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Bonta says he’ll counter DOJ election monitors with observers of his own
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday afternoon that his office will deploy election observers in response to concerns that Justice Department monitors could intimidate voters.Bonta said California was taking the same approach it used during the previous two elections, when the state dispatched its own observers alongside federal monitors.The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has sent 1,000 monitors across the country to ensure election integrity and protect Americans’ right to vote, a plan that has been public knowledge for months. The monitors will be personnel from across the DOJ, U.S. Attorney’s Offices and employees from the Office of Personnel Management.The department confirmed Tuesday that while federal election monitoring is routine, this year’s operation is the largest in its history, with monitors deployed to all 50 states for the first time.DOJ FIRES BACK AT DEM AG OVER ELECTION DAY GUIDANCE TELLING OFFICIALS WHEN TO CALL COPS ON FEDERAL AGENTSThe DOJ also released a list of cities where monitors are being deployed. In California, they are being sent to Los Angeles, Alameda, Sacramento and San Diego.Bonta and other critics have argued that the unusually large federal presence could spook voters or discourage some from casting ballots.Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil Rights Division, told Bloomberg in an August interview that the role of DOJ election monitors would be to observe election practices and pursue investigations into any possible instances of fraud after the fact — not to intervene directly while people are voting.In Tuesday’s announcement, the DOJ added that monitors will also be responsible for ensuring that polling places are accessible for those with disabilities.DOJ OFFICIAL DEFENDS TRUMP’S NONCITIZEN VOTER PROBE ON ’60 MINUTES,’ ACCUSES SHOW OF EDITING OUT HER ANSWERSIn her Bloomberg interview, Dhillon said the election monitors would respect the laws of whichever states they end up in. Many states restrict monitors from entering polling places and require them to remain behind designated boundaries outside.”We respect state law,” Dhillon told Bloomberg at the time. “We reach out to the states. If their perimeter is 150 yards, we respect that.”Dhillon also pointed out that the DOJ sent more than 80 monitors to observe primary elections across seven states this year, including locations in Minnesota, Michigan, Florida, Wyoming, South Carolina, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.The nationwide deployment appeared to be proceeding without major incident Tuesday afternoon, with no significant confrontations involving federal monitors publicly reported.This comes after the Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to require California election officials to segregate ballots cast by 20,000 voters the DOJ believes are noncitizens.
Trump pledges to veto ‘insane’ Dem bills, pinpoints issue partially to blame for Republican losses
President Donald Trump vowed to veto “insane” legislation from Democrats following the party’s major midterm election victories Tuesday, while acknowledging that rising gasoline prices stemming from the conflict with Iran likely contributed to Republican losses.Trump, speaking to Fox News Channel during live Election Night coverage, said he was surprised by the GOP’s performance but expressed confidence that he could work with Democrats despite their electoral gains.”They’ll send over things that are insane and I’ll veto them,” Trump said. “And after a couple of months of vetoes, they’ll go out and they’ll say, ‘How do we get this stuff done?’ And we’ll work together.”TRUMP CONGRATULATES DEMOCRATS AFTER DOMINANT MIDTERMS, SAYS HE LOOKS FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THEMDemocrats seized control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections, flipping at least seven Republican-held Senate seats and more than two dozen House districts. The sweeping victories dealt a major blow to Trump and the GOP, leaving Democrats positioned to block the president’s legislative agenda, reject his nominees and launch investigations into his administration during his final two years in office.The president pointed to his veto authority as a negotiating tool and revealed that several Democratic lawmakers had already reached out to him.”You know, I have a lot of friends that are Democrats, believe it or not. I’ve already spoken to some of them,” Trump said, adding that he had spoken with Democratic members of Congress, with others waiting to call.Trump also addressed the GOP’s disappointing election-night performance, suggesting that Americans were reacting more to higher gasoline prices than to the military campaign against Iran itself.STATE OF PLAY: BLUE WAVE SWEEPS DEMOCRATS INTO POWER, WITH KEY RACES STILL HANGING IN BALANCE”I don’t think it’s the war, Bret, I think it’s the gasoline price,” Trump told “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier. “People agree with what I’m doing on Iran, but they really probably weren’t willing to do the short-term consequence of paying more for gasoline.”Trump defended his administration’s actions against Iran, arguing that the economic consequences were temporary and necessary to achieve longer-term national security objectives.”I think a part of it was Iran. But at the same time, people understood the importance of what I’ve done with Iran,” Trump said. “I think historically it’s going to be much more important than this evening, because you can’t let the number one state sponsor of terror have a nuclear weapon.”The president also blamed some Republican candidates for failing to energize his supporters, arguing that enthusiasm at his campaign rallies did not necessarily translate into votes for those he endorsed.”I’m a little bit surprised. I thought they’d do better,” Trump said. “We had tremendous rallies. We had about 30 of them.”Trump said some candidates had alienated his MAGA base by previously opposing him, while others simply failed to inspire voters to turn out.’POD SAVE AMERICA’ HOSTS CALL DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S MIDTERM WINS ‘THE END OF THE TRUMP ERA'”They didn’t like the candidates and some of the candidates that I endorsed fought me, and they didn’t like that they fought me,” Trump said.”And I wasn’t on the ballot. If I was on the ballot, they would have gotten out,” he added.Despite expressing disappointment over Republican losses, Trump praised Democrats for their performance while rejecting the suggestion that the results amounted to a personal defeat.”I think the Democrats did a good job, I really do. I think they did a good job. They fought hard,” Trump said.”I don’t like to consider it a defeat,” he added. “If you’re on the ballot, it’s different than if you’re not on the ballot.”
‘LAWYER UP’: Democrats, Republicans waste no time in setting social media ablaze after midterm sweep
Explosive reactions to the 2026 midterm elections quickly spread online as it became clear that Democrats had routed Republicans in key contests, reclaiming control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate early Wednesday morning.While Republicans quickly looked for a source of blame, jubilant Democratic reactions ranged from calling the moment the end of Trump’s MAGA movement to aggressive predictions of what the party could accomplish with their newfound majorities.Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., summed up his vision for Senate committees in only one word.”Subpoenas,” Wyden said in a post on X.‘LAWYER UP’: DEMS IMMEDIATELY PUT TRUMP ON NOTICE AMID REPUBLICANS’ MIDTERM BLOODBATHDemocrats like Wyden have long promised to summon members of the current administration, former officials and business leaders before lawmakers for questioning if they captured a majority.In the House, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., echoed Wyden’s thinking with a brief post of his own.”LAWYER UP,” Garcia wrote.Still other voices in the Democratic Party expressed the magnitude of the victory in more colorful terms.”WE’RE GONNA PUT YOUR ASS IN JAIL EVERYONE GET MORE WORK RIGHT NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Hasan Piker, a progressive streamer and socialist, said in a post to X.Piker, who aligned himself closely with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in the 2026 midterms, supported several candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). He also campaigned with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, who won his race against Mike Rogers, a former congressman.”GOD IS NONBINARY NOW MFS!!! IT’S LAW!!!” he wrote in another post, referring to James Talarico’s Senate victory in Texas over Attorney General Ken Paxton.Talarico received widespread criticism from Republicans for past comments where he described God as “nonbinary” — an instance Republicans used to characterize Talarico as too progressive to represent a Republican-leaning state like Texas.DEMS SEIZE THE SENATE AS BLUE TIDAL WAVE CRASHES DEEP INTO TRUMP COUNTRY, TOPPLES GOP STRONGHOLDSAfter Fox News Decision Desk projected victories by Talarico and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Gina Hinojosa over Gov. Greg Abbott, other progressives cast the wins as a symbol of Democratic momentum.”TEXAS IS BLUE. THIS IS HISTORY,” Dean Withers, another progressive political commentator, wrote in a post to social media.”MAGA IS DEAD. THEY’RE F—ING DEAD. WOKE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE BACK,” he added.On the other side of the aisle, Republicans and conservatives took to social media to vent frustrations and begin identifying where they thought the party had lost traction with the public.To Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who lost a primary earlier this year to a Trump-backed challenger, the midterm outcome boiled down to a set of unfulfilled promises: broken pledges to stay out of foreign conflicts and commitments to bring transparency around Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced businessman who had died in prison while awaiting trial.”Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises. All Republicans had to do was: 1. put Americans First 2. not start another war 3. prosecute sex traffickers,” Massie wrote.Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former congresswoman who resigned her seat earlier this year over disagreements with the administration, delivered a similar message.”Trump’s biggest betrayal to the American people isn’t what he failed to do. It’s what he promised NOT to do… and did it anyway,” Greene wrote in a post to X.”We gave President Trump our support, we gave him our money, we gave him our vote and gave him our time and we got behind him publicly, and he didn’t deliver,” she added.Conservative political commentator Matt Walsh offered similar criticisms of Trump, focusing on the U.S. conflict with Iran.CONSERVATIVES STUNNED BY ‘CATASTROPHIC’ MIDTERM BLUE TSUNAMI, BLAME TRUMP’S IRAN WAR, HIGH GAS PRICES”The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least. A catastrophically stupid decision. An unforgivable betrayal of America First principles,” Walsh said.”There’s no way to soft-pedal this. It’s a political catastrophe of historic proportions. The Republican Party needs all new leadership. None should be spared from blame, starting at the top,” Walsh added in a separate post.
The AI trade has been ‘sold to death’ but Goldman strategist highlights silver lining from Democratic sweep
Corporate decision makers may decide to accelerate their plans to expand compute capacity and take advantage of the status quo rather than risk a new administration and different rules in 2029
Madness in Michigan: Muslim Brotherhood-Friendly Radical Heads to US Senate
Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed defeated Republican Mike Rogers on Tuesday, becoming the most radical candidate elected to the upper chamber in U.S. history. El-Sayed bested Rogers after a tumultuous campaign in which he embraced noxiously antisemitic podcasters, clerics, and donors.
El-Sayed carried 52 percent of the vote to Rogers’s 46 percent when the race was called early Wednesday morning. His win is a major boost to the Democratic Party’s increasingly powerful anti-Israel faction and is likely to give a megaphone to the antisemitic and anti-Israel activists on the far left, for whom El-Sayed is likely to become a leading figure.
El-Sayed’s victory caps a turbulent race in which his primary opponent, Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens, threw her support to Rogers two days before the election. Stevens said she objected to El-Sayed’s campaign of “hate” after he refused to condemn a campaign ad produced by supporters of El-Sayed that blamed Israel for the price of groceries and suggested American taxpayers are underwriting the costs of health care in the Jewish state.
“Blaming Israel for the price of eggs and elevating Tucker Carlson are not the way to build trust or bring people together,” Stevens said, referring to a second ad in which El-Sayed touted Carlson’s support for his campaign.
Stevens’s defection drew harsh condemnations from national Democratic leaders, and she was booted from the Michigan Democratic Party.
El-Sayed campaigned on a single-payer Medicare for All health care policy and made opposition to Israel—and its American supporters—a central focus of his campaign, stumping alongside Hasan Piker, a Marxist podcaster who has said “America deserved 9/11,” called Jewish people “inbred,” and praised Mao Zedong.
During the final days of the election, El-Sayed ran ads touting the support of Carlson, the former Fox News host who has favorably featured Holocaust deniers on his podcast.
Throughout the race, El-Sayed drew criticism for his personal and family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist groups.
In 2012, the Democrat signed a letter supporting the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt. El-Sayed’s mother worked for an American Islamic charity that was designated as a terrorist group for allegedly funding Osama bin Laden. His father sits on the board of a charity that was raided by the FBI for allegedly funneling money to Saddam Hussein, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week.
While El-Sayed told NBC News that his family had no connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, his half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, wrote in unearthed social media posts that her family “has long been” in the Muslim Brotherhood and her mother was an activist with the group while living in Egypt, the Free Beacon reported.
El-Sayed’s father-in-law, Jukaku Tayeb, also serves on the board of the Islamic Society of North America Founders Committee, which was an unindicted co-conspirators in the landmark terrorist financing case United States v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. Tayeb was one of the largest donors to a super PAC backing El-Sayed.
During his campaign, El-Sayed repeatedly declined to criticize the Iranian regime, arguing instead that Iran and Israel posed an equal threat to the United States
He privately told his communications staffers in March that he wanted to avoid commenting on Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s assassination, because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad” about his death, according to audio of the meeting obtained by the Free Beacon.
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El-Sayed mocks Trump, Vance and Rogers in gloating victory speech signaling combative tone in Senate
Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed mocked President Donald Trump and his opponent in a combative victory speech Tuesday night in Michigan.El-Sayed, who defeated Republican Mike Rogers, said his opponents “went all-in on one of the ugliest campaigns we’ve seen in our lifetimes.””They might have been pointing at my name and my faith, but we all know my name and my faith aren’t the reason you can’t afford your gas or afford your groceries,” El-Sayed said.ABDUL EL-SAYED DELIVERS MAJOR BLOW TO GOP IN MICHIGAN AFTER BRUISING SENATE RACEHe said Trump’s comments about him became “uglier and coarser” and that “to all the parents who struggle to explain why the president openly mocked someone for their name or how they pray, let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost.””They want an America that is too small for some of us, but we know America is big enough for all of us,” he continued.VANCE’S CAMPAIGN BLITZ PUTS HIM AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE GOP’S MIDTERM PUSH, AS INSIDERS PRAISE PACKED SCHEDULEHe also mockingly spoke of Vice President JD Vance, a foe he has combatted with frequently in recent months, saying, “There is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January. So you know what that means. Wolverine one. Buckeye zero.”He then shifted his focus to Israel, saying Americans want their money spent in the U.S.TRUMP SAYS ISRAEL WILL STOP RECEIVING $4B IN US AID BY YEAR’S END, CAN STILL BUY WEAPONS”We don’t want our money spent on apartheid or genocidal war,” he added.El-Sayed also had mocking words for his opponent, telling Rogers to “enjoy your retirement.””May we never have to see the likes of you in the state again,” he added.EL-SAYED, ROGERS CLASH OVER MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, TRUMP AND GUNS: 5 FIERY DEBATE MOMENTSThroughout the campaign, El-Sayed outran alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, concerns about his rhetoric over Israel and Jewish voters in Michigan and criticism from fellow Democrats for his ties to controversial political streamer Hasan Piker.Rogers failed to outrun the political headwinds that have buffeted Republicans this cycle, including affordability issues, President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada launched in the thick of the midterms and the Iran war, despite his attempts to distance himself from the latter issues.El-Sayed’s victory serves as a major blow to the GOP’s push against the progressive lean in Democratic politics, where for much of the cycle after his shock win over Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., Republicans painted him as the face of socialism and communism in their messaging.Fox News’ Alex Miller and Luke Trevisan contributed to this report.
The UK Is Fast-Tracking Permanent Residency For An Army Of Migrants
The UK Is Fast-Tracking Permanent Residency For An Army Of Migrants
It’s not quite citizenship, but it’s close enough. The UK offers a number of loopholes or “fast tracks” to permanent residency for third world migrants, and one of those loopholes is “Indefinite Leave to Remain” (ILR), also known as permanent settlement. Settlement status allows migrants to stay in the UK essentially for the rest of their lives, with unrestricted access to the labor market, access to health and welfare benefits, and the ability to leave and reenter the country any time they wish. It also gives them the ability to bring their families to live in the UK. They enjoy many of the advantages of citizens, except they don’t get to vote and their children do not automatically become citizens.Many critics of the system argue that once these migrants become entrenched, it is impossible to legally deport them. They also argue that “settlement” is a progressive government agenda to provide to mass citizenship for millions of migrants in the near future. At bottom, ILR is a way for left-wing leaders to import masses of migrants while pretending as if this is not true immigration. A debate has been raging over more strict rules for who qualifies for settlement, but the UK government’s obsession with multiculturalism makes any serious immigration reform difficult. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced final details of the government’s reforms to permanent settlement rules, and she notes that there will be special allowances for most migrants working in social care.🚨 BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood confirms most social care migrants will now be exempt from waiting 15 years to settle in Britain https://t.co/sDtHJKZIEb— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) November 2, 2026Under the original reforms, all migrants would have to wait 10-15 years for access to permanent settlement, but sweeping exceptions are being made for social service and healthcare workers, giving them a 5-year path.What this means is, around 300,000 migrants and their families will be given full access to the UK along with permanent residency as long as they work in designated healthcare fields. The Home Office estimates 1.9 million additional migrants will settle in the UK between 2026 and 2030 under the new rules (though other figures suggest the number will be closer to 2.2 million). Keep in mind, there are currently around 1.3 million UK nationals who are unemployed in 2026 unemployed. Rather than giving these people a pathway to jobs in healthcare, the government has chosen to import third worlders instead. Critics of the plan assert that the government is trying to make future deportations more difficult by expediting settlement status for millions before national elections in 2029, and perhaps making it possible for the migrants to participate in elections. Conservatives are expected to dominate unless the current leadership can find a way to dilute the vote. They have already lowered the voting age to 16-years-old by 2029.The pandemic was used as an excuse for rapid immigration of “healthcare workers” from other countries under the claim that there were shortages. Being that Covid turned out to be a minimal threat, these workers are largely unnecessary. However, they have still been widely glorified in popular media and state propaganda as “saviors’ of the country. Furthermore, there is an issue which the UK government rarely acknowledges: Fake degrees, fake qualifications and fraud testing for candidate who apply for work in healthcare. In 2023 the Nursing and Midwifery Council and its test provider identified widespread suspected fraud at the Yunnik Technologies test centre in Ibadan, Nigeria. Data showed anomalous, extremely fast completion times consistent with proxy testing (someone else sitting the exam). There have been a number of criminal convictions for people who lied about qualifications to obtain nursing roles. One high-profile example is Tanya Nasir, who was jailed in 2024 after fraudulently securing a senior neonatal nurse position using false certificates, exaggerated experience and incorrect qualification dates.Independent inspections have found cases of forged evidence, certificates of sponsorship issued to non-existent or tiny operations, and licenses granted on false information. All of these problems could be solved by requiring companies to fill these jobs with UK nationals. Removing the concept of permanent settlement would also eliminate the incentives for migrants to defraud the system. What the UK government has established is a half measure, blocking some migrants from easy residency, but still leaving the door open to millions of others in the name of “healthcare worker shortages”. Again, serious immigration reform in the UK under progressive governments is simply not going to happen.
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