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Category: Election 2024
May 24, 2024
Ed Kozak
Election 2024

REPORT: Tulsi Gabbard OUT of Veepstakes.

According to reports, former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who turned independent, is out of the running for Donald Trump’s vice president.

Gabbard held a release party for her book, For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind, hosted by Ben Domenech and Meghan McCain, on Thursday. According to Spectator gossip columnist Cockburn, Gabbard was told on Wednesday that she would not be Trump’s VP pick.

“Word on the street was that one day prior, Tulsi was informed by President Donald Trump that she would not be chosen as his vice president,” reports Cockburn.

Gabbard became a celebrity among Republican and MAGA circles after her public split from the Democratic Party. She became an outspoken advocate for former President Trump and his America-First policies. In February, Gabbard — a veteran—met with Trump to discuss reforms at the Pentagon, and in March, she headlined a conservative group’s fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.

In The National Pulse’s Trump VP straw poll conducted earlier this month, Gabbard tied with Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) as readers’ third-place pick at 11 percent.

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According to reports, former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who turned independent, is out of the running for Donald Trump's vice president. show more

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I assure you, if she is throwing book parties in Alexandria alongside Meghan McCain, it’s no great loss that she is no longer under consideration
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May 24, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

Trump Hauls Huge $25M+ At Houston Fundraiser.

Former President Donald J. Trump raised an additional $25 million at a fundraiser in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday. The new campaign cash haul is in addition to the $76 million raised by the Trump campaign in April, effectively closing the money gap with 81-year-old Democrat incumbent Joe Biden.

The dinner event, hosted by energy company executives Kelcy Warren, Harold Hamm, and Vicki Hollub, was Trump‘s second recent fundraiser with representatives from the oil and gas industries. A potential vice presidential pick accompanied Trump, Governor Doug Burgum (R-ND), who campaigned predominantly on energy policy during his short-lived campaign for the Republican presidential nomination last year.

Meanwhile, preliminary fundraising numbers for April suggest the Biden campaign has seen a significant plunge in donor support. The Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and several aligned PACs raised just $51 million last month.

In addition to Trump‘s fundraising haul, last month was the RNC‘s most successful month of the year, with an estimated $32 million raised. The DNC, however, narrowly outperformed them, raising an estimated $35 million.

Biden’s continued polling struggles and declining fundraising suggest that momentum in the 2024 presidential race is building behind Trump as the election cycle enters the critical summer months. Recent polls have shown the former Republican President leading his Democrat opponent in all but one of the crucial battleground states in November’s election. The fading Biden campaign has even led some political observers to speculate the octogenarian Democrat may be pushed aside as the party’s nominee sometime after the first presidential debate in June.

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Former President Donald J. Trump raised an additional $25 million at a fundraiser in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday. The new campaign cash haul is in addition to the $76 million raised by the Trump campaign in April, effectively closing the money gap with 81-year-old Democrat incumbent Joe Biden. show more
May 24, 2024
Election 2024

WATCH: Trump Says Nikki Haley ‘Absolutely On The Team in Some Form.’

Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey’s Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will “absolutely” be “on our team in some form,” following his successful Bronx rally in New York on Thursday.

A self-appointed bête noire of the MAGA movement, Haley and her donors have been attempting to position her for Vice President or another senior position in Trump’s cabinet should he win in November 2024.

“Well, I think she’s gonna be on our team because we have a lot of the same ideas, same thoughts,” Trump said, adding: “I appreciated what she said. You know, we had a nasty campaign. It was pretty nasty. But she’s a very capable person, and I’m sure she’s going to be on our team in some form. Absolutely.”

Haley’s partners, meanwhile, have been participating in phone calls with the Joe Biden for President campaign. Her family members have even been publicly claiming they will launch a bid against Trump at the Republican Party Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July.

WATCH: 

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Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey's Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will "absolutely" be "on our team in some form," following his successful Bronx rally in New York on Thursday. show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
It’s tempting to scream, “NOT GOOD!” in an alarming fashion, though that seems trite and implied
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May 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Politics

Nikki Haley Backers Hold Secretive Campaign Call With Biden Staff.

Over a dozen Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley supporters, including former Women for Haley coalition members and the neoconservative’s state leadership teams, met with Joe Biden campaign deputy political director Juan Peñalosa on Wednesday.

Haley is declining to endorse Trump or actively campaign against Biden, and despite officially dropping out of the GOP race, she continues to schmooze donors. Mitti Randhawa, Haley‘s brother, has suggested her supporters intend to mount a final coup attempt against Trump on the floor of the Republican National Convention in mid-July.

National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has argued the Republican leadership should move to ban such plotters from the delegate floor at the Convention to forestall the “carnage” they could cause there.

On the meeting with Peñalosa, Robert Schwartz, who coordinated the call, said he believed Biden’s team “heard kind of loud and clear from a lot of Haley voters that they’re just not there yet, and they need Biden to send kind of clear signals that he’s going to govern in a kind of a more bipartisan centrist way.”

Schwartz founded Primary Pivot and is co-founder of the group urging Democratic and independent voters to join the GOP primary contest to back Haley against Trump. Following her primary failure, the group has rebranded as Haley Voters for Biden — somewhat misleadingly, considering Primary Pivot was not comprised primarily of GOP voters in the first place.

Biden supporters drove the Haley campaign significantly. Over 5,200 Biden donors bankrolled her, including Reid Hoffman, the Jeffrey Epstein-linked tech billionaire who has also been bankrolling E. Jean Carroll, MeidasTouch, Fusion GPS, and others.

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Over a dozen Nimarata 'Nikki' Haley supporters, including former Women for Haley coalition members and the neoconservative's state leadership teams, met with Joe Biden campaign deputy political director Juan Peñalosa on Wednesday. show more
May 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption
Election 2024
Lawfare

WATCH: Corrupt Comey Whines Trump ‘Is Coming’ for DOJ and FBI.

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey is suggesting former President Donald Trump will “corrupt” the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) if he is reelected. Speaking to the far-left MSNBC network, the now-openly partisan former federal agent said, “Trump is coming” for the two agencies.

“He knows their power,” said Comey. “And I think he has regrets that he didn’t work hard enough to corrupt them last time… He’s going to put people in positions in those organizations,” he added.

Comey said Trump will elevate people “who will want to do his will, and that should worry every American.”

He insisted “People have to participate” in the November election and “cannot sit on the sideline.”

“I don’t care how you feel about Joe Biden. You must vote for him because the consequences on the other side are too severe,” he added.

In fact, it has been the DOJ under FBI under Joe Biden that has brought multiple dubious prosecutions against the incumbent’s chief political rival, Trump. These are led by a special prosecutor, Jack Smith, with questionable familial ties to the Obamas, Democrat megadonor George Soros, and Hillary Clinton.

Comey, who infamously declined to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton over her email scandal despite finding “evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information,” was fired by Trump in 2017.

He has since been exposed as having driven forward the Russia hoax investigation despite knowing the “evidence” for it was not “sufficiently corroborate[d]” and for delaying law enforcement action against now-deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

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Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey is suggesting former President Donald Trump will "corrupt" the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) if he is reelected. Speaking to the far-left MSNBC network, the now-openly partisan former federal agent said, "Trump is coming" for the two agencies. show more
May 23, 2024
Ed Kozak
Election 2024
Lawfare

Joe Biden Isn’t Going to Like What the Data Tells Us About Trump’s Manhattan Trial.

Democrats hoping to sink former President Donald Trump‘s reelection efforts via Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s lawfare ‘hush money‘ trial will be disappointed. A Quinnipiac University national poll conducted last week reveals that half of voters do not think Trump did anything illegal. Furthermore, a significant majority of voters said that the trial’s outcome would make no difference in their decision on election day.

The poll shows that 29 percent of voters think Trump did something unethical but not illegal, and another 21 percent say they think Trump did nothing wrong. Less than half of voters — 46 percent — believe Trump did something illegal. The 46 percent of voters who think Trump did something illegal is driven largely by Democrats. When broken down by voter registration, 85 percent of Democrats think Trump broke the law compared to just 9 percent of Republicans and 44 percent of independents. A majority of independents — 53 percent — do not think Trump broke the law.

When asked if they would be more likely or less likely to vote for Trump if he is convicted, 65 percent of voters said it would make no difference, and 11 percent said they would be more likely to vote for him. Even worse for the Democrats, those numbers are mirrored with independent voters. Sixty-three percent of independents said a conviction would make no difference in how they vote, and 11 percent said a conviction would make them more likely to vote for Trump.

However, a conviction in Bragg’s ‘hush money’ case against Trump seems less and less likely by the day. The prosecution’s star witness, serial perjurer Michael Cohen, was forced to all but admit that he lied about Trump’s knowledge of the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. 

 

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Democrats hoping to sink former President Donald Trump's reelection efforts via Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's lawfare 'hush money' trial will be disappointed. A Quinnipiac University national poll conducted last week reveals that half of voters do not think Trump did anything illegal. Furthermore, a significant majority of voters said that the trial's outcome would make no difference in their decision on election day. show more
May 23, 2024
Election 2024

Now Trump and Biden Will Be SEATED For Their Debates?!

Former President Donald Trump stated on Wednesday that he has agreed to sit at a table with Joe Biden during their upcoming debates, despite his preference to stand. Trump disclosed this arrangement on the “Cats & Cosby Show” on WABC 770 AM, attributing the seated format to requests from Biden’s campaign team.

“I hear now we’re sitting at tables. I don’t want to sit at a table,” said Trump. “But they want to sit at a table. So we’ll be sitting at a table as opposed to doing it the way you should be, in my opinion, in a debate.”

Trump conveyed his preference for a traditional format involving standing at podiums for the duration of the debate. Nevertheless, he acceded to sitting at a table, citing a willingness to accommodate Biden’s campaign demands to ensure the debates occurred.

During the debates, Trump intends to tackle topics such as the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. “If [Biden] gets through the debate, they’ll say it was brilliant,” Trump said during the interview.

Both campaigns have agreed to two debates ahead of the November election. The first debate is scheduled for June 27, hosted by CNN, and the second on September 10, hosted by ABC News. Details about the seating arrangements for both debates have yet to be clarified.

Additionally, neither of the debates will have a live audience, as Biden’s campaign requested.

This agreement between the two campaigns bypasses the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which has facilitated the events since the 1988 election cycle.

Both campaigns are also showing interest in a vice-presidential debate. However, the particulars of the event are still under negotiation. Biden’s campaign favors CBS as the broadcaster, while Trump’s team prefers Fox News.

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Former President Donald Trump stated on Wednesday that he has agreed to sit at a table with Joe Biden during their upcoming debates, despite his preference to stand. Trump disclosed this arrangement on the "Cats & Cosby Show" on WABC 770 AM, attributing the seated format to requests from Biden's campaign team. show more

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As I explained last week, the act of agreeing to whatever the Biden team wanted in these debates is definitely not the art of the deal
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May 23, 2024
Election 2024

Now They’re Rushing to AUTOMATICALLY Register Non-Citizens to Vote…

The Illinois State Senate is considering a bill that would significantly change the state’s automatic voter registration program. The changes could result in noncitizens being registered to vote and potentially casting ballots in the November election. Senate Bill 496, sponsored by State Sen. Ram Villivalam (D-Chicago), would strike current language in Illinois state election law requiring voter registration applications to adhere to requirements laid out in the federal REAL ID Act of 2005.

In June 2023, Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) signed legislation allowing noncitizens to obtain a state-issued driver’s license. Meanwhile, Illinois election law stipulates that any resident who applies for — or renews — a state-issued license or identification card will be automatically registered to vote. By removing the REAL ID Act provisions from Illinois election law, state lawmakers would effectively end the only safeguard against noncitizens being enrolled as voters.

Republicans in the Illinois state legislature have raised serious concerns over Villivalam’s proposed changes to the state’s election law. During a recent hearing, State Sen. Sue Rezin (R) pressed her Democrat colleague as to whether the changes would require in-person documentation for automatic voter registration.

“Can you point to somewhere in the bill where it would say you have to be present in order to present all the documentation in order to be enrolled in the AVR program?” she asked. According to the Illinois Secretary of State, voter registration applicants must sign a form attesting to the truthfulness of their documentation.

At the same hearing, Villivalam dismissed concerns regarding noncitizen voters, stating that applicants presenting immigration documents would be excluded from automatic voter registration. “Programming is in place to prevent the [automatic] voter registration process from launching,” the Illinois Democrat insisted.

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The Illinois State Senate is considering a bill that would significantly change the state's automatic voter registration program. The changes could result in noncitizens being registered to vote and potentially casting ballots in the November election. Senate Bill 496, sponsored by State Sen. Ram Villivalam (D-Chicago), would strike current language in Illinois state election law requiring voter registration applications to adhere to requirements laid out in the federal REAL ID Act of 2005. show more
May 23, 2024
Election 2024
Politics
World

Trump Pledges Return of Russian-Held Reporter Evan Gershkovich.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he plans to leverage his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Trump, who is running for re-election in November, spoke confidently about Gershkovich’s imminent release.

“Evan Gershkovich, the Reporter from The Wall Street Journal, who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume Office. He will be HOME, SAFE, AND WITH HIS FAMILY,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account. He further emphasized, “Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else, and WE WILL BE PAYING NOTHING!”

Russia authorities arrested Gershkovich in March 2023 on espionage charges. Gershkovich, his employer, and the Biden regime have all vociferously denied that he is a spy. Russian government officials alleged that the reporter possessed sensitive information pertaining to a “Russian defense enterprise.” He has been detained in a Moscow prison for over a year with no formal trial date established.

In an interview in April, Trump also expressed confidence in his ability to secure Gershkovich’s release. “And here’s a difference between me and Biden: I’ll get him released,” Trump said.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he plans to leverage his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Trump, who is running for re-election in November, spoke confidently about Gershkovich's imminent release. show more
May 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Politics

Fans Unveil YUGE Trump Banner at Yankee Stadium.

Donald Trump supporters unveiled a ‘Never Surrender’ banner of the former president at a Yankees Stadium baseball game, featuring the iconic mugshot taken for his election interference prosecution by Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia.

Investigative reporter Laura Loomer revealed the banner was the work of Dion Cini and the America First Warehouse, which pitches itself as “a unique, patriotic venue… showcasing American-made products, and advancing the America-First agenda.”

Intended to humiliate Trump, the mugshot has backfired spectacularly on the Democrats, helping to raise over $20 million for his campaign within three weeks of its publication. Before its release, Lara Trump, who now co-chairs the Republican National Committee (RNC), predicted that “the most famous mugshot in the history of the world” would end up on dorm room walls and T-shirts across the country.

The Yankees Stadium stunt precedes an expected Trump rally in the Bronx, as the former president’s movements remain limited by another Democrat election interference prosecution in Manhattan.

The America First leader has used the trial to go on the offensive in New York, where he was within ten points of Joe Biden in November. Since then, Trump has regularly held impromptu campaign events in his home state, winning the endorsement of thousands of bodegas and union workers in the Democratic stronghold, where 70 percent of residents say Biden is unfit for office.

Trump is already tying Biden in nearby New Hampshire, and drew a crowd of around 100,000 supporters to a monster rally in neighboring New Jersey, putting in play states that have not been won by a Republican presidential candidate since 2000 and 1988, respectively.

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Donald Trump supporters unveiled a 'Never Surrender' banner of the former president at a Yankees Stadium baseball game, featuring the iconic mugshot taken for his election interference prosecution by Democrat District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia. show more