As the 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidates <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48863/who-will-win-democratic-primary-latest-2020-josh-hammer">battle it out for the nomination</a>, politicos must also pay close attention to President Donald Trump&#8217;s approval rating across the 50 states. While Trump&#8217;s national approval rating has been hovering below 50% for his entire presidency, it was <a href="https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/july-national-poll-biden-extends-lead-in-democratic-primary-trump-closes-the-gap-in-the-general-election">on the upswing</a> for the beginning of the summer before faltering a bit toward the end of July. The president&#8217;s approval rating recovered a bit in September before falling again as news of the Ukraine phone call incident rattled national headlines. Since the onset of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-complete-timeline-of-the-trump-ukraine-story">Ukraine scandal</a>, it has more or less stabilized.
Historically, presidents have fared well in re-election campaigns when they maintain approval ratings above 50%. This president, to be sure, has never had such an approval rating at any point throughout his presidency. But President Trump oversees a soaring economy, with record-low unemployment rates, and has a hardened base of core supporters. One must also never forget the sheer power of incumbency: Since FDR, only Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were elected and then subsequently not re-elected four years later.
Yet, fair-minded observers must still ask: If Trump&#8217;s overall approval rating number stays below 50%, will Trump be able to defy historical trends for presidential incumbents?
As of November 12, 2019, the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html">RealClearPolitics average</a> for Trump&#8217;s national job approval rating sits at 43.7% — or 10.7% underwater.
Overall, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/general_election/">national head-to-head polls</a> also do not presently show Trump to be in particularly good electoral shape. Specifically, one of the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/most-accurate-2016-poll-shows-biden-warren-sanders-beating-trump/">most accurate pollsters</a> from the 2016 national election, IBD/TIPP, <a href="https://www.investors.com/news/elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-sanders-democratic-race-biden-vs-trump/">showed fairly recently</a> that Trump was losing hypothetical head-to-head matchups with each of Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris. While still early and despite the fact Trump does lead in some hypothetical matchups, the Trump campaign should still be taking very seriously this hypothetical head-to-head matchup polling. I have previously offered some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-trump-needs-to-focus-on-a-safety-and-security-agenda-for-2020">unsolicited advice</a> to the Trump campaign: Focus on a safety and security agenda to appeal to persuadable moderate, independent, and suburban swing voters.
The Daily Wire will also be tracking Trump&#8217;s state-by-state approval rating as the general election nears. Here is the latest Trump approval rating information from across all the various swing states.
Battleground State-By-State Trump Approval Rating (latest data via <a href="https://morningconsult.com/tracking-trump-2/">Morning Consult&#8217;s October 2019</a> monthly survey)
ARIZONA:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 3.57%</li>
<li>Governor: Republican</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -4%</li>
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COLORADO:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Clinton + 4.91%</li>
<li>Governor: Democrat</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -18%</li>
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FLORIDA:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 1.20%</li>
<li>Governor: Republican</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Republican</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -2%</li>
</ul>
GEORGIA:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 5.09%</li>
<li>Governor: Republican</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Republican</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -3%</li>
</ul>
IOWA:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 9.41%</li>
<li>Governor: Republican</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Republican</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -12%</li>
</ul>
MICHIGAN:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 0.23%</li>
<li>Governor: Democrat</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Democrat, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -13%</li>
</ul>
MINNESOTA:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Clinton + 1.51%</li>
<li>Governor: Democrat</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Democrat, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -14%</li>
</ul>
NEVADA:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Clinton + 2.42%</li>
<li>Governor: Democrat</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Democrat, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -14%</li>
</ul>
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Clinton + 0.37%</li>
<li>Governor: Democrat</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Democrat, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -20%</li>
</ul>
NORTH CAROLINA:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 3.66%</li>
<li>Governor: Democrat</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Republican</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -3%</li>
</ul>
OHIO:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 8.13%</li>
<li>Governor: Republican</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -6%</li>
</ul>
PENNSYLVANIA:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 0.72%</li>
<li>Governor: Democrat</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -9%</li>
</ul>
TEXAS:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 8.99%</li>
<li>Governor: Republican</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Republican</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: +2%</li>
</ul>
VIRGINIA:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Clinton + 5.32%</li>
<li>Governor: Democrat</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Democrat, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -7%</li>
</ul>
WISCONSIN:
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<li>2016 presidential result: Trump + 0.77%</li>
<li>Governor: Democrat</li>
<li>U.S. Senate: Republican, Democrat</li>
<li>Current Trump approval rating: -17%</li>
</ul>
This article has been updated to reflect the most recent survey data.

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Over the weekend, Republicans released their list of witnesses they want to testify in the Democrat-led impeachment hearings, and many Democrats are clearly unhappy about it, decrying the witness list as an attempt to supposedly promote pro-Trump conspiracy theories. While one particularly incensed Democrat told the Republicans to &#8220;GET LOST&#8221; in response to the &#8220;sham&#8221; list, President Trump appears to have given his official endorsement of the people GOP congressional committee members would like to get a chance to ask some tough questions related to Ukraine.
On Monday, Trump retweeted the list posted by House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH):
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<li>The whistleblower and all of the whistleblower&#8217;s alleged sources</li>
<li>Hunter Biden, Joe Biden&#8217;s son who was hired by Ukraine-based energy company Burisma Holdings shortly after his father was appointed as head of U.S.-Ukraine relations</li>
<li>Devon Archer, Hunter Biden&#8217;s former long-time business partner who also served on the board of Burisma</li>
<li>Alexandra Chalupa, a &#8220;Ukrainian-American consultant for the Democratic National Committee who allegedly had meetings with officials at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, D.C. to discuss incriminating information about Trump campaign officials during the 2016 presidential election,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-hunter-biden-ukraine-whisteleblower-impeachment-witness">Fox News</a> explains. (Chalupa&#8217;s alleged role in trying to dig up dirt on Trump was first reported by <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446">Politico</a> in 2017.)</li>
<li>Nellie Ohr, who testified in front of Congress in 2018 that Fusion GPS compiled the salacious anti-Trump Steele dossier in part from information from Ukrainian sources</li>
<li>Kurt Volker, a former envoy to Ukraine</li>
<li>Tim Morrison, a former National Security Council official</li>
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Republicans have requested a list of witnesses for the impeachment hearings (alphabetical order):
-Devon Archer 
-Hunter Biden 
-Alexandra Chalupa 
-David Hale 
-Tim Morrison 
-Nellie Ohr 
-Amb. Volker 
-The “Whistleblower” &amp; their sources
Will <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepAdamSchiff</a> permit them to testify?
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1193311587370700803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As first reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-hunter-biden-ukraine-whisteleblower-impeachment-witness">Fox News</a>, Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) accused House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA), who&#8217;s heading up the Democrats&#8217; impeachment efforts, in a letter Saturday of overseeing a &#8220;sham impeachment process&#8221; and explained the rationale for the witnesses included in the Republicans&#8217; list.
&#8220;Americans see through this sham impeachment process, despite the Democrats&#8217; efforts to retroactively legitimize it last week,&#8221; wrote Nunes. &#8220;To provide transparency to your otherwise opaque and unfair process, and after consultation with [House Oversight Committee] Ranking Member Jim Jordan and [House Foreign Affairs Committee] Ranking Member Michael McCaul, the American people deserve to hear from the following witnesses in an open setting.&#8221;
&#8220;Because the Democrats’ resolution unfairly restricts Minority rights and because you have provided no information about which witnesses you may invite to testify at future hearings not yet scheduled, we reserve our right to request additional witnesses, if necessary, as you announce additional hearings,&#8221; Nunes wrote. &#8220;Your failure to fulfill Minority witness requests shall constitute evidence of your denial of fundamental fairness and due process.&#8221;
Nunes preemptively defended the choices of the witnesses, including Chalupa, who he said is included because of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;documented belief that the Ukrainian government meddled in the 2016 election to oppose his candidacy, which forms the basis for a reasonable desire for Ukraine to investigate the circumstances surrounding the election and any potential Ukrainian involvement.&#8221; Chalupa, he wrote, &#8220;is a prime fact witness who can assist Congress and the American public in better understanding the facts and circumstances surrounding Ukrainian involvement in the 2016 election.&#8221;
Ohr&#8217;s work with Fusion GPS, which included &#8220;assist[ing] in the production of the Steele Dossier,&#8221; in part allegedly using Ukrainian sources, also makes her a key witness.
As for the whistleblower, Republicans have been increasingly demanding a public testimony so Trump can &#8220;face his accuser.&#8221;
Democrats appear to have been unimpressed by the list, House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) tweeting in response to the &#8220;sham&#8221; list: &#8220;My two cents? GET LOST.&#8221;
Media outlets have since been working to &#8220;fact-check&#8221; the list. While <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-hunter-biden-ukraine-whisteleblower-impeachment-witness">Fox News</a> took the list of witnesses seriously, explaining the roles the potential witnesses have played in Ukraine-related developments, others, like <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/fact-checking-the-reasons-behind-gop-s-impeachment-hearing-witness-list-requests-73210437540">MSNBC and The New York Times</a> predictably approached it with a skepticism mirroring the Democrats.
Along with retweeting the Republicans&#8217; witness list, Trump has been applying even more pressure for the anonymous whistleblower to come forward.
&#8220;The lawyer for the Whistleblower takes away all credibility from this big Impeachment Scam! It should be ended and the Whistleblower, his lawyer and Corrupt politician Schiff should be investigated for fraud!&#8221; Trump tweeted Monday.
&#8220;Shifty Adam Schiff will only release doctored transcripts. We haven’t even seen the documents and are restricted from (get this) having a lawyer. Republicans should put out their own transcripts! Schiff must testify as to why he MADE UP a statement from me, and read it to all!&#8221; he wrote in another, adding later: &#8220;Where is the Whistleblower who gave so much false information? Must testify along with Schiff and others!&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/limbaugh-whistleblower-lawyers-past-statements-are-smoking-guns">Limbaugh: Whistleblower Lawyer’s Past Statements Are ‘Smoking Guns’</a>
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Trump Tweets GOP&#8217;s List Of Impeachment Witnesses; Dems Tell GOP &#8216;Get Lost&#8217;; Media Fact-Checks

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Long-serving New York Rep. Pete King announced on Facebook early Monday that he is joining a growing list of Republican members of Congress who are not running for re-election in 2020.
&#8220;I have decided not to be a candidate for re-election to Congress in 2020,&#8221; said King, who is serving his 14th term representing New York&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District. &#8220;I made this decision after much discussion with my wife Rosemary; my son Sean; and my daughter Erin. The prime reason for my decision was that after 28 years of spending 4 days a week in Washington, D.C., it is time to end the weekly commute and be home in Seaford.&#8221;
&#8220;This was not an easy decision,&#8221; King continued (full statement below). &#8220;But there is a season for everything and Rosemary and I decided that, especially since we are both in good health, it is time to have the flexibility to spend more time with our children and grandchildren. My daughter’s recent move to North Carolina certainly accelerated my thinking.&#8221;
The 75-year-old congressman made clear that he is not stepping away because he perceives any trouble winning a 15th term in 2020.
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&#8220;Politically I will miss the energy and dynamism of a re-election campaign especially since my polling numbers are as strong as they have ever been and I have more than $1 million in campaign funds,&#8221; he wrote.
In the statement, King highlighted some of his key political accomplishments and priorities over the decades. He wrote:
<blockquote>Governmentally I will miss fighting for the people of my district and America and will always be proud of my efforts for 9/11 victims and their families; protecting our citizens from terrorism and MS-13; leading the successful effort to recover from Superstorm Sandy; being consistently cited for bipartisanship; working with President Clinton to achieve the Good Friday Agreement and end centuries of warfare in Ireland and Northern Ireland; and standing with the brave men and women of law Enforcement.</blockquote>
He also underscored that he stands firmly against the Democrats&#8217; impeachment efforts, writing, &#8220;In the coming weeks and during the next year I intend to vote against President Trump&#8217;s impeachment and will support the President’s bid for re-election.&#8221;
&#8220;Most importantly I want to thank the residents of the 2nd Congressional District for giving me the opportunity to represent them in Washington, D.C. I will complete my term of office and continue to work hard for these constituents all the way to the final bell of the final round on Dec. 31, 2020,&#8221; he concludes. &#8220;It’s been a great run! Thanks.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/us/politics/peter-king-retire.html">The New York Times</a> paints the departure of King as part of &#8220;the grim political realities&#8221; facing the Republican Party in 2020, &#8220;including an uphill slog to win back the House in next year’s election and the prospect of sharing a ticket with an unpopular president.&#8221;
King is considered one of the more moderate among Republicans in the House, frequently working alongside Democrats on bipartisan bills, but as the Times notes, he also took a hardline immigration stand, aligning him with one of Trump&#8217;s biggest priorities.
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While the left-leaning media is making much of the retirement of Republicans, some veteran Democrats have announced that they will not be seeking re-election in 2020 either, including two Democrats from New York, Rep. Jose Serrano and Rep. Nita Lowey.
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Long-Time NY Republican Pete King: I’m Out For 2020

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Business owner Irina Vilariño, an immigrant who fled communist Cuba with her family as a young girl, has launched a Republican bid for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 26th District, saying that she was inspired to run after seeing that &#8220;the same policies that wrecked my world in Cuba were beginning to take hold in the Democrat Party.&#8221;
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Wire, Vilariño highlighted the issues that she cares about the most and what she sees in the Democrat Party that reminds her of communist Cuba.
Vilariño, 43, is the co-owner of Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine restaurants, the first of which &#8220;opened in 1984 in Hollywood after her family fled Cuba, and at least a dozen locations are now spread around South Florida,&#8221; The Miami Herald reported.
Members of Vilariño&#8217;s family, including her father, were locked up as political prisoners in communist Cuba and, at just 4-years-old, Vilariño and her family arrived in Florida during the Mariel Boatlift, an event where a large number of Cubans escaped to the U.S. during 1980.
&#8220;My grandparents emigrated to Cuba from Spain to escape socialism. My parents came to the United States from Cuba to escape communism,&#8221; Vilariño said. &#8220;If we don’t fight to preserve our freedoms here, there is no place left in the world for my daughter to go. We must preserve the American Dream. This is the cause that will define the success of our generation, and I urge you to join with me on this mission.&#8221;
Vilariño <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/FL/26/2020/">raised</a> more than three times more than the next highest Republican candidate for the seat, bringing in over $370,000 during the first few months of her candidacy.
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Irina is one of us and will fight for us, not the special interests that are looking to advance their own agendas. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/irinaforcongress?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#irinaforcongress</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yovotoporirina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#yovotoporirina</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Republican?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Republican</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Woman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Woman</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hispanic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hispanic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Latina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Latina</a> <a href="https://t.co/190Hhp3EhU">https://t.co/190Hhp3EhU</a>
— Irina Vilariño (@irinavilarino) <a href="https://twitter.com/irinavilarino/status/1167922803686830080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
Vilariño has made numerous media appearances prior to announcing her run for Congress and was featured at the White House in September 2018 for Hispanic Heritage Month, where she charmed President Donald Trump.
Vilariño is challenging freshman Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL), who has voted with socialist Democratic Reps. <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/represent/members/M001207-debbie-mucarsel-powell/compare-votes/O000172-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/116">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (NY) and <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/represent/members/M001207-debbie-mucarsel-powell/compare-votes/O000173-ilhan-omar/116">Ilhan Omar</a> (MN) 95% of the time while in Congress.
Mucarsel-Powell knocked off Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo in 2018, who was viewed by many Republicans as being weak and ineffective.
&#8220;Vilariño — a party loyalist with a sharp-tongued presence on social media — provides an interesting contrast with Curbelo, who frequently broke with Trump and often kept the president at a distance while representing a district that is both majority-Hispanic and left-leaning,&#8221; The Miami Herald added. &#8220;After Curbelo lost, Trump mocked him during a press conference and blamed his loss on his reluctance to embrace the president.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s exclusive interview with Vilariño is featured below:
1. What inspired you to get into politics?
My family and I arrived to the U.S. when I was 4 years of age. My father and uncle had both been political prisoners in Cuba. For much of my adult life, I somewhat felt that politics in the U.S. were on some sort of autopilot. However, during the McCain-Obama election I saw a division and a radicalized rhetoric that started to change the United States. I began to fear that the same policies that wrecked my world in Cuba were beginning to take hold in the Democrat Party here. That is what compelled me to get involved in politics and take a more active role. I believe the best thing that I can bring to the process is perspective. I am an America that loves freedom, and I want to see it preserved for future generations.
2. As a person who fled communist Cuba and who knows firsthand the horrors of communism, do you see any similarities between the Democrat Party and the oppressive regime that you escaped?
The Democrat Party is [not a communist party]; however, the trend toward socialism and repressive policies embraced by the Democrats is a starting point, and I am deeply concerned about it. If there is any similarity, it’s in the smear tactics to scare and silence those that oppose and obstruct their path to power.
3. With the rise of socialism in the Democrat Party, are you also concerned about the Democrats’ continued push to curtail the freedoms of U.S. citizens?
Of course. Even in the name of good policy, any time we look to government to intrude itself, we lose freedom.
4. What do you say to other Latinos who listen to publications like CNN and believe that the president is racist and that enforcing immigration law and securing the border is racist?
Securing the border and embracing a policy of national self-defense is not racist. It is what is expected of any government.
5. Are you a Trump supporter? If so, can you explain what about the president you support?
I am my own person, but I support the President and his policies. I am for any president that promotes American exceptionalism, prosperity and individual liberties. He has done a good job of taking on the Washington establishment and of implementing free market policies that have revitalized our economy.
6. Why should minorities vote Republican and how should the party reach out to them?
To me the Republican Party encompasses the values of the country we aspired to live in when we fled communism: personal accountability, order, respect, justice, and freedom from an encroaching government. We should represent love of family, respect for the individual and the American dream and with that prosperity and stability.
7. Why should younger voters vote Republican and what are you going to do to reach them?
My family and I are a testament to what the individual can accomplish in a country that promotes personal accountability and freedoms versus government intrusion and entitlement. Upward mobility is only possible when we have a transparency and true public servants, not a top-heavy government and bureaucrats.
8. How should the GOP respond to some of the issues, like healthcare and student debt, that Democrats propose addressing with socialist policies?
There is a saying that socialist governments work only so long as there is enough of other people’s money to pay for everything. We are $22 trillion in debt. More free giveaways are going to bankrupt the country and empower our foreign enemies. We need to lower the cost of healthcare and pharmaceuticals. It is abusive that a pill that costs $15 elsewhere costs an American hundreds of dollars.
9. How should Republicans respond to the Democrats becoming the party of identity politics?
By calling it out for what it is. Democrats want to divide us by the color of our skin. Republicans want to unite us by the colors of our flag. All of us should want the best for our country and want only from our country the freedom to pursue our dreams.
10. What do you view as the greatest threat the United States both from a foreign and a domestic standpoint?
Right now, the single biggest threat to our existence is our national debt. We must get serious about cutting up the federal credit card. The very idea that the Democrats want to put us into more debt is one of the most anti-American, un-patriotic policy proposals that I can think of. Our middle class has to continue being the largest economic bloc to ensure our political stability and viability well into the future.
11. If elected, what do you hope to accomplish with respect to policy?
We must stop the over-spending. We need to be honest with our constituents and create awareness of the issues that are threatening our republic, institutionalized corruption being at the forefront. If I can be a part of the leadership team to achieve this, I will feel that my term of service is worthwhile.
12. The Democrat Party, with the help of the media, have really taken control of the narrative surrounding climate change. Many Republicans in your state, Florida, care about addressing climate issues. How does the Republican Party start to win over people who are concerned about the climate?
We are all concerned about our quality of life and about preserving our environment. I believe that we are already in the driver’s seat in many ways on this issue as our Governor Ron DeSantis has taken great steps to outline an aggressive agenda for water preservation, and I will be happy to be an advocate for him in Congress. The environment is a human issue not a political one.
13. A lot of the narrative surrounding the climate has come from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her proposed “Green New Deal,” which her former chief-of-staff even admitted was about implementing socialism. The “Green New Deal” is a socialist vision that the Democrat Party is trying to sell to America. How do you counter that? What is your vision for America?
The Green New Deal would be an economic wrecking ball for America. It is impractical and subjects our consumers and small businesses to financial penalties beyond their capacity. I will expose these bogus social[ist programs for what they are].
14. What do you believe is the cause of the increasing political polarization in the U.S. and how do you plan on helping to unite the country?
We need to unite the country around universal truths and around our common belief in God and the American Dream. Government will never be able to solve every ill, but people standing together can solve anything. Many on the Left look for any problem in America to demonize our success and prosperity. We need to start looking at our prosperity compared to the rest of the world and think of ways to protect the freedom and free markets that have created more prosperity and opportunity for more people than at any time in the history of the world. Both parties need to do what is right by the country and not by special interests. People need to have a fair chance without have the deck stacked against them.
15. What are your thoughts on Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and the rise of anti-Semitism in the Democrat Party?
This is tragic, and more importantly, my opponent Debbie Murcasel-Powell has done nothing to condemn this new wave of radical anti-Semitism, and she should pay an electoral price for it.
16. In what areas do you think your opponent Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) is weak and has she let your district down?
She has embraced the rise of radical socialism in her own party, been the lap-dog for Nancy Pelosi, and had her campaign funded by Washington insiders and special interests. She represents her party ideology instead of working in unity to bring about positive results for our community and country as a whole.
17. What are the top three issues for voters in your district and how do you plan on addressing those issues? What issues are the most important to you?
My top three issues are the national debt, healthcare, and our environment. The most important, I feel, is the national debt because if we do not address that, there will not be enough financial resources in the world to deal with the other two issues. Strengthening the middle class is a priority. If Americans don’t feel they can make ends meet that allows socialists to tout their entitlement agenda. Once people get on that train it will be too difficult for them to get off of it.
19. What areas of the Republican Party’s platform do you think needs to be addressed, and/or changed?
The Republican Party platform for 2020 is probably in its earliest drafting phase. The last one from 2016 was a great outline of what we hoped to achieve. I am happy that we have been able to deliver on tax cuts and increased funding for our national defenses. However, there is still much work to be done.
20. What do you hope to inspire in other elected officials and future leaders to help make America a better place?
A greater sense of appreciation for this land of the free because of the brave. We can never forget those that gave their lives to free other countries from the peril of socialism and to maintain our independence and freedom. We must above all continue to be a grateful national. With our story as a family and community, I hope to remind Americans what the alternative looks like.
21. How has being a successful business owner prepared you for running for Congress?
It has helped me understand what people are dealing with in their personal lives every day. Another insider deal, another government lobbying team, and another big government idea is not going to help them. What will help them is if we let them keep more of their hard-earned money and keep government out of their way.
22. When you are not working, what do you do for fun?
When you have your own business you don’t get a lot of free time so I value spending time with family. My daughter is my priority. That’s my hobby.

Irina Vilarino

Cuban Business Owner Who Fled Communist Cuba Launches GOP Congressional Bid, Dominates GOP Primary Field In Fundraising

Cuba

Florida

Irina Vilariño

Sandra Doorley, the incumbent Monroe County, New York district attorney running as a Republican, crushed her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/financial-times-names-george-soros-person-year-paul-bois">George Soros</a>-backed challenger Shani Curry Mitchell on Tuesday night.
Soros, a Hungarian billionaire and the foremost Democratic megadonor, dumped more than $800,000 against Doorley via one of his political action committees (PACs), starting in early October.
&#8220;State BOE (Board of Elections) records show the New York Justice &amp; Public Safety PAC responsible for more than $800,000 worth of television and digital advertisements opposing incumbent Republican DA Sandra Doorley or supporting her challenger Shani Curry Mitchell. Soros is listed as the sole donor for what’s technically classified as an Independent Expenditure Committee in New York,&#8221; reported <a href="https://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2019/10/complaint-alleges-illegal-coordination-between-monroe-county-da-candidate-and-soros-connected-pac/">Spectrum News</a>, on October 22.
The massive cash influx was given some perspective by local radio host <a href="https://wham1180.iheart.com/content/2019-10-22-lonsberry-the-hungarian-billionaire-who-bought-the-democratic-party/">Bob Lonsberry</a> weeks before the race: &#8220;If you took all the money Democratic Monroe County executive candidate Adam Bello has spent on his campaign, and added all the money Republican incumbent Cheryl DiNolfo has spent, and added in Bello’s money again, you’d have just about as much money as George Soros has spent trying to get Shani Curry Mitchell elected district attorney,&#8221; Lonsberry outlined in a column for News Radio Wham 1180, noting that Soros is looking to &#8220;decriminalize crime.&#8221;
Still, Doorley pulled out a big win over Mitchell, so much, in fact, that USA Today reporter Jon Campbell deemed the Soros money-dump a complete backfire.
&#8220;The $800K of Soros-funded ads appear to have backfired in the Monroe County DA race,&#8221; Campbell wrote via Twitter on Tuesday night. &#8220;Incumbent Sandra Doorley, a Republican, is cruising with more than half of precincts reporting &#8230; and I mean REALLY backfired. Compare the early DA results to the Monroe County exec race, where the Democrat (Adam Bello) has a very slim lead.&#8221;
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The $800K of Soros-funded ads appear to have backfired in the Monroe County DA race.
Incumbent Sandra Doorley, a Republican, is cruising with more than half of precincts reporting. <a href="https://t.co/XSP0JpjjKX">pic.twitter.com/XSP0JpjjKX</a>
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During her victory speech, Doorley made it a point to &#8220;thank&#8221; Mr. Soros for her win.
&#8220;The Republican Party in Monroe Country is not dead, and we are alive and well,&#8221; said the DA. &#8220;And look at all the great people, here. We still have the energy and we will be back. And I am back for another four more years, so, thank you, George Soros!&#8221;
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VIDEO: Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley celebrates victory, jokingly thanks George Soros for re-election <a href="https://t.co/gRtVK2D55a">pic.twitter.com/gRtVK2D55a</a>
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Doorley complained about Soros&#8217; influence before the election and the Monroe County Republican Committee filed a formal complaint to the New York State Board of Elections in October, alleging &#8220;illegal coordination&#8221; between Mitchell and Soros&#8217; PAC, <a href="https://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2019/10/complaint-alleges-illegal-coordination-between-monroe-county-da-candidate-and-soros-connected-pac/">Spectrum News</a> reported at the time.
Though Mitchell claimed she did not pay for nor approve of the ads, Monroe GOP Chairman Bill Napier revealed a screenshot of the Democrat&#8217;s campaign manager Rynn Reed’s LinkedIn profile, &#8220;indicating she had worked as a public affairs intern for NYC-based public relations firm Berlin Rosen immediately prior to joining the campaign,&#8221; the outlet noted.
“George Soros doesn’t know a damn thing about me,” Doorley ripped the billionaire, as noted by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/nyregion/soros-election-da.html">The New York Times</a>. “His New York PAC doesn’t know a damn thing about me.”
Soros&#8217; influence was not limited to a DA race in upstate New York, of course. As noted by the Times:
The Soros PAC that backed Mitchell,
<blockquote>has contributed to five campaigns this election cycle, up and down the East Coast: In Virginia, the PAC has given $621,144.97 to the commonwealth’s attorney candidate Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, and $462,212.37 to the commonwealth’s attorney candidate Steve Descano. In Pennsylvania, the PAC has given $53,900 for research, polling and campaign literature to Friends of Jack Stollsteimer, another Democrat, in the Delaware County district attorney race.</blockquote>

George Soros

Soros Dumped Nearly $1 Million Against Republican DA. She Won Anyway, And Trolled Him During Victory Speech.

While Democrats are cheering what appears to be a razor-thin win for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andy Beshear in Kentucky, which would be a major pick-up for Democrats, President Trump and the RNC are declaring victory in the state nonetheless after sweeping all of the other races and seeing what they say is a double-digit surge for embattled, unpopular Republican Gov. Matthew Bevin following Trump&#8217;s efforts to rally voters.
&#8220;Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night,&#8221; Trump tweeted early Wednesday. &#8220;[Matt Bevin] picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!&#8221;
&#8220;Our big Kentucky Rally on Monday night had a massive impact on all of the races,&#8221; Trump wrote in a follow-up tweet. &#8220;The increase in Governors race was at least 15 points, and maybe 20!&#8221; Backing up his claim about the surge for Bevin, Trump retweeted a post by Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel, who wrote: &#8220;In Kentucky, the governor was down 17 points. President Trump helped lift the entire ticket, winning 5 of 6 statewide races so far!&#8221;
As predicted by Trump, the media has indeed already begun painting the unpopular Bevin&#8217;s likely loss as a failure by the president. &#8220;Trump couldn&#8217;t save the unpopular Bevin after campaigning with him the night before the election in Lexington, where the president told supporters a loss by the GOP governor would be portrayed as Trump&#8217;s having suffered &#8216;the greatest defeat in the history of the world,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/elections-kentucky-mississippi-test-trump-s-political-power-n1075581">NBC News</a> reported late Tuesday night.
But Trump is pointing to the positive. &#8220;A lot of winning in Kentucky. Check out the numbers,&#8221; Trump wrote in a follow-up tweet linking to the latest numbers from Kentucky&#8217;s <a href="https://wchstv.com/news/election-results">ABC 8</a>.
As of Wednesday morning, Beshear (D) is edging out Bevin (R) by just over 5,000 votes, 709,673 &#8211; 704,523. That Bevin appears to have lost the race is unsurprising. As NBC notes, Bevin is &#8220;one of the least popular governors in the country.&#8221;
The rest of the races are firmly in Republicans&#8217; hands:
<ul>
<li>Secretary of State: Michael Adams (R) defeated Heather French Henry (D) 52-48%.</li>
<li>Attorney General: Daniel Cameron (R) trounced Gregory Stumbo (D) 58-42%.</li>
<li>Auditor: Mike Harmon (R) easily defeated Sheri Donahue (D) 56-41%.</li>
<li>Treasurer: Allison Ball (R) demolished Michael Bowman (D) 61-39%</li>
<li>Ag Commissioner: Ryan Quarles (R) buried Robert Haley Conway (D) 58-39%.</li>
<li>House District 18: Samara Heavrin (R) downed Becky Miller (D) 60-40%.</li>
<li>House District 63: Kimberly Bantra (R) won by the biggest margin of the day over Josh Blair (D) 63-37%.</li>
</ul>
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-first-african-american-wins-kentucky-ag-race-hes-a-republican">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Daniel Cameron&#8217;s sizable victory for Attorney General is historic. Cameron, 33, is not only the first Republican elected to the position in more than 70 years, he is the first African-American to ever be elected to the position and &#8220;the first African-American voted individually to state-wide office in Kentucky history,&#8221; as LEX 18 put it.
&#8220;It’s really heartwarming and encouraging when folks regardless of political affiliation walk up to you and express support for the idea that you put yourself out there and made a decision to put your name on a ballot,&#8221; Cameron said Tuesday. &#8220;I can hit the ground running. I bring that experience to the table. I’ve been a trial lawyer for over 40 years. I’ve prosecuted both criminal and civil cases through my career. So experience we think matters in the attorney general office.&#8221;
Cameron, who ran on a solidly conservative platform, appeared at a big rally in Kentucky with Trump earlier in the week at which the candidate declared that &#8220;Kentucky is Trump country.&#8221;
&#8220;We are proud to stand with you on pro-life issues in here in the Commonwealth, we are going to stand up for those who cannot speak for themselves,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Mr. President, we are going to stand with you in protecting the Second Amendment rights of all Kentuckians, and Mr. President, I make a personal commitment to you as the next Attorney General, we are going to make sure that Kentucky is never a sanctuary state. Thank you.&#8221;
In his series of tweets Wednesday morning, Trump predicted an easy victory for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2020. &#8220;Based on the Kentucky results, Mitch McConnell will win BIG in Kentucky next year!&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s tweets below:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElectionNight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ElectionNight</a> Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night. <a href="https://twitter.com/MattBevin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattBevin</a> picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191937709364928513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A lot of winning in Kentucky. Check out the numbers. <a href="https://t.co/xcXIzIwylg">https://t.co/xcXIzIwylg</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191942342879666178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Our big Kentucky Rally on Monday night had a massive impact on all of the races. The increase in Governors race was at least 15 points, and maybe 20! Will be in Louisiana for <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieRispone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EddieRispone</a> on Wednesday night. Big Rally!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191947091461001216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Based on the Kentucky results, Mitch McConnell <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@senatemajldr</a> will win BIG in Kentucky next year!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1192062007324938240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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President Trump

Trump Celebrates &#8216;A Lot Of Winning In Kentucky&#8217;: GOP Edged Out In Governor&#8217;s Race, Sweeps The Rest

Democratic Party

Kentucky

Donald Trump Jr. spoke briefly to The Daily Wire late on Monday night about his new book, &#8220;Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us,&#8221; and about the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
CNN <a href="http://archive.is/GWmhS">reported</a> on Tuesday that the book was already ranked as number three on Amazon&#8217;s bestsellers list on the first day that it hit bookshelves.
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Let’s send a loud message to the liberal elites. It would TRIGGER our haters coast to coast if we made the NYT list! This is the book that liberals don’t want you to read or share with others. Get your copy now! <a href="https://t.co/HKA9knF0Ko">https://t.co/HKA9knF0Ko</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1191088537938137088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
In a brief interview with The Daily Wire, Trump revealed what inspired him to write the book, the future of the conservative movement, the future of the Republican Party, and talked about the media and political Left&#8217;s hypocrisy.
Question: What inspired you to write the book?
Trump:
For years, people would say, &#8220;Don, you should write a business book&#8221; and honestly, I think my dad sort of covered that ground, but for me, when you get to be the tip of the spear for the greatest political upset in history, to go through that, to see that, to have a front row seat for that part of American history, then to be attacked and maligned and the number two target of the Mueller hoax and the ongoing nonsense, it really was one of those things where I said there&#8217;s something here.
There&#8217;s a story to me here that is the story of an unlikely conservative being the son of a billionaire from New York City, but also my life experiences growing up with a mother who escaped communism. Seeing the hatred from the Left as we went in there and just tried to do the right thing and do this for the country. Being attacked and watching what they would be willing to do to try to get their way politically and just who they were willing to destroy along the way. I sort of got fed up and you sort of see some of that on Twitter or in five-minute interview here and there on TV, this was the real chance to do the long-form version of that with all the details.
Question: In one section of your book, you talked about the incident where an Elizabeth Warren donor had <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/dem-activist-arrested-sending-threatening-letters-white-powder-donald-trump-jr/">sent</a> your wife a white powder that caused a pretty serious scare. Did Elizabeth Warren ever reach out to you and say anything after one of her donors sent powder to your wife?
Trump: No, I double checked, I think it was like a staffer or a volunteer on the campaign. No, but not a peep. But more importantly, it was barely a peep in the media. If a Trump supporter sent that to Elizabeth Warren it would be the end of the world, we would be hearing about it to this day. Three of the major 90 publications covered it for about one second on the back page somewhere and it was forgotten about the next day. I think it goes to speak about a big part of the book: The hypocrisy of the Left, the hypocrisy of the mainstream media, and their sort of unabashed willingness to just disregard the notion of fairness — the notion that they are there to report the news and just be a cheerleader for one side and that&#8217;s obviously what they are. They are the marketing wing of the DNC.
Question: In your book, you talk about the decision to give up drinking. When did you decide to do that and did your father’s decision not to drink impact your decision?
Trump: It was just about understanding myself. Some people can do it and some people can&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t have the genes for it. I just saw what it did to his brother and so luckily I&#8217;ve been able to avoid that for the most part and it&#8217;s been a good thing for me and for my life. [My father] spoke to us a lot about what his experience was like growing up with a brother who ultimately died of it and it was pretty clear that I probably have that trait [where] I don&#8217;t have an off-switch, and so it was an important decision in my life.
Question: In the book, you talk about your father’s work ethic and you specifically mentioned an instance where your father got mad at Steve Bannon and the campaign for trying to give him an afternoon off during the campaign. Has he always had an intense need to work hard non-stop and where do you think he got that work ethic from?
Trump: For him, work is his passion, it&#8217;s his vocation, he&#8217;s just a worker. It wasn&#8217;t just Bannon, it was Reince, it was everyone. It was a pretty big number, it was like 87 days or something like that and we&#8217;re there and I&#8217;m just looking at what&#8217;s going on as they are laying this out and you see [my father] getting more and more frustrated. My brother, my sister, and I just look at each other and we pulled back and just walked away and [my father] goes, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need any days off! It&#8217;s 90 days! I&#8217;ll have plenty of time to rest when it&#8217;s over.&#8221;
He thinks, we&#8217;ll lose or draw but we&#8217;re not anything on the field. We&#8217;re not going to miss a blown opportunity. If Hillary made an appearance every other day, it was a miracle, and he beat her for many other reasons, but he also just outworked the hell out of her and you could see that mentality. And you could also, more importantly, see that sort of mentality was so foreign to some of these sort of professional politicos, where [they&#8217;re] like, &#8220;we&#8217;ll work hard when we need to but obviously you need a nine-to-five job and once you&#8217;re done, you&#8217;re done.&#8221; Well for [my father] there is no &#8220;done.&#8221; There is no &#8220;it&#8217;s over.&#8221; That mentality has been there his whole life.
I talked about getting the call at five o&#8217;clock in the morning on a Saturday when I was in my 20s, probably still having some fun and [my father&#8217;s] like, &#8220;why aren&#8217;t you in the office?&#8221; Me, talking some smack back, asked, &#8220;why aren&#8217;t you in the office?&#8221; [My father responded] &#8220;I am, I&#8217;m standing in your office right now and you&#8217;re not here.&#8221; And I&#8217;m [thinking to myself] &#8220;that didn&#8217;t work out so well.&#8221; So he&#8217;s always had that mentality and that general attitude and I think you see it today.
Question: How important are young people, women, and minorities to the future of the Republican Party? How can Republicans win over those demographics when the media tells them that Republicans hate them?
Trump: They have to keep trying, they have to be out there and willing to do it. You see what I do with Charlie Kirk and hey I get it, I&#8217;m not going to be that welcome on college campuses, but man I do a lot of them. We go there anyway, we got to be heard. As it relates to the minority communities, it&#8217;s the same exact thing. The results should speak for themselves. It&#8217;s the economy, you look at what [my father&#8217;s] done. My father is doing criminal justice reform, he&#8217;s doing opportunity zones. All these things are not exactly GOP platform type of things, they&#8217;re just the right thing to do.
But again, it&#8217;s not easy to get the message down to the final consumer and ultimately that voter because the DNC does, and they&#8217;ve had a stranglehold, albeit artificially, but historically on a lot of those communities. And so to get that message down those filters is not that easy but you got to keep trying. They are an important part of this country. My father said in 2016 that he is going to be a president for all Americans, not just his base, not just the people who love him. I think he&#8217;s done that and I think the results speak for themselves. But you have to keep trying [to reach those voters], and you got to get back into those communities and make sure that you are making your efforts there, as well.
Question: You briefly mentioned Charlie Kirk. Who and what do you see as being the future of the conservative movement?
Trump: I mean obviously, from a youth perspective, I think he’s the best we have. He gets it. He started doing this when he was young, he does it intelligently. He&#8217;s working and he shows up, he puts in the time and the effort, so he&#8217;s one of the one of the rock stars there. Now whether he wants to have any specific political role in time or not is yet to be determined.
I think what Trump has shown conservatives is that it&#8217;s okay to fight back. You don&#8217;t just have to turn the other cheek and take the loss because the other side wants you to and that was their mentality forever, sort of the Mitt Romney mentality of &#8220;well, we have our principles and we&#8217;ll have our principles on the stump when we&#8217;re talking to our voters, but then when we get called out on it we would rather be loved by the mainstream media and the Left than fight for what we believe and what&#8217;s right.&#8221; That&#8217;s a sales concept, we&#8217;ve ceded ground for 50 years because of that mentality and that was the old Republican school of thought and that has failed miserably. It&#8217;s cost us dearly.
[President Trump&#8217;s mentality] has allowed for some of those Republicans who are willing to stand up, who are willing to fight back, there&#8217;s a bunch of them now — whether it&#8217;s the Mark Meadows and Jim Jordans of the world, whether it&#8217;s the Lee Zeldins of the world — guys have come out of the word work and become real fighters. There&#8217;s a bunch of them and they are doing good and honestly even some of the establishment guys have learned from that. I think Kevin McCarthy is doing a great job at that right now and recruiting candidates that can actually win, not just guys who have been there longer and I think that&#8217;s a huge aspect of our future. I think the future&#8217;s bright and I think Trump opened the window for these guys to see what it&#8217;s actually going to take to win when you&#8217;re competing with the insanity that is today&#8217;s Left.

Donald Trump Jr

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Jr. Weighs In On New Book And The Future Of Conservatism, Republican Party

Conservatism

Donald Trump Jr.

The CIA whistleblower whose complaint sparked the Democrats&#8217; impeachment efforts has decided that he will take questions from Republican lawmakers after public outcry over the highly controversial process that Democrats instituted for conducting their impeachment inquiry severely threatened to undermine the entire process.
Whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid made the announcement on Sunday via Twitter, writing, &#8220;Our legal team offered GOP direct opportunity to ask written questions of #whistleblower. Recent GOP messaging, led by President Trump (incl this morning), has been to highlight original #WBer &amp; demand disclosure of identity.&#8221;
&#8220;Despite long standing policy of [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] to protect #whistleblowers, especially anonymity (btw, this was consistent with my efforts w/GOP on #Benghazi), GOP has sought to expose our client&#8217;s identity which could jeopardize their safety, as well as that of their family,&#8221; Zaid continued. &#8220;We have directly engaged GOP as to the irrelevance of the whistleblower&#8217;s information and identity (including addressing any issue of bias), but with little effect in halting the attacks. Btw, countless OIG complaints are filed anonymously &amp; full of hearsay. It&#8217;s common.&#8221;
&#8220;We offered HPSCI (&amp; SSCI), both Majority &amp; Minority, to have #whistleblower answer questions in writing, under oath &amp; penalty of perjury. Obviously, per House rules GOP is beholden to DEMs,&#8221; Zaid continued. &#8220;We, however, are not. Being a whistleblower is not a partisan job nor is impeachment an objective. That is not our role.&#8221;
However, there is a potential problem with the offer: the whistleblower is only offering to submit answers in writing and has not offered to testify in front of Republicans.
&#8220;So we have offered to @DevinNunes, Ranking HPSCI Member, opportunity for Minority to submit through legal team written questions to WBer. Qs cannot seek identifying info, regarding which we will not provide, or otherwise be inappropriate,&#8221; Zaid concluded. &#8220;We will ensure timely answers. We stand ready to cooperate and ensure facts — rather than partisanship — dictates any process involving the #whistleblower.&#8221;
A Republican source connected to Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whistleblower-gop-questions-lawyer-nunes-schiff">said</a> on Sunday, &#8220;I don’t think we will settle for scripted interrogatories. We need a full accounting of his actions and how this was orchestrated.&#8221;
Republican lawmakers have noted that one of the things they want to press the whistleblower on is his connections to Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, since it was revealed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-schiff-knew-about-whistleblower-allegations-days-before-complaint-filed">Schiff&#8217;s staff had contact with the whistleblower prior to the whistleblower filing the complaint</a> and, as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-fact-checker-gives-adam-schiff-four-pinnochios-for-misleading-about-contact-with-trump-whistleblower">Washington Post fact-check concluded</a>, Schiff lied about it.
During a recent speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) noted the importance of needing to physically see the whistleblower:
<blockquote>You get to ask the questions, you see the questions, you get to hear the answers, and you get to observe the witnesses. It’s important and yet under orders of the speaker and Chairman Schiff this so called comparative grand jury kept the huge majority out of those hearings where we could hear and see for ourselves and now we find out through the vote today that yeah the judiciary committee is ultimately going to get this from the intelligence committee.
But never in the history of this country have we had such gross unfairness that one party would put armed guards with guns to prevent the duly authorized people from being able to hear the witnesses and see them for themselves and then all we hear from this resolution today, ‘we’re going to send you the depositions after we get through doctoring and looking at and editing the transcripts, we’ll send you those so you have the evidence you need.’ that’s not the kind of evidence that a coup should be based on. If we’re going to have what they’re trying to legalize as a coup, we ought to have a right to see each of those witnesses and the only potential use for the deposition should be impeachment of those witnesses, nothing else, not for anything substantive.</blockquote>
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Adam Schiff

Ukraine Whistleblower Gives Conditions For Answering Republican Questions

Rising Nevada Republican congressional candidate Lisa Sutton raised more money during the third quarter than any of the other six Republican primary challengers that she faces in Nevada&#8217;s 4th Congressional District.
Sutton, 34, entered the race during the third quarter and raised more money during the first 90 days of her campaign than any of the other candidates did in their first 90 days and had the highest fundraising quarter overall out of all the Republican candidates.
During the third quarter, the seven GOP candidates raised:
<ol>
<li>Lisa Song Sutton: $127,998.00</li>
<li>Samuel Peters: $111,704.00</li>
<li>Charles Navarro: $80,013.00</li>
<li>Jim Merchant: $58,185.00</li>
<li>Randi Reed: $ 47,595.00</li>
<li>Leo Blundo: $45,398.00</li>
<li>Catherine Prato: $29,585</li>
</ol>
The seven GOP candidates&#8217; first 90 days of fundraising:
<ol>
<li>Lisa Song Sutton: $127,998.00</li>
<li>Randi Reed: $ 47,595.00</li>
<li>Leo Blundo: $45,398.00</li>
<li>Catherine Prato: $29,585</li>
<li>Charles Navarro: $17,850.00</li>
<li>Jim Merchant: $14,647.00</li>
<li>Samuel Peters: $5,000.00</li>
</ol>
The seven GOP candidates&#8217; top fundraising quarter earnings:
<ol>
<li>Lisa Song Sutton: $127,998.00</li>
<li>Samuel Peters: $111,704.00</li>
<li>Jim Merchant: $103,790.00</li>
<li>Charles Navarro: $80,013.00</li>
<li>Randi Reed: $ 47,595.00</li>
<li>Leo Blundo: $45,398.00</li>
<li>Catherine Prato: $29,585</li>
</ol>
Sutton, a business owner and former Miss Nevada United States, has a law degree from the University of Miami and is a self-described lifelong Republican.
“I’m incredibly grateful for the momentum my campaign has received in the first 90 days,” Sutton said in a statement. “I’m a business leader, not a politician, and I have shown in my first quarter that we can raise the money to build the grassroots political support needed to challenge Steven Horsford in the general election.”
“Our wide base of support shows Nevada’s 4th Congressional District is eager to elect a Republican who is a young, female, minority, business leader to Congress. The community is tired of career politicians running for office in districts they don’t care about,” Sutton continued. “I’m here to show the community, and Washington, that I will outwork career politician Steven Horsford, and take back Nevada’s 4th Congressional district.”
Sutton&#8217;s campaign noted that since she announced her candidacy in July 2019, &#8220;Sutton raised $107,998 in money and in-kind donations, plus a personal contribution of $20,000, for a total of $127,998 in campaign receipts in her first quarter of declaring. Her campaign has raised money from nearly 200 individual donors throughout Nevada and across the country, showing widespread support for her candidacy.&#8221;
&#8220;Sutton’s support ranges from traditional Nevada Republican donors, to first-time federal campaign donors,&#8221; the statement concluded. &#8220;The average small-dollar online donation was $58. This wide range of support shows her campaign is able to bring new donors to the Republican party. Her ability to expand beyond the traditional base of supporters and win over a majority-minority house district are anchors to Sutton’s success.&#8221;
Sutton, whose father is a Vietnam veteran and mother a Korean immigrant, told The Daily Wire in an interview last month that small businesses, cutting regulations, the U.S. military, immigrant enforcement, border security, and the Second Amendment were among the issues that were the most important to her.
&#8220;Politics was never in the plan for me. I have previously been focused on my companies and community work,&#8221; Sutton told The Daily Wire. &#8220;However, when I opened the second location of my shipping store last year, I saw how much need was in the community. People have no access to basic amenities, like grocery stores. Veterans aren’t being served, and the community is forgotten.&#8221;
&#8220;This area in the District opened my eyes to a larger problem: communities not being served by career politicians,&#8221; Sutton continued. &#8220;This, coupled with my own examination of our state representatives, and realizing that we don’t have a voice for business owners, we don’t have a voice for millennials, and we don’t have a voice of someone actually engaged in the community, I knew I had to step up.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-miss-nevada-daughter-immigrant-launches-gop-ryan-saavedra">Read the rest of Sutton&#8217;s exclusive interview with The Daily Wire.</a>

Lisa Sutton

Rising GOP Congressional Candidate Lisa Sutton Dominates Fundraising Efforts In Primary

Nevada

CNN news anchor Jake Tapper revealed on Sunday that the network has hired former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) as a political commentator.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s bring in new CNN contributor, commentator and former congressman Sean Duffy,&#8221; Tapper said as he introduced Duffy onto a panel during &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221; &#8220;Thank you for being here and congratulations on joining the CNN family.&#8221;
Duffy announced over the summer that he would be stepping down from his role in Congress to spend more time with his family. In October, he welcomed his ninth child, who needs special attention due to medical complications.
&#8220;Recently, we&#8217;ve learned that our baby, due in late October, will need even more love, time, and attention due to complications, including a heart condition,&#8221; Duffy wrote in a statement in August. &#8220;With much prayer, I have decided that this is the right time for me to take a break from public service in order to be the support my wife, baby, and family need right now. It is not an easy decision — because I truly love being your Congressman — but it is the right decision for my family, which is my first love and responsibility.&#8221;
Duffy has represented Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District since he assumed office during the Tea Party wave in 2011. The district is the largest in the state of Wisconsin, covering 20 counties, and has become increasingly red over the past few election cycles.
In 2018, the former Wisconsin congressman was re-elected to the seat after winning more than 20% of the vote. President Donald Trump also won the district over his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton by 21 points during the 2016 presidential election. The district is a Republican stronghold and is not expected to be competitive going into the 2020 election cycle.
Accordingly, Duffy is a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump.
In his first appearance on CNN since he was hired by the network, Duffy defended both the president and the Republican Party over claims that there is no room for dissenting opinions on the right side of the aisle.
&#8220;If you look at the Republican Party and Donald Trump, I mean, we&#8217;ve expanded the party. So, Donald Trump won Wisconsin for the first time since 1984 — we won Michigan, we won Ohio, we&#8217;re winning union voters, rural voters — we&#8217;re doing better than we ever have,&#8221; Duffy said during the panel. &#8220;Now, if you want to say we don&#8217;t do well on the coast — in New York, New England, in the west coast of California, yeah, that&#8217;s true. But in the middle of America, where we actually have to keep the Senate and we have so many House seats, we are doing incredibly well.&#8221;
&#8220;But the bottom line is, we have a great, diverse party. We are the big tent party. We have pro-lifers, pro-choicers, we have some who want open borders, we have some who want closed borders,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We have a great debate and I think it only advances our ability to win elections in states in the middle of America.&#8221;
CNN did not return The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.

Rep. Sean Duffy

CNN Hires Newly Retired GOP Congressman Duffy; Defends Trump In First Appearance

Jake Tapper

Sean Duffy

As of right now, most national head-to-head polls for the 2020 presidential general election show President Donald Trump losing to his Democratic Party presidential primary rivals. This trend generally holds, regardless of whether the nominee is any of the leading top three Democratic candidates: Former Vice President <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html">Joe Biden</a>, Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_warren-6251.html">Elizabeth Warren</a> (D-MA), or Sen. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-6250.html">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT).
While the Trump campaign might be tempted to rest on its laurels and sneer at the polls based upon a look back at the perceived polling debacle that was the 2016 presidential election, such a move would be just as haughty as it is myopic. As Harry Enten&#8217;s <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-polling-error-behind-clinton/">article</a> from November 4, 2016 — that would be four days before the general election — presciently pointed out, in retrospect, polling from the 2016 election cycle was not actually irreconcilable with a Trump victory. Trump obviously trailed Hillary Clinton in the polls, but his victory was actually not outside the realm of polling feasibility — or even outside the realm of polling reasonableness.
As such, the 2020 Trump re-election campaign would be wise to focus on what it can do to win over a larger share of independent, moderate, and suburban voters. In doing so, the Trump campaign would be wise to look back to a much-ballyhooed part of Karl Rove&#8217;s 2004 blueprint for George W. Bush&#8217;s re-election: Specifically, that campaign&#8217;s ingenious focus on the &#8220;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/security-moms-bushs-secret-election-weapon-gl6jc8cxr7j">security mom</a>.&#8221; The mythical &#8220;security mom,&#8221; at the time, was symbolized by the proverbial suburban mother who was worried about revanchist Islamist terrorism and sought to protect her home and family against those who would seek to kill us.
Although some of the specific animating issues have changed over the past 15 years, there is tremendous potential this election cycle for Trump to deploy similar messaging and reach out to a similar sect of voters.
Violent crime in America, despite overall dramatically declining since the 1990s, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-in-defense-of-prosecutors">unfortunately spiked</a> over the past few years. Why isn&#8217;t Trump formally renouncing the <a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20191004/he-was-released-early-from-prison-in-february-now-hes-wanted-for-murder-on-federal-hill">harrowing</a> First Step Act jailbreak law, the passage of which he apparently already <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-reportedly-regrets-passage-jailbreak-first-step-act-gullible-conservatives-supported/">regrets</a>, and doubling down on &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221;-style anti-crime messaging?
Left-wing Democrats are campaigning harder than ever on anti-Second Amendment, gun-grabbing policy proposals. Why isn&#8217;t Trump leading Republicans on a 2020 platform of cracking down on the gun felons that <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/decriminalization-delusion-14037.html">light-on-crime</a> jurisdictions like California seem <a href="https://calmatters.org/gun-violence/2019/10/felons-firearms-california-federal-charges-gun-control-newsom/">hellbent on unleashing</a> upon the general public?
The global jihad — as embodied both by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-josh-hammer">Muslim Brotherhood</a>, the mother&#8217;s milk of Sunni jihad, as well as more public-facing Islamist outfits like al-Qaeda and Islamic State — continues, 18 years after 9/11, to pose a threat to the U.S. homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump running on a platform of discussing not just the wall and border security, but also the arguably even more indispensable issue of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">interior visa enforcement</a>? What about the need to radically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-never-forget-911-we-need-rethink-how-we-josh-hammer">restructure our immigration policy</a> away from letting in largely unvetted populations of Middle Easterners?
Across the nation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-who-will-stand-for-the-forgotten-american">neo-Confederate</a> &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; jurisdictions employ anti-<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Supremacy Clause</a> erroneous legal &#8220;reasoning&#8221; to defy <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiHsv7v4LXjAhWTHM0KHZKMB7gQFjAAegQIAxAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.cornell.edu%2Fuscode%2Ftext%2F8%2F1324&amp;usg=AOvVaw2EunpYa249SvA-oBwwFrS2">federal immigration law</a>, ignore ICE detainers on <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/another-illegal-alien-arrested-brutal-rape-notorious-sanctuary-montgomery-county/">violent criminal aliens</a>, and aid and abet the work of the transnational Mexican cartels that traffick drugs and criminals alike into the homeland. Why isn&#8217;t Trump proposing more aggressive policies to strip federal funding away from sanctuary jurisdictions and effectively message to suburban voters that the government will act to help prevent MS-13 thugs from terrorizing their neighborhoods?
There are a myriad other examples, to be sure. But to maximize its 2020 re-election chances, the Trump campaign ought to focus more intensively on appealing to moderates and suburban swing voters. In order to do so, there is no better platform than a safety and security agenda tailored to the very &#8220;security moms&#8221; that President Bush so effectively courted in 2004.

Handcuffed prisoner

HAMMER: Trump Needs To Focus On A Safety And Security Agenda For 2020

Al Qaeda

Crime

Hamas

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Jail

MS-13 Gang

National Security

During a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rep-dan-crenshaw-slams-democratic-resentment-narrative-on-income-inequality">hearing</a> by the House Committee on the Budget, titled: “Solutions to Rising Economic Inequality,&#8221; Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) spoke with American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Romesh Ponnuru about poverty in the United States.
Crenshaw noted that the conservative &#8220;focus&#8221; is on the individual &#8220;who actually needs our help &#8230; the people who are having trouble moving up the economic ladder.&#8221;
Unfortunately, for many years, Republicans have been on the &#8220;losing&#8221; end of the poverty debate. Democrats have taken the spotlight with talking points pertaining to income inequality, the shrinking middle class, and programs for the poor — but conservatives have just as much to say about reducing poverty.
On Thursday, I had the opportunity to speak with Whitney Munro, the Vice President of Communications for the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), a conservative-leaning public policy organization focused on &#8220;using work to lift people out of dependency &#8230; and to empower them to take control of their futures,&#8221; according to their official website.
In part one of this two-part interview, Munro discusses the messaging issues plaguing the Republican Party when it comes to poverty, why progressives seem to hold all the cards in the debate, and what policies conservatives can advance.
<blockquote>DW: Do you think there’s a messaging problem among Republican politicians, and conservatives in general, when it comes to poverty and the alleviation of it?
MUNRO: Yeah. I think part of the problem is that the Left is really good at making us look bad about poverty no matter what, and we tend to always end up in the reactive, and the defensive instead of on the offensive with the messages and the things we know that work. We, as a movement, need to do a better job of putting ourselves out there and showing that we have solutions that we know work, we have solutions that actually help people, and we have solutions that reduce dependency — that’s our focus, and here’s what they are – instead of allowing ourselves to always respond to somebody else’s accusation that we’re uncaring and cold people. The truth is that our solutions help the truly needy by getting them out of dependency.
DW: What can conservatives do to counter those progressive talking points about poverty?
MUNRO: I think conservatives need to make this a priority. I think we’re a little scared to say things like, “Our solutions are actually an opportunity,” and we have to take back what that means. Paul Ryan had his whole “opportunity” message, and I think a lot of that got lost in the shuffle, but opportunity is really something that free market solutions are intended for, to empower people.
The Left is really good at saying, “We need benefits. Benefits are the starting ground for people. If you take benefits away, you’re hurting people and you’re taking away their opportunity.” We need to talk about the fact that benefits are not intended to be anything long term. They’re intended to be a trampoline, to be a springboard. They’re a short term solution, and the opportunity comes through work, through stimulating the economy, and through creating opportunities for government to get out of the way, and for people to do what they’re really good at.
DW: Is that why you think progressives have the lead on this issue? Their talking points combined with the lack of response from the Right?
MUNRO: Yeah, I think so. We end up getting caught – the Right tends to think about, what is the nitty gritty of the policy, right? So when we’re talking on the Right, it’s, “We have this great reform called ‘X,’ and it does all of these things that we talk about in terms of dollars and cents,” but we’re not really talking about people, and real people are the focus of these policies. We need to flip that switch and show that there are real people out there who are impacted by this stuff – they need it, they want it, they’re hungry for it, they support it — and less about, “here’s the graph, and here’s a chart, and here’s the very black and white, dry aspect of these reforms.”
There’s a reason we all do what we do, which is to change and impact lives. It’s not about a cool chart or the number of taxpayer dollars saved in the long run. It’s about impacting people. The Left is great at talking about people, and bringing people out, and almost using people. I think it’s kind of a knee-jerk reaction on our part to do the opposite.
DW: What’s a policy for which conservatives can advocate that will help the poor and lift people up?
MUNRO: There’s two things here. We have to turn away from the idea that government can create a new program that is designed around that. The goal here is to get government out of the way, to make sure that government programs actually impact the truly needy, those who cannot help themselves. Then, we turn everything back to work, the private sector, personal responsibility, turn things back to their communities and the people who live in them.
Right now, there’s this sense, if you talk to anyone that, “Well, what is government going to do to solve that problem?” and we all know that that’s not working. So, the first thing we need to do is just change that cultural conversation away from that. At the FGA, we focus on work as a solution, and we don’t make work a bad thing. Work is a good thing. I think that’s the other piece that’s missing – sometimes we allow work to be demonized, like, “work is so hard” and “work is hard for people,” and “what happens to a person if you require them to work?” When in reality, we know that work is the number one way that people get out of poverty. The first job leads to the next job, which leads to the next best job, and it gets people out of those situations. So, we have to talk about work in a way that’s empowering, not giving into the false dichotomy from the left which presents work in a way that’s a detriment to people and not working necessary for a lot of able-bodied people.
We’ve done tracking studies in <a href="https://thefga.org/research/report-the-power-of-work-how-kansas-welfare-reform-is-lifting-americans-out-of-poverty/">Kansas</a> and <a href="https://thefga.org/research/new-report-proves-maines-welfare-reforms-working/">Maine</a> and <a href="https://thefga.org/research/commonsense-welfare-reform-has-transformed-floridians-lives/">Florida</a> and <a href="https://thefga.org/research/work-requirements-arkansas/">Arkansas</a> (we’re in the middle of a few more) that show that incomes more than double when you get people back to work and out of poverty and even triple within two years. They find work in 600 or more industries, in Florida, with 1,000 or more industries. We need to celebrate those things, and make work something that is beautiful and awesome instead of something that is scary and, “Oh, gosh! How could you even think about making someone do that?”
DW: I know there are issues sometimes with state and federal laws where people are afraid to get a job that pays slightly better because then they’ll lose their benefits. What is the solution to that?
MUNRO: That’s a great question, and that is some of the pushback that people get when they talk about things like work requirements. The reality is, once you get to that place where you’re making enough that you lose, maybe it’s food stamps, you’re more than making up for the loss of that benefit in your wages. All of the tracking studies and all the data we have kind of proves that people aren’t financially hurt by those situations where they would be working and then lose some of that benefit.
DW: Who or what organization runs your research?
MUNRO: We do all of our research in house. However, we partner — and we do a tracking study with people who are on welfare, on Medicaid — we actually partner with the state agencies. So, all of the data we use for that research comes directly from the state agencies’ data storage, with them removing any personal information before we get it. We get their files, we give them an amount of time that we’re tracking people, and then we whittle that down into the results that we’re looking for.
DW: Is there a reason we’re not really seeing conservative politicians at large pushing these reform ideas that your organization advocates?
MUNRO: With the Farm Bill battle earlier this year and last year, there was a big push for things like work requirements. The House really did try to get this out there. There were anti-fraud measures, there were different provisions that were put into the Farm Bill. I do think though, and it goes back to what I told you in the beginning, a lot of this was about dollars and cents, and we’ve got to talk about people.
At a state level, the states have been incentivized. That’s something that we’re working on, but I think that there’s a challenge there in knowing what are the barriers in place, what are the problems that you’re facing, and what is the right step. That’s what FGA is doing on a regular basis — just talking to policy makers and saying, did you even know that your state has this waiver in place? Did you even know that in counties in your state, there were this many people not working simply because you guys aren’t following the 1996 welfare reform? There’s a lot of misinformation out there, and we’re trying to flip that on its head and make sure people know and understand what they can do to help the people in their community.</blockquote>
Stay tuned for part two of this interview, which will be released on Tuesday, where Munro will talk about attacks from leftist organizations, pervasive welfare abuse, &#8220;workforce&#8221; issues, and much more.

Homeless guy.

INTERVIEW (Part I): Foundation For Government Accountability Talks About The Conservative Approach To Fighting Poverty

As The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/464961-planned-parenthood-announces-45-million-campaign-to-defeat-trump-flip">notes</a>, Planned Parenthood is planning to make a major investment in the 2020 election. The abortion conglomerate&#8217;s super PAC announced that it would be spending upwards of $45 million to unseat Republican politicians and replace them with Democrats.
More from The Hill:
<blockquote>The investment will fund a &#8220;large-scale&#8221; grassroots organization and canvass, digital, television, radio and mail programs.
&#8220;The stakes are higher than ever, and we&#8217;re coming out more powerfully than ever with the largest investment we&#8217;ve ever made,&#8221; said Kelley Robinson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes, in an interview with The Hill. &#8230;
&#8220;We know we&#8217;re going to have a critical role mobilizing those folks to win back the Senate and expand the path to 270 to win back the presidency,&#8221; Robinson said.</blockquote>
Notice the phrasing. &#8220;Win back the presidency.&#8221; Planned Parenthood is directly conflating its interest with the interests of elected Democrats, as if the two groups are joined at the hip. Of course, they are joined at the hip. The Democratic Party has long been a prostitute of the abortion industry — doing its bidding and dancing to its tune, as any informed person knows. None of this is news, although it is still notable.
Recall Planned Parenthood&#8217;s panicked reaction a few months ago, when the Trump administration threatened to cut off access to a portion of its tax funding. An executive <a href="https://q13fox.com/2019/08/22/planned-parenthood-feeling-the-lack-of-federal-funding/">fretted</a> that there would be a &#8220;public health crisis&#8221; spurred on by &#8220;this denial of care.&#8221; Indeed, any time Planned Parenthood funding is scrutinized, we are always assured that every dime of the $500 million it annually appropriates from taxpayers is necessary. One of its websites <a href="https://www.istandwithpp.org/defund-defined/impact-defunding-planned-parenthood">warns</a> of a &#8220;national health disaster&#8221; if Planned Parenthood&#8217;s pipeline to the public treasury is cut off or is obstructed in any way. But they&#8217;ve still got nearly $50 million to spend on politics, apparently.
You could argue that Planned Parenthood&#8217;s PAC is distinct from Planned Parenthood itself, which is technically true — just as it is technically true that the half a billion it receives from Uncle Sam doesn&#8217;t directly fund abortions. But these distinctions obscure the fact that money is fungible. By financially propping up one aspect of its business, we better enable it to fund the other parts. The taxpayer money keeps the whole ship afloat, and the PAC is certainly on the ship — or is at least attached to it.
But this is all besides the point. The real point is that Planned Parenthood — as Kelley Robinson in the above quote made perfectly clear — is an expressly ideological organization. It wouldn&#8217;t have a PAC trying to &#8220;win back the presidency&#8221; if that were not the case. It is outrageous that taxpayers are being forced to contribute billions to an organization with a clear political agenda. And we haven&#8217;t even mentioned the fact that this organization also happens to slaughter 300,000 children every year.
The Left insists that organizations like the NRA are corrupting our politics and buying off politicians. Whether this is true or not (and I don&#8217;t think it is), at least Republicans aren&#8217;t appropriating hundreds of millions of dollars from our paychecks every year to put it directly into the NRA&#8217;s coffers — so that the money can eventually end up in their own coffers. One can only imagine the reaction from the Left if such a system were ever instated. Well, they simply wouldn&#8217;t allow it. And yet Republicans have allowed the Democrats to launder campaign funds through Planned Parenthood for decades. That is maybe the biggest outrage of all.

Planned Parenthood

WALSH:   Planned Parenthood Is A Money Laundering Operation For The Democratic Party, And Republicans Refuse To Do Anything About It

Abortion

Trump Administration

Senate Republicans are once again taking pro-lifers for a ride and expecting to get away with it.
Just months after swearing up and down that the trillion-dollar budget deal agreed to in July was the only way to protect pro-life priorities in the year-end spending fight, Senate Republicans have done nothing to stop that very assault by their Democratic counterparts.
The Senate spending bill on the Department of State and foreign operations, recently <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FY2020%20SFOPS%20Appropriations%20Act,%20S.2583.pdf">reported</a> out of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, both Republicans and Democrats supported the inclusion of language that directly violates the progress President Trump has made on the <a href="https://khn.org/morning-breakout/trump-administration-expands-mexico-city-policy-to-include-groups-that-dont-perform-abortions-but-support-ones-that-do/">Mexico City Policy</a>, which prevents U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to foreign organizations that fund or promote abortion overseas.
The language, <a href="https://www.shaheen.senate.gov/news/press/in-committee-approved-funding-bill-shaheen-boosts-funding-for-anti-opioid-grants-pfas-research-and-federal-support-to-improve-mental-health-services-for-law-enforcement">added by</a> Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), is designed to do an end-run around the Trump administration’s ban sending taxpayer money to foreign abortion providers by adding a nearly $60 million increase to U.S.-based groups that fund abortion overseas.
Groups that are eligible to receive these taxpayer dollars include <a href="https://www.pathfinder.org/focus-areas/safe-abortion-care/">Pathfinder International</a>, <a href="https://www.popcouncil.org/research/safe-abortion-and-postabortion-care">Population Council</a>, <a href="http://fpconference.org/2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/EngenderHealth-FactSheets.pdf">Engender Health</a>, and <a href="https://path.org/resources/womens-right-to-choose-partnerships-for-safe-abortion-in-nepal/">PATH</a>. All of them list abortion services as key missions.
That Senate Republicans would allow this on a voice vote — the type of vote that is not recorded, and usually reserved for non-controversial amendments — is bad enough. But worse, it is a <a href="https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/can-white-house-and-gop-senators-protect-pro-life-policy/">blatant violation</a> of the “handshake agreement” in the <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Bipartisan%20Budget%20Agreement%20July%2022%202019.pdf">budget deal</a> which barred the inclusion of so-called “poison pill” amendments.
While the term “poison pill” was left undefined, it was largely considered to include amendments that were deemed explicitly partisan by one side. Specifically, the deal <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Bipartisan%20Budget%20Agreement%20July%2022%202019.pdf">prohibited</a> higher spending levels for accounts unless “agreed to on a bipartisan basis by the four leaders with the approval of the president.”
Lest there be any doubt, this Shaheen-style increase to abortion funding has already been clearly shown to be partisan. In June, the Democrat-controlled House voted on an <a href="https://lesko.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2207">amendment</a> by Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) that would have barred the increases in the Shaheen amendment. Every single House Republican, as well as two House Democrats, <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll324.xml">voted</a> to restrict the money.
But now, Senate Republicans want to allow it.
And not to stop there, Senate Republicans are apparently also fine with language in the <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/FY2020%20SFOPS%20Appropriations%20Act,%20Report%20116-126.pdf">bill’s report</a> prioritizing funding toward “family planning/reproductive health” — phrases long deemed by the pro-life community to be synonymous with abortion.
Both of these provisions are obviously in violation of the budget deal. And any attempt by Senate Republicans to shush the pro-life movement, to tell them “we’ll deal with it in conference” (when the House and Senate reconcile their different versions of the same bill), should be treated as suspect.
Pro-lifers have seen this move before. Indeed, the blatantly bad faith with which Senate Republicans are treating the pro-life movement is egregious, but hardly surprising.
As I <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2018/09/15/requiem-for-the-pro-life-movement/">wrote a year ago</a>, using the pro-life cause as an excuse to pass bad bills — while not intending to actually address any of their priorities — has become de rigueur for Republicans in power.
And this budget deal is turning out to be no different. Senate leadership pressed pro-lifers that this “handshake agreement” <a href="https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/can-white-house-and-gop-senators-protect-pro-life-policy/">was the only thing</a> standing between them and a total abolition of the abortion protections in law. Keeping abortion restrictions in place, pro-life groups were told, was contingent upon <a href="https://www.sba-list.org/newsroom/press-releases/sba-list-celebrates-house-passage-budget-agreement">pro-life support</a> of the bill.
Except, once again, it was merely a manipulation for Senate Republicans to get support from the conservative base in the short term, in order to sell them out a few months later.
Pro-lifers have to stop taking these assurances at face value. This is the same set of Republicans that had majorities in the House and Senate for two years, with a Republican in the White House, and managed to accomplish (or even to try to accomplish) approximately nothing on behalf of the pro-life cause. Worse still, they <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2018/09/01/do-nothing-republican-senate-goes-home/">shouted down</a> anyone in their conference who attempted to try.
Love him or hate him, President Trump has done more for the pro-life cause than any other Republican president <a href="https://www.sba-list.org/trump-pro-life-wins">in history</a>. And rather than supporting him in those efforts, Senate Republicans seem intent to undermine him — and, in a twisted bit of cynicism, to use the pro-life movement as cover to do so.
If the pro-life movement in Washington is to have any lasting impact, it has to start with a hard-earned distrust of the leaders who seem intent on manipulating them, time and time again.
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Rachel Bovard spent a decade working for Republicans on Capitol Hill, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) She was also director of policy services at the Heritage Foundation. She currently serves as the senior director of policy at the <a href="https://www.conservativepartnership.org">Conservative Partnership Institute</a>.

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BOVARD: Senate Republicans Are Betraying Pro-Lifers

U.S. Senate

On Thursday, the official Twitter account for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) sent out a tweet regarding a Democratic Congressman’s personal life.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Looks like Mrs. Cunningham likes a man who supports baseless impeachment…wonder if this will come up in <a href="https://twitter.com/RepCunningham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepCunningham</a>&#8216;s 
marriage counseling? <a href="https://t.co/vohwHpDi5Q">https://t.co/vohwHpDi5Q</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SC01?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SC01</a> <a href="https://t.co/SN2ppw1th4">pic.twitter.com/SN2ppw1th4</a>
— NRCC (@NRCC) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRCC/status/1177262921245761537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
The photo in the tweet is a screenshot of an Instagram post from Rep. Joe Cunningham’s (D-SC) wife Amanda. In the post, Amanda Cunningham shares a tweet from 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke writing about impeachment proceedings, adding the caption: &#8220;Beto getting bolder and I like it.&#8221;
The NRCC tweet, which shows Cunningham’s Instagram post, reads, &#8220;Looks like Mrs. Cunningham likes a man who supports baseless impeachment … wonder if this will come up in <a href="https://twitter.com/RepCunningham">@RepCunningham</a>&#8216;s marriage counseling?&#8221;
The tweet received significant blowback, with commenters calling it &#8220;gross&#8221; and &#8220;embarrassing.&#8221; One user even called the tweet &#8220;everything that’s wrong with politics in the digital era.&#8221;
Jon Favreau, former speechwriter for Obama, wrote, &#8220;You’re f***ing garbage. Go lose more elections.&#8221; The NRCC account sent back a meme of a shaking PC Principle from &#8220;South Park,&#8221; with a text overlay that reads, &#8220;Triggering Intensifies.&#8221;
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<a href="https://t.co/i6YW4oqJ2e">pic.twitter.com/i6YW4oqJ2e</a>
— NRCC (@NRCC) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRCC/status/1177305741507670018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
Political analyst and former McCain and Kasich strategist John Weaver wrote, &#8220;What is wrong with you people?&#8221;
NRCC Communications Director Chris Pack replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s not our fault that @RepCunningham&#8217;s wife publicly complains about having to pay for her marriage counseling, John. Take it up with her.&#8221;
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It&#8217;s not our fault that <a href="https://twitter.com/RepCunningham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepCunningham</a>&#8216;s wife publicly complains about having to pay for her marriage counseling, John. Take it up with her. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SC01?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SC01</a> <a href="https://t.co/xlhy2wImdx">https://t.co/xlhy2wImdx</a>
— Chris Pack (@ChrisPack716) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisPack716/status/1177280396075110401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
User @conorjrogers hit back, writing, &#8220;That it’s &#8216;not your fault&#8217; doesn’t mean you turn it into an attack and troll someone seeking therapy. It’s not like you’re making some kind of argument here about why counseling shouldn’t be covered, just being crass and attacking a spouse. Take a step back and look at this.&#8221;
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That it’s “not your fault” doesn’t mean you turn it into an attack and troll someone seeking therapy.
It’s not like you’re making some kind of argument here about why counseling shouldn’t be covered, just being crass and attacking a spouse.
Take a step back and look at this.
— chasten for president (@conorjrogers) <a href="https://twitter.com/conorjrogers/status/1177314813824946176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
Pack’s reply was in reference to an Instagram video from Amanda Cunningham in which she complains that mental health-related appointments aren’t being covered by her insurance.
In her self-described &#8220;rant,&#8221; Cunningham holds up paperwork from BlueCross BlueShield, and <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/10/democrat-reps-wife-demands-free-marriage-counseling-taxpayer-subsidized-health-plan/">states in part</a>:
<blockquote>&#8230;once again, all of my mental health therapy sessions are denied, in addition to all of our marriage counseling sessions, and it&#8217;s just mind-blowing to me that these basic, well-known needs, that mental health is health care, are still being denied, that we&#8217;re still fighting for these absolutely basic things. It&#8217;s unbelievable to me &#8230; because this is ridiculous. This affects us, our family, [and] it affects everyone else who’s seeking mental health and needs support doing so.</blockquote>
When I reached out to NRCC Regional Press Secretary Camille M. Gallo on Twitter for comment, she directed me to her email.
In my follow-up email, I asked Gallo who authored the tweet. I also asked Gallo if she believed it was appropriate or in good taste to use the Cunninghams’ marriage counseling as a weapon against the representative, and to imply that Amanda Cunningham’s support for candidate Beto O’Rourke might translate into a personal relationship issue.
After several hours, Gallo looped Pack into the conversation. Pack replied:
<blockquote>First, we cited a newspaper story. If there is an issue with it, perhaps the Democrats should take it up with the publisher who wrote on her publicly complaining about her taxpayer-funded health care not being good enough. Second, Democrats should be the last people to talk about what is off limits given how they have treated the President and First Lady, Vice President and Second Lady, First daughter, and most recently, the Vice President’s press secretary.</blockquote>
On Friday, Rep. Cunningham replied to the NRCC tweet, using it as a fundraising tool: &#8220;Amanda is my rock &#8211; and the @NRCC just hit rock bottom. I respect my wife and all women, y’all should give it a try. Let’s show them there’s a price for living in the gutter.&#8221;
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Amanda is my rock &#8211; and the <a href="https://twitter.com/NRCC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NRCC</a> just hit rock bottom. I respect my wife and all women, y’all should give it a try.
Let’s show them there’s a price for living in the gutter.
DONATE <a href="https://t.co/cPKKC18Xi8">https://t.co/cPKKC18Xi8</a> <a href="https://t.co/JCHcMfADYh">https://t.co/JCHcMfADYh</a>
— Joe Cunningham (@JoeCunninghamSC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeCunninghamSC/status/1177598480451284992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
Cunningham added in a <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeCunninghamSC/status/1177640961431789568">second tweet,</a> &#8220;This is why people hate politics. It’s time to teach the @NRCC a lesson about attacking our families. Help me fight back.&#8221;

Republican Elephant.

National Republican Org Brings Up Dem Representative’s ‘Marriage Counseling’ In Tweet

The Democrat-controlled House shouldn&#8217;t have much trouble impeaching President Trump. After all, Democrats enjoy a 235-198 margin over Republicans, with one independent and one vacant seat.
But Democrats are looking to add some Republicans — and they may have just found one.
Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) has become the first House Republican to voice support for an impeachment inquiry into Trump — and he wants everyone to know. 
In a conference call with reporters on Friday, Amodei said he won&#8217;t necessarily vote to impeach Trump, but he said the House should &#8220;put it through the process and see what happens.”
“I’m a big fan of oversight, so let’s let the committees get to work and see where it goes,” he said, according to audio of the call released by <a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/amodei-on-trump-impeachment-inquiry-lets-put-it-through-the-process-and-see-what-happens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Nevada Independent</a>.
“Using government agencies to, if it’s proven, to put your finger on the scale of an election, I don’t think that’s right,” Amodei said. “If it turns out that it’s something along those lines, then there’s a problem.”
Amodei later pulled back on his remarks, issuing a statement after the Independent’s piece was published in which he said, &#8220;In no way, shape, or form did I indicate support for impeachment.&#8221;
&#8220;Amodei declined to say whether he believes Trump committed an impeachable offense, though he noted that his comments in the call were regrettable,&#8221; said the Independent.
<blockquote>“If it was my statement and I had the ability to do it over, I would probably phrase it differently,” he said. “I don’t know that it’s a smoking gun.”
“I think that’s why we have the committee process,” he added. “I won’t attribute what was in the president’s mind. That wasn’t a great way to express concern about it. Part of what the committees will do is try to find some context for that and then based on what a fair reading of the context is, they’ll go forward from there.”
The Nevada Republican dismissed the notion, raised by Trump, that the issue was raised by political enemies in the government looking for any reason to depose him. He noted that Trump has a reputation for coming out hard when he feels like he’s being attacked, but said the issue is one of law. “I don’t care if it was a partisan spy or not,” Amodei said. “The only thing I get a vote on is, if it comes to the House floor… do I think that there is evidence there that is credible, that says he broke a specific law?”</blockquote>
The endgame will take place is the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-45 margin over Democrats, with two independents. But to convict Trump and oust him from office, Democrats need a 2/3 majority, or 67 votes. That means Democrats need 22 extra votes to get to the magic number.
Some in the Senate may be convinceable. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) has called Trump’s actions “troubling,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said the phone call with the Ukrainian president was “very concerning,” and Sen. <a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/people/benjamin-ben-sasse" data-nid="345981">Ben Sasse</a> (R-NE) has warned Republicans against “rushing to circle the wagons to say there&#8217;s no there there when there&#8217;s obviously lots that&#8217;s very troubling there.”

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First House Republican Comes Out In Support Of Impeachment Inquiry

Impeachment

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on Sunday for the Department of Justice to investigate &#8220;all things Ukraine&#8221; after a scandal involving Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden has made national news in recent days.
The Republican appeared on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; with host Maria Bartiromo where he called for the DOJ to investigate the Biden-Ukraine connection the same way that the DOJ investigated the Trump-Russia connection.
&#8220;Joe Biden said everybody&#8217;s looked at this and found nothing,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;Who is everybody? Nobody&#8217;s looked at the Ukraine and the Bidens. Nobody&#8217;s looked at the role the Ukraine played in the 2016 election.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you think the media in America would really look at it and report on it if there was something bad for the Bidens or they unduly interfered in the 2016 election?&#8221; Graham continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m calling for somebody in the Justice Department to look at all things Ukraine. We have looked at all things Russia and Trump, his family, everything about his family, every transaction between the Trump campaign and Russia.&#8221;
&#8220;Now it&#8217;s time to see whether or not the Ukrainians released information regarding Manafort, who was Trump&#8217;s campaign manager. What relationships, if any, did the Biden world have to the Ukraine,&#8221; Graham continued. &#8220;What role, if any, did the Ukraine play in the 2016 election? So nobody&#8217;s looked at this, but somebody should. So I&#8217;m hoping the Department of Justice will look at the Biden-Ukraine connection like we looked at the Trump-Russia connection.&#8221;
&#8220;Can you imagine if this were the Trump family doing business like this?&#8221; Graham continued. &#8220;I like Joe Biden, I like him a lot, but you can&#8217;t have it both ways here. They&#8217;ve done everything but turn the Trump world upside down, when it comes to this president there are no rules including a phone call, everything is fair game when it comes to Trump, there are no privileges.&#8221;
WATCH:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Biden&#8217;s Ukraine scandal: “Biden said everybody&#8217;s looked at this and found nothing. Who is everybody? Nobody&#8217;s looked at Ukraine and the Bidens. … I’m hoping the DOJ will look at the Biden-Ukraine connection like we looked at Trump-Russia connection” <a href="https://t.co/ErbhiYNpud">pic.twitter.com/ErbhiYNpud</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1175943421875195904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In January 2017, Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446">reported</a>: &#8220;Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton&#8217;s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.&#8221;
&#8220;A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation,&#8221; Politico added. &#8220;The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort&#8217;s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump&#8217;s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia&#8217;s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.&#8221;
Trump weighed in on the story late on Sunday night, tweeting that &#8220;Sleepy Joe Biden, on the other hand, forced a tough prosecutor out from investigating his son&#8217;s company by threat of not giving big dollars to Ukraine. That&#8217;s the real story!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">..Breaking News: The Ukrainian Government just said they weren’t pressured at all during the “nice” call. Sleepy Joe Biden, on the other hand, forced a tough prosecutor out from investigating his son’s company by threat of not giving big dollars to Ukraine. That’s the real story!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1175923717534150656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Lindsey Graham Calls For Investigation Into Biden-Ukraine Connection; Alleged Election Interference

Joe Biden

Lindsey Graham

Russia

On Sunday, while visiting Houston, Texas, President Trump indicated that he might release the transcript of his July phone call with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, reports <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462520-trump-says-he-will-consider-releasing-transcript-of-ukraine-cal">The Hill</a>.
&#8220;Now, as far as my conversation, it was a perfect conversation,&#8221; the president <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=252671">said</a>. &#8220;It &#8230; couldn&#8217;t have been any better. But we&#8217;ll make a determination about how to release it, releasing it, saying what we said. It was an absolutely perfect conversation.&#8221;
Trump continued, implying that by releasing the transcript, world leaders might feel as though they cannot speak freely when engaging with him over the phone:
<blockquote>
The problem is when you&#8217;re speaking to foreign leaders, you don&#8217;t want foreign leaders to feel that they shouldn&#8217;t be speaking openly. You have to be talking to people &#8211; and the same thing for an American president. You want them to be able to express themselves without knowing that not every single word is going to be going out and going out all over the world. When I make calls though, I know that there are a lot of people on those calls that are listening, intelligence people, with my approval, intelligence people and others. So when you&#8217;re making a call, or when you&#8217;re talking to a leader of a foreign country, it&#8217;s very easy the assume that you have many, many people listening.
</blockquote>
The media maelstrom regarding the &#8220;transcript&#8221; all stems from a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trumps-communications-with-foreign-leader-are-part-of-whistleblower-complaint-that-spurred-standoff-between-spy-chief-and-congress-former-officials-say/2019/09/18/df651aa2-da60-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html?outputType=amp">Washington Post</a> story from Wednesday, which claims, citing two &#8220;former U.S. officials familiar with the matter,&#8221; that a whistleblower from within the intelligence community issued an official complaint pertaining to a phone call between Trump and a foreign leader.
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-leader-11568993176">The Wall Street Journal</a> added another layer to the story on Friday, stating that &#8220;people familiar with the matter&#8221; claimed that President Trump pressured Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky during a July phone call to launch an investigation into an incident connected to former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
Since the story broke, Democratic lawmakers and those in the press have been inquiring about the transcript of the phone call, but at least two Trump administration officials have balked.
Appearing on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/09/meet-the-press-this-week-trump-officials-no-ukraine-call-transcripts-1202740823/">said the following</a>: &#8220;I think it would be highly inappropriate to release a transcript of a call between two world leaders.&#8221;
Also on Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/mike-pompeo-releasing-transcript-of-trumps-call-with-ukrainian-president-wouldnt-be-appropriate/&#8203;">told</a> ABC&#8217;s Martha Raddatz that it &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be appropriate to [release the transcript] except in the most extreme circumstances,&#8221; adding that &#8220;there&#8217;s no evidence that that would be appropriate at this point.&#8221;
While numerous Democratic politicians and commentators have been using the whistleblower complaint as a means to call into question President Trump&#8217;s ethics, with some even floating it as <a href="https://twitter.com/radiofreetom/status/1175846743084322818?s=21">another reason</a> for impeachment, some Republicans have urged caution.
Speaking with Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier on Friday, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52078/watch-house-minority-leader-urges-caution-frank-camp">said</a>:
<blockquote>
We need to know more facts. This is just being written in The Wall Street Journal. What did we see last week with The New York Times writing something before they had all the facts? The Director of National Intelligence &#8230; is going to be before the Intel Committee next Thursday in a public hearing, and I think that will be the appropriate time to find the information out.
</blockquote>
To catch up on this quickly evolving story, check out more in-depth coverage from The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52050/firestorm-over-trump-ukraine-scandal-trump-james-barrett">here</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52094/watch-ukrainian-foreign-minister-says-he-doesnt-frank-camp">here</a>.

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Trump Claims A ‘Determination’ Will Be Made ‘About How To Release’ The Ukraine Phone Call Transcript

On Sunday, while visiting Houston, Texas, President Trump indicated that he might release the transcript of his July phone call with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, reports <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462520-trump-says-he-will-consider-releasing-transcript-of-ukraine-cal">The Hill</a>.
&#8220;Now, as far as my conversation, it was a perfect conversation,&#8221; the president <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=252671">said</a>. &#8220;It &#8230; couldn’t have been any better. But we’ll make a determination about how to release it, releasing it, saying what we said. It was an absolutely perfect conversation.&#8221;
Trump continued, implying that by releasing the transcript, world leaders might feel as though they cannot speak freely when engaging with him over the phone:
<blockquote>The problem is when you’re speaking to foreign leaders, you don’t want foreign leaders to feel that they shouldn’t be speaking openly. You have to be talking to people – and the same thing for an American president. You want them to be able to express themselves without knowing that not every single word is going to be going out and going out all over the world. When I make calls though, I know that there are a lot of people on those calls that are listening, intelligence people, with my approval, intelligence people and others. So when you’re making a call, or when you’re talking to a leader of a foreign country, it’s very easy the assume that you have many, many people listening.</blockquote>
The media maelstrom regarding the &#8220;transcript&#8221; all stems from a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trumps-communications-with-foreign-leader-are-part-of-whistleblower-complaint-that-spurred-standoff-between-spy-chief-and-congress-former-officials-say/2019/09/18/df651aa2-da60-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html?outputType=amp">Washington Post</a> story from Wednesday, which claims, citing two &#8220;former U.S. officials familiar with the matter,&#8221; that a whistleblower from within the intelligence community issued an official complaint pertaining to a phone call between Trump and a foreign leader.
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-leader-11568993176">The Wall Street Journal</a> added another layer to the story on Friday, stating that &#8220;people familiar with the matter&#8221; claimed that President Trump pressured Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky during a July phone call to launch an investigation into an incident connected to former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
Since the story broke, Democratic lawmakers and those in the press have been inquiring about the transcript of the phone call, but at least two Trump administration officials have balked.
Appearing on NBC’s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/09/meet-the-press-this-week-trump-officials-no-ukraine-call-transcripts-1202740823/​">said the following</a>: &#8220;I think it would be highly inappropriate to release a transcript of a call between two world leaders.&#8221;
Also on Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/mike-pompeo-releasing-transcript-of-trumps-call-with-ukrainian-president-wouldnt-be-appropriate/​">told</a> ABC’s Martha Raddatz that it &#8220;wouldn’t be appropriate to [release the transcript] except in the most extreme circumstances,&#8221; adding that &#8220;there’s no evidence that that would be appropriate at this point.&#8221;
While numerous Democratic politicians and commentators have been using the whistleblower complaint as a means to call into question President Trump’s ethics, with some even floating it as <a href="https://twitter.com/radiofreetom/status/1175846743084322818?s=21">another reason</a> for impeachment, some Republicans have urged caution.
Speaking with Fox News’ Bret Baier on Friday, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52078/watch-house-minority-leader-urges-caution-frank-camp">said</a>:
<blockquote>We need to know more facts. This is just being written in The Wall Street Journal. What did we see last week with The New York Times writing something before they had all the facts? The Director of National Intelligence &#8230; is going to be before the Intel Committee next Thursday in a public hearing, and I think that will be the appropriate time to find the information out.</blockquote>
To catch up on this quickly evolving story, check out more in-depth coverage from The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52050/firestorm-over-trump-ukraine-scandal-trump-james-barrett">here</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52094/watch-ukrainian-foreign-minister-says-he-doesnt-frank-camp">here</a>.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee has announced they will be dispersing baseball cards trolling Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) — who as of January was still <a href="http://The National Republican Senatorial Committee has announced they will be dispersing baseball cards trolling Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), who as of January was still unknown to 36% of his own constituents, at a Republican leadership conference in Michigan this weekend. The Hill reports that the NRSC released a statement this week, and the committee wants to draw attention to the fact that Peters “remains the most unknown senator in the country because he has failed to stand up for the principles and priorities of Michigan voters.” The conference, which will feature a keynote address by Vice President Mike Pence, aims to bring together “conservative leaders from across America to discuss solutions to the critical issues facing our nation,” according to the organization’s website. Both Secretary of Education Betsy Devos and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will also make speeches at the event. Attendees will also have the opportunity to collect the novelty baseball cards, all of which have Peters’ first name misspelled and also feature a nickname, reports the Hill. Some of the names include “Barry Peters, aka Socialists’ BFF” and “Harry Peters, aka He’s Just There,” and “Jerry Peters, aka The Invisible Man,” notes the news agency. Veteran and Businessman John James announced in June that he would run for the senate seat against Peters in 2020, telling Fox News that he sees it as an opportunity to continue his service and put Michigan first, according to Politico. &quot;I believe that right now nothing has changed. I still have a passion for service, I still have a clear vision, understand that service before self,” said James. In the 2018 midterm election, James ran an unsuccessful Senate bid against three-term Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), who went on to win by 7 points, according to CNN. However, Stabenow experienced a far more narrow margin of victory than she has in past elections; in 2012, she won by over 20 points, reports the New York Times. Despite being unsuccessful in politics so far, James exhibits an impressive professional record. The Times notes that, after graduating from West Point, he “spent eight years in the Army, including service in Iraq. He is the president of his family run business, a global provider of logistics support for Fortune 500 companies.” Although James has grown in popularity across the country, he has made Michigan issues a central focus of his campaign. &quot;I plan on using every resource at my disposal...to shed light in the dark spaces of Michigan that have been underrepresented and neglected by Senator Peters,” James told Fox News in June. “I'm going to bring Michigan's issues and take them to Washington, and work with anyone and everyone to make sure we create pipelines of prosperity into our neglected neighborhoods and our forgotten farms,” says James, reports the news agency.">unknown</a> to 36% of his own constituents — at a Republican leadership conference in Michigan this weekend.
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/462330-nrsc-to-hand-out-baseball-cards-mocking-peters-at-republican-leadership">The Hill</a> reports that the NRSC released a statement this week, and the committee wants to draw attention to the fact that Peters “remains the most unknown senator in the country because he has failed to stand up for the principles and priorities of Michigan voters.”
The conference, which will feature a keynote address by Vice President Mike Pence, aims to bring together “conservative leaders from across America to discuss solutions to the critical issues facing our nation,” according to the <a href="http://www.mackinacgop.com/about/">organization’s website</a>. In addition to Pence, both Secretary of Education Betsy Devos and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will make speeches at the event.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to collect the novelty baseball cards, all of which have Peters’ first name misspelled and also feature a nickname, reports the Hill. Some of the names include “Barry Peters, aka Socialists’ BFF” and “Harry Peters, aka He’s Just There,” and “Jerry Peters, aka The Invisible Man,” notes the news agency.
Veteran and Businessman John James announced in June that he would run for the senate seat against Peters in 2020, telling Fox News that he sees it as an opportunity to continue his service and put Michigan first, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/06/john-james-senate-michigan-1511229">Politico</a>.
“I believe that right now nothing has changed. I still have a passion for service, I still have a clear vision, understand that service before self,” said James.
In the 2018 midterm election, James ran an unsuccessful Senate bid against three-term Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), who went on to win by 7 points, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/results/michigan">CNN</a>. However, Stabenow experienced a far more narrow margin of victory than she has in past elections; in 2012, she won by more than 20 points, reports the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/us/politics/john-james-michigan.html">New York Times</a>.
Despite being unsuccessful in politics so far, James exhibits an impressive professional record. The Times notes that, after graduating from West Point, he “spent eight years in the Army, including service in Iraq. He is the president of his family run business, a global provider of logistics support for Fortune 500 companies.”
Although James has grown in popularity across the country, he has made Michigan issues a central focus of his campaign. “I plan on using every resource at my disposal &#8230; to shed light in the dark spaces of Michigan that have been underrepresented and neglected by Senator Peters,” James told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/john-james-gary-peters-senate-2020-michigan">Fox News</a> in August.
“I’m going to bring Michigan’s issues and take them to Washington, and work with anyone and everyone to make sure we create pipelines of prosperity into our neglected neighborhoods and our forgotten farms,” says James, according to the news outlet.

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