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[1] Interview: RNC Chair and Co-Chair Michael Whatley and Lara Trump on
President Donald Trump’s path to the White House, the devastation of Hurricane
Helene, and the importance of the Joe Rogan Experience
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[2] Interview: On the front lines of Rep. Mike Collins’s nationwide campaign
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[3] Interview: Derrick Anderson on his homegrown campaign to represent his
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[4] Heard on the Hill
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[5] Polls pour cold water on Democrats’ House offensive
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[6] Scoop: “The entire country would suffer a shortage” of tobacco and corn if
this Democrat wins
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[7] Exclusive: Sen. Tom Cotton slams DOJ for targeting Elon Musk
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[8] Top Democratic candidate under fire for ties to far-left extremists
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[9] Exclusive: Riley Moore donates almost $400,000 to GOP candidates
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[10] Op-Ed: Rep. Burgess Owens: Kamala Harris is a bad deal for Black Americans
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[11] Op-Ed: Rep. Mike Bost: Election integrity matters more than ever
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[12] Op-Ed: Rep. Mike Rogers: Send me to Washington to clean up the Democrats’
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[13] Op-Ed: Will Somerindyke: The United States must improve its defense
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[14] What we’re reading
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In our latest edition, we have interviews with the chair and co-chair of the
RNC, Rep. Mike Collins and Derrick Anderson, the latest on a North Carolina
election that could decimate America’s tobacco and corn industries, op-eds from
Reps. Mike Bost, Burgess Owens, Mike Rogers, and much more!









[1] Interview: RNC Chair and Co-Chair Michael Whatley and Lara Trump on Donald
Trump’s path to the White House, the devastation of Hurricane Helene, and the
importance of the Joe Rogan Experience
By: Matthew Foldi

Michael Whatley, the head of the Republican Party, is “cautiously optimistic”
heading into Election Day, he told theWashington Reporter. “When you look at
where we are with voter registration, where we are with early voting, the
absentee voting, and layer on the polling, along with all of the other metrics
that we care about, the number of volunteers, the number of doors that are
being knocked, the number of phone calls that are being made, how many people
we've got who are requesting absentee ballots, all of those factors,” Whatley
said.

Whatley’s co-chair at the Republican National Committee (RNC), Lara Trump,
added that “we've seen a lot of great early vote totals, especially for
Republicans, right now. And it's really historic. We've never seen something
quite like this. And so I think assuming we continue this trajectory, and then
we know that typically, the Republican voters come out big on Election Day, I
think that that's what we're hoping to see happen.”

Less than two weeks out from Election Day, the pair described the stakes of
the presidential election, the importance of Donald Trump going on the Joe
Rogan Experience, how they’ve seen their home state of North Carolina rally
after a devastating hurricane, and much more, in a joint interview with the
Washington Reporter.

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including their thoughts on whether they want to run for office themselves.

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[2]
Interview: On the front lines of Rep. Mike Collins’s nationwide campaign convoy
By: Matthew Foldi

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Rep. Mike Collins (R., Ga.) is spending the final days
of the 2024 campaign meeting voters where they are: online, at home, at
community barbecues, and more. The first-term lawmaker is no stranger to
grassroots campaigning; Collins gave his first political speech in 4th grade,
when he asked his classmates to tell their parents to elect his father, a
former Congressman, to local office.

The Washington Reporter caught up with Collins in Fredericksburg, Virginia,
where he was campaigning for Republican Derrick Anderson in one of the cycle’s
most competitive House races. After liberal podcaster Rachel Vindmanmocked
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attempt against Donald Trump, Collinstweeted
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in #VA07 knocking doors for @DerrickforVA to ensure this lady's brother-in-law
does not make it to Congress.”

Collins added Anderson’s race to a group of districts where he planned to
deploy his retail politicking skills to help expand the GOP’s slim majority.
Anderson, a homegrown candidate running against Eugene Vindman, an MSNBC staple
who carpetbagged to the district, is what Collins looks for in a potential
colleague: “I wanted to somebody I could work with, somebody who’s very
conservative, who has Judeo-Christian values…[and somebody who] is America
First, period.”

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Republicans.

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[3] Interview: Derrick Anderson on his homegrown campaign to represent his
home town
By: Matthew Foldi

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Derrick Anderson, the Republican nominee for Congress in
one of the most expensive elections in America, grew up “about 15 minutes,
depending on traffic,” from his campaign headquarters. His opponent, Democrat
Eugene Vindman, grew up “many thousands of miles” away, Anderson told the
Washington Reporter.

Both men are military veterans, but their similarities end there. Vindman is
an MSNBC regular who ismisspelling counties
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District with days until the election; and “he lied about his military record.
He said that he was a colonel when he's not,” Anderson said. Anderson, a combat
veteran, is a former Green Beret who helped pass legislation “just by beating
down the doors of members of Congress” following acatastrophic friendly fire
incident
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that killed five soldiers in Afghanistan in 2014.

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to read more about Derrick Anderson, one of the GOP’s top House recruits, and
his homegrown campaign.

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[4]
Heard on the Hill

What we're hearing from people we trust on and around the Hill – please send
us more tips <[link removed]>!

* The rumors are true: Our editor-in-chief, Matthew Foldi, is the person
featured in a Politico article on “How Trump Has Converted Male Frustration
Into a Movement.” Read the full piecehere
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* Maryland Matters: Lara Trump, the co-chair of the RNC, will be headlining a
fundraiser in deep-blue Montgomery County, Maryland, next week.
* Seeing red: Donald Trump is leading Kamala Harris by 2 points in Arizona.
The former president leads the current vice president 49 to 47, according to a
McLaughlin poll conducted for the NRSC, which was shared with theWashington
Reporter. Check out our interview with Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake
here
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* Waltz on duty: Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.) is out with a new book
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Truths: Think and Lead Like a Green Beret. He spoke about it at an event hosted
by our friends at Veterans on Duty this week, where he discussed the importance
of electing veterans of both parties, his vision of foreign policy, and more.
You can buy Waltz’s bookhere
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* Quick read: Jason Dudash, the West Coast Director of the Freedom
Foundation, was also in town this week for a book signing of his latest work,
The Achievements of Kamala Harris. The book is completely blank. You can buy it
here
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[5] Polls pour cold water on Democrats’ House offensive
By: Matthew Foldi

Democrats have canceled ad buys worth more than seven figures in Wisconsin,
Montana, and Pennsylvania, as polls show the party’s dwindling shot at winning
House races in those states. Reps. Bryan Steil (R., Wis.), Ryan Zinke (R.,
Mont.), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R., Penn.) are all leading in polls, causing
Democratic groups like House Majority PAC (HMP) and the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to pull previously-commissioned ad buys.

Some of those funds were redirected to an ad buy
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worthup to $4 million <[link removed]> in
New Jersey, where polling consistently shows Rep. Tom Kean (R., N.J.) leading
his opponent, former defund the policeactivist
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Sue Altman. “Two big wins for Democratic Election Twitter today in their
prolonged effort to try to bully Chuck Schumer's WinSenate to start spending in
the #TXSen race and House Majority PAC to start spending in #NJ07,” election
analyst Rob Pyerswrote <[link removed]> of the
buy.

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to read more about the Democratic Party’s desperate attempts to flip House
seats where all polls show them losing in the homestretch.

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A strong national defense is essential to protecting our American way of life.

Veterans On Duty continues the fight back at home, advocating for military and
national security policies that will keep America safe, strong, and free.


[6] Scoop: “The entire country would suffer a shortage” of tobacco and corn if
this Democrat wins
By: Matthew Foldi

For generations, North Carolina farmers have farmed tobacco. But a
little-known candidate running for a statewide office in the Tar Heel State
could devastate North Carolina’s tobacco and corn, industry experts caution.

Sarah Taber, who is running to be North Carolina’s Commissioner of
Agriculture, “wants to push her state away from tobacco production,”according
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toInvestigate Midwest. “We have a state where tobacco doesn't make money
anymore and no one's thought of anything else because that’s been the focus of
our leadership,” Tabersaid
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The state’s farming community cautions that if Taber wins, America will
quickly suffer the consequences. Peter Daniel, the NC Ag Partnership Chairman,
told theWashington Reporter that “Dr. Sarah Taber's views are far outside the
mainstream and out of touch with North Carolina farms.” Daniel’s organization
is a non-profit that focuses on strengthening the economic viability of
farmers, businesses, and their communities.

Daniel, who has worked in agriculture policy for almost half a century, added
that “Taber's schemes to replace traditional crops like tobacco and corn in
favor of products that often cannot receive crop insurance is a disaster for
North Carolina's family farms. If Taber is elected, the entire country would
suffer a shortage of North Carolina's agriculture production due to her
incompetence."

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to read more about the race for North Carolina’s Agriculture Commissioner,
which you probably aren’t following, but which could have massive consequences
for all Americans.

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[7] Exclusive: Sen. Tom Cotton slams DOJ for targeting Elon Musk
By: Matthew Foldi

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) defended Elon Musk and the billionaire’s America
PAC against the Department of Justice (DOJ) this week, in a letter obtained
exclusively by theWashington Reporter. Cotton asked the DOJ to retract the
“ill-considered handiwork of partisan killjoys.”

“I write regarding reports that the Department of Justice has warned Elon
Musk’s America PAC that its sweepstakes may violate federal law,” Cotton wrote
to Attorney General Merrick Garland. “I’m not convinced that America PAC has
run afoul of the law, but I’m very concerned that the Biden-Harris
administration has once again singled out center-right Americans like Mr. Musk
for political retribution while turning a blind eye to liberal-leaning groups
engaged in similar behavior.”

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to read Tom Cotton’s letter to Merrick Garland and read more about his latest
efforts to hold the Department of Justice’s “ill-considered handiwork of
partisan killjoys.”

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[8] Top Democratic candidate under fire for ties to far-left extremists
By: Matthew Foldi

Rebecca Cooke, a Democratic candidate for Congress, “pocketed almost 200
grand electing Democrat extremists,” a new ad from the Congressional Leadership
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, criticizing the candidate’s history of raising millions of dollars for
far-left Democrats across the country.

Cooke’s company, Cooke Strategy, was paid
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for work on Democratic campaigns for years — and Republicans are now attacking
her previous support for radical Democrats, even though her current bid for
Congress is backed by more moderate party members.

“Liberal Rebecca Cooke [has] cooked up quite a story about herself,” the CLF
ad says. “The truth: Cooke is a slick political operative who pocketed almost
200 grand electing Democrat extremists. Cooke supported radicals pushing open
borders, defunding police, and ending cash bail. No wonder New York radical AOC
is spending big money electing radicals like Cooke.”

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Polling suggests that the Republicans’ attacks on Cooke are working. CLF’s
latest polling shows her Republican opponent leading 49 percent to 44 percent.

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House race next month.

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[9] Exclusive: Riley Moore donates almost $400,000 to GOP candidates
By: Matthew Foldi

West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore has donated almost $400,000 to Republican
candidates up and down the ballot.

Moore, who is poised to claim an open House seat in West Virginia, first
shared his fundraising outlays with theWashington Reporter. They include
$125,000 in donations directly to the National Republican Congressional
Committee (NRCC), $166,800 in direct contributions across 72 candidates and
committees, $53,400 bundled specifically for Reps. Tom Cole (R., Okla.) and Tom
Emmer (R., Minn.), and $41,740.50 in WinRed conduit fundraising to 27
candidates and committees.

Moore has also sent money to incumbents Reps. Don Bacon (R., Neb.), Lori
Chavez-DeRemer (R., Ore.), and Derrick Van Orden (R., Wis.), and to challengers
George Logan in Connecticut and Neil Parrott in Maryland.

“Maintaining the House majority isn’t enough,” Moore told the Reporter. “We
need to expand our majority in the House, win back the Senate, and put
President Trump back in the White House so we can actually get things done for
the American people. That’s why I’m working hard to help Republicans all across
the nation win.”

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to share the latest fundraising moves from Riley Moore, who will be
representing West Virginians in Congress next year.

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[10] Op-Ed: Rep. Burgess Owens: Kamala Harris is a bad deal for Black
Americans
By: Rep. Burgess Owens

In this election, Vice President Kamala Harris is pulling out all the stops
to win over Black Americans. But let’s be clear: her Opportunity Agenda for
Black Men is not just patronizing; it’s also an insult to our intelligence.

This last-minute sales pitch is the same worn-out script the Democratic Party
has used on the Black community for decades. It offers promises like
reparations, knowing that these empty and demeaning policies have no connection
to reality.

Here’s the reality: Over the last four years, the Biden-Harris administration
has repeatedly failed to deliver on its promises to the Black community,
instead turning to misery as a political strategy. Look no further than their
inflationary spending policies, open borders, and defund the police agenda.

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to read more from Rep. Burgess Owens about the failed promises in Kamala
Harris’s Opportunity Agenda for Black Men.

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[11] Op-Ed: Rep. Mike Bost: Election integrity matters more than ever
By: Rep. Mike Bost

When Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of government the Constitutional
Convention had created, his response became legend: “A republic, if you can
keep it.” His words, spoken over two centuries ago, still ring true today. The
survival of our system of government rests on the trust in, and integrity of,
our elections.

Throughout our nation’s history, there have been fateful moments when the
security and integrity of our elections were called into question — defining
moments that shifted the course of America. In 1876, our country was thrown
into chaos due to a dispute over electoral votes in one of our closest
presidential races ever. It took a special electoral commission and a
compromise on post-Civil War era Reconstruction to resolve the crisis, but
public confidence in the election process was deeply shaken.

More recently, in the election of 2000, an incredibly tight race in Florida
between George W. Bush and Al Gore — along with disputes over the
ever-remembered “hanging chads” — delayed election results for weeks.

Now, in the age of social media and 24-hour news, we are potentially facing
an election result that’s closer than ever. With that comes significant
challenges, especially at a time when many Americans already distrust the
process. I believe it’s mission critical to do absolutely everything possible
to earn back the trust of the American people before the polls close on
November 5.

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importance.

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[12] Op-Ed: Mike Rogers: Send me to Washington to clean up the Democrats’ mess
By: Rep. Mike Rogers

Since I started my campaign to serve Michigan in the United States Senate,
I’ve talked to thousands and thousands of Michiganders from every corner of our
state. The messages I’ve received are heartbreaking.

I met a mother in West Michigan who told me that even though she works part
time and her husband works full time, she has been forced to go to a food bank
for the last few days of the month to feed her family, due to rising grocery
prices caused by wasteful spending by Kamala Harris and Elissa Slotkin.

I talked to a deputy sheriff whose daughter died when she was exposed to
fentanyl after smoking marijuana, all because of the wide open southern border.
Harris and Slotkin have been in power, yet have done little to make our streets
secure or to keep our children safe.

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to read more from Rep. Mike Rogers about what he plans to do as Michigan’s
next Senator.

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[13] Op-Ed: Will Somerindyke: The United States must improve its defense
logistics or risk our national defense
By: Will Somerindyke

General John Pershing famously said that “infantry wins battles, logistics
wins wars.” Our superior logistics — the ability to plan, produce, and deliver
military supplies — helped us win the Civil War, both World Wars, and
ultimately established America as the leading world power.

However, decades of neglect have transformed defense logistics into a glaring
weakness, putting our national security at risk. The current state of our
defense industrial base and supply chains projects vulnerabilities to both our
allies and adversaries.

As the CEO of a company that delivers wartime and emergency products to our
allies who need them the most, I have seen these challenges firsthand. Here is
what went wrong — and how we can get back on track.

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to read more from Regulus Global’s Will Somerindyke about the primacy of
logistics to America’s military might.

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[14] What we're reading

Politico
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: Elias-Linked ‘News’ Site Hit with Campaign Finance Complaints, by Daniel
Lippman.

Washington Examiner
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: The George Soros radio deal that has the GOP in uproar, by Gabe Kaminsky.

Daily Caller
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: EXCLUSIVE: Tim Walz Welcomed Chinese Communist Party Officials Into His
Nebraska Classroom, by Philip Lenczycki.

National Review
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: Controversial Principal Departs the Thomas Jefferson High School in Northern
Virginia, by Haley Strack.

The Spectator
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: The turnout election: a tale of two ground games, by Amber Duke.

New York Post
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: House Republicans sparked the fight against campus antisemitism— let’s expand
their majority, by Jeff Bartos.

Wall Street Journal
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: The Quarter-Trillion-Dollar Rush to Get Money Out of China, by Jason Douglas
and Rebecca Feng.

Washington Free Beacon
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: Angela Alsobrooks Says Public Education Is 'Personal' to Her. She Sent Her
Kid to a $37,000-Per-Year Private School, by Andrew Kerr.

New York Times
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New York’s Orthodox Jewish Voters Could Tip the Battle for the House, by
Nicholas Fandos.





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