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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz joined "Fox News Primetime" host Jesse Watters Thursday evening to discuss President Joe Biden's job performance since taking office nearly seven months ago.

JESSE WATTERS: Joe Biden's been dismantling America ever since he took office. We've been reporting on it extensively. The Democrats seem to believe that Uncle Joe is doing a great job until now. A new survey out shows even members of the president's own party are losing faith in this self-described "healer in chief." Since April, Democrat's approval rating for Biden's economic agenda plummeted 12 points. And the same can be said for just about every other issue.

Approving for his handling of racial inequality, taxation, immigration, COVID, gun violence have all dropped. It looks like they aren't buying Biden's bag of excuses for why nearly everything in the country is falling apart. ImmigrationKamala is taking care of that. High taxeseverybody needs to just pay their fair share. Crimeget ready. It's the Republican's fault.

TED CRUZ: I will say it's been dramatic just how quickly Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lurched to the left, I mean, almost from the opening day of the administration, they made the decision to hand control of the Democratic Party over to the radical extreme. And so the policy agenda is being driven by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and AOC. And we're seeing an absolute disaster on every front. You went through on crime. You know, when the radicals who advocate abolishing the police become two of the senior officials in the Biden Department of Justice that shows they've given in to the crazy left.

On the border, when you hand control of border control policy over to the radicals who want open borders and don't want the laws enforced, you create a border crisis that puts us on a path to have over two million people cross illegally. And this year and when you propose seven trillion dollars of new spending, trillions of dollars of new taxes and new regulations that kill small businesses and kill jobs, well, the American people start to notice this.

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Something funny is happening to the Democrats right now. They're like your dog when he chews up your "hot hunks of the Bible calendar," they realized they screwed up. It's clear on their faces. Except for Pelosis great job, Botox!

After a year of portraying the police as murderous racists, they're now faced with a body count that would make the Wuhan lab blush.

They're now out of excuses. But oh they try, don't they?

Peter Doocy: the president never mentioned needing money for police to stop a crime wave when he was telling the American rescue.

Jen Psaki: Well, the president did mention that the American rescue plan, the state and local funding, something that was supported by the president, a lot of democrats who supported and voted for the bill could help ensure local cops were kept on the beat in communities across the country, as you know, didn't receive a single Republican vote.

Now, to believe that, you need to be as dumb as The View's studio audience. The IQ isn't additive. How can you forget the last year when you heard crap like this?

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Ayanna Soyini Pressley: yes I support the defund movement because this is about the investment in our communities which have historically been divested

Ilhan Omar: not only do we need to defund but we need to dismantle and start anew allows us to reimagine what public safety should look like

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: I am actively engaged in advocacy for is the reduction of really truly talking about the reduction of our NYPD budget and defunding the 6 billion dollar NYPD budget

And before you say, but Greg - theyre just the fringe. If that's true, then Bidens administration contains more fringe than a cowboy's suede jacket

Kamala Harris, June 2020: We got to reexamine what were doing and ask the question, "are we getting the right return on our investment. Are we actually creating healthy and safe communities? And thats a legitimate conversation and it requires a critical evaluation. I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what hes done.

You think that's extreme? For Democrats, thats as middle-of-the-road as Hunter Biden moments before a DUI. Right AOC?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Now I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much. But I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesnt drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.

Thank you, professor Moonbat. We should defund Boston University for giving her an economics degree. Last year I got pretty emotional about what I saw, especially in my city. Fewer cops on the street, while releasing violent felons onto the same street - meant more violence, more victims. You didn't have to be Miss Cleo to see that coming. RIP.

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But to the liberal hacks surrounded by more armed security than the pope visiting Damascus, it was a big joke.

Don Lemon: Democratic cities are in chaos right now. Is this what you want from Joe Biden? And they are gonna take your country away and they are taking down the statues.

Cuomo: Crime is rising as they defund police.

Lemon: Oh my gosh it is so bad and they are defunding police. It is like phew (Lemon rolls his eyes).

That clip should get old but it wont. I'm going to play it forever. It's like Chris Cuomo flexing for Twitter - it shall live forever. For it encapsulates the sheer disdain the media has for the people they claim to care about. Remember Don Lemon's great investigative look into the crime wave?

Don Lemon, September 2020: If you watch a certain state tv and you listen to conservative media you would think that, you know, entire cities are just, you know, embroiled in fights and fires and whatever, we went out and had a great dinner in new york city tonight, people actually walked up to us and said thank you for -- I watch you every night. I can't believe -- they thought, they had to do a double-take at us actually hanging out and not seeing on the tv screen. But new york city was not, you know, a hellscape, was it?

Hey, who cares about the crime. I'm famous! Thats a special moment for Don: private time with his one remaining viewer. Maybe that's why their ratings are in freefall. All of their viewers are getting killed.

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But now with Trump gone, they can no longer use racism to defend liberal cities descending into violent madness. Those corroded cities are still getting worse, and it's been months since Trump left. Which tells you it was never his fault to begin with -- he was just their excuse.

And they laughed about the riots because they knew the violence might scare voters into supporting Biden. They're like a mobster saying to a shopkeeper: better do what I say. Id hate to see anything happen to your storefront window. It's funny - they aren't even talking about violent white supremacists anymore. I guess they realize the only white mobs were liberal arts majors tearing up Portland. Whose jealousy is as green as their hair.

The media never bothered to question that big lie. But now it's collapsing faster than a human pyramid with Joy Behar on top.

But maybe we can focus on those real terrorists who stormed the Capitol! Yeah, after Dems bailed out looters, they just sentenced a granny to over a hundred hours of community service for standing around the Capitol. So instead of playing with her grandkids, she's picking up trash on the freeway. That's justice, Democrat-style.

So let's review the root causes of all bad things according to the democrats. Its Racism. Followed by racism. Then Racism. When in fact the root cause is them, them, and them.

Crime is rising, people are dying, what's the cause? Liberal policies. The spikes in violence are only in cities run by liberals. If that's not cause and effect, what the hell is? The Dems reject law enforcement and any actual prison time. Lefty prosecutors decriminalized crime, especially property crime. They threw out bail, and called it reform. So repeat offenders could repeat even more -- racking up more arrests than Kat on a bender.

They grew increasingly more brazen and more violent even in daylight, daring the demoralized police to do something. But they couldn't - cuz they knew that democratic leaders would let them twist in the wind. So now you're left with a befuddled president, who gets all his crime solutions from reruns of "Murder She Wrote."

And a defiant far-left contingent consumed by the desire to dismantle the world's greatest country.

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Biden is such a mess, he even suggested cities could use leftover covid money to hire more cops -- after allowing local governments to defund the cops! Yeah, and maybe we can give the left-over masks to the criminals while they're at itgood for robbing banks.

So we got problems. The problems are solvable unless we continue to elect idiot Democrats. The Dems treat the American people like their groupies. You'll always be there for them, when they need you. When they no longer need you, they don't care whether you live or die.

Because there will always be more groupies. As long as they can evade the gunfire.

This article is adapted from Greg Gutfeld's opening monologue on the June 30, 2021 edition of "Gutfeld!"

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The older generation does not want to pass the baton. You dont have to die in your seat. Pass the baton on, said Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a 37-year-old Democrat who lives in Hastings district.

I want to make sure that Im not stepping into ageism, but we have a bench problem, he said. We have so many good young elected officials, but theyre on the bench.

DeSantis scheduling move led to howls of protest in the majority-Black district because its residents will go without elected representation for so long. But privately theres a growing realization among Florida Democrats that Hastings refusal to leave office helped enable the outcome.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the end of a legislative session at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla on April 30, 2021. | AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File

Both parties have their share of elderly members (Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley is considering running again next year for a term that would end when he is 93). But Democrats have been grappling with a noticeable generational divide within their ranks for some time President Joe Biden and top Democratic congressional leaders are all well over 70. Ten of the 12 House members over the age of 80 are Democrats.

The issue has taken on an increased urgency given the partys tenuous hold on Congress. The loss of just one Democrat would tip the balance of power in the Senate, which has heightened scrutiny of its oldest member, California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, who has faced recent questions about her fitness for office. She turned 88 on Tuesday. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy now 81 and running for reelection to his ninth term had a brief hospital scare in January that alarmed activists.

It was one of the few wake-up calls: Holy s---, we are one stroke or car wreck or Me Too scandal from not having a Senate majority, said Julian Brave NoiseCat, vice president of policy and strategy for the liberal think tank Data for Progress. It is the thinnest majority you can have.

Democrats have a slightly larger margin in the House, but that advantage has been whittled down in recent months by Hastings death and other departures.

Thats led to mounting frustration with the old guard, as well as a feeling of dread that the party is just a heartbeat away from losing control of at least one chamber of Congress.

Progressive activists like NoiseCat are increasingly concerned that issues important to Generation Z and millennial voters such as climate change, voting rights and criminal justice reform are stalled in the hidebound Senate, where the lack of action could depress turnout next year and flip control of one or both chambers of Congress.

Theres a generation of young progressives energized by politics, and a big question in front of the Democratic Party in terms of its ability to channel that energy is whether or not they can deliver on issues that matter to young people, NoiseCat said.

Worries about the make-up of the U.S. Supreme Court where the September death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, enabled President Donald Trump to replace her with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, 49 are also coloring the debate.

Justice Stephen Breyer, 82 and one of the high courts three liberal justices, faces an organized effort to pressure him to retire and make way for a replacement.

Brian Fallon, a top Democratic operative and executive director of the advocacy group Demand Justice, said Breyers arguments for staying on the court resemble those made by Ginsburg and older politicians like Leahy, who point out that theyre still doing a good job and remain the best choices for their positions.

The big divide in the Democratic Party is as much ideological as it is generational, Fallon said, adding that its not just about policy.

It applies to how politics is conducted, beyond taxes and crime and the war on drugs, he said. Theres no more patience for the idea that the Republicans are going to negotiate in good faith.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 31-year-old progressive who won her New York seat in 2018 by defeating a longtime Democratic incumbent, reminded her Twitter followers earlier this month that the 2009 death of 77-year-old Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy stymied President Barack Obamas agenda.

During the Obama admin, folks thought wed have a 60 Dem majority for a while. It lasted 4 months, she tweeted. Dems are burning precious time & impact negotiating w/GOP who wont even vote for a Jan 6 commission. [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnells plan is to run out the clock. Its a hustle. We need to move now.

Waleed Shahid, a Democratic strategist and spokesperson for the group Justice Democrats, said he wants the 78-year-old president, 70-year-old Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, 70, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 81, to realize that time is ticking for everyone.

I dont inherently have a problem with a politicians age, Shahid said. The issue is that the Democratic Partys narrow control of the federal government could be upended by illness or death at any moment. That fact should be giving Biden, Schumer, and Pelosi much more urgency to get a broad agenda through Congress as quickly as possible.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, seen here in February 2021, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992. | Greg Nash/Pool via AP

That would require eliminating the filibuster, though, and senators like Feinstein are cool to the idea. In 2018, then-state Sen. Kevin de Len, 54, unsuccessfully challenged her from the left in California, saying it was time for a change. But the powerful senator still managed to hold on to win a fifth term.

There is always going to be an expiration date on the value of seniority, de Len, now a Los Angeles City Council member, told POLITICO. Instead of holding power hostage to our very last days, lets use every ounce of it to help the next generation cut a path to strong leadership both within our party, and in the halls of power.

In Florida, Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, 42, had the same idea when she unsuccessfully challenged Hastings in 2018 and 2020.

Cherfilus-McCormick said she respected Hastings, a beloved figure in the Black community who was first elected to Congress in 1992. But she challenged him because she said he wasnt delivering for the district and we cant sacrifice the community based on the fact that someones an icon.

With Hastings death, Cherfilus-McCormick is now running in what promises to be a crowded primary to succeed him a stark contrast to her two previous solo bids against Hastings.

Theyre jumping in because they believe its an opportunity of a lifetime, because the assumption is that you stay there until you pass. Thats something we have to deal with and confront head on, she said. What we have to deal with as a party is taking succession-planning seriously.

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June 25, 2021 | Austin, Texas | Press Release

Office of the Governor Press Secretary Renae Eze today issued a statement regarding a lawsuit filed by Texas Democrat state representatives and others to halt the execution of the Governor's veto of Article X:

The governors veto power is granted by the Texas Constitution, and the Texas Supreme Court has recognized that the Governor has power to disapprove any bill.Also, the Texas Court of Criminal Appealshas made clear that the Constitution does not 'impose any restriction on the[governors] veto power.More to the point,that court alsoruled that the governors power to exercise a veto may not be circumscribed by the Legislature [or] by the courts. This is not the first time, and undoubtedly will not be the last time, that a governor vetoes funding for government positions and salaries. Any limitation on that authority directly contradicts the Constitution and decades of vetoes by governors.

The Democrats claims about the governors veto cancelling the legislative branch are misleading and misguided. The Constitution protects the legislative branch, and as the Democrats well know, their positions, their powers and their salaries are protected by the Constitution. They can continue to legislate despite the veto.

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But Democrats see a changed landscape. The ProPublica report added fodder. But even before the pandemic recession, corporate tax receipts had plunged 40 percent after the Trump tax cuts. Though the 2017 tax law ostensibly lowered the corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent, the effective business rate has fallen to 8 percent, said Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas, a senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee.

Theres been a big change in voter attitudes on taxes, Mr. Wyden said. In the last 10 years, Republicans always want to talk about taxes, nail those Democrats on taxes, tax-and-spend and all the rest. Now, the American people are sympathetic with our point, which is that everybody ought to pay their fair share.

Democrats are divided about how far to go. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, pressed Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen last week on Ms. Warrens proposed wealth tax, which would impose a 2 percent surtax on the value of assets owned by people worth more than $50 million and raise at least $3 trillion.

This is about choices, she told a reluctant Ms. Yellen. We can fund universal child care, or we can hand Jeff Bezos enough tax savings to build a superyacht.

Other Democrats, even liberals, are not so sure.

The whole term of a wealth tax scares an awful lot of people who are hoping to achieve some wealth, Mr. Doggett said. We dont want to discourage economic success. We just want to level the playing field.

Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, is stuck in the middle. As a pro-business Democrat, he was tapped by Mr. Wyden to hash out a corporate tax package with Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a pro-labor Democrat. But he is also a member of the group negotiating the bipartisan infrastructure deal.

He said he was confident there would be unanimous support among Democrats to include the international tax framework in a reconciliation bill that followed a narrower infrastructure compromise, because its just so darned complicated.

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