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January 30, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

Biden’s Approval Rating Among Young Voters Craters to 27 Percent.

Joe Biden’s approval rating has cratered among 18-29-year-olds. A key demographic for the Democrat in 2020, younger voters now give him one of the worst ratings of any cohort in the country, with 27 percent approving of his performance against 71 percent disapproving.

The President’s popularity among voters under 30 may have been damaged by his stance on the Israel-Hamas war. Members of his own government and campaign staff are in revolt over his position, with some penning an open letter warning it is “a moral and electoral imperative for [him] to publicly call for a cessation of violence” as “Biden for President staff have seen volunteers quit in droves.”

Black Americans, Biden’s other key demographic, also give the 81-year-old Democrat a slightly negative approval rating, with 48 percent approval versus 49 percent disapproval. He commanded 92 percent of the black vote in 2020.

This is still his strongest approval rating by ethnicity by far, however. Among Asians, his approval-to-disapproval rating is 39-59, while among Hispanics it is 32-65, scarcely better than his rating among whites, which stands at 30-68.

Biden enjoys a very slight net positive approval rating of 50-49 among those with postgraduate qualifications, but it collapses to 36-62 among regular college graduates. His rating among non-college graduates is dire, tying with his rating among 18-29-year-olds at 27-71.

Biden’s overall approval rating reached a high of 54 percent in early 2021 but dipped below 50 percent before the year was out and has never recovered. It currently stands at 33 percent approve, 65 percent disapprove.

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Joe Biden's approval rating has cratered among 18-29-year-olds. A key demographic for the Democrat in 2020, younger voters now give him one of the worst ratings of any cohort in the country, with 27 percent approving of his performance against 71 percent disapproving. show more
January 30, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Crime
News

POISONING THE BLOOD: Border Officials Intercept 300 Pounds of Meth, Cocaine, Fentanyl, and Marijuana in One Week.

At least 291 pounds of cocaine, fentanyl, marijuana, and methamphetamine were seized at Customs and Border checkpoints during a single week, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials.

Narcotics were intercepted at multiple points of entry, starting with 18.56 pounds of powdered fentanyl and 63.8 pounds of methamphetamine at Ysleta on January 16th. This was followed by 29.18 pounds of cocaine at Paso Del Norte on January 18th.

January 20th saw two hauls of drugs, beginning with nine packets of cocaine totaling 23.36 pounds at Marcelino Serna. They were found hidden in a propane tank in a vehicle driven by a Mexican national. Back at Ysleta later the same day, 100.95 pounds of cannabis were found in the trunk of a car.

Finally, 55.55 pounds of methamphetamine were found at Columbus on January 23rd. Similarly to the cocaine found at Marcelino Serna, it was hidden in the tank of a car driven by a Mexican.

Drug deaths in the U.S. set a new record in 2022, coming in at around 110,000. In 2023, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) seized enough fentanyl alone to kill every American citizen. Drug death estimates for the year are yet to be released.

Donald Trump believes the drug crisis is driven by the border crisis, which is “poisoning the blood” of the country.

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At least 291 pounds of cocaine, fentanyl, marijuana, and methamphetamine were seized at Customs and Border checkpoints during a single week, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials. show more
January 30, 2024
William Upton
News

Arab Leaders Cancel Biden Campaign Meeting – ‘You Have Lost the Muslim Community.’

A planned meeting between Biden re-election campaign officials and Arab-American and Mulsim leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, was canceled after it drew mass opposition from members of the city’s Arab community. President Joe Biden has come under increasing fire from Arab and Muslim Americans over his handling of the Israeli-Hamas War.

Assad Turfe, who organized the sit-down, said he canceled the meeting — initially scheduled for Friday afternoon – as it was “in the best interest of the community.”  He added: “As the community got to learn about the meeting, there was definitely a lot of outrage and, ultimately, the decision was made to cancel the meeting.”

“Unless something drastic happens, you have lost the Arab American and Muslim community. At this point, from what I can see, there’s no winning them over. That was the idea of the meeting,” the Lebanese-American and the deputy county executive of Wayne County said, adding: “Until there’s a cease-fire, the overall consensus in the community is they’re not welcome here, essentially.”

Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the campaign manager for Biden’s re-election campaign, was initially set to meet with about a dozen local leaders in the majority Arab-American community before the cancellation. The Detroit News reported that Rodriguez did meet with members of the Dearborn community individually.

The Biden campaign has turned up efforts at outreach to minority communities in critical swing states like Michigan to reverse flagging approval numbers. While Biden’s popularity has dropped among Black and Hispanic voters over the last year, it has taken an even more significant hit among Arab-American and Muslim voters since the October 7th Hamas terrorist attack against Israel. Biden has also faced increasing opposition from his political staff and Democrat Members of Congress.

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A planned meeting between Biden re-election campaign officials and Arab-American and Mulsim leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, was canceled after it drew mass opposition from members of the city's Arab community. President Joe Biden has come under increasing fire from Arab and Muslim Americans over his handling of the Israeli-Hamas War. show more
January 30, 2024
Election 2024
Politics

Haley Blasts Economic Nationalism Ahead of Wall Street Elite Conflab.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley sharply contrasted her views on trade with those of Donald Trump on Monday ahead of fundraisers with members of the Wall Street elite.

On CNBC’s Squawk Box, Haley criticized Trump’s proposal of a blanket 10 percent tariff on all imported goods. “This is a man who now wants to go and put 10 percent tariffs across the board, raising taxes on every single American,” Haley said. Trump “is going to raise every household’s expenses by $2,600 a year,” she claimed, citing a report from the National Taxpayers Union.

While free trade agreements and policies have decimated American working-class communities and led to the offshoring of millions of American jobs, they have been highly lucrative for the Wall Street investor class, many of whom support Haley’s campaign. On Tuesday, Haley is attending a fundraiser hosted by billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller. Tickets to the swanky New York City event start at $3,300 and go up to $33,200.

Michael Every, a global strategist at Rabobank, said that critics of Trump’s tariff policy fail to understand its reasoning. “They don’t grasp that Trump isn’t talking about a 10 percent tariff just because it’s a 10 percent tariff,” said Every, adding that Trump “is talking about structurally breaking the global system, by hook or by crook, to basically re-industrialize the U.S.” He aims to establish “a barrier between it and the rest of the world so it’s cheap to produce in America and more expensive to produce everywhere else if you’re importing into America,” Every explained.

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Former South Carolina Gov. Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley sharply contrasted her views on trade with those of Donald Trump on Monday ahead of fundraisers with members of the Wall Street elite. show more

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January 30, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Media

E. Jean Carroll Says She’d Campaign With Biden, Spend Trump’s Money Against Him to ‘Cause Him Pain’.

E. Jean Carroll’s post-trial publicity tour is undercutting her testimony that former President Donald Trump’s comments on social media and in the press drew undue attention to her, causing reputational damage. Appearing on CBS Mornings, Carroll told the panel of hosts that instead of the the spotlight being on her, she — and the media — are the ones drawing attention to Trump and giving him “power.” Separately, on Good Morning America, she said she’d like to use the money to cause Donald Trump “pain.”

“We’re the ones who clothe him in all this power,” Carroll said, referencing the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Emperor’s New Clothes. She added: “He has none himself, it’s his followers. It’s his hangers-on. In the court, they were strutting back and forth, handing him messages.”

After making the admission, Carroll suddenly looked at her lawyer Roberta Kaplan — seated next to her for the interview — and asked, “Right Robbie?” before breaking the line of thought entirely.

During Carroll’s second defamation trial against former President Trump, her legal team relied heavily on the argument that the former President’s posts to his massive social media audience brought negative attention to Carroll, hurting her professional and social standing. They called on Northwestern University marking and communications professor Ashlee Humphreys to bolster their claim as an ‘expert witness’ on reputational damage and repair. Upon cross-examination, however, Prof. Humphreys admitted she had no real-life experience in the field of reputational management.

When asked about former President Trump’s campaign to return to the White House and if she’s spoken with his opponent, President Joe Biden, Carroll said she had not. The CBS panel then asked her if she could join Biden in campaigning against Trump, with Carroll responding: “I’d do anything I can.”

In another Sunday appearance on Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos, Carroll said she is considering using some of the $83.3 million judgment against Trump to “cause him pain.”

She told the host: “I’d like to give the money to something Donald Trump hates. If it will cause him pain for me to give money to certain things, that’s my intent.”

Last week, a New York City jury ordered former President Trump to pay Carroll nearly $90 million in damages.

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E. Jean Carroll's post-trial publicity tour is undercutting her testimony that former President Donald Trump's comments on social media and in the press drew undue attention to her, causing reputational damage. Appearing on CBS Mornings, Carroll told the panel of hosts that instead of the the spotlight being on her, she — and the media — are the ones drawing attention to Trump and giving him "power." Separately, on Good Morning America, she said she'd like to use the money to cause Donald Trump "pain." show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
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January 30, 2024
Jack Montgomery
NatSec
UK

UK’s Navy Redeploys Officers in ‘Key Roles’ to ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Jobs.

Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Marines are redeploying officers to serve in diversity and inclusion roles — despite severe manpower shortages leaving them unable to fulfill their essential functions.

The Royal Navy was recently unable to deploy any of its multi-billion-pound aircraft carriers to assist the British-American operation against the Houthis in Yemen due to a staffing crisis — yet service chiefs are advertising internally for officers to leave their existing roles and become diversity and inclusion officers regardless.

“You can imagine the sort of power-hungry social justice warriors this will attract,” one Navy source lamented.

“Taking people from key and important roles to focus on diversity is nonsense. The Royal Navy has lost the plot,” added Admiral The Lord West, a former Chief of the Naval Staff and Labour government minister.

“Obsessing over diversity and inclusion actually leads to recruitment issues. One needs just to look at the RAF’s positive discrimination schemes, which led to the exclusion of some white men. These diversity roles should be scrapped immediately,” West added.

The lawmaker was referring to revelations that the Royal Air Force (RAF) illegally discriminated against white men, and even disparaged them as “useless white males” and forced a recruiter who complained about the discrimination out of her job.

Like the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force suffers from significant manpower shortages.

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Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Marines are redeploying officers to serve in diversity and inclusion roles — despite severe manpower shortages leaving them unable to fulfill their essential functions. show more
January 29, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
World

WATCH: Ilhan Omar Gives Treasonous ‘Somalia First’ Speech Confessing to Working for Foreign Nation in U.S. Congress.

Representative Ilhan Omar, the Somalia-born Minnesota Democrat, was recorded telling a Somali audience they are “people of the same blood, people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second, who protect each other,” adding she is “here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.”

Omar’s speech was prompted by anger in Somalia and among the Somali diaspora over an agreement between Ethiopia and the Republic of Somaliland, an officially unrecognized but effectively self-governing state in Somalia’s north.

“Somalia is for Somali people. Somalia is one. We are all brothers and sisters. Our land cannot be divided,” she said, assuring listeners that Somalis in the U.S. will decide the U.S. position on Somaliland and even alluding to reclaiming Somali territories in modern-day Kenya, Ethiopia, and other neighboring countries.

Somaliland was formerly British Somaliland, merging with Italian Somaliland to form modern-day Somalia in 1960 — but it soon soured on the union with its southerly neighbor, mounting an unsuccessful attempt to secede as early as December 1961.

Somalia soon fell into dictatorship, precipitating another northern rebellion in the 1980s, with Somaliland achieving de facto independence by 1991.

Omar has claimed outsiders’ interpretations of her speech, which has gone viral on social media, are “completely off,” but reiterated she stands in “solidarity” with those opposed to Somaliland’s independence.

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Representative Ilhan Omar, the Somalia-born Minnesota Democrat, was recorded telling a Somali audience they are "people of the same blood, people who know they are Somalians first, Muslims second, who protect each other," adding she is "here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system." show more
January 29, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
World

EU Wages War on ‘Gendered’ Language, Phrases Like ‘Workmanship’ and ‘Joe Public.’

The European Institute for Gender Equality, an agency of the European Union (EU), has issued a lengthy document decrying phrases like “a man’s home is his castle” and traditions like referring to a ship as a “she.”

The ‘Toolkit on Gender-sensitive Communication’ hectors readers on a range of common expressions like ‘Joe Public,’ which they are told to drop in favor of the anodyne “an average citizen.”

Other terms deemed problematic include “brotherhood,” “countryman,” and “Englishman,” with the EU agency recommending “community,” “compatriot,” and “English person” instead.

The toolkit also takes issue with “King and Queen,” “ladies and gentlemen,” “husband and wife,” and related terms, suggesting readers “try swapping the order of these phrases sometimes.”

It also warns against referring to a ship as a ‘her’ rather than an ‘it’, or using language like “France and her citizens” instead of “France and its citizens,” or calling a person’s native language their “mother tongue.”

In some cases, the toolkit tells readers to completely reframe certain adjectives it deems sexist to paint negative behavior as positive; for example, a “loose” woman should instead be described as “having sexual confidence,” while an emotional or hormonal woman should instead be described as passionate, enthusiastic, or empathetic.

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The European Institute for Gender Equality, an agency of the European Union (EU), has issued a lengthy document decrying phrases like "a man's home is his castle" and traditions like referring to a ship as a "she." show more
January 29, 2024
Ed Kozak
News
Politics

Western Nations Have Donated Over $8 BILLION To UNRWA – Whose Staff Aided Hamas Terror – Over 10 Years.

An analysis by The National Pulse has revealed that Western nations donated over $8 billion to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRW) between 2013 and 2022. Over $2.5 billion came from the United States alone.

According to data compiled by UNRWA, in the ten years from 2013 to 2022, the United States gave $2,558,830,210, the EU and its member states collectively gave $5,246,475,932, and Australia, Canada, and New Zealand gave a combined $313,429,066 to the controversial agency — a grand total of $8,118,735,208. 

At least 11 nations have announced their intention to stop funding UNRWA following revelations that some of its employees directly took part in the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack against Israel, including participating in massacres at an Israel Kibbutz and kidnapping women.

In the final two years of his presidency, Donald Trump eliminated U.S. funding for UNRWA. The Biden regime reauthorized funding for the agency and gave it a combined $682,337,718 in 2021 and 2022. Figures for 2023 funding for UNRWA are not yet available.

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An analysis by The National Pulse has revealed that Western nations donated over $8 billion to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRW) between 2013 and 2022. Over $2.5 billion came from the United States alone. show more
January 29, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Politics

Judge Who Says Trump Should Be Off Illinois Ballot Was Appointed By RINO Who Backed Clinton in 2016.

Retired Illinois judge Clark Erickson has recommended removing former President Donald Trump from the Illinois state primary ballot. The former state circuit court judge was appointed to the bench in 1995 by moderate Republican Governor Jim Edgar — a vocal and aggressive critic of Trump’s presidency, The National Pulse can reveal.

Erickson made his recommendation based on a filing by a group of Illinois citizens backed by the far-left lawfare group Free Speech for People. Erickson’s decision is non-binding and will be weighed — along with other arguments — by the State Board of Elections this week.

Clark Erickson served as a judge on the Illinois 21st District  Circuit Court for 25 years before retiring on November 1st, 2020. Following his appointment in 1995, Erickson subsequently won election to retain his judgeship in 1996.

Former Governor Edgar, a moderate Republican, has been an outspoken critic of Trump — stating in 2016 that he would not vote for the Republican presidential nominee and would cast his ballot for Hillary Clinton instead. Edgar — who describes himself as an “Eisenhower-Ford-Bush Republican” — oversaw drastic changes to the Illinois state pension program during his two terms as governor from 1991 to 1999. Conservative and progressive policy analyses lay at least part of the blame for the state pension crisis on Governor Edgar and the changes he enacted.

While Erickson ruled that the former President engaged in “insurrection” and was barred under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, he added that Illinois state law does not allow the State Board of Election to settle constitutional questions. Instead, Erickson recommended the ultimate decision of whether Trump appears on the state primary ballot be left up to a higher court.

The National Pulse has previously reported on the efforts of far-left groups like Free Speech or People and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to remove Trump from state primary ballots. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider rulings ordering the removal of former President Trump from ballots in Colorado and Maine in February.

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Retired Illinois judge Clark Erickson has recommended removing former President Donald Trump from the Illinois state primary ballot. The former state circuit court judge was appointed to the bench in 1995 by moderate Republican Governor Jim Edgar — a vocal and aggressive critic of Trump's presidency, The National Pulse can reveal. show more