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Top handicapper gives GOP’s Tim Sheehy edge against Democrat Jon Tester in Montana race shift
The Senate race in Montana was shifted toward Republicans on Thursday by a top political handicapper as the weeks wind down to the November election. The seat currently held by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., was changed to “lean Republican” by the Cook Political Report after long being considered a “toss up.” The move comes just days after a different political handicapper similarly decided that Republicans were favored to win the Senate seat. FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS: TRUMP LOSES HIS EDGE AS WE BRACE AGAIN FOR POST-DEBATE IMPACT Republican candidate Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, is now expected to win the race against incumbent Tester, per the handicappers. Tester was first elected in 2006 and his last re-election bid in the state, won twice by former President Trump, did not coincide with a presidential election. ROGERS ADDRESSES ABORTION AMID SLOTKIN ATTACKS: ‘MICHIGAN VOTERS HAVE ALREADY DECIDED’ But this time, the incumbent Democrat must share the ticket with Vice President Kamala Harris and face off against the Republican ticket led by Trump. The latest race rating changes follow an AARP poll earlier this month that showed Sheehy with a clear lead over Tester. Sheehy defeated Tester 51%-45% in a two-person race and 49%-41% in a multi-candidate field, per the poll. GOP SENATOR PUSHES FOR GOOGLE SUBPOENAS OVER TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT SEARCH RESULTS Montana is considered Republicans’ key to gaining the majority in the next Congress, as the seat being vacated by Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., is already expected to be handily won by Republicans. With pickups in both of these states and no losses, Republicans will take the upper chamber’s majority. TOP 5 MOMENTS DURING TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: ‘I’M TALKING NOW’ The shift in favor of Republicans as it relates to Senate races is occurring at the same time as Trump is appearing to lose his edge in some critical states, according to the most recent Fox News Power Rankings. Both North Carolina and Georgia, which were once considered Republican strongholds, are now rated toss-ups in the presidential race. With these presidential race shifts by Fox News Power Rankings, Harris has taken the overall lead in the forecast for the first time. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Questions over Vindman’s military records evolve into campaign finance probe for super PAC ties
A Virginia congressional candidate whose brother was a star witness in the first then-President Donald Trump impeachment is facing allegations of campaign finance violations and misrepresenting his military record. The campaign staff of Eugene Vindman, a Democratic candidate in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, referred press inquiries about the candidate’s military record to VoteVets, a political action committee (PAC) that supports progressive military veterans running for office. VoteVets has endorsed Vindman, a former Army infantry officer and Army lawyer. Two watchdog groups – the Functional Government Initiative and the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust – allege in separate complaints to the Federal Election Commission that this is illegal coordination between the campaign and the super PAC. The FEC complaints allege VoteVets PAC provided a service to the Vindman campaign by managing its press inquiries. VINDMAN WINS THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY FOR VIRGINIA’S 7TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT “The law is quite clear that providing a service to a campaign is an in-kind contribution. Communication is something a campaign usually pays for, not having a super PAC make statements,” Kendra Arnold, executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), told Fox News Digital. Eugene Vindman is the brother of retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a former National Security Council member who testified in the 2019 House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This led to Trump’s first House Democrat-led impeachment. Eugene Vindman is running against Republican Derrick Anderson, a former Army Green Beret. FACT is basing its complaint on a documented email exchange between a Washington Free Beacon reporter, Vindman’s campaign manager and Travis Tazelaar, the political director VoteVets PAC. “We have seen campaigns push the limits with super PACs, but this is not just pushing the limits. It’s an explicit in-kind contribution,” Arnold said. VINDMAN SAYS MUSK SHOULD BE ‘NERVOUS’ AFTER TELEGRAM CEO WAS ARRESTED: ‘FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTISTS WEIRDOS’ Last month, Vindman’s campaign manager Jeremy Levinson said in the email to a Washington Free Beacon reporter, “I am looping in VoteVets who is going to be providing comments on our behalf to your initial inquiry.” The campaign manager added, “All future questions on this matter or any matters can be directed to him.” To say “or any matters” is problematic, Arnold said. “The traditional timeline for an FEC investigation is long. We hope they can expedite this case given the circumstances,” Arnold said. “The Vindman campaign referred the press to VoteVets on this and any other issues.” In this case, Tazelaar responded to the Free Beacon’s media inquiry with a statement on Vindman’s behalf. A Vindman campaign spokesperson was dismissive of the FEC complaints. WWII VETERAN RECEIVES STANDING OVATION, ‘USA’ CHANTS AFTER MOVING SPEECH “The bottom line is that we worked with the coordinated side of the VoteVets organization on the response to the Free Beacon outreach,” a Vindman campaign spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “The FEC rules are clear that this interaction does not violate its rules and would not constitute an in-kind contribution.” Similarly, David Mitrani, the general counsel to VoteVets, said there was no FEC violation. “The claims made in Functional Government Initiative’s complaint is simply false,” Mitrani told Fox News Digital in a statement. “VoteVets’ activities are in full compliance with campaign finance laws.” The statement only addressed one complaint. In a follow-up email, a VoteVets spokesperson said the statement was intended to address complaints from both the Functional Government Initiative and the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust. The six-member Federal Election Commission is equally made up of Republicans and Democrats and rulings often end in tie votes. Federal law on coordinated communication, or 11 CFR 109.21(h); 11 C.F.R. 106.1(c)(1), covers when campaign work “is paid for, in whole or in part, by a person other than that candidate, authorized committee, or political party committee.” The law also prohibits an outside “vendor,” within 120 days of the election from developing “media strategy, including the selection or purchasing of advertising slots,” developing “the content of a public communication,” and “producing a public communication.” The controversy over campaign finance laws stems from the questions over Vindman’s military record. ‘STOLEN VALOR’ LETTER DEALS POLITICAL BLOW TO WALZ AS HE TOUTS MILITARY RECORD AT DNC AND MORE TOP HEADLINES Vindman’s GOP opponent Derrick Anderson said Vindman “should answer all these legitimate questions about inflating his military resume.” “I respect that he served in the military, but voters deserve answers – not another D.C. politician that hides from them,” Anderson told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Right now, Vindman won’t even debate me on TV because he’s not willing to answer questions about the simple fact that he’s not being straight with voters about his resume.” CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP Vindman had previously said he “fought for our nation in combat,” however a 2019 Daily Mail article said Vindman “has not seen combat.” In mid-August, the Washington Free Beacon reported that when it contacted the Vindman campaign, campaign chief Levinson copied VoteVets Tazelaar and referred “all future questions” to the PAC. In its response to the Beacon, the VoteVets spokesperson reportedly said, “There was no front line in Iraq — and the Vindman family was grateful that Eugene was able to return home unscathed while so many other of our brothers and sisters in arms did not.”
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Alberto Gonzales becomes latest Bush alum to endorse Harris
Alberto Gonzales became the latest alum who served under the George W. Bush administration to endorse Democrat Vice President Harris for president. Gonzales, who described himself as the “only lawyer in American history to serve both as White House counsel and as attorney general,” laid out his stance in an op-ed published in Politico on Thursday. “As the United States approaches a critical election, I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump — perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation — eyes a return to the White House. For that reason, though I’m a Republican, I’ve decided to support Kamala Harris for president,” Gonzales wrote. “Power is intoxicating and based on Trump’s rhetoric and conduct it appears unlikely that he would respect the power of the presidency in all instances; rather, he would abuse it for personal and political gain, and not on behalf of the American people.” Gonzales took issue with the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Trump v. United States that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official – but not unofficial – acts committed while in office. WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS WHO ADVISED REAGAN, BUSH ENDORSE HARRIS OVER TRUMP IN 2024 SHOWDOWN “The character of the person we elect in November is particularly important today because the current members of the House of Representatives and the Senate have proven spectacularly incapable or unwilling to check abuses of executive power,” he wrote. “While the U.S. Supreme Court is certainly capable of curbing presidential power, the court has recently ruled that certain restraints on presidential acts would be unconstitutional.” The question of presidential immunity stemmed from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case against Trump. Gonzales took jabs at Trump’s conduct during the riot at the U.S. Capitol, before turning back to the ruling, which has left many of the former president’s cases in limbo while he continues to campaign before his November matchup against Harris. “Any discussion about fidelity to the rule of law has to include Trump’s 34 state felony convictions, his state civil financial judgment of libel based on sexual abuse, as well as the pending federal elections interference case, not to mention the recently dismissed federal documents case that Special Counsel Jack Smith is continuing to pursue,” Gonzales wrote. “Standing alone, these charges, convictions and judgments show that Trump is someone who fails to act, time and time again, in accordance with the rule of law. There is little evidence that he has the integrity and character to responsibly wield the power of the presidency within the limits of the law. And no amount of rationalization to support Trump because of his policies can overcome the disqualification of this man based on his lack of integrity.” While admitting to having spoken with Trump only once and not really knowing him, Gonzales said “it is telling, however, that several senior officials who worked for him in the White House now refuse to support him, including his vice president, chief of staff, defense secretary and national security adviser.” For Harris, the former Bush official assessed she does not have the same level of foreign policy experience as Biden. Gonzales argued that Harris, who has served as the Biden administration’s border czar, should be off the hook for Biden’s economic policies and the border crisis, writing that a vice president “has little to no influence on economic policy” and “may provide input, but it is the president who is the ultimate decision-maker.” He said Congress is as much to blame as Biden for high prices for childcare, housing, gasoline, and groceries, while “Trump and his supporters in Congress assumed partial responsibility for the tough border situation when they killed bipartisan legislation in order to help Trump’s election chances.” “We do not yet know exactly how Harris will govern if she is elected,” he wrote. “Casting a vote for Harris will require the American people to place their faith in her character and judgment. Some may see her as too progressive and worry she would be too easily manipulated. There is little mystery or doubt, however, about how Trump will act and govern based on past behavior and comments. He will help those who help him and his family for personal or financial reasons. He will likely pull back from our leadership role among other democracies in the fight against authoritarianism.” BUSH STAYS SILENT ON HOW HE WILL VOTE IN 2024: REPORT “Harris, meanwhile, has sworn fidelity to the rule of law as a former local prosecutor and state attorney general,” Gonzales wrote. Last month, a dozen Republican White House lawyers who served in the administrations of then-Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush endorsed Harris in a letter released after she formally accepted her nomination in a speech at the Democratic National Convention. “We endorse Kamala Harris and support her election as President because we believe that returning former President Trump to office would threaten American democracy and undermine the rule of law in our country,” the lawyers wrote in a letter that the signatories shared first with Fox News Digital. The two George W. Bush administration officials who joined the letter were John B. Bellinger III, who served as Senior Associate Counsel to the President and Legal Adviser to the NSC, and John M. Mitnick, who served as Associate Counsel to the President and Deputy Counsel for the White House Homeland Security Council. George W. Bush’s former vice president, Dick Cheney, announced last week that he would go against his party’s candidate and support Harris in November. In a statement, Cheney wrote that “in our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.” Trump responded to Cheney’s endorsement by calling the former vice president
Fox News Power Rankings: Trump loses his edge as we brace again for post-debate impact
Former President Donald Trump has lost his edge in Georgia and North Carolina in the latest Fox News Power Rankings, giving Vice President Kamala Harris a lead in the overall forecast for the first time. However, with six toss-up states on the map worth a combined 78 electoral votes, this election is still anyone’s game. Debate watchers declared Harris the winner of Tuesday’s presidential debate. In a flash poll conducted by CNN in the hours after the showdown, 63% of watchers said they thought Harris had a better performance, and 37% said Trump did. FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS ISSUES TRACKER: TRUMP LEADS ON TWO TOP ISSUES, BUT HARRIS IS GAINING GROUND Trump made headlines for unfounded claims about migrants eating pets and a rebuttal about the size of his rallies, leaving Harris, who stayed on topic and made appeals to moderates, largely out of the conversation after the debate. When Trump was able to communicate effectively, he told voters that the nation was in decline because of the cost of living and illegal immigration. Issues polling continues to show that it is a strong message. As with any major event, it will take a few weeks to assess the debate’s impact on the horse race. Polling shifts after previous debates in the Trump era have been modest. For example, President Biden’s abysmal performance in June cost him his candidacy but only two points in an average of high quality polls taken in the two weeks after the debate. In 2020, political observers called Trump the clear loser of the first debate after he aggressively interrupted his opponent and the moderator, but he only lost a point in post-debate polls. Biden saw no change at all in his level of support after the more evenly matched second debate. However, a point or two means a lot in races that could be decided by only a few thousand votes, so do not confuse “modest” for “inconsequential.” The national race is still tight as a tick, and Trump’s support is steady despite this unprecedented news cycle. Over the last 12 months of the Fox News Poll, between 48-50% of registered voters have said they supported Trump. Criminal indictments, a conviction, the primaries, a last-minute change in opponents and an assassination attempt did nothing to move the former president out of that three-point range. In other words, while Trump has not gained any support over the last year, he has not lost any support either. He remains very competitive in this race. The Democrats’ numbers have improved. While Biden polled as low as 45% earlier this year, Harris is now only one point behind Trump at 49% in the latest Fox national survey. A series of recent polls from the New York Times/Siena, Marist, Pew and the Wall Street Journal show a similarly even race. Harris’ gains extend to the battleground states, where two races are moving in her direction. Last election, Biden’s closest win was in Georgia, which he flipped on a 0.2-point margin, and Trump’s closest win was in North Carolina, which he kept by 1.3 points. With Harris as the nominee, both states are just as competitive today. FOX NEWS POLL: HARRIS CLOSES GAP WITH TRUMP IN SUN BELT STATES In Georgia, Trump is ahead by three points in a Quinnipiac poll among likely voters released last week (49%-46%) and leads by seven points in Siena’s registered voter survey from early August (51%-44%). However, Harris edges Trump by one point in CNN’s recent likely voter poll (48%-47%) and is ahead by two in Fox’s August survey (50%-48%). Democrats always perform well in the Atlanta metropolitan area, which contains highly populated counties like Fulton and DeKalb and makes up more than 60% of the state’s residents. Republicans run up the margins in the rural areas, and Trump has consistently brought them out to vote. Harris kicked off a bus tour in the southeastern city of Savannah last month as she attempts to chip away at the margins there. In nearby North Carolina, Harris has three points over Trump in Quinnipiac’s likely voter poll last week (50%-47%) and had the same margin in Siena’s registered voter poll from early August (49%-46%). Trump is up by one point in Fox’s August survey (50%-49%). North Carolina has become more competitive as its population has grown. Over the last full decade, North Carolina added roughly 1.1 million people, many of them in suburban counties like Mecklenburg and Wake. The pandemic brought more wealthy, urban Americans from surrounding states, another sign that Republican victories may not be a sure thing anymore. Georgia and North Carolina moved from Lean R to Toss Up. Harris continues to have an edge in Michigan in this forecast. Biden won the state by just under three points in 2020, and voters have delivered the Democrats important victories since that race. The GOP also has a weaker ground game there than in other must-win states. Harris leads this forecast with 241 electoral votes. Since Georgia and North Carolina have moved out of Trump’s column and are now toss-ups, he has 219 electoral votes. That leaves 78 toss-up votes up for grabs across six battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. States that poll close in an election tend to be won and lost together. Trump won seven of the eight battlegrounds in 2016 (the states listed above plus Michigan and Nebraska’s second district), and Biden flipped six of the same eight in 2020. Ballot measures that propose abortion rights guarantees in Arizona and Nevada could make those states outliers in a very close election. Those measures had support from three-quarters of voters in recent Fox News surveys. However, the forecast shows that either candidate needs to win the bulk of the toss-up states to get to victory at 270 electoral votes. If Harris has a good night by winning the six toss-ups, she reaches 319 electoral votes. Without them, she loses. Conversely, a good night for Trump would see
9/11 survivors with potentially fatal illnesses left out of controversial plea deal talks: attorneys
FIRST ON FOX: Thousands of 9/11 survivors with potentially fatal illnesses from that day were not included in controversial plea deal negotiations, attorneys for the victims told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. “Not one of our clients has called us and said, ‘The chief military prosecutor reached out to me for my opinion on whether or not the terrorists should be subject to the death penalty.’ And we think that is simply wrong, not fair and that they could do a much better job outreaching to the entire health community, in addition to the families that lost loved ones on that fateful day itself,” 9/11 attorney Troy Rosasco told Fox News Digital. There are more than 37,000 9/11 victims, many of whom are first responders from all over the country who traveled to New York City to help that day, suffering from various cancers. And more New York Fire Department firefighters have died from 9/11-related illnesses than the number of people who died that day, Axios reported Wednesday. VANCE SLAMS 9/11 PLEA DEAL DURING RALLY: ‘NEED A PRESIDENT WHO KILLS TERRORISTS, NOT NEGOTIATES WITH THEM’ Last month, the Defense Department stunningly backtracked on a plea deal that Pentagon prosecutors agreed to last year with three of the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks who await trial in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The deal that stirred national outrage and took the death penalty off of the table was revoked by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III in a terse memo. A judge has still not signed off on Austin’s reversal. BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION BACKTRACKS, REVOKES PLEA DEAL FOR 9/11 TERRORISTS “We need to know where people stand on this, and we support the decision of Secretary Austin,” Dan Hansen, another 9/11 attorney, told Fox News Digital. Hansen and Rosasco represent more than 1,000 9/11 survivors who are part of the World Trade Center Health Program. They said many of their clients have lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer and “all cancers that relate to the parts of their bodies that were exposed by breathing and eating toxic dust, cancers of the esophagus, the mouth, nasal, pharyngeal cancer.” 9/11 MASTERMIND, 2 OTHERS STRIKE PLEA DEALS WHILE AWAITING TRIAL; FAMILIES OF VICTIMS ‘VERY DISAPPOINTED’ “These cancers are getting more and more predominant given the passage of time,” Hansen said. “And these are not 100-year old, 90-year-old people. These are people in their 50s and 60s getting all sorts of oddball cancers that we know are related to 9/11.” Rosaco added that survivors are “entitled to have the government listen to their opinion because they are the ones who are suffering today with illnesses, some of which are leading to death.” “Those are homicides too as far as we’re concerned,” Hansen said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The defendants of the plea deal are accused of providing training, financial support and other assistance to the 19 terrorists who hijacked passenger jets and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Sept. 11, 2001. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil in American history. Fox News Digital’s Stepheny Price and Bill Mears contributed to this report.
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Dem congressman says Trump should talk about dropping out after debate
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., suggested former President Donald Trump should consider dropping out of the presidential race following his performance in Tuesday night’s debate. Moskowitz issued a statement on Wednesday titled, “Trump’s ability to continue campaign,” and it echoed sentiment aimed at President Biden following his clash with Trump earlier this year. “If we are being honest, last night’s debate performance by former President Donald Trump was disastrous and hard to watch,” Moskowitz said. “I believe now is the time for the former President to have those difficult conversations about whether or not he should continue serving as the Republican Party’s nominee for President,” he continued. “For now, I want to give him the space to meet with his family and make that decision.” TRUMP SAYS PROJECT 2025 ‘GOES WAY TOO FAR’ WITH ABORTION RESTRICTIONS Polls from the debate show most viewers believe Harris came out on top. A CNN poll of debate watchers had 63% saying Harris won by the end of their 90-minute contest, compared to 37% for Trump. Nevertheless, Trump’s performance has not set off the widespread shock and concern among Republicans that surged through the Democratic Party following Biden’s debate performance in July. That concern ultimately forced Biden out of the race, endorsing Harris instead. ABC DEBATE MODERATORS SPARK FURY FOR AGGRESSIVE FACT-CHECKING OF TRUMP, EASY TREATMENT OF HARRIS Contacted regarding Moskowitz’ statement on Wednesday, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung replied, “Moskowitz is a f****** moron,” according to The Hill. Trump reacted to his performance late Tuesday night on “Hannity,” saying he believes it was his “best debate ever,” though he lashed out at ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. ABC’S LINSEY DAVIS RAISES EYEBROWS WITH ABORTION FACT-CHECK AGAINST TRUMP: ‘COMPLETELY INTERJECTS HERSELF’ “I thought it was really good. We had three against one, but I anticipated it,” he said. Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump about reports Harris’ campaign wants a second debate in October, and whether he would be open to it. Fox News has extended a formal invitation to both the Trump and Harris campaigns for a second debate next month. “She wants it because she lost,” Trump responded. “I don’t know. I have to think about it. But if you won the debate, I sort of think maybe I shouldn’t do it. Why should I do another debate? She immediately said we want another debate. That’s… you know what happens when you’re a prizefighter, and you lose? You immediately want a new fight.”