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New Jersey Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Bennett walked away from questions about political violence against President Donald Trump in a video circulating online, as a person with her repeatedly told the questioner to “get a life.”The video was shared by the Libs of TikTok account and shows a man approaching Bennett and asking whether she condemns attempts to harm the president. Bennett does not respond and continues walking as a woman accompanying her addresses the questioner.”Excuse me, Mrs. Bennett, do you think that people should stop trying to kill the president?” the man is heard asking.As he continues, the woman accompanying Bennett can be heard attempting to drown him out by singing.REPUBLICANS CRITICIZE DEM CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE’S ’86 47′ POST AS CALL FOR ‘POLITICAL VIOLENCE'”Oh my God. Dude, get a life. Get a life, dude,” the person says in the video.Bennett is then seen walking away and heading toward a vehicle, partially obscured at times by a blue sign, as the questioning continues.Bennett’s campaign told Fox News Digital that she “has and always will condemn political violence against President Trump.”PATRICIA HEATON URGES ‘FRIENDS ON THE LEFT’ TO TONE DOWN EXTREME RHETORIC AFTER WHCD SHOOTINGThe campaign also pointed to a post Bennett shared on X on April 26.”Last night’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was an act of political violence, and I condemn it unequivocally,” Bennett wrote. “Political violence has no place in our democracy.””I’m grateful to the Secret Service agents and law enforcement officers who responded with extraordinary courage, who acted immediately to neutralize the threat,” she added. “Their bravery kept hundreds of people safe last night, and I’m relieved that everyone went home to their families.”DEM IN TRUMP DISTRICT RACE SCRUBS SOCIAL MEDIA OF POSTS PRAISING PROGRESSIVES: ‘SCAM ARTIST'”My thoughts are with everyone who was at the dinner last night.”The Navy veteran and current member of the Air National Guard made news last year as a Democrat running for Congress who positioned herself as a moderate in a bid to unseat sitting Republican Thomas Kean Jr. in a pro-Trump district.A Fox News Digital review of Bennett’s X account — created in July 2011 and converted from @BigRedBecks to @RebeccaForNJ07 — shows several deleted posts that appear to diverge from that “moderate” label, including praise for progressive Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.”Love her,” Bennett wrote in a now-deleted post about Warren in 2019.Bennett also deleted posts praising former Vice President Kamala Harris after she was announced as then-former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate in 2020.During the civil unrest that followed the death of George Floyd in 2020, Bennett wrote in a now-deleted post that she agreed with a comment from former Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe calling for investigations into law enforcement responses.Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

Scott Singer, the former Republican mayor of Boca Raton and a candidate for Congress in Florida, is touting a significant campaign fundraising haul while outlining to Fox News Digital the reasons why he believes there is reason for optimism for the GOP in November. Singer’s first-quarter fundraising numbers in the 2026 cycle showed him significantly outraising incumbent Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, along with slightly more cash on hand, despite being a first-time candidate.As a result of Florida’s new redistricting push, Singer recently announced he will be running in the redrawn 25th congressional district, and it is unclear which district Moskowitz will decide to run in, but Singer tells Fox News Digital he is “very pleased” with the financial support he’s gotten from almost 3,600 contributors”We’re very pleased that we had an amazing fundraising quarter, one of the best of any Republican challenger in the nation,” Singer said. “I think it’s going well because people are really enthused about our candidacy. I think people are ready for change. They’re upset with the progress of Congress.”GOP LAWMAKER RALLIES AROUND TRUMP’S TAX-CUT CAMPAIGN AS COMPETITIVE 2026 HOUSE RACE LOOMS: ‘BIG ISSUE’With most pundits predicting a tough time for Republicans in the upcoming midterms as they attempt to hold a razor-thin majority in the House and tight majority in the Senate along with historical headwinds, Singer says he sees “great reason for optimism” as he campaigns in his race. “We have a strong economy, the strongest we’ve had in years, record growth in GDP inflation before the latest blip, which is temporary because of the Iran conflict,” Singer explained. “Inflation was at the lowest level we had for years and voters understand that it was the one unchecked runaway inflation under President Biden that put us in this situation.”VOTERS SAY REPUBLICANS OUTDO DEMOCRATS ON THESE KEY ISSUES: FOX NEWS POLLSinger continued, “President Trump and the administration have done so much to bring prices down across the board, and cutting regulations will continue to do that. The biggest tax cut in American history is reaching American taxpayers right now, with huge refunds going to individuals and the average refund for 12 million small businesses of $7,000 and that was done with every Democrat in Congress voting against it.”Singer told Fox News Digital the GOP is now the “party of the middle” class thanks to tax-cutting policies for tips and overtime, and said he believes those “real benefits” will continue to take effect over the next year. “I think people are going to be more optimistic,” Singer said. “If you look at so many objective indicators and not the panic that some media outlets put out there, things are great and when you interview voters and ask them about policies, they lean more to the right. They support the Republican agenda. That’s why I feel very optimistic, and I think other candidates, if we focus on the agenda and less on what the media would have us buy into comments about personality, it really affects what we’re doing on paychecks and what we are doing on the border.”Republicans currently hold a razor-thin majority in the U.S. House of Representatives heading into the 2026 midterms, one of the narrowest controlling margins in nearly a century, with Democrats widely believed to be holding an edge, especially given the party in power historically sees losses in midterm elections.Aggressive redistricting by both parties in states across the country has complicated the situation even further.Democrats have been hammering President Trump and the Republican Party on high gas prices and the economy, and a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pushed back on the Republican agenda in a statement to Fox News Digital.”Florida Republicans knew they couldn’t win on their cost-raising, billionaire-first, wildly unpopular agenda that’s crushing working families and small businesses, which is why they’re desperate to gerrymander the maps and rig the midterms,” DCCC spokesperson Nebeyatt Betre said. “Any Republican who claims the GOP’s price-spiking policies are popular only proves the fact they have no idea what voters are feeling right now.” 

Actor Daniel Baldwin criticized Jimmy Kimmel’s political rhetoric after the latest assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, accusing the late-night host of “planting this kind of hatred.”In a clip from the May 3 episode of “The Daniel Baldwin Show,” first picked up by Breitbart on Monday, Baldwin said he was saddened by the reaction to the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner last month, where authorities say a gunman targeted Trump and members of his administration.Baldwin used the attack to criticize anti-Trump attitudes in Hollywood and Kimmel’s repeated criticism of the president, arguing that even in an entertainment culture long hostile to Republicans, he has never seen public figures talk so casually about political violence.”I remember being on movie sets with big name people, Oscar winner, high-paid talent,” Baldwin said. “And they would just be sh—– on some politician or person, like, ‘Yeah, someone should get him.’ ‘Someone should shoot him,’ once someone said in front of me. And I thought, ‘Wow, your voice carries weight. You know, your words have followers and people.’”TRUMP CRITICS BLAME PRESIDENT’S RHETORIC FOR WHCA DINNER SHOOTINGHe then questioned whether Kimmel’s late-night commentary could fuel hatred toward Trump.”Does Jimmy Kimmel not realize that when you keep bombarding in every one of your monologues and planting this kind of hatred in the American public or the people that follow you, someone might act on that?” Baldwin asked.”Now, does that exonerate Kimmel of any wrongdoing? Yeah, he didn’t do it, but did he play a role in it? Does he care that he played a role? Is that the point? Does he do it because he wants that to happen? I don’t know the answer to those questions, but I’m sad, man,” he added.Baldwin contrasted today’s climate with Hollywood’s response to the 1981 assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan, referencing a resurfaced clip of Johnny Carson addressing the delayed Academy Awards after Reagan was shot.TRUMP URGES ABC TO FIRE ‘SERIOUSLY UNFUNNY’ JIMMY KIMMEL, SAYS IT ‘BETTER BE SOON’”We never hated anyone. We never wanted someone to die or laughed about them dying. It’s really disturbing to me,” Baldwin said.Baldwin, the second-oldest of the four Baldwin brothers who became a conservative in 2016, said the hostility he now sees from some in the entertainment industry has changed how he feels about his own profession.”I used to be proud to say I was an actor,” Baldwin said. “You walk into a room now and say, yeah, I’m an actor. I’m a movie actor and television actor… It’s not something I’m as proud to say or is it as big a deal because of the hatred that comes out from that side.”RESURFACED CLIP OF JOHNNY CARSON’S GRACE AFTER REAGAN SHOOTING CONTRASTS WITH KIMMELKimmel has faced criticism after joking days before the shooting that first lady Melania Trump had the glow of an “expectant widow” during a mock White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner skit.The joke prompted the president and first lady to call for his firing. Kimmel later said the line was “a very light roast joke” about Trump’s age, not a call to violence.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE”It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination,” Kimmel said.Last year, Kimmel was briefly suspended by Disney after controversial remarks about the assassination of Charlie Kirk sparked outrage, and ABC said the show would be preempted indefinitely. He returned to the air days later and insisted he never intended to make light of Kirk’s death.ABC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.

Former reality television personality-turned-Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt lashed out at his opponent, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, after she accused him of exploiting the grief of Palisades Fire victims.”It’s the most insane, psycho, diabolical thing I’ve heard in a minute – but it’s not shocking,” he told “The Will Cain Show” Monday.Pratt’s comments follow the release of a pointed political advertisement from his campaign targeting Bass and other opponents, alleging they live in luxury homes far removed from the “mess” they have created, including homelessness and crime.In the ad, Pratt claims to be living in a trailer after his $3.8 million Pacific Palisades home burnt down in the fire.SPENCER PRATT SAYS A-LISTERS PRIVATELY CHEER HIS CRITICISM OF CALIFORNIA LEADERSHIP, FEAR CAREER FALLOUTIn response, Bass said Pratt has capitalized on the grief of Palisades Fire victims to revive his public profile after his reality television career faded.”I feel like he’s exploiting the grief of people in the Palisades, and I think that’s reprehensible. That’s the main thing. And I think he is about his own celebrity. He’s famous now again,” she said in an interview.Pratt fired back at the mayor, telling Fox News host Will Cain, “My ads are the truth. These politicians do not have to live the consequences of their decisions. My ad is that simple.”LA TIMES OWNER SAYS ENDORSING KAREN BASS WAS A ‘MISTAKE’ DUE TO INCOMPETENCEPratt went on to level serious allegations against Mayor Bass, who won the mayor’s race by nearly 100,000 votes in 2022, including claims of obstruction of justice.”This is the same woman that will allow 7,000 houses to burn to the ground, 12 people to burn alive, and then actively cover it up, get caught covering it up and then say that the LA Times is lying, even though they have the emails where she’s altering the after-action report, which, as far as I’m concerned, is obstruction of justice,” he said.”It’s disgusting.”LA MAYOR KAREN BASS ACCUSED OF DELETING TEXTS IN WAKE OF WILDFIRE DISASTERThe former reality television personality also accused Bass of purposefully letting people burn alive in the Palisades Fire to secure a million-dollar property discount for former Vice President Kamala Harris.Harris, who recently purchased an $8.15 million home in Malibu, endorsed Bass for mayor Monday.”Mayor Karen Bass is the leader Los Angeles needs right now,” Harris said. “She has done what so many said couldn’t be done — the first ever two-year decline in homelessness, reducing crime to levels this city hasn’t seen since the 1960s, and refusing to back down when the federal government came after our neighbors.”KAREN BASS MEETS WITH TRUMP AT WHITE HOUSE TO PUSH FOR LA WILDFIRE RELIEF AFTER MONTHS OF CLASHES”She has my full support for re-election,” Harris added.”Obviously, Kamala Harris loves Karen Bass. Because of Karen Bass letting the Pacific Palisades and Malibu burn down, Kamala Harris was able to get a $2 million discount on her new house in Malibu,” Pratt alleged.Pratt lambasted Bass as a “MAGA Karen” and “corrupt” following her recent, friendly White House visit with President Donald Trump – a figure she has historically criticized, especially during his mass-deportation campaign against Los Angeles’ immigrant population.”She can have all the political endorsements she wants,” he said. “She can go do all the photo ops she wants with Trump in the White House. And, you know, they’re calling her MAGA Karen all over X because she was the one walking out with the MAGA teddy bear out of the White House. So, she’ll take any endorsement to keep her corrupt politician career going here.”Fox News Digital has reached out to the mayor’s office for comment.

Today on Stinchfield, we expose the real reason Spirit Airlines crashed and burned and it’s not gas prices. The Biden DOJ’s decision to block the JetBlue merger was the final nail in the coffin for a struggling airline.
 
 

Democrats unreasonable fear of monopolies and big conglomerates is part of the issue. Free markets should be just that. Dominance should be applauded. Where monopiles become problems is when government creates them through a bureaucratic licensing and regulatory system that literally creates the winners and losers.

Add to that an unsustainable business model that catered almost exclusively to the lowest-cost travelers, and it’s no wonder Spirit became a punchline rather than a preferred airline.

Join us as we break down the policies, missteps, and political interference that sealed Spirit’s fate—and why the airline’s demise is a warning about government overreach and bad business decisions.
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Sacked Russian Minister Flees To US Amid Corruption Probe In First Of Ukraine War

A Russian minister has become the first known high-ranking official to flee Russia and seek asylum in the United States since the Ukraine war began over four years ago, amid a fraud probe.

Denis Butsayev, a senior Russian official recently dismissed from the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry, fled to the US to avoid criminal prosecution, regional media reports say.
President Putin meets with then General Director of the Russian Environmental Operator Denis Butsayev

He was officially removed from his post as deputy minister on April 22 by an order of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Soon after, and pending possible arrest,  Butsayev left the country by traveling through neighboring Belarus.

“Butsayev’s departure is the first known case of a sitting official of this rank fleeing the country,” independent journalist Farida Rustamova wrote. Butsayev is “lucky to have friends who were able to warn him on time,” one source told the journalist.

Prior to his appointment to the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry in 2025, Butsayev served as CEO of the Russian Ecological Operator (or, Environmental Operator), a state-backed entity with charge of the country’s national waste management reforms.

Butsayev has not been formally charged, but he’s a person of interest amid an ongoing probe of other senior officials for corruption. According to more details in Meduza:

In late April, several anonymous Telegram channels reported that a criminal case had been opened against Yury Valdayev, the administrative director of Russian Ecological Operator (REO) — the operator company of the garbage reform — on fraud charges. Butsayev worked at REO from April to November 2019, was subsequently appointed first deputy governor of Belgorod Region, and returned as CEO of REO in November 2020, a post he held until moving to the Natural Resources Ministry in 2025.

Criminal cases have also been opened against two other senior REO managers, Yekaterina Stepkina and Maxim Shcherbakov, Vedomosti’s sources say, and Butsayev is mentioned in the case materials as well. In what capacity he appears there, and what the cases concern, is unclear.

According to more on Butsayev, “He does not appear on U.S., Canadian, British, or EU sanctions lists, and his current whereabouts are unknown, Faridaily reported.”

While nothing is currently known or confirmed as to his guilt or innocence in alleged fraud, regional opposition and anti-Moscow media tend to hail any such officials as heroes valiantly fleeing a Kremlin crackdown. However, this could also just be another standard corruption case in a region which has a long history of it.

Russia’s former Deputy Minister of Natural Resources, Denis Butsaev, has fled the country.
After his dismissal on April 22, he rushed to Minsk, then Tbilisi, and is now believed to be in the USA — the first known high-level official to escape amid a major corruption probe into… pic.twitter.com/aHnamwcbow
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The last couple years have seen a much broader Kremlin purge of top military ranks connected to the Ukraine war, but this situation seems to have stabilized of late. As for the war in Ukraine, it has seemed stalemated, with Russian forces reportedly making slow but steady gains; however, Ukraine’s drones have been able to inflict serious damage on Russian oil refineries and export facilities, especially in recent months.

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Daniel Krauthammer, son of the late Fox News contributor Dr. Charles Krauthammer, appeared on “Special Report” on Monday to honor this year’s winners of the seventh annual Dr. Charles Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship and reflect on his father’s lasting legacy.The Dr. Charles Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship is awarded every year to the children of Fox News employees.This year’s recipients of the scholarship are Amanda Parker of Walter Panas High School in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., and Tess Sonne of Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, N.Y. Both are graduating seniors and are valedictorians in their class.FOX NEWS HITS THIRD-HIGHEST YOUTUBE MONTH EVER IN APRIL, NEARLY QUADRUPLING COMPETITORS Throughout her academic career, Parker has received the Harvard Book Award, Advanced Placement Chemistry Award and was additionally honored as a National Merit Scholarship Commended Student. In the fall, she will be attending Stony Brook University and plans to study environmental biology. Parker is the daughter of a Fox News Media video editor.Sonne is a leader at Model United Nations and received the George Eastman Young Leaders Award. She has received her EMT certification and has dedicated her time with the Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps. She will be attending the University of Virginia this fall. Sonne is the daughter of a senior executive at FOX Nation.FOX NEWS SPOTLIGHT AWARDS RECOGNIZE TEAM MEMBERS WHO WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND IN 2025″The scholarship really celebrates so much of my father’s memory, his love for learning, and we’re really excited to congratulate Amanda and Tess, Daniel Krauthammer told Fox News’ Bret Baier. “It’s fun to see each year what these kids are interested in. And it looks like these two are into the sciences — Amanda in ecology and Tess in medicine. And as you know, my father spent a lot of his early life in those areas. And even though he found his way to writing in politics, I know he’d say that learning in any area enriches every other. So we’re very happy for them.””It just makes me think so much that he would love what this scholarship is doing, encouraging the love of learning among these kids, and we’re so happy to congratulate them,” he added.Dr. Charles Krauthammer was a regular presence on Fox News Channel, providing sharp political analysis as a panelist on programs like “Special Report” and “Fox News Sunday” from 2002 until his passing in 2018.CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MEDIA AND CULTURE NEWSFox News Media established the Dr. Charles Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship in 2018. Winners receive a stipend per college year for a maximum of four years. The program is conducted through the National Merit Scholarship Program by the independent, non-profit National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), including deciding winners and the administration of their awards.

Thousands of Christians have been killed, leaving over 400 widows struggling for survival after being displaced by Fulani Islamic extremists. Photo by Antonio Graceffo.
Driving from Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja toward Jos, one enters the kill zone where thousands of Christians have been slaughtered or abducted already this year. Along the way, we stopped in Miango Community, which is now supporting hundreds of widows and orphans whose families were killed when their villages were attacked by Fulani Muslim extremists.
Gastron, a community leader, explained that over the past nine years, the Fulani have been attacking the Christian community on a regular basis. To date, he said that 1,237 Christians have been killed, while 538 women have lost their husbands.
“But some of them have died after their husbands were killed. Some have remarried. So we have over 400 widows.”
Many of the women were injured in the same attacks that killed their husbands, while most lost other members of their families, including their children.
A number of women came forward and shared their horrific stories. All had lost their husbands, and many had seen their children killed by the Fulani.
One woman was hit by small-arms fire, which left her with a disfiguring facial scar and caused her hand to be amputated. Another woman saw her husband and her children trapped in their family’s home, which the Fulani set ablaze. In each of these attacks, Christian casualties ranged from tens to hundreds, and all resulted in the community having to flee.
According to Gastron, over 22,000 residential homes have been burned, and more than 23,000 farmlands have been either grazed or chopped down.
“In fact, just yesterday, we had several of our communities whose farmlands were chopped down.”
To destroy the crops, the Fulani are reported to attack entire fields with machetes. Alternatively, they simply allow their cattle to eat the crops, and if the Christians protest, the Fulani return in large numbers and kill them.
Christian victims of extremist violence are suspicious of how, in a country where private gun ownership is largely illegal, the Fulani are armed with AK-47s and even RPGs, while the Christians have almost nothing.
Some communities have instituted a community watch program, where a limited number of hunters, armed with bows and arrows or muskets and machetes, attempt to keep watch around the clock, but the need to work limits the amount of time they can spend patrolling the perimeter.
What is more, the Fulani come in groups of anywhere from twenty to up to a hundred or more on motorcycles. The village security guards are therefore severely outnumbered and heavily outgunned, even in the best of circumstances.
With no husbands and no land to farm, and some having permanent injuries, the widows need as much help as they can get. Consequently, Gastron’s community organizes a widows’ support day once a month, when Gastron and other leaders meet with the women, pray with them, and give them spiritual support. When possible, they also provide some material assistance, such as sacks of food.
“We also have close to 2,000 children who lost their parents to these attacks. So sometimes we try to assist them with school fees and other needs,” said Gastron.
However, money is in very short supply in Nigeria, where salaries can range from $15 to $20 per month, and unemployment is extremely high. As a result, over 30% of the population lives in poverty. In this part of the country, over 60% of the population lives in poverty.
“I coordinated that, reaching out to close to 200,000 people, just giving out relief materials as they come in,” said Gastron, who is a kind of miracle worker, making small donations stretch to support a tremendous population of displaced people.
Being Christian motivates not only Gastron but the entire community. He explained that in other countries, there are internally displaced persons camps (IDP). However, in Nigeria, real camps in the sense of those he has written about in Burma, Syria, and Iraq, where people live under plastic tarps or tents, are uncommon. The more frequent scenario is that a displaced Christian community is absorbed into another Christian community.
“We have never had a camp. So, communities that have been attacked, we absorb all the others. They live together, they eat together, and once the attacks subside, they go back to their own communities. So we live together as a family.”
He saw clinging to Christian values as a form of defiance in the face of evil.
“Because the Bible says that true religion is taking care of widows and orphans and sojourners. So my heart goes to them.”
Victims of extremism in Nigeria repeatedly referenced the Bible and demonstrated that their faith remained strong despite the ongoing persecution. The charity resulting from that faith is the one thing that is preventing a horrible situation from spiraling completely out of control and adding to the suffering of the displaced.
Gateway Pundit journalist, Antonio Graceffo, meets with victims of Fulani Islamic extremist attacks in Nigeria.
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Joe Kaufman knows what it’s like to lose a close race in a historically Democratic District. In fact, in the 2024 election cycle, Kaufman ran in the closest congressional race in the state, narrowly losing in the 23rd district to incumbent Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., a two-term congressman who has sought to build a moderate profile.Florida has just completed its redistricting process, and this time around, Kaufman is confident that he can win, despite the Republicans facing headwinds.Kaufman confirmed to Fox News Digital that in 2026, he will be running in the new 25th District, although it remains unclear exactly who his opponent will be or if he faces a primary challenger.Moskowitz said on Monday that if he runs, it will be in the 25th District, while it appears that incumbent Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who would be seeking her 12th term in Congress, is also weighing running in the same district.DEMOCRAT PRAISES STEVE SCALISE FOR QUICK ACTION DURING WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER SHOOTINGKaufman brings a battle-tested strategy and message to the race, on the heels of his near-victory in 2024:”Yes, we had 48% of the vote. It was the closest race in all of Florida and the highest percentage of any Republican to ever run for that seat. But back then, I got in very late in the game and this time around our numbers are much better, and we’ve been able to form those coalitions that we needed to last time. We’ve done that now, and I will win this seat this time.”Kaufman bills himself as a “terrorist hunter” and brings strong foreign policy credentials to the table.”I do counter-terrorism research, writing and lectures.” He says he’s been involved in “the shutdown of terrorist charities and the imprisonment of terror-related individuals. Recently, I led the shutdown of a pro-Hamas conference that was to take place in Coral Springs, and the organizers, including CAIR and the South Florida Muslim Federation, they were upset, so they sued me and the Marriott Corporation in federal court. They sued us not once, but twice and I’m proud to say that we won not once, but twice.””He says in regard to foreign policy, “I’ve been very involved these past few years in what’s been taking place. 17 years ago, I was honored to co-found a group called Cyrus Force with his majesty, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, who we believe is going to be soon to be a future leader of Iran.”Despite being a foreign policy hawk, Kaufman is opposed to putting troops on the ground in Iran.”No, I don’t support ground troops, at least not from the United States. I don’t want to see what took place in wars past happen here with seeing Americans come back in body bags. I feel the same way about our friends in Israel. “But there are third parties that want to get involved, and I say, give them the green light to do so. So, if there’s any ground troops…they shouldn’t be from America or Israel. It should be from these third parties.”Kaufman is a strong advocate for vocational training in high school, and a critic of the Affordable Care Act.”Well, for one thing, I support putting vocational training in all of the high schools in America. And it’s a project I want to initiate as a congressman. Too many kids today are staying home with their parents after they graduate high school. They need to have real job skills so they could make money, get out of their parents’ homes, be able to have their own families, and eventually, purchase their own house of their own. “Also, I don’t like the Affordable Care Act. It was never affordable. It’s been taking hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies, thanks to the Democrats. And I think we need a new health care system that costs the American government less and costs the American taxpayer less and better quality. And I think we could have that without Obamacare.”OBAMACARE PREMIUMS SET TO SPIKE AGAIN AS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FACES 2026 RATE HIKE PRESSUREHistorically, the party of the incumbent president loses seats in midterm elections the vast majority of the time. In what is widely believed to be a difficult year ahead for Republicans, Kaufman acknowledges the current engagement in Iran and the lingering effects of Biden-era inflation as challenges.”Well, a lot of it has to do with the war overseas, but I believe that that’s going to be short term. I think that’s, that’s going to end soon. Also, with regards to inflation, we’re still dealing with the Biden years where Joe Biden initiated very heavy inflation for our country.”And thank you, President Trump, for doing the things that would bring inflation down. So I’m looking forward to low inflation, better affordability and very soon an end to the war, and results overseas that allow us to have peace in the Middle East and more peace in world.”Kaufman says the Democratic Party is fundamentally broken, and Republicans can win on messaging in 2026.”Well, the Democrats, they’ve allowed people, an untold amount of people, to cross our borders, some of which have been terrorists and members of terror cells. They’ve hurt the values in the United States. They’ve destroyed our healthcare system with an Affordable Care Act that was never affordable. They’ve done everything possible to destroy our nation, and we need to make that change.”

If it’s working at the MLB level, we might as well start gauging the temperature of the ABS challenge system in college baseball.At least that’s the thought process inside the Southeastern Conference offices in Birmingham, Alabama, as the SEC tournament approaches in three weeks.Since officially arriving this season in Major League Baseball, there has been an uptick in conversation surrounding the Automated Balls and Strikes mechanism that has seen plenty of fanfare in the professional ranks.The crowd has seemed to enjoy the crazy moments that come when a player challenges a pitch, and most notably when a pitcher decides to try their luck with a challenge that ends up making them look even worse than the throw itself.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Now, there will be ABS at the college baseball level, with the SEC submitting a proposal to the NCAA for them to be able to use the system later this month in Hoover, Alabama.After first being tested in the minor leagues, and only arriving at the MLB level this year, the concept allows pitchers, batters or catchers to challenge a call made by the home plate umpire on whether the pitch was a ball or strike.MLB ump’s blown strike call overturned by ABS leaves announcer stunned: ‘Yikes’In the MLB, teams are only afforded two challenges per game.But, there will be a difference when SEC teams take to the mound later this month with the ABS system.At the SEC Tournament, each team will be given three challenges to start the game, with an additional challenge given if said contest were to go into extra innings.Ole Miss football players arrested on DUI charges, marking third incident in two weeksWho knows how this will turn out, but I would imagine this brings an extra bit of juice to each game in Alabama, especially for those in attendance.”The introduction of this challenge system at the SEC Tournament reflects our continued commitment to innovation,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “This addition represents a continued step forward for our game, aligns more closely with the professional level and supports the development of our student-athletes as they prepare for success at the next level.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM How will the SEC set up the new system for its tournament?The Hoover Met will be equipped with cameras, which will track the movement of the baseball. This is how the automated system can place the location of the ball within the strike zone.•     Measurements of each player will be gathered prior to each team’s first game of the SEC Tournament. This will determine the appropriate strike zone for each individual player based on each player’s height.•     Each team will start a game with three challenges. The challenge must be initiated immediately after the conclusion of the prior pitch, provided that if there is an ensuing play on a runner (including a batter-runner), or an appeal of a check-swing, the call may be challenged immediately upon the conclusion of the ensuing play.The question is whether this will be implemented on a full-time basis within the conference moving forward. That is something SEC officials will discuss over the next few months during meetings, and maybe we start to see this being used more in the future.Obviously, this would not have been implemented at the conference tournament without SEC coaches being on board with the move.This should spice things up a bit in the southern heat of Alabama later this month.