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“There’s no reason to believe right now, as sad as it seems, this guy’s not going to win. Curtis has a very difficult battle. The fact is, Republicans don’t fare well in New York. Gotta go back to Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg, and Governor Pataki. That’s a long time ago, Brian. “And this guy’s taking these boroughs by storm. …

The New York Times reports: A former Republican candidate for a State House seat in New Mexico was sentenced to 80 years in prison on Wednesday for orchestrating a politically motivated shooting spree against four Democratic officials. The series of shootings happened in December 2022 and early January 2023, weeks after the candidate, Solomon Peña, had lost his race. When …

“Washington, D.C., has one of the Highest Rates of Crime in the World, more than many of the most violent Third World Countries. The City’s Homicide Rate is higher than places notorious for their violence, such as Mexico City, Bogota, Islamabad, and Addis Ababa — Almost ten times higher than Fallujah, Iraq. If D.C. were a State, it would have …

Deadline reports: Mario Gabelli, the longtime fund manager who has made noise over the past two years about the terms of the Paramount-Skydance merger, has sued former Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone. Gabelli, chairman of New York-based Gamco, filed suit against Redstone and National Amusements, the company that held the controlling stake in Paramount shares, in Delaware Chancery Court on …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a “bystander” who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. E.J. Antoni, an economist from the Heritage Foundation nominated by Trump this week, after the president fired …

“Lastly to Clyburn, if it’s Jim Crow 2.0, just so you know, Jim Crow was pretty bad, but Jim Crow 2.0 is kind of great. I mean, we have it in Georgia and we had more people of color turn out and vote in this last election than ever before. So the more they use that — the more they …

The Associated Press reports: Officials in a rural Tennessee town voted Tuesday to approve agreements to turn a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company, despite loud objections from upset residents and activists during a contentious public meeting. The five-member Board of Aldermen in Mason, plus Mayor Eddie Noeman and Vice Mayor Reynaldo Givhan, met …

Roll Call reports: Rep. Barry Moore launched his campaign for Senate in Alabama on Tuesday, joining the Republican primary for an open seat being vacated by gubernatorial hopeful Tommy Tuberville. Moore, a member of the House Freedom Caucus in his third term, has cast himself as a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, touting that as an Alabama state representative …

Spectrum News reports: An Illinois judge has ruled against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his case to force authorities to bring Texas House Democrats back to the Lone Star State. The judge ruled that Paxton had failed to present a “legal basis for the court to obtain subject matter jurisdiction over this cause of action” and that the court …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that he could avoid congressional approval to extend his 30-day federal takeover of Washington’s police, amid his efforts to wrest control of the capital’s law enforcement. Trump this week invoked the Home Rule Act, effectively handing the executive branch control over Washington’s police for up to 30 days. Beyond that, Trump would …