‘I have been this racehorse that has been held back,’ says NYC mayor
Eric Adams (cropped, Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
New York City mayor Eric Adams will leave the Democratic primary and run for reelection as an independent, as internal tensions and a broader identity crisis roil the Democratic Party.
“Though I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forgo the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election,” Adams announced in a video Thursday morning. He argued that New York City needs “truly independent leadership, not leaders pulled at by the extremists on the far-left or the far-right.”
Adams had been weighing an independent bid for weeks, as his high-profile corruption case dragged on in court, sources close to him told the New York Post. A federal judge on Wednesday permanently dismissed Adams’s criminal case.
The mayor, who faced charges of bribery, wire fraud, and soliciting illegal campaign contributions, has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of bringing the charges against him in retaliation for his criticism of former president Joe Biden’s handling of the migrant crisis, according to the New York Times.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has announced that he’s endorsing Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) for Florida governor.
In a statement first reported by Politico Playbook, Johnson said:
“Byron Donalds is a principled conservative leader who Floridians can trust as their next Governor.
“In Congress, Byron has been tenacious in standing up for Florida and President Trump’s America First agenda.
“I have no doubt he will bring that same fighting spirit with him as Governor, working every day to improve the lives of Florida families.
“My good friend Byron Donalds has my full support,” Johnson added.
The Sunshine State Republican thanked Johnson for his support.
In a post on X, Donalds called Johnson a “good friend.”
“From local Tea Party Activism to the State House & the halls of Congress to my candidacy for Governor of Florida, my fight for the Sunshine State has been unwavering,” Donalds added.
“Together, we are Making America Great Again.”
Thank you to my good friend Speaker @MikeJohnson for your support!
From local Tea Party Activism to the State House & the halls of Congress to my candidacy for Governor of Florida, my fight for the Sunshine State has been unwavering.
Five Ways Non-Citizens With Social Security Numbers Scam US– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
When Elon Musk and his DOGE colleague Antonio Gracias showed a Wisconsin audience how non-citizens get Social Security Numbers (SSNs), their presentation painted the clearest picture yet of the long-term damage former President Joe Biden’s open border policy will have on the United States.
Standing in front of a huge chart, they showed how the number of SSNs issued to new non-citizens spiked in 2024.
The total SSNs issued in 2021 was roughly 270,000; in 2022 it climbed to 590,000, and in 2023, there were 964,000 SSNs issued to new non-citizens. But in 2024 it more than doubled to over 2 million. This counts only non-citizens who got their SSNs through the Enumeration Beyond Entry program, a system where the Social Security Administration automatically issues SSNs and cards to certain foreign nationals in the U.S., as part of an agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Your data is apples to oranges. The data you show for the 2016 to 2020 period is enumeration for all immigrants in ALL forms. The data we showed in our slide last night in Wisconsin was just Enumeration Beyond Entry (“EBE”) immigrants. The difference is Enumerations at Field… https://t.co/iDaFPbcL0upic.twitter.com/XNNFQb51Di
France’s Le Pen convicted of embezzlement, barred from 2027 presidential race – The Tribune India Source Link Excerpt:
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement on Monday and banned immediately for five years from running for public office, in a watershed moment that will rule her out of the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand.
The French court’s ruling was a catastrophic setback for Le Pen, the National Rally (RN) party chief who has been a front-runner in opinion polls for the 2027 contest.
The judge also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence — two years of which are suspended sentence and two which will be served under home detention. She also received a 100,000-euro ($108,200) fine.
Jason Galanis thanks Trump for commuting sentence– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
Jason Galanis, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, praised President Donald Trump for understanding “the law better than any lawyer” in commuting his sentence.
Galanis was serving a 189-month prison sentence for securities fraud until yesterday when Trump announced he had commuted the sentence. Galanis pled guilty to fraud charges in 2020. While serving his sentence, Galanis testified against Hunter Biden and his father, then-President Joe Biden, to the House Oversight Committee.
“I’m delighted to be able to be here to thank him,” Galanis said of Trump on Fox News‘s Hannity Tuesday. “I think that big law is on notice, and the president’s onto them. And so be warned, the president is onto them, and I’ve never seen a lawyer smarter than President Trump who knows the law better than any lawyer.”
Judge Admits ‘Concerns’ About ‘Security’ Of GA Voting System– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia Amy Totenberg admitted in a late Monday ruling that there are “substantial concerns” about Georgia’s voting system but refused to address them, instead dismissing a years-long case that sought to move the state to hand-marked paper ballots for alleged lack of standing.
The case, Curling v. Raffensperger, was brought back in 2017 and has since evolved. Plaintiffs, which include the Coalition for Good Governance and several Georgia voters, asked the court — according to Totenberg’s ruling — “to stop Georgia’s use of its electronic in-person voting system so that it can be replaced with a hand-marked paper ballot system.”
Plaintiffs argued, in part, that the current voting system “makes it impossible for these voters to verify that the QR codes on their printed ballots, which are used to tabulate their votes, accurately reflect the ballot selections they made on the voting machines,” according to the ruling.
Totenberg ruled that “Plaintiffs lack standing to pursue their claims because neither of these asserted injuries constitute an invasion of a legally protected interest under governing precedent.” But Totenberg also ruled that plaintiffs “identified substantial concerns about the administration, maintenance, and security of Georgia’s electronic in-person voting system …”
Voter ID Constitutional Amendment Passes by Eye-Popping Margin in Major Defeat to Democrats– www.westernjournal.com Source Link Excerpt:
Wisconsin voters decisively approved a measure to enshrine voter identification requirements in the state constitution on Tuesday.
Wisconsin Question 1 asked voters whether a new section should be added to the state constitution “to require that voters present valid photographic identification verifying their identity in order to vote in any election,” according to text of the amendment from Ballotpedia.
As of Wednesday morning, roughly 62.7 percent of voters cast their ballots in the affirmative, while 37.3 percent voted against the measure, according to vote tallies from The New York Times.
Wisconsin already requires voter ID, but the constitutional amendment prevents the law from being overturned.
After Trump’s Election, NSF-Funded Censorship Tools Go Missing– thefederalist.com Source Link Excerpt:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) claims to be the place “where discoveries begin” — but it funded programs where free speech ends. When The Federalist asked if it still funds anti-“misinformation” tools, a representative simply pointed to its public grants database, which lists censorship projects funded during the Biden administration.
The public-interest law firm Alliance Defending Freedom sent NSF records requests in February to uncover any coordination between the federal agency and internet communications monopolies such as Google and Facebook.
NSF funds one-quarter of all federally funded academic fundamental research projects at U.S. higher education institutions, and funds technology development at approximately 400 “small businesses” each year. It has an annual budget of $8.5 billion. It also funds programs that exclude recipients based on race, according to an NSF factsheet.
The NSF’s “Convergence Accelerator,” which funds special research projects, launched a “cohort track” in 2021 for “Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems.” Recipients developed software to control online speech labeled “misinformation” about politically sensitive topics including Covid-19 treatments and election integrity.
This Former Biden Official Just Announced Run for California Governor– townhall.com Source Link Excerpt:
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra announced that he is entering the race for California governor.
In a video released on Wednesday, Becerra declared that he plans to seek the governor’s seat to replace current Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“Hi, I’m Javier Becerra, and you may have heard, I am running to be governor of our great state of California. And that’s because I watched my parents, a construction worker and a clerical worker, achieve the California dream,” he said on the video.
Can we do that today with this affordability crisis? Very tough. But we’ve taken on these tough fights. California has succeeded in those tough fights and become the economic engine of this country. We can do that, but you need a leader who can be tough. And I’ve been in those tough fights, whether it was as a member of Congress, when we helped draft and pass the Affordable Care Act, when I was attorney general for our great state of California, and I took on the Trump administration the first time, sued him over 100 times and won, or whether as Secretary of Health and Human Services, I took on the pharmaceutical industry and we negotiated lower prescription drug prices for seniors under Medicare.
Republican Candidates Overcome Huge Fundraising Deficits to Win Congressional Races– www.lifenews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Republicans Randy Fine and Jimmy Patronis secured victories in two special congressional elections in Florida on Tuesday, overcoming significant fundraising disadvantages to maintain GOP control of seats vacated by prominent party members.
The wins bolster the Republican Party’s slim majority in the U.S. House, despite a strong financial push from Democratic opponents.
Fine, a former state senator, won Florida’s 6th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Josh Weil, an Orlando school teacher who outraised Fine by more than $9 million between January and March, according to Federal Election Commission reports.
Randy Fine overcomes vast fundraising disparity to win Florida seat vacated by Mike Waltz– www.washingtontimes.com Source Link Excerpt:
Republican state Sen. Randy Fine won Tuesday’s special election in Florida’s 6th Congressional District to fill the seat that Michael Waltz vacated to serve as President Trump’s national security adviser.
The special elections the Democrats hoped would deliver them a mini-blue tide delivered only a blue blot, a secured Democrat majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court that is expected to yield more Democrat House seats thanks to the expected gerrymandering a DNC-serving, anti-Americanist court will allow.
But in the other Wisconsin vote, the vote to preserve voter ID laws, the Democrats lost badly. They also lost badly in the two Florida seats, leaving the Republicans with a much stronger 220 to 213 majority in the U.S. House.
Still, the Republicans cannot overcome one major issue, the issue that cost them the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the desire for humans to have the “right” to murder their unborn children. This desire overrides their own desire to be free, for surely they must now understand that Democrats are not Americans at all.
In the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the top issue among voters was abortion at 32%, followed by judicial independence at 25%. The leftist, Susan Crawford, won the swing seat by a vote of 56% to 44%, a decisive win thanks to abortion as the deciding factor. Crawford won among those who counted abortion as their top issue 68 percent to 32 percent.
Conservative thought leader Charlie Kirk said of the Wisconsin loss, “We did a lot in Wisconsin, but we fell short. We must realize and appreciate that we are the LOW PROP party now. The party has been remade. Special elections and off-cycle elections will continue to be a problem without a change of strategy.”
Wisconsin did, however, offer a silver lining, a win for election integrity. The same voters who sided with anti-Americanist ideologues in the name of preserving the right to murder their unborn child also voted 63% to 37% to require ID for voting. The state has required Voter ID for 10 years. This vote makes it “permanent.”
In the Florida House races, where Republicans were hoping to hold on to 2 empty seats, one held by Matt Gaetz and one held by Michael Waltz. The Republicans held on to both seats, with Jimmy Patronis defeating Democrat Gay Valimont 57% to 43% to hold the Gaetz seat, and Randy Fine beating Democrat Josh Weil 54% to 46% to hold on to the Walz seat. The GOP now holds a 220-213 majority in the House.
Among Florida voters, the number one issue for voters was the economy at 40% and Trump’s agenda at 30%. The Republicans won 75% of the economy voters and 62% of the Trump agenda voters. When abortion is not the main issue, Democrats lose badly.
Democrats Sue Trump for Mandating Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Federal Elections– slaynews.com Source Link Excerpt:
Top Democrats have filed a lawsuit to block President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating that voters must provide proof of citizenship to cast ballots in federal elections.
The lawsuit alleges that Trump’s order will “impose radical changes on how Americans register to vote.”
Trump signed the executive order last week seeking to overhaul the nation’s elections.
However, the order now faces two legal challenges, one of them by top Democrats.
The first lawsuit was filed on Monday afternoon by two leftist groups – the Campaign Legal Center and the State Democracy Defenders Fund.
Shortly after, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, and Senate and House Democratic leaders filed a complaint of their own.
Both lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ask the court to block Trump’s order and declare it illegal.
President Trump To Expose 2020 Election: “It was a Very Corrupt Election…I Won by a Lot. You’re Going to Find that Out. The Documents are There!”– wltreport.com Source Link Excerpt:
Before the 2024 election, there was a huge debate in the MAGA community about what to do about 2020.
Do you remember it?
One camp said “Fix 2020 first!”
The other camp said “Win 2024, forget about 2020.”
As we sit here now in 2025, President Trump just gave a big hint that perhaps BOTH are right. Perhaps BOTH will happen!
We focused and won 2024, that was key.
But what of 2020? Do we just leave it behind? Relegate it to history?
Or can the truth still come out?
Could it be the biggest bombshell ever?
President Trump just gave his clearest indication that not only will it come out, but they have all the documents.
I knew it! I’ve told you all along, they’ve been acting like people who knew they already held the winning cards and they were just waiting for the right time to play them!
Speaking to Vince Coglianese this week, President Trump dropped a bombshell: “I won by a lot. You’re going to find out. The documents are there!”
BREAKING: President Trump says Americans will see how the 2020 election was ‘rigged’ when he declassifies all the documents from the ‘Trump-Russia collusion hoax.’
“That was an election that I won. I won by a lot. You’re going to find that out. The documents are there. The… pic.twitter.com/s1tux08nEe
Wisconsin Supreme Court Race “a classic Soros tactic to identify … a weakness in society that can be exploited for other purposes”– legalinsurrection.com Source Link Excerpt:
We have covered the Wisconsin Supreme Court election to be held on April 1, and how it could swing the future of the nation if liberals hang onto their majority. It should be a highly competitive race, perhaps with a slight edge to the conservative, but both polling and people on the ground indicate the liberal is ahead.
Ahead doesn’t mean sure to win, but the left was involved in this race early on. The Republican tendency to fall asleep for special elections added to the sense of panic.
Kemberlee and I wrote an Op-ed at The New York Post which appeared this afternoon on the website, and will run in tomorrow’s print paper. We have pretty good placement on the homepage:
All eyes are on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, where liberals currently hold a 4-3 majority. On Tuesday, voters will choose between a conservative judge, Brad Schimel, and a liberal judge, Susan Crawford, to fill a vacancy and possibly flip the court to conservative control.
What difference does it make? A lot — and not just in Wisconsin.
If liberals retain control, it is likely that the court will unwind the public sector union reforms enacted when Scott Walker was governor, something high on labor unions’ wish list for the past decade. Issues such as abortion are also on the agenda.
