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Trump 2020 Communications Director Tim Murtaugh says recent polling shows voters looking more favorably at former President Donald Trump’s presidency than President Joe Biden’s. "I think that this whole race sets up really nicely for Donald Trump because everyone who is going to be of voting age, even those who are voting in their very first election at age 18 perhaps, everyone has lived through both presidencies,” says Murtaugh.

Trump 2020 Communications Director Tim Murtaugh explains why former President Donald Trump’s process for picking his running mate is much different this election than in 2016. “I’m not sure that a guy who has been president already one time very recently—and I think you could make a pretty good case that he is the most famous human on the planet—I'm not sure that he needs a vice presidential pick to come in and give him something that he doesn’t already have,” he says. “Because everyone is, I think, basically 100% familiar with Donald Trump.”

Representative James Comer (R-KY) says the House Oversight Committee will be investigating the source of the funding behind the nationwide anti-Israel college protests. “We’ve had great success in subpoenaing private sector banks. Most banks that we’ve dealt with want to cooperate with us when they see criminal activity,” he says. “I don’t think any bank would support the dark money groups that are funding this type of hate.”

U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart criticizes the Biden administration's “political” use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. “I do think we’re vulnerable. If it’s a bad hurricane season, while the infrastructures about as resilient as we’ll ever be, the fact of the matter is it was designed to prevent disruptions and we just don’t have the cushion that we did two or three years ago,” he says.

Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) says he’s sent letters to House Oversight Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan requesting an investigation into corruption within the CIA. Investigative journalist James O’Keefe released an undercover video last week of his conversation with a CIA operative, who said federal agencies withheld intelligence information from then-President Donald Trump.

Former President Donald Trump tells a rally in Freeland, Michigan that President Joe Biden wants to imprison him “like they do in third world countries.” “There’s only one problem,” he says. “Every one of these fake cases is bull****. Every single one of them.”

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Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) says audio recordings of former special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden will likely reveal “our Commander-in-Chief is in worse shape than we ever imagined.” “I think it would cost him his election. I suspect they’ll lay down in the street to keep that from coming out. But he is in terrible, terrible shape mentally,” he says. House Judiciary Republicans are expected to hold a vote on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he does not produce the audio tapes.

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Representative James Comer (R-KY) suspects many of the anti-Israel protestors he saw at George Washington University’s pro-Palestine encampment were not actually students. “I was shocked at the things they were saying. We saw lots of Palestine flags, lots of Palestinian clothing. You had different chants, one chant said ‘death to Israel.’ I mean it was stuff that you would never believe would be in the United States,” says Rep. Comer.

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U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart announces the launch of the “Energy Contract with America,” a project that will bring awareness to energy poverty, protect consumer choice, and strengthen national energy security. Stewart expects the initiative to garner bipartisan support from the local to federal level.

U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart says the Department of Energy’s rules for appliances have woken Congress up to the vast regulatory overreach of the Biden administration. Stewart says the purpose of these household appliance regulations is to end the use of fossil fuels in the home.

During a campaign rally in Freeland, Michigan, Former President Donald Trump says the Biden administration’s new changes to Title IX will impose "the most extreme, left-wing gender ideology" on schools nationwide.

During a campaign rally in Freeland, Michigan on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump vowed to put an end to President Joe Biden’s economic agenda and bring the car industry back to MI. "I will terminate Joe Biden's radical plan to kill Michigan's economy by repealing his insane electric vehicle mandate,” he said.

During a campaign rally in Freeland, Michigan on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden’s attack on gas-powered vehicles. "Under the Trump administration, we’re going to take jobs out of China and bring jobs back to Michigan. We are going to keep Chinese cars the hell out of America," he said.

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano says college protestors are being used by professional agitators to promote communist slogans and anti-American ideology. “The problem is that the education system has failed so much that students aren’t really educated so they’re susceptible to this message,” he says.

Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates explains how U.S. funding to Gaza would legally change if the United Nations General Assembly votes to admit Palestine as a full member. She says regardless of whether the resolution is passed this Friday, the United States needs to cut off funding to the United Nations.

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Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates explains how President Joe Biden has both internal and external forces pushing back against U.S. aid to Israel. “They are in a terrible pickle here because even if they want to fully and robustly fund Israel, they’re being held back by their own people... It’s a total double standard to what President Trump was held to four years ago,” she says.

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano explains how the nationwide anti-Israel protests are the direct result of colleges' DEI push. “If you listen to these student protestors, it really is amazing how little they know about the actual issues," he says.

Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates condemns President Joe Biden for holding up military assistance to Israel. She says that if the Biden administration decides to use aid designated for refugee issues to relocate Palestinians, they “certainly better pony up” the money that was appropriated for Israel.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley attributes the committee’s surge in fundraising to voter support of former President Donald Trump. “Every single day that President Trump is in court right now, we’re making a million dollars in donations,” he says.

Heritage Foundation Vice President of Foreign Policy Victoria Coates says Chinese President Xi Jinping has spent the last ten years cornering the global market on green energy products, like electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines. Coates says China has put U.S. and European renewable energy companies out of business while taking advantage of the Biden administration’s huge green energy subsidies and incentives.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley says the committee has expanded their communication methods as a way to better inform and register new voters in big states. Whatley says the RNC is also focused on promoting early voting options to new Republicans.