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Abbott Leads O'Rourke by 9 Points in Texas Governor Race: Poll (Newsmax)

By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 19 September 2022 02:56 PM EDT

Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, has opened a 9-point lead over Democrat challenger Beto O'Rourke, according to a new poll.

Abbott, seeking a third term, received 47% support while O'Rourke got 38% in The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler survey released Monday.

The poll results mean that Abbott increased his lead by 2 percentage points since last month's poll.

The latest Morning News/Tyler survey found that O'Rourke holds a 1-point lead over Abbott with independent voters in a race the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates as "likely Republican."

A total of 40% of the poll's respondents said they considered themselves Republican; 33% said they were Democrats; and 27% said they belonged to neither major party.

The latest survey found that Abbott holds a slight lead (44%-42%) among women, and a 10-point lead among parents.

Half of the Morning News/Tyler survey respondents said they approved of Abbott's job performance as governor, with 25% indicating they strongly approve. A total of 47% disapprove, with 34% saying they strongly disapprove of the governor's job performance.

The poll results showed that 54% indicated support for Abbott's busing of illegal migrants specifically to Washington, D.C. Only 29% said they opposed the governor's action, with another 16% saying they didn't know.

Regarding immigration along the southern border overall, 52% said they approve of Abbott's handling of the issue. Among independents, 47% disapprove and 35% approve.

Asked if Texas were headed in the right direction or whether things are on the wrong track, 54% said the wrong track, 44% said the right direction, and 2% said neither.

Voters were asked their impressions of Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, neither of whom is running for reelection this year. The results:

• Cornyn — 37% favorable, 33% unfavorable, 10% neither, 20% didn't know.
• Cruz — 43% favorable, 46% unfavorable, 3% neither, 7% didn't know.

As for former President Donald Trump, 45% have a favorable impression and 50% said they have an unfavorable impression, including 39% with a very unfavorable impression.

The Morning News/Tyler survey poll was conducted Sept. 6-13 and included interviews with 1,268 registered Texas voters. The margin error is 2.9 percentage points.

Abbott's campaign spent $4.3 million to broadcast two television ads across the state in August, timing his general election push to coincide with back-to-school season, the Morning News reported.

In contrast, O'Rourke only spent roughly $40,000 for limited airings in August, according to AdImpact.

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Biden's 'Pandemic Is Over' Declaration Ripped by Experts, GOP Gustavo Perez gets a COVID-19 booster shot from pharmacist Patricia Pernal during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on Sept. 9, 2022 in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

By Eric Mack | Monday, 19 September 2022 02:49 PM EDT

President Joe Biden's "60 Minutes" declaration "the pandemic is over" is drawing a response Monday, but not quite a joyous one.

"The pandemic is over," Biden said Sunday. "We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it, but the pandemic is over."

Health experts are saying the pandemic is not actually over yet, while Republicans are saying Biden and Democrats need to move to unwind their strict COVID-19 public policies and protocols then, if it indeed was over.

"With the pandemic officially over, now it's time to end all vaccine mandates," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., tweeted Sunday.

Biden's comment even flies in the face of a $22.4 billion White House request this month for COVID-19 funding in the next continuing resolution to fund the government. Republicans want unused COVID-19 funds from past appropriations to be used first, as The Wall Street Journal reported.

"It's completely off base," Scripps Research Translational Institute Director Dr. Eric Topol told the Journal. "It's an illusion. We have millions of people with long COVID and no vaccine that blocks transmission."

The Biden administration released its updated COVID-19 Global Response and Recovery Framework last week "to end the emergency phase of the pandemic," the Journal reported.

"If 'the pandemic is over' as Biden says, then all of the president's emergency powers predicated on a pandemic, all COVID vax mandates, the emergency powers of every governor, Emergency Use Authorizations, and the PREP act should all be voided tomorrow," Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., tweeted Sunday.

Former Trump administration Surgeon General Jerome Adams criticized Biden, too.

"I understand what he was trying to say but such rhetoric is hurtful, dangerous, and scientifically untrue," Adams tweeted. "Nice to see some people call it out."

George Washington University Dr. Leana Wen said the pandemic is over in that we have COVID-19 here to stay.

"One definition of a pandemic is something that changes the way we live, work, and go to school," Wen told the Journal. "For most Americans, COVID-19 is no longer dominating their lives and is now being understood as another infectious disease risk, more akin to the flu than a dire deadly disease."

There have been 95 million COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and more than 1 million deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows.

But the 7-day average of new cares is near 61,000 after being 970,000 per week Jan. 17, and hospitalizations are around 4,100 per week, dropping 80% since mid-January, according to the report.

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Biden's 'Pandemic Is Over' Declaration Ripped by Experts, GOP Gustavo Perez gets a COVID-19 booster shot from pharmacist Patricia Pernal during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on Sept. 9, 2022 in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

By Eric Mack | Monday, 19 September 2022 02:49 PM EDT

President Joe Biden's "60 Minutes" declaration "the pandemic is over" is drawing a response Monday, but not quite a joyous one.

"The pandemic is over," Biden said Sunday. "We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it, but the pandemic is over."

Health experts are saying the pandemic is not actually over yet, while Republicans are saying Biden and Democrats need to move to unwind their strict COVID-19 public policies and protocols then, if it indeed was over.

"With the pandemic officially over, now it's time to end all vaccine mandates," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., tweeted Sunday.

Biden's comment even flies in the face of a $22.4 billion White House request this month for COVID-19 funding in the next continuing resolution to fund the government. Republicans want unused COVID-19 funds from past appropriations to be used first, as The Wall Street Journal reported.

"It's completely off base," Scripps Research Translational Institute Director Dr. Eric Topol told the Journal. "It's an illusion. We have millions of people with long COVID and no vaccine that blocks transmission."

The Biden administration released its updated COVID-19 Global Response and Recovery Framework last week "to end the emergency phase of the pandemic," the Journal reported.

"If 'the pandemic is over' as Biden says, then all of the president's emergency powers predicated on a pandemic, all COVID vax mandates, the emergency powers of every governor, Emergency Use Authorizations, and the PREP act should all be voided tomorrow," Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., tweeted Sunday.

Former Trump administration Surgeon General Jerome Adams criticized Biden, too.

"I understand what he was trying to say but such rhetoric is hurtful, dangerous, and scientifically untrue," Adams tweeted. "Nice to see some people call it out."

George Washington University Dr. Leana Wen said the pandemic is over in that we have COVID-19 here to stay.

"One definition of a pandemic is something that changes the way we live, work, and go to school," Wen told the Journal. "For most Americans, COVID-19 is no longer dominating their lives and is now being understood as another infectious disease risk, more akin to the flu than a dire deadly disease."

There have been 95 million COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and more than 1 million deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows.

But the 7-day average of new cares is near 61,000 after being 970,000 per week Jan. 17, and hospitalizations are around 4,100 per week, dropping 80% since mid-January, according to the report.

Illegal Migrant Arrests Higher Under Biden Than Obama Newsmax

By Peter Malbin | Monday, 19 September 2022 12:14 PM EDT

Border Patrol agents nationwide have arrested more people who crossed the border unlawfully in 18 months under President Joe Biden than during former President Barack Obama's two terms, underscoring the extent of the border crisis.

Under Biden there have been 3,484,327 apprehensions of unauthorized migrants compared to 3,384,816 in Obama's two terms, The Washington Examiner reported. Some illegal migrants attempted more than once to cross, particularly during the pandemic, because agents immediately expelled many back to Mexico.

Federal agents have made 150,000 to 200,000 arrests each month over the past 18 months, mostly on the U.S.-Mexico border, The Washington Examiner reported. Ten months into the government's 2022 fiscal year, the Border Patrol has apprehended 1,822,620 people — exceeding the 2021 record of 1,662,167.

Vice President Kamala Harris said in an NBC interview earlier this month: "We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration, but there are still a lot of problems that we are trying to fix given the deterioration that happened over the last four years."

Biden's softening of tone on immigration compared to former President Donald Trump's hard-line talk is seen as a green light for people in other countries to migrate, analysts say.

The Biden administration stopped turning away unaccompanied child migrants, attempted to halt deportations for 100 days, and suspended border wall construction, The Washington Examiner noted.

Since March 2020, immigrants arriving at the southern border have not been allowed to seek asylum at land ports of entry as part of the Title 42 public health order. In response, those desperate for help walk around the port and illegally enter.

Because Border Patrol agents could turn away illegal immigrants during the pandemic, it has led to higher recidivism rates than pre-pandemic years. People sent back to Mexico may try to enter illegally again and continue doing so until they get in without getting apprehended, The Washington Examiner noted.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, blamed Biden's "catastrophic" open-border policies for the strain placed on Texas communities and resources, thetexan.com reported.

"The Biden-Harris Administration continues ignoring and denying the historic crisis at our southern border, which has endangered and overwhelmed Texas communities for almost two years,"Abbott said in a news release.

"Our supposed Border Czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, has yet to even visit the border to see firsthand the impact of the open border policies she has helped implement, even going so far as to claim the border is 'secure.' Texas will continue sending migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C., until President Biden and Border Czar Harris step up and do their jobs to secure the border.”

"I think there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do — the first request we made — pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship," Harris said in the NBC interview She said a pathway to citizenship does not yet exist because "people are playing politics"on what was once a "bipartisan issue.”

The Biden administration maintains it has focused its efforts on improving conditions within federal immigration facilities and quickly releasing people. It has opened numerous tent facilities where thousands of immigrants are detained each day as they are processed and either removed from the country or released with a future immigration court date.

In her column Sunday in The New York Times, Maureen Dowd wrote: "The argument that migrants coming across the border have a more severe impact on border states is obviously valid. You can’t have a nearly unchecked flood of people coming in — an average of 8,500 a day, according to Axios.

"It is also a valid criticism that Democrats — both in the White House and Congress — are going out of their way to avoid what they see as a third rail with progressives. The border is just the tip of the spear. Democrats are too afraid of angering the base to bear down and overhaul the system, including tackling the backlog of court cases and fixing how those cases are adjudicated."

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Youngkin Hitting Campaign Trail As Speculation Swirls Over Possible WH Plans (Newsmax)

By Fran Beyer | Monday, 19 September 2022 10:31 AM EDT

Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin is expected to jump onto the campaign trail for Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake in October — and it reportedly may be ahead of his own possible 2024 presidential bid.

Youngkin's Arizona trip is part of nationwide campaign tour to push Republican candidates, Politico has reported. He's so far traveled to Nevada and Michigan and is bound for Kansas later this week.

But Lake will be the highest-profile candidate with former President Donald Trump's backing that the Virginia governor has campaigned for, Politico reported. Polls have shown her in a tight race with Arizona's Democrat Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.

According to Politico, Youngkin is expected to hold political and fundraising events for Lake. But on other trips, he'll probably single out education policy — the issue he championed in his upset 2021 win in Virginia's race, wooing suburban voters who'd turned against the GOP during the Trump administration.

In a statement, Youngkin praised Arizona's termed-out chief executive, Doug Ducey, and said the state "deserves another Republican governor," the news outlet reported.

Although Lake has appealed to Trump's conservative backers, she's also started looking for backing from mainstream Republican figures in Arizona at the encouragement of Arizona GOP mega-donor Jim Click, Politico reported.

"We were very impressed," Click told Politico after a meeting with her. "I think she's going to do very well, I think she's going to help us down-ballot."

Click also praised Youngkin, saying he'd be a "good candidate" for the White House, though he said it's too early to get behind just one candidate for the 2024 race.

Politico reported Youngkin's already launched a pair of PACs that can fund his political activities, and has appeared at high-profile conservative events sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and Susan B. Anthony List, which opposes abortion.

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, who's also raised speculation he's aiming for a White House run, hit the campaign trail for Lake last month, Politico reported.

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Democrats Gird for GOP House Majority (Dreamstime)

By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 19 September 2022 09:16 AM EDT

Democrats are predicting legislative gridlock if Republicans win control of the House in November.

"If Republicans win control of the House, they will not be able to govern," said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, The Hill reported.

"It'll be a cascading nightmare of dysfunction and horrible for the country and horrible news for anybody who relies on federal funding."

Another Democrat senator told The Hill that if Republicans capture the House, it will yield "a series of investigations" of the Biden administration.

"Many want to impeach Joe Biden. It would be a recipe for chaos and for gridlock," said the lawmaker, who requested anonymity.

"There will be ways. They're not all crazy. Some of them are," Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said of House Republicans.

It was unclear whether such comments were meant more to be campaign rhetoric or about what is seen as occurring with recent polls showing the GOP favored to regain control of the chamber in the midterms.

Democrats currently appear confident they will retain Senate control, meaning President Joe Biden could be working with a divided Congress.

FiveThirtyEight.com gives Republicans a 7 in 10 chance of winning the House majority and Democrats a 7 in 10 chance of keeping control of the Senate.

Besides that, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in line to become speaker if the GOP wins the chamber, is more allied with former President Donald Trump than Senate Republican leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Not a single House Republican voted to raise the debt ceiling in October — Trump called on Republicans to block the legislation — and it fell to McConnell and his leadership team to help Democrats keep the government fulfilling its debt obligations.

Trump blasted McConnell for compromising with Democrats, arguing that Republicans should have sought to cripple Biden's agenda.

House conservatives have signaled they will attempt to block funding for the Internal Revenue Service to hire an estimated 87,000 new employees, which was provided for in Biden's health care and climate legislation signed last month.

Senate Democrats said they hope standoffs and threatened shutdowns will be avoided.

"I think we've learned that shutdowns really are a lose-lose [proposition]," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., The Hill reported. "Certainly some House Republicans have learned. Whether all of them or the newly elected ones remains to be seen."

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Trump Back at Mar-a-Lago Home, Laments It's Been 'Ransacked' by FBI Raid (Newsmax)

By Fran Beyer | Monday, 19 September 2022 07:33 AM EDT

Former President Trump is back at his Mar-a-Lago residence — lamenting on Monday his Palm Beach, Fla., home had been “ransacked” by the FBI’s seizure of White House documents and would “never be the same.”

Dozens of supporters lined a bridge waving flags and cheering as his limousine crossed a bridge near the estate, video footage of the caravan showed.

Writing on his Truth Social platform,Trump said whe’d had “a long and detailed chance" on Sunday night to look around the property.

“Arrived in Florida last night and had a long and detailed chance to check out the scene of yet another government “crime,” the FBI’s Raid and Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago,” he wrote. “I guess they don’t think there is a Fourth Amendment anymore, and to them, there isn’t. In any event, after what they have done, the place will never be the same. It was ‘ransacked,’ and in far different condition than the way I left it. Many Agents – And they didn’t even take off their shoes in my bedroom. Nice!!!”

A federal judge has released inventory of the haul taken by the FBI in its August raid. Trump had insisted he declassified the documents to lawfully bring them to his Florida home, and the former president’s legal team is trying to block the Department of Justice from reviewing the documents.

Trump’s lawyers have already successfully argued for the appointment of a special master to review the documents for possible executive privilege.

Business Insider reported it’s not the first time Trump has expressed anger at the FBI agents who searched through his personal items. In August, Trump accused investigators of leaving former first lady Melania Trump's closet in a "mess" after the search. He also claimed investigators searched his son Barron’s room, the news outlet noted.

The former president has argued the search was politically motivated and blasted both the FBI and DOJ for conducting the seizure — at one point suggesting evidence had been planted by the FBI, The Hill reported.

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Former President Trump is back at his Mar-a-Lago residence – lamenting on Monday his Palm Beach, Fla., home had been "ransacked" by the FBI's seizure of White House documents and would "never be the same."Original Article

Trump on Mar-A-Lago Return: I Will 'See for Myself' Scene of FBI Raid Police outside Mar-a-Lago following the FBI search of Trump's home. (AFP via Getty Images)

By Nick Koutsobinas | Sunday, 18 September 2022 11:09 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he would return to his Mar-a-Lago residence to evaluate the scene of the FBI's raid last month, which included the seizure of documents taken from the White House.

"I'll soon be heading to the scene of the unwarranted, unjust, and illegal Raid and Break-In of my home in Florida, Mar-a-Lago," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. "I'll be able to see for myself the results of the unnecessary ransacking of rooms and other areas of the house."

"It has already been proven that so much has been wrongfully taken, it is not a 'pretty thing.' So sad! The 4th Amendment, and much more, has been totally violated, a grave invasion of privacy. I will keep the American public informed on TRUTH!"

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DeSantis Dismisses Accusations That Migrants Were 'Falsely Lured'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Getty)

By Jeremy Frankel | Sunday, 18 September 2022 10:31 PM EDT

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, dismissed accusations from Democrats that the 50 migrants sent from Florida to Martha's Vineyard were "falsely lured" or "enticed" into making the trip.

In answering a reporter's question during a press conference Friday, DeSantis said, "I think that's totally false. I think if you look, the folks that are contracted, not only do they give them a release form to sign, they actually give them a packet and in that packet included a map of Martha's Vineyard. So it was obvious that that's where they were going, and they gave that to them.

"And here's the thing, it's all voluntary, because it's just the type of thing where we think that's the right way to do it. I mean, I think that if the states could send, I would send back to Mexico or back to the home country. But here we are doing it voluntarily. They sign a release, and then they get a packet. So they did get a packet that had the map of Martha's Vineyard. And they're also treated, you know, very well with all this. I mean, they're treated well with meals and everything," DeSantis continued.

DeSantis then pushed back on a CNN segment that seemingly likened DeSantis' sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard to the Holocaust, saying, "I just thought to myself, 'Has the world gotten totally mad?' I mean, this is voluntary transportation that they're signing up for. But they're given a good ride; they're given everything. And that's just, you know, it's a humane thing to do.

"What's not humane is what Biden is doing. He's given a false promise. The border's open, luring people to come here for political purposes and then basically cutting these people loose and leaving them high and dry. What he should say is, 'Our border's not open. You know, there's ways to apply to come to this country, but just simply barreling across the border is not one of them,'" DeSantis added.

The governor then noted that the current border policy can be traced back to Biden's reversal of former President Donald Trump's border policies because he and his party don't like Trump, so they need to do the exact opposite of what Trump did, and that it "was all just a big virtue signal."

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Colorado GOP Hopeful O'Dea: No Trump or Biden in 2024

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By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 18 September 2022 04:32 PM EDT

Colorado Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O'Dea said Sunday he does not want to see former President Donald Trump run for office again in 2024, as he disagrees with Trump's statements that he'd pardon people involved in the Jan. 6 incidents at the Capitol if he ran and won again.

He also doesn't want President Joe Biden to seek reelection.

"I disagree with our former president," O'Dea said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I wouldn't give pardons to anybody who's violent. We need to hold people accountable. That should never happen again."

He also, when asked if he would welcome Trump to hold a rally to support him, told show host Chuck Todd that probably won't happen, as he is the only Republican Senate candidate whom Trump has not endorsed.

"He's probably not going to send me a Christmas card," O'Dea said. "I don't want to see him run again. I don't want to see Joe Biden run again. I think that tears our country apart, and I think I'm where most Americans are."

O'Dea, however, has promoted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a potential candidate, and on Sunday said he agrees with him and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for sending immigrants to northern cities like New York City and Washington, D.C., to bring visibility to the migration situation.

"We have fentanyl killing our kids," said O'Dea, adding that while there are people who are calling the governors' actions cruel, "you know what's cruel? Democrats are ignoring this issue while our kids are dying."

O'Dea also said there are Republicans who are not interested in solving the immigration issue, and he believes a bipartisan solution must be reached.

"We need to get the Dreamers citizenship, fix our immigration system and, for dang sure, we need to close this border down," he said.

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Rep. Ronny Jackson: Administration Permits Border Crisis 'On Purpose' (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 18 September 2022 02:51 PM EDT

Texas has been "jumping up and down" to get the federal government to acknowledge the crisis that is going on at the border or to get President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris to address the issue, but "they are letting this happen on purpose," Rep. Ronny Jackson said Sunday.

"They know exactly what is happening," the Texas Republican, who was a medical adviser in the Trump and Obama administrations, told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." "They keep making the comment that the border is closed, which is ridiculous. We are proving to them, in front of the press and all of the liberals."

Further, there is an entire generation of young people who are being "exterminated" by the fentanyl that is being brought across the border, but the Biden administration is "doing nothing about it."

"The amount that you can put on the head of a pin is a lethal amount," said Jackson. "This is coming from China, coming to our southern border. The Mexican cartels and gangs are getting this stuff across the border … the No. 1 cause of death for adult males in this country between the ages of 18 and 45 is an overdose of drugs. We are doing nothing about it. It is a huge public health crisis."

But, Jackson said he wants to know what the administration, and in particular, Dr. Anthony Fauci, are doing about the problem.

"Where's Anthony Fauci for crying out loud?" he said. "He's supposed to be the chief medical adviser. When I was President Trump's chief medical adviser, I was down on the border multiple times because of a potential outbreak of mumps. Look at what we've got going on down there. This guy is nowhere to be found. It's just complete irresponsibility."

Meanwhile, the Democrats are trying their best to make the midterms about former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, not the serious issues that are going on, said Jackson.

"It was one of the greatest things that ever happened to our country," Jackson said about Trump's America First movement. "I hope that it comes back. It was good for all of us."

But Biden and the Democrats are trying to divide the country, as "they know they can come after you and take your personal freedoms away," he said. "They can do things that are unconstitutional and get away with it … this is the most dangerous thing happening in our country right now, being weaponized against political adversaries."

Meanwhile, the economy is out of control, said Jackson.

"People cannot afford gas; they cannot afford groceries," he said. "It will get worse as we get closer and closer to the election. The economic policy of this country does not make any sense.

"It is being driven by politics, and that is not what is best for the American people. The Biden administration will double down on a lot of stupid policies every time. Instead of trying to make corrections, they double down on the stupidity."

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Rep. Ronny Jackson: Administration Allows Border Crisis 'On Purpose' (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 18 September 2022 02:51 PM EDT

Texas has been "jumping up and down" to get the federal government to acknowledge the crisis that is going on at the border or to get President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris to address the issue, but "they are letting this happen on purpose," Rep. Ronny Jackson said Sunday.

"They know exactly what is happening," the Texas Republican, who was a medical adviser in the Trump and Obama administrations, told Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures. "They keep making the comment that the border is closed, which is ridiculous. We are proving to them, in front of the press and all of the liberals that, no, the border is not open."

Further, there is an entire generation of young people who are being "exterminated" by the fentanyl that is being brought across the border, but the Biden administration is "doing nothing about it."

"The amount that you can put on the head of a pin is a lethal amount," said Jackson. "This is coming from China, coming to our southern border. The Mexican cartels and gangs are getting this stuff across the border…the number one cause of death for adult males in this country between the ages of 18 and 45 is an overdose of drugs. We are doing nothing about it. It is a huge public health crisis."

But, Jackson said he wants to know what the administration, and in particular, Dr. Anthony Fauci, are doing about the problem.

"Where's Anthony Fauci for crying out loud?" he said. "He's supposed to be the chief medical adviser. When I was President Trump's chief medical adviser, I was down on the border multiple times because of a potential outbreak of mumps Look at what we've got going on down there. This guy is nowhere to be found. It's just complete irresponsibility."

Meanwhile, the Democrats are trying their best to make the midterms about former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, not the serious issues that are going on, said Jackson.

"[It] was one of the greatest things that ever happened to our country," Jackson said about Trump's America First movement. "I hope that it comes back. It was good for all of us."

But Biden and the Democrats are trying to divide the country, as "they know they can come after you and take your personal freedoms away," he said. "They can do things that are unconstitutional and get away with it…this is the most dangerous thing happening in our country right now, being weaponized against political adversaries."

Meanwhile, the economy is out of control, said Jackson.

"People cannot afford gas, they cannot afford groceries," he said. "It will get worse as we get closer and closer to the election. The economic policy of this country does not make any sense. It is being driven by politics and that is not what is best for the American people. The Biden administration will double down on a lot of stupid policies every time. Instead of trying to make corrections, they double down on the stupidity."

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Former DNI Ratcliffe: FBI Seized Misclassified Documents in Trump Raid (Newsmax)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 18 September 2022 01:33 PM EDT

There will be questions not only about whether documents that the FBI seized in its Aug. 8 raid of former President Donald Trump's Florida home were privileged attorney-client details but about whether some of them should have been tagged with top security clearance at all, former White House director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe said Sunday.

"The FBI took 11,000 documents from Donald Trump's home and they claim that there are reports of hundreds of documents that have classified markings," Ratcliffe said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," telling show host Maria Bartiromo that while he was in office, he'd seen several documents himself that had questionable classification levels.

"I saw hundreds, if not thousands, of documents related to Christopher Steele, things like the Alpha Bank connections…there is a question if they are marked top-secret whether they are top-secret," said Ratcliffe. "All of these things were no more top-secret than your children's creative writing assignments for their homework."

Brooklyn senior judge Raymond Dearie, the special master named to oversee the review of the documents, will lead a process that must determine of there was any national security information of any value in what was being stored in Florida, he added, "but "I can tell you that many of those Russiagate documents were not top-secret, although they were marked that way."

Radcliffe said that one of the documents he'd declassified on his way out the door related to Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who will go on trial next month under the charges brought by special counsel John Durham, who is investigating the origins of the investigation into Russia and Trump's 2016 campaign.

"He is facing trial next month because he lied repeatedly to the FBI," said Ratcliffe. "In January 2017 he admitted to the FBI that much of what was in the Steele reporting was in conversation over beers with friends at a bar or word-of-mouth hearsay. He didn't know whether any of the information in the Steele dossier was accurate and it was put together at the request of Hillary Clinton and her campaign."

Ratcliffe said the document he declassified was an annex to an assessment that then-FBI director James Comey insisted on including and reporting to the American people that all the information in the Steele dossier should be included in the investigation when they knew from their conversations with Danchenko that it was all false.

"This is an example of one of many documents that were initially marked as top-secret, but were all a bunch of garbage," he said.

Meanwhile, the FBI paid Danchenko as an informant up until the 2020 election, said Ratcliffe.

"At the time that John Durham with the Department of Justice is investigating and getting ready to bring charges against him for lying, the FBI was paying him," he said.

And now, the American people have lost faith in the FBI, and even agents are coming forward as whistleblowers to contend the agency is too political, said Ratcliffe.

"The FBI thinks the FBI has become politicized," he said. "Poll after poll this summer shows less than half of Americans have faith and trust in the FBI. There are real problems."

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NBC Poll: GOP Voting on Economy; Dems Voting for Abortion (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Sunday, 18 September 2022 11:34 AM EDT

With partisan polarization and an evenly split midterm election in the latest NBC News poll, pollsters see the electorate hinging on the economy versus abortion.

"There is a campaign about the economy, cost of living, crime, and border security, and Republicans are winning this campaign," Public Opinion Strategies GOP pollster Bill McInturff told NBC News. "But there is a second campaign on abortion, democracy, and climate change, and Democrats are winning that campaign."

Republicans and Democrats are a dead heat 46%-46% on the generic ballot in the poll – GOP led by 2 points last month – but each party is aligning behind the issues most important to them.

"We often think about wave elections, but this year, we may think instead about a 'waves' election where unprecedentedly strong crosscurrents push voters in different directions, with an end result that may not be what we expected," Hart Research Associates' Democrat pollster Jeff Horwitt told NBC.

Abortion is a strong current for Democrats, as a strong majority disapprove of the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade and kicking abortion law back to the states.

But Republicans are voting on the economy, and 63% of voters believe their income is falling behind the cost of living and 58% disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy.

Notably Republicans lead among independent voters 43%-37%, along with the following demographics:

• Men – 53%-39%.
• Whites – 54%-41%
• Whites without college degrees – 64%-31%.

Democrats hold the edge among:

• Black voters – 77%-8%.
• Ages 18-34 – 57%-33%.
• Whites with college degrees – 58%-38%.
• Women – 53%-40%.
• Latinos – 46%-42%.

Republican voters are slightly more enthused about voting in the midterms, holding a 3-point lead in the category among those saying they are a 9 or 10 on interest in voting (69% for GOP, 66% for Democrats).

President Joe Biden is gaining ground on his once-sagging approval rating (45%), which registered its highest mark in the poll since last October, but "45% has always traditionally been a flashing warning sign for an incumbent American president," according to GOP pollster McInturff.

While former President Donald Trump is not on the ballot, he remains a 20-point net-negative among those polled (34% positive, 54% negative). Biden is just 5 points net-negative (42% positive, 47% negative).

NBC News polled 1,000 registered voters Sept. 9-13 and the results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

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Grover Norquist to Newsmax: Biden Lied on Economy; Administration Acting Happy (Newsmax/"Wake Up America")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 18 September 2022 11:02 AM EDT

President Joe Biden lied on the economy, and now the administration is acting as if it's happy with record inflation numbers that have climbed sharply since he took office, Grover Norquist, the founder and CEO of Americans for Tax Reform, tells Newsmax.

"If you were them, what in the world would you say?" Norquist said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America" Sunday, during a discussion with show host Carl Higbee and Newsmax's Tom Basile. "The Biden administration came in and inflation was 1.4%. They threw $2 trillion up in the air to spend on driving up prices. We didn't get anything for it."

But now, there is 8.3% inflation, compared to 1.4% when former President Donald Trump was in office, and inflation is higher than people's pay increases, Norquist added.

"The problem is, every time you go to the store, you're hit in the face with it. Every time you go to the gas station, you're hit in the face with it," said Norquist. "Biden lied. Biden lied. Biden lied. That's awfully tough for the Democrats to deal with."

However, said Norquist, "when you ask [why] they're saying silly things, what would you have them say? We made a mistake. We lied to you. We're hurting your economy. You're poorer today than you were before. Your 401K is worth less. That's not much of a sales pitch for the Biden administration, so they'll say anything other than that."

But inflation continues to harm Americans, and it's a "daily and weekly reminder" of the administration's failures on overspending and tax policy, Norquist added.

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Trump: 'FBI Colluded With Russia' (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 09:49 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump has been fighting back claims his first presidential campaign colluded with Russia, and he said Saturday at his rally in Youngstown that now, it turns out, "the FBI colluded with Russia."

"Man, what a country we have," Trump told his rally, which aired live on Newsmax. "We've got to fix our country. It's so sad."

This past week, John Durham, the special prosecutor investigating the origins of the Russia investigation, issued a finding that Igor Danchenko, the alleged principal source of the discredited Steele dossier against Trump, had later been made a paid FBI informant.

Danchenko is facing five charges of lying to the FBI through Durham's continuing investigation into the origins of the FBI's investigation of Trump's 2016 campaign and allegations of collusion with Russian agents during the race for the White House.

"I think that sounds like a slightly Russian name," Trump said. "The foreign national fabricated some of the most ridiculous smears and lies in the phony Steele dossier. It was all phony.

"How would you like to be me and go home and explain that one to my wife? Darling, it wasn't true. I swear it wasn't. Remember that one with the hookers from Russia? Darling I'd like to explain this to you. It was all phony."

The scheme, Trump said, was made up by corrupt Democrats "working with a paid informant of the FBI."

"I remember when we were supposed to be working with Russia, but it was the FBI and the Democrats that were working with Russia," Trump said.

And now that the revelations are coming out, Trump said he hopes the matter is hidden "because I think it's one of the biggest stories in 50 years. If that were Republicans saying that about a Democrat, it would be the biggest story. It would never end."

It was also recently revealed the FBI approached Facebook in the weeks before the election and told them the story about President Joe Biden's son Hunter and his laptop was Russian disinformation and not to use it, Trump said.

"The pollster said that if that word had gotten out, it would have made a 17-point difference [in the 2020 election], but we won the election by a lot anyway," said Trump.

Now, Republicans, once retaking the house, must pass "historic reforms to tell the deep state, You're fired," Trump said. "Another one of our highest priorities under a Republican Congress will be to stop left-wing censorship and to restore free speech in America, which we do not have."

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Trump: 'FBI Colluded With Russia' (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 09:49 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump has been fighting back claims his first presidential campaign colluded with Russia, and he said Saturday at his rally in Youngstown that now, it turns out, "the FBI colluded with Russia."

"Man, what a country we have," Trump told his rally, which aired live on Newsmax. "We've got to fix our country. It's so sad."

This past week, John Durham, the special prosecutor investigating the origins of the Russia investigation, issued a finding that Igor Danchenko, the alleged principal source of the discredited Steele dossier against Trump, had later been made a paid FBI informant.

Danchenko is facing five charges of lying to the FBI through Durham's continuing investigation into the origins of the FBI's investigation of Trump's 2016 campaign and allegations of collusion with Russian agents during the race for the White House.

"I think that sounds like a slightly Russian name," Trump said. "The foreign national fabricated some of the most ridiculous smears and lies in the phony Steele dossier. It was all phony.

"How would you like to be me and go home and explain that one to my wife? Darling, it wasn't true. I swear it wasn't. Remember that one with the hookers from Russia? Darling I'd like to explain this to you. It was all phony."

The scheme, Trump said, was made up by corrupt Democrats "working with a paid informant of the FBI."

"I remember when we were supposed to be working with Russia, but it was the FBI and the Democrats that were working with Russia," Trump said.

And now that the revelations are coming out, Trump said he hopes the matter is hidden "because I think it's one of the biggest stories in 50 years. If that were Republicans saying that about a Democrat, it would be the biggest story. It would never end."

It was also recently revealed the FBI approached Facebook in the weeks before the election and told them the story about President Joe Biden's son Hunter and his laptop was Russian disinformation and not to use it, Trump said.

"The pollster said that if that word had gotten out, it would have made a 17-point difference [in the 2020 election], but we won the election by a lot anyway," said Trump.

Now, Republicans, once retaking the house, must pass "historic reforms to tell the deep state, You're fired," Trump said. "Another one of our highest priorities under a Republican Congress will be to stop left-wing censorship and to restore free speech in America, which we do not have."

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Trump Slams Ohio Rep. Ryan as 'Militant Left-Winger,' Liar (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 09:25 PM EDT

Rep. Tim Ryan, Ohio's Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate, is a "militant left-winter who is lying to your face" while "pretending to be moderate so he can get elected and betray everything that you believe in," former President Donald Trump, campaigning for Ryan's GOP opponent, J.D. Vance told his Youngstown rally Saturday night.

"I think he's running on an I love Donald Trump policy," Trump told the rally, which aired live on Newsmax. "He is not a moderate; he is radical left, who 100% voted for these Biden disaster policies. Tim Ryan pretends to be for Trump, but when I was president he only voted with us 16% of the time and these are great policies for Ohio."

But over the past two years, Ryan has voted along with President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other Democrats "every single time."

"It doesn't matter how bad it is," he said. "And over the last two years, he has voted with Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest every single time. It doesn't matter on what it doesn't matter how bad it is. Ryan, he added, "voted to raise taxes for Ohio families on 113 separate occasions, including voting for Joe Biden's $326 billion inflation causing spending binge. What a disgrace. I mean, they got $4 trillion, and most of it's just wasted money. Throw it right out the window. It's going to kill us with inflation."

Ryan also "voted to stop the Marxist" defund the police movement and voted against legislation to prevent the FBI and Department of Justice from targeting patriotic parents, said Trump.

Ryan, he added, "fully supports the open border, having voted against the border wall," said Trump. "I used to have to fight this guy and now all of a sudden, he's saying, what a wonderful plan we had. I was always fighting him. I never liked that guy very much. I won his area by a lot, and he voted three times to support taxpayer-funded extreme late-term abortion, ripping babies from the mother's room right up until the moment of breath."

Ryan has also pledged to abolish the filibuster if he is elected, Trump said.

"He wants to do it so badly, meaning Democrats will quickly ban voter ID, good election integrity, pack the Supreme Court, grant mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and bankrupt our country,' he said. "Remember I used to say our country if they win will become Venezuela on steroids. Guess what? It's going to be worse than that…a vote for Tim Ryan is a vote to extinguish America's future Republicans.

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Trump: Dems' 'Wild Socialist Spree' to Blame for Economy (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 09:16 PM EDT

The Biden administration's "wild socialist spree" has thrown the United States into a recession, former President Donald Trump told Ohioans at his rally in Youngstown on Saturday night.

"There's no reason for us to be in a recession," he told the rally, which aired live on Newsmax. "We were doing it. We were doing things that nobody thought possible. You remember China was going to take the place of the United States as the world's largest economy in 2019, except we did so well."

Trump added his administration "put some of those beautiful tariffs on steel."

"I rebuilt our military, including our nuclear capability and the creation of Space Force," Trump said. "[The Biden administration] surrendered our strength and turned Afghanistan into the greatest humiliation our country has ever seen. I believe it was the most humiliating time in the history of our country."

But now, there is a war between Russia and Ukraine, with potentially hundreds of thousands of people dying, "but that would never have happened if I were your president. It would never have happened if they didn't rig the election."

Further, Trump said that "no third-world country would allow to happen to their border what's happening now to ours."

"I don't believe the 2 million and the 3 million," Trump said of the figures of people coming in over the border. "I believe it's 10 million who are coming in. They're phony numbers when they say two or three million people, and that's a lot bigger than most cities, but it's not the right number. It's much higher than that."

Trump also pointed out that his administration built hundreds of miles of border walls despite more than two years of Democrat-inspired lawsuits.

But then the election was "rigged," Trump. "I ran twice, I won twice and I did much better the second time."

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