Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro allegedly used taxpayer money to conduct a training event for Democrat-friendly social media influencers. The ‘Democracy Summer Camp’ held on July 25 was designed to educate participants on encouraging their likely liberal audiences to vote and recognizing so-called misinformation online.
The State of Pennsylvania reportedly funded this day-long event, inviting 43 influencers. None of those invited appear to have had Republican sympathies, with approximately 70 percent having openly liberal social media profiles.
The remainder of the influencers came from demographics historically supportive of the Democratic Party, such as college students and African Americans.
Critics, including Pennsylvania State Representative Seth Grove, expressed concern over the event’s partisan nature: “Having the governor’s office use taxpayer funds to only have Democrat social media influencers… is very, very sketchy and was a waste of taxpayer dollars,” he argued.
“That was a cost to the taxpayers to do campaign work. I don’t believe for a second they had any interest in inviting Republicans… it was lopsided and targeted to Democratic influencers.”
Governor Shapiro, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) veteran once considered a front-runner for Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick, seems to be copying a tactic used by the Biden-Harris regime in recent years by using social media influencers to disseminate Democratic messaging.
This has backfired on the Biden-Harris regime several times, however, including when a transgender influencer named Rose Montoya exposed his faux “breasts” at the White House during a Pride party last year.
The Democrats and allied super PACs have paid over a million dollars to social media influencers to support Democrat campaigns, including President Joe Biden’s, before he dropped out of the presidential race.
Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro allegedly used taxpayer money to conduct a training event for Democrat-friendly social media influencers. The 'Democracy Summer Camp' held on July 25 was designed to educate participants on encouraging their likely liberal audiences to vote and recognizing so-called misinformation online.
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On Monday, five Republican members of Congress initiated legal action against Pennsylvania‘s Secretary of the Commonwealth, Al Schmidt, and Jonathan Marks, the Deputy Secretary for Elections. The lawsuit alleges the swing state officials have “issued directives and guidance to county officials to exempt UOCAVA applicants entirely from any verification requirements,” referring to overseas voters applying for absentee ballots under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA).
Reps. Guy Reschenthaler, Dan Meuser, Glenn “G.T.” Thompson, Lloyd Smucker, and Mike Kelly argue that officials are compromising election integrity by inadequately verifying voter identity for military and overseas citizens. Overseas voters are supposed to submit details such as partial Social Security numbers or state-issued driver’s license numbers to have an absentee ballot mailed or emailed to them. However, Marks said in 2022 that there is “no systematic verification” of UOCAVA voters. Pennsylvania Military and Overseas Voters Guidance issued in 2023 also states that UOCAVA voters “are exempt from the Election Code’s ID requirements for absentee voters.”
BAD ACTORS.
UOCAVA voters surged by 74 percent to 890,000 in 2020, and millions more American citizens and dual nationals living overseas remain to be tapped. The Democrats are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into turning out more overseas voters from swing states in 2024—and the process could be open to bad actors if there are few verification checks before a person living abroad can have a ballot sent to them.
“The Commonwealth’s practice is an illegally structured election process which makes Pennsylvania’s elections vulnerable to ineligible votes by individuals or entities who could purport to be UOCAVA-eligible, register to vote without verification of identity or eligibility, but receive a ballot by email and then vote a ballot without providing identification at any step in the process,” the lawsuit argues.
Joe Biden officially won Pennsylvania by just 1.17 percent in 2020.
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On Monday, five Republican members of Congress initiated legal action against Pennsylvania's Secretary of the Commonwealth, Al Schmidt, and Jonathan Marks, the Deputy Secretary for Elections. The lawsuit alleges the swing state officials have "issued directives and guidance to county officials to exempt UOCAVA applicants entirely from any verification requirements," referring to overseas voters applying for absentee ballots under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA).
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is arguing New York City Mayor Eric Adams should not resign despite being federally indicted over allegations of corruption. The Democrat mayor faces charges of allegedly soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals connected to the Turkish government before his 2021 run for mayor.
“My view is that Mayor Adams, like every other New Yorker and every other American, is entitled to the presumption of innocence and entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers who will ultimately determine his fate within the legal system,” Jeffries argued.
“At the same time, it’s important for Mayor Adams to articulate to New Yorkers in a compelling way a plan and a path forward to ensure that the city is continuing to function and run in a manner that meets the needs of everyday New Yorkers and in a manner that New York City, which we believe is the greatest city in the world, deserves,” he added.
Adams previously praised the Biden-Harris government for halting border wall construction and vowed New York City would remain a sanctuary city. However, he began criticizing open borders as the migrant crisis worsened, saying it would “destroy” his city.
Adams says the charges against him are false, suggesting the Biden-Harris Justice Department is targeting him for publicly accusing “the federal government [of doing] nothing as its broken immigration policies overloaded our shelter system with no relief.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is arguing New York City Mayor Eric Adams should not resign despite being federally indicted over allegations of corruption. The Democrat mayor faces charges of allegedly soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals connected to the Turkish government before his 2021 run for mayor.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to distance her 2024 presidential campaign from much of the far-left policy stances she took during her 2020 White House bid appear to be driven—at least in part—by the influence of her brother-in-law, Tony West. A senior vice president and chief legal officer at Uber Technologies with deep ties to Wall Street and Silicon Valley, West has taken a leave of absence from his role as a corporate executive to serve as an informal advisor on Harris’s campaign.
While West has helped bolster support for his sister-in-law among the globalist corporate and financial elite, his influence over the Harris presidential campaign is rankling some organized labor leaders and economic progressives in the Democratic Party. After replacing the 81-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in July, Harris largely abandoned Biden’s more economically populist policies. Most recently, she attacked President Donald J. Trump’s tariff policies, which were largely unchanged under Biden.
TROUBLE WITH THE TEAMSTERS.
Harris’s shift away from organized labor-supported tariffs and West’s support of anti-union laws around the country is believed to have contributed to the Teamsters Union’s decision not to endorse the Democratic Party nominee ahead of the November election.
Uber’s support of a 2020 California ballot measure that would allow it to classify its drivers as independent contractors—enabling the company to deny certain employment benefits and more effectively resist unionization efforts—is said to have been a particular sticking point for the Teamsters’ leadership. Some of the union’s leaders pointed the finger at West for Uber’s $200 million campaign supporting the ballot measure.
Recent survey data released by the Teamsters suggest a significant shift in the rank-in-file from supporting Joe Biden to backing Donald Trump after the former announced he would not seek re-election.
SIDELINING BERNIE & WARREN.
West’s advisory role and influence on the Harris campaign isn’t just drawing criticism from organized labor, however. The Teamsters’ concerns are being echoed by allies of Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who contend Harris—under West’s advisement—is spending too much time attempting to win the support of Wall Street and Silicon Valley billionaires while ignoring the Democratic Party’s more economically progressive voter base.
“I don’t begrudge West and the Harris campaign for trying to have business outreach going on,” said long-time Sanders advisor Faiz Shakir in a recent interview. “But you don’t simultaneously see an outreach to those wanting to unrig the economy,” he lamented.
While West’s record as a DOJ attorney under the Clinton and Obama governments suggests he largely supports far-left progressive views on social and cultural issues, his record demonstrates his embrace of globalist economic interests. Progressive political activists are especially alarmed at continuing discussions regarding what role West may play in a Harris White House.
Kamala Harris’s embrace of technology billionaires like Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, and Reed Hastings is doing little to assuage progressives’ concerns regarding her close political relations with her brother-in-law. Hoffman, a visitor to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, is pushing Harris to oust the aggressively pro-antitrust Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan—a darling among the progressive left and even some on the populist right.
EMBRACING THE CHENEY FAMILY.
While tensions over West’s role in building a more pro-globalist, pro-Wall Street Harris campaign has caused increasing strain with economic progressives, the Democratic Party presidential nominee’s enthusiastic welcoming of support from warmonger and former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney may prove a bridge too far.
A recent report from Semafor suggests any gains made among more right-leaning voters by Harris’s embrace of Dick Cheney—whom she called “an American patriot”—is likely to be offset by her continued slide among white working-class voters.
While serving under President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney was frequently the subject of Democratic Party leaders’ ire. The former Vice President played a critical role in pushing the U.S. to go to war against Iraq—peddling false claims that the Middle Eastern country’s then-dictator, Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Likewise, Harris has also welcomed the support of Dick Cheney’s daughter, former Congressman Liz Cheney. The former Wyoming lawmaker appeared alongside Harris on Wednesday in Ripon, Wisconsin—the birthplace of the Republican Party. Cheney lost her re-election bid in 2022 after being defeated in the state’s Republican congressional primary by a two-to-one ratio.
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Vice President Kamala Harris's efforts to distance her 2024 presidential campaign from much of the far-left policy stances she took during her 2020 White House bid appear to be driven—at least in part—by the influence of her brother-in-law, Tony West. A senior vice president and chief legal officer at Uber Technologies with deep ties to Wall Street and Silicon Valley, West has taken a leave of absence from his role as a corporate executive to serve as an informal advisor on Harris's campaign.
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A series of state audits in Minnesota highlight fraud and mismanagement under Governor Tim Walz, running mate to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Governor Walz is facing criticism not just for the sheer number of scandals on his watch but also for his failure to hold anyone accountable for them, even from CNN.
In a report titled ‘As fraud scandals erupt in Minnesota on Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, accountability is in short supply,’ the Democrat-supporting network says nonpartisan state auditor Judy Randall’s warnings around “troubling examples of waste, fraud, and abuse” have been “repeatedly minimized or dismissed.”
The scandals are not minor. One saw bonus checks intended for those on the front lines of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic taken by the wrong people. Another saw the Muslim-dominated Feeding Our Future charity steal around $250 million in assistance intended to help feed needy children during the pandemic, the largest such fraud scheme nationwide.
It is not only the auditor and Minnesota Republicans who are criticizing Walz for his failure to prevent fraud and waste or punish those responsible. CNN quotes state Senator Ann Rest—a Democrat—as complaining during one hearing on the Feeding Our Future scam, “The buck is still running down the street and stopping nowhere, and that is unacceptable.”
The Walzgovernment also suffers from general incompetence, presiding over around $1.5 billion in cost overruns connected to a light rail project, for instance.
A series of state audits in Minnesota highlight fraud and mismanagement under Governor Tim Walz, running mate to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Governor Walz is facing criticism not just for the sheer number of scandals on his watch but also for his failure to hold anyone accountable for them, even from CNN.
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The Biden-Harris Department of Justice’s (DOJ) special counsel, Jack Smith, is giving up on trying to jail President Donald J. Trump, retooling his prosecution to interfere in November’s election instead, according to one of CNN’s top legal commentators.
According to analyst Elie Honig, Smith’s 165-page legal brief against Trump’s presidential immunity claim filed in federal court earlier this week is an “unprincipled, norm-breaking” attempt to “chip away at Trump’s electoral prospects.”
“At this point, there’s simply no defending Smith’s conduct on any sort of principled or institutional basis,” Honig writes in a scathing essay for New York Magazine. The former assistant U.S. Attorney and corporate news legal commentator slams Smith’s highly politicized filing, writing: “‘But we need to know this stuff before we vote!’ is a nice bumper sticker, but it’s neither a response to nor an excuse for Smith’s unprincipled, norm-breaking practice.”
Honig notes that Smith, who has largely led the Biden-Harris government lawfare campaign against Trump, twisted U.S. legal norms to ensure his presidential immunity brief—full of salacious and partisan accusations—would be made public prior to the presidential election. The CNN legal analyst contends that the DOJ special counsel has turned criminal procedure on its head by preemptively filing the brief—with the permission of far-left U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan—before Trump’s legal team made any motions on the immunity matter. Chutkan cleared the Smith legal brief despite acknowledging in court that it was “procedurally irregular.”
‘PREJUDICIAL LEGALLY & POLITICALLY.’
“Smith’s proactive filing is prejudicial to Trump, legally and politically. It’s ironic. Smith has complained throughout the case that Trump’s words might taint the jury pool,” Honig observes, adding: “Yet Smith now uses grand jury testimony (which ordinarily remains secret at this stage) and drafts up a tidy 165-page document that contains all manner of damaging statements about a criminal defendant, made outside of a trial setting and without being subjected to the rules of evidence or cross-examination, and files it publicly, generating national headlines.”
He concludes, insinuating that Smith has likely traded the viability of his prosecution to directly interfere in the election instead: “You know who’ll see those allegations? The voters, sure—and also members of the jury pool.”
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The Biden-Harris Department of Justice's (DOJ) special counsel, Jack Smith, is giving up on trying to jail President Donald J. Trump, retooling his prosecution to interfere in November's election instead, according to one of CNN's top legal commentators.
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Arizona’s Secretary of State has announced the discovery of an additional 120,000 registered voters who lack documentary proof of citizenship, bringing the total to 218,000. The extensive error is attributed to data coding issues involving driver’s license information between the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Division and the state voter registration databases.
The massive voter registration error was first identified last month when approximately 97,000 voters were found to be listed as full-ballot voters without providing the required citizenship documentation for state elections. Arizona requires those registering to vote in state-level elections to provide documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC). Consequently, if a voter cannot provide the required information, they’re designated as only being allowed to cast a federal election ballot.
According to the state investigation into the database issue, approximately 79,000 registered Republicans and 61,000 Democrats are impacted. An additional 76,000 voters who are registered under other political parties are also affected.
Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State, stressed that the individuals impacted “have lived in the state for decades and have attested under penalty of perjury that they are U.S. citizens.” According to the Secretary of State’s office, those affected can still participate in November’s elections with full-ballot rights—citing a recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling on the matter. Both Fontes and the Arizona Republican Party urged the court to stop an effort by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer to restrict the voters to federal-only ballots.
In response, Arizona Republican Party Chair Gina Swoboda criticized the handling of the situation, accusing Fontes of misleading the public and failing to fulfill his duties. She demands transparency and immediate disclosure of the affected voter data to all county recorders.
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Arizona's Secretary of State has announced the discovery of an additional 120,000 registered voters who lack documentary proof of citizenship, bringing the total to 218,000. The extensive error is attributed to data coding issues involving driver's license information between the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Division and the state voter registration databases.
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Firearm sales have seen an uptick since Vice President Kamala Harris supplanted Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, reflecting concerns over gun rights being eroded if she wins the White House. The turning point in July also coincided with the first assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
According to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data, there have been approximately 125,000 more sales and 260,000 additional background checks compared to earlier months—although background checks also cover activities beyond gun purchases.
According to adjusted figures from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), gun sale-related background checks increased by 1.3 percent in September compared to the same month in 2023, totaling 1,156,223. This marks the 62nd consecutive month that gun sales have surpassed one million.
Since she replaced Biden, Harris has been claiming she is herself a gun owner, telling Oprah Winfrey she would personally shoot a home invader. However, she refuses to disclose what kind of firearm she owns or the last time she practiced at a range.
Earlier in her political career in California, Harris said the state should be able to inspect lawful gun owners’ homes, arguing: “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.”
She described this as an example of “legislat[ing] our values… trying to encourage certain types of behavior.”
Harris also sponsored Proposition H, a de facto ban on handgun ownership, sales, and manufacturing that the courts struck down.
🚨Kamala Harris wants mass gun confiscation, and she’s willing to weaponize the government to enter your home and seize your legally owned guns:
“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… pic.twitter.com/4ET5m7ToSx
Firearm sales have seen an uptick since Vice President Kamala Harris supplanted Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, reflecting concerns over gun rights being eroded if she wins the White House. The turning point in July also coincided with the first assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Polls suggest Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign for the White House is faltering with just over a month before the November presidential election. A survey conducted between September 29 and October 1 by Emerson College Polling indicates the Democratic Party presidential nominee is falling well shy of President Joe Biden’s margins in the 2020 election.
In a head-to-head matchup, Harris sits at 50 percent to President Donald J. Trump’s 48 percent. With a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points, the Emerson poll essentially confirms Trump and Harris are in a dead heat. Biden’s margin over Trump in the 2020 popular vote was four and a half points.
Polling data analyzed by FiveThirtyEight illustrates an even steeper decline in Harris’ advantage compared to Biden’s, placing her current lead at approximately 2.8 percentage points, in contrast to Biden’s 7.4-point lead at this juncture in 2020. RealClearPolitics’ aggregation indicates an even greater difference between Biden’s and Harris’s leads over Trump, with Biden holding a 7.8-point lead in the Fall of 2020 versus Harris’s 2.2 points now.
In the battleground states where election outcomes are often decided the races appear exceptionally close. For instance, North Carolina and Pennsylvania show statistical ties, while Trump holds a minor edge in Arizona and Georgia. Conversely, Harris shows a slight advantage in Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
As in the 2016 election, Trump holds a significant advantage among non-college-educated and white working-class voters. Recent data released by the Teamsters Union shows the former Republican president holding about 60 percent support among the union’s rank-and-file members.
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Polls suggest Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign for the White House is faltering with just over a month before the November presidential election. A survey conducted between September 29 and October 1 by Emerson College Polling indicates the Democratic Party presidential nominee is falling well shy of President Joe Biden's margins in the 2020 election.
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Psephologist Nate Silver believes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to back former President Donald J. Trump is the most significant public endorsement of the 2024 election. According to Silver, Kennedy’s endorsement has fueled a significant shift in voter support for Trump, possibly costing his Democrat opponent Kamala Harris around half a percentage point nationally.
Conversely, Silver notes that popstar Taylor Swift’s decision to back Harris has not had a similar effect. He says he’s observed no substantial change in polling for Harris since Swift posted her endorsement of the Democratic Party nominee on Instagram immediately following the September 10 presidential debate. The statistician and election modeler—speaking on his Risky Business podcast—claims Swift’s 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden made her decision to support Harris predictable for voters, meaning those likely to be swayed were already backing the Democratic Party nominee.
While most national polling shows the election between Trump and Harris in a dead heat, the Democrats are fretting that they may face a similar electoral environment as they did in 2016, when most pollsters missed Trump’s victory. Among the concerns for Harris is her lagging support among young voters—a demographic that many thought Swift’s endorsement would help boost. However, a recent survey found that Harris currently has just over half as much support among young people as Biden during the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, data released by Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio shows Kennedy voters breaking for Trump by a two-to-one margin over Harris in seven critical battleground states. With several states only being decided by just tens-of-thousand of voters in 2020, Kennedy voters could be pivotal to a Trump victory.
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Psephologist Nate Silver believes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to back former President Donald J. Trump is the most significant public endorsement of the 2024 election. According to Silver, Kennedy's endorsement has fueled a significant shift in voter support for Trump, possibly costing his Democrat opponent Kamala Harris around half a percentage point nationally.
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