Barack Obama is set to hit the campaign trail to support Kamala Harris as she faces off against former President Donald J. Trump in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. The campaign efforts, scheduled to begin in Pennsylvania next Thursday, come one month before Election Day as both candidates prepare to tour key battleground states. The recent vice-presidential debate saw Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), outperform Democrat rival Tim Walz (D-MN), leaving the Harris campaign on the back foot.
Moves by the Harris campaign to give Obama a more prominent role come as she is faltering among key Democratic demographics, including Latinos, Arab Americans, younger voters, and union workers.
The former president delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in August highlighting Harris as a progressive leader and declaring, “We do not need four more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos.” However, this intervention somewhat backfired, considering Harris and Joe Biden are currently in office, not Trump.
HURRICANES.
With Trump rallying in Pennsylvania, Harris is traveling to North Carolina to assess Hurricane Helene’s devastation after previously visiting Georgia.
She promised federal support for affected areas, but there are widespread accusations that the Biden-Harris government, particularly the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is not responding well to the crisis and may even be hindering recovery efforts.
Florida also faces an extremely powerful hurricane in the coming days, and further federal mismanagement of the aftermath could further damage the public standing of the government and, by extension, Vice President Harris.
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Barack Obama is set to hit the campaign trail to support Kamala Harris as she faces off against former President Donald J. Trump in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. The campaign efforts, scheduled to begin in Pennsylvania next Thursday, come one month before Election Day as both candidates prepare to tour key battleground states. The recent vice-presidential debate saw Trump's running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), outperform Democrat rival Tim Walz (D-MN), leaving the Harris campaign on the back foot.
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Paramount Global-owned CBS refused to air political advertisements criticizing Democratic nominee Kamala Harris for supporting the use of taxpayer money for children’s transgender medical procedures. CatholicVote is airing the ads in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—but CBS is refusing to carry them.
“CBS and Paramount have been particularly aggressive in pushing transgenderism in mass media, so why would they be afraid to discuss what that means in reality for everyday families whose kids are receiving their pro-transgender messaging?” remarked CatholicVote President Brian Burch. “Either CBS is covering for Kamala Harris, or they are too scared to tell the truth about what’s happening,” he added.
The CatholicVote ads note Harris’s support for transitioning children and Medicaid data suggesting that, in Pennsylvania, $16.7 million in taxpayer funding has gone towards transgender mutilation surgeries for minors from 2015 to 2022. These include 97 double breast amputations and 14 hysterectomies performed on minor girls. The ads for Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin list similar details for their respective states.
Harris is presenting as a moderate Democrat for her snap run at the presidency. However, she previously positioned herself on the extreme left of the party regarding trans issues. For instance, she has bragged about securing taxpayer-funded trans treatments for prisoners during her career as a state-level politician in California. Harris also committed to taxpayer-funded surgeries for criminals and illegal aliens in government detention nationwide during her failed attempt to secure the Democratic nomination for the 2020 election.
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Paramount Global-owned CBS refused to air political advertisements criticizing Democratic nominee Kamala Harris for supporting the use of taxpayer money for children's transgender medical procedures. CatholicVote is airing the ads in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—but CBS is refusing to carry them.
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Vice President and Democrat nominee Kamala Harris appeared on a sexually explicit podcast claiming she never had children because she was never aspiring to be “humble.” Harris appeared on Call Her Daddy, popular among promiscuous young women and known for crude and graphic sexual discussion, and addressed her recent criticism from Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
In Michigan, Sanders—a mother of three—stressed the significance of motherhood as a grounding force, explaining, “kids keep me humble.”
“Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble,” she added.
“I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble,” Harris told the podcast, suggesting that humility is a virtue that belongs to “the 1950s.”
Harris has two stepchildren through her husband Doug Emhoff, an adulterer who currently stands accused of impregnating a family nanny and being physically violent to a former girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
Q: I saw the governor of Arkansas said ‘my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.’ How did that make you feel?
Vice President Harris: I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who are not… pic.twitter.com/MsOmhEnDGH
Childlessness is a growing trend among many Western leaders, male and female. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and several other current and former Western leaders all have no children of their own.
President Donald J. Trump is a father of five, and his running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), is a father of three, and the Trump campaign has adopted an explicitly pro-family platform.
Senator Vance has called for pro-parent policies like cutting childbirth costs and expanding child tax credits. Earlier in his career, he lamented the prevalence of “childless cat ladies” in national leadership roles, suggesting they have less skin in the game than Americans raising families.
“It’s just a basic fact. You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” he argued.
Earlier this year, the Harris campaign attacked Vance for supporting the Child Tax Credit, likening it to a tax on childlessness. However, she later reversed her position and claimed she wanted to boost it.
Vice President and Democrat nominee Kamala Harris appeared on a sexually explicit podcast claiming she never had children because she was never aspiring to be "humble." Harris appeared on Call Her Daddy, popular among promiscuous young women and known for crude and graphic sexual discussion, and addressed her recent criticism from Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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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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A series of state audits in Minnesota highlight fraud and mismanagement under Governor Tim Walz, running mate to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Governor Walz is facing criticism not just for the sheer number of scandals on his watch but also for his failure to hold anyone accountable for them, even from CNN.
In a report titled ‘As fraud scandals erupt in Minnesota on Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, accountability is in short supply,’ the Democrat-supporting network says nonpartisan state auditor Judy Randall’s warnings around “troubling examples of waste, fraud, and abuse” have been “repeatedly minimized or dismissed.”
The scandals are not minor. One saw bonus checks intended for those on the front lines of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic taken by the wrong people. Another saw the Muslim-dominated Feeding Our Future charity steal around $250 million in assistance intended to help feed needy children during the pandemic, the largest such fraud scheme nationwide.
It is not only the auditor and Minnesota Republicans who are criticizing Walz for his failure to prevent fraud and waste or punish those responsible. CNN quotes state Senator Ann Rest—a Democrat—as complaining during one hearing on the Feeding Our Future scam, “The buck is still running down the street and stopping nowhere, and that is unacceptable.”
The Walzgovernment also suffers from general incompetence, presiding over around $1.5 billion in cost overruns connected to a light rail project, for instance.
A series of state audits in Minnesota highlight fraud and mismanagement under Governor Tim Walz, running mate to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Governor Walz is facing criticism not just for the sheer number of scandals on his watch but also for his failure to hold anyone accountable for them, even from CNN.
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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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Firearm sales have seen an uptick since Vice President Kamala Harris supplanted Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, reflecting concerns over gun rights being eroded if she wins the White House. The turning point in July also coincided with the first assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
According to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data, there have been approximately 125,000 more sales and 260,000 additional background checks compared to earlier months—although background checks also cover activities beyond gun purchases.
According to adjusted figures from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), gun sale-related background checks increased by 1.3 percent in September compared to the same month in 2023, totaling 1,156,223. This marks the 62nd consecutive month that gun sales have surpassed one million.
Since she replaced Biden, Harris has been claiming she is herself a gun owner, telling Oprah Winfrey she would personally shoot a home invader. However, she refuses to disclose what kind of firearm she owns or the last time she practiced at a range.
Earlier in her political career in California, Harris said the state should be able to inspect lawful gun owners’ homes, arguing: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”
She described this as an example of “legislat[ing] our values… trying to encourage certain types of behavior.”
Harris also sponsored Proposition H, a de facto ban on handgun ownership, sales, and manufacturing that the courts struck down.
🚨Kamala Harris wants mass gun confiscation, and she’s willing to weaponize the government to enter your home and seize your legally owned guns:
“Just because you LEGALLY possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home… pic.twitter.com/4ET5m7ToSx
Firearm sales have seen an uptick since Vice President Kamala Harris supplanted Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, reflecting concerns over gun rights being eroded if she wins the White House. The turning point in July also coincided with the first assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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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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Psephologist Nate Silver believes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to back former President Donald J. Trump is the most significant public endorsement of the 2024 election. According to Silver, Kennedy’s endorsement has fueled a significant shift in voter support for Trump, possibly costing his Democrat opponent Kamala Harris around half a percentage point nationally.
Conversely, Silver notes that popstar Taylor Swift’s decision to back Harris has not had a similar effect. He says he’s observed no substantial change in polling for Harris since Swift posted her endorsement of the Democratic Party nominee on Instagram immediately following the September 10 presidential debate. The statistician and election modeler—speaking on his Risky Business podcast—claims Swift’s 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden made her decision to support Harris predictable for voters, meaning those likely to be swayed were already backing the Democratic Party nominee.
While most national polling shows the election between Trump and Harris in a dead heat, the Democrats are fretting that they may face a similar electoral environment as they did in 2016, when most pollsters missed Trump’s victory. Among the concerns for Harris is her lagging support among young voters—a demographic that many thought Swift’s endorsement would help boost. However, a recent survey found that Harris currently has just over half as much support among young people as Biden during the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, data released by Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio shows Kennedy voters breaking for Trump by a two-to-one margin over Harris in seven critical battleground states. With several states only being decided by just tens-of-thousand of voters in 2020, Kennedy voters could be pivotal to a Trump victory.
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Psephologist Nate Silver believes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to back former President Donald J. Trump is the most significant public endorsement of the 2024 election. According to Silver, Kennedy's endorsement has fueled a significant shift in voter support for Trump, possibly costing his Democrat opponent Kamala Harris around half a percentage point nationally.
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