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otday NRSC Chair Steve Daines released the following statement endorsing Kari Lake’s bid for U.S. Senate in Arizona: “Kari Lake is one of the most talented candidates in the country. Kari is building out an effective campaign operation that has what it takes to flip Arizona’s Senate seat in November. I’m proud to endorse Kari Lake for United States Senate.”

Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai, also known by his Chinese name of Ching-te, has emerged victorious after a tightly contested presidential election as the island’s next leader, Fox News Digital confirms. "The results are in, and Taiwan’s voters stood up to China and all its war talk of recent weeks," Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow and China expert, told Fox News Digital. "Free people, living just a hundred miles from the menacing Chinese state, refused to be intimidated." Lai, defeated his rival, New Taipei City Mayor Hou Yu-ih of the Kuomintang (KMT) party, by just...

The Nationalist Party of China (KMT) – the party which Beijing prefers – has conceded defeat in the Taiwanese elections. With well over half of the votes counted, Taiwan’s ruling party is set to declare victory in their presidential elections. It is a setback for China, which views the Democratic Progressive Party as dangerous separatists. The DPP’s candidate, Taiwanese Vice-President Lai Ching-te, is in the lead with 40.5 per cent of the vote, and is due to speak to the gathered press at 8:30pm (local time). He is followed by KMT candidate Hou Yu-ih with 33.3 per cent, and TPP...

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Patrick McHenry, who served as acting speaker of the House during Republicans' bruising leadership fight this year, is expected to announce on Tuesday that he will not seek re-election, multiple media outlets reported.

PHOENIX (AP) — Officials in a rural Arizona county who delayed canvassing the 2022 general election results have been criminally charged, the state’s top prosecutor said Wednesday. A grand jury in Maricopa County Superior Court has indicted Cochise County supervisors Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby on one count each of conspiracy and interference of an election officer. “The repeated attempts to undermine our democracy are unacceptable,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, said in a statement. “I took an oath to uphold the rule of law, and my office will continue to enforce Arizona’s elections laws and support our...

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Less than a week after becoming the first U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives voted out by his own caucus, Republican Kevin McCarthy told a radio interviewer on Monday he would take the job back if asked to, as his colleagues contemplated their . "Whatever the conference wants, I will do. I think we need to be strong. I think we need to be united," McCarthy said during an interview on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" radio program. House Republicans face new pressure to select a speaker after Israel declared war on Sunday, following a...

Congressman Troy E. Nehls @RepTroyNehls Just had a great conversation with President Trump about the Speaker’s race. He is endorsing Jim Jordan, and I believe Congress should listen to the leader of our party. I fully support Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House. 9:32 PM · Oct 5, 2023

At least 10 protestors were arrested for blocking an MTA bus of migrants arriving at ambassador nursing home. It may have started around 10pm at Midland Ave & Father Capodanno Blvd. Cell video and a witness confirmed there were arrests made with some appearing to have resisted arrest. An army of NYPD SRG & CRT cops were on scene to separate the protestors and block pedestrian and vehicular traffic in multiple directions to prevent protestors from getting close to the new migrant shelter. Curtis Sliwa and the guardian angels were onscene, being cheered by the protestors. Curtis yelled at the...

The aftermath of the latest Donald Trump indictment has set off a political dogfight, with Mike Pence blasting 'crackpot lawyers' advising his former boss – and Rudy accusing the former vice president of being bossed by his wife. Pence provided some of his most pronounced criticism of Trump this week following his bombshell grand jury indictment. 'Sadly, the president was surrounded by a group of crackpot lawyers that kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear,' Pence said. That was a dig that Giuliani, a former Trump who has been identified as 'co-conspirator 1' in the indictment, took...

It’s a Tuesday morning in Tallahassee, and a wood-paneled hearing room at the Florida legislature is packed. The state senate’s fiscal-policy committee is considering a bill to prohibit most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and dozens of citizens have lined up to testify: anguished young students in colorful hair and “abortion is health care” T-shirts; little old ladies wearing cardigans and crosses. For hours they speak in emotional terms as the senators listen. Yet an air of inevitability hangs over the proceedings. Governor Ron DeSantis supports this bill, and therefore it is destined to pass. In Tallahassee these days,...

Voters overwhelmingly support releasing all videos of the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, and a majority think it’s likely that government agents helped provoke the riot. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 80% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it is important that the public be able to view all the videos of the Capitol riot, including 58% who think it’s Very Important. Only 17% don’t think it’s important for the public to be able to see all the riot videos.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked an order that would lift Title 42, the pandemic-era health policy that has been used to deter migrants more than 2.5 million times. The order Monday by Chief Justice John Roberts comes as cities along the U.S.-Mexico border have been scrambling to prepare for an expected influx of migrants in anticipation of Title 42’s end. Earlier Monday, 19 states had asked the high court for an emergency stay that would keep Title 42 in place.

New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin's prospective bid for Republican National Committee leadership is resonating with party big-wigs, even though he has yet to formally announce plans to seek the post. Calls to replace current RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel have arisen follow the GOP's unexpectedly poor showing in the 2022 midterm elections. The much anticipated "red wave" failed to materialize and the Republicans managed to secure the House of Representatives by a handful of seats. "We underperformed nationally. There were strategic missteps," said Republican Party of Texas Chairman Matt Rinaldi to the New York Post on Thursday. Rinaldi, in turn,...

Scientists say Omicron appears to have a clear lab origin Future lab releases of Covid-19 variants are “likely” When Omicron emerged, many scientists were bowled over by the lightning speed with which it spread. Although public health officials had warned that the original Covid-19 was highly contagious and fast-moving— it looked like it was standing still next to the Omicron variant. Watch video at link: Link Now, some scientists examining the virus have concluded “vast” genetic mutations that likely occurred in a lab setting are what makes Omicron spread so quickly. Omicron was first detected in Botswana, South Africa, reported...

AMHERST, Va., Jan. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Got Freedom?, a 501(c)4 nonprofit election integrity watchdog group, conducted an exclusive national briefing today at the request of state legislators from Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to review the extensive evidence of irregularities and lawlessness in the 2020 presidential election. A similar briefing is being scheduled in Washington, D.C. at the request of Members of Congress. The documentation discussed during the briefing — which includes more than 1,400 pages of material — is being made available for public consumption at https://got-freedom.org/evidence/. Nearly 300 state lawmakers and others participated in the briefing, which also...

A judge approved Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s emergency motion to intervene in a case against a small county that alleges fraud and focuses on Dominion Voting Systems machines. Michigan Circuit Court Judge Kevin Elsenheimer ruled in favor of the state’s motion during a Thursday hearing conducted virtually over Zoom. The plaintiff in the case, a voter named William Bailey, argued through his attorney Matthew DePerno that the state should not be granted an intervention given the timing... ...He said that his team is already in possession of the “forensic images” and that “some conclusions” have already been made...

Dr. Kelli Ward, chairwoman of the Republican Party of Arizona, provided an update on the state of the presidential race in the Grand Canyon State and assured Arizonans that “this election is far from over.” “Do not lose heart. Do not allow the negativity and the fake news to bring you down. Arizona is in this fight 100 percent. We are out to make sure that our elections in our state have integrity,” Ward said in a Monday video, citing the viral tweets from Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D), who has a history of criticizing President Donald Trump...

Longtime talk host Geraldo Rivera said Friday that President Donald Trump told him he will ''do the right thing'' with the results of the 2020 presidential election, though he was waiting to see ''what states do in terms'' of certification. ''Just had heartfelt phone call w friend @realDonaldTrump who said he's a ''realist" who'll do the"right thing," Rivera tweeted Friday. ''But he wants to see ''what states do in terms of certifiction (etc)'' He sounded committed to fighting for every vote & if he loses, talking more about all he's accomplished.'' He also said Trump ''seemed particularly aggrieved by the...

Fauci spars with Rand Paul over Covid 19 response

Rally to Back The Blue in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York