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Pete Buttigieg. Wes Moore. Gavin Newsom. Gretchen Whitmer. Stephen A. Smith!!!???!!??Since the November election, the ESPN commentator has been bashing Democratic leadership for losing to Donald Trump and floating himself as a potential 2028 candidate and savior for the party and the country. And Smith’s dalliance with politics isn’t one-sided. Pod Save America, Fox News, CNN, ABC News, the New Yorker and other major outlets have sought out Smith for his first takes on immigration, tariffs and other issues.President Stephen A. Smith? Has everyone gone crazy? Not completely. Many nonpartisan pundits and Democrats themselves think the party needs a leader...

Pro-Second Amendment legislation is flooding the U.S. Capitol under President Donald Trump and Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, best response to date is to claim Trump is protecting “gun CEO profits.” Giffords posted to X: What Giffords calls a “special interest task force” is, in actuality, a Second Amendment Task Force announced last week by Attorney General Pam Bondi. Breitbart News noted that task force was created to prevent 2A rights from being treated like second class rights. NBC News published parts of the memo Bondi used to announce the task force, wherein she emphasized, “For too long, the...

No one ever said the attacks on President Trump had any originality, but 22 Democratic Senators, including three of the most prominent in Congress, were caught on Tuesday basically plagiarizing each other. .... Snip.... Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, and Cory Booker (D-NJ) all delivered a ‘preview’ rebuttal of sorts to Trump this morning that has backfired. As one will see, they have posted a silly video where they copy each other nearly word-for-word. It opens with Trump vowing to bring down prices starting on Day One before cutting to the Democrats launching tired attacks on him. WATCH:

In November 2024 President Donald Trump won reelection in a landslide winning the popular vote, the electoral vote, and every single swing state! President Trump also held the US House of Representatives and took back the US Senate with a 53-47 majority. Little did we know at the time that Trump lost and it was really the far-left district attorneys who were elected to lead the United States for the next four years. On Thursday, 14 radical leftist Attorneys General filed a lawsuit against President Trump and his DOGE audit team. These radical leftists claim that Elon Musk, one of...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s Defense Ministry is offering new financial and other benefits that it hopes will attract men between ages 18 and 24 to military service, as its short-handed armed forces toil on the front line against Russia’s bigger army in the almost three-year war. Men in that age group are currently exempt from the country’s draft, which covers men between 25 and 60 years old. Last spring, Ukraine lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25, but that has failed to replenish ranks or replace battlefield losses. Also, some draft-age men have moved abroad, while desertions have...

Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly took a page out of President Biden’s book and is offering to write off debts for new recruits enlisting in the country’s military for one year. In November, Putin signed a law allowing anyone who joined the Russian military after Dec. 1, 2024, to have debs of up to 10 million rubles, or about $96,000, written off. -snip- The move appears to be similar to one from Biden’s own playbook, though the latter does not connect loan handouts to military recruitment. Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced $4.28 billion in student loan handouts as...

Never a dull day: America’s political culture is ever changing. Currently, we are witnessing a beautifully orchestrated “display” of how one leaves the office of president as a sore loser. After the 2020 election, Donald Trump was defeated and had to vacate the White House to make room for Joe Biden. In the end, whatever you think about the president-elect, January 6 was a political protest that devolved into a riot. Nothing more, nothing less. It certainly was not an insurrection. For many it was an expression of contempt for Washington establishment elites and their sense of entitlement to everything...

Yet, those who backed Harris are convinced that the woman who became vice president because of her gender and the color of her skin has vast potential, and if being president of the United States is not in the cards, perhaps a seat on the Supreme Court will do. An anti-Trump account on X under the name Protect Kamala Harris floated a proposal that would result in the failed Democratic nominee sitting on the nation’s highest court. “Want to blow Republicans’ minds? Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor retires. President Biden appoints Kamala Harris to Sotomayor’s vacancy with a lame duck...

Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that former President Donald Trump was a “fat,” “pathetic” loser. Carville said, “A little factoid there was the 61 legal actions brought, they lost 60 of them. They got some minor insignificant ruling in Pennsylvania that would have changed nothing in that race. And the idea that you had all of these rules violations that went on, and no one said anything? Again, I think I’m right on this, somebody will correct me if I’m wrong, 61 lawsuits. They were 1 for 61. That’s not a good average. That’s not...

ABC’s The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg embarked on an unhinged rant during Monday’s show, making the outlandish claim that former President Donald Trump wants to break up interracial couples, deport women of color, and then “put the white guy with someone else.” Whoopi Goldberg appeared to be having a bad reaction to Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally that took place Sunday.

Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz teamed up with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the streaming platform Twitch to playing video games in a desperate attempt to reach young male voters the Harris campaign is struggling to gain support from. The Washington Post reports that Minnesota Governor and Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz joined forces with AOC on the streaming platform Twitch. The duo took to the virtual stage on Sunday to play video games and discuss a range of topics, from electoral politics to social security benefits.

Strap yourselves in for this one, folks. You think you know TDS, but the witch community — it exists, and they outnumber CNN viewers — hate Donald Trump so much that they're attempting to cast spells on him in order to force him to lose the 2024 election, or maybe even possibly, a lot more than that. Witches Claim They're Finding It Too Hard to Cast Spells Against Trump Because of Some 'Protection' By Brandon Morse | 10:11 AM on October 23, 2024The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. AP...

Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich reacted to the last-ditch efforts by Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and her allies to denigrate her GOP opponent, former President Donald Trump, by calling him a “fascist” and “Hitler.” Gingrich called those overtures signs the Harris candidacy was “collapsing.” “So if you’re willing to call somebody or compare them to Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, I’m sure you have no problem calling him a serial murderer, a rapist, and the list will get longer by the day, probably a terrorist by the end of this game campaign,” host Sean...

Kamala Harris on Wednesday launched a nasty smear campaign against President Trump with 13 days to go until Election Day. Harris compared President Trump to Hitler after The Atlantic released another fake news hit piece on Trump. On Tuesday The Atlantic published a nasty 4 year old smear piece on Trump with 14 days to go until the election. The Atlantic author Jeffrey Goldberg, the same guy who lied to get us into war with Iraq, said in his latest hit piece that Trump disrespected Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén, who was murdered in 2020 when she was bludgeoned to death...

With two weeks to go until Election Day, Kamala Harris’ top advisers are staring down numbers that show a wide majority of Americans saying the country is on the wrong track. They’re also confident that the next two weeks will include Donald Trump dropping more references to the “enemy within” or January 6 as a “day of love” and going off on rambling tangents like his lewd remarks about golf legend Arnold Palmer at a Pennsylvania rally last week. And they expect they’ll be able to trigger him into making more outlandish claims. Getting Americans to focus on that over...

Kiev has the capability to build a nuclear weapon "in a few weeks," a high-ranking Ukrainian official has told Bild, the German tabloid reported on Thursday after Vladimir Zelensky announced his atomic ambitions. Ukraine needs either membership in NATO or nuclear weapons, Zelensky said on Friday in Brussels, arguing in favor of his "victory plan" to end the conflict with Russia. This prompted Bild to reveal that a Ukrainian official involved in weapons procurement told them "a few months ago" that Kiev was willing to go nuclear. "We have the material, we have the knowledge. If the order is given,...

Donald Trump is a serious threat to the lives of Black men. Vice President Harris will deliver for Black men and their families. Vice President Harris is laying out an agenda to give Black men the tools to build wealth and achieve financial freedom, lower costs for themselves and their families, and protect their rights—addressing the issues that Black men across the country have told her are their top concerns. Provide 1 million forgivable loans up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs and others who have a good idea but don’t have the resources, connections, or access to capital to get...

Campaign officials are weighing a potential visit by Vice President Kamala Harris to the US-Mexico border while in Arizona on Friday as the campaign tries to close the gap with former President Donald Trump on the issue of immigration, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. Immigration has featured prominently in the 2024 presidential election. Democrats, grappling with years of border crises, have tried to flip the script on Republicans after the GOP blocked a bipartisan border measure earlier this year. Some Harris campaign officials remain concerned about the gap in polling, which shows Trump holding a lead on...

Hamas planned to exhume the remains of British soldiers and hold them "prisoner," The Telegraph reported. The plan was explained in detail in a seven-page document shared with The Telegraph by Israeli officials, and referred to British and Commonwealth troops who fought the Ottomans and were buried in Gaza in 1917. Under the plan, Hamas would exhume the remains of these soldiers and then "blackmail" the British government for their return. The document shared with the Telegraph was uncovered by the IDF on January 31, in a Khan Yunis compound linked to Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif. It...

The desperation of Ukrainian and NATO authorities is full blown and on display in the Kursk region and the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. If you’re reading the legacy media, they cheering and celebrating the “smashing” Ukrainian victory and the utter embarrassment of Vladimir Putin. Only one teeny, tiny problem — it is bullshit.Yes, this portion of Russia’s border was lightly defended, but when the attack came Russia countered immediately and has killed more than 50% of the invaders. Along with a body count in excess of 1300 Ukrainian and foreign mercenaries, Russia destroyed most of the tanks and armored personnel...