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Trump says ‘new category’ of crime under Biden-Harris administration is ‘beyond control’

Trump says ‘new category’ of crime under Biden-Harris administration is ‘beyond control’

Former President Trump told a crowd in Asheville, North Carolina, on Wednesday that under the Biden-Harris administration, a new category of crime involving migrants has developed, and is “beyond control.” The Republican presidential nominee was expected to spotlight an economic argument against Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign event at the Harrah’s Cherokee Center’s Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. It was Trump’s second stop in the crucial southeastern battleground state in the three-and-a-half weeks since Harris replaced Biden at the top of the Democrats’ 2024 ticket as the presumptive nominee. While Trump spoke about price hikes under Harris costing the typical household $28,000, and credit card debt exploding to the highest it has ever been, he made sure to segue into the issue surrounding the border and illegal immigration. NYC MIGRANT ACCUSED OF RAPING WOMAN IN BROOKLYN HAD ICE DETAINER PLACED ON HIM: REPORT Trump said no country could sustain what is happening in the U.S. at this time, when millions of “illegal aliens” pour into the country from unknown countries. “They all said I was wrong when I said that migrant crime will reach epidemic proportions, and now it’s much worse than that,” Trump said. “It’s a lot worse than epidemic proportions. It’s beyond control. We have a new category of crime. It’s called migrant crime, and I think it’s gonna end up being the worst category of all.” ICE FINDS, ARRESTS HAITIAN MIGRANT WHO WAS RELEASED ON $500 BOND AFTER BEING CHARGED WITH RAPING CHILD IN MA He said in the past week, there have been situations involving migrants accused of rape, murder and other crimes. On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents located and arrested a Haitian immigrant who was previously released on a $500 bond despite facing charges of raping a child in Massachusetts. HAITIAN MIGRANT CHARGED WITH RAPE OF 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL ENTERED VIA CONTROVERSIAL PAROLE PROGRAM: SOURCES The migrant, 26-year-old Cory Alvarez, allegedly raped a teenage girl at a Massachusetts motel that housed other migrants in March. He entered the U.S. lawfully in June 2023 in New York City, and was sponsored by someone in New Jersey. A Nicaraguan migrant accused of raping a woman this week near a popular beach boardwalk in Brooklyn had an ICE detainer placed on him after he previously was arrested for sexual assault, but he managed to walk free after striking a deal with local prosecutors, a report says.  Daniel Davon-Bonilla, 24, had been out on the streets since June, when he was arrested late Sunday night for the alleged attack in Coney Island, according to the New York Post. The Big Apple is a sanctuary city, meaning local law enforcement generally does not cooperate with ICE detainers, which are requests that the agency be notified before the immigrant is released from custody and to keep them in custody until ICE can take custody of them. AXIOS HIT WITH COMMUNITY NOTE AFTER CLAIMING HARRIS WAS NEVER ‘BORDER CZAR’ “Nothing good is going to happen from this,” Trump said. “And now it’s getting more and more violent.” KAMALA HARRIS ONCE PLEDGED TO CLOSE IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTERS ‘ON DAY ONE’ AS BORDER RECORD UNDER SCRUTINY Fox News Digital reached out to both the Harris and Trump campaigns for comment. Still, despite calling the migrant situation “beyond control,” Trump told the crowd in Asheville he has a plan if he is elected. “If Kamala wins, you will have mass amnesty and citizenship for all the Biden-Harris illegals that poured into our country,” he said. “If I win, you will have the largest deportation operation in American history starting at noon on Inauguration Day 2025.” Fox News’ Greg Norman and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.

Harris dodging flip-flop attacks as faceless surrogates flip on key positions: ‘Playing politics’

Harris dodging flip-flop attacks as faceless surrogates flip on key positions: ‘Playing politics’

Vice President Kamala Harris could be “playing politics” by allowing her subordinates to take the lead on her making major policy shifts, rather than pushing them herself, a Republican strategist says. Unnamed officials for Harris have announced her flip-flopping on key issues that she previously supported during her 2019 presidential run, such as fracking and “Medicare for All,” but Harris herself is yet to be vocal about the position shifts. While the Harris campaign appears to be pushing a reworked agenda, one political strategist told Fox News Digital that “anonymous on background campaign staffers do not take public policy positions, candidates and elected officials do.” “The American public should presume that every position taken by Harris during her previous campaign for president and the positions taken by the Biden-Harris administration are exactly hers today, until she herself explains otherwise,” Dallas Woodhouse, American Majority-North Carolina State Director, told Fox.  KAMALA HARRIS, TIME COVER GIRL: IS HER SURGE AGAINST TRUMP FUELED BY AN ENDLESS MEDIA HONEYMOON? “The American public will never accept a candidate changing all their stated positions from just a few years ago without thorough examination and explanation,” he added. Harris said that she would ban fracking if elected during her first presidential bid – a key issue among a critical voting bloc in battleground states such as Pennsylvania. “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking, I have a history of working on this issue,” Harris said in 2020. Republicans, including former President Trump, have used her past comments on the issue to blast her in several campaign ads since she launched her 2024 campaign. Campaign officials for the Democratic nominee are now saying that Harris will not ban fracking if she’s elected president. Harris published her plan for “Medicare for All” during her 2019 presidential campaign, writing that her goal was to “end these senseless attacks on Obamacare” and that she believes “health care should be a right, not a privilege only for those who can afford it. It’s why we need Medicare for All.” “The idea is that everyone gets access to medical care. And you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them give you approval, going through the paperwork all of the delay that may require. Let’s eliminate that,” Harris wrote in 2019. Additionally, then-Senator Harris cosponsored Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Medicare for All Act of 2019. Despite her past support, a campaign official told Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy that Harris will not push the subject of “Medicare-for-all” this cycle. AMERICANS CRITICIZE KAMALA HARRIS’ ‘COWARDLY’ AVOIDANCE OF PRESS AS CANDIDATE Colin Reed, Republican strategist, former campaign manager, and co-founder of South and Hill Strategies, told Fox News Digital that Harris’ shift appears difficult to believe. “When Vice President Harris ran for the White House five years ago, she was a sitting U.S. Senator and the former attorney general of the largest state in the nation. In other words, an extremely accomplished individual with plenty of time on the national stage to form opinions on the big issues,” Reed told Fox. “The idea that she could over the span of five changes, just change her tune on a dime on a slew of major big ticket items strains credulity,” Reed highlighted her shift on “Medicare For All,” which he says “would cost $44 trillion dollars – more than our entire $35 trillion dollar national debt.” “Either she was wrong then or is playing politics now, and voters will figure it out whenever she decides to answer questions in an unscripted setting,” Reed said. The suggested position shift comes amid Republicans using her past stances on issues, such as fracking, against her 2024 presidential campaign. Fox News Digital asked the Harris campaign if she will be personall announcing her new stance on the key issues.

Climate justice group that trains federal judges accused of ‘corruptly influencing courts’

Climate justice group that trains federal judges accused of ‘corruptly influencing courts’

FIRST ON FOX: A new report by an American energy advocacy group is sounding the alarm on a legal training program that it says is “corruptly influencing the courts and destroying the rule of law to promote climate cult alarmism.”  The new report released by the American Energy Institute (AEI) alleges that the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) is “falsely portraying itself as a neutral entity teaching judges about questionable climate science.”  The report also alleges that CJP is a partner to more than two dozen public plaintiffs suing energy providers to hold them liable for damages resulting from climate change effects. To date, CJP has trained more than 2,000 state and federal judges, the report says.  Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, says the training program is “really like interfering with the referees before a match and before a game.” HAWAII’S BIG OIL SUIT A ‘STALKING HORSE’ FOR GREEN NEW DEAL PUSH NATIONWIDE, EXPERTS SAY “You’re getting access to them and sharing your opinions and steering them down a certain path,” Isaac said in an interview with Fox News Digital.  Nick Collins, a spokesperson for the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) said the report “is full of misinformation.” “The Climate Judiciary Project is a non-partisan, educational initiative that provides judges with a mainstream, evidence-based scientific curriculum. CJP does not take stances on individual cases, advocate for specific outcomes, participate in litigation, support for or coordinate with parties in litigation, or advise judges on how they should rule. ELI’s funders include individuals, foundations, and organizations, ranging from energy companies to government agencies to private philanthropies, and none of them dictate our work,” Collins said.  In recent years, several lawsuits have percolated through the courts targeting Big Oil companies, leveraging mechanisms like public nuisance laws to incur liability for climate change damage.  One such case is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2020, the city of Honolulu sued several major fossil fuel companies, including Exxon and Chevron, alleging the companies’ products cause greenhouse gas emissions and global warming without warning consumers about the risks. The energy companies appealed to the Hawaii Supreme Court, arguing that federal law prevents individual states from effectively shaping energy policies for all states.  GOP STATE AGs PRESS SUPREME COURT TO TAKE UP HAWAII CLIMATE CHANGE CASE THEY SAY IS ‘GRAVE THREAT’ But the court ruled against the companies, advancing the case to trial. The companies appealed again, this time to the Supreme Court, which signaled interest in June in taking up the case. Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Mark E. Recktenwald quietly disclosed in May that he presented for a course in the Climate Judiciary Project. According to the ELI, the Climate Judiciary Project is designed to educate judges across the country on how to handle climate change litigation that comes before them. “As the body of climate litigation grows, judges must consider complex scientific and legal questions, many of which are developing rapidly,” CJP states on its website. “To address these issues, the Climate Judiciary Project of the Environmental Law Institute is collaborating with leading national judicial education institutions to meet judges’ need for basic familiarity with climate science methods and concepts.” But the AEI says the program “is a partner in this anti-democratic social engineering” through its influence of judges involved in the types of cases, like the Hawaii case, and through its funding by “the same leftwing (sic) moneymen bankrolling the climate change cases.”  The “educational materials” are, the report states, “prepared by activist academics who are advising the plaintiffs or supporting their claims with legal briefs. And the materials are full of pro-plaintiff messaging, including rigged made-for-litigation ‘studies.’” The report also alleges that “CJP conceals its ties to the plaintiffs, such that judges seeking information in good faith may not know that CJP is an untrustworthy source” and calls on “relevant state authorities [to] ensure that public resources are not being used toward a campaign that is corrosive to the rule of law and trust in the courts.” BIDEN’S ENERGY POLICY RIPPED BY REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS: ‘DONE NOTHING BUT ATTACK AMERICAN ENERGY’ According to AEI’s report, CJP has received “millions in funding from the same activist groups who are providing grants to the Collective Action Fund through which money is flowing to Sher Edling LLP,” the law firm spearheading the Hawaii case, to help cover the legal fees required to bring the climate cases. Sher Edling is counsel for two dozen climate plaintiffs, according to its website. The U.S. Judicial Conference, which governs U.S. court systems, has warned judges of seminars where they may be “influenced inappropriately.” “That influence, it is argued, may be exerted through program content, contact between judges and those who litigate before them, and prerequisites provided to program attendees,” the U.S. Judicial Conference states.  AEI’s report alleges that CJP “hides its partnership with the plaintiffs because they know these ties create judicial ethics problems.” AEI says that the ELI vice president and director of judicial education, Sandra Nichols Thiam, acknowledged as much in a 2023 press statement, saying, “If we even appeared biased or if there was a whiff of bias, we wouldn’t be able to do what we’re doing.” “Taken together, it appears CJP made the thinnest possible disclosures to create the appearance of rectitude,” AEI states. “But their admissions confirm that CJP exists to facilitate informal, ex parte contacts between judges and climate activists under the guise of judicial education. And secrecy remains essential to their operation, whose goal, as Thiam has said, is to develop ‘a body of law that supports climate action.’”  AEI, a group self-described as “dedicated to promoting policies that ensure America’s energy security and economic prosperity,” says CJP’s work is “an attack on the rule of law.” “In America, the powerful aren’t allowed to coax and manipulate judges before their cases are heard,” the report reads.

‘Corruptly influencing the courts’: Climate justice group that trains federal judges under scrutiny

‘Corruptly influencing the courts’: Climate justice group that trains federal judges under scrutiny

FIRST ON FOX: A new report by an American energy advocacy group is sounding the alarm on a legal training program that it says is “corruptly influencing the courts and destroying the rule of law to promote climate cult alarmism.”  The new report released by the American Energy Institute (AEI) alleges that the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) is “falsely portraying itself as a neutral entity teaching judges about questionable climate science.”  The report also alleges that CJP is a partner to more than two dozen public plaintiffs suing energy providers to hold them liable for damages resulting from climate change effects. To date, CJP has trained more than 2,000 state and federal judges, the report says.  Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, says the training program is “really like interfering with the referees before a match and before a game.” HAWAII’S BIG OIL SUIT A ‘STALKING HORSE’ FOR GREEN NEW DEAL PUSH NATIONWIDE, EXPERTS SAY “You’re getting access to them and sharing your opinions and steering them down a certain path,” Isaac said in an interview with Fox News Digital.  Nick Collins, a spokesperson for the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) said the report “is full of misinformation.” “The Climate Judiciary Project is a non-partisan, educational initiative that provides judges with a mainstream, evidence-based scientific curriculum. CJP does not take stances on individual cases, advocate for specific outcomes, participate in litigation, support for or coordinate with parties in litigation, or advise judges on how they should rule. ELI’s funders include individuals, foundations, and organizations, ranging from energy companies to government agencies to private philanthropies, and none of them dictate our work,” Collins said.  In recent years, several lawsuits have percolated through the courts targeting Big Oil companies, leveraging mechanisms like public nuisance laws to incur liability for climate change damage.  One such case is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2020, the city of Honolulu sued several major fossil fuel companies, including Exxon and Chevron, alleging the companies’ products cause greenhouse gas emissions and global warming without warning consumers about the risks. The energy companies appealed to the Hawaii Supreme Court, arguing that federal law prevents individual states from effectively shaping energy policies for all states.  GOP STATE AGs PRESS SUPREME COURT TO TAKE UP HAWAII CLIMATE CHANGE CASE THEY SAY IS ‘GRAVE THREAT’ But the court ruled against the companies, advancing the case to trial. The companies appealed again, this time to the Supreme Court, which signaled interest in June in taking up the case. Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Mark E. Recktenwald quietly disclosed in May that he presented for a course in the Climate Judiciary Project. According to the ELI, the Climate Judiciary Project is designed to educate judges across the country on how to handle climate change litigation that comes before them. “As the body of climate litigation grows, judges must consider complex scientific and legal questions, many of which are developing rapidly,” CJP states on its website. “To address these issues, the Climate Judiciary Project of the Environmental Law Institute is collaborating with leading national judicial education institutions to meet judges’ need for basic familiarity with climate science methods and concepts.” But the AEI says the program “is a partner in this anti-democratic social engineering” through its influence of judges involved in the types of cases, like the Hawaii case, and through its funding by “the same leftwing (sic) moneymen bankrolling the climate change cases.”  The “educational materials” are, the report states, “prepared by activist academics who are advising the plaintiffs or supporting their claims with legal briefs. And the materials are full of pro-plaintiff messaging, including rigged made-for-litigation ‘studies.’” The report also alleges that “CJP conceals its ties to the plaintiffs, such that judges seeking information in good faith may not know that CJP is an untrustworthy source” and calls on “relevant state authorities [to] ensure that public resources are not being used toward a campaign that is corrosive to the rule of law and trust in the courts.” BIDEN’S ENERGY POLICY RIPPED BY REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS: ‘DONE NOTHING BUT ATTACK AMERICAN ENERGY’ According to AEI’s report, CJP has received “millions in funding from the same activist groups who are providing grants to the Collective Action Fund through which money is flowing to Sher Edling LLP,” the law firm spearheading the Hawaii case, to help cover the legal fees required to bring the climate cases. Sher Edling is counsel for two dozen climate plaintiffs, according to its website. The U.S. Judicial Conference, which governs U.S. court systems, has warned judges of seminars where they may be “influenced inappropriately.” “That influence, it is argued, may be exerted through program content, contact between judges and those who litigate before them, and prerequisites provided to program attendees,” the U.S. Judicial Conference states.  AEI’s report alleges that CJP “hides its partnership with the plaintiffs because they know these ties create judicial ethics problems.” AEI says that the ELI vice president and director of judicial education, Sandra Nichols Thiam, acknowledged as much in a 2023 press statement, saying, “If we even appeared biased or if there was a whiff of bias, we wouldn’t be able to do what we’re doing.” “Taken together, it appears CJP made the thinnest possible disclosures to create the appearance of rectitude,” AEI states. “But their admissions confirm that CJP exists to facilitate informal, ex parte contacts between judges and climate activists under the guise of judicial education. And secrecy remains essential to their operation, whose goal, as Thiam has said, is to develop ‘a body of law that supports climate action.’”  AEI, a group self-described as “dedicated to promoting policies that ensure America’s energy security and economic prosperity,” says CJP’s work is “an attack on the rule of law.” “In America, the powerful aren’t allowed to coax and manipulate judges before their cases are heard,” the report reads.

DOJ suddenly located Biden biographer transcripts created by Robert Hur: watchdog

DOJ suddenly located Biden biographer transcripts created by Robert Hur: watchdog

During an ongoing lawsuit aimed at forcing the Justice Department (DOJ) to produce records from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s probe into Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents before being elected president, the DOJ revealed the discovery of 117 pages of transcribed discussions between the president and his ghostwriter. The find was highlighted Wednesday by the Oversight Project, a conservative government transparency watchdog that sued the DOJ. The ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, was previously subject to a March subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee, which sought any and all documents, contracts and recordings of interviews and conversations with Biden. However, Oversight Project counsel Kyle Brosnan said on Wednesday this particular revelation is both new and further animates the need for transparency in regard to questions about Biden’s competency. Brosnan said that just prior to the Oversight Project’s last hearing on the matter, the Justice Department informed the court of the transcripts. WATCHDOG GROUP SUES BIDEN AGENCY FOR RECORDS AS LAWMAKER CALLS ITS VOTER WORK ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ “There do exist written transcripts of President Biden’s interviews with his ghostwriter where they discuss classified material, and that Special Counsel Hur relied upon those written transcripts in coming to his conclusions [that Biden was a ‘well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory’].” The memoir Zwonitzer assisted with, “Promise Me, Dad,” was released in 2017. “The discovery of those materials has been the subject of a lot of back-and-forth between us and the Justice Department about how we want to proceed,” Brosnan added. “We’re trying to figure out how that discovery impacts the case and kind of what the next steps are there.” According to a court filing obtained by Fox News Digital, Justice Department officials flagged the apparent discovery to the bench and plaintiff Mike Howell, Brosnan’s colleague and the executive director of the Oversight Project. The officials wrote that in their prior June court appearance they attested that Hur’s office did not have a verbatim transcript of any Zwonitzer-Biden recordings. DOJ CONCEALING INFO ON PROBE INTO WHETHER HUNTER BIDEN VIOLATED DEBAUCHERY LAW: WATCHDOG The DOJ then noted Howell’s team “questioned this representation” and pointed out a footnote in a document that supposedly suggested it was sourced from a transcript. When the department could not reach anyone with knowledge of special counsel office files, they reached out directly to Hur, who confirmed the files were indeed transcripts of a subset of Zwonitzer-Biden recordings. Brosnan confirmed negotiations with the DOJ are now ongoing as to how to handle the new tranche. “There’s over 70 hours of tapes between Biden and Zwonitzer. So, that’s obviously a lot of material that’s going to take the Justice Department a long time to process,” he said.  As for his team’s larger legal beef with the DOJ – the exertion of executive privilege over the Hur tapes – Brosnan said one of the administration’s major claims appeares to be undermined by the former official they cited. After Congress was given a transcript of the Hur-Biden interview, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s 2008 memo shielding White House interoffice communications was cited by the Biden administration as part of its executive privilege argument. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP However, Mukasey himself said in a June court filing that while he supports the tool of executive privilege, the Biden administration’s assertion is “flawed.” “I believe the assertion of executive privilege made here goes well beyond the limits of any prior assertion and is not supported by the 2008 executive privilege letter.” “The reasons given for invoking this privilege are entirely unconvincing,” Mukasey, who served under former President George W. Bush, wrote of Biden. The Justice Department declined comment for the purposes of this story.

Senate Dem in key battleground race flip-flopped on student debt under Biden: No ‘magic wand’

Senate Dem in key battleground race flip-flopped on student debt under Biden: No ‘magic wand’

Nearly a decade ago, longtime Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. Bob Casey said he was against the federal government forgiving student loan debt, arguing there’s no “magic wand” to erase the outstanding bills.   Under the Biden administration, however, Casey flip-flopped on his position as student debt became a prominent platform for the Democratic Party.  “I think, in Pennsylvania, the average about 70% of students have debt that hovers around – and these are very much averages – a little more than $30,000, about $32,000. There’s probably some people who say, ‘My God, I wish I had 32, mine’s much higher,’” Casey told Penn State’s student newspaper, the Daily Collegian, in a video interview published in October 2014.  “There’s certainly people that have much higher numbers. And the federal government can’t come in and come up with a magic wand that will wipe away all debt. But there are some things we can do.” CASEY TIED TO CHINESE FIRM HE CLAIMED MCCORMICK-LED COMPANY INVESTED IN TO ‘PROFIT’ OFF FENTANYL CRISIS  Casey has long been a Pennsylvania Democrat stalwart, first winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2007. The Casey name also has deep roots in the state, with Bob Casey Sr., the senator’s father, serving as the Keystone State’s governor from 1987 to 1995 after years of serving in various other elected roles.  PA DEM SILENT ON SUPPORT FOR FRESHMAN ‘SQUAD’ MEMBER AFTER HIS NAME IS QUIETLY REMOVED FROM SITE This year, Casey is facing a highly anticipated and uphill battle to hold onto his seat as he prepares to face off against Republican challenger Dave McCormick at the polls in November.  Casey continued in his interview with the Daily Collegian in 2014 that it was unlikely to get student debt to “down to zero” for “everybody.”  He explained that there are likely “steps we can take to reduce that burden all the while trying to think of other ways to have a positive impact. But I don’t think this is a challenge we can legislate our way out of. I think if we pass our legislation, that will help. But I think colleges and universities have to continually focus on better ways to help students get through this. Not that you can reach a point where no student has any debt, getting everybody down to zero is probably highly unlikely.” LETTER FROM SEN BOB CASEY RESURFACES ON BIOLOGICAL MALES’ PARTICIPATION IN FEMALE SPORTS In the years following, Casey changed his tune on student debt forgiveness as President Biden campaigned on eliminating college debt during the 2020 cycle and worked to erase debt for borrowers after he was sworn-in as president. Casey celebrated the Biden administration’s moves to erase debt, including in 2022.  “Today, President Biden eased the burden for millions of Americans who are struggling under the weight of their student debt,” Casey said in a press release in 2022, when Biden canceled $10,000 of student debt for people making less than $125,000 a year. “This will give them the freedom to invest in their future, buy a home, or take a risk and start a business.  It’s an important first step forward in helping borrowers saddled with student debt. Moving forward, we must work to lower the skyrocketing costs of college so that future students are able to get an education without signing up for a lifetime of debt.” LONGTIME DEM SENATOR RAILS AGAINST BIG COMPANIES’ ‘GREEDFLATION,’ BUT DONOR RECORDS SHOW ANOTHER STORY Biden went on to propose a one-time student debt forgiveness program, which would have provided loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 to borrowers, but the plan was halted by the Supreme Court last year. The nation’s highest court ruled that Biden did not have the authority to eliminate such debt without Congress’ approval. The Supreme Court ruling was no surprise as experts had warned ahead of the case landing before the court that Biden lacked the authority to make such a move, and even then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said more of the same in 2021. PENNSYLVANIA POLICE SLAM LONGTIME DEM SEN. CASEY ‘ALIGNING’ HIMSELF WITH DEFUND THE POLICE GROUP: ‘DANGEROUS’ “People think that the president of the United States has the power for [student loan] debt forgiveness. He does not,” Pelosi said during a July 2021 press conference. As the plan was held up in court ahead of the Supreme Court’s ruling, Casey and other Democrats in the Senate voted against a conservative-backed bill to overturn the Biden administration’s one-time student debt relief plan.  Casey’s Republican opponent, Dave McCormick, joined Fox Business on Tuesday and lambasted Casey as “weak” while brushing off a New York Times/Sienna College poll that found Casey has a 14-point lead in the race, saying other polls show a much tighter gap between the two. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “The most important thing to remember here is that Kamala Harris is a San Francisco liberal that has an agenda to ban fracking, transition energy workers, mandatory buybacks of guns, legalized illegal immigration, and Bob Casey is a 98% vote for Biden-Harris. So, you have an agenda that’s truly out of step with the people of Pennsylvania. Bob Casey has been weak, and Bob Casey is going to support this liberal agenda. Pennsylvanians don’t want that,” McCormick said. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.