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[1] Interview: “I play the role of the kid who says the emperor has no
clothes”: Sen. Ron Johnson on Senate leadership elections, health care, Joe
Rogan, and more
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[2] Interview: “Iowans see a fighter in Trump”: Sen Joni Ernst on Trump,
trade, threats to America, and her sleeper Senate race of the cycle
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[3] Interview: Grover Norquist on Kamala Harris, Lina Khan, Burning Man, and
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[4] Heard on the Hill
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[5] Exclusive: Bernie bro tied to “Conservatives for Dan [Osborn]” media
rollout <[link removed]>
[6] “Justice that is long overdue”: Andrew Cuomo referred for prosecution by
COVID Select Committee
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[7] Exclusive: Kamala Harris’s top donors and former chief strategist opposing
her on rent control
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[8] Exclusive: Deceptive mailers target voters nationwide: “they think voters
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[9] CFPB Director Rohit Chopra attacks financial services firms by name —
after promising not to “prejudge”
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[10] Exclusive: Poll shows vast bipartisan concern over cyberattacks, support
for open-source AI models
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[11] Exclusive: Inside the “largest ever effort” to defeat George Soros-backed
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[12] Op-Eds from Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Rep. Richard Hudson, Rep. Vince Fong,
Eric Hovde, Randy Niemeyer, Bonnie Glick, and Bryan Leib
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In our latest edition, we have interviews with Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Joni
Ernst, and Grover Norquist, the latest on sketchy mailers targeting Republicans
across the country, a possible Google Docs mishap in a top Senate race, op-eds
from Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Rep, Richard Hudson, Rep. Vince Fong, and more!





[1] Interview: “I play the role of the kid who says the emperor has no
clothes”: Sen. Ron Johnson on Senate leadership elections, health care, Joe
Rogan, and more
By: Matthew Foldi

Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) has been laser focused lately, despite a busy
election cycle — on the multiple failed assassination attempts on President
Donald Trump’s life, and on putting America’s public health institutions under
a microscope.

Almost immediately after a would-be assassin’s bullets failed to kill Trump
at a Butler, Pennsylvania campaign rally in July, Johnson became one of the
go-to investigators into the day’s security blunders.

“I get so disgusted with the federal government, the arrogance of these
agencies and their top people, and the people on the ground are good people,”
he said. “I'm not going to impugn FBI agents and other federal law enforcement
officers who put their lives on the line, Secret Service folks; it's the top
management that is, I think, in many cases, just rotten to the core.” On the
day that Trump was nearly killed, there was “siloed communication, it was not a
well-coordinated effort. Secret Service not showing up in security briefing at
nine o'clock in the morning, just a spectacular security failure.”

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leader, more of his thoughts on the Joe Rogan Experience phenomenon, whether he
thinks Joe Biden will pardon Hunter Biden, and more.

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[2]
Interview: “Iowans see a fighter in Trump”: Sen Joni Ernst on Trump, trade,
threats to America, and her sleeper Senate race of the cycle
By: Matthew Foldi

Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) kicked off 2024 in earnest in her home state,
where President Donald Trump trounced his GOP rivals at Iowa’s caucus in
freezing cold temperatures this January.

“Democrats gave Middle America the middle finger when they abandoned the Iowa
caucuses,” she said in an interview with theWashington Reporter. “Republicans
are proud of our first in the nation status. Iowans are pros at vetting
candidates — they take their job very seriously. Donald Trump’s policies
resonate in our state, and after winning the caucuses, he went on to win the
nomination.”

Following the caucus, Ernst took off to campaign for Republicans across the
country. She’s been trekking to “Georgia to Michigan, Montana, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania to ensure that Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer can never again
open our nation’s borders to a stampede of illegal immigrants and terrorists,
unlock historic inflation, destroy America's reputation on the world stage, or
force radical green mandates.”

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America abroad, and much more!

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[3] Interview: Grover Norquist on Kamala Harris, Lina Khan, Burning Man, and
more
By: Matthew Foldi

Americans for Tax Reform and its president Grover Norquist have for decades
been at the forefront of opposing politicians of both parties who try to raise
taxes. A few days out from the 2024 election, Norquist is worried what could
happen to free speech, independent contractors, and the Constitution, if
Democrats win unified control.

“If they win, they will add three or four people to the Supreme Court, and
all of the rulings they want on labor law will go their way, and on tort law
and on power of cities versus states, or the federal government versus states,
everything they want is available with no restriction, and the First Amendment
is out, they just decided they don't like that, then they would add three or
four states to give themselves six or eight new senators,” he said in an
interview with theWashington Reporter.

One of the most important legislative items of the Democratic Party, Norquist
noted, is the PRO Act, which is “the most radical collection of things you
could ever want, even though nobody's read it. They were told, the coalition
says ‘you'll support this.’ They said ‘I'm in, okay.’” The PRO Act, if
implemented, would “end right to work, which ends independent contractors,
which means no Uber, no Lyft, no independent truckers,” he warned.

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Norquist, about tax policy, Burning Man, vaping, and much more.

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Heard on the Hill

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* Party with us! If you are a Republican in the D.C. area, and you're a
patriot, we are delighted to invite you to our inaugural election night party
that we are co-hosting with the great Americans for Tax Reform. There will be
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* Barrasso is barnstorming: Sen. John Barrasso (R., Wyo.), who is running
unopposed to be the Senate GOP’s Whip next year, campaigned in 11 states for
Senate GOP candidates, his team told us. Barrasso’s events have included
post-debate spin rooms, bus tours, rallies, small business visits, and
roundtables. ClickHERE
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to read our full story about Barrasso’s campaign trail moves.
* Claudia Tenney’s money moves: Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.) has donated
almost $500,000 to Republican House candidates across the country, helping
colleagues get through tough primaries and helping challengers expand the House
GOP majority. ClickHERE
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to read our full article about her moves.
* Team player: Mike Haridopolos has not even been elected to Congress yet,
but he is already doling out over $325,000 to elect Republicans across the
country. ClickHERE
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to read our full write-up of Haridopolos’s contributions; shortly after we
spoke with him, he donated several thousand more dollars to House candidates!
* To BEAD or not to BEAD: April McClain Delaney, a Democratic House
candidate, is under fire in a closer-than-expected race in Maryland, in part
due to herties
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to the Biden administration’s controversial Broadband Equity, Access, and
Deployment (BEAD) program, which FCC Commission Brendan Carrtold us
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has failed to connect a single person to broadband. Delaney is facing
Republican Neil Parrott in a race that continues to trend in the Republican’s
direction.

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[5] Exclusive: Bernie bro tied to “Conservatives for Dan [Osborn]” media
rollout
By: Matthew Foldi

Dan Osborn, the self-described independent running for Senate in Nebraska,
has faced fire in recent weeks for his close ties to the Democratic Party. The
latest tie, covered for the first time by theWashington Reporter, is a
publicly-posted Google Doc linked to aself
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-proclaimed “leftist” andsupporter
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Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.).

The public document is titled “Conservatives for Dan - Creative Treatments,”
and it includes video content, transcripts, and suggestions for how to put it
together as a fake, Fox News-style video. Osborn is making a last-minute play
for Republican-leaning voters in his uphill battle to oust Sen. Deb Fischer
(R., Neb.), who recentlyspoke
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The “Conservatives for Dan” document includes links to six videos, which
feature speeches from Osborn, “Dan’s Mom!,” and several Republicans who back
Osborn. It also includes a suggested rollout for pro-Osborn footage, which it
recommends should be a “fake newscast (we can create one using Fiver for only
$50), where the anchor reads, ‘and now, for the latest on the tight Senate race
in Nebraska, we go live to Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Conservatives for Dan
Osborn event.’”

The fake ad’s “aim is to make this appear as close to a real newscast as
possible,” the document says. “Simple presentation of Dan’s mother’s speech
served like sashimi (raw),” it says. “Family photos and text on screen for the
most important moments (see bolded below) accompany the speech.”

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for the Democratic Party’s preferred candidate for Senate in Nebraska.

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[6] “Justice that is long overdue”: Andrew Cuomo referred for prosecution by
COVID Select Committee
By: Matthew Foldi

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) has been referred to the Department of
Justice (DOJ) for criminal prosecution by the COVID Select Committee, the
committee announced said this week.

The disgraced former governor “knowingly and willfully made materially false
statements about New York’s COVID-19 nursing home disaster and the ensuing
cover-up,” the select committee said, regarding his testimony under oath about
his administration’s policies the committeenoted
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“forced New York nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit COVID-19
positive patients.” Now, the committee said, “the Department of Justice must
immediately charge Andrew Cuomo with making false statements to Congress.”

“Disgraced Governor Cuomo lied to Congress about his knowledge and cover-up
of the deadly COVID-19 nursing home directive that led to the tragic deaths of
15,000 New Yorkers,” Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.) told theWashington Reporter
. “His false statements were a calculated attempt to deflect accountability and
shift blame onto others. Making false statements to Congress is a crime, and
Cuomo's deceit only reinforces his pattern of deception and evasion. It is long
overdue for him to face the full consequences of his crimes and put him behind
bars."

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to read more about the fallout from the COVID Select Committee’s sensational
referral of Andrew Cuomo to the feds for criminal charges.

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[7] Exclusive: Kamala Harris’s top donors and former chief strategist opposing
her on rent control
By: Matthew Foldi

Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign made “tak[ing] on
corporate landlords and cap[ping] unfair rent increases” a top policy priority,
putting her at odds with her top donors and one of herlongtime aides
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, who all oppose rent control in Harris’s home state of California.

Jonathan Gray, the billionaire president of Blackstone, has donated
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approximately $500,000 to elect Harris as president. His company is one of the
largest owners of single-family homes in America and hasspent
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millions of dollars via offshoots to oppose rent control measures in
California.

One of the operatives that Blackstone-affiliated groups works closely with is
Ace Smith, a Democratic Party operative, whoworked
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Harris’s winning campaigns for attorney general and for U.S. Senate, to oppose
California ballot measures that would limit rent increases. Smith has “been
working closely with corporate landlords and their front group, the California
Apartment Association, to ensure that the real estate industry can keep
charging wildly inflated, unfair rents,”according
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Smith is currently working
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Exclusive: Deceptive mailers target voters nationwide: “they think voters are
stupid”
By: Matthew Foldi

Voters across America are getting bombarded with deceptive mailers, some of
which urge them to waste their votes for third-party spoiler candidates, others
of which photoshop Special Forces logos off of Republicans, and others yet
which fail to include any disclaimer about who paid for them — which campaign
experts tell theWashington Reporter could be illegal.

One producer of deceptive mailers is a newly-formed organization, Save
Western Culture. TheReporter was the first to cover Save Western Culture’s
activities last week.

Similar organizations, such as Fight Big Pharma, Stop China, and Stop
Political Corruption, are sending mailers, texts, and videos to voters in the
waning hours of the 2024 elections. “They think voters are stupid,” a GOP
strategist told theReporter.


The newly-formed organizations, which lack contact information, are spending
in Maryland against Larry Hogan, in Texas against Sen. Ted Cruz, in Iowa
against Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn, in Wisconsin against Rep.
Derrick Van Orden, in New York against Reps. Mike Lawler and Marc Molinaro, in
Oregon against Rep. Lori Chavez DeRemer, and in Michigan against Mike Rogers,
Tom Barrett, and Donald Trump.

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resorting to in the final days of the election.

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[9] CFPB Director Rohit Chopra attacks financial services firms by name —
after promising not to “prejudge”
By: Matthew Foldi

Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
and a board member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), is
facing criticism for his “prejudgment” and allegedly biased treatment of
financial services firms.

The FDIC is in process of finalizing a rule that would restrict investment
firms’ ability to own stock in banks. Conservatives have warned against the
rule’s “micromanagement.”

Supporters of the proposal — mainly the nonprofit “Better Markets,” which is
funded
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by a far-left socialist — argue that the proposal is necessary because greater
regulation and bureaucratic control will lead to a safer banker system.
Conservatives say that the proposal would raise costs on borrowers and put the
banking system’s security in jeopardy.

Beyond the proposal, conservatives have harshly criticized Chopra for his
speech
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at Harvard in which he slammed two investment firms — Vanguard and Blackrock —
as “natural oligopolies,” suggesting that he has prejudged the issue while the
rulemaking is playing out.

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directly contracts what he told Congress.

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[10] Exclusive: Poll shows vast bipartisan concern over cyberattacks, support
for open-source AI models
By: Matthew Foldi

A nationwide poll conducted for a bipartisan coalition of tech companies
confirms that the inflation, health care, and the economy are top issues on
voters’ minds — and that while tech policy isn’t a front-burner issue, voters
are generally against regulating America-based tech companies in ways that
would stifle innovation.

The poll, first obtained by the Washington Reporter, found that on a scale of
one to 100, voters gave regulating U.S. tech companies a 58 in the poll,
conducted by Mercury Analytics on behalf of the American Edge Project; the
score pales in comparison to issues like Medicare and Social Security, which
scored a 91, and national security, which scored a 90.



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voters stand on issues like cyberattacks, open- and closed-source AI models,
and much more.

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[11] Exclusive: Inside the “largest ever effort” to defeat George Soros-backed
prosecutors
By: Matthew Foldi

Protecting Americans Action Fund (PAAF), the GOP’s largest group dedicated to
combatting George Soros-backed prosecutors, has spent more money against
liberal district attorneys this year than ever before, it confirmed exclusively
to theWashington Reporter.

PAAF, an organization led by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, has
spent $2.5 million this cycle to date, in key races across the country, from
Hillsborough County, Florida, to Hamilton County, Ohio, to El Paso County,
Texas, Maricopa County, Arizona, and beyond. PAAF spent its millions on
targeted television, radio, mail, and digital campaigns across 13 jurisdictions.

The group’s largest investment this cycle was in Hamilton County, where it
spent $400,000 on a television ad buy supporting the incumbent, Hamilton County
Prosecuting Attorney Melissa Powers; Hamilton County is the largest county in
Ohio with a conservative prosecutor in office. PAAF’s ad campaign there
highlights how Powers’s opponent, Connie Pillich, has “never prosecuted a
single criminal. Not one.”

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prosecutors across America.

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[12] Op-Ed: Sen. Tommy Tuberville: Fight the good fight, finish the race, keep
the faith
By: Sen. Tommy Tuberville

Throughout my coaching career, I always instructed my players to finish
strong. Play until you hear the whistle. Don’t quit until the play is dead. In
the final countdown of this election season, patriotic Americans should think
of this election in the exact same terms.

We are at the two-minute warning of the most important election in many of
our lifetimes. It is perhaps the most consequential election in the history of
our country.

It goes without saying: make sure you vote, and as early as possible. But
your job doesn’t end there. Make sure your family and friends vote. If they
live in battleground states, give them a call. There’s too much on the line to
let up now.

America is at the two-minute warning. Click HERE
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days.

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[13] Op-Ed: Rep. Richard Hudson: Americans agree that “we can’t afford four
more years of this”
By: Rep. Richard Hudson

Recently, Gov. Tim Walz said the quiet part out loud, declaring that “we
can’t afford four more years of this.” As voters head to the polls and face a
choice between the Harris-Walz ticket and the Trump-Vance ticket, this is one
thing we can all agree on.

As we grapple with skyrocketing inflation, depleting savings accounts,
soaring interest rates, and wages unable to keep pace with the financial ruins
the Harris-Biden agenda has left us, Tim Walz is right — we cannot afford four
more years of the Democrats’ failed policies. We’ve heard time and time again
that Kamala Harris is from a middle-class family. However, she continues to be
oblivious to the consequences of her failed economic policies that impact our
middle-class families shopping at the grocery store, filling up the gas tank,
or trying to buy a home. It seems she’s the only self-identified “middle-class”
person who is immune to the inflation crisis.

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— that “we can’t afford four more years of this.”

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[14] Op-Ed: Rep. Vince Fong: California Coastal Commission’s anti-Elon Musk
decision violates the First Amendment
By: Rep. Vince Fong

Every day as Americans, we are empowered to use our freedoms to express
ourselves through rights enshrined in the First Amendment. Practicing religion,
communication from the press, and speaking freely are three of the five
protected principles — many of which have become so second nature that we may
even overlook how valuable they are to our lives. Therefore, when someone’s
First Amendment rights are violated, it should be alarming to all Americans.

Recently, the California Coastal Commission decided to restrict additional
launches from SpaceX at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The plan was submitted by
the Air Force in which the number of launches was going to increase from 36 to
50. One may ask why the California Coastal Commission would vote to deny this
plan. In the words of one commissioner, Gretchen Newsom, “right now, Elon Musk
is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and
attacking FEMA…”

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Democrats’ partisan warfare against Elon Musk.

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[15] Op-Ed: Eric Hovde: Wisconsin needs a citizen legislator, not a career
politician
By: Eric Hovde

For far too long, Washington has been run by career politicians who have
become corrupt. Instead of addressing the myriad issues affecting the American
people, politicians today care only about getting re-elected, about enriching
themselves, and about raising money from special interest groups that they are
beholden to.

From day one, I made the promise that I will not take corporate special
interest money, which I have not. I can’t be bought and will only put the
people of Wisconsin first.

The contrast between myself and my 38-year career politician opponent, Sen.
Tammy Baldwin, could not be more clear. Sen. Baldwin rails against Wall Street,
Big Pharma, and Big Tech, while simultaneously raking in cash from each sector.

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the Senate.

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[16] Op-Ed: Randy Niemeyer: We must protect Social Security and stabilizing
our future
By: Randy Niemeyer

This past week, we saw the stock market take a devastating downturn. The
squeeze we have felt over the last four years is crushing everyone from Main
Street to Wall Street, and I am not sure we can take much more. Our country is
grappling with skyrocketing inflation, rising unemployment, and the looming
threat of an economic recession.

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promises to our seniors during his congressional campaign.

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[17] Op-Ed: Bonnie Glick: America Needs Leaders: Maryland Can Send the Man for
the Job
By: Bonnie Glick

A dangerous world needs leaders. Leadership isn’t mud-slinging. It isn’t
falsifying one’s record of performance. It’s about demonstrated success in the
face of adversity. It’s hard to think of any candidate for office who has faced
more adversity and stared it down than Larry Hogan, the current Republican
candidate for Senate in Maryland.

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election has for all Americans.

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[18] Op-Ed: Bryan Leib: Personnel is policy, which is why President Donald
Trump will have a successful second term
By: Bryan Leib

In the world of governance, there is a fundamental truth that too many people
ignore at their peril: personnel is policy. A president’s administration is not
just a collection of names; it’s the reflection of their values, priorities,
and approach to leadership. This distinction is no clearer than when comparing
the bold and results-driven Trump administration to the confused, weak-kneed
Biden team.

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trumped President Joe Biden's.

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