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‘Rubber-stamped’: Key Dem hit over Biden-Harris support on border, inflation

‘Rubber-stamped’: Key Dem hit over Biden-Harris support on border, inflation

FIRST ON FOX: Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Democrat facing an uncertain future in Congress, is under scrutiny because of her backing of President Biden and Vice President Harris, particularly concerning their approaches to inflation and illegal immigration, just ahead of a close Senate election in the state come November. “Jacky Rosen rubber-stamped the Biden-Harris agenda over 95% of the time,” a new independent expenditure ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) tells viewers.  Titled “Failed,” the ad will run across Nevada on both TV and digital platforms. It is part of the NRSC’s $100 million advertising blitz across the country. CASEY TIED TO CHINESE FIRM HE CLAIMED MCCORMICK-LED COMPANY INVESTED IN TO ‘PROFIT’ OFF FENTANYL CRISIS  “They spent our tax dollars giving illegal immigrants COVID checks and hotel rooms,” the ad says.  It further highlights high inflation being experienced by Americans under the administration and underscores simultaneous “taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants.”  “Jacky Rosen failed Nevada families,” the video claims.  In a statement to Fox News Digital, Rosen spokesperson Johanna Warshaw said, “Jacky Rosen is ranked one of the most bipartisan, independent, and effective Senators because of her proven record of putting partisan politics aside to do what’s right for Nevada. Meanwhile, Sam Brown has a record of putting MAGA extremism ahead of hardworking Nevadans by pushing plans to ban abortion, gut Social Security and Medicare, and block a bipartisan deal to secure the border.” BALANCE OF POWER: TRUMP CAMPAIGN SLAMS SEN TESTER AS ‘RADICALLY OUT OF TOUCH’ AFTER ABORTION AD ROLLOUT In a June Fox News Poll, Nevadans reported feeling negatively about their financial situations. Nearly half of those polled said they are falling behind financially, at 49%. Only 13% believed they were getting ahead with their finances. Roughly 4 in 10 said they were holding steady.   Views of the economy nationally worsened in a July Fox News Poll in which 76% of voters said they had reduced their spending to pay for basic expenses. This is an increase of five points since October 2022 and up nine points from when it was first asked in March 2022.  The most likely groups to report cutting back on spending were Republicans (86%), households making $50,000 or less (83%), nonwhite voters (80%), women (79%) and voters under 30 years old (78%).  ‘FEEL BETRAYED’: TOP CONSERVATIVE GROUP BLASTS VULNERABLE DEMS ON INFLATION IN MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR AD BLITZ’:  Additionally, border security and immigration was reported as one of the top “deal-breaker issues” among all registered voters in a May Fox News Poll. The issue was the No. 1 deal-breaker in determining votes among Republicans and was one of the biggest issues among both Democrats and independents as well.  Rosen voted in favor of the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act, which has been criticized by Republicans and aligned groups for not doing enough to actually address high prices. According to FiveThirtyEight’s analysis of votes in 2023, Rosen, alongside Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., voted with the Biden-Harris administration 98.6% of the time.  BLINKEN PRESSURED TO FREEZE AFGHANISTAN AID AFTER REVELATION NEARLY $300M COULD HAVE GONE TO TALIBAN Rosen is competing against the Republican candidate, retired Army Capt. Sam Brown, who was severely injured while deployed in Afghanistan. When the state’s Senate race rating by the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan political handicapper, shifted from “Lean Democratic” to “Toss Up” in April, Brown said, “Nevada is now a toss-up because Jacky Rosen is a rubber stamp for Joe Biden and has made things worse for Nevadans, from high prices to the open border.” “We are going to win in November, secure the border and make Nevada more affordable for middle-class families.” NRSC spokesperson Maggie Abboud said in a statement, “Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Jacky Rosen’s policies made life unaffordable for Nevada families. Instead, they prioritized opening our southern border and giving taxpayer benefits to the illegal immigrants they let in.”  Rosen’s campaign did not provide comment to Fox News Digital in time for publication of this story. 

Trump push to dismantle Education Department met with enthusiasm in House GOP

Trump push to dismantle Education Department met with enthusiasm in House GOP

Rep. Thomas Massie is suggesting that Republicans could dismantle the Department of Education (DOE) if the GOP wins control of both Congress and the White House in November. “Would [former President Trump] follow through with it? Honestly, I think it depends on who controls Congress and who his Cabinet secretary is,” the Kentucky Republican told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. The Kentucky Republican made the comments the day after Trump’s interview on X with owner Elon Musk in which Trump suggested doing the same. “What I’m going to do, one of the first acts – and this is where I need an Elon Musk; I need somebody that has a lot of strength and courage and smarts – I want to close up the Department of Education, move education back to the states,” Trump said Monday night. HARRIS CAMPAIGN CRITICIZES TRUMP FOR SERVING ‘SELF-OBSESSED RICH GUYS’ AFTER INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK  Massie introduced a bill late last year that would do just that, and it currently has more than 30 House GOP co-sponsors, including vocal Trump allies like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Byron Donalds, R-Fla. While he has not had conversations with Trump or his campaign about the bill, Massie said it’s an issue he’s discussed with the Trump-aligned Republican lawmakers “all the time.” It signals that the effort, long pushed by conservatives, could potentially materialize if Trump and Republicans take over the levers of power in Washington in November. TRUMP CHATS WITH MUSK IN LENGTHY, OVERARCHING INTERVIEW AS HARRIS CONTINUES SNUBBING MEDIA  The DOE was established under former President Carter in 1979 when he split it from the Health and Human Services Department. It’s charged with regulating federal student aid funds and ensuring equal access to education, among other responsibilities. It faced conservative backlash almost instantly, with former President Reagan threatening to dissolve it, though he was ultimately unsuccessful.  “Reagan promised that he would try to eliminate it, and he never did. And then [people] became comfortable with [the] Department of Education, and it started seeming like a radical notion just to do what Ronald Reagan said he would do, so I felt the need to reintroduce this bill,” Massie said. The Kentucky Republican, who has been at odds with Trump in the past, said he was “pleasantly surprised” to hear him discuss it on Monday. He argued that the funding that goes toward managing the DOE and its 14,000 Washington, D.C., employees “could be distributed to the school systems instead of burning … on extra red tape.” Massie also said that other core facets of academic policy like student lunches and the Head Start program are run by the Department of Agriculture and HHS, respectively. More than 160 Republicans voted for an amendment by Massie to dismantle the DOE in March 2023, though it ultimately failed. X MELTS DOWN AFTER TRUMP-MUSK’S INTERVIEW ‘SPACE’ IMMEDIATELY CRASHES  But despite its foundations in the Reagan era, the push to dismantle the DOE has been used as a political cudgel by Democrats after its inclusion in Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation-backed set of policies and recommendations for a new Republican administration. Trump and his allies have distanced themselves from Project 2025, which Democrats have cast as a far-right and repressive vision for the country. Massie similarly said he had no knowledge of Project 2025’s details, pointing out that he’s pushed to end the DOE before the initiative was formed. “I would just say, regardless of any other initiatives, this stands on its own. Organizations like the Heritage Foundation [and FreedomWorks] have been for getting rid of the Department of Education … since they were created, and Reagan was for it,” Massie said. “So, I don’t think it’s a radical notion. I think what’s radical is having a federal school board. And I think education is better without it.” Massie indicated he would support former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos – who has advocated for phasing out the department she ran – to head it again. The Trump campaign did not comment directly on Massie’s bill but told Fox News Digital when asked, “As President Trump has repeatedly stated on the campaign trail, he is committed to cutting the Department of Education and returning important decisions about education back to parents, teachers and educators at the state level. The DOE has been failing America’s students for too long, and it’s time for serious change.” When asked for comment, the DOE referred Fox News Digital to Vice President Harris’ campaign, which did not immediately return a request for comment.

Former Minnesota resident unloads on Gov Walz after mother died ‘of loneliness’ during pandemic

Former Minnesota resident unloads on Gov Walz after mother died ‘of loneliness’ during pandemic

FIRST ON FOX: A former longtime Minnesota resident who fled the state due to the governor’s policies and her mother dying “alone” in a nursing home warns that “you do not want Tim Walz in a position of power over this country.” Cathy, who asked for her last name to be omitted, grew up in Minneapolis but moved to South Dakota in late 2020 as Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz’s policies on crime and coronavirus prompted her to leave the state, she revealed during a recent interview with Fox News Digital. Cathy said she specifically left Minnesota after her mother passed away of “loneliness” in a nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. “If it weren’t for these rules put in place for COVID by Governor Walz, one of my brothers could have been there with her. She didn’t have to be alone when she died, but their tyranny is the reason that she was alone when she passed,” Cathy told Fox News Digital. “We all know she died of loneliness because how can you go on in a room by yourself for weeks and months and not be able to touch your family or see your family.” TIM WALZ’S $250M STATE PROGRAM TO FEED HUNGRY KIDS FRAUDULENTLY SPENT ON LUXURY GOODS, OVERSEAS REAL ESTATE Cathy detailed the negative effects Minnesota’s state policies had on her mother’s nursing home, saying that at one point the only way she could visit her mother was to stand outside of her window. Eventually, she said a one-person visit per day policy was put in place, but that limitations still prevented family visits. Cathy visited her mother on the morning that she passed away. “I did give her a kiss on the forehead before I left, but she passed while I was having chemo that day,” she said. “I can’t imagine the loneliness that my mother went through when she was dying.” DON’T LET TIM WALZ’S FOLKSY MIDWESTERN CHARM FOOL YOU – HE’S NO MODERATE After growing up in Minneapolis, Cathy added that rampant crime has changed the city for the worse. “It was so safe. It was just good. We could go anywhere and not be afraid,” she said of safety in the city. “Minneapolis is just not safe anymore. Our son still lives just four blocks from the Minneapolis border, and they hear gunshots at night. It’s very concerning how the crime is, and they don’t seem to want to do anything to make things better, especially Tim Walz.” Having lived under Walz’s leadership, Cathy said a potential Harris-Walz administration “terrifies” her. “Tim Walz is just not what he says he is. He’s the ultimate liberal. He wants high taxes. He wants control of everything. He wants to allow kids to come in and have sex-change operations without their parents’ consent. He has a sanctuary state, lets any illegal immigrants in and protects them,” she said. “I just shudder to think what would happen if they had the presidency and the vice presidency, what they could do to our country.” “He’s not a good old boy from southern Minnesota,” Cathy told Fox. “He is a crazy liberal guy from southern Minnesota. And you don’t want that. You don’t want that for the country.” Cathy’s experience in Minnesota echoes the experiences of many other residents who have warned against supporting Walz’s vice presidential bid. Lisa Hanson, a former wine and coffee bistro owner thrown into jail for violating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s lockdown orders, told Fox News Digital that Gov. Walz essentially “shut down and destroyed” her small business, warning Americans, “You do not want tyranny at this level.”   “He shut down a lot of the mom-and-pop shops, those folks that were just trying to make a living and provide a great product and a great service,” Hanson said. “In contrast, he allowed big-box stores, etc., to stay open. Really incredible, an incredible use of tyranny against the people.”  Walz has also received backlash for setting up a COVID-19 hotline in 2020 that allowed Minnesota residents to inform authorities about their suspicions related to neighbors potentially violating lockdown measures. Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris-Walz campaign for comment. Fox News’ Danielle Wallace and Timothy Nerozzi contributed to this report.

Trump campaign picks up the pace, eyes counter-programming during Democrats’ convention

Trump campaign picks up the pace, eyes counter-programming during Democrats’ convention

With Vice President Kamala Harris riding a wave heading into next week’s Democratic National Convention, former President Trump and his campaign appear to be stepping up their efforts to blunt her momentum. Trump’s campaign tells Fox News it plans to counter-program during the Democrats’ national nominating convention, which kicks off next Monday in Chicago. “We’re going to roll out some stuff,” a Trump campaign senior adviser told Fox News. The adviser, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, said the campaign will put “a whole cadre of people” – including Trump and top surrogates – into the field next week. TRUMP ARGUES HARRIS IS MORE LIBERAL THAN BERNIE SANDERS – HERE’S WHAT THE VERMONT SENATOR TOLD FOX NEWS  “We’re certainly going to have key people in the battlegrounds and available to the media to counterprogram,” the adviser said.  And one of those key people will be Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley, Fox News has learned. In years past, it was traditional for a presidential candidate to lay low while the other party held its national nominating convention.  WHAT THE LATEST POLLS IN THREE KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES SHOW IN THE HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN But last month, as the Republicans held their convention in Milwaukee, President Biden briefly campaigned in the key swing state of Nevada before cutting his trip short after catching COVID. Days later, Biden’s blockbuster announcement that he was ending his re-election campaign following his disastrous late June debate performance against Trump upended the 2024 election. At his more than hour-long news conference last week, Trump argued that he wasn’t currently criss-crossing the campaign trail because he is leading in the race — even as the latest polls indicate Harris has closed the gap in national and key battleground state surveys.  TRUMP MOVES TO DEFINE HARRIS AS ULTRA-LIBERAL Trump defended his pace on the campaign trail, saying he’s “competing a lot” and added that he would further pick up the pace “after their convention.” Sources in Trump’s political orbit tell Fox News that top advisers to the former president are quietly aiming to persuade Trump to tamp down the insults to Harris and the questioning of the vice president’s racial identity and instead focus on branding her an ultra-liberal and spotlighting her stance on the border, crime and inflation Trump allies are also publicly pitching Trump to refocus his attention. “You’ve got to make this race not on personalities,” former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday in an interview on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “Stop questioning the size of her crowds and start questioning her position.” McCarthy emphasized that Trump has “a short time frame to do it, so don’t sit back. Get out there and start making the case.” Trump is expected to spotlight an economic argument against Harris on Wednesday at a campaign event at the Harrah’s Cherokee Center’s Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, in Asheville, North Carolina. It’s the former president’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. The Trump campaign earlier this week announced that the former president will hold a rally in another crucial swing state – Pennsylvania – on Saturday. And Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, holds campaign events Wednesday in Michigan, Thursday in Pennsylvania, and Friday in Wisconsin. The former president on Monday returned to X [formerly known as Twitter], where he posted a series of campaign videos leading up to his interview hours later with Elon Musk. The multi-billionaire investor who is considered one of the richest people in the world, owns the social media platform and earlier this summer officially endorsed the former president. Trump, who was banned from Twitter for a couple of years, made a brief return last year to post his mugshot and a link to collect fundraising donations, before going dark again until Monday. But Trump’s campaign says the return to X isn’t a one-off this time around. A Trump campaign senior adviser emphasized that moving forward, we’re “going to continue to see a lot of alternative platform work.” “You’ll see him on X talking to millions of people. You’ll see him on all kinds of conversational podcasts and streams coming up the rest of the campaign. And he’ll still be doing – as he always does – press availabilities, and he will obviously keep doing rallies and special large audience events,” said the adviser, who also asked for anonymity to speak more freely. “Whether it’s on X or any of these other things, the president is unafraid of having unscripted conversations about the issues that matter, in stark contrast to Kamala Harris,” the adviser added. While technical difficulties which delayed the interview with Musk for over 40 minutes grabbed headlines, Trump also gained over 900,000 new followers on X as of Monday night. Dan Eberhart, an oil drilling chief executive officer and a prominent Republican donor and bundler who raised big bucks for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and who is supporting Trump again after backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the GOP presidential primaries, told Fox News that “you’ve always got to be assessing the state of the race, and I would like to see more offense from the Trump campaign. Trump, the man, is the campaign’s best asset. Put him out there.” “Immediately after the Democrat convention closes, I would like to see the gloves come off in a full-throated campaign for Trump,” Eberhart emphasized. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.