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🚨 NEW: Poll disaster for Gavin Newsom
— steve hilton (@SteveHiltonx) June 12, 2025
- 63% of independents DISAPPROVE
- 60% of all voters say California going in WRONG direction
- 58% OPPOSE his free healthcare for illegal immigrants plan
- 56% of voters OPPOSE his recent budget
- 55% want smaller government and lower taxes
Ed: Great. Now if they would only vote that way. Hilton plans to run for governor next year; perhaps Californians are finally ready to change direction. If so, Hilton will get an opening.
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These sanctuary states, and the cities and counties around the country that have blindly followed suit, make it a policy not to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. That includes letting felons who have deportation orders out on bail rather than handing them over to ICE agents.
The cost of this can be measured in lives lost, women raped, property damaged, and taxpayers fleeced by these wildly misplaced priorities.
It can also be measured by how many have fled sanctuary states for those states that care more about the safety and welfare of U.S. citizens than they do people who snuck across the border under the cover of darkness.
The numbers are truly eye-opening.
Ed: And this is the problem when it comes to turning these blue states around. The people who might have led that momentum have already left and took their capital with them, both financial and political. Those who stay behind increasingly are either too poor to move or too wealthy to care. That is pretty much where California is now.
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United States Senator Alex Padilla was representing the millions of Californians who are demanding answers to this Administration's actions in Southern California.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 12, 2025
This is a shameful and stunning abuse of power.pic.twitter.com/ODTNb92JE4
Ed: Padilla represents them in the Senate, not in a press conference to which he was neither invited or bothered to request a spot. Harris defending this pretty much cinches the stupidity involved.
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Twenty-one percent of voters approve of the way Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 70 percent disapprove. This compares to Quinnipiac University's February 19 poll when 21 percent of voters approved and 68 percent disapproved, an all-time low since Quinnipiac University first asked this question of registered voters in March 2009.
In today's poll, 41 percent of Democrats approve of the way Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 53 percent disapprove.
Ed: Even Democrats are getting tired of Democrats. The GOP does a little better in this Q-poll, with a 32/61 overall approval rating but with 79% approval from Republican voters.
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FBI: During a press conference today held at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, Senator Alex Padilla was detained by members of the U.S. Secret Service assigned to Secretary Noem’s detail when he became disruptive while formal remarks were being delivered. Secret Service Agents…
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 12, 2025
Secret Service Agents were assisted by FBI Police who are in Los Angeles at this time. Senator Padilla did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin. Senator Padilla was subsequently positively identified and released.
Ed: We talked about this story for most of the first two hour on the Hugh Hewitt Show today. I was not clear about who provided security for this press conference, but it makes sense that the Secret Service did, since they work within DHS. They are not prone to being "thugs" either, but instead are trained to spot potential threats by unknown people, and a move toward the dais in the middle of opening remarks by a guy dressed like some schlep would very much look like a threat. Padilla did this on purpose to shift the narrative to "authoritarianism," full stop.
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But splashy raids and deportations can get hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of illegal immigrants thinking about what Mitt Romney in 2012 called “self-deportation.”
Which is probably happening thanks to what has been happening in Los Angeles these past five days. Demonstrations against ICE deportation activity resulted in the arrest of the head of the SEIU, the big government employees’ union. ...
There’s no question whose side the public is on. A pre-riot CBS poll showed 54% approving of Trump’s deportation program, and two polls taken this week showed approval, Insider Advantage by 59% to 39%, and the Napolitan News poll by 58% to 36%.
After eight years of stark contrast between Trump and Democrats’ policies, as CNN poll analyst Harry Enten points out, most voters give Trump high marks and “believe that Democrats don’t have a clue on the issue of immigration.”
Ed: That's why Democrats are trying so hard to change the topic to "authoritarianism."
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Tampon Tim Walz couldn’t define a woman today in @gopoversight when I had him in the pressure cooker.
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) June 12, 2025
He was speechless. pic.twitter.com/5ZtjAIq1KP
Ed: It was a bad day in the House for Dem governors.
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An Atlanta family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI will get a new day in court, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday.
The decision revives a lawsuit filed after a predawn 2017 raid in which armed members of an FBI SWAT team smashed in a front door and set off a flashbang grenade, pointing guns at a couple and terrifying a 7-year-old boy before realizing they were in the wrong house.
The FBI team quickly apologized and left for the right place, with the team leader later saying that his personal GPS device had led him to the wrong address. But Trina Martin and her then-boyfriend, Toi Cliatt, and her son were left with lasting trauma and a damaged home.
Ed: Sincere apologies go a long way. However, the agency that screws up and does this kind of damage should be forced to make the victims of their errors -- even well-meaning errors -- as whole as possible. This is the right decision, and I look forward to seeing Martin and her family get some justice.
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Does this look like an elected Senator who just wants to ask a few questions? pic.twitter.com/rkEbC283lh
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) June 12, 2025
Ed: Nope. It looks like a crazy man moving toward a high-ranking government official.
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Fetterman recalls a scene involving their young son Karl when he was coming home from a sleepover.
Once, after Karl came home from a sleepover, he jumped in the car and shared that his friend’s parents were getting divorced. The friend was devastated, he said. “Would you and Dad ever get divorced?” he asked. John and I responded at the same time from the front seat. “No,” said John. “Maybe,” I responded. John was, understandably, surprised by my response. But I explained that, though I loved him and hoped we’d always be together, I wanted to be realistic and honest with the kids about all of life’s possibilities.
Wow. Gisele Fetterman after spending almost an entire book cheerleading for the “magic” of vulnerability and preaching the gospel “radical tenderness,” slams the reader with this vignette. Here she had the chance to practice the very things to which she devotes her book, and instead she bodied her husband—and from the top rope.
The future Senator Fetterman was “understandably surprised” by his wife’s response.
Ed: Radical tenderness for me but not for thee. Mark Judge has some more thoughts on this, perhaps with more charity than merited in this case.
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We were asking the same thing about the The Democrat Party and the Biden Administration when they raided the home of the former president, booked him even, while leading the Republican Party primary for president.
— Daniel Garza (@danielggarza) June 12, 2025
Spare me the hysterics. https://t.co/Wj7g5zUezi
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This is why you shouldn't pull the sh*t @SenAlexPadilla did. He should know better. Especially with all the death threats she gets and the actual assassination attempts on Trump and the riots in the streets. Leftists are violent nutjobs. USSS was doing their job. Shame on Padilla https://t.co/TjxV5JvLJc
— sarainitaly 🌷🌷🌷 (@sarainitaly) June 12, 2025
Ed: I'm no fan of Hill, but I hope he's okay. That's scary. And Sara's right; that's why you don't pull stunts like that, and it's why Secret Service and FBI agents were present at the presser today in the first place.
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Saudi Crown Prince MBS:
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 12, 2025
"The Ayatollah wants to create a project in the Middle East like Hitler. Many countries didn't realize how dangerous Hitler was until it was too late. Saudi Arabia does not want nuclear bombs. But, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit." pic.twitter.com/bARLYuMdUj
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