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In the hometown of my youth, Bloomfield, Connecticut, I heard a joke when the first fast-food restaurants started entering the community. A customer walks in and is greeted at the counter by a worker who says, "May I take your order?" The customer says, "Yes, I'll have a chocolate milkshake and a slice of apple pie." The fast-food worker asks, "Would you like some dessert to go with that?" When you've been trained, or more likely programmed, to react a certain way regardless of the stimulus you're likely to offer a strange response. Ronna McDaniel, Republican National Committee Chair, and...

Unless the Supreme Court intervenes to halt what may be the most significant political heist in American history, Democrats are on their way to placing America under the thumb of a communistic regime run by an empty-headed Commander-in-Thief installed as its figurehead. I understand those are strong words coming from a columnist who is not a conspiracy theorist. Quite the opposite, I’m a realist who doesn’t buy into the claim there is no widespread voter fraud, coming from the folks who wasted the last four years ranting that Russians rigged the 2016 election for Donald Trump without a shred of...

"I like a good contrarian argument as much as the next guy," tweets mild-mannered RealClearPolitics senior elections analyst Sean Trende, "but there's really no getting around the fact that the 2020 polling was a pile of steaming garbage." "The national polls were even worse than they were four years ago," writes New York Times polling guru Nate Cohn. "(W)hatever steps pollsters took to improve after 2016 were canceled out by a new set of problems." Trende and Cohn have earned credibility as two of the few political analysts who spotted, before Donald Trump's surprise victory, that white non-college graduates were...

Members of the Electoral College do not formally congregate to elect the next president of the United States until Dec. 14, but as far as the media, Hollywood and the Fortune 500 are concerned, former Vice President Joe Biden is already president-elect. This, notwithstanding the fact that President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, having alleged various abnormalities and irregularities in this unusual midpandemic voting process, is currently pursuing legal recourse across myriad closely contested battleground states. The Constitution, of course, does not specify the media, Hollywood and the Fortune 500 as the determiners of our presidential election. We have a rule...

What is going on in this country right now is a propaganda war. It has been going on for some time but has now escalated to the point that it threatens the stability of the country. This is not mere media bias; what we are seeing is media manipulation of public opinion and events, tied directly to the political objectives of the Democratic Party. For months, polls showed Joe Biden ahead in the presidential race by double digits. The public was not concerned, we were inscrutably assured, about Biden's rambling, inarticulate and often completely nonsensical statements. The last-minute revelations of...

The MSM called the election for Joe Biden on Saturday. The MSM has been full of fake news during the Trump presidency, so why should we believe them now? They don’t decide the election; the electors do. The alleged election fraud is currently being litigated, and the Supreme Court has already stepped in, so it’s far from clear yet how to report the results to the electors.  Look how the MSM dealt with a similarly contested election in 2000, where they showed their obvious bias favoring Democratic candidate Al Gore. First, the MSM wrongly called Florida for Gore on election night,...

Momentarily, the media has Joe Biden with 290 electoral votes, 20 beyond what he needs to become the next president of the U.S. The only problem, and this is beyond huge, is that his vote count won't last. He's on course to lose Pennsylvania. Once Rudy Giuliani and company present their case regarding massive fraud in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the state will go to Donald Trump.  Take away 20 from Biden, add it to President Trump, and now the Democrats are showing fear. What else is on the table? Donald Trump has requested a recount in Wisconsin, and so we'll...

One way to interpret the results of the 2020 election is that voters want their political leaders to keep fighting with one another. By that theory, voters appear to have narrowly replaced Donald Trump with Joe Biden, left the Senate with a slim Republican majority, and kept the House under slightly diminished Democratic control because they crave more dysfunction and mutual recrimination. They hope that Bernie Sanders, the Squad, and their allies will lean hard on Biden to be "the most progressive president in American history," that the most Trumpian members of the GOP caucus will obstruct Biden on everything,...

What is happening in Pennsylvania is a dark moment for America. Under the leadership of Governor Wolf and his liberal regime, the Pennsylvania elections system has become completely compromised. It has become clear the leadership in this state is anti-democratic, does not value our constitution, and is engaged in an outright attack on the legal votes that have been cast by the good, hardworking people of the Commonwealth. As the former Secretary of State of Ohio, I have overseen multiple elections in a state that for years has been dedicated to transparent election administration and ensuring there is bipartisanship, fairness,...

Though Democrats pulled out every conceivable stop in order to ensure the defeat of their "Bad Orange" arch-nemesis, they aren’t crowing about it quite like you’d expect. If President Trump were Satan himself or even "literally Hitler," as we’ve been told for years, one might expect his removal to be met with the level of jubilation appropriate for such a monumental accomplishment, no? Sure, there’s been some (pretty bad) dancing in the streets, but for the most part, the response from media figures and Democratic politicians has been quite muted, if not a bit depressed, as if they’d lost something...

Growing reports of fraud in swing states are making their way onto alternative news sites – the mainstream media obviously won't touch the issue. Numerous reports have surfaced about observers not being allowed to do their jobs. They have been thwarted from having six-foot views of vote counters, been kept out of such rooms, had paper posters block any view, and, in some cases, even been escorted off the premises. Horror Stories AboundSome reports indicate that mailrooms across the country continue to contain mailed-in ballots that were never delivered to the appropriate precincts. Reports have surfaced that late ballots in...

Mr. President, there's only one way to win this now. You need proof. Hard evidence. And witnesses who participated in the robbery. You need to create a new reality show, "Who Wants to Be an Instant Democratic Millionaire ... and Get Full Immunity?" That's one hell of a reality show title. That offer will be a game changer. That offer will change America's future. That offer will save capitalism. That offer will save the Silent Majority and the great American middle class. I'll explain the details of that offer in a moment. But first ... Three weeks ago, I made...

The fierce beast of the Left, the omnivorous viper of the Democrats, has been let loose. Every tyrant needs quislings. Unfortunately, there are appeasers even among Republicans. The 'useful idiots' of the Left are being eaten already; the appeasers will be next. Those who demand grace from Trump supporters as we watch the nation stolen from us, deny the peril from a ravenous beast that will consume our freedoms and chain the American people. The piranhas are already nibbling at Nancy Pelosi, who is suffering from whiplash from the hard, left turn she took when she was reinstalled as Speaker...

Source: Twitter/ScreenshotOn MSNBC, a large panel seemingly agreed with Jennifer Rubin's calls for the burning down of the Republican Party and the elimination of all survivors. Is this the "dark winter" Biden warned us about?  Deranged Trump-hater Jennifer Rubin repeated her calls for retribution of Trump supporters on MSNBC's "AM Joy" on Saturday."It's not only that Trump has to lose, but that all his enablers have to lose," Rubin threatened. "We have to collectively in essence burn down the Republican Party. We have to level them because if there are survivors, if there are people who weather this storm, they...

Does it seem ironic, if not among the oddest political twist of fate since the beginning of time, that candidate Donald Trump won Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in 2016, based on promises? Yet, President Donald Trump lost Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in 2020, following his spectacular deeds which greatly benefitted each state? Inquiring minds want to know. While the president is awaiting numerous court decisions, there is much to do! Whether or not justice will prevail, rightfully according Trump his 300-plus electoral votes and victory for a second term, or if the dastardly Democrats pulled off the greatest coup in...

In response to Republican concerns over voter fraud and election irregularities, Democrats are attempting to intimidate and threaten Republicans who back the president's pursuit of a fair election. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), apparently undeterred by the loss of several of her Democratic House colleagues, is calling on her cancel-culture goons to maintain a running list of "Trump sycophants" who she believes will "deny their complicity in the future." Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future...

Former Illinois Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich says Democrats are stealing votes in Philadelphia and says voter fraud in big Democrat-controlled cities is a "time-honored tradition." "If the question is, 'Are Democrats stealing votes in Philadelphia?'" Blagojevich began, "my answer is, 'Is the Pope Catholic?' It's a time-honored tradition in big, Democrat-controlled cities like Chicago and my hometown, Philadelphia, to do precisely what they're doing." According to Blagojevich, voter fraud is likely happening in other Democrat-controlled cities too, such as Atlanta, Milwaukee, and Las Vegas. Blagojevich explained how the Democratic apparatus allegedly operates to steal votes. "They control polling places, they...

Donald Trump may end up losing the 2020 election in the Electoral College, but he won the campaign that ended on Nov. 3. Democrats had been talking of a "sweep," a "blowout," a "blue wave" washing the Republicans out of power, capturing the Senate, and bringing in an enlarged Democratic majority in Nancy Pelosi's House. They visualized the ouster of Trump in a defeat so massive and humiliating that it would serve as an eternal repudiation of the man. And, most intoxicating of all, they believed they would be seen by history as the angels of America's deliverance. It was...

In every election cycle, there is only one poll that matters, and that is the election results. That has never been truer than in 2020. Why should we have paid attention to the polls? As of Thursday morning, the popular vote margin was 50% Joe Biden and 48% Donald Trump. Here are some of the closing polls: Quinnipiac University: Biden 50%, Trump 39%. NBC News/Wall Street Journal: Biden 52%, Trump 42%. Fox News: Biden 52%, Trump 44%. CNN (likely voters): Biden 54%, Trump 42%. RealClearPolitics average: Biden up 7.2%. On Oct. 28, the ABC News/Washington Post poll preposterously posited Biden...

As of this writing, the presidential race has not been called for either President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden. Not that it actually matters; regardless of whether the hopelessly corrupted political press deems either candidate to have attained the requisite 270 Electoral College votes, the election battle is just beginning. Gird your loins. All summer, as it became clear that Democratic activists throughout the country were seeking to change election laws midstream to provide for mass mail-in voting, the likes of which our republic has never seen, conservatives and other defenders of a secure and durable franchise...