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President Donald Trump “came after our family,” the angry wife of decorated Iraq war veteran Alexander Vindman said Friday in a dramatic new political ad. “The first time I felt threatened was just after Alex’s testimony” against Trump at the House impeachment hearings late last year, Rachel Vindman revealed in the ad created by The Lincoln Project and VoteVets. That was the case even though her husband put his life on the line in combat and suffered a serious injury in a bomb explosion.

VIDEO Yesterday was a "Lid Day" (aka Do Nothing Day) for Joe Biden despite the fact that we are in the middle of what many people consider to be the most important election of our lifetime. Even more ridiculous the "Lid Day" came on a Saturday which is probably the best day of the week to campaign because it is on the weekend. And even more absurd than that it also happened on the day when the campaign had the bombshell of the controversy over replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. We heard about this from all...

I did some checking and much to my amazement I found that Joe Biden is apparently going to appear at a grand total of two, count 'em, TWO events for the next week. The first campaign stop will be next Wednesday in Michigan. Site as yet unknown. The second event will be next Friday in Shanksville, PA to mark the 9/11 anniversary at the site where Flight 93 crashed in 2001. Interestingly, President Trump will also be there that same day to pay his respects so they might actually meet at that time. However, what got to me is that...

A CNN poll published Wednesday shows President Trump with a seven-point lead over Joe Biden in several battleground states – but the network was accused of burying its own findings. A review of transcripts found that only one CNN program on Wednesday mentioned the poll of registered voters that indicating 52 percent favor Trump, as opposed to 45 percent for Biden, in key battleground states.

VIDEO For a very frightening moment when Joe Biden first appeared in his glitch-filled Tampa Virtual Rally, I feared he would crawl out of the screen like that girl in "The Ring." The rest of his video is similar with Biden seeming to fade in and out of this space-time dimension or was the Starship Enterprise trying to unsuccessfully beam him up? What you see here is what actually happened at Biden's virtual rally. I did not in any way alter this already surreal video. To make things even weirder, at the conclusion of Biden's appearance, the video is...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump erupted at his top political advisers last week when they presented him with worrisome polling data that showed his support eroding in a series of battleground states as his response to the coronavirus comes under criticism. As the virus takes its deadly toll and much of the nation’s economy remains shuttered, new surveys by the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign pointed to a harrowing picture for the president as he faces reelection. “I am not f—ing losing to Joe Biden,” he repeated in a series of heated conference calls with his top campaign officials,...

"Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty." ---Derek Zoolander Clickbait ads disguised as real news stories are quite common. So if you saw the following headline, "Is America ready for a frank discussion about skincare?" in Politico would you not be correct in assuming this was yet another clickbait ad? Probably so except for the fact that you can see a photo of Elizabeth Warren next to the headline. So is it a real story or is it a skincare ad disguised as a news story that somehow got Warren to participate in the hype? Well,...

Former Vice President Joe Biden released a list of donors who have raised at least $25,000 for his 2020 presidential campaign, including eight former U.S. ambassadors that served either under the Obama or Clinton administration. The long list of donors includes former U.S. Ambassadors to Belgium Denise Bauer and Alan Blinken, former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Anthony Gardner, former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa Mark Gilbert, former U.S. Ambassador to Romania Mark Gitenstein, former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Kevin O’Malley, and former Ambassador to Spain and Andorra James...

VIDEO Joe Biden paused the middle of responding to a question to hilariously consult a sheet of paper to verify that, yes, a statistic really is one percent.

VIDEO It might not be an official launch but there should be no doubt that this is the week that Hillary Clinton is launching her 2020 campaign. Her media appearances no doubt about this. Sunday she appeared on CBS's Sunday Morning who made it clear in not so many words that she would be eager to run against Donald Trump next year. Hillary will also be appearing on Stephen Colbert and "The View." Don't be too surprised to see Joy Behar gushing over Hillary and begging her to run again. Also look for news articles speculating on the possibility of...

VIDEO Joe Walsh had an absurd epic meltdown when he was a congressman in 2011. Watch him alienate his own constituents at his town hall meeting in 2011 to get a good idea why he served only one term in Congress. Even though the audience was not the least bit confrontational, Walsh acted like an uncontrollable loon who couldn't resist screeching at them.

Sorry but running for the U.S. Senate is just not good enough for me. On Thursday, presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke attempted to reboot his failing campaign with a major speech in which he rabidly attacked President Donald Trump but may have ended up shooting himself in the boot. That is the conclusion of liberal Washington Post political reporter Aaron Blake who proclaimed himself disgusted by the massive hubris displayed by O'Rourke's speech in El Paso when he stated that running for the U.S. Senate is not important enough for him:

VIDEO An amazingly quick transformation. You can see in the July 13 video of Beto O'Rourke and his campaign team traveling in New Hampshire that his hair is now gray. This video also compares his current gray hair to the brown hair he had as recently as just two months ago in May during his barbershop live stream in El Paso.

Ross Perot was born in the desert with no shoes on his feet. From there, he made himself into one of the most powerful men in America. A man — some say — who would have been President had he played the 1992 election differently. That man is returning to that desert, to be with Jesus for eternity, but not before doing one more thing for his country. Ross Perot’s will explicitly instructs his 11 children to donate $9 million each to the Trump 2020 campaign. All 11 of them, Billy, Bobby, Lou, Kieth, Brenda, Gwen, Danny, Linda, Barb, Mary,...

VIDEO Eric, We Hardly Knew Ye! Yesterday we heard the tragic news that Congressman Eric Swalwell has withdrawn from the 2020 presidential campaign. In this video I mourn the demise of his campaign.

VIDEO My suspicions about the supposed Joe Biden OVERFLOW crowd in Charleston, SC was aroused when I noted that ONLY media folks (and Biden's press secretary) were posting about it on Twitter. An investigation easily revealed that the OVERFLOW crowd was nowhere near the numbers that were hyped by the media. In fact, they could have easily fit into the main room. My suspicion is that many of them did go into the main room (with room to spare) after they listened to Biden speak to them from a stage complete with sound system oh so conveniently set up for...

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg was confronted by a group of protesters in his own hometown Friday following the fatal police shooting of a black man by South Bend police early Sunday morning. Police Sgt. Ryan O’Neill claimed he fired his weapon when Eric Logan, 54, approached him with a knife and refused to drop it after being confronted vandalizing a car parked at an apartment complex. Logan was transported to a hospital, where he later died. No camera footage or witnesses exist of the incident, which has stirred up racial tensions in the area because the officer is white...

VIDEO Beto O'Rourke's campaign has fizzled to such an extent that he even had to play to an apparent town hall audience of ONE. The good news for Beto is that ol' PJ can get him a larger audience than has been appearing at his campaign events recently if he campaigns in Broward County, Florida. The venue would be Wings Plus in Coral Springs and my compensation for this would be an exclusive interview and a plate of wings.

Joe Biden is a BILLION points ahead of Bernie Sanders in the polls! Okay, that is a bit of exaggeration but it somewhat reflects the Biden hype the mainstream media has been reporting recently about the 2020 campaign. However, the big question is if Biden is so far above his primary opponents in the polls then why is the turnout of his campaign crowds so small?That is the question that Marc Caputo and Natasha Korecki of Politico tried to answer on Tuesday primarily by relaying lame excuses provided by Team Biden:

VIDEO Following his Philadelphia "kickoff" campaign rally and a Florida fundraising tour, Joe Biden has gone into a state of deep hibernation. His campaign Facebook page shows NO future events scheduled for him. In addition, his OFFICIAL (not parody) website reveals only TWO Biden campaign events scheduled, neither of which includes Biden himself. One is for a group of folks to stand on some street corner in Manchester, NH to hold up Biden signs and the other is for some neighbors to gather for drinks in Media, PA and tell each other how enthusiastic they are for the sleeping Joe...