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Fox News
18-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Jill Biden's 'Work Husband' Pleads The 5th
As seen on Gutfeld, Greg reacts to yet another Biden Administration member pleading the 5th. Plus, Greg mocks Hunter Biden for saying the Democrats lost the 2024 election because they weren't loyal to Joe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit


Fox News
09-07-2025
- Business
- Fox News
What's Next For DOGE & Elon Musk
Elon Musk's embrace of President Trump and his campaign marked a pivotal moment in the 2024 presidential election, ultimately leading to Musk's appointment as the head of the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Tasked with cutting federal spending and shrinking the national debt, DOGE moved fast and forcefully, triggering lawsuits and clashing with veteran officials. Featured in FOX Nation's new documentary 'DOGE vs. DC,' the American Enterprise Institute's Director of Domestic Policy Studies Matthew Continetti joins the Rundown to explore DOGE's impact and future without Musk at the helm. Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R) has announced he is running for Senate in his home state of New Hampshire. He spent 11 years in Massachusetts before moving back to the Granite State to run for office in 2014. He served as the US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during President Trump's first term and joins the podcast to discuss his campaign and support for the Trump administration. Plus, commentary from FOX News Digital columnist David Marcus. Photo Credit: AP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Democrats might be ‘overthinking' strategy to recapture voters
Democrats are rethinking ways to recapture voters they've lost to President Trump in recent election cycles, and they may have been offered an important lesson in the New York mayoral primary. In various post-mortems and focus groups done on the heels of their devastating 2024 election loss, Democrats have thoroughly examined exit polls and voter demographics in search of the gaps in their party's appeal. But Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha, who served as a senior adviser on Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) presidential campaign in 2020, said Democrats are 'overthinking' the solution by analyzing the voters who flipped sides or skipped voting during the last election. 'It's more simple than that,' Rocha said. 'Just concentrate on people who are frustrated as hell and get both of them.' Rocha pointed to the New York mayoral race as proof. He says progressive upstart-turned-party nominee Zohran Mamdani (D) was able to capture voters — including those who did not vote a few months ago in the presidential election — by talking about affordability and other tangible economic issues that appealed to them. Rocha said voters 'want anything that's different' from the status quo when it comes to the cost of living. 'It shows how desperate people are,' he said. While many Democrats disagree with Mamdani's politics, they say the campaign he ran shows the unwavering preeminence of economic issues. And Trump taught the same lesson in 2024, political observers say, by telling voters what they wanted to hear on the economy and his message on 'draining the swamp.' 'Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani just showed, in very different elections, that economic issues are still king — and that you can appeal to a wide, bipartisan swath of voters by saying you'll bring down the cost of living,' said Democratic strategist Christy Setzer. 'Working-class voters have been drifting away from the Democratic Party on so-called 'cultural' issues for a long time, but they're still very gettable through a clear message and from a compelling messenger.' According to exit polls, Democrats in 2024 lost significant ground with middle-class voters, a cornerstone of their traditional base, down 10 percentage points from 2020. At the same time, there is a decreasing sense of strong party leadership and little optimism about the party's future, respective CNN/SSRS and AP/NORC polling out in May revealed. But Mamdani, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, took aim at the Democratic establishment, calling for draining the swamp to make room for change. It was an echo of Trump's messaging in his 2024 campaign. 'Donald Trump was successful because … he wasn't afraid to be against and call out people in his own party and other parties,' said Susan Del Percio, a longtime New York-based Republican strategist who does not support Trump. 'Mamdani was the exact same. He was calling out everybody, and then that's when you get to act with no fear.' Mamandi strayed from the Democratic establishment with a clear message of affordability and came out on top in a crowded and competitive primary. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mamdani's only serious competition, ran on a message of protecting New York City from Trump. But the New York City electorate is drastically different from the rest of the country, political observers say, noting someone like Mamdani may not appeal to moderates and centrists. 'Being a self-proclaimed democratic socialist … doesn't play in swing districts. It plays in New York City primaries,' Del Percio said. 'The Democratic candidates have to look more like Elissa Slotkin talking about the cost of living than they do Mamdani talking about the cost of living.' Realizing they need to do more to appeal to the middle class, Democrats across the country have begun to put forward plans and back legislation to regain lost ground. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) recently came out with her 'Economic War Plan,' the goals of which, she has said, are to reconnect the Democratic Party with the middle class. At the same time, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) signed a bill this week overhauling California's environmental protection laws to accelerate much-needed housing construction in the state. In the name of bringing down the cost of living, Newsom's move goes against a history of California Democrats unconditionally defending the state's environmental protection laws. But the New York race gave some Democrats an injection of hope that their party was starting to turn things around after the crushing loss last year. 'We have proof now, and the proof is the NYC mayor's race,' Rocha said. Mamdani won 'the same precincts in New York City where Donald Trump overperformed in the general election,' he explained. Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said while not every voter is gettable, 'a lot of them are,' and he said some of the people who supported Trump are Democrats who simply found Trump's message more compelling than the Democratic ticket in the 2024 race. 'Voters are not captive to any political party,' Simmons added. 'They have agency. They get to make their own choices, and if politicians aren't speaking to them, they'll look elsewhere.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.


Daily Mail
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Trump insider reveals the heaven-sent reason he was able to justify his 2020 election loss
Donald Trump thinks his 2020 election loss is all part of a divine plan, according to a top national security adviser. The president apparently now views his crushing loss to former President Joe Biden during COVID as a 'providential' outcome so he could be in office for America's 250th birthday. Monica Crowley, who worked at the Treasury Department during Trump's first term and now serves as the Chief of Protocol of the U.S., said Trump thinks it was his destiny to preside over the upcoming celebration on July 4, 2026. 'Now [Trump] says, 'You know what? 2020 had to happen that way. It was providential,' Crowley told Pod Force One host Miranda Devine in the latest episode of the podcast published on Wednesday. 'It was because now he's back, and he will preside over these incredible events,' she detailed. Crowley said that Trump assumed he wouldn't be in office again after the 2020 loss, but now thinks it was some sort of divine intervention that led to his 2024 victory so he could be part of some massive landmarks for the U.S. This includes the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, North America hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles just months before the end of his second term. She said Trump 'figured, well, after 2020's election, he wasn't going to be in office to see those events.' This is a sharp u-turn from the public perception Trump has exuded about his 2020 election loss, claiming it was a fraudulent outcome and that it was 'stolen' by Democrats trying to keep him out of office for a second term. After his loss to Biden in 2020, he came back for a rematch. And once the former president was forced to drop out of the race, Trump definitively defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris by a record-breaking margin in November. Trump is known for his love of fanfare. On his birthday on June 14 this year, which is also the birthday of the U.S. Army, Trump held a massive military parade in Washington, D.C. – complete with tanks rolling down the street of the nation's capital and military aircraft conducting flyovers of the city. It's unclear yet what he has in store of July 4, 2026, but it's sure to be filled with celebrations. This year for Independence Day, Trump is, per usual, celebrating at the White House. He'll then depart earlier than usual to spend the rest of the weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. In her job as U.S. Chief of Protocol, Crowley is an adviser to Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio when it comes to matters of national security and international diplomatic protocol. The position holds the rank of ambassador and assistant secretary of state. She took this position on May 30, 2025. During Trump's first term, Crowley was the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs.


Asharq Al-Awsat
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Iran-Linked Hackers Threaten to Release Trump Aides' Emails
Iran-linked hackers have threatened to disclose more emails stolen from US President Donald Trump's circle, after distributing a prior batch to the media ahead of the 2024 US election. In online chats with Reuters on Sunday and Monday, the hackers, who go by the pseudonym Robert, said they had roughly 100 gigabytes of emails from the accounts of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Trump lawyer Lindsey Halligan, Trump adviser Roger Stone and porn star-turned-Trump antagonist Stormy Daniels. Robert raised the possibility of selling the material but otherwise did not provide details of their plans. The hackers did not describe the content of the emails. Halligan, Stone, a representative for Daniels and the US cyberdefense agency CISA did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The White House and the FBI responded with a statement from FBI Director Kash Patel, who said: "Anyone associated with any kind of breach of national security will be fully investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." Iran's mission to the United Nations did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Tehran has in the past denied committing cyberespionage. Robert materialized in the final months of the 2024 presidential campaign, when they claimed to have breached the email accounts of several Trump allies, including Wiles. The hackers then distributed emails to journalists. Reuters previously authenticated some of the leaked material, including an email that appeared to document a financial arrangement between Trump and lawyers representing former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - now Trump's health secretary. Other material included Trump campaign communication about Republican office-seekers and discussion of settlement negotiations with Daniels. Although the leaked documents did garner some coverage last year, they did not fundamentally alter the presidential race, which Trump won. The US Justice Department in a September 2024 indictment alleged that Iran's Revolutionary Guards ran the Robert hacking operation. In conversations with Reuters, the hackers declined to address the allegation. After Trump's election, Robert told Reuters that no more leaks were planned. As recently as May, the hackers told Reuters, "I am retired, man." But the group resumed communication after this month's 12-day air war between Israel and Iran, which was capped by US bombing of Iran's nuclear sites. In messages this week, Robert said they were organizing a sale of stolen emails and wanted Reuters to "broadcast this matter." American Enterprise Institute scholar Frederick Kagan, who has written about Iranian cyberespionage, said Tehran suffered serious damage in the conflict and its spies were likely trying to retaliate in ways that did not draw more US or Israeli action. "A default explanation is that everyone's been ordered to use all the asymmetric stuff that they can that's not likely to trigger a resumption of major Israeli/US military activity," he said. "Leaking a bunch more emails is not likely to do that." Despite worries that Tehran could unleash digital havoc, Iran's hackers took a low profile during the conflict. US cyber officials warned on Monday that American companies and critical infrastructure operators might still be in Tehran's crosshairs.