September 30, 2026

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Trump Admin Releases Plan To Protect 2026 Election Infrastructure– thefederalist.com
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The Trump administration released a “comprehensive” plan on Thursday that U.S. election officials can use to safeguard the integrity of the voting process during the upcoming midterms, The Federalist has learned.

“Election security is national security,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement. “This plan, which will be implemented in full, is crucial to the security, freeness, and fairness of choosing the leaders of our country. Making America safe again isn’t just done at the border, in our streets, and on the coast — it’s also done in protecting the integrity of American elections.”

Obtained by The Federalist, the 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan includes numerous tools and services that election officials can use to protect election infrastructure from physical and cyber threats in the midterms. The extensive report was produced by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which falls under DHS.

The 13-page document begins by providing a comprehensive overview of existing election infrastructure (voting and processing facilities, voting hardware, etc.) and the core technological components (voter registration systems, tabulation systems, etc.) that define a typical election process. It also includes an analysis of potential cyber and physical threats to this infrastructure that officials may encounter during the 2026 contest, such as attempted cyber hacks of state voter registration databases and bomb threats directed at election offices.

The report provides guidance on how best to confront these prospective issues. For instance, to mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities, the plan advises election officials to consider using paper ballots “that can be easily reviewed to ensure transparency, auditability, and resilience against software failures or manipulation,” and to “[c]onduct post-election manual audits of paper ballots to verify that voting systems function properly and to identify errors before certifying the final results.”

OH GREAT: Los Angeles is Now Reporting an Outbreak of TYPHUS (VIDEO) * The Gateway Pundit * by Mike LaChance– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Screencap of Twitter/X video.

The city of Los Angeles is now reporting an outbreak of the disease Typhus. It is connected to fleas on rats which are flourishing in the city’s numerous homeless encampments.

California has the highest tax rate in the country. Why? What do people get for paying such high taxes? They get preventable diseases because their leaders are worthless.

There’s really no excuse for this at all.

NBC News in Los Angeles reports:

Flea-borne typhus rising in LA County with latest case reported in Wilshire Center

Typhus, a flea-borne bacterial disease, is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with the latest localized case reported in the Wilshire Center neighborhood, public health officials said Tuesday.

The disease is spread to humans by infected fleas that commonly live on rats, opossums, stray cats and other animals. Common symptoms include headaches, chills, muscle aches and rash.

The Wilshire Center case is the second localized typhus outbreak this year, according to the LA County Department of Public Health.

There were at least seven symptomatic cases linked to the outbreak, health officials said. Six of the seven patients had to be hospitalized at one point. All have recovered, the department said.

So far this year, 109 flea-borne typhus cases have been reported in Los Angeles County.

Virginia Abortions Up to Birth Amendment Would Also Eliminate Parental Rights– www.lifenews.com
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Imagine you are the parent of a 13-year-old daughter in the Commonwealth of Virginia. You love and care for your child and you and your spouse work two jobs to provide for your family. Life is busy, with work, school, sports, and other recreation. You are an involved and caring parent, but family time is curtailed and, after all, no family is perfect. Occasionally something goes awry and you face a challenge you didn’t expect — this time it’s the fact that your daughter was pregnant. Was. You only know this because you have taken her to the emergency room hemorrhaging a week after her boyfriend persuaded her to take abortion pills — sent to his doorstep with the full-throated approval of Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) and the Virginia legislature.

Sound far-fetched? We are almost in this condition now. Under current law in the Commonwealth of Virginia, passed by successive Democratic legislatures, abortion is legal in the state until birth. As bad as that law is — and data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute tells us that Virginia had the largest increase in total abortions of any state in 2025 — a new constitutional amendment on the ballot this November, on which voting has already begun, would make matters dramatically worse.

Virginia Judge Released Pedo Teacher Despite Opposition From Soros-Backed Prosecutor– dailycaller.com
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Over the objections of a Soros-funded prosecutor, a Fairfax County judge released a former teacher charged with 20 counts of child pornography on bail without requiring an ankle monitor.

Judge Michael Devine’s decision to release the teacher was first brought to light by local independent journalist Virginians for Safe Communities (VSC) on Wednesday and confirmed by multiple county officials to the Daily Caller. (RELATED: Biden Judge Dismisses Democrat AG’s Climate Claim As ‘Speculative’)

“GROSS,” VSC said upon announcing the judge’s decision, adding that “Fairfax’s justice system and schools are sick.”

Matthew Thorsen, a 38-year-old high school math teacher, was arrested days after authorities were notified of concerns that he had engaged in inappropriate behavior with a minor, the Fairfax County Police Department said in a statement.

Fairfax County Public Schools immediately placed Thorsen on administrative leave after being made aware of the allegations.

Congo running short of health workers as Ebola outbreak spreads, WHO says – National– globalnews.ca
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Congo is running short of health workers to staff treatment centres for history’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, particularly in the eastern province of North Kivu where cases have surged 73 per cent over three weeks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The warning came despite signs of improvement in other provinces, including Ituri, the outbreak’s epicenter. The outbreak has spread to seven provinces, with 7,773 confirmed cases and 3,759 deaths, according to the latest government figures.

Between Aug. 31 and Sept. 20, cases fell 26 per cent in Ituri province and 15 per cent in Haut-Uele, said Marie Roseline Belizaire, the WHO’s regional emergency director for Africa. But transmission patterns vary widely and the outbreak remains uncontrolled, she said.

VIDEO: Abdul El-Sayed’s Sister Confirms The Worst In New Undercover Clip– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has spent months telling voters he is a capitalist who simply wants stronger rules against monopolies. A newly-released undercover video from his sister appears to undercut that message, however.

At the Socialism 2026 Conference in Chicago, University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi identified herself as El-Sayed’s sister while speaking with an attendee. In the video, which was obtained by The Midwesterner, the attendee mentioned a nephew who had grown uneasy after hearing El-Sayed call himself a capitalist

“Don’t worry about that,” the attendee said. “Abdul is not a f**king capitalist.” Abdelhadi replied, “Yeah. All we care about is the policies at this point.”

When the attendee added that the goal was “getting him in,” she answered, “Exactly.”

POLL: Would You Vote Against ANY Candidate Who Calls Themselves A Socialist?

Man Behind Bars Over Death Threats to Firebrand GOP Rep and Kids– www.dailysignal.com
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Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), wearing a stylized kipa that reads “KIPA MERICA GREAT,” departs after a candlelight vigil in honor of National Police Week at the U.S. Capitol on May 12, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — The Daily Signal has obtained the death threats made against an outspoken House Freedom Caucus member and his kids that have landed the perpetrator with an almost 10-year sentence in federal prison.

The man behind the threats, 26-year-old Edwin Guerrero, was also hit with a $15,000 fine, United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announced.

“This pro-Hamas individual said he was going to kill me, my children, and make me watch as he killed them. I’m incredibly grateful that now he’s experiencing his own 9/11,” Fine told the Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. “The judge sentenced him to 9 years and 11 months in prison, one month shy of the maximum.”

Fine, who expressed his gratitude for the justice system for taking this matter seriously, thanked the judge and Kehoe for wanting to “send a message” to those who wish to inflict harm on someone for their race or ethnicity, as well as elected officials and children.

“Threats of intimidation or harm against public officials or anyone for their political or religious beliefs will not be tolerated,” Kehoe said in a statement shared with the Daily Signal. “We will take such acts seriously and prosecute these offenders to the fullest extent of the law.”

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Florida AG James Uthmeier: Sarasota Teacher ‘Tried to Cancel’ Eighth Grader for His Conservative Views– www.breitbart.com
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Sarasota teacher Liz Ballard “harassed, disparaged, and deliberately tried to cancel an eighth-grade student for his conservative views.” The AG blasted the teacher in a letter to the Satasota school district.

“I sent a letter to Sarasota Schools after a Pine View teacher allegedly labeled an 8th grader a ‘misogynist’ based on his political affiliation, ignored his parents’ wishes, and disparaged the child’s father,” Uthmeier wrote in a Monday X post, sharing the letter he sent.

“If true, she should be fired and never teach in Florida again,” the Florida Attorney General added.

Ballard, who teaches history at Pine View School in Osprey, Florida, is accused of singling out the boy as the “conservative perspective” in her classroom and later labeling him a “misogynist” — a slur she went on to spread around the school, Uthmeier said in his letter.

Moreover, the teacher engaged in this behavior despite the boy previously informing her that “his parents expressly forbid him to take part” in her debates, and even “openly questioned the suitability and influence of the student’s father,” the Florida AG added.

That’s Right: We’re Shooting Down Enemy Drones With Fricken Laser Beams – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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It’s the headline I’ve waited since I was probably seven years old to read: “US military spending $500M on ‘war-ready’ laser weapons — and zapping drones in Iran, along US border.”

That’s 50 years, folks, and totally worth the wait.

According to the New York Post — your go-to newspaper for words like “zapping” in the headline — “Iranian citizens have witnessed some dazzling laser shows recently,” because “US military has been deploying lasers in the Strait of Hormuz to knock out regime hardware.”

The Department of War said this week that lasers disable “drones and incoming cruise missiles at a much lower cost than using more expensive kinetic weapons like missiles.”

That’s no joke, either.

The Pentagon is mum on the details, but my understanding is that most of the laser weapons currently in use merely “dazzle” incoming threats, sending them off course. So there aren’t any cool vaporizations.

The Israelis led the way on some of this antimissile stuff, despite our head start with President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (now the Missile Defense Agency and soon as Golden Dome) in the early ’80s.

And Another Thing: No sharks were harmed in the production of this column. That we’re at liberty to tell you about, anyway.

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense system can hit incoming threats at over 40 miles away, but each launcher holds a max of 20 missiles — and each missile costs up to $60 grand. But then there’s Iron Beam, which uses fricken lasers. While Iron Beam is good only against enemy missiles close in (4-7 miles, roughly), each shot costs just five bucks or so. And there’s no limit on how many shots it can take, just so long as the power stays on.

Kamala Harris: Removing Hundreds of Thousands of Non-Citizens from Voter Rolls Is ‘Cheating’– slaynews.com
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris accused Republicans of “cheating” by removing non-citizens and other ineligible names from voter rolls.

The twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate made the claims as she continues a nationwide media blitz, fueling expectations of another campaign in 2028.

Harris was elevated to the top of the 2024 Democratic Party ticket without receiving a single presidential primary vote.

Harris was coronated after former President Joe Biden’s mental decline became impossible for party leaders to conceal.

Her campaign then burned through roughly $1 billion in a matter of weeks before losing the election to President Donald Trump.

Now, after a string of speeches, interviews, and public appearances, Harris appears to be laying the groundwork for another White House run.

This time, her agenda involves attacking Trump’s election integrity agenda.

Why the bond market is freaking out, and what it means for your money– www.cbsnews.com
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The bond market is flashing red. The yield on the 30-year Treasury note reached 5.44% on Wednesday, its highest level since 2004, before slipping slightly on Thursday morning. The 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, briefly neared 5.15% on Thursday morning, a level it last reached in 2001.

Yields had already risen amid concerns about inflation and growing U.S. debt. They jumped further on Wednesday after stronger-than-expected economic data led investors to price in additional interest-rate hikes as the Federal Reserve battles inflation. Several members of the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which sets rates, also signaled this week that they favor further increases.

“Four burners, all on high”

Wall Street analysts said investors are increasingly concerned about a protracted conflict in the Middle East, with the U.S. and Iran exchanging fresh threats at this week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York. Prolonged tensions could keep oil prices elevated, stoking inflation and increasing pressure on the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate, economists said. l

On top of that, weak demand for a 5-year Treasury note auction on Wednesday forced the U.S. government to dangle higher yields to attract buyers. Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions, with rising yields signaling that investors are seeking higher returns as investments grow increasingly risky.

“When the world’s largest borrower has to raise its price to find buyers, you MUST pay attention,” said Mark Malek, the chief investment officer at Siebert Financial, in an email. “Yields don’t only rise because the Fed says so. They rise when lenders demand more to lend — and every mortgage, corporate bond and small-business loan in America is ultimately priced off that same benchmark.”

Judge Dismisses Letitia James’ DOGE Lawsuit Against Trump– slaynews.com
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New York Attorney General Letitia James’s latest legal battle against President Donald Trump has been shut down after a federal judge dismissed the multistate lawsuit challenging DOGE-linked access to sensitive Treasury Department systems.

James led New York and 18 other states in suing the Trump administration after the Treasury Department granted DOGE-affiliated employees access to Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems.

Those systems process federal payments and contain sensitive financial information.

Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas ruled Wednesday that the states’ central allegations no longer presented an active dispute for the court to resolve.

“Plaintiffs’ claims related to access by DOGE-affiliated employees to sensitive Treasury information are dismissed as moot,” Vargas wrote.

DOGE Team No Longer Exists at Treasury

Romanian Regime Arrests Presidential Election Winner — Raid Drags Georgescu to Jail in Front of His Son After Annulled Election– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Romania’s Calin Georgescu filmed handcuffed outside the courthouse in Bucharest

DIICOT, Romania’s law enforcement agency tasked with investigating and prosecuting organized crime, drug trafficking, cybercrime, financial crimes, and terrorism-related offenses, and the national police ambushed Călin Georgescu in traffic before 7 a.m. Monday in Bucharest.

According to reports from the European press, authorities yanked him from the car with his son, Petru, still inside and raced both to the family house in Mogoșoaian. Masked police units then smashed the front door with a ram while Cristela Georgescu and their youngest boy, Pavel, stood inside getting ready for school. The raid dragged on for nine hours.

Officers hit five addresses that morning in Bucharest, Mogoșoaia, Ciolpani, and Buftea.

They filmed themselves storming the property and claimed they found €5,000. Georgescu was then hauled to DIICOT headquarters and marched out in handcuffs that evening. He spent the night in Bucharest’s central jail.

Iran sends peace terms to US — RT World News– www.rt.com
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Tehran is awaiting Donald Trump’s response to its conditions for restarting negotiations, security chief Mohsen Rezaei has said

Iran has conveyed its peace terms to the US through Qatari mediators, the country’s top security official Mohsen Rezaei has said, arguing that it is in Washington’s interest to accept them.

The 60-day period provided under the US-Iranian memorandum of understanding to negotiate a settlement expired last month without a deal, while disrupted maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz continues to drive up energy prices.

“Seven conditions set by Iran for the start of any negotiations have been conveyed to the US administration. Tehran’s message is clear and unambiguous: If Washington wants to escape the predicament it has created for itself and avoid becoming further entangled in it, it has no choice but to recognize Iran’s rights and accept its conditions,” Rezaei wrote on X on Saturday.

Trump has just had ‘talks’ with Zelensky and it ‘could change a lot’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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Volodymyr Zelensky said he had an “important conversation” with the US President Donald Trump, shortly after the polls closed in Russia. Ukrainian leader said he agreed to meet with the US president at the UN General Assembly in New York next week, and the talks could “change a lot”.

He wrote in a post: “There is diplomatic momentum.” Ukraine‘s president said there are “ideas for de-escalation steps and addressing fundamental security issues. We are working together with the American team and are ready to take really serious steps.”

Efforts are under way to restart direct peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow, with Russia indicating that negotiations could resume as early as October under US-backed mediation.

Previous discussions stalled over the winter and were later put on hold during the conflict involving Iran.

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have also played roles in diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, are making a renewed attempt to help advance a settlement to the war in Ukraine.

Trump Announces New National Security Role For Planned Triumphal Arch Project– dailycaller.com
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Though construction has not yet started, President Donald Trump announced Sunday his planned Triumphal Arch project would take on a key national security role.

“At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage,” the president posted on Truth Social.

“There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he concluded.

After teasing it in October 2025, Trump has continued to promote his vision for a 250-foot triumphal arch situated between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The arch will “celebrate the triumphs of the American people, inspire patriotism and love of country, and beautify our nation’s capital,” the Department of the Interior, as its sponsor, declared in its project materials.

The arch is currently awaiting final approval from the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), a federal review panel dominated by Trump appointees. The Commission had been chaired by William Scharf, Trump’s staff secretary who has since been appointed White House counsel, effective Sept. 1. Trump appointed Mark Paolettal, the general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, as well as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to be the new NCPC chairman on Aug. 26. It does not currently appear that NCPC will consider the project for final approval at its Oct. 1 meeting.

California Tries to Force Women to Complete Abortions– www.lifenews.com
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September 17 marked the final arguments in a California courtroom over the practice of offering abortion pill reversal (APR) to women seeking to save the lives of their unborn children from the feticidal drug mifepristone. We have become used to reading sentences like this, in which so-called champions of choice like the administration of Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) go the last mile to complete abortions women are desperate to avert. The policy is all the uglier because it would fine groups like Heartbeat International and Real Options millions of dollars for attempts to aid such women.

Attorneys for the Thomas More Society, who have fought the battle for life in these cases for three years now, summarized their arguments in their closing trial brief to the California court, saying:

“Abortion Pill Reversal is an accurate, truthful, and non-misleading way to describe the interventions at issue in this case. APR works through competitive inhibition, taking advantage of the fact that mifepristone binds reversibly to the progesterone receptors. It works to undo the effect of the abortion pill, which is a commonplace understanding of the word reverse. The FDA pharmacology review described the effects of supplemental progesterone as antagonizing mifepristone’s abortifacient activity, allowing normal pregnancy and delivery, and ‘reverse’ is ordinary language shorthand for that counteraction.”

Prominent El-Sayed Backer Says ‘See You at the Gallows’ Is an ‘Appropriate Sentiment’ for Pro-Israel Dems– legalinsurrection.com
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It’s undeniable at this point that the Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) has become openly hostile to the Jewish Democrats within their ranks, as evidenced by the fact that some of the state’s prominent Jewish Democratic elected officials no longer feel comfortable attending official party events due to harassment and attacks.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Jewish Democrat, put it plainly last month ahead of the MDP’s nominating convention:

“I feel like my presence isn’t going to be welcome. I don’t want to get chased around. I don’t want to get harassed. I don’t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don’t want to get booed off the stage, irrespective of what I’m saying,” she said at the Thursday event. “And I believe that if I go, that is what will happen because it’s been happening to me.”

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She said she had filed a formal complaint within the party about a party official who had called her a neo-Nazi because of her beliefs. “Why is this person more accepted in our party than me?” she asked without naming the official.

Tragic teen rape victim’s euthanasia divides nation after docs said girl’s wish to die shouldn’t have been granted– www.thesun.co.uk
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SAT in her childhood bedroom, 17-year-old Milou Verhoof was getting ready for the last time.

Her nails were painted and her evening gown and high heels had been chosen – not for a teenage night out, but for the coffin in which she would be buried.

Milou Verhoof died aged 17 after she requested to be euthanised
Her psychiatrist, Menno Oosterhoff, was the one who assisted her wish to die Credit: Facebook/Menno Oosterhoff Dwangstoornis

Her parents sat beside her among the familiar clutter of her youth.

And watching over them was psychiatrist Menno Oosterhoff, his ice-blue eyes fixed on a girl whose young body was healthy, but whose mind had become somewhere she could no longer bear to live.

GOP Candidate KICKED OUT of Debate for “Misgendering” Transgender Rep. Tim “Sarah” McBride– wltreport.com
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Republican Congressional candidate Joe Arminio was booted from a debate in Delaware on Thursday night for an incredibly based reason.

He kept referring to “transgender” Rep. Tim McBride (who now goes by Sarah) as a man.

Libs of TikTok explained:

Throughout the debate, Arminio called McBride a “gentleman” and used (shocker!) male pronouns.

This ultimately led to Arminio being removed from the stage.

NBC Philadelphia detailed what went down:

On Thursday night, during a candidates forum presented by the Jewish Federation of Delaware, Republican Joseph Arminio was removed from the event after he repeatedly misgendered Democratic Delaware Congresswoman Sarah McBride.

“I’m sorry to have to say, the representative from Delaware has contributed, through the net of his actions…” Arminio began during remarks on Thursday, before boos began to erupt from the gathered crowd.

After being warned of his remarks, later, Arminio did it again, leading to another outburst from the crowd.

During the evening, amid turmoil following the remarks, McBride tried to intervene, saying she didn’t want Arminio to not have a chance to speak.

“I don’t want this gentleman to not have the ability…,” started the Congresswoman.

However, Republican candidate Michael Katz, who is running for Senate in Delaware, interrupted her.

“No, get him out of here,” said Katz.

Following Arminio’s ouster, Katz called for him to withdraw from the upcoming elections.