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September 6, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

Dick Cheney Joins Vladimir Putin in Backing Kamala Harris.

Former Vice President and Iraq War criminal Dick Cheney intends to vote for Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election, according to his daughter, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. The former Wyoming Congressman revealed her arch-neoconservative father’s candidate preference in an interview with Mark Leibovich of the globalist Atlantic magazine during the Texas Tribune Festival earlier on Friday.

Liz Cheney told Leibovich and the crowd at the confab that her father—who oversaw the aggressive and heretofore irrevocable expansion of the U.S. surveillance state—believes former President Donald J. Trump is a “grave threat to our democracy.”

According to his daughter, the former vice president, who served under George ‘Dubya’ Bush, considers Trump responsible for the January 6 Capitol riots.

“My dad believes — and he said publicly — that there’s never been an individual in our country who is as grave a threat to our democracy as Donald Trump is,” the former Congresswoman said. The elder Cheney’s endorsement comes on the heels of his daughter’s decision publicly backing Harris, announced earlier this week.

Both Dick and Liz Cheney are notable Russia hawks, with the former opposing the normalization of relations with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union while serving as the U.S. Secretary of Defense under the late George H.W. Bush. However, their backing of Harris has placed them in the same camp as Russian President Vladimir Putin, who announced his preference for the Democratic Party nominee on Thursday.

The Iraq War, championed by Dick Cheney and other neoconservatives in the Bush White House, resulted in the deaths of nearly 5,000 American military service members, with an additional 32,000 wounded in action. An estimated 1,500 military contractors working for the U.S. and its allies also lost their lives. Upwards of half a million Iraqis died in the conflict. Meanwhile, the power vacuum created by removing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein resulted in the rise of the Islamic State terror group and the expansion of Iranian influence throughout the Middle East.

Other speakers joining Liz Cheney at the Texas Tribune Festival include Georgia election denier Stacey Abrams, Congressman Colin Allred (D-TX), Biden-Harris Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI).

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Former Vice President and Iraq War criminal Dick Cheney intends to vote for Kamala Harris in November's presidential election, according to his daughter, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. The former Wyoming Congressman revealed her arch-neoconservative father's candidate preference in an interview with Mark Leibovich of the globalist Atlantic magazine during the Texas Tribune Festival earlier on Friday. show more
September 6, 2024
Election 2024

Kamala Raised $361 Million in August – Nearly 3X the Trump Campaign.

Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign raised $361 million last month—nearly tripling the cash raised by her opponent, former President Donald J. Trump. The August cash haul could give Harris a significant advantage over Trump as the campaigns hit the homestretch before November’s presidential election.

Altogether, the Harris campaign and affiliated Democratic committees have just over $400 million in cash on hand. Meanwhile, former President Trump reports nearly $300 million in the bank, giving Harris a $100 million edge. The Democratic Party and its nominee’s fundraising was likely aided by their party convention held in late August—over a month after the Republican National Convention.

Since being selected as the Democratic Party’s 2024 nominee following the 81-year-old incumbent President Joe Biden’s announcement that he would not seek re-election, Harris has raised over $600 million. However, a share of that campaign cash came through a transfer from the now-defunct Biden campaign.

The Democrat cash advantage has allowed Harris to fuel a $370 million ad buy that began on Labor Day and will run through the November election. Harris’s campaign has also earmarked $25 million to spend on down-ballot races as Democrats struggle to retain control of the U.S. Senate and retake the House of Representatives.

According to the Democratic nominee’s campaign, over 60 percent of their August contributions came from women, while about 20 percent came from registered Republicans and independents. Before Harris entered the race, former President Trump led then-candidate Joe Biden in fundraising. Trump’s cash advantage was fueled in part by the Democrats’ lawfare campaign against him and by major donors becoming increasingly wary of the 81-year-old Biden’s cognitive decline.

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Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign raised $361 million last month—nearly tripling the cash raised by her opponent, former President Donald J. Trump. The August cash haul could give Harris a significant advantage over Trump as the campaigns hit the homestretch before November's presidential election. show more

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September 6, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

RFK Wins Appeals to Remove Him from These CRITICAL Ballots.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has won two legal appeals in Michigan and North Carolina to have his name removed from the states’ respective 2024 presidential election ballots. The state appellate courts reversed two lower court rulings issued just days ago, which held that the independent presidential candidate’s ballot line would remain in place.

In North Carolina, the appellate court remanded a ruling issued by Wake County Superior Court Judge Rebecca Holt yesterday—directing the lower court to rewrite its opinion in favor of Kennedy. On Thursday, Judge Holt held that Kennedy—who suspended his campaign late last month and endorsed former President Donald J. Trump—suffers only “minimal” harm by remaining on the state’s ballot compared to the harm having to reprint ballots would do to the state.

Following the appellate court ruling, the North Carolina State Board of Elections issued a memo informing local officials to halt the mailing of absentee ballots to voters—a process set to begin this afternoon. However, the memo also ordered officials not to destroy the current ballots, suggesting the State Board of Elections intends to appeal the court ruling.

Moments after the North Carolina ruling was handed down, a state appellate court in Michigan also issued an order to remove Kennedy’s name from the state ballots. The Michigan decision also reverses and remands a lower court ruling earlier this week preventing Kennedy from removing his name.

The National Pulse previously reported that polling data suggests Kennedy supporters break by a two-to-one ratio for former President Trump over the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, Kamala Harris.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has won two legal appeals in Michigan and North Carolina to have his name removed from the states' respective 2024 presidential election ballots. The state appellate courts reversed two lower court rulings issued just days ago, which held that the independent presidential candidate's ballot line would remain in place. show more
September 6, 2024
Election 2024
NatSec

Kamala’s VP Pick Tim Walz Linked to Wuhan Lab?

Kamala Harris’s running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), promoted a medical research center with a longstanding partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China. As a Member of Congress, Walz secured millions of dollars in funding for the Minnesota-based Hormel Institute, which collaborates with the WIV on numerous research projects, including a 2020 study on COVID-19.

The revelation of Walz’s involvement with the Hormel Institute and the Wuhan lab is the latest in a concerning series of connections between the Minnesota Democrat and Communist China. While in Congress, Walz secured over $2 million in funding for the institute affiliated with the University of Minnesota.

“For 80 years, the Hormel Institute has helped pave the way for Minnesota to lead in biomedical innovation,” the 2024 Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee said in April, praising the research center. Walz added: “It was great to stop by their facilities yesterday in Austin to see that work in action.”

The National Pulse previously reported that Walz is facing a Congressional investigation over his ties to China. In a letter last month, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) pressed Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray to provide his committee with any materials the agency has regarding Walz’s Chinese connections.

Walz, who has traveled to China 30 times, including for his honeymoon, stated in 2016 that he believes the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does not necessarily need to be viewed as an adversarial entity. Additionally, the Minnesota Democrat praised the CCP and lauded the ideals of international communism to students at a Nebraska high school while teaching in the state during the 1990s.

Earlier this year, the U.S. government halted federal funding to a nonprofit collaborating with the Wuhan lab, which the FBI suggests as the likely source of the novel coronavirus.

Researchers from the Hormel Institute, the WIV, and other Chinese institutions have frequently co-authored studies. Bin Liu, a Hormel Institute professor involved in several studies with Wuhan-based researchers, attended Wuhan University.

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Kamala Harris's running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), promoted a medical research center with a longstanding partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China. As a Member of Congress, Walz secured millions of dollars in funding for the Minnesota-based Hormel Institute, which collaborates with the WIV on numerous research projects, including a 2020 study on COVID-19. show more
September 6, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Lawfare

BREAKING–Trump Sentencing Delayed Until AFTER Election, Here’s the New Date…

The sentencing of former President Donald J. Trump in the New York business fraud trial brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been delayed until after the 2024 presidential election in November. Judge Juan Merchan—who presided over the case—issued the decision Friday afternoon, setting the new date for the sentencing hearing for November 26.

“This is not a decision this Court makes lightly but it is the decision which in this Court’s view, best advances the interests of justice,” Merchan wrote in his decision. He adds that “…the imposition of sentence will be adjourned to avoid any appearance—however unwarranted—that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the approaching Presidential election in which the Defendant is a candidate.”

Attorneys for former President Trump requested a delay in the sentencing hearing in mid-August. Subsequently, DA Bragg’s response indicated that his office had no objection to a delay. Trump’s original sentencing date was set for July 11 but was moved to September 18 in response to the United States Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, which gave both legal teams and Judge Merchan time to review the high court decision.

Additionally, Merchan set November 12 as the date he’ll rule on a Trump motion to dismiss the conviction based on the Supreme Court’s immunity decision. Notably, the judge appeared to suggest that the sentencing hearing may not even be necessary, suggesting he may believe that Bragg’s prosecution of Trump is unconstitutional on immunity grounds.

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The sentencing of former President Donald J. Trump in the New York business fraud trial brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been delayed until after the 2024 presidential election in November. Judge Juan Merchan—who presided over the case—issued the decision Friday afternoon, setting the new date for the sentencing hearing for November 26. show more
September 6, 2024
Corruption
Election 2024

Powerful Senate Democrat Under Investigation for Taking Campaign Contributions from Dead Woman.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is facing scrutiny from state and federal officials over his re-election campaign accepting donations from an Ohio woman nearly six months after she died. Federal campaign finance records indicate Carol Ann Baker of Toledo, Ohio, contributed $350 to the Friends of Sherrod Brown campaign committee in May 2024. However, Baker died in December of last year.

Baker’s contributions to Brown—who is in a tight race against Republican challenger Bernie Moreno—came months after the woman’s funeral. A neighbor initially noticed the donations and notified the office of Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R). Following a preliminary investigation by LaRose’s staff—which included a signed affidavit from Baker’s widower confirming her death—the Ohio Secretary of State handed the case over to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for further action.

“Ohioans deserve absolute confidence in their elections,” stated Huan Yi, head of investigations at the Ohio Secretary of State’s office, in a letter to the FEC. He continued: “The purpose of this letter is to refer to your office potential violations of federal law for your investigation, as appropriate.”

While the contributions could be the result of a clerical error, there is concern that they may also be part of a larger straw donor scheme. Several Democratic candidates, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, have recently been embroiled in straw donor scandals. The scheme uses unwitting individuals—including the deceased—to illegally circumvent campaign contribution limits by submitting donations under someone else’s name rather than the actual donor.

Meanwhile, Moreno’s campaign seized on the issue, with press director Reagan McCarthy stating, “Brown’s scheme to fund his campaign with contributions from dead people isn’t just creepy, it’s illegal. This conspiracy deserves more scrutiny. How far does it go?”

Image via Wikimedia Commons.

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Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is facing scrutiny from state and federal officials over his re-election campaign accepting donations from an Ohio woman nearly six months after she died. Federal campaign finance records indicate Carol Ann Baker of Toledo, Ohio, contributed $350 to the Friends of Sherrod Brown campaign committee in May 2024. However, Baker died in December of last year. show more
September 6, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

Polling Expert with Near-Unbroken Track Record Predicts 2024 Presidential Winner.

History professor Allan Lichtman, best known for his 13 keys, a set of precepts used to predict nine out of the past ten U.S. elections, is forecasting a victory for Kamala Harris in November’s election. Lichtman, characterized as the “Nostradamus” of American politics, has effectively used his election-predicting model since 1981—including calling former President Donald J. Trump‘s victory in 2016.

According to Lichtman’s system—which is essentially a set of somewhat subjective ‘true or false’ questions regarding economic and political conditions before an election—Kamala Harris currently holds eight keys. This, the 77-year-old academic says, means the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee will win the White House.

The 13 keys system evaluates candidates based on various factors, including party gains in the prior midterm election, the incumbency factor, whether the nominees faced a primary contest, if there is a strong third party candidate present, the state of the short-term and long-term economy, and if there have been major national policy changes. Additional keys include whether there is recent social unrest, a major White House scandal, the charisma of the incumbent and challenger, and a major foreign policy failure or success.

CRITICISM OF THE KEYS.

Lichtman contends if five or fewer of the keys fall to “false,” the incumbent party retains the White House. However, his predictive system isn’t without its critics. Statistician and election modeler Nate Silver has frequently denounced the 13 keys, calling the system “p-hacked BS.” In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Silver challenged the history professor to a $250,000 bet over who could more accurately predict the 2024 election results.

While Lichtman insists Harris holds the short-term and long-term economic keys, recent data suggest a concerning weakening in the U.S. labor market. Additionally, major American stock indexes have seen significant losses over the past week as the Federal Reserve is likely set to cut interest rates in the hopes of reducing increasing economic volatility and a potential recession.

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History professor Allan Lichtman, best known for his 13 keys, a set of precepts used to predict nine out of the past ten U.S. elections, is forecasting a victory for Kamala Harris in November's election. Lichtman, characterized as the "Nostradamus" of American politics, has effectively used his election-predicting model since 1981—including calling former President Donald J. Trump's victory in 2016. show more
September 5, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Lawfare

BREAKING–Hidden Camera Shows DOJ Spox Admitting Anti-Trump Lawfare Campaign Is Political ‘Perversion of Justice.’

A top public affairs official within Joe Biden‘s Department of Justice (DOJ) is admitting that the Democrat-led lawfare campaign against former President Donald J. Trump is “a perversion of justice” and “a mockery of justice.” Nicholas Biase, who serves as the chief of public affairs for the DOJ’s U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), made the remarks on an undercover video released by Steven Crowder, in which he blasted the federal and state prosecutions of Trump as a “travesty.”

“The whole thing is disgusting,” Biase said in the undercover video, adding: “That’s why [Trump‘s] surging in the polls.” Biase states that even his colleagues in the Southern District of New York believe the prosecutions are politically motivated and a “perversion.”

ALVIN BRAGG’S NONSENSE CASE.

Addressing the business fraud case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Biase accuses the Democrat DA of essentially stitching together the flimsy case to further his political career and interfere in the 2024 presidential election. “[Alvin Bragg] was stacking charges and rearranging things just to make it fit a case,” the DOJ official states. Baise adds: “To be honest with you, I think the case is nonsense.”

“The state level is like the fucking wild west,” the SDNY spokesman says before continuing: “They’re like, idiots.”

“They don’t care. They’re all political,” Baise said, concluding: ” They’re going to try and lock [Trump] up. It’s going to be ugly.”

‘MOCKERY OF JUSTICE.’

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis was not spared Biase’s criticism either. The SDNY chief public affairs office slammed the Georgia prosecutor and her case. “It’s a travesty of justice,” he says, continuing: “To put it mildly, its a mockery of justice. [Fani Willis] is a joke.”

“Like her and her boyfriend she was seeing, the whole thing is disgusting,” Baise argues, adding: “And they’re just out to get [Trump].”

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A top public affairs official within Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) is admitting that the Democrat-led lawfare campaign against former President Donald J. Trump is "a perversion of justice" and "a mockery of justice." Nicholas Biase, who serves as the chief of public affairs for the DOJ's U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), made the remarks on an undercover video released by Steven Crowder, in which he blasted the federal and state prosecutions of Trump as a "travesty." show more
September 4, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Lawfare

NEW HOAX JUST DROPPED: Dems Now Claim Trump Took Cash from Egypt (That Was Actually One of THEIR Senators).

Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing a new hoax targeting former President Donald J. Trump, claiming he illegally took $10 million from Egypt just before the 2016 election. The allegation stems from a now-closed Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation, which ran from 2017 until 2019 and found no evidence of wrongdoing.

In a letter released on Tuesday, Congressional Democrats sought to revive the unfounded allegation against Trump—borrowing heavily from a story published last month by The Washington Post revealing the probe’s existence. While the Post story—through innuendo and hearsay from anonymous sources—attempts to paint the probe as incomplete, then-Attorney General Bill Barr and then-acting U.S. attorney Michael Sherwin definitively closed the case. Sherwin, who led the investigation, has made it clear that there is no evidence that the former president had ever accepted money from Egypt.

The allegations leveled by Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Robert Garcia (D-CA) are all too similar to the public corruption and foreign agent charges that recently brought down the powerful New Jersey Democratic Senator, Bob Menendez. In July this year, a jury found Menendez guilty of 16 felony counts in a federal corruption trial. The New Jersey Democrat was accused of selling his office for bribes and assisting the foreign governments of Egypt and Qatar. In late August, Menedez resigned his seat in the U.S. Senate.

During a June 2022 raid on Menendez’s New Jersey residence, federal agents found over $480,000 in cash connected to the corruption schemes. Bars of gold and a Mercedes Benz were also seized in connection with the case.

In May, Raskin and Garcia’s House colleague, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), was also indicted for accepting $600,000 in bribes as part of an Azerbaijani foreign influence operation.

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Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing a new hoax targeting former President Donald J. Trump, claiming he illegally took $10 million from Egypt just before the 2016 election. The allegation stems from a now-closed Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation, which ran from 2017 until 2019 and found no evidence of wrongdoing. show more
September 3, 2024
Election 2024

RFK Jr. Sues to Remove Name from NC Ballot After Election Board Refuses.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking legal action to remove his name from North Carolina‘s presidential ballot line in November. The move comes amid Kennedy’s decision to suspend his presidential campaign in battleground states and back former President Donald J. Trump.

Last Friday, Kennedy filed a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court, asserting that the North Carolina Election Board is causing him “irreparable harm” by not removing his name. The board had previously ruled against the removal, citing logistical constraints.

In issuing its ruling, the election board explained: “It would not be practical to reprint ballots that have already been printed and meet the state law deadline to start absentee voting.”

In recent days, the Kennedy campaign has worked to remove the candidate’s name from the presidential election ballot in about key swing states, including North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

Election officials in Wisconsin and Michigan have ruled that the deadline to remove Kennedy’s name has passed, leaving the independent candidate on the ballot. Kennedy has successfully removed his name from the ballot in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Nevada.

Polling data suggests his Kennedy’s presence on ballots could aid Kamala Harris in the November election. Having largely ended his independent presidential bid on August 23, Kennedy publicly endorsed Trump and gained a role on the former president’s transition team.

Earlier in the year, Kennedy founded the We The People Party. He initially battled legal challenges from the North Carolina Democratic Party to secure his position on the ballot.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking legal action to remove his name from North Carolina's presidential ballot line in November. The move comes amid Kennedy's decision to suspend his presidential campaign in battleground states and back former President Donald J. Trump. show more