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Democrats Seal Control Of Senate, AZ Governor Race Still Tight

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A decisive new batch of ballots from Las Vegas’ Clark County has prompted the Associated Press and many other outlets to declare that Nevada incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto has defeated Adam Laxalt, assuring another two years of Democratic control of the U.S. Senate. 

With the win, Democrats will have at least 50 seats plus the vice presidential tiebreaker vote — just as they do today — with an opportunity to secure another seat in the Dec. 6 Georgia runoff pitting Republican Herschel Walker against incumbent Raphael Warnock. With Senate control no longer at stake, it seems likely that already-dull Republican enthusiasm for Trump-backed Walker will sag even more. 

The Arizona governor’s race remains tight, however. Unlike Friday night’s update — Saturday’s new tally brought some good news for the GOP, as Kari Lake trimmed Democrat Katie Hobbs’ lead to 34,129 votes. Hobbs is up 50.7% to 49.3%. 

There are still about 300,000 votes yet to be counted in Arizona, with the great majority coming from two counties: Maricopa, which is home to Phoenix, and Pima County, where Tucson is found.  

Appearing on CNN Saturday evening, Arizona Assistant Secretary of State Allie Bones said rural counties are largely done, and that Maricopa County will give more tallies on both Sunday and Monday. She said it was unclear if Pima will release any more results until Monday. 

Maricopa figures especially heavy. So far, Hobbs is leading Maricopa 52.1% to 47.9%. However, the Saturday batch favored Lake 51.8% to 48.2%, and her campaign hopes the next batches lean harder in her direction to push her to a dramatic 11th-hour victory.  

That may very much be the case. According to Arizona pollster and data analyst Landon Wall, the sequence by which Maricopa has been counting ballots means that tallies are increasingly coming from more Republican-friendly Phoenix suburbs and exurbs.  

According to Bones, of the outstanding Arizona votes, the vast majority are so-called “late earlies” — early-voting ballots that voters completed but then brought to a polling station on Election Day rather than mailing them in. Trump wonthat particular flavor of Maricopa votes in 2020.  

“It’s not a question that [Republicans] will win the next batches. Only a question of how much,” tweeted ABC15 political analyst Garrett Archer, a former elections analyst for the Arizona secretary of state.   

The Arizona race isn’t the only remaining drama: The House of Representatives is still in play too, with each party trying to hit the 218 seats needed to control the chamber. As of Saturday evening, most outlets put Republicans at 211 seats and Democrats at 204. There are 20 seats still uncalled, and each party has a lead in 10 of them. That makes GOP control likely but still far from certain.  

In one closely-watched but uncalled race, incumbent Colorado firebrand and gun-slinging Trump enthusiast Lauren Boebert, who’d surprisingly trailed her challenger in earlier counting, now has a 1,122-vote lead with 99% of ballots counted. If the lead remains that narrow, it would trigger an automatic recount under Colorado law.

By failing to flip the Senate, Republicans will now have to watch as Biden proceeds to populate the federal judiciary with more leftists. GOP senators also lose the much-anticipated opportunity to proceed with a variety of investigations, from the origins of the Covid-19 virus, to the government’s pandemic decision making, Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling, and more.  

Those investigations can still happen in the House — perhaps, on Covid, that could mean substituting double-MIT-degreed Rep. Thomas Massie for Dr. Rand Paul. 

On Friday, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee told CBS he’s ready to subpoena Hunter Biden and his business records: 

“What Joe Biden said is, ‘Our son is innocent.’ If I were Hunter Biden, I’d want to come clear my name and make some Republicans look bad,” said Rep. James Comer. “So we’re gonna ask Hunter Biden to come before the committee. If he refuses, then I suspect that he would receive a subpoena.” 

…but that and other inquiries all hinge on the GOP’s ability to reach 218 seats in the coming days. 

This post was originally published at Zero Hedge

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Chris Rock Tells Crowd ‘Arresting Trump Will Make Him More Popular Than Ever’

“It’s like arresting Tupac. He’s just gonna sell more records. Are you stupid?”

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Comedian Chris Rock made a salient point during a performance at an event in Washington DC, commenting that arresting Donald Trump is only going to end up with him becoming more popular.

Rock was appearing at a Mark Twain Prize awards ceremony honouring Adam Sandler, where in attendance were Nancy Pelosi and several Biden administration officials.

“Are you guys really going to arrest Trump?” Rock asked the crowd at the Kennedy Center, going on to note “Do you know this is only going to make him more popular?”

Drawing laughter in his inimitable style Rock continued, “It’s like arresting Tupac. He’s just gonna sell more records,” before asking “Are you stupid?” 

It’s funny because it’s true.

During the same performance, Rock took aim at Biden’s age, stating “Trump was so bad as a president, he was so bad that Joe Biden had to burst off a monument. Biden was dead for 16 years.” 

The comments come amid scheduled protests in New York ahead of Trump’s potential arrest related to payments made to his former attorney Michael Cohen, who then allegedly used them as ‘hush money’ in the Stormy Daniels saga.

Rock’s comments echo those of Elon Musk who predicted a “landslide victory” for Trump in 2024 if he is arrested.

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    Video: Reporter Asks White House Press Sec. If Trump Will Use Waco Anniversary To “Foment Anti-government Sentiment”

    “Is the Biden administration concerned about anti-government activity in Waco around the rally?”

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    A White House correspondent suggested Monday that President Trump is holding a rally in Waco Texas in order to reference the 30th anniversary of the 1993 siege there, and “foment anti-government sentiment.”

    The reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if Joe Biden has any concerns that Trump will take advantage of the anniversary of the event.

    “President Trump is going to give a rally in Waco, Texas. This is the 30th anniversary of the standoff between Branch Davidians and the FBI and the ATF in Waco. Is the Biden administration concerned about anti-government activity in Waco around the rally?” the reporter asked, adding “Are there security concerns that President Trump may use this anniversary to foment anti-government sentiment at that — at that event?”

    Pierre responded “So, you know, I can’t speak to what the former President is going to do or say. What I — I’m not tracking any — any security concerns. So, don’t have anything more to share beyond that.”

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    Incredible.

    Reporters inventing scenarios and running them by the Biden administration whereby they can further smear Trump and his supporters as violent ‘anti-government’ extremists.

    Another reporter asked the Press Secretary “What does the White House make of former President Trump calling on his supporters to protest his potential indictment,” again, the intimation is presumably that Trump is seeking to encourage violence.

    These ridiculous questions came after unprecedented scenes at the press briefing where other reporters actively tried to shout down News Africa reporter Simon Ateba for becoming frustrated about Jean-Pierre spending time promoting the TV show Ted Lasso, rather than calling on him for a question, which she hasn’t done for months, despite Ateba repeatedly seeking to engage in and out of briefings.

    Video: Reporter Shouts At White House Press Sec. For Promoting TV Show Instead Of Taking Questions

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    Video: Reporter Shouts At White House Press Sec. For Promoting TV Show Instead Of Taking Questions

    Gets shouted down and attacked by other reporters who apologise to the actors

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    Extraordinary scenes unfolded Monday at the White House as the Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spent the briefing promoting a TV show instead of taking questions from reporters.

    Jean-Pierre was flanked by the cast of the Apple TV show Ted Lasso for some reason that isn’t entirely clear (something to do with mental health), and proceeded to promote that show rather than undertaking the usual briefing.

    It was all too much for News Africa reporter Simon Ateba, who has been frustrated for months by Jean-Pierre refusing to call on him on a daily basis.

    Ateba accused Karine Jean-Pierre of “making a mockery of the First Amendment.”

    As she yelled out “No! No! No! No! No! We’re not doing this! We’re not doing this! We’re not doing this!” Ateba spoke up, stating “The US is not China! This is not Russia! “It’s been seven months and you have not called on me! That’s not right.”

    “Are we going to behave?” Karine Jean-Pierre responded, as if Ateba was a naughty school child.

    Worse still, other reporters in the room urged Ateba to shut up, with NBC News correspondent Kelly O’Donnell even declaring “Sorry to our guests. We apologize.”

    Jeff Mason, a Reuters correspondent also told Ateba “If you have grievances, you should bring them to her later…The press corps is tired of dealing with this.”

    Another reporter, Brian Karem told Ateba to “mind your manners when you’re in here.”

    When the promotion of Ted Lasso had ended and the actual questioning began, Associated Press correspondent Zeke Miller also apologized, stating “I just want to express our apologies from the press corps to the folks watching at home for the display you saw earlier. Our responsibility is to them.”

    Further addressing Ateba, Jean-Pierre added, “I understand that there’s going to be give and take. That’s the way the press briefing has gone for decades, before me and I will always, always respect that but what I will not, what I will not appreciate is disrespecting your colleagues and disrespecting guests who are here to talk, who were here to talk an incredibly important issue which is mental health.”

    “And what has just occurred this last 10, 15 minutes is unacceptable,” she added.

    Ateba later appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show, with the host noting “If you want to know what a complete sham, what a fraudulent grotesque perversion of reality the White House briefings have become you should have seen what happened today. The low-IQ White House press security brought a bunch of TV actors to stand there so she can promote a TV show Ted Lasso for some reason.”

    Carlson continued, “Why are we doing this again? She never really explained. Mental health day or something. None of them were doctors. But at the same time she was promoting a TV show, the White House press secretary refused to take questions from actual reporters.”

    “So here you have the White House press secretary whose job it is to answer questions from journalists on behalf of the entire American population hijacking the event to promote a TV show and then screaming at a guy who wants his questions answered, and then the other shills in the room don’t take the side of their fellow journalist but take the side of the lady at the front to whom they were actually beholden and try to shut down Simon Ateba,” Carlson further urged, adding that the other reporters “should be ashamed.”

    The host added that “Previous generations of reporters would have turned on them. Really, you’re taking her side? She’s a liar? Your job is not to suck up to power, it’s to serve your viewers and readers by getting to the truth. But instead they piled on Simon Ateba. Really the most revealing moment maybe ever in the White House press room.”

    Ateba told Carlson “The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech, the press and assembly, and the right to petition your government to seek redress. And that First Amendment says that I have the right to ask a question to do my job and the press secretary doesn’t need to like me.”

    The reporter continued, “[She] doesn’t need to like me, date me, marry me… have two Black children with me. She doesn’t need all that. She doesn’t even need to like my accent, doesn’t need to like what I look like [or] where I come from.”

    Ateba further claimed that the White House “looks down” on him and “doesn’t respect” the First Amendment. 

    “So what has been happening in the White House is in the past seven months, I’ve done all the right things. I’ve not been called on. I’ve gone to [Jean-Pierre’s] office to seek meetings. She said that she would meet with me next year,” he continued.

    “I’ve sent questions about the Nigerian election, about, you know, the problems, challenges in Africa. And they’ve not called on me,” Ateba further asserted, adding “Even as the vice president is going to Africa, even as the first lady, Jill Biden, went to Africa, even went to receive 50 African leaders for the U.S. African summit in Washington, D.C. The guy who covers the White House, the African guy who covered the White House, is looked down upon in the greatest country in the world, in the most advanced country, where freedom of speech is protected.”

    Ateba took to twitter to further highlight the hypocrisy of the press corps, and highlight how the rest of the establishment media fell into line to attack him or accuse him of causing chaos:

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