Beto’s $69 Million Senate Race Couldn’t Take Down Cruz
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Texans reelected Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), handing a loss to Democrat Beto O’Rourke, but it wasn’t because the leftist candidate lacked funding.
Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, who has served in the House since 2013, raised the most money in a Senate race in the 2018 midterms, raking in more than $69 million.
The only other Senate race that came close was former Republican Florida governor Rick Scott, who successfully bid to replace longtime Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), spending $68.6 million, according to a New Republic campaign funding compilation.
Nelson is calling for a recount in the race, which resulted in Scott getting 50.2 percent of the vote compared to Nelson’s 49.8 percent.
O’Rourke boasted about his small donors’ campaign, but he did receive some large donations, including $365,312 from the University of Texas, $227,024 from leftist Google’s Alphabet, Inc., $139,734 from George Soros-funded J Street, $131,404 from the University of California, and $117,104 from AT&T Inc., according to Open Secrets.
The small donations ($200 or less) totaled $31,881,547 or 45.48 of funds raised.
According to Open Secrets, O’Rourke still had $10,336,213 “cash on hand,” after spending $59,162,289 on his failed campaign.
Some other funding statistics from Open Secrets about who donated to O’Rourke’s campaign.
- $8,816,257 from Democrats/Liberals
- $3,118,522 from “retired”
- $3,036,592 from lawyers
- $2,608,159 education
- $1,317,436 health professionals
The funding breakdown also reveals O’Rourke did not spend any of his own money on his campaign.
Open Secrets notes: “The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations’ PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.”
The four other most expensive campaigns — amounting to less than half of O’Rourke’s bounty — were that of Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who lost to Republican Josh Hawley and raised $32.9 million; Republican Bob Hugin, who lost to incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and raised $30.2 million; and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who raised $29.8 million and defeated O’Rourke.
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Working Class Americans Secure Massive Wage Hikes from Trump’s Tight Labor Market
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America’s working class is benefitting the most when President Trump tightens the country’s labor market through illegal and legal immigration controls, new data reveals.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data outlined by American Enterprise Insitute (AEI) scholar Michael Strain reveals the extent to which working-class Americans are benefitting in the Trump economy.
For example, the bottom ten percent of American workers were delivered 4.5 percent wage growth in their usual weekly earnings in 2017, which is more than double the wage growth that the country’s top ten percent of American workers saw.
In 2018, working-class Americans are continuing to see more wage growth than the top ten percent of workers in the American labor market.
Likewise, Americans without a high school degree have seen their wage growth jump nearly 6.5 percent in 2018 thus far, the largest hike among all educational demographic groups.
This chart shows the percent change in usual weekly earnings (from the 3rd quarter to the 3rd quarter) for the bottom 10 percent of workers (first decile) and the top 10 percent of workers. In 2017, low-wage workers saw 4.5% growth, more than double high-wage workers' growth.
The median usual weekly earnings of workers who didn't complete high school grew faster than 6 percent in 2018, significantly outperforming all other education groups. In 2017, this group of workers also saw the fastest growth in weekly earnings. pic.twitter.com/5JGav4WYOm
The Trump administration has sought to increase wages for America’s working and middle class by reducing the inflow of more than 1.5 million mostly low-skilled foreign workers who are admitted to the country every year.
This importation of low-skilled illegal and legal foreign workers has left the country’s bottom line of workers with stagnant wages since the 1970s and forces them to competewith foreign workers for blue-collar jobs.
Last year, the Trump administration successfully increased the number of deportations of illegal aliens living across the U.S. — oftentimes holders of blue-collar jobs that could otherwise go to working-class Americans — by nearly 40 percent.
More specifically, Trump has doubled worksite immigration enforcement, deterring businesses and employers from hiring cheaper illegal aliens over Americans. Between October 2017 and May 2018, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency opened 3,510 worksite immigration investigations, initiated 2,282 immigration audits, and made 594 criminal and 610 administrative worksite-related arrests.
As Breitbart News’s John Carney has noted, reducing legal immigration to the U.S. — by signing the RAISE Act into law — would greatly hike wages for America’s working and middle class. Carney’s economic analysis found that if legal immigration levels were cut to about 600,000 admissions a year, growth domestic product (GDP) would be about $61,500 per person.
(Cutting immigration in half will grow GDP per person in the U.S.)
Most recently, the tight labor market helped reintegrate retirees back into the workforce. Breitbart News has also reported extensively on how the tight labor market in Trump’s “hire American” economy has brought new job opportunities for Americans with disabilities, helped lower the demographic group’s unemployment rate, and drove multinational corporation Amazon to raise hourly wages for their workers to $15 an hour.
There has also been history-making wage growth for American workers in the construction industry, the garment industry, for workers employed at small businesses, black Americans, and restaurant workers.
The tight labor market has also secured higher wages for overtime workers and high-paying, coveted white-collar jobs for American teenagers. Breitbart News reported that the construction industry has had to recruit women to take jobs at higher wages rather than hiring illegal aliens. A Chick-Fil-A in California has even raised wages to $18 an hour to retain workers.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
WATCH: Mexican Police Escort 400 from Migrant Caravan to U.S. Border
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A caravan of nearly 400 migrants in eight buses arrived in the northern border state of Sonora, escorted by state and federal police on Monday.
A video posted by online depicts part of the caravan passing through a toll booth.
State and Federal police are providing security for the group as it heads to the U.S. border. The caravan stopped on the outskirts of Ciudad Obregon for a period of no more than 10 minutes to receive food and water. The caravan later stopped at a gas station, where they were met by personnel from Civil Protection and other agencies, according to local media.
Mexican authorities say doctors and specialists will be installed at various points on the road. Medical personnel are reportedly providing care for those who have become ill and also require vaccinations.
The caravan is expected to stop in the state capital of Hermosillo before continuing to Tijuana, which is currently experiencing a raging cartel war with record-breaking homicide figures.
Breitbart News reported extensively on the cartel violence taking place in Tijuana, with a total of 2,152 homicides in 2018. Some in the caravan are choosing to head to Tijuana to avoid areas such as Tamaulipas and Coahuila. The cartels controlling Tamaulipas and Coahuila areas tend to direct their violence against the migrant community via extortion schemes.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.) You can follow him on Twitter. He can be reached at robertrarce@gmail.com
THEY INVADE OVER AND UNDER OUR BORDERS… and do so by invitation of the Democrat Party.
Lawmen are worried that the cartel tunnel builders on the Mexican border are now using their engineered concoctions to smuggle illegals, not merely drugs.
That's what the Daily Caller has found, describing the new anxiety as one was discovered over the weekend, catching about 30 illegals coming in from Mexico and China. MONICA SHOWALTER – AMERICAN THINKER.com
THE UNIDIOSus MAP OF LA RAZA-OCCUPIED AMERICA
They claim all of North America for Mexico!
(WARNING! THE BELOW LINK IS GRAPHIC ON MEXICAN HATRED OF LEGALS)
ILLEGALS & WELFARE
WE CAN’T TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN, AND YET WE LET MEXICO BUILD THEIR BILLION DOLLAR WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS!!!
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
So when cities across the country declare that they will NOT be sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang members fleeing ICE will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically the people fighting for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime wave to deal with along with the additional expense.
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$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
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$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English.
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$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to illegal aliens each year.
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$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
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$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons.
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2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in our politics.
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$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
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Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.
MEXICO VOWS A NEW INVASION HAS BEGUN, FINANCED BY U.S.
THE NEXT MEXICAN INVASION IS AT HAND:
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/07/mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez.html
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed granting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class,” Carlson added."
"Many Americans forget is that our country is located against a socialist failed state that is promising to descend even further into chaos – not California, the other one. And the Mexicans, having reached the bottom of the hole they have dug for themselves, just chose to keep digging by electing a new leftist presidente who wants to surrender to the cartels and who thinks that Mexicans have some sort of “human right” to sneak into the U.S. and demographically reconquer it." KURT SCHLICHTER
Billionaire Mexicans tell their poor to JUMP U.S. OPEN BORDERS and LOOT THE STUPID GRINGO… and loot they do!
Billions of dollars are sucked out of America from Mexico’s looting!
1) Mexico ended legal immigration 100 years ago, except for Spanish blood.
2) Mexico is the 17th richest nation but pays the 220th lowest minimum wage to force their subjects to invade the USA. The expands territory for Mexicans, spreads the Spanish language, and culture and genotypes, while earning 17% of Mexico's gross GDP as Foreign Remittance Income.
MICHELE MALKIN
The rise of the Mexican LA RAZA supremacy fascist welfare state built by the Democrat Party
Understanding LA RAZA / UNIDOSus:
The U.S. tax dollar funded Mexican fascist party which is the fastest growing political party in America
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/07/michelle-malkin-understanding-us-funded.html
Only in America could critics of a group called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Previous generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
PAUL KRUGMAN
The disintegration of California, a Mexican satellite welfare state of poverty, crime and high taxes
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/04/paul-krugman-look-at-california-under.html
"Chairman of the DNC Keith Ellison was even spotted wearing a shirt stating, "I don't believe in borders" written in Spanish.
According to a new CBS news poll, 63 percent of Americans in competitive congressional districts think those crossing illegally should be immediately deported or arrested. This is undoubtedly contrary to the views expressed by the Democratic Party.
Their endgame is open borders, which has become evident over the last eight years. Don't for one second let them convince you otherwise." Evan Berryhill Twitter @EvBerryhill.
WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF LEGALS LEFT ORPHANED DUE TO A MEX MURDER???
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/06/illegals-separating-american-children.html
Instead Francis Hernandez, an illegal alien driving 81 miles an hour, slammed into a pickup truck, killing the two women inside, and smashing it through the glass wall of the Baskin Robbins.
Francis Hernandez had been arrested 16 times in 5 years without ever being turned over to immigration authorities. That failure to enforce immigration law separated a little boy from his family forever. DANIEL GREENFIELD – FRONTPAGE
Mark Levin:
‘Unbridled Immigration, Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country Down’
“Through love of having children we're going to take over." Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets, militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S. citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
This annual income for an impoverished American family is $10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on each unaccompanied minor border crosser.
A study by Tom Wong of the University of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25 percent of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That totals about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified illegal aliens. JOHN BINDER
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