Good morning from Washington, where House conservatives demand answers on how the COVID-19 pandemic originated and why the U.S. government responded as it did. Samantha Aschieris has highlights from their hearing at The Heritage Foundation. What to make of the results of Tuesday’s midterm elections? Victor Davis Hanson shares thoughts. Plus: GianCarlo Canaparo and Jack Fitzhenry analyze a federal judge’s decision to block President Biden’s student loan bailout, and pollster Scott Rasmussen analyzes the midterm vote. On this date in 1954, Ellis Island, the so-called gateway to America in New York Harbor, closes after processing over 12 million immigrants since 1892. It reopens as a museum 30 years later.
“While some are suggesting a so-called COVID amnesty … we are instead asking for accountability for the lies and the injustice resulting from government response,” says Rep. Chip Roy.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is facing a rebellion in his own conference just days after Republicans underperformed in key races across the country.
Republicans wrongly assumed all voters, red and blue, sensibly cared most about spiking inflation, unaffordable food and fuel, an open border, and a disastrous foreign policy.
One last-ditch effort that paid off for Biden was his overpromising on student loan forgiveness. The whole point, says Scott Rasmussen, was to drive up the youth vote. And it worked.
