Tag: Donald Trump

Analysis: Republicans Surpass Democrats in Early Voting in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina

The Daily Torch
Elections Day

Republicans appear to have flipped the script on the 2020 election, which featured Democrats winning the election narrowly in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin by banking early votes that former President Donald Trump was unable to overcome with Election Day turnout, this time outpacing Democrats with early and mail-in votes combined in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, NBC News reports.

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Trump Pledges Compensation Fund for Victims of Migrant Crime

Daily Caller News Foundation
Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump unveiled a new proposal on Tuesday, pledging to establish a “compensation fund” for victims of migrant crime in the United States.

Speaking to the public during a press conference at Mar-a-Largo, Trump highlighted the growing threat of Tren de Aragua and other international crime syndicates being imported into the U.S. through mass illegal immigration. The Republican candidate pledged to dismantle these migrant gangs and use their seized assets to create a compensation fund for the victims of their crimes.

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Commentary: The Real Threat to American Democracy

RealClearWire
US Capitol

Heading into Election Day, we hear constantly that the presidential candidates are mortal threats to American democracy. Anxieties about Donald Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, rampage at the U.S. Capitol and his declaration that he would act as “dictator for a day” are countered by Elon Musk’s warning that if Harris wins, “this will be the last election,” or alarms that Harris’ designs on overhauling the Supreme Court will lead to an end to the rule the law.

The very idea that our republic’s future hangs on the outcome of a single presidential contest, however, reveals the deeper, unacknowledged, underlying danger: a Congress incapable of performing its constitutional duties as our country’s lawmaking body and the guarantor of our representative democracy.

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Trump Advisers Propose Private Agency, Not FBI, Issue Security Clearances to Appointees: Report

Just the News
Boris Epshteyn

A group of at least six advisers to Donald Trump are reportedly circulating a memo that proposes the GOP presidential nominee, if elected, be allowed to issue security clearances to his appointees without the normal FBI background-check process.

The advisers include Boris Epshteyn, a legal adviser to Trump who is involved in his 2024 campaign, sources told The New York Times, which reported the story on Sunday.

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Washington Post String of Exits over Refusal to Endorse a Presidential Candidate Continues

Just the News

Two more members of the Washington Post’s editorial board resigned on Monday, after the paper declined to endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 elections. Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos reportedly told his editorial board last week that the paper would not endorse a presidential candidate for next week’s election, or in future presidential elections, departing from recent elections when the board endorsed the Democratic candidates. One editor resigned over the order at the time.

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Trump Leading Harris in State GOP Hasn’t Won in Nearly 25 Years: Poll

Daily Caller News Foundation
Donald Trump

A poll released late Sunday revealed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a slight lead in New Hampshire, a state Republicans haven’t won in 24 years.

Friday polling showed the former president remained three points behind Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris but has since flipped the lead, now ahead 50.2% to 49.8%, according to the NH Journal. The last time the state voted red was for former President George W. Bush over then-Democratic nominee Al Gore.

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Trump Packs Madison Square Garden in Blue State Push, Unveils New Family-Friendly Tax Break

Just the News

Rising in the polls and exuding confidence, Republican Donald Trump filled New York City‘s iconic Madison Square Garden with cheering MAGA supporters Sunday night in an historic effort to compete in blue territories and sweep control of the White House and Congress just 10 days from now.

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Commentary: Secularists vs. People of Faith

Georgia Star News Staff
People Who May Vote

An amazing thing is happening in the 2024 presidential campaign. Religious beliefs and hostility toward religion are playing bigger roles than in any election in modern times.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz represent the anti-religious ticket. Their past actions and current statements communicate clear opposition to, and disdain for, religion in ways which would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

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Commentary: Polls Underestimate Trump Because He Appeals to Americans Who Are Less Political

The Daily Torch
Trump and Crowd

One of the largest takeaways from Trump’s unexpected success in 2016 – and the inability of pollsters to accurately predict the support he earned in both 2016 and 2020 – is that Trump has continuously appealed to Americans who are less politically engaged.  

Adding to the issue, is that Americans with lower political engagement are also generally harder to recruit into political surveys to share their opinions. We see this theme repeatedly, with low propensity voters, especially first-time voters, being much more likely to support Trump than highly active voters. At the same time, lower frequency voters are much harder to reach in polls before election day.

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Victor Davis Hanson Commentary: The Absurdity of Kamala Harris

American Greatness
Kamala Harris

As Vice President Kamala Harris slips in the polls, the Democratic National Committee/Harris Campaign/mainstream media fusion talking points become even more absurd and inane.

Claiming that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump were “weird” did not work — especially given the genuinely odd behavior of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and would-be First Gentleman Doug Emhoff.

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Florida Sues Biden-Harris DOJ for Allegedly Blocking Trump Assassination Attempt Investigation

Daily Caller News Foundation
Ashley Moody

Florida sued the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday for allegedly blocking the state’s investigation into the second Trump assassination attempt.

Federal officials almost immediately began “taking steps to halt the state’s investigation” into Ryan Wesley Routh, who was indicted for attempting  to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September, the lawsuit states.

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‘I’ve Heard It All Before:’ CNN Analyst Scott Jennings Lists Republicans Who Democrats Compared to Hitler in Recent Election Cycles

Daily Caller News Foundation

Republican strategist Scott Jennings said Wednesday night that he’s “heard” comparisons of prominent Republicans to German dictator Adolf Hitler going back to the George W. Bush administration during a panel on CNN.

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Trump Open to Reparations Fund for Victims of Crimes Committed by Illegals

Just the News
Trump on Phone

Gaining momentum two weeks from Election Day, Donald Trump is laser focused on voters’ top priority of making America safe and affordable again. But after spending hours comforting families victimized by murder, rape and other border crimes, the former president told Just the News he also is open to creating a federal compensation fund for Americans harmed by illegal immigrants let into the country under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

The idea of a border crimes reparations fund like the one created for the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks has been floating around conservative circles for months, including in Congress where Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., even introduced the concept before it stalled.

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Commentary: Extending Tax-Credit Scholarships

American Greatness
Students

According to a just-released Education Opportunity in America report by 50CAN, only 39% of public school parents are satisfied with their child’s education.

Other polling results are also discouraging. Released in August, EdChoice’s annual Schooling in America Survey revealed that 64% of parents think K–12 education in America is on the wrong track. Not only is this an eight-point increase from last year, but it is also the highest level of pessimism among parents since the question was first asked in 2014.

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Commentary: Reading Between the Lines of The Mark Halperin Interview by Tucker Carlson

The Daily Torch
Mark Halperin

Recently Tucker Carlson made news yet again with one of his expert interviews.  Since leaving the sinking Fox News ship, Carlson has shown a real knack for doing the exact right interview at the exact right moment to convey the deeper and more telling story of the current political and cultural meltdown in which we all live.

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Trump Leading Harris in Georgia Two Weeks Before Election Day, Poll Finds

Daily Caller News Foundation
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

Former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia as election day draws closer, according to a Tuesday poll from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC).

Trump is leading at 47% while Harris is at 43%, which is outside of the poll’s margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, according to the AJC. Of likely voters that were polled, 8% said that they are still undecided.

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‘Take the Red Pill:’ Musk’s Support for Trump Follows Wave of Government Probes into His Companies

Just the News

As Elon Musk ramps up his $1 million-a-day support for Donald Trump, what appears to be a record of progressive harassment of his many companies may explain how the world’s richest man went all-in for Republicans.

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Commentary: A Media Beyond Caricature

American Greatness

CBS’s iconic 60 Minutes has had plenty of scandals and embarrassments in its long 57-year history, most notably the fake-but-accurate Dan Rather mess. Yet never has it found itself in greater disrepute than in 2024.

Donald Trump, for good reason, recently declined to join 60 Minutes for its traditional election-year in-depth interviews of the two presidential candidates. Why?

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Overwhelming Majority of College Faculty Plan to Vote for Harris, Poll Shows

Daily Caller News Foundation
Kamala Harris

Nearly 80% of college faculty support the Democratic presidential ticket in the upcoming election, according to an Inside Higher Ed/Hanover Research survey released Monday.

Only 8% of faculty surveyed expressed support for former president Donald Trump, while 78% expressed support for Vice President Kamala Harris, the poll shows. More than half of respondents said their politics are “somewhat” or “much” further left than the students on their campus.

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Task Force Probing Trump Assassination Attempt in Butler Finds ‘Unclear Chains of Command’ in Report

Just the News

The bipartisan House task force on the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump released its interim report Monday morning, finding “an unclear chains of command” in the security at site of the incident, a July 13 campaign rally.

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Fani Willis Laid Groundwork in Trump Prosecution Before She Took Office, Special Prosecutor Says

Just the News

House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday released the transcript of closed-door testimony from Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to help manage her office’s Donald Trump election interference case before coming under scrutiny for his romantic-financial relationship with Willis.

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Trump Leading Harris in All Major Swing-State Polling Averages as Election Hits Home Stretch

Daily Caller News Foundation
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

Former President Donald Trump is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in all of the top swing states as the end of the presidential race draws closer, according new RealClearPolitics polling averages.

Trump has a 0.8 point lead pulling 48.3% support across seven key battleground states compared to Harris at 47.5%, according to the polling averages. The Republican presidential nominee is ahead of Harris in the states of Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Nevada. on October 16, 2024 in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.  

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Voters in Pennsylvania Receive Threatening Letters Warning ‘There Will Be Consequences’ for Supporting Trump

American Greatness
Trump Supporters

Pennsylvania residents with Trump signs in their yard are reportedly receiving disturbing letters warning them that “there will be consequences” for supporting former President Donald Trump.

“We know where you live, you are in the data base,” the anonymous author states in the letter, first obtained by The Post Millennial. “In the dead of a cold winters night, this year, or next and beyond, there is no knowing what will happen. Your property, your family may be impacted, your cat may get shot. And more.”

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Commentary: The Role of Federalism in Trump’s Second Term

RealClearWire
Donald Trump

The presidential election is in its final stretch and the race is neck-and-neck, according to the polls. The outcome will have a profound impact at all levels of government and business, so preparing for a second Trump term would be prudent.

In office and on the campaign trail, former President Trump has championed federalism and granting the states greater latitude to implement policies and programs. He has voiced a commitment to reducing the footprint of federal regulations. As president, he implemented executive orders and other actions that sought to ease regulatory costs and effects. The Trump Administration also galvanized deregulatory efforts at the state and local level through the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation. A similar effort can be expected in a second term.

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Trump Assassination Attempt Suspect Seeks Judge’s Recusal from Case

Daily Caller News Foundation

The man accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September filed a motion Thursday requesting that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon recuse herself from the case.

Ryan Routh’s legal team raised concerns about Cannon’s impartiality due to her appointment by Trump and the former president’s public praise of her judicial decisions regarding his classified documents case, according to the motion. Routh’s attorneys argued that the unique nature of the case could lead the public to question the fairness of the proceedings.

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Judge Chutkan in Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s Trump Probe Unseals More Docs Ahead of Election

Just the News

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s federal Jan. 6 election interference case, on Friday unsealed nearly 1,900 pages of documents from special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation for the public to view.

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Commentary: This Election Is About Those Who Lecture Versus Those Tired of Being Lectured

The Daily Signal
People Arguing

The election is finally shaping up to be not only liberal Democrat Harris versus conservative Republican Trump.

Instead, it has become a larger contest between those who talk down to their fellow Americans and those who are increasingly sick and tired of being lectured. How smart is it, for example, for Harris supporters to claim nonstop that ex-president Trump is a fascist dictator—and thus, by extension, those also who vote for him?

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Commentary: America Needs the Trump Tax Cuts

Daily Caller News Foundation
Tax Cut Bill

The Biden-Harris administration has become synonymous with an economy in tatters. Americans are struggling with rising prices, stagnant wages, and increased obstacles to starting a business, buying a home or retiring. According to the Gallup Economic Confidence Index, Americans’ outlook on the economy from 2021 to 2024 has been negative.

Contrast this with the economic prosperity seen under the Trump administration. America enjoyed energy abundance, skyrocketing wages, a record number of startups and incredible stock market averages. A large part of this success can be credited to the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), a tax cut for families and small businesses that fueled one of the strongest economies in decades.

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Feds Begin Fortifying D.C. with Security Barriers, Fencing Roughly Three Months Ahead of Inauguration Day

Just the News
Capitol Fence

The federal government this week began fortifying Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day, which is roughly three months away.

The effort has begun with crews erecting fencing around the White House, including nearby Lafayette Park, the National Park Service, which is leading the effort, said Tuesday.  

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Fani Willis Asks Appeals Court to Reinstate Three Election Charges Against Trump

Just the News
Fani Willis

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis late Tuesday asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate three election subversion charges against former President Donald Trump, and three against his allies.

Judge Scott McAfee dismissed six charges against Trump and his allies over their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in March. McAfee determined at the time that there was not enough evidence of an underlying crime that that the group was soliciting from a public officer.

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Trump Urges Georgians to Vote Early amid Record Breaking Turnout, Hand-Count Ruling

Just the News
People Voting

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night urged Georgia residents to turn their ballots in early, after the state counted a record-breaking 300,000 votes cast during the first day of early voting and a state court blocked a hand-counting ballot rule. 

Georgia Secretary of State Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling confirmed the number in a social media post, saying the number was “123% higher than the old record for the 1st day of voting.” Tuesday was the first day of in-person early voting in the Southern state, and the first day voters could return absentee ballots. 

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Fani Willis Tries to Block Nathan Wade from Testifying to Congress

Just the News
Fani Willis and Nathan Wade

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking to block former special prosecutor Nathan Wade from testifying before Congress, arguing he might “improperly divulge confidential information.”

In a letter released Monday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., the Georgia attorney said that Wade’s testimony could violate protected privileges that are upheld by the Fulton County District Attorney’s office. 

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Secret Service, FBI Downplay Threat to Trump at California Rally

RealClearWire
Secret Service

The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI are downplaying the threat to former President Donald Trump posed by a man arrested outside a California rally Saturday night – despite assertions made by a local sheriff that his detention likely thwarted a third assassination attempt.

Deputies working for the Riverside County sheriff’s office arrested a man, identified as Vem Miller, and subsequently discovered a shotgun, loaded handgun, and high-capacity magazine in his car about a quarter mile from the entrance to Trump’s campaign rally in Coachella Valley. Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco, who endorsed Trump publicly in June, said Miller’s car, identified as a black SUV, had a fake license plate that was unregistered and possessed several phony passports and driver’s licenses with different identities, as well as what Bianco described as a fake press pass.

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Far-Left ’65 Project’ Launches Ad Blitz Threatening Lawyers’ Licenses if They Work for Trump

Just the News
Michael Teter

While lawfare frequently has targeted GOP politicians, the tactic is spreading to the legal profession as a group called “The 65 Project” has taken to social media vowing to go after the licenses of attorneys who chose to work for former President Donald Trump.

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Commentary: After Just Four Years of Biden-Harris, America’s National Security Is in Tatters

American Greatness
China President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden

Ronald Reagan’s query to the American people in his October 28, 1980, debate with incumbent President Jimmy Carter was so simple and so devastating that it is still employed today: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” While most Americans are far worse off today than they were four years ago, with rising prices, inflation, a hollow economy, and unchecked immigration, so too are the U.S., its allies, and its partner’s national security interests, which are far worse off than they were four years ago.

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Lawmakers Oppose Trump Pledge to Restore Confederate Names to Military Bases

American Greatness
Donald Trump

Following former President Donald Trump’s pledge to restore the names of military bases that were named after Confederate figures, members of both parties in Congress vowed to oppose any such efforts.

As Politico reports, President Trump made another campaign promise on the culture war front on Friday, during a town hall event in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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Trump Outperforms Harris with Hispanic Male Voters: Poll

Daily Caller News Foundation
Donald Trump Latino Support

Former President Donald Trump is outperforming Vice President Kamala Harris among Hispanic male voters, according to an AP/NORC poll released Friday.

Just 36% of Hispanic male voters said Harris would make a good president while 42% said the same for Trump, according to the poll. Harris is holding on to her lead among Hispanic women voters, with 50% supporting the Democratic candidate while just 30% support Trump.

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Chaos Swirls Around Georgia Election Board, Election Measures

The Center Square
Person Voting

The Georgia State Election Board has faced backlash and lawsuits over the last few months, especially after passing a number of election rules just weeks before Election Day.

The Republican-majority board had a win this week though when a Fulton County judge dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday put forward by Democrats.

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Commentary: Americans Notice Hypocritical Disconnect in Biden Administration’s Response to Hurricane Helene

The Daily Torch
Hurricane Helene

As the disastrous impact of Hurricane Helene reverberates through the nation and the southeast braces for the impact of Hurricane Milton, many Americans are calling out the tepid federal response from the Biden-Harris Administration even as billions of taxpayer dollars are ushered to foreign countries or into programs for illegal immigrants.

Hurricane Helene, which devastated sixteen states in the southeast from Florida to North and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, has taken the lives of over 220 Americans, and left millions without food, shelter, or power.

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Democrats, Media Misrepresent Abortion Policies on Both Sides of Political Aisle

Just the News
Abortion Supporter

Democrats and the media have misrepresented the abortion policies of Republicans and the Democratic vice presidential nominee, claiming that the former are secretly much more strict than they are and arguing that the latter is not as liberal as he appears.

From Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s abortion policies as Minnesota governor to Republicans’ stance on a national abortion ban, Democrats have distorted both their own record and their opponents’ on abortion in the months leading up to the presidential election.

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Kansas Professor Leaves School over Backlash to Video Calling to Shoot Men Who Won’t Vote for Harris

Just the News

AUniversity of Kansas (KU) professor is no longer employed at the school as of Friday, after a video of him claiming men that do not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris because of her gender should be “lined up” and “shot,” went viral, according to local reports.

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Election Tilts Toward Trump as Suspicions Grow That Some Polls May Be Masking True Size of His Lead

Just the News
Donald Trump

A string of polls from legacy outfits has pointed to a shift toward former President Donald Trump in most of the major battleground states while Vice President Harris maintains a national lead, but some analysts see a critical disconnect between state and national polling that could suggest the Republican is on even stronger footing.

Harris currently leads Trump by 2.0% in the RealClearPolitics polling average, with 49.1% support to his 47.1%. That figure includes a Rasmussen Reports survey showing Trump with a two-point lead, a Reuters/Ipsos survey showing Harris up two, a Morning Consult poll with Harris up five, a Yahoo News poll with the race tied, and a number of other surveys. A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Harris up three points.

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