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Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Pennsylvania Democrats, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have ties to a super PAC that former President Donald Trump’s campaign said engaged in “election interference.” Pennsylvania Values, a Democrat super PAC based out of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, enflamed controversy in June when the group ran an ad telling voters to “Stand strong with President Trump Against Mail in Voting!” Author Sean Parnell called this move “brazen election interference and a direct response to what we are doing in Pennsylvania with mail-in ballots & Republican voter registration. This is NOT how President Trump feels. This is a lie....

UPDATE, 1:35 p.m. PT: Nielsen has released an update on Thursday’s Biden-Trump presidential debate, and the average audience has climbed to 51.3 million viewers, across 17 networks. Networks include CNN, which originated the debate, as well as ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Scripps News, Telemundo, Univision, BET, CNN en Español, HLN, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Newsmax, NewsNation and PBS. Audience estimates include out-of-home viewing for all networks except Newsmax, NewsNation, PBS and Scripps News.

Republicans are lashing out at CNN anchor Jake Tapper for his supposed efforts to "save" President Joe Biden during the first of two scheduled debates with former President Donald Trump......Tapper and CNN are also frequently accused by Republicans of harboring an anti-Trump bias, although both Trump and Biden agreed to the conditions of the debate, which include time limits for each candidate to speak, before it took place on Thursday.Biden seemingly lost his train of thought during the debate on Thursday while speaking about his plans for spending money saved by reversing Trump-era tax cuts that he said "benefited the...

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger appeared to regret his very-recent endorsement of President Joe Biden, after the latter’s abysmal performance during the first 2024 presidential debate. On Wednesday, Kinzinger released a statement endorsing Biden. But on Friday, as the Washington Examiner’s Byron York noted on X, Kinzinger was re-posting calls for Biden to step down as his party’s presidential candidate: Former Rep. Kinzinger rolled out his Biden endorsement on Thursday morning. On Friday morning, he was retweeting calls for Biden to step down.

Joe Biden is at it again, folks. And by “at it,” we mean he’s continuing his grand tour of bumbling and fumbling across America’s stages. This time, he landed in North Carolina at a campaign rally, where things went just as disastrously as his recent debate debacle. Trump just released this as a response to the debate. BRUTAL. Biden’s debate performance was such a disaster that it triggered a meltdown among the media and liberals, who are now clamoring for him to throw in the towel. BRUTAL: "There are at least some House Democrats ... talking about talking to the...

A new Arizona State University study suggests that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts in the United States military are ineffective. The study done by the university's Center for American Institutions argued that there is a emphasis on training new soldiers about social issues like "unconscious bias" and "intersectionality" in a way the center says runs contrary to typical American ideals. The study examined DEI plan's in different sector of the military, including DEI office staffing and education at academies like West Point. "The massive DEI bureaucracy, its training and its pseudo-scientific assessments are at best distractions that absorb valuable time...

Tesla must fix air quality problems at its electric vehicle manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area after racking up more than 100 violations for allegedly releasing toxic emissions into the atmosphere over the last five years, an air quality board said Tuesday. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District planned to issue a written abatement order later this week after Tuesday's announcement. Each of the 112 violations can emit hundreds of pounds of illegal air pollution, the board said. The plant is in the city of Fremont, in the East Bay, and the agency's independent hearing board pointed...

Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser, must report to prison by Monday after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal on Friday. Bannon was previously convicted in July 2022 of contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 select committee. He was sentenced to four months in jail.

Adult film star Austin Wolf has been arrested in New York City for child abuse materials, according to the Justice Department. Wolf, real name Justin Heath Smith, is charged with sending and receiving hundreds of videos of child pornography via the Telegram messaging application between March 24 and March 28. The gay porn star, 43, allegedly sent and received images that 'depicted children as young as infants, including a video showing a 10-year-old child bound and raped.' He is also accused of possessing hundreds of additional videos containing child pornography in his Manhattan apartment. One of Wolf's last social media...

Former President Donald Trump did not announce his running mate Thursday night as he’d teased. But he did give an on-stage shoutout to one of the top contenders: U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday to uphold a Lone Star State law that effectively bans gender experimentation on children.In an 8-1 decision published on Friday, the highest court in the state confirmed the legislature’s May 2023 law prohibiting health care professionals from castrating and mutilating minors does not violate the state constitution, as a trial court had previously concluded.In fact, Justice Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle, joined by Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, Justice Jeff Boyd, Justice John Phillip Devine, Justice Jimmy Blacklock, Justice Brett Busby, Justice Jane Bland, and Justice Evan Young, affirmed in her majority opinion that the state...

Of all the modern Supreme Court’s incredibly disappointing rulings, gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is near the top, second only to its catastrophic decision to rip away half a century of reproductive rights from American women.Until the court’s shocking 2013 Shelby County vs. Holder decision, states and counties with histories of racial discrimination were required to get approval from the Justice Department — known as “preclearance” — for redistricting or changes to voting laws. The conservative members of the Supreme Court changed all that with a 5-4 decision.“There is no denying,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote,...

Former President Barack Obama expressed his confidence in President Joe Biden on Friday, one day after a disastrous debate performance spurred many Democrats to suggest that Biden should drop out of the presidential race. “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know,” began Obama. “But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own...

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Former President Barack Obama on Friday rushed to President Joe Biden’s rescue following a lackluster debate performance, one that sent many Democrats into a spiral of panic, the former president asserting that “bad debate nights happen.” “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know,” Obama said in a statement shared to social media, urging Americans to look beyond Biden’s dismal debate performance. “But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself,” Obama claimed.

After a conservative-led boycott campaign caused its market cap to plummet by more than $2 billion, Tractor Supply Co. vowed Thursday to stop pursuing left-leaning social and hiring goals and to refocus on marketing tractors and supporting rural America. A handful of Wyoming ranchers say that’s great. The farm and ranch supplier’s market cap took a roughly $2.4 billion dive from $31.2 billion on June 18 to $28.8 billion Thursday, after conservative filmmaker and activist Robby Starbuck launched an exposure campaign on X (formerly Twitter). He posted screenshots and videos depicting the company’s support of LGBTQ activism events; a hiring...

From ESPN: “Randall Cobb, family ‘lucky to be alive’ after house fire.” Wide receiver Randall Cobb and his family escaped a fire at their Nashville, Tennessee, home this week, with his wife, Aiyda, posting, “we are lucky to be alive.” Aiyda Cobb posted to her Instagram story this week that a Tesla charger “caught fire in the garage late last night and quickly spread” through their home. “We got out of the house with nothing but the clothes on our back and no shoes on our feet,” she wrote. The Cobbs have three young sons. And those fires are hard...

Post See new posts Conversation Dougie Kass @DougKass What I am hearing regarding Joe Biden. Ron Klain and Barack Obama are having a sit down with the President today. Jill Biden is insistent that Joe runs. Kamala is furious that she is not being considered as a replacement (Whitmer and Newsom are). Interestingly my neighbor in East Hampton is hosting the Bidens tomorrow. It will be an important tell if the fundraiser is cancelled. @dougkass @carlquintanilla @tomkeene @ferrotv @lisaabramowicz1 @jimcramer @business @SRuhle @msnbc @cnbc @andrewrsorkin 8:06 AM · Jun 28, 2024 · 5.5M Views

“He told the truth. And Donald Trump told lie after lie after lie.” The first lady’s decision to don the bizarre dress came just hours after her hubby’s disastrous face-off against former President Donald Trump, during which the president spoke in a weak voice and repeatedly lost his train of thought while answering questions. The president’s shockingly poor performance has triggered fresh calls for the Democrat to consider stepping aside as his party’s nominee — just over four months before the election