You Can’t Escape Your Past

Democrats have a new argument for excusing Abdul El-Sayed’s anti-Israel, pro-Islamist views.

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Tonight📺: Someone who knows a lot about running against a popular Democrat in Texas is Sen. Ted Cruz. He joins me tonight on whether the GOP can save Ken Paxton in the Lone Star State.

• 📊Recent polling shows Democrat James Talarico winning the polls at 42%

  • And Paxton is at 39%

• 📚Cruz is out with a new book, “Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas”

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Midterm watch👀: Democrats have a new argument for excusing Abdul El-Sayed’s anti-Israel, pro-Islamist views — win a Democratic Senate majority at all costs because Trump is so evil.

• 🤦To the point that a Jewish Michigan attorney general says Jews need to forget about “safety and security” of their people. (This admits that electing him endangers Jews…🤦)

  • Don’t forget‼️: El-Sayed doesn’t think Israel should be able to defend themselves.

    • He excused an attack on a Jewish daycare, saying: “hurt people hurt people”

    • He campaigned with Hasan Piker, who is an anti-American, pro-Stalinist, Holocaust enthusiast

    • He says, “If you want to achieve the American Dream, you should move to Canada because it’s twice as likely there”

• This week📺: El-Sayed has been all over TV trying to clean up his past — he thinks he can talk his way out of all these problems.

  • The Hill headlines, “El-Sayed apologizes to Jewish Democrats for synagogue attack comment”

  • CNN headlines, “El-Sayed apologizes to Jewish Democrats as he seeks to bridge party divides”

• Tonight📺: Mark McKinnon and Madeline Summerville

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Iran‼️: The U.S. launched new strikes today against Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz.

• 💣This comes after Iran attempted to attack commercial ships in the strait and prepared to lay mines.

• Donald Trump feels confident right now in Iran for two reasons:

1. He feels the Iranian regime is getting weaker by the day

   • Today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised they’ll “asphyxiate” Iran because they know where the IRGC is hiding their millions of dollars

     

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     • Is this how we can squeeze them?

2. He thinks he has a lot more options in Iran because of Venezuela

   • Venezuela’s oil market is undergoing a big transformation.

• Tonight📺: Brig. Gen. John Teichert and Amb. Nathan Sales

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Big Brother📸: America is slowly and secretly turning into a surveillance state that looks a lot like China.

• We already told you about all the law enforcement abusing Flock cameras — but what happens now when these cameras are used exactly as they’re designed to be used?

  • These cameras know more about you than your license plate number and state

    • They capture a picture of your car

    • The make, model and color

    • Any visible features (car racks, trailers, unique details, etc)

    • Locations of where your car is spotted

  • At the end of the day, the camera and data can build a picture of where you were all day.

• 🛑Florida and Texas both move to block Flock cameras in their states

• Now, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is launching a Senate investigation into Flock Safety over mass surveillance.

• Big picture‼️: One of the things that makes America great is the freedom to live your life without constant surveillance. So the question today is:

  • Do we want to become a surveillance state that looks more and more like China?

  • Or do we want to live in a country that values our privacy?