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By the way, the facts: ICE took an illegal alien to the hospital. When word got out that agents were there, radical protesters targeted the hospital. The "US citizens" who were detained weren't targets of an ICE raid -- they were *targeting the agents*. You're already a disgrace.
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Today is my last day as White House Chief of Staff.
Serving President Trump in the White House has been the honor of a lifetime. I’m so proud to have been a part of what we’ve accomplished together from securing our border and cutting taxes to strengthening our economy and putting America First.
More than anything, I’m grateful for the extraordinary people I’ve had the privilege of working alongside. While my role may be changing, my commitment to the President and the mission never will.
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U.S. employers created a surprising 165,000 new jobs in October and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%. apnews.com/article/jobs-infl…
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I am proud that @BillHemmer and @BretBaier are friends. They did as good a job as could be done last night — fair and balanced. To any honest person, “spin” meant what it normally means, let’s go around the national map and assess. It was not “let’s skew the coverage.” Jeez.
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Everyone claims to want people fed, housed, educated, and treated with dignity. That's the easiest moral position imaginable, requiring neither thought nor effort.
The sincerity of that commitment is revealed by whether you're willing to examine what actually achieves those outcomes, what undermines them, and at whose expense.
By the socialist standard, even forced labor can be justified in pursuit of these goals, and even policies producing the opposite results can be defended as virtuous.
Virtue signaling earns applause for good intentions. Genuine concern demands understanding, evidence, and results. Far too many seem content with the applause.
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One of the more interesting stories from yesterday will be how Florida and Texas - two states with similar political climates - ended up with such different results. A big part of that comes down to the GOP leadership in each. There were missteps in both, but...
One state kept at least a slight buffer of regional independence from the White House's political operations, succeeded in keeping sleaze like Fishback off its ticket, kept state and local government focused on relatively conventional conservative issues, and managed to keep enough Hispanic voters in the coalition to win.
The other state tried to turn itself into MAGA central, tried to import JD Vance style economic populism into a part of the country that wanted nothing to do with that, made sleaze like Paxton the face of its statewide campaign, and actively drove Hispanic voters (as well as other minorities as per Bo French) out of the coalition by sticking them in the eye in the months before the election.
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Understand the implications of what happened in Texas last night.
Gina Hinojosa has called on Gov. Abbott to end state & local cooperation with ICE & she can order that on day one.
Hinojosa voted against the 2017 SB 4 as a TX state rep. The bill was essentially a sanctuary cities ban and required TX law enforcement to cooperate with ICE detainers. She then voted against another SB 4 in 2023, which made it a state crime to cross illegally into Texas.
Should there be another border crisis in coming years, there will likely be no resistance from Texas at the border. No Texas DPS, no TX National Guard, no razor wire or water buoys, and no Operation Lone Star, which Hinojosa called a “dog and pony show” and “political theater”.
Remember when 15,000 Haitians surged illegally into Del Rio, TX in 2021 under the international bridge? That was only stopped because Texas DPS responded on Abbott’s orders and physically blocked further crossings by lining up their cruisers to form a wall. The Biden Border Patrol was caught off guard and offered almost no resistance, except for some horseback agents who were falsely slandered for “whipping”.
Additionally, because Republicans failed to pass any legislation codifying President Trump’s border security measures, if Dems take the White House in 2028, that Dem president could, if he/she wants to, reverse every single Trump border security policy immediately upon taking office because they were all done at the executive level, and they can order Border Patrol to go back to a passive catch & release policy like we saw under Biden.
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Interesting result in TX-26 where Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) was re-elected.
Gill won Denton County, TX by +3.6.
Talarico won Denton County by +8.
Voters there said yes to Gill, but no to Paxton.
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President Trump says he will accept the midterm election results when asked by Fox News’ Bret Baier during an Election Night interview.
“Well, you’re going to accept all these races, right?” Baier asks.
“Yes. Yeah, why wouldn’t I?” Trump responds.
Tune in to Fox News Channel now for live midterm election coverage.
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Watching Fox's election coverage tonight. Brit Hume reads the returns straight. The Democrats are having a good night. Then come the excuses. Two former press secretaries, Perino and Leavitt, blame the messaging and the media. Then comes Sean Hannity waving it all off as a historical trend, the president's party always loses the midterms, Obama got hammered and still won in 2012. And the example held up as the winning message Republicans should have run on? Trump Accounts. A thousand dollars of other people's money deposited for every newborn by the federal government.
This is their proposed cure for losing to Democrats, campaign on the Republican welfare program. Its own defenders say the purpose is to fight the rising popularity of socialism. With a universal federal entitlement. They are trying to out Democrat the Democrats.
Rand identified the principle in The Anatomy of Compromise. In any collaboration between two groups who hold the same basic principles, the more consistent one wins. Both parties now agree that your earnings are the government's to hand out. Trump says I'll give your kid $1,000 of other people's money. The Democrats say great, we'll see your thousand and raise you free health care and another $3 trillion a year in debt. Once the premise is conceded, the side offering the bigger check is just the premise taken seriously.
So if anyone is confused about why the Democrats are taking Congress tonight, this is the whole answer. Bad messaging, historical trends, none of it touches the cause. You cannot defeat the collectivists by becoming their echo. An echo always loses to the original.
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🚨 NEW: Fox’s @brithume on midterms results: “The signs that I think we can all see now are pretty clear. Not a single Democratic Senator incumbent is in any trouble that we know of. There are always surprises but we haven’t seen any signs of it yet.”
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🚨 NEW: Fox’s Brit Hume CALLS OUT “vicious hypocrisy” in the liberal media over Haley Stevens: "I am fascinated by this. It wasn’t too many years ago when a number of leading Republican voices walked away from the Republican Party saying they just couldn’t stomach Donald Trump and that was widely praised in the media and elsewhere as being an example of people putting country ahead of party.”
“So, along comes this really quite remarkably extreme candidate in El-Sayed, and this long-time Democrat office holder... decides she can’t in the end endorse him and endorses a Republican... the stuff in the media about it from some quarters has been absolutely vicious hypocrisy in my view,” adds @brithume to @BretBaier
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No matter where you live or what races are on your ballot, this is the number one issue in the world today. From “News Items” from @EllisItems (substack.news-items.com)
“9. China has three aircraft carriers, with a fourth on its way that Western experts believe will be nuclear-powered. They’re part of the world’s largest navy, which now has a battle force of more than 400 ships and submarines, according to official U.S. numbers seen by The Wall Street Journal. That means China’s fleet is around 35% larger than the American Navy by hull count. It is one of the largest peacetime naval buildups in modern history. On any given day, as many as 100 of China’s navy ships are out on some of Asia’s busiest trade and transportation routes—pressuring rivals and training for a potential conflict with the U.S. The larger and more sophisticated vessels in its fleet also routinely push further out into waters long dominated by American forces. The Chinese navy’s rise has been powered by the country’s rapid emergence as a colossus in shipbuilding and as the biggest sea-trading nation. (Source: wsj.com)”
The security of the U.S. and thus the free world and those countries which aspire to join it depends on controls of the seas. Republicans are serious about funding the vitally-necessary expansion of the fleet and its support ships. Democrats are not.
It is that simple if you want to continue to enjoy the benefits of not kowtowing to China as well as of international trade across free and open seas.
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🚫 CLAIM: Iran’s foreign minister recently claimed publicly that Iran has not attacked civilians in neighboring countries. This is FALSE.
✅ FACT: Iran has not only intentionally attacked civilian infrastructure, neighborhoods, and other facilities in neighboring Gulf countries, but it has also deliberately attacked civilian mariners at sea — killing more than 20 in recent months. Iran’s indiscriminate aggression is clearly evident and inexcusable.
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This is really unbelievable considering he tried harder than anyone to “reset” with Russia. And before anyone says “that was before the 2014 invasion.” Yeah, he didn’t listen to the Balts/Romania/Poland warning about it and then he didn’t help Ukraine when it was invaded for fear of escalation. He is the king of Russia appeasement who led us where we are.
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This + new CNN polls showing Dems leading all four big Senate races they surveyed all pointing to a significant blue wave environment. Fundamentals are rough for the GOP. Then again, another polling miss (esp. in red states) & candidate quality issues for Ds could mitigate…
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BREAKING: The U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.4% in the third quarter, beating economists' expectations of 3.2%.
The stronger-than-expected GDP report comes as President Trump makes his final push on the campaign trail, with the midterm elections just days away.
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Mary Peltola keeps denying, tries the old standard reaction to her ballot-stacking scandal: "This is just another distraction, it's another diversion...This is all stuff to sell newspapers." realclearpolitics.com/video/…
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🚨 NEW: Fox’s Brit Hume CALLS OUT media for putting off quality election candidates from running: “It would take a less poisonous media atmosphere. What able person in his or her right mind would want to run for office in this climate?”
“You’re going to get scrutinised in ways that are often totally unfair, out of bounds or over the top. Who wants to subject themselves or their families to that?”
“The result is that we end up with some highly mediocre people. Some is the best people in our country are not eager to run for office.”
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This is totally inappropriate language for a federal judge. I don't care what anyone's politics are or what you think of Trump. Just decide the damn case. Don't inject your own personal political opinions into it.
Judge David Carter:
"Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch. In bringing this lawsuit, the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign. But California and its people are sovereign, too."