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Temp workers with criminal backgrounds are not the right people to handle voter registration information like Social Security numbers.Temp workers with criminal backgrounds are not the right people to handle voter registration information like Social Security numbers.Trump's 'chainsaw' ally wins key election in South America
Since taking office in December 2023, Argentina's self-proclaimed "anarcho-capitalist" President Javier Milei has successfully taken a "chainsaw" to his leftist predecessors' ruinous policies and rescued his nation from an economic death spiral.
Despite delivering significant results, the fate of the Argentine president's libertarian agenda and his nation's continued support from the U.S. were conditional on the success of Milei's Freedom Advances party in Sunday's midterm elections.
Fortunately for Milei and his anti-left alliance with the United States, the Freedom Advances party prevailed over its leftist rivals in almost every district in the country, securing nearly 41% of the national vote — far and above the result reportedly expected by the Milei government.
Milei's party picked up 64 seats in the lower house of the Argentine National Congress and 12 seats in the Senate. The ruling party exceeded the threshold necessary to sustain Milei's presidential vetoes.
President Donald Trump congratulated Milei "on his Landslide Victory" early Monday morning, noting, "Our confidence in him was justified by the People of Argentina."
"He's making us all look good. Congratulations Javier!" added Trump.
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"The [Argentine] president is fighting 100 years of bad economic history and policy," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at an Oct. 14 Cabinet meeting where Milei was present. "There's a midterm election coming up. We think he's going to do quite well and then continue his reform agenda."
Bessent indicated that whereas the Obama administration "wasted" an opportunity to support Latin American governments when they moved center-right politically, the Trump administration is forming economic bridges with like-minded nations that "want to do the right thing."
'The entire country confirmed its will to irreversibly change the destiny of our homeland.'
In the case of Argentina, whose stability Bessent indicated was "in the strategic interest of the United States," American support recently came in the form of a $20 billion currency swap — a lifeline bypassing the International Monetary Fund that is aimed at economically stabilizing the country — and the possibility of $20 billion more in private credit.
Trump underscored the importance of the election and noted that if Milei and his party didn't win, the U.S. would "not be generous with Argentina."
"Our approvals are somewhat subject to who wins the election because if a socialist or — in the case of New York City — a communist wins, you feel a lot differently about making an investment," said Trump, suggesting further that the U.S. wouldn't waste money supporting a government kneecapped by or captive to a leftist philosophy.
Milei noted in his victory speech that when the new lawmakers take their congressional seats in December, Argentina "will have the most reformist Congress in Argentina," and his party will work to make Argentina "the most free country in the world," reported the Buenos Aires Herald.
"Today, the entire country confirmed its will to irreversibly change the destiny of our homeland," added Milei.
Florida Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R) stated on Sunday, "Milei is the moral reference for the hemisphere, the exact opposite of Maduro. He's proving that freedom, capitalism, and democracy still work. President Trump recognizes that, and together we can help Latin America prosper with those same values."
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Michael Rapaport torches 'Zohran the moron,' urges New Yorkers to send Mamdani 'back to the unemployment line'
Liberal actor and podcaster Michael Rapaport has come a long way since calling President Donald Trump the "worst possible motherf**ker we could have in power," referring to Melania Trump as a "dumb animal," and wishing ill on Barron Trump in March 2020.
Rapaport, among the Jewish liberals who ditched the Democratic Party over its capture by anti-Semitic radicals and its ruinous approach to immigration, supported Trump in last year's presidential election. Now, he's throwing his support behind former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in hopes of sparing New York City from having socialist New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) become its mayor.
"I'm a lifelong New Yorker born and raised in Manhattan. This is the most importance race for mayor in my lifetime. Zohran Mamdani is not fit for office," Rapaport said in a recent video.
'You're a wolf in sheep's clothing.'
"His warped mind and hate-filled heart are rotten to the core," continued the actor. "'Freeze rent?' Come on. Freezed rent will lead to less buildings, fewer apartments, and higher rents. 'Defund the police' will lead to more crime. 'Raise the taxes' will lead to less money in your pockets. He's a moron. Zohran the moron."
Mamdani has indicated that if elected, he will "immediately freeze the rent for all stabilized tenants," raise the corporate tax rate from 7.25% to 11.5%, and slap New Yorkers earning more than $1 million annually with an additional 2% tax.
Mamdani suggested in a June 28, 2020, tweet that the New York Police Department "is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety" and stressed that it was necessary to "defund the police." While the socialist has vowed to frustrate the enforcement of federal immigration law in the New York City, Mamdani now claims that he doesn't want to defund the police.
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On Saturday, Rapaport — who is actively campaigning against Mamdani and soliciting donations for a political action committee to "promote anti-Mamdani speech" — noted in another video that early voting had begun and urged New Yorkers to take action, stating, "We're going to send this dead-eye, fake-smiling, black-hearted 34-year-old back to the unemployment line."
The latest Victory Insights poll indicated that Mamdani is the clear front-runner in the race, leading Cuomo by over 18 percentage points, 46.7%-28.6%.
The poll indicated further that "a whopping 26% of voters are considering moving out of the city if Mamdani is elected."
"There was a time when I exclusively, blindly voted for Democrats," said Rapaport. "I do not recognize who they have become, and anyone with eyes, ears, and a shred, an ounce, of moral decency cannot disagree with what I am saying."
The actor suggested further that the Democratic Party "needs to take a long f**king look in the mirror as to who they want to lead in this country, because it is heading down the wrong path."
Rapaport mocked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), both of whom have endorsed Mamdani, then hammered the socialist mayoral candidate over his repeated refusal to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada."
After alluding to Mamdani's recent meeting with Siraj Wahhaj — a jihad-supporting imam whom federal prosecutors characterized as being an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing — Rapaport noted that Mamdani was living in New York City at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, stressing, "Don't you remember what that did to the city? Don't you remember the devastation, how families were ripped apart? 9/11 — 9/11 was globalizing the intifada."
"You're a wolf in sheep's clothing," added Rapaport.
The actor indicated that for donations of $25 or more to his anti-Mamdani PAC, supporters secure the chance to win a flight to New York to meet Rapaport and to hang out with him before one of his comedy shows.
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The Trump Justice Department announced on Friday that it will monitor several polling sites in California and New Jersey ahead of the blue states' off-year Nov. 4 elections "to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law."
The DOJ's Civil Rights Division will specifically deploy personnel to monitor polling sites in the California's Kern, Riverside, Fresno, Orange, and Los Angeles Counties as well as in New Jersey's Passaic County.
'We have received reports of irregularities in these counties that we fear will undermine either the willingness of voters to participate in the election or their confidence in the announced results.'
"The Department of Justice will do everything necessary to protect the votes of eligible American citizens, ensuring our elections are safe and secure," said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. "Transparent election processes and election monitoring are critical tools for safeguarding our elections and ensuring public trust in the integrity of our elections."
In New Jersey, voters are set to decide who will replace Gov. Phil Murphy (D).
It is presently a close race between Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli, the former New Jersey assemblyman who fell short by fewer than four points in the 2021 gubernatorial race.
According to a new Rutgers-Eagleton poll, 50% of voters would have cast votes for Sherrill and 45% would have cast votes for Ciattarelli if the election were held this week.
New Jersey Republicans recently asked the Justice Department in an Oct. 20 letter to dispatch Civil Rights Division personnel to monitor both the handling of vote-by-mail ballots and access to the Board of Elections in Passaic County, a historically Democratic stronghold that supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
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The New Jersey GOP stressed the urgency of such oversight, citing a "long and sordid history of [vote-by-mail ballot] fraud," a dearth of transparency, and an allegedly insufficient response to potential fraud by state officials.
Concerns over potential mail-in voting improprieties appear to have heightened in recent years not only by the voter fraud scandal that marred a 2020 city council election in Paterson, the county's most populous city, but the alleged refusal by the county's Board of Elections to allow security cameras to monitor ballot storage areas.
The California Republican Party similarly requested the DOJ's Civil Rights Division to provide monitors in five counties in the Golden State.
'Transparency at the polls translates into faith in the electoral process.'
Corrin Rankin, chairwoman of the state GOP, said Monday in a letter to Dhillon, "In recent elections, we have received reports of irregularities in these counties that we fear will undermine either the willingness of voters to participate in the election or their confidence in the announced results of the election."
Ensuring the integrity of the Nov. 4 election is all the more important because its result could impact future federal elections.
In California, voters will decide on Proposition 50, a measure that would replace the state's current congressional map with a version that creates five new majority-Democrat districts.
This redistricting scheme was championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and endorsed by former President Barack Obama after both men and multitudes of other Democrats spent weeks pearl-clutching about Texas Republicans' successful adoption of a new congressional map on Aug. 29.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), among the critics of Proposition 50, told the Houston Chronicle, "It is very wrong what they’re trying to do in California. It is not at all serving the people. It is serving the party."
While the DOJ regularly sends personnel to ensure compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections across the country, Democrats in both blue states are fuming over the planned presence of Civil Rights Division monitors at poll sites in their upcoming elections.
"This is not a federal election. The U.S. DOJ has no business or basis to interfere with this election. This is solely about whether California amends our state constitution," Newsom's office stated on X. "This administration has made no secret of its goal to undermine free and fair elections. Deploying these federal forces appears to be an intimidation tactic meant for one thing: suppress the vote."
New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin (D) said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press that the move was "highly inappropriate" and suggested that the Justice Department "has not even attempted to identify a legitimate basis for its actions."
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi noted, "Transparency at the polls translates into faith in the electoral process, and this Department of Justice is committed to upholding the highest standards of election integrity."
"We will commit the resources necessary to ensure the American people get the fair, free, and transparent elections they deserve," added Bondi.
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As Virginia Election Nears, A Mix Of Optimism And Foreboding Drives GOP’s Ground Game
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Failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) founded a pair of voter turnout groups over a decade ago with the apparent aim of registering largely Democrat-leaning, non-white voters across the Peach State.
The groups, the New Georgia Project — for which Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock was listed as CEO on corporate filings in 2017, 2018, and 2019 — and the associated New Georgia Project Action Fund, reportedly knocked on millions of doors, registered tens of thousands of voters, and were credited with helping turn Georgia blue during the 2020 presidential election.
Abrams' New Georgia groups, which turned out to be as corrupt as they were energetic, have finally been shuttered.
'There is one less way for Stacey Abrams Inc. to fleece people and get rich.'
NGP and NGP Action Fund — which sought to help Abrams in her pursuit of power, sided with alleged domestic terrorists in 2023, and campaigned against election integrity initiatives — were slapped in January with a $300,000 fine, which the Georgia State Ethics Commission indicated was both the largest fine it has ever imposed and possibly also "the largest Ethics Fine ever imposed by any State Ethics Commission in the country related to an election and campaign finance case."
The groups, which Abrams supposedly walked away from in 2017, admitted to violating 16 state laws, largely by illegally contributing to Abrams' 2018 gubernatorial campaign while masquerading as a nonpartisan voter turnout group.
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The ethics commission found that the NGP failed to disclose over $4.2 million in contributions and over $3.2 million in expenditures during the 2018 election cycle, prompting House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) to request that the Internal Revenue Service investigate and ultimately revoke the group's tax-exempt status.
"This represents the largest and most significant instance of an organization illegally influencing our statewide elections in Georgia that we have ever discovered," the ethics commission noted at the time of the fine's imposition.
With the ruse both exposed and admitted, Abrams' groups were evidently not long for this world.
The board of directors for the NGP and NGP Action Fund indicated in a statement on Thursday that both scandal-plagued groups "will officially dissolve as organizations."
Despite their groups' flagrant violation of state law and the allegation that the board unlawfully fired employees in retaliation for their unionization efforts, the board wrote, "Reflecting on our journey, we are proud of the milestones we have achieved, the communities we have engaged, and the countless individuals whose lives have been strengthened by our work."
James Woodall, board chair of the NGP Action Fund, said the news of the groups' dissolution was "difficult," and implored "all who continue in the fight" to "stay grounded, keep the faith, and don't come down from the wall."
Garrison Douglas, a spokesman for Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R), said in a statement to Blaze News, "Georgians everywhere can rest easy tonight knowing that there is one less way for Stacey Abrams Inc. to fleece people and get rich."
Blaze News has reached out to Abrams and Warnock for comment.
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