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🚫 @katiezacharia is no longer following @seanhannity
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KERA: George W. Bush's daughter Barbara Bush donated to a Super PAC that is supporting James Talarico.
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Growing questions about Trump's new press secretary Katie Zacharia. She now appears to admit she never passed the bar, but @KFILE uncovered she repeatedly shared posts that identified her as an attorney.
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New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia shared at least 15 social media posts identifying her as an “attorney” over the past two years, despite having failed the California bar exam and acknowledging publicly she had been advised not to use that term. cnn.it/3UoVyjD
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HANNITY: You said you consulted with people who advised you it was okay to call yourself a lawyer but not an attorney, correct?
ZACHARIA: Correct
HANNITY: There's a report out tonight showing 15 social media posts where you identify yourself as an attorney
ZACHARIA: I think they were retweets
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New @KFILE reporting on GOP Sen. Roger Marshall. He’s fighting to hold a seat Democrats haven’t won in nearly 100 years as his words about rising prices come back to haunt him.
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The bigger story is that the richest man in the world helped the Paxton campaign spread a completely made up story about his opponent and no one will face any consequences
Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico's viral hospital rumor has been debunked by time-stamped security footage reviewed by The New York Times — but the bigger story may be why his campaign sat on the evidence while the conspiracy theory exploded across social media for days.
Talarico disappeared from the campaign trail for nine days in early October, fueling rampant speculation that he had secretly traveled to an Ohio behavioral health center. His campaign maintained he was home with the flu, and security camera images from his Austin home now back that up. But GOP strategists and journalists are torching the campaign's response as "mind-numbing malpractice" for not releasing the footage sooner.
With Election Day just weeks away in one of the biggest Senate races in the country, the question has shifted from where Talarico was to why his team let the narrative spiral unchecked when they had the receipts the entire time.
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/new-evi…
Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
President Donald Trump's incoming White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, repeatedly made baseless accusations of pedophilia against prominent Democrats and shared conspiracy-related content, including claims that echoed the debunked "Pizzagate" theory and that Hollywood elites were pedophilic cannibals, according to a CNN KFile review of her social media posts. cnn.it/4hHrwjY
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CNN’s @KFILE uncovers several deleted posts by Trump’s new White House Press Secretary. Some criticizing the very administration she now represents.
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In Dubai, Paxton and his girlfriend watched fireworks at a party with two fugitives who had failed to return to the U.S. to face federal healthcare fraud charges. One of them, Anosh Ahmed, had donated $190,000 to Paxton.
wsj.com/politics/policy/ken-… w/ @MarkMaremont @jdawsey1
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SCOOP: @nytimes reviewed time-stamped security camera images showing @jamestalarico was, in fact, at his home in Austin on Oct. 1-8.
Gift link ➡️ #TXSEN
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Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
From the @semafor media newsletter: The message from ABC News that it published last week's story on Trump Jr/Anduril/1789 "prematurely" was misleading. Per emails shared with Semafor, the outlet's editors initially reviewed and stood by the piece.
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SCOOP: Kalshi has launched an investigation into a series of suspicious trades on their platform on President Trump's selection of Katie Zacharia to be his next White House press secretary.
Zacharia was at about a 1% odds favorite to becoming press secretary prior to today's developments but at least three traders placed "yes" bets on her getting the job prior to any news of Trump selecting her.
Story w/ @PhilipWegmann and @KThomasDC
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Former President Obama is about to campaign with Michigan's Democratic Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed. But @KFILE found El-Sayed spent years slamming Obama when it came to deportations, civil liberties and war.
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CNN: In late summer 2020, as protests over the murder of George Floyd spread, Texas state Rep. James Talarico told activists with Texas Rising — a group then explicitly calling for police departments to be defunded — that it was “rich” the slogan was treated as off-limits.
“As an educator, it’s always rich to me that ‘defund the police’ is considered off-limits in our political debate, when defunding health services, defunding public education has been the stated policy of our state government for decades now,” he said. He acknowledged the hashtag was “getting people all riled up” in his swing district, but said most people understood that armed officers should not be sent to minor traffic accidents or mental-health crises.
Now running for U.S. Senate, Talarico’s campaign says he did not call for and does not support defunding the police, and points to votes sending billions to local law enforcement. CNN reports his record from 2019 through at least 2022 is more nuanced: he backed limiting police power and community-based alternatives, and in 2022 told incarcerated students, “If we took just half of what we spent on wars, prisons, and policing, and spent it on education, healthcare, and jobs, we could make prisons obsolete.”
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CNN: James Talarico told a pro-defund the police group in 2020 that it was "rich" that the "defund the police" movement should be treated off limits.
"As an educator, it’s always rich to me that 'defund the police' is considered off-limits in our political debate, when defunding health services, defunding public education has been the stated policy of our state government for decades now."
Now running for US Senate, Talarico says he never supported defunding police and points to his votes to increase law enforcement funding.
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Senate Polling — NYT/Siena (A+)
🔵 Alaska - Peltola +7 (Flip)
🔵 Texas - Talarico +5 (Flip)
🔵 Ohio - Brown +3 (Flip)
🔵 Michigan - El-Sayed +5
⚪️ Kansas - TIED
🔴 Iowa - Hinson +1
🔴 Maine - Collins +3
Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
News: House Rs are entering triage mode and are now discussing pulling $ from three of their toughest races: Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa, Rep. Tom Keane in New Jersey, and an open seat in Nebraska, per 3 sources
w/ @DavidWright_7
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Texas Governor Poll — NYT/Siena (A+)
June
🟥 Greg Abbott: 51%
🟦 Gina Hinojosa: 44%
September
🟦 Gina Hinojosa: 49%
🟥 Greg Abbott: 46%
10 point swing towards Hinojosa
TEXAS POLL By NYT/Siena (A+)
SENATE
🟦 James Talarico: 51% (+4)
🟥 Ken Paxton: 45% (-2)
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GOVERNOR
🟦 Gina Hinojosa: 49% (+5)
🟥 Greg Abbott (i): 46% (-5)
9/21-30 | LV | (+/- vs June)
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A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel's military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4y0xe5x
