Morning Wire - Tuesday’s Afternoon Update | 09.13.22

Episode Date: September 13, 2022

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Hey, I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, September 13th, and this is your Morning Wire Drive-Home Afternoon Update. The Consumer Price Index rose 8.3% between August of 2021 and August of 2022, according to a Tuesday report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rating marks a decline from the 8.5% year-over-year rate seen in July and the 9.1% rate seen in June, as gasoline prices continue to fall. However, month-over-month prices for food, shelter, and medical services rose a concerning 6.3%. Economists had predicted a decline. This led to a massive sell-off on Wall Street. A majority of Twitter shareholders have voted in favor of a $44 billion deal to sell the social media company to Elon Musk. Musk, however, is still attempting to terminate the purchase, saying fake or bought accounts on the platform could be as high as 33% rather than the 5% reported by the company.

In a letter addressed to President Biden, the Arizona Sheriff's Association criticized the Biden administration for its handling of illegal immigration and expressed their lack of confidence in CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus. The U.S. Department of Justice signaled in a court filing this week that it is open to accepting one of former President Donald Trump's picks to be the special master who reviews the documents that the FBI sees from Mar-a-Lago last month.

Prosecutors said in a court filing that they would approve of, Raymond J. Deary for the role due to his, quote, substantial judicial experience. The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly seized the phones of two top advisors to former President Donald Trump and issued subpoenas to 40 other people associated with the former president as the criminal investigation into his alleged attempts to overturn the election appears to be ramping up. The Boston Marathon has added new guidelines for 2023 that will allow runners to register as non-binary athletes. The New York Times chief political analyst warned Monday that the 2022 midterms may be yet another massive miss for the polling industry. Democrats have been surging in the polls in several key battleground states.

But Times chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, says the same errors in data that vastly overstated Democratic support in the 2020 election are cropping up again, meaning that Democrats may not be performing as well as polls indicate. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg remarked, recently that he is interested in an upcoming California ban on new gas-powered cars as the Biden administration weighs nationwide electric vehicle policies. Last month, the California Air Resources Board issued new rules requiring 35% of new vehicles to produce zero emissions by 2026, a standard that will progressively rise to 100% by 2035. Those are your drive-home updates this afternoon. To learn more about these stories, go to Dailywire.com. And for more in-depth

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