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November 20, 2023
William Upton
Politics

DATA: Trump Polls Just 10 Points Behind Biden… in New York!

Former President Donald Trump is running just 10 points behind incumbent Joe Biden in heavily Democrat New York state according to a new poll. Conducted by Siena College, the poll shows Biden capturing just 46 percent of the vote, with Donald Trump on his heels at 36 percent.

In 2020, Biden won New York’s 29 presidential electors with just over 60 percent of the vote compared to Trump’s 37.7 percent. The Siena College poll comes on the heels of several 2024 general election surveys showing former President Trump pulling ahead of Biden. Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP) modeling conducted by Stack Data Strategy indicates that Trump is by-and-large the favorite to win the 2024 presidential election with 292 electoral votes, flipping Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Gavin Wax, President of the New York Young Republican Club in Manhattan, told The National Pulse on Monday: “New Yorkers are waking up to the carnage around them. Increasingly, people are turning to Trump as the only viable way to save America and this once great city. That’s why we’ll be honoring the 45th President at our gala next month, and why we continue to work week-in week-out to take the MAGA message out into this state. Sometimes against the odds, but no longer against the trend.”

Two weeks ago, the New York Times/Siena College survey found Donald Trump defeating Joe Biden in five of the six critical 2024 swing states. The poll also found support for Trump hitting unprecedented rates among ethnic minorities and young Americans, with voters under 30 preferring Biden by just one percentage point. Biden’s lead among Hispanics has dwindled to single digits, and almost one-quarter of black voters – 22 percent – intend to vote for Trump, which is “a level unseen in presidential politics for a Republican in modern times.”

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Former President Donald Trump is running just 10 points behind incumbent Joe Biden in heavily Democrat New York state according to a new poll. Conducted by Siena College, the poll shows Biden capturing just 46 percent of the vote, with Donald Trump on his heels at 36 percent. show more
November 17, 2023
William Upton
Politics

DATA: Majority Believe Cheating ‘Likely’ In 2024 Election.

The integrity of American elections continue to be a dominant concern among the electorate as we head into in to the 2024 election cycle. According to new data from Rasmussen Reports, 56 percent of Americans believe the outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be impacted by cheating.

Mail-in ballots are of special concern to respondents with 51 percent saying they believe the practice made cheating in elections more likely. Just 15 percent think the use of mail-in-ballots made cheating harder to accomplish. Nearly two-thirds of voters say they believe it is important to ensure there is no cheating int he 2024 election.

According to Rasmussen, the results of the November survey show little change from their September findings, indicating voter concern over election integrity remains strong among the likely 2024 electorate. The Heritage Foundation maintains a database documenting over 1,400 confirmed cases of voter fraud that have resulted in 1,264 criminal convictions.

Last week a ‘coding error’ caused voting machines in a Pennsylvania county to erroneously tabulate votes on a ballot question asking whether two Superior Court Judges should be retained.  The Pennsylvania Department of State said the error was isolated to machines in Northampton and only impacted the retention question for the two judges. County officials said the ballots would be hand tabulated with votes in the judicial retention question switched back to compensate for the tabulation error.

The National Pulse previously reported most voting machines will not meet new federal standards in time for the 2024 election, renewing concerns about legitimacy of the results. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has refused to address serious concerns about vulnerabilities in the state’s Dominion voting machines raised in the Halderman Report.

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The integrity of American elections continue to be a dominant concern among the electorate as we head into in to the 2024 election cycle. According to new data from Rasmussen Reports, 56 percent of Americans believe the outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be impacted by cheating. show more
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November 15, 2023
William Upton
News

REVEALING: Trump Slammed ‘Communist & Fascist Thugs’ as ‘Vermin’ and Joe Biden Attacked Him For It.

U.S. President Joe Biden criticized former President Donald Trump for comparing “communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs” to “vermin”. The Democrat President, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, said Trump’s use of ‘”vermin” was “a specific phrase with a specific meaning”, adding: “It echoes language you heard in Nazi Germany in the ’30s.”

Trump made the comparison between America’s enemies and “vermin” during a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire on Veterans Day. He then followed up the remarks by posting them nearly verbatim on TruthSocial. Meidas Touch – a liberal dark money group that poses as a news outlet – was quick to jump on the former President’s remarks, smearing Trump with comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

Firing back at both the corporate media and White House criticisms of the former President and current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said: “Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

When viewed in context, former President Trump’s remarks appear to be little more than an enthusiastic pitch for part of his campaign’s ‘Agenda 47’ policy platform. If elected, Trump has promised to rein in rogue federal agencies, expose and dismantle the ‘Deep State’, and use the “Schedule F’ federal employment designation to remove career bureaucrats who actively work against the President’s agenda.

This isn’t the first time President Biden has compared Trump to Nazis. During the 2020 election, Biden said Trump reminded him of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

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U.S. President Joe Biden criticized former President Donald Trump for comparing "communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs" to "vermin". The Democrat President, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, said Trump's use of '"vermin" was "a specific phrase with a specific meaning", adding: "It echoes language you heard in Nazi Germany in the '30s." show more
November 14, 2023
William Upton
Media
Politics

WATCH: House Speaker Mike Johnson Endorses Trump Live on CNBC.

Former President Donald Trump’s bid to retake the White House received big endorsement this morning from the newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Johnson was pressed by host Joe Kernen as to who he was supporting in the Republican presidential primary to which the Speaker responded: “I’m all in for President Trump.”

Addressing the Department of Justice, as well the New York and Georgia, prosecutions against former President Trump, Johnson made it clear that he believed they were politically motivated, stating: “We call it lawfare… And what’s happened to President Trump is unprecedented.” The House Speaker went on to point out that “every time a new indictment drops, it follows after some favorable thing he gets in a poll…”.

Before becoming Speaker, Johnson was a vocal proponent of Donald Trump in the House of Representatives. Along with 125 other House Republicans, Johnson was a signer of an amicus brief in Texas v. Pennsylvania. The case, brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, argued that states which changed election procedure during the 2020 presidential contest without legislative approval were in violation of the U.S. Constitution – specifically the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, arguing that Texas lacked standing to bring the lawsuit.Mik

Johnson is the 91st Member of Congress to endorse Trump. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has just 6 Congressional endorsements, while former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum each have one respectively.

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Former President Donald Trump's bid to retake the White House received big endorsement this morning from the newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA). show more
November 14, 2023
Jake Welch
Media

WATCH: Trump Even Dominates SNL’s Republican Debate Parody.

Even Saturday Night Live (SNL)’s coverage of the third Republican debate over the weekend was dominated by former President Donald Trump and dedicated very little time to the other GOP candidates in the nominee race.

The sketch featured portrayals of NBC’s Lester Holt and candidates Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tim Scott but gave four minutes from the six allocated to a monologue by the former President, which opened with Trump’s impersonator declaring, “How adorable! They actually think they’ve got a chance. Sad in some ways, but in other ways: funny.”

The sketch mocks each of the candidates’ chances of winning the nomination while running against the 45th President, including second place Ron DeSantis, who is derided with, “Poor Ron DeSantis, even SNL doesn’t think he has a chance. If they did it’d be like Paul Rudd or something” impersonating the Florida Governor rather the largely unknown SNL writer, John Higgins.

SNL’s coverage reflects much of the American electorate’s perception of the third GOP debate at large, considering just 6.8 million people tuned in to watch it – far below the number of people willing to watch the Republican debates in 2015, in which Donald Trump established himself as the dominate figure.

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Even Saturday Night Live (SNL)'s coverage of the third Republican debate over the weekend was dominated by former President Donald Trump and dedicated very little time to the other GOP candidates in the nominee race. show more
November 8, 2023
William Upton
Election Integrity

‘Coding Error’ Causes Voting Machines To Flip Votes On PA Ballot Question.

A so-called “coding error” caused voting machines in an eastern Pennsylvania county to malfunction and erroneously tabulate votes on a ballot question asking whether two Superior Court Judges should be retained. Northampton County, Pennsylvania executive Lamont McClure said if a voter marked ‘Yes’ on their ballot the machine tabulated it as a ‘No’, and vice-versa.

The malfunction impacted all 300 of Northampton County’s voting machines according to McClure. The Pennsylvania Department of State said the error was isolated to machines in Northampton and only impacted the retention question for the two judges. No other races on Tuesday’s election ballot were impacted.

Election Systems & Software, the company which manufactured and programed the voting machines, acknowledged they were responsible for tabulation issue. The company claimed the malfunction was the result of human error and was not caught during testing.

After the issue was discovered, the county obtained a court order to continue using the machines despite the malfunction. McClure said election officials would correct the election results for the two judges when the votes are tabulated. The Northampton County executive downplayed the situation calling the malfunction a “relatively minor glitch” and emphasized “everybody’s vote’s going to count.”

The National Pulse previously reported most voting machines will not meet new federal standards in time for the 2024 election, renewing concerns about legitimacy of the results. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has refused to address serious concerns about vulnerabilities in the state’s Dominion voting machines raised in the Halderman Report.

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A so-called "coding error" caused voting machines in an eastern Pennsylvania county to malfunction and erroneously tabulate votes on a ballot question asking whether two Superior Court Judges should be retained. Northampton County, Pennsylvania executive Lamont McClure said if a voter marked 'Yes' on their ballot the machine tabulated it as a 'No', and vice-versa. show more
November 7, 2023
William Upton
Politics

GUARDIAN: Trump Would Win Election Today.

The United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper is the latest corporate media outlet to acknowledge former President Donald Trump is not just running away with the Republican presidential primary, but now looks poised to defeat President Joe Biden in the 2024 general election as well. The paper’s Washington, D.C. bureau chief, David Smith, laments “…Trump appears politically bulletproof and Democrats sweat over the disconnect between Biden’s record and his flagging numbers.”

A series of recent swing state polls has set off a panic among Democrat Party leadership and their media allies. According to the newest NYT/Siena poll Trump leads Biden by 10 points in Nevada, 5 points in Arizona, 4 points in Pennsylvania, 6 points in Georgia, and 5 points in Michigan – Biden has a slim 2 point lead in Wisconsin. If the election were held today, Trump would likely win the White House in an electoral landslide.

Catching up to Trump’s lead may be difficult for the Biden campaign. The same polling indicates voters are unconvinced by Biden’s insistence the state of the economy is strong– just 37 percent said they trust Biden over Trump on economic issues. Even more troubling – and more difficult to overcome – for Biden is the 71 percent of voters who say he is too old to serve as President – only 39 percent of voters think Trump is too old.

Despite acknowledging Trump is likely leading Biden in the 2024 presidential contest, the corporate media hasn’t yet come around as to why. The Guardian‘s David Smith, unwilling to acknowledge that Trump’s foreign and economic policies remain popular, blames the former President’s political resurgence on the American voter, writing, “….it is increasingly hard to deny that something strange and perverse is happening in American politics.”

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The United Kingdom's Guardian newspaper is the latest corporate media outlet to acknowledge former President Donald Trump is not just running away with the Republican presidential primary, but now looks poised to defeat President Joe Biden in the 2024 general election as well. The paper's Washington, D.C. bureau chief, David Smith, laments "...Trump appears politically bulletproof and Democrats sweat over the disconnect between Biden’s record and his flagging numbers." show more
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November 7, 2023
William Upton
War
World

Zelensky Says Those Calling for Ukrainian Elections Are ‘Irresponsible’.

In a Monday video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said calls for holding an election are irresponsible in the midst of the nation’s ongoing military conflict with Russia. “We all understand that now, in wartime, when there are many challenges, it is utterly irresponsible to engage in topics related to an election in such a frivolous manner,” Zelensky said, before adding: “I believe that it’s not the right time for elections.”

The prospects of Zelensky moving forward with the 2024 Ukrainian presidential election have been murky for some time. Over 100 NGOs, several of which are funded by George Soros, recently made a public appeal asking that the elections be delayed. The ostensibly pro-democracy groups reasoned that an election could risk a “loss of legitimacy” for Zelensky’s government and undermine the war effort if he underperforms expectations. ““Elections alone do not constitute democracy,” the groups argued.

Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska appeared uncertain whether her husband would even run for re-election should they be held. While in Washington, D.C. with her husband to lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill for billions more in U.S. taxpayer dollars to be sent to Ukraine as military aid, the Ukrainian first lady appeared to indicate she was encouraging her husband to bow out of politics.

“Even when he ran for the first time, I didn’t fully endorse it,” Olena Zelenska said on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’. “But if he runs again, if he runs for the second time, if he decided it is necessary — well, we have some experience, we’ve been there.” Zelenska went on to suggest next year’s election may not occur at all.

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In a Monday video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said calls for holding an election are irresponsible in the midst of the nation's ongoing military conflict with Russia. "We all understand that now, in wartime, when there are many challenges, it is utterly irresponsible to engage in topics related to an election in such a frivolous manner," Zelensky said, before adding: "I believe that it’s not the right time for elections." show more
November 6, 2023
William Upton
Politics

Anti-Trump Meijer Enters Michigan’s Republican Senate Primary With No Clear Frontrunner.

The Republican primary field for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat is starting to take shape with former one-term Congressman Peter Meijer entering the race. The scion of the family-owned Meijer superstore chain joins former Congressman Mike Rogers and former Detroit Police Chief James Craig as the most likely, viable candidates in the primary. While only a handful of Michigan Senate polls have been conducted to date, they suggest the race for the GOP nomination is wide-open, with much of the electorate undecided.

Meijer and Rogers, both “moderates”, have several advantages out-of-the-gate. Each has a degree of political name recognition and established campaign infrastructure from their time serving in Congress – as well as pre-existing donor networks. However, both candidates also face the problem of being viewed as anti-Trump by an increasingly pro-Trump Republican electorate.

Mike Rogers, who chaired the House Intelligence Committee while in Congress, originally contemplated a 2024 presidential primary challenge to former President Donald Trump before opting for the Michigan Senate race instead. “Trump’s time has passed” according to Rogers, who believes the former President’s continued influence over the GOP is “clearly disruptive.”

The aggressively anti-Trump Meijer’s candidacy may be an even harder sell to Michigan Republicans. While in Congress, Meijer was an outspoken critic of Trump and voted to impeach the former President over the January 6th riots at the U.S. Capitol. In 2022, Meijer faced a voter backlash over his impeachment vote and lost his congressional seat in the Republican primary to John Gibbs. Democrat Hillary Scholten would go on to defeat Gibbs in the general election.

Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, while largely a political unknown, is the only of the three candidates running as a pro-Trump candidate. Craig, who served as Detroit’s ‘top cop’ from 2013 until 2021, has made some waves with his tough-on-crime campaign message and a mid-October poll showed him leading the primary with 30 percent to Mike Rogers’s 19 percent. Craig’s lack of political experience, however, may prove a problem for his campaign. He attempted a 2022 run for Governor of Michigan but failed to gain enough valid petition signatures to appear on the ballot – his subsequent attempt at a write-in campaign was met with little enthusiasm.

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The Republican primary field for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat is starting to take shape with former one-term Congressman Peter Meijer entering the race. The scion of the family-owned Meijer superstore chain joins former Congressman Mike Rogers and former Detroit Police Chief James Craig as the most likely, viable candidates in the primary. While only a handful of Michigan Senate polls have been conducted to date, they suggest the race for the GOP nomination is wide-open, with much of the electorate undecided. show more

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November 5, 2023
William Upton
News
Politics

Fox News Misleads Viewers AGAIN, Airing Incorrect Presidential Primary Poll Numbers.

Fox News is once again misleading its viewers, airing false 2024 Republican presidential primary poll results. The network’s mid-day news program America Reports, hosted by John Roberts and Sandra Smith, this week aired graphics that reversed recent New Hampshire and South Carolina primary polling results for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

The false Fox News numbers showed DeSantis ahead of Haley in both a recent USA Today/Suffolk New Hampshire poll and a CNN South Carolina poll. Haley, according to the actual poll results, holds second place in both state primary contests – with her support at 19 percent and 22 percent respectively. Governor DeSantis has slipped to third place in both state primary contests.

This isn’t the first time that Fox’s cable news programming has aired incorrect presidential polls with the error benefiting Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign. Last month, The National Pulse reported that Fox Business’s Varney & Co. appeared to have intentionally altered a graphic breaking down a Fox News presidential poll, giving the false impression that Donald Trump was running behind Democrat President Joe Biden 46 to 48 percent. The actual Fox News poll results showed the opposite with Trump running ahead of Biden.

Both Fox News and Fox Business are owned by anti-Trump billionaire Rupert Murdoch. The New York Post, another Murdoch owned media property, claimed in September Trump was ‘getting smoked‘ in the Republican primary, despite leading by historic margins.

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Fox News is once again misleading its viewers, airing false 2024 Republican presidential primary poll results. The network's mid-day news program America Reports, hosted by John Roberts and Sandra Smith, this week aired graphics that reversed recent New Hampshire and South Carolina primary polling results for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. show more

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