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Former DeSantis official defeats Dem for Matt Gaetz's House seat
Republican Jimmy Patronis, the former Florida chief financial officer under Gov. Ron DeSantis, fended off his Democrat opponent and successfully won the race to succeed former Rep. Matt Gaetz in Florida's special election on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump notably carried the district by 37 points in the 2024 election.
The 1st Congressional District special election, in addition to the one in the 6th District to replace U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, are being viewed by some as early referendums for Trump's second term.
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Trump voiced his support for Patronis on Tuesday morning, urging people to vote.
"Jimmy Patronis, Chief Financial Officer and Fire Marshall for the Great State of Florida, is running an incredible Campaign for Congress in Florida’s 1st Congressional District!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"A fourth generation Floridian from the beautiful Panhandle, and owner of an iconic seafood restaurant, Jimmy has been a wonderful friend to me, and to MAGA. As your next Congressman, Jimmy will fight hard alongside of me to Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes, Secure our Border, Stop Migrant Crime, Strengthen our Brave Military/Vets, Restore American Energy DOMINANCE, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment."
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"Florida, Election Day is TODAY. GET OUT AND VOTE FOR JIMMY PATRONIS. Jimmy has my Complete and Total Endorsement — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!," Trump added.
The Republicans had an advantage in Patronis' race, but Valimont managed to significantly outraise her opponent, which flashed some warning signs.
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Her fundraising topped the Republican's by a nearly five-to-one margin.
Gaetz resigned from the House of Representatives last year after Trump revealed his plan to nominate him to be attorney general. However, it became clear that the controversial House Republican had an uphill battle to get support from GOP senators.
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Just days after Trump's announcement, and after a number of meetings in the Senate, Gaetz officially withdrew from consideration.
Pam Bondi was then nominated by Trump for the role and ultimately confirmed as attorney general.
GOP state senator wins Florida special election, extends GOP House majority
Trump-endorsed Republican state Sen. Randy Fine emerged victorious in one-of-two special elections in the Sunshine State on Tuesday night.
Fine will be taking over former Congressman Mike Waltz's seat in Florida's 6th Congressional District, after Waltz vacated the seat to become President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor. Fine outlasted Democrat Josh Weil, a public school employee and political newcomer who raised nearly 10 times more than Fine.
Florida's sixth district, located on the Sunshine State's Atlantic coast from Daytona Beach to just south of Saint Augustine and inland to the outskirts of Ocala, was carried overwhelmingly by former GOP congressman Waltz in 2024. President Trump also won the 6th Congressional District in 2024 by a significant margin – 30 points.
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The Republican's victory came in the closest election for Florida's sixth district since 2018, when former Congressman Waltz beat out his Democrat opponent by13 points. Each subsequent election, Waltz won at least 60% of the vote.
Tuesday's unusually close race, widely seen as a referendum on President Trump's first few months in office, carries implications for the broader battle for power in Congress.
There were fears that a loss in both, or either, of Florida's Tuesday special elections would deal a significant blow to the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, which has dwindled since Trump plucked numerous Republican House members, such as Waltz, to join his cabinet.
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Amid these concerns, GOP New York Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination to be Trump's Ambassador to the United Nations was pulled.
Weil's ability to drum up a campaign war chest worth nearly $10 million, dwarfed Fine's which held a little under $1 million. However, in the final week before Tuesday's election, outside Republican-aligned groups doled out around $1 million for advertising in an attempt to help boost Fine.
Tuesday's victory notches one more seat in the House for Republicans, expanding their slim five-vote majority by one more.
Following Tuesday's victory President Trump took to social media to congratulate Fine and Fine thanked the President for his support.
NSC confirms Mike Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communication
The National Security Council (NSC) has clarified reporting about National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and his staffers using personal Gmail accounts for government communications.
A report published by the Washington Post on Tuesday claimed that one of Waltz's senior aides used Gmail "for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict," according to the piece.
"While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show," the Post reported.
The piece comes a week after Waltz took responsibility for one of his staffers accidentally adding The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a sensitive Signal chat with other officials, including Vice President JD Vance.
NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes told Fox News on Tuesday that the Post report was an attempt "to distract the American people from President Trump’s successful national security agenda that’s protecting our nation."
"Let me reiterate, NSA Waltz received emails and calendar invites from legacy contacts on his personal email and cc’d government accounts for anything since January 20th to ensure compliance with records retention, and he has never sent classified material over his personal email account or any unsecured platform," Hughes said.
Hughes said that he could not verify the Post's report about the senior NSC official because the journalist "refused to share any part of the document reported."
"Any correspondence containing classified material must only be sent through secure channels and all NSC staff are informed of this," the official said. "It is also made clear to NSC personnel that any non-government correspondence must be captured and retained for record compliance."
Speaking to a room full of reporters last week, President Donald Trump said he believes Waltz is "doing his best," and did not fault him for the Signal leak.
"I don't think he should apologize," the president said. "I think he's doing his best. It's equipment and technology that's not perfect."
"And, probably, he won't be using it again, at least not in the very near future," Trump continued.
Republicans seek to block the reappointment of UN official accused of antisemitism
The House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) is demanding that the United Nations not reappoint Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., who chairs the committee, is leading the charge to oppose Albanese.
In a letter to U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) President Jürg Lauber, the committee accuses Albanese of failing to uphold the council’s code of conduct. They also condemn Albanese for comments she made about Israel in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks.
"Albanese unapologetically uses her position as a UN Special Rapporteur to purvey and attempt to legitimize antisemitic tropes, while serving as a Hamas apologist," the committee wrote in its letter. "In her malicious fixation, she has even called for Israel to be removed from the United Nations while likening Israel to apartheid South Africa."
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The committee not only criticized Albanese but also slammed the UNHRC, saying its leaders "allowed antisemitism and anti-Americanism to thrive within, with a seeming unwillingness to hold the most egregious violators of human rights to account."
"Francesca Albanese is an unabashed anti-Israel activist who has consistently done the bidding of Hamas terrorists responsible for the heinous October 7th attacks. Her appointment is a disgrace to the U.N. It’s time for the U.N. to claw back the integrity and accountability it has surrendered," Mast told Fox News Digital.
U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer lauded the "much needed" action from Congress. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Neuer said that Albanese’s reappointment would be "unlawful" and called for "consequences" from the U.S. if she visits the country.
"Francesca Albanese openly supports Hamas, spreads antisemitic tropes, and tramples the U.N.’s own Code of Conduct. Under the U.N.’s own rules, the president of the Human Rights Council is now duty-bound to convey to the plenary this and other substantial objections that have been submitted, and for the delegates to formally consider Albanese’s many violations. And yet every indication is that the 47-member body — with the EU’s complicity — is instead barreling ahead with Albanese’s reappointment," Neuer said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Albanese, who was appointed special rapporteur in 2022, has been condemned by the governments of multiple countries and faced accusations of antisemitism. Her response to French President Emmanuel Macron calling the Oct. 7 attacks "the largest antisemitic massacre of our century" sparked backlash from France, the U.S. and Germany.
The U.S. slammed Albanese for her "history of using antisemitic tropes," and said her comments were "justifying, dismissing [and] denying the antisemitic undertones of Hamas' October 7 attack are unacceptable [and] antisemitic."
The French Mission to the U.N. condemned Albanese’s response in a post on X. According to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) translation, the post read: "The October 7 massacre is the largest antisemitic massacre of the 21st century. To deny it is wrong. To seem to justify it, by bringing in the name of the United Nations, is a shame." This was just a few months after the mission condemned her "hate speech and antisemitism."
Germany retweeted France's statement and said, "To justify the horrific terror attacks of 7/10 & deny their antisemitic nature is appalling. Making such statements in a UN capacity is a disgrace and goes against everything the United Nations stands for."
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Zeldin to visit border where 'disgusting Mexican sewage' is harming US environment
Lee Zeldin, who heads the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on Tuesday said she plans to visit the California-Mexico border to address issues pertaining to the "disgusting Mexican sewage" flowing into the United States.
Zeldin will assess the toxic waste and sewage runoff from the Tijuana River, which has resulted in beach closures in San Diego County.
'I’ll be visiting the California-Mexico border in the coming weeks where disgusting Mexican sewage is harming our precious environment in the United States," Zeldin wrote on X. "Permanent solutions must be urgently implemented by Mexico to end decades of their filthy sewage flowing into the U.S.
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Fox News Digital has reached out to the EPA.
The issue of untreated sewage flowing from Tijuana, Mexico, into San Diego's beaches was exacerbated earlier this year, when, in January, the Hollister Wastewater Pump Station, which transfers sewage from Tijuana to the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, malfunctioned and spilled approximately 30,000 gallons of sewage into the river.
San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, who has raised the issue in the past, said he looks forward to Zeldin's visit.
In an X post last month, Desmond called it "one of the biggest environmental and public health crises."
"This isn’t just a nuisance — it’s a danger. Our Navy SEALs train just north of this toxic mess," Desmond wrote. "Local families are exposed to contaminated water. Tourism suffers. And, yet, the State of California continues to look the other way. Many politicians have made promises — but delivered nothing. That ends now."
He said Mexico has failed to fix the problem and the U.S. has failed to hold the Mexican government accountable.
In 2018, a broken sewage pipe in Mexico resulted in millions of gallons of sewage spilling into the Tijuana River, and eventually, the Pacific Ocean. Around 12 miles of beach from the border northward had to be closed at the time.
Fox News Digital's Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.
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He is a liar and prevaricator.
One of the major policy issue flip-flops of Obama was that on the important issue of NAFTA. In the primary campaign Obama vigorously campaigned against NAFTA, sending out a flyer stating, "Only Barrack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA," calling it a "bad trade deal," "devastating," and "a big mistake." Obama said he would take "the hammer" to Mexico and Canada. Now in the general election, Obama has blatantly backtracked on his anti-NAFTA position saying, "I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally." "I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make this work for all people." When called on his about-face, Obama responded by saying, "Sometime during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified."
The second and most blatant major policy flip flop was that on public campaign financing. Obama was one of the chief proponents of public campaign financing when he was running in the primaries. But then after realizing how much money he could raise in the general election, he opportunistically opted out of the public finance system. As David Brooks eloquently described the situation in a New York Times piece: "In February 2008 he said he would aggressively pursue spending limits. He answered a Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire by reminding everyone that he has been a longtime advocate of the public financing system. But Thursday, at the first breath of political inconvenience, Fast Eddie Obama threw public financing under the truck." In early 2008, Obama wrote in response to the Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire, "If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." He would later on in the primaries tell Tim Russert, "I will sit down with John McCain an make sure that we have a system that works for everybody." Of course no such attempt at "sitting down" or negotiations ever took place. Here's what the SunPost of Florida had to say about Obama's flip-flop on this important issue: "Speaking of selling one's soul, Sen. Obama did one of the most repulsive 180s in recent political history by becoming the first contestant from a major team to drop out of the public financing system for the general election since the system was changed in 1976. . . .Obama is not independent from the system; he is just using his mastery of it to his advantage. And he's doing it exactly the same calculating way that he used the system in Illinois to deny his rivals a place on the ballot."
While Obama has flip-flopped and even lied about several votes and policy issues, the most troubling lies he has told relate to his personal history and character. In one of his campaign ads, entitled "dignity," Obama claims he "passed a law to move people from welfare to work –slashed the rolls by 80%." Problem with this assertion is that this law in question was passed in 1996, and Obama did not enter the Illinois State Senate until 1997! Obama claims in another ad that he "worked his way through college and Harvard Law." Problem with that assertion is: Obama had only two jobs during those years, and they were both summer jobs! Furthermore, Obama lied on his bar application to the state bar of Illinois on two counts: 1) He concealed his long history of illegal drug use and possession; and 2) He failed to report unpaid criminal citations in excess of $200.
Obama has advertised a fairy tale biography in his ads, one in which his father was a poor goat herder from Kenya. Nothing could be further from the truth. Barack Hussein Obama, Senior belonged to a well-connected and politically privileged family. His cousin Rao Odinga now rules parts of the country. Obama, Senior had the finances and privilege to travel to America and attend Harvard. The rewriting of Barack Obama's family background is part of a concerted cover-up of the nefarious political and criminal activities on the part of his Kenyan family, particularly his dictator cousin Rao Odinga.
One of the most blatant lies on the part of Obama is that pertaining to his Muslim background. Obama has fiercely denied that he was ever a Muslim, and till this day his official campaign sites state that "Barack Obama Is Not and Has Never Been a Muslim," followed by "Obama never prayed in a mosque. He has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian." The mainstream media has followed the Obama camping in lock-step, and reported it as a fact that Obama was never a Muslim; but the truth is he was! The aspect of this story most dangerous to democracy is that both the Obama campaign and most media have labeled any statement or notion that Obama was a Muslim as a "smear," thus attacking and impugning the personal integrity and credibility of those who are merely reporting the facts. Here are the facts that PROVE beyond a reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama was indeed a Muslim for at least a few years of his life:
A) Both Barack Obama's Kenyan father and Indonesian step-father were Muslims. According to Islam, if your father is Muslim, you are a Muslim. Barack Obama's half-brothers are all Muslim.
B) In his first elementary school in Indonesia, a Catholic school named, "Strada Asisia," Obama was listed as "Muslim" on his registration form. Obama's third grade teacher at this time, Fermin Katarina Sinaga, recalls that "Barry [Barack] went to the mosque with Lolo [Obama's Indonesian step-father]."
C) The next Indonesian school Barry Obama attended was the Basuki School, where Obama partook in Muslim studies two hours per week, nearly every week. According to Tine Hahiyary, one of the teachers at Obama's school, Obama was quite religious and took part in "mengaji classes." Mengaji classes teach Muslims how to read and chant from the Koran. It is something that primarily fundamentalist Muslims do. It is extremely rare for a non-religious Muslim to take mengaji classes.
D) Barack Obama's own half brother in Kenya has already exposed Senator Obama. In an interview with the Jeruslam Post just this past June, Malik Obama stated that Barack Obama would be a good president for the Jewish people "despite his Muslim background."
E) The Los Angeles Times interviewed a close childhood friend of Barry Obama, named Zulfin Adi, who stated that Obama did indeed pray in a mosque.
A 2007 Associated Press photograph, suppressed until now, shows the school register of the child who is today known as Barack Hussein Obama but was officially listed then as Barry Soetoro, whose citizenship was listed as "Indonesian" and whose religion was listed as "Islam." The visual evidence starkly contradicts the Obama campaign's claim that he was not a Muslim and confirms that he is a national of at least one other country.
In addition, it raises the highly problematic issue of what is Obama's official name. If it turns out to Barry Soetoro, and no official change of name was ever made, Obama may face an array of charges of deception and misprision that may throw into doubt, at the very least, his fitness to run.
Obama has tried to extricate himself of any criticism for attending a racist church for 20 years. Every time a tape of a racist sermon from the podium of Trinity United Church pops up, Obama has distanced himself by claiming he was never in the church when those sermons were made. Considering the sheer number of such sermons, such a claim would imply very irregular church-going on the part of the Obamas. That impression however is contradicted by Obama’s own words in a 2004 interview with Chicago Sun Times in which he claims to have attended almost every Sunday service. Furthermore, Obama must have known about Reverend Wright’s racist and anti-Semitic views from an article on the reverend in a February, 2007 Rolling Stone article in which Wright is quoted as saying: "We [the U.S.] are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!" Finally, a NewsMax reporter witnessed and reported on an incident in which Obama did indeed witness a July 22, 2007 racist rant on the part of Reverend Wright, and not only did nothing to condemn it, but ostensibly expressed pleasure with those comments: “Wright laced into America’s establishment, blaming the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country as the ‘United States of White America.’ Many in the congregation, including Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made.”