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RNC Chair McDaniel: Trump’s record of accomplishments shows he deserves reelection

With tens of millions of Americans watching, President Trump delivered a dominating debate performance Thursday night and reminded us that he has done more for our country in the last 47 months than former Vice President Joe Biden did in 47 years as a failed and corrupt career politician.

And with nowhere for Biden to hide, Trump did what the left-wing media have been completely unwilling to do in this entire campaign — press Biden on his and running mate Sen. Kamala Harris’ radical agenda, along with Biden’s long history of peddling political access to line the pockets of his family members.

Biden admitted that his goal is to eventually shut down the oil industry, and presumably the natural gas and coal industries as well. This would result in a ban on fracking.

This should send a clear message to the millions of Americans whose jobs are in or dependent on fossil fuels industries: Joe Biden is coming for your jobs.

The president made Biden explain why he wants to place more burdensome regulations on small businesses and defend a tax plan that would raise taxes by $4 trillion and reduce median household incomes by an estimated $6,500.

President Trump exposed how Joe Biden’s health care proposal would lead us down a ruinous road to government-run socialized medicine — and with it, the elimination of private health insurance plans for 180 million Americans.

When President Trump brought up the bombshell report that Joe Biden discussed business dealings with his son Hunter while he was vice president, Biden didn’t refute the authenticity of the allegations.

The refusal by the liberal media to cover credible accusations of corruption by the Bidens for the sole reason that it could damage Joe Biden’s political prospects goes to show why voters have lost faith in any notion of having a fair and independent press in our country.

Couple the anti-Trump media’s blatant bias with Big Tech flat-out censoring the few stories concerning Biden’s corruption that do get published, and you see the elites in our country are acting more like something we would expect to see in a foreign dictatorship than in our democracy.

Despite the leftist media colluding to shield Biden from any scrutiny, there is one thing all the media bias in the world can’t cover up: President Trump’s record of delivering real results for all Americans the past four years.

This is why even during the worst public health crisis in a century, 56% of Americans believe they are better off now than they were four years ago. This is thanks to President Trump’s leadership.

Americans know that President Trump built a strong economy once before, and he’s doing it a second time by leading a Great American Comeback.

They know he has fought for and delivered better trade deals, as well as fought to get our allies to pony up and pay their fair share towards our mutual defense commitments.

They know he has pursued an aggressive deregulatory agenda that has allowed us to become energy-independent, advancing our economic as well as national security interests.

They know President Trump has followed through on his promise to appoint rule-of-law judges and qualified constitutionalists to the federal bench at a record pace.

No single issue unites Republicans like judicial appointments, and there is no better proof of promises made and promises kept under President Trump’s leadership than the fact that on Monday the Republican Senate will vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.

With Joe Biden promising to fundamentally transform the third branch of government, never has the issue of justices been as important as it is right now.

All these issues and many more are on the ballot just a little over a week from now.

More than any one specific set of policies, however, Thursday’s debate showed Americans why the choice they face in this election is as clear as it has ever been.

Americans saw for themselves this election is a choice between career politician Joe Biden — who after almost a half-century in Washington has left Americans worse off — and a fighter in President Trump, who goes to battle on behalf of the American people every day.

Voters face a choice between an entrenched political establishment that only ever looks out for itself versus an outsider who isn’t afraid to take on the special interests.

A choice between a broken Beltway culture that all too often rewards peddling political access and influence — versus a change agent who is a champion for our farmers, workers, and the forgotten men and woman all across America.

As the debate showed one more time, President Trump doesn’t sound like a typical career politician because he isn’t one.

He’s the fighter we elected in 2016, and when we reelect him to fight for us for four more years, the best is yet to come.

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Pence calls on Biden to 'come forward and come clean' with answers on son Hunter's scandal

Vice President Mike Pence

 

Dope Head Hunter Biden and Crooked Ex-Vice President Dad Joe Biden, what a team for America!

Vice President Mike Pence called on his predecessor, Joe Biden, to be frank and honest with the American people Friday about whether he was involved in or benefited from his son Hunter's overseas business interests.

The American people have a right to know what Joe Biden and his family have been up to," the vice president told Fox News' "Hannity" in an exclusive interview.

Pence added that he believed the scandal is becoming an issue with many voters after "President Trump took the case directly to the American people" in Thursday night's second and final presidential debate. 

The vice president added that it had been "astonishing" to watch the mainstream media largely ignore the scandal after three years of breathless coverage of the Russia investigation and Trump's impeachment by the House of Representatives.

"Suddenly the media has lost any interest whatsoever in ... foreign efforts to influence people in American politics," Pence said.

"Joe Biden needs to come forward and come clean about what was going on when he was running the U.S. efforts in Ukraine. I mean, he basically managed the [Obama administration's foreign policy] effort in the Ukraine.

He pointed to a widely-circulated video made in January 2018 of Biden openly joking to the Council on Foreign Relations that he ensured the dismissal of Ukrainian state prosecutor Viktor Shokin by threatening to withhold $1 billion in American aid to the Kiev government.

"Joe Biden has got to step up, come clean," reiterated Pence, who went on to accuse House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., of spreading "nonsense" about the scandal being a Russian disinformation campaign.

FBI, Mueller received Trump transition records from GSA in secret: Senate report

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI gained access to Trump transition team records during their Russia investigation through the General Services Administration, according to a report from Senate Republicans.

The FBI and Mueller secretly pursued the documents despite an agreement between then-President-elect Trump’s team that the transition records were private property and would not be retained after the transition ended, said a 26-page report released Friday by Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairmen of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senate Finance Committee, the Washington Examiner reported.

The report, titled, “Don’t Brief the Trump Team: How the GSA and the FBI Secretly Shared Trump Transition Team Records,” said the “presumption of good faith” in the transition “was called into question in 2016. This majority staff report tells an important, yet overlooked, story about how the" FBI and special counsel “secretly sought and received access to the private records of Donald J. Trump’s presidential transition team, Trump for America, Inc.”

It noted that Obama appointee Denise Turner Roth was administrator of the GSA until Timothy Horne was appointed as acting administrator on Inauguration Day in 2017. 

PENCE CALLS ON BIDEN TO 'COME FORWARD AND COME CLEAN' WITH ANSWERS ON SON HUNTER'S SCANDAL

The report said even after the transition team learned about the secret preservation request the GSA refused to give the Trump team a copy of its own records.

“Instead, after denying the Trump transition team its basic legal rights to control its own information, including the opportunity to protect privileged or confidential information, the GSA turned those same records over to the Special Counsel without requiring any legal process, such as a subpoena or warrant,” it said.

The FBI also asked the GSA to “preserve all Trump transition team records associated with Lt. Gen. [Michael] Flynn” after Trump’s then-national security adviser resigned in February 2017.

The GSA preserved all remaining Trump transition team records for months, the report said, “even though the GSA did not receive a formal preservation request until June 12, 2017.”

Mueller’s team also received transition records for “13 different Trump for America officials, including then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, then-national security advisor to the vice president Keith Kellogg, and Jared Kushner” in August 2017. The requests were made without a subpoena or search warrant, the report said.

The requests for the records were made by former FBI Assistant General Counsel Kevin Clinesmith, who later pleaded guilty to falsifying a document related to a FISA wiretap of Trump associate Carter Page, according to the Washington Examiner.

In conclusion, the report said, the conduct “undermines the GSA’s role as a neutral provider of services to presidential transition teams. These actions provide a basis for future transition teams to question or even doubt the services offered by the GSA, which risks the effectiveness of the transfer of power from one administration to the next.”

It added the report should serve as a “stark warning” to never let such conduct happen again.

 

Pollster Frank Luntz: If Trump defies polls again 'my profession is done'

Pollster Frank Luntz

Republican pollster Frank Luntz told Fox News’ Bret Baier on Thursday night, that his "profession is done" if President Trump wins re-election come Nov. 3, and proves the national polls wrong yet again.

“I hate to acknowledge it, because that's my industry — at least partially — but the public will have no faith. No confidence. Right now, the biggest issue is the trust deficit,” Luntz said in response to Baier asking how pollsters will fare if they are wrong in predicting the 2020 presidential election. “Pollsters did not do a good job in 2016. So, if Donald Trump surprises people, if Joe Biden had a 5- or 6-point lead, my profession is done."

National polls largely show Biden with a lead over Trump with two weeks until the presidential election.

Real Clear Politics, which pools together several national polls and takes the average, shows Biden up by 7.9 points, though in battleground states the former vice president is only up by 3.8 points – well within margin of error, which generally hovers around plus or minus four points.

Hillary Clinton was projected to win in 2016, with polling consistently similar to Biden’s.

FiveThirtyEight’s election project gave Clinton an 86 percent chance of winning during this point in the last presidential race. Biden is currently projected to win with an 88 percent probability.

Some polls appear to show a tighter race in their polling this time around. But Luntz, a GOP pollster, still thinks that Biden will win the presidency after claiming that Trump won the second and final presidential debate Thursday.

“You've got to give Trump a minor victory because he’ll bring some [undecided] voters home, and it’ll close the race a little bit," Luntz told CNBC’s “Squawk Box" Friday. "But in the end, I think Joe Biden won the war.”

Clinton also faced obstacles that Biden is not necessarily struggling with.

Clinton was running in the post-Obama administration era and reports after the 2016 upset showed that voters were intrigued by Trump’s unusual, non-political behavior and ready for a shift in Washington.

The other major factor that will come into play during the 2020 election is the number of voters who were disillusioned with the 2016 presidential race and opted not to vote at all.

Although more people are expected to vote early during the 2020 presidential election, opposed to waiting until Election Day to vote in-person, more than 38 percent of the number of votes cast in 2016 have already been recorded with two weeks remaining until the General Election, according to the U.S. Election Project. 

Democrats so far have cast their vote at a rate nearly double that of Republicans, though as early polling stations are opening the ratio will likely start to even out.

 

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Donald Trump Jr.: Joe Biden is 'corrupted and compromised and America has to know it'

Trump Organization Executive Vice President Donald Trump Jr., described Democratic nominee Joe Biden as "corrupted and compromised" following the latest revelations about Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings. 

The president's eldest son remarked on "Hannity" Thursday night that if he had done what Hunter Biden is accused of, "I would be phoning in from Rikers Island, probably at a pay phone feeding quarters. I would be in jail."

Trump Jr. reminded host Sean Hannity that Democrats and federal investigators "spent three years trying to put me in jail, they accused me of doing a fraction of what Hunter Biden actually did, they accused me of doing that and they made me do 30 hours of testimony. 

"I take this a little bit personally," he added. "They have these emails, they have the wire transfers, they know it's real and they have corroborating evidence and the media is trying to cancel other media outlets for reporting on the corruption. It's disgusting."

Trump Jr. then posited that the former vice president may be the most corrupt presidential candidate in history, with the added twist that his corruption is being ignored by the media.

"The Chinese bought the Bidens a long time ago," he stated. "Do you think Joe is going to be tough on China?

"Joe Biden is corrupted and compromised in America has to know it."

 

Trump's debate mic appeared to cut off during health care answer

President Trump appeared to have his microphone cut off for a brief moment while he was explaining his health care plan during the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday night.

"We have done an incredible job on health care and we're gonna do even better ... " Trump said before his mouth continued to move but his voice was no longer heard.

NBC News correspondent Kristen Welker, the debate moderator, then directed the next question to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, following a short pause.

After the first Trump-Biden debate in Cleveland on Sept. 29 was plagued by interruptions and insults -- the majority by the president -- the Commission on Presidential Debates announced a change to the scheduled format.

Each candidate was afforded two uninterrupted minutes to speak at the beginning of each 15-minute topic, with the microphone cut for the candidate who is not speaking during that time.

"President Trump is committed to debating Joe Biden regardless of last-minute rule changes from the biased commission in their latest attempt to provide advantage to their favored candidate," the president's campaign manager, Bill Stepien, said prior to the debate.

Meanwhile, Biden reportedly supported the rule changes, calling them a "good idea."

His mic had yet to be cut roughly an hour into the debate, according to the Washington Examiner.

In the final showdown between the two candidates, they both largely found themselves avoiding talking over each other, which was a relief for most people watching.

"I would have liked to have been able to moderate that debate and get a real exchange of views instead of hundreds of interruptions," said "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace, who moderated the first debate. 

Fox News' Sam Dorman and Vandana Rambaran contributed to this report