"The Record With Greta Susteren")

By Jack Gournell | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 07:33 PM EDT

The Democrat-run House Ways and Means Committee wants former President Donald Trump's tax records only for political reasons, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tells Newsmax.

"It's clear that what the House Ways and Means committee is doing is a fishing expedition," Cruz told Tuesday's "The Record With Greta Van Susteren," calling the entire process political.

"It's the entire purpose of it, not legislative," he said. "They're not considering legislation. It is trying to get dirt to smear Donald Trump. The purpose is to leak it. It's why they want it."

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts earlier Tuesday issued a temporary hold on Trump's tax returns being turned over to the committee while the Supreme Court considers an appeal.

Cruz said it is not clear the high court will end up blocking the turnover of the documents, the situation is "extremely likely" to be rendered moot if the Republicans, as expected, win control of the House, thus controlling the committee. GOP allies would then drop the request.

"That would be a good thing," Cruz said, "because allowing the Democrats to play games and to weaponize anyone's tax return is wrong."

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UPDATED 12:22 PM PT – Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Trump-endorsed Senate candidate, Blake Masters, hopes to flip one of the Grand Canyon State’s Senate seats for Republicans.

Masters (R-Ariz.) is running to unseat Democrat Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and has been on the offense of debunking his appeal as a “moderate.” Despite being pro-life himself, Masters says the Democrat on record has voted for unlimited abortion nationwide up until the moment of birth.

“Most people support common sense regulation around abortion,” Masters said. “But Mark Kelly votes for the most extreme abortion laws in the world. We’re talking no limits up until birth. Think about how crazy that is. That’s more extreme than Western Europe. It’s way more extreme than what Arizonans want. Look, I support a ban on very late-term and partial-birth abortion. And most Americans agree with that.”

The Republican also emphasized he’s not like other members of the GOP who only seem to care about economic growth. He believes in prioritizing American families and their legacies.

“Too often politicians just talk about economic growth or GDP, and yeah those things are important but only if they point this question of how are families doing?” Masters said.

If he defeats the incumbent, his goal is to work on legislation that would help families live off income.

Meanwhile, Masters recently picked up the endorsement of Libertarian candidate Marc Victor. Victor released a video announcing he’s ending his campaign and supporting Masters in his bid to defeat Kelly. Victor had been trailing far behind his opponents and hailed Masters as the best choice in the race.

“Given where we are right now and given our options right now, Blake Masters is the right choice for United States Senate,” Victor said.

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Bidens Tears Into GOP, Labels DeSantis 'Trump Incarnate' (AP)

ZEKE MILLER Tuesday, 01 November 2022 05:46 PM EDT

With days to go before a midterm vote many polls show will swing strongly toward the Republican side of the aisle, Democrat President Joe Biden tore into GOP proposals to undo prescription drug price caps and change Social Security and Medicare on Tuesday in Florida — and slammed GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis as “Donald Trump incarnate.”

In a final-week sprint for Democrats before Election Day, Biden will campaign in New Mexico on Thursday, California on Friday and Pennsylvania on Saturday. By many accounts, Democratic control of Congress and several statehouses is in peril, and Biden is trying to stem that tide.

In Florida, a state famously popular among retirees, he focused on federal programs for elderly people and the less well-to-do. He declared that the current crop of GOP candidates “ain’t your father’s Republican party" and said that he prayed God would deliver his opponents “some enlightenment."

After those remarks in Hallandale Beach, he headlined a fundraiser for gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist in Golden Beach. He was also scheduled to speak at a rally for the state’s Democratic Party, including Senate candidate Val Demings.

At the event for Crist, Biden made the stakes personal against DeSantis. The Florida governor is a major adversary of the Biden White House and a potential 2024 candidate for the presidency. Biden suggested that DeSantis was just another version of former President Donald Trump and criticized him for “demonizing the LGBTQ population”

“This to me is one of the most important races in the country,” Biden said. “Charlie is running against Donald Trump incarnate.”

The president also blasted Republicans who made light of the attack against Paul Pelosi, the husband of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He asked how such a political assault could happen and "nobody in that party condemns it for exactly what it is.”

In Hallandale Beach, he dinged Demings' Republican Senate opponent, incumbent Marco Rubio, for failing to back his Inflation Reduction Act, passed in August by the Democratic-led Congress.

It includes several health care provisions popular among elderly people and the less-well-off, including a $2,000 cap on out-of pocket medical expenses and a $35 monthly cap per prescription of insulin. It requires companies that raise prices faster than overall inflation to pay Medicare a rebate,

“Not one single Republican voted for it in the United States Senate," Biden told a crowd at Hallandale Beach community center. “Every single solitary Republican in Congress voted against these savings, including Sen. Rubio."

Biden's appearances with Crist and Demings came after some of the Democrats' most embattled candidates, including Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, have opted not to appear with him.

Still, the president's advisers insist he can be helpful by talking about GOP policies they believe voters find objectionable.

Meanwhile, Republicans are bullish on their prospects across Florida as voter registration trends and demographic shifts suggest the state will continue moving to the right.

Democrats are particularly concerned about the trend in Miami-Dade County, home to 1.5 million Hispanics of voting age. It has been a Democratic stronghold for the past 20 years, but the GOP made significant gains in the past presidential election. Republicans, including Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez, are predicting the region will turn red on Nov. 8.

Should Democrats lose Miami-Dade, it could virtually eliminate their path to victory in statewide Florida contests, including presidential elections, moving forward.

Biden has seized on Florida Sen. Rick Scott's February proposal to sunset all federal legislation after five years, which the president says would require Congress to reauthorize Medicare and Social Security, as emblematic of what he's termed the “ultra-MAGA” agenda Democrats are running against.

Biden, who often ends his speech by asking, “God to protect our troops” offered a salty addendum with his remarks in Hallandale Beach.

“God give some of our Republican friends some enlightenment," Biden said.

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45th President Donald J. Trump has been given a temporary reprieve from the House Democrats attempts to access his tax records.

On Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts granted the former president a temporary stay on the release of the records to the House Ways and Means Committee. Trump’s legal team filed the motion asking for the stay on Monday.
Democrats on the panel suggested that they must see Trump’s taxes in order to form legislation about how presidents can be audited by the IRS.
The committee is required to respond to Roberts order by Thursday, November 10th at noon.

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Hispanic Republicans Headed to Big Texas Wins

Rep. Mayra Flores, R-Texas (Getty Images)

By John Gizzi Tuesday, 01 November 2022 04:21 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

Experts on all sides generally agree that only three of the 38 House districts in Texas (a gain of two as a result of the census and resulting redistricting last year) are genuinely competitive.

What makes the three especially interesting, as Lone Star State political scientist and author Wayne Thorburn told Newsmax, "is that all three are the heavily Hispanic districts in South Texas."

Thorburn and others are pointing to the new 15th District (Rio Grande Valley), the new 34th, and the 28th (Laredo).

The 15th is almost a straight line from Reynosa, up through Alice and Floresville to just outside San Antonio. After a hard-fought primary and runoff, Democrats nominated leftist Michelle Vallejo.

Last week, Vallejo got a boost when Bernie Sanders toured South Texas to boost Vallejo for her support of "Medicare for all, and protecting a woman's right to choose."

"[M]y socialist opponent is telling us exactly who she is — and why we must reject her radical agenda," replied insurance agent and conservative Republican Monica de la Cruz, who came within 6,800 votes of unseating Democratic Rep. Vincente Gonzalez in the old 15th in 2020.

The new 34th was won in a nationally watched special election earlier this year by Trump Republican Mayra Flores, the first-ever U.S. Representative to have been born in Mexico. She is now favored against three-term Rep. Gonzalez, who chose to run in the 34th rather than his former 15th.

"Most people view this as a tossup but if national trends hold up, Flores would be favored," said Thorburn, "It is a key indicator race for GOP efforts to make inroads with Mexican-American voters who predominate in this district."

The 28th, which centers around Laredo, is represented by the last remaining anti-abortion Democrats in the House. Rep. Henry Cuellar, who barely survived a primary challenge from the left earlier this year, was the subject of an FBI raid at his home related to his ties to the nation of Azerbaijan.

In addition, Cuellar and his brother, Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar, received donations from a conduit to the notorious Mexican crime syndicate Los Zetas — funds that both of them returned as soon as the conduit was identified.

Republican Cassy Garcia, a former staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has hit hard at Cuellar for the raid and the donations.

Attention is growing on these three districts at a time when a survey by Americano Media, the first national conservative Hispanic network in Spanish, found Hispanic voters favor Democrats over Republicans nationwide by 50% to 36%; the 14-point margin a striking figure since Democrats held a 30 percentage point lead over Republicans at this point in 2020 and a 40 percentage point lead in polls conducted in October 2018.

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

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Rep. Cheney: Jan. 6 Panel Negotiating Multiday Testimony From Trump (Newsmax)

By Brian Freeman | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 03:59 PM EDT

The January 6 committee has been in discussions with former President Donald Trump's attorneys and is hoping to obtain testimony from him that could take place over a number of days, the committee's Vice Chair Liz Cheney told PBS' Judy Woodruff on Tuesday.

Trump, who has not revealed whether he will comply with the subpoena against him last month demanding deposition and numerous documents, has until Friday to comply with the demand for the records and until Nov. 14 for the deposition.

Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, said that Trump "has an obligation to comply" with the subpoena. "We have not made determinations about the format itself, but [the testimony] will be done under oath. It will be done, potentially, over multiple days."

She insisted that "we treat this and take this very seriously," declaring that "this is not a situation where the committee is going to put itself at the mercy of Donald Trump in terms of his efforts to create a circus."

In a letter accompanying the subpoena, the committee cited a number of historical precedents to show that it had the legal power to issue its demands of the former president, according to the Washington Examiner.

Asked if the Justice Department should indict Trump, Cheney said that "the committee will have to make decisions about criminal referrals, and I don't want to get ahead of the committee on that. I would anticipate we won't have disagreements about that, but we'll have to make those decisions when we come to it."

Trump has harshly criticized the committee for its subpoena, declaring in a statement that "the double standard of the Unselects between what has taken place on the 'Right,' and what has taken place with [the] radical Left, lawless groups such as antifa, Black Lives Matter, and others, is startling and will never be acceptable, even to those who will be writing the history of what you have done to America."

Key Trump followers such as Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro have defied subpoena demands from the committee and were later held in contempt of Congress, with Bannon recently given a four-month prison sentence and $6,500 in fines, while Navarro is heading to trial this month, the Washington Examiner reported.

However, if the GOP retakes the House in next week's midterms, the Republicans are expected to dissolve the panel shortly thereafter, and Trump could try to run out the clock with court challenges until that time.

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Trump Organization Tax Fraud Trial Delayed After Witness Tests Positive for COVID (Dreamstime)

Tuesday, 01 November 2022 03:54 PM EDT

The criminal tax fraud trial of the Trump Organization was put on hold on Tuesday after the company's controller, Jeffrey McConney, who had been testifying as a prosecution witness, tested positive for COVID-19.

McConney had been coughing during his testimony earlier in the day and on Monday, when the trial began in Manhattan Supreme Court, and tested positive after complaining during Tuesday's lunch break of feeling ill.

Justice Juan Merchan, who oversees the case, said the trial could resume on Nov. 7 if McConney felt better. He said court protocol recommended that McConney, 67, isolate for six days.

In 2021, the Manhattan district attorney's office charged former President Donald Trump's company with paying executives perks such as rent and cars without reporting those benefits to tax authorities, and falsely reporting bonuses as non-employee compensation.

The Trump Organization operates hotels, golf courses and other real estate around the world.

Trump himself has not been charged in the case. The two Trump Organization units charged have pleaded not guilty.

During opening statements on Monday, lawyers for the Trump Organization said former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, one of the executives alleged to have gotten perks, acted on his own behalf when he cheated on his taxes.

Weisselberg pleaded guilty in August and agreed to testify against the company at trial.

McConney's illness was disclosed outside the jury's presence by prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, who told Merchan that the district attorney's office had arranged for a COVID-19 test.

The judge later announced that McConney tested positive.

McConney has worked for the Trump Organization since 1987.

Prosecutors granted him immunity after he testified before the grand jury that indicted Weisselberg and the companies.

McConney is still on the Trump Organization's payroll, and prosecutors view him as a hostile witness.

If convicted, the Trump Organization could face $1.6 million in fines. A conviction could also further complicate the real estate firm's ability to do business.

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'Trump vs Obama By Proxy' in Florida's 13th District Florida map (Dreamstime)

By John Gizzi Tuesday, 01 November 2022 02:52 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

One of the most closely watched U.S. House races in the nation and one frequently billed by pundits as "Trump vs. Obama by Proxy" is now a standoff.

According to a just-completed St. Pete Poll of Florida's open 13th District (St. Petersburg), Trump Republican Anna Paulina Luna has a wafer-thin edge of 45.9% to 45.3% over liberal Democrat and former Obama administration official Eric Lynn.

In a state where early voting is popular, the poll found, 56% of Lynn's supporters say they have already voted. In contrast, St. Pete Polls found only 39% of Luna's backers have voted early.

The new 13th is one Republicans have been strongly counting on as a pickup. Two years ago, U.S. Air Force veteran and conservative firebrand Luna stunned local observers by drawing 48 percent of the vote against Democrat Rep. Charlie Crist.

With Crist leaving the seat open to run for governor, "[r]edistricting has since shifted district boundaries to favor Republicans," according to Peter Schorsch, publisher of FloridaPolitics.com, "Under previous district boundaries, Democrats had about a 16,000-voter advantage. Under new boundaries, which shifted north to include areas with a heavy GOP advantage, Republicans now have about 33,000 more voters than Democrats."

Luna, whose husband Andy is also an Air Force veteran and winner of the Bronze Star for his time in Afghanistan, most recently ran the Hispanic outreach arm of the charity known as Turning Point, USA.

Lynn got his political start in Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and served in both the State Department and Pentagon under President Obama.

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

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SCOTUS Rejects Lindsey Graham's Bid Avoid Testifying in Georgia (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Tuesday, 01 November 2022 02:44 PM EDT

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a temporary hold on Sen. Lindsey Graham's testimony in a Georgia investigation of possible illegal interference in the 2020 election by then-President Donald Trump and his allies in the state.

The court left no legal impediments in the way of Graham's appearance before a special grand jury, now scheduled for Nov. 17.

But in an unsigned order, the justices noted that Graham still could raise objections to some questions.

The South Carolina senator, a top Trump ally, had argued that a provision of the Constitution, the speech and debate clause, shields him from being forced to testify.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had told the justices that “the delay resulting from a stay would be unavoidably harmful” to the grand jury investigation.

Lower courts had rebuffed Graham’s plea for a pause while the legal case plays out.

Tuesday's order dissolved a temporary hold that Justice Clarence Thomas had placed on the testimony while he and his colleagues weighed the arguments.

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Biden CISA Director: Expect 'Errors,' 'Glitches' as 'Normal' in Elections Jen Easterly, Director of Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. (Christina Almeida Cassidy/AP)

By Eric Mack | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 02:12 PM EDT

The Biden administration's cyber defense agency director is warning midterm election voters to expect "errors" and "glitches" that "happen in every election" — like a "pipe will burst" — but she says that is "normal" and "not nefarious" and the media should fall in line on that narrative.

"There are going to be errors, there are going to be glitches — it happens in every election," according to Jen Easterly, director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the Department of Homeland Security, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies symposium Tuesday.

"But that's why there are multiple layers of security controls and resilience built into the system."

Easterly added an urge for the media to not suggest "glitches" are "nefarious."

"So, to the media, that's where I really want to ask for everybody's help, because these things are going to happen," she continued. "Somebody will forget their key to the polling place. A water pipe will burst.

"These are normal things. They're not nefarious. It's super important that folks get the word out on how elections work."

Easterly's mention of a water pipe burst is a reference to the 2020 presidential election concern of former President Donald Trump, which reportedly led to ballot counters to be sent home in the middle of the night.

"Elections are not over when the polling place closes," Easterly continued. "There's so much work to be done to ensure there is reconciliation of provisional ballots, counting of absentee ballots, military voters.

"We all need to let the machinery of democracy work."

Among other noteworthy remarks from Easterly on Tuesday related to election security and integrity:

• "There is no information, credible or specific, about efforts to disrupt or compromise that election infrastructure" before the midterms.
• "I am very confident that we have done everything we can to make election infrastructure as secure and as resilient as possible," despite "a more complex environment than I think we've ever experienced."
• On election worker safety: "You've got these horrible physical security concerns at an unprecedented level, threats of intimidation of violence, of harassment against election officials, polling places, voters."
• Foreign adversaries are hoping for division and integrity questions in our elections, she said: "That's what foreign adversaries want. They want to have disruption. They want to sow discord. They love the partisan rancor. They love tearing apart America."
• And election disinformation "can be used by foreign adversaries to sow discord among the American people to undermine confidence in the integrity of our elections and to incite violence against election officials."
• "We are concerned about #Russia & #Iran & #China trying to influence our elections," adding, "it's a significant concern."
• The Russian war in Ukraine might only heighten election interference operations from adversaries, she concluded: "We need to be prepared for potential activity, disruptive, destructive activity," she said, "given what's happening in Russia, what's happening in Ukraine, some of the rhetoric," and concluding, "it's not the time to put our shields down."

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Sabato's Crystal Ball: Georgia Gov. Kemp 'Likely' Winner (Newsmax/"National Report")

By Theodore Bunker | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 02:13 PM EDT

Sabato's Crystal Ball, which analyzes and handicaps elections, has moved Georgia's gubernatorial race to "likely Republican" from "lean Republican" as the midterm elections approach.

"Our thinking remains that the Senate race probably goes to a runoff, but we think it's reasonable to make Kemp a clearer favorite in the gubernatorial contest," Sabato's Crystal Ball associate editor J. Miles Coleman wrote in an update. "Georgia is going to Likely Republican."

Coleman noted Kemp might have "been the governor who has most overperformed our early election cycle expectations," since Georgia had previously voted for President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump and voted out former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga.

However, the governor easily defeated a primary challenger, Trump-supporting former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., and the organization "upgraded Kemp to Leans Republican immediately following his primary win."

Sabato's Crystal Ball also noted Kemp's Democrat opponent, former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, has not "been able to replicate the energy that underpinned her 2018 effort," and "Kemp now has incumbency, and the national environment is simply redder now than it was 4 years ago."

Coleman later noted, while the Senate race will "probably" be settled by a runoff election, "we think it's reasonable to make Kemp a clearer favorite in the gubernatorial contest."

He continues, "Georgia is going to Likely Republican. Even if the gubernatorial contest went to a runoff (the presence of a Libertarian on the ballot makes the scenario a possibility), we would probably still favor the incumbent, although the dynamics of a runoff would naturally be different."

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Kemp Victory Could Test Trump's Influence Over GOP Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (Getty Images)

By Brian Pfail | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 01:05 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump has balked at endorsing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who might represent a pathway forward in a post-Trump GOP.

In an interview, CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked Kemp why he thinks Trump has not visited for a rally or public endorsement.

Kemp responded, "I don't know, you"d have to ask him that question. Look, I'm focusing on getting our vote out."

He added: "I appreciate what President Trump did for the state of Georgia. His administration was incredible to work with. … They did a lot of things to help us during the pandemic and many other issues that we dealt with.

"We also did a lot of things to help them, to help the federal administration during" the early portion of the pandemic.

Trump still holds a grudge against Kemp, who refused to overturn the 2020 elections. Trump even recruited and campaigned for Kemp's primary challenger, Sen. David Perdue.

Kemp's primary victory has proven that he is immune to the whims of Trump. Kemp is favored to win a second term as he faces Stacey Abrams for a second time.

If victorious, Kemp could prove that Republicans do not need the "Trump-approved" stamp, leaving the groundwork for other GOP candidates to stand against Trump. If Kemp wins, he could be the possible avenue for a post-Trump era, at least within the Republican party.

Trump lost Georgia during the 2020 election. His endorsement would help Kemp avoid a repeat of 2018 where the race against Abrams is extremely tight.

Herschel Walker, a Trump-endorsed candidate marred in past controversy, could swing the balance of power back to Republicans only two years after they lost it in a pair of runoff elections.

Walker is looking to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. Kemp has remained relatively silent on Walker's race, though he's endorsed him and plans to vote for him.

"In that race, you're going to vote for a guy, our current senator that's voted with Joe Biden 96% of the time," said Kemp to CNN, "or you're going to vote for somebody that's going to go up there [to Capitol Hill] and try to do something about 40-year high inflation, terrible domestic energy policy that's led to high gas prices, literally a disaster at the border."

Early voting has reached record numbers in Georgia. Kemp says he is confident in a victory.

"We're going to do a property tax-relief grant. We're going to continue to be in the fight with our men and women in law enforcement," said Kemp to CNN. "We're going to keep working on rural broadband."

Regardless of the election, Kemp will appear before a special grand jury for Trump's alleged attempts to undermine the 2020 election. Kemp says he will rely on the truth and laws bounded by the constitution of the state.

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Sununu Pushes Back at CNN Host Trying to Blame GOP for Pelosi Attack (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 12:48 PM EDT

New Hampshire GOP Gov. Chris Sununu pushed back on CNN's Don Lemon blaming Republicans for political division that led to the attack on Paul Pelosi last week, calling to "bring the temperature down" on divisive, dangerous political rhetoric.

"Whether you're a governor, a president, or an elected official in Washington, everyone should be speaking out about horrific actions of what happened," Sununu told Lemon on Tuesday morning.

Sununu pointed to the congressional baseball game shooting where Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., was shot by a Democrat extremist and the potential attack thwarted that targeted conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh just this summer.

"Justice Kavanaugh was almost assassinated outside his home just a few months ago," Sununu continued. "So, there is danger on both sides. No one is immune."

Lemon suggested Democrats are better because they denounce it and "Republicans don't do that."

"Are they afraid of Don Jr., are they afraid of Donald Trump, are they afraid to come out and lose votes?" Lemon asked.

But Sununu said the tack taken by Lemon only further exacerbates political division.

"I'm here as a member of the Republican Party; you denounce it wholeheartedly, and I think a lot of folks have," Sununu said. "I totally get it.

"Whatever the issue and the action of the day is — unfortunately this week it happened to Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi and her husband and her family. That's real. Does that mean it's going to stop today? Probably not, unfortunately, right?

"It's going to potentially continue and so, as a whole, the media, the social media, elected officials, everyone within their community needs to bring that temperature down."

Sununu, whose father John Sununu was the White House chief of staff under President George H.W. Bush, has been on mainstream media frequently of late, including taking CNN's "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper to task Sunday for suggesting 2020 election questions should be a key voting issue in 2022 over the economy and inflation.

"You're in a bubble, man!" Sununu told Tapper.

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Brian Andersson Exposes Pelosi Cover-Up, Chris Cuomo Fall Brian Andersson (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 12:30 PM EDT

The mainstream media is creating the narrative that David DePape, the man accused of beating House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer, is an "ultra-MAGA person" to drum up claims a week before the election that supporters of former President Donald Trump are violent people who are committing criminal acts across the country, former New York City Commissioner of Records Brian Andersson tells Newsmax.

"As far as I know, the only person to die on Jan. 6 was an unarmed protester killed by Capitol Police," Andersson said in an interview Monday on Newsmax's "The Chris Salcedo Show." "If you're looking for responsibility from the mainstream media, hold your breath."

DePape, who lives in California, was charged Monday with attempted murder and attempted kidnapping of a public official after the assault early Friday, which has been described by a lead prosecutor as being "politically motivated."

The Department of Justice said in a court filing that DePape allegedly broke into the Pelosis' San Fransisco mansion intending to tie up the House speaker and break her kneecaps with a hammer if she didn't confess to Democrat "lies." He instead only found her husband, who is hospitalized after he was hit in the head with a hammer.

However, Andersson agreed with show host Chris Salcedo that the news coming out about the attack "doesn't match the left-wing narrative."

"This was totally the media spin," Andersson said. "San Francisco is one of the most crime-ridden cities. Homelessness is out of control. The liberal policies are failing its residents."

A former girlfriend of DePape's said in an interview that he suffers from mental illness and that he's been a progressive, "but nobody in the biased press wants to pay attention to what she has to say," said Salcedo.

"Crime is so out of control," Andersson responded. "Even liberal residents in San Francisco joined in and just recalled the woke district attorney. Even they realize they've created a cesspool."

The statements made by DePape's ex-girlfriend means "we find out he's not a MAGA person or an ultra-MAGA person," Andersson said. "He's a radical leftist who's a known nudist activist. He walks around naked in San Francisco and now we know he's in the U.S. illegally. None of that says MAGA to me. He is in the U.S. illegally. None of that says MAGA to me. His political beliefs seem to be all over the map, like the woman said. He's mentally ill."

Andersson also discussed the news that former CNN star Chris Cuomo, who is now working for NewsNation, says he wants his time slot changed to a different period because Newsmax is beating him in the ratings.

"NewsNation came out of the old WGN America," said Andersson. "They hired liberal hosts like Cuomo and Dan Abrams and Ashleigh Banfield, both from MSNBC, and now they are a very liberal network and their ratings are low."

Newsmax, he added, has "10 times their ratings … I think the lesson is that NewsNation's liberalism just doesn't sell to the public. But Newsmax is rising and we're giving people the truth."

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Kari Lake Says She's Raised Over $500,000 Since Cheney's 'Anti-Endorsement' Kari Lake (Getty Images)

By Peter Malbin | Tuesday, 01 November 2022 11:57 AM EDT

Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake claimed on Monday that her campaign has raised over $500,000 since outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., recently attempted to derail it in an "anti-endorsement" effort.

Cheney targeted Lake and Republican candidate for Arizona's secretary of state Rep. Mark Finchem in a 30-second ad in which she urged voters to reject the two candidates because "they'll only honor the results of an election if they agree with it," The Epoch Times reported.

Appearing on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Monday, Lake said Cheney has now officially become her "biggest fundraiser."

"We raised a half a million dollars since she did the anti-endorsement, and people are still flocking to our website, karilake.com, and donating. It has been an incredible boom for us in fundraising. So I have to extend a big thank you to Liz," Lake said, adding that her campaign should consider inviting Cheney "to our inaugural ball because we have to thank her for bringing in so much fundraising money for us."

Lake told Carlson that legacy media have been attacking her for "speaking the truth."

"You can't talk about [COVID-19] vaccines, you can't talk about elections, you can't talk about Paul Pelosi … and I am talking about all those things because I still believe we have a little bit of the First Amendment left," she said.

Cheney has said she would do everything in her power to defeat Lake because the candidate publicly questioned the legitimacy of President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.

"If you care about the survival of our republic, we cannot give people power who will not honor elections," Cheney said in a statement on a multi-candidate political action committee attacking the GOP nominees for governor and secretary of state.

Lake, a former television anchor, leads Democrat Katie Hobbs by 9 percentage points in a recent FOX 10 InsiderAdvantage news poll, The Epoch Times reported.

"In fact, my team tells me your commercial should add another 10 points to our lead!" Lake said mockingly in a letter responding to Cheney's effort to derail her campaign. "I guess that's why they call the Cheney anti-endorsement the gift that keeps on giving."

In early September, Hobbs' campaign office announced that Hobbs won't participate in a debate against Lake because of the way the commission ran primary debates. Hobbs' campaign pointed to news articles that called the GOP primary debate "pure chaos" and having "near-constant interruptions."

The Washington Post recently wrote: "The Kari Lake campaign has become a phenomenon in Arizona. It spans multiple demographics. It draws huge crowds on a day's notice. People arrive in Lake gear, in Trump T-shirts, in cowboy hats. Lake works the crowd, and an eddy of staff and security circles the woman at its center. Before she faces the press, a posse of supporters appears as if out of nowhere, lining up behind the candidate to form a human backdrop. When the cameras roll, they grip their Kari Lake signs and smile. And here, Lake takes over."

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