Kamala Harris: California Will ‘Benefit’ if Jacky Rosen Is Elected in Nevada

Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) told a crowd in Nevada on Thursday that electing Rep. Jacky Rosen (D., Nev.) to the Senate next week would "benefit" California, fueling criticism that Rosen is taking too much money from out of state.

"The people of my state are going to benefit by what you are doing here to support her, " Harris told supporters gathered at a "Future Is Female" fundraiser event in Reno, Nevada. "Because of what you do to support Jacky Rosen, the Democratic nominee in Nevada's Senate race, is challenging incumbent Dean Heller, who is the only sitting Republican senator up for reelection this year in a state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016.

An analysis done by the Nevada Independent earlier this year found that Rosen took "substantially more money than either Heller or [Danny] Tarkanian from out-of-state campaign donors." The same analysis found that only 11 percent of Rosen's itemized donations came from Nevada residents, while 52 percent of Heller's donations came from the state.

"Jacky Rosen sold out Nevadans to support Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's radical agenda, and win over their liberal donors," Michael McAdams, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in February. Heller's campaign spokesman echoed that sentiment following Harris' campaign stop in Reno. "Jacky Rosen is bought and paid for by California liberals," Keith Schipper said. "Kamala Harris has made it perfectly clear: Congresswoman Rosen answers to them, not Nevadans." Other out-of-state supporters who have recently campaigned for Rosen include former President Barack Obama and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harris-california-benefit-jacky-rosen-elected-nevada/

Dem Candidate Encourages Wealthy Manhattan Residents to Use Address of Second Home for Voter Registration

A New York congressional candidate and his supporters have encouraged wealthy New York City residents to register to vote where they own alternate homes outside the city, specifically in the 1st Congressional District. Perry Gershon, who is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin (N.Y.), appeared at a lecture at Stony Brook University in early October when he made the remarks, according to audio posted on Zeldin's Facebook page. "People who own second homes out in the Hamptons, in the North Fork, or in Bellport. Those are the large centers in this community where there are second home owners," Gershon said. "They are moving their voter registration to their second home because if they live in Manhattan, your vote doesn't matter there. It's all Democratic. The Democrat wins by 60 or 70 percent. If you want your vote to count, go vote where it's close."

In addition to the lecture at the university, Gershon attended the Greenport Maritime Festival in September, which included a tent for people who wanted to change their registration to reflect their address outside the city. The tent displayed signs that said "Vote where it counts! New Yorkers, you have the right to vote from your second home" as well as a sign offering free wine for New Yorkers who changed their voter registration information.

Zeldin's campaign slammed Gershon and his supporters for being willing to "cheat and lie more than they tell the truth." "Down in every poll, embarrassed in every debate, and deep in debt, Park Avenue Perry (Who was caught spending a night last week during the home stretch of this campaign at his million dollar brownstone in Manhattan) and his campaign believe that their only path to victory is to cheat and lie more than they tell the truth," said Chris Boyle, Zeldin campaign communications director. "Congressman Zeldin grew up in NY-1, went to school in NY-1, and is now raising his twin girls with his great wife just blocks from where he grew up." "Park Avenue Perry may have been able to buy the Democratic Party primary with over $1 million of his own money, but on Tuesday, he will lose for all of the right reasons. Our district, this seat, our voice, are not for sale," Boyle added. Gershon is not the only New York Democratic candidate relying on help from Manhattan liberals. The Democratic congressional candidate for New York's 19th District, Antonio Delgado, has received help from dozens of New York City activists volunteering in the district and helping with get-out-the-vote efforts.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/dem-candidate-encourages-wealthy-manhattan-residents-use-address-second-home-voter-registration/

Congress Presses for Exact Timeline of Cuba Health Attacks

New push comes amid Trump admin's tougher line in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua

A senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is pressing the State Department for an exact timeline of when mysterious and still-unresolved health attacks began occurring against U.S. personnel in Cuba and China and is calling for the removal of all diplomatic workers from Havana until an investigation into the attacks is completed. Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo citing new reports that victims of the health attacks in Cuba and China have experienced harassment and break-ins after they were evacuated from their overseas posts and returned to the United States.

Some of the diplomatic personnel told NBC News that they suspect their U.S. homes had been broken into after they found items that had been moved or tampered with when they returned. In the Cuba cases, the FBI gave some of the confirmed victims letters identifying them as "a possible victim of a crime." "According to NBC News, in addition to the attacks in Cuba and China, the victims may have been subjected to ‘incidents of harassment and break-ins' on U.S. soil," Wilson wrote in the letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. "This is deeply troubling—for not only have our diplomats been injured, but so have their family members including children." An internal State Department probe of the mysterious health attacks in Cuba in August cleared State Department officials of any wrongdoing in the way they responded to the incidents perpetrated against U.S. diplomats and their families. However, other federal investigations into who carried out the attacks and why have yet to produce any conclusions and remain ongoing.

Wilson also asked for a detailed accounting of when the health attacks first started in Cuba and China and when the United States first learned of the incidents. He gave the State Department 14 days to provide an updated staff briefing to him about the health attacks, citing their unresolved nature and "this growing trend of attacks." The State Department has said they first learned about the health attacks against U.S. diplomats in the fall of 2016 after Trump's election, but some U.S. officials suspect that the incidents began months earlier but were not publicly acknowledged in an effort to preserve President Obama's diplomatic thaw with the communist island nation.

The letter was sent on Tuesday, just days before National Security Adviser John Bolton in a speech in Miami laid out a tougher Trump administration policy on Cuba, as well as Venezuela and Nicaragua. Bolton labeled the dictators of the three countries the "Troika of Tyranny" for their oppressive regimes and pledged that the Trump administration would confront them more aggressively. "This Troika of Tyranny, this triangle of terror stretching from Havana to Caracas to Managua, is the cause of immense human suffering, the impetus of enormous regional instability, and the genesis of a sordid cradle of communism in the Western Hemisphere," he said during his remarks, delivered in front of Freedom Tower in downtown Miami. "The United States looks forward to watching each corner of the triangle fall … the Troika will crumble."

The get-tough stance corresponded with the announcement of new sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela. Bolton said that the State Department has added more than two-dozen additional entities owned or controlled by the Cuban military and intelligence services to the U.S. blacklist. "The United States will not prop up a military monopoly that abuses the citizens of Cuba," he said. President Trump last year in a speech in Miami rolled back several aspects of the Obama administration's détente with Cuba, tightening travel restrictions and blacklisting business engagement with most government-owned entities.

Earlier this week, Russia loaned Cuba $50 million to purchase military equipment. A senior Russian official this week said Moscow was seriously considering establishing a military base in Cuba in response to the Trump administration's decision to leave the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, but U.S. officials are viewing it as more of a threat than a plan of action. The cash infusion to Cuba comes after Moscow increased its military and economic aid to Nicaragua in April, stirring new fears in the United States about Russian influence in Latin America.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/congress-presses-exact-timeline-cuba-health-attacks/