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Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail. What’s happening: – Trump urges judge to lift gag order: Live updates from NY v. Trump… – Terrorist-linked flag seen at Princeton demonstrations: Live updates on anti-Israel unrest… – Biden makes rare live media appearance on Howard Stern’s show… New York Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman, both members of “The Squad,” were seen Friday mingling with anti-Israel agitators at Columbia University, where “support” was offered to those in the encampment established to protest the Israeli military’s actions in Gaza. A smiling Ocasio-Cortez showed up in videos speaking to denizens of the encampment, and Bowman was seen cheerfully chatting with the demonstrators. Bowman also reportedly attended a Thursday evening Biden campaign fundraiser in Westchester County. The visits by Ocasio-Cortez and Bowman to Columbia’s campus in New York City came one day after Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar traveled to the school with her daughter (who was arrested a week ago for trespassing as part of the demonstrations) to show her support for the protest of Israel’s war against Hamas. ‘PEACEFULLY PROTESTING’: Columbia anti-Israel agitators file civil rights complaint to Dept. of Education …Read more CHOOSING SIDES: Flag used by terrorist group seen at ivy league anti-Israel encampment …Read more WHO’S BEHIND IT?: Expert argues similarities in campus anti-Israel protests suggest foreign influence …Read more UNSAFE SPACES: Columbia protest leader discussed ‘murdering Zionists,’ calling on them to die …Read more ‘WARMONGER’: Pelosi university speech interrupted by anti-Israel agitators …Read more GUESS WHO: Anti-Israel protests nationwide fueled by left-wing groups backed by Soros, dark money …Read more FOLLOW THE MONEY: House lawmakers urge major donors to cut off Columbia amid protests …Read more NO WORDS: Republicans pushing for Johnson’s ouster silent on Trump support for speaker …Read more SENATE SHOT: New Republican challenger to Elizabeth Warren says ‘no one has disappointed Massachusetts more’ …Read more WELCOME TO SAN FRANCISCO: Schiff reportedly robbed in big city, forced to attend ritzy campaign dinner with no suit to wear …Read more POWER GRAB: Biden’s gas car crackdown faces major roadblock …Read more UP THE ANTE: Biden’s latest tax hike could crush the economy, experts warn …Read more LIGHTS OUT: Biden climate agenda threatening power grid, massive energy provider warns …Read more ‘UPHILL BATTLE’: Blue state in battle over AG’s illegal immigration dictate that ‘handcuffs’ police …Read more LET’S DEBATE: Biden tells Howard Stern he’s ‘happy’ to debate Trump this fall …Read more SWING STATES SOURING: Biden adviser ducks poll showing swing state voters down on economy …Read more ‘HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE’: Surging GOP Senate candidate visits southern border as crisis rages …Read more HANDS OFF: Republican makes major announcement aimed at keeping crucial voting bloc from Dems …Read more HELPING HAND: Biden changes walking routine as questions about age continue …Read more OPINION: DA Bragg’s legal strategy is filth by association …Read more Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.
Pressure builds for colleges to close or shut down anti-Israel encampments amid death threats toward Jews
Calls are mounting to temporarily shutter schools plagued by anti-Israel unrest as most colleges continue to pursue a hands-off approach to the encampments — even as the vitriol increasingly includes explicit threats of violence against Jews and others who don’t support the metastasizing movement. “Columbia should shut down campus entirely, take all learning remote, but also padlock the campus and arrest all trespassers,” said Brooke Goldstein, a human rights attorney and founder of the End Jew Hatred movement who serves as the executive director of The Lawfare Project. “So should other campuses dealing with this problem. No American school should reopen for in-person learning until the safety of all students can be assured, and there is a plan in place to temper the aggression of radical protesters.” Among other high-profile incidents, Salma Hamamy, a University of Michigan student who leads one of the school’s “Palestinian advocacy” groups, called for “death and worse” for “every single individual who supports the Zionist state” in a post on Instagram last month. Hamamy, who remains on campus and is deeply involved in the ongoing unrest there, serves as the president of the school’s Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) group, the university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter. HOCHUL SILENT AS PRESSURE GROWS FOR NATIONAL GUARD TO BREAK UP COLUMBIA’S ANTI-ISRAEL THRONG Urging “immediate action” against those who violate the school’s code of conduct, the Anti-Defamation League last month sent a letter to University of Michigan President Santa Ono highlighting Hamamy’s comments. The school has declined to state what, if any, action it has taken in response. “The University of Michigan is committed to combating antisemitism, which is antithetical to everything we stand for as a community,” a spokesperson for the University of Michigan told Fox News Digital. “Earlier this year, a message was posted on Instagram that caused fear and pain across our community. We unequivocally condemned the message in a note to the campus community. “The message does not represent who we are or who we hope to be. Given privacy concerns, we cannot share any information on student disciplinary actions.” Similarly, a student at Columbia University — where one of the largest anti-Israel encampments persists — apologized Friday after a newly-resurfaced video showed the student declaring that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Khymani James’ remarks were made during a January meeting with university officials, which James livestreamed and shared on social media. “Zionists don’t deserve to live comfortably, let alone Zionists don’t deserve to live,” James said in the clip that recently spread on social media. “The same way we are very comfortable accepting Nazis don’t deserve to live, fascists don’t deserve to live, racists don’t deserve to live, Zionists, they shouldn’t live in this world.” But the statement issued in the early morning hours on Friday insists that James “misspoke in the heat of the moment” and “was wrong.” “Every member of our community deserves to feel safe without qualification,” James wrote in the statement, which also blamed “far right agitators” who “went through months of [his] social media feed until they found a clip that they edited without context.” A Columbia University spokesperson declined to say whether James would face disciplinary action, but noted in a statement to Fox News Digital that “calls of violence and statements targeted at individuals based on their religious, ethnic, or national identity are unacceptable and violate university policy.” “While we do not comment on individual cases, when there are violations of student conduct policies, they are reviewed and disciplinary measures are applied,” the spokesperson added. But as statements similar to those made by students at Columbia and Michigan become increasingly commonplace, legal experts such as Goldstein have begun arguing that National Guard deployments to college campuses are becoming a necessity. “Since late October 2023, when mobs of pro-Hamas radicals began spreading their aggressive protests from college campuses to city streets, menacing and even physically attacking Jews, the #EndJewHatred civil rights movement has been calling for the deployment of the National Guard to keep us safe,” Goldstein said. ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ RAPIDLY EMERGING AS KEY SLOGAN OF ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS IN US Goldstein said the decision to send in the National Guard would not be “an escalation,” but instead argued that it’s a necessary and “appropriate response to keep Americans safe” because most schools dealing with the protests have refused to enforce their own rules. “Since colleges have been unwilling to enforce their rules and policies, they have forsaken their duties not just to their students, but also to their communities,” she said. “Violence has spread far and wide as a result, and half-hearted occasional arrests of perpetrators has done nothing to end or discourage this lawlessness. It’s time to bring in the National Guard. … Pro-terrorist supporters should not be allowed to expand the violence in the Middle East to middle America.” Goldstein also suggested the schools dealing with large anti-Israel protests that cannot maintain safety for students on their respective campuses should consider closing their campuses “entirely.” Ilya Shapiro, director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, noted that the schools dealing with encampments already have rules in place to deal with the unrest — administrators just have to be willing to enforce them. “All schools, certainly the ones that have been in the news with these encampments — or potential encampments and protests — have rules that regulate protests,” Shapiro said. “That is, you have broad latitude to express your opinion and give out pamphlets and do all sorts of things, as long as it doesn’t disrupt the educational institution’s mission and programs. “There are rules against camping and other kinds of obstructions to people going about their business. There are rules against chanting that disrupts classes and other educational programs. So all of those rules simply need to be enforced as they have been in some places, but not others.” He added: “We’re not dealing with thorny issues of public policy that are hard to figure out. The tools
NJ announces emergency dune repairs in shore town penalized for doing them itself
A long-running sandstorm at the Jersey Shore could soon come to an end as New Jersey will carry out an emergency beach replenishment project at one of the state’s most badly eroded beaches. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the encroaching seas while waiting — in vain — for the same sort of replenishment projects that virtually the entire rest of the Jersey Shore has received. It could still be another two years before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection begin pumping sand onto North Wildwood’s critically eroded shores. In January, parts of the dunes reached only to the ankles of Mayor Patrick Rosenello. 1 DEAD AFTER FIRE UNDER ATLANTIC CITY PIER NEAR HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT But the mayor released a joint statement from the city and Gov. Phil Murphy late Thursday night saying both sides have agreed to an emergency project to pump sand ashore in the interim, to give North Wildwood protection from storm surges and flooding. “The erosion in North Wildwood is shocking,” Murphy said Friday. “We could not let that stand. This is something that has been out there as an unresolved matter far too long.” Rosenello — a Republican who put up signs last summer at the entrance to North Wildwood beaches with Murphy’s photo on them, telling residents the Democratic governor was the one to blame for there being so little sand on the beach — on Friday credited Murphy’s leadership in resolving the impasse. He also cited advocacy from elected officials from both parties, including former Senate President Steve Sweeney, a Democrat, and Republican Sen. Michael Testa in helping to broker a deal. “This is a great thing for North Wildwood and a good thing for the entire Jersey Shore,” Rosenello said. The work will be carried out by the state Department of Transportation, but cost estimates were not available Friday. Rosenello said he expects the city will be required to contribute toward the cost. The agreement could end more than a decade of legal and political wrangling over erosion in North Wildwood, a popular vacation spot for Philadelphians. New Jersey has fined the town $12 million for unauthorized beach repairs that it says could worsen erosion, while the city is suing to recoup the $30 million it has spent trucking sand to the site for over a decade in the absence of a replenishment program. Rosenello said he hopes the agreement could lead to both sides dismissing their voluminous legal actions against each other. But he added that more work needs to be done before that can happen. Murphy would not comment on the possibility of ending the litigation. North Wildwood has asked the state for emergency permission to build a steel bulkhead along the most heavily eroded section of its beachfront — something previously done in two other spots. But the state Department of Environmental Protection has tended to oppose bulkheads as a long-term solution, noting that the hard structures often encourage sand scouring against them that can accelerate and worsen erosion. The agency prefers the sort of beach replenishment projects carried out for decades by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where massive amounts of sand are pumped from offshore onto eroded beaches, widening them and creating sand dunes to protect the property behind them. Virtually the entire 127-mile New Jersey coastline has received such projects. But in North Wildwood, legal approvals and property easements from private landowners have thus far prevented one from happening. That is the type of project that will get underway in the next few weeks, albeit a temporary one. It could be completed by July 4, Rosenello said. “Hopefully by the July 4 holiday, North Wildwood will have big, healthy beaches, and lots of happy beachgoers,” he said.
New York to require providers to offer $15 broadband to low-income customers – or get fined
New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan reverses a lower court ruling from 2021 that blocked the policy just days before it went into effect. The law would force internet companies to give some low-income New Yorkers broadband service for as low as $15 a month, or face fines from the state. BRAGG ‘ALLOWED POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS’ TO ‘INFECT’ PROSECUTION OF TRUMP, HOUSE JUDICIARY GOP SAYS Telecoms trade groups sued over the law, arguing it would cost them too much money and that it wrongly superseded a federal law that governs internet service. On Friday, the industry groups said they were weighing their next legal move. “We are disappointed by the court’s decision and New York state’s move for rate regulation in competitive industries. It not only discourages the needed investment in our nation’s infrastructure, but also potentially risks the sustainability of broadband operations in many areas,” a statement read. New York state lawmakers approved the law in 2021 as part of the budget, with supporters arguing that the policy would give low-income residents a way to access the internet, which has become a vital utility.
‘Squad’ members descend on Columbia encampment, offer ‘support’ for anti-Israel agitators
New York Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman, both members of “The Squad,” were seen Friday mingling with anti-Israel agitators at Columbia University, where “support” was offered to those in the encampment established to protest the Israeli military’s actions in Gaza. In one video shared on social media, a smiling Ocasio-Cortez is shown speaking with those inside the encampment and offering her “support” for those who have become engaged in the protest. Photographs of Bowman also circulated on social media, showing the cheerful New York Democrat listening to those who were taking part in the encampment protest. His appearance at the school came after he reportedly attended a Thursday evening Biden campaign fundraiser in Westchester County, where he was recognized for his attendance by the president. The visits by Ocasio-Cortez and Bowman to Columbia’s campus in New York City came one day after Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar – another prominent member of the “The Squad” – traveled to the school to show her support for the students who are taking part in a group of encampments on the main lawn in protest of Israel’s war against Hamas. ILHAN OMAR, DAUGHTER APPEAR AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ENCAMPMENT AMID NATIONWIDE ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS Omar was joined in her visit to the school by her daughter, Isra Hirsi, who was suspended last week from Barnard College for her involvement in anti-Israel demonstrations on Columbia’s campus. The appearances by the three progressive “Squad” Democrats come as several colleges and universities around the United States brace for what is yet to come as more and more anti-Israel protests sweep the nation. Ocasio-Cortez has been an ardent defender of those protesting Israel on college campuses in different corners of the United States. In a Tuesday post on X, Ocasio-Cotez wrote, “Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act. It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.” Her rhetoric came as chaos on Columbia’s campus ignited concerns among the Jewish community as they feared for students’ safety. One rabbi even warned Jewish students to leave campus, cautioning that the NYPD “cannot guarantee your safety.” Anti-Israel protesters, meanwhile, have been heard chanting “Al-Qassam, you make us proud, kill another soldier now!” “We say justice, you say how. Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!” and “Hamas, we love you. We support your rockets, too!” COLUMBIA PROFESSOR CONDEMNS AOC FOR CALLING ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS ‘NONVIOLENT’: SHE’S AN ‘AGENT OF CHAOS’ Dozens of anti-Israel activists began demonstrating at Columbia University last week. Fiery protests have continued there and at other schools across the country, with several issuing calls for an intifada and the death of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Omar, whose views on Israel have been repeatedly criticized by her Republican colleagues in Congress, suggested Wednesday that the Gaza cease-fire encampments at Columbia University are being “co-opted and made to look bad” by public officials and members of the media. “Throughout history, protests were co-opted and made to look bad so police and public leaders would shut them down. That’s what we are seeing now at Columbia University,” Omar wrote on X. Social media videos from the anti-Israel demonstration that has been staged for days on Columbia’s campus show activists cheering on the deaths of Israeli soldiers and showing support for Hamas. Jewish students have reported feeling unsafe on campus and shared stories of being verbally and physically assaulted. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “They were pushing and shoving me. . . . They threw rocks at my face. At that moment, my life was totally threatened. And there was no safety authority on campus,” one student told NY1over the weekend. Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind, Taylor Penley and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
Anti-Israel protests nationwide fueled by left-wing groups backed by Soros, dark money
Progressive anti-Israel agitators across the country, including those who mobilized at New York City’s Columbia University, are associated with groups tied to far-left groups with radical associations backed by dark money and liberal mega-donor George Soros. National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), a national organization affiliated with around 200 independent chapters, has had a vocal presence at Columbia University in recent days and at one point said it had walked away from talks with school leaders until administrators pledge not to have them arrested or forcefully removed from their encampment on the Ivy League institution’s West Lawn. NSJP operates under Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation (WESPAC), a fiscal sponsor, whom Fox News Digital previously reported received a six-figure donation from a nonprofit bankrolled by the George Soros network. WESPAC, whose funding is largely unknown, has espoused anti-israel rhetoric for years, including accusing the government of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” “collective punishment” and “war crimes,” according to NGO Monitor. NSJP regularly compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow era in the United States, accuses Israel of genocide, and has routinely promoted Hamas propaganda since the October 7 attack, Influence Watch reported. SOROS’ FOUNDATION FUNDS NONPROFIT THAT FINANCES PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTS: WATCHDOG GROUP “Since October 7th, SJP has been extremely aggressive on far too many campuses in threatening ways, including the use of violent, genocidal rally calls which include ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ ‘Globalize the Intifada,’ and ‘there is only one solution, Intifada revolution,’” StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein told Fox News Digital about the group last year after it was suspended by Rutgers University for anti-Israel provocations. “It is therefore no surprise that increasing numbers of universities are making the decision to suspend a student group that combines violent rhetoric with violations of university policies, threatening Jewish students on campus.” Days after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, SJP released a statement calling the carnage a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance” and claimed, “This is what it means to Free Palestine: not just slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation with the oppressors.” NSJP’s founder, Hatem Bazian, has a long history of controversial antisemitic statements that include calling for an “intifada” in the United States, defending Hamas on social media, and supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and Israel divestment, Canary Mission reported. ‘DEATH TO AMERICA’ PAMPHLETS CIRCULATED AT COLLEGE ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENT, EYEWITNESS SAYS Video circulating on social media in recent days shows Bazian on the campus of UC Berkeley the day after the October 7 massacre egging on a crowd and seemingly celebrating the attack. Bazian — who has donated thousands of dollars to Reps. Summer Lee, D-Pa.; Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — is currently listed as a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies. He also has ties to “Squad” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who was the “guest of honor” at AMP’s annual convention in December 2019 and months earlier in July delivered a briefing organized by AMP to over 70 people. The Michigan Democrat also addressed AMP’s Palestine Advocacy Day delegates in April of 2019. NYPD RESPONDS TO AOC, SAYS OFFICERS ‘HAVE TO TEACH’ ANTI-ISRAEL MOBS THE ‘CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS’ In addition to Columbia, NSJP has been protesting and setting up encampments at other universities across the country, including UCLA and USC in California and at the University of Texas in Austin, where over 50 people were arrested this week. Another group active at Columbia, Jewish Voice for Peace, has brought in at least $650,000 from Soros-linked groups since 2016. JVP has also taken in hundreds of thousands from the billionaire-fueled Rockefeller Fund, which is boosted by millions of dollars from a dark money funding network. VETERANS DISGUSTED BY ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS, FLAG-BURNING: ‘DISGRACE’ TO AMERICA Influence Watch describes the group as “a left-wing, nominally Jewish group that opposes U.S. assistance to the state of Israel and supports allowing Palestinians to live on land within Israel vacated by Arabs during the Israeli War of Independence.” The group released a statement this week condemning violence and blaming the university for the unrest and for failing to protect Palestinian students. Fox News Digital reported that JVP was also active at the University of Michigan this week, passing out pamphlets at a tent encampment that contained the phrase “Death to America, among other inflammatory phrases. Another Soros-backed group, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, has paid what it calls “fellows” to organize and attend anti-Israel protests across the country, New York Post reported. “The Open Society Foundations has a long history of fighting antisemitism, Islamophobia and all forms of racism and hate,” a spokesperson for George Soros’ Open Society Foundations told Fox News Digital. “Open Society has funded a broad spectrum of US groups that have advocated for the rights of Palestinians and Israelis and for peaceful resolution to the conflict in Israel and the OPT. This funding is a matter of public record, disclosed on our website, fully compliant with US laws, and is part of our commitment to continuing open debate that is ultimately the only hope for peace in the region. The Open Society Foundations proudly support the right of all citizens to peaceful protest — a bedrock principle of our democracy.” Fox News’ Houston Keene contributed to this report.
Dem Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin’s ‘small consulting business’ may have never been active
A Democrat representative who is now running for Senate in battleground state Michigan is facing scrutiny over a Limited Liability Company she started in 2017 just weeks prior to announcing her congressional bid. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., established the LLC, called Pinpoint Consulting, weeks before announcing in 2017 that she was running for Congress to unseat an incumbent Republican. According to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, the business is “Not in Good Standing,” as of 2020. The last annual report for the business was filed in 2019. TOP SENATE DEM CALLS FOR PROBE INTO MUSLIMS PROSECUTED BY DOJ FOR ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS “I’m a third-generation Michigander and spent my early life on a farm in Holly, Michigan where I currently live and run a small consulting business,” Slotkin’s campaign website, ElissaForCongress.com, stated in October 2017, according to an internet archive snapshot. In an ad launched by End Citizens United advocating for Slotkin in May 2018, the organization claimed, “she is a small business owner in Holly.” In a financial disclosure report filed with the House clerk in August 2023, Slotkin is still listed as the founder and CEO of Pinpoint Consulting. However, a comment on the document states, “Business has been inactive since 2017 and generates no income/revenue.” Slotkin’s campaign did not say whether she ever had any clients, revenue, or employees. The congresswoman’s various disclosures don’t reveal any income coming from her firm at any time. In a statement to Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for her said, “Rep. Slotkin set up a consulting firm after leaving the Department of Defense, when she was considering a number of different job opportunities. She ultimately decided to run for Congress.” JEWISH DEMOCRAT CALLS OUT BERNIE SANDERS OVER OPPOSITION TO ISRAEL AID: ‘NOW DO ANTISEMITISM’ Slotkin served as an acting assistant secretary of defense until January 2017, per her official biography. The LLC was established with the state of Michigan on June 21, 2017. By July 10, she had announced her campaign for Congress to unseat then-Republican Rep. Mike Bishop. Her campaign further pointed to comments made in May 2018 to local outlet Lansing City Pulse. “I was looking for my next step after being in government for 14 years, and I was asked to do some work on an Iraq-related matter,” Slotkin said of her departure from the DOD at the time. “Every time I’ve had a sort of life change, I’ve come back to Michigan to reset, to find out what’s going on. That’s always the place I come back to figure out what my next steps [are].” But some critics don’t think the company’s establishment and apparent inactivity are that simply explained. “She was running against a sitting member of Congress in a Republican-leaning district and … everybody was wrapping their arms around small businesses” at the time, said Jason Cabel Roe, who led the Congressional Leadership Fund’s effort to support Bishop in the 2018 race. “What she tried to do in 2018 was make herself look like a moderate Republican to Republican voters that did not like Donald Trump,” he said. HELP CHAIRMAN BERNIE SANDERS AVOIDS AGREEING TO CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM HEARINGS Roe explained the business “was a talking point that she relied on in 2018. But once she got elected, I bet she never talked about it again after 2019.” Slotkin’s business is not mentioned in her Senate campaign. It’s also not featured in her official biography. “I mean, it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny,” Roe said. “Elissa Slotkin created a consulting business on paper, so she could call herself a small business owner when she ran for Congress,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesperson Maggie Abboud told Fox News Digital in a statement. “However, it does not appear that she ever actually had any clients. Slotkin’s misrepresentation of her experience in business could be a major issue for her campaign,” she added. GOP LAWMAKERS DEMAND BIDEN ADMIN PROSECUTE ‘PRO-TERRORIST MOBS,’ HOLD SCHOOLS ACCOUNTABLE The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee did not provide comment to Fox News Digital in time for publication. Slotkin is considered the front-runner for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan to replace outgoing Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Actor Hill Harper is also running for the nomination but is far behind the congresswoman in polls of the primary race and with endorsements. Additionally, a Lebanese-born businessman from Dearborn is also running. Nasser Beydoun, an advocate for Gaza civilians amid the war between Israel and Hamas, was recently the chairman of the Arab American Civil Rights League in Michigan, which is home to one of the largest Arab populations in any state. The Senate primary in Michigan takes place on Aug. 6. The general election race is considered competitive by non-partisan political handicapper The Cook Political Report, which rated it “Lean Democratic.” On the Republican side, the likely nominee is less clear. However, former Rep. Mike Rogers boasts the endorsement of former President Trump, giving him an edge. Former Reps. Peter Meijer and Justin Amash are also running, as well as businessman Sandy Pensler, who was previously endorsed by former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Republican makes major announcement in push to grow GOP support from once-solid Dem voting bloc
EXCLUSIVE: A Republican running for re-election in a race key to a possible GOP Senate majority made a major announcement Friday aimed at keeping a crucial voting bloc away from the Democrats. Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced the latest ad installment of a multimillion-dollar investment in Hispanic outreach, one that his campaign hopes will continue the demographic’s swing toward the GOP and further solidify the state as deep red. “As parents, we teach values to our children, the difference between right and wrong, truth and lies. But then we send our kids to school where some radical socialist teacher doesn’t teach them math or English. No, they’re taught that men can have babies and become women, and that we should worship the god of government, not the God who created us. That is socialism,” Scott says in the ad, titled “Verdad,” which will run in both Spanish and English. NEW POLL REVEALS HOW VOTERS’ VIEWS ON ABORTION HAVE CHANGED AS DEMS SEEK TO MAKE ISSUE A CENTRAL 2024 THEME TRUMP LEADS BIDEN AMONG HISPANICS, REGISTERED VOTERS OVERALL: POLL The ad will run in multiple TV and radio markets across Florida, as well as statewide on multiple digital platforms. Socialism has been a major theme in Florida elections in recent years, especially considering the Hispanic population in the state has significant Cuban and Venezuelan heritage. Some election experts argue that has been one of the major factors in the shift of Hispanics toward the Republican Party, which has expanded into other Hispanic groups, such as the Puerto Rican community. According to the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, 55% of Florida’s Hispanics supported Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in his 2022 re-election bid, as well as Miami-Dade County — traditionally a Democratic stronghold that Hillary Clinton won by 29 percentage points in 2016. Scott, who is expected to sail to victory in the Republican primary on Aug. 20, will likely face Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, the former representative of Florida’s 26th Congressional District ousted in the 2020 election. Elections analysts rate the race as either “likely” or “solid” Republican. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.