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The two Democratic primary candidates in New Jerseys 2nd Congressional District, vying for the right to face incumbent U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-2nd, in November, both said they joined the party in 2008 to vote in the presidential primary between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Carolyn Rush, an engineer from Sea Isle City, backed Clinton, hoping to help elect the first woman president of the United States.

Tim Alexander, a civil rights attorney and former law enforcement officer from Galloway Township, backed Obama in the hopes of electing the first Black president.

Now Alexander, 57, and Rush, 60, are presenting voters with a similar choice in the June 7 primary.

If elected, either of the two candidates would make history. It would be the first time either a Black man or a woman of any race represented New Jerseys 2nd District in Congress.

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Both are strongly pro-choice, support lowering the age for Medicare eligibility to expand health care coverage, and both are focused on the need to bring better paying jobs to South Jersey while also combating climate change. Both cite social justice, civil rights and LGBTQ rights as major priorities.

Second district Democratic congressional candidates are hoping their voters will be extra mo

Rush, however, sees herself as a minority of a different kind. Only 4% of congressional representatives are engineers, she said. In contrast, she said, about 40% are attorneys like Alexander.

Given the need to move forward on climate change and other technology-related issues, its best to increase engineers in Congress, Rush said.

Alexander, who has racked up endorsements from most county committees and from big names including former congressional candidate Amy Kennedy and former Assemblyman Vince Mazzeo, D-Atlantic, said he has had people of color tell him they are backing him and feel its important to have more Black representatives.

There are a lot of people who say, Weve got your back. I appreciate that from the perspective of being a Black man, he said.

The Collective PAC was one of his earliest endorsers, he said. It backs minority candidates running for the first time.

But he wants to keep the focus on the issues.

Democratic 2nd District congressional candidate Carolyn Rush is lashing out against her own

It will be historic, but thats not what this race is about, Alexander said. Its about the economy. I want issues to be the reason people come out to vote.

He also feels strongly that Democrats should not focus on beating each other, but on beating the incumbent.

I have always been running against Jeff Van Drew, not my primary opponents, Alexander said.

Alexander and Rush joined the party in a year that saw a major increase in Democratic registration nationally, largely due to heightened interest in the primary that year.

Registered Democrats went from about 39 million in 2006 to more than 43 million in 2008, while Republican voters remained steady at about 30 million.

As of June 2021, each party has gained about 6 million new registered voters. Democratic registration is at about 49 million, and Republican registration is at about 36 million.

Democratic congressional candidate Carolyn Rush may continue to use her slogan in Atlantic C

Alexander had always tended to vote Democratic, he said, but didnt join the party until 2008 because he was working for the Atlantic County Prosecutors Office and didnt want to be accused of favoring one party in investigations of voter fraud.

But the chance to vote for the first Black president made him declare himself a Democrat.

Without a doubt I knew it could cause me some backlash, Alexander said. I wanted to vote for Obama. I didnt want to have to tell my grandchildren if I have them that I didnt support Obama (in his bid for the nomination).

Rush said she, too, had always voted Democratic, but never found it necessary to vote in the New Jersey primaries because they happen too late to affect the party choice to run for president.

I wanted to vote for Hillary Clinton, Rush said. In hindsight I think it had pretty much been decided, but I was glad I did it. It was the right thing to do.

Although she didnt win any of the Democratic county committee endorsements in the six south

By 2012 she was such a fan of Obama, however, she volunteered for his reelection campaign. It was the first time she became involved in a political campaign, she said.

I just thought it was time for a strong and powerful woman, and she was that, Rush said of Clinton in 2008. I had wanted her, but I was thrilled with him.

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Proving that whats old is new again, here is how the late William Safire began his New York Times column of Jan. 8, 1996:

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation is a congenital liar.

Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.

Safire detailed a series of situations where Hillary Clinton was caught in obvious lies, and there is a straight line to the Hillary Clinton whose shadow hangs over the Michael Sussmann trial in Washington. Once again, Clinton is being exposed as compelled to mislead and ensnaring her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.

And to think she almost got away with stealing the presidency.

It is in keeping with her history that she is portrayed as the off-stage chief conniver at a trial that is, like her, something of a throwback. Coming six years after the 2016 presidential campaign, the Sussmann trial inevitably carries an air of anti-climax.

After all, we have known since the Robert Mueller report in 2019 that the charge that Donald Trump colluded with Russia was fake news. And we have known for almost as long that Clintons campaign secretly funded the smear merchants at Fusion GPS who hired Christopher Steele who fabricated a dossier that was long on lies and gossip and short on facts.

Finally, we have known that Jim Comeys FBI was punch drunk on power and some of its top officials were foaming at the mouth to help Clinton defeat Trump. They were so dirty they used the rancid dossier to get court approval to spy on Trumps campaign.

That sequence adds a strange dimension to the Sussmann case in the sense that the only charge against him that he lied to the FBI in denying he was working for Clinton in trying to peddle Russia trash makes the agency look innocent, when it was, in its own way, as guilty as Clinton.

Still, there is value in special counsel John Durhams tireless effort to reveal the secrets of the dirtiest dirty trick ever. His assignment was to probe how and why the FBI took the unprecedented step of spying on the campaign of the opposing partys presidential candidate and while the going has been slow, he is adding important details to a major stain on our national history.

The Biden administration would surely love to shut Durham down, but convicting Sussmann likely would give the prosecutor new impetus and save his probe from the Democrats ax.

It is vital that he continue because, although it failed to elect Clinton, the hoax was sensationally successful in capturing the medias attention and implanting a deep distrust of Trump, thanks in part to the Deep States anonymous sources who fed media hysterics.

Democrats, especially Nancy Pelosi, insisted Trump was an illegitimate president for his entire term. One result was that the party refused to negotiate with him, robbing America of any meaningful bipartisanship even on issues like infrastructure.

Another outcome was the 2018 midterms, where the hoax surely played a role in the publics decision to hand control of the House to Dems, who instantly began their Russia, Russia, Russia investigation and soon turned to impeaching Trump.

The Clinton lies, then, did enormous damage and, as Trump immodestly but correctly says, a weaker president would have reacted to the false attacks by curling up into a fetal position.

Meanwhile, the related misconduct of the media, the FBI and other government agencies resulted in an incalculable loss of credibility that continues to grow as new facts emerge.

In that sense, the most redeeming feature of the Sussmann case is the proof that the Steele dossier wasnt Clintons only effort to fabricate so-called evidence about Trump and Russia. Testimony is revealing that the pattern the two efforts followed was almost identical.

First her campaign concocted a lie, then secretly peddled it to Trump-hating media and the Trump-hating FBI. In both cases, it concealed the funding as legal services.

In the Sussmann case, the part of Christopher Steele was played by tech executive Rodney Joffe, who produced data purporting to show Trump computers communicating with a Russian bank. It was regarded as bunk even by the FBI.

It was nonetheless Sussmanns job to get The New York Times to run a story on the claim, an effort Clinton herself approved, according to testimony from her former campaign manager, Robbie Mook. Although the Times didnt bite on that one, other media outlets did, and Clinton herself tweeted about the stories to magnify their impact as she hoped for an October surprise.

One of her aides then, Jake Sullivan, was also pushing the fake story as a national security threat, and he is now Joe Bidens national security adviser. How comforting.

The pattern raises the question of whether there were still other fabricated attempts by Clinton to paint Trump as a traitor that we dont know about yet. Never underestimate her venality.

What we do know is more than enough to condemn her for all time. She was a lousy, lazy presidential candidate who made up slanderous tales about her opponent to cover up her own unpopularity and failures.

As proof, the trial resurrected declassified notes from September of 2016 written by John Brennan, then CIA director. It said intelligence officials learned Clinton planned to tar Trump with Russia ties as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.

The notes suggest Brennan briefed then-President Barack Obama on the finding, yet Obama still went along with the FBI probe of Trump and told Comey how to brief the president-elect in January of 2017 on the most salacious parts of the Steele dossier.

Assuming Durham is able to continue, his real challenge will be finding someone in her circle who was not ensnared in Clintons web of deceit.

Nina Jankowicz, the kook chosen by the White House to run its sinister Disinformation Governance Board, blames her quick demise on disinformation.

She says there was malign intent in criticizing her and the board, which is why she resigned.

Her reaction proves she was unfit and even dangerous. She considers anything critical of her as having malign intent.

Good riddance to her and hopefully the anti-free-speech board will be next on the chopping block.

Reader Collette Curry sees a bright side in the stumbling and fumbling of Joe Biden. She writes: He has given hope to all under-achieving students that someday they can grow up to be president.

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Hillary Clinton personally approved sharing with the news media a false theory linking Donald Trump to Russia even though campaign officials were not totally confident in the accuracy of the information, the manager of her 2016 campaign testified in court.

The bombshell was revealed during the cross-examination of Robby Mook, who managed Mrs. Clintons unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign against Mr. Trump.

While on the stand in the trial of former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, Mr. Mook detailed to jurors his conversation with Mrs. Clinton in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign.

I discussed this with Hillary as well, Mr. Mook testified Friday. The discussion is that Hey, we have this, and we want to share this with a reporter.

Sheagreed to that,hesaid.

The testimony provided the first evidence of Mrs. Clintons direct involvement in promoting Trump-Russia conspiracy theories during the 2016 presidential campaign. The involvement of the Clinton campaign is the linchpin of the case against Mr. Sussman, who is accused of lying about who his employer was when he went to the FBI in September 2016 with a false story about Mr. Trumps secret communications with Russias Alfa Bank.

It is the first trial stemming from special counsel John Durhams probe into the origins of the FBIs investigation of Trump-Russia collusion to sway the 2016 presidential election.

In other testimony last week at the federal courthouse in the District of Columbia, two former CIA officials said Mr. Sussman peddled his false theories to the CIA shortly after Mr. Trump was sworn in as president.

Retired CIA officer Mark Chadason told jurors that he met with Mr. Sussmann for breakfast at a Northern Virginia hotel on Jan. 31, 2017. He said Mr. Sussmann claimed he represented an engineer with a number of patents and a Republican who had some anti-Trump accusations.

He described Mr. Sussmann as appearing frustrated and threatened to take his claims to The New York Times if the CIA wasnt interested.

Mr. Sussmann told the CIA agent that he had spoken with the FBI but said investigators did not handle the matter well and lacked the technical expertise to review the accusations, according to the testimony.

Still, the CIA officials said they told him information should have been forwarded to the FBI and that would be the best agency to investigate his claims.

During Mr. Mooks testimony, he said the now-debunked tale about the Trump Organization having secret communication withAlfa Bank was widely discussed within the campaign.Hespoke about it with campaign chair John Podesta, former communications director Jennifer Palmieri and senior campaign aide Jake Sullivan, who is now President Bidens national security adviser.

Mr. Mook said Mrs. Clinton approved passing off the story to a reporter, even though they had not vetted the accuracy of the information.

Part of the point of giving it to a reporter was they could run it down further,hesaid. A reporter could vet the information and then decide to print it.

The revelations prompted U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper to clear the jury from the room and hold a sidebar discussion with the prosecutors and defense attorneys.

Despite the Clinton campaigns willingness to share the theory with the press, Mr. Mook didnt view the Alfa Bank accusations as a silver bullet against Mr. Trump because the campaign didnt understand the claims.

It was certainly alarming and suspicious. We didnt know what this data going back and forth was,hesaid.

Prosecutors have told the jury that Mr. Sussman, on behalf of the Clinton campaign, used and manipulated the FBI with dirt on Mr. Trump to create an October surprise before the election. The plan, they said, was to get the FBI to probe the Alfa Bank ties, allowing the campaign to pitch stories about it to the news media.

Prosecutors say Mr. Sussmann told FBI General Counsel James A. Baker that he was not handing over the information on behalf of any client.

Defense attorneys counter that Mr.Sussmanndid not lie andhisties to theClintoncampaign were well known to Mr. Baker and the FBI.

Mr.Sussmannhas pleaded not guilty to one charge of lying to the FBI, which carries a five-year prison sentence.

Mr.Mooksaidheabsolutely would not have wanted Mr.Sussmannto take the claims to the FBI.

We didnt trust the FBI,hesaid. From a purely analytic standpoint, the two or three most damaging days of the campaign were caused by [former FBI Director] James Comey, not byDonald Trump.

He said he was not aware of Mrs. Clinton or any other campaign official authorizing Mr. Sussmann to bring the accusations to the FBI.

Mr. Mook also read from an Oct. 31, 2016, tweet from the Clinton campaign promoting the Alfa Bank accusations after they were published in a Slate magazine article.

The tweet included a statement from Mr. Sullivan, who called the claims the most direct link yet betweenDonald Trumpand Moscow.

Mr. Sullivan, who has come under fire for his role in promoting the Alfa Bank accusations, said the communications were a secret hotline that may be the key to unlocking the mystery of Trumps ties to Russia. He also said voters can only assume federal authorities will now explore this direct connection between Trump and Russia as part of their existing probe into Russias meddling in our elections.

The prosecution is expected to wrap up its case Tuesday after testimony from Bill Priestap, a former assistant director of the FBIs counterintelligence division, FBI lawyer Tisha Anderson, a Perkins Coie billing expert, and DNC operative Tom McMahon.

The defense will then present its case, which includes a long witness list that could extend the trial past Memorial Day.

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly reported FBI General Counsel James A. Bakers last name.

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Kellyanne Conway said Monday the faulty Trump-Russia collusion theory was used to "delegitimize" the Trump presidency. Conway joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss the recent bombshell from former Clinton aide Robby Mook, who testified in the Michael Sussmann trial that Clinton supported pushing the collusion theory to reporters.

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KELLYANNE CONWAY: Robby Mook and others are under oath in a courtroom on the record. This is not a Twitter spat. This is not the vast right-wing conspiracy. This is real. Chapter 30 in my new book is called Collusion, Illusion, Delusion. This country wasted two and a half years, close to three years. All that taxpayer money and all that diversion. President Trump, his spokespeople would go out and try to talk about a policy prescription, fentanyl, for example, and they say Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. Collusion was the Sesame Street word of the year for three years. Where does he get his reputation back? President Trump should hold his head high at all the great accomplishments he made for this country. But it's more fundamental than that. They tried to delegitimize his presidency and cast doubt on the newly elected president.

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Kellyanne Conway blasts Hillary Clinton for pushing unvetted Trump-Russia collusion claims - Fox News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that when it comes to President Biden, "the real president is the teleprompter." He made the remarks on a video episode of The All-In Podcast.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking Twitter executives about a resurfaced Hillary Clinton campaign tweet that he considers a "hoax."

Musk was responding to a Twitter user on Friday asking him about a previous tweet by the Hillary Clinton campaign which purports to have "uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank"

"@elonmusk I have reported this tweet as misleading disinformation to the powers that be at @twitter. I would be interested to know if, when you receive control over the company, anything was done with this at any level. Pls advise soonest," one Twitter user asked.

Musk said that the person is "absolutely correct" that Clinton's tweet is "misleading disinformation."

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"You are absolutely correct. That tweet is a Clinton campaign hoax for which their campaign lawyer is undergoing a criminal trial," Musk said in response, linking a BBC article with the headline "Michael Sussmann: Clinton lawyer 'lied to manipulate FBI over Trump.'"

Musk's comments come after he made an appearance on the All-In Podcast, stating that he will vote for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.

Twitter accepted Musk's offer accepted Musk's offer to buy the company on April 25, but the social media giant has come under fierce scrutiny by Musk over the company's true number of spam accounts, which the Tesla CEO thinks is much higher than Twitter claims.

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"20% fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher. My offer was based on Twitters SEC filings being accurate. Yesterday, Twitters CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does," Musk tweeted.

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