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The Republican Jewish Coalition is calling for the resignation of seven Democratic members of Congress whom it claims are "connected" to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The group describes him as a "known anti-Semite." The lobbying group on Tuesday called for the following lawmakers to step down: Reps. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.; Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; Danny Davis, D-Ill.; Andre Carson, D-Ind.; Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; and Al Green, D-Texas.

Thousands of illegal immigrants are traveling through Central America and Mexico on their way to the US southern border. The illegals will seek asylum within the United States. But they’re not sending their best. Illegal immigrant “Jose” says he wants back in the United States. Jose is wanted for attempted murder.

Ammar Campa-Najjar is squaring up against Duncan Hunter for a seat on the Congress and a major skeleton just fell out of Najjar's closet. His grandfather, Yusuf al-Najjar, was literally a terrorist working for Fatah. Members of Fatah were responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics attack that left 11 athletes/coaches without life. Al-Najjar and his wife were killed in a 1973 raid that could have been a response to the attack on the Olympics. Campa-Najjar’s paternal grandfather was Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar, head of the intelligence wing of Fatah, the political party founded by Palestinian political leader Yasser Arafat. Some Fatah...

“They downplay the things that they did that aren’t so good. They try to put a positive spin on things,” Obama continued. “But what we have not seen before, in our recent public life, at least, is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying.” . . “If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it.”

Year after year, Democrats run the same election strategy. It starts with the phony polls intended to demoralize the Republican base. Sometimes it works and the GOP destroys its own candidates (as with Todd Akin, Roy Moore, etc.). Media predictions become self-fulfilling. But when Republicans don’t give up, as in 2016, the dishonesty of the polling ultimately becomes apparent. So, here’s my prediction: Control of the House will be tightly contested, with the GOP more than likely to hang on. What makes polls biased? And how do the newspapers judge the facts? 1. Sampling Bias Obviously, the centerpiece of biased...

About that Blue Wave…Ed Morrissey wonders if it's the "Kavanaugh Effect," but in the latest poll Debbie Stabenow's lead has dropped 16 points from last month, putting her "safe" seat perhaps within reach of GOP challenger John James. Ed reminds us that RealClearPolitics wrote just a few weeks ago that “there is little evidence that [James] poses a threat to Debbie Stabenow," but clearly that's old news. He goes on to say that Stabenow's near-collapse might represent "an across-the-board collapse for Democrats in Michigan."Stabenow of course holds a Senate seat. While it would be nice -- great, even --...

The Trump administration is drastically cutting back on who on Capitol Hill gets to see intelligence reports on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, according to multiple congressional sources. Under the new rules, only each party's House and Senate leaders, along with chairs and ranking members of foreign relations and intelligence committees, get direct access to the reports. It is a drastic change from previous distribution of North Korea related intelligence reports which, for the most part, gave access to the entire committees and the staffers on those committees. The fear on Capitol Hill is that the limited distribution, which has...

.........When it comes to the generic-ballot results, however, location matters. Where Democrats dominate, their lead is understandably massive — 30 points, in fact. But in the battleground districts where Democrats expect to pick up seats, that lead evaporates, turning into a five point lead for Republicans, 49/44: Democratic candidates are preferred by a 30 point margin (60% to 30%) in Democratic-held districts, while Republican candidates are preferred by a 15 point margin (55% to 40%) in Republican-held districts. In the 11 California districts deemed competitive by the Cook Political Report, likely voters are divided (49% Republican candidate, 44% Democratic candidate)....

Lawyer Michael Avenatti tweeted Thursday that he is ready to cooperate with a Justice Department investigation into himself and client Julie Swetnick as soon as "tonight." His tweet, directed at Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), came hours after Grassley announced he is referring Swetnick and Avenatti to the Justice Department for a potential criminal investigation into whether they made false statements to Congress about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh "@ChuckGrassley, let’s start the investigation tonight," Avenatti tweeted on Thursday evening. "I will make my client available for a sworn interview and you can make Judge Kavanaugh available for...

What do you think will happen tomorrow, if anything? I suspect today was just a start. Something more needs to happen to lead into the weekend.

A Capitol Police explosive ordnance team was dispatched to a House of Representatives mail processing facility in Capitol Heights, Maryland, following a string of suspected explosive devices sent to prominent Democrats. The package in question was addressed to California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters. Since the anthrax attacks in 2001, mail for Congress has been sent to offsite facilities for screening. House and Senate mail is processed separately in two Maryland facilities. This means that mail can take anywhere from 10 to 14 days to reach its destination. “Under no circumstances should anyone ever bring unopened mail or packages from outside...

The safest route would take them to Tijuana, across the US border from San Diego. A large caravan that crossed Mexico in the spring -- and also drew ire from President Trump -- took more than 30 days to reach Tijuana from Tapachula, Mexico -- a city this caravan departed on Monday. Right now the closest border crossing to this caravan would be between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas, about 1,111 miles away from the group's current location. But heading that way is considered a more dangerous route. To date, the caravan has traveled about 20 miles a day, largely...

“The United States also has a message for those who are currently part of this caravan or any caravan which follows: You will not be successful at getting into the United States illegally no matter what,” Pompeo said at a briefing with reporters at the State Department. “I repeat, the caravan will not cross our southern border under any circumstances,” Pompeo said.

Democrats hold a 3-point advantage over Republicans in some of the nation’s tightest House races, according to a Washington Post/Schar School poll released Tuesday. The poll shows that in 69 competitive districts, 50 percent of likely voters support the Democratic candidate in their district, compared with 47 percent who back the Republican. Sixty-three percent of the districts surveyed are currently represented by a GOP lawmaker. Democrats and Republicans are running about even in the 48 districts surveyed that voted for President Trump in 2016. Democrats hold a narrowing advantage in the 21 districts that voted for Hillary Clinton that year....

Nate Silver explains the methodology behind our 2018 midterms forecast. Read more …

On this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said if Democrats win the majority U.S. House of Representatives in November, prospective House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would “welcome” the Central American migrants headed to U.S. border...If you elect Democrats to run the House, you know exactly what you’re going to get. They’re going to try and impeach the president and impeach Kavanaugh.

A recent poll of 1500 adults conducted by The Economist and YouGov found that Congress as a whole has an approval rating of a dismal 14%, with Democratic Party elected officials having an approval rating of 31% and Republican Party elected officials weighing in at 32% approval by those who participated in the sample.The poll was conducted October 14-16th. "Overall, do you approve or disapprove of the way that the United States Congress is handling its job?" TheEconomist/YouGov asked. 3% said they "strongly" approved while 11% said they "somewhat "approved. By comparison, 19% said they "somewhat" disapprove and 35% said they...

The Breitbart News best guess estimate 18 days before the election is that there are a range of outcomes in which either party ends up with a majority in the House. In the best outcome for the Republicans, they win 14 of these remaining 20 toss-up races, and emerge with a narrow five vote margin over the Democrats when the 116th Congress convenes in January, 220 Republicans to 215 Democrats. In the best outcome for the Democrats, they run the table in these 20 “toss-up” races and end up with a 23 vote majority in the 116th Congress, 229 Democrats...

Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell that if Democrats retake the House of Representatives, he hopes "they don't" impeach President Trump. "I hope they don't. I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now," Biden said. He called for Democrats to wait until the conclusion of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. "I think we should focus on all the terrible things that are happening now in terms of interest of the middle class people and working class people," Biden said, criticizing the Trump administration for "decimating"...

The President has the power, under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, to call a special session of the Congress during the current adjournment, in which the Congress now stands adjourned ...