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Major Republican rumored for gubernatorial run, hits back against Dem: ‘Worst governor in America'
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., a key Trump ally who is rumored to be planning a gubernatorial run in 2026, hit back hard against New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, calling her the "worst governor in America" after the Democrat dinged her over Medicaid cuts. In a Friday post on social media, Hochul accused Stefanik of voting "to put five hospitals in her district on the chopping block, endangering her own constituents' lives, health, and jobs—all to serve Donald Trump." "I won't stand for it. I'm fighting like hell to save New Yorkers' health care," said Hochul. In response, Stefanik posted on X, "Hi @KathyHochul! Welcome to the fight." Gop Advisor Explains How Republicans Can 'Capitalize' On 'Radical' Candidate Zohran Mamdani "You didn't get exposed enough during our last round when you testified and were totally exposed for your dangerous and failed sanctuary state policies ?? Let's do Medicaid now," she wrote. Read On The Fox News App Stefanik slammed Hochul for giving Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants, "putting New Yorkers most vulnerable LAST." "NY's Medicaid program is rampant with tens of billions of waste, fraud, and abuse under Kathy's watch," she wrote. "Kathy Hochul, the Worst Governor in America oversees the worst run Medicaid program in the country harming NYers. Medicaid is an incredibly important program that I have worked to strengthen for New Yorkers." The New York congresswoman then added, "Oh and Kathy, your numbers in rural NY are plummeting" and "I have been nationally recognized as the TOP advocate to deliver results for rural hospitals due to my work for hospitals in my district." Hochul Fails To Recall Illegal Aliens Charged In High-profile Criminal Cases, Including Woman's Subway Burning In another post, Stefanik said, "Oh Kathy. I'm glad I set your schedule these days - from setting your Tweet schedule by forcing you to tweet on the Communist Mayor who just won in your Democrat Party in NYC. To you now scrambling to go to Saranac Lake because of news articles. When I have an announcement to make, believe me you'll know." This comes after Stefanik pressured Hochul to say whether she supported the new Democratic nominee for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has made controversial statements criticizing Israel and promoting Palestine and who identifies as a Democratic Socialist. Hochul has since said she plans to meet with Mamdani to discuss his ideas for the city but has not yet issued a full endorsement. Stefanik has said that as the leader of the New York Democratic Party, Hochul "fully embraced the antisemitic, Communist nominee," adding, "she owns this catastrophe." Could This Top Trump Ally Break Republican's 2-Decade Losing Streak In This Key State? Earlier this month, Stefanik told a Republican crowd in Staten Island she was "strongly considering" entering the race for governor. She unveiled a new state political action committee, Save New York, which appears aimed at further cementing her status as a heavyweight in Empire State GOP article source: Major Republican rumored for gubernatorial run, hits back against Dem: 'Worst governor in America'
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One Year Later: How Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance forced his media allies to turn on him
The legacy media largely shielded Joe Biden from negative coverage of his health, age and cognitive decline during his presidency, but that all changed on June 27, 2024, when his disastrous debate performance changed the course of history. Biden appeared frail and struggled with a weak voice, delivering rambling answers while frequently appearing to lose his train of thought during the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign against President Donald Trump in Atlanta. Biden fumbled key answers and famously declared, "We finally beat Medicare," when he apparently meant to say that he beat big pharma. At one point, as the two candidates traded fire over the issue of immigration, Trump pounced after another rambling answer from Biden. "I really don't know what he said on this, and I don't think he knows what he said either," Trump said. Media Figures Shocked At Biden's 'Bad' Debate Performance: 'Total And Complete Disaster' DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall said the infamous on-stage debacle was one of the rare instances that a presidential debate truly impacted the trajectory of the election. Read On The Fox News App "Up until that debate, the establishment media were firmly in the Biden campaign camp, covering up evidence that was in plain sight that the president was cognitively and physically in decline. The media shamelessly repeated White House talking points about deep fakes and how vigorous and mentally sharp Biden was," he told Fox News Digital. "These narratives were false, of course, but that didn't matter to the mainstream reporters as they felt compelled to cover for Biden, in spite of what citizens could see plainly on the rare occasions when Biden was allowed to speak in public," McCall said. "The primary motive of the activist press, of course, was to try to deny Trump any traction in the election season," he continued. "The poor debate performance by Biden ripped the Band-Aid off, forcing the media to turn on a dime and begin the drumbeat to run Biden out of the race because he was too old and incapable." The debate meltdown caused an earthquake across the media landscape, ranging from "dismal" reviews to vocal calls on the left for him to withdraw from the 2024 race. CNN's John King put a spotlight on the "very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party" that began in the early minutes of the debate. "This was a game-changing debate in the sense that right now, as we speak, there is a deep, a wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party," King told viewers. "It involves party strategists, it involves elected officials, it involves fundraisers. And they're having conversations about the president's performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket, and they're having conversations about what they should do about it." Biden Debate Debacle: 10 Eye-opening Media Responses, From Msnbc Panic To 'The View' Calling For Replacement King's CNN colleague Kasie Hunt similarly wrote on X, "The voice, open-mouthed look, and visual contrast between President Biden and former President Trump all have Democrats I'm talking to nearly beside themselves watching this debate." Then-NBC News pundit Chuck Todd admitted that Biden looked like the "caricature" conservatives have painted of him, specifically over his mental acuity. Bloomberg Opinion editor Tim O'Brien wrote on X, "Biden simply comes across as a somewhat dazed punching bag." "The View" co-host Joy Behar suggested the program was "in mourning" and urged Democrats to pivot away from Biden in order to keep Trump out of the White House. "That was quite a turnaround from the reporting templates of previous weeks. But the media finally realized, based on the disastrous debate performance, that Biden's chances of winning the election were fading quickly," McCall said. The debate, which came after a flood of liberal anger towards a Wall Street Journal report that raised questions about the president's viability, was essentially the beginning of the end for Biden's time on the ticket. Media Calls For Biden To Withdraw From 2024 Race After 'Disaster' Cnn Debate Performance: 'It's Over' New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, a longtime Biden ally, wrote that the debate "made me weep" and realized Biden should step aside. "I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime — precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for re-election," Friedman wrote. Fellow Times' columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote on X that he wished "Biden would reflect on this debate performance and then announce his decision to withdraw from the race." CNN commentator Van Jones, who cried for joy when Biden won the 2020 presidential election, offered an emotional plea for the president to step aside. The Atlantic's Mark Leibovich penned a piece titled "Time to go, Joe." "Biden needs to step aside—for the sake of his own dignity, for the good of his party, for the future of the country," Leibovich told readers. The aggregate website Drudge Report blared the headline "OPERATION: REPLACE BIDEN." "DEMS SCRAMBLE WITH 130 DAYS TO GO! DEBATE CATASTROPHE," the Drudge Report wrote in all caps. It included a poll question over who would be the best Democrat to replace him out of Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Kamala Harris or "Other." MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough suggested Biden might need to step down. "If he were CEO, and he turned in a performance like that, would any corporation in America, any Fortune 500 corporation in America keep him on as CEO?" Scarborough asked. Biden Ripped For 'Old' Appearance, 'Weak' Voice During First Presidential Debate: 'Deeply Alarming' Biden stepped aside the following month, suspending his re-election campaign and quickly offered his "full support and endorsement" for then-Vice President Kamala Harris to take over as the party's presidential nominee. "The media then quickly got on the Harris bandwagon, with as little scrutiny as they had given Biden in previous months. The media promoted Harris as cool and energetic, and even helped label her as a pop culture 'brat.' The activist media virtually ignored that Harris didn't win any primary votes and was rushed through the nominative convention without having to deal with any opposition," McCall said. "Overall, the media's poor performance in covering the Biden administration up to the debate and then the media's abrupt turnaround is perhaps the most shameful and egregious example of journalistic malpractice in American history," he added. "This episode showed that the news industry was not interested in reporting reality to help a citizenry understand the situation. Instead, the mainstream media collectively engaged in activism, demonstrating a cynical attempt to herd public sentiment. That effort eventually failed, with the consequence for the media being a further decline in credibility," McCall concluded. Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. Original article source: One Year Later: How Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance forced his media allies to turn on him
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Exiled prince warns Iranian military of 'final chance' to stand up to the regime
Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi is pushing for regime change in Tehran, asserting that the regime is "near collapse." In a post on X, Pahlavi encouraged the people of Iran to rise up and warned military personnel that this is their "final chance" to stand with the public against the regime. "To the military—as you're given orders to lash out at the people—stand down. This is your final chance. You are being watched. We will remember who stood with the people and who committed crimes against them," Pahlavi wrote on X. Exiled Prince Looks To Lead Iranian People In Ending Islamic Republic: 'Our Berlin Wall Moment' On Monday, Pahlavi held a news conference in Paris, where he announced the launch of a secure platform for military, police and security personnel looking to defect from the regime to contact him and his team. He implied that he was already receiving such messages, saying that the platform would "efficiently manage the growing volume of inbound communications and requests from those breaking with the regime and seeking to join our movement." The exiled prince also issued a message to the world, urging the international community to let the "corrupt, crumbling, terrorist regime" in Iran fall. Read On The Fox News App "Do not prop up a regime that will, soon again, turn its guns, missiles, and terror toward you," Pahlavi wrote. Here's What A Post-ayatollah Iran Could Look Like If War With Israel Leads To Regime's Fall The message posted on X comes one day after Pahlavi proposed that he lead Iran to democracy. He said it is the Iranian people's "Berlin Wall moment," as the future of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime remains uncertain following the destruction of Tehran's nuclear program. Khamenei was reportedly hiding in a bunker during the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. "I am here today to submit myself to my compatriots to lead them down this road to peace and a democratic transition," Pahlavi said on Monday. "I do not seek political power, but rather to help our great nation navigate through this critical hour toward stability, freedom, and justice." In a direct message to Khamenei, Pahlavi said, "Step down. And if you do, you will receive a fair trial and due process of law. Which is more than you have ever given any Iranian." Pahlavi's late father, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, was overthrown during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. In February, Pahlavi spoke at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, where he called for international action against Khamenei's regime and said Iranians were ready to reclaim their "stolen country."Original article source: Exiled prince warns Iranian military of 'final chance' to stand up to the regime
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Scandal-plagued former Gov Andrew Cuomo aims to pull off political comeback in the nation's biggest city
Andrew Cuomo is aiming to pull off the biggest political comeback since President Donald Trump won back the White House last November. Cuomo, the former three-term New York State governor who resigned from office in 2021 amid multiple scandals, is the frontrunner of an 11-candidate field vying for heavily blue New York City's Democratic Party mayoral nomination. The former governor – who saw his once-large lead deteriorate as progressives coalesced around Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assembly member from Queens and a democratic socialist originally from Uganda – is highlighting his experience. "We know that we can make government work because that's what we did in New York State. They said we couldn't do it. We did it," Cuomo told a large crowd of supporters at a union hall rally on the eve of Tuesday's New York City primary, as he pointed to his progressive achievements as governor. Trump Front-and-center As Nation's Biggest City Holds Mayoral Primary Cuomo is showcasing his fortitude in defending the nation's most populous city from what he argues are threats from Trump. Read On The Fox News App "Democrats, we are going to stand strong, stand united, stand tall, you're not going to separate us," Cuomo emphasized as he referred to the Republican president. "We're going to lock arms, and we're going to go forward." This Former President Backs Andrew Cuomo In New York City's Democratic Mayoral Primary Cuomo, who recently said that as mayor that he would mount a national campaign to try and thwart Trump's agenda, vows to protect New York City from what he suggests is a possible future Trump administration crackdown against immigration protests in New York City, similar to what occurred earlier this month in Los Angeles. Additionally, Cuomo pledged to "stand up to Trump before his antics reach New York." It is often said that politics is full of second chances, thanks to a long list of politicians who suffered defeat or fell from grace before later winning redemption at the ballot box. Cuomo is trying to be the latest on that list. 'Globalize The Intifada' Phrase Stirs Tensions On Nyc Campaign Trail As Middle East Conflict Rages The 67-year-old Cuomo has spent the past four years fighting to clear his name after 11 sexual harassment accusations, which he has repeatedly denied, forced his resignation. He was also under investigation at the time for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic amid allegations his administration vastly understated COVID-related deaths at state nursing homes. Last month, the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into Cuomo after Republicans accused him of lying to Congress about the decisions he made as governor during the coronavirus pandemic. Cuomo has faced plenty of incoming fire over his baggage from his primary rivals on the campaign trail and during the two debates between the candidates. However, Marist University Institute for Public Opinion Director Lee M. Miringoff told Fox News that "there's a general sense that New Yorkers are willing to provide someone a second chance." Cuomo's bigger concern is Mamdani, who soared into second place in the polls this spring and was closing the gap with Cuomo ahead of the primary. Mamdani has taken aim at the former governor, pointing out that many of Cuomo's donors backed Trump in last year's presidential election. Aoc Backs Rising Progressive Candidate In Nyc Dem Primary In Push To Defeat Frontrunner Cuomo "Oligarchy is on the ballot. Andrew Cuomo is the candidate of a billionaire class that is suffocating our democracy and forcing the working class out of our city," Mamdani's campaign argued in an email to supporters. Cuomo's campaign in recent weeks has criticized Mamdani as a "dangerously inexperienced legislator" while touting that the former governor "managed a state and managed crises, from COVID to Trump." "The mayor of the city of New York is the CEO of one of the largest corporations on the globe. This is not a job for a novice," Cuomo said on the eve of the primary. "This is not a job... for on the job training. We need someone who knows what they're doing on day one because your lives depend on it." Mamdani, who among other things wants to eliminate fares to ride New York City's vast bus system and make City University of New York "tuition-free," landed a big boost earlier this month after winning an endorsement from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive rock star and New York City's most prominent leader on the left. A week later, he was also endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the progressive champion and two-time Democratic presidential nominee runner-up. With multiple candidates on the left running in the primary, the endorsements by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders aimed to consolidate the support of progressive voters behind Mamdani. The candidate in third place heading into the primary was New York City Comptroller Brad Lander. He grabbed national attention in the closing days of the campaign after he was arrested in Manhattan by Department of Homeland Security agents. Lander was detained for allegedly assaulting a federal officer as he tried to escort a defendant out of an immigration court. Temperatures are forecast to reach 100 degrees in New York on Tuesday as the city holds its primary. The dangerously high temperatures may keep some older voters from heading to the polls. Because of that possibility, the heatwave could affect turnout in a race that may come down to Cuomo's union support and campaign structure versus Mandani's volunteer forces. New York City election officials said that more than 384,000 Democrats cast ballots in early voting, which ended on Sunday. The election is being conducted using a ranked-choice voting system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the lowest vote-getter is dropped, with that candidate's votes reallocated to voters' next-highest choices. The process is repeated until one candidate cracks 50%. Mamdani is hoping that the ranked-choice process boosts his chances against Cuomo. New York City's primary comes as the Democratic Party works to escape from the political wilderness following last year's elections, when the party lost control of the White House, the Senate majority and failed to win back control of the House from the GOP. It comes as Democrats work to resist Trump's sweeping and controversial second-term agenda. Miringoff said the results of the primary will be seen as a barometer of which way the Democratic Party is headed, toward the center if Cuomo wins – and toward the left if Mamdani is victorious. "Because it's New York, and it's a very blue city and everything that happens is magnified, I think we're going to be hearing a lot about the future of the Democratic Party and which way it should define itself, going towards the midterms," Miringoff said. The center-left Democrat-aligned group Third Way said in a memo they were "deeply alarmed" over the prospect of a Mamdani victory. "A Mamdani win for such a high-profile office would be a devastating blow in the fight to defeat Trumpism," the group argued. The winner of the Democratic Party primary is traditionally seen as the overwhelming frontrunner in the November general election in the Democrat-dominated city. However, this year, the general election campaign may be a bit more unpredictable. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, a moderate Democrat elected in 2021, is running for re-election as an Independent. Adams earlier this year dropped his Democratic primary bid as his approval ratings sank to historic lows. Adams' poll numbers were sinking even before he was indicted last year on five counts, which accused the mayor of bribery and fraud as part of an alleged "long-running" scheme to personally profit from contacts with foreign officials. The mayor made repeated overtures to President Donald Trump, and the Justice Department earlier this year dismissed the corruption charges, so Adams could potentially work with the Trump administration on its illegal immigration crackdown. Because New York City allows candidates to run on multiple party lines, either Cuomo or Mamdani, if they lose Tuesday's Democratic primary, could run as an independent or third party candidate in November's general election, adding to the electoral drama. Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the volunteer crime-fighting patrols known as the Guardian Angels, for a second straight election cycle is the Republican nominee for article source: Scandal-plagued former Gov Andrew Cuomo aims to pull off political comeback in the nation's biggest city
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Florida AG asks Supreme Court to allow him to continue enforcing controversial immigration law
Florida's attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to proceed with enforcing a controversial immigration law that seeks to criminalize the arrival or reentry of illegal migrants to the state — teeing up yet another high-stakes, immigration-focused court clash between the Trump administration and immigration advocates. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked justices on the high court to intervene immediately and allow the state to implement Senate Bill 4C, or the Florida law that seeks to criminalize the arrival of undocumented immigrants who had been previously been deported, or who were previously denied entry to the U.S. That law was blocked earlier this year by a federal judge in Miami. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also declined to lift the injunction, paving the way for Uthmeier to seek emergency relief from the Supreme Court. Judges V Trump: Here Are The Key Court Battles Halting The White House Agenda Uthmeier on Monday urged justices to reverse the federal court's injunction, which he described as detrimental to both state and national interests. "Illegal immigration continues to wreak havoc in the state while [the] law cannot be enforced," Uthmeier's office said in the filing Monday. Read On The Fox News App Absent Supreme Court intervention, Uthmeier argued that Florida and its citizens "will remain disabled from combatting the serious harms of illegal immigration for years as this litigation proceeds through the lower courts." The request comes after U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued an injunction earlier this year blocking Florida from enforcing the law, which she described as likely unconstitutional, and conflicting with existing federal laws. Appeals Court Blocks Trump Admin's Deportation Flights In Alien Enemies Act Immigration Suit This was opposed by Florida's attorney general, who argued Monday that "nothing in [S.B.C] poses a conflict with federal law." That failed to convince Judge Williams, however. Williams, an Obama appointee, took the extraordinary step of initiating contempt proceedings against Uthmeier earlier this month for allegedly violating her injunction and allowing police to make arrests under the law. Uthmeier, meanwhile, argued Monday that the Supreme Court should intervene and reverse the lower court rulings, which he described in his appeal as a measure "designed to protect future victims of the violence, drugs, and trafficking fueled by the entry and re-entry into Florida of unauthorized aliens." "Without this Court's intervention, Florida and its citizens will remain disabled from combatting the serious harms of illegal immigration for years as this litigation proceeds through the lower courts," he said. It is unclear if the Supreme Court will take up the case. The emergency appeal from Florida's attorney general comes at a time when the Supreme Court is already weighing six emergency applications from the Trump administration, including on weighty issues such as birthright citizenship, universal injunctions, and Trump's executive branch authorities, among other things. Original article source: Florida AG asks Supreme Court to allow him to continue enforcing controversial immigration law
