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Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace’s former chief of staff is being propped up by her own ex-staffers as he mulls a primary challenge against her, two sources told Fox News Digital.

Dan Hanlon joined Mace’s office in 2021 after serving in the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget. He departed last month under reportedly contentious circumstances.

A source familiar with his plans told Fox News Digital that Hanlon was being approached about a possible run for Mace’s seat, and two sources said that multiple former staffers were informally aiding Hanlon in some capacity.

The source said at least one is a former communications director for Mace who is now helping Hanlon and said “there are many” ex-staffers of hers in his position.

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is potentially facing a primary challenge from her former top aide. (Getty Images)

“I along with several other former staff are backing Hanlon in some sort of way,” the second source said. 

“Dan is receiving great feedback because for years he did the actual job of serving the constituents of South Carolina in Congress while Nancy Mace was busy going on TV and getting her net worth up millions,” the first source familiar with Hanlon’s plans said. “Both the donor class and grassroots voters are tired of Mace privately bashing Trump and publicly bashing real conservatives as a–holes.”

Hanlon’s potential primary challenge was first reported in Politico earlier this week. 

Fox News Digital on Thursday asked Mace about those reports on Capitol Hill. She said, “I believe we put a statement out. He’s going to have to move to the district if he has to run.”

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Mace’s office saw a slew of staff departures at the end of last year. (Getty Images)

When reached for comment, Doug Stafford, a spokesman for Mace’s re-election campaign, told Fox News Digital, “This can’t be true. Mace couldn’t get this lucky? Well, would he move there, ’cause he sure as s— doesn’t live there now!”

The source familiar with Hanlon’s plans responded to her accusation about his living outside the district: “Dan owns a home in the district. Rep. Mace had her ex-fiancé buy her one.”

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Mace’s former staffers coalescing around her former top aide comes after several reports of a toxic workplace culture in her office. She has seen a slew of staff departures in recent months in addition to Hanlon’s.

Two sources told Fox News Digital that the potential primary challenge is backed by Mace’s other former staff. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Mace was accused of making lewd comments in the office by three sources who spoke anonymously with the Daily Mail in December. 

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A Daily Beast report in November claimed Mace had a “handbook” for staffers that allegedly said, among other things, that her office must send out at least one press release per day and put her on TV at least nine times per week.

Mace told Fox News Digital during a Nov. 3 interview that she had not read the report, and shrugged off its accusations.

Former President Donald Trump said that Republicans should say “No” to a border security deal that does not include “everything needed” to stop the flow of illegal migrants at the southern border. 

“I do not think we should do a Border Deal, at all, unless we get EVERYTHING needed to shut down the INVASION of Millions & Millions of people, many from parts unknown, into our once great, but soon to be great again, Country!” Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social.

Congressional leaders are hoping to reach a bipartisan deal that would be attached to the national security supplemental package and unlock billions in funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. 

Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters this week that a national security funding deal could come up for a vote as soon as next week.

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Baron’s recent story in The Atlantic detailed how President Donald Trump saw Washington Post as his top media enemy. ( SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images))

However, even though it will likely garner the 60 votes needed to pass in the upper chamber, it will be dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled House if it does not include Trump-era immigration penalties as outlined in H.R. 2 — the House’s border security bill passed last year. McConnell has indicated that the priority is not just the border, but the other national security issues outlined in the package.

“The rest of the bill is important,” McConnell said this week. “We’re getting shot at. The Houthis are shooting at our ships, at commercial ships. We’ve got a war in Israel, a war in Ukraine. I’m sure the Chinese were unhappy with the outcome of the presidential election in Taiwan a few days ago.”

He added, “I think it’s time to go ahead with the supplemental, and I’m anticipating it will be before us next week.”

Schumer and McConnell both agree that aid to Ukraine and border security should not be separated. The U.S. has already sent an estimated $100 billion to assist Ukraine in its defense against Russia, and the Biden administration has exhausted the amount of funds that can be sent to the Eastern European nation without needing Congress’s approval in a final $200 million package last month. 

There is likely to be a showdown between a small group of GOP senators who oppose more aid to Ukraine.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a staunch critic of more aid to Ukraine, said this week the U.S.’s security “is threatened right now on our border” and that leaders would “much rather spend money on Ukraine’s border than our own. I say again, it is exactly backwards — it’s insane.”

But the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination has been in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s ear, too. Johnson said on Fox this week that he “frequently” chats with Trump about the crisis at the southern border, and that he’s “not wrong” for telling lawmakers to reject a deal that falls short.

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Migrants gather outside of the Roosevelt Hotel, where dozens of recently arrived migrants have been camping out as they have tried to secure temporary housing on August 2, 2023, in New York City.  (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

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“President Trump is not wrong,” Johnson told Fox News host Laura Ingraham this week. “He and I have been talking about this pretty frequently. I talked to him the night before last about the same subject.” 

Meanwhile, some conservatives in the upper chamber remain skeptical about the so-called border deal that still has not made it to paper.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said in a post on X, “It’s unfair to put pressure” on Johnson, “or anyone else — to support a ‘deal’ that doesn’t yet exist, the details of which remain cloaked in secrecy.” 

But Lee agreed with Trump and said, “But from what little we do know, no Republican should support it. This is nuts.”

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., shared a similar sentiment in an interview with Fox News Digital. He said that Biden doesn’t need “all these policy changes,” since the border “was secure under Trump.” It’s a matter of enforcement, he argued. 

“The border was secure under Trump — he didn’t need a policy change. I haven’t seen the text of the bill, but there are some things that might be nice to have, but it’s not going to secure the border this year,” Scott said. 

The package will need around 10 Republican votes to pass in the Senate. 

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is endorsing former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican nomination race, Fox News confirmed on Friday.

Scott, who in November ended his own run for the White House, will formally announce his support for Trump when he appears alongside the former president at a rally Friday evening in Concord, New Hampshire, sources with knowledge of the matter told Fox News.

Both Trump, who’s the commanding front-runner in the GOP nomination race, and former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called the senator in recent days as they both tried to secure Scott’s endorsement, sources confirm.

While Scott’s presidential campaign failed to ignite, he remains very popular with Republican primary voters and his endorsement has been heavily coveted by the remaining GOP candidates.

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Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is interviewed by Fox News Digital in the spin room following the third GOP presidential nomination debate, in Miami, Florida on Nov. 8, 2023. Scott suspended his White House campaign on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023 (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

As Scott ended his presidential bid, he made clear that he had no immediate plans to support another candidate. But sources in his political orbit told Fox News at the time that the senator remained open to backing a candidate.

Scott’s backing of Trump, whom the senator rarely criticized on the campaign trail during his White House run, is the latest major endorsement for the former president in the state that holds the first southern primary in the GOP nomination race.

Gov. Henry McMaster and Sen. Lindsey Graham have long supported Trump. 

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The state’s Feb. 24 Republican presidential primary is the next major contest in the Republican schedule following Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. The contest is winner-take-all, which means the victor in the Palmetto State will capture all 50 Republican delegates at stake.

Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, launched his presidential campaign in May at an event in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) hugs his mother, Frances Scott, as he announces his run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination at a campaign event on May 22, 2023 in North Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images) ((Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images))

Standing just a few miles from where he grew up, he highlighted that “we live in the land where it is possible for a kid raised in poverty by a single mother in a small apartment to one day serve in the People’s House and maybe even the White House.”

The senator told Fox News at the time he was “stunned at the hunger for something positive as long as its anchored in conservatism. As long as you have a backbone.”

But his positive and uplifting message failed to resonate in a combative GOP presidential nomination race dominated by Trump, who often spotlights his grievances during his third consecutive run for the White House.

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By late autumn, Scott was struggling to qualify for the debates and his poll numbers were stuck in the single digits.

On Nov. 12, Scott announced he was ending his White House bid during an appearance on Fox News’ “Sunday Night in America” with Trey Gowdy. 

“I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear that they’re telling me, ‘Not now, Tim,’” Scott said.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., stand on stage before the third Republican presidential primary debate, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Haley and Scott share a long political history. They both served together in the state legislature and in 2012, then-Gov. Haley appointed then-Rep. Scott to the Senate to fill a vacancy.

Fox News’ Jessica Loker contributed to this report

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Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis is hitting back at allegations that she has engaged in an improper relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, accusing his estranged wife of “interfering” with her prosecution of former President Trump.  

Willis has been subpoenaed to give a pretrial deposition in the divorce case of Nathan Wade and Joycelyn Wade on January 23rd, but in a Thursday court filing, the she argued the subpoena should be quashed. 

A portion of the filing reads: “Defendant Joycelyn Wade has conspired with interested parties in the criminal Election Interference Case to use the civil discovery process to annoy, embarrass, and oppress District Attorney Willis.”

Willis’ attorney, Cinque Axam, wrote that the attempt to question Willis is “obstructing and interfering” with the ongoing criminal case against Trump. 

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a worship service at the Big Bethel AME Church, where she was invited as a guest speaker on Sunday, January 14, 2024, in Atlanta. In her remarks, Willis suggested that she and special prosecutor Nathan Wade are being scrutinized because they are Black.     (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Andrea Hastings, a lawyer for Joycelyn Wade, told the Associated Press they want to help her “resolve her divorce fairly and privately” and that any response to Willis’ motion will come in a filing with the court.

Trump codefendant Michael Roman’s lawyer accused Willis and Wade of engaging in an improper relationship and mishandling public money in a court filing last week. Roman’s lawyer, Ashleigh Merchant, did not provide evidence of the alleged relationship between Willis and Wade but pointed to proof in Wade’s divorce case.

Merchant alleges that Willis’ purported relationship with Wade created a conflict of interest and that she benefited financially from the relationship in the form of lavish vacations the two took using funds his law firm received for working the case.

County records show that Wade has been paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees since January 2022, an amount authorized by the district attorney, or Willis in this case.

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Special prosecutor Nathan Wade listens during a motions hearing for former President Donald Trump’s election interference case, Friday, January 12, 2024, in Atlanta. Willis is accused of engaging in an improper relationship with Wade.  (Elijah Nouvelage/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Willis has neither confirmed nor denied that she was romantically involved with Wade. 

In her first comments on the matter earlier this week, Willis suggested that she and Wade are being scrutinized because they are Black. 

“They only attacked one,” Willis said at the Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta on Sunday. “First thing they say, ‘Oh, she’s gonna play the race card now.’ But no God, isn’t it them that’s playing the race card when they only question one?”

In the motion filed Thursday, Willis’ attorney argued that Nathan and Joycelyn Wade have been separated for more than two years and are going through “an uncontested no-fault divorce,” with an “absence of any relevant basis” to question Willis.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump has called for the election interference charges against him in Georgia to be dropped over misconduct allegations against prosecutor Fani Willis. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Merchant has cited “sources close to both the special prosecutor and the district attorney,” but so far offered no other proof of the alleged relationship.

“I would have never filed something like this if I didn’t have multiple sources to corroborate,” Merchant told WSB-TV in an interview last week, defending the motion she filed on behalf of Roman. 

In statements to the Associated Press, Merchant questioned why Willis insists that answering the subpoena in the divorce case would harm her reputation.

“Ms. Willis alleges that her deposition is being sought in an attempt to harass and damage her professional reputation. Why would her truthful testimony risk damaging her reputation?” Merchant asked. 

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She accused Willis of trying “to create a conspiracy where none exists,” noting that she filed her motion on the deadline for pretrial motions in the election case.

“We believe her filing in Cobb County is just another attempt to avoid having to directly answer the important questions Mr. Roman has raised,” Merchant wrote.

Willis is scheduled to appear for a February 15 hearing on Merchant’s motion. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ordered prosecutors to file a response by February 2.

Trump, Roman and 17 others were indicted by a Fulton County grand jury in August. They are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Four of those indicted have admitted guilt in plea deals with prosecutors. Trump, Roman and the others have pleaded not guilty.

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Trump has called for the case against him to be dropped outright over the allegations.

“You had a very big event yesterday, as you saw, in Georgia, where the district attorney is totally compromised. The case has to be dropped,” Trump told reporters last week. “They went after 18 or 20 people. . . . She was out of her mind. Now it turns out that case is totally compromised.”

“It’s illegal. What she did is illegal. So we’ll let the state handle that, but what a sad situation it is,” he added.

Fox News’ Samantha Daigle, Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom, Brian Flood and Brandon Gillespie and the Associated Press contributed to this report. 

EXCLUSIVE: The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee is demanding answers from the Treasury Department and its financial crimes enforcement division after revelations the agencies urged private financial institutions to “surveil” private transactions using “politically charged search terms” to flag customer profiles to federal law enforcement.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., penned a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki on Friday after Fox News Digital exclusively reported that the agency suggested in January 2021 that banks use specific search terms to query transactions, including “MAGA,” “Trump,” “Biden,” and more, along with merchant codes from specific sporting goods stores.

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“I write regarding recent reporting that the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) through its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) urged private financial institutions to surveil customers’ transaction-level data using politically charged search terms, in order to flag certain customer profiles on behalf of Federal law enforcement,” Scott wrote in the letter, obtained by Fox News Digital. “These allegations, if true, represent a flagrant violation of Americans’ privacy and the improper targeting of U.S. citizens for exercising their constitutional rights without due process.”

 February 9 : Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrives for a closed meeting with lawmakers and intelligence advisers on the Chinese surveillance balloon, on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Feb. 09, 2023, in Washington DC.  (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Scott pointed to the Fox News Digital report, which revealed that FinCEN provided materials to financial institutions instructing them to search and filter Americans’ financial data using key words and search terms, as well as merchant category codes to aid law enforcement in identifying persons of interest ahead of the January 20, 2021 inauguration — weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021 capitol riot.

The terms and codes were discovered as part of a House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government investigation. The committees obtained documents indicating that MCC codes were used to to query transactions like: “3484: Small Arms,” “5091: Sporting and Recreational Goods and Supplies,” and the keywords “Cabela’s,” “Dick’s Sporting Goods” and “Bass Pro Shops,” among others.

The House Judiciary Committee also obtained documents revealing that FinCEN warned financial institutions that an “extremism indicator” could be “the purchase of books (including religious texts),” like the Bible, and subscriptions to certain media “containing extremist views.”

Trump supporters occupy the West Front of the Capitol and the inauguration stands on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.  (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“These allegations are particularly concerning given past efforts to weaponize the financial system and payment activity against politically disfavored, lawful activity,” Scott wrote. “Under the Obama administration’s ‘Operation Choke Point’ initiative, the Department of Justice (DOJ) coordinated with federal financial regulators to intimidate financial institutions into denying services to legitimate businesses that the administration was ideologically opposed to, including gun retailers.”

Scott said that “the weaponization and misuse of MCC codes is not a new issue either,” saying members of Congress have recently raised concerns about the potential to “surveil the free exercise of lawful activity using an MCC code—the same concern is at issue here.” 

“Federal government efforts to target individuals and entities based on their political views is a blatant and egregious violation of our Constitution,” Scott wrote. “Additionally, reported actions like these disrupt confidence in federal law enforcement and raise significant questions regarding the independence of federal financial regulators.”

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee leaves the Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Scott is demanding that the Treasury Department and FinCEN turn over information on the “role, if any,” FinCEN played in “soliciting financial data from private companies” to help law enforcement to identify targets after Jan. 6.

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Scott is also asking if anyone from any other executive branch agency — like the Justice Department or FBI — ever directed, requested, or encouraged FinCEN to engage in those alleged activities.

Scott also is asking for answers on what the basis was for FinCEN to conclude that the purchasing or possessing of religious texts “may be indicative of extremism,” and who at FinCEN decided to warn banks of that possibility.

Scott has also requested a list of the financial institutions that FinCEN met with when suggesting the search of transactions of customers who shopped at Bass Pro Shops, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Cabela’s, and a list of all agencies in the government involved in the decision to search and filter those transactions.

This file image shows the front of the Dick’s Sporting Goods store at the Dulles Town Mall in Sterling, Va.  (Google )

Scott has asked the Treasury Department to turn over that information by Feb 2.

Meanwhile, sources familiar told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the search terms, like “MAGA” and “Trump,” were generated by a bank and used to help them identify suspicious transactions when reviewing customer transactional information. It is unclear which bank generated the search terms. 

The sources said FinCEN then shared those terms with other banks to help those financial institutions to comply with their own suspicious activity reports.

But beyond the terms identified by the House Judiciary Committee, the unnamed bank generated other terms, which FinCEN shared with other banks, the sources told Fox News Digital. 

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The source said the additional search terms included: “White Power,” “Camp Auschwitz,” “Antifa,” “Proud B,” “Storm, the,” “Capitol,” “Groyper Army,” “Threepers,” “boogaloo,” “civil war,” “last sons,” “kill,” “shoot,” “gun,” “death,” “murder,” “Biden,” “Kamala,” “Pelosi,” “Schumer” and “Pence.”

The sources said the distribution of the search terms, including “MAGA” and “Trump,” began in the final weeks of the Trump administration after Jan. 6, 2021.

Meanwhile, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who made the initial discovery, is requesting the former FinCEN official and an FBI official appear before his committee and the Weaponization Subcommittee for transcribed interviews to aid in the panels’ oversight investigation. 

NEWFIELDS, N.H. – Nikki Haley, down by double digits to former President Trump in the latest surveys four days ahead of the New Hampshire GOP primary, is taking every chance she has to blast the GOP front-runner.

“You look at Iowa. I mean President Trump won a state of three million people with 56,000 votes. We had a very low turnout in Iowa. We’re going to have a really good turnout in New Hampshire,” Haley told reporters at her first retail stop Friday morning as she pilloried Trump’s landslide victory in Monday’s Iowa caucuses.

A day earlier at a stop in Hollis, New Hampshire, the former South Carolina governor, who served as U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration, blasted the former president for GOP losses at the ballot box in recent election cycles.

“The reality is, who lost the House for us? Who lost the Senate? Who lost the White House?” Haley emphasized as she held a rare question and answer session with reporters on Thursday. “Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump.”

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Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, visits Newfields Country Store with New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu during a campaign stop on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Newfields, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump called Haley a “disaster” at a rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire, on Tuesday night. 

The next night, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Trump claimed that Haley will “never secure the border” and that she “wants to gut Medicare and Social Security.”

Firing back during a campaign event in Rochester, New Hampshire, Haley criticized Trump for his past support for increasing the federal gas tax and raising the retirement age and accused him of lying about her own record.

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“He honestly thinks if he says something, it just becomes true,” she told the crowd.

She told Fox News that Trump “knows we’re a threat” and is “throwing temper tantrums.”

Republican presidential candidate former President Trump speaks at a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Additionally, Haley’s campaign posted a video stocked with past clips of Trump praising her.

SFA Fund Inc., a super PAC aligned with Haley, is also targeting Trump with TV ads and mobile billboards, charging Trump as a liar and spotlighting the “chaos and drama” surrounding him. 

According to the media tracking firm AdImpact, the super PAC has shelled out over $6 million to run commercials in New Hampshire since the beginning of the year, making it the biggest spender in the state.

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Haley is also getting a big assist in taking on Trump from her top surrogate and adviser in the state, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu.

Sununu, who endorsed Haley last month and who has joined her at each stop on the campaign trail, has long been a vocal GOP critic of the former president. 

Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley listens to 10-year-old Hannah Kesselering during a campaign stop on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Haley’s also blasting Trump on her social media page on X.

After Trump falsely claimed this week that Democrats could vote on Tuesday in the New Hampshire Republican primary, she fired back.

“Another reason we need to move on from Trump: too many lies. Democrats can’t vote in the NH primary. They haven’t been able to change their registration for months,” Haley posted.

Haley has repeatedly argued all week that it is a two-person race in New Hampshire, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a distant third in the single digits in public opinion surveys.

However, the big question is whether Haley’s increased attacks on Trump, and her hustling on the campaign trail, can help her close the gap with the former president.

The latest Suffolk University tracking poll of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, which was released early Friday morning, indicated Haley down by 17 points to the former president.

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• Many New Hampshire voters will use ballot scanners that are at least 15 years old in the upcoming primary.
• Election experts say the aging scanners don’t pose additional security risks, but concerns arise due to age and potential breakdowns.
• Franklin, a small city, has no backup machines, and if one breaks down, they resort to hand counting.

When New Hampshire voters cast their ballots in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary, many will do so using scanners that are at least 15 years old — with some potentially dating back to Bill Clinton’s presidency.

Election experts say the aging AccuVote ballot tabulators in use across roughly half the state’s towns and cities don’t pose additional security risks. The concern is their age.

With a dwindling supply of replacement parts, breakdowns could create Election Day headaches for local election officials, who might be forced to count ballots by hand — a process that could delay reporting their results. Malfunctions and ballot-counting delays in other states in recent years have sometimes been used to promote conspiracy theories that undermine public confidence in the vote, despite no evidence of any widespread problems with voting machines.

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Franklin, a small city about 20 miles north of the state capital, has no wiggle room if something goes awry with its scanners.

Nick Zaharias of Derry, N.H., a public witness, loads a test ballot onto a vote counting machine while testing machines before the New Hampshire primary at the Derry Municipal Center on Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

“We have three machines and three polling places. That’s it, no backup,” said Olivia Zink, a member of the Franklin City Council who also is executive director of the voter advocacy group Coalition for Open Democracy. “If one goes down, we hand count.”

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Zink, who will be working at her local polling place Tuesday, said she is less worried about hand counting even if turnout is robust among the 4,500 registered voters because the ballot contains only the presidential primary. She urged everyone to be patient if results are delayed. One potential glitch: If it’s snowy or rainy, damp ballots can mess up a ballot scanner.

“If it’s a sunny, beautiful day, we’re in great shape,” Zink said.

Reducing the chances of a major disruption is the ballot itself, with just a single race and a state requirement that vote counting continue uninterrupted until finished. New Hampshire will hold primaries for state and local races later in the year.

All New Hampshire voters mark their ballot by hand, but how those ballots are counted depends on the city or town. Just under half opt to hand count and have done so for years, but those are among the least populated in the state. The most populous towns and cities use machine tabulators, so most ballots cast in the state are counted electronically using the AccuVote scanners.

The same type of ballot scanners are used by local voting jurisdictions in five other states, according to Verified Voting, a nonpartisan group that tracks U.S. voting equipment.

“You could say it’s primitive technology. You could say it’s simple and reliable technology. Both of those things can be true,” said Mark Lindeman, the group’s policy and strategy director.

He said New Hampshire’s tabulators have been kept in good condition and that the biggest challenge for election officials is finding replacement parts. He sees the worst-case scenario as local election officials having to resort to hand counting because a tabulator has failed and they don’t have access to a backup.

“As worst cases go, that’s a pretty good one,” Lindeman said. “The ballots are safe. This will not prevent New Hampshire voters from voting or prevent New Hampshire voters from having their votes counted.”

Even so, any problems with voting machines or ballot counting devices provide an opening for those who want to cast doubt on the outcome. Former President Donald Trump, who won this week’s Iowa caucuses but faces a potentially tougher test in New Hampshire, regularly signals that an anticipated close election will be “rigged.”

His false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, has produced a tsunami of conspiracy theories about voting machines.

“If there are major failures and results come really late, and if there is not information ahead of time to the public that we might be hand-counting and what that involves — in a worst-case scenario the vacuum that leaves could allow folks to come forward with conspiracy theories and question what the results are,” said McKenzie St. Germain with the voter advocacy group America Votes NH.

In Derry, south of Manchester, Town Clerk Tina Guilford tested her eight tabulators this week to ensure they were working properly and counting ballots correctly. It’s a process being repeated across the state as local election officials prepare for the primary.

Derry’s tabulators are roughly turn-of-the-century technology — each about 20 to 22 years old, Guilford said. The town agreed to buy replacements that officials hope will be in place by March when new tabulators will be certified for use in the state.

Derry, with its nearly 20,000 registered voters, doesn’t need all eight AccuVote scanners running at the same time, so they have options if one were to be taken out of service, Guilford said. It has happened before, when hand sanitizer gummed up a machine in 2020 during the pandemic.

“I don’t foresee any issues,” she said.

Secretary of State David Scanlan, New Hampshire’s top election official, said he has been encouraging local officials to make sure they have enough staff to handle any hand counting that may be necessary.

It’s expected that every jurisdiction will have to count some ballots by hand given Biden’s decision to skip the state’s primary in favor of a revamped Democratic schedule that elevated South Carolina over Iowa and New Hampshire. That has prompted a write-in campaign for him, and any ballots with write-in candidates will have to be tallied by hand.

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In recent years, hand counting has gained favor among those pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election as they seek to ban voting machines and electronic tabulators. While hand counting is used in some parts of the country, it usually occurs in small jurisdictions where the process is manageable.

Last year, New Hampshire lawmakers rejected a proposal that would have required all votes to be counted by hand.

Experts say not only are machines faster, but studies have shown they are more accurate. Many election officials do rely on some measure of hand counting as part of their post-election process to verify that the machines worked correctly.

Scanlan said he has been encouraging voters to understand that it’s not unusual for some machines to have problems and stressed that election officials have plans to deal with it, even if it means a delay in releasing results.

“That just happens in any election,” he said. “I would expect that this election is going to be no different than any other election we’ve conducted in the past.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back on the media narrative that he is “skipping” New Hampshire as his campaign shifts resources and attention to South Carolina, where he is polling stronger and has racked up several endorsements.

“I had the morning available. And yeah, we were planning to maybe sleep in and rest. So, I’m like, ‘You know what? Let’s use that time,'” DeSantis told Fox News’s Alexis McAdams on Thursday in response to his move to campaign in South Carolina following the Iowa caucuses before then flying to New Hampshire. 

“So, we went to South Carolina, knocked out a couple events and then did what we were planning to do in New Hampshire,” DeSantis continued. “That was somehow caricatured as ‘skipping’ New Hampshire when it wasn’t. It was adding South Carolina in addition to that.”

Fox News confirmed this week that the DeSantis campaign was in the process of moving the majority of its staff from Iowa to South Carolina rather than New Hampshire, where polling shows former President Trump with 50% support among those likely to vote in the primary.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks to supporters at LaBelle Winery in Derry, New Hampshire, on Jan. 17, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

McAdams asked DeSantis if he was surprised at how well Haley is doing in New Hampshire, polling at 33%, according to the RCP average, and DeSantis responded, “She’s not doing that well, trust me.”

“She got media attention, then she got scrutiny,” DeSantis said. “She cannot beat Donald Trump in New Hampshire, and she definitely can’t beat him in her home state of South Carolina.”

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks at a campaign event at Jethro’s BBQ in Ames, Iowa, on Jan. 11, 2024. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

DeSantis, who finished in second place in Iowa, sees the shift in resources to South Carolina as a chance to take down Haley on her home court and knock her out of the race.

“When Nikki Haley fails to win her home state, she’ll be finished and this will be a two-person race,” DeSantis campaign communications director Andrew Romeo said in a statement. “We’re wasting no time in taking the fight directly to Haley on her home turf.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks at a Never Back Down campaign event in Keene, New Hampshire, on Nov. 21, 2023. (Reuters/Sophie Park/File)

DeSantis is currently polling at 11% in South Carolina compared to 6% in New Hampshire, according to the RCP average. Trump is currently polling at 52%.

A source in DeSantis’ political orbit told Fox News this week that “it’s all about South Carolina.”

“They’re not completely giving up on New Hampshire. They are pursuing both states, but they’re really looking ahead to South Carolina,” the source added.

The DeSantis campaign has touted his endorsements in South Carolina, noting that he has earned more than Haley in the state.

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“Despite South Carolina being Nikki Haley’s home state, DeSantis has already built up an impressive grassroots organization,” a campaign spokesperson recently told Fox News Digital. “He has endorsements from 74 current and former elected officials, while Haley has just 14. This includes 19 state legislators for DeSantis, compared to Haley’s 11.”

DeSantis is to visit New Hampshire for at least three stops on Friday before campaigning Saturday and Sunday in South Carolina. The Florida governor told reporters it’s “most likely” he’ll return to New Hampshire late Sunday or Monday, on the eve of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary.

New Hampshire residents vote in the primary on Tuesday, Jan. 23.

Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

In a state as solidly Republican as Indiana, the May primary is the real competition.

Four months out, five candidates are still jockeying for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in an unusually crowded field. Annual campaign finance reports filed Wednesday reflect a multimillion-dollar race that has become a competition of who can out-conservative the others for primary votes in a state with historically low turnout.

Two-term Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican, cannot run again because of term limits. Indiana’s primary is May 7.

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“In Indiana, we are not used to seeing competitive primaries,” said Gregory Shufeldt, a professor of political science at the University of Indianapolis.

Shufeldt said the crowded field could be a result of interest in state government roles, rather than a career in a Congress bogged with gridlock in the recent years. First-term U.S. Sen. Mike Braun’s decision to join the gubernatorial race opened up his seat, and many expect U.S. Rep Jim Banks, a Republican, to easily fill it.

Braun’s close allegiance to former President Donald Trump helped propel his Senate win in 2018 and has given him statewide name recognition. Braun ended 2023 with a healthy $4 million in the bank, according to finance reports, and has Trump’s endorsement again this year.

On Dec. 12, 2022 in Indianapolis, Republican Sen. Braun announced that he will run for Indiana governor in 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Touting similar name recognition is Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, whose ambitious plan to eliminate the state income tax is one of the most divisive subjects in the race so far. “Axe the Tax” has been decried by the other candidates to some degree as unrealistic and untimely.

Holcomb has not endorsed a successor, including Crouch. And Crouch has rarely evoked Holcomb, whose popularity took a hit over some COVID-19 restrictions such as a statewide mask mandate. Crouch has, rather, relied on her record of statewide and county service and pitched a focus on mental health and addiction services.

Her campaign reported ending 2023 with $3.7 million in the bank.

Shufeldt called Crouch’s politics “pragmatic” conservatism, similar to Indiana’s past two governors.

“It’s a contest between conservative, very conservative and extremely conservative,” he said of the race.

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Curtis Hill, the embattled former attorney general, has appealed to the Trump conservative base with his campaign rhetoric.

Hill lost the Republican nomination for reelection in 2020 following allegations that he drunkenly groped four women during a party. He denied the accusations, but the Indiana Supreme Court temporarily suspended his license after finding “by clear and convincing evidence that (Hill) committed the criminal act of battery” against three female legislative staffers and a state lawmaker.

He and Braun have been the most vocal on topics pertaining to issues contested in national elections, such as immigration and border security.

Shufeldt said Holcomb and former Gov. Mitchell Daniels, who served two terms before former Vice President Mike Pence, generally avoided stepping into “cultural issues” and focused more on school vouchers and economic development.

“I think a Braun or Hill governorship probably puts cultural issues more front and center,” he said.

However, Hill ended the year millions of dollars behind the competition, reporting about $123,000 in cash on hand.

The other Republican candidates, Brad Chambers and Eric Doden, have similar resumes. Both have led the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, a quasi-governmental agency, and have focused their campaigning on Indiana’s economic future.

Doden’s “Main Street Initiative” — focused on reviving and retaining the economy of Indiana’s small towns — is the backbone of his campaign. Chambers has repeatedly touted Indiana’s economic growth during his recent time as secretary of commerce. Both have directed messaging toward supporting law enforcement.

Chambers, who entered the race last of the bunch in August, raised over $8.5 million in 2023 and contributed $5 million himself. He ended the year with $2.91 million in the bank, according to records.

Doden threw his name in the ring as early as 2021 and reported over $1 million in cash on hand at the end of 2023. His campaign said he has raised $5 million to date.

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While the race is expected to be the most expensive in Indiana history for the office, its unlikely to boost turnout, said Laura Wilson, professor of political science at the University of Indianapolis. Indiana historically has low voter turnout; 24% of those registered voted in the 2020 primary. Fundraising might matter the most to Doden and Chambers, who lack the name recognition of the other candidates.

On the Democratic side of the ballot, former Indiana schools Superintendent Jennifer McCormick is running a longshot bid to flip the state’s top office. McCormick split from the GOP over education policy and later changed her party affiliation after her term ended in early 2021. Libertarian Donald Rainwater and Republican Jamie Reitenour are also campaigning for the office.

Wilson expected the race to soon turn to more political topics including abortion and support for Trump.

“For some voters, I think, this race unfortunately is going to be somewhat of an afterthought because the focus nationally is going to be so heavy on the presidential,” Wilson said.

EXCLUSIVE: Federal investigators suggested banks search private financial transactions using terms beyond “Trump” and “MAGA” after Jan. 6, 2021. Additional suggested terms included “Biden,” “Kamala,” “Antifa” and more, sources familiar told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital on Wednesday reported that the Treasury Department’s Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, distributed materials to financial institutions that outlined “typologies” of “various persons of interest” and provided the banks with “suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement.” 

‘ALARMING’ SURVEILLANCE: FEDS ASKED BANKS TO SEARCH PRIVATE TRANSACTIONS FOR TERMS LIKE ‘MAGA,’ ‘TRUMP’

Sources familiar told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the search terms, like “MAGA” and “Trump,” were generated by a bank and used to help them identify suspicious transactions when reviewing customer transactional information. It is unclear which bank generated the search terms. 

The sources said FinCEN then shared those terms with other banks to help those financial institutions to comply with their own suspicious activity reports.

But beyond the terms identified by the House Judiciary Committee, the unnamed bank generated other terms, which FinCEN shared with other banks, the sources told Fox News Digital. 

The source said the additional search terms included: “White Power,” “Camp Auschwitz,” “Antifa,” “Proud B,” “Storm, the,” “Capitol,” “Groyper Army,” “Threepers,” “boogaloo,” “civil war,” “last sons,” “kill,” “shoot,” “gun,” “death,” “murder,” “Biden,” “Kamala,” “Pelosi,” “Schumer” and “Pence.”

The sources said the distribution of the search terms, including “MAGA” and “Trump,” began in the final weeks of the Trump administration after Jan. 6, 2021.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The initial terms “MAGA” and “Trump” were revealed in a letter sent by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to a former director of FinCEN. Fox News Digital first reported on that letter. 

The committee’s investigation also revealed that FinCEN distributed slides, prepared by Key Bank, to other banks to explain how they could use merchant category codes (MCC) to detect customers whose transactions may reflect “potential active shooters, and who may include dangerous International Terrorists/ Domestic Terrorists/ Homegrown Violence Extremists (‘Lone Wolves’).”

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Jordan said the slide instructs financial institutions to query for transactions using certain MCC codes like “3484: Small Arms,” “5091: Sporting and Recreational Goods and Supplies,” and the keywords “Cabela’s,” “Dick’s Sporting Goods” and “Bass Pro Shops,” among others.

Key Bank declined to comment.

Dick’s Sporting Goods, Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

A source familiar with the documents held by the House Judiciary Committee told Fox News Digital that while Jan. 6, 2021, was the “impetus” for the queries and searches, none of the documents the committee has obtained reveal any specific time frames or limitations for banks searching customer transactions with the terms. The source said the federal government used the information for investigations beyond Jan. 6.

It is unclear if the terms are still being used by banks to search private transactions. 

“Despite these transactions having no apparent criminal nexus — and, in fact, relate to Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights — FinCEN seems to have adopted a characterization of these Americans as potential threat actors,” Jordan wrote. “This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans’ private transactions is alarming and raises serious doubts about FinCEN’s respect for fundamental liberties.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5, 2023. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday and obtained by Fox News Digital, Jordan requested a transcribed interview with the senior private sector partner for outreach in the Strategic Partner Engagement Section at the FBI.

Jordan said the committee has received testimony indicating that Bank of America provided the FBI “voluntarily and without any legal process” with a list of individuals who made transactions in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area using a Bank of America credit or debit card between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021.

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Fox News Digital first reported on that portion of the committee’s investigation last year. Bank of America, in November, said the bank “followed all applicable laws” in its interactions with the government. The bank noted that the Treasury Department on Jan. 15, 2021, “shared information regarding potential criminal activity that could disrupt the upcoming inauguration.” 

“We have cooperated with the committee as they evaluate whether the laws we complied with should be changed,” Bank of America said Wednesday. 

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But in the Wednesday letter, Jordan stated that when that list was later brought to the attention of the FBI, the former section chief of the Domestic Terrorism Operations Section, Steve Jensen, acted to “pull” that Bank of America information from FBI systems because “the leads lacked allegations of federal criminal conduct.”

Jordan said the committees obtained documents that show FBI personnel “made contact with and provided Bank of America with specific search query terms, indicating that it was ‘interested in all financial relationships’ of BoA customers transacting in Washington, D.C., and customers who had made ‘ANY historical purchase’ of a firearm, or who had purchased a hotel, Airbnb, or airline travel within a given date range.”

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Jordan is requesting that the former FinCEN official and an FBI official appear before his committee and the Weaponization Subcommittee for transcribed interviews to aid in the panels’ oversight investigation. 

Hollywood attorney and Hunter Biden confidant Patrick Kevin Morris may have violated California’s bar rules with his lavish spending on the president’s son, says a complaint by America First Legal. 

The AFL, a conservative legal group founded by former Trump White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, filed the complaint Tuesday with the State Bar of California alleging Morris violated California’s rule that prohibits a lawyer from funding the lifestyle of a client or potential client.

The complaint came ahead of Morris’ closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee Thursday.

Morris reportedly spent $4.9 million financially supporting the president’s son. Included in the sum was a $2 million loan for Hunter to pay off his back taxes, and $875,000 was a purchase Hunter Biden’s art. 

A Los Angeles Times story characterized Morris’s relationship with Hunter Biden as, “foremost as his lawyer, but also his friend, confidant and bankroller.” And, when Hunter Biden made a surprise visit to Capitol Hill, last week, he was flanked by Morris and his attorney Abbe Lowell. 

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Hunter Biden, center, and his attorneys Abbe Lowell, right, and Kevin Morris, left, leave the House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup titled “Resolution Recommending That The House Of Representatives Find Robert Hunter Biden In Contempt Of Congress,” on Wednesday, January 10, 2024. (Tom Williams)

“However, if Mr. Morris has provided personal funds to an individual who has now been confirmed to be a client – or who would reasonably believe himself to be Mr. Morris’s client – Mr. Morris would have violated both the text of the Rules of Professional Conduct and the well-established norms of the legal profession,” the America First Legal complaint says. 

Morris was reportedly scheduled to do a transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Judiciary Committee this week, as part of the formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden for potential actions or benefitting from alleged influence peddling by family members, including his son. 

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Specifically, State Bar of California Rule 1.8.5(a), states that “[a] lawyer shall not directly or indirectly pay or agree to pay, guarantee, or represent that the lawyer or lawyer’s law firm will pay the personal or business expenses of a prospective or existing client.”

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. Hunter Biden lashed out at Republican investigators who have been digging into his business dealings, insisting outside the Capitol he will only testify before a congressional committee in public.  (Jose Luis Magana)

“If Hunter Biden or a similarly situated person would reasonably anticipate that Mr. Morris was obligated to provide legal services, the alleged funding of the lifestyle of a client or potential client justifies the immediate opening of a misconduct investigation under Rule 1.8.5,” the complaint says. 

On Capitol Hill, and on other occasions, Lowell has been the lawyer who spoke as Hunter Biden’s representative. However, the same Times story said, “Morris strode shoulder to shoulder with the president’s son as they made a surprise appearance at a congressional contempt hearing on Capitol Hill. On Thursday, he is expected to be seated behind him in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as Hunter Biden is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on criminal tax charges, much as he did in a Delaware courtroom.”

Morris did not respond Wednesday to Fox News Digital for this story after phone calls were made to his firm, PKM Law.

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, flanked by Kevin Morris, left, and Abbe Lowell, right, attend a House Oversight Committee meeting on January 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. The committee is meeting today as it considers citing him for Contempt of Congress. (Kent Nishimura)

The State Bar of California would not confirm or deny if an investigation was underway. 

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“By law, disciplinary investigations are confidential, unless confidentiality is waived pursuant to the provisions of Business and Professions Code section 6086.1(b) or (c),” a state bar spokesman said in an email to Fox News Digital. 

Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee pushed forward with their efforts to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after emotional testimony from two victims of the border crisis, and Democrats moved to have their own hearing and slammed what they said was a “MAGA spectacle” from the majority.

Republicans on the committee all voted to push forward with the impeachment of Mayorkas, who Republicans have blamed for mishandling the ongoing crisis at the southern border. A markup on the impeachment is expected before the end of the month.

“The Secretary has consistently willfully and systematically refused to follow the laws passed by Congress, abused his authority, and breached the trust of Congress and the American people on numerous occasions,” the 18 Republicans said after the hearing.

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“The result of his failure to fulfill his oath of office has been a border crisis that is unprecedented in American history – a crisis that has cost the lives of thousands of Secretary Mayorkas’ fellow Americans,” it said.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a Border Patrol station in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Jan. 8, 2024. (John Moore/Getty Images)

The hearing itself, the second impeachment hearing, focused on the victims of crime and featured testimony from Tammy Nobles, whose daughter was killed by an illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member, and Josephine Dunn, who lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning.

“This is not a political issue. This is a safety issue for everyone living in the United States. This could have been anyone’s daughter. I don’t want any other parent to live the nightmare that I am living,” Nobles said.

“In my humble opinion, Mr. Mayorkas’ border policy is partially responsible for my daughter’s death,” Dunn said, arguing that Arizona has become a “fentanyl superhighway” into the U.S.

But amid that testimony was a fierce political back-and-forth between Republicans and Democrats over the testimony of Mayorkas himself and potential additional hearings. Mayorkas had expressed willingness to testify in-person but had said he couldn’t attend this hearing. Republicans have said the lack of specificity amounts to stonewalling and that they have been trying to get him to testify at a border-specific hearing since August.

DHS pushed back on those claims, accusing Republicans of “playing politics.”

“It’s abundantly clear that they are not interested in hearing from Secretary Mayorkas since it doesn’t fit into their bad-faith, predetermined and unconstitutional rush to impeach him. Last week, the Secretary offered to testify publicly before the Committee; in the time since, the Committee failed to respond to DHS to find a mutually agreeable date,” spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg said ahead of the hearing.

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“Secretary Mayorkas can object all he wants, but the paper trail is clear–he has consistently, tacitly refused to show up,” the majority responded on X, formerly known as Twitter, after accusing Mayorkas of “indefinite delays.”

On Thursday, the White House weighed in, accusing Republicans of “choosing to play extreme, far-right politics” and of “attempting to scapegoat a Cabinet secretary who is actively working to find solutions to a problem Congressional Republicans have spent years refusing to actually solve.”

Democrats on the committee moved on Thursday to request a minority-led hearing, arguing that House rules require such a hearing in an impeachment inquiry. Republicans argued that it is not necessary because they have their own witness at the hearing.

Ranking member Bennie Thompson accused Republicans of having “predetermined the outcome.”

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“This isn’t a real impeachment. It’s a MAGA spectacle, paid for [with] American tax dollars for Republican political gain,” he said.

 The fight is the latest flash point in the battle over the narrative of the border between Republicans and the Biden administration.

Republicans have pinned the crisis on the Biden administration, saying its “catch-and-release” policies, reduced interior enforcement and rollback of Trump-era border policies have sparked the historic surge to the border, leaving Border Patrol agents overwhelmed and unable to stop the influx gotaways and fentanyl.

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The administration has said it is dealing with a hemisphere-wide crisis and needs more funding and immigration reform from Congress. It has also pointed to what it says are a record number of removals since May, greater than in all of fiscal 2019, and record seizures of fentanyl at the border.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was released from a hospital after receiving treatment for an unspecified infection, his office said Thursday. 

Grassley, 90, was hospitalized on Tuesday in the Washington D.C. area, and was receiving “antibiotic infusions,” his office said. 

He is expected to be back at work next week. 

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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was released from a Washington-area hospital Thursday after receiving treatment for an unspecified infection.  (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images/File)

No other details were released. 

Grassely was first elected to the Senate in 1980, and has been re-elected seven times. He is the oldest member of the Senate. 

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He earned that distinction after the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in September. 

Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., gained the endorsement of former 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Thursday, who told voters in New Hampshire it was time to upgrade from the predicted Biden vs. Trump rematch that “no one wants.”

Phillips, who is considered to be a moderate Minnesotan, is a long shot to lead the Democratic presidential ticket, but he and Yang were campaigning in the Granite State ahead of the primary on Jan. 23.

The two men attended an event together at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire on Thursday afternoon, with Yang introducing the Democratic candidate.

Yang spoke about other Democratic leaders like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker who have not thrown their names into the ring for president because President Biden is seeking reelection.

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Andrew Yang endorses Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips in New Hampshire. (Dean Phillips Streamed Event)

“If you want to run for president, your time is right now. In this time of need, only one person decided to place his country above his professional aspirations,” Yang said. “That is the man I am proud to endorse tonight as the next President of the United States… Dean Phillips.”

Yang told the crowd at Dartmouth that he spent time in New Hampshire four years ago, campaigning for President Biden, but noted the last four years have not been great.

He said if they had been great, he may not have been with them on Thursday night, endorsing Phillips.

“He is a substantial, accomplished president. I campaigned for him in 2020. I endorsed him,” Yang said of Biden. “He’s a good man, a true public servant and a great American. He was the right candidate four years ago. He is not the right candidate for 2024.”

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President Joe Biden and Rep. Dean Phillips split image. (AP Photo)

The former presidential candidate said when Biden campaigned in 2020, he said he was running to be the bridge to the next generation.

Yang said the U.S. needs Biden to be that bridge to the next generation, pointing to the president’s low approval rating and not being the top candidate in several swing states he won in 2020.

“Essentially, you can take his numbers for 2020 and subtract eight from them, and that’s where he is right now,” Yang said, reminding the attendees he is the “math guy.”

Yang also pointed to Biden’s age, explaining that at 81 years old, it will be tough to “reinvent grandpa.”

DEMOCRAT DEAN PHILLIPS ATTACKS BIDEN FOR TRYING TO UPEND TRADITIONAL PRIMARY ELECTION PROCESS

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang speaks at FreedomFest in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022 (Fox News Digital)

He said campaigning is tough because of things like traveling, rallying, meeting new voters, and doing friendly interviews, especially for the 81-year-old president.

“All of it is going to be tougher for Joe Biden this cycle than it needs to be for the person who’s going to take on Donald Trump,” Yang said. “…poll after poll shows Joe Biden losing to Donald Trump by two or three or four points more in the swing states. The same polls find Donald Trump losing to a generic Democrat. You put another Democrat in there and all of a sudden people are like, wait, I don’t like Trump. Who’s this other person?”

Yang continued, and said Biden has been a great leader, though he should not run for reelection in 2024. Yang said many Democrats feel the same way, yet nobody wants to step up.

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“The notion of challenging Joe Biden, that is the culture of conformity and careerism that is going to lead us again to this Trump return that so many of us find unfathomable,” Yang said. “[Dean Phillips] is not beholden to the special interests that have grown to dominate our politics. He is the man for this moment. He is what most Americans, certainly the independents who decide our elections actually want in a candidate. And most of all, he will win.”

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said that pardoning former President Trump would be “healing for the country” as she took tough questions from voters days ahead of the New Hampshire primary election.

Haley fielded a series of tough questions at the town hall Thursday night, which came just five days before Granite State voters head to the polls for the GOP primary.

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GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said that pardoning former President Trump would be “healing for the country” as she took tough questions from voters days ahead of the New Hampshire primary election. (Kathryn Gamble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

PARDONING TRUMP WOULD BE ‘HEALING FOR THE COUNTRY’

During Haley’s town hall on CNN, the former United Nations ambassador said she would pardon Trump if elected, but only if the GOP frontrunner were convicted of a crime.

Haley said that “the last thing we need is an 80-year-old president sitting in jail” because “that’s just going to further divide our country.”

“This is no longer about whether he’s innocent or guilty,” Haley said. “This is about the fact, how do we bring the country back together?”

Haley said she is “determined” to make the “division” and “chaos” go away and that she believes pardoning Trump “would make all of that go away.”

“And I think it would be healing for the country,” Haley said.

AMERICA 

Haley got pushback from CNN when she answered a question about whether America was a fundamentally racist country.

She said if one tells a black or brown children they live in a racist country, “you’re immediately telling them they don’t have a chance.”

Townhall moderator Jake Tapper pushed back, saying “You’re talking about the ideals of America, but America founded institutionally on many racist precepts, including slavery.”

Haley said America’s ideals were present from the founding, but the country needed to correct certain places where the nation fell short of the intent of the Constitution.

“When you look at said all men are created equal, I think the intent the intent was to do the right thing. Now, did they have to go fix it along the way? Yes, but I don’t think the intent was ever that we were going to be a racist country. The intent was everybody going to be created equally,” Haley said.

Even though it took decades to fix certain aspects of the nation, Haley said she refuses to believe that the country was based on racism. 

MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION

Another moment for Haley came when asked about marijuana legalization, which Haley said was a state-by-state issue. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Another top moment for Haley came when she was asked about marijuana legalization. Haley said was a state-by-state issue, but wouldn’t commit to descheduling the substance.

Haley said she would “go with the scientists” on marijuana legalization, and added that she thinks “it’s obviously not in the same class as heroin.”

“But I also think when you’re looking at the legalization of this, I want states to be able to decide that,” Haley said.

“That’s something that should be as close to the people as possible,” she added.

CHILD TAX CREDITS ‘ACROSS THE BOARD’

Haley also said that she is “for child care tax credits for everyone” and said that the tax credits need to be done “across the board” to remain “fair.”

Haley also said that she is “for child care tax credits for everyone.” (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

If you’re going to do it, do it across the board and make sure that it’s fair,” Haley said. “Look, when you look at the welfare system and you look at all of those other things, when you look at those programs, the goal that I want to look at is what are we doing to lift them up?”

“What are we doing to make life better for them?” Haley continued, citing her work as South Carolina governor to move people off of welfare and into jobs.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR AMERICANS, NOT FOREIGN ACTORS

Haley was also asked about the idea she floated of social media companies identifying online users by their real name, as a national security concern.

The former U.N. ambassador said she “will always fight for freedom of speech.” She faced widespread criticism for her comments, but on Thursday defended her statement. She said she speaking about “when it comes to our tech companies, is there is a responsibility that our social media companies have.”

“What I think they should do is they should show us their algorithms,” Haley said. “They should be completely transparent so that you know why they push what they push, why you see what you see, all of that, that’s a business transparency situation.”

Haley was also asked about her floated idea of social media companies identifying online users in the name of national security. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

“I’m not saying that Americans have to disclose their name. What I’m saying is you have millions of foreign bots where there are no people behind them. When I was at the United Nations, Russia, China and Iran knew, and said it was the cheapest form of warfare. There are millions of bots that are spreading disinformation, that are sowing division in our country, and they’re doing this to spread harmful things to our younger teenagers.”

“And what I’m saying is those social media companies have to do something with the foreign bots,” Haley continued. “I will always fight for Americans’ freedom of speech, but I am not going to fight for Russians’ and Iranians’ and Chinese freedom of speech. And that’s what’s happening.”

DEMOCRATIC SUPPORTERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Haley was also asked about the support she has been garnering from Democrats in New Hampshire — where around 4,000 voters switched their registration from the Democratic Party, which some speculate could potentially help Haley in the primary.

The former governor said she has seen some independents align with her, and said “some Democrats say they want to support us because they’re not happy with Joe Biden.”

“What I want everybody here to remember is Republicans have lost the last seven out of eight popular votes for president,” Haley said. “That is nothing to be proud of. We should want to win the majority of Americans.”

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“The problem is, if you’re going to win the majority of Americans, you have to make sure as a leader, you don’t decide who’s good and who’s bad, who’s right and who’s wrong,” Haley said.

“You bring out the best of people and get them to move forward,” she added.

The 2024 Republican primary is in full swing, as former President Donald Trump continues to hold a commanding lead over Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. 

Here’s a snapshot of where the battle to lead the Republican Party stands. 

DELEGATE COUNT AFTER IOWA: 

1. Trump: 20
2. DeSantis: 9
3. Haley: 8
4. Ramaswamy: 3

DELEGATES NEEDED TO WIN: 1,215 

DELEGATES REMAINING: 2,389  

ONE NEW POLL: New polling from New Hampshire shows Trump holding a double-digit lead over Haley in what is largely a two-person race for the Granite State. The poll shows Trump garnering 50% support among those likely to vote in next Tuesday’s New Hampshire GOP presidential primary. Haley is in second with 36% support, and DeSantis is a distant third at 6%. 

ONE NEW ENDORSEMENT: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz endorsed Donald Trump for president Tuesday night and called for the country to unify behind the Republican front-runner.

“I am proud to endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States,” Cruz said on “Hannity.” “I look forward to supporting him enthusiastically.”

ONE KEY QUOTE: 

“Trump is the one I’m going for.” – Nikki Haley

Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Former President Donald Trump said he believes the U.S. Supreme Court will “intervene” and rule in his favor by keeping him on 2024 primary ballots across the nation despite challenges, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he has faith that the justices on the high court are “not going to take the vote away from the people.” 

Trump sat down for an exclusive interview in New Hampshire with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. The interview aired Thursday night on Fox News Channel and came just days before the Granite State’s first-in-the-nation primary, set for Tuesday, Jan. 23.

Several states, like Maine and Colorado, are looking to remove Trump from the 2024 GOP primary ballot in the state, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, or, the “Disqualifications Clause.”

Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump points to supporters at the conclusion of a campaign rally at the Atkinson Country Club on January 16, 2024 in Atkinson, New Hampshire. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

MAINE SUPERIOR COURT ISSUES A STAY ON STATE’S DECISION TO BAR TRUMP FROM PRIMARY BALLOT

That clause bars individuals who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against America, or aided those engaged in such, from holding office.

Trump has never been charged with insurrection.

“We put on three great justices, and you have some other great justices up there, and they’re not going to take the vote away from the people,” Trump said.

Trump, as president, nominated and had confirmed three justices to the U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

“You saw in the history of the Iowa primary…it goes back a long time…I won by the most,” Trump said. “Nobody’s ever won, as you know…there’s nobody even close. I doubled up and more than doubled up.”

Former President Donald Trump speaks after exiting the courtroom for a break at New York Supreme Court, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York.  (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Trump dominated the Iowa Caucuses, winning 98 of 99 counties. He lost one single county by one single vote. Trump collected 20 delegates in the state. 

“I’m sure the Supreme Court is going to say we’re not going to take the vote away from the people,” Trump said.

But the former president said that it is President Biden who is “a threat to democracy.”

TRUMP APPEALS DECISION TO BAN HIM FROM MAINE BALLOT

“Biden is a threat to democracy — is an absolute threat to democracy, and he’s very dangerous for a couple of reasons,” Trump said.

The former president said Biden is “grossly incompetent, which is the number one reason,” but said the president is “actually in his own way.”

The Supreme Court is seen Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

“It’s not him — it’s the people that surround him,” Trump said. “You got some very bad people surrounding him at that desk.”

Trump said the people running the Department of Justice are “young and they’re smart and they’re communists and they’re Marxists, they’re fascists, and they’re running this country.” 

“They’re running it right into the ground,” Trump said.

But returning to the Supreme Court, Trump said: “I don’t think the Supreme Court would do it because, uh, you can’t take the vote — I am leading in every poll. I am leading Biden, but I am leading the remaining Republicans.” 

Trump said the Supreme Court has “two votes that are very important coming up.”

TRUMP CAMPAIGN SAYS 14TH AMENDMENT ADVOCATES USING ‘LAWFARE’ TO ‘DEPRIVE’ VOTERS OF CHOICE IN 2024

“One, as we discussed, we call it Colorado or whatever, but you know, I really believe they’re going to leave the people to vote again,” Trump said. It’s hard to imagine they would do, and most states have already approved it, and as you know, very few states have done that.”

Trump said “this is Colorado and a couple of others at this moment.”

But Trump also said the Supreme Court is considering “immunity for the president of the United States.”

“And I’m not talking about myself,” Trump said. “I’m talking about any president has to have immunity because if you take immunity away from the president — so important — you will have a president that’s not going to be able to do anything, because when he leaves office, the opposing party president, if its the opposing party, will indict the president for doing something that should have been good.”

Trump used an example of former President Barack Obama dropping “misses and they ended up hitting a kindergarten or a school or the apartment house.”

“A lot of people were killed,” Trump said. “Well, if that’s the case, he’s going to end up being indicted when he leaves office. He meant well. The missile went in the wrong direction.” 

Trump also pointed to Biden.

“Look at Biden. What would happen to Biden? He’s killed our country with his policies,” Trump said. “The border is a disaster. Everything he does is a disaster.”

TRUMP 14TH AMENDMENT BALLOT ELIGIBILITY CHALLENGER ARRESTED ON FEDERAL TAX FRAUD CHARGES

Trump pointed to the Biden administration’s withdrawal of U.S. military and assets from Afghanistan, calling it “the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, giving $85 billion worth of equipment, killing our soldiers, wounding horribly our soldiers, leaving people behind.”

“Well, when he leaves office, if he doesn’t have immunity now, I think it’s horrible what he did, but he probably, I don’t know, it’s hard to believe, but he probably meant well,” Trump said. “But the man is incompetent, but you have to leave immunity with the president.” 

He added: “If a president is afraid to act because they’re worried about being indicted when they leave office, a president of the United States has to have immunity, and the Supreme Court is going to be ruling on that.”

Trump said if presidents don’t have immunity, “no president is going to act.”

“You’re going to have guys that just sit in office and are afraid to do anything,” Trump said.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington D.C. is expected to issue a ruling in the case brought by Trump, who is seeking to have the charges against him stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation dismissed. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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Trump and his lawyers are arguing that he should be immune from prosecution, because he was serving as president of the United States as he pushed to investigate the results of the 2020 election.

If the Appeals Court rules against Trump, the matter will come before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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A Killer Decision

GOP candidate Donald Trump is reportedly considering picking Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to be his running mate in the 2024 election, praising her last month as “a killer.”

Reports surfaced Wednesday that Stefanik came up as a suggestion during a dinner Trump had at Mar-a-Lago, shortly after she went viral with her sharp interrogation of college presidents about campus antisemitism.

A split of NY Rep. Elise Stefanik and former President Donald Trump. The former is joining an effort to expunge the latter’s second impeachment. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump seemed to approve of the suggestion and nodded, according to the media outlet, and added, “she’s a killer.”

Stefanik announced Wednesday that she would be joining Trump on the campaign trail in New Hampshire. 

“America will elect President Trump the next President to save America,” she wrote on social media. 

Plenty of potential veep contenders have gone through the rumor mill in recent months. And Trump told Fox last week that he already knows who his running mate will be.

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