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The time and resources President Trump’s campaign has been pouring into the battleground state of Michigan appear to be paying off, according to two new polls. Zia Poll surveyed “2851 likely voters and newly registered voters who have never voted in an election” and found Trump leading Joe Biden, 49 percent to 45 percent, for a four-point lead. Respondents “were almost evenly split” about whether Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) or Trump better handled the coronavirus pandemic response. The poll also found Biden with a “slight” lead among black and Hispanic voters. Painter Communications analyzed the poll and told Breitbart...

SAN ANTONIO—A man who was arrested in 2018 amid allegations he drugged and sexually assaulted two women whom he served while working at Viva TacoLand is now suing his accusers after the criminal charge was dismissed earlier this month. Dillonger Hackett was arrested in April 2018 after a woman and her girlfriend told officers Hackett drugged their drinks at Viva Tacoland where Hackett worked as a bartender. One of the women told police she woke up in their room at Hotel Emma and recalled Hackett sexually assaulting her. Hackett spent more than 90 days behind bars before he was released...

Thanks to three brave Americans, we now know that Joe Biden has long misled the public about his involvement with his family’s foreign business entanglements while he served as vice president. At considerable personal risk, former Biden family business partners Tony Bobulinski and Bevan Cooney, and computer shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac, have come forward with tens of thousands of primary-source documents — internal corporate records, emails, and text messages — detailing years of business dealings that centered on trading on the Biden name. This material suggests that, despite Joe Biden’s insistence that he knew nothing about his family’s...

Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs ripped Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham Friday saying he’s “betrayed President [Donald] Trump” and not done his job investigating the Obama administration for spying. “Graham has betrayed President Trump at almost every turn, he has betrayed the American people and his oath of office,” Dobbs said Friday on “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” “He has done absolutely nothing to investigate Obamagate except to tell everyone stay tuned, time and time again, stay tuned.”

Hillary Clinton is sticking with her conviction that the 2016 presidential election was not conducted legitimately, saying the details surrounding her loss are still unclear. “There was a widespread understanding that this election [in 2016] was not on the level,” Clinton said during an interview for the latest episode of The Atlantic’s politics podcast, The Ticket. “We still don’t know what really happened.” “There’s just a lot that I think will be revealed. History will discover,” the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nominee continued. “But you don’t win by 3 million votes and have all this other shenanigans and stuff going...

A new investigation by aviation experts claims to have located where MH370 is Despite a four year, $200 million search the plan vanished and was never found On board the disappeared flight from Malaysia to Beijing were 239 people

A dispute has erupted over a mandatory vaccine program for employees of the University of Virginia Health System because officials are requiring a worker to follow their interpretation of the Bible's requirements. The worker would rather follow his own beliefs, not theirs. The employee, whose name was not released, has submitted four requests for a religious accommodation to his bosses' order to be vaccinated for the flu. He says his Christian beliefs don't allow it, citing biblical instructions not to be defiled with "harmful" substances. He "cannot accept any vaccination that is derived from aborted fetal tissue, nor contribute to...

The early results in Florida show President Trump up big – very big. Republicans are up more than 200,000 votes in early voting. FL In Person Early Vote Rs +206,372 Palm Beach is now down to a 1% gap. Palm. Beach. Miami-Dade, Hillsborough already flipped. Two big historically Democrat counties are currently competitive. These counties need to be way ahead for the Democrats in order for the Democrats to win Florida: These 7 R counties didn't start voting in person until today! Bay Glade Gulf Hamilton Suwanee Union Walton

NEW YORK (AP) — The one thing most likely to conjure nightmares of the 2016 election night for opponents of President Donald Trump is the Needle. A graphic on The New York Times’ website, the Needle measured in real time the probability of victory for Trump or Hillary Clinton as votes were counted. Its steady movement triggered anxiety for Clinton supporters, who repeatedly refreshed the page, and elation for Trump fans. The Needle won’t be making a reappearance on Nov. 3,

He don’t need no stinking license. A man pulled over for allegedly speeding was discovered to have a whopping eight separate lifetime driving bans, reported Canadian news website the Orangeville Banner. When cops ran a driver’s license check on Toronto resident Timothy Fraser after halting him Oct. 21, they discovered the steering scofflaw’s checkered past. “I’ve never seen that many. This is the first time I’ve seen someone with eight,” Dufferin Ontario Provincial Police Constable Shannon Gordanier told the Banner. “The risk of driving and putting other people in harm’s way is definitely not worth it. There is a reason...

Jewish students at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign have filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, alleging students facing an “unrelenting campaign” of anti-Semitic harassment. According to a release from The Louis D. Brandeis Center, the complaint details incidences dating back to 2015 including numerous swastikas found on the Urbana campus, Jewish ritual items such as menorahs and mezuzahs vandalized and windows of Jewish fraternity houses smashed by bricks. …

GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU is the only Republican governor in the country who has refused to weigh in on whether the U.S. Senate should vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sununu was one of four GOP governors who declined to sign a letter of support for Barrett. He was joined by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.....

A friend has taken up the cause of springing Ghislaine Maxwell from her Brooklyn cellhole, claiming she is on the verge of starvation and humiliated every day by her prison-issued paper clothes. Brian Basham is a close family friend who wants federal authorities to grant the British socialite bail while she waits to be tried for sex trafficking next summer, the Telegraph reported. Two weeks after Maxwell was taken into custody, a judge denied her bond offer of $5 million, deeming her a flight risk. She maintains her innocence. Basham insists Maxwell has lost 25 pounds in the four months...

During the final presidential debate Thursday night, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed that the United States "had a good relationship with Hitler before he in fact invaded Europe." Biden appeared to be attempting to make a larger point about President Trump's working relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, though in context it left many observers scratching their heads. Biden appeared to be attempting to make a larger point about President Trump's working relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, though in context it left many observers scratching their heads. Though public sentiment in pre-WWII America was strongly opposed...

Gay Unions: Vatican Orders Media Blackout Pope Francis' full statements on homosexual partnerships censored VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Vatican has imposed a media blackout after fresh revelations that the pope's approval of gay civil unions in a 2019 interview was censored, only to re-emerge unauthorized in the new Francesco film.Vatican communications prefect Ruffini with Afineevsky "With reference to the [current media] crisis triggered off by Russian director Evgeny Afineevsky's film Francesco, for now we are not going out with ANY news, neither [on] radio nor [on the] web," ordered Massimiliano Menichetti, head of Vatican Radio and Vatican News, in an email. "Also, nothing about...

Redding Carlos Zapata has a message for any government official who shows up at his Tehama County restaurant and tries to enforce California’s pandemic shutdown orders. “I’ve made it very clear that if they come to shut us down, I’m going to call 100,000 people that’ll be there with guns, and what happens happens, you know?” Zapata said Tuesday. “I’m hoping that they’re not stupid enough to want that kind of a fight over a restaurant being open, but if they want it, we’ll definitely give it to them.” It’s not the first time the Red Bluff restaurant owner and...

Having completed the final presidential debate, Biden’s campaign has now announced they’re calling a lid until Election Day. “Biden needs the next eleven days to prepare for his acceptance speech,” Biden’s campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon told reporters as she kept an eye on poll numbers. “So do not try to ask him questions or get statements from him, because that’s just going to confuse him.” Dillon then offered that reporters could instead talk to Kamala Harris, but no one wanted to talk to Kamala Harris. They really had a number of questions for Biden, but Dillion explained that there...

I posted this thread to focus on a mostly ignored state so far in the presidential/Senate/House race discussions. The Rocky Mountain State. No Trump rallies have come through here recently, which is curious to me given Sen. Cory Gardner's vulnerability and the fact that Trump only lost CO by <3 points four years ago. Plus AZ and NM border CO. So why the silence? Ground game: (Jul 2020 excerpt) The ground operation of the combined Republican campaign in Colorado — which goes by the team name "Silver Bullet Brigade" — dwarfs the GOP's field organization in previous cycles, with 46...

Most political prognosticators delay their final predictions for a presidential race until the morning of Election Day. In 2016, for example, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight and Nate Cohn of the New York Times released their final projections during the wee hours of November 8. One forecaster, however, routinely publishes his predictions six months in advance. Professor Helmut Norpoth of Stony Brook University in New York issued his last word on the Trump–Clinton contest 246 days before the voters went to the polls. In March 2016, Norpoth confidently predicted that Donald Trump would be elected president. He not only contradicted Silver,...

Cellphone video shot by a bystander captured part of the shooting in which an officer shot and killed a suspect who police say had pulled a gun from his pocket Thursday. Police identified the man who was shot as Mark Matthew Bender Jr., a 35-year-old San Bernardino resident. They said his lengthy rap sheet includes an arrest for attempted murder.