You gotta&#8217; wonder about pollsters.
For the last few months, nearly every pollster said the midterm elections were tight. Pick &#8217;em, they said. Could go either way, they said. Democrats hold the Senate, could keep House, too, they said.
Suddenly, all that has changed. Nationwide surveys now show a flood of voters to the Republican Party &#8212; blacks, Hispanics, and now, in a new poll, women.
&#8220;White suburban women, a key group of midterm voters, have significantly shifted their support from Democrats to Republicans in the closing days of midterm campaigning because of rising concerns over the economy and inflation, according to the latest Wall Street Journal poll,&#8221; the paper <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-suburban-women-swing-toward-backing-republicans-for-congress-11667381402">reported</a> on Wednesday.
The numbers are staggering. It&#8217;s not just a trickle of women, it&#8217;s a torrent.
&#8220;The new survey shows that white women living in suburban areas, who make up 20% of the electorate, now favor Republicans for Congress by 15 percentage points, moving 27 percentage points away from Democrats since the Journal’s August poll,&#8221; the paper wrote.
“We’re talking about a collapse, if you will, in that group on the perceptions of the economy,” Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, who conducted the poll with Democratic pollster John Anzalone, told the Journal.
White suburban women are joining blacks and Hispanic voters, who are moving to the GOP amid skyrocketing gas and food prices and soaring crime rates across the country.
&#8220;The issue of inflation – and the feeling that the White House hasn&#8217;t done enough to address it – is helping Republicans score significant inroads among Hispanic and Black voters, both demographic groups that Democrats have long relied on for support,&#8221; USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/27/republicans-resurgent-economy-midterms/10596369002/">reported</a> last week.
&#8220;Now 40% of Hispanics and 21% of Blacks are backing the Republican candidate,&#8221; according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll. Those numbers are huge &#8212; black support is up 15 points from 6% in the last midterms to 21%, and Hispanic support jumped 15 points to 40%.
The sudden movement among the voting blocs comes as blacks and Hispanics have grown increasingly frustrated with soaring crime in U.S. cities. After decades of failure by Democrats &#8212; who have long run the biggest American cities &#8212; perhaps it&#8217;s time to give the other guys a try.
But there are a few other driving forces in the movement. The predominantly Christian black and Hispanic blocs are not supportive of the gay and transgender issues being pushed by Democrats. And they&#8217;re not at all happy about the defund the police and no-bail practices spouted by liberals &#8212; mainly because in the cities, they&#8217;re the most affected by the policies.
Eight in 10 (81%) of black Democrats say violent crime is a &#8220;very important&#8221; issue in the 2022 election, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/31/violent-crime-is-a-key-midterm-voting-issue-but-what-does-the-data-say/">according</a> to a recent Pew survey of registered voters. That compares to just 33% of white Democrats.
&#8220;Black Americans have consistently been more likely than other racial and ethnic groups to express concern about violent crime, and that remains the case this year,&#8221; the pollsters said.
Although the polls had the 2022 elections neck and neck for months, now white suburban women, blacks and Hispanics are bailing on the Democratic Party.
Expect a red tsunami on Election Day.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Suburban Women Join Blacks, Hispanics In Exodus To GOP Ahead Of Elections

Suburban Women Join Black, Hispanic Voters In Exodus To GOP Ahead Of Elections

Elections

Hispanics

Politics

Wall Street Journal

Women

A crucial demographic is leaning more toward Republicans in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">midterm</a> elections. 
White suburban women voters have shifted their support to Republicans running for Congress by 15 percentage points, according to a new Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-suburban-women-swing-toward-backing-republicans-for-congress-11667381402" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a>. The move demonstrates a 27-point move away from Democrats since the Journal’s poll from August. The group of white suburban women consists of 20% of the electorate.
In the recent months since the Supreme Court ruled to effectively overturn Roe v. Wade and return the decisions on abortion laws back to the states, Democrats have repeatedly pushed for abortion rights to be their rallying cry in the midterm elections, hoping to motivate women voters. However, it appears that the economy is taking center stage when it comes to the concerns of white women living in suburban areas. 
The poll revealed that 54% of white suburban women believe the country is already in a recession, and 74% believe the economy is going in the wrong direction, even though the Biden administration has repeatedly said the United States is not in a recession even though the economy fit the rule-of-thumb definition.
Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio carried out the poll with Democratic pollster John Anzalone.
“We’re talking about a collapse, if you will, in that group on the perceptions of the economy,” Fabrizio said.
In August, as revealed in the Journal’s most recent poll prior to this one, 43% believed the economy was in a recession, and 59% said it was going in the wrong direction. 
The recent poll showed that 34% of voters said their top priority is rising costs, with 28% listing democracy threats and only 16% saying the Supreme Court’s abortion decision was their main priority. The bloc also said they thought Republicans were better suited to deal with inflation and the economy than Democrats. 
The Journal noted that the white suburban women demographic was essential in Democrats’ congressional wins in 2018. The recent survey found that 85% of the voting bloc said they were very motivated to cast their vote in the upcoming elections.
In 2018, 50% of white women voted for Democrats, while 48% voted for Republicans, according to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew Research</a>. However, in preliminary exit <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/08/the-2018-midterm-vote-divisions-by-race-gender-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polls</a> for 2018, white women were split 49% for Republican and Democratic candidates. 59% of college-educated white women said they voted for the Democratic candidate, while 39% said they voted for the Republican. 
Former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received around the same amount of overall suburban support in 2016, with Trump winning 47% and Clinton winning 45%. However, this shifted in the 2018 midterms. Democratic candidates <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2020/09/08/democrats-made-gains-from-multiple-sources-in-2018-midterm-victories/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running</a> for Congress received 7 percentage points more of the suburban vote, at 52% to 45%.

Washington, USA

WSJ Poll: White Suburban Women Shift 15 Points In Favor Of Republicans In Congress

Wall Street Journal Poll: White Suburban Women Shift 15 Points In Favor Of Republicans In Congress

2022 Midterms

Poll

Suburbs

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wall-street-journal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a> pulled no punches in a Sunday editorial on Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/running-on-their-record-of-lockdowns-gretchen-whitmer-dragged-for-campaign-event-ft-randi-weingarten/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gretchen Whitmer</a> (D-MI).
In a piece headlined “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/michigans-education-failure-gretchen-whitmer-tudor-dixon-school-lockdowns-pandemic-learning-loss-11666987326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan’s Education Failure</a>,” the newspaper’s editorial board criticized Whitmer as “one of the country’s most aggressive pandemic lockdown enforcers” whose policies negatively affected the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tudor-dixon-calls-for-michigan-superintendents-resignation-over-states-sickening-education-training-videos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">educational</a> outcomes for Michigan’s children, especially in minority communities. The article focused on the governor’s highly criticized claim about school closures in her most recent gubernatorial debate with Republican challenger <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dixon-whitmer-in-statistical-tie-new-poll-finds-michigan-race-going-down-to-the-wire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tudor Dixon</a>.
“Ms. Whitmer says children were out of classrooms only three months, but she may be suffering from her own math deficit. Many of the districts that stayed closed the longest, including Ann Arbor, Lansing, Kalamazoo and Detroit, have large minority populations,” the Journal wrote.
Whitmer <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/dissecting-gretchen-whitmers-false-claim-that-michigan-students-were-only-out-of-classrooms-for-three-months/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> or encouraged schools to close for weeks at a time for as long as a year after the initial lockdown in March 2020. On November 15, 2020, the governor&#8217;s health department suspended in-person learning for three weeks at Michigan colleges and high schools. Then in April 2021, Whitmer encouraged schools to pause in-person learning for two more weeks.
“Many states closed schools out of caution at the beginning of the pandemic and test scores fell nationwide,” the Journal added. “But Michigan schools didn’t reopen for longer than many places, and Gov. Whitmer opposed a plan that would have made it a priority to open schools for K-5 students.”
In a debate last week, Whitmer attempted to deflect blame away from her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whitmer-says-small-businesses-have-her-support-these-small-business-owners-havent-forgotten-her-shutdowns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID policies</a>’ effect on education, arguing that she left the decision up to school districts after the first shutdown. Dixon shot back, saying the governor was attempting to gaslight Michigan parents.
“This is shocking to me that she thinks schools were only closed for three months, or maybe she thinks she can convince you that schools were only closed for three months, but you know better because your students are the ones that are desperately behind,” Dixon said.
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The closures had a clear negative impact on Michigan students, especially those in minority communities, as the gap between white and black students’ 4th-grade math proficiency widened from 30 to 35 points. Adding to the concern, the Journal noted that black 4th graders&#8217; reading scores in the state dropped 11 points from 2019, down to 188, far behind the national average of 217.
“Hybrid learning was brutal on young children, who struggled to maintain the attention required to absorb information while staring at a screen for hours,” the Journal&#8217;s editorial board concluded. “Ms. Whitmer is right that education ‘levels the playing field,’ but few did more to unlevel it than she did.”

Gretchen Whitmer

WSJ Editorial Board Blasts Whitmer On Education: ‘Few Did More To Unlevel It Than She Did’

WSJ Editorial Board Blasts Whitmer On Education

2022 Election

COVID

Education

Lockdowns

Michigan

Remote Learning

The editorial board of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wall-street-journal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> blasted the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> in a scathing Monday <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-coal-power-boom-beijing-xi-jinping-climate-energy-biden-administration-11650480857?st=um958d0raa9snjf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> as officials push <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">green</a> energy despite <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese</a> forays into <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/oil-and-gas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fossil fuels</a>.
President Joe Biden’s energy policy has centered upon a rapid transition toward renewable power and away from oil, gas, and coal. Beyond <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/keystone-pipeline-dead-killed-by-biden-thousands-of-jobs-lost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nixing</a> expansions to the Keystone XL pipeline and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-severely-cuts-back-on-oil-and-gas-leases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slowing</a> federal oil leases to a crawl, the commander-in-chief <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/paris-climate-agreement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">returned</a> the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement — an international treaty signed in 2015 that calls for cutting worldwide emissions in half by 2030.
As the editorial board noted, China has increased its emissions by 11% from the signing of the Paris Agreement to last year, even as the United States cut its emissions by 6%. China nevertheless plans on building coal power plants “with a total capacity of at least 100 gigawatts” — enough energy to power 77 million homes.
“The reason for China’s coal boom is obvious,” the editorial board wrote. “The Communist Party’s priority is economic growth, higher living standards, and becoming the world’s leading power. Carbon emissions are an afterthought, and promises of future reductions are the compliment Chinese vice pays to Western virtue signalers.”
The editorial board was particularly critical of United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, who has fruitlessly attempted to convince Chinese leaders to reduce emissions. One recent <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/as-bidens-climate-czar-john-kerry-has-flown-more-than-180000-miles-emitting-9-5-million-pounds-of-carbon/">report</a> from The Washington Free Beacon found that Kerry produced 9.5 million pounds of carbon — roughly 300 times the typical American’s carbon footprint — during official trips between March 2021 and July 2022.
Despite Kerry’s efforts, Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded that his nation cannot “be detached from reality” while pursuing carbon neutrality. “We can’t toss away what’s feeding us now while what will feed us next is still not in our pocket,” the official said, according to a <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3169460/reprieve-coal-xi-jinping-urges-realism-chinas-road-carbon-goals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the South China Morning Post.
Ignoring the fact that any reduction of American emissions are effectively undone by increases in China, as well as India and emerging economies in Africa, the Biden administration has poured billions into renewable energy. For instance, the Inflation Reduction Act — which contains $369 billion for climate initiatives — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/energy-sec-granholm-families-should-use-ev-tax-credits-weatherize-their-homes-finance-solar-panels-to-cope-with-inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> $7,500 tax credits for new electric vehicles.
“While the Biden administration does all it can to restrict U.S. fossil fuels, no matter the economic harm, Beijing is charging ahead with coal imports, coal mining and coal power to become the world’s leading economy,” the editorial board added. “They must marvel at their good fortune in having rivals who are so self-destructive.”
Indeed, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-interested-in-california-ban-on-new-gas-cars-as-he-weighs-a-national-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signaled</a> last week that he is “interested” in California’s gradual ban on new gas-powered cars — even though the state recently reminded citizens to avoid charging electric vehicles during certain times as the power grid faced heightened pressure. “We’ve got to make sure that this happens quickly enough to help us beat climate change,” Buttigieg said of potential nationwide standards.
Industry leaders such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, however, are cautioning that a pivot to renewables will likely take decades. “Realistically I think we need to use oil and gas in the short term, because otherwise civilization will crumble,” the electric car entrepreneur <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/civilization-will-crumble-elon-musk-issues-dire-warning-about-rapid-shift-to-green-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters last month. “One of the biggest challenges the world has ever faced is the transition to sustainable energy and to a sustainable economy. That will take some decades to complete.”

Biden Kerry

Wall Street Journal Blasts Joe Biden, John Kerry For Pushing ‘Self-Destructive’ Green Energy Policies While China Burns More Coal

Wall Street Journal Shreds Biden Administration For 'Self-Destructive' Energy Policies, Notes China Is Burning More Coal

Biden Administration

China

Climate Change

Oil and Gas

As energy and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gas-prices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gas prices</a> continue to be an issue across the country, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration’s</a> handling of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oil-and-gas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oil and gas</a> leases has come under more scrutiny.
The Biden administration has <a href="https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/09/06/how-bad-has-biden-been-on-drilling-leases-this-bad-n494723" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leased</a> less land for oil and gas drilling on government land and offshore than any other presidential administration at this point, going back to the end of World War II, according to a recent analysis <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-oil-leases-slow-to-a-trickle-under-biden-11662230816" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conducted</a> by The Wall Street Journal. It doesn’t incorporate leased Alaska land since the 1990s.
The Interior Department leased around 126,000 acres for drilling until August 20, which was during Biden’s first 19 months as president. Richard Nixon was the last president to do fewer than 4.4 million acres at this point during his first term, and Harry Truman was the last president to green-light fewer acres than Biden — in the 1940s.
In the first 19 months of a president’s administration, Ronald Reagan leased the most in recent years — leasing out over 47 million federal acres. Barack Obama leased over 7 million, and Jimmy Carter did more than 11 million.
When Biden was campaigning, however, he said he would end drilling on federal property.
“Number one, no more subsidies for fossil fuel industry, no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period,” Biden <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6311946887112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a 2020 Democratic presidential debate.
When Biden got into office, he <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-kerry-to-roll-out-climate-focused-initiatives-11611756000?mod=article_inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paused</a> new leases and extra reviews had to be done for drilling permits for around two months. He slightly pulled back on this when Russia invaded Ukraine and there were huge spikes in oil costs, as he pushed for more oil sources.
The administration only had auctions in one of the six quarters it has held office, which took place in late June after gas prices were skyrocketing. The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mineral_Leasing_Act_of_1920">Mineral Leasing Act</a> of 1920 notably says that onshore oil and gas leasing has to be done “at least quarterly.”
The leasing practice had already been dropping off because oil and gas companies were less willing to develop offshore drilling and federal lands as fracking took off, but Biden has accelerated the drop. Leasing is down 97% from the first 19 months of former President Donald Trump’s time in office.
The Biden administration has avoided admitting this. The Interior Department said, according to the Journal, that it gave out a record amount of drilling permits for leases that were already in place last year. Department spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said the industry has moved toward private and state-owned property and around 60% of the approximately 35 million acres the federal government leases isn’t in production.
The Inflation Reduction Act says the federal government has to provide at least two million federal acres and 60 million offshore acres each year for oil and gas leases, but there are ways to do so that don’t necessarily promote the leasing.
White House spokesman Abdullah Hasan said the Biden administration is “making America a magnet for clean energy manufacturing investment, securing America’s clean energy future, and putting us on track to meet our climate goals” while still manufacturing close to record oil numbers.
However, the numbers don’t lie. The Interior Department has given out 203 leases for oil and gas in President Biden’s first 19 months. Trump and Obama each greenlit 10 times as many during the same time span. All of this could mean even higher fuel costs and more reliance on foreign sources of oil in the future.

Biden Administration Severely Cuts Back On Oil And Gas Leases

Wall Street Journal Analysis Reveals Biden Administration Leasing Of Oil And Gas

Joe Biden

WWE officials claimed Tuesday that former CEO Vince McMahon allegedly made two additional hush money payments worth $5 million following an investigation alleging he used $14.6 million to silence former female employees who accused him of sexual misconduct since 2006.
According to a revised filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, McMahon apparently made such previously undisclosed payments in 2007 and 2009, which brought the total amount paid to $19.6 million.
&#8220;The Company has evaluated the Unrecorded Expenses and has determined that such amounts should have been recorded as expenses in each of the periods in which they became probable and estimable,&#8221; the WWE stated in the filing Tuesday, per <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wwe-discloses-additional-5m-in-payments-related-to-vince-mcmahon-misconduct-1235196010/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
The American professional wrestling network said it &#8220;has also received, and may receive in the future, regulatory, investigative and enforcement inquiries, subpoenas or demands arising from, related to, or in connection with these matters.&#8221;
Following a report from The Wall Street Journal, McMahon has allegedly paid out $12 million to buy the silence of four women over the last 16 years. One of the women was a wrestler he allegedly coerced into giving him oral sex, then cut from the company after she spurned his subsequent advances.
The news came out after a report that said the WWE board was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wwe-boss-vince-mcmahon-steps-down-amid-messy-sex-scandal-investigation">investigating McMahon</a> for allegedly paying a former employee $3 million to keep quiet about an affair.
McMahon reportedly paid out $7.5 million to a former wrestler whose lawyer negotiated a non-disclosure agreement with McMahon in 2018. The report also said McMahon allegedly sent unsolicited naked pictures of himself to a WWE contractor, leading to a roughly seven-figure settlement in 2008. And in a 2006 agreement, a former WWE manager was reportedly paid $1 million not to discuss a sexual relationship she had with McMahon, the newspaper reported.
&#8220;I have pledged my complete cooperation to the investigation by the special committee, and I will do everything possible to support the investigation,&#8221; McMahon said at the time. &#8220;I have also pledged to accept the findings and outcome of the investigation, whatever they are.&#8221;
McMahon, the husband of former Trump administration Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon, came under scrutiny in April when a tipster told the board of directors McMahon had had a long-running affair with a paralegal and doubled her salary.
According to the report, the tipster claimed McMahon had handed the woman off &#8220;like a toy&#8221; to John Laurinaitis, WWE&#8217;s head of talent.
The WWE board hired the law firm Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett LLP to investigate the claims.
According to McMahon&#8217;s lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, the alleged paramour did not accuse McMahon of harassment.
&#8220;My friend was so scared — so she quit after Vince McMahon and lawyer Jerry paid her millions of dollars to shut up,&#8221; the initial email to the board said.
Weeks after the initial Wall Street Journal report, New York magazine published a story with interviews of former WWE referee Rita Chatterton and former WWE wrestler Leonard Inzitari.
They both claimed McMahon sexually assaulted Chatterton in 1986.
McMahon publicly announced his retirement as CEO on July 22, stepping out of the ring with $3.4 billion, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11099091/WWE-says-former-boss-Vince-McMahon-TWO-additional-hush-money-payments-worth-5-million.html">Daily Mail</a> reported.
His daughter, Stephanie, replaced the 76-year-old World Wrestling Entertainment boss.
&#8220;I love this company and am committed to working with the Independent Directors to strengthen our culture and our Company,&#8221; Stephanie McMahon said, according to the Daily Mail.
Vince McMahon has yet to respond to any of the allegations against him.
Greg Wilson contributed to this report.

Press Conference To Announce A Major International Event At MetLife Stadium

WWE Says Former CEO Vince McMahon Made Two Additional Hush Money Payments Worth $5 Million

Enterainment

Sexual Misconduct

Sports

The Hollywood Reporter

The Wall Street Journal issued two statements this week defending a reporter who wrote a report alleging that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> had an affair with the wife of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/google">Google</a> co-founder Sergey Brin.
Michael Siconolfi, an investigations editor at the newspaper, reported at the start of the week that Musk “engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin,” Nicole Shanahan, in early December 2021 at the Art Basel event in Miami. The report claimed that the affair led to Brin divorcing Shanahan and ended the longtime friendship between the two men.
The report claimed that Musk “dropped to one knee in front of Brin and apologized profusely for the transgression” during a party earlier this year and was “begging for forgiveness.” The report said that Brin acknowledged the apology, but he is not speaking with Musk, and he has ordered his team to sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies.
A lawyer for Shanahan said that the allegations that the two had an affair were completely false.
Musk responded by saying that Shanahan should sue The Wall Street Journal because she is not a public figure, therefore she would have an easier time winning in court.
“As a ‘public person,’ standard to win a defamation lawsuit against a news org is almost impossible,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1552300589693927425">tweeted</a>. “They could say I’m Satan and the ‘source’ is their psychic! Nicole is not a public person, so could win. I hope she sues them. @michaelsiconolf has done so many fake hit pieces.”
The Wall Street Journal issued two statements about Siconolfi&#8217;s report. A day after the report was published, the newspaper said, &#8220;We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting.&#8221;
&#8220;Recent attacks on Michael Siconolfi are unwarranted and unfounded,&#8221; the newspaper later added after Musk called out the reporter by name online. &#8220;Mike is a celebrated and widely respected editor and reporter in our industry. He has overseen a wide array of impactful stories with integrity and high standards for The Wall Street Journal over many decades. For the record, Mike was not part of the editing team for this story.&#8221;
Musk’s personal life has come under fire this year after a female flight attendant at one of his companies <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-makes-sexual-misconduct-claim-against-elon-musk">accused</a> him of exposing himself to her, which he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-responds-to-sexual-misconduct-allegations-from-flight-attendant-issues-a-challenge-to-her">denies</a>; his alleged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-fathered-twins-with-top-executive-just-weeks-before-having-child-with-another-woman">fathering</a> of two children with an executive at his company Neuralink; his dad <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-father-has-second-child-with-his-stepsister-report">fathering</a> a second child with his stepsister; and one of his children publicly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-trans-son-files-to-change-name-disses-dad">disowning</a> him.

Elon Musk Visits Germany

The Wall Street Journal Responds To Musk’s Attacks On Journalist Who Wrote Report Alleging Affair

Elon Musk

Google

Legacy Media

Social Media

Elon Musk pushed for action to be taken against The Wall Street Journal this week after the newspaper published a report that alleged Musk had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-had-affair-with-wife-of-worlds-top-10-richest-man-dropped-to-his-knees-begging-for-forgiveness-report">reported</a> that Musk “engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin” at the Art Basel event in Miami. Brin, co-founder of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is the world’s <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DexuBik1kPoJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/sergey-brin/+&amp;cd=18&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">eighth</a> richest man, worth nearly $95 billion. The company also owns Android and YouTube.
The alleged affair caused Brin to file for divorce from wife Nicole Shanahan earlier this year and has ended the friendship between the two men, or so the report claimed.
Musk later released a photograph of the two partying together this week, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/25/elon-musk-laughs-of-affair-rumors-hasnt-had-sex-in-ages/">saying</a>, “Nicole and Sergey’s divorce has absolutely nothing to do with me.”
“I am sure both Nicole and Sergey would confirm that,&#8221; Musk continued. &#8220;I spoke with both Sergey and Nicole about this and they say the story isn’t coming from them, so [it] must be a case of broken telephone, two or three layers removed. We were not romantically involved in any way.&#8221;
Shanahan’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/07/27/sergey-brins-estranged-wife-calls-elon-musk-affair-outright-lie/">told</a> Page Six this week that the allegations of an affair between Musk and his client were completely false.
“Make no mistake, any suggestion that Nicole had an affair with Elon Musk is not only an outright lie but also defamatory,” he said.
Musk responded to the latest developments by saying that Shanahan should sue The Wall Street Journal because she is not a public figure, therefore she would have an easier time winning in court.
&#8220;As a &#8216;public person,&#8217; standard to win a defamation lawsuit against a news org is almost impossible,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1552300589693927425">tweeted</a>. &#8220;They could say I’m Satan and the &#8216;source&#8217; is their psychic! Nicole is not a public person, so could win. I hope she sues them. @michaelsiconolf has done so many fake hit pieces.&#8221;
&#8220;Moreover, I talked to Sergey yesterday and he says neither he nor anyone he knows has talked to WSJ,&#8221; Musk added.
Musk strongly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-responds-to-accusations-that-he-slept-with-wife-of-google-co-founder">denied</a> the story when it was published Sunday afternoon, calling it &#8220;total BS.&#8221;
“WSJ has run so many bs hit pieces on me and Tesla I’ve lost count! It’s embarrassing for them, frankly,” Musk continued. “They once wrote an article saying FBI was about to arrest me, so I called FBI to ask what’s up and they said WSJ article was total bs. Just more shortseller fud.”
Musk said that “character assassination attacks” on him have reached “a new level this year” but claimed that they were all “nothing-burgers” and that he did not even have enough time to get in trouble.
“WSJ is supposed to have a high standard for journalism and, right now, they are way sub tabloid,” he added. “WSJ should be running stories that actually matter to their readers and have solid factual basis, not third-party random hearsay.”

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Elon Musk released a photo Monday that he suggested disproves a report published over the weekend that claimed that he had an affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-had-affair-with-wife-of-worlds-top-10-richest-man-dropped-to-his-knees-begging-for-forgiveness-report">reported</a> that Musk “engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin” in early December 2021 at the Art Basel event in Miami. Brin, a co-founder of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is the world’s <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DexuBik1kPoJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/sergey-brin/+&amp;cd=18&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">eighth</a> richest man, worth nearly $95 billion. The company also owns Android and YouTube.
The Wall Street Journal said the alleged affair caused Brin to file for divorce from wife Nicole Shanahan earlier this year and has ended the friendship between the two men.
Musk released a photo of himself with Brin that he said had just been taken a few hours before, showing the two men partying together.
“Nicole and Sergey’s divorce has absolutely nothing to do with me,” Musk <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/25/elon-musk-laughs-of-affair-rumors-hasnt-had-sex-in-ages/">told</a> the New York Post. “I am sure both Nicole and Sergey would confirm that. I spoke with both Sergey and Nicole about this and they say the story isn’t coming from them, so [it] must be a case of broken telephone, two or three layers removed.”
“We were not romantically involved in any way,” he continued.
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&#8220;A picture is worth 1000 tweets,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1551619646306091008">wrote</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1551622578183323651">Twitter</a>. &#8220;The real problem here is that [Wall Street Journal Investigations Editor] @michaelsiconolf has zero journalistic integrity.&#8221;
The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-responds-to-accusations-that-he-slept-with-wife-of-google-co-founder">report</a> noted that Musk and Brin were so close at one point that Musk had regularly slept at Brin’s home, and Brin had loaned Musk money when Tesla was struggling during its early days.
The report claimed that Musk “dropped to one knee in front of Brin and apologized profusely for the transgression” during a party earlier this year and was “begging for forgiveness.” The report said that Brin acknowledged the apology, but he is not speaking with Musk and has ordered his team to sell his investments in Musk’s companies.
“This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1551386634741895170">responded</a> on Twitter Sunday evening. “I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic.”
“WSJ has run so many bs hit pieces on me and Tesla I’ve lost count! It’s embarrassing for them, frankly,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1551392795545333760">continued</a>. “They once wrote an article saying FBI was about to arrest me, so I called FBI to ask what’s up and they said WSJ article was total bs. Just more shortseller fud.”

Elon Musk Releases Photo He Suggests Debunks Story That He Had Affair With Wife Of Google Co-Founder

Yet another survey shows that the vast majority of Americans think the economy is going down the tubes.
According to a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-political-division-put-u-s-in-a-pessimistic-mood-poll-finds-11654507800?mod=hp_lead_pos3">poll</a> conducted by The Wall Street Journal and the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center (NORC), 83% of respondents described the state of the economy “as poor or not so good.” Meanwhile, 35% said they are not “satisfied at all with their financial situation” — the highest level since the poll began in 1972.
A slim 27% of respondents believe they have a “good chance of improving their standard of living” — representing a 20% drop since last year. Nearly twice as many — 46% — do not believe their living standards can improve.
Jennifer Benz, vice president of public affairs and media research at NORC, told The Wall Street Journal that inflation, in particular, is driving the dismal results. Indeed, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has risen by 8.3% since last year — near the highest inflation rate in four decades.
The new poll is far from the only indication that rising price levels make consumers nervous.
When asked by a Harvard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-95-of-voters-say-inflation-is-somewhat-or-very-serious">survey</a> about inflation, 95% of respondents said that inflation is “very serious” or “somewhat serious.” A plurality — 47% — said that the Biden administration is responsible.
Another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/94-percent-of-americans-concerned-about-inflation-overwhelmingly-trust-republicans-to-handle-it-poll">poll</a> conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed that 94% of Americans were either “upset” or “concerned” about the impact of skyrocketing inflation. Biden’s approval rating was underwater, with 42% approving of his work and 52% disapproving.
Many high-profile Americans — from Tesla CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-has-a-super-bad-feeling-about-the-economy-wants-a-massive-layoff-at-tesla">Elon Musk</a> to rapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/even-cardi-misses-trumponomics-cardi-b-wants-to-know-when-they-will-announce-the-recession">Cardi B</a> — are likewise worried about a looming economic contraction. While the former told executives at the automaker that he has a “super bad feeling” about the economy, the latter asked her followers when they think “they going to announce that we going into a recession.”
The United States economy contracted at a 1.5% annualized rate during the first quarter of 2022, according to the <a href="https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2022-05/gdp1q22_2nd.pdf">Bureau of Economic Analysis</a>, which associates recessions with <a href="https://www.bea.gov/help/glossary?title_1=All&amp;title=&amp;page=6#:~:text=The%20NBER%20recession%20is%20a,well%20as%20quarterly%20GDP%20growth.">two consecutive quarters</a> of negative growth.
In interviews with residents of West Philadelphia — a Democrat-run, majority-minority neighborhood where median household income is 43% of the national average — The Daily Wire found that soaring inflation and gas prices are making life more difficult for those with precarious financial standing.
“It’s too high. I don’t know what happened, because the price of everything is too high now,” Mohamed, a West Philadelphia resident and immigrant from French-speaking Africa, explained.
“I drive to work and I go home. And anything else in between, I try to do it as I’m going home from work,” added Art, a maintenance worker who lives in Delaware but commutes to West Philadelphia. “It’s just too expensive.”
“The way prices with everything have gone up, I’ve had to start cutting back on what I spend money on,” Kahil, a high school student, remarked. “There’s only one simple answer. Prices need to go where they used to be.”
“I was using maybe $30 per week. Now I use almost $100,” said Iliassou about his struggles to fill his gas tank. “People don’t have money in their pockets anymore.”

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President Joe Biden said job creation in the U.S. could drop significantly over the coming months as Americans increasingly struggle to make ends meet amid soaring inflation and skyrocketing gas and food prices.
In an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/my-plan-for-fighting-inflation-joe-biden-gas-prices-economy-unemployment-jobs-covid-11653940654?mod=opinion_major_pos5">op-ed piece</a> in The Wall Street Journal, Biden put much of the blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.
&#8220;The global economy faces serious challenges. Inflation is elevated, exacerbated by Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Energy markets are in turmoil. Supply chains that haven’t fully healed are causing shortages and price hikes,&#8221; Biden wrote.
&#8220;Americans are anxious. I know that feeling. I grew up in a family where it mattered when the price of gas or groceries rose. We felt it around the kitchen table. But the American people should have confidence that our economy faces these challenges from a position of strength.&#8221;
But Biden, who has taken credit for job creation that some economists <a href="https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/politifact-joins-critics-balking-at-bidens-claim-of-record-setting-job-growth-president-joe-state-union">say</a> is simply an economy recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, said it&#8217;s time to &#8220;transition&#8221; to a phase that will produce lower job creation in order to reduce inflation.
“I ran for president because I was tired of the so-called trickle-down economy. We now have a chance to build on a historic recovery with an economy that works for working families,” Biden wrote. “The most important thing we can do now to transition from rapid recovery to stable, steady growth is to bring inflation down.”
&#8220;During this transition, growth will look different. We will likely see fewer record job-creation numbers, but this won&#8217;t be cause for concern. Rather, if average monthly job creation shifts in the next year from current levels of 500,000 to something closer to 150,000, it will be a sign that we are successfully moving into the next phase of recovery &#8212; as this kind of job growth is consistent with a low unemployment rate and a healthy economy,&#8221; Biden wrote.
Biden has been pointing the finger of blame at nearly everyone but himself. He has attributed soaring inflation to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine as he and fellow Democrats parrot the talking point that it&#8217;s &#8220;Putin&#8217;s price hike.&#8221; Biden has also laid the blame at the feet of what he has dubbed &#8220;Ultra-MAGA&#8221; Republicans.
The president also claimed, &#8220;I’ve done what I can on my own to help working families during this challenging time — and will keep acting to lower costs where I can — but now Congress needs to act too.” Biden called on Congress to “help right away by passing clean energy tax credits and investments” and urged lawmakers to move on his proposals to lower the cost of housing, prescription drugs and child and elder care.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board has expressed concerns that an &#8220;abortion fanatic&#8221; might &#8220;commit an act of violence&#8221; in an effort to subvert the court&#8217;s expected decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
&#8220;One question is how fast the Court should now move to publish its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-supreme-court-leak-on-roe-v-wade-samuel-alito-john-roberts-abortion-draft-opinion-11651605792">the board said in a Tuesday editorial</a>. &#8220;There’s an argument for getting it out fast to make it a fait accompli.&#8221;
&#8220;Politico said the Alito draft was circulated in February, so the Justices have had ample time to absorb it and respond,&#8221; it continued. &#8220;We hate to say this, but some abortion fanatic could decide to commit an act of violence to stop a 5-4 ruling. It’s an awful thought, but we live in fanatical times.&#8221;
On Monday evening, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">Politico revealed</a> a draft opinion showing that the justices will likely rule to overturn Roe v. Wade. The news has sparked nationwide protests and frenzy as pro-abortion rights supporters grapple with the potential that Roe v. Wade could soon be overturned.
Experts and political commentators on the right <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-supporters-leaked-supreme-court-draft-to-intimidate-the-court-pro-life-advocates-say">have suggested</a> that the draft opinion was leaked, most likely by a progressive Supreme Court clerk, in efforts to intimidate the court and change its decision.
It has not yet been determined who the leaker is.
“The leak appears to be totally political in nature, not only intended to damage the Court and pressure the justices, but more immediately to incite Democrats to push their laundry list of terrible anti-life ideas, including blowing up the filibuster and attempting to codify abortion violence at the federal level prior to the November elections,” Katie Glenn, Government Affairs Counsel at Americans United for Life (AUL), told The Daily Wire.
The draft majority opinion, which is not final, says Roe v. Wade was &#8220;egregiously wrong.&#8221; “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito wrote, according to POLITICO. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
And as protests over the news continue, conservative activists and legal experts call for the Supreme Court to promptly release its decision on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“Now that it is hanging out there, I don’t think it serves the Court’s institutional interests to wait on issuing the opinion,” Mark Paoletta, the former general counsel for the Office of Management &amp; Budget under President Donald Trump who worked on Justice Thomas’ confirmation, told The Daily Wire.
“They should issue it as quickly as possible,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Not issuing a final opinion would allow the Left to really ramp up this campaign of intimidation and threats to try and force the court to change course, which is exactly why this opinion was leaked.”
Judicial Crisis Network’s President Carrie Severino <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-legal-experts-call-for-justices-to-release-roe-v-wade-decision">said</a> the unprecedented <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">news</a> merits an “unprecedented response” — that the “Court should release its majority opinion as soon as possible.”
“Obviously no one can actually force the Chief Justice’s hand,” Severino told The Daily Wire, “but he may want to release the opinion early to avoid exposing the Court to further pressure and intimidation tactics that risk undermining the Court as an institution as a result of the draft opinion hanging out there for what could be months.”

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