One bright spot among the midterm devastation for Republicans is that voter ID laws were approved by voters in four states.

Nevada, North Carolina, and Ohio all approved measures to ensure election integrity by requiring identification from voters, and they did it by a wide margin. Oklahoma also passed a voter ID measure back in August.

Similar proposals failed in California and Colorado.

Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota, and West Virginia voted on Tuesday to ban noncitizens from voting.

Democrats made the usual arguments about possible voter disenfranchisement to oppose the measures.

“It’s going to make it harder for marginalized communities to fight in the courts against proposed legislation,” said Oklahoma state Rep. Andy Fugate, a Democrat. “Those in the legislature defending new changes or restrictions will be able to say hey, we’re just complying with the constitution.”

Oklahomans passed their measure by 54.6% to 45.4%, and Ohioans approved Issue 3 by a whopping 65.3% to 34.7%. A voter ID measure passed by 59.6% in North Carolina, and Nevadans passed their proposition 63.3% to 36.7%.

Voter ID did not win everywhere, however. Similar proposals failed in California and Colorado, and a voter ID proposition is on track to fail in Arizona, according to the AP.

In California, the voter ID proposal failed by a large measure with 60% voting against it and only 40% voting in favor.

RELATED: Trump offers massive reward for tips on voter fraud

“This would advance Trump’s voter suppression agenda by adding costly, unnecessary barriers that could block eligible California voters, expose personal information to identity theft, and waste hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars,” read the opposition statement in the California voter guide.

President Donald Trump had tried to pass the SAVE America Act before the midterm elections, but that did not come to fruition.

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More than a year after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, some liberals still haven’t learned their lesson — and are still mocking his death.

“They, you know, maybe thought it was funny that a family lost a husband and a father. Haha. Because he believed in low taxes and closed borders,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments, calling it a “litmus test.”

“It was this litmus test that was like, are you a good person or a bad person? If you mocked it, if you made fun of it, if you thought it was funny, if you, you know, just showed that you had no care in the world, no regard for human life, it’s pretty clear that you were a bad person,” she continues.

And these “grotesque creatures who apparently have not gotten the memo” are getting even bolder in their mockery.

This was made clear when one young woman attending the University of Texas San Antonio spoke at a Turning Point USA Pick Up the Mic event. And not only did she fail the litmus test, she set the bar even lower.

The young woman introduced herself as “Pamper Baby” before telling speaker Christian Collins that she took Plan B that morning and is an immigrant.

She went on to use her time to read a poem she wrote: “It was the night before the Kirkversary, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The flags were hung proudly, the memes all on deck, as we solemnly remembered a shot to the neck.”

“The podcast fell silent, the hot takes grew weary, for tomorrow, dear friends, is the great Kirkversary,” she finished, before advertising her “Squirt for Kirk” event with “vaccines included.”

The woman went on to tell Collins he was “brave” for attending the event without a “neck brace.”

After the exchange went viral, the internet quickly found out that the woman and her mother are from Rio De Janeiro and have not been living in the U.S. for very long — and the mother even advertises that she and her daughters are “citizens of the world.”

“There is a thing called denaturalization. And I’m just wondering if they’re here as immigrants and they are not naturalized citizens or even if they are naturalized citizens. I just have to ask if there is any good reason that we should allow people to immigrate here just to mock Americans dying,” Gonzales comments.

“Why should we not kick that person out of our country?” she asks. “Why should this person be here? I just think the entire family can go back to one of those four other countries that they’ve lived in because they’re so well traveled and they’re ‘citizens of the world.’”

“We don’t need any immigrant who comes here inciting violence,” she adds.

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In the three years that Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) has served as speaker of the House, he has seen his party enjoy a landslide victory and suffer a crushing defeat. Owing to the defeat on Tuesday, his tenure is up on Jan. 3.

Johnson’s office confirmed to Blaze News that “the speaker will not be running for minority leader.”

‘I know what it will take to lead our Conference in the minority.’

The decision to depart his Republican leadership role in the House constitutes an about-face, given his assertion to CBS News last month that, “if, heaven forbid, we lost the majority, I would expect my colleagues would call upon me to continue to lead the conference in divided government.”

“My intention is to stay and serve, and that’s what I’ve been doing, as best I can,” Johnson added at the time.

Reps. Steve Scalise (La.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio) are two of the Republicans putting their names forward in House Republicans’ leadership elections next week.

A person said to be familiar with Scalise’s plans told Axios that he “is a proven and tested leader who is ready on day one. He’s spent his career unifying Republicans and he is prepared for the big legislative and oversight battles ahead. The conference knows him, how he fights, and that he’s a trusted leader.”

RELATED: Iran conflict was ‘crucial’ factor in Republican rout: Exit polls

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Scalise has served as House majority leader since 2023 — the same year he dropped out of the running for the House speaker role.

Jordan also launched his bid on Wednesday, stating in a letter to colleagues obtained by CNN, “I am battle-tested on the oversight front and I know the Democrats’ playbook. I know what it will take to lead our Conference in the minority, to stay unified, and to coordinate and calibrate our response to the Democrats’ tactics.”

“With your help, I will use every minute of the next two years working to advance our Republican priorities and restore our majority,” he added.

Neither Scalise nor Jordan immediately responded to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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Vice President JD Vance made his thoughts on the midterms clear Wednesday morning: The Iran conflict sank Republicans.

Vance saw the writing on the wall and noted that many members of the Trump-Vance coalition had gone in another direction. With gas prices high and unabating legislative gridlock, there were few paths to victory for Republicans.

‘If you’d like to argue … that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. … That’s at least honest.’

Vance’s post was frank.

“The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026,” Vance wrote. “There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is.”

“But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone. Another pollster — one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this,” the vice president wrote. “In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team.”

“The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were: 1) End the war 2) Focus on cost of living/inflation 3) Put America First 4) Change our relationship to Israel,” the vice president wrote.

Exit polls showed that Iran was a “crucial” factor in the midterm election.

RELATED: Iran conflict was ‘crucial’ factor in Republican rout: Exit polls

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“Our voters showed up,” Vance said. “And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats.”

Republicans won white men by 12%, but lost their gains among Latinos and other races, according to NBC News exit polls. Young men also defected, swinging 41 points in Democrats’ direction.

The midterms showed that these 2024 Trump-Vance voters are not guaranteed parts of the Republican coalition, despite trusting the GOP more on issues like immigration and crime.

“The reason we lost is the war,” the vice president said. “The president himself said so last night.”

“If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay,” Vance wrote. “Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.

“But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.”

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The name Jensen Huang might not mean much to most readers, but it should. He is best known for his signature black leather jacket, an odd stylistic choice for a man who effectively controls the modern world’s computational brainpower. As the chief executive of Nvidia, he presides over a multitrillion-dollar empire whose graphics processing units power the global generative AI boom. He is also a key asset in Washington’s rapidly escalating technological cold war with Beijing.

A recent intelligence report about Huang should worry all Americans. It alleges that Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based data center firm Megaspeed, maintained a close relationship with Huang (not related, I assure you) while funneling critical operational intelligence straight back to the communists in Beijing.

Beijing doesn’t have to beat the United States at innovation.

The public loves a spy story with a generous serving of Soviet nostalgia. Popular culture depicts trench coats, fake passports, microdot cameras, and shadowy handoffs on foggy Berlin bridges. Silicon Valley espionage looks more like a catered corporate retreat in Palo Alto, complete with $100 glasses of kombucha and nondisclosure agreements that nobody reads. Foreign intelligence officers rarely need to hack a server when they can simply take a board member out for expensive sushi.

The easy way up

Amy Kremer, a tech transparency expert at Humans First, recently pointed out a simple reality that most corporate boardrooms actively ignore. A rival state like China doesn’t need to copy a proprietary neural network to win a technological race. All it really needs is access to the room where engineers discuss which research avenues failed, which suppliers are falling behind, and where the next billion dollars of capital will flow.

Beijing doesn’t have to beat the United States at innovation. It simply needs to sit back, let American venture capitalists burn through billions of dollars testing dead ends, and then collect the refined results from the back door.

RELATED: The US banned this Chinese tech — it just showed up in more American products

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Silicon Valley’s open-door global talent recruitment model is fantastic for share prices. It is less ideal when a company’s primary product doubles as a strategic national security asset. Foreign-born researchers and executives drive much of the innovation coming out of California. Suspecting every foreign engineer of espionage would tank the American tech sector faster than a regulatory crackdown. Yet the opposite strategy — assuming a signed employment contract somehow erases geopolitical loyalties — is an act of spectacular corporate stupidity.

American companies treat national security as an inconvenient chore invented by bureaucrats to ruin quarterly earnings calls. Boardrooms celebrate global supply chains right up until the moment a foreign enemy turns those chains into a pair of handcuffs. A technology firm building military-grade processing power can’t manage risk with the same casual nonchalance as a company selling an app that puts funny filters on cat pictures.

Business at war

The corporate executive suite and the Department of Defense operate on fundamental misalignments. An American chief executive sees an overseas buyer as a path to a massive annual bonus. The Pentagon sees that exact same buyer as a potential threat aiming a hypersonic missile at an aircraft carrier. Corporate profit margins will always demand global expansion, while national defense demands the strictest level of gatekeeping.

When corporate profits collide with national security, corporate PR teams try to split the difference with lofty manifestos about global unity. As the competition for planetary AI supremacy ratchets ever higher, that buttoned-down ploy wears ever more thin.

Washington is currently trying to regulate fifth-generation technological warfare using frameworks written back when people still dialed into AOL. Federal security guidelines for private tech firms resemble a screen door on a submarine. The federal government doesn’t need to build a massive, suffocating bureaucracy to monitor every line of code written in California. Instead it needs to enforce existing trade laws and execute targeted intelligence audits. It must force corporate boards to audit their own inner circles with cold, absolute realism.

The primary battleground of modern geopolitical rivalries has moved from the diplomat’s office to corporate conference rooms. Nvidia’s microchips represent the new oil, the new steel, and the new nuclear capability rolled into silicon squares. Leaving the front gate unlocked while spending billions on internal research is a strategy only an executive with a guaranteed severance package could love.

If the United States insists on building the world’s most advanced computational engine, it should probably stop leaving the valet key sitting on the hood.

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Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in a sweeping blue wave on Tuesday night, flipping seats even in red states like Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina in a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration.

BlazeTV host John Doyle argues that the midterm results reflect a deeper demographic shift in the country — especially in places like Texas.

“This is not the same country it was even six years ago. I mean, everybody’s looking at Texas starting to go blue. This is something that a lot of people have been warning about for decades, actually, as the demographic situation in Texas has changed,” he says, highlighting that the state’s white population fell and that the vast majority of Republican votes still come from white voters.

This demographic shift, Doyle suggests, is why Democrats are able to win with candidates who are “insane” and “very low-quality.”

“Now the conversation is not being participated in by people who are Americans, people who have deep roots in this country. It’s this imported permanent underclass of foreigners who are happy to install people like Mamdani in New York or Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan,” he says.

At the same time, he says, Trump’s approval first dipped when the early mass-deportation videos appeared, and the largest swing back left came from Latino men, Latino women, and young Catholics — groups Doyle says are more “sympathetic to the plight of the immigrant” than to “American sovereignty.”

“I also think a lot of this too was driven by the fact that Americans like the idea of not having people flooding in. … They don’t like seeing those videos of mass deportations. … When people actually start to see this stuff play out, the American stomach, I don’t think, is as strong as a lot of people would like to think it is,” he says, highlighting the need “to be better on our messaging.”

Nick Freitas, BlazeTV host of “Making the Argument,” agrees.

“We mass-imported a population from cultures that were not just different than the United States, but in some cases diametrically opposed,” he says.

He points to Europe’s current predicament as a forecast of what is coming in America.

“It wasn’t the first generation of immigrants that came into Europe that were actually the most radical. It was their children,” says Freitas, “which also says something about our own educational systems in the West, where if you really want to radicalize someone, just send them through your university system. That’ll do it.”

“And that’s what we’re actually seeing in the United States now,” he continues. “You’ve had mass immigration with no assimilation from cultures drastically different than the United States, and the end result is that the second generation of that, they haven’t become Americanized.”

Democrats, he argues, have been fundamental in this outcome.

“Why would you [become Americanized] when you can balkanize a significant portion of the United States and actually create subcultures which are completely capable of operating without even learning the language?” he asks.

“And you have one major political party that will just give you a bunch of goodies at the expense of American taxpayers, and the moment those American taxpayers say anything about it, they’re called xenophobes or racist or bigots, and that’s enough to shut down the conversation because our own representatives don’t actually want to stand up and say something about it.”

As for Americans’ reactions to mass deportations, Freitas says no one should have expected the process to go smoothly.

“I don’t know anybody that expected that to look good on camera. Hey, we’ve had 20 million people we got to deport, and they don’t want to leave,” he says.

“There was always going to be problems with that, especially in Democrat jurisdictions where they’re actively obstructing your ability to enforce federal law.”

Like Doyle, Freitas believes the midterm results largely point to the issue of immigration.

“This is what happens when you no longer have a high-trust society. Liberty, freedom, all of these things … are byproducts of high-trust societies,” he says. “We’ve had people playing around with this idea that if we just throw enough freedom at something, oh, well, they’ll all become just like us. That’s absurd.”

“Yes, the United States has a good track record of people becoming Americans, but never through mass migration. Zero. Never. And so if we’re not dealing with that, well, then just be prepared for the fact that we’re actually dealing with a very different electorate.”

To hear more BlazeTV hosts weigh in, watch the video above. You can also watch BlazeTV’s full election-night coverage below.

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Hundreds were arrested in a recent multi-day undercover operation targeting child predators, prostitution, and human trafficking in Florida. The arrestees included 17 theme park employees, according to law enforcement.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office launched a seven-day joint-agency undercover operation “focusing on those who prey upon and travel to meet children for unlawful sexual activity, and human trafficking.”

‘He wanted to wear diapers.’

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the sting, named “Polk Around and Find Out II,” is the “single largest undercover operation we’ve ever done.”

The sheriff’s office said in a statement that the undercover sting resulted in 281 arrests, including 239 related to soliciting prostitutes, offering to commit prostitution, and aiding/abetting or transporting prostitutes.

Authorities also arrested 31 suspects in connection with alleged child sex crimes.

Among those arrested were 17 theme park employees, including 13 from Disney and four from Universal Studios. Of the arrested theme park employees, seven were accused of committing child sex crimes, according to the sheriff’s office.

WKMG-TV reported that a “former Walt Disney World Mickey Mouse character was among those arrested in the child predator operation.”

The sheriff’s office stated that 24-year-old Collin Klaco of Clermont “communicated online with an undercover detective posing as the guardian of a 13-year-old boy.”

“He said he wanted to do something in a public family restroom,” the police statement read. “He drove to the undercover location and was taken into custody; detectives found diapers and wipes in a backpack that he carried into the house.”

“He wanted to wear diapers,” Sheriff Judd explained. “He wanted to put diapers on the children, and he wanted to do all kinds of nasty stuff.”

Judd added, “He had the high squeaky voice, too, by the way.”

Police said Klaco was charged with traveling to meet a minor, use of a computer to solicit a guardian, use of a two-way communication device to commit a felony, and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor.

Judd said all of the Disney employees caught in the sting had been fired.

“These predators are out there, online, trying to groom and violate our children,” Judd said, adding that “the things that these predators say to children are vile, disgusting, and not fit for anyone except trained detectives to read. And even seasoned, trained detectives are repulsed.”

RELATED: US attorney announces indictments against ‘prophet,’ wife for alleged sex trafficking, forced labor in alleged church scheme

The statement said 40-year-old Orange County Deputy Sheriff Eric Raymond was arrested in the sting.

Raymond, from Winter Garden, also is a school resource deputy at Independence Elementary School in Horizon West.

The statement said of Raymond, “He answered an online ad placed by an undercover detective and agreed to pay her $110.00 to have unprotected sex during a ‘quick visit.’ He told detectives he is married.”

Raymond was charged with one count of solicitation of a prostitute.

Sheriff Judd said Raymond “should have known better.”

“His actions demonstrate moral turpitude,” Judd stated.

Sheriff Judd continued:

The online prostitution industry enables and empowers human traffickers, allowing them to profit off the people they exploit. Our goal is to identify victims, offer them help, and arrest those who are fueling the exploitation of human beings like Eric Raymond and those profiting from the exploitation of human beings. Prostitution is not a victimless crime — it results in human exploitation, misery, disease, dysfunction, drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and broken families.

Police noted that 32 illegal aliens from nine different countries were arrested.

WTVJ-TV reported that 16 suspects have been turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

WTVJ added that 32 individuals were charged with drug possession, including methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl.

Police said the suspects were charged with a total of 198 felonies and 290 misdemeanors. The statement added that the suspects had previous criminal charges totaling 358 felonies and 440 misdemeanors.

Law enforcement also identified 11 human trafficking victims during the operation.

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It turns out Texas’ 21st Congressional District is a big fan of baseball.

Running as a Republican to replace longtime Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), former MLB slugger Mark Teixeira took home the easy victory over Democrat Kristin Hook, who lost for the second straight time.

‘TOTAL WINNER, on and off the field.’

In the center of Texas sits Congressional District 21, where Teixeira was heavily favored to take the dark-red seat.

“Big Tex,” a former New York Yankees and Texas Rangers player, was a massive favorite just days before the election. Pollsmax had him sitting at a 99% chance of winning, while Smarter.Vote gave him a 95% chance and an estimated 20-point margin of victory.

Both sources were right to predict Teixeira as the winner. He fended off the blue wave that crashed through Texas on Tuesday and took home a win with 54.5% of the vote and a nine-point margin of victory, according to the AP.

RELATED: Former MLB star wins GOP primary to replace Chip Roy in Texas

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Teixeira had a very strong endorsement from President Donald Trump ahead of his Republican primary.

The president called Teixeira a “TOTAL WINNER, on and off the field” on Truth Social in February.

“Mark has a great wife, Leigh, and three beautiful children.”

Both Teixeira and Hook breezed through their primaries with over 60% of the vote back in March. However, Democrats totaled just over 66,000 votes against Republicans’ 95,500, a bad sign for the Democrat.

RELATED: Who put the left in charge of America’s working class?

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During her campaign, Hook promoted policies like making billionaires “pay their fair share,” expanding voting accessibility (including by mail), and restoring abortion “freedoms.”

Teixeira, however, promoted very MAGA-aligned policies like the expansion of the DOGE, border security, and fighting against “cultural Marxism.”

In 2024, Hook lost to Roy by more than 100,000 votes, a difference of more than 15 percentage points.

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The lengthy and unpopular conflict in Iran has evidently had an outsized impact on the midterm election.

Exit polling conducted by NBC News and other media outfits showed that when thinking about their vote for Congress, 34% of voters said that the conflict in Iran was “crucial”; 40% said it was a “major factor”; and 19% said it was a “minor factor.”

‘The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least.’

Twenty-seven percent of those who said the conflict was “crucial” and 42% of those who said it was a “major factor” were Republicans.

Weeks ahead of the election, a Gallup survey indicated that Iran was a top issue among voters, with 47% of respondents stating that the situation in Iran was “extremely important” and 30% saying it was “very important.”

After Republicans lost the U.S. House and Senate in a landslide on Tuesday, President Donald Trump acknowledged in a phone interview with Fox News that “part of it was Iran.” He also admitted that the conflict drove up gasoline prices and that price increases hurt Republicans at the polls.

The president suggested, however, that historically, the military operation in Iran is “going to be much more important than this evening because you can’t let the number-one state sponsor of terror have a nuclear weapon.” He also said that he “had no choice,” in part because the nuclear deal brokered by former President Barack Obama “was the road to a nuclear weapon.”

RELATED: Trump’s 2024 coalition was a loan. The bill just came due.

Trump was long a critic of his predecessors’ costly foreign entanglements, stating both that he would end “the era of endless wars” and that it was not the job of American forces to “solve ancient conflicts in faraway lands that many people have not even heard of.”

After brokering numerous peaceful resolutions between warring parties, Trump kicked off a conflict with Iran on Feb. 28.

While there were clear indications that such a military operation would be unpopular, a chorus of interventionists inside and outside Congress suggested it was worthwhile. The Washington Post’s Marc Thiessen, for instance, penned an op-ed in January titled “There is no U.S. downside to striking the Iranian regime.”

Support for the unresolved conflict — the projected cost of which the Pentagon told Congress last month was roughly $47.1 billion — currently sits at 35.9%, according to the Silver Bulletin’s polling average. Opposition sits at 56.5%.

Despite the unpopularity of the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and the apparent backlash by voters, Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that he “did the right thing” and if afforded a do-over, he “would have done it again.”

“The Iranian regime is evil. Few people have been as consistently vocal on this issue as I have,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace wrote in an aftermath reflection. “But it’s one thing to use American air power to ensure Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon and quite another to drag our military and economy into a months-long quagmire with no end in sight and no clear definition of victory.”

BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre tweeted, “The real retard right were the people who told you the war wouldn’t matter.”

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh wrote, “The Iran War is the greatest political blunder in the last two decades at least. A catastrophically stupid decision. An unforgivable betrayal of America First principles.”

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Recent polls suggested that Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi was going to cruise to victory in her re-election race against George Soros-backed Democratic prosecutor Scott Colom. Like many of her GOP colleagues, Hyde-Smith had a rude awakening on Election Day.

As of Wednesday morning, Hyde-Smith and Colom were tied at 48.9% with over 95% of the votes in, according to the Associated Press.

‘Sometimes when you think somebody is doing so well, nobody votes.’

Colom told supporters early Wednesday, “Our race is too close to call. We are going to make sure every single vote has been counted, and I am confident we will ultimately flip this seat.”

If successful in unseating Hyde-Smith — a former state commissioner of agriculture and commerce who assumed office in 2018 — Colom will become Mississippi’s first Democratic U.S. senator since 1982.

Hyde-Smith ran on supporting the Second Amendment, fiscal conservatism, defending the unborn, stopping illegal immigration, lowering taxes, and standing with Israel.

RELATED: Trump takes DEFIANT tone after Democrats take the House: ‘Buckle up’

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She enjoyed an endorsement from President Donald Trump, who joined her on the campaign trail last week and expressed concern about voters staying home.

“I’m here because Cindy’s doing great, but I just got to make sure,” said the president, reported the Mississippi Free Press. “I can’t take a chance. I can’t take a chance. She’s got no problem. The only problem is sometimes, and this happens in — sometimes when you think somebody is doing so well, nobody votes. They all stay home.”

Colom, who may ultimately reap the benefits of some voters staying home, ran on lowering costs, raising wages, making “Big Tech pay its own way,” and combating corruption in Washington, D.C.

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