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What We’re Reading: Can GOP Win?, France’s Peril, Brazil’s Stolen Election … And More

Some headlines, issues and news that caught our eye.

Can GOP Stay On Top When All Polls Say They Can’t?

Wave, Semi-Wave or Something Else? — David Brady & Bruce Cain, Real Clear Politics

How Republicans Can Still Win — National Review

How Democrats could win the House, how the GOP could hang on, and where to look for a wave — NBC News

It’s getting no better for Trump one week from midterms — CNN, via Yahoo News

Democrats Make Protecting Fraud Their “Day One” Agenda — Newsline, AMAC

Republicans’ Chances Of Maintaining House Majority Have ‘All But Evaporated’ Cook Political Report Says — Forbes

DOJ To Disperse Thousands Of Election Monitors In Largest-Ever Effort. Democrats Plan To Respond With 10,000-Volunteer Army — Daily Caller

France Isn’t Alone In Its Struggle To Survive

If This Isn’t a Civil War, It Certainly Looks Like One — The Free Press

Maybe France Deserves To Burn — American Thinker

Macron Admits Government Did Not Anticipate Violence of Islamo-Leftist Youth Riots — Breitbart

It’s Spreading: Reports Say France-Inspired Violent Riots Are Being Urged in Spain for Halloween — El Mundo (english)

Europe Distributes Preparedness Plans In Case Of ‘Crisis Or War’ — Daily Caller

Debt, disorder and open borders: a midterm warning from EU’s riots for U.S. consideration — Just The News

Brazil’s Stolen Election: ‘Math Doesn’t Add Up’

Brazilian Justice Alexandre Moraes Orders Flavio Bolsonaro to Surrender His Passport — Gateway Pundit

REPORT: Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro is en route to the United States — Open Source Intel on X

Flávio Bolsonaro reportedly flees Brazil for US after travel ban — Courthouse News Service

Election travesty in Brazil — American Thinker

‘This was a coup’ — various commentators, X

‘Math doesn’t add up’ — Elon Musk, other commenters, X

Crime Questions Asked, Then Answered

Why Don’t Democrats Want to Talk About the Record Drop in Crime? — PJ Media

New Federal Crime Numbers Show Dramatic One-Year Drop After Trump’s First Year of the Second Term — Daily Signal

Can You Guess the Political Leanings of the 5% of US Counties Where 71% of the Murders Take Place? — Shooting News Weekly, via Instapundit

Go Figure: Arrests, Prosecutions and Deportations Fuel Record Drop in Crime — John R. Lott Jr., Real Clear Investigations

Ilhan Omar’s Story Has Unraveled, But She Still Clings To Power

Ilhan Omar’s family history make her genocide allegations against Israel even
more outrageous
— New York Post

Ilhan Omar Finds the Most Outrageous and Offensive Possible Way to Brazen It Out — PJ Media

NYT: Investigating Omar Is ‘Authoritarian,’ But Prosecuting Trump Is ‘Accountability’ — The Federalist

Education Remains Under Fire For Its Many Failings: Is There A Fix?

‘Breaking the Academic Filibuster’ — The Eternally Radical Idea, first of a six-part series

Thoughts on School-Based Ideology — Larry Sand, American Greatness

Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females show for their own allies — FIRE.org (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)

Far Left’s Threat To U.S. Of Takeover Is Real

The Democracy Files/Illegitimacy Playbook, Part 10: The Role Of Foreign States — DataRepublican, X

The DSA Plans To Incite Nationwide Violence Ahead Of 2028 Election — Chuck Devore, The Federalist

The Anti-Trump Left Has Descended Into A Persistent Hallucinatory State — Chris Bray, The Federalist

Is EU-China Trade Love Affair Kaput?

EU Climbs Escalation Ladder With Beijing, Plans Wider Curbs On Chinese Imports — ZeroHedge

EU Caps Chinese Hybrids At 350,000 As Deutsche Maps Every Trade Weapon Left In Europe’s Arsenal — ZeroHedge

EU Plans To Hit China With More Import Curbs In Early 2027 — Bloomberg, via The Edge Singapore

Beijing’s Open Door: How the West Let China In and Paid for It — American Greatness

Miscellaneous, But Important, News …

Exit polls indicate no clear winner in Israeli election — NBC News

Nvidia, AMD to invest $4 billion in Meta as tech giants deepen AI partnership — CNBC

The ‘Myth’ of Noncitizen Voting Strikes Again: 48 Foreign Nationals Charged — Red State

‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Feds Allege 405 Migrants Voted 1,500 Times — Breitbart

The Bush Family Still Haunts Republicans — Townhall

Medicare for All Is Popular—Until People Find Out How It Would Work — City Journal

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