Some Palestinians predict 'more destruction and devastation,' while others think that 'whatever happens, it will surely be better than what we've lived through in recent years'

Tuesday on FNC's "The Ingraham Angle," Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) warned about motives from Democrats as next month's midterm elections approach.

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Ahead of the 2020 elections, Donald Trump told anyone who would listen that a Joe Biden victory would lead to “a depression the likes of which you’ve never seen.” The then-president’s claim was obviously foolish and quickly discredited by reality.

The Republican is nevertheless recycling the line, declaring at a campaign rally in Mississippi this week, “If the Democrats win, you will have a 1929-style economic depression. What they want to do is so bad for our country, you’re going to end up with a massive recession or depression.”

The incumbent president never got around to saying how this economic calamity would happen, which parts of the Democratic agenda are so dangerous or why he was so spectacularly wrong when he made the same prediction six years earlier.

But what struck me as especially notable was that even Trump doesn’t seem to believe his own fearmongering.

Just hours before his event in Mississippi, the president briefly spoke to reporters, one of whom asked how he’d “work with Democrats if they have control of the House or the Senate.” He replied:

We’ll figure a way. Look, I have strong veto. I hope that that won’t be the case, but if it is, that’s happened before with many presidents. And you have strong veto and you end up working out deals.

Oh.

So on the one hand, Trump wants Americans to believe that a Democratic majority on Capitol Hill would transform the nation into a hellscape in which transgender Muslim immigrants come to your home to turn your children into communists.

But on the other hand, Trump also wants Americans to believe that if there is a Democratic majority, he’ll veto bad ideas while working on possible bipartisan agreements — which is unlikely to sound all that scary to many voters.

The president made similar comments in early September, telling Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, “I’ll block all their bad stuff for two years. It won’t be the same, but I’ll be a blocker, what can I tell you?”

He then added that he’ll “probably be able to make deals” with the possible Democratic majority.

The Republican Party’s line is that the stakes in this election cycle are effectively existential — but Trump’s line is that it just won’t be that big a deal if Democrats prevail. That’s quite a message for the incumbent president to take to the electorate in the cycle’s closing days, but here we are.

This post updates our related earlier coverage.

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With neither Israel’s governing nor opposition blocs securing a majority, Arab parties hold the balance of power as politicians weigh coalition deals, a new election and the country’s political divide.

Netanyahu's party says it presented 'hundreds of testimonies' and other evidence; election panel says it's reviewing the fraud allegations, which a senior official earlier dismissed

Headed into Election Day, it’s not exactly a secret that House Republicans are likely to lose their majority. Democrats only need a net gain of a handful of seats, and all of the available evidence suggests that won’t be a problem.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, keeps taking issue with the evidence.

“Republicans are no longer responding to polls,” the GOP leader told Fox News over the weekend. He added, “I’m telling you these polls are off — all of them.”

On Monday night, the Louisiana congressman returned to the network and pushed effectively the same line. “I’m telling you the polling is inaccurate,” the House speaker said.

Maybe so. Maybe Johnson’s right — we can probably all think of instances when polls have been off to one degree or another — and it could be the political world is in for an enormous surprise next week.

But if that were to happen, Republicans themselves would be among those who are shocked.

As a matter of campaign strategy and tactics, I can appreciate why Johnson is pushing this line with so much enthusiasm. He is, after all, Congress’ top GOP lawmaker. If he were openly accepting the available data on public attitudes, the House speaker would effectively have to admit the odds of him holding onto his gavel are poor, which wouldn’t exactly motivate his party’s rank-and-file voters to cast a ballot.

But regardless of Johnson’s motivations, even his own party doesn’t genuinely believe his talking point. We know this for certain because Republicans keep moving campaign money around to protect vulnerable GOP incumbents — not based on pleas and anecdotal evidence, but because of their own polling data.

The same is true for Donald Trump’s campaign schedule. The president hasn’t invested his time in states such as Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi and Kansas — states he won by enormous margins two years ago — because he finds local conditions pleasant this time of year. The White House political operation is deploying Trump in response to polling data, even as Johnson insists that Republicans “are no longer responding to polls.”

Of course they are. There’s nothing else for them to use when making difficult electoral decisions.

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Democrats in Alaska reportedly created a plan to find a second candidate, also called Dan Sullivan, as Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan (R-AK) and Alaska Democrat U.S. Senate candidate and former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) face off against each other.

The post Report: Mary Peltola Was Aware of Scheme to Draft Spoiler Candidate with Dan Sullivan’s Name — and Her Campaign Lawyers Were Involved appeared first on Breitbart.

As near-final vote count indicate a looming political deadlock, investors brace for weeks of uncertainty, after betting on a change in government

President praises high turnout, says everything must be done to prevent a repeat vote, expects party leaders to show willingness to consider options

Further updates unlikely before Thursday as Central Election Committee turns attention to double envelope ballots and ordinary ballots requiring extra oversight

President Donald Trump urged his supporters to vote for Republican Texas Senate candidate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and criticized Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico at a pair of rallies in Texas on Tuesday. 

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Likud defense minister slams Eisenkot's 'undemocratic' warning that PM could exploit security issues for his own ends, calls IDF a 'full partner' that 'will carry out any decision necessary'

Soldiers, prisoners and diplomats have cast 430,000 to 480,000 ballots that are only being counted from Wednesday night, but history suggests they won't break election stalemate

Left-wing late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel hit Disney's ABC airwaves Tuesday night to encourage liberals to continue to crash rallies shouting "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass" at President Donald Trump.

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Comedian Jon Stewart urged people to vote against "this reckless shitshow of an administrator" in his final plea before the midterm elections next week.

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Alaska "Republican" Sen. Lisa Murkowski endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tompkins in the state's race for governor, saying he "understands that governing requires listening to people with different perspectives and finding common ground to solve the problems all of us face," Alaska Public Media reported.

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Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown dumped $15,000 in stock after meeting with the company's CFO, a curiously-timed move that has resurfaced as he aims to recapture a Senate seat in next week's midterm election against Republican Sen. Jon Husted.

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With both pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs well short of a majority after tallying of most ballots, analysts dissect the most likely ways forward, some of which would involve party leaders breaking key promises

In the market stalls of the old bazaar, locals call for Zionist and Arab parties to work together to bring change - but resistance to the idea by opposition leaders may render their vision a nonstarter

The president must decide who'll get first chance to form a new government. In the meantime, the outgoing administration is in charge, but could be partially stymied if the opposition unites