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Will 'Gen Z' Trumpster Capture NH-1 In Fall? New Hampshire Republican 1st Congressional District candidate Karoline Leavitt smiles as she speaks during a debate last week in Henniker, New Hampshire. (/Mary Schwalm/AP)

By John Gizzi Wednesday, 14 September 2022 10:38 AM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

The national media reported the Republican primary results from New Hampshire's 1st District (Manchester) emphasizing the historic nature of triumphant contender Karoline Leavitt.

At 25, the St. Anselm College graduate and onetime Assistant Press Secretary in the Trump White House would be, if elected, one of the first two "Generation Z" (turning 25 this year) U.S. Representatives. The other is Democrat Maxwell Frost, a community organizer and self-styled fighter against "our racist system of criminal justice," who won the primary in Florida's 10th District and is assured of election this fall.

Leavitt, who would be the youngest female member of Congress, rolled up a win of 34% to 25% over 2020 nominee Matt Mowers in an eight-candidate race. Her victory is particularly impressive in that Mowers, a former executive director of the Granite State GOP and State Department official under Trump, lost a tight (52% to 48%) contest to Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas.

This year, Mowers, 33, had the support of House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and his Congressional Leadership Political Action Committee. Also weighing in for Mowers was the Defending Main Street PAC, which is run by centrist Republicans in the House. In touting Mowers, both PACs ran independent TV salvos that also slammed Leavitt as "immature" and "irresponsible."

But Leavitt overcame all this by, in-effect, "out-Trumping" Mowers. While both candidates were alumni of the Trump Administration and voiced their support for the 45th president, Mowers, when asked about his confidence in elections, said "I have confidence in New Hampshire elections" but agreed there was room for improvement.

Clearly sensing an opening, Leavitt said without hesitation that "the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump" and charged that Mowers was in league with President Biden for believing he "legitimately won more votes than Donald Trump."

"Hard work," former State Attorney General Tom Rath told Newsmax, was key to Leavitt's upset victory.

Rath added that "… enthusiasm and enthusiasm were key to her win, and an unapologetic total embrace of Trump. Mowers failed to create a viable alternative. She also had plenty of money, which was a surprise to a lot of folks."

While McCarthy and House GOP Whip Steve Scalise had strongly endorsed Mowers, the third-ranked official in the House Republican hierarchy, Conference Chairman Elise Stefanik, weighed in strongly for Leavitt (who worked for the New York congresswoman after leaving the Trump White House). Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also jetted to New Hampshire to campaign for Leavitt.

The major question is whether Pappas, widely considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats facing voters this fall, can be defeated by someone so identified with Trump in a district Biden carried over Trump 56% to 44% two years ago.

"She will be a big underdog in the general," conceded Rath, but quickly added: "Democrats better take her seriously."

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

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Durham: Primary Steele Dossier Source Was Paid FBI Informant Special counsel John Durham (AP)

By Charlie McCarthy | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 10:42 AM EDT

The alleged principal source of the discredited Steele dossier later became a paid FBI informant, according to a filing by special counsel John Durham.

Igor Danchenko has been charged with five counts of lying to the FBI as part of Durham's probe into the origins of the original investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russian agents during the presidential race.

A filing unsealed Tuesday said the FBI paid Danchenko as a "confidential human source" (CHS) during the years then-President Donald Trump was under investigation. The Russian had supplied the most salacious accusations in the Steele dossier.

Durham claims that Danchenko, hired by the FBI In March 2017, remained a CHS during special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into the accusations against the Trump campaign.

"The news [in the filing] shocked many of us who have closely followed the Russian collusion controversy for years," legal analyst Jonathan Turley wrote Wednesday. "The FBI showed a zeal to investigate Trump and his campaign that seemed to border on the blind obsessive."

Turley said it was "particularly concerning" because the FBI also had former British spy Christopher Steele on its payroll.

"So the FBI cut off Steele as a paid source after he allegedly worked with the media to spread these unproven [Russian collusion] claims," Turley wrote. "It then turned around and hired his principle source for the dossier."

Breitbart reported Wednesday that one online writer, known as Techno Fog, speculated that Danchenko might have been retained as a paid CHS to keep him from revealing that Mueller and the FBI knew the information in the "dossier" was false, even as the bureau used it to obtain electronic surveillance warrants on Trump foreign policy aide Carter Page.

Durham's filing also cited Danchenko, as a then-employee of a "prominent think tank," being the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation after a colleague alleged that Danchenko asked if he would be willing to sell him classified information. The FBI closed the probe in 2011 after Danchenko left the U.S.

"The 'prominent think tank' appears to be the Brookings Institution," Turley wrote. "I have previously written about the prominent role of Brookings in spreading the Russian collusion claims and hiring an array of people who played critical roles in these investigations.

"That also included former FBI general counsel James Baker. For some, it seemed like not just friends but 'friends with benefits.' It seems that everyone in this scandal was six degrees from Brookings."

Durham is accusing Danchenko of lying to the FBI to protect Charles Dolan Jr., a communications consultant with close ties to the Clintons.

The special counsel also alleges that Danchenko lied to the FBI about communications with Sergei Millian, then president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, whose supposed evidence helped convince the FBI to seek a surveillance warrant against Page.

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Ad in Pennsylvania Governor's Race Shows Republican in Confederate Uniform Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano gives a victory speech at his election-night party at The Orchards in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on May 17. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty)

Jarrett Renshaw and Phil Stewart Wednesday, 14 September 2022 08:59 AM EDT

Pennsylvania Democrat gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro on Wednesday plans to debut a new online ad aimed at Black voters that features his Republican rival posing in a Confederate military uniform, the campaign told Reuters.

The ad features a photo first reported last month of Doug Mastriano, a Donald Trump-backed candidate and state senator, wearing the uniform in a faculty photo at the Army War College. The photo obtained by Reuters showed Mastriano in a 2013-14 portrait for the Department of Military Strategy, Plans, and Operations, where he worked.

Faculty at the time had been given the option of dressing as a historical figure and at least 15 of the 21 faculty in the photo opted to appear in regular attire. Mastriano was the only one wearing a Confederate uniform.

Mastriano, who has not responded to Reuters requests for comment, came under fire from Shapiro, who said it was a "traitor's" uniform that has come to symbolize racism.

The new ad features a close-up view of Mastriano in the Confederate uniform with a voice over that notes the War College said the photo failed to meet the War College's values.

"Does it reflect your values?" the narrator asks.

The six-figure ad campaign is part of $1.2 million that Shapiro, the state's attorney general, has budgeted for digital ads.

Pennsylvania plays an outsized role in U.S. politics as a swing state in presidential elections, and Mastriano is trailing in polls and in fundraising ahead of the Nov. 8 contest.

The winner of the governor's race will choose the state's top elections official, who will oversee its 2024 presidential election. The governor will also have the power to block or advance efforts by the Republican-led state legislature to severely restrict abortions.

Displays of Confederate symbols are painful reminders to many of racial oppression and the Civil War, which saw 11 rebelling Confederate states fight to keep Black people enslaved.

The U.S. military issued a de facto ban on displaying the Confederate flag and has sought to remove segregationist symbols from bases and academic institutions following the murder in May 2020 of George Floyd, a Black man whose killing by a white police officer in Minneapolis triggered protests worldwide.

The War College removed the photo from a display after Reuters inquired about it.

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Retired Gen. Don Bolduc Wins Senate GOP Primary in New Hampshire Retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc debated his opponents on Newsmax late last month. (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 12:13 AM EDT

Retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc held off a strong field of Republican Senate GOP primary candidates Tuesday night to win the New Hampshire nomination in a bid to flip the seat of Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Decision Desk HQ projects.

Bolduc, a staunch conservative, held off the more moderate state Sen. President Chuck Morse and will now bid for the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, who did not make a choice in a field of candidates bidding for his support.

Republicans see Hassan as beatable in the general election, now just eight weeks away.

New Hampshire's Senate seat could prove pivotal for whichever party controls the chamber after November. President Joe Biden carried the state by more than 7 percentage points and Bolduc has campaigned on a platform that aligns with Trump's Make America Great Again and America First platform.

Hassan clinched her party's nomination against only token opposition while Gov. Chris Sununu won the Republican party's nomination for another term. He is heavily favored against Democrat Tom Sherman, who was unopposed for his party's governor's nomination.

Republican primary voters have similarly chosen conservative candidates this year in moderate or Democrat-leaning states including Massachusetts and Maryland.

Neil Levesque, director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, said Bolduc is a type of candidate who would have struggled to succeed in GOP politics before Trump's rise. He has never held elected office and had just $75,000 in cash on hand last week. Bolduc has nonetheless been able to make inroads by positioning himself as an ally of Trump and seeking election integrity.

"That is because the theme of his campaign and messaging is very similar to former President Trump," Levesque said. "If it mirrors the former president, it's been effective."

Known for kicking off the primary season during presidential campaigns, New Hampshire is instead concluding the nominating process for this year's midterms.

But New Hampshire's Senate race is perhaps most revealing about the direction of the GOP. Morse was endorsed by Sununu, who called him "the candidate to beat Sen. Hassan this November and the candidate Sen. Hassan is most afraid to face."

Bolduc was not formally endorsed by Trump, who propelled many primary candidates to victory in key races throughout the summer, but the former president has called Bolduc a "strong guy."

Some Democrat groups sponsored primary ads promoting Bolduc, predicting he would make an easier November opponent for Hassan. That was consistent with Democratic-aligned organizations backing pro-Trump candidates in key races around the country — a strategy some have criticized, arguing it could backfire if those candidates go on to win their general elections.

Republicans in New Hampshire and around the country scoff at the notion that being a Trump loyalist — or not — could be a deciding general election factor, noting that the still unpopular Biden will be a drag on his party regardless.

The New Hampshire Republican Party has tweeted Hassan "votes with Joe Biden 96.4% of the time."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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Trump WH Staffer Karoline Leavitt Wins House GOP Primary in N.H. Rep.-nominee Karoline Leavitt, R-N.H. (Mary Schwalm/AP)

By Eric Mack | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 11:18 PM EDT

A former White House press officer staff from Trump administration, Karoline Leavitt, has won a contested Republican primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, Decision Desk HQ projects.

Leavitt outdistanced a crowded GOP primary field in New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District and will face incumbent Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., whose seat is considered vulnerable in November's general election. Pappas won unopposed.

The district encompasses Manchester and the southeastern part of the state. Former President Donald Trump did not make an official endorsement in the race.

The GOP field included former TV broadcaster Gail Huff Brown, wife of Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand during the Trump administration. Also running was Matt Mowers, who won the district's congressional 2020 Republican nomination and was a Trump administration State Department adviser.

But the candidate closest to Trump might be Leavitt, who worked in his White House's press office and has also campaigned with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

"Her compass always points to Trump," said Dante Scala, a University of New Hampshire political science professor. He added, in reference to the former president's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan, "She, in a very kind of crisp, sharp, confident way, will say the most MAGA thing that can be said in any situation."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: GOP Could Deliver Several Upsets to Dems (Newsmax/"Prime News")

By Nick Koutsobinas | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 10:49 PM EDT

Republicans have the potential to deliver several upsets to Democrats come midterms, presidential adviser Dick Morris predicted on Newsmax.

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"I think there is the usual suspects – New Hampshire, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia – and those four seats are regarded as the most vulnerable of the Democrat seats," Morris told Tuesday's "Prime News" about potential Senate seat pickups for the GOP in the midterm elections.

If Republicans win seats in Georgia and Nevada it will put Republicans ahead, Morris told host Jenn Pellegrino.

"There are a lot of states that are supposed to be walks for the Democrats, and they may be walks off a plank," Morris added.

"I think Leora Levy, the Republican in Connecticut, has a heck of a chance against" Rep. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., according to Morris, who added, "I think Tiffany Smiley, the Republican Senate candidate in Washington, has a very good shot" against Rep. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

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"And most of all, in Colorado, I think [Joe O'Dea] has an excellent shot of winning," Morris said, against Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.

"Those are three seats nobody's counting on, but I think those dark horses may well come in," Morris concluded.

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Biden Flies to Delaware to Vote in Primary Elections President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, Tuesday, to travel back to Washington after voting in the Delaware primary election. (AP)

Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:46 PM EDT

President Joe Biden traveled to Delaware aboard Air Force One Tuesday to vote in an election season that will decide the fate of his remaining time in office.

The president cast his ballot in Delaware primary elections as his party scrambles for every possible vote in the November midterms, which will determine control of Congress and the future of Biden's legislative agenda.

In Delaware, he addressed the issue of inflation, which remains high and is a key issue for voters of all political stripes.

Biden said he was not concerned about the latest data, and that "we're talking one tenth of one percent" – an apparent reference to the consumer price index rising by 0.1 percent in August compared to the month before.

The midterms usually go poorly for the incumbent president's party, and this was until recently forecast to be the case for Biden as well. But Democrats have begun to hope that all is not lost.

The party has heavily emphasized Republican opposition to the right to abortion in their messaging, while Biden has sought to turn the vote into a referendum on his predecessor Donald Trump.

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Biden Flies to Delaware to Vote in Primary Elections President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Tuesday, to travel back to Washington after voting in the Delaware primary election. (AP)

Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:46 PM EDT

President Joe Biden traveled to Delaware aboard Air Force One Tuesday to vote in an election season that will decide the fate of his remaining time in office.

The president cast his ballot in Delaware primary elections as his party scrambles for every possible vote in the November midterms, which will determine control of Congress and the future of Biden's legislative agenda.

In Delaware, he addressed the issue of inflation, which remains high and is a key issue for voters of all political stripes.

Biden said he was not concerned about the latest data, and that "we're talking one tenth of one percent" — an apparent reference to the consumer price index rising by 0.1 percent in August compared to the month before.

The midterms usually go poorly for the incumbent president's party, and this was until recently forecast to be the case for Biden as well. But Democrats have begun to hope that all is not lost.

The party has heavily emphasized Republican opposition to the right to abortion in their messaging, while Biden has sought to turn the vote into a referendum on his predecessor Donald Trump.

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Foreign-Born Population Grows to Highest Level Ever Under Biden (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

By Jack Gournell | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:18 PM EDT

The total foreign-born population in the United States has hit its highest level ever at 46.8 million under the Biden administration, according to just-released Census figures.

The numbers include both illegal and legal immigration, showing at least in part the effect of illegal crossings along the southern border with Mexico, writes Steven A. Camarota at the Center for Immigration Studies.

Republicans have criticized President Joe Biden for abandoning former President Donald Trump's tough border policies that held those trying to cross the border without documentation in Mexico while they awaited hearings. Border surges have coincided with Biden's policy reversals.

During the past year, 2 million new foreign-born residents have been added to the population, according to the Census Bureau's Annual Social and Economic Supplement survey.

The foreign-born population has quintupled since 1970 and tripled since 1980. It has doubled since 1990, according to the data.

"The foreign-born share of the U.S. population is approaching the record highs reached in 1910 (14.7 percent) and 1890 (14.8 percent)," Camarota writes.

Mass immigration, whether legal or illegal, can hurt the native-born working class by depressing wages and pushing up the need for social services since immigrant households are statistically larger and earn less, thus contributing less in taxes, Breitbart News' John Binder writes.

But it aids wealthier Americans who are able to hire lower-wage foreign workers, Binder argues, and it provides them with more consumers and more families who need housing.

"Just the sheer number of people overwhelms communities," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said earlier this week. "This idea of mass immigration — whether it’s illegal immigration or whether it’s just mass immigration through the legal process like the Diversity Lottery or chain migration — that is not conducive to assimilating people into a civil society."

A recent Rasmussen Reports survey found that 54% of likely Republican voters want to see legal immigration cut by more than half to fewer than 500,000 a year, while swing voters want them cut to at least 750,000 a year.

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Gov. Chris Sununu Overcomes GOP Primary Challenge Incumbent GOP Gov. Chris Sununu (Charles Krupa/AP)

By Eric Mack | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:12 PM EDT

New Hampshire GOP Gov. Chris Sununu retained the Republican nomination for governor in Tuesday night's primary election, Decision Desk HQ projects.

DDHQ called the race shortly after 8 p.m., when the final polls in the state closed.

Sununu, a moderate who was originally elected governor in 2017, held off primary challenges from five candidates, including: Karen Testerman, Thaddeus Riley, Julian Acciard, Richard McMenamon, and Jay Lewis.

Sununu will face Democrat Tom Sherman in November's midterm general election.

Former President Donald Trump, who Sununu has criticized, did not make an endorsement in the race.

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Dershowitz to Newsmax: Ken Starr Had a 'Deeply, Deeply Principled' Legal Mind (Newsmax/''The Record With Greta Van Susteren'')

By Jay Clemons | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:58 PM EDT

Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard University and one of the nation's foremost authorities on constitutional law, had a unique professional relationship with Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to the House impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.

In the late 1990s, Dershowitz worked against Starr — who died Tuesday at age 76, according to a family statement — in the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

And then, some 20-plus years later, Dershowitz and Starr worked together on the impeachment defense of former President Donald Trump.

Starr ''was a great scholar, great thinker, and just a wonderful man," Dershowitz told Newsmax on Tuesday evening while appearing on "The Record With Greta Van Susteren."

Going further with his recollection, Dershowitz — who is promoting a book, "The Price of Principle" — fondly remembers Starr being "very religious" in his personal life and "deeply, deeply principled" about the legal profession.

There were also a number of disagreements between the two legal minds, Dershowitz said, but Starr "wasn't disagreeable," personality-wise.

Dershowitz then used a Yiddish word to describe Starr's honorable persona: "He was a mensch."

From a political and philosophical standpoint, Dershowitz said he and Starr "disagreed about almost anything … but the arguments [Starr] always made were sound and compelling."

Starr's patient, cerebral approach to professional life paved the way for him to serve as solicitor general of the United States during George H.W. Bush's presidency (1989-93).

And after leaving the political scene, Starr had two high-profile stints as the law school dean at Pepperdine University and president of Baylor University.

"This man did everything," Dershowitz marveled.

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Dershowitz to Newsmax: Ken Starr Had a 'Deeply, Deeply Principled' Legal Mind (Newsmax/''The Record With Greta Van Susteren'')

By Jay Clemons | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:58 PM EDT

Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard University and one of the nation's foremost authorities on constitutional law, had a unique professional relationship with Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation led to the House impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.

In the late 1990s, Dershowitz worked against Starr — who died Tuesday at age 76, according to a family statement — in the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

And then, some 20-plus years later, Dershowitz and Starr worked together on the impeachment defense of former President Donald Trump.

Starr ''was a great scholar, great thinker, and just a wonderful man," Dershowitz told Newsmax on Tuesday evening while appearing on "The Record With Greta Van Susteren."

Going further with his recollection, Dershowitz — who is promoting a book, "The Price of Principle" — fondly remembers Starr being "very religious" in his personal life and "deeply, deeply principled" about the legal profession.

There were also a number of disagreements between the two legal minds, Dershowitz said, but Starr "wasn't disagreeable," personality-wise.

Dershowitz then used a Yiddish word to describe Starr's honorable persona: "He was a mensch."

From a political and philosophical standpoint, Dershowitz said he and Starr "disagreed about almost anything … but the arguments [Starr] always made were sound and compelling."

Starr's patient, cerebral approach to professional life paved the way for him to serve as solicitor general of the United States during George H.W. Bush's presidency (1989-93).

And after leaving the political scene, Starr had two high-profile stints as the law school dean at Pepperdine University and president of Baylor University.

"This man did everything," Dershowitz marveled.

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Midterm Primaries Wrap Up With Fresh Test of GOP's Future New Hampshire GOP Senate primary candidate Don Bolduc (Newsmax)

WILL WEISSERT and HOLLY RAMER Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:18 PM EDT

A staunchly conservative retired Army general is vying for the chance to take on Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., in a contest many Republicans hoped would be among their best chances to flip a Senate seat this year.

But the prospect of Don Bolduc winning Tuesday's GOP Senate primary has dampened those ambitions. In a state that President Joe Biden carried by more than 7 percentage points, Bolduc has campaigned on a platform that includes lies that Donald Trump won the 2020 election and conspiracy theories about vaccines.

That underscores the sense of disappointment among some national Republicans that Gov. Chris Sununu, a relatively popular moderate who likely could have posed more of a threat to Hassan, chose instead to run for reelection. The GOP is grappling with the possibility of again nominating a candidate who is popular with the party's base but struggles to broaden support ahead of the November general election.

Republican primary voters have similarly chosen conservative candidates this year in moderate or Democratic-leaning states including Massachusetts and Maryland, potentially putting competitive races out of the party's reach.

Neil Levesque, director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, said Bolduc is a type of candidate who would have struggled to succeed in GOP politics before Trump's rise. He has never held elected office and had just $75,000 in cash on hand last week. Still, Bolduc has been able to make inroads by positioning himself as an ally of Trump and his election falsehoods.

"That is because the theme of his campaign and messaging is very similar to former President Trump," Levesque said. "If it mirrors the former president, it's been effective."

Federal and state officials and Trump's own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the election was tainted. The former president's allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges Trump appointed.

Known for kicking off the primary season during presidential campaigns, New Hampshire is instead marking the conclusion of the nominating process for this year's midterms. There are also contests on Tuesday in Delaware and Rhode Island.

But the U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire is perhaps most revealing about the direction of the GOP. Bolduc is competing in a crowded field that includes Chuck Morse, the more moderate president of the New Hampshire state Senate, who has been endorsed by Sununu. The governor called Morse "the candidate to beat Sen. Hassan this November and the candidate Sen. Hassan is most afraid to face."

Sununu feels differently about Bolduc, whom he's called a conspiracy theorist while warning that Bolduc could have a harder time winning the general election.

Bolduc doesn't seem bothered by Sununu's criticism. He's called the governor "a Chinese communist sympathizer." Bolduc hasn't been formally endorsed by Trump, who propelled many primary candidates to victory in key races throughout the summer. But the former president has called Bolduc a "strong guy."

The final primary contests are unfolding at a dramatic moment in the midterm campaign. Republicans have spent much of the year building their election-year message around Biden and his management of the economy, particularly soaring prices. But Democrats are now entering the final stretch with a sense of cautious optimism as approval of Biden steadies and inflation shows signs of easing.

The Supreme Court's decision overturning a woman's constitutional right to an abortion may provide Democrats with the energy they need to turn back the defeats that historically accompany a new president's first midterms.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged the challenge last month, saying his party may be more likely to end Democrats' narrow control of the House than the Senate. He bemoaned "candidate quality" as a factor that could sway some outcomes in his chamber.

Some Democratic groups, meanwhile, have sponsored primary ads promoting Bolduc, predicting he'll make an easier November opponent for Hassan. That's consistent with Democratic-aligned organizations backing pro-Trump candidates in key races around the country — a strategy some have criticized, arguing that it could backfire if those candidates go on to win their general elections.

Republicans in New Hampshire and around the country scoff at the notion that being a Trump loyalist — or not — could be a deciding general election factor, noting that the still unpopular Biden will be a drag on his party regardless.

The New Hampshire Republican Party has tweeted that Hassan "votes with Joe Biden 96.4% of the time."

Many of the same dynamics swirling around the former president are at work in New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District, where pro-Trump candidate Bob Burns is among several Republicans vying for the party's nomination to face five-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster.

In New Hampshire's other congressional district, which encompasses Manchester and the southeastern part of the state, several Republicans are vying to challenge Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, who could also face a potentially close general election reelection contest — once he learns who his opponent will be.

The GOP field includes former TV broadcaster Gail Huff Brown, wife of Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand during the Trump administration. Also running is Matt Mowers, who won the district's congressional 2020 Republican nomination and was a Trump administration State Department adviser.

But the candidate closest to Trump might be Karoline Leavitt, who worked in his White House's press office and has also campaigned with Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

"Her compass always points to Trump," said Dante Scala, a University of New Hampshire political science professor. He added, in reference to the former president's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan, "She, in a very kind of crisp, sharp, confident way, will say the most MAGA thing that can be said in any situation."

Midterm Primaries Wrap Up With Fresh Test of GOP's Future New Hampshire GOP Senate primary candidate Don Bolduc (Newsmax)

WILL WEISSERT and HOLLY RAMER Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:18 PM EDT

A staunchly conservative retired Army general is vying for the chance to take on Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., in a contest many Republicans hoped would be among their best chances to flip a Senate seat this year.

But the prospect of Don Bolduc winning Tuesday's GOP Senate primary has dampened those ambitions. In a state that President Joe Biden carried by more than 7 percentage points, Bolduc has campaigned on a platform that includes lies that Donald Trump won the 2020 election and conspiracy theories about vaccines.

That underscores the sense of disappointment among some national Republicans that Gov. Chris Sununu, a relatively popular moderate who likely could have posed more of a threat to Hassan, chose instead to run for reelection. The GOP is grappling with the possibility of again nominating a candidate who is popular with the party's base but struggles to broaden support ahead of the November general election.

Republican primary voters have similarly chosen conservative candidates this year in moderate or Democratic-leaning states including Massachusetts and Maryland, potentially putting competitive races out of the party's reach.

Neil Levesque, director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, said Bolduc is a type of candidate who would have struggled to succeed in GOP politics before Trump's rise. He has never held elected office and had just $75,000 in cash on hand last week. Still, Bolduc has been able to make inroads by positioning himself as an ally of Trump and his election falsehoods.

"That is because the theme of his campaign and messaging is very similar to former President Trump," Levesque said. "If it mirrors the former president, it's been effective."

Federal and state officials and Trump's own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the election was tainted. The former president's allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges Trump appointed.

Known for kicking off the primary season during presidential campaigns, New Hampshire is instead marking the conclusion of the nominating process for this year's midterms. There are also contests on Tuesday in Delaware and Rhode Island.

But the U.S. Senate race in New Hampshire is perhaps most revealing about the direction of the GOP. Bolduc is competing in a crowded field that includes Chuck Morse, the more moderate president of the New Hampshire state Senate, who has been endorsed by Sununu. The governor called Morse "the candidate to beat Sen. Hassan this November and the candidate Sen. Hassan is most afraid to face."

Sununu feels differently about Bolduc, whom he's called a conspiracy theorist while warning that Bolduc could have a harder time winning the general election.

Bolduc doesn't seem bothered by Sununu's criticism. He's called the governor "a Chinese communist sympathizer." Bolduc hasn't been formally endorsed by Trump, who propelled many primary candidates to victory in key races throughout the summer. But the former president has called Bolduc a "strong guy."

The final primary contests are unfolding at a dramatic moment in the midterm campaign. Republicans have spent much of the year building their election-year message around Biden and his management of the economy, particularly soaring prices. But Democrats are now entering the final stretch with a sense of cautious optimism as approval of Biden steadies and inflation shows signs of easing.

The Supreme Court's decision overturning a woman's constitutional right to an abortion may provide Democrats with the energy they need to turn back the defeats that historically accompany a new president's first midterms.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged the challenge last month, saying his party may be more likely to end Democrats' narrow control of the House than the Senate. He bemoaned "candidate quality" as a factor that could sway some outcomes in his chamber.

Some Democratic groups, meanwhile, have sponsored primary ads promoting Bolduc, predicting he'll make an easier November opponent for Hassan. That's consistent with Democratic-aligned organizations backing pro-Trump candidates in key races around the country — a strategy some have criticized, arguing that it could backfire if those candidates go on to win their general elections.

Republicans in New Hampshire and around the country scoff at the notion that being a Trump loyalist — or not — could be a deciding general election factor, noting that the still unpopular Biden will be a drag on his party regardless.

The New Hampshire Republican Party has tweeted that Hassan "votes with Joe Biden 96.4% of the time."

Many of the same dynamics swirling around the former president are at work in New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District, where pro-Trump candidate Bob Burns is among several Republicans vying for the party's nomination to face five-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster.

In New Hampshire's other congressional district, which encompasses Manchester and the southeastern part of the state, several Republicans are vying to challenge Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, who could also face a potentially close general election reelection contest — once he learns who his opponent will be.

The GOP field includes former TV broadcaster Gail Huff Brown, wife of Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand during the Trump administration. Also running is Matt Mowers, who won the district's congressional 2020 Republican nomination and was a Trump administration State Department adviser.

But the candidate closest to Trump might be Karoline Leavitt, who worked in his White House's press office and has also campaigned with Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

"Her compass always points to Trump," said Dante Scala, a University of New Hampshire political science professor. He added, in reference to the former president's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan, "She, in a very kind of crisp, sharp, confident way, will say the most MAGA thing that can be said in any situation."

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Stephen Moore to Newsmax: Rising Cost of Necessities 'Killing American Families' (Newsmax/"American Agenda")

By Jay Clemons | Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:07 PM EDT

Economist Stephen Moore, a former senior economic adviser with the Trump White House and founding president of the Club For Growth, believes the Biden administration picked an odd time to tout the formal passing of the Inflation Reduction Act Tuesday — the same day in which the consumer-driven inflation rate for August surged 8.3%, from a year-over-year perspective.

"Can you imagine a worse time to have a celebration on a bill that massively increases spending and taxes?" Moore rhetorically asked Newsmax Tuesday afternoon, while appearing on "American Agenda" with hosts Bob Sellers and Katrina Szish.

Prior to Tuesday's announcement, Moore's rough calculations had the inflation rate in a range below 8%. However, those figures didn't account enough for human necessities — such as food, water, electricity, shelter, etc. — rising twice or thrice in price, compared to this time last year.

"I didn't think it'd be this bad," admits Moore of the August inflation rate, while adding, "This is killing American families."

By Moore's estimates, the average American family has lost nearly $4,000 in purchasing power since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.

"This didn't just happen by accident," says Moore, while referencing a number of sluggish Biden economic policies.

Messaging has also been a problem for the Biden White House, says Moore, author of the book, "Trumponomics."

For example, the White House naming a bill the Inflation Reduction Act, "when it just adds kerosene to the fire, is almost laughable," says Moore.

Factoring in the string of consecutive months with high inflation, along with negative GDP growth in back-to-back quarters, Moore asserts the Federal Reserve will likely be compelled to raise interest rates again — perhaps multiple times — over the next few months.

"The Fed's in a tough place right now," says Moore. "And this [economic downturn] was so avoidable. All we had to do was stop spending money."

Instead, Moore says the Democrats' out-of-control spending has put this nation into a deeper hole.

"It's just a killer" to Americans trying to get ahead, Moore says.

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Judge Unseals Additional Portions of Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Former President Donald Trump plays golf at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., Tuesday. (AP)

ERIC TUCKER Tuesday, 13 September 2022 06:51 PM EDT

A federal judge Tuesday unsealed additional portions of an FBI affidavit laying out the basis for a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home, showing that agents earlier obtained a hard drive after issuing a subpoena for surveillance footage recorded inside Mar-a-Lago.

A heavily redacted version of the affidavit was made public last month, but the Justice Department requested permission to show more of it after lawyers for Trump revealed the existence of a June grand jury subpoena that sought video footage from cameras in the vicinity of the Mar-a-Lago storage room.

“Because those aspects of the grand jury’s investigation have now been publicly revealed, there is no longer any reason to keep them sealed (i.e. redacted) in the filings in this matter,” department lawyers wrote.

The newly visible portions of the FBI agent’s affidavit show that the FBI on June 24 subpoenaed for the records in June after a visit weeks earlier to Mar-a-Lago in which agents observed between 50 to 55 boxes of records in the storage room at the property. The Trump Organization provided a hard drive on July 6 in response to the subpoena, the affidavit says.

The footage could be an important piece of the investigation, including whether anyone has sought to obstruct the probe. The Justice Department has said in a separate filing that it has “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”

The Justice Department has been investigating the holding of top-secret information and other classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House. FBI agents during their Aug. 8 search of the home and club said they recovered more than 11,000 documents, including over 100 with classification markings.

Separately Tuesday, the Justice Department again urged U.S. District Aileen Cannon to lift her hold on core aspects of the investigation. Cannon last week granted the Trump team's request for an independent arbiter to review the seized documents and weed out from the investigation any records that may be covered by claims of executive or attorney-client privilege.

She also ordered the department to halt its review of the records pending any further court order or the completion of a report by the yet-to-be-named special master. The department urged Cannon last week to put her order on hold and told the judge Tuesday that its investigation would be harmed by a continued delay of its ability to scrutinize the classified documents.

“The government and the public unquestionably have an interest in the timely enforcement of criminal laws, particularly those involving the protection of highly sensitive information, and especially where, as here, there may have been efforts to obstruct its investigation,” the lawyers wrote.

The Trump team on Monday urged the judge to leave her order in place. His lawyers raised questions about the documents' current classification status and noted that a president has absolute authority to declassify information, though it pointedly did not say that Trump had actually declassified anything.

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Migrants, who boarded a bus in Texas, listen to volunteers offering assistance after being dropped off within view of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC, on August 11, 2022. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

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The mayor of a small Illinois town is reeling after dozens of migrants are bussed to his town without notice. Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson said he recently received a call from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s office, informing him ”a bus” full of migrants would be arriving in the city that evening.

When he asked for more information such as how many migrants and which hotel they were headed to, Johnson said the office claimed “no details were available.” The small town mayor then questioned whether these migrants had been subjected to any health screenings or background checks, but given no answer. Johnson said he would provide food and water for the migrants, but not allow them off the bus.

“We started doing some homework. The State of Texas has no clue where Elk Grove Village is. They were not going to Elk Grove Village. They were going to the city of Chicago. She wants to probably say politically: ‘I’m a sanctuary city. I welcome you with open arms.’ But when reality checks, if five bus loads shows up in her city, she can’t handle it. So let’s give them to Elk Grove Village. That’s wrong…We’re not against migrants. We’re not against helping them, but we should work together. Our frustration is, no well-advance knowledge, no involvement in communication discussing how we can handle it.”

–Mayor Craig Johnson – Elk Grove Village, Illinois

This comes as Illinois Democrat leadership, including Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have attempted to play off the influx of migrants from Texas as ”racism” by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

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