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Donald Trump’s allies say his winning formula entering the final 80 days of the campaign is to break through a biased mainstream media and remind voters Vice President Kamala Harris served alongside President Biden and owns his biggest mishaps — namely on the economy. Suddenly locked in a dogfight or trailing in battleground states, Mr. Trump is facing renewed pressure to rethink his approach and tamp down the bombastic, stream-of-consciousness style that has made him the king of the GOP and the nation’s most polarizing political figure.Trump loyalists and GOP strategists maintain he does not need to do anything drastic....

We wrote Friday that Kamala Harris was likely to continue President Biden’s unfinished Build Back Better agenda, but it turns out we were far too optimistic. The policy priorities the Vice President laid out Friday are much worse, including a plan to impose national price controls on food and groceries.

BREAKING: Donors Across the U.S. Deny Massive ActBlue Donations Amid Attorney General Investigations "He did not do $300,000 worth of anything in three years," exclaims Pam Fridrich, wife to Heinz Fridrich, when presented with FEC data by an @OKeefeMedia Citizen Journalist in Fernandina Beach, Florida, claiming the Fridrichs donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to ActBlue. When asked if they had made the contributions, Pam responds, "Not to my knowledge." The Fridrich family, overwhelmed by the allegations, remains perplexed by how such large sums could be attributed to them. Across the country, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Elaina Bulow, a devout...

The widow of Corey Comperatore, who was tragically killed during the rally in Buttler, has been invited to come on stage at Donald Trump’s second rally at the location. A gunman opened fire to assassinate Trump, but fatally shot Corey on July 13 at the same location. Helen Comperatore, Corey’s widow, recently spoke in an interview with Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 about her late husband and the impact of his loss."He saved his wife, he saved his child and he was just the best guy. He was just the best," Helen said."He was just a wonderful man, and I want...

It’s fun to muse on the torrent of panicked, deranged texting between Democratic Convention delegates as a runaway train of malignant fates, bad choices, insane policies, delusional ideas, and feral emotion drives them to nominate a moron for president. The confusion and self-doubt must be epic. Are we really gonna do this? Is this really happening? You must imagine this is the same state of mind as, say, a car-full of drunken bridesmaids fishtailing down the highway at 70mph toward a telephone pole. The mis-plays and subterfuges that brought them to this pass cannot be undone: the insult of letting...

Donald Trump has enlisted the help of former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as he fine-tunes for his first debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. Gabbard, 43, took part in a recent strategy session with the former president, 78, at his Mar-Lago estate ahead of his September debate against the 59-year-old Democratic nominee, according to the New York Times. Gabbard, who at one point was on Trump’s lengthy running mate shortlist, has experience debating Harris dating back to their time as Democratic presidential primary candidates in 2019, and she unleashed a blistering attack on the then-California senator’s record as top...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin took a public victory lap this week, claiming credit for managing the Old Dominion’s budget into a $1 billion surplus. In his annual Joint Money Committee Address before the Commonwealth’s relevant legislative committees, Youngkin, a Republican, laid out how, in recent years, most of the surrounding states’ growth had become attractive to longtime Virginians. Youngkin began by greeting the Democratic committee chairs: House Appropriations Chair Luke Torian of Prince William, House Finance Chair Vivian Watts of Fairfax and Senate President L. Louise Lucas, who serves as the upper chamber’s finance chairwoman. "Our neighbors in North Carolina,...

Ana Barbosu was awarded her Olympic bronze medal on Friday morning after the Romanian gymnast bumped USA's Jordan Chiles off the podium thanks to a bombshell court ruling. The 18-year-old initially finished third in the floor exercise final in Paris, only for Team USA to successfully appeal the score awarded to Chiles. The American's score was upgraded, putting her ahead of Barbosu who dropped her Romanian flag and broke down in tears. However, the Court of Arbitration for Sport later ruled that the US appeal came outside the permitted one-minute window. The controversy has continued beyond the end of the...

Democrat Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz pulled over for drunk driving in 1996... The US Supreme Court rejecting a Biden Administration push to foist transgender policies on school in 10 Republican run states... In the Netherlands a shortage of the chemotherapy drug etoposide... A bloody brawl in Turkey's parliament... In Kerch, Russia a municipal emergency following a Ukrainian missile attack on the bridge to Crimea... Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be in Israel tomorrow seeking to advance... A French fighter jet participating in an air show crashed today... Israel ordering two evacuations of civilians today in Gaza in advance of...

It’s no secret that central banks around the world are buying up gold. In the first three months of the year, central banks bought a combined 228 tonnes, the most ever seen in a first quarter, World Gold Council data revealed. SIGN UP FOR THE PRECIOUS METALS DIGEST SIGN UP This follows up on what was already a record year in 2022, during which 1,136 tonnes of gold worth some $70 billion were added to the banks’ reserves. Compared to the 450 tonnes bought during 2021, that represents a whopping 152% year-on-year increase! The pace and consistency at which central...

Border czar Kamala Harris presided over the greatest mass migration in world history. In October it was estimated that more than 10 million people had reportedly illegally entered the United States since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. This is the greatest number in history and of any administration. They total more than the individual populations of 41 states. Now, new numbers from the the US Customs and Border Patrol found that Border Czarina Kamala Harris quietly smuggled nearly one million illegal aliens into the country in the past 4 years using the Fast-Pass entry phone app. in...

Well, this is sorta embarrassing. After all that loose talk about Russia for some strange reason, blowing up its own cash cow Nord Stream pipeline, it turns out that the Ukrainian military and some oligarchs from the country did the dirty deed with the knowledge of Zelinskyy, the CIA, and the highest levels of both governments. It's an odd tale told by the Wall Street Journal, and the German police have been quietly investigating the bombing for two years despite political pressure to hide the facts, and their investigation backs up what the Journal has found. What makes it all...

A Colorado grandmother was sentenced to a six-figure fine plus a year of probation for praying at the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021. On Monday, Rebecca Lavrenz, a great-grandmother in her 70s who is also known as the “J6 Praying Grandma” on social media, was sentenced after she was convicted on four misdemeanor charges this spring. Lavrenz was found guilty of entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly conduct and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in the Capitol; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol.According to the Denver Post, Lavrenz, who avoided jail time,...

The Republican Party gives Detroit a list of 676 Republican election worker candidates. Detroit hires only 52 off the list.Election officials in Detroit, Michigan need more elephants in the room to get right with the law that calls election workers to equally represent both major parties. Currently, they are hiring mostly Democrats. Poll workers handle ballots and are well-placed to speak up if anything seems out of order. They are an important part of election integrity infrastructure. Many states have laws requiring counties to hire an even mix of election workers to create poll worker parity, with a goal of,...

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‘There’s a fundamental lack of accountability of our secretary of state. Those issues filter down to the counties — which is one reason why the elections board must provide oversight.’On Monday, the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) is set to vote on a rule amendment that would require all county boards of elections to comply with new procedures to enforce current state requirements that the number of ballots, number of votes, and number of voters in election tallies come out equal.Georgia saw more than 3,000 ballots double-scanned during the 2020 presidential recount in Fulton County. It is unclear how many...

One of the great fiddlers just passed away. A real legend.

The granddaughter of the late Rev. Billy Graham endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris during an "Evangelicals for Harris" Zoom call Wednesday and suggested that Christians who support former President Donald Trump are causing people to turn away from Christianity.Here's the full video of Jerusha Duford (Billy Graham's granddaughter) from the "Evangelicals For Harris" Zoom call.@JonBrownDC covered the message well (link in replies) but I figure many of you want to watch it for yourselves too pic.twitter.com/kPMX3qvjCE— Woke Preacher Clips (@WokePreacherTV) August 16, 2024Jerushah Duford, whose mother Virginia "Gigi" Graham Tchividjian is Graham's oldest daughter, spoke in a recorded video because...

In the wake of last month’s attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life and a slew of threats, local government officials in Palm Beach, Florida, were considering shutting down access to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort, allegedly for “safety” reasons, the Palm Beach Daily News reported. The Palm Beach Council met on Monday, directing city staff to investigate ways to handle the closure of a section of South Ocean Boulevard near Trump’s home that the Secret Service mandated following the July 13 the assassination attempt. Nobody from the general public is allowed through without passing a number of security checkpoints...

Richard Nixon's imposition of wage and price controls in 1971 were among the biggest regrets of his presidency—and he had plenty to regret. Now, Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris has announced similar economic plans, signaling that the "passage of time" that has "been unburdened by what has been" will make her impervious to the doom loop promised to those who do not learn history. That is, if she remembers we've seen this dog-and-pony show. Her plan calls for more money giveaways, vows to regulate business even more, usher in national rent control, make housing more expensive by putting the government...