Watters: This only ends one way…

Fox News

Fox News host Jesse Watters assesses the state of the U.S.-Iran conflict as it nears the three month mark

7:18

https://youtu.be/AwHltr6MYLE

The Five’ on Michelle Obama’s WARNING to liberals

(Why is she even talking? All she does is whine that her and obama the woman is bathing in millions. She is not even significant.)

The Five’ co-hosts discuss former first lady Michelle Obama warning liberals against dismissing Trump voters and Mark Cuban defending his meeting with President Donald Trump.

4:44

https://youtu.be/VtVsMQHfRbA

BREAKING: Winner announced in FIERY GOP primary

Massey defeated

Pollster Doug Schoen and Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer break down the importance of President Donald Trump’s endorsements in nationwide races on ‘The Ingraham Angle

5:01

https://youtu.be/fV0x0Q_-ja4

Georgia election candidates sue Secretary of State, judge grants order

Miguel Legoas, Savannah

Tue, May 19, 2026 at 2:42 PM

As of publication, Georgians are in the middle of voting for several important races. Now, a last-minute court decision will impact how those votes are supervised later tonight.

U.S. House of Representative candidate Chris Mora, Cobb County Commission candidate Keli Gambrill, and Georgia State Senator Greg Dolezal joined together in a lawsuit filed on Monday against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger claiming he's blocking poll watchers from observing vote tabulations. They also asserted that he has a conflict of interest given Raffensperger is running for governor.

On Tuesday morning, the Superior Court of Fulton County issued a temporary restraining order declaring Raffensperger and his office are prohibited from excluding or restricting poll watchers from observing the tabulation, aggregation, verification, and reporting of election results at the Secretary of State’s central office, Election Night Reporting Room, or anywhere else county results are received, processed, aggregated, verified, recorded, or reported.

The order is in effect through 5 p.m. May 28, the same day a follow-up hearing is scheduled at 1 p.m. for a possible injunction.

Brad Raffensperger reaction to lawsuit

According to CBS News, Raffensperger responded to the initial lawsuit with a statement saying "For a guy who constantly lectures everyone about election integrity, you'd think Senator Dolezal would know that votes are not counted in the Secretary of State's Emergency Operations Center. The real fight to safeguard the ballot box happens at the local level — inside county election offices and tabulation centers across Georgia. But facts clearly aren't getting in the way of Dolezal's desperate search for press attention and votes. So buckle up, Greg. This isn't my first rodeo. You are about to join Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden, and the New Georgia Project on the long list of people who sued me and lost."

The order was reportedly signed after an ex parte hearing Tuesday morning at which counsel for the petitioners was present. Raffensperger's office had an opportunity to respond but did not appear. As of publication, we have not received a response on the restraining order.

I’ve lived in Georgia for 26 years, Raffensperger is hated by all now.Once he’s defeated he needs to arrested by federal police. He’s a scab on Georgia’s history.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/georgia-election-candidates-sue-secretary-184249433.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

==Republicans defeat Gallego amendment pushing back on fund to compensate Trump allies

Max Rego==

Tue, May 19, 2026 at 12:16 PM

Republican senators on Tuesday tabled an amendment introduced by Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) that would bar the Trump administration from creating its $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday established the fund as part of a settlement after President Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for $10 billion in January. Under the new policy, which Democratic lawmakers have slammed, individuals who believe that the federal government has wronged them can seek payouts and “formal apologies.”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the Senate Budget Committee advised him that Gallego’s amendment “does not comply with the rules.” Republicans on the panel then tabled the amendment via a 8-7 partisan vote.

“I offer this amendment for one simple reason: taxpayer dollars should never be used to enrich a sitting president, his family or his political allies,” Gallego said during a Tuesday hearing.

“The president of the United States sued his own government and then negotiated an arrangement with his own Department of Justice to create a nearly $2 billion fund to compensate himself, his family and his allies,” the Arizona Democrat added.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who will appoint five members to the board of the fund, said Tuesday that donors to Trump’s campaign and members of the Oath Keepers — some of whom were convicted of felonies for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“The commissioners will set rules,” of the fund’s spending, Blanche told Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

“That’s not for me to set, that’s for the commissioners, and whether an individual, an Oath Keeper, as you just mentioned, applies for compensation — anybody in this country can apply,” he added.

In a Monday press release, the DOJ noted that Trump — and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump — will receive a formal apology but no monetary payment in exchange for dropping their lawsuit. The president sued the IRS over an agency contractor leaking his tax returns to news outlets.

But Gallego sharply criticized the fact that those convicted of crimes for their involvement in Jan. 6 could seek damages from the fund. With an aide holding a photo of individuals convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack, Gallego remarked, “So much for backing the blue.”

He added, “This is not justice, it is profound abuse of public funds.”

Dozens of House Democrats on Monday also filed suit to block the creation of the fund, arguing that the move “raises the specter of corruption unparalleled in American history.

(Gallego cheated Karie Lake out of the seat, he’s a cheater and liar. Just like his fellow democrats)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-defeat-gallego-amendment-pushing-161600390.html

EricLDaugh

🚨JUST IN — REP. THOMAS MASSIE CONCEDES: "I would've come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede."

"And it took awhile to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv."

"I have called and conceded the race."

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2056891741161116032?s=20

Georgia Governor Primary Results 2026

GEORGIA RACES

:

Senate

House

Sec. Of State

Attorney General

Lt. Governor

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is term-limited, opening up the governorship and creating crowded primaries on both sides. President Donald Trump has endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, but he and wealthy businessman Rick Jackson advanced to a primary runoff on the GOP side. On the Democratic side, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has led primary polls but faces a large slate of rivals.

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Republicans

Georgia Governor Primary Results 2026

GEORGIA RACES

:

Senate

House

Sec. Of State

Attorney General

Lt. Governor

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is term-limited, opening up the governorship and creating crowded primaries on both sides. President Donald Trump has endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, but he and wealthy businessman Rick Jackson advanced to a primary runoff on the GOP side. On the Democratic side, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has led primary polls but faces a large slate of rivals.

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Republicans

ADVANCING TO RUNOFF

Candidate

Votes

Pct.

Burt Jones

261,314

38.7%

Rick Jackson

225,076

33.3%

Brad Raffensperger

96,324

14.3%

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Democrats

TOO EARLY TO CALL

Candidate

Votes

Pct.

Keisha Lance Bottoms

379,925

58.8%

Jason Esteves

98,640

15.3%

Michael Thurmond

86,527

13.4%

County

Candidate

Votes

Pct.

APPLING

0% in

R. Jackson

0

0.0%

B. Jones

0

0.0%

C. Carr

0

0.0%

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ATKINSON

77.9% in

B. Jones

419

60.5%

R. Jackson

178

25.7%

B. Raffensperger

41

5.9%

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BACON

0% in

R. Jackson

0

0.0%

B. Jones

0

0.0%

C. Carr

0

0.0%

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BAKER

85.8% in

B. Jones

143

52.8%

R. Jackson

81

29.9%

C. Carr

39

14.4%

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Republicans

ADVANCING TO RUNOFF

Candidate

Votes

Pct.

Mike Collins

274,951

41.6%

Derek Dooley

188,906

28.6%

Earl Carter

169,624

25.7%

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57.3% expected votes in (Est. remaining 493,000)

Skip to GOP county results

Democrats

PROJECTED WINNER

JON OSSOFF WINS THE GEORGIA PRIMARY

Candidate

Votes

Pct.

Jon Ossoff

Incumbent

0

0.0%

This race is uncontested.

Republican Senate County Results

Atlantic Ocean

Atlanta

ALABAMA

FLORIDA

SOUTH CAROLINA

D. Dooley

E. Carter

J. McColumn

M. Collins

No results

MAP VIEW:

County

Size of lead

Est. Remaining votes

Search for a county

County

Candidate

Votes

Pct.

APPLING

0% in

M. Collins

0

0.0%

D. Dooley

0

0.0%

E. Carter

0

0.0%

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ATKINSON

76% in

M. Collins

345

51.0%

E. Carter

187

27.7%

D. Dooley

131

19.4%

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BACON

0% in

M. Collins

0

0.0%

D. Dooley

0

0.0%

E. Carter

0

0.0%

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BAKER

84.5% in

M. Collins

111

41.6%

E. Carter

81

30.3%

D. Dooley

72

27.0%

Raffensberger is hated and is losing, now he can get justice!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/georgia-governor-results

Retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell dominated Kentucky politics for years,but it is President Donald Trump whose sought-after endorsement decided the race to succeed him. Trump picked Rep. Andy Barr and pressured businessman Nate Morris to drop out of the Republican primary. On the Democratic side,former Senate nominees Amy McGrath and Charles Booker are battling for the nomination in the deep-red state.

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Republicans

PROJECTED WINNER

ANDY BARR WINS THE KENTUCKY PRIMARY

Candidate

Votes

Pct.

Andy Barr

270,829

60.4%

Daniel Cameron

138,836

31.0%

Michael Faris

10,636

2.4%

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92.2% expected votes in (Est. remaining 39,000)

3h ago / 7:28 PM EDT

Georgia voters cast ballots after record number voted early

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Aaron Gilchrist

Reporting from Jackson, Georgia

As the polls close and data starts to come in,we know that a million people in Georgia voted early across the different ballots that are available here.

That is a record number of early voters for a primary electionin which turnout tends to be a bit lower. So we'll see whether that is a tell about anything in terms of who ends up getting most of the votes in all of the different races here.

There were a lot out here in GA even though Kemp changed voting district at last minute to fuck people up.,no one went home.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/primary-elections-2026-kentucky-georgia-live-updates-rcna345753#rcrd110235

Insider Paper

@TheInsiderPaper

JUST IN - VP JD Vance says DOJ is investigating Ilhan Omar:

"You read the things about Ilhan Omar and about who she married and whether she didn't marry this person or that person."

"It certainly seems like something fishy is there, but everybody's entitled to equal justice under the laws. So we're going to investigate it."

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/2056798430853517608?s=20

The AI economy is rewriting the American Dream — and blue-collar workers are poised to win

PUBLISHED TUE, MAY 19

REMEMBER WHEN THEY SAID AI WILL STEAL ALL BLUE COLLAR JOBS?

KEY POINTS

• The rapid spread of AI across corporate America is creating a crisis for young adults with college degrees who are finding a slowdown in hiring for entry-level positions in AI-exposed industries.

• ==Major U.S. companies, including Ford, Nvidia and AT&T, have stressed the growing need for trade workers to build the infrastructure behind the AI economy.=+

•AT&T plans to invest around $38 billion over the next five years hiring and training blue-collar front-line workers, the majority of whom are skilled technicians, to expand its fiber network, the company said.

From the Dayton, Ohio, suburbs to boardrooms in Dallas, ••the employees fueling AT&T’s

next wave of growth aren’t fresh-faced college graduates with expensive four-year degrees. They’re skilled, blue-collar workers ready to get their hands dirty — and AT&T can’t find enough of them.==

“We need people who know how to actually work with electricity. We need people who understand photonics. We need people who can go into folks’ homes and connect this infrastructure to make it work right,” AT&T CEO John Stankey told CNBC during a recent interview from the company’s Dallas headquarters.

“We find that we’ve got to go out and find them, train them, and incent them to come in,” he said. “It’s not like we’re growing them on trees in the United States.”

AT&T’s dilemma — hunting for blue-collar workers at a time when a record number of college students are projected to graduate this spring — underscores the palpable crisis facing new degree holders as the first wave of the AI revolution hits the U.S. economy.

For much of thepostwar era, the American bargain was clear: Go to college, get a degree and claim your place in the middle class. As factories gave way to offices and the U.S. economy increasingly rewarded credentials over physical labor, a four-year diploma became one of the clearest symbols of upward mobility. But asAI spreads across corporate America and begins to absorb the entry-level work that once gave graduates their start, that promise is beginning to fracture.

While the rapid spread of AI has not yet led to broad layoffs and empty offices,many new graduates, especially those in AI-exposed industries, are learning their degrees may no longer guarantee the opportunities they once did

Meanwhile, as AI implementation spreads and CEOs find they can do more with less labor, hiring is slowing. The downturn has hit hardest the workers with little real-world experience and those in industries expected to be most vulnerable to AI replacement, such as marketing, legal, accounting, human resources and IT.

If the trend continues, AI could reorder the U.S. workforce and global economy, redrawing the map of opportunity in ways that even some leading economists and technologists say they are only beginning to understand.

“Is the American Dream going away because of AI?… I think the fears are all very valid,” said May Hu, a 26-year-old tech consultant turned social media influencer who said she was laid off from Deloitte last year for what she described as nonperformance reasons. “I pursued college because… I think [for] most people who want to be working professionals … college is the route,” she continued. “That’s starting to change now.”

Like any technological revolution, the AI boom is expected to create new types of work.But, in a cruel twist for college graduates, many of those jobs will be blue-collar roles that for now don’t require a four-year degree, centered around the construction and maintenance of data centers.

Still, it’s unclear how sustainable the blue-collar job boom will be once companies complete an expected wave of chip factories, data centers and other AI-fueled construction in the coming years.

Major U.S. companies ==from Ford

to Nvidia

have stressed the growing need for workers to build out those facilities.==

“This is the largest infrastructure buildout in human history that is going to create a lot of jobs,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during a panel at the World Economic Forum in January. “We are going to have plumbers and electricians and construction and steel workers and network technicians and people who install and fit out the equipment.”

He added that many of those roles will bring six-figure salaries as the U.S. addresses a “great shortage” of workers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/ai-hiring-slowdown-skilled-trade-workers.html

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