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GOP congressional candidate Gerald Malloy, who is challenging Rep. Becca Balint (D), says Vermont’s “progressive experiment went off the rails.”

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The early voting period in South Carolina's Republican primary runoff narrowly outpaced the primary ahead of Tuesday's contest between Sen. Darline Graham Nordone and Rep. Ralph Norman.

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Niu Lai, a Chinese animated film centered around a cattle dream sequence made for $200, has reportedly become the most profitable movie of all time after making over $6.7 million at the box office as of Sunday.

The post ‘Unbelievably Terrible’ Chinese CGI Cow Movie Becomes Most Profitable Film of All Time appeared first on Breitbart.

Former First Lady Jill Biden continues to cover up Joe Biden’s mental decline to a point where she is now open to the idea that someone drugged the former president prior to that disastrous debate with President Trump.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will announce massive new sanctions against Iran on Monday, a move he likened to “economic D-Day.”

In an op-ed published in the Financial Times, Bessent said he is launching the “single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary.” He said any nation that associates with Iran will face isolation.

“Iran’s enablers purchase and transport its petroleum,” Bessent wrote. “They facilitate the flow of its finances through exchange houses and free trade zones. They welcome Iran’s flights and maintain registries on its behalf. They turn a blind eye to seaborne fuel transfers and the illicit use of their banks, all while concealing the extent of their complicity.”

Those enablers should “consider the consequences” of continuing their relationships, Bessent said.

“Those who sever Iran’s remaining financial and commercial connectivity will reinvigorate their own,” he wrote. “They will deepen their access to global capital, reinforce confidence in their markets and attain the standing they seek in the world economy.”

But, Bessent continued, “the alternative for those who tether themselves to Tehran is the foreclosure of any path to lasting prosperity.”

“To become a sanctuary for terror is to become, in the eyes of the United States, a global pariah,” he said.

Iran’s head of national security, however, said the country will “retaliate in a seismic manner” to any sanctions and will consider any country supporting sanctions to be committing an act of war.

Bessent compared the sanction strategy to the 1943 Tehran Conference, where Allied leaders planned the defeat of Nazi Germany.

“As Roosevelt and Churchill weighed a campaign that would culminate in the Normandy landings, they asked themselves what could be done ‘to bring the greatest pressure to bear on the enemy,'” he wrote.

Leftist Rep. Jasmine Crocket (D-TX) said the black community in her state is not too keen on Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, her comments coming as the November midterms approach.

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Supporters of the two candidates in South Carolina’s Tuesday special Republican primary race are doubling down on their efforts to draw support for their pick in the heated Senate race to determine the Palmetto State’s next U.S. senator following the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in July.

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who stood outside the New York courthouse while President Donald Trump faced trial, and the late Graham’s sister, Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., will face off for the party’s nomination after neither candidate obtained 50% of the vote in the August primary election.

Norman has landed the endorsements of Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla.; Mike Lee, R-Utah.; and House Freedom Caucus members like Reps. Mark Harris, R-N.C., and Keith Self, R-Texas. He has also been backed by former South Carolina Govs. Nikki Haley and Mark Sanford.

Graham, who was appointed by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster to replace her late brother, will head to the runoff election with the support of Trump, Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Katie Britt, R-Ala.; and John Barrasso, R-Wyo.

On Friday, Graham landed McMaster’s endorsement, who wrote that since she took office, she has “stood for the values that South Carolinians live by, continued Lindsey Graham’s work, and stood firmly with President Trump to advance his America First agenda.”

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., also backed Graham and joined the president and Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., for a Friday night rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Graham has also landed the endorsements of major pro-life organizations, such as the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and National Right to Life, which has created a divide amongst the pro-life community, as Norman has received a 100% legislative rating from SBA Pro-Life America.

In a statement to the Daily Signal, Randy Page, a former board member of South Carolina Citizens for Life, who resigned after the organization endorsed Graham, stated that the endorsement decisions from groups like South Carolina Citizens for Life PAC weren’t decisions “made in South Carolina.” 

“Decisions regarding federal candidates are made in Washington, DC,” Page added. “Pro-life voters expect pro-life organizations to endorse principled, pro-life candidates who have a legislative record promoting and supporting pro-life policies.”

Page continued, calling the endorsements “unfortunate,” due to Norman’s “solid record” and “countless 100% ratings” from the NRLC, which should have qualified him to receive the endorsements instead.

“These decisions are baffling to rank-and-file pro-life voters throughout South Carolina,” Page concluded.

Graham’s knowledge of pro-life issues recently came under question after she told a reporter that she would have to “think about” whether she supports a full ban of abortion, instead of the six-week ban implemented in the state, which she said she supports.

Graham’s apparent lack of knowledge on major issues has also stirred controversy.

During a televised debate a week before the election, Graham seemed confused on important questions involving national security.

When the moderator asked if “Taiwan and the South China Sea are national security threats to the United States,” Graham said that “national security is not my thing.” 

“I’m just gonna be honest here, I’m not that informed on national security, so … but I do support the military,” she said.

The moderators then repeatedly pressed Graham on foreign policy issues, to which she said that she supports the president’s decision-making on this matter.

“I fully trust President Trump when it comes to the war in Iran,” Graham stated, before adding that “Iran is the weakest they have been in 47 years. The one thing that concerns me is we cannot let them get a nuclear weapon. So, I trust President Trump and everything he’s doing. I think he’s got this, and I trust him on it.”

According to CNN, Trump responded to the criticism of her by saying that “she’s very smart, and she was being honest. She’s into the price of groceries … and [national security] hasn’t been her thing, but she’s surrounded by very good people.”

“She said she’s totally for the military. She’s going to do what the military wants—and really what the president wants, Trump continued. “She understands that national security is my thing.”

In a different moment during the debate, the senator apparently confused the population of South Carolina, claiming 50 million instead of 5.5 million.

SAVE America Act

Both candidates have expressed support for key voter identification legislation championed by the president, known as the SAVE America Act.

On Friday, Norman, who was one of the first politicians who called on South Carolina to approve a redistricting measure in 2025, wrote on X that the Senate’s priority when it returns from the August recess is to pass the SAVE America Act.

“Get back to Washington, pass the SAVE America Act,” the Freedom Caucus member said.

Similarly, Graham has vocalized support for the legislation upon assuming office, and disagreed with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on wanting to dismiss the Senate for the nearly six-week summer break.

“President Trump is 100% correct. The SAVE America Act is top priority,” Graham wrote. “I will stay here as long as necessary to get it passed and signed into law.”

During Friday’s rally, Graham also vowed to prioritize the passage of the SAVE America Act, and abolish the filibuster in order to do so.

“As your Senator, I will fight tirelessly to PASS the SAVE America Act, and support eliminating the filibuster to do so,” she wrote on X.