If Trump Wins

By Bret Swanson

The Prickly Pear’s TAKE ACTION focus this year is to help achieve a winning 2024 national and state November 5th election with the removal of the Harris/Obama/Biden leftist executive branch disaster, win one U.S. Senate seat, maintain and win strong majorities in all Arizona state offices on the ballot and to insure that unrestricted abortion is not constitutionally embedded in our laws and culture.

Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.

Read Part 1 and Part 2 of The Prickly Pear essays entitled How NOT to Vote in the November 5, 2024 Election in Arizona to be well informed of the above issues and to vote in a way to ensure the most likely chance your vote will be counted and counted as you intend.

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Poseur Politics: Guns, Gardening, and French Fries

By Family Research Council

Positioning a candidate to appeal to the everyman isn’t a new concept in political campaigns. To gain the attention and support of voters, politicians (and their handlers) will do many things that the candidate wouldn’t ordinarily do.

When Lincoln was running for president in 1860, the new Republican Party positioned him as the “Woodchopper of the West.” In 1952, Eisenhower was portrayed as a man you couldn’t help but like with “I like Ike.” In 1978, Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Lamar Alexander walked across the entire state wearing a flannel shirt to show that he connected with average flannel-shirt-wearing Tennesseans. He won handily.

Some efforts feel more contrived than others. Think Vladimir Putin shirtless on horseback — maybe he does things differently, but I just can’t buy that it’s an everyday practice for the Russian tyrant. Ronald Reagan on horseback was a little more believable — after all, he owned a ranch and at least acted in cowboy films.

The more recent campaign 2024 is no exception when it comes to candidates downplaying their elite sensibilities to show solidarity with the common American. President Donald Trump’s shift at a McDonald’s restaurant is easily the most visible example of this. While his opposition had a veritable meltdown over the stunt, most Americans didn’t have to suspend much disbelief. No one thinks that Trump is a minimum-wage fast food employee at heart. The whole event did its job, drawing attention to the candidate, and bringing French fries to the people.

Trump’s opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has had her own efforts to appeal to average middle-class Americans. For one, she’s made herself out to be a gardener who grows her own food. Never mind how she seemed to struggle with using a shovel when dumping dirt on a tree with her husband — Harris has set herself out to be the green thumb of America.

Faced with an image that wasn’t connecting with gun owners, Harris’s running mate Governor Tim Walz (D) decided to go on a hunting trip, complete with media retinue (be vewy, vewy quiet…). While Walz had all the talking points down about his Beretta shotgun (nice gun, but not exactly a gun of the everyman), he didn’t appear quite as comfortable with the firearm as would a seasoned hunter.

For a party that places so much emphasis on gun control measures (just read their platform), Democrats lately seem to be having a hard time controlling their own guns. This week, Democratic Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Lucas Kunce held a campaign event with former Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger at a shooting range where a reporter covering the event was hit with shrapnel deflected from Kunce’s gun. From the photos of the event, the men appeared to be shooting at steel targets from 10 yards or less with rifles outfitted with optics for much further distances.

If indeed they were shooting steel from that close range, it would be no surprise to any experienced shooter that ricochet could very well occur. I’ve shot steel targets many times, but usually with lower-velocity handguns, not high-velocity, and it’s always at much further distances than 10 yards, because anything that close is unsafe. Safety didn’t seem to be the primary order of the day, as Kinzinger was shown in one photo shooting with his eye protection not on his eyes, but on top of his head, as he shot the AR-platform rifle at 10-yard targets over what appeared to be cans of explosive Tannerite. Apparently, posing beats protection every time.

For all its faults, most political posing is harmless. It gives us all insight that you’re not a complete creation of a political machine. It’s harmless, that is, until it’s not. In Kunce’s case, somebody did get hurt. Not to worry, though, you can’t let a good shooting go to waste. In a good day’s posing, all is good after all. Kunce himself tweeted:

“Great day at the range today with my friend @AdamKinzinger. We got to hang out with some union workers while exercising our freedom. Always have your first aid kit handy. Shrapnel can always fly when you hit a target like today, and you’ve got to be ready to go. We had four first aid kits, so we were able to take care of the situation, and I’m glad Ryan is okay and was able to continue reporting.”

For the poseur, it’s all in how you posture yourself. It may indeed have been a great day at the range, for Kunce and Kinzinger. For me, however, I’d be posturing myself at a gun range the next county over. Just because someone is smoking at the gas pump next to you doesn’t mean you have to stay at your pump until your tank is full. And that’s the problem with political poseurs — it’s all fun and games until the shooting starts.

AUTHOR

Jared Bridges

Jared Bridges is editor-in-chief of The Washington Stand.

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Kamala Harris, Guns, and Getting Elected

By Randy Kozuch

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Editors’ Note: Kamala Harris now says she owns a Glock semi-automatic pistol. This is interesting because she has supported a total ban on all handguns, both with Proposition H in California and in the District of Columbia. But Democrats have been strident about high-capacity semi-automatic weapons of all kinds. It appears to be a typical case of “protection for me, but not for thee.” In addition, the Glock in question may not be legal in California since Glocks typically have a magazine capacity beyond what California allows. Meanwhile, Tim Walz seems unable to load his shotgun, even though he says he has used it to shoot clay birds. After seeing his fumbling in a video, the man is not safe to be with if he has a weapon. How can a man active in the National Guard be so bad around weapons? More deadly, though, has been the Democrat playbook on personal safety. Disarm the citizens, release criminals from jail, import thousands of criminals and fly them around the country, have DAs that won’t prosecute crimes, and defund the police. If you own a gun or want to own a gun for self-defense, you cannot support Harris-Walz or virtually any Democrat for public office. Their sudden affection for guns is just crude pandering to the uninformed. 

In her stump speeches around the country since accepting her party’s nomination, Kamala Harris has invoked the three tenets of the far left’s gun control platform again and again – bans, red flag laws, and “universal” background checks. But since her September 10th debate with Donald Trump, Harris has struck a different note, emphasizing again and again that she owns a gun.  But Americans should not be taken in by Kamala’s willingness to take on any persona – including “pistol-packing Momala” – to mislead voters into thinking she’s a moderate in a cheap ploy to win in November.

Harris began trumpeting her gun ownership at the single debate she participated in this electoral cycle. Responding to Trump’s claim that she wanted to take people’s guns away – a claim supported by her advocacy for bans and “buyback” programs – Harris said “Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away. So stop with the continuous lying about this stuff.”

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A few days later when sitting down with journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists, she again asserted she, indeed, owned a gun.  And when Oprah entertained her in an on-air chat parading as an interview, Kamala again leaned in, asserting “I’m a gun owner too,” implying that she was just like the other nearly one out of every three U.S. adults – thirty-two percent – who say they personally own a gun.

For dramatic effect, Oprah expressed shock despite it being widely reported since the debate. Harris, took it up a notch, saying unprompted, “if someone breaks into my house, they’re going to get shot,” and laughed hysterically. And with that Kamala became not just a gun owner but a veritable Dirty Harry, meting out justice with a cackle.  

Questions about the propriety of joking about taking someone’s life aside, the real issue is what is driving Kamala’s sudden obsession with talking about her gun. Even casual observers are quick to see Kamala’s gun as less a tool of self-defense and more a symbol to defend her from critiques of her radical stance on guns, which is well documented.

She openly calls for a ban on some of the most commonly owned rifles in America. Such a ban, if made retroactive, would immediately turn millions of law-abiding gun owners into felons and potentially force the mandated surrender of tens of millions of guns.  Her apologists will deny this, but recall that just last year Harris lauded Australia for its anti-gun action, a 1996 law that outlawed most guns and led to the surrender and destruction of tens of thousands of personally owned firearms.

When running for the Democratic nomination in 2019 Harris said repeatedly that she strongly supported a mandatory gun buyback program, akin to the one in Australia.  Though campaign staffers have claimed she no longer holds that view, they haven’t explained why she changed her mind, and Harris has not denounced her former position. Can anyone be assured she won’t change her mind again?

In 2007, while serving as San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris not only supported but helped implement even more radical policies.  At a press conference to roll out the city’s “safe storage” law, she argued – 4th Amendment be damned – “…just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”

Harris had also supported a citywide ban on handguns that would have made it illegal for all but a few in San Francisco to own them.  As an officer of the court, Harris and her handgun would have been exempt, but the measure never came to fruition…..

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Please click the TAKE ACTION link to learn to do’s and don’ts for voting in 2024. Our state and national elections are at great risk from the very aggressive and radical leftist Democrat operatives with documented rigging, mail-in voter fraud and illegals voting across the country (yes, with illegals voting across the country) in the last several election cycles.

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WATCH: Tampon Tim Walz Hunting Photo Op Backfires When He Has Trouble Loading His Own Gun

By Royal A. Brown III

Tampon Tim can’t even load his own shotgun during fake Pheasant Hunt.

WATCH: Tim Walz doesn’t even know how to load his own gun – he lied about being a hunter too!

What a Putz.

This useful idiot is guilty of “stolen valor” and certainly is no man’s man.


Tim Walz Hunting Photo Op Backfires When He Has Trouble Loading His Own Gun

By RVM News Staff

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz found himself in an awkward moment during his participation in the annual Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener near Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.

While attempting to load a semi-automatic shotgun, Walz struggled with the process, an incident captured in a video that quickly spread on social media.

As he fumbled with the gun, Walz was heard saying, “It never fits quite right,” while speaking to reporters. When asked by a reporter about the firearm, Walz identified it as a Beretta A400, explaining that he had chosen the model for its patented “KickOff” technology, designed to reduce recoil and make shooting more comfortable.

“I bought it when I was shooting a lot of trap,” Walz added, noting that the reduced recoil meant “it doesn’t hurt your shoulder as much.”

According to Beretta’s website, the semi-automatic A400 Xcel retails for over $2,000, with an additional $1,141.96 for the recoil-reducing stock.

Despite his participation in the pheasant hunt, Walz did not manage to bag any game, as reported by the Associated Press.

The video and his struggle with the shotgun led to widespread mockery on social media, where many questioned Walz’s hunting experience and firearm handling skills.

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Conservatives Reveal Plan To Awaken Sleeping Giant Voter Demographic That Could Decide White House, Senate

By The Daily Caller

A crumbling economy and porous border, or the scary project 2025 and loss of “reproductive rights”; those are the messages both parties are inundating Americans with as election day rapidly approaches.

But if Republicans hope to reach the estimated 10 million gun owners not registered to vote, hunting and pro-gun organizations alike know traditional messaging won’t do it. A coalition of pro-gun organizations believe those non-voters could swing the election, and are using hunting and firearm influencers, social media and messaging catered specifically towards gun owners to engage them.

“Bill Clinton acknowledged, as did Clinton’s campaign, the White House spokesman Joel Lockhart admitted, that the gun vote cost Al Gore the White House. It cost John Kerry the White House. It cost the Democrats control of Congress in 1994 after they passed the Clinton gun ban, and we believe it can be a determinative factor in this election in places where there’s high gun ownership, in places like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Montana, Arizona, Nevada,” Larry Keane, senior vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, told the Daily Caller.

“We believe [gun owners] will be a determinant factor, particularly when the contrast is so stark. You have a candidate on the Democrat side who was coronated and wants to literally, wants to send the police to your home to see how you store your guns, and wants to confiscate firearms,” Keane added.

Former President Donald Trump himself believes gun owners can sway the election. Speaking at a recent rally, he said that the National Rifle Association had shown him numbers about how infrequently gun owners vote. “If you would vote, nobody would beat us,” Trump said.

No matter your reason for owning a firearm — whether for hunting, self-defense, or just as an exercise of your Constitutional right — law-abiding gun owners have a clear choice this fall if they hope to preserve their Second Amendment rights. https://t.co/IisqXxUbb5

— NRA (@NRA) October 4, 2024

According to Vote4America, more than 10 million gun owners across the country are not registered to vote. 515,277 are in Pennsylvania and about 370,000 each are in Michigan and North Carolina, according to data obtained by the New York Post. In Georgia, Wisconsin, Missouri and Virginia, more than half a million gun owners are not registered to vote, and another 133,000 are not registered in Arizona.

For Republicans, these figures can be perplexing, but gun owners explained to the Caller that there is skepticism towards voting and politics as a whole in the community. Some believe that because they don’t want the government in their business, then they shouldn’t get involved by voting.

“I think that we as conservatives and gun owners rest on our laurels because we feel like we have the Constitution and we have the truth on our side, and that we don’t really see the threat for what it is. If you even peek behind the curtain of the gun control lobby, you’ll see that it’s starting to expose itself now that they are willing to usurp or destroy the Constitution in order to get their New World way. So I just think it’s a little bit of ignorance and a little bit of apathy that they don’t think that it’s going to happen here,” Dianna Muller, founder of Women for Gun Rights, told the Caller.

Muller explained that she believes many gun owners don’t trust the integrity of the election process, which also may drive some away from voting.

To combat this skepticism, pro-gun organizations have recognized that their messaging can’t mirror traditional political ads. At Hunter Nation, Keith Mark, a self-described traditional Democrat, told the Caller that it starts with identifying gun owners that have the “traditional, conservative values of God, family, country, the Constitution and the hunting lifestyle” and focusing on them ahead of the election. But the secret, he said, are the platforms the organization uses to carry its message to those voters.

“It’s not only the message, it’s how we deliver it and who delivers it, and so we rely very heavily on hunting influencers and hunting celebrities,” Mark told the Caller.

“Instead of selling a product, we’re selling freedom. We’re selling their lifestyle. We’re selling the ability to be independent and not hassled by your government, because these people that hunt when we poll them, it’s just like, ‘hey, I don’t want the government in my business, and so I’m not going to go get in their business.’ Well, we figured out how to message them and let them know that, ‘hey, listen, they’re going to come into your business. They’re going to take over your business if you don’t go vote once a year.’”

“So it’s like, basically, guys, you need to get off your tree stands and out of the duck marshes, and out of the deer woods and pheasant fields and go vote,” Mark said, adding that the group never pushes the demographic to vote for a specific candidate.

Kick your fellow real American hunters to vote!
Go to https://t.co/MLcuQUPzNG

Join me for full on truth logic and commonsense on my @realamericasvoice Spirit Campfire:https://t.co/3xSbZaP8SB#truth#logic #commonsensepic.twitter.com/TNj3J4SBxV

— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) October 7, 2024

To carry its message, Hunter Nation, alongside the NRA, has partnered with celebrities such as Ted Nugent, Donald Trump Jr. (a prominent hunting enthusiast) and the Duck Dynasty organization, Mark told the Caller. Similarly, Vote4America has teamed up with pro-gun personalities like Brooke Ence, Shawn Ryan, Andy Stumpf, Andy Frisella, Dan Hollaway, Shermichael Singleton, and Jason Alden to encourage gun owners to vote, senior adviser Baker Leavitt told the Caller.

Mark expects these types of partnerships to pay off in a big way.

In Wisconsin, according to Hunter Nation’s data, 416,085 gun owners are low-propensity, at risk or newly-registered voters. Of that total, the organization expects to turn out 54,196, Mark said. Biden won the state in 2020 by 20,600 votes.

In Michigan, the number of those potential voters is 452,471. The organization is estimating that it will turn out 70,142 in the 2024 election. Biden won the state in 2020 by 154,000 votes.

The organization also expects to have a big impact in Georgia, where Biden won by about 11,000 votes in 2020. Hunter Nation hopes to turn out 122,913 of the state’s more than 825,000 low-propensity or newly-registered gun owners, Mark said.

In perhaps the election’s most critical state, Pennsylvania, which Biden previously won by about 80,000 votes, the hunting group says their campaign projects to turn out at least 58,000 low-propensity gun owners.

Are you registered to vote?
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John Bingaman, PA state director, was out with his kiddos on Sunday. We want to make sure you and your friends,family, and everyone you know get out and vote in less than 40 days! 40% of hunters don’t vote.

Register here https://t.co/dPQkJGvGTipic.twitter.com/ZJdiAPtOIC

— Hunter Nation (@HunterNation) September 27, 2024

“What people miss about firearm ownership, and gun owners specifically, is they’re not super partisan, and they’re not necessarily overly political. I think we have a tendency in the political space, as pundits or as operatives to think of this being like a really polarizing, divisive issue, and the reality is it just isn’t for a majority of gun owners. They own firearms. They have them in their house. They grow up with them. They hunt with them. They have them for self-defense, and it’s just a part in a way of life,” Katie Pointer Baney, the executive director for the United States Concealed Carry Association for Saving Lives Action Fund told the Caller of their GOTV efforts. She added that as a part of the group’s messaging they are telling gun owners to keep exercising their freedoms, they need to be involved in the political process.

Hunter Nation is not alone in its work in Pennsylvania. Scott Presler and his organization Early Vote Action are barnstorming gun shows and ranges across the state to register gun owners to vote.

“This year, I can tell you, we went to the great American Outdoor Show, and then that week, we registered 319 voters just at that show alone. We’ve also been to the Monroeville gun show several times. We’ve been to the Philly Expo Center several times, and I can confidently say that we have registered thousands of second amendment-supporting folks at these gun shows just this year alone,” Presler told the Caller. Presler previously told the Caller that his organization is in communication with the Republican National Committee and Trump campaign regarding their get-out-the-vote efforts in the state.

While some organizations are hitting gun shows and utilizing hunting personalities, others are banking on their large membership and resources to help mobilize more pro-gun voters.

“We are working to reach unregistered gun owners in the battleground states that will decide the outcome of the election, and we have reached eight figures, let’s say, in unregistered voters with messages urging them to get registered to vote, helping to provide them with information to our gunvote.org website, to find out where they can get registered, how they get registered, where their polling place is, and then we try to communicate information to those individuals and others,” Keane told the Caller.

And while most groups are barred from working with the campaign because of nonprofit laws, a senior Trump campaign official told the Caller that they have been doing outreach with Gun Owners of America. Erich Pratt, the senior vice president of Gun Owner of America, told the Caller that they have a network of nearly two million gun owners who they are targeting ahead of the election through newsletters and their national convention.

On its own, the senior Trump official told the Caller that the campaign is focusing on using mail and text campaigns to target gun owners through state parties to help “highlight what a gun-grabber Harris has been throughout her entire career.” In May, the Trump team launched a  “Gun Owners for Trump” coalition that is led by over 50 Olympic athletes, firearm industry leaders and public advocates.

The groups’ efforts could all come down to one thing: whether gun owners trust the election process.

Almost all the gun organizations the Caller spoke to said that the gun owning demographic’s low propensity to vote can, in part, be attributed to their lack of trust in the voting process. It’s a problem the Trump campaign is directly trying to address with its election integrity efforts.

NEW: Republicans talk tough on election integrity — but how much different will 2024 look from 2020, really?

The @DailyCaller investigated what the party is doing to stop another legal bloodbath, and results have been mixed.

My latest: https://t.co/g5hIsm9gQc

— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) March 15, 2024

A senior Trump campaign official explained to the Caller that the GOP has heavily focused on election integrity in the 2024 cycle, filing more than 100 lawsuits, securing many legal wins in swing states and hiring a coalition of tens of thousands of poll watchers to help be a “giant human intelligence operation” that will identify any issues and notify the party of such. The party was previously under a consent decree for nearly 40 years, until 2018, that prohibited them from truly launching an election integrity effort.

“The voter roles are much cleaner broadly, and we just have a much bigger, organizational effort that knows what to look for and is prepared. There’s many less drop boxes. There’s cameras on drop boxes, things that didn’t exist four years ago,” the official told the Caller.

“All of that should give people a great degree of confidence that what happened last time is not going to happen this time. And there’s the whole eyes of the world on it this time as well,” they added.

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9 Ways Harris and Walz Built Their Campaign on Misinformation and Disinformation

By Family Research Council

More than any time in history, the Democratic Party has spent the last eight years warning that politics runs the risk of being contaminated by the foul specter of “misinformation and disinformation.” Anyone conversant with politics knows “misinformation and disinformation” have long been synonymous with political campaigns from candidates of all backgrounds, but the Harris-Walz campaign wants to criminalize political differences.

In 2019, then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris promised the NAACP that she will “hold social media platforms accountable” if they “act as a megaphone for misinformation.” But if she did that, Harris might turn her own campaign into a federal case. She has frequently been guilty of what the head of her proposed federal disinformation board, Nina Jankowicz, called “information laundering”: repeating lies in a prominent political or media outlet. As we have noted, ABC News moderators let at least 10 Kamala Harris lies slide at her (apparently only) debate with Donald Trump on September 10, many of which she had made in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention and some of which the party had enshrined in the 2024 Democratic Party platform. Here are a few more:

1. Pro-Life Laws ‘Kill Women’

Harris has long claimed that “Trump abortion bans” kill women, and she recently felt invigorated that she had found one — in a swing state, no less. But the facts cannot hold the weight of her fact-defying narrative. The mother, 28-year-old Amber Thurman, died from the side effects of the abortion pill and medical negligence — perhaps reinforced by media misinformation about abortion “bans.”

Thurman ingested the two-drug chemical abortion cocktail of mifepristone and misoprostol but, as they frequently do, the pills failed to expel all of her aborted babies’ body parts from her womb. As she went into sepsis — alone, in her home, with no help from anyone in the industry — she sought medical care for her incomplete miscarriage. The standard of care would call for a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure to remove her deceased children’s remaining fetal tissue. As one witness boldly testified to the U.S. Senate recently, no pro-life law in the nation prevents women from receiving appropriate care for a miscarriage, including a D&C.

Yet the media and Democratic politicians, Kamala Harris foremost among them, lie that pro-life protections bar doctors from administering emergency care. Doctors may be confused by these narratives and refuse to provide lifesaving care after a miscarriage, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy based on misinformation, disinformation, and unwarranted support for the abortion cartel.

It’s impossible to know for sure what would have happened if these states had managed to enact pro-life protections for unborn babies at all stages — including the abortion pill cartel’s often-illegal activities trafficking chemical abortion agents into pro-life states, efforts facilitated by the Biden-Harris administration and its blue state allies. But one can make an educated guess. If red states had abortion pill bans, Amber Thurman would be alive today, anticipating what it will feel like to hold her baby. Today, she’s a victim of the abortion industry’s neglect and the Democratic presidential candidate’s lies and distortions on its behalf.

2. Springfield Bomb Threats

After former President Donald Trump and his running mate Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) reported Haitian migrants harming resident of Springfield, the media blamed them for a string of bomb threats against the city, especially its “migrant” population.

“Trump and Vance are still stoking fears of Haitian migrants, as Ohio community faces bomb threats,” claimed the Associated Press. “Vance continues fueling false rumors about migrants in Ohio as community receives threats,” said PBS (at your expense). “Bomb Threats Don’t Stop J.D. Vance From Attacking Immigrants in Ohio Town,” charged Rolling Stone.

As it turned out, all of those were “hoaxes,” said the state’s anti-Trump governor. “So 33 threats, 33 hoaxes,” summarized Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) on September 16. “None of them have panned out. We have people, unfortunately, overseas who are taking these actions. Some of them are coming from one particular country,” although he refused to specify which country made dozens of threats against the citizens of his state (as well as the tens of thousands of Haitians currently resident there). Multiple media reports, sometimes citing U.S. government whistleblowers, indicate that Iran has attempted to organization assassination plots against Trump and clearly wants Harris to remain in office.

Yet Harris continued to baselessly blame the bomb threats on “hateful rhetoric” from Trump and Vance, whom she claimed are “spewing lies … grounded in tropes.” Likewise, PBS twisted the governor’s explanation in a taxpayer-funded misinformation headline stating, “Springfield facing threats from overseas after Trump’s lies about Haitians, Ohio governor’s office says.”

Taking matters to their logical extension, a Haitian immigrant group known as the Haitian Bridge Alliance has demanded officials arrest Trump and Vance for allegedly having “wreaked havoc” against the “Haitian community” in Springfield. The group has received more than $1 million from the Open Society Foundations, a nonprofit founded by George Soros.

3. J.D. Vance: School Shootings Are ‘a Fact of Life’

During a September 5 speech, J.D. Vance addressed the issue of school shootings. “If these psychos are going to go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared for it. We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it. I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” he said. He went on to say that would-be psycho killers “realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”

That’s an entirely mainstream message: For all the Left’s insistence that federal funding must turn public schools into “safe spaces,” it never wants to spend a dime improving students’ physical safety. Statistics show that schools which end their status as a “gun-free” zone are incredibly safe. Only a vast distortion of his message could make it controversial.

Enter the Associated Press. Within hours, the AP targeted Vance, posting a social media message claiming, “JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.” After backlash, AP replaced that post with a placeholder message (although the headline is still on AP’s website) — but the original message had served its purpose, which is to let the Harris-Walz campaign repeat the inaccurate reporting, as they did. The campaign released a statement distorting that quotation and another from Trump saying America has to deal with its grief and go on. Walz recycled the falsehood in a September 22 rally in Pennsylvania, claiming the Republican candidates “want to tell you that [you should] just get over it, it’s a fact of life. This is the way it is.”

4. Trump Called for ‘Execution’ of the Central Park Five, Who Were Later Found Innocent

Kamala Harris has repeatedly foisted another blood libel on Donald Trump, claiming he called on police to execute innocent teens of minority backgrounds for allegedly raping a Central Park jogger in 1989. At their presidential debate, Harris instructed her audience, “Let’s remember, this is the same individual who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five — took out a full-page ad calling for their execution.”

Nearly everything in that statement is false. In response to the brutal rape and beating of a woman jogging through Central Park in 1989, Trump took out a full-page ad in a number of newspapers, including the Times and the New York Daily News, attacking soft-on-crime policies … but he said nothing about executing the Central Park Five.

Trump’s ad called on city officials to protect “New York families — White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian” — against street thugs and “murderers.” And, “when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” he declared. “We must cease our continuous pandering to the criminal element of this city.”

Moreover, the notion that the “wilding” youths were innocent is underwhelming. As columnist Ann Coulter noted in a column that deserves to be read in its entirety:

“Four of The Five gave videotaped confessions, at least three of them in the presence of parents or guardians. Defense attorneys spent weeks attacking the confessions as ‘coerced,’ but two multicultural juries and the trial judge concluded that the confessions were voluntary.”

Additional evidence implicates members of the crowd even after another individual gave his own confession.

5. Bailing Violent Criminals Out of Jail Is ‘Misinformation’

Despite posting the words on social media, Kamala Harris has claimed that ties to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bailed out 2020 BLM rioters who went on to commit other crimes.

“I am the child of parents who marched for civil rights,” the “middle-class” kid began, “and I will always be and will always be a supporter of peaceful protests.” She called the allegations another example of “misinformation and disinformation” in an October 2022 interview with WCCO-4, the CBS affiliate in Minneapolis. WCCO tailored a “fact-check” story, not on whether Harris ever promoted the group, but instead noting carefully that “Despite Trump claim and 2020 tweet showing support, Harris never donated to Minnesota Freedom Fund,” a story subsequently updated days after Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.

This is a rare case of double disinformation. Of course, the BLM riots in Minneapolis, the nation, and the world as a whole were far from peaceful. Violent BLM riots claimed 19 lives — including 77-year-old retired St. Louis police officer David Dorn, whose widow endorsed Trump — and caused at least$2 billion in property damage.

But Harris did, in fact, support bailing out rioters. On June 1, 2020, Kamala Harris posted a message to her followers on social media, stating, “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” The tweet remains on her timeline. She later called the deadly riots “an essential component of evolution in our country, as an essential component or mark of a real democracy.”

Arguably, the story makes CBS News and Kamala Harris look worse. Trump never claimed Harris personally donated; he said she “helped” bail out Shawn Michael Tillman, who had been jailed for gross indecent exposure and went on to murder a man after the Harris-endorsed fund bailed him out. The fact that Harris did not personally support the cause while encouraging her followers to do so could arguably make her seem insincere or hypocritical.

6. J.D. Vance’s Erotic Dalliance with a Couch

The Walz-Harris campaign engaged in “information laundering” with a coarse internet statement self-consciously offered as an internet lie.

Shortly after his selection as her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) targeted J.D. Vance. “I can’t wait to debate the guy — that is, if he’s willin’ to get off the couch and show up,” said Walz with evident self-satisfaction. “Ya see what I did there?” he said, in case anyone missed it.

He referred to a July 15 social media post from an online account created the day Trump announced Vance as his running mate, with the handle @rxckrxdxscxlvxs (Rick Rude’s calves). The anonymous poster said he “can’t say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to f****** an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181).” He later posted a meme exposing his previous post as a lie.

No such citation exists in the book.

The Associated Press branded the story false in a fact-check — but then pulled the story, allegedly because editors felt it did not meet their editorial standards. But Snopes.com has rated the story “False” (while helpfully including a section asking, “Why is this rumor so believable?”). Walz opposition research team undoubtedly knew the story was fallacious. But like certain rumors contained in the Russian dossier about Donald Trump (rumors paid for by the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign), the rumors served their purpose.

7. ‘We Are Not Taking Anybody’s Guns Away’

During the presidential debate on September 10, Harris stated, “Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We are not taking anybody’s guns away.”

But at a joint campaign appearance with Walz in Philadelphia on August 6, Kamala Harris promised, “Together, when we win in November, we are finally going to pass universal background checks, red flag laws, and an ‘assault weapons’ ban.” Red flag laws allow law enforcement to remove firearms from the homes of legal gun owners without due process. The controversial laws, which both candidates have supported, take guns away from law-abiding Americans who purchased their firearms lawfully after receiving a report — possibly from an abusive ex, a jealous neighbor, or a local thief — that the individual poses a threat to himself or others. A so-called “assault weapons ban” would prevent Americans from purchasing such weapons. Harris has promised to support a “mandatory buy-back” for guns possessed lawfully.

Production of “Modern Sporting Rifles” (such as AR-15s and AK-47s) increased 32% between 2020 and 2021, bringing the total number produced since 1990 to 28.1 million, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Americans own an estimated 473.2 million firearms.

8. Trump Promised a ‘Bloodbath’

Harris has accused Trump of another blood libel, claiming he will lead another violent revolution against the government.

The comment came as Trump spoke near Dayton, Ohio, promising to “put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across” the border from Mexico, some of them built by Chinese companies. “Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole” automotive industry, Trump continued.

As I wrote at the time at The Washington Stand:

“The term ‘bloodbath’ is regularly used in the financial sector to describe an industrial contraction. The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists one of the definitions of ‘bloodbath’ as ‘a major economic disaster.’ … Democratic campaign operatives pounced on Trump’s use of the term ‘bloodbath’ to insinuate he wanted to foment a blood-drenched revolution if he lost the election. … The [then-]Biden campaign promptly wrenched the president’s remarks out of context to create a digital campaign ad titled ‘Bloodbath,’ which recycles other erroneous statements, such as falsely claiming Trump praised rioters at the Charlottesville and January 6 D.C. riots.”

Despite extensive reporting about the full context of the former president’s remarks, Harris attacked Trump during their presidential debate, insisting that “Donald Trump the candidate has said in this election there will be a bloodbath, if the outcome of this election is not to his liking.”

9. Trump Said There Were ‘Very Fine People’ in Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ Rally

Joe Biden claimed he decided to launch his third presidential bid because of Trump’s response to Charlottesville. The 2024 Democratic Party platform contains a reference to the remarks. And Kamala Harris has dredged up the comments, telling viewers of the presidential debate to “remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing anti-Semitic hate, and what did the president then at the time say? There were ‘fine people’ on each side.”

In reality, President Donald Trump began his remarks by condemning “some very bad people” in that group. “But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides,” Trump continued. “And I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly,” because they were “protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.” Trump went on to declare the Woke mob would not stop at destroying statutes of Confederate heroes but would come for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

He went on to establish a 1776 Commission, which proposed erecting a series of monuments depicting historic Americans heroes, which the Biden-Harris administration canceled via executive order.

See also The 10 Kamala Harris Lies Moderators Let Slide at the ABC News Debate and Tim Walz’s Lies: The Top 7.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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If Harris Can ‘Eliminate The Filibuster For Roe,’ She Can Nuke It For Fracking Bans And Gun Control Too

By Christopher Jacobs

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Democrats will use abortion as a ‘wedge’ issue to nuke the filibuster, allowing them to enact many other bad policies.

What does abortion have to do with the future of fracking in the United States? Much more than one might expect.

Kamala Harris’ announcement that she supports an “exception” to the filibuster underscores the stakes in November’s election. If Democrats gain unified control of both houses of Congress and the White House in January, Harris’ statement makes clear that they would undoubtedly use their power to pass radical legislation — not just on abortion but on energy and many other topics.

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Democrats Would Nuke’ the Filibuster

At the risk of mixing metaphors during a discussion of abortion policy, one cannot be half-pregnant when it comes to the Senate filibuster. Harris’ talk of an “exception” masks what is ultimately a binary choice: You either support the legislative filibuster or you don’t.

Consider that in 2013, Senate Democrats abolished the filibuster rule for presidential nominees — both executive branch officials and lower court judges — while retaining a carveout that still required 60 votes to confirm Supreme Court justices. That 60-vote requirement for Supreme Court justices lasted until … the next vacancy on the Supreme Court, whereupon Republicans, who by then had retaken the Senate, abolished the Senate filibuster for presidential nominees entirely.

To use Harris’ own phraseology, hear her when she says, “We should eliminate the filibuster.” She doesn’t just mean “for [codifying] Roe [v. Wade],” she means for anything that gets in Democrats’ way.

Harris and other Democrats have proposed so many different “exceptions” to the filibuster that, even by the end of a two-year Congress, the “rule” would ultimately look like Swiss cheese. Whenever they regained unified control, Republicans would not (and should not) agree to a one-sided fight — where passing Democrat priorities takes only 51 Senate votes, but passing Republican priorities takes 60 senators — and would likely abolish the filibuster outright.

In Thrall to the Left Wing

In attacking Harris’ gambit, Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., resorted to a bit of hyperbole when he called the filibuster “the Holy Grail of democracy.” Both the secret ballot and the First Amendment likely matter more when it comes to preserving freedom of thought and expression in the country.

But Manchin accurately summarized the danger when he said that the filibuster is “the only thing that keeps us talking and working together” in the Senate: “If [Harris] gets rid of that, then this [i.e., the Senate] would be the House on steroids.”

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In that sense, he is certainly correct that changing the filibuster would unleash the radical furies of his former Democrat colleagues. For instance, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Penn., in responding to Harris’ comments, said that “the 60-vote rule has been an impediment to progress on a whole host of fronts,” citing “voting rights … women’s rights, workers’ rights … common sense gun measures to reduce gun violence” as some of the issues he wanted to override the filibuster to enact.

Consider all the bills Casey’s comments mean Democrats would likely pass under unified control: national legislation overriding voting laws and standards in the 50 states, the abolition of the secret ballot — which is the “Holy Grail of democracy” — in union elections, intrusions on Americans’ Second Amendment rights, and taxpayer-funded abortion on demand.

Democrats Will Ban Fracking

Casey’s Pennsylvania constituents, who have benefited significantly from the fracking boom in recent years, should take note of this purportedly “moderate” senator’s extremism. With Democrats proposing all those various “exceptions” to the filibuster, does anyone really believe that they would not similarly break the Senate’s 60-vote requirement to pass a ban on fracking? And does anyone really believe that, if Democrats passed a fracking ban in Congress, Kamala Harris — who not five years ago pledged to eliminate the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal — would veto such a measure?

Therein lies the connection between abortion and fracking. Democrats will use the former as a “wedge” issue to nuke the filibuster, allowing them to ban the latter and enact many other bad policies.

While Harris is attempting to portray herself as a moderate between now and Nov. 5, her comments on the filibuster and abortion gave the game away. Voters now should understand the stakes — and vote accordingly.

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‘I Have Not Seen This In Ages’: Pollster Warns Of Concerning Data For Dems In Nearly All Swing States

By The Daily Caller

Veteran polling analyst Matt Towery detailed Monday on Fox News a worrying trend for Democrats due to a rise in support for former President Donald Trump among voters in crucial swing states.

During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Towery, who claims to have access to recent polls soon to be released to the public, reported a significant uptick in favor of the former president, not just in the usual hotspots but across almost every battleground state, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada.

“I’ve looked at polling that I’ve been privy to, and I’ll probably be public in the next few days. Trump is trending up in almost every single battleground state, almost every one,” Towery told Laura Ingraham when asked why Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin was concerned about the polling. “And when you ask the question, how are your neighbors going to vote? You have very shy Trump voters sometimes. Those numbers explode, and I’ve not seen this in ages. And you know me, I’m usually Mr. Doom and Gloom for the Republicans and Trump.”

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While Towery is typically more pessimistic about Republican prospects, his current observations indicate a shift in public sentiment that spans beyond traditional strongholds.

“I am seeing a true shift in public sentiment, not just in Michigan and in Pennsylvania. I’m seeing it in Nevada, as a matter of fact, there’s been a turnaround there. The only problem child right now is Georgia, and that’s because the Republicans, you have two groups, traditionalist Republicans who go way back,” he continued. “They’re not feeling the groove with Trump right now. It’s the more new-come Republicans and those who live in the exurbs and down in those areas that were hit by this storm.”

Towery also touched on the recent severe storm that has wreaked havoc across the Southeast, particularly affecting Republican-dominated areas. “That storm affected Republican areas, and I’m just saying, demographically, all the way up, basically majority Republican other than Asheville. So what effect that’s gonna have on turnout? I have no earthly idea,” Towery added.

Experts suggest that Nevada’s shift toward Trump could significantly impact Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, despite the state’s modest six electoral votes. The unique economic and demographic factors in the swing state, which has consistently voted Democratic since 2008, might now tilt the balance in this tight race.

A New York Times and Siena College poll indicates a neck-and-neck race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in key swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin. In Michigan, Harris leads Trump by a narrow margin of 48% to 47%, while in Wisconsin, her lead is slightly larger at 49% to 47%, according to the Saturday report from the NYT.

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Kamala Harris Backed Total Handgun Ban As San Francisco District Attorney

By The Daily Caller

Vice President Kamala Harris backed a total ban on handguns in San Francisco, California, during her time as the city’s district attorney, according to a story published in the San Jose Mercury News in 2005.

Harris backed San Francisco Proposition H, which would have enacted a total ban on possessing a handgun in San Francisco with few exceptions, as well as the sale, possession, manufacturing and distribution of all firearms and ammunition in the city, according to San Jose Mercury News. Her past support for the measure stands in contrast to her recent insistence during her 2024 presidential campaign that she is “not taking anyone’s guns away” if elected.

The ballot measure passed with 58% of people voting in favor but immediately faced legal challenges from groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA), according to The Reload. The proposal was swiftly struck down in court in 2006, as it was found to have violated the Second Amendment, according to the Office of the City Attorney.

“San Francisco was a leader in proposing gun restrictions at the local level, and she never met a gun control law she didn’t like,” Chuck Michel, president and general counsel of the CRPA who helped fight the measure, told The Reload. “Prop H was the crowning jewel.”

The law would have given San Francisco residents until January 1st, 2006, to surrender their handguns without consequences, according to the proposition. The only people allowed to own handguns would be “security guards, peace officers or active members of the U.S. armed forces.”

Handguns are the most frequently used firearm for self-defense, with 65.9% of defensive gun use cases utilizing them, according to a Georgetown University study conducted in 2021. Additionally, there are on average 1.7 million defensive gun uses per year.

Harris also supported mandatory gun buybacks for so-called “assault weapons” in 2019 during her campaign for the Democratic nomination. However, experts previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that confiscating so-called “assault weapons” would likely violate the Second Amendment as it would require an underlying ban.

She continues to support an assault weapons ban as well as mandating background checks on customers if a dealer sells more than five guns a year, according to The New York Times in July.

The Harris campaign declined to comment on the record to the DCNF.

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Teamsters Union Won’t Endorse Harris after Members Back Trump

By Family Research Council

For the first time in decades, one of the nation’s largest and most influential labor unions is refusing to endorse a Democrat for president. Representing nearly one-and-a-half million American workers, the Teamsters Union announced late Wednesday that it would not be endorsing either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential race.

This marks the first time since 1996 that the Teamsters have not endorsed a presidential candidate. Previously, the union has overwhelmingly endorsed Democrats for president, including endorsing now-President Joe Biden in 2020. The Teamsters have not endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush in 1988.

“The Teamsters thank all candidates for meeting with members face-to-face during our unprecedented roundtables,” Teamsters’ International Union General President Sean O’Brien said in a statement. “Unfortunately, neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business,” O’Brien continued. “We sought commitments from both Trump and Harris not to interfere in critical union campaigns or core Teamsters industries — and to honor our members’ right to strike — but were unable to secure those pledges.”

“As the strongest and most democratic labor union in America, it was vital for our members to drive this endorsement process. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents proudly call our union home, and we have a duty to represent and respect every one of them,” O’Brien added. “We strongly encourage all our members to vote in the upcoming election, and to remain engaged in the political process. But this year, no candidate for President has earned the endorsement of the Teamsters’ International Union.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter said, “To see the Teamsters decline to endorse the Democratic nominee for president is not something I thought I would ever see in my lifetime. Since the 2016 election, we have seen the emergence of a truly stunning realignment in the coalitions that make up the two-party system in American politics.” He explained, “The GOP, once home to free trade absolutists and corporate America, has transformed into the home of working men and women, while the Democratic Party has morphed into a party of the upwardly-mobile, high-income, and college-educated.”

Carpenter added, “While the Teamsters opted not to endorse Donald Trump, and instead opted to decline an endorsement of either candidate, they did release polling of their members showing by almost two-to-one they prefer a second Trump term to a Harris administration.”

The Teamsters did release internal polling data, also on Wednesday, asking union members who the 121-year-old organization should endorse for president. According to electronic polling conducted from late July to September 15, nearly 60% said the union should back Trump, while only 34% went with Harris. The remaining 6.4% of polled Teamsters said “other candidates.” A phone poll conducted from September 9 to September 16 found little difference, except a noticeable decline in support for Harris, with 58% of Teamsters backing Trump and only 31% backing Harris. The remaining 11% were almost evenly split between “undecided” and “don’t know.” Polling conducted prior to Biden dropping out of the presidential race found nearly 45% of Teamsters supported Biden, 36.3% supported Trump, and the remaining 7% were split among third-party candidates.

Trump himself commented on the Teamsters’ refusal to back Harris. “The Teamsters for many, many decades always automatically support the Democrats. This year, they refused to do it,” the 45th president said in an interview Wednesday night. He continued, “They took a poll and we got 60% in the poll, in the Teamsters. They’re not gonna support the Democrat this year, they’re gonna — I guess remain neutral. But that was sort of a big event. Nobody ever expected a thing like that to happen.” Trump added that a lot of Teamsters workers used to work for him in the construction and real estate development business years prior and referred to O’Brien as a “top guy.”

In July, O’Brien became the first Teamster to speak at the Republican National Convention, at Trump’s invitation. Upon accepting Trump’s warm welcome, O’Brien said, “Anti-union groups demanded the president rescind his invitation. The Left called me a traitor. This is precisely why it is so important for me to be here today.” Referring to Trump being shot in the head and surviving an assassination attempt just days earlier, O’Brien added, “I think we all can agree, whether people like him or they don’t like him, in light of what happened to him on Saturday, he has proven to be one tough S.O.B.” The Teamsters leader also derided economic and labor policies that hurt “American workers,” calling for reform to labor law and bankruptcy law.

Just last month, polling data found that Trump commands a nearly-30-point lead over Harris among white, working-class, and non-college-educated voters nationally. The former president also leads among white, working-class voters across swing states. Earlier this week, Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Flint, Michigan and pledged to increase tariffs on cars made in places like Mexico, in order to bring jobs back to American workers in places like Michigan. “We are going to bring so many auto plants into our country,” Trump promised. “You’re going to be as big or bigger than you were 50 years ago. Because if they’re not willing to build a plant, we don’t want their product.”

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S.A. McCarthy

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Presidential Debate: 3 Against 1 – Majority Loses

By The Geller Report

The Presidential debate was the elite left versus Donald trump in a nutshell. The pile on was relentless but Trump was fierce.

Breitbart, September 10, 2024:

It’s hard to see how this debate changes anything in the trajectory of the race. Trump is on the upswing, Harris is fading, and it does not appear that this debate changes anything.

The panel on ABC News afterwards is claiming that Trump was “rattled” and that the Harris campaign feels good after the debate, but again–it was not the slam dunk performance she needed.

Kamala repeatedly lied throughout the debate, including claiming she would not ban guns:

Kamala just said she wasn’t gonna take away any guns. Three days ago said she would ban assault rifles. pic.twitter.com/8mQaHfmN0g

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 11, 2024

UPDATE 10:45 p.m. ET:

The debate has ended and the candidates are walking off stage without shaking hands.

UPDATE 10:44 p.m. ET:

Trump questions why she has not done the things she says she will do already since she has been in office for several years.

UPDATE 10:42 p.m. ET:

Harris cites her history as a prosecutor and says “I’ve only ever had one client: the people.”

Now, Trump is up.

UPDATE 10:41 p.m. ET:

Harris is delivering her closing statement in which she repeats the catch phrase “we’re not going back,” and claims there are two “very different” visions for the country offered by the candidates this evening.

UPDATE 10:40 p.m. ET:

Team Trump is declaring a clear victory:

President Trump DOMINATES the 3 on 1 debate. pic.twitter.com/huywrtvSOF

— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) September 11, 2024

UPDATE 10:38 p.m. ET:

The debate is entering the second commercial break, and then returning with closing statements.

UPDATE 10:30 p.m. ET:

Harris claims she is a gun owner.

UPDATE 10:25 p.m. ET:

“She is Biden,” Trump said.

“Clearly I am not Joe Biden,” Harris replied.

UPDATE 10:22 p.m. ET:

Muir next presses Trump on his recent comments that Harris “became black,” asking him what race Harris is. Trump said he did not care.

UPDATE 10:20 p.m. ET:

The gall of Harris to blame Trump for Biden’s and her failures in Afghanistan is pretty incredible. She is definitely not doing herself any favors in so doing this.

In response, Trump lays out how the deal he negotiated with the Taliban stopped all killings of American soldiers for 18 months but then laid out how he would have gotten out of Afghanistan without seeing Americans killed and without leaving tens of billions of dollars of U.S. military equipment behind.

UPDAYE 10:18 p.m. ET:

The conversation now turns to Afghanistan, and Muir asks Harris if she bears “any responsibility” for what happened in the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan. Harris dodged the question, and then started attacking Trump claiming the deal Trump negotiated to end the war in Afghanistan was “weak.”

UPDATE 10:15 p.m. ET:

Trump tells Kamala “quiet please” while he is explaining that Putin has nuclear weapons. “They sent her to negotiate peace three days before this war started,” Trump said of Harris, arguing she failed as a negotiator.

“She’s worse than Biden,” Trump says, “she goes down as the worst vice president in the history of this country.”

UPDATE 10:11 p.m. ET:

Coming back from the first commercial break, Muir turns to Trump and asks him how he would end the war in Ukraine and whether he wants Ukraine to win the war. Trump said he wants to end the war, and he noted how the U.S. has put hundreds of billions of tax dollars into the war and he called out Harris for failing to get Europe to pay its fair share. He noted how Putin and Zelensky do not respect Biden, and he warns that this could “lead to World War 3” and that President Biden is missing in action and he was thrown aside “like a dog.”

UPDATE 10:02 p.m. ET:

Trump says Kamala “hates Israel,” something Harris denies. Trump also says he would end the war in Ukraine before he even takes office. Then Harris claims Trump said Putin “can do whatever the hell he wants and go into Ukraine,” even though Putin did so when Harris was leading the country as Vice President.

UPDATE 9:57 p.m. ET:

The discussion has moved backward to the 2020 election, and now Harris is claiming that Trump was “fired by 81 million Americans”–the vote total for Biden in 2020–four years ago. Harris then claims world leaders are “laughing at” Trump, but then Trump cites several world leaders back at Harris including particularly Viktor Orban of Hungary.

Trump then bashes Harris for getting zero votes but taking the nomination away from Biden, who got 14 million votes. “I’ll let you in on a little secret,” Trump says. “He [Biden] hates her [Harris].”

UPDATE 9:50 p.m. ET:

There is another emerging theme here where the moderators keep “fact-checking” Trump–sometimes accurately, sometimes not–live during the debate, but allowing Harris to openly and repeatedly lie nonstop from the stage. Harris continues making ugly frowning faces.

UPDATE 9:48 p.m. ET:

Now, the moderators shift the conversation to January 6 and keep pushing Trump on it, but Trump asks why the radical leftists who engaged in riots have not been prosecuted. In her response, Harris touts the Charlottesville Hoax, which has been thoroughly debunked.

UPDATE 9:44 p.m. ET:

Kamala falsely claims she never said she would ban fracking–she is quite clearly on camera saying she would do so. Trump hammers her on this, and on defunding police.

Then, there’s a moment where Trump says to Harris as she’s making funny faces at him–“I’m talking now–sound familiar?”–emulating her line from a previous debate. He pauses then stares back at her. Harris continues to make odd faces back at Trump.

UPDATE 9:40 p.m. ET:

Harris keeps making nasty faces at Trump, trying quite clearly to goad him and get under his skin.

Trump says he “took a bullet to the head” because of the narratives pushed by Harris’s government’s weaponization against him.

UPDATE 9:31 p.m. ET:

Trump says that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating people’s pets, and Muir fires back at Trump quoting the city manager saying there are no credible reports of that. Harris in response has a shrill laugh, and then starts quoting establishment Republicans who are working to elect her.

UPDATE 9:29 p.m. ET:

Harris invites Americans to go to Trump rallies, arguing that people leave Trump’s rallies early. Trump responds by arguing that Harris’s rallies are small and that Harris is paying people to be there.

UPDATE 9:25 p.m. ET:

Trump is now fighting back, live fact-checking Harris on IVF and then he asks Harris directly if she would allow abortion in the 7th, 8th, and 9th months of pregnancy–or even afterwards–and she refuses to say she would not.

UPDATE 9:22 p.m. ET:

Trump is holding his own and he’s ripping Harris for lying. Harris is making frowning faces off the side of the camera, coming off childish.

UPDATE 9:21 p.m. ET:

Davis is now commentating instead of moderating, making commentary about Trump’s answer where she says there is no state in the union where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born. But, Davis’s snide remark–which helped set Harris up for a snide remark of her own about Trump telling “lies”–ignores the fact that several Democrats including the Democrat former governor of Virginia Ralph Northam have openly said they want infanticide.

UPDATE 9:18 p.m. ET:

Kamala is not coming across as presidential. She seems like she’s trying to troll Trump, and Trump’s not taking the bait. He’s calm and confident, but not low-energy. Trump’s in-depth policy answers are a stark contrast to Harris’s angry and odd faces she’s making on the other side of the screen.

“She’s a Marxist,” Trump hit her at one point, something Harris did not deny.

Now, the conversation is on abortion, and Trump is laying out how Democrats are the radicals on this issue and Trump is trying to unite the country.

UPDATE 9:13 p.m. ET:

An early theme is emerging here–Harris has very little substance in her commentary throughout the debate, but seems to be trying to goad Trump by attacking him. Trump is holding his own explaining policy while Harris fires off catchy sound bites.

UPDATE 9:12 p.m. ET:

“That’s just a sound bite,” Trump viciously fires back at Harris’s critiques. Then he rips her for plagiarizing Biden’s website in her very thin policy page on her own website.

UPDATE 9:11 p.m. ET:

Trump is now explaining how the migrants that Harris let into the country are “dangerous,” and then the moderators come back to Harris to respond on the economy. She claims “Trump left us” the worst unemployment ever.

Harris then launches into a diatribe about “name-calling” that she claims Trump will engage in, then falsely says Trump wants Project 2025. Trump in his rebuttal corrects her lie again, saying he has “nothing to do” with Project 2025. Trump then explains how the economy was incredible until COVID hit the country, and then explains how he got the country through the pandemic and then the Biden-Harris administration did not actually create jobs but only got “bounce back jobs” post-COVID.

Harris then in her rebuttal says “Donald Trump has no plan for you,” and then proceeds to attack Trump’s economic plans.

UPDATE 9:06 p.m. ET:

Trump in his response corrects Harris’s false claims about his tax plans, and then explains how tariffs work and do not cause inflation. Trump then explains how inflation is ripping the country apart economically. Harris is sitting there shaking her head as Trump lays out how the economy under her administration has been a disaster.

UPDATE 9:05 p.m. ET:

Muir asks Harris the first question, which is whether people are better off today than they were four years ago economically. Harris immediately begins dodging and claiming falsely she was raised in the middle class. She does not answer the question about whether people are better off at all.

UPDATE 9:03 p.m. ET:

Muir and Davis are introducing the rules, and the candidates are coming out on stage. Trump won the coin toss and will deliver the final closing statement. Harris comes right up to Trump and shakes his hand.

UPDATE 9:01 p.m. ET:

The debate is beginning now as Muir and Davis introduce the program and begin with a video introduction of the candidates.
UPDATE 8:55 p.m. ET:

Kamala’s mini-podium is becoming a major thing people are noticing:

NEW: Kamala Harris will have a miniature podium during tonight’s debate on ABC against Donald Trump.

The move was requested by Harris’ team who is afraid she will look tiny compared to Trump.

The smaller podium will make it so the candidates look the same size during the… pic.twitter.com/f1BOxoVPeC

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 10, 2024

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‘Cleaning Up Kamala’ | TRAILER OUT NOW

By The Daily Caller

A couple months ago, Kamala Harris was the worst VP in American history. Now, she’s heralded as the Savior of the Republic.

Suffering from whiplash? We are too. That’s why we set out to expose how this inexplicable 180 happened.

The Daily Caller’s new documentary, “Cleaning Up Kamala,” shows that one doesn’t just become a warm, joyful “Momala” overnight. It takes a whole billion-dollar media effort.

“Cleaning Up Kamala” debuts Sept 13. and is available exclusively for Patriots subscribers. Catch a first glimpse below.

First, the Daily Caller uncovered the true cost of the Defund the Police movement in “Lawless.”  Then “Rigged” exposed the issue Democrats fear most: how their political machine managed to secure Joe Biden the presidency in 2020. Now, with “Cleaning Up Kamala,” we take on a corrupt corporate media establishment that built a new presidential candidate, their candidate, out of whole cloth.

Harris was nobody’s first choice. Voters resoundingly rejected her in the 2020 primaries. Joe Biden chose her as VP to check an identity box, but she proved more incompetent than anyone could have imagine. A revolving door of staffers found it unbearable to work with her. She failed miserably as the border czar and her cackle made everyone uncomfortable. Unsurprisingly, her approval rating stood deep underwater — until she was made into the new Queen of the Democratic Party.

With hilarious clips and insightful interviews, “Cleaning Up Kamala” shows how the media turned this trainwreck into a tulip.

The Daily Caller’s documentary productions are made possible by our faithful Patriots members, and we wouldn’t be able to do it without them. To watch “Cleaning Up Kamala” on Sept. 13, and to help support future investigative documentaries, please consider subscribing.

AUTHOR

Gage Klipper

Commentary and analysis writer.

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‘Putting In The Work’: Republicans View JD Vance As Invaluable Asset As Campaign Enters Home Stretch

By The Daily Caller

Republicans believe former President Donald Trump made the right choice in picking Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance to be his running mate as the campaign enters the fourth quarter of the election season.

Through the final weeks of August, Vance has spent his time on the campaign trail, sparring with hostile media and drawing contrast to Vice President Kamala Harris as she dodges the media. Prior though, Vance was fighting a barrage of Democratic attacks that branded him as “weird” for past statements.

Republicans and campaign officials expressed satisfaction with Vance’s performance in conversations with the Daily Caller.

“J.D. Vance is doing what Vice President picks are supposed to do, which is aggressively make the case in the Earned Media, which is the press, the entire political world is saying, not Where’s Waldo, but where’s Walz. He’s not out there making the case in the press the way VP candidates are expected to do,” GOP strategist Mark R. Weaver told the Daily Caller.

After Trump chose Vance as his running mate, Democrats unearthed comments from a Fox News interview and a July 2021 speech about “childless cat ladies” and women who didn’t have children. Vance faced many questions about the comments, including in interviews with NBC and CNN.

Democrats used the comments alongside debunked rumors to brand Vance as “weird” — a line of attack CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said was hurting the vice presidential candidate’s favorability.

Amidst the rocky start, Trump downplayed the importance of the vice president — a comment that pundits and social media users believed indicated je wasn’t thrilled with his pick.

“Of course he is. I wouldn’t have chosen him for my ticket if I wasn’t certain he could assume the presidency in the event of a crisis,” Trump began.

“Historically, the vice president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact,” he continued. “I mean, virtually no impact.”

But since Vance’s battle with hostile media, Shermichael Singleton told the Daily Caller that the senator has found his footing.

“People forget this, J.D. Vance has only recently been elected to the United States Senate. This is not someone with multiple terms of political experience. And I don’t say that as a negative. I said that to say that a lot of people were saying, well, he’s floundering here, or he should be doing this, or he’s not doing that, or some of the comments, etc, you have to give someone an opportunity to kind of warm up to this,” Singleton, a GOP strategist, told the Caller.

But it wasn’t long before Vance hit a turning point when he used a question about his past comments to pivot to attack Harris.

“You’ve now asked me three questions about comments that I made three years ago,” Vance said. “I wonder what Kamala Harris thinks about the fact that she supported policies that open the American Southern border. I wonder what Kamala Harris thinks about Joe Biden’s mental faculty for the office.”

“I’m interviewing you,” Bash replied. “Not Kamala Harris.”

“You are interviewing me, Dana, because I respect the American people enough to sit down for an interview,” Vance quipped. “Kamala Harris has been the nominee for three weeks. She hasn’t sat down for a real interview.”

“I sort of always expected that the guy would eventually get into the zone, and he’s found his footing, and he appears to be more confident and more comfortable. I think one thing I would like to see more of as he has been making the case on the issues, which I think is strong,” Singleton told the Caller.

One week before, Vance had wooed Republicans after landing in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, just after Harris arrived on Air Force Two. The senator walked across the tarmac to the vice presidential plane where he spoke to reporters that Harris had ignored just moments before.

Vance used the moment to highlight how Harris was yet to do a sit-down interview, give a press conference or meaningfully interact with reporters.

“J.D. Vance is fearless and he clearly gets the better of his exchanges with the media, because they come at him aggressively and he knocks down their attacks with precision,” Tim Murtaugh, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, told the Caller.  “He’s a great asset to the campaign and to President Trump. That’s exactly why the Democrats tried — and failed — to damage him with outrageous lies, because he’s so effective.”

Vance, the campaign officials told the Caller, draws stark contrast to Harris’ chosen running mate, Gov. Tim Walz.

Since joining Harris on the Democratic ticket, Walz has been caught in several lies, including some about his service record.

Walz’s military story unraveled after the Harris campaign itself unearthed a 2018 video of the governor pushing for gun control, saying that “those weapons of war, that I carried in war” should stay only in combat. Social media users were quick to point out that there was a problem with Walz’s statement — he never saw war.

Veterans part of Walz’s unit during his time in service had previously accused him in 2018 of retiring from the Guard to run for Congress once it was revealed that he would be deployed to Iraq. Vance has used the lie to hit Walz before he meets him on the debate stage, questioning why Americans should trust a guy who lied about his military record.

Walz also recently became the subject of a Congressional investigation into his ties to China. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting all documents relating to any Chinese entities that the now-governor may have interacted with while on his dozens of trips to China.

“J.D. Vance has proven to be a great asset to President Trump’s campaign,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump national press secretary, told the Caller.

“J.D. is authentic, relatable and unafraid to debate the issues as evidenced by his frequent sit-down interviews with hostile press. Meanwhile, Tampon Tim Walz is a radical liberal who lacks credibility and has turned out to be a huge liability for the Harris campaign as more and more of his egregious lies have come to light,” she continued.

Other Vance quips have gained traction in recent weeks as Harris and Walz have been repeatedly pushed to engage with the media and answer questions about policy.

During a recent rally, an audience member asked the potential vice president where his teleprompter was.

“Ma’am, I don’t need a teleprompter. I’ve actually got thoughts in my head, unlike Kamala Harris,” Vance replied.

Vance took another swipe at Harris after liberal media outlets criticized Trump for a wreath-laying ceremony honoring the 13 service members killed in the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, as a politicized event. Harris and President Joe Biden put out statements honoring the fallen soldiers, but neither had any public events scheduled to recognize the Gold Star families.

“Kamala Harris is disgraceful,” Vance said of Harris’s lack of recognition for the families. “We’re going to talk about a story out of those 13 brave, innocent Americans who lost their lives, it’s that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won’t even do an investigation into what happened, and she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up. She can go to hell.”

Two months out from election day, Republicans have found Vance to be the perfect match for Trump on the campaign trail.

“Senator Vance is a natural complement to President Trump, and his American Dream story is resonating well with voters in the Rust Belt who feel left behind by the Biden-Harris administration,” Trump surrogate Harrison Fields told the Caller.

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

White House correspondent. Follow Reagan on Twitter.

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The Knife Did It!

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

Germany Chancellor Olof Scholz is calling for greater “knife control.”

That’s right. When a Syrian Muslim illegal migrant slashed the throats of several middle aged Germans at a “diversity festival” recently, it was the fault of the knife, not the Muslim.

We’ve seen this movie before.

Now the German government wants to ban German citizens — who, let’s remember, weren’t the ones on a slashing spree — from carrying knives over 2.4 inches long. That’s down from the current ban on knives over 4.5 inches.

I wonder, will the German police start frisking German citizens to test the size of their concealed knives? What other concealed parts will they also begin to measure?

I can just about guarantee you that they won’t be measuring those Muslim “migrants” for anything, let alone the size of their Korans. That would be racist and discriminatory.

Instead, let’s have more “knife control.”

Perhaps the Chancellor should leave his kitchen knives lined up outside his bedroom door to see what crimes they will commit overnight? (But perhaps he doesn’t dare to….)

Also this week, Pope Francis called on governments around the world to welcome migrants, because it was the right thing to do. I guess he failed to consult with Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, who as president of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State, actually runs the Vatican and has authority over its immigration laws.

There are currently 618 citizens of the Vatican, and a total of 764 residents. To protect them, Cardinal Alzaga retains 104 Swiss Guards, and another 130 gendarmes tasked with ensuring “internal security.”

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying the Pope shouldn’t be protected better than former president Donald Trump. But I don’t want to live in a country where every third person is an armed agent of the government.

Even the family members of the Vatican’s Mercenary Army don’t get to keep their citizenship forever. Once their children turn 18, they become stateless.

How’s that for Christian charity?

You’ll be relieved to note that another week has gone by without a major regional war in the Middle East, just your average bombings and missile strikes and Israeli raids to catch terrorists plotting to kill Jews. Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency tells us that the Iranian regime continues to enrich uranium to 60%, which is essentially weapons-grade.

I’m sure you will be especially relieved to learn that Kamala Harris’s presumed Secretary of State nominee, Philip Gordon, helped negotiate the failed 2015 Iran nuclear deal and has co-authored opeds with members of the pro-Tehran lobby in Washington, DC. More about that in my upcoming book, The Iran House.

But hey, no one cares until Labor Day, right?

Until then, I remain yours in freedom,

©2024. Kenneth R. Timmerman. All rights reserved.

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I discuss these and more in my weekly segment on geopolitics on Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM of 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. Or listen to the podcast later.

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Harris Hiding from Far-Left Record by Plundering Trump Policies

By Family Research Council

Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to be unburdened by what has been — namely her far-left political record — by adopting MAGA policies. The latest instance of flip-flopping is Harris’s support for the border wall proposed by former President Donald Trump. According to Axios, the vice president is now pledging to spend an estimated $650 million to complete the border wall Trump started, despite having called the initiative “racist” and “un-American” during Trump’s White House tenure. Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Trump’s running mate, commented, “Kamala Harris is a fake. If she wants to build the border wall, she could start right now!”

In recent weeks, Harris has adopted a “tough” persona regarding border security, with immigration consistently ranking as one of the top two most pressing issues for voters ahead of November’s election. In fact, Harris’s latest campaign ad features images of the border wall while touting the Democrat’s past role as a “border-state prosecutor.” The ad claimed that Harris, if elected, would “hire thousands more border agents” and “crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.” The ad concluded, “Fixing the border is tough. So is Kamala Harris.”

Yet the incumbent Biden-Harris administration is responsible for at least 10 million illegal immigrants crossing the southern border since taking office in January of 2021, including “at least 99” illegal immigrants on the U.S. terror watchlist, according to a congressional report released earlier this month.

“Americans are used to presidential candidates flip-flopping on unpopular positions they’ve taken in the past, that’s nothing new. But, the outright copying of major pieces of an opponent’s policy agenda in the middle of an election less than 70 days from election day certainly is unprecedented,” said FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter in comments to The Washington Stand. “I think it exposes the Harris-Walz campaign as being fundamentally insecure about the policies they’re offering the American people,” he added.

“This is further evidenced by the fact that their own campaign website is a policy desert, they have no policies listed on their campaign website, and they have only just recently announced the first sit down interview with their candidate on a major news outlet since becoming the presumptive nominee,” Carpenter continued. “To me, all of this suggests a campaign that is not confident in the abilities of their candidate and the appeal of her agenda.”

“Vice President Harris will say and do anything, and she will change her positions on policies like a chameleon … to get elected,” said former acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan in an interview. “They realize now that in every single poll, she’s upside down with respect to their border security policies. What [has] she [done]? A 180 degree-flip flop and now actually shows the picture … of the very tool and resource that she took away from the border control agents, making their job more difficult,” Morgan continued. He added, “Now all of the sudden, she’s acting like she’s for the wall. … I’m hoping the American people are going to see through this and they’re not going to buy this.”

Early in 2021, Harris was appointed “border czar” by President Joe Biden and was charged with stemming the flow of illegal immigration, while the administration dismantled many of the border security measures put in place by Trump. Her handling of the illegal immigration crisis has been described as “one of the most catastrophic failures in American history.” Numerous reports have exposed the “infighting” and “ineffectiveness” of the Biden-Harris administration’s treatment of the border.

The border wall isn’t the only Trump-team initiative that Harris has quickly adopted as her own. Earlier this month, Harris announced plans not to tax service industry workers’ tips, a plan originally devised by Trump and approved by many elected GOP officials. Just days ago, Harris also changed her tune on the Child Tax Credit (CTC). After attacking Vance for supporting the CTC, claiming that supporting and encouraging families is a means of declaring “war” against “childless people,” Harris reversed her position and proposed expanding the CTC, after Vance had already done the same.

While Harris herself has not formally or personally said anything on the subject, unnamed individuals in her campaign have reported that Harris is “changing her position” on several issues, including fracking, gun control programs, and the idea of a “single-payer health insurance program.” Harris has consistently endorsed far-left policies and positions throughout her career. During her tenure in the U.S. Senate, she maintained the furthest-left voting record of any Democrat. The Trump campaign recently released a new ad featuring side-by-side comparisons of Harris complaining about issues such as inflation and bragging about the Biden-Harris policies which have resulted in the issues Harris is complaining of.

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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Kamala’s 2024 Dangerous Policies and Radial Agenda website launched

By Dr. Rich Swier

A new website has been launched explaining Kamala’s, and Tim Walz’s, dangerous and radical policies. During her acceptance speech, Kamala did not discuss her policies.

This website does.

WATCH:

According to the Stop Kamala’s Radical Agenda website:

Kamala Harris is Weak, Failed, and Dangerously Liberal

Not only does Kamala Harris own the weakness, failure, and chaos of the Harris-Biden administration, she is so radical that she makes “the Squad” look like moderates. She wants to abolish our borders, let criminals control our streets, surrender our communities to cartels and a plague of fentanyl, wage war on American energy, and destroy the American Dream.

Here are some key parts of Kamala and Tim’s radical agenda:

Fighting to Set Murderers Free

Kamala Harris supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund, helping to bail out now-convicted murderers and violent criminals. One man freed by the bail fund went on to commit murder. She’ll bring the MFF’s policies to the White House.

Harris’s Positions

Kamala Harris actively supports bailing violent criminals out of jail and allowing violent illegal aliens to roam our streets.

Case in point: Kamala Harris called on her supporters to “chip in” to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

According to new reporting from CNN, that fund went on to bail out at least 65 people in a single county accused of “felony charges involving violence, physical threats or sex crimes. All were convicted.”

The MFF paid bail for looters arrested in the 2020 riots, for a twice-convicted rapist, a man accused of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl, a man accused of a vicious assault and robbery, a man charged with attacking a woman in a restaurant bathroom, and even several serial domestic abusers — among dozens of other criminals.

That makes sense considering Kamala Harris supports ending cash bail — even for violent criminals.

More “Bidenomics”—it’s “Working,” Rising Costs are Nothing to Worry About!

Record high gas prices under the Harris-Biden administration are the “price to pay for democracy.” Remember, Kamala proudly delivered the deciding vote that allowed the $1.9 trillion “stimulus” to be passed. Don’t listen to former Obama economist Jason Furman, who said the spending bill is “too big,” or former Obama and Clinton economist Larry Summers, who said the “tremendous wall of money” led to inflation, or former Obama economic advisor Steven Rattner, who called Kamala’s $1.9 trillion stimulus “the original sin” of inflation.

Harris’s Positions

Harris was the deciding vote on the inflation-fueling $1.9 trillion “stimulus.” Harris owns this inflation, and everyone knows it.

Even liberal economists admit Harris’s massive spending spree sent inflation soaring.

Harris now claims her policies are “working” and wants to double down on the exact same agenda that will send prices even higher.

More Taxes to Ensure the Middle-Class Pays Their “Fair Share”

In Kamala’s America, the middle-class will need to pay more. Those are the Harris tax hikes!

Harris’s Positions

Kamala Harris wants to eliminate the Trump tax cuts, which would mean a massive tax hike on middle-income families.

Harris was the deciding vote for the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which decreased the “average after-tax income for taxpayers” at every income level. Americans earning less than $200,000/year saw their taxes rise by $16.7 billion in 2023.

Abolish Borders

Kamala Harris delivered on her promise to open our borders as border czar—just look at the 10 million who have crossed already, an all-time record! Now it’s time to abolish ICE, decriminalize illegal border crossings, give benefits to illegal aliens, and let them vote!

Harris’s Positions

Kamala “Border Czar” Harris is responsible for the worst border crisis in U.S. history.

According to Harris, “the current administration’s immigration policies largely involve undoing the previous one’s work.” Unfortunately, she’s right, and it fueled the invasion.

The chaos we’ve seen though, may be intentional. Kamala Harris said illegal aliens “are not criminals,” and Harris opposed measures to increase border security and decrease illegal immigration.

Bring Back the Green New Deal

Kamala Harris believes American energy is just plain awful. Thankfully, she knows other countries we can import it from. That’s why she wants to ban fossil fuels, ban fracking, end oil drilling, and export our energy supply chain to China. Her $100 trillion GND would do just that, in addition to ending all of those 2 million “dirty” energy jobs. They need to “transition” to new ones!

Harris’s Positions

Harris bragged about delivering “the most ambitious climate agenda in history.” What does that really mean? Hurting our environment, national security, and economy by exporting our energy supply chain to Communist China.

During her campaign for president, Harris said “there’s no question, I’m in favor of banning fracking. She also touted an agreement to phase out fossil fuels, supported cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline, which killed 11,000 jobs, and Harris called the record-high gas prices seen under the Biden administration the “price to pay for democracy.”

Indeed, Harris’ commitment to killing American energy is not new. As senator, Kamala Harris cosponsored the radical $93 trillion Green New Deal with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which estimates show could kill up to 2 million jobs and cost an average family $165,000. In 2017, Harris sponsored legislation to ban offshore drilling.

On top of it all, she wants to ban practically everything, including expressing support for banning plastic straws and a national reduction in red meat consumption.

Kamala Believes in Freedom for Individuals Associated with Violent Behavior. (Formally Referred to as Violent Criminals)

Kamala will continue her record from her time as a prosecutor, where San Francisco police officers said she was slow to prosecute numerous murder suspects and said she regularly offered favorable plea deals to resolve cases out of trial.

Harris’s Positions

Harris supports defunding the police. As even CNN reports, her record supporting defund the police is a long one. She said it is “outdated, it is wrongheaded thinking to think” that more police officers make communities safer, and Harris has repeatedly called to “reimagine” the role of police.

As senator, Harris praised L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s $150 million cut in police funding.

When given the opportunity, Harris failed to prosecute criminals to the fullest extent of the law.

  • As San Francisco DA, Harris chose not to seek the death penalty against the murderer of a Hispanic San Francisco police officer, or against an illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member who shot a father and his two sons. And police accused Harris of being slow to prosecute numerous murder suspects and said she regularly offered favorable plea deals to resolve cases out of trial.
    • In 2010, Harris’ DA office had to dismiss over 1,000 drug cases due to a scandal in the police crime lab, with Harris taking “full responsibility” for the failure.
    • Harris’ DA office granted probation to a violent criminal who then went on to murder two men while released.

To make matters worse, Harris said that we should have a “conversation” about whether terrorists like the Boston Marathon bomber should vote from prison.

Ending “Wrongheaded Thinking” That More Police Mean Safer Communities

Kamala Harris was proud to join the Defund The Police movement in 2020. She boldly said the protests “should not” let up and applauded then-L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti for defunding the LA Police.

Eliminate Private Health Insurance

Kamala Harris believes it’s terrible people have private health insurance, and that even if they like their plan, they shouldn’t get to keep it. Under Harris’s plan, all Americans would lose their health insurance in the name of fairness. That’s why she cosponsored a $32 trillion socialist health care takeover plan to make sure that everybody loses choice!

Harris’s Positions

Harris supports abolishing private insurance. She even cosponsored Bernie Sanders’ $32 trillion socialist health care takeover bill.

When asked about her plan, and specifically on if people who like their plan could keep it, she said “let’s eliminate all of that.”

To add insult to injury, while denying Americans insurance, she supports providing taxpayer-funded health insurance for illegal immigrants. Studies also show that her plan would also lead to as many as 50% of rural hospitals closing their doors.

Give Social Security and Medicare to Illegal Aliens

Kamala believes it’s selfish that seniors want to ensure benefits only go to American citizens. They should pay for benefits for illegal aliens! Who cares if that destroys the program. Kamala believes illegal aliens should receive taxpayer-funded benefits, and while she’s at it, she wants to expand the government takeover even if it puts over 50% of rural hospitals out of business. Move to a city!

Harris’s Positions

During the Harris-Biden administration seniors saw the largest ever Medicare Part B premium increase in 2022, jumping 14.5 percent.

Democrats still have NO PLAN to protect Social Security and Medicare benefits — and that tells you all you need to know, especially since Harris wants to give benefits to tens of millions of illegal aliens, which would destroy the program entirely.

The Bottom Line

It is critical for every legal American voter to understand the policies of the Harris/Walz ticket and the Trump/Vance ticket.

Here are the 20 items on the RNC’s Platform for 2024.

  1. Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion.
  2. Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.
  3. End inflation, and Make America Affordable Again.
  4. Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
  5. Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower.
  6. Large tax cuts for workers, and No Tax On Tips!
  7. Defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms.
  8. Prevent World War III, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country – all made in America.
  9. End the weaponization of government against the American people.
  10. Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders.
  11. Rebuild our cities, including Washington DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
  12. Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world.
  13. Keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
  14. Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with NO CUTS, including no changes in the retirement age.
  15. Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly burdensome regulations.
  16. Cut federal funding for any school pushing Critical Race Theory, Radical Gender Ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.
  17. Keep men OUT of women’s sports.
  18. Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again.
  19. Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship.
  20. Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success.

As we have said before “It’s their policies, stupid!”

Choose wisely.

©2024. Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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What Democratic Majorities Would Look Like In The Arizona Legislature: Gun Control

By Madeline Armstrong

Increased gun regulation is something that Arizona Democrats have long been fighting for, only to be shut down by Republican legislators. With a chance of winning the majority in November, policymakers are brainstorming gun control bills they would like to see on Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk.

Only two seats away from having a Democratic majority in Arizona’s legislative chambers for the first time in six decades, the Democratic Caucus has established a plan they say would allow them to hit the ground running in 2025 should they take control of the Legislature. This story is part of a series of what a Democratic trifecta would look like for Arizona taxpayers.

“In the event that we flip, we want to be ready to govern,” Sen. Christine Marsh, D-Phoenix, told The Center Square.

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A Democratic trifecta, however, would not be enough to change any of the protections listed in Article 26 of the Arizona Constitution, which goes further than the 2nd Amendment in its explicit protection to own firearms.

Safe gun storage

Arizona resident Bruce Petillo had just texted his 15-year-old son goodnight, when he received a call 20 minutes later that his son had been shot in the chest at a friend’s house.

“Our son Christian spent the night at a friend’s house September 5, 2021 and never came home,” Petillo told The Center Square. “There was an unsecured gun in the home, the friend brought it out and it went off and Christian was killed.”

In the months following that fateful day, Bruce and his wife Claire Petillo, worked with former Rep. Jennifer Longdon to create “Christian’s Law.”

Christian’s Law is a bill that would require the safe storage of firearms and ammunition in homes or equipping the firearm with a safety feature, making it impossible to fire without being disabled, with a civil penalty of at least $1,000 for those who violate the law. The bill has yet to make it to committee.

“Christian’s bill has sat in the basket for two years now, waiting to be pulled out by the judicial committee,” Claire said.

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The Petillos have spoken at the Arizona Capitol and met with numerous policy-makers to try and get support for Christian’s Law. They are hopeful with the possibility of a Democratic majority, 2025 might be the year this law gets passed.

“Gov. Hobbs has… said specifically that if Christian’s Law comes across her desk, she would be happy to sign it, so I am hopeful this season,” Claire said.

Sen. Flavio Bravo, D-Phoenix, will be taking the point on gun regulation legislation this upcoming year.

Bravo said that he may rethink Christian’s Law using incentives instead of punishment. Instead of fining those who break the law, he would want to incentivise them with a tax credit when they purchase safe storage items for guns.

“If you actually buy safe storage that’s been certified with the state, you can receive a state tax credit so you’re not feeling that cost economically,” Bravo said. “I think people respond positively to incentives. I would really be compelled to try something like that.”

Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said that he thinks these kinds of measures could impact an individual’s ability to protect themselves.

“They [Democrats] may attempt to implement mandatory safety features on guns which could reduce their utility on self defense,” Kavanagh said. “I think everybody everywhere has the right to defend themselves.”

The U.S. Supreme Court agrees. In Washington D.C. v. Heller, justices questioned how a District of Columbia law keeping a gun unloaded and under lock and key negatively impacted a citizen’s right to defend their home. The D.C. law did not limit itself to an incentive as Bravo proposes.

A similar federal proposal called “Ethan’s Law,” named after a Connecticut child killed in a firearms accident, has not been successful in multiple sessions of Congress.

Guns in schools

Bravo said that one of his district’s major concerns is the presence of guns on school campuses. According to him, he said that he has been called multiple times by school superintendents telling him that a student was found in possession of a gun on school grounds.

“We have had a series of events where we’ve barely avoided tragedies on our high school campuses,” Bravo said, recounting a time when an AR-15 rifle was confiscated from a student’s backpack. “If you think about it, they’re really moments away from an immense tragedy.”

Bravo said that he is not sure at this time what the best way to address this issue would be, but that there needs to be increased coordination between school districts, counties and the governor.

“I’m open to any considerations when it comes to what sorts of policy would be effective,” Bravo said.

While gun control advocates point to gun violence incidents at public schools nationally, the most recent in Arizona was in 2016, when two teenage girls were found dead with a handgun and suicide note at a Glendale High School.

Bravo said that Arizona has been “fortunate” to not have seen many school shootings in recent years, but that preventative measures should still be a priority.

Kavanagh said that increased gun regulation is not the answer to the rise in school shootings.

“You need to have people in the school armed, who can stop the shooting quickly,” Kavanagh said. “Unless you have armed police officers, armed security or trained teachers with access to guns, you are not going to stop people from killing kids and that’s just the reality.”

Kavanagh, a former police officer, sponsored legislation to allow concealed permit holders to carry guns into most public buildings.

Domestic violence offenders

A bill formerly proposed by Longdon that was held in committee is set to be rerun by the Democrats – HB 2234. This bill would add a domestic violence offender to the list of those prohibited from owning a firearm.

Bravo said that they are looking to follow the lead of the Supreme Court case United States v. Rahimi which upheld a federal law that bars anyone subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a gun.

“If there was any legislation we would consider immediately, it would be that one because it’s common sense [and] it’s sorely needed,” Bravo said.

Kavanagh said that this type of gun regulation may be too broad and taking a step too far.

“Blanket descriptions like that are problematic,” saying that some forms of domestic violence are not as serious as others and may not warrant such a restriction. Additionally, he said that sometimes one party in a domestic violence situation will take the blame when the other is at fault if the assaulter receives the primary household income.

“I don’t have a problem banning mentally ill people or criminals from owning guns, but law-abiding citizens should not have restrictions,” Kavanagh said.

Others have said “red-flag laws” similar to this could be used in a punitive manner.

Educational pamphlets

A bill previously proposed by Sen. Mitzi Epstein is also on the Democratic Caucus’ agenda. This bill would allow pediatricians and other healthcare providers to educate parents on how to safely store guns. The pamphlet would be created by the Department of Health to be put in medical offices.

“The legislature finds that in the United States the leading cause of death among children and adolescents is unintentional injury, that firearms are a leading cause of those injuries and that over half of those children and adolescents killed by firearms are killed in their own home,” reads SB 1512. “The legislature further finds it necessary to educate parents about the unintended deadly consequences of having a gun in their home that could be accessible to children and adolescents.”

Additionally, Longdon had formerly proposed a mirrored bill that is included in the Democrats’ 2025 plan – HB 2225. This bill would appropriate $250,000 from the state general fund to the Department of Health Services to create the pamphlet.

Kavanagh said that he does not think it is the responsibility of pediatricians and healthcare providers to educate parents on gun safety.

“That’s not the business of doctors,” Kavanagh said. “Where would it end? Let’s have every doctor spend 40 hours with every patient and go through an entire litany of safety measures.”

Bravo said that he supports giving medical professionals the ability to educate parents, but that he would not support using taxpayer money to create the pamphlets.

“It will take at least two or three more legislative sessions to fix the budget deficit that we were in,” Bravo said. “I don’t think I would support anything like that if we are in a deficit.”

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This article was published by The Center Square and is reproduced with permission.

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FLORIDA: Santa Rosa County Commissioner Colton Wright a Poster Child for the ‘Propaganda RINO Club’

By Geoff Ross

Commissioner Wright,

Why are you mailing me more bogus colorful propaganda “vote for me mailings to my house”?

Your mailer states you are a Conservative.

Actually — I am the real conservative and you are perhaps the biggest fake Republican in the history of Santa Rosa County. My opinion.

Your fake mailer says you are a conservative yet at a past commissioner meeting you stated you are proud to be a Republican in Name Only RINO.

Your mailer states you got endorsed by Senator Broxson and you say you support the National Rifle Association. You can’t make this stuff up.

Senator Broxson was the deciding vote that:

  • Disarmed adults under the age of 21, leaving them defenseless.
  • Imposed mandatory government waiting periods on ALL firearms purchases in Florida.
  • Banned certain firearm accessories.
  • Implemented a “mental health” gun ban which could strip up to 3.5 million law-abiding Floridians of their rights WITHOUT due process.
  • Created a Gun Confiscation Order without due process.

ALL UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Senator Broxson is being sued by the NRA for this vote after he told his constituents he would not vote for this bill but he did. Now here he is endorsing you, the most liberal fake Republican County Commissioner in the history of Santa Rosa County.

A fraud endorsing a fraud. A real conservative would NOT accept Broxson’s endorsement.

You show an endorsement from another fraud Republican Michelle Saltzman, a member of the Florida House of Representatives who paid her way through college as a stripper.

Saltzman also served as a “Safe Schools Equality Index Advisory Member” through Equality Florida.

The “Safe School Equality Index” partners with youth centered organizations to meet the so called needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-binary and questioning students in Florida’s K-12 schools.

This is the job of WE the parents, not the Florida school district or Michelle Saltzman. Michelle Saltzman is a poster child for DEI on steroids. I would not have accepted her DEI Endorsement.

You include an endorsement from former Congressman Jeff Miller, another “Let’s play Republican for votes guy”. Jeff Miller was an executive assistant to Democratic state Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner from 1984 to 1988. Jeff Miller was a full blown liberal Democrat until he switched parties in 1997 because Republicans had the lead in the voter base.

Commissioner Wright, why did you endorse and vote to approve a Democrat to sit on a county environmental board, how about you voting against the banning of illegal immigrants in our county or words to that effect.

Don’t you also support implementing “impact fees” on developers which will drive up the price of building and selling a home adding to the exponential inflation in our county.

Don’t you want to double the existing half-cent sales tax to help fund transportation projects ? Exactly what transportation projects do you want to fund ? Electric bikes for the road and bridge employees perhaps or grants for electric police cars in Gulf Breeze? Maybe an electric golf cart for the engineering department ?

Seriously dude don’t waste your time mailing me your bogus propaganda mail outs, save these mail outs for your democrat socialist pals in Gulf Breeze.

Best regards

Senior Chief Geoff Ross
Surface Warfare Air Warfare
USN Retired
Pace, Florida
Conservative!

©2024. Geoff Ross. All rights reserved.

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‘The History of Kamala Harris’ by Geoffrey B. Higginbotham, Major General, USMC (Ret.)

By Dr. Rich Swier

Many of our readers sent us a link to a column written by Geoffrey B. Higginbotham, Major General, USMC (Ret.) on the history of the Harris family and of Kamala and her husband Doug Emhoff.

It was published on March 13, 2021 in Government in Exile.

Here are Marine General Higginbotham’s words.

The History of Kamala Harris

For your knowledge and interest about the Biden VP.  Here is a timely editorial that exposes the hidden background of Kamala Harris from the Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee that is posted here with permission of the author. CVFC PAC supports the election of US military combat veterans to the US Senate and House of Representatives. The editorial begins:

Kamala Harris’ father was an avowed Marxist professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Both of Harris’ parents were active in the Berkeley based Afro-American Association; Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of the Afro-American Association.

The group’s leader, Donald Warden (aka Khalid al-Mansour), mentored two young Afro-American Association members, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale; they created the Maoist inspired Black Panther Party which gained strong support from Communist China; the Black Panther Party served as the model for creation of the Black Lives Matter Marxist organization Khalid al-Mansour subsequently went on to arrange financing and facilitated for Barack Hussein Obama to be accepted as a
student to matriculate at Harvard Law School.

Following her graduation from college, Harris returned to California and subsequently became the mistress of the 60-year-old married Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown, Jr. Brown’s political campaigns were supported and funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, the owner of The Sun Reporter and several other pro-Communist newspapers.

Brown was elected as Mayor of San Francisco, and strongly endorsed Harris’ Marxist political philosophy; he guided Harris’ political rise in California politics, leading to her election as California’s Attorney General. Willie Brown, Jr. was a well-known long-time Communist sympathizer. Willie Brown, Jr. was initially elected to public office with the substantial help of the Communist Party USA.

Today, Willie Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party’s best friends in the San Francisco Bay Area.

While serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris mentored a young San Francisco Radical Maoist activist, Lateefah Simon, who was a member of the STORM Revolutionary Movement; Simon currently chairs the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board. Simon has always been close friends with the founder of Black Lives Matter Marxist Domestic Terrorists, Alicia Garza, as well as STORM member and avowed Communist, Van Jones. Harris has been openly and aggressively supporting Black Lives Matter Marxists; Kamala Harris is still closely associated with Maoist Lateefah Simon and Marxist Alicia Garza.

Kamala Harris’s sister Maya Harris was a student activist at Stanford University. She was a closely associated with Steve Phillips, one of the leading Marxist-Leninists on campus and a long-time affiliate with the League of Revolutionary Struggle, a pro-Chinese Communist group.

Phillips came out of the Left, and in college he studied Marx, Mao, and Lenin, and maintained close associations with fellow Communists. Phillips married into the multi billion dollar Sandler family of the Golden West Savings and Loan fortune. He funded many leftist political campaigns, and the voter registration drives in the Southern and South Western states in order to help his friend, Barack Hussein Obama, defeat Hillary Clinton. Phillips has been a major financial sponsor for Kamala Harris’s political campaigns for various California elective offices.

Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff works for the law firm DLA Piper, which “boasts nearly 30 years of experience in Communist China with over 140 lawyers dedicated to its ‘Communist China  investment Services’ branch. He was just appointed to Professor at Yale to school future lawyers in the fine points of Communism. When she was elected to the US Senate, Kamala Harris appointed a Pro-Communist Senate Chief of Staff, Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre was active with the New York-based Haiti Support Network. The organization worked closely with the pro-Communist China/Communist North Korea Workers World Party and supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the far-left Communist former president of Haiti and the radical Lavalas movement.

Fortunately for Harris, but potentially disastrous for the Republic, elected office holders are not subject to the security clearance process. If the FBI did a Background Investigation on Kamala Harris, she never would have passed, because of her 40-year close ties with Marxists, Communists, Maoists, and Communist China. Harris would never have been approved for acceptance to any of the 5 Military Service Academies, been appointed to a US Government Sub-Cabinet position, or would have been approved to fill a sensitive position for a high security defense contractor. Yet, since Joe Biden was elected, Harris could be a heartbeat away from being President.

The US constitutional Republic is being threatened by the People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC) externally, and by their very active espionage operations within the United States. The People’s Republic of Communist China (PPC), with 1.4 billion people, is governed by the 90 million member Chinese Communist Party (CCP), that has been working with Russia to destroy the US Constitutional Republic for over 70 years.

If the American voters read the background information (in Trevor Loudon’s article) on Kamala Harris, they would never support her election as Vice President of the United States. Joe Biden is suffering from the early onset of dementia and will continue to decline in cerebral awareness; he will never be able to fill out a four-year term of office. Since Biden was elected, the Socialists, Marxists, and Communist who control Kamala Harris, are planning to enact provisions of the 25th Amendment, in order to remove Joe Biden from office, so Harris can become the first Communist President of the United States.

Since Biden was elected, because Biden would not be up to it, Kamala Harris would lead the effort to appoint very dangerous anti-American Leftist, Communist, Socialists, and Marxists to fill highly sensitive positions in the Washington Deep State Bureaucracy. She would fill all appointive positions in the US Intelligence Agencies, in the Department of Homeland Security, in the Department of Defense, in The Justice Department, the Department of State, the FBI, the CIA, most cabinet positions, the National Security Council, and in the White House Staff.

American voters must alert their fellow Americans that Kamala Harris is a very serious National Security threat to the very survival of the US Constitutional Republic; she has been a fellow traveler of Marxists, Communists, Maoists, Socialists, Progressives, and Chinese Communists for over 35 years. President Trump had much more background information on Kamala Harris than we presented here, and he was correct, when he accused Kamala Harris of being a Communist subverter.

Geoffrey B. Higginbotham
Major General, USMC (Ret.)

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EDITORS NOTE: This Government in Exile column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want Americans oppressed like Venezuelans!

By Geoff Ross

In 1992 Venezuela was the 3rd richest nation in our hemisphere here in the Americas. The expansion of free market capitalism and job creation even resulted by 1997 in Venezuela becoming the 2nd largest global purchaser of F-150 work trucks.

In 2001 the socialist redistribution of wealth gang, a minority group of Communists with fraud, deception and sweet words organized and elected a socialist president under the political banner of “income inequality”.

Sound familiar?

The Communists convinced the few lazy bums that would not work in Venezuela they would get the fruits of the capitalist job creators and entrepreneurs labor for free. Just vote for them. So — with the Communists running the show.

In 2004 private health care was abolished in Venezuela and completely socialized. This is also advocated by the Communist democrats in the United States like the legislators in socialist controlled California, New México and New York.

Doctors, nurses and investors in health care who refused to work for a government pittance began leaving Venezuela for Colombia and other countries creating a massive brain drain on the economy.

In 2007 all higher education was also taken over by the Communist Venezuelan government and all student loans were paid off by the Communists.

Higher education became free but the impact on the Venezuelan economy added to the national debt and spurred a continued inflation and contraction of the economy.

The once beacon of light that offered Venezuelans an opportunity to get an advanced degree of value became a worthless communist controlled propaganda diploma. But it was free.

In 2009 the Venezuelan government banned all private gun ownership which was supported by some members of the U.S. government like Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Diane Feinstein.

Kamala Harris already has executive orders in her Executive Vice Presidential desk ready to disarm law abiding Americans if she is elected president this November by another fraudulent election.

WATCH: Harris vows to sign Executive Order to confiscate all guns in America if elected

In 2012 Communist Bernie Sanders endorsed the Communist government of Venezuela and praised their so called new “American dream” Bernie Sanders also supports and supported the Communist dictatorship of Nicaragua that is persecuting the Catholic Church in and arresting Catholic priests in that country.

In 2014 the Communist government of Venezuela started to imprison political opponents and opposition leaders. The gutless spineless coward Maduro had to block the rising dissent.

By 2016 food, medical supplies and healthcare became in short supply creating hunger and poverty all over the once richest country in South America.

Folks here in the USA seem to forget the baby formula shortages and empty shelves at supermarkets created by the communist Biden administration.

Over 8 million Venezuelans have fled their homes out of basic survival measures to not starve and to provide for their families including my Venezuelan wife’s 5 brothers now living in Colombia and Brazil.

In 2017 the Venezuelan constitution was suspended along with elections and in 2019 when the Venezuelan people rose up unfortunately they were now disarmed and were unable to retake their country back and thousands were massacred by the Maduro regime.

In 2024 another fraud election has been uncovered in Venezuela when the people won their freedom by a 71% margin. My Venezuelan wife told me Venezuelan law requires all polling stations to release the election results in 48 hours after the election.

Maduro has not done this — so he’s manipulating the results. The election results are easy to verify by district using an individual Venezuelans cédula number. My wife did this and Maduro lost by 71% in her district of Caracas.

Already 16 Venezuelans have been killed by the Bernie Sanders endorsed Maduro regime. This time the people won’t roll over and Maduro may want to call Bernie Sanders and ask for political asylum in Vermont.

Personally I’m looking at the 15 million dollar bounty on Maduros head placed there by the Trump administration. I would love a trip to Vermont.

The era of the bounty hunter is emerging in Venezuela and this time I’m pretty sure soon the US Treasury will be paying out the reward money. Today’s drone technology is a hoot right?

Stay strong America even though our republic is currently on the same failing course as Venezuela by the corrupt installed Biden regime but the difference is we are still well armed and we are still maintaining peace and decorum.

Although I have zero confidence in the Republican led do nothing weak useless Congress the Rep/Dem uni-party we must still elect Trump this November.

©2024. Geoff Ross. All rights reserved.

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