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With two days to go, Democrat Joe Biden holds a commanding national lead over President Donald Trump amid deep voter concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, but Trump is keeping his hopes alive by staying competitive in the swing states that could decide the White House race. Biden’s national lead over the Republican president has stayed relatively steady in recent months as the public health crisis has persisted. He is ahead 51% to 43% in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll taken Oct. 27-29. But Trump is still close to Biden in enough state battlegrounds to give him the 270 state Electoral College...

President Trump has described his campaign rallies as “fun,” “wonderful,” “the Greatest Show on Earth,” and, of course, “BIG.” An effort to calculate whether those events have increased the spread of the coronavirus in the United States suggests that “contagious” and “deadly” would also apply. A rigorous attempt to gauge the after-effects of 18 of the president’s reelection rallies, all held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggests they have led to more than 30,000 additional cases and at least 700 additional deaths. Those casualties would not have occurred if the campaign events had not taken place, according to...

There are many ways to perform an abortion: pills that expel the baby’s body, suction vacuums, injected drugs that cause cardiac arrest. But there is only one result: death. This death is worth celebrating, according to one abortion activist. And, she says, God is still “cool” with her. Viva Ruiz, an artist-in-residence for abortion group Shout Your Abortion [SYA], recently created a music video for her “Thank God for Abortion Anthem.” The video, released on October 13, stars Ruiz as an “abortion pope” inside a church, complete with a choir and twerking dancers. In response to her efforts, media outlets from Jezebel...

It’s just the flu, bro. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2020/09/03/governor-ron-desantis-says-florida-will-never-lockdown-again-for-covid-19-n885506 Desantis says Florida will never participate in lockdowns again. Desantis 2024. Why can’t Governor Abbott in Texas be more like Desantis. - Eurowienies (a racist term that means that lefty people from Europe are wienies, which are miniature wieners) bragged for so long about how their pandemic response was better than the American response. Now the Eurowienies are locking down again. The only metric that matters when describing the pandemic response is how much freedom did the citizens have - the more freedom, the better the response. But Eurowienies don’t know what freedom is....

[Note: This piece has heavy video content.] So, does crowd size matter? You bet it does. I spent the entirety of the 2008 campaign deceiving myself that the massive crowds Barack Obama was drawing to his rallies were just anecdotal events that had no real meaning in terms of who was winning. I put myself through that very same delusion in 2012 and provided bad advice to an employer about who was most likely to win that year as a result of that faulty reasoning. Make no mistake about it: These spontaneous outpourings of support mean a lot, and I’m...

There are several great videos at the link. A great start to the day!!

So, what about this FBI “investigation” into Hunter Biden’s laptop? – Lots of rumors have been flying around the past few days about the FBI supposedly conducting at least one, and possibly multiple investigations into the various crimes of Hunter Biden and the entire Biden family. One rumor was started Friday by Sinclair reporter James Rosen: So, the FBI questioned Bobulinski – as I reported here on Friday – pre-empting his scheduled testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee. They were interested and took notes. Cool. That adds some fuel to the previous rumor, reported by Adam Housley and others,...

--SNIP-- Let’s look at the Trump record: Under Donald Trump the economy, pre-COVID, boomed, like no time since the 1950s. Look at your 401(k) over the past three years. Unemployment for Black Americans is lower than it has ever been, under any president of either party. Under Mr. Trump, our trade relationships have vastly improved and our trade deals have been rewritten. Thanks to him, middle America is on the map again and the Appalachian and hourly worker has some hope. Has Mr. Trump done enough for these struggling fellow citizens? No. But he recognized them. Maybe he was not...

State 2020 Pop. CASES TOTAL AVERAGE PERCENT OF   POPULATION LAST SEVEN DAYS AS OF 11/1/2020* CASES PERCENT OF LAST SEVEN DAYS   TO TOTAL POP DEATHS TOTAL AVERAGE PERCENT OF   POPULATION LAST SEVEN DAYS AS OF 11/1/2020* DEATH PERCENT OF LAST SEVEN DAYS   TO TOTAL POP Alabama 4,908,620 192,000 0.0391 1368.6 0.0003 2,967 0.0006 10.4 0.000002 Alaska 734,002 15803 0.0215 390.9 0.0005 76 0.0001 1.7 0.000002 Arizona 7,378,490 246,000 0.0333 1169.9 0.0002 5,979 0.0008 9.9 0.000001 Arkansas 3,039,000 111,000 0.0365 962.7 0.0003 1,900 0.0006 16.9 0.000006 California 39,937,500 933,000 0.0234 4214.4 0.0001 17,634 0.0004 44.4 0.000001 Colorado 5,845,530 105,000 0.0180 1837.1 0.0003 2,305 0.0004...

The Talk Shows November 1st, 2020 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchored by Chris Wallass. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.); Corey Lewandowski, Trump campaign; Fox News election coverage: Arnon Mishkin. Panel: Karl Rove; Kristen Soltis Anderson; Juan Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad. Republican pollster Bill McInturff; Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt; Sec. of State Kathy Boockvar (D-Pa.); Nate Persily; From Florida: Ellison Barber; From Georgia, Blayne Alexander; From North Carolina, Morgan Radford; From Pennsylvania, Maura Barrett. Panel: Kasie Hunt; Rich Lowry; Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.); Kristen Welker. FACE...

Many Western governments continue to agonise over how to respond effectively to Covid-19. Proponents of free speech and movement continue to resist their governments’ attempts to craft and enforce national strategies to conduct a war against the pandemic. In the US, state governments’ ability to create policies that apply only to their citizens and sometimes conflict with neighbouring states or federal guidelines often end up putting individual liberty ahead of the resulting collective harm. States have the mandate to act because the Trump administration does not appear to want to accept responsibility. The absence of leadership, common sense, consistency and...

Sunday, November 1, 2020: Join the RSBN crew for live coverage as President Donald J. Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Miami, FL

A shadow hanging over the United States of America is the United Nations' desire to move toward a world government, expressed most recently in the U.N.'s Agenda 2030. Not one question about this document has been directed toward either presidential candidate in any forum during this election cycle. As a signee to this Agenda in 2015, we have made a national commitment, yet this dramatic step in the direction of a one-world government is not consistent with President Donald J. Trump's America First principles. America First is the correct philosophy for the USA. The COVID pandemic is putting another nail...

Sunday, November 1, 2020: Join the RSBN crew for live coverage as President Donald J. Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally at Richard B. Russell Airport in Rome, GA

Sunday, November 1, 2020: Join the RSBN crew for live coverage as President Donald J. Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally at Hickory Regional Airport in Hickory, NC

In a few days we will have our national election and those who don’t think they’ll like the results are preparing mayhem again. It’s the night before Halloween and all through the District of Columbia, plywood is being placed on shop and bank windows. Not because people fear rampaging trick or treaters but because in a few days we will have our national election and those who don’t think they’ll like the results are preparing mayhem again. If local businesses believed polls saying Biden has it in the bag, I doubt they’d be doing this. I suppose you might argue...

In his 1978 Harvard commencement address, A World Split Apart, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a fierce enemy of the Soviet system, delivered a forceful and insightful critique of the West, a society which he characterized as spiritually weakened by rampant materialism. The man who, when forced to leave his own country four years earlier, encouraged his countrymen to “live not by lies”, gave us a magnificent lesson in how to not be blinded by our own sense of superiority, and urged us to ask hard questions about who we are and where we are going. When I first heard this speech in...

Sunday, November 1, 2020: Join the RSBN crew for live coverage as President Donald J. Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally at Dubuque Regional Airport in Dubuque, IA

Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds a clear advantage over President Trump across four of the most important presidential swing states, a new poll shows, bolstered by the support of voters who did not participate in the 2016 election and who now appear to be turning out in large numbers to cast their ballots, mainly for the Democrat. Mr. Biden, the former vice president, is ahead of Mr. Trump in the Northern battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as in the Sun Belt states of Florida and Arizona, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by The New York...

Sunday, November 1, 2020: Join the RSBN crew for live coverage as President Donald J. Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally at Total Sport Park in Washington, MI.