Cop killer in Trump video was released by Sheriff Joe | Longest-serving Republican congressman behind in poll

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Cop killer in Trump video was released by Sheriff Joe: A video ad tweeted by President Donald Trump is incorrect in suggesting that Democrats are solely responsible for an immigrant cop killer’s presence in the U.S., according to reports from the Sacramento Bee and other media outlets.

Records in Arizona show Luis Bracamontes was arrested on drug charges in Phoenix in 1998, but released for reasons unknown by the office of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the former Republican law enforcement official for Maricopa County who has styled himself as “America’s Toughest Sheriff.” Arpaio was pardoned by Trump.

In the ad tweeted by Trump, which reads “Democrats let him in, Democrats let him stay,” Bracamontes is heard saying he wished he’d killed more officers.

Longest-serving GOP congressman lags Democratic challenger in new poll: Democrat Alyse Galvin has a lead of 1 percentage point over 23-term GOP incumbent Don Young in the contest for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, according to a poll released Friday. The Alaska Survey Research poll found 49% of respondents supported Galvin, while 48% backed Young and 3% were undecided.

Young was elected Dean of the House of Representatives last year, scoring a largely ceremonial position that’s awarded to the longest continuously serving member of the House, notes a Talk Media News report. He has served in Congress since 1973, and Alaska is one of the country’s most reliably GOP states.

Health-care stocks might see the biggest moves after Election Day: Perhaps no sector will be in the election spotlight as much as health care XLV, -0.55% , says a Reuters report. Policy efforts to lower prescription drug prices that have started under Trump could get more attention should Democrats gain control in Congress, the report adds.

And Democratic gains also might lead to investors to bet on expanded coverage or other changes related to Obamacare, possibly benefiting some insurance and hospital stocks.

Some Republicans fear that Trump’s immigration focus just before midterm election could backfire: With the midterm election just four days away, some Republicans wish Trump would focus on the economy and not keep hammering his hard line on immigration, says a Politico report. He might be driving away some suburban voters while boosting Latino votes against the GOP.

“Regardless of the merits, I think the president going full on immigration in the last week is not smart politically,” said conservative radio host and writer Erick Erickson in a tweet. “There’s plenty of evidence that this could mobilize more protest votes against him than that he could gain from those who already agree with him on the issue.”

moodRubicund on November 2nd, 2018 at 15:44 UTC »

Seriously?

Joe Arpaio?

Out of all the fucking people in the fucking country, they made an advertisement about a guy released by the one guy Trump pardoned???

-Codiak- on November 2nd, 2018 at 14:14 UTC »

He literally couldn't have picked a worse person to show in that video.

BringOn25A on November 2nd, 2018 at 14:06 UTC »

I greatly appreciate that it was not only NOT a democrat who released him, but a poster boy and icon of the racist faction of the GOP that released him.