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HARTFORD Connecticut Republicans have not won the state attorney generals office in more than 60 years as they have been defeated by big-name Democrats like Joe Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal.

But they think this year could be different with attorney Jessica Kordas of Norwalk battling against incumbent Democrat William Tong as Republicans believe they have political momentum at a time of weak poll ratings for President Joe Biden.

Democrats dispute that notion; they have a wide voter registration advantage over Republicans and have swept every statewide and Congressional office since 2006. In addition, Tong has won multiple high-profile settlements over the past four years, including more than $40 billion from multiple drug manufacturers and distributors in a national settlement in connection with deaths from opioids.

Jessica Kordas, Republican candidate for Connecticut attorney general, stands with her children as she is nominated at the State Republican Convention on May 6. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) (Jessica Hill/AP)

A first-time candidate at the age of 39, Kordas said deep concerns about mask requirements imposed on her two children, aged 8 and 10, and their classmates in the public schools sparked her interest in politics during the coronavirus pandemic.

I really got involved this January with fighting against mask mandates, Kordas told The Courant in an interview. Ive been fighting to protect and defend the constitution my entire career. ... In this particular instance, it was hearing my kids cheer when we found out we could choose whether or not to wear masks. We all know that families are unique. Parents should be in a position to make choices. They know their kids and their family situation better than anyone else, and certainly better than administrators at a school and definitely better than the governor making mandates under executive orders.

Kordas is also concerned about the multiple extensions of Gov. Ned Lamonts extraordinary powers, which have since ended. She criticized Tong as a rubber stamp for the governors abuse of power. Part of the reason why the extensions were made six times in 2020 and 2021 by the Democratic-controlled legislature was so that Connecticut could continue a state of emergency in order to qualify for more than $50 million in federal funding that included food stamps for the poor and temporary housing for the homeless.

My freedom is not for sale, Kordas said. I dont intend to sell my childrens freedom, either, simply for the benefit of federal funds coming into our state. Thats not the intention of executive power. It felt so wrong that the attorney general in that particular case did nothing. He certainly didnt protect small businesses from having to be closed and sheltered for so long. He didnt protect children that werent being properly educated, that were having trouble learning different phonics. If you cant see someones mouth, its really hard to understand the difference between the M and N sound from behind a mask. It left parents in a position where we didnt have a choice. We had to stand up and do something.

Told of his opponents concerns about mask mandates, Tong responded, I believe in science. I believe in masks. I believe in vaccines. I believe in trusting public health professionals. Period.

Tong stressed that, under state law, he is required to represent the governor and all state agencies, such as the departments of transportation and social services. When the governor is sued in his official capacity, Tong and his office must legally defend the governor regardless of whether the office holder is Republican or Democrat.

Ive heard some suggestion that I should have opposed the governor or that I had an obligation to oppose the governor, Tong said. Anybody who suggests that has no idea what the job of attorney general is.

Tong said he would not get into a back-and-forth with Kordas on every point, adding, Im going to run by doing my job.

In a state where Democrats have won every election for Congress and statewide office since 2006, party members believe there is little chance that Tong could lose. Democrats have more than 800,000 registered voters, compared to Republicans with about 455,000 in Connecticut. The largest group is unaffiliated voters at more than 900,000.

Aside from Democrats, Tong has won the endorsement of the union-backed Working Families Party, giving him an important extra ballot line in November. He also held the partys line in 2018, helping ensure his victory with the grassroots assistance of volunteers through door-knocking and phone-banking.

Outside of the state, Tong is supported by the Democratic Attorneys General Association.

Hes fearlessly protected his states consumers on everything from utility bills to potential online crimes and scams, said Sean Rankin, the associations president. Hes brought millions back to Connecticuts residents in settlements, and hes going to continue putting Connecticut families first when hes reelected.

State attorney general William Tong stands with Christine Gagnon and her daughter Daria during the announcement of the signing of aproclamationdeclaring Aug. 31 as Overdose Awareness Day in Connecticut. The Gagnons lost their son and brother, Michael J. Gagnon, 22, to a drug overdose on July 17, 2017. (Douglas Hook / Hartford Courant) (Douglas Hook)

Sitting in a West Hartford restaurant near where he grew up, Tong talked in detail about the large number of settlements he has reached in major cases. In addition, after three decades of fights, negotiations and litigation, Tong settled the Sheff vs. ONeill school desegregation lawsuit and the Juan F. consent decree that oversaw the Department of Children and Families under multiple governors.

In terms of multistate work and settlements, this has been an extraordinary and consequential four years, Tong said in an interview. It has been transformative.

The most recent settlement requires e-cigarette manufacturer JUUL Labs to pay nearly $440 million in connection with marketing and selling to minors as officials attempt to cut down on youth tobacco use.

Tong also forced utilities to pay more than $100 million for problems with slow responses to power outages related to Tropical Storm Isaias. He has won money for consumers from Eversource, United Illuminating, Yankee Gas and Frontier.

From consumer finance and health care to student loans and robocalls, Tong and his team have won hundreds of millions in settlements for consumers and the state. He led a multistate lawsuit against price-fixing by large manufacturers known as Big Pharma and generic drug-makers.

Currently, he is battling against some of the biggest names in America in antitrust cases against Google and Facebook, along with investigating allegations of harm to children by TikTok and Instagram. He also sued ExxonMobil in September 2020, saying that the company knew for decades that burning gasoline leads to climate change.

Tong credits his success, in part, to an understanding of a wide variety of legal issues, gained as the co-chairman of the General Assemblys judiciary committee, and of how corporations operate, gained while working for two large law firms, including New York City-based Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

State Attorney General William Tong was interrupted at a restaurant table by a West Hartford native who complained about her home heating oil prices for this winter in a handwritten note she presented to him on a napkin. (Christopher Keating)

The biggest issue arguably has been opioids as Tong said he has been seeking even greater accountability against the addiction industry in the face of significant opposition from other states and played a pivotal role in securing a historic $32.5 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic across the country, including approximately $400 million to Connecticut alone.

He added, Through my negotiations, I also secured the opportunity for victims and their families to personally address the most egregious profiters in this tragedy: the Sacklers.

Whether by telephone or email, Tong receives a wide variety of complaints from consumers about price gouging or poor service.

During an interview with The Courant at a restaurant, Tong was approached by a West Hartford native who complained about the jaw-dropping price increases in her home heating oil for this winter in a handwritten note that she presented to him on a napkin. Tong promised to look into the issue.

This is what we do every day, Tong said. I have a dedicated team that focuses on utility customer advocacy, and we have a dedicated constituent services team.

Saying, "This stinks and I promise you I will fight it with every fiber of my being," Ken Krayeske speaks out against a proposed minor league baseball stadium in Hartford at a Hartford City Council meeting in 2014. (Courant file photo) (Mark Mirko / Hartford Courant)

The third candidate in the race is attorney Ken Krayeske,running as a member of the Green Party, which has not won a statewide race in Connecticut in decades.

The Green Party has 1,233 registered members a tiny fraction when compared to more than 800,000 Democrats, more than 455,000 Republicans, and more than 900,000 unaffiliated voters.

Since the Green Party captured more than 1% of the vote in the attorney generals race in 2018, the party has an automatic ballot line for the seat.

Krayeske is not a newcomer to politics. As a blogger and political activist, he gained attention in January 2007 when he was arrested during Gov. M. Jodi Rells inaugural parade. But some lawmakers said he never should have been arrested for breach of peace and interfering with police, and the charges were dismissed by a judge.

In 2010, he ran against U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, a Democratic powerhouse, and captured 1.2% of the vote. Krayeske also served as the campaign manager during the 2006 governors race for Green Party candidate Cliff Thornton, who won 0.85% of the vote.

Krayeske is known partly for asking UConn mens basketball coach Jim Calhoun in February 2009 if he would relinquish some of his $1.6 million salary as the states highest-paid employee as a gesture to help solve the states budget deficit. Calhouns response that he would return not a dime became national news in the sports world and is still available on YouTube 13 years later.

As Krayeske persisted in his questioning in a quickly escalating clash, Calhoun said, Youre not really that stupid, are you?

Yeah, I am, Krayeske responded.

My best advice to you: shut up, Calhoun said.

A year later, Krayeske graduated from the University of Connecticut law schoo and worked for a Meriden law firm. He opened his own firm in July 2013 and now specializes as a solo practitioner in federal civil rights litigation.

His website includes the quotation from a deceased attorney and Harvard Law School graduate who said that a lawyers either a social engineer or ... a parasite on society.

In addition to winning various settlements, Krayeske filed a class-action lawsuit that prompted the state correction department to test and treat all prisoners for hepatitis C. The state has tested about 20,000 prisoners spending $40 million to help cure some prisoners of the liver infection.

When we use the law to lift the health care of the lowest rung of the societal ladder, we take one step closer to Medicare for all, Krayeske said. I encourage the voters of the state to imagine what could be possible if someone like me won the seat.

Krayeske admitted that his race is a long shot, but he vowed to continue fighting to generate a conversation about civil rights and to force a debate with his two opponents that has not yet been scheduled.

We never know who the Tunisian fruit vendor is that is going to spark an Arab Spring, Krayeske said, referring to the uprisings and protests in multiple countries. But we must continue to prime the pump and take risks. I do not suppose for one second that my candidacy is going to spark a revolution. ... But Ive caught lightning in a bottle before.

Christopher Keating can be reached at ckeating@courant.com.

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For Matthew, the Queens death is double edged: Theres cause for celebration in the sense that it might kickstart the end of the monarchy but its frustrating because I darent say that to anyone but my wife!

He admits crafting several Facebook posts arguing that the death of Queen Elizabeth II ought to preempt the UKs transition to a republic but has shied away from pressing send. A lot of people seem very emotional at the moment and I dont want to be the target of a massive pile-on by trolls, said Matthew (not his real name).

Other republicans admit they feel bullied into supporting something they dont believe in. I feel unable to express an opinion without being branded disrespectful, so therefore Ive been funnelled into complying with the countrys grief, said Aisha, who also requested a pseudonym.

As someone who believes the monarchy is an outdated concept that compromises our democratic right and signifies colonialism, I am suddenly being turned into the bad guy for deciding not to celebrate that aspect of the Queens life.

People blur the line between her as a person who did a lot of amazing things and her as a queen, and thats where they get defensive, she said.

However, groups representing the views of Britains republicans say that now is not the time to be cowed into suppressing their beliefs.

Aware of supporters electing to self-censor and hearing reports of others admitting they are too petrified to air their views for fear of being cancelled, the main republican campaign group is actively pushing calls to abolish the monarchy.

Obviously people will be careful not to cause offence, but this is also a public office that needs to be debated, said Graham Smith, spokesperson for Republic, which is campaigning to replace the monarchy with an elected head of state. People still have every right to say whatever they think they shouldnt feel cowed. But there is a lot of concern, particularly on social media, about being censored or saying the wrong thing.

As coverage of the Queens death continues to dominate broadcast schedules, Smith anticipated ambivalence would become the overriding response for millions during the days ahead. There is an appetite for a lot of this, but there will be a point where people feel its going too far or going on for too long. Theres going be a lot of people switching over to Netflix and other streaming channels.

The saturation point for many, he envisaged, would be the middle of this week and although he anticipated overt republican and anti-monarchy sentiment to decline around the Queens funeral, he expected a resurgence soon after, when many predict the UK will enter a different era of debate over the future of its royal family.

Smith believes admiration for the Queen has largely repressed republicanism, with the issue likely to be imbued with renewed energy. The Queen was the monarchy for most people and has been all our lives. Charles will not inherit that level of deference and respect, and this really does change the whole dynamic, he said.

It was notable, the group said, that even during the hours immediately following the announcement of the Queens death on Thursday evening, it received a rise in support. Republic recorded more than 2,000 new followers during the 24 hours after the announcement. Were also getting an influx of people signing up to us, added Smith.

Although polls have consistently shown that the vast majority of Britons back the monarchy republicans have long accepted they had no chance of changing the system while the Queen was alive support for the monarchy has been falling.

Charles is a very different kettle of fish. If support was dropping anyway, its not going to go up, said Smith.

Polling ahead of the celebrations for the countrys first-ever platinum jubilee earlier this year suggested that 62% of Britons said they supported the monarchy. A decade earlier, however, the same polling company YouGov reported that figure was 11 points higher, at 73%. YouGov polling also revealed that almost a quarter 22% of people in the UK now support abolishing the monarchy, a pronounced increase from a decade earlier.

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The NRCC also will air ads for the first time in three open seats: $2.7 million in a new district in North Carolinas Research Triangle, where Republican Bo Hines faces Democratic state Sen. Wiley Nickel; $2.6 million in a newly created district in the northern Denver suburbs, where Republican Barb Kirkmeyer is challenging state Rep. Yadira Caraveo; and $3.4 million in an open district in northeastern Ohio, where Democratic state Rep. Emilia Sykes faces Republican Madison Gesiotto Gilbert.

These buys give insight into what Republican strategists see as the clearest path to taking back the House. Additional spending is expected in the next two months.

We are continuing to expand the playing field deeper into Democrat-held territory and look forward to prosecuting the case against every one of these vulnerable Democrats, NRCC Chair Tom Emmer said in a statement.

The committee also upped its investment in Republican-held turf, too.

It will spend $2.2 million in its first ad buy to defend Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.). And the NRCC increased its spending to protect Reps. David Valadao (R-Calif.), Mike Garcia (R-Calif.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio). All hold districts that Biden carried in 2020, leaving them increasingly vulnerable.

The NRCC also added to existing reservations in another eight districts currently held by Democrats, including Reps. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) and Angie Craig (D-Minn.), as well as districts currently held by retiring Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.) and Conor Lamb (D-Pa.). It will also spend another $1.9 million to target Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and $1 million against Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.).

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Kevin McCarthy has promised to fulfill a Commitment to America if Republicans take back the House in November: The American Dream will be revived, he says. The nation will be made safe and free, and everything will get back on the right track. But what would a GOP return to power really look like? One word: Payback.

For all the minority leaders pseudo-inspirational campaign promises, priority number one for a Republican majority appears to be revenge. Not only would McCarthy likely gavel a range of partisan investigations, from inquiries into Hunter Biden to a political probe into the January 6 committee. His majority might also attempt to mount impeachments against President Joe Biden and, according to Semafors Kadia Goba, several other administration officials, including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.

Much of this growing vendetta appears to be coming from the furthest right flank, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has already repeatedly pushed for Bidens impeachment. (By her own account, Greene also drafted articles of impeachment last month against Garland following the FBI raid on Donald Trumps Florida home.) But McCarthy has consistently refused to stand up to radicals in his party like Greene, instead coddling them while casting out Trump critics like Liz Cheney. Theres no reason to think he wouldnt continue to do so should he assume the speakership, especially since McCarthy himself teased a Garland probe after the Mar-a-Lago search.

Its fair to assume, then, that a Republican-led House would waste little time getting to work on Trumps behalf. As Politico pointed out Thursday, as much as 60 percent of the GOP caucus next year will have served only since 2017, roughly the beginning of the Trump era. That could mean a majority in the lower chamber that is, at best, barely in touch with Biden and, at worst, harbors an open hostility toward him. Republicans claim thats because the president has made no attempt at outreach across the aisle. McCarthy has been ignored for two years, vilified to some degree, as Republican Representative Tom Cole complained to Politico. I think theyll probably learn to regret that. Of course, that's rich coming from Republicans, when 147 of those on Capitol Hill, including McCarthy, voted against certifying Bidens 2020 victory, even after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed Congress. Many of them still cant bring themselves to acknowledge Bidens presidency as legitimate, let alone do anything that could be construed as bipartisan. There will be gridlock if Republicans take one or both chambers that much is certain. But itll be hard to blame Biden for it, given the GOP's stated intent to use their power to settle scores on behalf of Trump.

None of this is to say Biden or his administration are or should be above congressional oversight. Members of both parties have raised legitimate questions about, say, the execution of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and its aftermath. But politically motivated impeachments and probes into Trump-backed conspiracy theories have less in common with the congressional inquiries Democrats launched after taking the House in 2018, during Trump's presidency, and more in common with the Republicans ceaseless investigations into Hillary Clinton at the tail end of Barack Obamas presidency. McCarthy doomed his previous shot at the speakership when he essentially admitted, in 2015, that the Benghazi probe was meant, at least in part, to tank Clintons political standing. Seven years later, such acknowledgements have perhaps become the surest path to the gavel.

Before exacting any kind of payback, McCarthys party obviously has to score sweeping wins in midterms first. And while the odds remain in the GOP's favor, there are no guarantees. The GOP has already revised its forecast for the Senate as Democrats continue to build momentum, Republicans struggle with fundraising, and Mitch McConnell frets over candidate quality. The GOP has maintained its optimism about retaking the House, but voter outrage over abortion-rights rollbacks and concerns about the future of democracy could throw a wrench in the party's plans. Could the specter of House Republicans retaliating on behalf of Trump for the next two years be yet another electoral wildcard?

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Way back in the summer of 2016, a phenomenon appeared in several political polls that nobody in the American media could explain. Donald Trump seemed to be performing exceptionally well among Hispanic voters in Florida. It was bizarre, so bizarre that everyone knew it could not be happening. It was scientifically impossible. If there's one thing that every reporter in America understood, it was that Donald Trump hated Hispanics like the devil hates holy water.

Some believed Trump was planning a national ban on picante sauce. That's how deep and implacable his hatred was and yet, according to whatjournalists refer to as "the data", actual Hispanics seem to like Donald Trump. Cognitive dissonance is the term that describes what happened next. How could the numbers show something that couldn't be happening? So, the Miami Herald looked into it and their conclusion was fairly straightforward: Hispanic voters in Florida were mentally ill and also evil.

As one Miami Herald columnist put it, "Donald Trump's Cuban-American followers suffer from "Cuban Supremacy Syndrome." It's an old national ailment of the soul." So, that was the diagnosis, something called Cuban Supremacy Syndrome, a serious but previously unknown medical condition like ADHD or long COVID. Someone better call a doctor. This could be fatall. But before the medical establishment could intervene to save Hispanic voters from themselves, this ailment spread like the virus it was, first from Florida, then to Texas and then across the country.

By 2020, it was endemic. In the presidential election that year, Donald Trump, the guy who wanted to build a wall, became the first Republican in history to win Zapata County, Texas. Zapata County, Texas is approximately 94% Hispanic (94%) and he won. For the Democratic Party, this was an emergency made worse by the fact that there were no Cubans in Zapata County, Texas. It's pretty much all Mexican-American, so Cuban Supremacy Syndrome could not be the cause of it. And that's what a man calledEduardo Gamarracame to the rescue.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a rally to support local candidates on Sept. 3, 2022 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Now, Gamarrais a blue-eyed college professor from Florida who has somehow convinced news organizations that he is the world's authority on what recently arrived poor people from Central America really think and he had a new diagnosis. Gamarra, NBC News reported, found a "casual link between misinformation and disinformation and how Spanish speakers have voted in recent elections."

Of course, it was obvious Putin did it, just like Putin caused inflation and monkeypox and that war in Europe. According to Professor Gamarra, Hispanic voters were just too stupid to realize what was going on. They had no idea they were being fooled. They're just too dumb to Democrats. This explanation made perfect sense, of course, and they bought it. A survey last month from WPA intelligence found that more than half of CNN and MSNBC viewers now believe that "disinformation is compelling Hispanic voters to vote Republican." Here's NBC News.

REPORTER: It's a phenomenon that's having real world effects. In Florida, 40% of Cuban Americans say they don't believe President Joe Biden was legitimately elected and given that Latinos spend more time on social media than their non-Hispanic White counterparts, it's a problem that's not going away, but it's not just happening in Florida. In Texas, Democratic strategists are sounding the alarm about a wave of misinformation aimed at Latinos heading into 2022.

Did you hear that? Democratic strategists are sounding the alarm that Latinos spend so much time staring glassy-eyed at their phones that they now have questions about the fairness of the last election. How to fix this? Obviously, we're going to need a lot more censorship to keep this disinformation away from all those gullible Latinos. Someone get Mark Zuckerberg on the phone immediately. It's hilarious.

The bad news about the Democratic Party, obviously, is that it has become authoritarian. The good news is it remains ridiculous.

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These are people who believe their own improbable propaganda. It sets up the real explanation. So, what is the answer? Why exactly are Hispanic voters moving to the right? They definitely are. The latest Fox News polling shows that 72% of Hispanic voters are not satisfied with the direction the Democrats are taking in the United States. Why? Why is that? What problem do Latino voters have with the Democratic Party?

Well, the answer might be as obvious as it seems. They just don't like what we've got now. It is entirely possible that, like all normal people, Hispanic voters have come to despise the entitled urban liberals who run everything, and why wouldn't they despise them? Those people are absurd. Not a single word they utter is sincere ever and everything they touch turns to filth. We can give you countless examples of this, but we're going to pull one from today's news.

Washington, D.C. Council member Brianne Nadeauhas long promised to love and protect illegal aliens in Washington, D.C and thanks to her and many like her local government, the District of Columbia is now a "sanctuary city." That's how much they love illegal aliens,Brianne Nadeauespecially. She loves them and yet the moment actual illegal aliens showed up in Washington, D.C., sent by the governor of Texas,Brianne Nadeau became completely hysterical about it. Watch this.

BRIANNE NADEAU: It's been said, but it's worth reiterating that the governors of Texas and Arizona have created this crisis and in many ways, the governors of Texas and Arizona have turned us into a border town.

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They've turned us into a border town. Really? Why is that bad? What's wrong with border towns? Weren't you just telling us, Brianne Nadeau, how great border towns are, so much diversity, so much strength.

But as it turns out, and this probably won't shock you, Brianne Nadeaudidn't mean any of it.Brianne Nadeaudoesn't want illegal aliens in her neighborhood any more than the overwhelmingly Hispanic voters of Zapata County, Texas, want them in theirs. So, what would that makeBrianne Nadeau?Well, a disgusting little hypocrite. You knew that already. A lot of Hispanic voters are learning it now. So, there's that: the basic repulsiveness of Democratic Party leaders by the way, nearly all of whom are openly hostile to the historic Christianity of Latin America that a lot of immigrants still believe in. But then there's also crime.

Crime is the big one. It seems likely that more than any other issue, crime, the increase in crime in the United States, is moving Hispanic voters to the right. They see, as we all see, liberals aggressively encouraging crime. Crime destroys their neighborhoods. Crime destroys the lives of the weakest and these voters, like all voters watched Nancy Pelosi call MS-13children of God at the same moment thatMS-13members were hacking Salvadoran immigrants to death with machetes. Remember when Pelosi said that? Here it is.

NANCY PELOSI: We're all God's children. There's a spark of divinity in every person on Earth and so when the president of the United States says about undocumented immigrants, these aren't people, these are animals, you have to wonder, does he not believe in the spark of divinity, the dignity and worth of every person?

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at a press conference. (Getty Images)

So, they watch someone who clearly doesn't actually believe in God, invoke God repeatedly to defend something that's completely indefensible. Just a year before Pelosi's heartfelt tribute toMS-13an MS-13 gang member stabbed a man outside Washington more than 100 times and then beheaded him and ripped out his heart. That was a child of God? No, Trump was right. That was an animal. Hispanic voters can see that. Most of them did not go to Yale Law School to their great credit.

Just days ago, a man calledJose Solano Landaetabeheaded a mother on the street in Silicon Valley. Her two young children watched as he murdered her and who was this man? We reached out to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office officials to learn more about him. We asked, was he here in the country illegally? And here's the response that we got. "I'm sorry, I'm not able to share that information."

Why is that? Well, we can guess why, because, of course, there's a very high chance that this man was in the country illegally and not by accident. Democrats have suspended border enforcement to win the love of Hispanic voters. What they apparently did not realize because they're not super bright, is that Hispanic voters don't want violent lunatics in their neighborhoods either. They're not into beheading people. Who knew?

There's one other factor that may be moving this large and centrally important group of voters to the right. People whose families have immigrated from the third world may be more sensitive than most to the importance of the rule of law. The rule of law is the one thing that America has always had that the rest of world has not. That's why people come here and most immigrants consider it important still. Liberals do not consider it important. They're working to end it. Equal protection under the law is disappearing.

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At every level of American life, Liberals apply an obvious double standard and that double standard is based on race. That would be matters of education and employment, obviously, but also matters of law enforcement and criminal justice. Liberals put up with certain behavior from some people that they would never accept in other people. That is the definition of unfairness, but you see it every single day. Remember the arrest of that Dominican bodega owner in New York, the guy who was violently assaulted by a man whose girlfriend tried to rob the store? The bodega owner tried to defend himself, and he stabbed his attacker, as most people would.

Authorities in New York charged that man with murder and sentenced to jail and everyone could tell this was a double standard. Would an elderly Black bodega owner had been arrested for stabbing a Dominican attacker? Obviously not. No one said it, but everyone saw it and everyone understood the unfairness of that, including Hispanic voters. Why would they like it? If they wanted to live in a deeply unfair society, they would have stayed in the countries their ancestors came from, but they came here because it's a fair society. That's the main appeal of America, not a robust economy, but the fact that we're all equal under the law.

That's the one thing other countries don't have and we do or did. So, there's a double standard and everyone sees it and it's not just the level of bodega owners, it goes to the very top of the Democratic Party, to its top candidates. In South Carolina, for example, Democrats have nominated a Senate candidate, U.S. Senate, called Krystle Matthews. Krystle Matthews was caught on tape recently by James O'Keefe's group, Project Veritas, openly advocating for punishing people because they're the wrong skin color. Not exaggerating. Here's the tape.

MATTHEWS:My district is slightly Republican and its heavily White. I'm no stranger to White people, I'm from a mostly White town and let me tell you one thing: You oughta know who youre dealing with, like, you gotta treat them like s---, I mean, thats the only way theyll respect you.

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Got to hurt White people or they won't respect you. She said that. That video is real and yet somehow no one seems to have noticed. Krystle Matthewsis not on the front page of The New York Times this morning. There was no Justice Department investigation into her. That's weird and everyone knows it's weird, but it's hardly the only shocking news story that's not being covered as a news story. Also missing from mainstream coverage is this video from Memphis of young criminal promising to murder White people because of their skin color.

MAN: He already shot a White old man. Im fixin to shoot a White old lady while her grandkids are in the car

So, that video was recorded just a day after the rampage, the murder rampage in the same city Memphis, committed by a felon called Ezekiel Kelly. Ezekiel Kelly, like so many people who've committed murder recently, was let out of jail early. but no one in charge in the Democratic Party in Memphis even bothered by that. In fact, while he was killing people, a state representative in Tennessee, a Democrat called Antonio Parkinson, complained that the real problem was police might hurt Ezekiel Kelly. That was his main concern. "This is unbelievable. Ezekiel Kellywill probably be killed tonight at the hands of police. We are losing our children," he wrote.

Really? That's your concern? So, in all three of these stories, we've just reminded you of the bodega owner in New York,Krystle Matthewsin South Carolina, the anti-White violence in Memphis, no one's noticing. Joe Biden's DOJis standing back and doing nothing. In other words, they're allowing violent race hate to flourish in the United States at the same time they are telling you White supremacy is the biggest threat we face. This is terrifying on many levels, but above all, once again, it is an attack not on any specific ethnic group, but on a principle that protects all of us and that's the principle of equal justice under the law.

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If you move to the United States from Latin America hoping to live under a fair justice system, this might bother you and a lot of people are bothered. They didn't want to live in Honduras. That's why they moved here and yet no one in Washington on either side, the Democrats who are making this possible, the Republicans who are still yammering on about criminal justice reform seem to understand this. But you know who does understand? The Hispanic immigrants. They understand it very well. They see that it's not safe anywhere. Anywhere, not just in the so-called bad neighborhoods, but in the so-called nice neighborhoods, the ones they live in or want to live in. This video is from Sunday. It was taken in a Chicago suburb called Lakeview. Three men attack a woman on the sidewalk in front of her home. Watch this.

You see that? That's not some scary neighborhood a roll-em-up neighborhood. That's the neighborhood you live in, or you want to live in. That's the neighborhood you picture when you think middle America. It's a nice, leafy neighborhood. That could be your daughter attacked on the sidewalk in front of your house. That's happening and it's going to get a lot worse if we don't pull back now, but they're not pulling back. The Democratic Party is doubling down. In January, police in the state of Illinois will be banned from removing trespassers from your property. The Democrat-controlled legislature just passed that law. Effectively, they have legalized home invasions and there will likely be many more of those because starting next year, the Safety Act just passed in Illinois will let violent felons out of jail with no bail actual violent felons, people who committed crimes like second degree murder and arson and kidnaping.

What will happen then? Well, I think we know because it's been tried in other places like New York City, where people are regularly shot, beaten and robbed in public, People who could not be held behind bars because Democrats decided that was mean. They're worried about the criminals and not worried about you. And once again, to restate, if you siloed Hispanic voters into this one specific group whose concerns are totally different from everyone else's you're missing the thread. That's not true. Hispanic voters like every other voter, every voter of every race, they don't like crime and violence, but it's everywhere. These clips are all from the last month.

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REPORTER ON SHOOTING IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: People sitting outside suddenly scrambled to get out of the way as one man pops out of the sunroof and another out of the passenger window. They both start shooting.

REPORTER ON BRUTAL SUCKER PUNCH: An arrest is made in this brutal, cowardly sucker punch at the Kings Plaza Mall. Police say 21-year-oldJahiem Davisis facing assault charges.

REPORTER ON DISABLED MAN ROBBED ON THE BUS: Surveillance video from the S40 MTA bus caught the incident on August 13th that shows the suspect walking up to a 64-year-old victim who is sitting in that wheelchair. Cops say he grabbed $250 from the man.

REPORTER ON BASEBALL BAT ATTACK:A man got into a dispute with some others at that location. One of them hit him with a baseball bat and another punched him in the face.

REPORTER ON RECENT MOPED ROBBERIES: Surveillance video caught them as they went up to a 28-year-old victim and her friend. The two were walking on the sidewalk when the duo went up to them and tried to grab, according to detectives, the victim's necklace from her neck. Police say the trio rode onto the sidewalk and the passengers from the dirt bike jumped off and forcibly removed a Rolex watch from the victim's wrist.

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What country is this? It didn't used to be America. This is not organic. We didn't used to live like this. Liberals did this. They did this on purpose. They created more crime. It didn't just happen, and the numbers couldn't be clearer on that. Any Republican running for office this cycle, which is to say the month after next, who wasn't running on this, is an idiot because everyone knows it's happening of all colors.

Just today local media in New York reported that a 21-year-old tourist was kidnaped and raped on a subway platform by a stranger. Are you shocked by that? You shouldn't be. That's what happens when you stop enforcing the law. That's what happens when you put the interests of criminals above those of citizens. Everyone can see what's happening, no matter what color they are. Democrats should not be surprised when they are punished for this.

Tucker Carlson currently serves as the host of FOX News Channels (FNC) Tucker Carlson Tonight (weekdays 8PM/ET). He joined the network in 2009 as a contributor.

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