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Ross Perot echoed populist sentiments 25 years before rise of Trump, presidential historian says

By Charles Creitz | Fox News Billionaire businessman and 1992 independent presidential candidate Ross Perot may have been President Trump’s predecessor in terms of offering a populist, anti-establishment message to voters, according to a presidential historian. Perot, who died Tuesday at age 89, also was not the spoiler in the election that figures in the George H.W. Bush re-election campaign […]

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Ted Cruz: Citizenship question on census is ‘basic common sense’

By Julia Musto | Fox News A citizenship question on the 2020 census is “basic common sense,” Republican Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said on Tuesday. Appearing on “America’s Newsroom,” Cruz told anchor Sandra Smith that the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily block the question was a disappointment. The Supreme Court argued that President Trump’s administration’s justification “seems to have […]

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CBP official supports pentagon troop surge at southern border, calls for criminal loopholes to be closed

By Nick Givas | Fox News Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez said he supports sending 1,000 more National Guard troops to the U.S. southern border and advocated for closing immigration loopholes to discourage criminal activity. Perez said the request was based on a humanitarian need to stem overcrowding and will provide relief for overworked border patrol officers, who are currently guarding the […]

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2020 Dem hopefuls reverse course to oppose virtually all Trump judicial nominees

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News It may come as no shock that Democratic senators currently running for president have opposed nearly all of President Trump’s judicial nominees this year — but newly reported voting data shows some of those same lawmakers backed a surprising number of the president’s court picks before the election season began. Sen. Elizabeth […]

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These are the richest people in each state: report

By Kathleen Joyce FOXBusiness Jeff Bezos unseats Bill Gates as wealthiest American Forbes Media Assistant Managing Editor Luisa Kroll on Forbes’ list of the richest Americans. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos may be the world’s richest man but he doesn’t live in all 50 U.S. states. Forbes analyzed the richest in the nation to determine the wealthiest person in each state. […]

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This is the largest company in your state

By Jennifer Earl Business Leaders – FOX Business A number of the countries’ — possibly even the world’s — most valuable companies are headquartered in the same general vicinity. Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks and Costco Wholesale are just a few of the nation’s largest companies that have roots in Washington state. The Evergreen State is also home to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, […]

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Rep. Crenshaw: AOC ‘getting bolder with her lies’ about border crisis, refuses to offer illegal immigration fix

By Charles Creitz | Fox News Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., hasn’t told the truth about her visit to a border detention facility and refuses help alleviate the crisis, according to Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas. Crenshaw then went a step further, claiming Ocasio-Cortez is one of several Democrats who want to see open borders, during a Tuesday appearance on “The Story.” “It’s […]

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Ocasio-Cortez’s attacks on Border Patrol are outrageous and based on lies

By Brandon Judd | Fox News As the president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing 16,000 Border Patrol agents, I am personally and professionally offended by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrageous, inflammatory and false claims about the dedicated law enforcement officers I represent. Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., once again tweeted Tuesday to describe our detention facilities for illegal immigrants as “concentration […]

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Rush Limbaugh: Ocasio-Cortez pulling a ‘stunt’ on border, officials need to ‘call her’ on allegations

By Victor Garcia | Fox News Is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., trying to use her experience at a Border Patrol detention center in Texas to her advantage? Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh suggested as much, saying the New Yorker is using the border crisis to generate media attention for herself. “I think she’s trying to create a situation to […]

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Hispanic pastors tour border facility lambasted by AOC and say they are ‘shocked by misinformation’

By Caleb Parke | Fox News Rev. Samuel Rodriguez was “full of indignation” when he saw the reports and heard from politicians about the deplorable and inhumane conditions for illegal immigrants at an El Paso County, Texas migrant detention center. But what he saw at the same facility toured by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. with a group of pastors was […]