Former President Donald J. Trump has said he hopes the United Kingdom will not break up, recalling how Scotland came close to leaving the Union in 2014. He made the comments during a conversation with Andrew Schulz, a comedian and podcaster who, like the former president, has a Scottish mother.
“I tell you what, England fought them for a thousand years trying to get ’em under tow—they couldn’t do it,” Trump said, saying his mother, Mary, from Scotland’s Western Isles, exemplified this national toughness.
Praising Mel Gibson‘s performance as Scottish independence leader Sir William Wallace in Braveheart, Trump recalled how even the Romans built walls—Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall—because they were “afraid” of the Scots, saying, “The Scottish people, they’re tough people, they’re good people, actually they’re very great people, [and] they’re good fighters.”
He noted his mother was a great admirer of the late Queen Elizabeth II and that terminating the United Kingdom would be “a hard breakup.”
“You know they tried to break up Scotland from the rest of the Empire, so to speak,” he said of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. “I hope it stays together; I hope it always stays together,” he added.
Despite being bigger by size and population, Trump noted that England could never subdue Scotland by force and that the two kingdoms eventually “married.”
James VI, King of Scots, became James I of England as well on the death of Elizabeth I in 1603—the Union of the Crowns. King James played a prominent role in the early settlement of the Americas, and the Scottish and English kingdoms—including Wales and Ireland as de facto dependencies of the English crown—agreed to a full political union in 1707, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Former President Donald J. Trump has said he hopes the United Kingdom will not break up, recalling how Scotland came close to leaving the Union in 2014. He made the comments during a conversation with Andrew Schulz, a comedian and podcaster who, like the former president, has a Scottish mother.
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Former President Donald J. Trump is set to hold a major rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City later this month. According to sources, the event is planned for October 27, nine days before Election Day. The gathering will reportedly follow a first-come, first-serve approach, anticipating a large attendance.
Trump, who recently addressed an observance in Florida commemorating the anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, has attracted substantial crowds throughout the 2024 presidential campaign. Last month, approximately 16,000 supporters attended his rally at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island. Earlier in the summer, up to 10,000 people congregated at Crotona Park in the Bronx, surpassing the venue’s permit limit of 3,500 attendees.
Madison Square Garden can accommodate up to 19,500 spectators. It has been the site of several key national conventions, including the Democratic gatherings in 1976, 1980, and 1992 and the Republican National Convention in 2004.
Trump is not new to the idea of a rally at this well-known arena. During an interview in February, he mentioned the possibility, citing changes in New York’s political landscape as a motivating factor. Trump expressed confidence that he could garner votes from a broader spectrum of New Yorkers, indicating a focused effort in the state for the upcoming election. In April, he again suggested that a rally at Madison Square Garden was imminent.
The Trump campaign has yet to comment officially on the event, but it is expected to send an announcement to supporters soon.
Former President Donald J. Trump is set to hold a major rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City later this month. According to sources, the event is planned for October 27, nine days before Election Day. The gathering will reportedly follow a first-come, first-serve approach, anticipating a large attendance.
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The total cost of the 2024 federal election is expected to hit $15.9 billion, making it the most expensive in history, according to OpenSecrets. Adjusted for inflation, this figure will fall short of the amount spent during the 2020 election, but this is largely due to reduced spending on presidential primaries this cycle—as Joe Biden faced no serious competition in the Democratic race prior to being replaced by Kamala Harris in behind-the-scenes deals. Donald Trump dominated the Republican race such that most of his competition crashed out early on.
OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks political donations and spending, released this estimate in a recent report, highlighting key trends in the current election cycle. Sarah Bryner, OpenSecrets’ Director of Research and Strategy, noted, “Spending on the 2024 election cycle started slowly but ramped up significantly when Vice President Harris took over the Democratic nomination.”
“While it may be true that after inflation adjustments, 2024 doesn’t exceed the 2020 records, we must also remember that 2020 itself smashed previous records,” she added.
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So far, outside groups, including super PACs, have spent approximately $2.6 billion on the 2024 federal elections. If current trends continue, OpenSecrets projects outside spending could exceed $5 billion by Election Day.
The top 10 individual donors have contributed $599 million, accounting for about 7 percent of the total federal election fundraising. With less than a month until Election Day, spending is expected to surge further.
“There may be a saturation point where elections can no longer get more expensive, but we haven’t reached it yet,” remarked Brendan Glavin, OpenSecrets’ Deputy Research Director,
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The total cost of the 2024 federal election is expected to hit $15.9 billion, making it the most expensive in history, according to OpenSecrets. Adjusted for inflation, this figure will fall short of the amount spent during the 2020 election, but this is largely due to reduced spending on presidential primaries this cycle—as Joe Biden faced no serious competition in the Democratic race prior to being replaced by Kamala Harris in behind-the-scenes deals. Donald Trump dominated the Republican race such that most of his competition crashed out early on.
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A left-wing umbrella group that appears to be little more than a front for the Democratic Party’s own version of Project 2025 has spent several hundred thousand dollars on a digital and mail ad campaign promoting attacks on Project 2025 aimed at Generation Z voters.
United for Democracy, ostensibly a coalition of various progressive and Democrat-aligned activist organizations, is the group behind the ads and operates technically as a 501(c)4 not-for-profit organization.
The group is running digital ads and sponsoring political newsletters like POLITICO Playbook, directing individuals to the website “Project2025.wtf,” as well as driving advertising vans around the scarcely swing district of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
“If MAGA extremists win this fall, they will pursue Project 2025 policies to gut the checks and balances that protect American Freedoms”, United for Democracy’s sponsored ad, appearing in Playbook, reads.
It continues: “You think the Courts will save us?! LOL. The six MAGA Supreme Court Justices are already implementing some of Project 2025’s worst ideas.”
CAMPAIGN AGAINST PROJECT 2025.
Formed in 2023, United for Democracy began as a campaign vehicle aimed at undermining the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court. However, earlier this year it appears the organization shifted its activities to electioneering, with a specific focus on The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
Since the start of June 2024, United for Democracy has spent just shy of $400,000 on digital and mail ads targeting Project 2025 in an effort to attack President Donald J. Trump’s bid to retake the White House. Federal Election Commission (FEC) records indicate that the group’s ad campaign has been developed and executed by Bully Pulpit International, a progressive marketing firm that has been active in European politics—especially in the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Germany.
The Project2025.wtf website, where the United for Democracy ads direct viewers, is a relatively simple scroll page featuring outlandish and false claims regarding The Heritage Foundation’s independent presidential transition project. While most of the messaging is focused on misleading claims regarding Trump’s abortion policies, the site also makes the absurd claim that Trump will round up documented immigrants and put them in camps.
THE LEFT’S PROJECT 2025.
While United for Democracy bills itself as a coalition of organizations, it has deep ties to the Democratic Party’s own version of Project 2025—the Center for American Progress (CAP). Stasha Rhodes, who serves as the group’s executive director, is a former CAP staffer who worked on gun control advocacy in 2017 and 2018. Earlier this year, she rejoined CAP as a senior fellow tasked with leading the progressive policy group’s democracy and government reform projects.
The Biden-Harris government’s agenda has—in large part—been directed by senior CAP staffers. Neera Tanden, who helped found CAP along with John Podesta and later succeeded him as the group’s leader, currently serves as the director of the Biden White House’s Domestic Policy Council. From 2021 until 2023, Tanden served as a senior advisor to President Biden.
Between 2021 and 2022, the Biden-Harris government hired at least 70 CAP staffers, and the organization is credited with being a powerful driver of the Democratic government’s agenda. Mirroring the political left’s attacks on Project 2025, CAP was billed by Time Magazine following the 2008 election as “Obama’s Idea Factory in Washington.”
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A left-wing umbrella group that appears to be little more than a front for the Democratic Party's own version of Project 2025 has spent several hundred thousand dollars on a digital and mail ad campaign promoting attacks on Project 2025 aimed at Generation Z voters.
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Trump Transition Chief Howard Lutnick granted an interview to the globalist Financial Times, declaring that incoming administration hires must “prove” their loyalty. The Cantor Fitzgerald investment chief also used the interview to take more shots at Project 2025, most of which was compiled by Trump 2016 loyalists.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) data shows that Lutnick, however, donated to both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush in 2016, when many of the aforementioned Project 2025 staffers were pro-Trump. To this day, none of those original staff have flipped their loyalties, unlike Lutnick, whose first foray into Trump’s political sphere came in 2020.
“They’re all going to be on the same side, and they’re all going to understand the policies, and we’re going to give people the role based on their capacity — and their fidelity and loyalty to the policy, as well as to the man,” Lutnick semi-explained, noting that he and Linda McMahon are in charge of both personnel and policy.
“Project 2025 is an absolute zero for the Trump-Vance transition,” he said. “You can use another term — radioactive.”
But Project 2025’s so-called “radioactivity” actually began from inside the Trump campaign, as The National Pulse has previously reported. Following the group’s refusal to endorse Republican In Name Only (RINO) staffers being brought into the Republican National Committee (RNC) by its effective chief of operations, Chris LaCivita, the Trump campaign (also ran in part by LaCivita) began attacking Project 2025 and its staff. Only then did the Democrats and media start targeting the group.
Asked about whether or not he would take a job for himself, Lutnick responded: “If [Trump] wants me in the mosaic, he would have to put me in… I’m not putting me in.”
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Trump Transition Chief Howard Lutnick granted an interview to the globalist Financial Times, declaring that incoming administration hires must "prove" their loyalty. The Cantor Fitzgerald investment chief also used the interview to take more shots at Project 2025, most of which was compiled by Trump 2016 loyalists.
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A fundraiser launched by President Donald J. Trump and his supporters to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Helene is nearing the $7 million mark. With an initial goal of $1 million, the fundraiser has already begun issuing disbursements to aid groups working to help those impacted by the unprecedented and deadly storm across the southeastern United States.
According to the Trump campaign’s authorized GoFundMe, Samaritan’s Purse, Water Mission, Clinch Foundation, and Mtn2Sea Ministries are the four aid organizations currently designated to receive the disbursements from the fundraiser. The total raised is presently $6,835,599, though that number is expected to continue rising.
The Trump campaign fundraiser for Helene victims is one of the most significant outside contributions to assistance in the wake of the deadly hurricane, which made landfall initially in Florida over a week ago. Corporate donations to aid rescue and recovery efforts have generally been around $1 million, though the total contributed by the National Football League (NFL) teams and players is estimated to be around $8 million.
Hurricane Helene’s destruction—and the slow federal government response—has sparked expansive private efforts to provide aid and rescue for the tens of thousands of individuals who were left without power or running water throughout America’s Appalachian region. Technology billionaire Elon Musk has had employees on the ground for the last week deploying his StarLink satellite internet system throughout the region to restore communications in areas that no longer have a cellular phone or internet service.
Even with the massive effort and quick response from private aid groups and average American citizens, the death toll from Helene has already hit 230. With over 600 people still reported missing, it is feared the total fatalities will rise further.
You can contribute to President Trump’s fundraiser for Helene victims here.
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A fundraiser launched by President Donald J. Trump and his supporters to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Helene is nearing the $7 million mark. With an initial goal of $1 million, the fundraiser has already begun issuing disbursements to aid groups working to help those impacted by the unprecedented and deadly storm across the southeastern United States.
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Former President Donald J. Trump and his 2024 election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, are both set to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel today.
President Trump is expected to visit the Brooklyn, NY tomb of Orthodox Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. This evening, Trump will host a remembrance event at his golf club in Doral, Florida. Meanwhile, Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will hold a ceremony at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
“Jewish community leaders will gather to honor the 1,200 lives lost after being taken hostage and killed on that fateful morning one year ago,” the Trump campaign said in a statement before Monday’s remembrance ceremony in Florida. They added: “The event will also remember the victims of antisemitic violence that has continued to afflict communities worldwide since that tragic day.”
Meanwhile, Vice President Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will plant a small tree on the grounds of the Naval Observatory. Harris will deliver brief remarks. Emhoff, who is recently Jewish, will also attend and receive a prayer at the American Jewish Committee’s National October 7 Memorial commemoration in Washington, D.C.
Joe Biden will mark the day at the White House, holding a small ceremony with rabbis and participating in a yahrzeit candle lighting. Biden has also said he intends to follow Pope Francis’s call for a day of prayer and fasting.
MIDDLE EAST AT WAR.
A year ago, the Hamas terrorist group launched a series of barbaric attacks against Israel, killing over 1,200 in a single day. In addition, several hundred Israelis—along with dozens of foreign nationals—were taken into the Gaza territory by Hamas as hostages. While a number have been freed, the terror group has murdered several of them.
Currently, it is believed around 100 hostages remain in Gaza—though some suspect only about 70 are still alive. It is believed that seven of the hostages still held are American citizens.
The day also marks the first anniversary of the start of a broader conflict across the Middle East. The Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon have repeatedly attacked Israel since October 7. Consequently, following a series of decapitationstrikes, Israel has launched a ground war in Lebanon aimed at dismantling Hezbollah.
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Former President Donald J. Trump and his 2024 election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, are both set to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel today.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to distance her 2024 presidential campaign from much of the far-left policy stances she took during her 2020 White House bid appear to be driven—at least in part—by the influence of her brother-in-law, Tony West. A senior vice president and chief legal officer at Uber Technologies with deep ties to Wall Street and Silicon Valley, West has taken a leave of absence from his role as a corporate executive to serve as an informal advisor on Harris’s campaign.
While West has helped bolster support for his sister-in-law among the globalist corporate and financial elite, his influence over the Harris presidential campaign is rankling some organized labor leaders and economic progressives in the Democratic Party. After replacing the 81-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in July, Harris largely abandoned Biden’s more economically populist policies. Most recently, she attacked President Donald J. Trump’s tariff policies, which were largely unchanged under Biden.
TROUBLE WITH THE TEAMSTERS.
Harris’s shift away from organized labor-supported tariffs and West’s support of anti-union laws around the country is believed to have contributed to the Teamsters Union’s decision not to endorse the Democratic Party nominee ahead of the November election.
Uber’s support of a 2020 California ballot measure that would allow it to classify its drivers as independent contractors—enabling the company to deny certain employment benefits and more effectively resist unionization efforts—is said to have been a particular sticking point for the Teamsters’ leadership. Some of the union’s leaders pointed the finger at West for Uber’s $200 million campaign supporting the ballot measure.
Recent survey data released by the Teamsters suggest a significant shift in the rank-in-file from supporting Joe Biden to backing Donald Trump after the former announced he would not seek re-election.
SIDELINING BERNIE & WARREN.
West’s advisory role and influence on the Harris campaign isn’t just drawing criticism from organized labor, however. The Teamsters’ concerns are being echoed by allies of Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who contend Harris—under West’s advisement—is spending too much time attempting to win the support of Wall Street and Silicon Valley billionaires while ignoring the Democratic Party’s more economically progressive voter base.
“I don’t begrudge West and the Harris campaign for trying to have business outreach going on,” said long-time Sanders advisor Faiz Shakir in a recent interview. “But you don’t simultaneously see an outreach to those wanting to unrig the economy,” he lamented.
While West’s record as a DOJ attorney under the Clinton and Obama governments suggests he largely supports far-left progressive views on social and cultural issues, his record demonstrates his embrace of globalist economic interests. Progressive political activists are especially alarmed at continuing discussions regarding what role West may play in a Harris White House.
Kamala Harris’s embrace of technology billionaires like Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, and Reed Hastings is doing little to assuage progressives’ concerns regarding her close political relations with her brother-in-law. Hoffman, a visitor to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, is pushing Harris to oust the aggressively pro-antitrust Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan—a darling among the progressive left and even some on the populist right.
EMBRACING THE CHENEY FAMILY.
While tensions over West’s role in building a more pro-globalist, pro-Wall Street Harris campaign has caused increasing strain with economic progressives, the Democratic Party presidential nominee’s enthusiastic welcoming of support from warmonger and former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney may prove a bridge too far.
A recent report from Semafor suggests any gains made among more right-leaning voters by Harris’s embrace of Dick Cheney—whom she called “an American patriot”—is likely to be offset by her continued slide among white working-class voters.
While serving under President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney was frequently the subject of Democratic Party leaders’ ire. The former Vice President played a critical role in pushing the U.S. to go to war against Iraq—peddling false claims that the Middle Eastern country’s then-dictator, Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Likewise, Harris has also welcomed the support of Dick Cheney’s daughter, former Congressman Liz Cheney. The former Wyoming lawmaker appeared alongside Harris on Wednesday in Ripon, Wisconsin—the birthplace of the Republican Party. Cheney lost her re-election bid in 2022 after being defeated in the state’s Republican congressional primary by a two-to-one ratio.
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Vice President Kamala Harris's efforts to distance her 2024 presidential campaign from much of the far-left policy stances she took during her 2020 White House bid appear to be driven—at least in part—by the influence of her brother-in-law, Tony West. A senior vice president and chief legal officer at Uber Technologies with deep ties to Wall Street and Silicon Valley, West has taken a leave of absence from his role as a corporate executive to serve as an informal advisor on Harris's campaign.
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The Biden-Harris Department of Justice’s (DOJ) special counsel, Jack Smith, is giving up on trying to jail President Donald J. Trump, retooling his prosecution to interfere in November’s election instead, according to one of CNN’s top legal commentators.
According to analyst Elie Honig, Smith’s 165-page legal brief against Trump’s presidential immunity claim filed in federal court earlier this week is an “unprincipled, norm-breaking” attempt to “chip away at Trump’s electoral prospects.”
“At this point, there’s simply no defending Smith’s conduct on any sort of principled or institutional basis,” Honig writes in a scathing essay for New York Magazine. The former assistant U.S. Attorney and corporate news legal commentator slams Smith’s highly politicized filing, writing: “‘But we need to know this stuff before we vote!’ is a nice bumper sticker, but it’s neither a response to nor an excuse for Smith’s unprincipled, norm-breaking practice.”
Honig notes that Smith, who has largely led the Biden-Harris government lawfare campaign against Trump, twisted U.S. legal norms to ensure his presidential immunity brief—full of salacious and partisan accusations—would be made public prior to the presidential election. The CNN legal analyst contends that the DOJ special counsel has turned criminal procedure on its head by preemptively filing the brief—with the permission of far-left U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan—before Trump’s legal team made any motions on the immunity matter. Chutkan cleared the Smith legal brief despite acknowledging in court that it was “procedurally irregular.”
‘PREJUDICIAL LEGALLY & POLITICALLY.’
“Smith’s proactive filing is prejudicial to Trump, legally and politically. It’s ironic. Smith has complained throughout the case that Trump’s words might taint the jury pool,” Honig observes, adding: “Yet Smith now uses grand jury testimony (which ordinarily remains secret at this stage) and drafts up a tidy 165-page document that contains all manner of damaging statements about a criminal defendant, made outside of a trial setting and without being subjected to the rules of evidence or cross-examination, and files it publicly, generating national headlines.”
He concludes, insinuating that Smith has likely traded the viability of his prosecution to directly interfere in the election instead: “You know who’ll see those allegations? The voters, sure—and also members of the jury pool.”
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The Biden-Harris Department of Justice's (DOJ) special counsel, Jack Smith, is giving up on trying to jail President Donald J. Trump, retooling his prosecution to interfere in November's election instead, according to one of CNN's top legal commentators.
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Polls suggest Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign for the White House is faltering with just over a month before the November presidential election. A survey conducted between September 29 and October 1 by Emerson College Polling indicates the Democratic Party presidential nominee is falling well shy of President Joe Biden’s margins in the 2020 election.
In a head-to-head matchup, Harris sits at 50 percent to President Donald J. Trump’s 48 percent. With a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points, the Emerson poll essentially confirms Trump and Harris are in a dead heat. Biden’s margin over Trump in the 2020 popular vote was four and a half points.
Polling data analyzed by FiveThirtyEight illustrates an even steeper decline in Harris’ advantage compared to Biden’s, placing her current lead at approximately 2.8 percentage points, in contrast to Biden’s 7.4-point lead at this juncture in 2020. RealClearPolitics’ aggregation indicates an even greater difference between Biden’s and Harris’s leads over Trump, with Biden holding a 7.8-point lead in the Fall of 2020 versus Harris’s 2.2 points now.
In the battleground states where election outcomes are often decided the races appear exceptionally close. For instance, North Carolina and Pennsylvania show statistical ties, while Trump holds a minor edge in Arizona and Georgia. Conversely, Harris shows a slight advantage in Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
As in the 2016 election, Trump holds a significant advantage among non-college-educated and white working-class voters. Recent data released by the Teamsters Union shows the former Republican president holding about 60 percent support among the union’s rank-and-file members.
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Polls suggest Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign for the White House is faltering with just over a month before the November presidential election. A survey conducted between September 29 and October 1 by Emerson College Polling indicates the Democratic Party presidential nominee is falling well shy of President Joe Biden's margins in the 2020 election.
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