The independent candidate spent $7 million in July, while raising $5.6 million.
Read MoreRFK Jr. Campaign Spending More Than It Raises, Nearly Broke, No Events Since Early July
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Dem Gov Dismissively Suggests Vance Family Member Be Impregnated by Rape in Attempt to Knock His Abortion Stance
Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear suggested on Tuesday that a family member of Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance be raped and impregnated in an attempt to argue against the Ohio senator’s abortion stance.
Read MoreCongressional Democrats in Tight Reelection Bids Skip Harris, Party’s Nominating Convention
Several congressional Democrats facing tight reelection bids, particularly those in tossup or GOP-leaning states or House districts, are skipping the party’s nominating convention in Chicago this week.
Read MoreTransparency Advocate Adam Andrzejewski, Founder of OpentheBooks, Dead at 55
Adam Andrzejewski, who founded and led the government transparency watchdog Open the Books died on Aug. 17, according to news reports Tuesday.
Read MoreBiden Takes Stage at DNC as Party Transitions to Harris as Nominee: ‘Democracy Must Be Preserved’
On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, President Joe Biden took the stage as the party transitions to Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee and emphasized that “democracy must be preserved” in this election.
Read MoreGeorgia State Election Board Adopts Rule to Ensure Number of Ballots Matches Total Voters
The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) on Monday adopted a rule that requires the number of ballots and voters be the same before the certification of election results.
Read MoreTop Story: Left-Leaning Nonprofit Reports Guaranteed Income Study Failed: People Worked Less, Got Less Money
Top Commentary: Victor Davis Hanson Commentary: The Myriad Projections of the 2024 Campaign
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Alvin Bragg’s Office Leaves Door Open for Delaying Trump’s Sentencing
Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is not taking a position on former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his sentencing date in New York, according to a filing sent Friday.
Trump’s attorneys asked Judge Juan Merchan last week to push his sentencing, currently set for Sept. 18, until after the November election. In a filing, Bragg’s office said it would “defer to the Court” on whether a delay is necessary to “allow for orderly appellate litigation,” writing they are “prepared to appear for sentencing on any future date the Court sets.”
Read MoreWalz Told Students Communism Is When ‘Everyone Is The Same And Everyone Shares’
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz used favorable language to describe Chinese communism when teaching a high school social studies class in 1991, according to an unearthed article in Nebraska’s Alliance Times-Herald.
Walz told students that, under communism, “everyone shares” and gets free food and housing from the government, according to the resurfaced newspaper piece first reported by the Washington Free Beacon. Just two years before the article was published, China’s communist government massacred pro-democracy student protesters in Tiananmen Square, with death counts ranging from several hundred to thousands, according to the BBC.
Read MoreCommentary: The Media’s Propaganda Polls Deceptively Favor Kamala Harris
Kamala’s “surging” poll numbers are a lot of hot air.
A close analysis of the data shows that Donald Trump continues to maintain a dominant position in this election. After factoring in the systematic pro-Democrat bias in polling data, Trump comes out decisively in the lead. As it stands now, Trump will likely win every swing state and the national popular vote.
Read MoreAtlanta Area Continues to Have High Inflation
Inflation continues to plague Georgia businesses, and the Atlanta area continues to grapple with inflation, though it may be faring better than other cities in the country, a new analysis revealed.
According to personal finance site WalletHub, the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metropolitan statistical area ranks 11th out of 23 major MSAs for its change in inflation. An analyst with the site said the ranking highlights some positive and concerning aspects policymakers should consider.
Read MoreCommentary: Two Years On, the IRA Is Exactly What Its Critics Said It Would Become
In a recent interview, World Energy Council Secretary General Angela Wilkinson told me that one of the main impediments to the energy transition today is a lack of what she calls “systems thinking.”
“Energy transitions are a change in the organization of society,” she pointed out. “They’re not a simple case of swapping out one technology for another and everything else stays the same. Yet, we have this very simplistic narrative that we can take the oil system, we can put renewables in, it’s going to happen immediately, and nothing else will change. It’s like saying we’re going to take your thighbone out, but we’d like you to run a marathon.”
Read MoreLeft-Leaning Nonprofit Reports Guaranteed Income Study Failed: People Worked Less, Got Less Money
The left-leaning National Bureau of Economic Research conducted a guaranteed income study that showed when people work less, they still have less money.
The study was titled “The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States” and came out last month.
Read MoreCommentary: With Food Costs and Price Controls Bread Lines May Be Ahead
Even the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post could not stomach the new proposal from Kamala Harris to place price controls on food. The headline of the opinion piece from Catherine Rampell read:
“When your opponent calls you a ‘communist,’ maybe don’t try price controls?”
Read MoreAnalysis: Trump Quietly Gains Support Among Black Voters in Battleground States Against Harris
The likely outcome according to current polling and historical precedent is that the Democratic Presidential candidate will win a wide majority of the Black vote, and with Vice President Kamala Harris on the ticket this expectation is raised even further.
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