Biden mixes up Iowa, Ohio in latest gaffe -- but quickly corrects himself

Former Vice President Joe Biden made another small gaffe Saturday while on a campaign stop in Iowa – but quickly corrected himself.
"How many unsafe bridges do you still have here in Ohio? - I mean Iowa – " he said to laughter from the crowd at Abby Finkenauer’s Fish Fry in Cedar Rapids.
He explained that he had just been to Ohio and said they had more unsafe bridges there.
The mistake was just the latest in a series of slip-ups that have plagued Biden throughout his campaign.
Last May, he corrected himself after referring to then-British Prime Minister Theresa May as Margaret Thatcher, who served from 1979 to 1990 and died in 2013. In August, he said how much he loved being in Vermont while he was in New Hampshire.
“I am a gaffe machine, but my God what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can’t tell the truth,” he said last year.

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Abby Finkenauer’s Fish Fry in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  (Fox News)

Biden -- who will turn 77 on Nov. 20 -- has long been known for making gaffes and embellishing stories but the frequency of his misstatements has led some to be concerned about his age.
At the fish fry, Biden touted his support for investments in infrastructure and his pro-union stance.
In an Iowa poll that came out last week, Biden trails in fourth place behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who has recently surged, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Bernie Sanders talks health care at NAACP forum in Iowa -- but was asked about child care

Democratic 2020 presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., appeared to misunderstand a question about access to child care at an NAACP forum in Iowa on Saturday, launching into an answer about health care instead -- for more than two minutes.
“Senator, the average cost of child care in Iowa is $8,200 a year,” Des Moines NAACP President and moderator Kameron Middlebrooks said, according to a report. “How would you both increase the availability of high-quality care, why at the same time reducing the costs so providers could still have a livable wage?”
“The health care industry has done a good job of lying to the American people,” Sanders began.
He continued to speak at length about the high costs of drugs and insurance, never mentioning child care.
“We can, in fact, substantially lower the cost of health care for the average American and that’s what I intend to do," he concluded, according to Mediaite.com.
The moderators did not comment on his answer.
Sanders is in second place behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in a new Iowa poll that came out last week.

Antifa-linked defendant gets 6 years in brutal baton attack in Portland

Gage Halupowski, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in connection with a baton attack in June, authorities say. (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

A 24-year-old man who authorities say was among masked Antifa supporters attacking conservatives at a June demonstration in Portland, Ore., was sentenced Friday to nearly six years in prison in connection with a brutal baton assault.
Gage Halupowski pleaded guilty to second-degree assault after authorities accused him of using a weapon against a conservative demonstrator who suffered blows to the head that the victim claims left him with a concussion and cuts that required 25 staples to close.
After the assault, police saw Halupowski collapse his metal baton and conceal it in his pants, FOX 12 Oregon reported.
The attack outside a Portland hotel on June 29 was “completely unexplainable, completely avoidable and didn’t need to happen,” Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Melissa Marrero said, according to OregonLive.com.

Gage Halupowski, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in connection with a baton attack in June, authorities say. (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

Authorities say Halupowski attacked Adam Kelly as Kelly was attempting to help another man who’d been assaulted, the news outlet reported.
Halupowski’s defense attorney, Edward Kroll, called his client’s prison term “one of the harshest sentences I’ve seen for someone with no criminal background and young age,” but acknowledged that having the attack caught on video left Halupowski with few legal options other than accepting a plea deal.
Marrero disagreed, calling the sentence appropriate for Halupowski’s crimes, according to OregonLive.com.
Charges dropped under Halupowski’s plea agreement included unlawful use of a weapon, attempted assault of a public safety officer and interfering with a peace officer, the outlet reported.
The attack against Kelly occurred the same day that a group of assailants attacked conservative writer Andy Ngo, dousing him with liquids and pelting him with objects, with those attacks also caught on video.
Ngo claims he was later hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage and says no suspects have yet been charged in connection with the assaults against him.
Violent clashes between Antifa supporters and members of conservative groups have been a vexing problem for the city of Portland, whose mayor, Ted Wheeler, has faced harsh criticism for the city’s response to such events. President Trump and some Republicans in Congress have called for Antifa to be declared a domestic terror organization.

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Trump campaign raises $3 million on day Democrats vote for impeachment inquiry

Brad Parscale, campaign manager to President Donald Trump, speaks to supporters during a panel discussion, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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President Trump’s campaign is saying it raised millions of dollars on the same day Democrats voted for an impeachment inquiry. In a Friday tweet, campaign manager Brad Parscale said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment resolution turned into a massive fundraising boom for the president.

Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment resolution day turned into a MASSIVE fundraising day for @realDonaldTrump.

✅ $3 MILLION raised online alone in one day.
✅ That makes $19 MILLION in October online alone!
Impeachment sham is backfiring already!
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) November 1, 2019

Parscale claimed the campaign raised $3 million online in just one day, totaling to $19 million in funds raised over the course of the month. Parscale went on to say that the “impeachment scam” is already backfiring.

#ReadTheTranscript!

Democrats know they can’t beat @realDonaldTrump so they’re trying to impeach him.
The whole sham is based on a phone call where the President did nothing wrong.
Show your support, buy the t-shirt & READ THE TRANSCRIPT!https://t.co/QPhQqHMkPP
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) November 1, 2019

This comes after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that House Democrats are considering other controversies beyond Ukraine as part of their impeachment inquiry. In a Friday interview, Pelosi gave an update on where her caucus stands in its investigation. She said public hearings tied to their inquiry could start as soon as this month.
The House speaker said the decision to file articles of impeachment will ultimately be decided by the committees leading the impeachment probe. However, she added they’re not ruling anything out.
“What we’re talking about now is taking us into a whole other class of objection to what the president has done,” stated Pelosi. “There were 11 obstruction of justice provisions in the Mueller report — perhaps some of them will be part of this.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters just before the House vote on a resolution to formalize the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Efforts to gather evidence against the president have centered on a whistleblower complaint about his dealings with Ukraine. Democrats have unified around the issue, though many expressed support for impeachment following the release of the Mueller report. After the probe wrapped up, the DOJ determined the president committed no collusion and no obstruction.
President Trump continues to refute any wrongdoing and took to Twitter Friday to berate the House speaker’s “corrupt leadership.”

Republicans have never been more unified than they are right now! The Dems are a mess under the corrupt leadership of Nervous Nancy Pelosi and Shifty Adam Schiff!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2019

Trump rallies supporters in Mississippi after House impeachment probe vote, ahead of tight governor's race

President Trump rallied supporters in Tupelo, Miss., on Friday night in a bid to shore up Republican support ahead of the state's tightest gubernatorial race in nearly a generation.
Trump attacked former vice president and 2020 candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden over their Ukrainian business dealings, accusing the media -- specifically CNN's Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo, who again Trump referred to as "Fredo" -- of covering up potential Biden corruption.
"The press protects him," said the president, who also called Biden "One Percent Joe."
Trump also slammed the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, calling it a "preposterous hoax" one day after the House voted to formalize the rules of their impeachment process, and accused Democrats of trying to "delegitimatize" the 2016 presidential election.
House committees have held nearly a dozen closed-door depositions from witnesses regarding their knowledge of a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. An anonymous intelligence community whistleblower has alleged that Trump sought to persuade Zelensky to open an investigation into Joe Biden, his son Hunter and their business dealings in Ukraine in exchange for military aid to the Eastern European nation.
"Do you think I would say something improper when I know there are so many people listening?" Trump asked the crowd.
The president also mocked former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, just hours after the Texas Democrat announced his withdrawal from the 2020 presidential election.
Trump called O'Rourke a "poor bastard" and a "poor pathetic guy" who "made a total fool of himself" in the race for the White House.
"Hopefully, we won't be hearing about him for a long time," Trump added.

"Hopefully, we won't be hearing about him for a long time."
— President Trump

Trump also decried Hillary Clinton's recent comments about Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii. The former secretary of state didn't mention Gabbard by name, but suggested that Gabbard was being groomed to be a third-party presidential candidate in 2020.
Trump said, "I don't know who Tulsi Gabbard is but I know one thing, she's not an agent for Russia."
Clinton made similar comments about 2016 Green Party candidate Jill Stein, to which Trump responded: "I don't know Jill Stein ... I know she's not an agent of Russia."
The president opened his remarks at Bancorp South Arena by celebrating the U.S. military raid that led to the death of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying it had "ended his wretched life and punched out his ticket to hell."
"We have a great military. It was very very depleted when I came into office ... but it ain't depleted anymore," said Trump, who called Baghdadi "a savage and soulless monster but his reign of terror is over."
Trump lamented the media's coverage of the military's most recent feat, saying that if former President Barack Obama had killed the leader of ISIS, the media would have the story "going on for another seven months."
"Conan the dog got more publicity than me -- and I'm very happy about it," Trump said of the heroic military dog who was injured while pursuing Baghdadi through a tunnel underneath a compound in northwestern Syria.

"Conan the dog got more publicity than me -- and I'm very happy about it."
— President Trump

"While we're creating jobs and killing terrorists, the Democrat Party has gone completely insane," Trump said.
Hundreds of people had waited to see Trump at the rally to support Republican gubernatorial candidate Tate Reeves, who is finishing his second term as Mississippi's lieutenant governor after previously serving two terms as the elected state treasurer.
Reeves briefly joined Trump onstage and accused the "radical liberals" of "disrespecting" Trump by pursuing impeachment against him and urged the crowd to elect "an ally to Donald J. Trump."
"He'll never let you down," Trump said of Reeves. "And don't kid yourself, your Second Amendment is under attack."
Reeves has spent $10.8 million in the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Bryant, while his Democratic opponent, state attorney general Jim Hood, has spent $5.2 million. Both are receiving financial support from national governors' groups in their parties.
Reeves has sought to tie Hood as closely as possible to national Democrats, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who are deeply unpopular in a state that voted heavily for Trump in the last presidential election.
Hood has not invited national Democratic figures to Mississippi and is running campaign commercials that show him with his family, his pickup truck and his hunting dog, Buck. In one, Hood unpacks a rifle and says that "Tate Reeves and his out-of-state corporate masters" are spending money on a "bunch of lies."
"You all know me. I've worked for you for years. I do my job and I'm a straight shooter," Hood says. The spot ends with Hood shooting the gun and shattering a bottle.
Hood is also running radio ads designed to appeal to African American voters — including one with an endorsement from former U.S. Rep. Mike Espy, who ran a strong but ultimately unsuccessful race for U.S. Senate in Mississippi last year, and another that mentions Hood leading the successful 2005 prosecution of Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen in the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.
The outreach reflects the importance of black voters to any possible Hood victory. African Americans make up 38 percent of the state's population, but some say they're irritated by Hood's emphasis on courting rural white voters.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Ronan Farrow says Bill Clinton was 'credibly accused of rape,' calls Juanita Broaddrick's case 'overdue for revisiting'

"Catch and Kill" author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow took aim at former President Bill Clinton on Friday night, saying the nation's 42nd chief executive was "credibly" accused of rape and that alleged victim Juanita Broaddrick's claim was "overdue for revisiting."
Stemming from a panel discussion on "Real Time with Bill Maher" about the Katie Hill saga -- in which the California congresswoman resigned after allegations of inappropriate affairs -- host Maher posed a hypothetical about whether Clinton would have been treated differently -- for the Monica Lewinsky affair and other matters -- if he were president in today's political climate.
"Could Bill Clinton, if he had done what he did in 1998, survive today -- or would his own party have thrown him under the bus?" Maher asked.
Later in the conversation, Farrow addressed the question by stressing that the allegations made against Clinton are a "different" situation.
"I think that it is very important to interject that Bill Clinton is a different conversation," Farrow told Maher. "He has been credibly accused of rape. That has nothing to do with gray areas. I think that the Juanita Broaddrick claim has been overdue for revisiting."
Farrow, whose reporting took down disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein and helped propel the #MeToo movement, added that he thought Clinton wouldn't escape scrutiny today, saying society's views on sexual misconduct have "changed."
The U.S. House impeached Clinton in 1998 over the Lewinsky affair but the Senate acquitted him and he went on to complete his second term in January 2001.
In 1999, Broaddrick sued Clinton, seeking documents that might be relevant to her allegations.But a judge dismissed her lawsuit in 2001.

Trump administration to pay $846G to California over failed bid to add citizenship question to census

All because of the Libs.

The Trump administration has agreed to pay $846,000 to the state of California in a settlement over the administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, according to a report.
California sued the Trump administration earlier this year over concerns a citizenship question on the census would lead to underrepresentation of minorities.
In June the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the administration’s reasoning for adding the question, calling it “contrived," and calling on the White House to provide other reasons for wanting the data, The Sacramento Bee reported.
In the 5-4 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with liberal associate justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagen, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer. Opposing the California lawsuit were conservative justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
President Trump later blasted the court's ruling in a Twitter message.
"Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and important Census, in this case for 2020," the president wrote. "I have asked the lawyers if they can delay the Census, no matter how long, until the ... United States Supreme Court is given additional information from which it can make a final and decisive decision on this very critical matter."
California had argued it could lose billions in funding if its minority populations are underrepresented.
In the settlement, the administration will pay California the sum for lawyer fees and related costs incurred by the state.
The administration said it would get citizenship information from other sources.
In July, Trump signed an executive order directing executive agencies to provide as much citizenship data allowed under the law to the Commerce Department, The Bee reported.