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Elon Musk is creating a Twitter purge of employees. Reports indicate Musk wants to eliminate up to 50% of the social media’s workforce.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Musk and Twitter, meanwhile, with a suit in California court claiming that Twitter did not give its fired employees sufficient notice before their termination.

***** Democratic leaders held secret meeting to discuss Pelosi's successor. Pelosi isrunningfor reelection to her congressional seat, though a Republican victory in the midterms would remove her as speaker.Those interested in taking her place are Adam Schiff and Hakeem Jeffries. Should Jeffries take over the Democratic leadership, he would be the first minority lawmaker in the lower chamber to do so. ***** Could Donald Trump become Speaker of the House? There is nothing that states the Speaker of the House has to be a member of Congress. Therefore, it is plausible that the 45th President of the United States could be selected for that position. That would be an interesting scenario for Trump to become third in line for the presidency behind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. There is already impeachment talks of Biden. ***** Registration for military ballots is not required in Wisconsin. A fictitious name and birthdate is all that is required to obtain a military ballot online. Kimberly Zapata, deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, wasfired after she requested that three absentee military ballotsbe sentto the home of a State Representative.

Dirty cops of truth: Democrats claim monopoly on honesty while ignoring own mistruths

From Social Security and border to Hunter Biden and gas prices, Biden and his party have routinely misled the public while claiming the high ground of truth.

By John Solomon

In his fire and brimstone speech last week warning democracy was on the edge of the abyss, President Joe Biden suggested Democrats have a monopoly on truth while Republicans are liars.

Biden slammed rival Donald Trump for the "big lie" questioning election integrity and proclaimed it "fueled the dangerous rise in political violence and voter intimidation."

"In this moment, we have to confront those lies with the truth," the 46th president added. "The very future of our nation depends on it."

There's just one problem: Democrats have foisted upon this nation their own litany of lies, including one that polls show swayed the 2020 election to Biden's favor.

Biden himself falsely proclaimed he had nothing to do with his son Hunter's business dealings and his son had done nothing wrong while Democrat allies falsely branded a laptop that disproved those falsehoods as "disinformation."

In fact, the laptop was real, Joe Biden met with several of his son's business associates, was offered a key to one of his son's offices, and was listed as the "big guy" for whom 10% of a China deal was potentially to be reserved.

And Hunter Biden has now admitted he failed to pay taxes and is under criminal investigation, reportedly paying off his back taxes earlier this year, while his own emails show he had been warned as far back as 2016 that he was a scofflaw on taxes related to his Ukrainian payments from Burisma Holdings.

Polls show Americans might have voted differently had they been told the truth in 2020. In other words, the Democrats have their own version of a "big lie" from the last election to answer for.

The falsehoods have only accelerated since Biden's inauguration.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas routinely and falsely declares the U.S. southern border is secure, a proclamation debunked by the fiscal 2022 yearend statistics showing 2.4 million illegal migrants were encountered crossing the border, 600,000 more got away, 98 migrants with suspected terrorist ties crossed into America, and about 850 migrants died trying to get in.

The record is so egregious that Mayorkas' own Border Patrol chief declared there was a crisis because there are "no consequences" for illegally penetrating the border.

Mayorkas' truthfulness has been further called into question recently by revelations showing that hours before he held a news conference furthering the false narrative that border patrol agents had been whipping illegal migrants he was warned the narrative wasn't true. His own department's inspector general has also concluded that no such whipping occurred and agents acted according to their training and rules of engagement.

An Obama-appointed judge in September delivered another truth bomb to Biden and the Democrats, who spent much of 2021 claiming Georgia's new voter ID and citizenship checks were "Jim Crow 2.0" racist and would suppress votes, creating enough of a racket even to force Major League Baseball to move its All-Star game from Atlanta.

U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones debunked that, ruling that Georgia's election integrity practices requiring voter ID and citizenship checks were constitutional, compliant with the Voting Rights Act and not racially discriminatory. Voter turnout in Georgia is soaring these midterms, further putting the lie to the Democrat narrative.

Bobby Charles, a longtime congressional investigator and official in the George W. Bush administration, said he believes truthfulness is on the ballot this fall because voters are tired of the Biden administration claiming it is truthful when it obviously is not, citing the Afghan withdrawal as an example.

"I think Americans have gotten tired —and I really mean the word tired — of being lied to," Charles said in an interview Thursday on the John Solomon Reports podcast. "They know from telling us that Afghanistan was a great success, and people look at it and say, (Continued on page 16)

Major election forecaster gives Republicans 10-point edge in winning control of Senate

GOP "slightly favored" to take upper chamber in next week's midterms.

ByJust the News staff

A major election forecaster is projecting the Republican party to win control of the U.S. Senate by a comfortable margin, a sign that President Joe Biden's agenda ambitions will likely be considerably frustrated in the second half of his term.

FiveThirtyEight projects that the GOP is "slightly favored" to win the Senate, giving Republicans a 55% chance of taking control of that chamber after next week’s midterms.

Those numbers have shifted considerably in recent weeks. As recently as Oct. 15, the forecaster gave Democrats the 55% advantage; by Halloween of this year the two parties were in a dead heat, after which Republicans edged slightly upward.

The website also gives Republicans a considerable edge in taking the U.S. House next week, giving the GOP an 84% chance of seizing power in the lower house on Tuesday.

Trump hints 2024 announcement imminent, takes jab at ‘Ron DeSanctimonious’

Last three presidents barnstorm Pennsylvania as red wave builds.

lic his decision imminently on whether to run in 2024.

By John Solomon

merica’s three most recent presidents barnstormed Pennsylvania on Saturday as Donald Trump implored voters to create a “red wave” in Tuesday’s midterm elections while Joe Biden and Barack Obama argued a Republican win will create long-term consequences. The appearances made clear the Keystone State was ground zero for Tuesday’s battle for control of Congress, including its marquee Senate race pitting Republican Mehmet Oz against Democrat John Fetterman. "If you want to stop the destruction of our country and save the American Dream then this Tuesday you must vote Republican in a giant way," Trump told a rallyArnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe. “We’re winning big in the Republican Party for the nomination like nobody’s ever seen before," Trump said, adding that his supporters “aregoing to be so happy" very soon.

“You're going to be surprised at how soon,” he teased.

He also took a strong jab at his nearest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, as he read off the latest 2024 polling preferences for Republican voters.

“There it is, Trump at 71%, Ron DeSanctimonious at 10%," Trump told the crowd.

“Mike Pence at seven. Mike is doing better than I thought," he added. "Liz Cheney there’s no way she’s at 4%. There’s no way. There’s no way. But we’re at 71 to 10 to 7 to 4." (Continued on page 16)

ing to plummeting test scores and parental outrage over school curricula resulting from remote By Greg Piper learning. Some of the Democratic "Red wave is coming governors most associat- Tuesday," freespoken ed with harsh and pro- sports show host Colin longed COVID-19 lock- Cowherd tweeted Thursdowns are facing stiff day. "Don’t mess w peoelectoral headwinds in ple’s kids. It lands differthe midterms, while Re- ently —and they will publicans who endured hold a grudge." national scorn by quickly reopening their states are https://twitter.com/ cruising toward reelec- ColinCowherd/ tion. status/15881919616509337 Republicans were al- 62 ready in an advantageous position with voters on "I lean mostly left, but crime and the economy, data clearly proved kids particularly inflation, the 18 and under were safe," top two issues in polling and yet many were kept this fall. Education is- out of school, resulting in sues, which propelled plunging test scores, risVirginia Gov. Glenn ing suicides and "[c]haos Youngkin (R) to victory for parents," he contina year ago, are a leading ued. "A price will be paid concern in some races. and hopefully a lesson learned." And while elections tend to focus more on the fu- "Her Excellency the ture than the past, the Queen of Michigan," starkly contrasting per- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer formances of lockdown (D), "made it illegal ... to lefties and reopen righties visit friends, sell paint, suggests that a reckoning mow grass, and golf" on pandemic policies while flouting her own may be a stealth issue in unilateral orders, The major governor's races. Spectator wrote in a recent list of "Eight DemoThe repercussions of crats we all hope lose this lockdown policies are November." also felt indirectly in the top issues for voters, A heavy favorite going from supply-chain prob- into the campaign, lems and inflation driven Whitmer is up just 3.4 by COVID relief spend- percentage points over Republican challenger Tudor Dixon in RealClearPolitics' Oct. (Continued from page 15) 18-Nov. 2 polling average, with a margin of error greater than the spread in half those polls. Across the state, Obama Whitmer is facing blowand Biden rallied Demo- back for downplaying crats to support Fetter- school closures, claiming man, they lasted just three suggesting a republican months in the pandemic's win with deliver decades early phase while ignorof consequences. ing her health department's three-week high “Two years ago, you school closure that fall used that power to make and her call to shut down Donald Trump not only a schools for two weeks in former president, but you April 2021. made him a defeated president," Biden told an The Washington Free audience in Philadelphia. Beacon noted that "And this year, you have Whitmer refused Repubthe power to make John lican calls to require disFetterman your next sen- tricts to offer in-person ator learning in grades K-5 in 2020-2021, allowing Detroit and Grand Rapids to keep schools closed most of the academic year, while Ann Arbor and Flint started the 2022 calendar year remotely. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) is down 1.8 percentage points against Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo in the RCP polling average (Oct. 1329). The Republican is ahead in most polls, although some leads are exceeded by the margin of error. "His Royal Highness Sisolak" ordered counties to impose strict limits on gatherings as COVID cases were falling in summer 2020 and even threatened to return to 10 -person caps and "nonessential" business closures, Las Vegas Review -Journal columnist Victor Joecks wrote at the time. "Casinos and larger construction projects won't be shut down no matter how many positive cases can be traced to them," Joecks said. "Every king requires tribute ... er, campaign contributions." The far-left magazine The Nation blamed lockdowns for tourismdependent Nevada's stillsluggish economy, including a 6% unemployment rate in "the epicenter of Democratic support in the state," on the cusp of 2022 midterms. In everblue New York, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul faces an increasingly plausible risk of defeat at the hands of Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin, who made hay of her confusion about why it's important to lock up criminals. While she leads by 6.2 percentage points over the strong ally of former President Trump in the RCP polling average (Oct. 12-31), Hochul has been defiant in defending her COVID mandates. The staff shortages predicted by New York hospitals when Hochul imposed a healthcare worker vaccine mandate in summer 2021 came to

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Tony that is utterly untrue." via an executive order, Evers (D) narrowly trails which is now being chal- Republican Tim Michels, Democrat dishonesty lenged on constitutional a veteran and small busiisn't limited to big elabo- grounds. nessman, in the RCP rate political storylines, average (Oct. 14-Nov. 1), like the Hunter Biden Throughout his midterm though each spread is laptop or Georgia elec- election blitz, Biden has within the margin of ertion narratives. It piles up fumbled the truth. In ror. daily as well. New Mexico on Thursday, for instance, the The state Supreme Court Last week, the Biden president claimed: "We threw out Evers' earlyWhite House was forced cut the federal debt in pandemic lockdown orto delete a tweet flagged half. A fact." der and required any subby Twitter for claiming sequent lockdowns to Joe Biden had increased Again, it is patently false: come from the LegislaSocial Security pay- The national debt has ture, which considered ments to historically grown from $27 trillion shielding healthcare high levels. The presi- to $31 trillion on Biden's workers with natural imdent has nothing to do watch, though the annual munity from hospital with cost-of-living in- federal budget deficit has firings over their refusal creases for retirees, fallen from its record to get COVID vaccines. which are set by law. highs caused by pandemic spending. Meanwhile, two RepubBut Biden kept making lican governors who the claim in speeches, Even CNN has taken weathered dire warnings adding a further whop- note of Biden's trail of and derision to reopen per. "On my watch, for mistruths, publishing a their states early in the the first time in 10 years, headline Saturday that pandemic have built seniors are getting an read: "Biden's midterm commanding leads in increase in their Social message includes false their bids for reelection in Security checks," he de- and misleading claims." neighboring Southeastclared during a rally in Among other things, it ern swing states. Florida last week. took a shot at Biden for repeatedly claiming gas Florida Gov. Ron DeThat is patently false. was $5 a gallon when he Santis (R) is up a whopSocial Security makes took over. In fact, it was ping 11.8 percentage annual increases based in the low $2 range. points against former on the cost of living, and governor and Democratthey occurred through "Biden's claim that the ic challenger Charlie the Obama and Trump most common gas price Crist in the RCP average years before Biden. when he took office was (Oct. 12-Nov.1), commore than $5 is not even fortably outside the marRep. Brian Babin (R- close to accurate," the gin of error in every poll. Texas) said a biblical network declared. thought came to him After a short lockdown while watching Biden There's little doubt that early in the pandemic proclaim Democrats truth is a casualty in mod- based on a conversation own the truth in his ern politics, media and with President Trump, speech on Wednesday. social media. And the DeSantis has become the facts are clear: Demo- most vocal governor "You know, one of the crats' portrayal of them- against COVID manTen Commandments is selves as truth-tellers is dates, going so far as thou shalt not bear false simply contradicted by hosting multiple public witness against thy the facts. meetings with dissident medical professionals. (Continue reading…)

Dirty cops of truth COVID reckoning? Lockdown lefties struggle in governor's races as reopen righties take big leads Michigan, Nevada, New York and Wisconsin —all known for strict lockdown

policies —unexpectedly in play. Left-leaning sports show host predicts "red wave ...

Don’t mess w people's kids. It lands differently." Trump