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Adam Schiff, a U.S. Senate hopeful and powerful Democrat member of the House of Representatives, directed millions in taxpayer dollars to major defense firms who backed his Congressional campaigns. The discovery of Schiff’s questionable use of earmarks came after the Congressman attacked his Senate primary opponent Katie Porter (D-CA) for opposing pork-barrel spending, while bragging he had secured critical funding for drug recovery and homeless programs through earmark spending.
Members of Congress often use earmarks to bring taxpayer dollars back to their district and fund local projects to improve communities. Some, however, abuse the process and end up using taxpayer dollars as a kick-back to companies who contribute to their election campaigns.
In 2010 the Republican majority in control the House of Representatives enacted sweeping reforms, including to the earmark process. Several earmarks requested by Schiff prior to 2010 would now be barred under the rules today.
Lobbying firm the PMA Group, for example, represented many of the defense firms Schiff secured funds for, while they contributed thousands to his Congressional campaigns. Owner Paul Magliocchetti was sentenced to 27 months in prison in 2011 for his role in one of the largest schemes to avoid campaign contribution limits in U.S. history.
Schiff was one of the central figures in the Russiagate hoax, and pushed for former President Trump’s removal from office.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) filed a motion to fine Schiff $16 million (half of the cost of the faux investigation launched by Democrats) and expel him from Congress. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – a leading Ron DeSantis surrogate – opposed Rep. Luna’s move against Schiff, the expulsion motion ultimately failing.
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Adam Schiff, a U.S. Senate hopeful and powerful Democrat member of the House of Representatives, directed millions in taxpayer dollars to major defense firms who backed his Congressional campaigns. The discovery of Schiff's questionable use of earmarks came after the Congressman attacked his Senate primary opponent Katie Porter (D-CA) for opposing pork-barrel spending, while bragging he had secured critical funding for drug recovery and homeless programs through earmark spending.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has centered much of his presidential campaign’s messaging on contrasting his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic with that of former President Donald Trump. DeSantis and his campaign surrogates have repeatedly tried to convince Republican voters that Trump was beholden to the 82-year old immunologist, Anthony Fauci. The pro-DeSantis SuperPAC, Never Back Down, dumped half-a-million into ads attacking Fauci – and in conjunction Trump – in the early days of the primary campaign.
But COVID-19 has almost entirely faded from the electorates conscious, according to data in an ABC survey which found a majority of primary voters saw inflation as the top concern in 2024. Immigration came in a modest second place with 35 percent saying it was the most important election issue. The response of lawmakers to the pandemic didn’t even register as statistically significant, i.e. not even one percent.
Nearly a year ago, when FiveThirtyEight asked Republican voters what issue was most important to them, 50 percent said inflation. COVID-19 and its response, even then, didn’t register. The pandemic has so faded from the American political mind that a July Siena/NYT survey didn’t even bother asking voters about it anymore.
Despite the lack of interest amongst Republicans in re-litigating the pandemic, the DeSantis campaign is showing no signs of changing course. Even if they did, it may be too-little-too-late. The Florida Governor slipped to fifth place in a recent New Hampshire poll. In Iowa, a state DeSantis admits his campaign’s future hinges on winning, the Trump campaign recently announced it had secured twice the number of signed Iowa caucus pledge cards as the DeSantis campaign. In FiveThirtyEight’s running poll average, Trump leads DeSantis nationally by over 40 points.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has centered much of his presidential campaign's messaging on contrasting his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic with that of former President Donald Trump. DeSantis and his campaign surrogates have repeatedly tried to convince Republican voters that Trump was beholden to the 82-year old immunologist, Anthony Fauci. The pro-DeSantis SuperPAC, Never Back Down, dumped half-a-million into ads attacking Fauci – and in conjunction Trump – in the early days of the primary campaign.
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Just hours after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis delivered a speech on his proposed presidential energy policy, the 47,000 member Oil and Gas Workers Association announced they would be endorsing former President Donald Trump. In an interview Oil and Gas Workers Association President Matt Coday said, “Governor DeSantis says a lot of the right things, right, but his track record isn’t there.”
Coday said the association is backing Trump because of the former President’s America First polices enacted during his first presidential administration, including the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords and work to save American oil and gas jobs. With energy prices becoming a major issue for voters in the 2024 election, Coday says Trump’s strong track record puts him in the best position to win, noting under Trump’s leadership, “…Our economy boomed and benefited every American. We don’t have that today with Joe Biden in the White House. His intent and and obviously actions to kill our oil and gas jobs. They hurt our economy and threaten our national security.”
The association’s formal endorsement states:
“President Trump has been the most pro-American Oil & Gas Workers president ever, with 11.3 million jobs supported by our vital industry in 2019. Under President Trump’s leadership, our country became energy dominant. The booming economy of the Trump years benefitted every American.”
The DeSantis campaign has failed to gain traction since his late May announcement for president. A poll from CNN released earlier this week shows DeSantis falling to fifth place in New Hampshire – a 13 point from from their previous poll in the state. In Iowa, a state critical to the DeSantis campaign’s primary strategy, Donald Trump has secured double the number of signed caucus pledge cards as DeSantis.
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Just hours after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis delivered a speech on his proposed presidential energy policy, the 47,000 member Oil and Gas Workers Association announced they would be endorsing former President Donald Trump. In an interview Oil and Gas Workers Association President Matt Coday said, "Governor DeSantis says a lot of the right things, right, but his track record isn't there."
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Fox Business’s Varney & Co. appears to have intentionally altered a graphic breaking down a Fox News presidential poll in an effort to mislead viewers. The poll, conducted between September 9th and 12th, shows former President Donald Trump leading incumbent Joe Biden 48 percent to 46 percent, but the graphic displayed by Varney & Co. on Monday uses what can only be described as a purposefully confusing method to label the results – giving the appearance that Trump is losing to Biden 46 to 48 percent.
The flipped results and added complexity of the Varney & Co. graphic caused confusion on social media, with some users citing it as evidence of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis having the ability to win in 2024. The poll, in fact, shows the opposite.
Stuart Varney, the host of the Fox Business program, is slated to be a co-moderator for the 2nd Republican primary debate on September 27th.
The graphic (below) used by FoxNews.com’s write-up of the poll clearly shows Trump leading Biden, while DeSantis and Tim Scott are both losing to Biden.
The Fox Business Network wouldn’t be the first media property owned by the anti-Trump billionaire Rupert Murdoch to play fast and loose with the truth about the former President’s lead over both the Republican primary field and President Joe Biden. The New York Post recently claimed Trump was ‘getting smoked‘ in the Republican primary, despite leading by historic margins.
Attempts to meddle in the Republican primary haven’t stopped with just flawed and misleading news coverage. Murdoch – who recently announced his retirement as CEO of News Corp – pushed a spate of firings at Fox News, removing hosts and staff who were perceived notsufficiently hostile to the Trump campaign. This culminated in the firing of “the most popular prime-time host in cable news” Tucker Carlson in April of 2023.
The National Pulse has reached out to Irena Briganti, the Senior Executive VP of Corporate Communications, at Fox News for comment, but at the time of publication, has received no reply.
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Fox Business's Varney & Co. appears to have intentionally altered a graphic breaking down a Fox News presidential poll in an effort to mislead viewers. The poll, conducted between September 9th and 12th, shows former President Donald Trump leading incumbent Joe Biden 48 percent to 46 percent, but the graphic displayed by Varney & Co. on Monday uses what can only be described as a purposefully confusing method to label the results – giving the appearance that Trump is losing to Biden 46 to 48 percent.
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PALM BEACH, Florida — President Donald J. Trump reacted to News Corp mogul Rupert Murdoch standing down from his role as CEO today, in a wide ranging, exclusive interview with The National Pulse set to air early next week.
Trump, who has recently been on the receiving end of Murdoch’s influence at Fox News, discussed the issue during a sit down interview at Mar-a-Lago, telling Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam, “I wish him luck,” before lauding the Fox hosts who he says have covered his campaign fairly, as well as using the opportunity to praise the late Roger Ailes.
On Murdoch’s hostility towards him, and the wider Fox News operation, Trump opined: “They pick their opponents – perhaps it’s the globalists – who knows why? He added: “There’s an overhang that you just feel, there’s something missing.”
“Roger Ailes was a great guy and a friend of mine,” Trump said, adding that he was “somebody I respected a lot,” who “did a fantastic job.”
Asked if he thought Murdoch’s stepping down was linked to the Australian’s failed efforts to defeat Trump in the 2024 GOP primary, Trump explained: “Well they put everything against DeSanctimonious, and he’s not a talented person. He’s just not a talented person.”
UPDATE: A few hours after this story was published, Trump posted on Truth Social: “Many people are saying that, ‘You forced Rupert Murdoch into retirement!’ I do not believe this is so, but while we’re at it, how about getting rid of “Democrat” Mitch McConnell, who gives the Radical Left Lunatics, together with his small band of automatic “yes” votes, EVERYTHING they want. There is ZERO Republican Leadership in the United States Senate. MAGA!!!”
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PALM BEACH, Florida — President Donald J. Trump reacted to News Corp mogul Rupert Murdoch standing down from his role as CEO today, in a wide ranging, exclusive interview with The National Pulse set to air early next week.
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has slipped to fifth place in the New Hampshire primary according to a new poll. Former President Trump continues to dominate the Republican field in The Granite State, garnering just shy of 40 percent of the vote.
Ohio businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who has spent the last two months campaigning heavily in New Hampshire, is in second place with 13 percent. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is in third with 12 percent, followed by Chris Christie with 11 percent. Gov. DeSantis has dropped 13 points since since the last CNN/University of New Hampshire survey and rounds out the top five candidates with just 10 percent.
The sinking poll numbers come as another blow to DeSantis’s presidential ambitions. Earlier this week, billionaire mega-donor Ken Griffin announced he would be sitting out the rest of the primary cycle despite being an early financial backer for the DeSantis campaign. Griffin blasted the Florida Governor’s political operation, stating: “It’s not clear to me what voter base he is intending to appeal to.”
On Monday, former President Trump announced that he has twice as many signed Iowa caucus pledge cards as the DeSantis campaign despite being outspent 5-to-1 in the state. The Iowa caucuses are considered a must win for Ron DeSantis, though the governor has consistently polled in a distant second to Trump.
The National Pulse previous reported that, speaking before of a packed and energized audience in Dubuque, Iowa today, Trump announced a “full Fentanyl blockade” of U.S territorial waters. The former President added that, “Biden’s horror show at the southern border ends at high noon on Inauguration Day, 2025.”
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has slipped to fifth place in the New Hampshire primary according to a new poll. Former President Trump continues to dominate the Republican field in The Granite State, garnering just shy of 40 percent of the vote.
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A new survey suggests former President Donald Trump is the only Republican candidate who can defeat Joe Biden and retake the White House in 2024. Conducted on behalf of the Democracy Institute, a center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C., the survey of 1,500 likely voters found that Trump leads Biden 49 to 45 percent in a head-to-head general election matchup. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would lose to Biden, 47 to 43 percent.
In addition to revealing the potential strength of a Trump presidential candidacy, the Democracy Institute survey found 67 percent of voters think Joe Biden is too old to continue serving as President. Fifty-six percent of respondents also say they believe President Biden is corrupt.
The Democracy Institute survey echoesotherRepublicanprimarypolls that show former President Trump holding a near-insurmountable lead over the rest of the candidates. Trump currently holds 60 percent of the vote, while Ohio businessman Vivek Ramaswamy edges out Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for second place, each at 13 percent and 12 percent respectively.
Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign suffered another negative news cycle over the past week. The pro-DeSantis SuperPAC’s pollster WPA Intelligence was caught trying to pass off anti-Trump op-ed in Newsweek without disclosing that the firm is connected to the DeSantis campaign. Billionaire mega-donor Ken Griffin, an early supporter of DeSantis, blasted the ‘unclear’ campaign and said he would be sitting on the sidelines for the rest of the primary. Meanwhile, the Trump campaign announced it had double the DeSantis campaign’s pledge voter support for the Iowa caucus, despite being outspent in the state by the Florida Governor 5-to-1.
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A new survey suggests former President Donald Trump is the only Republican candidate who can defeat Joe Biden and retake the White House in 2024. Conducted on behalf of the Democracy Institute, a center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C., the survey of 1,500 likely voters found that Trump leads Biden 49 to 45 percent in a head-to-head general election matchup. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would lose to Biden, 47 to 43 percent.show more
Critics of former President Donald J. Trump have suggested his approach to abortion is less than desired, citing clipped videos from an interview with Meet the Press, and fundamentally attempting to misrepresent his position and history on the subject.
The self-declared “most pro life president in US history” explained that he now prefers to leave the matter up to the states, and to “sit down with both sides… and negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years.”
This, after all, was the entire point of the Dobbs ruling, and indeed the U.S. Constitution. But critics who now demand a federal ban have turned on Trump in recent days. Those same critics, hardly coincidentally, are also vocal supporters of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential aspirations.
Using an issue like abortion in a primary against Trump is not just underhanded, it’s also embarrassing for them when confronted with Trump’s record.
1. Roe v. Wade
Trump’s most notable achievement on abortion actually came after he left office. Namely, to have the United States Supreme Court remove Roe v Wade‘s constitutional protections in June 2022, by having appointed several conservative justices to the court.
Indeed, Trump oversaw the appointment of over 150 conservative justices while President, including 43 U.S. Court of Appeals judges and 99 District Court judges. Roe’s overturning alone makes him the most pro-life president in U.S. history, but the ruling itself Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – itself guarantees the matter is returned to the people’s representatives, not federal agencies.
2. Removing Support and Funding for Planned Parenthood.
The Trump administration permitted states to defund Planned Parenthood of Title X funds in 2019, leading to a 63 percent reduction in “family planning” visits as well as a $809.4 million funding cut from the program. The move was recognized as a “major policy win for social conservatives looking to prohibit access to abortion.”
The former President overturned Obama-era and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rules to allow states to withhold or cut funding for Planned Parenthood within the first few months of his presidential term in 2017.
Trump also made it a requirement for health insurance companies to disclose if plans cover abortion and even canceled huge contracts for taxpayer-funded experimentation with body parts of aborted babies.
3. Department of Health for Human Services.
Trump introduced a new division at the HHS devoted to “conscience and religious freedom” in 2018, enabling healthcare workers to refuse to undertake specific roles, such as birth control or abortion, based on their religious convictions.
Under his oversight, the HHS published an updated five-year plan between 2018-2022, in which it dedicated its operations to “protecting the life of all Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception.”
4. Changing America’s International Stance on Abortion.
The Trump administration cut off all overseas funding for abortions and announced that there is no international right to abortion at a United Nations meeting in 2019.
The U.S., under Trump’s leadership, further removed funding for the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which has been “complicit in China’s oppressive population control activities, including birth limitation policies and forced abortions,” according to SBA Pro-life America.
That primary challengers would now try to hurl accusations of being “pro abortion” at Trump is self-evidently ludicrous. Especially since none of them were complaining when the above achievements were being racked up.
It speaks to something far darker at the heart of Never Trumpism, to use an issue like this as a cudgel against a man with the best record of any president, living or dead.
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Critics of former President Donald J. Trump have suggested his approach to abortion is less than desired, citing clipped videos from an interview with Meet the Press, and fundamentally attempting to misrepresent his position and history on the subject.
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Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
Congressional Republicans are still stuck negotiating with themselves despite the appearance that a deal had been struck between the conservative and moderate wings of the House Conference to avert a government shutdown late Sunday night. It was announced at the time that the Freedom Caucus and Main Street Caucus had reached an agreement on a 30-day Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government while Congress continued work on passing the 12 major appropriations bills to fund the government for the next fiscal year.
Despite receiving backing from some of Washington D.C.’s biggest center-right institutions, the deal was already on the ropes by Monday morning. As of the last count, 18 Republican House members have announced they will not support the agreement, leaving House Speaker McCarthy without the votes to pass the CR. The deal is not expected to receive any Democrat backing.
Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX), a prominent leader in the Freedom Caucus who had previously promised to use ‘every tool’ to stop a short-term CR was one of the deal’s chief architects along with Reps. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD). The conservative Heritage Action quickly backed the deal, stating, “The proposal cuts spending and seeks to end a worsening, self-inflicted border crisis.” The more libertarian FreedomWorks also backed the deal, telling Congressional Republicans: “We support the negotiated spending cuts and urge all members of the House to get behind the CR.”
Despite the pressure from both within the Freedom Caucus and from outside political groups, a handful of House conservatives still oppose the measure. On Sunday, former President Donald Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker that House conservatives shouldn’t back a CR unless they think they’re getting a fair deal – even if it interrupts the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Among the members who’ve announced they will not support the CR: Reps. Dan Bishop (R-NC), Wesley Hunt (R-TX), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Bob Good (R-VA), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Matt Rosendale (R-MT), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Victoria Spartz (R-IN), Ralph Norman (R-SC), and Andy Ogles (R-TN) all appear to oppose any deal that doesn’t include significant spending cuts – with some wanting to return sending to pre-COVID levels.
Others, aligned with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) object because the deal’s eight percent spending cut would only last for 30 days; it fails to defund Jack Smith’s prosecutions of former President Donald Trump; and there is no mechanism to force Biden to actually secure the border. These members appear to include Reps. Corey Mills (R-FL), Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
In the case of Rep. Ken Buck, it is speculated that he will simply oppose any measure pushed by the Speaker – including opposing the Biden impeachment inquiry – because he was snubbed as chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust. The chairmanship was given instead to the Big Tech-friendly Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).
Without the passage of a Continuing Resolution, the federal government is set to run out of money on Oct.1.
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Congressional Republicans are still stuck negotiating with themselves despite the appearance that a deal had been struck between the conservative and moderate wings of the House Conference to avert a government shutdown late Sunday night. It was announced at the time that the Freedom Caucus and Main Street Caucus had reached an agreement on a 30-day Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government while Congress continued work on passing the 12 major appropriations bills to fund the government for the next fiscal year.
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Editor’s Notes
Behind-the-scenes political intrigue exclusively for Pulse+ subscribers.
GUEST EDITOR’S NOTE FROM WILL UPTON: At this morning’s House Republican Conference meeting, Speaker Kevin McCarthy told members an anecdote about downhill skiing
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