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September 24, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Immigration

Other Towns Are Beginning to Complain About Their New, Haitian Migrants.

Haitians are arriving not only in Springfield, Ohio, where an influx of some 20,000 has caused considerable issues in the city but also in various small rural towns across the United States. For instance, Sylacauga, Alabama, saw a city meeting shut down by the City Council President, Tiffany Nix, earlier this month after several members of the public complained of busloads of Haitians arriving in the city, supposedly to work, and “sitting around outside… not working.”

“What’s wrong with that? I don’t see what the issue is,” Nix responded. “I want to welcome anyone that wants to come,” she said, implying residents are racist by saying, “We have no reason to… treat people differently because of how they look” and insisting, “There’s no reason for us to discuss this any further.”

In Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the migrant population is reportedly up 2,000 percent, driven in large part by a surge in Haitian immigration. Like Springfield, the Pennsylvania town has been referenced by former President Donald J. Trump, who notes that the demographic changes are resulting in “schools scrambling to hire translators for the influx of students who don’t speak English, costing local taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

THE NATIONAL PICTURE.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), over 485,000 Haitian illegal border crossers have been recorded since fiscal year 2021. Most of these crossings occurred this fiscal year, with nearly 216,000 Haitians reported.

From fiscal 2021 through August, nearly 262,000 of these Haitians were apprehended at the southwest border. Additionally, nearly 221,000 were apprehended across the wider country and close to 2,300 at the northern border.

Since July, 205,000 Haitians have been released through the Biden-Harris government’s Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV) parole program. Haitians also constitute the top nationality among the over 765,000 illegal foreign nationals released into the country via the CBP One app.

State attorneys general have filed lawsuits arguing that these programs are illegal. They are acknowledged to be rife with fraud, with the Biden-Harris government briefly pausing migrant flights. Multiple migrants imported by them have turned out to be dangerous, including multiple Haitian pedophiles.

Under current U.S. law, most Haitians being released into the country are technically inadmissible. Still, the Biden-Harris government has them issued with “notice to appear” documents for future immigration court hearings.

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Haitians are arriving not only in Springfield, Ohio, where an influx of some 20,000 has caused considerable issues in the city but also in various small rural towns across the United States. For instance, Sylacauga, Alabama, saw a city meeting shut down by the City Council President, Tiffany Nix, earlier this month after several members of the public complained of busloads of Haitians arriving in the city, supposedly to work, and "sitting around outside... not working." show more
September 24, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Data
Election 2024

TikTok Is KEY News Source for Young American Adults.

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center indicates a significant increase in the number of American young adults getting their news from TikTok. The survey, conducted between July 15 and August 4, included responses from 10,658 U.S. adults on their regular news sources.

Seventeen percent of respondents identified TikTok as a regular source of news, compared to just 3 percent in 2020. This trend is more pronounced among young adults aged 18 to 29, with 39 percent stating they use TikTok for news. This marks a massive rise from the nine percent in this age group who said the same in 2020. Adults aged 30 to 49 are less inclined to turn to TikTok for their news, with 19 percent doing so in 2024.

Overall, 52 percent of TikTok users indicate they regularly consume news on the app. This is an increase from 43 percent last year and just 22 percent in 2020.

“No social media platform we’ve studied has seen faster growth in the share of Americans who regularly turn to it for news,” Pew stresses.

This development could be good news for former President Donald J. Trump, despite his opposition to TikTok over its Chinese Communist Party (CCP) links. The former president began using the platform in June rather than leave the field open to the Biden-Harris government and the Democrats, who invested in establishing a presence on the platform early on.

Trump content has gone on to vastly outperform posts supporting Biden and Harris, with Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, noting in June that the former president “is reaching young people in a way like never before.”

“Every piece of anecdotal evidence is showing us that young people are more and more interested in what the political right, the nationalist, populist right, has to say,” Kassam added.

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A recent survey by the Pew Research Center indicates a significant increase in the number of American young adults getting their news from TikTok. The survey, conducted between July 15 and August 4, included responses from 10,658 U.S. adults on their regular news sources. show more
September 24, 2024
William Upton
Data
Election 2024

Data Shows Trump is Dominating on Key Election Indicators.

Former President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party hold a significant edge in nine of the ten election indicators measured by Gallup. The data from the nearly 100-year-old public opinion research firm suggests that, at this juncture, the election is Trump and the GOP’s to lose.

Republicans currently lead Democrats in party identification with 48 percent to the latter’s 45 percent. According to Gallup, this measure strongly indicates an election’s outcome. Additionally, 46 percent of Americans say the Republican Party is better equipped to handle the most pressing issues facing the country, while only 41 percent say the Democratic Party is—also considered a strong election indicator.

Meanwhile, among moderate election indicators, just 22 percent of Americans say they’re satisfied with current conditions in the United States—a measure favoring the Republicans. Gallup’s economic confidence score is negative 28, which the research firm also notes as a moderate indicator in favor of Trump and the GOP. When asked which party is more likely to keep America prosperous, 50 percent of respondents say the Republican Party, while just 44 percent say the Democratic Party.

Gallup’s tracking of presidential approval also favors Trump and the GOP. The 81-year-old incumbent, Joe Biden, is currently underwater with just 39 percent favorability.

On party favorability ratings, Republicans hold just a one-point edge, with 43 percent viewing the GOP as favorable to 42 percent for the Democrats. Trump and the Republicans also have the edge on government activity, with 55 percent of Americans wanting less government intervention.

The only area that leans somewhat in favor of the Democrats is Congressional approval, which sits at just 20 percent—though the split control of Congress suggests this is a wash for both political parties.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Former President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party hold a significant edge in nine of the ten election indicators measured by Gallup. The data from the nearly 100-year-old public opinion research firm suggests that, at this juncture, the election is Trump and the GOP's to lose. show more

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In other words, we’re now moving into the territory where it’s his to lose
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September 24, 2024
Election 2024
Religion

Harris Breaks 36-Year Tradition in Remarkable Snub to U.S. Catholics.

Kamala Harris has chosen not to attend the annual Al Smith Dinner, which significantly deviates from political tradition. The dinner, sponsored by the Archdiocese of New York, typically features lighthearted exchanges between presidential candidates. Former President Donald Trump has confirmed his attendance at the event scheduled for October 17, but Harris’s campaign stated she will focus on crucial battleground states as the election nears.

Some speculate that Harris’s move is due to the candidate’s fear of extemporaneous interactions, though the reality may be more that her campaign is worried that spending any time at all outside of critical swing states could see her lose on November 5th.

Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, expressed disappointment over Harris’s decision.

“We are disappointed that she will not be with us, as this is an evening of unity and putting aside political differences in support of a good cause of helping women and children in need regardless of race, creed, or background,” he said. The politically connected and powerful Timothy Cardinal Dolan—who serves as the Archbishop of the diocese—currently hosts the dinner.

Harris’s decision makes her the first presidential candidate to skip the event since Walter Mondale, who also started his campaign as a vice president, in 1984. This tradition began in 1960 with Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy and is held to raise funds for New York City’s needy.

Trump last appeared at the dinner in person in 2016 along with then-Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. The 2020 dinner, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saw Trump and Joe Biden make pre-recorded remarks. The annual event is named after former New York Governor Alfred E. Smith, the first Roman Catholic nominated for the U.S. presidency by a major party in 1928.

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Kamala Harris has chosen not to attend the annual Al Smith Dinner, which significantly deviates from political tradition. The dinner, sponsored by the Archdiocese of New York, typically features lighthearted exchanges between presidential candidates. Former President Donald Trump has confirmed his attendance at the event scheduled for October 17, but Harris's campaign stated she will focus on crucial battleground states as the election nears. show more
September 23, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Politics

Kamala’s Husband is Lashing Out at The Teamsters for Refusing to Endorse Her.

Doug Emhoff, the Second Gentleman and husband to Vice President Kamala Harris, is lashing out at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union for refusing to endorse his wife’s 2024 Democratic Party presidential campaign. Despite rank-and-file members of the Teamsters overwhelmingly backing former President Donald J. Trump, according to the union’s internal polling, Emhoff believes the labor organization should still have thrown its support to his wife.

“Even though Trump, you know, bullied the leaders of the Teamsters to not do an endorsement, the Teamster locals are all endorsing her, including right here in Pennsylvania,” Emhoff claimed at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Sunday. A corporate and entertainment industry litigator whose past clients include the aggressively anti-union Walmart Inc., he added: “These Teamsters are not going to listen to some guy in D.C. who does not have the courage to stand up to Donald Trump, right? Can’t have that.”

The “some guy in D.C.” Emhoff is referring to is Teamsters president Sean O’Brien, who spoke earlier this summer at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. O’Brien has repeatedly stressed that his priorities are serving his union members’ best interests, upholding their political preferences, and building relationships with both political parties to ensure the voices of his members are heard.

CRITICAL UNION VOTERS.

In Pennsylvania, union households—including the Teamsters—could prove pivotal in deciding whether Trump or Harris wins the state. Election experts continually point to white working-class areas of Western Pennsylvania, in which Joe Biden secured higher levels of support in 2020 than Hillary Clinton in 2016, as the deciding factor in that state’s swing to Democrats in the prior presidential election.

Last Wednesday, the Teamsters announced they would not endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in 28 years. The union’s publicly released polling data shows former President Trump winning its members by an almost two-to-one margin over Harris.

Image by Gage Skidmore. 

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Doug Emhoff, the Second Gentleman and husband to Vice President Kamala Harris, is lashing out at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union for refusing to endorse his wife's 2024 Democratic Party presidential campaign. Despite rank-and-file members of the Teamsters overwhelmingly backing former President Donald J. Trump, according to the union's internal polling, Emhoff believes the labor organization should still have thrown its support to his wife. show more
September 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election Integrity
Media

Media Preps Public to Expect Trump Win Followed by Mail-In Ballot Reversal.

The Washington Post Editorial Board is priming readers to expect an apparent victory for Donald J. Trump on election night, being reversed by a flood of mail-in ballots, as in 2020. “If Democrats continue to vote by mail more than Republicans, early returns will probably show Mr. Trump leading, but the gap will close as votes are tallied,” the board writes, describing this as a “red mirage.”

Trump, The Washington Post recalls, described this as a case of “Democrats dumping ballots” in 2020, but the board insists it was actually “an entirely foreseeable and legitimate consequence of voting patterns and state counting policies.”

The board notes that “Mr. Trump may well win this election fair and square” but stresses that “Democrats returned 18 million ballots by mail compared with about 10 million from Republicans across 20 states with party registration data” in 2020 and that “it will probably still take longer to tally the high volume of ballots in [Democrat-voting] urban centers such as Philadelphia and Milwaukee than the lower number in redder, rural areas.”

However, The Washington Post concedes that the Democrats’ mail-in voting advantage narrowed in 2022, with the left-liberal party casting 7.6 million mail-in ballots compared to 5.1 million for the Republicans.

ENTIRELY LEGITIMATE?

Despite the Democrat and corporate media’s insistence that mail-in voting is secure, research suggests such ballots were substantially fraudulent in 2020.

For instance, polling of mail-in voters by the Heartland Institute found that 17 percent of respondents voted in states where they were no longer residents, 21 percent filled out ballots for someone else, and 17 percent “forge[d] the signature of a friend or family member on their behalf, with or without their permission”—all election law violations that would render the ballots invalid. Ten percent of respondents also said they knew someone else who had committed these offenses.

Rasmussen polling resulted in similar findings regarding mail-in voters casting ballots in the wrong state and filling out other people’s documents. One in 10 Rasmussen respondents also said they were offered “pay” or a “reward” for voting in 2020.

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The Washington Post Editorial Board is priming readers to expect an apparent victory for Donald J. Trump on election night, being reversed by a flood of mail-in ballots, as in 2020. "If Democrats continue to vote by mail more than Republicans, early returns will probably show Mr. Trump leading, but the gap will close as votes are tallied," the board writes, describing this as a "red mirage." show more
September 23, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Politics

Liz Cheney Wants a New Party for Neo-Cons.

Liz Cheney, the former chair of the House Republican Conference, wants the GOP to lose control of the House of Representatives and says that a new, neoconservative party may be needed to supplant it if it does not shed former President Donald J. Trump’s influence. Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, have already endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

“The [Republican] party itself really has rejected the Constitution in the name of supporting Trump,” she alleges, suggesting a new party may be required “because, again, so much of the Republican Party today has allowed itself to become a tool for this really unstable man. It certainly has moved away from standing for anything of substance, anything of policy. We’re going to have to have some entity that actually can be making the case for the kind of conservative causes that I believe in.”

Cheney and her father—regarded as a chief architect of the Iraq War—are far more in favor of foreign military interventions than Trump, the first President not to start any new conflicts since the 1970s. Trump believes there has been a permanent shift away from neoconservatism since he became the GOP’s leading man, vowing conservatives are “never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush.”

BIG SHIFT.

Cheney seems to fear he is right, saying of organizing a new party, “Look, it’s hard for me to see how the Republican Party, given what it has done, can make the argument convincingly or credibly that people ought to vote for Republican candidates until it really recognizes what it’s done.”

“There is certainly going to be a big shift, I think, in how our politics work… I don’t think it will just simply be, well, the Republican Party is going to put up a new slate of candidates and off to the races. I think far too much has happened that’s too damaging,” she added.

The 58-year-old says it is “really important that Mike Johnson not be the Speaker of the House on January 6, 2025,” claiming “the Republicans have shown that they will not certify the results if Donald Trump is not the victor.”

Cheney says she has already spoken to Harris, advising people to “stay tuned” for her next moves. She already has a history of collaborating with the Democratic Party, joining the corrupt January 6 Committee in 2021.

Image via the Hudson Institute.

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Liz Cheney, the former chair of the House Republican Conference, wants the GOP to lose control of the House of Representatives and says that a new, neoconservative party may be needed to supplant it if it does not shed former President Donald J. Trump's influence. Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, have already endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. show more
September 23, 2024
Data
News

Secret Service Approval Plummets to Record Low.

Public opinion of the Secret Service’s performance has sharply declined, hitting a record low in Gallup’s 10-year monitoring history. According to a Gallup poll conducted from September 3 to September 15, only about one in three Americans rate the Secret Service as doing an “excellent” or “good” job, representing 8 percent and 24 percent of respondents, respectively. In contrast, 25 percent rated the service’s performance as “only fair,” while 36 percent judged it as “poor.”

The poll was nearly completed before a suspected assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his Florida golf course on September 15. The Secret Service (USSS) was already under heavy criticism for allowing a gunman to open fire on the former president in Butler, Pennsylvania, striking his ear.

The negative perception is widespread among Republicans and Democrats, with positive ratings dropping significantly for both groups. Republicans’ approval fell by 26 points to 20 percent, while Democrats recorded an 18-point drop to 47 percent. Historically, Republicans have shown fluctuating support depending on which party holds the presidency, unlike the relatively stable approval from Democrats until recent years.

Over the past decade, the Secret Service has generally received strong public approval. From 2014 onwards, an average of 53 percent of Americans viewed its performance favorably—although in 2014, after multiple security breaches, including a notable fence-jumping incident at the White House, only 43 percent had rated the agency positively.

The Secret Service’s rating has seen a considerable decline in 2024, similar to significant drops Gallup has recorded for other agencies. For instance, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) rating, closely associated with unpopular pandemic-era measures, fell by 24 points from 2019 to 2021, and the Federal Reserve’s rating dropped by 23 points between 2003 and 2009.

Gallup poll assessed 14 other federal agencies. Among the survey, only the U.S. Postal Service maintained a majority of positive ratings, a trend consistent since 2014. In contrast, agencies including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received less favorable ratings.

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Public opinion of the Secret Service's performance has sharply declined, hitting a record low in Gallup's 10-year monitoring history. According to a Gallup poll conducted from September 3 to September 15, only about one in three Americans rate the Secret Service as doing an "excellent" or "good" job, representing 8 percent and 24 percent of respondents, respectively. In contrast, 25 percent rated the service's performance as "only fair," while 36 percent judged it as "poor." show more

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September 23, 2024
NatSec
News

A Secret Service Agent Just Shot Themselves.

A U.S. Secret Service (USSS) agent accidentally discharged his firearm on duty in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, resulting in non-life-threatening injuries. The agent was subsequently taken to a hospital, where his condition was assessed as stable.

The agency describes the event as a “negligent discharge” but has not provided further context or details about how the incident occurred. The Secret Service Office of Professional Responsibility has announced an investigation.

The incident occurs as the USSS is grappling with accusations of gross incompetence throughout the 2024 election cycle. There have been two failed assassination attempts against former President Donald J. Trump, one of which saw a gunman open fire on the former president, hitting his ear and killing a bystander.

This first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, led to the resignation of USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle. The second attempt took place at Trump’s golf course in Florida last week and saw a Ukraine-linked Democrat donor camp out in bushes for over 12 hours, coming within rifle range of the former president before he was detected.

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A U.S. Secret Service (USSS) agent accidentally discharged his firearm on duty in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, resulting in non-life-threatening injuries. The agent was subsequently taken to a hospital, where his condition was assessed as stable. show more
September 23, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Breaking

BREAKING: Failed Assassin Ryan Routh Pledged 6-Figure Bounty on Trump, Admits Democrat-Inspired Motive in Months-Old Letter.

Federal prosecutors have revealed that Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second failed assassination of former President Donald Trump, wrote a letter months in advance outlining his plans.

The letter, addressed to the “world,” included an advance apology for his failure: “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I am so sorry I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster.”

According to court documents, Routh placed the letter in a box along with ammunition and other writings before delivering it to an unnamed witness “several months” before the incident at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in Florida.

The witness, who did not open the box until learning of the attempted assassination, discovered the letter and additional disturbing contents. The letter also offered a $150,000 bounty to “whomever can complete the job.”

Routh’s Democrat-inspired motivations were revealed in the letter, where he claimed that “everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest” knew that Trump was unfit for office. He added that U.S. presidents must at least “embody the moral fabric that is America” and be “kind, caring, and selfless.”

Prosecutors attached a photograph of the first page of Routh’s letter to their arguments, urging the court to continue his detention. The contents of the letter are expected to play a significant role in the government’s push for his continued detainment, emphasizing the danger posed by Routh’s premeditated plans. He is scheduled to appear in court later on Monday for a detention hearing, where the court will decide whether he should remain behind bars pending further proceedings.

The handwritten letter above goes on to state in part: “He [the former President] ended relations with Iran like a child, and now the Middle East has unraveled.”

 

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Federal prosecutors have revealed that Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second failed assassination of former President Donald Trump, wrote a letter months in advance outlining his plans. show more

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