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The following is the English-language version of “The Importance of Being Candid,” a speech delivered by Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger in Mandarin Chinese from the White House during a video conference hosted by Policy Exchange in London.I’d like to thank Dean Godson and Policy Exchange for inviting me to deliver the ninth annual Colin Cramphorn lecture.  We all look forward to a time when we can gather again in person for events like this.  With new vaccines and therapeutics on the near horizon, I’m optimistic that day will soon arrive.  In the meantime, let’s pretend we’re at...

Robert Cahaly, a chief pollster for the Trafalgar Group, believes there is a “hidden vote” missing from most polls and envisions a President Trump victory. Cahaly made the prediction during an interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity. “I see the president winning with a minimum high 270s and possibly going up significantly higher based on just how big this undercurrent is,” he said. President Trump or Joe Biden would need 270 electoral votes to win the White House. “What we’ve noticed is that these polls are predominantly missing the hidden Trump vote,” he continued. “There is a clear feeling...

Propaganda pushed by the Black Lives Matter organization and critical race theory is making its way into magazines meant for middle schoolers. A “black lives matter” article that recently appeared in a children’s magazine popular in elementary schools, Junior Scholastic, is inflammatory, racist, and wholly unfit for students of any age. Of course, there’s an enormous gulf between Black Lives Matter the organization, and “black lives matter” the concept and statement. Every decent human agrees with the latter. The former, however, is an explicitly neo-Marxist, racist, violent organization that, in the words of its own leaders, seeks to destroy American...

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Democratic challenger Mark Kelly has a narrow lead over incumbent Republican Martha McSally in Arizona’s hotly contested U.S. Senate special election race. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone and online survey of Likely Voters in Arizona shows Kelly edging McSally 46% to 44%. Five percent (5%) like some other candidate, while another five percent (5%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Among the 57% who say they have already voted, Kelly has a sizable 57% to 37% lead. Ninety-six percent (96%) say they are certain to vote in this election. Kelly leads by two...

This week, the White House released the first-ever comprehensive National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking. The National Action Plan (NAP) represents the broad-based, multi-disciplinary, whole-of-government strategy of the United States to eradicate human trafficking. This plan is built around the three pillars laid out in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000: Prevention, Protection, and Prosecution. The NAP’s fourth pillar recognizes the invaluable benefit of implementing collaborative and cooperative efforts that crosscut all three pillars and involve a multitude of stakeholders and professionals from various disciplines and sectors. Under the heading of each pillar, the NAP identifies foundational principles...

PROTECTING AMERICAN AUTOWORKERS: President Donald J. Trump is taking action to address the Obama administration’s decision to terminate the pension plans of non-union and salaried autoworkers of the Delphi Corporation. Today, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum directing his Administration to review the Obama administration’s decision to terminate the pension plans of Delphi Corporation’s non-union and salaried workers. When Delphi Corporation spun off from General Motors (GM) in 1999, its union workers received a deal from GM to protect their pensions, while non-unionized and salaried workers did not.After both companies went bankrupt, Delphi’s union pensions were fully protected while its...

An Ohio sheriff has offered to help pay for "one-way tickets" out of the country for liberal celebrities who are threatening to "leave America" if President Donald Trump wins re-election next month. In a "press release" this week, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones added that he will "even help them pack" if they stay true to their promises.

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So Biden is CAUGHT RED HANDED by this former business partner and Hunters laptop. Unlike Hillery whose emails were in the custody of US intel, Russia and China BUT were never fully seen by the US public, Biden's stuff is out there. By burying it, it will simmer and grow and have a greater impact than their usual approach of reporting it once and then ignoring it. You might think that this is why the deep state loves Biden and hates Trump, they have nothing on Trump and he can not be controlled. So if Biden wins, the deep state...

Did @realDonaldTrump just say 545 kids they can't find their parents for came over through "cartels and coyotes"?! How the hell does a coyote bring a whole human across the border?! Lord-----stop talking. #FinalDebate

In addition to claiming the scandal doesn’t matter and hurling accusations at Trump, Dickerson wrapped up his hackish commentary by assuring that Biden’s supporters in the leftist media would prevent the story from ever being covered: The problem is, as Margaret [Brennan] pointed out, is that Joe Biden has an ally in the news cycle. Which is if President Trump tries to shift the turf onto the Biden family for the purposes of muddying Joe Biden, the news cycle keeps returning to the central piece of this campaign, which is coronavirus and the President’s response to it, and the country...

Democratic U.S. Senator Tina Smith is now in a dogfight to keep her Senate seat after her once double-digt lead dwindled to a one-point lead in our latest KSTP/SurveyUSA poll. Smith leads Republican challenger Jason Lewis 43% to 42%, with 12% undecided. Another three percent favor other candidates. In mid-September Smith had a 47% to 36% lead over Lewis. Earlier in October she still maintained a seven-point lead, 44% to 37%. "This Senate race could go either way and it's a bit of a surprise because Tina Smith has had a lot more resources than Jason Lewis," Carleton College political...

A Marine enters the Catholic Church confessional booth in Jacksonville. He tells the priest, “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. Last night, I beat the hell out of an Obama supporter.” The priest says, “My son, I’m here to forgive your sins, not to discuss your community service.”

Although Jeb and George W. Bush have criticized President Donald Trump throughout his term in office and reportedly decided months ago not to vote for him, the siblings and politicians have not formally endorsed Joe Biden's campaign. Their failure to do so has brought a wave of disapproving comments on social media over the past several days, with some pointing out that an endorsement from George, the only living former Republican president, could help the Democratic nominee. "After the way Trump treated the Bush family and the way he's destroying America, you would think a Biden endorsement would be a...

I know you don’t want to hear this from me. And I guarantee I don’t want to say it. But we are facing an unprecedented attack on the foundations of democracy itself. If you are a US citizen, anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy. That’s right, I’m saying a vote for Trump, a vote for a third-party candidate, or simply not voting at all -- they’re all the same, and they all mean: “I care more about my favorite issue than democracy. I believe Trump winning is more important than democracy. I am comfortable...

The government hasn’t “lost track” of migrant children's parents. The fact is, some parents don’t want their children back in their country of origin. On Thursday night when Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden angrily accused President Trump of a “criminal” family separation policy that had “lost track” of more than 500 migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border, he was repeating an inaccurate and misleading news report that had circulated earlier this week. “What happened? Their kids were ripped from their arms and separated and now they cannot find over 500 sets of those parents and those kids are alone,” Biden...

he defined Biden as a typical politician who is all talk and no action. And he seized on Biden's unforced error toward the end of the debate, when the former vice president admitted that he wants to "transition" from an economy fueled by oil and gas. Trump didn't launch into the personal attacks against the younger Biden that soured the last debate. Rather, Trump said the story was evidence of the Biden family's swampiness, and further confirmation of Biden's status in the political establishment. Trump began to define Biden as a career official whose lifetime in professional politics resulted in...

Our Track Record In early April 2016 we predicted that Senator Cruz’s Presidential run would be over by the end of that month – we were right: IT’S OFFICIAL=> Ted Cruz Is Mathematically ELIMINATED from GOP Race – With Chart In November 2016 we predicted President Trump would win in a landslide in the Presidential election – and candidate Trump won 30 of 50 states and crushed Hillary in the electoral college: In March of this year, we determined that the mortality rate pushed by the WHO was fraudulent and the China coronavirus would have a mortality rate closer to...

LeBron James is no big fan of President Donald Trump, and he made that very clear on Thursday night during the final Presidential Debate.

Biden lied for years about the accident that killed his wife & daughter By M. Dowling - May 5, 2020 - Independent SentinelTHE SAD CASE OF CURTIS C. DUNNDunn was the tractor-trailer driver involved in the December 1972 accident that took the life of the newly-elected U.S. Senator’s first wife, Neilia Biden, and 13-month-old daughter, Naomi.The facts are that Joe Biden’s wife accidentally drove into the path of the tractor-trailer. She was killed, along with their baby daughter. His two sons were seriously injured.For decades, Joe Biden lied about the cause of the accident as he exploited the accident to...