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August 30, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Economy
Election 2024

Kamala Lies About Fracking Ban Support.

Vice President Kamala Harris openly lied about her support for a fracking ban during a sit-down interview with CNN—her first since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. Speaking to Dana Bash alongside running mate Tim Walz, Harris was asked, “Do you still want to ban fracking?” Harris falsely claimed she “made [it]t clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking.”

During her failed presidential primary run in 2019, Harris told a CNN town hall there is “no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,” vowing she would begin the process on “day one” of a Harris presidency. She bragged this was “something [she had] taken on in California,” where she was a Senator and Attorney General.

She told Bash, “In 2020, I made very clear where I stand” during a debate with then-Vice President Mike Pence. “We are in 2024, and I have not changed that position, nor will I going forward. I kept my word, and I will keep my word.”

However, she did not outline her position on fracking during that debate, merely stating that “Joe Biden will not end fracking” and “the American people know that Joe Biden will not ban fracking.” Harris, not Biden, is running in November.

‘MY VALUES HAVE NOT CHANGED.’

Concerningly, for people whose livelihoods depend on fracking, Harris told Bash, “Let’s be clear. My values have not changed. I believe it is very important that we take seriously what we must do to guard against what is a clear crisis in terms of the climate.”

This suggests that Harris still supports a fracking ban in principle, as she did in 2019, and would likely work to undermine the industry even if she keeps her word on not implementing an outright ban.

She told Bash that, as Vice President, she was able to implement elements of the radical left Green New Deal she supported as a Senator through the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Vice President Kamala Harris openly lied about her support for a fracking ban during a sit-down interview with CNN—her first since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. Speaking to Dana Bash alongside running mate Tim Walz, Harris was asked, "Do you still want to ban fracking?" Harris falsely claimed she "made [it]t clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking." show more
August 30, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
War

WATCH: Tim Walz Uses Dead Kids As a Shield for Stolen Valor Moment.

Vice President Kamala Harris‘s running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, is using children killed in school shootings to deflect from his false claims to have served “in war.” He made the comments while appearing alongside Harris for her first sit-down interview with a news outlet—CNN—since she supplanted Joe Biden as the Democrats’ presidential candidate.

“You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone,” CNN’s Dana Bash said to the National Guard veteran. “A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?” she asked.

“Well, first of all, I’m incredibly proud I’ve done 24 years of wearing [the] uniform of this country, equally proud of my service in a public school classroom, whether it’s Congress or—or the governor [sic]. My record speaks for itself, but I think people are coming to get to know me. I—I speak like they do. I speak candidly,” Walz rambled, not answering the question.

Apparently hoping he would not be further pressed on his false claims if he raised the subject of dead children, he added: “I wear my emotions on my sleeves, and I speak especially passionately about—about our children being shot in schools and around—around guns. So I think people know me.”

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‘GRAMMAR.’

Bash did press Walz, again asking him, “[T]he idea that you said that you were in war, did you misspeak, as the campaign has said?”

“Yeah… we were talking about, in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife, the English teacher, told me my grammar’s not always correct,” Walz suggested, although his claim to have carried “weapons of war, in war” was clearly a false statement rather than a case of poor grammar.

Later in the interview, Walz claimed, “folks I’ve served with… they vouch for me.”

‘HE CHOSE ANOTHER PATH.’

Lieutenant Colonel John Kolb, a former commander of the battalion Walz served in, has publicly chastised him for lying about his rank and abandoning the unit shortly before its deployment to Iraq.

“[W]hen the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path,” Lt. Col. Kolb said of Walz, adding that the Democrat’s false claims to be a retired command sergeant major are “an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps.”

“I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major,” said Kolb, recalling that Walz “Unwittingly… got out of the way for better leadership.”

Walz claims he did not know his unit was going to deploy before he took early retirement, but press releases from his campaign at the time strongly suggest this is untrue.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Vice President Kamala Harris's running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, is using children killed in school shootings to deflect from his false claims to have served "in war." He made the comments while appearing alongside Harris for her first sit-down interview with a news outlet—CNN—since she supplanted Joe Biden as the Democrats' presidential candidate. show more
August 29, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

McFib: Kamala Has Long Claimed She Worked at McDonalds – There’s No Record of It.

Kamala Harris has long touted her time as a fast-food employee working for McDonald’s, with the claim resurfacing now that she’s secured the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination and is looking to appeal to working-class voters. However, despite Harris often alluding to her time flipping burgers and the corporate media‘s uncritical repetition of the claim throughout the years, there’s no evidence to back it up.

“But, aside from Harris’ testimony itself, there is no evidence (such as a photo, employment record, or confirmation from a friend or family member) to independently verify the claim,” even the left-wing fact-checking website Snopes states. Harris uses the tall tale in what appears to be an effort to ground her life experiences in a more relatable way for working-class American voters.

Born to two academic parents, neither of whom were citizens of the United States at the time, Harris spent several years living in Canada with her mother following her parents’ divorce. From about the age of 12 until college, Harris lived in Montreal with her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, who was teaching at McGill University School of Medicine and the Jewish General Hospital. According to McDonald’s website, they had only approximately 50 locations in Canada in the 1970s—it is unclear if any of these were in Montreal.

Harris isn’t the only member of the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket with issues regarding truthfulness. Her running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), has repeatedly come under criticism for lying about a 1995 drunk driving arrest, his rank in the Minnesota National Guard, and the circumstances regarding his retirement and non-deployment to Iraq.

Walz appears to have embellished or outright lied about many details in his life, including even petty claims such as having won recognition from the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce. The organization says Walz never received an award or accolade from them.

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Kamala Harris has long touted her time as a fast-food employee working for McDonald's, with the claim resurfacing now that she's secured the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination and is looking to appeal to working-class voters. However, despite Harris often alluding to her time flipping burgers and the corporate media's uncritical repetition of the claim throughout the years, there's no evidence to back it up. show more
August 29, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

WATCH: Kamala Admits Inflation Reduction Act Was A Backdoor Green New Deal.

Kamala Harris is admitting that the Inflation Reduction Act(IRA) that she often touts on the 2024 campaign trail is really just a backdoor enactment of the radical progressive Green New Deal. Harris makes the revelation during her first presidential candidacy interview with CNN‘s Dana Bash–an event that took almost 40 days to occur but has been pre-taped, edited, and is unlikely to stretch longer than 20 minutes.

When asked about how voters should compare Harris‘s record and shifts in policy stances as the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nominee to where she stood during her 2020 primary run, Harris claimed she hadn’t changed at all in a meandering response.

“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris tells Bash. She continues: “You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed—and I’ve worked on it—that the climate crisis is real, that is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”

Harris then drops the bombshell: “We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act. We have set goals for the United States of America—and, by extension, the globe—around when we should meet certain standards for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as an example. That value has not changed.”

The Green New Deal’s base cost to taxpayers is estimated to sit at $6.6 trillion annually.

Harris’s admission comes as the 2024 Democratic nominee has tried to shift to the right on several key issues, including immigration, in an effort to close the voter issue gap with former President Donald J. Trump. The National Pulse previously reported that Harris is now claiming she will finish the U.S.-Mexico border wall initiated under the Trump administration and abandoned by the Biden-Harris government. Previously, Harris called the wall a “medieval vanity project.”

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Kamala Harris is admitting that the Inflation Reduction Act(IRA) that she often touts on the 2024 campaign trail is really just a backdoor enactment of the radical progressive Green New Deal. Harris makes the revelation during her first presidential candidacy interview with CNN's Dana Bash–an event that took almost 40 days to occur but has been pre-taped, edited, and is unlikely to stretch longer than 20 minutes. show more
August 29, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Economy
Election 2024
UK

City of London Balks at Kamala Presidency, With Many Preferring Trump.

Top bankers in Britain’s City of London are quietly hopeful that former president Donald J. Trump will be re-elected in November. They believe his economic policies will be far more beneficial to capital markets than a Kamala Harris presidency.

Despite some concerns over Trump’s protectionist stance on some industries and views on the Ukraine war, some in the City see advantages in his laissez-faire finance approach.

Speaking anonymously, a senior U.K. financial lobbyist noted that a Trump presidency might lead to a less restrictive regulatory environment, potentially boosting financial flows across the Atlantic.

The genuine concern in the City is a potential Kamala Harris presidency. Her economic plan includes targeting big businesses, which could be less favorable for the financial sector than Trump’s pro-business stance.

Under Trump, the City also benefited from appointments of industry veterans to key regulatory positions, like Steven Mnuchin at the Treasury and Christopher Giancarlo at the CFTC. This trend could continue, benefiting the financial sector.

A key opportunity for the City would be the inclusion of financial services in a U.S.-U.K. free-trade agreement, a possibility under Trump but unlikely under President Joe Biden or a Harris administration.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has already signaled a willingness to strengthen U.K.-U.S. financial ties, regardless of who leads the U.S. And with Trump’s recent support for cryptocurrencies, the crypto industry in London sees potential benefits, despite his previous skepticism.

Trump has promised to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve and has earned millions of dollars of cryptocurrency donations throughout the 2024 presidential campaign.

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Top bankers in Britain's City of London are quietly hopeful that former president Donald J. Trump will be re-elected in November. They believe his economic policies will be far more beneficial to capital markets than a Kamala Harris presidency. show more
August 29, 2024
William Upton
Economy
Election 2024

Yes, Kamala Harris Wants to Tax Unrealized Capital Gains, And It Would Be a Disaster.

A senior economic advisor to Kamala Harris‘s 2024 presidential campaign has confirmed the Democratic nominee intends to impose a tax on unrealized capital gains. Bharat Ramamurti, who serves as an economic aide to Kamala Harris, dismissed criticism of the Democratic Party‘s presidential candidate’s tax plan during an appearance on CNBC on Wednesday.

“I think that this reaction to unrealized gains is a little funny given that I bet that the majority of people watching right now are already paying a tax on unrealized gains,” Ramamurti contended during the interview. He added: “It’s called a property tax.”

CNBC host Joe Kernen abruptly cut Ramamurti off, describing the Harris advisor’s “property tax” canard as “tiring” and “always the go-to answer.” Indeed, Kernen is correct that a property tax—defined as a use tax—is dissimilar from a tax on unrealized capital gains.

A PROPERTY TAX?

Property taxes pay for local services such as public schools, police, and firefighters. However, a tax on unrealized capital gains would tax the unsold value of a capital good—such as stock shares in a company. The shareholder would be taxed on the assumed value of the shares without them being sold—meaning if they’re later sold for a loss, the taxpayer has been legally overtaxed by the government.

When pressed on how Harris‘s proposal to tax unrealized capital gains would act in any way like a use tax, Ramamurti unconvincingly sputtered: “All the revenue that comes in from these unrealized gains taxes and the other taxes in the tax—in the Harris plan—are going to go to creating what she calls ‘more opportunity.'”

Despite Ramamurti’s unconvincing spin, the reality is a tax on unrealized capital gains could prove economically disastrous. While Harris claims only the highest income earners would be impacted, it is these same high earners who have the largest market impacts as investors. An unrealized capital gains tax would likely dissuade these individuals from future market actions.

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A senior economic advisor to Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign has confirmed the Democratic nominee intends to impose a tax on unrealized capital gains. Bharat Ramamurti, who serves as an economic aide to Kamala Harris, dismissed criticism of the Democratic Party's presidential candidate's tax plan during an appearance on CNBC on Wednesday. show more
August 29, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Lawfare
Media

MSNBC Host Locks X Account After Humiliating Exchange With Corey Lewandowski.

MSNBC host Ari Melber has locked his account on X (formerly Twitter) after threatening to sue Corey Lewandowski, a top team member on the Donald Trump campaign, for defamation during an interview. Lewandowski said Melber had previously stated Trump “had a bandage on his ear” at the Republican National Convention (RNC) after being shot “just for a spectacle.”

Melber, discussing a New York Times article saying Trump had acted as a “prop” at the RNC, had agreed Trump’s bandage was a “placard for delegates to fill in, an image for political mobilization, a spectacle for this candidate who we know is, by his own admission, obsessed with assorted spectacles.”

“I quoted a New York Times article that said, at the convention, Donald Trump ‘was his own biggest prop,'” Melber insisted to Lewandowski. The Trump advisor offered to read the MSNBC host’s full quote back to him.

“It was a New York Times quote about how [Trump] had become such an important figure in rebounding from what was a horrific assassination attempt,” Melber reiterated. Lewandowski again offered to read his words back to him.

“Corey, I said I’d address it. I’m gonna finish… Fox News, which has been caught in defamation, ran a false piece falsely stating that I said something else that I didn’t say. So, I stand on that. I stand on the New York Times quote,” Melber said.

“So, you didn’t say, ‘This bandage was a prop, a spectacle from a candidate who’s obsessed with spectacles’?” asked Lewandowski.

“Uh, Mr. Lewandowski, I did not say that. That is a false quote,” the MSNBC host shot back.

“I have it right here,” said Lewandowski.

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‘I’M PUTTING YOU ON NOTICE!’

“What you have is a false quote… I’m putting you on notice, if you continue to repeat falsely that I said that, you will be potentially in a defamation situation because I didn’t say that,” Melber threatened, declining Lewandowski’s offer to apologize to former President Trump for his remarks.

The far-left Daily Beast, Mediaite, and Huffington Post covered the exchange in tones suggesting Melber was in the right. However, their reports show that Lewandowski’s characterization of Melber’s statement about Trump and his bandage is correct.

Users on X began quoting Melber’s words back to him after clips of the exchange went viral, criticizing him as both a bully and a wimp for threatening a lawsuit. Melber responded by locking his account.

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MSNBC host Ari Melber has locked his account on X (formerly Twitter) after threatening to sue Corey Lewandowski, a top team member on the Donald Trump campaign, for defamation during an interview. Lewandowski said Melber had previously stated Trump "had a bandage on his ear" at the Republican National Convention (RNC) after being shot "just for a spectacle." show more
August 28, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Health

MUST READ: ‘Crunchy-Ish’ – The Return of the Trump-Bernie Voter.

Crossover voters from then-Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders to Donald J. Trump in the 2016 presidential election likely helped push the latter over the top in critical swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. With Bernie-aligned figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and anti-war populist Tulsi Gabbard backing Trump’s 2024 bid for the White House, a similar phenomenon could happen again, argues The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, in a recent interview with Wake Up To Politics.

The Kennedy–Gabbard voter demographic is a sort of evolution of the 2016 Bernie Sanders voter, Kassam notes. While they still oppose war and are skeptical of concentrated corporate and government power, they’re also keen on lifestyle choices that impact nutrition and physical health.

“These are people who think about what their clothes are made of,” Kassam says, adding: “They don’t want to wear polyester. They don’t want to eat seed oils. They prefer all-natural, no sulfites in their wines.”

A LIFESTYLE ISSUE.

According to Kassam, this lifestyle issue is the missing piece that may be critical to increasing that 2016 crossover vote and securing Republican wins once again in the Rustbelt as well as Arizona and Nevada—the latter two states being known for having a ‘crunchy’ streak in their electorates.

“Probably more than any other point in his life, Trump is on a learning trajectory right now,” The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief explains before continuing: “I think he probably looked at it originally from, like, ‘Okay, I’m for no war. Are you for no war?’ And they go, ‘yeah, we’re for no war.’ ‘Okay, so what else are you into?’ And they start talking about all this health stuff and everything else and he goes, ‘Oh my God, I had no idea.’”

VOTER SWAP?

Wake Up To Politics’s Gabe Fleisher notes that Trump has also appeared on several top podcasts whose audiences tend toward supporters of Sanders, Kennedy, and Gabbard. Most recently, Trump spoke at length with Theo Von on a myriad of topics, including the addiction crisis and his late brother Fred Trump’s struggles with alcoholism.

Perhaps most critically, Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party appear to have little to offer this voter demographic heading into November. Instead, Democrats are offering an olive branch to the pro-war neoconservatives who found themselves in the political wilderness following the disastrous Iraq War and the 2016 election.

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Crossover voters from then-Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders to Donald J. Trump in the 2016 presidential election likely helped push the latter over the top in critical swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. With Bernie-aligned figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and anti-war populist Tulsi Gabbard backing Trump's 2024 bid for the White House, a similar phenomenon could happen again, argues The National Pulse's Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, in a recent interview with Wake Up To Politics. show more
August 28, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024

Dem-Run Swing States Are Refusing Take RFK off The Ballot.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has withdrawn from the presidential race in key states and endorsed former President Donald J. Trump. However, there is resistance to removing his name from ballots in several Democrat-run states. The pivotal swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Colorado are all declining to remove his name.

In Michigan, officials claim it is too late for Kennedy to withdraw as the nominee of the Natural Law Party. “Minor party candidates cannot withdraw, so his name will remain on the ballot in the November election,” insists the spokeswoman for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a China-linked Democrat.

Wisconsin’s Elections Commission also voted 5-1 on Tuesday against removing Kennedy’s name.

Colorado, too, refuses to remove the independent candidate from the state ballot. However, it is less of a true swing state than Michigan or Wisconsin, leaning fairly decisively toward the Democrats.

However, Nevada is allowing Kennedy to remove his name—following an agreement between his legal team and Democratic National Committee (DNC) lawyers who had been suing to take him off the ballot. Kennedy’s name is also being removed from ballots in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, and Ohio.

North Carolina remains a state to watch. According to Patrick Gannon, the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ Public Information Officer, Kennedy has been nominated by the We The People Party. Gannon says that if the party withdraws Kennedy’s nomination, officialmustto assess the feasibility of reprinting ballots, with nearly a third of the state’s counties already beginning the printing process.

Nicole Shanahan, Kennedy’s running mate, criticized Democrats in an interview on Tuesday, expressing disappointment with the party’s treatment of Kennedy and saying it had lost its moral compass.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has withdrawn from the presidential race in key states and endorsed former President Donald J. Trump. However, there is resistance to removing his name from ballots in several Democrat-run states. The pivotal swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Colorado are all declining to remove his name. show more
August 28, 2024
William Upton
Data
Election 2024

Poll Shows Project 2025 Policies Actually Quite Popular With Voters.

New data released by Redfield & Wilton Strategies finds that the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 policy proposals are generally popular among the American public. According to the survey, most of the major ideas published in the independent presidential transition project’s policy guide hold over 50 percent support among voters.

According to the survey, 53 percent of Americans agree with the Project 2025 proposition that the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needs to be reformed and reorganized. Even overtly Republican positions like abolishing the Department of Education—which was a popular mantra during Ronald Reagan’s presidency—hold nearly even support among Americans.

AMERICANS WANT REFORM. 

Many see the DHS, which oversees everything from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to the United States Secret Service (USSS), as too large and too ill-defined to function properly. Under the Project 2025 plan, the DHS would be dismantled into its component agencies, with some subagencies consolidated or closed down.

In keeping with continued polling trends showing a strong backlash against the Biden–Harris government’s failed immigration policies, 51 percent of respondents agreed with the Project 2025 calls for increasing funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Recent polling has found strong majorities of Americans support both the border wall and the mass deportation of illegal immigrants.

Even abolishing the Department of Education—long viewed as one of the more radical proposals that gained popularity during the Reagan era—was only opposed by 51 percent of survey respondents. Under the Project 2025 plan, states—and not the federal government—would set curriculum standards and, for the most part, oversee U.S. education policy.

MEDIA AND DEM LIES.

The National Pulse has previously reported how Democrats and their corporate media allies have spread falsehoods regarding the Heritage Foundation‘s independent presidential transition project. For instance, Project 2025’s former director, Paul Dans, recently noted that Democratic Party leaders and their media allies have falsely claimed that the group proposes cutting social security. According to Dans, Project 2025’s policy book doesn’t contain a single social security chapter.

Image via Flickr.

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New data released by Redfield & Wilton Strategies finds that the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 policy proposals are generally popular among the American public. According to the survey, most of the major ideas published in the independent presidential transition project's policy guide hold over 50 percent support among voters. show more