Author: Freedom Watch

A frustrated Biden will go on attack against GOP in midterms — and into 2024 By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Kevin Liptak CNN April 29, 2022 (CNN)President Joe Biden has been letting loose in private conversations in recent weeks, railing about the factors bogging down his approval ratings and the people he thinks aren’t helping — including Democrats eyeing his job despite his clear promise to run for reelection. He’s gearing up for intense midterm campaigning built around hammering Republicans, as he tries to save Democrats in the House and Senate, but also to tee up a reelection campaign…

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Here are the GOP lawmakers targeted by McCarthy in new audio recordings The Hill April 27, 2022 New audio recordings of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaking critically of some of his colleagues after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol are raising new questions about his future leadership of the conference. GOP lawmakers leaving a conference meeting on Wednesday offered support for McCarthy, suggesting the tempest will be put to the side ahead of the midterm elections. But they could come up again if a rival conservative wanted to challenge McCarthy for the Speakership should…

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Biden Focus on ‘Ghost Guns’ Lets Criminals Off the Hook By Michael Dorstewitz Newsmax April 26, 2022 The latest boogeyman in President Joe Biden’s quest for more stringent gun control legislation is the supposed scourge of “ghost guns” — but while the administration aims to turn the president into a ghost buster, gun experts say the White House’s logic is the only thing busted. Biden in a speech earlier this month revealed a new Department of Justice rule that would effectively ban the manufacture of “ghost guns.” “These guns are weapons of choice for many criminals,” Biden said…

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The Hill April 23, 2022 President Biden’s approval numbers remain stuck at near-record lows as he faces a series of setbacks, according to a new poll. The latest Gallup survey released Friday finds that roughly 41 percent of U.S. adults approve of the job Biden is doing just over a year into office, about the same as previous surveys showing him underwater among the public. Fifty-six percent of those surveyed in the latest poll disapprove of Biden’s job performance as president. That’s a near reversal from his approval numbers when he entered office, when 57 percent of adults surveyed…

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McCarthy quietly moves to tamp down fallout after damaging audio By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox CNN April 22, 2022 (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has been maneuvering behind the scenes to contain the fallout over damning and contradictory conversations he had with other GOP lawmakers about then-President Donald Trump in the immediate aftermath of January 6. The California Republican dialed up key GOP members throughout Friday and spoke to Trump by phone Thursday night, according to multiple Republicans. And he has so far managed to calm nerves inside the House GOP Conference and prevent a…

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