Mamdani's Election Lead, Trump Warns Nigeria To Protect Christians From Islamists： AM Update 11⧸4
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It s Election Day, and New York City mayoral frontrunner Zoran Mamdani gets a warning from a radical and influential backer, a new report reveals all the ways in which Democrats are struggling post-2020, President Trump puts the Nigerian government on notice over reports of Christian persecution, and Team Trump swoops in to help Dilbert cartoon creator and all-around brilliant guy Scott Adams in his fight against cancer.
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Voting for Zohran is not, we're going to vote for Zohran and just let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall.
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It's Election Day, and New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani gets a warning from a radical and influential backer.
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A new report reveals all the ways in which Democrats are struggling post the 2024 presidential election.
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They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers.
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President Trump puts the Nigerian government on notice over reports of Christian persecution.
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It's Election Day, and no race in the country is being watched more closely than the New York City mayoral election.
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Many across the country wondering whether the city is actually going to elect a Muslim socialist mayoral candidate, Zoran Mamdani, as mayor of New York.
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The final Atlas Intel poll of the race showing Democrat candidate Mamdani leading with 43.9 percent of the vote,
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followed by independent and former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at 39.4 percent, with Republican Curtis Sliwa trailing at 15.5 percent.
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Cuomo closing the gap to just four and a half points with days to go.
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Still, Polymarket predicting with 91 percent certainty that Mamdani will win.
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In a late twist, Elon Musk throwing a last-minute endorsement behind Cuomo on X, quote,
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Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdummy, or whatever his name is.
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Meanwhile, one of the themes of Mamdani's campaign surfaces again.
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Difficulty locking down high-profile Democrat endorsements, including that of former President Barack Obama.
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The New York Times reporting the former president spoke with Mamdani by phone,
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praising his campaign, offering to act as a sounding board, but stopping short of offering his endorsement.
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On Sunday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who waited until just before early voting began to endorse Mamdani,
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clarifying to CNN that the candidate is not the future of the Democrat Party.
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Hakeem Jeffries was asked this morning if you're the future of the Democratic Party.
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Do you think you're the future of the Democratic Party?
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That's why I'm out here canvassing to do with my anxiety to get through the tape of the future of 9 p.m. on Tuesday.
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The candidate kicking off the final day of campaigning with an early morning march across the Brooklyn Bridge,
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then delivering brief remarks to his supporters.
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As New Yorkers in every borough contend with an affordability crisis that he promised to fix but has only exacerbated,
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let City Hall, with our compassion, our conviction, and our clarity,
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be the light that our city and our nation so desperately need.
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Late last night, Andrew Cuomo received Donald Trump's endorsement.
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If elected as mayor, our city will only descend deeper into a darkness that has forced too many of our neighbors to flee
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and made it impossible for working people to live lives of dignity.
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Speaking of fleeing the Big Apple, a new poll from JL Partners for the Daily Mail finding
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9% of New Yorkers say they would definitely leave the city if Mamdani wins.
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Another 25% say they would at least consider leaving.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, chiming in on X,
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quote, after the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from New York.
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The New York Post reporting earlier this week, there's been a mad dash to Connecticut.
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Homes in Greenwich, nearly impossible to buy, no inventory,
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as wealthy New Yorkers get out of Dodge with Mamdani eyeballing their money.
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Multimillionaire Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary predicting last week on Fox Business,
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Mamdani will be forced to moderate his views once in office.
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You may not like the message, but free chicks, free money is a great message.
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Then he's going to have to come to people like me and say,
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I want you to give me the debt portion, the equity portion of that building.
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I say I can't because nobody will fund that because you have rent control on a pre-construction building.
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Time will tell, but Mamdani's own base is already warning him not to drift to the center.
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Mamdani ally and Islamic activist Linda Sarsour saying on a Sunday Instagram live session,
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she will hold Mamdani accountable if he fails to deliver.
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Sarsour already raising objections to Mamdani's decision to keep career cop Jessica Tish
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in her post as NYPD commissioner if he is elected, fearing there will be resistance to
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shuttering the Strategic Response Group, or SRG.
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That's a specialized group within the NYPD dedicated to responding to citywide mobilizations,
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I don't have a problem with holding people accountable.
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So voting for Zahran is not, we're going to vote for Zahran and just let him do whatever
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Our job as a movement is we have to hold whoever goes to City Hall accountable.
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I wasn't really happy about the news that he was going to keep Tish on for the NYPD.
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So I'm basically saying to myself, if Zahran is going to be the mayor of New York City,
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and he's going to shut down the Strategic Response Group, the SRG, which is what Zahran
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So if Zahran tells Tish, we're shutting down the, you know, SRG, we're going to do certain
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That means that Tish has to execute the vision of the mayor.
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Now, if she doesn't do that and goes against the mayor, then that's when we're going to
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have to go to Zahran and be like, you definitely made the wrong decision here.
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What are you going to do to hold your police commissioner accountable to the plan?
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We will have full coverage of this on Wednesday morning.
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In the wake of the Democrats' 2024 election wipeout, losing every swing state and the popular
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vote, a new postmortem funded by a left-leaning nonprofit, Democracy Matters, paints an even bleaker
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The results of the nine-month, 21-state research project finding the party seriously struggling
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with working-class voters as 6 in 10 have a negative view of the party, believing it
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According to the report reviewed by Politico, the 3,000 working-class voters surveyed, quote,
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can't name what Democrats stand for other than being against Trump.
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The report also finding Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
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despite drawing large crowds at their fight oligarchy tour, may not be utilizing the most
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According to Politico, in the report, their surveys found, quote, a candidate focused on
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taking on big corporations and the wealthy received 43 percent support, while a candidate,
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quote, focused on fixing the economy so those who work hard can get ahead, earned 52 percent.
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Co-chair of Democracy Matters, Mitch Landrieu, telling Politico, quote,
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not one person in all of our focus groups mentioned the word oligarchy.
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The takeaway, says Democratic pollster Molly Murphy, who contributed to the project, is, quote,
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working-class voters need to know Democrats respect people who build wealth, and we are
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The report finding two key areas of weakness for Dems, immigration and transgender rights.
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From the report, quote, don't say Republicans need to stop attacking LGBT people.
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Instead, say everyone, Republicans and Democrats, need to stop obsessing over this issue.
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One-third of independents, according to the findings, would be, quote,
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much more likely to support Dems if they said, quote,
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Coming up, President Trump warning Nigeria, protect persecuted Christians in your country
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President Trump over the weekend putting the Nigerian government on notice,
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writing Friday afternoon on Truth Social, quote,
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According to an August report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law,
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in the first seven months of this year in Nigeria, more than 7,000 Christians were killed.
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Between 2009 and 2023, that group estimating at least 52,000 Christians were killed,
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with more than 20,000 schools and churches attacked.
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The groups responsible include Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, its offshoots,
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and Fulani militants, a large Muslim group in the region.
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Mr. Trump directing U.S. Congressman from West Virginia, Riley Moore,
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a leading voice against the persecution of Christians in Nigeria,
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along with House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole, to look into the matter and report back.
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The label, country of a particular concern, is a legal designation the president may apply
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to governments found to be, quote, engaged in or tolerating particularly severe violations of religious freedom.
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Under the designation, the State Department may impose a range of penalties,
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including cutting or reducing U.S. aid assistance and blocking U.S. loans to violating countries.
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The first Trump administration designating Nigeria a country of particular concern in December 2020.
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The Biden administration reversing the designation in 2023,
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in an apparent gesture of goodwill ahead of a visit from then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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The Nigerian president responding to President Trump on X, quote,
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The characterization of Nigeria as religiously intolerant does not reflect our national reality,
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nor does it take into consideration the consistent and sincere efforts of the government
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to safeguard freedom of religion and beliefs for all Nigerians.
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Hours later, President Trump posting to Truth Social, quote,
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If the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians,
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the USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria
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and may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns a-blazing,
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to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.
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I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.
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If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet,
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just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians.
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Warning, the Nigerian government better move fast.
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On Air Force One Sunday, the president not ruling out U.S. boots on the ground.
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On Nigeria, just wanted to ask you, do you envisage U.S. boots on the ground or airstrikes?
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A lot of things. They're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria.
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You know that, that part of the world, very bad.
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They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers.
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Some dispute the characterization of the violence as religious persecution.
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The reality on the ground, experts and analysts say,
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Both Christians and Muslims, the two main religious groups in the country of more than 230 million people,
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have been victims of attacks by radical Islamists.
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However, a report from the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa
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finds the violence in Nigeria disproportionately victimizes Christians.
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In the four-year reporting period, the actual ratio of Christians to Muslims killed was 2.7 to 1.
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When taking into account the size of the Christian and Muslim populations in the individual states where attacks occurred,
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the proportional ratio of Christians to Muslims killed rises to 6.5 to 1.
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President Trump's initiative receiving an unexpected endorsement from rapper Nicki Minaj,
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Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude.
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We live in a country where we can freely worship God.
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No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion.
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We don't have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other.
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Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror,
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Thank you to the president and his team for taking this seriously.
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Beloved cartoonist and Dilbert creator Scott Adams facing a critical moment in his fight against metastatic prostate cancer,
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posting a dire call for help to X early Sunday morning, quote,
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On Monday, I will ask President Trump via X to help save my life.
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My health care provider, Kaiser of Northern California,
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has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto,
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But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it,
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I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday.
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That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer.
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It is not a cure, but it does give good results to many people.
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shortly after former President Joe Biden announced his diagnosis with the same type of cancer.
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Within hours of Adams' Sunday announcement, the response building rapidly.
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MAGA World rallying online, amplifying his plea, and working every channel to assist.
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By Sunday afternoon, the appeal making it all the way to the president's desk.
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Mr. Trump responding simply on Truth Social, quote,
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Monday morning on Rumble, Adams describing the behind-the-scenes events.
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I was contacted by Don Jr., who is literally in Africa.
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And then you may have seen that President Trump, best president ever.
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He posted my message to him that was on X yesterday.
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Meanwhile, Kaiser Permanente releasing a statement, quote,
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Mr. Adams' oncology team is working closely with him on the next steps in his cancer care,
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Adams sharing the latest Monday afternoon on X, quote,
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update, getting Pluvicto, the cancer drug, tomorrow via Kaiser, Northern California.
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For context, I waited months for the drug, like everyone else.
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