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AP-NORC Poll: Biden Approval Up 9 Points, but Doubts Persist (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

JOSH BOAK and HANNAH FINGERHUT Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:55 AM EDT

President Joe Biden's popularity improved 9 points from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Support for Biden recovered from a low of 36% in July to 45%, driven in large part by a rebound in support from Democrats just two months before the November midterm elections. During a few bleak summer months when gasoline prices peaked and lawmakers appeared deadlocked, the Democrats faced the possibility of blowout losses against Republicans.

Their outlook appears better after notching a string of legislative successes that left more Americans ready to judge the Democratic president on his preferred terms: "Don't compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative."

The president's approval rating remains underwater, with 53% of U.S. adults disapproving of him, and the economy continues to be a weakness for Biden. Just 38% approve of his economic leadership as the country faces stubbornly high inflation and Republicans try to make household finances the axis of the upcoming vote.

Still, the poll suggests Biden and his fellow Democrats are gaining momentum right as generating voter enthusiasm and turnout takes precedence.

Average gas prices have tumbled 26% since June to $3.71 a gallon, reducing the pressure somewhat on family budgets even if inflation remains high. Congress also passed a pair of landmark bills in the past month that could reshape the economy and reduce carbon emissions.

Republicans have also faced resistance since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and its abortion protections. And Biden is openly casting former President Donald Trump as a fundamental threat to democracy, a charge that took on resonance after an FBI search of Trump's Florida home found classified documents that belong to the U.S. government.

This combination of factors has won Biden some plaudits among the Democratic faithful, even if Americans still feel lukewarm about his leadership.

"I'm not under any belief that he's the best person for the job — he's the best from the people we had to choose from," said Betty Bogacz, 74, a retiree from Portland, Oregon. "He represented stability, which I feel President Trump did not represent at all."

Biden's approval rating didn't exceed 40% in May, June, or July as inflation surged in the aftermath of Russia invading Ukraine. But his string of wins over the past month continued on Thursday, after the poll was conducted, when he announced a tentative deal between railways and unions that avoided a strike that could have shut down the railroads and devastated the economy.

The president's rating now is similar to what it was throughout the first quarter of the year, but he continues to fall short of early highs. His average approval rating in AP-NORC polling through the first six months of his term was 60%.

Driving the recent increase in Biden's popularity is renewed support among Democrats, who had shown signs of dejection in the early summer. Now, 78% of Democrats approve of Biden's job performance, up from 65% in July. Sixty-six percent of Democrats approve of Biden on the economy, up from 54% in June.

Interviews suggest a big reason for Biden's rebound is the reemergence of Trump on the national stage, causing voters such as Stephen Jablonsky, who labeled Biden as "OK," to say voting Democratic is a must for the nation's survival.

"The country has a political virus by the name of Donald Trump," said Jablonsky, a retired music professor from Stamford, Connecticut. "We have a man who is psychotic and seems to have no concern for law and order and democracy. The Republican Party has gone to a place that is so unattractive and so dangerous, this coming election in November could be the last election we ever have."

Republicans feel just as negative about Biden as they did before. Only about 1 in 10 Republicans approve of the president overall or on the economy, similar to ratings earlier this summer.

Christine Yannuzzi, 50, doubts that 79-year-old Biden has the capacity to lead.

"I don't think he's mentally, completely aware of everything that's happening all the time," said Yannuzzi, who lives in Binghamton, New York. "The economy's doing super poorly, and I have a hard time believing that the joblessness rate is as low as they say it is."

"I think the middle class is being really phased out and families are working two and three jobs a person to make it," the Republican added.

Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults say the economy is in good shape, while 71% say it's doing poorly. In June, 20% said conditions were good and 79% said they were bad.

Democrats are more positive now than they were in June, 46% vs. 31%. Republicans remain largely negative, with only 10% saying conditions are good and 90% saying they're bad.

About a quarter of Americans now say things in the country are headed in the right direction, 27%, up from 17% in July. Seventy-two percent say things are going in the wrong direction.

Close to half of Democrats — 44% — have an optimistic outlook, up from 27% in July. Just 9% of Republicans are optimistic about the nation's direction.

Akila Atkins, a 27-year-old stay-at-home mom of two, thinks Biden is "OK" and doesn't have much confidence that his solutions will curb rising prices.

Atkins says it's gotten a little harder in the last year to manage her family's expenses, and she's frustrated that she can no longer rely on the expanded child tax credit. The tax credit paid out monthly was part of Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package and has since lapsed.

The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the expanded tax credit nearly halved the child poverty rate last year to 5.2%. Atkins said it helped them "stay afloat with bills, the kids' clothing, shoes, school supplies, everything."

Whatever misgivings the Democrat in Grand Forks, North Dakota, has about Biden, she believes he is preferable to Trump.

"I always feel like he could be better, but then again, he's better than our last president," she said.

The poll of 1,054 adults was conducted Sept. 9-12 using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

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AP-NORC Poll: Biden Approval Up 9 Points, but Doubts Persist (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

JOSH BOAK and HANNAH FINGERHUT Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:55 AM EDT

President Joe Biden's popularity improved 9 points from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Support for Biden recovered from a low of 36% in July to 45%, driven in large part by a rebound in support from Democrats just two months before the November midterm elections. During a few bleak summer months when gasoline prices peaked and lawmakers appeared deadlocked, the Democrats faced the possibility of blowout losses against Republicans.

Their outlook appears better after notching a string of legislative successes that left more Americans ready to judge the Democratic president on his preferred terms: "Don't compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative."

The president's approval rating remains underwater, with 53% of U.S. adults disapproving of him, and the economy continues to be a weakness for Biden. Just 38% approve of his economic leadership as the country faces stubbornly high inflation and Republicans try to make household finances the axis of the upcoming vote.

Still, the poll suggests Biden and his fellow Democrats are gaining momentum right as generating voter enthusiasm and turnout takes precedence.

Average gas prices have tumbled 26% since June to $3.71 a gallon, reducing the pressure somewhat on family budgets even if inflation remains high. Congress also passed a pair of landmark bills in the past month that could reshape the economy and reduce carbon emissions.

Republicans have also faced resistance since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and its abortion protections. And Biden is openly casting former President Donald Trump as a fundamental threat to democracy, a charge that took on resonance after an FBI search of Trump's Florida home found classified documents that belong to the U.S. government.

This combination of factors has won Biden some plaudits among the Democratic faithful, even if Americans still feel lukewarm about his leadership.

"I'm not under any belief that he's the best person for the job — he's the best from the people we had to choose from," said Betty Bogacz, 74, a retiree from Portland, Oregon. "He represented stability, which I feel President Trump did not represent at all."

Biden's approval rating didn't exceed 40% in May, June, or July as inflation surged in the aftermath of Russia invading Ukraine. But his string of wins over the past month continued on Thursday, after the poll was conducted, when he announced a tentative deal between railways and unions that avoided a strike that could have shut down the railroads and devastated the economy.

The president's rating now is similar to what it was throughout the first quarter of the year, but he continues to fall short of early highs. His average approval rating in AP-NORC polling through the first six months of his term was 60%.

Driving the recent increase in Biden's popularity is renewed support among Democrats, who had shown signs of dejection in the early summer. Now, 78% of Democrats approve of Biden's job performance, up from 65% in July. Sixty-six percent of Democrats approve of Biden on the economy, up from 54% in June.

Interviews suggest a big reason for Biden's rebound is the reemergence of Trump on the national stage, causing voters such as Stephen Jablonsky, who labeled Biden as "OK," to say voting Democratic is a must for the nation's survival.

"The country has a political virus by the name of Donald Trump," said Jablonsky, a retired music professor from Stamford, Connecticut. "We have a man who is psychotic and seems to have no concern for law and order and democracy. The Republican Party has gone to a place that is so unattractive and so dangerous, this coming election in November could be the last election we ever have."

Republicans feel just as negative about Biden as they did before. Only about 1 in 10 Republicans approve of the president overall or on the economy, similar to ratings earlier this summer.

Christine Yannuzzi, 50, doubts that 79-year-old Biden has the capacity to lead.

"I don't think he's mentally, completely aware of everything that's happening all the time," said Yannuzzi, who lives in Binghamton, New York. "The economy's doing super poorly, and I have a hard time believing that the joblessness rate is as low as they say it is."

"I think the middle class is being really phased out and families are working two and three jobs a person to make it," the Republican added.

Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults say the economy is in good shape, while 71% say it's doing poorly. In June, 20% said conditions were good and 79% said they were bad.

Democrats are more positive now than they were in June, 46% vs. 31%. Republicans remain largely negative, with only 10% saying conditions are good and 90% saying they're bad.

About a quarter of Americans now say things in the country are headed in the right direction, 27%, up from 17% in July. Seventy-two percent say things are going in the wrong direction.

Close to half of Democrats — 44% — have an optimistic outlook, up from 27% in July. Just 9% of Republicans are optimistic about the nation's direction.

Akila Atkins, a 27-year-old stay-at-home mom of two, thinks Biden is "OK" and doesn't have much confidence that his solutions will curb rising prices.

Atkins says it's gotten a little harder in the last year to manage her family's expenses, and she's frustrated that she can no longer rely on the expanded child tax credit. The tax credit paid out monthly was part of Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package and has since lapsed.

The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the expanded tax credit nearly halved the child poverty rate last year to 5.2%. Atkins said it helped them "stay afloat with bills, the kids' clothing, shoes, school supplies, everything."

Whatever misgivings the Democrat in Grand Forks, North Dakota, has about Biden, she believes he is preferable to Trump.

"I always feel like he could be better, but then again, he's better than our last president," she said.

The poll of 1,054 adults was conducted Sept. 9-12 using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

Jan. 6 Panel Wants More John Eastman Emails John Eastman (Getty Images)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:05 AM EDT

The Jan. 6 House committee wants to see additional emails sent by John Eastman, a lawyer who had advised then-President Donald Trump on attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, Politico is reporting.

Committee counsel Douglas Letter, in a Wednesday court filing, asked a federal judge in California to review the remaining emails.

Letter wants U.S. District Court Judge David Carter to determine if Eastman's efforts to shield them, by claiming of attorney-client privilege, were legitimate, Politico said.

"As the Select Committee reaches the final months of its tenure under its current authorizing resolution, it now respectfully seeks such in camera review so that it may complete its efforts, including preparation of the final report," Letter said in the court filing.

Carter's rulings have already resulted in the release to the committee of a trove of Eastman's emails, Politico noted.

In March, Carter, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, offered the opinion that Trump "more likely than not" attempted to obstruct Congress when he sought to contest the certification of the 2020 Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2021.

"Based on the evidence, the court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021," Carter ruled.

The opinion was delivered in a ruling that ordered 101 personal emails from Eastman to be turned over to the select committee.

All the emails come from filed held by Chapman University, where Eastman used to work, according to Politico.

The committee has subpoenaed Eastman, who pleaded the Fifth during a December meeting before the panel, Politico said.

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Jan. 6 Panel Wants More John Eastman Emails John Eastman (Getty Images)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:51 AM EDT

The Jan. 6 House committee wants to see additional emails sent by John Eastman, a lawyer who had advised then-President Donald Trump on attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, Politico is reporting.

Committee counsel Douglas Letter, in a Wednesday court filing, asked a federal judge in California to review the remaining emails.

Letter wants U.S. District Court Judge David Carter to determine if Eastman's efforts to shield them, by claiming of attorney-client privilege, were legitimate, Politico said.

"As the Select Committee reaches the final months of its tenure under its current authorizing resolution, it now respectfully seeks such in camera review so that it may complete its efforts, including preparation of the final report," Letter said in the court filing.

Carter's rulings have already resulted in the release to the committee of a trove of Eastman's emails, Politico noted.

In March, Carter, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, offered the opinion that Trump "more likely than not" attempted to obstruct Congress when he sought to contest the certification of the 2020 Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, 2021.

"Based on the evidence, the court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021," Carter ruled.

The opinion was delivered in a ruling that ordered 101 personal emails from Eastman to be turned over to the select committee.

All the emails come from files held by Chapman University, where Eastman used to work, according to Politico.

The committee has subpoenaed Eastman, who pleaded the Fifth during a December meeting before the panel, Politico said.

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Jim Jordan: FBI 'Woke Analyst' Labeled Veterans-Led Group 'Domestic Terrorist' Organization Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

By Charlie McCarthy | Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:57 AM EDT

The FBI has labeled groups domestic terrorist organizations despite investigations showing they're not a threat, according to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

Jordan, ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, said a whistleblower told him the FBI has designated veteran-led American Contingency a "domestic violent extremism" (DVE) organization despite the group having been probed and cleared as a non threat by the FBI in 2020, the Washington Examiner reported.

The congressman stated the allegations in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday.

"[American Contingency founder] Mike Glover is a veteran doing good work out there but some woke analyst at the FBI says we're going to investigate this guy," Jordan told Fox News on Wednesday.

Jordan also accused the FBI of recharacterizing cases as DVE cases to artificially enhance its data to advance a political narrative, the Examiner reported.

"[If you] display the flag, you own a gun, and you voted for Trump, you're somehow in that category that [President] Joe Biden says are extremist or fascist," Jordan said.

American Contingency's website says its mission is to "inform, equip, train, and connect Americans to be self-reliant, resilient, and prepared for any contingency." The website also says Glover is a former Green Beret.

Jordan's letter said the FBI deemed American Contingency as a potential threat because Glover "exercised his First Amendment right to speak out in protest of the federal government," and appeared to be "rallying individuals to 'take action,'" the Examiner reported.

The whistleblower, providing internal FBI notes, told Jordan that the bureau "rifled through Glover's life — obtaining his military records, his veteran's disability rating, and even his monthly disability benefit — before concluding that American Contingency 'desires to assist Americans in preparing themselves for catastrophic events and not to overthrow the United States Government.'"

Even after it was determined American Contingency was not a threat, the FBI labeled the group as a violent extremist group in an official FBI alert, Jordan said.

Jordan in July claimed whistleblowers said FBI agents were pressured "to juice up the numbers" on domestic terrorist threats.

In his letter to Wray, Jordan asked the FBI to provide the House Judiciary Committee documents related to the bureau's Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide (DTSG) on Militia Violent Extremism.

He also requested an explanation as to why the Domestic Terrorism Strategic Unit did not include symbols, images, phrases, events, and individuals about left-wing violent extremists' groups in the DTSG, the Examiner said.

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GOP Senators Seek to Block Iran's President From US Visit Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran on Aug. 29. (Getty)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:05 AM EDT

Six Republican senators have introduced a bill to ban Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi from entering the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which runs through Sept. 27.

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Joni Ernst of Iowa, John Barrasso of Wyoming, and Marco Rubio of Florida, joined together to introduce the Strengthen Entry Visa Enforcement and Restrictions [SEVER] Act on Wednesday.

“Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would already be excluded from entering the United States for the U.N. General Assembly if President [Joe] Biden and his administration were enforcing existing statutes in good faith," Cruz said in a statement.

“Raisi has a record of terrorist activities, including his advocacy for the assassination of [former] President [Donald] Trump and other U.S. officials. He is also listed by the State Department as ineligible for entering the United States because of mass atrocities he committed. Nevertheless, the Biden administration seems set on circumventing these restrictions.

“The SEVER Act will deny entry to Raisi and the few dozen individuals who are hand-picked by the Ayatollah to repress the Iranian people and pose threats to American national security, to ensure they cannot get into the United States. It is well within the rights of the United States to deny them entry, and we absolutely should.”

Cruz told The Washington Free Beacon:"The United States is absolutely able to deny entry to anyone who threatens our national security. Raisi is a mass-murdering terrorist who was handpicked by the ayatollah—and he's coming to the United States while there are Iranian agents trying to murder former American officials and dissidents on American soil. Joe Biden should not grant him a visa, and Congress should pass the SEVER Act to ensure he doesn't do so now or in the future."

A bipartisan group of lawmakers and more than 500 Iranian-American professionals have already sent letters to Biden asking that Raisi be denied entry into the country for the meeting.

Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., wrote to Biden on behalf of 51 other members of Congress asking Biden to "deny Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation entry into the United States."

"Given Ebrahim Raisi's record of supporting terrorism and violating human rights, he should not be afforded the privilege to step onto American soil nor the privilege to address the United Nations General Assembly," Young's letter said.

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GOP Senators Seek to Block Iran's President From US Visit Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran on Aug. 29. (Getty Images)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:33 AM EDT

Six Republican senators have introduced a bill to ban Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi from entering the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which runs through Sept. 27.

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Joni Ernst of Iowa, John Barrasso of Wyoming, and Marco Rubio of Florida, joined together to introduce the Strengthen Entry Visa Enforcement and Restrictions [SEVER] Act on Wednesday.

"Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would already be excluded from entering the United States for the U.N. General Assembly if President [Joe] Biden and his administration were enforcing existing statutes in good faith," Cruz said in a statement.

"Raisi has a record of terrorist activities, including his advocacy for the assassination of [former] President [Donald] Trump and other U.S. officials. He is also listed by the State Department as ineligible for entering the United States because of mass atrocities he committed. Nevertheless, the Biden administration seems set on circumventing these restrictions.

"The SEVER Act will deny entry to Raisi and the few dozen individuals who are hand-picked by the Ayatollah to repress the Iranian people and pose threats to American national security, to ensure they cannot get into the United States. It is well within the rights of the United States to deny them entry, and we absolutely should."

Cruz told The Washington Free Beacon:"The United States is absolutely able to deny entry to anyone who threatens our national security. Raisi is a mass-murdering terrorist who was handpicked by the ayatollah — and he's coming to the United States while there are Iranian agents trying to murder former American officials and dissidents on American soil. Joe Biden should not grant him a visa, and Congress should pass the SEVER Act to ensure he doesn't do so now or in the future."

A bipartisan group of lawmakers and more than 500 Iranian-American professionals have already sent letters to Biden asking that Raisi be denied entry into the country for the meeting.

Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., wrote to Biden on behalf of 51 other members of Congress asking Biden to "deny Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation entry into the United States."

"Given Ebrahim Raisi's record of supporting terrorism and violating human rights, he should not be afforded the privilege to step onto American soil nor the privilege to address the United Nations General Assembly," Young's letter said.

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DeSantis Sends 2 Private Planes of Illegals to Martha's Vineyard

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Getty)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 10:03 PM EDT

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a pair of flights of illegal immigrants Wednesday to Martha's Vineyard in the latest move to get Democrat-run areas away from the southern border to bear some responsibility for President Joe Biden's "open border policies."

"Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," a statement from DeSantis' office read, ABC's WCVB-5 in Boston reported.

"States like Massachusetts, New York and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as 'sanctuary states' and support for the Biden administration's open border policies."

Charter flights arrived Wednesday afternoon on Martha's Vineyard, a Massachusetts state senator confirmed to WCVB.

The charter flights reportedly originated in Texas and made a stop to load migrants from Florida's panhandle, too, according to flight records.

There were an estimated 50 Venezuelan migrants, some of them children, brought to Martha's Vineyard Regional High School for snacks and shelter before being cared for by migrant shelters in Edgartown, WCVB reported.

"We're going to take care of you," Dukes County Sheriff Robert Ogden told the migrants, The Martha's Vineyard Times reported.

DeSantis has funded $12 million for a migrant relocation program that intends to send undocumented migrants to sanctuary cities and states around the country.

Martha's Vineyard is widely regarded as an upscale vacation destination and weekend escape for wealthy progressives, including being one of the homes for former President Barack Obama along with so-called Hollywood elites.

Legal expert Alan Dershowitz, sharing stories from his book, "The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences," has repeatedly told Newsmax he has been ostracized on the island for having once defended former President Donald Trump against what he called an unconstitutional impeachment and not toeing the line of liberalism.

"The Baker-Polito Administration is in touch with local officials regarding the arrival of migrants in Martha’s Vineyard," Massachusetts GOP Gov. Charlie Baker wrote in a statement Wednesday night, saying it will support efforts to provide shelter and care for the migrants flown there.

Baker, once one of the most popular governors in the U.S., has decided against running for another term in the deep blue state. Trump-endorsed Geoff Diehl won the GOP gubernatorial primary earlier this month and will face Democrat state Attorney General Maura Healey in November's midterm election to be the next governor.

DeSantis Sends 2 Private Planes of Illegals to Martha's Vineyard

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Getty)

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 10:03 PM EDT

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a pair of flights of illegal immigrants Wednesday to Martha's Vineyard in the latest move to get Democrat-run areas away from the southern border to bear some responsibility for President Joe Biden's "open border policies."

"Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," a statement from DeSantis' office read, ABC's WCVB-5 in Boston reported.

"States like Massachusetts, New York and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as 'sanctuary states' and support for the Biden administration's open border policies."

Charter flights arrived Wednesday afternoon on Martha's Vineyard, a Massachusetts state senator confirmed to WCVB.

The charter flights reportedly originated in Texas and made a stop to load migrants from Florida's panhandle, too, according to flight records.

There were an estimated 50 Venezuelan migrants, some of them children, brought to Martha's Vineyard Regional High School for snacks and shelter before being cared for by migrant shelters in Edgartown, WCVB reported.

"We're going to take care of you," Dukes County Sheriff Robert Ogden told the migrants, The Martha's Vineyard Times reported.

DeSantis has funded $12 million for a migrant relocation program that intends to send undocumented migrants to sanctuary cities and states around the country.

Martha's Vineyard is widely regarded as an upscale vacation destination and weekend escape for wealthy progressives, including being one of the homes for former President Barack Obama along with so-called Hollywood elites.

Legal expert Alan Dershowitz, sharing stories from his book, "The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences," has repeatedly told Newsmax he has been ostracized on the island for having once defended former President Donald Trump against what he called an unconstitutional impeachment and not toeing the line of liberalism.

"The Baker-Polito Administration is in touch with local officials regarding the arrival of migrants in Martha’s Vineyard," Massachusetts GOP Gov. Charlie Baker wrote in a statement Wednesday night, saying it will support efforts to provide shelter and care for the migrants flown there.

Baker, once one of the most popular governors in the U.S., has decided against running for another term in the deep blue state. Trump-endorsed Geoff Diehl won the GOP gubernatorial primary earlier this month and will face Democrat state Attorney General Maura Healey in November's midterm election to be the next governor.

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Jon Voight to Newsmax: Potential for 'Real Peace for First Time' in Middle East (Newsmax/''Rob Schmitt Tonight'')

By Eric Mack | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 08:50 PM EDT

Peace in the Middle East has been considered unachievable for decades, if not centuries, but the Trump administration's Abraham Accords changed the paradigm, actor Jon Voight told Newsmax on Wednesday.

"Peace has never been there it seems from the beginning," Voight said on "Rob Schmitt Tonight," previewing the special "The Abraham Accords" that will air Sunday at 8 p.m. Eastern time exclusively on Newsmax.

"There's always been trouble and violence and difficulty for the Jewish people. And now with Donald Trump and the Abraham Accords, there's a possibility of peace in that region — real peace for the first time."

Voight's special, in cooperation with JLTV's (Jewish Life Television's) Stephen Paul and Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy, sits down with the former president to dig into the peace deals that President Joe Biden is effectively damaging but will not be able to suppress or make go away, Voight told host Rob Schmitt.

"It won't, obviously, something is changing," Voight said. "It gives us all hope, and it was brought about because of the administration of Donald Trump and many, many people in the region all of the work of Bibi Netanyahu and this Arab friends and the friendships they've made, and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the president — many people working very, very hard for years."

Biden's foreign policy is getting in the way of the progress toward peace, but the administration will fail to unwind it all, according to Voight.

"This normalization diplomatically has meant economically a boon to that area and all of the signatories of the Abraham Accords were the recipient of billions of dollars for their treasuries. So it's going to stay," he said.

Voight also appeared on Monday's "Eric Bolling The Balance," saying that the documentary will show Americans Trump's "grace" and "humility" the mainstream media does not show.

"You'll see a side to him that you've never seen before, or most people haven't seen, a side of patience, of grace, even humility," Voight told host Eric Bolling. "I must say it's a very beautiful side to him that is exposed here, because most of the time he's talking about very rough stuff, and he's being attacked quite a lot. So this is a different kind of time with him.

"It'll be a revelation to many people. There is no coincidence that this happened under Donald Trump."

Voight said that the mainstream media has tried to downplay the Trump-era peace deals to avoid praising him.

"When they signed the accords, the mainstream media, of course, didn't want to do anything to encourage any praise for Trump, so they kept it quiet," Voight said.

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Rep. Jordan to Newsmax: GOP-Controlled House to Expose DOJ, FBI Biases (Newsmax/''The Record With Greta Van Susteren'')

By Jay Clemons | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 08:12 PM EDT

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Newsmax on Wednesday that Republican investigators will focus on "border and crime" oversight hearings in January — if GOP officials win the majority in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

"Those two issues are front and center on voters' minds," Jordan said on "The Record With Greta Van Susteren."

Regarding the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, Jordan said, "I always tell people 'we went from having a border to no border at all,'" a comment that evokes comparisons between the Trump and Biden administrations' handling of migrants unlawfully crossing the southern border.

Beyond border chaos and spiraling crime in big cities, Jordan — who is up for reelection — anticipates the Department of Justice and FBI being subject to more oversight and scrutiny in a GOP-controlled House.

For starters, Jordan wants to know what events made the above organizations focus more on the "political nature" of law enforcement, and not equal application of the justice system.

"I don't know anyone who likes what the Justice Department is doing now," Jordan said.

To illustrate Jordan's point, House GOP investigators have already heard from 14 FBI whistleblowers regarding the agencies' internal conduct over the last few years.

"[The whistleblowers] are willing to come to us while we're in the minority, even though there's not a whole lot we can do now [until January]," Jordan said.

He added the whistleblower complaints largely cover the DOJ's run-ins with concerned parents at school board meetings last year, the handling of the Jan. 6, 202,1 riot at the Capitol, and field agents feeling internal pressure to classify cases involving American conservatives as "domestic violence extremism."

The recent rash of DOJ and FBI searches are designed to promote the narrative that ''f you're a Trump voter, you're an extremist … and that's frightening," Jordan said.

Van Susteren then pressed Jordan on what might be first question directed toward Attorney General Merrick Garland next year, if he came before the House for sworn testimony.

Jordan rattled off the hypothetical query of asking Garland about the origin of the DOJ and teachers unions' "coordination" in terms of classifying concerned parents as "domestic terrorists."

"That [incident] was our first [FBI] whistleblower," Jordan said while revealing that DOJ went after parents peacefully seeking answers from school board administrators.

DOJ was "targeting moms and dads," Jordan said.

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Navarro to Newsmax: If Trump Insider Traded, He'd Be Charged

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By Nick Koutsobinas | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 06:10 PM EDT

The FBI and Department of Justice are pulling a dragnet on former President Donald Trump and his close associates to extract any information they can from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, but they are not paying any attention to clear indications of possible insider trading by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of Congress, former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro told Newsmax.

"We got Pelosi and her husband and key Democrats making money off the backs of the American people in the stock market, based on insider information. So I would ask the FBI, the Department of Justice and everyone in between, 'Where the hell are the subpoenas there on insider trading?'" Navarro asked in his "American Agenda" appearance on Wednesday.
"If anybody in the Trump administration ever done anything like that, they would have been all over them."

On Wednesday, Pelosi, who was exposed in January for possible insider trading, told Newsmax that efforts to produce stock ban legislation for members of Congress were still ongoing.

"There's been discussion about it and this — just recently, this morning, actually, in the committee," the California Democrat told Newsmax's Kilmeny Duchardt at a Wednesday press conference. "We've been going back and forth and refining things and talking to members about what they think will work, and we believe we have a product that we can bring to the floor."

Navarro he equates Pelosi's apparent insider trading with an elitism that endows her to act negligently toward her constituents and outside the interest of the Justice Department's scrutiny.

Speaking on the "stagflationary" market, Navarro said, "People are getting killed; pensions funds are going to get hurt. And Nancy Pelosi and those frigging Democrats: How dare they! How dare they sit there and insider trade and make millions, so they can buy a house — a big mansion down on the beach — and get the hell out of San Francisco because it's a, it's a destroyed state.

"This," Navarro said, "this is the story."

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Fetterman Agrees to Oct. 25 Debate With Oz in Senate Race

MARC LEVY Wednesday, 14 September 2022 04:54 PM EDT

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said Wednesday that he has agreed to an Oct. 25 televised debate against his Republican rival, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

The debate, coming two weeks before the general election, follows weeks of cajoling by Oz, who has raised questions about the severity of Fetterman’s lingering effects from a May stroke and pushed for as many as seven debates.

It will be held in the studio of a Harrisburg TV station.

Oz's campaign said in a statement that Fetterman had agreed to the debate only “after being hit with massive criticism from state and national editorials and commentators for ducking.” The Oz campaign also complained that Fetterman had “insisted on accommodations for his health condition,” though neither campaign immediately clarified what those were.

Nevertheless, “Doctor Oz looks forward to being in Harrisburg on October 25th to share his vision for a better Pennsylvania and America, and he is ready (to) expose Fetterman's record as the most far-left Senate candidate in America," Oz campaign manager Casey Contres wrote in a statement.

Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, and Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon endorsed by former President Donald Trump, are vying to replace retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey in a race Democrats see as one of their best chances nationally to flip a Republican-held seat. The winner could help decide the chamber’s partisan control next year.

Fetterman’s campaign has said Oz was operating in bad faith by insisting on so many debates and said Oz’s motivation is to mock Fetterman for having a stroke. Fetterman still speaks haltingly and struggles to quickly respond to words he hears.

To accommodate that, Fetterman asked the station for closed-captioning during the debate and two practice sessions in the studio ahead of time, Oz's campaign said.

In response, Oz's campaign issued three requests.

It wants a moderator to tell the audience that Fetterman is using closed captioning to explain delays in his responses; practice sessions to not use actual debate questions; and the debate to be 90 minutes, instead of 60, because of closed-captioning delays.

In Pennsylvania’s last four U.S. Senate contests, debates have not been a major feature. All the debates took place in mid- to late October, with two debates in each race — except for the 2012 contest, which had one debate.

Fetterman has been recovering and was off the campaign trail for most of the summer following his May 13 stroke, which required surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator and prompted a revelation that he had a serious heart condition. Fetterman has provided no access to his doctors or health records and has said he almost died.

He has done just a handful of media interviews and no press conferences since the stroke and has used closed-captioning in video interviews with reporters.

Fetterman’s campaign maintains that his doctors have said he is expected to make a full recovery.

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FILE – In this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo, Hunter Biden waits for the start of the his father’s, Vice President Joe Biden’s, debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Damning information from a second Hunter Biden laptop may be circulating around on the web. New York Magazine contributing editor Andrew Rice appeared on CNN to discuss the latest “laptop from hell.” Rice penned an article on the laptop saga alongside Olivia Nuzzi, verifying at least one personal electronic device has fallen into someone else’s hands.

The editor confirmed numerous aspects of Hunter’s life were extracted, including emails, texts, transactions and explicit content. Given the younger Biden’s history of reported substance abuse, Rice said its entirely likely the initial laptop was not the only sensitive data cache he misplaced.

“People close to him have propagated the idea that perhaps actually there is a second laptop out there that might actually trace back too, which goes back to the general point that Hunter Biden was capable of losing more than one laptop that potentially contained devastating information about himself during this time period in his life,” continued the contributing editor.

In fact, laptop whistleblower Jack Maxey claims an additional 450 gigabytes of additional data was recovered from a hard drive allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden. The drive also contained 80,000 previously unseen images that Maxey described as more disturbing than what was contained in the initial leak.

Additionally, the U.K. Daily Mail has released a video of Hunter confessing that Russian drug dealers confiscated another one of his laptop during a Las Vegas bender.

Some have claimed laptop repair man John Mac Isaac could not positively identify the first son due to the fact that he is legally blind. While Rice acknowledged Mac Isaac is visually impaired, his affliction does not completely obscure his sight. Furthermore, Rice asserts the FBI would not have seized the initial laptop from Mac Isaac if it was little more than right wing disinformation.

“He has a subpoena that the FBI served on him and they came and took away this laptop. In passed into the hands of the FBI, presumably because it had some kind of relevance they thought to the ongoing federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden’s finances that status of which we really don’t know much about.”

Federal prosecutors are currently considering leveling charges against the first son for tax violations and providing a false statement to purchase a firearm. Meanwhile, this story has barely made waves outside of non-mainstream bubbles while Democrat-aligned actors have worked to call the authenticity of the original story into question.

Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have also been probing into Hunter Biden’s usage of his father’s influence to secure foreign business deals.

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Video Report: GOP Blasts Biden on Restructuring Cuban Broadcasting Office (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Leonardo Feldman Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:36 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

Members of Congress, including Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., blasted the Biden administration over the restructuring of the Office of Cuban Broadcasting, Newsmax Miami correspondent Leonardo Feldman reports Wednesday.

Leonardo Feldman is an Emmy Award-winning journalist. As Newsmax's Miami correspondent, he covers the southeastern United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Get his latest reports here!

Video Report: GOP Blasts Biden on Restructuring Cuban Broadcasting Office (Newsmax/YouTube)

By Leonardo Feldman Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:36 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

Members of Congress, including Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., blasted the Biden administration over the restructuring of the Office of Cuban Broadcasting, Newsmax Miami correspondent Leonardo Feldman reports Wednesday.

Leonardo Feldman is an Emmy Award-winning journalist. As Newsmax's Miami correspondent, he covers the southeastern United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Get his latest reports here!

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Rep. Van Drew to Newsmax: Dems 'out of Step' With Electric-Vehicle Push (Newsmax/"John Bachman Now")

By Jay Clemons | Wednesday, 14 September 2022 02:34 PM EDT

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., understands that most American families don't have household incomes exceeding $150,000 per year; and even if they did, the majority of consumers likely wouldn't favor owning an electric car over a gas-powered vehicle right now.

And yet, Van Drew said he believes President Joe Biden and the other Democrats, are happily going all-in on transforming the American marketplace to only electric vehicles over the next decade — while attempting to make gasoline-powered cars obsolete.

"[The Democrats] are so out of step, and everything to them is almost a political statement," Van Drew told Newsmax Wednesday afternoon, while appearing on "John Bachman Now" with hosts John Bachman and Bianca de la Garza.

Backing up the above statement, Van Drew — formerly a Democratic Party congressman, before switching to the Republican side during the Trump administration (2019) — cites four reasons why electric-vehicle mandates are doomed to fail in America:

• The cars are too expensive. Van Drew said, "A lot of people can't afford" EVs, which, according to Electrek.com, have an average retail price of $66,000.
• There aren't enough charging stations in the United States. He says the infrastructure doesn't exist.
• The various electric grids in the U.S. wouldn't be able to handle the extra electricity burden of mass EVs. Not enough support.
• The U.S. would be "beholden" to China, due to the rare-earth mineral elements required to power electric vehicles. "We'd be on our knees more to other countries" than the U.S. already is under the Biden administration, warned Van Drew.

"There's no reason for that, since we have the ability to be energy-independent," explains Van Drew, who oversees New Jersey's 2nd District.

Also, Van Drew said that mandating electric vehicles would have a minimal impact on improving climate change — at best, "one fraction of 1 percent."

Electric-vehicle mandates aren't the Democrats' only blind spot, according to Van Drew.

From the congressman's perspective, Tuesday's public celebration of the Inflation Reduction Act's passing — on the same day when the Stock Market plunged more than 1,200 points, and the consumer inflation rate for August surged 8.3% from a year-to-year standpoint — was all things "weird" and "bizarre."

President Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the other Democrats partying on the White House lawn are just a bunch of "wealthy, woke people who don't understand the average Working Joe … and that's sad, because they're hurting [the workers] and their country," said Van Drew.

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