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 Blaze: 'WORSE THAN WATERGATE': Republicans demand answers after documents reveal FBI spied on 9 GOP lawmakers The surveillance took place as part of the FBI's investigation into interference in the 2020 election Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed on Monday that the FBI under the Biden administration obtained private cellphone information from nine GOP lawmakers, including Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.). All of the targeted lawmakers are Republicans. ... Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), in commenting on the surveillance during a committee hearing on Tuesday, said , "I find this breathtaking." He also pushed for a hearing on the matter: "I don't want to wait 24 years to get an answer." In a GOP press briefing, Sen. Johnson pointed out that "this is not the first time I was targeted by the FBI. Under the Obama administration, the same thing happen...

  Newsmax: Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., told Newsmax on Tuesday that former members of the Biden administration should face criminal consequences following reports that Republican senators were surveilled by U.S. intelligence agencies. Tuberville's comments came after Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asserted Monday that the Biden administration's FBI targeted eight Republican senators as part of an election-related investigation, calling it "worse than Watergate." On "The Chris Salcedo Show," Tuberville said the allegations revealed "a government rotten to the core" and called for accountability. "Somebody needs to go to jail, somebody needs to be indicted," Tuberville said. "We've got to do something up here. You know this place, Chris, is rotten to the core. It is running on borrowed time." Tuberville said he was stunned to learn that American intelligence agencies might have targeted lawmakers. "When they start spy...

These are some of the reasons why the Democrats are only polling in the 30s. I have rarely seen them so out of touch with voters. See also: Is the Democratic party over the hill? The party is staring down the barrel of a choice between aged incompetence and unpopular extremism

  AP: Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans are ready to change the chamber’s rules to allow quick confirmations of dozens of President Donald Trump’s executive branch nominees and will move to speed up votes after months of Democratic delays. Opening the Senate on Monday, Thune said Democrats’ obstruction is “unsustainable.” He said Republicans will begin action this week to allow votes on groups of lower-level executive branch nominees if a majority of the Senate agrees. Currently, one senator’s objection can force days of votes on a single nominee. If the Democratic delays continue, Thune said, “there is no practical way that we could come close to filling all the vacancies in the four years of this administration no matter how many hours the Senate works.” Changing the rules would take time, with procedural votes potentially Thursday and early next week to push through a first tranche of 48 nominees, according to a person familiar with the GOP plan who requested an...

 PJ Media: ... The population shift is radically redefining the electoral map for national elections. Political strategists think in terms of combinations:  What collection of states do we need to win?  But when the math changes, so must your map. Across all of the possible scenarios in the nine states that would be considered battlegrounds in the 2032 election, Democrats would see about a third of their current winning Electoral College combinations disappear if population projections hold. However, when looking only at the most feasible winning combinations based on voting behaviors in the 2024 election, the outlook is far worse.  Of Democrats’ 25 most plausible paths to victory in 2024, only five would remain.  [emphasis added] Remember, this is entirely independent of all the other cultural shifts, including the political migration of Latinos, black men, and young people away from the Dems and into the GOP. This is something far more meaningful:  We’re ...

 Newsmax: Political analyst Dick Morris told Newsmax Saturday that he has witnessed two incredible recent shifts in voter sentiment. "One is that trend, which is that a lot of new voters are coming into the Republican Party, and a lot of voters are leaving the Democratic Party," Morris told " America Right Now." Morris attributed the pendulum swing to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's announcement that the administration has deported 1.6 million illegal immigrants from the United States during President Donald Trump's first seven months in office. "And that means that when seats for Congress are reapportioned, when the census comes in and earlier, if they do it earlier, Democrats will lose representation for those seats. "So when you combine, when you combine the country moving toward Republicans and away from Democrats and the congressional seats themselves being reallocated not to count illegal immigrants — not because of we're not c...

 Daily Signal: ... An April poll found that 75% of Washington, D.C.-based federal employees making $75,000 or more per year who voted for Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris in November said they would not follow a lawful Trump order if they considered it bad policy. Furthermore, a February Foundation for Government Accountability study found that Democrat employees outnumber Republican employees by a 2-to-1 margin across federal agencies, and 84% of federal employee’s political contributions went to Harris in the 2024 election. While some “burrowers” may faithfully work for the U.S. government under any president, this poll suggests that the new administration likely faces a deep state threat, and The Daily Signal’s coverage aims to expose it before it becomes a problem. The Daily Signal’s eight-part series on the Biden burrowers highlights the many Biden political appointees who burrowed into the bureaucracy. ... Samantha Goldstein, currently associate deputy general co...

  Newsmax: The Fourth of July apparently isn't worth celebrating for some Democrats, as half who responded in a recent poll said they don't consider themselves patriotic, compared with 91% of Republicans. The poll by National Research Inc. of 1,000 registered voters taken June 21-23 showed that 50% of Democrats called themselves patriots, the New York Post reported Friday. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points. In a similar finding, the poll showed 90% of those who backed President Donald Trump in the 2024 election identifying as patriots compared with 55% who supported former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Post reported. Among conservatives, 87% considered themselves a patriot, compared with 51% of liberals. ... Is it any wonder why Democrats are also polling so low?  Liberals need to get their act together if they hope to win more elections.  

 Federalist Wire: ... In a major setback for President Donald Trump’s ambitious domestic policy agenda, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, an unelected official wielding significant influence, has dealt a blow to the Senate’s version of the president’s “one big, beautiful” bill. MacDonough’s rulings have forced Senate Republicans to rethink critical elements of the legislation, which is central to delivering on Trump’s promises to overhaul federal spending and immigration policy. MacDonough has advised Senate Republicans to strip or revise 47 provisions from the bill to comply with the Senate’s strict budget reconciliation rules. These rules, known as the Byrd Rule, limit what can be included in legislation passed with a simple majority, a process Republicans are using to bypass Democratic opposition. The parliamentarian’s decisions have sparked frustration among conservatives eager to see Trump’s vision enacted swiftly. Among the provisions MacDonough struck are key heal...

 Daily Caller: The supposedly “nonpartisan” Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which provides Congress with cost estimates for its policy proposals, may not be the neutral arbiter it claims to be, a new report suggests. The  CBO  was established in 1974 to “provide objective, nonpartisan information to support the Congressional budget process and to help the Congress make effective budget and economic policy.” However, a new  report  from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) — a right-of-center public policy think tank — found that the CBO is overwhelmingly staffed by Democrats, and that the agency has a history of scoring errors that benefit Democrats’ proposals. Of the 84% of CBO employees the FGA was able to match with voter registration records, 78.9% of them were Democrats, while only 12.5% were Republicans and 8.6% were independent or unaffiliated. The disparity is even more pronounced in certain departments, such as the Health Division, whic...

  Trending Politics: New polling data presented by one of the top hosts at CNN has left its liberal viewing audience reeling. For many decades, the Democratic Party presented itself as looking out for the middle class. But Republicans have closed the gap under President Donald Trump’s leadership, and could soon bypass the left and officially become the party of the working class. Democrats have been taking a proverbial beating ever since the November 2024 election, when Trump soundly won the presidency, taking all seven swing states. As of now, the Republicans hold a 10-point lead on the economy, after just four months with President Trump at the helm. CNN analyst Harry Enten was absolutely floored by the positive polling numbers for the GOP on the economy, despite so many Americans reportedly being worried about a recession and the wild swings of the stock market. Enten went on to explain the reason for his shock. He expected Democrats to have a substantial lead over Republicans o...

 DC Daily Journal: ... The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) unleashed a powerful signal of confidence this week, unveiling a poll that positions House Republicans to not only defend but expand their majority in the 2026 midterms. Conducted from April 13-18, and first reported by Punchbowl News , the survey paints a vivid picture of a political landscape tilting decisively in favor of the GOP, fueled by voter frustration with Democratic missteps and a resurgent America First agenda. Shared initially at a House Republican Conference meeting, the poll draws a stark contrast between the current political climate and the lead-up to the 2018 midterms, when Democrats rode a so-called “blue wave” during President Donald Trump’s first term. Back then, Democrats enjoyed a commanding six-point lead on the generic Congressional ballot in April 2017. Today, the NRCC’s findings reveal Democrats clinging to a mere one-point edge, a dramatic shift that signals waning support for ...

 The Hill: Republican gains in voter registration are raising red flags for Democrats in key states, underscoring the inroads the GOP made across the country in 2024. Active registered Republicans now outnumber Democrats in battleground Nevada for the first time in nearly two decades, according to January data from the state. The GOP has also gained recent ground in New Jersey, a traditionally blue state, and Trump this week celebrated that the voter registration majority in Florida’s Hillsborough county switched from blue to red. The latest shifts, following eroding Democratic registration in states like Pennsylvania and Arizona last year, underscore the work that lies ahead for Democrats as they look to rebuild and retake power in Washington. “People switch the way they vote, then they switch their registrations. And you think about Nevada and New Jersey, those are two states that saw pretty significant shifts towards the Republicans in November,” said Marc Meredith, a politi...

 The Federalist Wire: In a significant political move, longtime Texas Democrat and Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina has announced his decision to leave the Democratic Party and join the Republican Party. This shift marks yet another instance of a South Texas leader embracing the GOP, a trend gaining traction in the region. Webb County, a historically Democratic stronghold, flipped red in the November election, joining other border counties that supported a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in over a century, according to The Center Square. The county, part of a region that has leaned Democratic since Texas became a state in 1836, delivered a historic victory for Donald Trump, signaling a dramatic political shift in an area where the majority of voters are Hispanic. Judge Tijerina explained his departure in a Facebook post, stating, “As Webb County Judge, I have fought to protect our shared values here in South Texas – hard work, faith, family, and freedom. Unfortu...

 The Federalist Wire: ... In a significant political move, longtime Texas Democrat and Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina has announced his decision to leave the Democratic Party and join the Republican Party. This shift marks yet another instance of a South Texas leader embracing the GOP, a trend gaining traction in the region. Webb County, a historically Democratic stronghold, flipped red in the November election, joining other border counties that supported a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in over a century, according to The Center Square. The county, part of a region that has leaned Democratic since Texas became a state in 1836, delivered a historic victory for Donald Trump, signaling a dramatic political shift in an area where the majority of voters are Hispanic. Judge Tijerina explained his departure in a Facebook post, stating, “As Webb County Judge, I have fought to protect our shared values here in South Texas – hard work, faith, family, and freedom. Unf...

 The Federalist Wire: ... As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his return to the White House, one of his most discussed proposals is the imposition of tariffs on foreign nations, particularly Mexico, as a means to address critical issues such as immigration and the fentanyl crisis. His plan to use tariffs as a tool of negotiation has sparked debate, but some experts, including Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar, believe it could be an effective strategy to force foreign governments to the negotiating table. Rep. Cuellar, who represents Texas’ 28th Congressional District, an area bordering Mexico, weighed in on Trump’s proposed tariffs during an interview on NewsNation. Cuellar, familiar with the intricacies of cross-border trade, pointed out that tariffs could create the leverage needed to compel Mexico to engage in meaningful discussions to solve the complex problems surrounding immigration and drug trafficking. “If it means a 25 percent tariff to potentially fix the border...

 National Review: Republicans will narrowly hold onto their slim House majority, completing a governing trifecta after Donald Trump decisively defeated Vice President Kamala Harris and Republicans reclaimed several key Senate seats. Trump will now have both chambers of Congress at his disposal to follow through on his campaign promises and undo the Biden administration’s legacy on a range of issues. Unlike Trump’s first-term, Senate and House lawmakers are almost entirely behind him, likely setting the stage for the passage of the president’s top agenda items and the further remaking of the American judiciary. Representative Juan Ciscomani’s win in Arizona’s sixth district late Wednesday night put the GOP over the 218-seat mark, with nine races yet to be called by the Associated Press. Republicans have flipped six House seats since Election Day while Democrats have only picked up one. Republicans flipped seats in Pennsylvania’s seventh and eighth districts, North Carolina’s sixth, ...

  The Blaze: ... According to Cohn, this election "should be a Republican victory" if analyzed on paper. The reasons? The poor economy, President Joe Biden's unpopularity, and the fact that voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Cohn, moreover, explained the "signs of a Republican victory have been building for years," citing Republican advantages in party identification, party registration, and Election Day turnout in battleground states. What's worse, Cohn said the polls — like they did in 2016 and 2020 — could be once again underestimating Trump . "The pollsters never found a convincing explanation for what went wrong, and the simplest one is that they just can’t reach enough of Mr. Trump’s less engaged supporters. Despite their efforts over the last eight years, there may simply be no fix for this problem," he wrote. "In this scenario, Ms. Harris’s apparent strength among white and older voters, or her resilience in t...

 The Blaze: The Trump-Vance campaign has filed a lawsuit against Bucks County for turning away Republican voters — and they’ve won. A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday sided with the Trump campaign and extended the in-person voting option in Bucks County, as long lines on the final day had voters fearing they were being shut out completely. One woman was even arrested at the polling location for “influencing” voters by asking them to all stay in line rather than leave out of frustration. Voters now have until Friday. “MASSIVE. We just won in Bucks County PA. Judge just ruled that Josh Shapiro’s buddies violated state election code by blocking people from voting with uniformed officers - we all saw the videos. Early in person Voting is now EXTENDED until 5pm. Get back in line, Bucks!” Jack Posobiec wrote in a post on X. ... People who were in line to vote before closing time should be allowed to vote. 

 Red State: GOP Only Needs to Flip Two Senate Seats to Win the Majority, but Polling Shows They Could Take Five I think they are also likely to expand their House majority.  This should give Trump a better chance of getting his agenda passed if he takes the presidency.