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June 7, 2024
Election 2024

RNC Launches ‘Swamp The Vote’ Site, Appears to Be Just Another Data Mining Op.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) launched a “Swamp The Vote” website on Friday. Although it claims to be a voter registration site, it appears to be just another data mining operation by the Republican central apparatus. Multiple attempts at using the site yielded nothing but a call for personal contact details from users.

The site appears to have been rushed out – with the domain registered in late May – as a way for the RNC to claim it is taking “action” to ensure a victory for President Trump in November.

The domain was registered on May 16, 2024, and simply includes a web form for users to share personal details with the RNC.

In reality, most users of the website will already have given the RNC, NRSC, NRCC, or Trump campaign their contact details over the past nine years.

Despite its official rollout on Friday, the domain appears to have received little traction so far, with just a handful of X users sharing the hyperlink.

Sources at the RNC have told The National Pulse that since the organization’s takeover in March, very little has changed, with most staffers who were originally “fired” being brought back in under external consultancy contracts.

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) launched a "Swamp The Vote" website on Friday. Although it claims to be a voter registration site, it appears to be just another data mining operation by the Republican central apparatus. Multiple attempts at using the site yielded nothing but a call for personal contact details from users. show more

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June 7, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Lawfare

Trump: ‘Revenge Takes Time, and Can Be Justified.’

Former President Donald J. Trump told celebrity psychologist Dr. Phil that “revenge can be justified,” while discussing retribution against his political opponents in a set piece interview this week.

Trump, 77, recalled his decision not to pursue Hillary Clinton after the 2016 election. “How would it be [if] I win and I lock Hillary Clinton up? The former president’s wife… I didn’t want to do that,” Trump said.

“I could’ve done that pretty easily. She busted up her phones and she busted up her laptops… She disobeyed a subpoena, and she broke up all this machinery, all this technology, after she got the subpoena,” he observed. However, he “hated” the idea of actually having her imprisoned because he “wanted to bring the country together… through success.”

“Now, the difference is, they’re trying to do it to me, and maybe you could feel different about it, but I don’t feel differently. Retribution is going to be through success,” he added.

However, when Dr. Phil put it to him that he would be too busy to “get even,” the former president warned: “Well, revenge does take time, I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil. I have to be honest.”

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. 

Trump’s comments come as he faces a prison sentence in Manhattan. The authorities are also ordering War Room host Stephen K. Bannon to report to prison in July—a move Trump describes as an “American Tragedy.”

Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, wants conservatives to stop being so passive in the face of Democrat lawfare and fight fire with fire. Too many, he says, are rolling over with an attitude of, “Where does it say in this rulebook that we’re allowed to fight back?”

“The way you deal with a sickness is not to wag your finger at it… it needs eviscerating,” Kassam stressed.

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Former President Donald J. Trump told celebrity psychologist Dr. Phil that "revenge can be justified," while discussing retribution against his political opponents in a set piece interview this week. show more
June 6, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Lawfare

Tom Hanks Brands Himself ‘Historian’ While Waffling On Nonsensically About Trump from Normandy.

Hollywood actor Tom Hanks added a new title to his resume, branding himself a historian while speaking with CNN‘s Christine Amanpour during commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the World War II invasion of Normandy. The CNN host pressed Hanks as to whether he was worried about the state of American democracy and freedom if former President Donald J. Trump retakes the White House in November.

“I think there’s always a reason to be worried about the short term,” Hanks replied, adding: “But I look at the longer term of what happened. I think, look, our constitution says, ‘We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union. That journey to a more perfect union has missteps in it. I can catalog them as much as you can, and you’re a professional journalist and I’m just a guy who makes movies and reads books.”

Amanpour interjected, calling Hanks a “historian” as well. “Okay, and a lay historian. I’ll take that too,” Hanks responded.

“Over the long term, however, we inevitably made progress towards, I think, that more perfect union,” the Hollywood actor continued before adding: “How does it come about? It comes about because, not because of somebody’s narrative of who is right or who is a victim or not. It comes out of the slow melding of the truth to the actual practical life that we end up living.”

Hank’s rambling response suggests that he is neither an apt historian nor someone who has thought very deeply about American democracy—especially in light of the Biden government’s unprecedented lawfare campaign against former President Trump. An incumbent President seeking to jail his top election opponent would appear to be a far greater threat to American democracy than anything elicited from Hank’s thoughts.

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Hollywood actor Tom Hanks added a new title to his resume, branding himself a historian while speaking with CNN's Christine Amanpour during commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the World War II invasion of Normandy. The CNN host pressed Hanks as to whether he was worried about the state of American democracy and freedom if former President Donald J. Trump retakes the White House in November. show more
June 6, 2024
Election 2024
Immigration

Just 5% of Non-Citizens Voting are Registered as Republicans.

For the first time, non-citizen residents of Washington, D.C., went to the polls to help determine the city’s leadership. Over 500 noncitizens registered to vote, and almost none backed Republican candidates.

Just 5.35 percent of the new noncitizens registered in the nation’s capital as Republicans. Meanwhile, 59.27 percent of the noncitizen voters registered with the Democratic Party. However, the numbers for Democratic support are likely higher as another 32.31 percent of the voter demographic filed Independent registrations—which tend to break for Democrats in the city’s elections—and another 3.06 percent of noncitizen voters identified with the Statehood Green Party.

The National Pulse has reported extensively on the rise of noncitizen voting. While it is technically legal for city governments to allow noncitizens voting rights in municipal elections, the voting policy raises concerns about these voters being illicitly permitted to participate in state and federal races.

Noncitizens have been shown to have illegally voted in state and federal elections in several states, including Pennsylvania and North Carolina. In the latter, federal prosecutors uncovered evidence that local election officials were more likely to look the other way when a noncitizen registered to vote when said registration was as a member of the Democrat Party. The data produced by federal prosecutors suggests noncitizen voters are three times more likely to vote Democrat than Republican.

Meanwhile, in South Carolina, the state’s Medicaid administrator was found to be sending voter registration information to noncitizens who applied for government assistance. When asked why this was happening, state officials pointed to changes in federal law under the Biden government, which requires any state agency that manages federal funds to send election and voter registration documents to government assistance applicants.

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For the first time, non-citizen residents of Washington, D.C., went to the polls to help determine the city’s leadership. Over 500 noncitizens registered to vote, and almost none backed Republican candidates. show more
June 6, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Election 2024

Trump Reacts to Bannon Jail Order – ‘American Tragedy.’

President Donald J. Trump has blasted Joe Biden’s “Department of Injustice” after today’s court ruling against his former Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon, in a missive posted on Truth Social on Thursday afternoon.

“It is a Total and Complete American Tragedy that the Crooked Joe Biden Department of Injustice is so desperate to jail Steve Bannon, and every other Republican, for that matter, for not SUBMITTING to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, made up of all Democrats, and two CRAZED FORMER REPUBLICAN LUNATICS, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, and Liz “Out of Her Mind” Cheney,” Trump railed.

“It has been irrefutably proven that it was the Unselects who committed actual crimes when they deleted and destroyed all material evidence, in a pathetic attempt to protect Crazy Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats from the TRUTH – THAT I DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG. The unAmerican Weaponization of our Law Enforcement has reached levels of Illegality never thought possible before. INDICT THE UNSELECT J6 COMMITTEE FOR ILLEGALLY DELETING AND DESTROYING ALL OF THEIR “FINDINGS!” MAGA2024.”

The Jan 6 Committee was put together by domestic extremist-backer Bennie Thompson and proceeded to throw the rulebook out of the window in how it persecuted Republicans scarcely even connected to the incident at the Capitol in 2021.

The Committee fabricated information, inadvertently revealed Capitol Police as liars, and even exposed undercover government agents by accident. They then proceeded to hide information, as well as delete encrypted files before Republicans took control of Congress in order to cover their tracks.

The J6 congressional crew even threatened a former Secretary of Defense while attempting to bury proof that adhering to Trump’s order could have actually stopped any violence near the Capitol that day.

Members of the committee included Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Elaine Luria, the latter of whom was caught making massive investments in Chinese Communist Party-linked companies. One “producer” hired by the committee even posted about his fantasies of mowing down Republicans.

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President Donald J. Trump has blasted Joe Biden's "Department of Injustice" after today's court ruling against his former Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon, in a missive posted on Truth Social on Thursday afternoon. show more
June 6, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Lawfare

Trump Asserts ‘Every Right’ to Go After Democrats for Lawfare.

Donald Trump insists his detractors are “wrong” to claim he will use the criminal justice system to go after the Democrats if he is reelected—but warns he would have “every right” to do so after the way he has been treated.

“I have been under siege. Nobody’s ever seen anything like this in this country,” Trump said. “Now, in other countries, in Third World countries, or banana republics… We’ve become a banana republic,” he lamented.

“Look, when this election is over, based on what they’ve done, I would have every right to go after them, and it’s easy, because it’s Joe Biden, and you see all the criminality,” said the former president.

“All of the money that’s going into the family and him. All of this money from China, from Russia, from Ukraine,” he continued.

Trump suggested he will not “go after” the Democrats, however, insisting: “It has to stop because otherwise, we’re not going to have a country.”

He recalled his decision to spare Hillary Clinton from criminal proceedings after his 2016 election victory. He said he balked at putting a former First Lady and Secretary of State in prison and argued politicians should behave more like the fighters he saw hugging it out after fighting at a UFC event he attended recently.

Some of the former president’s supporters want a more robust approach. Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, argues the time for by-the-book politics is over.

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Donald Trump insists his detractors are "wrong" to claim he will use the criminal justice system to go after the Democrats if he is reelected—but warns he would have "every right" to do so after the way he has been treated. show more
June 6, 2024
Data
Election 2024

Biden Creeps Ahead of Trump in Key Battleground States Following ‘Hush Money’ Conviction.

Joe Biden has gained a lead over former President Donald Trump in three key battleground states, according to recent polls conducted five months ahead of the presidential election. Biden now shows signs of edging ahead in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, according to surveys by Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and Mainstreet Research. Biden’s poll bumps come on the heels of Trump’s conviction on felony charges in a politically motivated sham trial in Manhattan.

The polls, which were carried out between May 30 and May 31, show Biden leading Trump in Wisconsin with 38 percent of the potential vote to Trump’s 31 percent. Similarly, in Michigan, Biden garners the support of 41 percent of voters, while Trump is at 39 percent. In Pennsylvania, Biden also leads 41 percent compared to Trump’s 39 percent. Biden narrowly won these states in the 2020 election, with margins under three percent in Michigan and Pennsylvania and less than one percent in Wisconsin.

Earlier polls, including those accounting for third-party candidates, suggested Trump maintained an advantage in several of the most critical battleground states.

Political analyst Todd Landman, a professor at Nottingham University in the U.K., cautioned against drawing firm conclusions from the current data, asserting that the race remains volatile. He highlighted the potential impact of ongoing legal proceedings against Hunter Biden and the anticipated sentencing in Trump’s hush money case, both of which could influence voter preferences.

Although Trump’s conviction in the “hush money” case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg resulted in a surge of donations to the Trump campaign and various Republican Party committees, Biden’s recent poll bumps in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin suggest that the “convicted felon” narrative is hurting Trump with independent and undecided voters.

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Joe Biden has gained a lead over former President Donald Trump in three key battleground states, according to recent polls conducted five months ahead of the presidential election. Biden now shows signs of edging ahead in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, according to surveys by Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and Mainstreet Research. Biden's poll bumps come on the heels of Trump's conviction on felony charges in a politically motivated sham trial in Manhattan. show more
June 5, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024

Black Panthers Founder Endorses Trump: A ‘Decent Man’ and ‘Friend to African-Americans.’

Black Panthers founding member David Hilliard has endorsed Donald Trump as a longtime friend and ally of black people, saying he “knew Trump when [he] was a college student in New York, and he supported the Black Panther Party” in a video posted to TikTok.

“Trump is a person who’s a decent man… He was someone who gave us money,” Hilliard explains. “Trump’s a friend of African-Americans, and I knew Trump from the 1960s,” he stresses. “He’s not a racist, fascist white man; he supported black people.”

Hilliard argues the Democrats brought their politically-motivated prosecution of Trump in New York partly because the former president “likes black folks… he’s always been a friend to black people.”

Black voters have leaned strongly Democratic for decades, although Trump achieved the most ethnic minority support of any Republican presidential candidate since 1960 in 2020.

Black Americans, along with Arab Americans and younger voters, appear set to abandon Biden in droves in November, with Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Congressman Steven Horsford (D-NV) warning there has been “a level of disconnection… on the message, on the messengers, and on mobilization.”

Trump is also polling very strongly among Latino and Hispanic voters, with the corporate media complaining the demographic is “carry[ing] white supremacist tendencies” and buying into “anti-immigrant sentiment.”

@carol.mitchell27 #davidhilliard #blackpanthers #donaldtrump #trump2024 #patriots #breakingnews #specialreport #fyp #votetrump ♬ original sound – Carol D. Mitchell

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Black Panthers founding member David Hilliard has endorsed Donald Trump as a longtime friend and ally of black people, saying he "knew Trump when [he] was a college student in New York, and he supported the Black Panther Party" in a video posted to TikTok. show more
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June 4, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024

Biden Says Trump Shouldn’t Be President ‘Whether or Not I’m Running.’

Joe Biden told donors at a Connecticut fundraiser that Donald Trump “does not deserve to be president whether or not I’m running.” The 81-year-old, who has the worst approval rating of any U.S. President of the post-war era at this stage in his presidency, resisted calls to step aside in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom, or another younger Democrat this election, but his remarks will raise speculation that a last-minute change could still take place at the Democratic National Convention in August.

Speaking to The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam in September, Donald Trump said he suspected Biden might not “get to the starting gate” in this year’s elections.

“I don’t think that Kamala gets it handed [to her],” Trump said, predicting “all of a sudden everybody would start jumping in.” The former president said Newsom would “probably” win the fight and that he did not see Michelle Obama entering the fray.

The situation in the Democratic Party has moved on since then, with Newsom abandoning his shadow campaign for the nomination and Biden winning the party primaries. His only serious competition was a “vote uncommitted” movement prompted by his position on Gaza. Nevertheless, Biden’s nomination will not be official until the Democrats’ convention.

However, swapping the 81-year-old with a new candidate less plagued by corruption allegations and cognitive decline may only worsen the Democrats’ position. Polling from February shows Trump defeating Biden by five points in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, with increased leads of nine points over Harris and 15 points over Newsom.

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Joe Biden told donors at a Connecticut fundraiser that Donald Trump "does not deserve to be president whether or not I'm running." The 81-year-old, who has the worst approval rating of any U.S. President of the post-war era at this stage in his presidency, resisted calls to step aside in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom, or another younger Democrat this election, but his remarks will raise speculation that a last-minute change could still take place at the Democratic National Convention in August. show more
June 4, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

DATA: Trump Surges With Black Voters, Up 15% Since Manhattan Conviction.

President Donald J. Trump is surging with black voters following his New York conviction last week, with a staggering 15-point surge for the 45th President. The numbers from Rasmussen Reports show Biden dropping 14 points.

An April poll fielded by Rasmussen showed Biden receiving 61 percent of the black vote, while his Republican challenger, former President Donald J. Trump, garnered just 21 percent support. However, over just one month, black voter support for Biden has collapsed, falling to just 47 percent in the May poll. Conversely, former President Trump has seen a significant increase in support among the voter demographic, sitting at 36 percent in the latest survey.

The Biden campaign has scrambled outreach efforts to stymie the flight of black and other minority voters from the Democratic Party ahead of November’s presidential election. However, the campaign appears to have found little success, with its emphasis on Biden’s support for diversity, equity, and inclusion—among other policies—falling flat with voters.

Polling data has consistently shown black and other minority voter demographics are breaking with Biden and the Democrats over his handling of inflation, the economy, and the U.S. border crisis. The Biden campaign has, by and large, avoided these topics on the campaign trail.

The National Pulse has extensively reported on the shifting voter trends ahead of the 2024 election. Last week, Biden received significant pushback from several prominent black Democrat leaders, warning him his campaign is not doing enough to retain voters in their communities. At the start of 2024, polling data suggested Biden was facing a potential revolt among key Democrat voter blocs, driven primarily by anger over inflation and illegal immigration.

 

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President Donald J. Trump is surging with black voters following his New York conviction last week, with a staggering 15-point surge for the 45th President. The numbers from Rasmussen Reports show Biden dropping 14 points. show more

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KASSAM: What Else The Data is Showing (It’s Not All Good).

RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
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