Jonah Goldberg – a former editor of the increasingly left-wing National Review website – took to CNN this week to explain that only large, billionaire donors have the country’s interests at heart, and that “small donors are actually one of the biggest problems for democracy.”
The full statement from the rabid NeverTrump activist:
“There was a lot of cheering and self congratulation about the rise of small donors a decade ago. And now small donors are actually one of the biggest problems for democracy, for the GOP. Large donors actually have a strategic view about moderation, who can win, and who can’t. Small donors are really just venting their spleen with their credit card.”
Writing for The Dispatch, a liberal publication Goldberg recently founded, he expanded on his defense of the GOP establishment, accusing grassroots supporters of, “…suffer[ing] from the delusion that they are victims of the ruling classes and that the woke left is running everything…”. He concludes: “For those desperate for a Republican nominee other than Trump, hoping voters will change their minds seems scary. But that’s democracy for you.”
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Jonah Goldberg – a former editor of the increasingly left-wing National Review website – took to CNN this week to explain that only large, billionaire donors have the country's interests at heart, and that "small donors are actually one of the biggest problems for democracy."
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has accepted an endorsement that most Republican candidates might try to downplay or even outright avoid – Iowa Evangelical talk-radio host Steve Deace, who openly attempted to lose Republicans the 2016 election, paving the way for a Hillary Clinton America.
I’m honored to receive the endorsement from the great @SteveDeaceShow
Like so many Iowans, Steve knows the time for excuses is over. We will get the job done in 2024! pic.twitter.com/RCIURzKbK4
During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, Deace began as an early backer of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tx). When the Cruz campaign – run by Jeff Roe who is now the top political guru for Team DeSantis – failed to defeat the eventual Republican nominee and 2016 presidential winner Donald Trump, Deace openly opposed Trump’s general election campaign, going so far as to say that between Trump and Hillary Clinton, “I don’t really care who wins.”
Following Trump securing the Republican nomination for President in 2016, Deace declared that he was leaving the Republican Party and joining the NeverTrump movement. In a now deleted Conservative Review column, Deace scolded conservatives for supporting Donald Trump:
And spare me your sanctimonious rambling about, ‘but if he’s the nominee we have to vote for him or Hillary will win. First of all, most of the thumb-suckers saying this have sat on the sidelines during this primary process, refusing to get their hands dirty doing everything they could to stop the GOP from nominating another sure-fire progressive loser/betrayer once more.
Deace’s rant continued with:
Now we’re talking about attaching our brand to an unrepentant serial liar and adulterer that has clearly demonstrated during his 70 years on this planet he stands for nothing but himself.
And as we’ve reached the apex of this primary it’s become abundantly clear that Trump is who his detractors always said he was, and is taking advantage of every negative stereotype the left has of conservatives to excel in this race. Everything he touches becomes corrupted and distorted.
Right before the November 2016 presidential election Deace encouraged Utah voters to support former CIA spook, Deep State defender, and third party candidate Evan McMullin for President.
Republicans voting for third parties over Trump would certainly have handed Hillary Clinton the White House.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has accepted an endorsement that most Republican candidates might try to downplay or even outright avoid – Iowa Evangelical talk-radio host Steve Deace, who openly attempted to lose Republicans the 2016 election, paving the way for a Hillary Clinton America.
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Jeff Roe – the top establishment strategist advising Ron DeSantis’s ‘Never Back Down PAC’ – bemoaned the scrutiny of his operation, offering media start-up Puck $11 million to stop writing about him in what turned into a breakdown on social media on Thursday evening.
Roe, who runs the embattled “Axiom Strategies” which just tightened its grip on the DeSantis operation, responded to a tweet from reporter Tara Palmeri who announced Puck had just raised $10M for an expansion of its news operations. Roe shot back: “I’ll buy in for $11M if my name isn’t in your publication again” – a bizarre inducement to the media to stop reporting on his activities.
Roe’s angry outburst drew the attention of Chris LaCivita, senior advisor to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. LaCivita jabbed Roe over Never Back Down ineffective support for the DeSantis campaign.
LaCivita appeared to have struck a nerve with Roe, whose Axiom Strategies – and its subsidiaries – have seen nearly 50 percent of Never Back Down’s campaign spending reach its company accounts. Roe responded with what can only be described as a bizarre series of posts, escalating in anger:
No need. Made that much just beating you in the last two statewide primaries. Remember last two cycles? Back when you ran the last Bush family campaign into the ground? Then that one in your home state of VA. Those were fun. See you in Iowa… and beyond. https://t.co/yuSJlPGuRd
Wow. Big $$$! Pretty bad win/loss too. Imagine if you had a law degree how much you’d be making off the campaign now! Hurry! There’s time. At least a para-legal maybe? I hear you guys pay top dollar for anyone that will take the case(s). https://t.co/sE5R7QHZec
Jeff Roe, considered a “heavyweight” in Missouri politics, drew harsh criticism and condemnation from the likes of former U.S. Senator Jack Danforth for producing a controversial radio ad that is alleged to have played a role in the 2015 suicide of gubernatorial candidate Tom Schweich.
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Jeff Roe – the top establishment strategist advising Ron DeSantis's 'Never Back Down PAC' – bemoaned the scrutiny of his operation, offering media start-up Puck $11 million to stop writing about him in what turned into a breakdown on social media on Thursday evening.
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Donald Trump leads Joe Biden by 41 percent to 34 percent (a seven point margin) in new national polling from Premise, while the supposedly “more electable” Ron DeSantis is trailing the octogenarian Democrat by 31 percent to 32 percent.
The poll surveyed 1,726 Americans in the first week of August, and found that Trump also beats DeSantis in a head-to-head by 66% to 25%.
If Biden were ruled out of the race, respondents said Kamala Harris should likely take the Democrat nomination (21%), with Hillary Clinton close behind on 15 percent. A further 14 percent chose Bernie Sanders, with 10 percent picking California Governor Gavin Newsom, meaning DeSantis is due to debate the 5th place pick.
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Donald Trump leads Joe Biden by 41 percent to 34 percent (a seven point margin) in new national polling from Premise, while the supposedly "more electable" Ron DeSantis is trailing the octogenarian Democrat by 31 percent to 32 percent.
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Tanya Sue Chutkan, the Black Lives Matter-supporting, Obama donor judge overseeing Donald J. Trump’s January 6th trial says she wants to keep politics out of the proceedings.
The foreign-born federal judge made the remarks during the protective order hearing at a Washington D.C. court on Friday as Donald Trump’s lawyers requested the right to share trial evidence publicly:
“Mr Trump, like every American, has a first amendment right to free speech, but that right is not absolute… I intend to keep politics out of this.”
Chutkan also denied Trump’s request to allow independently sourced evidence to be excluded from the protective order, telling the former President’s legal team that only publicly available records will be exempt, using the Department of Justice’s suggestions.
The case involves more than 11.6 million pages of files against the former President, according to Special counsel prosecutor, Thomas Windom, with most of the “discovery production” being complete by August 28.
Trump has attempted to move the proceedings from Washington D.C. to West Virginia due to the city’s overwhelming support for the Democrats and even demanded the recusal of Chutkan, yet this failed to materialize.
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Tanya Sue Chutkan, the Black Lives Matter-supporting, Obama donor judge overseeing Donald J. Trump's January 6th trial says she wants to keep politics out of the proceedings.
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Newly revealed police reports have exposed evidence of extensive voter fraud in Michigan – and perhaps other swing states as well – perpetrated by an organization tied to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Michigan law enforcement launched an investigative task force after a Muskegon city clerk observed a woman, about a month before the 2020 general election, drop off upwards of 10,000 suspected fraudulent voter registrations. The registrations appeared to all have the same handwriting, with some also having non-existent addresses listed for the supposed voter.
Over the course of their investigation, Michigan law enforcement raided the offices of GBI Strategies – an organization found to be the employer of the woman who had originally produced the completed voter registrations to the clerk. The raid revealed a stockpile of semiautomatic weapons, pre-paid cash cards, burner phones, and additional voter registration forms. Despite the raid, no arrests were made and the investigation was turned over to the FBI where it appears to have been buried without further action.
Trump warned of Michigan voter fraud ahead of 2020 election.
GBI Strategies is a Tennessee-based campaign group with deep ties to Democratic campaigns and committees, including Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. In 2020, the organization received $2,117,605 in payments from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee as a vendor; as well as $1,031,856 from the DNC Services Corporation, $493,100 from the Democratic Party of Iowa, and $450,000 from Biden for President. GBI Strategies appears to have worked on voter outreach and registration drives for Democrat candidates across the country, raising concerns that other incidents of widespread fraud may exist outside Michigan.
You can view the redacted Michigan police report below:
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Newly revealed police reports have exposed evidence of extensive voter fraud in Michigan – and perhaps other swing states as well – perpetrated by an organization tied to Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.
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On Saturday, former President Donald Trump will head to the Iowa State Fair with nine members of the Florida Congressional delegation who have endorsed him over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Representatives Byron Donalds, Matt Gaetz, Cory Mills, Anna Paulina Luna, Greg Steube, Gus Bilirakis, Carlos Gimenez, Brian Mast, and Mike Waltz will all accompany Trump throughout the day.
The Trump campaign intends to deliver a message to Iowa voters that even in DeSantis’s home state of Florida, Republican leaders prefer Trump to DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination. Ron DeSantis will also be in attendance at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday.
One stop President Trump will not be making is Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’s ‘fire side chat’ event with various Republican presidential candidates. Reynolds has come under increasing criticism from Trump for her displays of public favoritism towards Ron DeSantis despite a long standing tradition of Iowa’s Republican governors remaining neutral in Republican presidential primary contests in the state. Reynolds has insisted she will not endorse a candidate during the primary, but has publicly fawned over DeSantis for months, leading to him floating her as a Vice Presidential pick in front of a crowd of tens.
An additional event to keep an-eye-on on Saturday will be the Iowa State Fair Straw Poll. The Iowa Secretary of State will be conducting an unofficial straw poll of fair-goers – the event being a semi-replacement for the defunct Iowa Straw Poll last held in Ames Iowa in 2011.
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On Saturday, former President Donald Trump will head to the Iowa State Fair with nine members of the Florida Congressional delegation who have endorsed him over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Representatives Byron Donalds, Matt Gaetz, Cory Mills, Anna Paulina Luna, Greg Steube, Gus Bilirakis, Carlos Gimenez, Brian Mast, and Mike Waltz will all accompany Trump throughout the day.
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Oliver Anthony – a musician from Farmville, Virginia – is takingsocialmediabystorm with his song entitled “Rich Men North Of Richmond.” A clip of the song and an accompanying video already has over 200,000 views at the time of publication, with its YouTube equivalent at nearly half-a-million after just 24 hours.
The bluegrass anthem is a condemnation of the Washington D.C.’s political establishment and the wealthy men who influence American politics who have left the working class behind. Anthony’s lyrics lament the skyrocketing suicide rate amongst men in America; the struggle of working Americans to make ends meet; and Washington’s penchant for sending money to aid in conflicts overseas before helping those most in need at home”
I’ve been selling my soul, working all day, overtime hours for bullshit pay. So I can sit out here, and waste my life away drive back home, and drown my troubles away. It’s a damn shame, what the world’s gotten to, for people like me and people like you.
Anthony’s chorus makes the song’s political message plenty clear:
These rich men north of Richmond, lord knows they all just wanna have total control. Wanna know what you think wanna know what you do. And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do. Because your dollar ain’t shit. And it’s taxed to no end because of rich men north of Richmond.
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Oliver Anthony – a musician from Farmville, Virginia – is takingsocialmediabystorm with his song entitled "Rich Men North Of Richmond." A clip of the song and an accompanying video already has over 200,000 views at the time of publication, with its YouTube equivalent at nearly half-a-million after just 24 hours.
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Trump’s lawyer entered the plea of not guilty in Fort Pierce, Florida, alongside the former President’s personal aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira. Nauta has similarly pleaded not guilty, de Oliveira is yet to enter a plea, and will be arranged on Tuesday, August 15.
Both Trump and Nauta were indicted in June, with de Oliveira being added as a co-defendant last month. The charges against them include “making false statements, conspiracy to obstruct justice and corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing documents.”
Trump’s legal team also demanded the opportunity to recreate a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in which the former President may review the classified evidence in the case being brought against him due to the “the immense practical and logistical hurdles and costs that make it virtually impossible for President Trump to make regular trips to a public facility to discuss classified discovery material.”
Prosecutors are virulently opposed to such a step, claiming that Mar-a-Lago is not included “in lawful locations for the discussion of classified information, any more than they would be for any private citizen.”
The 45th President of the United States now faces 40 hyper-partisan counts involving seven different charges, with the trial scheduled to take place in May next year.
Ron DeSantis has collapsed to just 10 percent, per a new presidential primary poll of 2,000 likely voters, with a margin of error of just 2.6 percent. The Florida Governor now finds himself in third place behind outsider Vivek Ramaswamy, suggesting that the recent strategic changes and numerous campaign shake-ups have had no effect on the Florida Governor’s precipitous decline in support.
National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam predicted that DeSantis would soon be polling at “10 percent,” in an interview with Human Events’ Jack Posobiec conducted in June.
DeSantis has hemorrhaged 19 points since March this year, with the majority of his losses being shared between Ramaswamy – currently polling at 11 percent, and former President Donald Trump, who has consolidated his lead to 53 percent, the survey from Cygnal found. It is worth noting that Cygnal VP Brock McCleary is also the Ramaswamy campaign pollster.
The Florida Governor is trailing Ramaswamy in several key demographics, including among black voters and independents. DeSantis has just two percent support among black voters and six percent from independents, whereas Ramaswamy receives 15 percent support from black voters and 13 percent from independents. DeSantis is also behind Ramaswamy amongst college-educated voters.
DeSantis has struggled to make anything of his beleaguered presidential campaign, with several of his biggest donors and supporters having abandoned the cause, calling him a “flawed candidate.” The most recent delegate votes forecast had him at his lowest-ever total of just 159: 2,000 behind Donald Trump.
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@RaheemKassam makes a prediction about Ron Desantis' disappointing campaign. LIVE on Human Events with Jack Posobiec 2PM EST on Rumble and Real America's Voice. pic.twitter.com/QzgWmp79fV
— Human Events Daily (@humaneventslive) June 22, 2023
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Ron DeSantis has collapsed to just 10 percent, per a new presidential primary poll of 2,000 likely voters, with a margin of error of just 2.6 percent. The Florida Governor now finds himself in third place behind outsider Vivek Ramaswamy, suggesting that the recent strategic changes and numerous campaign shake-ups have had no effect on the Florida Governor's precipitous decline in support.
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