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Here’s The Silver Lining In Last Week’s Virginia Elections Democrats Don’t Want You To Know About

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The outcome of last week’s state legislative elections in Virginia was a major disappointment for Republicans. Not only did Democrats maintain control of the Senate; they also took control of the House of Delegates, effectively stymying GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s conservative agenda for the remainder of his term.

Despite last week’s electoral defeats, there was, however, one significant development that Republicans throughout the country should take heed of if they want to remain competitive in future elections.

In the months leading up to the Nov. 7 contest, Youngkin, along with organizations such as the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) and Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), made a major push for GOP voters to cast their ballots early prior to Election Day. RPV Chair Rich Anderson previously told The Federalist that the initiative represented a “cultural shift for us as a party” and emphasized how Republicans can’t afford to “go into our elections down thousands of votes.”

While Virginia Republicans ultimately didn’t come out on top in last week’s elections, their emphasis on absentee and in-person early voting (AB/EV) appears to have won them several pivotal races and limited what could have been much larger Democrat majorities in the General Assembly.

According to a Nov. 9 press release, the RSLC and Virginia Republicans’ push for EV/AB “secured 26% of [the former’s] target universe turnout goal heading into Election Day and converted twice as many low-propensity voters as [it] had set out to do.” Overall, these efforts “increased

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Democrats’ Vision Of Democracy Means Fewer Choices For Voters

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Long before you mark your ballot, Democrats are scheming to limit your candidate choices by booting competitors off the ballot.

That is what Democrats are trying to do to presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former Democrat, Jill Stein of the Green Party, and Cornel West, a former Green Party candidate. All are collecting signatures and trying to get on the presidential ballot in each state; Democrats are fighting them on technicalities.

After all, they can’t let voters decide; these candidates are likely to pull votes away from the Democrat ticket.  

Instead of campaigning in front of voters, Kennedy and West spend a lot of time and money traveling to courthouses around the country defending against an onslaught of legal cases that could prevent voters from ever having them as a ballot choice.

“They’re suing me all over the country. They’re trying to keep me off the ballot,” Kennedy said in a social media post Tuesday, while standing in front of a courthouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Kennedy left the campaign trail for a court hearing challenging his spot on the ballot, but his plane was delayed and he arrived two hours late. Commonwealth Court Judge Lori Dumas would not allow him to testify.   

My father and my uncle were members of a Democratic Party that was at the forefront of making sure that every American could vote for the candidate they wanted to.

Today’s Democratic Party is doing the opposite. pic.twitter.com/6K3XZ7bXsj

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr)

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New York Judge Upholds No-Excuse Mail Voting Scheme 3 Years After Voters Rejected The Idea

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New Yorkers overwhelmingly rejected a proposal in 2021 that expanded no-excuse absentee voting. But on Tuesday, the state’s highest court upheld a law passed and signed in 2023 by the state’s Democrat majority that effectively expands no-excuse mail-in voting anyway.

Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the “Early Mail Voter Act” into law in 2023. The law allows anyone to receive an early mail-in ballot with no excuse necessary. Only five Democrats in the state legislature opposed the legislation, alongside the entire Republican delegation.

New Yorkers must provide an excuse in order to receive an absentee ballot according to the state’s constitution. Members of the state’s Democrat-led legislature acknowledged this in their proposal to amend this section of state law, clarifying that the state constitution “only allows absentee voting if a person expects to be absent from the county in which they live … or because of illness for physical disability.” A ballot summary cited on Ballotpedia for the proposed constitutional amendment said the amendment would “eliminate the requirement that a voter provide a reason for voting by absentee ballot.”

But when voters had the chance to vote on the proposed amendment to permit no-excuse absentee voting in 2021, New Yorkers rejected the proposal by a 55-44 margin.

Having not gotten their way, the Democrat-led state legislature usurped the will of their constituents and passed a law in 2023 that expanded “early voting by mail,” which, effectively achieved the same end result of the amendment resoundingly rejected by New Yorkers two

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Oops: Biden Admin Admits 800,000 Jobs It Took Credit For Don’t Exist

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The Biden-Harris administration admitted on Wednesday that more than 800,000 of the jobs it claimed to have created last year don’t exist.

An annual revision by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the U.S. economy added 818,000 fewer jobs from March 2023 to March 2024 than originally reported. According to CNBC, “the actual job growth was nearly 30% less than the initially reported 2.9 million from April 2023 through March of this year.”

“The revision to the total payrolls level of -0.5% is the largest since 2009,” the report reads.

This review of Wednesday’s figures found that “[a]t the sector level, the biggest downward revision” came in “professional and business service,” in which “job growth was 358,000 less than initially reported.” The manufacturing; trade (including retail positions), transportation and utilities; and leisure and hospitality sectors also saw downward revisions.

[RELATED: How Kamala’s Economic Plans Would Send ‘Bidenflation’ Into Overdrive]

Wednesday’s revisions are not an anomaly, however. The Biden-Harris administration has regularly overestimated job growth in recent years, only to later revise those totals downward in the months that followed.

Last year, for example, “the government … overestimated the job growth for the 12-month period ending March 2023 by 306,000,” according to Forbes. A December 2022 analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimated that the administration overstated the number of jobs created during that year’s second quarter by more than one million, The National Desk reported.

Meanwhile, the feds “underestimated job growth [in August 2019] for

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