Republicans

Walker Flashes Fake Police Badge During Debate

Yahoo News reports: Herschel Walker  was reprimanded by a moderator for flashing a “prop” police badge in his debate Friday against Sen. Raphael Warnock. Warnock criticized Walker for falsely claiming in the past that he had once worked in law enforcement. “One thing I’ve not done is I’ve never pretended to be a police officer, and I’ve never threatened a …

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Oz Tricked Reporters With Paid Campaign Worker During “Community Discussion” About Crime Victims

The Intercept reports: A touching moment at a recent campaign event for Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, in Philadelphia — in which a Black woman broke down in tears as she described the fatal shootings of her brother and nephew, and was comforted by the Republican Senate candidate — made for riveting television, and brought to mind the …

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Paul Ryan: We All Know Trump Won’t Be The Nominee

“We all know he’s so much more likely to lose the White House than anybody else running for president on our side of the aisle, so why would we want to go with that? “He only remains where he is because everybody’s afraid of him. They’re afraid of him going after them, hurting their ambition, but as soon as you …

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DeSantis’s Migrants To Get “Victims Of Crime” Visas

Boston’s PBS affiliate reports: A Texas sheriff has certified that the nearly 50 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis were victims of a crime. That certification is a key step in qualifying them for a special visa they would not have otherwise been eligible for. Texas’ Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar expeditiously signed certification forms for …

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Reuters: Oil Giant Is Cooperating With Russian Draft

Reuters reports: Some of oilfield service firm Schlumberger’s more than 9,000 Russian employees have begun receiving military draft notices through work, and the company is not authorizing remote employment to escape mobilization, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents. Schlumberger’s cooperation with authorities by delivering the military call-ups and its refusal to allow Russian staff to work …

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Filing Shows Kraken Cultist Raised Over $16 Million

The Washington Post reports: A nonprofit group run by pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell raised $16.4 million in the year following the 2020 election and spent less than half that money, according to the group’s tax filings. Defending the Republic, whose mission is to use the courts to “protect election integrity” and individual freedoms, reported that it spent about $8 million …

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New Video Proves Scalise Knowingly Lied About Pelosi

The Wrap reports: Ever since the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., the actions of Speaker Nancy Pelosi have especially been brought into question, with former president Donald Trump, Rep. Steve Scalise and others claiming that she should have done more to secure the building while under siege. Those criticisms, however, hit a snag this week when …

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At Least 20 Cultists Now Spreading “Litter Boxes” Lies

NBC News reports: At a luncheon for Republican women in Mesa County, Colorado, last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., warned that educators “are putting litter boxes in schools for people who identify as cats.” The week before, on Sept. 29, Minnesota GOP gubernatorial nominee Scott Jensen asked during a campaign stop, “Why do we have litter boxes in some of …

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DeSantis Waives Voting Rules For Ian-Hit Red Counties

The Washington Post reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is making it easier for voters to cast ballots in three southwestern Florida counties that were hit hard by Hurricane Ian and are bastions for GOP support, sparking criticism that he is “politicizing a natural disaster.” More than 1 million voters in Charlotte, Sarasota and Lee counties will have more time to get …

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Sen. Ron Johnson Claims “The FBI Set Me Up” [VIDEO]

The Huffington Post reports: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) had a raucous audience laughing during a campaign debate Thursday when he complained he had been “set up” by the FBI. Johnson was responding to an attack by his Democratic rival, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, that the senator was once warned by the FBI that the Kremlin was trying to turn him …

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Thiel To Dump $5M More On Masters After GOP Balks

The Washington Post reports: Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor who pumped $15 million into a super PAC that helped make Blake Masters the Republican nominee for Senate in Arizona, is planning to spend as much as $5 million more in the race, according to people familiar with the matter. The additional spending would mark a reversal for Thiel, who had …

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Trump Recruited RNC Chair To Assemble Fake Electors

Mediaite reports: Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) detailed on Thursday how Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, was recruited by then-President Donald Trump to aid in his scheme to assemble “fake electors” to change the result of the electoral college and remain in power. “President Trump’s efforts to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election were not …

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Two Young Incest Victims Denied Abortions In Florida

Buzzfeed News reports: At least two children who were victims of incest have been denied abortions in Florida since the state instituted its 15-week ban in July, the local Planned Parenthood chapter told BuzzFeed News. The GOP-controlled state legislature allowed exceptions to the 15-week ban in order to save the pregnant person’s life, prevent a serious injury, or if the …

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Michigan GOP Hires “Stop The Steal” Ringleader

Politico reports: A social media influencer who implored a crowd to “storm the gates” of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been hired by a Michigan county clerk as the “talent development specialist” working with poll workers in one of the battleground state’s biggest swing regions, according to an email obtained by POLITICO. The talent-development official, Genevieve Peters, …

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Herschel Walker Claims He Is Native American [VIDEO]

The Huffington Post reports: At a little-noticed campaign event late last month, Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker announced with great fanfare that his grandmother was “full-blood Cherokee” and that it means he is Native American. “My mom just told me that my mom, grandmother, was full-blood Cherokee,” Walker said at the Sept. 28 event in Forsyth, Georgia. “So I’m …

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Ron Johnson Linked To Capitol Riot In New Ad [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Democrat Mandela Barnes’ campaign released an ad on Thursday that highlights Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-Wisc.) connection to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, arguing that the Republican senator “can’t be trusted.” In a 30-second ad first shared with The Hill, the Barnes campaign strung together clips from news reports that bring attention to Johnson’s association with …

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Appeals Court Blocks Texas Law On Social Media Bans

Politico reports: A federal appellate court temporarily halted Texas’ social media law from going into effect Wednesday while tech trade groups seek review from the Supreme Court — the latest twist in months of legal maneuvers over a statute that could upend the online industry’s business models. Relief for tech: The ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …

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Mike Huckabee: MAGA Republicans Don’t Respond To Pollsters Because The FBI Might Arrest Them [VIDEO]

“I honestly think Republicans are gonna have a much better night than anybody predicts largely because the polling information is simply unreliable. And there’s a reason that it’s unreliable. “Right now if you’re pro-life, if you’re Christian, if you’re a conservative, if you are a MAGA Republican, which means you just think that America’s a great country and we ought …

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Reuters: Growing Alarm Over Cultist Poll Watchers

Reuters reports: As the United States enters the final stretch to November’s midterm elections, Reuters documented multiple incidents of intimidation involving an expanding army of election observers, many of them recruited by prominent Republican Party figures and activists echoing Trump’s false theories about election fraud. Interviews with more than two dozen election officials as well as representatives of groups driven …

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GOP Candidate Compares Lobster Rules To Child Rape

The Huffington Post reports: At a lobster industry rally Wednesday in Portland, a Republican candidate for Maine’s 1st Congressional District compared federal rules aimed at protecting the endangered right whale to sex crimes against children. “NOAA wants to rape you and your family, and they’re saying ‘pick a child,’” said GOP hopeful Ed Thelander, referring to the National Oceanic and …

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