Atishi to be Delhi’s new CM: LG proposes AAP leader’s swearing-in ceremony on this date
The Delhi LG has also proposed September 21 as the date for swearing in of Atishi as Delhi’s new Chief Minister.
‘Vocally anti-Trump’ FBI agent leading probe of Florida assassination attempt: whistleblower
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s lead agent probing the second assassination attempt on former President Trump’s life allegedly posted anti-Trump rhetoric on social media, according to a whistleblower’s account to Congress last year – though the bureau calls these claims “demonstrably false.” Jeffrey Veltri is the FBI’s special agent in charge of its Miami bureau, which oversees neighboring areas, such as West Palm Beach, where suspect Ryan Routh was arrested on Sunday after being accused of pointing a gun at the former president and current GOP presidential nominee. Veltri took the podium during a Monday press conference, reassuring the public that the FBI was digging in and investigating thoroughly. “We view this as extremely serious and are determined to provide answers as to what led up to the events that took place,” Veltri said. TRUMP BLAMES BIDEN-HARRIS ‘RHETORIC’ FOR LATEST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, SAYS HE WILL ‘SAVE THE COUNTRY’ “I want to emphasize we are just a little over 24 hours into this investigation, so we are going to provide as much as we can publicly while our investigation is ongoing,” he added. “We must also stress the U.S. attorney’s office is pursuing charges, and that limits some details we can publicly disclose.” TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: SECRET SERVICE 400 EMPLOYEES SHORT OF WHAT CONGRESS AUTHORIZED: REPORT But soon after Veltri’s appearance, reports resurfaced on social media outlining an FBI whistleblower’s claims last year to the House Judiciary Committee that Veltri was allegedly ordered by the FBI to delete anti-Trump social media posts. The accusations first emerged in a Washington Times article in November. Veltri was named special agent in charge of the Miami field office in March 2023. “The home of President Donald Trump is located in the area of responsibility of the Miami Field Office. It was well known that Veltri was adamantly and vocally Anti-Trump,” the whistleblower said in the disclosure, the outlet reported last year. “Wray, Abbate and Moore wanted to ensure that Veltri appeared non-political, Veltri was ordered to remove all of his Facebook and Social media posts that were Anti-Trump.” TRUMP REVEALS ‘WEAKNESS’ IN EFFORTS TO KEEP HIM SAFE, SAYS HIS TEAM HAS ‘LONG REQUESTED’ MORE MANPOWER The whistleblower alleged that top FBI brass, including FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, Deputy Director Paul Abbate and Executive Assistant Director Jennifer Moore were involved in directing Veltri to scrub his social media accounts. The person also charged that FBI leaders were not concerned with Veltri’s apparent anti-Trump bias, but whether “information related to Veltri’s political bias can be removed from the public domain.” The 2023 report resurfaced this week as news broke that Trump was targeted in a second assassination attempt at his golf club in West Palm Beach. Conservatives on social media resurrected the article, slamming Veltri for allegedly having a “history of anti-Trump posts” while now leading the investigation into the attempt on Trump’s life. The FBI denied the whistleblower’s claims last year, when headlines first surfaced. TRUMP SHOOTING PLOT SUSPECT ROUTH WAS INTERVIEWED BY NYT ON UKRAINE WAR EFFORTS IN 2023: ‘SOUNDED RIDICULOUS’ “Special Agent in Charge Veltri was selected through a competitive process to lead the Miami field office and is charged with carrying out the FBI mission in a fair and unbiased manner,” the FBI said at the time. “The reported allegations about political bias impacting decisions, the targeting of former military employees, and SAC Veltri’s social media accounts and posts are demonstrably false.” More recently, the agency said it has “full confidence” in Veltri’s leadership overseeing the investigation. An FBI official additionally told Fox News Digital this week that bureau leadership did not ask or require Veltri to remove any alleged social media posts. “The FBI has full confidence in SAC Veltri’s leadership of the Miami Field Office and the investigation of the attempted assassination of former President Trump. This investigation is of the highest priority of the FBI. We are working closely with our partners and have hundreds of personnel from FBI Headquarters, Quantico, and multiple field offices supporting these efforts. All of us in the FBI are committed to conducting this investigation by the book, following the facts where they lead,” the FBI said in a statement to Fox Digital. Veltri was again cited by a whistleblower this year alleging the bureau improperly suspended security clearances for agents with “conservative views.” The whistleblower’s legal representative, Tristan Leavitt, argued the DOJ Inspector General should conduct a full audit of alleged abuse of security clearances, pointing to Veltri specifically. “In light of SecD’s [FBI’s Security Division’s] pattern of abuse of the security clearance process and retaliation against SecD employees who try to stop that abuse, I also request that the OIG conduct a full review of the FBI’s security clearance process, how it has been abused – particularly by Dena Perkins and Jeffrey Veltri – and the role of FBI leadership in allowing these abuses to multiply,” Leavitt wrote in the complaint. RYAN ROUTH, ARMED MAN ARRESTED AT TRUMP GOLF COURSE, POSTED PROLIFICALLY ABOUT TRUMP, POLITICS Veltri joined the FBI in 2002 as a special agent, where he took on assignments such as deploying to Iraq in 2006 to support the Regime Crime Liaison Office, serving as a supervisory special agent with the Cyber Division at FBI Headquarters in 2011 and heading up the agency’s Civil Rights Unit in 2016, according to a press release in 2023 naming him as the new Miami bureau chief. The suspect in the apparent second assassination attempt against Trump this year, 58-year-old Ryan Routh, was arrested after reportedly pointing the muzzle of a rifle through a chain-link fence toward Trump on Sunday afternoon at his West Palm Beach golf club. Trump was not injured in the attack. Routh was arrested in his car on I-95 after fleeing his location near the golf course. FBI WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGES BUREAU IMPROPERLY SUSPENDED SECURITY CLEARANCE FOR AGENTS WITH ‘CONSERVATIVE VIEWS’ Routh prolifically posted on social media about world events, the war in Ukraine, politics and Trump in the lead-up to
Americans favor Trump on immigration, support mass deportation of illegal immigrants, poll finds
A new poll shows a majority of Americans support the mass deportation of migrants living illegally in the United States. The latest Scripps News/Ipsos Poll, released Wednesday, found the majority of Republicans and Independents support such a policy, while only a quarter of Democrats agree. Approximately 54% of all respondents “strongly” or “somewhat” support the idea of mass deportation, according to the poll. EX-BORDER CHIEF WARNS OF ‘SIGNIFICANT THREAT’ AS MIGRANT NUMBERS SKYROCKET: ‘ENTIRE SECTORS’ MISSING AGENTS More granular results indicate a partisan split on the issue, with approximately 86% of Republicans and 58% of independents in favor — compared to just 25% of Democrats. The poll also demonstrated that immigration remains a prominent political issue for Americans, coming close to the top of respondents’ list of concerns. GERMANY CLAMPS DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AS COUNTRY FORCED TO RETHINK POLICIES AMID VOTER ANGER Inflation was the highest-ranked priority among respondents with 57%, while immigration came in second at 39%. On the subject of immigration, respondents favored Trump (44%) to Harris (34%) as better able to handle the issue. The poll was conducted between Sept. 13 and Sept. 15 and interviewed 1,027 individuals over the age of 18. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.6 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
GOP to call on Schumer, Dems to take up border bills as they tout immigration vigilance
Republican senators will take to the Senate floor on Wednesday and call on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to bring several pieces of border legislation for votes in the chamber as Vice President Kamala Harris and vulnerable Democrats across the country make commitments to supporting border security. Led by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., the group will ask that a number of strict bills regarding the border, immigration, and cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) be considered, including the Laken Riley Act and the WALL Act, according to remarks provided by Britt’s office. “Vice President Harris now says she has changed policy positions on some of our country’s most pressing issues,” Britt will say in remarks on the floor prior to making unanimous consent requests to advance the bills. “Let’s see if her own party believes her claims, or whether they’ll defend the radical policy positions Vice President Harris has long held and the Biden-Harris Administration has imposed for these painful past few years.” SECRET SERVICE TOLD LOCALS THEY WOULD ‘TAKE CARE OF’ BUILDING USED BY THOMAS CROOKS TO SHOOT TRUMP The Alabama senator will be joined by Sens. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., James Lankford, R-Okla, and Mike Lee, R-Utah. The Laken Riley Act was named for a 22-year-old female college student in Georgia who was found dead on the University of Georgia’s campus in February. An illegal immigrant, Jose Ibarra, faces 10 counts following her death and has pleaded not guilty. ‘AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE’: SENATE REPUBLICANS CONDEMN PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY’S UN BID TO UNDERMINE ISRAEL The bill would require ICE to detain illegal immigrants who have committed theft, burglary, larceny or shoplifting offenses. Vulnerable Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., made headlines in May when he came out in support of the bill, despite blocking a vote in March on a modified version of it in the form of an amendment to a $1.2 trillion spending package. The procedural vote was struck down along party lines — with Tester voting against it. TOP SENATE DEMOCRAT ‘ANGRY’ OVER BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN ‘STONEWALLING’ AFTER TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS He notably faces an uphill battle in the Montana Senate race, with his opponent, former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, beating him in new polls and top political handicappers giving Republicans an advantage in the state. While Tester committed to supporting the bill if it came for a stand-alone vote, such votes are increasingly rare in the upper chamber and even more so when they are priorities of the minority party. Meanwhile, the WALL Act would provide $25 billion in funds for building the southern border wall. Schumer’s office did not tell Fox News Digital whether he would bring any of the Republican bills, such as the Laken Riley Act or the WALL Act, for votes following Republicans’ request. However, the majority leader has been unwilling to schedule votes on them thus far, indicating he doesn’t plan to. GOP DEMANDS TRUMP HAVE ‘SAME LEVEL’ SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION AS BIDEN AFTER 2ND ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT Harris and vulnerable Senate Democrats have used a failed immigration bill, which they have touted as “bipartisan,” despite only two Republicans voting in its favor on the most recent procedural vote, to back up their claims of wanting to secure the southern border on the campaign trail. Lankford, who will take the floor on Wednesday with Britt, was one of the negotiators of that bill, along with Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz. In recent floor remarks on the subject, he called out Harris for using the border bill in her campaign. “I mean no disrespect to the Vice President, but we had four months of negotiations, and she neither initiated those negotiations nor participated in a single second of those negotiations — not one second,” he said. The negotiated bill has been blasted by numerous Republican senators, some of whom claimed it would actually exacerbate the current situation at the southern border. Some of those GOP senators who supported pieces of the bill also suggested that the administration would not properly implement them and would use the bill’s passage as a reason not to act further on the border.
India’s richest and poorest states: Top GDP contributors, highest income earners revealed
Southern Indian states have surged ahead in GDP contribution and per capita income, while northern states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have seen declines.
Speaker Johnson warns illegal immigrant voting could ‘throw an election’ as House readies spending bill vote
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is warning that “thousands” of people residing in the U.S. illegally could shift the tides in the upcoming U.S. elections. Speaking to reporters at his weekly press conference on Wednesday, Johnson pointed out that several members of the House GOP won their elections by just a few hundred votes – or less, as in the case of Rep. Marianette Miller Meeks, R-Iowa, who won her first election by just six votes. “If you have a small percentage of the millions and billions of illegals who came over the border in the last four years under border czar Kamala Harris’ policies, they can throw an election, they can throw the majority of the House,” Johnson said. “It could affect a presidential race. It’s very, very serious stuff.” OBAMA’S HALF BROTHER RIPS BIDEN-HARRIS AGENDA WHILE HYPING SECOND TRUMP TERM: ‘WE’RE GOING TO WIN’ It comes hours before the House is set to vote on a measure extending the current fiscal year’s federal funding for another six months to avert a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1, coupled with a bill to mandate proof of citizenship in the voter registration process. That bill, the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, was deemed a nonstarter by the Democrat-controlled Senate and White House, and President Biden has threatened to veto Johnson’s government funding plan. But nevertheless, Johnson insisted the House would “do the right thing” in pressing ahead with the vote, despite a significant number of Republicans being already opposed to the federal funding aspect of the legislation. PENNSYLVANIANS OFFER MIXED ANSWERS ON WHERE HARRIS STANDS ON KEY ISSUES “We’re going to responsibly fund the government, and we’re going to stop the noncitizens voting in elections,” Johnson said. Opponents of the SAVE Act have argued it’s grounded in xenophobia and is needlessly duplicative, given it’s already illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. But Johnson and other Republicans have countered that years of progressive policies have made it easier for illegal immigrants to gain access to voter registration forms, and they have positioned the SAVE Act as an enhanced security measure to prevent illegal voting. CONSERVATIVE GROUP LAUNCHES MASSIVE VOTER REGISTRATION EFFORT IN KEY STATES “It is against federal law for non-U.S. citizens to vote in U.S. elections. But we have no mechanism right now to ensure that in the states, because they’re not allowed to ask for proof of verification of citizenship when someone registers to vote,” Johnson said. “We’ve had a number of states already do audits. They found thousands of illegals already on the rolls. This is a serious problem because some of our elections are decided by razor-thin margins, as everyone in this room and the whole press corps knows.” Currently, 14 states plus Washington, D.C. do not require any documentation to vote at the polls, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Arizona election database flags 100,000 voters as possible noncitizens: ‘Coding oversight’
A “coding oversight” in state software is calling into question the citizenship status of 100,000 registered Arizona voters, prompting the state’s Democratic secretary of state to insist he will send out ballots to those affected anyway. “I am unwilling to disenfranchise this many voters by limiting them, suddenly, and with little notice, to a federal-only ballot when none of them had actual notice of or blame for this issue,” Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said during a Tuesday news conference. “We inherited this problem, we’re on it, and we’re going to fix it. It’s as simple as that.” WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE ARIZONA SUPREME COURT’S REINSTATEMENT OF AN 1864 NEAR-TOTAL ABORTION BAN The mistake affects individuals who obtained their driver’s licenses before October 1996 and subsequently received duplicates before registering to vote after 2004. Since 2005, Arizona has required proof of U.S. citizenship for voting in state and local elections. Without this proof, these voters would be considered “federal only” voters, permitting them to vote solely on presidential and congressional elections rather than the full ballot. “We don’t have any reason to believe that anyone in this gap is not an eligible voter,” Fontes said. “We don’t have any reason to believe that they’re not eligible citizens in spite of the fact that we did find one. All we know is they fit into this category and all of this requires more research.” WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKING IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE SHOW The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office filed an emergency petition requesting the Arizona Supreme Court determine whether voters affected by the data oversight should be required to prove U.S. citizenship before the November election. Fontes said the error comes as longtime Arizona residents have been voting in elections for years under the impression that they had already provided proof of citizenship. And if the justices determine these individuals are only eligible to vote in federal races, Fontes said there will be an outreach effort to inform them. NEW POLL INDICATES WHETHER HARRIS OR TRUMP HAS THE EDGE IN THE MOST IMPORTANT BATTLEGROUND The error comes as Arizona Republicans and a conservative watchdog group have been pushing for stricter voting measures that require proof of U.S. citizenship to participate in state and national elections. Arizona is also a swing state that flipped blue in the 2020 presidential election. Last month, watchdog group America First Legal sued 15 Arizona counties for allegedly refusing to remove thousands of illegal immigrants from its voter rolls. The lawsuit claims that, as of April 2024, over 35,000 registered voters in Arizona had not provided proof of citizenship, limiting them to voting only in federal races, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. For their part, U.S. House Republicans are also attempting to attach H.R. 8281, which mandates proof of citizenship for voter registration and was passed in July, to a temporary government funding bill. Neither of Arizona’s U.S. Senate candidates, Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, responded to requests for comment by publication deadline. Get the latest updates on the ongoing border crisis from the Fox News Digital immigration hub.
Cruz interrupted by anti-Israel agitator who yelled, ‘F—ing Jews’ during hearing on ‘hate’
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was interrupted during a congressional hearing dedicated to discussing “hate” on Tuesday by an anti-Israel agitator who stood up shouting “F—ing Jews.” During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled, “A Threat to Justice Everywhere: Stemming the Tide of Hate Crimes in America,” Cruz discussed soaring antisemitism on college campuses in the wake of Oct. 7. “Antisemitism is a unique, historic form of evil, and over millennia, it is manifested in violence, mass murder and genocide,” Cruz said. “October 7th was one of the darkest days in human history when terrorists murdered over 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostages. Women and girls were raped. It was the single largest mass murder of Jews in a day since the Holocaust. In the wake of October 7th, we have seen antisemitism explode across the United States and across the world, but especially on college campuses.” After listing examples of antisemitic and pro-Hamas messages hurled toward Jewish students, Cruz called out the Biden-Harris administration. COLUMBIA ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS TO REACH ‘CRESCENDO OF INTIMIDATION’ AS SCHOOL SUFFERS LATEST BLACK EYE “Throughout all of this, the Biden-Harris administration has been utterly absent. Does anyone doubt if the Klan were on college campuses terrorizing African American students, threatening African American students, that we would see the FBI there, that we would see prosecutors there, that we would see federal funding cut off to universities? Of course we would. And we should,” Cruz said. “But when it comes to antisemitism, the Democrats have a problem. I would note this is occurring in blue states with blue governors, because the Democrat Party is terrified of the pro-Hamas wing of their party.” “In states like Texas and Florida, we don’t allow this. At the University of Texas, when violent protests threatened Jewish students, police officers arrived and arrested them. That’s what happened when you enforce the law,” Cruz continued. “Every Republican member of this committee asked the chairman to hold a hearing on antisemitism in February. And yet we don’t get a hearing on antisemitism. We get a hearing generically on hate.” Cruz was about to explain why he believes the Biden administration is to blame for this, when a man in the audience stood up and interjected, shouting profanities including “F—ing Jews,” according to video on social media. The anti-Israel agitator was then escorted out. “And this is the kind of anger and hate that is encouraged. You’re now seeing the hate manifesting right here,” Cruz said, referencing the protester. “So we now have a demonstration of antisemitism. We have a demonstration of the hate,” he added. Cruz proceeded to ask one of the witnesses, Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, “Has the Biden administration cut off the funding of any of the colleges that have allowed this hate? Have they indicted anyone for funding these violent protests? Have they indicted the people paying for the matching tents, or have they sat there silently and have the universities, sat there silently while their students are terrified to go to class?” Goldfeder responded, “They have not indicted anyone.” “Has any university had their funding cut off for allowing this sort of violent intimidation?” Cruz asked. “Not a single university,” Goldfeder said. The senator earlier referenced how the Anti-Defamation League has illustrated how the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States more than doubled from 2022 to 2023. ACTRESS SELMA BLAIR CONDEMNS ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS ‘PRAISING’ HAMAS TERRORISTS: ‘SOMETHING VERY WRONG’ Cruz said that “college campuses in particular have become vile incubators of hatred of Jews,” citing examples of how one Cornell University student made threats after Oct. 7, including statements such as “if I see a pig, male Jew, I will stab you and slit your throat. If I see another pig female Jew, I will drag you away and rape you and throw you off a cliff.” The Republican senator displayed a flier circulated by a student organization at California State University, Long Beach, calling for a “Day of Resistance” celebrating Oct. 7, noting how the flier included an image of a person parachuting with a fan attached, “a direct reference to and a glorification of Hamas terrorists that used gliders to descend upon a music festival and murder 260 innocent people and take many more hostages.” Cruz recalled that in the days after now-former Columbia University President Minouche Shafik was confronted about soaring antisemitism on campus before the House Education and the Workforce Committee in April, Rabbi Elie Buechler issued a warning to Jewish students that Columbia “cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy,” and that he “would strongly recommend” that Jewish students leave campus and go back to their homes. Cruz said the rabbi “had every reason to be concerned,” as at Columbia’s campus, individuals yelled, “We’re all Hamas! Long live Hamas!” The senator continued to list examples of antisemitism on campuses across the U.S., including the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor who was told to “go back to the gas chambers,” and displayed a photo of a student at Columbia University holding a sign reading “al-Qassam’s next targets,” in front of a group of students holding American and Israeli flags in counter-protest. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “Al-Qassam is the military arm of Hamas. According to social media, this particular student is a wealthy student from Georgia. She’s not Palestinian, but she has been taught lies and hatred, and she feels perfectly comfortable advocating the murder of her fellow students at Columbia,” Cruz said.
New poll indicates whether Harris or Trump has the edge in this key battleground state
A new poll conducted entirely after last week’s debate indicates Vice President Kamala Harris holding a three-point edge over former President Donald Trump in the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin. Harris stands at 48% support among likely voters in Wisconsin, with Trump at 45% in an AARP poll conducted Sept 11-14 and released on Wednesday. The vice president’s three-point margin over the former president is within the poll’s overall sampling error of plus or minus four points. Democrat-turned-Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – who last month suspended his campaign and backed Trump – stands at 2% support in the poll, with Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 1%. One percent said they would back a different candidate, with 2% undecided. A Wisconsin judge on Monday denied Kennedy’s request to drop his name from the presidential ballot, ruling that state law requires candidates to remain on the ballot unless they die. HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLS IN THE 2024 ELECTION Contributing to Harris’ overall edge is an 11-point advantage among independent voters, as well as an 11-point lead among women voters compared to a 7-point advantage for Trump among men. The poll also indicated a large geographic divide, with Harris far ahead among urban and suburban voters, while Trump enjoyed a large lead among rural voters. WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKING IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE SHOW The poll’s release also points out that “the educational attainment gap is large, with Trump leading non-college voters by 10-points, but Harris up 24-points among college+ voters.” When the third party and independent presidential candidates are removed from the questionnaire, the poll indicated Harris at 49% and Trump at 48% in a head-to-head match up, with 3% undecided. The AARP survey is the fourth straight poll conducted this month in Wisconsin to indicate Harris with a slight edge. Wisconsin, along with Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada, had razor-thin margins that decided the outcome of the 2020 election between Trump and President Biden. Additionally, these seven states will likely determine whether Harris or Trump wins the 2024 presidential election. The Badger State, along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, are the three Rust Belt states that make up the Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall.” HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN ROCKED AGAIN, WITH 50 DAYS TO GO UNTIL ELECTION The party reliably won all three states for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election to win the White House. Four years later, in 2020, Biden carried all three states by razor-thin margins to put them back in the Democrats’ column and defeated Trump. Both the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees have made repeated stops in the state this summer. Trump was most recently in the state a week and a half ago, with a rally in Mosinee. Harris returns to Wisconsin on Friday for a rally in Madison, the state capital. The running mates are also making plenty of stops in the state, with Republican vice presidential nominee Ohio Sen. JD Vance holding a campaign event in Eau Claire on Tuesday and his Democratic counterpart, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, visiting Superior last weekend. Besides the White House battle, Wisconsin is also home to a crucial Senate race that is one of a handful that will likely decide whether Republicans can win back the chamber’s majority. According to the poll, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin edges Republican challenger Eric Hovde 50% – 47% with 3% undecided. The new AARP survey in Wisconsin was conducted by the bipartisan polling team of Fabrizio Ward (Republican) & Impact Research (Democrat). The firms interviewed 1,052 likely voters, which included a statewide representative sample of 600 likely voters. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Trump says he will tax Mexican auto imports by 200% and make them ‘unsellable’ in the US
During a campaign town hall Tuesday night in Flint, Michigan, former President Trump spoke about his plan to implement a 200% tariff on all Mexican auto imports, which he said would make them “unsellable” in the U.S. “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,” Trump said at the town hall event hosted by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “I took in $467 billion from China. Nobody else took in anything.” Trump predicated his comments about implementing a 200% tax on Mexican auto imports with a story about one of his friends in the auto manufacturing industry. Trump said he asked that friend to show him a contemporary, top-of-the-line automaking plant located in the U.S. But, according to Trump, his friend told him that was not possible, because the U.S. only has smaller auto manufacturing plants, while the major ones are located in Mexico and are mostly run by China. ‘AUTO WORKERS FOR TRUMP’ LEADER SAYS THOUSANDS POISED TO BREAK FROM DEMS OVER GREEN POLICIES, JOB KILLING REGS “They think they’re going to make their cars [in Mexico] and they’re going to sell them across our line and we’re going to take them and we’re not going to charge them tax,” Trump said Tuesday evening. “We’re going to charge them – I’m telling you right now – I’m putting a 200% tariff on, which means they are unsellable in the United States.” Trump quipped after the declaration: “You wonder why I get shot.” He noted that “when I say something like [taxing Chinese auto imports]” it puts a target on his back, adding “only consequential presidents get shot at.” But, Trump conceded, “You have to do what you have to do.” “We have to be brave otherwise we’re not going to have a country left,” the former president added. TRUMP: IF KAMALA BECOMES PRESIDENT, THERE WILL BE NO AUTO INDUSTRY Earlier this week, Brian Pannebecker, a retired autoworker who has spent a combined 36 years on the manufacturing floors at Ford, Chrysler and Stellantis, spoke to Fox News Digital about why he and other pro-Trump autoworkers are backing the former president over Kamala Harris. He said that besides the former president’s pushback on Democratic efforts to implement electric vehicle mandates and other green regulations in the auto industry, Trump’s replacement of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the stricter trade rules under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was also a factor. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “Kamala Harris is on record saying she would like to see all vehicles built in the United States reaching zero-emissions by 2035. She supported legislation to that effect when she was a U.S. senator,” Pannebecker said. “She knows nothing about manufacturing. She knows nothing about the economy. She’s a San Francisco liberal district attorney. And then she was California’s attorney general. And we all know what’s happened in California. They’ve ruined that state.” Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump campaign for comment, but did not receive a response before publication time.