With just under two-weeks to go until the Iowa Republican Caucus the campaigns and supporting SuperPACs are flooding the state’s airwaves making their last-ditch pitch to voters. A total of around $7.5 million will be spent in these closing days, with former-South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s making up a bulk of the ad spending with $4.6 million in air-time reserved.
SFA Fund (Pro-Haley SuperPAC): $3.3 million
Haley campaign committee: $1.3 million
Trump campaign committee: $954k
Fight Right (Pro-DeSantis SuperPAC): $705k
Good Fight (Pro-DeSantis SuperPAC): $609k
DeSantis campaign committee: $412.5k
Binkley campaign committee: $176k
Ramaswamy campaign: $29k
Former Governor Haley’s recent surge in polls have kicked off a close fightfor second place in Iowa. The Republican presidential nomination front-runner, former President Donald Trump, continues to maintain a strong first place position.
The Haley campaign and its affiliated SuperPAC has blanketed Iowa with ads primarily focused on her electability versus President Joe Biden. Several recent polls show Haley and Trump are the only two Republicans capable of defeating the incumbent Democrat. In addition, the SFA Fund is also airing ads attacking Gov. DeSantis – who has polled a weak second place position in Iowa. One recent SFA Fund ad compared DeSantis to a dumpster fire.
Both Haley and DeSantis’s closing argument in Iowa has been a mixed of positive messaging for their candidacy and attacks on each other. The pro-DeSantis Fight Right SuperPAC has highlighted Haley’s positive comments towards China. The DeSantis campaign itself – strapped for cash and only recently going up on air in Iowa – has primarily focused its ad on Iowa Gov. Kim Reynold’s endorsement of DeSantis, as well as an emotion ad featuring Casey DeSantis talking about her husband.
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With just under two-weeks to go until the Iowa Republican Caucus the campaigns and supporting SuperPACs are flooding the state's airwaves making their last-ditch pitch to voters. A total of around $7.5 million will be spent in these closing days, with former-South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's making up a bulk of the ad spending with $4.6 million in air-time reserved.
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South Korean Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung has been stabbed in the neck during a press scrum in Busan. The opposition leader, who narrowly lost the presidential elections to Yoon Suk Yeol of the conservative People Power Party in 2022, was airlifted to Seoul National University Hospital.
“This is an act of terror on Representative Lee Jae-myung and a serious threat to democracy which should never take place under any circumstances,” said Democratic Party spokesman Kwon Chil-seung outside the hospital.
Lee’s condition is currently unknown, but he reportedly sustained damage to his jugular vein and has undergone surgery. The Democratic Party said the procedure “took longer than expected, and we are closely following his progress.”
The suspect, a man in his sixties who approached Lee wearing a paper crown and claiming to be an autograph-seeker, has been named only as Kim. As of the time of publication, no motive for the attack had been disclosed, but he did confess it was his intention to assassinate Lee.
BREAKING: South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been stabbed in the neck
South Korean Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung has been stabbed in the neck during a press scrum in Busan. The opposition leader, who narrowly lost the presidential elections to Yoon Suk Yeol of the conservative People Power Party in 2022, was airlifted to Seoul National University Hospital.
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The National Pulse’s 4th annual Patriot of the Year is former President Donald J. Trump. Previous award winners include “America’s Mayor” Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon, and the New York Young Republican Club.
The Patriot of the Year title is handed, each winter, to the figure or organization in the conservative movement who draws the most incoming fire, while staunchly representing the nation-first values at the philosophical heart of The National Pulse’s editorial view.
Trump, 77, drew no close competitors for the award this year, especially given the historic and unprecedented targeting of him by the government of the United States, led by Joe Biden.
Born in 1946 in Queens, New York, Trump attended the New York Military Academy followed by the Wharton School of Finance. Taking over his father’s ‘Fred C. Trump Organization’ in 1971 and renaming it The Trump Organization, the future 45th President of the United States would soon become famous globally for his array of successful real estate ventures, perceived playboy lifestyle, and bestselling books. In 1987, he published the record-breaking The Art of the Deal, and 18 other books since.
In 1977, Trump married Ivana Zelníčková, who gave birth to his first three children: Donald Jr., Ivanka Marie, and Eric Trump. The two divorced in 1990. Ivana passed away in July 2022, aged 73.
In 1993, Trump married his second wife, Marla Maples, who gave birth to his daughter Tiffany before the pair divorced in 1999.
In 2000, Trump sought the presidential nomination of the Reform Party, wherein he discussed “beat[ing] that Democrat-Republican apparatus” – a philosophy carried into his infamous 2016 campaign for the Oval Office. Ultimately, he abandoned his 2000 bid, but not before being spotted stumping alongside model Melania Knauss, whom he married in 2005, and who would go on to become the First Lady of the United States and mother to his third son, Barron Trump.
Trump’s third wedding was a star studded event, taking place at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea on Palm Beach island in Florida, which the pair still attend. Noteworthy guests included Heidi Klum, Mayor Giuliani, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Regis Philbin.
Just one year prior, in 2004, Trump had launched the hit reality TV show The Apprentice, which ran for 15 seasons in America as well as sparking 20 different, localized versions across the world.
In 2016, Trump sought the Republican Party’s nomination for president of the United States, facing up against challengers such as Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, and others. He was nominated by the party at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, facing off against Hillary Clinton is what was perceived as an un-winnable election for Trump in November. Ultimately, Trump emerged victorious after a handful of campaign flubs from Clinton, and an outsider campaign with moments of inspiration spurred on in the public mind by Nigel Farage’s Brexit victory earlier that year in the United Kingdom.
Trump ran on his now trademark “MAGA” or “Make America Great Again” philosophy – a populist-nationalist perspective which has drawn the continued ire of the globalist, corporate elite and their politician puppets. His victory was immediately marred by false allegations of “Russian collusion,” followed by a sham impeachment process against him, and a global pandemic which emerged as a result of the U.S. government’s collaboration with Communist China in so-called “gain of function” experiments at the Wuhan lab in the nation’s Hubei province.
During this pandemic, Trump’s leftist and globalist opponents instituted unconstitutional lockdown measures alongside mail-in and “drop box” ballots for his 2020 re-election. While Trump emerged victorious on the night of the election, a series of “ballot drops” and “curing” attempts led his opponent Joe Biden – who scarcely campaigned outside of his home – to “victory”. In challenging the result of the election – much like Democrats did in 2016 – Trump was branded an “election denier” and his allies and lawyers were subsequently persecuted by the state.
When protesters descended on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th 2021 in support of Trump, Capitol Hill police were ordered to fire upon them using rubber bullets, flash bangs, and tear gas. The incitement by the police riled up the crowd, which led to a handful charging into police, breaching the Capitol, and postponing formal election count proceedings occurring inside. As a result, Trump was impeached a second time on charges of inciting an insurrection. Like his first sham impeachment, he was not convicted.
Despite all the attempts to stymie his administration, Trump’s first term was remarkably successful, and featured a booming U.S. economy, a secure southern border, and the renegotiation of deals with America’s key foreign partners – including NATO, Canada, Mexico, and China respectively. His administration even presided over long-elusive Middle East peace deals such as the Abraham Accords, while coaxing manufacturing jobs back to the United States and pushing back against the far-left’s attempts to revise American history through endeavors such as the Marxist-led 1619 Project and Black Lives Matter riots. Critically, Trump’s first term saw America engage in no new wars – a cardinal political sin for which the real-estate mogul will never be forgiven by the political and media class.
Trump announced his second candidacy for a second term in November 2022, wherein The National Pulse provided a full throated endorsement of his vision. Since then, Trump has been persecuted in ways that would make a banana republic blush, with Biden’s special prosecutors and Democrat Secretaries of State attempting to prosecute him on spurious grounds as well as disqualify him from the 2024 ballot – not a strategy you deploy against someone you believe can beat fair and square. Despite it all, Trump has persisted unfazed, amassing more public support than ever, and consolidating his backing amongst Republican primary voters.
Trump’s lifetime of achievements, charity, politics, and resilience is what makes him The National Pulse’s 2023 Patriot of the Year. Frankly, he deserves to win one for every year he has promoted America First conservatism, and breathed life into an otherwise scarcely inspiring Republican Party in the United States.
Congratulations, Mr. President, and thank you for the interview:
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The National Pulse's 4th annual Patriot of the Year is former President Donald J. Trump. Previous award winners include "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon, and the New York Young Republican Club.
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Four churches were torched in Alberta, Canada in recent weeks, with the latest immolation occurring just days before Christmas. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are investigating the arson attacks.
The fires began in Barrhead, where St. Mary Abbots Anglican church and St. Aidan’s Church, both historic mainstays of the community, were destroyed on December 7th.
The spree continued with the burning of St. Gabriel Catholic Mission in Janvier on December 15th. This was followed by the suspected arson of a Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Beiseker on December 20th.
“My thoughts are with the Seventh Day Adventist community in Beiseker, AB mourning the loss of their church at the hands of an arsonist,” commented Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. “This is the 4th church in 2 weeks to be targeted by acts of violent anti-Christian hatred.”
There have been 15 suspicious church fires in Alberta this year, 4 in the last few weeks.
87 churches in Canada have been burned or vandalized since 2021.
Canada saw a spate of church burnings in 2021. These were sparked by claims “mass graves” of Native American children had been discovered at former residential schools. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared to give some tacit endorsement to the arson attacks.
“I understand the anger that’s out there against the federal government, against institutions like the Catholic church; it is real and it is fully understandable given the shameful history,” he said.
As of August of 2023, however, no human remains had been found at any of the supposed “mass graves”.
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Four churches were torched in Alberta, Canada in recent weeks, with the latest immolation occurring just days before Christmas. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are investigating the arson attacks.
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In a recent episode of War Room, Steve Bannon, former White House Chief Strategist, blasted presidential candidate and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley for professionally representing “the neoliberal neocon oligarchs that run this nation”. Bannon cited Haley’s history of increasing regressive taxation upon the “deplorable” base – including sales and gasoline taxes – in addition to her reluctance to tax her billionaire “donor class.”
Bannon also went after Haley’s position on entitlement spending, and implied her political conduct follows the directives of “global masters,” rather than working for the betterment of American citizens.
Bannon drew attention to Haley’s support for funding the conflict in Ukraine, alleging the cash currently channeled to the war torn nation is simply financing the country’s bureaucracy. Instead, this money should be used for Americans’ pensions, he said. In conclusion, Bannon explained, “We’re not going to fund anybody’s pensions throughout the world until we make sure that the American people are taken care of. This is why she’s neoliberal neocon Nikki.”
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In a recent episode of War Room, Steve Bannon, former White House Chief Strategist, blasted presidential candidate and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley for professionally representing "the neoliberal neocon oligarchs that run this nation". Bannon cited Haley's history of increasing regressive taxation upon the "deplorable" base – including sales and gasoline taxes – in addition to her reluctance to tax her billionaire "donor class."
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By the way, I think this whole Haley slavery debacle is an intentional set up, confected so it looks like she’s some kind of defender of American heritage and is drawing the fire of the media like Trump does
By the way, I think this whole Haley slavery debacle is an intentional set up, confected so it looks like she’s some kind of defender of American heritage and is drawing the fire of the media like Trump does show more
Writing in his Daily Mailcolumn on Friday, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blasted the Maine and Colorado decisions to try to keep former President Donald J. Trump off the ballot for the 2024 presidential elections.
Johnson, who has routinely been unkind about Trump, wrote of how the authoritarian attempts to keep Trump off the ballot make it impossible for Western nations to claim the moral high ground against dictatorships when their ruling elite classes act in the very same way:
Can we really say that it is the sovereign people, and the people alone, who get to decide who makes the law? I don’t think we can say that of the United States, today, where another court has just decided that Donald Trump’s name should not appear on the ballot paper for next year’s Presidential election. The judges of Maine have joined the judges of Colorado in effectively banning former President Trump from presenting himself as a candidate. I am amazed that this is not causing more general consternation.
Making clear he thinks Trump lost in 2020 while calling January 6th “dismaying”, the former Mayor of London also insisted that [Trump] did not prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and “has not been convicted of an insurrection, or an attempted insurrection.”
Refering to the former President as “an innocent man,” Johnson explains: “…think how this looks in the eyes of the rest of the world — all the places where they are fed up with being lectured about the joys of Western liberal democracy. Across the world there are dictatorial and sometimes brutal leaders who use a corrupt judicial system to disbar their opponents from seeking elective office.
“That is to say, they fabricate some charge against them at least to tie them up in legal knots — and, if necessary, actually send them to prison.
“It’s what they do in Venezuela — President Nicolas Maduro did it to his opponent. It’s what Putin did to the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It’s what the Tatmadaw in Burma have done to Aung San Suu Kyi. It’s what they used to do in Ukraine — the Kremlin lackey Yanukovich locked up his opponent Yulia Timoshenko.
“Why do they lock them up? Because they are frightened of their potential popularity; because they will do anything they can to stop them appearing before the electorate.”
Johnson concludes: “It is four years since the deplorable events of January 6, 2020. The American public have had lots of time to decide what they think of Trump’s handling of the matter. They, and they alone, should decide whether he is fit for another term.”
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Writing in his Daily Mailcolumn on Friday, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blasted the Maine and Colorado decisions to try to keep former President Donald J. Trump off the ballot for the 2024 presidential elections.
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TikTok users have been asked to input their iPhone passwords to view content. The video app, known to have been involved in controversial surveillance of journalists in the past, has yet to clarify the reasons for these demands.
The issue was first noticed in late November. Since then, an increasing number of users have voiced their concerns. Notably, it began around the same time Apple released two critical security updates for the iPhone. The most recent iOS update, rolled out on December 11, fixed a bug that allowed unauthorized access to sensitive user data.
Some benign reasons for the password demands have been posited, such as a glitch, implementing a security measure to address vulnerabilities, or enabling the “restricted mode” content filter. Cybersecurity experts warn these would be poor justifications, however, given the enormous security risks and the potential exposure to phishing and other scams.
An overtly sinister motive is also possible, given TikTok’s links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Beijing’s desire to access the personal data of citizens in rival states.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray warned in 2022 that “the Chinese government could use [TikTok] to control data collection on millions of users, or control the recommendation algorithm which could be used for influence operations if they so choose, or to control software on millions of devices.”
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TikTok users have been asked to input their iPhone passwords to view content. The video app, known to have been involved in controversial surveillance of journalists in the past, has yet to clarify the reasons for these demands.
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Following a recent knife attack near the Eiffel Tower, France has further increased security measures, with 90,000 police officers set to be deployed across the country on New Year’s Eve. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has cited a “very high terrorist threat” for the mobilization.
“I’ve requested a very strong mobilisation of police forces and the gendarmerie under the context of a very high terrorist threat, of course due to what’s happening in Israel and Palestine,” Darmanin explained.
For the first time, the authorities will also be using drones to monitor French citizens and other residents. Five-thousand soldiers and 35,000 firefighters will also be on duty.
Few Western countries have been hit harder than France by radical Islamic terrorism in recent years, with the multicultural country suffering around 130 fatalities during the Bataclan terrorist attack in 2015 and 86 fatalities during the Nice truck attack a year later, among other incidents.
Tensions have been high since the onset of the Israel-Hamas conflict, with a knifeman yelling “Allahu akbar!” stabbing a person to death in Paris four weeks ago and a Chechen migrant killing a teacher while shouting the same phrase before that.
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Following a recent knife attack near the Eiffel Tower, France has further increased security measures, with 90,000 police officers set to be deployed across the country on New Year’s Eve. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has cited a "very high terrorist threat" for the mobilization.
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The Restore Election Integrity group has made a second attempt to change Arkansas voting procedures, re-submitting proposed constitutional amendments to the Arkansas Attorney General’s office on December 29, according to local outlet KARK. The proposed changes could see future Arkansas elections conducted using only paper ballots and place greater restrictions on absentee voting. The group’s prior attempt was rebuffed due to allegedly confusing language.
The amendments, if approved by Attorney General Tim Griffin, would necessitate the collection of at least 54,422 signatures drawn from 50 of 75 counties in order to proceed. This is the latest endeavor from the Restore Election Integrity group to introduce this significant modification to the state’s election process in an effort to bolster its credibility.
The enactment of these amendments would potentially see the measures included on the 2024 general election ballot. Critics claims to be concerned about the implications on voter access, while proponents argue for the necessity of tighter security measures. Details of the resubmitted proposals have yet to be released.
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The Restore Election Integrity group has made a second attempt to change Arkansas voting procedures, re-submitting proposed constitutional amendments to the Arkansas Attorney General's office on December 29, according to local outlet KARK. The proposed changes could see future Arkansas elections conducted using only paper ballots and place greater restrictions on absentee voting. The group's prior attempt was rebuffed due to allegedly confusing language.
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has vetoed a bill aimed at restricting sex change procedures for children. The Republican governor tried to argue signing the bill would imply the state government knows better than parents who want to transition their children, and could harm minors suffering from gender dysphoria.
“This bill would impact a very small number of Ohio’s children, but for those children who face gender dysphoria, the consequences of this bill could not be more profound,” DeWine claimed, sharing anecdotes from parents who say their children’s lives were saved by gender transition procedures.
The bill would have prohibited medical professionals from using puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital mutilation surgeries to try to “affirm” the perceived gender of minors who believe they are the opposite sex.
It would also have stopped males from competing in female sports, and vice versa, on the basis of their gender identity.
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has vetoed a bill aimed at restricting sex change procedures for children. The Republican governor tried to argue signing the bill would imply the state government knows better than parents who want to transition their children, and could harm minors suffering from gender dysphoria.
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