Two Democrats vying for the same seat in New York are going viral for saying they would cheer for a team other than the U.S. team in the World Cup.

At the end of a WPIX-TV candidates’ forum, Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat and his socialist challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier (D) were asked who they believed would win the final game of the global soccer tournament.

‘I can’t imagine an elected official not rooting for the country they are officially elected for.’

Chevalier said she was supporting Senegal, while Espaillat said he rooted for Mexico.

Espaillat said earlier in the forum that he had been an illegal alien after overstaying his visa before legalizing his status. Chevalier is the daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and spent much of her time growing up there and Florida. Espaillat was also originally from the Dominican Republic.

A video clip of the exchange was posted to social media, where many were outraged that neither had said they were backing the U.S. soccer team.

“It’s just a soccer game, you might say. but that’s exactly why this strikes me as so insane. there are zero stakes, the easiest ‘I care about america’ in the world, and they still can’t support our country. in fact, they seem to see any demonstration of support as a liability,” writer Mike Solana said.

“These scumbags can’t even root for the USA in the World Cup. Their loyalty is to everywhere but here. That’s exactly why Americans are rejecting them,” one user said on X.

“It is so crazy. I can’t imagine an elected official not rooting for the country they are officially elected for,” another user said.

Others called for them to be immediately expelled from Congress.

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Still others argued that they were being pragmatic, as the U.S. men’s team is considered a long shot to make it to the finals, despite its decisive first victory.

The contest between Espaillat and Chevalier is seen as a battle between the centrist establishment wing of the party and the far-left socialist fringe trying to take over. Chevalier has already had to apologize for extremists posts she previously made about abolishing private property, prisons, and police.

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An 18-year-old male allegedly gunned down a 40-year-old mother as she protected her son amid a Facebook Marketplace watch transaction last week in Indiana.

John Harrison Ford is now charged with murder, felony murder, attempted murder, and attempted armed robbery after Jean Gragg died from her injuries Saturday, WNDU-TV reported, citing amended charging documents. Ford also faces a felony firearm enhancement, the station said.

‘2 words….DEATH PENALTY!’

The shooting occurred Wednesday, June 10, in the 2600 block of MacArthur Avenue on South Bend’s east side, WNDU reported.

Police said Gragg’s son was trying to sell a watch to Ford as part of a transaction he arranged through Facebook Marketplace, the station said.

Gragg’s son told police that Ford pulled a gun while looking at the watch, said he needed it, and tried snatching it from the son, WNDU reported.

But police said Gragg got in between Ford and her son and chased Ford away from the property, the station said.

Surveillance video shows Ford shooting toward Gragg multiple times after she turned around and ran back toward the home, WNDU reported, citing investigators. Police said Gragg was shot in the head, the station said.

Ford during an interview with detectives reportedly admitted that he shot Gragg, WNDU reported.

He remained Tuesday in St. Joseph County Jail, records indicate. No bail is listed.

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More than 150 comments hit the sheriff’s office Facebook post about the upgraded charges. The following are but a few of them:

“Life in prison,” one commenter wrote.”If you’re gonna sell stuff on Marketplace, go to the South Bend police station, 701 W. Sample onto East End,” another user said. “They have a designated area with cameras. It’s a safe zone. I use it all the time.””Condolences to her family,” another commenter reacted.”2 words….DEATH PENALTY!” another user suggested.”Public hanging,” another commenter offered.”Does he look sorry?” another user wondered.

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A high school teenager won a $95K settlement after a school accused her of vandalizing a rock with a tribute to Charlie Kirk and then painted over it.

Ardrey Kell High School student Gabby Stout said she got permission from officials for the tribute on a large rock at the school that students painted to support various causes.

‘Today’s settlement shows that students do have free speech rights, and school officials, when they overstep their bounds, can be held accountable.’

The design had a large red heart with the benign messages “Freedom 1776” and “Live Like Kirk — John 11:25.”

After she painted the innocuous tribute, the school officials apparently changed their minds, painted over it, and then accused her of vandalism. They also said there was an investigation under way and that law enforcement had been contacted.

Stout told Fox News she was shocked by the school’s actions.

“I was very intimidated and scared, as I had no idea what I did wrong or that I could be getting in trouble for simply sharing and expressing my views and beliefs,” she said.

Stout’s family was represented by Alliance Defending Freedom in court.

“The school’s paying a very substantial settlement here because it violated Gabby Stout’s constitutional rights,” ADF senior legal counsel Travis Barham said.

“They publicly accused Gabby of engaging in vandalism, of violating the school student code of conduct,” Barham added.

The school made the accusation in an email sent to the entire community. In the settlement, the school was forced to make another statement admitting the accusation was false.

“That’s exactly the kind of name‑clearing statement that we wanted to get from the school from the outset,” Barham said.

Barham had previously noted that the students were allowed to make other political statements on the rock, including one for the Black Lives Matter movement, without incident.

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The lawsuit also forced the school to adopt a formal student free speech policy in order to have a consistent policy about expression.

“Today’s settlement shows that students do have free speech rights, and school officials, when they overstep their bounds, can be held accountable,” Barham added.

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Conservatives need to stop treating California’s election system as untouchable — and BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler knows how, saying, “We don’t have to accept the rigged system, the rigged election system in California, just because it’s California.”

“The federal government has multiple things that can be done to ensure the integrity of California elections,” she adds.

“If we do not do something to secure the integrity of our elections, then we aren’t the constitutional republic that we have been,” she says, noting that despite this fear, she’s “not blackpilled.”

“The radical left has defeated us in many ways, but they have not totally defeated us. And we, the right, have finally recognized, we’ve finally acknowledged the reality of this political enemy that we face. And that is the fundamental thing necessary in order to construct our defense to defeat them,” she explains.

While Wheeler notes that the leftist majority isn’t going to change in California, there’s still hope for change.

“There are mechanisms that can be used by the federal government to entice, incentivize, or essentially coerce states into doing certain things if that state is also receiving federal money,” she continues.

Wheeler points to drinking age laws as an example.

“The federal government, the United States Congress, the House and the Senate, and then the president, the executive branch, also have authority under the General Welfare Clause,” she explains.

“The Reagan administration did not exceed their authority because they ruled that this specific provision, this 21-year-old drinking age, was related to highway safety,” she continues, noting that this law was pushed through “negative reinforcement.”

“There’s also a precedent of positive reinforcement regarding car seats, children’s car seats and booster seats. And you can think that car seat laws are too restrictive or not. That’s kind of the morality of the thing is not even the point that I’m making,” she says.

“There’s precedent on the books of the federal government being able to influence state laws simply by offering positive or negative reinforcement when it comes to the funding that states so readily accept and depend on from the federal government,” she continues.

“So what I would propose to you today,” she adds, “is why doesn’t President Trump do this?”

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While Democrats are hoping for a “blue wave” to hit Election Day and hand over control of Congress, CNN’s political analyst is tossing cold water on those expectations.

Harry Enten showed how the polling ahead of the election shows Democrats are not performing as well as they were in previous midterm elections against a Republican president.

‘It is no guarantee; it is far from a guarantee at this point if you believe these pollsters.’

Democrats are up by five percentage points in generic congressional polling from NBC News, but at the same point of the 2006 midterms, Democrats were ahead by 11 points in polling, and in 2018, they were ahead 10 points.

“And now the Democratic lead is on a single hand,” Enten said.

“Democrats are ahead, but don’t count your chickens just quite yet.”

He showed other signs that the blue wave is receding from the shoreline.

“So this is not just one poll in which we are seeing this. There is this group of pollsters that are out there that are just not showing the wave you might expect given where the president’s approval rating is,” he explained.

In three separate polls shared by Enten, Democrats failed to increase support from January and February as compared to the results from the same polling four months later. The NBC poll showed them losing 1% of support, Marquette Law School showed them losing 3%, and the Ipsos poll had them even.

Enten went on to point out that redistricting in Republican-controlled states has further eroded Democrats’ edge.

“We really think that Democrats need between three- and four-point advantage in the national polls. You average those polls together … it’s right on the border there. It’s right on the border. It is no guarantee; it is far from a guarantee at this point if you believe these pollsters.”

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Democrats have about a 78% chance to win the House of Representatives, according to prediction markets shared by Enten, but Republicans have a 57% chance of maintaining control of the Senate.

On Monday, Enten posted video of the segment to his social media account, where it garnered hundreds of thousands of views.

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