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Scientists finally re-analyzed the study and found that it was riddled with errors—but that didn’t matter then because it furthered the narrative. In America, an inordinate number of so-called “scientific” studies are subject to what’s called the “replication (or reproducibility) crisis.” If someone publishes a study that feeds into leftist shibboleths, no matter how poorly done the study is (small sampling, foolish assumptions, bad math, etc.), the results are widely trumpeted and become embedded in the popular consciousness. That the study cannot be replicated (run again from scratch) or reproduced (subject to a new analysis of the study’s data)—and often...

A new Fox News poll shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Donald Trump by just two points and within the margin of error. Surveying 1,102 registered voters between September 13-16 with a margin of error +/- 3 percent, the poll showed that Kamala Harris improved her standing by three points since August, during which the two had the first presidential debate and there was a second assassination attempt on Trump’s life. “Trump had a 1-point advantage last month, while Harris is ahead by 2 points today: 50 percent to 48 percent,” Fox News noted. “For reference, in July,...

Almost immediately after the first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a brand-new debate broke out about whether there should be a second one. Some of the chief points of contention are who would host a second debate and what it would say about who won the first. The Harris camp says its interest in another candidate showdown signals its confidence: Harris won the first round, and now the camp wants more. Trump and some Republican operatives see it differently. According to them, only a debate loser would want a do-over. A campaign that believes...

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck and neck nationally, but Trump has the momentum after surging three points in a month, according to a Marist/NPR/PBS News poll. The September 3-5 poll, published Tuesday, finds 48 percent of 1,413 registered voters sampled back Trump, while 49 percent back Harris. One percent is undecided, and one percent would support a third-party candidate. Trump has gained three points of support since the Marist/NPR/PBS News August 1-4 poll, when he landed at 45 percent with registered voters in a field with third-party options. That poll showed him three points...

Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks are locked in a dead heat in the U.S. Senate race in Maryland, where Democrats have held both Senate seats for nearly 40 years. The AARP poll, which Fabrizio Ward (R) and Impact Research (D) jointly conducted, finds Hogan and Alsobrooks tied at 46 percent apiece in the Old Line State. Another seven percent of the 600 likely voters are undecided, while one percent will back another candidate. 📊 MARYLAND poll by Fabrizio Ward (R) & Impact Research (D) for @AARP President Harris: 64% Trump: 32% — Senate...

“Race and gender” are key criteria in Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection of a media personality to host her first sit down interview since joining the presidential race, a report Monday in Politico Playbook revealed. The criteria spotlights the close-mindedness of Harris’s world view, as she attempts to rally support from rural white voters in swing states. The demographic is key to winning the 2024 presidential election, political experts believe. Harris will purportedly sit for an interview this week as part of her campaign’s ramped-up strategy heading into the post-Labor Day push, Axios reported, but questions remain about who she...

Race considerations crater Trump support among non-white voters Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, August 23, 2024 – Voters nationally give Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris an edge over former President Donald Trump in November’s election by a seven-point margin (50 to 43), but race and gender remains central to the vote. When voters are made to think about the race or gender of the candidates, Harris’ lead grows substantially; when they’re not, support is essentially tied. Harris is also helped by strong support among the slightly less than half of men who reject traditionally masculine identities. Trump’s strongest...

Hannah Muldavin, a senior spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), said on Sunday that Robert F. Kennedy’s endorsement of former President Trump’s White House bid “changes nothing” about the 2024 race. Muldavin said Kennedy’s announcement on Friday was “not surprising for a second,” pointing to the Trump allies and conservatives who supported Kennedy and their similar messaging against President Biden and Vice President Harris.

Journalists will never learn that trying to outwit President Trump with loaded questions only blows up in their faces. One female journalist received a painful reminder of this fact after trying to carry water for Kamala Harris by spreading her race-baiting garbage. (snip) REPORTER: Kamala's campaign attacked you for being in this town because it's associated with white supremacy.PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Who was here in 2021?REPORTER: "Joe Biden"PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Thank you."

Former NBA #1 overall pick Kwame Brown is blasting black celebrity ‘gatekeepers” whom he claims are “shaming” people into voting for Vice President Kamala Harris because she is black. The former Laker adds, “Kamala’s skin color ain’t gonna pay for our groceries.” Brown made the comments in a video posted Monday afternoon, in which he specifically took aim at comedians Ricky Smiley, DL Hughley, and Steve Harvey, labeling them “gatekeepers” who are trying to turn out the black vote for Harris based on race, and not on what is best for the black community. After lamenting Harris’ efforts to award...

It’s her DEI party now. Kamala Harris’ Democratic National Convention in Chicago opens Monday with racially segregated meetings. The DNC’s schedule for Monday is a stark reminder that the Democrats are still the party of racism and segregation after driving the nation to civil war to keep Black Americans enslaved a hundred and sixty years ago and then enforcing Jim Crow segregation until the 1960s. Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. CDT, the convention opens with separate but equal meetings for the Black Caucus; Hispanic Caucus, AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Caucus, Native American Caucus and the Ethnic Council:

Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that “almost any other Republican” than former President Donald Trump would win the presidential race by 10 points. On Fox News, Nikki Haley said, “One thing Republicans have to stop, quit whining about her. The campaign is not going to win talking about crowd sizes. It’s not going to win talking about what race Kamala Harris is. It’s not going to win talking about whether she’s dumb. It’s not. You can’t win on those things.”

Ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has openly doubted whether President Biden wrote the letter he sent to Democrats last month insisting he was “firmly committed” to staying in the race. Biden, 81, sent the missive to congressional Dems to try to put to rest any notion that he’d exit the race over widespread concerns about his mental acuity after his June 27 debate performance against GOP foe Donald Trump. Two weeks later, Biden dropped out. “I didn’t accept the letter as anything but a letter,” Pelosi told New York Times‘ columnist Ezra Klein in an interview last week. “I mean, there...

Vice President Kamala Harris continues to have no policies on her website — despite being in the presidential race for three weeks, and in office for nearly four years. As Breitbart News noted last week, there were no policies on the website — even after changes were made to add Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to the ticket (and the site). Harris is supposedly going to be rolling out some policies in the coming week. As a U.S. Senator from 2019 to 2021, she achieved the most left-wing record of any member of the upper chamber — exceeding even socialist Sen....

resident Biden admitted he was pushed out of the presidential race by Democratic Party elites and specifically name-dropped former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as one of the perpetrators in his first TV interview since the tectonic news last month. Biden said that Dems in the House and Senate were worried that he’d drag down their chances of being reelected. He said he believed his reelection bid would face too many distractions if he carried on. “A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was...

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer's resort to harsh measures to suppress public unrest over the murders of young girls at a Taylor Swift dance party spurred accusations that laws are not being enforced equally. Starmer called these charges "baseless. We are long past the delusion that justice can be attained by treating everyone the same. Different situations need to be treated differently." "Saddened as we are by the murders of those young girls we must understand the context in which they occurred," the Prime Minister insisted. "The 17-year-old assailant comes from a culture where female promiscuity is rigorously condemned and...

All insurers in Illinois will now be required to cover induced abortions, thanks to a new bill signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker. This week, Pritzker held a signing ceremony for the Birth Equity Initiative, which mandates that Illinois-based health insurance, both private and Medicaid, must cover abortion with no co-pays or deductibles. The ceremony came on the heels of neighboring state Iowa’s law protecting nearly all preborn children from abortion taking effect, which lawmakers appeared to present as a reason for the bill’s passage. “Iowa is now the 22nd state in the nation to enact an extreme abortion ban solidifying...

Kamala Harris has range. She can grill nominees for the Supreme Court or meet with foreign dignitaries, then pivot to hosting a Diwali celebration or dancing enthusiastically alongside an HBCU-styled marching band. It is a dexterity that Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American to serve as vice president, developed as a person of color to navigate the corridors of power or Main Street in a nation where race and identity influence how one is received or embraced. Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, is an adroit code-switcher, a term that can include deliberately adjusting one’s...

During Friday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View,” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg called it “disgusting” that former President Donald Trump discussed Vice President Kamala Harris’ race during an appearance at a National Association of Black Journalists event on Wednesday. Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “Well, Trump, Vance and others have predictably trotted out racist and sexist attacks on the vice president from calling her dumb and crazy, they’ve criticized her laugh to suggesting she’s an unqualified DEI candidate. Just this week Trump questioned her racial identity, claiming she happened to somehow turn black. Now, what’s your response to that, and do...

Four teenagers, initially charged as adults with murder and conspiracy in the beating death of a Rancho High School student, have accepted a plea that will allow them to plead guilty in juvenile court, according to information revealed in a hearing in Clark County District Court Thursday morning. The teens agreed to the plea that will allow them to plead guilty as juveniles to manslaughter. Damien Hernandez, Dontral Beaver, Gianni Robinson, Treavion Randolph, all under the age of 18 when the alleged crime was committed, were formally charged with murder in Jan. 2024 in the beating of Jonathan Lewis, 17,...