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Mitch McConnell got some of that tax payer FXT Ukraine money. Now you know why the uni-party @GOP @DNC didn’t want a audit of Ukraine money & had to get rid of Trump.

Representative Jim Banks (R-IN) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that former President Donald Trump was not on the ballot in the midterms after the GOP underperformed. Anchor Shannon Bream said, “Let’s talk 2024 because it is already here. Trump is expected to make an announcement on Tuesday. You have been an ally and supporter of his.” Bream asked, “Is his announcement on Tuesday a good thing or bad thing for the GOP?” Banks said, “Donald Trump remains a very popular figure in the Republican Party in each corner of the country. And remember when he was...

An old video of Barack Obama has emerged that shows the former president boasting that “we got Democrats in charge of the [voting] machines.” The newly-discovered old video appeared of Obama giving a campaign speech at Kent State University during the 2008 election. Obama sought to ease concerns about potential Republican victories by telling the crowd of Democrat voters in Ohio that they needn’t worry. He explained that Democrats control the election voting machines in Ohio. The then-Illinois U.S. senator continued by claiming that Republicans “have monkeyed around with elections in the past” before admitting that “sometimes Democrats have too.”...

On Monday it was revealed that top Maricopa County election officer Stephen Richer, who helped to oversee elections in Arizona, donated to the far-left "resistance group" PatriotTakes. PatriotTakes is a hybrid pack that describes itself on Twitter as a group of "dedicated researchers monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy." ... Data available on the Federal Elections Commission's website shows that Richer donated $40.00 in July of this year. Previously, Richer had launched a PAC in 2021 to stop MAGA candidates .... Last week, during Tuesday's midterms elections, Richer was forced to apologize due to Maricopa County's...

The GOP should push for the following changes in federal election laws.

Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor in Arizona, has yet to respond after Katie Hobbs' team declared the Democrat is the "unequivocal favorite" to win the midterm election. Lake, who was endorsed by Donald Trump, and is a 2020 election denier, is currently behind Hobbs by just over 26,000 votes with around 93 percent of the ballots accounted for, according to the Associated Press tally. While Lake managed to cut Hobbs' lead by around 10,000 following a ballot count on Sunday, experts have suggested that Lake will not be able to overcome Hobbs' lead with around seven percent of...

There are many crucial steps in our election process for the electorate to have confidence in the outcome. They didn’t happen last TuesdayA number of noteworthy things did not happen on Election Day 2022. Everyone knows the red wave didn’t happen. But that isn’t all that didn’t happen.The chaos at the polls that was going to be caused by the presence of citizen poll watchers did not happen. Despite being hysterically predicted (hoped for?) over the past 18 months by reporters who wrote the same story with some version of the same headline again and again and again — “Election...

The wringing of the hands is furious. With another election less than a month away the anxiety is fierce. And the barbs are already flying. I’m not talking about the distraction of Trump vs. DeSantis [cut] I’m referring to the election of the next Senate leader for the GOP now that “Cocaine” Mitch McConnell has lost the Senate for the second cycle in a row. Elections bring about accountability. It’s time to make a change and that change should be an advocate for America First. With the media peddling the idea of the red “trickle” most haven’t looked at the...

The 2022 election is the second election showing hapless Republicans just what happens when they fail to clean up the voter rolls. Voter rolls in every state are fraught with fake people – multiple people with the same name and age, dead people, voters who moved 5 years ago but are still on the rolls, people voting from U.P.S. boxes. The future is at hand – and the Republicans need to get on board and make Job #1 the clean up of the voter rolls. There were 4 states in 2022 where there was a counter narrative: Ohio, Florida, Texas...

The midterm clusterfark has drawn plenty of hot takes and instant analyses that range from insightful to self-serving to unbelievably stupid. But now that we have gotten past the initial blasts of the flamethrower, perhaps we should take a breath and sit down, and think about where we are as a movement and what we need to do as a party for 2024. There’s a lot to talk about, from procedural questions like how we intend to cope with the new world of extended mail voting to substantive imperatives like how we must repeal the 19th Amendment as it applies...

Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is among a group of 59 influential conservative power brokers who signed an open letter pressing Republican leaders in the House and Senate to delay their internal conference leadership elections. “The Republican Party needs leaders who will confidently and skillfully present a persuasive coherent vision of who we are, what we stand for, and what we will do. Many current elections are still undecided. There should be no rushed leadership elections,” the letter says.

The lesson of November 8, 2022: No one man can save you.The lesson of November 10, 2022: Neither can the other guy.My evidence may seem anecdotal, but here’s my story. Again, class is in session, folks…It was a grueling 8.5 hour drive back through NYC traffic just to log 15.5 hours working the polls in purple state New Hampshire (home of the Free State project). The polls are tight. The signs were in all the yards and on the streets everywhere. The expectation was that it would be “Red-Wave”. But this poll worker had his hopes dashed on that fantasy...

Mark Levin is optimistic and makes a fantastic point... https://youtu.be/5fhkvbocrmk

Whoever wins, communist Karens still control the Capitol. What’s worse—how much of a joke America’s “elections” are or the contempt with which election officials treat voters who have the nerve to demand answers on election night? Days of mail-in ballot counting have turned Republican Senate leads into Democrat Senate victories, while control of the House is still up for grabs; but the praetorian news pundits who defend the Deep State’s virtue as if they were protecting the disputed honor of a blushing bride still find it more appalling that voters could question the legitimacy of America’s elections than the reality...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Control of the U.S. House of Representatives hinged on Monday on several tight races that could secure a majority for Republicans following midterm elections that saw President Joe Biden's Democrats beat expectations and retain the Senate. Republicans were closer to taking the House, having won 211 seats compared to Democrats' 206, with 218 needed for a majority. But the final outcome might not be known for days as officials continue counting ballots nearly a week after Americans went to the polls. After clinching the Senate over the weekend and dispelling Republican hopes for a "red wave" of gains,...

Ballots and votes. These two words seem synonymous, yet they imply opposite ways to choose a government. SNIP Clever leftists built a national system, ERIC, now used by about 30 states, to make sure voter rolls protected phantoms. Using in-your-face messaging, ERIC claimed it was a resource to keep voter rolls clean. No friction, no challenge. After 2020, everything changed. The once frictionless ballot-gathering apparatus was challenged in every state as voter integrity teams, citizens at kitchen tables, picked apart voter rolls. They quickly found tens of thousands of dead or moved voters. There were innumerable addresses where no voter...

Mark Levin's most important monologue YET— Points finger RIGHT at Corporate GOP HACKS for midterms disaster pic.twitter.com/H0QHAVEdZg— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 14, 2022

I still say President Trump was the best president in my lifetime, but his second term was stolen from him by the GOPe RINOS working with the thieving democrats. Best election ('16), best POTUS, evah! MAGA!! And I believe his second term will be even greater! I absolutely love the job DeSantis is doing for Florida, and would hate to see Florida lose him. He should stay right where he is, and continue planning for '28. He should not make an enemy of Trump. Trump chewed up 16 of the "best" the GOP had to offer in the '16 race,...

Mary Miller claimed victory Tuesday in Illinois’ 15th Congressional District. The Associated Press called the race for Miller. With 94% of precincts reporting, she led with 71.4% of the vote. Once-touted Englewood Whole Foods closes as shoppers mourn the health-focused grocer Trump-endorsed freshman Republican Miller battled Democrat Paul Lange of Mendon, a little-known candidate with a meager war chest. The newly redrawn 15th Congressional District covers 35 counties in central and Southern Illinois. In a rare incumbent versus incumbent race, Miller of Oakland defeated five-term Rep. Rodney Davis of Taylorville in the June primary. Born in Oak Park and raised...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 4h It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault. Spending money to defeat great Republican candidates instead of backing Blake Masters and others was a big mistake. Giving 4 Trillion Dollars to the Radical Left for the Green New Deal, not Infrastructure, was an even bigger mistake. He blew the Midterms, and everyone despises him and his otherwise lovely wife, Coco Chow!