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Category: Election 2024
May 15, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Breaking
Election 2024

Biden Ducks Official Debates, Wants 2 Instead of 3, Controlled by Friendly Media, Demands Earlier Schedule.

Joe Biden took to Twitter on Wednesday morning to demand two, not three, presidential debates and hope to shift them forward in the calendar year—seemingly so he has time to recover from an expected poor performance before election day.

The Biden campaign even sent a formal letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, stating that Biden would not be participating in the organization’s debates. Instead, Biden’s team proposed debates in June and September, conducted under an umbrella of corporate-left news organizations, with a scheduled vice-presidential debate in July.

In a brief and heavily edited message, Biden said to Trump: “Make my day, pal,” claiming he would “even” debate “twice.” But the “twice” debate challenge actually appears to mean fewer debates, with the Commission on Presidential Debates usually organizing three moments in autumn.

The full letter from the Biden campaign to the Commission on Presidential Debates is included in the Editor’s Notes section below.

Trump responded, in a message sent to Fox News’s Brooke Singman:

Trump also added, on Truth Social:

Crooked Joe Biden is the WORST debater I have ever faced – He can’t put two sentences together! Crooked is also the WORST President in the history of the United States, by far. It’s time for a debate so that he can explain to the American People his highly destructive Open Border Policy, new and ridiculous EV Mandates, the allowance of Crushing Inflation, High Taxes, and his really WEAK Foreign Policy, which is allowing the World to “Catch on Fire.” I am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September. I would strongly recommend more than two debates and, for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds – That’s only because he doesn’t get them. Just tell me when, I’ll be there. “Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!”

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Joe Biden took to Twitter on Wednesday morning to demand two, not three, presidential debates and hope to shift them forward in the calendar year—seemingly so he has time to recover from an expected poor performance before election day. show more

Editor’s Notes

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
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May 14, 2024
Election 2024

RFK Jr. Qualifies for Texas Ballot.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has successfully qualified to be included on the ballot in Texas, adding to his campaign’s expanding list of states. Kennedy’s campaign announced this achievement Monday, citing a collection of almost 250,000 signatures in the course of two months. Texas has one of the nation’s most stringent ballot access requirements, making this a notable win for Kennedy’s team.

Kennedy has secured a place on the ballot in several other states, including Utah, Michigan, California, Delaware, and Oklahoma. Furthermore, his campaign insists it has amassed sufficient signatures for inclusion in New Hampshire, Nevada, Hawaii, North Carolina, Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa, and Ohio.

In the broader context of the race, RealClearPolitics reports that Kennedy’s support averages at 10.8 percent in a five-way competition, including former President Donald Trump, Joe Biden, independent candidate Cornel West, and Jill Stein of the Green Party.

Despite some success with gaining ballot qualifications, the campaign of the independent candidate and Kennedy family scion has not been without controversy. Kennedy was forced to flip-flop recently after saying he was in favor of abortions up until the moment of birth. Earlier this month it was reported that his campaign may be intentionally deceiving voters in order to gain ballot access.

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has successfully qualified to be included on the ballot in Texas, adding to his campaign's expanding list of states. Kennedy's campaign announced this achievement Monday, citing a collection of almost 250,000 signatures in the course of two months. Texas has one of the nation's most stringent ballot access requirements, making this a notable win for Kennedy's team. show more
May 12, 2024
Election 2024

Biden Leans On Obama, Clooney, Roberts, and Clintons for Fundraisers.

Joe Biden is hosting a fundraiser in Los Angeles next month, featuring guest appearances from former President Barack Obama and Hollywood celebrities, George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

The event follows the New York function hosted by Biden, Obama, and former President Bill Clinton, which raised $26 million in late March.

Simultaneously, plans are being made for another notable East Coast event early this summer involving Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Despite the Republican’s recent initiatives, the Biden campaign reports maintaining a cash advantage, allowing it to fortify its groundwork in critical battleground states and expand its personnel. Yet campaign finance trends indicate that Trump’s fundraising advancements may challenge Biden’s financial advantage, potentially reshaping the 2024 presidential race landscape.

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Joe Biden is hosting a fundraiser in Los Angeles next month, featuring guest appearances from former President Barack Obama and Hollywood celebrities, George Clooney and Julia Roberts. show more
May 12, 2024
Election 2024

Paul Manafort Rules Out Return.

Republican strategist and 2016 Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has announced that he is stepping back from an advisory role to the Republican Party regarding the nominating convention. This move follows media reports questioning his involvement in the convention’s planning process. Manafort had reportedly been in Milwaukee during a convention planning meeting but is now distancing himself following media scrutiny about his work connections to foreign officials and businesses.

In a statement, he noted that his almost 50 years of experience in managing presidential conventions inspired him to volunteer his advice to the Trump campaign. Manafort continued, “Yet it appears that the media is more interested in rehashing old news to potentially damage President Trump and his campaign instead of focusing on current affairs, and I refuse to be their pawn.”

The experienced strategist had been instrumental in discouraging efforts to prevent Trump’s nomination in the 2016 convention. He later faced convictions for financial crimes and ultimately received a presidential pardon from Trump.

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Republican strategist and 2016 Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has announced that he is stepping back from an advisory role to the Republican Party regarding the nominating convention. This move follows media reports questioning his involvement in the convention's planning process. Manafort had reportedly been in Milwaukee during a convention planning meeting but is now distancing himself following media scrutiny about his work connections to foreign officials and businesses. show more
May 10, 2024
Election 2024
Politics

WATCH: James Carville Rages at Trump’s Success, Slams Biden Strategy: ‘It’s Not Working.’

Prominent political strategist James Carville openly expressed his concern over Donald Trump’s strengthening position and the Democratic party’s ineffective strategies. Carville warned that the Democrats’ unfocused approach is failing and voiced the need for new ways to approach the current political climate.

“Trump’s more ahead than he’s ever been,” Carville said. “It’s going the wrong way. It’s not working. Everything we’re that throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included,” he continued.

Despite his role in guiding former President Bill Clinton to victory in the 1992 presidential election, Carville admitted his disappointment and remarked, “The opinion I’ve come to is that I don’t matter.” Despite all his efforts, he confessed that no one seems to be listening to him. “It doesn’t matter. You can prepare, and you can be on TV, you can write pieces, you can have a YouTube channel, you can have a podcast, and nothing, nothing!” Carville said.

Other prominent figures in the media have echoed Carville’s inability to comprehend Trump’s resurgence. A recent PBS Newshour/NPR/Marist poll revealed that more Americans perceive Joe Biden as a threat to America than Trump, bewildering MSNBC commentators.

Former CNN host Chris Cuomo and respected pollster Frank Luntz have also publicly conceded that Trump’s chances of winning the presidency have substantially increased. Cuomo even went so far as to compare Trump’s momentum to that of Barack Obama in 2008, observing, “You know this guy’s gonna win by the way, this guy’s gonna win.”

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Prominent political strategist James Carville openly expressed his concern over Donald Trump's strengthening position and the Democratic party's ineffective strategies. Carville warned that the Democrats' unfocused approach is failing and voiced the need for new ways to approach the current political climate. show more
May 10, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

RFK’s Campaign Appears to Be Deceiving Voters To Gain Ballot Access.

Petition workers for the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. independent presidential campaign appear to be misleading voters in New York City regarding the nature of their signature-gathering efforts. Several New York City residents say they’ve been approached by petitioners who claim to be gathering signatures for getting “independent candidates,” “progressive candidates,” or even “Joe Biden” on the state’s ballot. In actuality, these individuals are working on behalf of Kennedy and not any other candidates.

In one instance, traffic court judge Amy Bernstein was approached by a signature gatherer who had hidden Kennedy‘s name by folding it under the top of the clipboard. He told the judge he was gathering signatures for “independent candidates” to have ballot access. According to Bernstein, the only names visible on the petition were Kennedy‘s slate of electors — whose names would not be recognizable by most individuals.

New York State requires candidates to gather 45,000 signatures for presidential ballot access; the Kennedy campaign says they want to hit at least 100,000 signatures. Submitting signed petitions far above the legal requirement isn’t unusual. However, a large number of signatures are often invalidated, primarily because they are illegible.

Some Kennedy petition gatherers who’ve engaged in deceptive tactics admit they’re being paid by the campaign — or at least a campaign vendor. This suggests a supervisor is instructing them to hide Kennedy‘s name on the petitions, ostensibly to maximize the likelihood that a New York City resident would sign the form.

However, the Kennedy campaign denies having instructed the petitioners to engage in such deceptive tactics. Campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy — the candidate’s daughter-in-law and former CIA employee — told the New York Times that such deception is “utterly at odds with all of our intensive training and materials.”

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Petition workers for the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. independent presidential campaign appear to be misleading voters in New York City regarding the nature of their signature-gathering efforts. Several New York City residents say they've been approached by petitioners who claim to be gathering signatures for getting "independent candidates," "progressive candidates," or even "Joe Biden" on the state's ballot. In actuality, these individuals are working on behalf of Kennedy and not any other candidates. show more
May 10, 2024
Ed Kozak
Election 2024

‘He’s NOT an Anti-Vaxxer’ – Trump Rips into ‘Democrat Plant’ RFK.

Former President Donald Trump ripped into independent presidential candidate RFK Jr. on Thursday, warning Republicans and Republican-leaning voters that he’s not a conservative and “not an anti-vaxxer,” and is, in fact, a “Democrat ‘plant‘… who’s been put in place to help” Joe Biden get reelected.

“RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected,” Trump said in a video posted on Truth Social. “A lot of people think that Junior is a conservative, he’s not. He’s more liberal than anybody running on the Democrat side.”

“For those of you that want to vote because you think he’s an anti-vaxxer, he’s not really an anti-vaxxer, that’s only his political moment. He said it the other night, he’s okay with the vaccine,” said Trump.

In addition to calling out RFK Jr.’s stance on vaccines, Trump also detailed several other positions that illustrate how the independent candidate is “a radical left person.”

‘HE’S RADICAL LEFT.’

“Junior is totally anti-gun; an extreme environmentalist who makes the green new scammers look very conservative by comparison; a big time taxer, he wants to tax you; an open border advocate, he wants those borders to be wide open for more people to come in from prisons and mental institutions, and he’s anti-military, and he’s anti-vet,” Trump said. “He’s an extreme liberal. He’s radical left.”

RFK Jr. said this week that he was in favor of abortion up until the moment of birth. The National Pulse has also reported on unearthed videos of RFK Jr. saying that “there is no such thing as a liberal media” and that “red state people are more likely to murder you.”

While initially seen as a potential spoiler for the Biden campaign, The National Pulse recently reported on a poll showing RFK Jr. taking more votes from Trump. In April, Trump acknowledged the threat RFK Jr. poses to his campaign. Both men will take to the stage at the Libertarian Party conference in Washington, D.C. later this month.

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Former President Donald Trump ripped into independent presidential candidate RFK Jr. on Thursday, warning Republicans and Republican-leaning voters that he's not a conservative and "not an anti-vaxxer," and is, in fact, a "Democrat 'plant'... who's been put in place to help" Joe Biden get reelected. show more
May 10, 2024
Economy
Election 2024

Biden Keeps Lying About Inflation and the Media Refuses to ‘Fact Check’ Him.

Joe Biden is in denial over how deeply unpopular his record on the economy has become. In a primetime interview with CNN, the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent appeared at first unaware, and then indignant, that voters consistently indicate they prefer former President Donald J. Trump to Biden on the economy.

“Voters, by a wide margin, trust Trump more on the economy,” host Erin Burnett told Biden before listing potential reasons why his government is so unpopular. These include consumer confidence being at a near-two-year low, the cost of housing nearly doubling since Biden took office, and real income dropping when factoring in inflation. Burnett asked Biden, “Are you worried that you’re running out of time to turn [the economy] around?”

“We’ve already turned it around,” the 81-year-old Democrat insisted, appearing unaware of the poor economic data. He continued: “The polling data has been wrong all along.” Going beyond a blanket denial of voter sentiment, Biden proceeded to make several blatantly false assertions about the state of the economy prior to and during his White House tenure.

Biden insisted that inflation was already at 9 percent when he entered office. In reality, the inflation rate was at 1.4 percent when he was inaugurated. The inflation rate hit 9.1 percent a full 17 months into his term as President in June 2022.

Addressing job growth, Biden continued to peddle the long-debunked claim that he created over 15 million jobs. Labor market economists and other experts have repeatedly noted that Biden‘s claim relies on counting jobs that were recovered following the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, 9 million of those jobs had been lost during COVID-19.

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Joe Biden is in denial over how deeply unpopular his record on the economy has become. In a primetime interview with CNN, the 81-year-old Democrat incumbent appeared at first unaware, and then indignant, that voters consistently indicate they prefer former President Donald J. Trump to Biden on the economy. show more
May 9, 2024
Data
Election 2024
Media

VIDEO: MSNBC Pundits Stunned As Public Declares Biden Greater Threat Than Trump.

MSNBC pundits were shocked by a recent PBS Newshour/NPR/Marist poll that revealed that more Americans perceive Joe Biden as a greater threat to democracy than former President Donald Trump. According to the poll, 53 percent of independent voters believe that a second Biden term will invariably weaken America, as opposed to 42 percent who think Trump would weaken the country.

“I find it shocking, honestly. I can’t make sense of that number,” said MSNBC political analyst Susan Del Percio.

Del Percio then mused that the absence of television coverage of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump may be resulting in disinterest in the accusations against the former President, leading some independents to ‘incorrectly’ believe Biden is a greater threat to democracy.

LAWFARE, CENSORSHIP, & THE BORDER CRISIS. 

However, what never seems to cross Del Percio’s mind is that it may be the very trial itself that has led independents to view Biden as a greater threat to democracy. Multiple polls have consistently shown that significant numbers of Americans believe the prosecutions against Trump are politically motivated witch hunts. Last month, a poll found that a majority of Americans now believe this to be the case and do not think Trump can receive a fair trial.

Biden’s willful mishandling of the border crisis may also be influencing independent voters to view him as a threat to democracy. An April poll found that a majority of Americans believe that Biden is intentionally importing migrants into the country en masse to create a permanent Democratic majority.

In addition to viewing the Biden government’s use of lawfare to persecute a political opponent as a threat to democracy, many Americans are doubtless concerned about the Biden FBI and DHS censoring information critical of and damaging to the regime. The Biden White House has also pressured social media companies and others directly to censor information it doesn’t like.

As independent presidential candidate RFJ, Jr. put it last month: “The greatest threat to democracy is not somebody who questions election returns but a president of the United States who uses the power of his office to force social media companies… to censor his political critics.”

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MSNBC pundits were shocked by a recent PBS Newshour/NPR/Marist poll that revealed that more Americans perceive Joe Biden as a greater threat to democracy than former President Donald Trump. According to the poll, 53 percent of independent voters believe that a second Biden term will invariably weaken America, as opposed to 42 percent who think Trump would weaken the country. show more
May 9, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Immigration

SAVE Act Aims to Stop Illegals from Voting.

Speaker Mike Johnson is promoting the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to revise the National Voter Registration Act. The bill proposes amendments requiring proof of citizenship for individuals who register to vote at departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) and other state agencies. It also mandates the removal of foreign nationals from state voting registers.

“There is currently an unprecedented and a clear and present danger to the integrity of our election system, and that is the threat of noncitizens and illegal aliens voting in our elections,” Johnson argues.

The Speaker says the introduction of the SAVE Act safeguards potential risks to the security of the election process. While the Joe Biden regime and its allies in the corporate media claim non-citizens are not voting in elections, weaknesses in the registration and vetting process mean it is happening — with such illegal voters three times more likely to vote for the Democrats.

Separate legislation has been introduced to stop resident foreigners, including illegal aliens, from being included in population counts used to decide congressional apportionment. The Biden regime has said it “strongly opposes” this legislation and Democratic politicians such as Rep. Yvette Clarke have suggested illegal immigration gives them an advantage in terms of redistricting.

A majority of Americans believe Joe Biden has been “encouraging” illegal aliens to enter the United States at scale to “create a permanent majority” for the Democratic Party over time. By the end of the current presidential term, he is projected to have overseen illegal immigration equal to all legal immigration from 1892 to 1954.

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Speaker Mike Johnson is promoting the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to revise the National Voter Registration Act. The bill proposes amendments requiring proof of citizenship for individuals who register to vote at departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) and other state agencies. It also mandates the removal of foreign nationals from state voting registers. show more