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Just two days from Election Day, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are going into the homestretch with contrasting campaigns.

Trump traveled from the Rust Belt to campaign in North Carolina and Virginia on Saturday, largely focusing on top issues like the economy and immigration.

‘Over the past 4 years, Kamala has orchestrated the most egregious betrayal that any leader in American history has ever inflicted on our people.’

“If Kamala wins, you are 3 days away from the start of a 1929-style economic depression,” Trump said in a post on X. “If I win, you are 3 days away from the best jobs, the biggest paychecks, and the brightest economic future the world has ever seen. … I will massively cut taxes for workers and small businesses — and we will have NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY benefits!”

“As we rescue our economy, I will also restore our borders,” Trump said in another X post. “Over the past 4 years, Kamala has orchestrated the most egregious betrayal that any leader in American history has ever inflicted on our people. She has violated her oath, eradicated our sovereign border, and unleashed an army of gangs and criminal migrants from prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental institutions around the world, from Venezuela to the Congo — stealing countless American lives.”

Harris also spent time in the Sun Belt, campaigning in Georgia and North Carolina. Harris has refocused on policy issues like immigration, noting that she has served as attorney general of a border state.

“I was attorney general of a border state,” Harris said in a post on X. “Strengthening our border is not new to me.”

Under Harris’ purview as “Border czar,” there have been over 8.7 million migrant encounters across the southern border alone, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Harris also reminded voters of her goal to “restore reproductive freedom” and implement a $6,000 child tax credit, as well as her “economic plan” that “taps into the aspirations of the American people.”

Harris also made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” alongside Maya Rudolph. Many pointed out that the skit looked like a recreation of Trump’s 2015 appearance with Jimmy Fallon, both of which showed the presidential hopefuls speaking to their reflection, played by one of their co-hosts.

“It is nice to see you, Kamala,” Harris said to Rudolph. “And I’m just here to remind you, you got this, because you can do something your opponent cannot do. You can open doors.”

While her appearance sparked a huge amount of online discourse, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr criticized Harris’ appearance as a violation of the FCC’s “Equal Time rule.”

“The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly the type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election,” Carr said in a post on X. “Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns.”

The campaign season took another unexpected turn last night when Ann Selzer released a poll alongside the Des Moines Register showing Harris three points ahead of Trump in Iowa. This is a huge turnaround for Harris compared to the four-point deficit she was facing in the state, according to a previous poll from Selzer.

Iowa is not considered a swing state but has had a split voting record. Trump won the state in both 2020 and in 2016, but former President Barack Obama won the state in 2012 and 2008.

At the same time, many criticized this poll as a fluke, calling it a last-ditch attempt to “demoralize Trump voters.” Notably, major projections have all included Iowa as a red-leaning state.

“No President has done more for FARMERS, and the Great State of Iowa, than Donald J. Trump,” the former president said in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “In fact, it’s not even close! All polls, except for one heavily skewed toward the Democrats by a Trump hater who called it totally wrong the last time, have me up, BY A LOT.”

Trump is set to campaign in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia today. Harris will make multiple campaign stops in Michigan.

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In 2016, the night before the presidential election, I posted a few paragraphs on how I was feeling. I was in an environment where I was surrounded by left-leaning coworkers, and I felt immense pressure not to voice what I really thought.

So instead, I posted that I was exhausted by the divisive rhetoric on both sides and that, while I believed Hillary Clinton would win, it didn’t matter as much as we made it seem because we would move on.

While most of us can agree that abortion is wrong, it’s easy to be swayed into believing that ‘loving our neighbor’ means allowing those living in worse countries into ours for a ‘better life.’

I got a barrage of comments from both sides saying, “Wow, this is exactly how I feel!” I felt validated. I felt like I had pleased everyone. The problem was that I didn’t actually say anything.

In an effort to be winsome and relatable to everyone, I ignored the glaring siren in front of me: It DID matter who won this election, and Christians had no business voting for Hillary Clinton despite Donald Trump’s many flaws.

It was true then, and it’s even more true now. In 2016, we didn’t have a clue how Donald Trump would actually lead or what policies he’d truly care about. Now we do. We also have three years — and an entire abysmal career before that — of record on our other candidate, current Vice President Kamala Harris.

False empathy

Yet I don’t blame the Christian for being confused. We’re bombarded with media lies claiming that Kamala Harris is the empathetic choice. She’s the choice that will be “compassionate” to the illegal immigrant (but not to the victim of rampant immigrant crime) and to the woman with an unwanted pregnancy (but not, needless to say, to the baby being murdered).

A few weeks ago, Pastor Ray Ortlund, president of Renewal Ministries and founding pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, posted on Instagram Threads: “Never Trump. This time Harris. Always Jesus.”

Last week, Glennon Doyle, lesbian self-love guru, who still has a large Christian, female following, posted a series of slides on Instagram claiming that if Donald Trump is elected, “we lose birth control, IVF, abortion, insurance coverage, and LGBTQ+ rights.” Note that quite literally none of that is even remotely true.

In the past few weeks, I’ve seen other pastors contribute to the irresponsible lie that “both sides are just as bad” or, even worse, that “both sides are valid options.” From a Christian standpoint, not only is that untrue, it’s unbiblical and dangerous.

If you find yourself convinced by the progressive left that it would be “unloving” to vote for Donald Trump, or that it doesn’t matter as long as you “vote your conscience,” I urge you to look a little deeper at what your vote actually means.

A higher authority

As Christians, we obey a higher authority than our feelings. If we examine each candidate’s proposals in the light of biblical truth, deciding how to cast your vote isn’t so confusing after all.

Clips from Pastor Jonny Ardavanis of Stonebridge Bible Church and Pastor Josh Howerton of Lakepointe Church were making the rounds on X last week after both pastors preached excellent sermons on how Christians should view this year’s election. You can view a clip from Pastor Jonny’s sermon here and Pastor Josh’s sermon here.

The clips went viral because the church as a whole is starved for good Christian teaching that speaks to how the Christian should apply the Bible to the ballot box. These are two of the pastors who actually cared to answer.

As much as Christians like to pretend like politics and culture are outside the church, they’re not, and it’s vital that the Christian understands where Kamala Harris stands and what she represents in this election.

Abortion

Proverbs 6:16-17: “The Lord hates … hands that shed innocent blood.”

Kamala Harris is the most radically pro-abortion presidential candidate in history.

It’s true that we do not have a consistently pro-life candidate in this election, with Donald Trump refusing to support a federal abortion ban and openly and consistently supporting abortion exceptions and term limits, but the Democrats are undeniably, radically worse.

While Republicans now think abortion should be rare, as Democrats used to, Democrats celebrate it and flaunt it.

It’s not just about exceptions or limits. Harris will not name a single abortion restriction that she supports. Eight states and Washington, D.C., impose no term restrictions on abortion, and more will follow under Harris.

In 2019, she voted to block the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would have required medical care for babies born alive in botched abortions.

Her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, signed the Protect Reproductive Options Act in January 2023, which repealed the state’s Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, codifying a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” and essentially prohibiting any restrictions on abortion, including gestational age limits.

The bill also removed the requirement for abortion providers to report cases in which infants survive abortion attempts, a measure that had been in place since 2015.

While Trump is not standing strong against abortion as he should, he would inevitably surround himself with many who do. He will be supported by people who have the potential to change his mind. Harris will not.

Immigration

Acts 17:26: And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.

Perhaps no issue today divides Christians more than illegal immigration.

While most of us can agree that abortion is wrong, it’s easy to be swayed into believing that “loving our neighbor” means allowing those living in worse countries into ours for a “better life.”

But is it really loving to open our borders and put our own citizens at risk?

How were we loving our neighbor Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student, when our border failed to protect her from the unvetted illegal immigrant who brutally murdered her?

Were we loving Mollie Tibbetts, Kate Steinle, and Lizbeth Medina when they, too, died at the hands of illegal immigrants? Are we loving our neighbors in Colorado as we allow apartment complexes to be taken over by Venezuelan gangs?

Harris and Walz have repeatedly blamed Trump for rejecting a border bill that they claim would have properly vetted illegal aliens. In reality, the “border security bill” would have allowed 5,000 illegal border crossings per day before closing the border, kept catch-and-release in place, sent hundreds of millions of dollars to NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration, and required that any illegal immigrant who claims asylum be released into the country and granted work authorization almost immediately.

The fact is that Harris has no plan to secure our border. We know because she’s been asked repeatedly and has never been able to answer.

Gender and sexuality

Gen 1:27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

If you follow Libs of TikTok on X, you already know what the Democrats advocate in this department: books that read like porn being available to young children in schools, gender indoctrination baked into curriculum, and the normalization of drag shows, preferred pronouns, and “gender-affirming care” — dangerous hormone “treatments” and experimental genital mutilation surgeries.

I could write a lengthy book on the amount of corruption within the “transgender care” industry, but suffice to say that proponents in this industry are creating lifelong slaves to the medical industrial complex by selling experimental surgeries and hormone “treatments” that they know have an absurdly high complication rate.

It’s a neglect of responsibility for us to reject God’s design for sexuality and gender to begin with, and it’s a dereliction of duty to ignore the physical and mental harm being inflicted upon not only adults but children as well.

On “Transgender Day of Visibility” in 2022, Harris and Admiral Rachel Levine welcomed six “transgender” and “nonbinary” youth and their families to the White House. Levine said it was “deeply impactful to speak to some amazing trans kids at the White House. Gender-affirming care is the medical standard and allows these kids to be themselves and live a normal life.”

The same year, the White House posted a message from president Joe Biden and Harris that read, “Efforts to criminalize supportive medical care for transgender kids, to ban transgender children from playing sports, and to outlaw discussing LGBTQI+ people in schools undermine their humanity and corrode our Nation’s values.”

In a 2019 interview with the National Center for Transgender Equality, Harris crowed that as attorney general of California, she ensured that the state changed its policy “so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care that they desired and need.”

When running for president in 2019, she pledged on an ACLU questionnaire that if she became president, she would use “executive authority to ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care — including those in prison and immigration detention — will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care.”

Due to Harris’ policy, a man who is sitting on death row for gruesomely killing three people, known as the “Yacht Killer,” has received taxpayer-funded “sex-change” surgeries and is expected to transfer to a female prison soon.

Compare this to Trump’s pledge to keep men out of women’s sports and to stop child genital mutilation surgeries. Which candidate aligns more with our God-given duty to protect the vulnerable (Proverbs 31:8-9)?

Religious liberty

David Daleiden, project lead at the Center for Medical Progress, was investigated for criminal activity in 2015 by then-California Attorney General Harris after he released undercover footage showing Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of baby body parts from late-term abortions.

In 2016, Harris sent 11 armed agents along with K-9 dog units to Daleiden’s one-bedroom apartment, a raid in which the California DOJ seized dozens of hours of his unreleased undercover tapes.

Harris, upon request from her donors at Planned Parenthood, opened a criminal investigation into Daleiden and the CMP. Eight years later, he still faces charges under California’s never-before-used eavesdropping/recording law.

A few months ago, half a dozen pro-life activists were found guilty of violating a federal law that forbids protesters to block the entrances to abortion clinics. Jonathan Darnel, who remained outside the clinic, received a nearly three-year sentence. Others in the case received two-year sentences, and another — the only one who pleaded guilty — received a 10-month sentence.

Harris has voiced support for efforts to strengthen protections for “reproductive health care providers,” particularly in the context of increasing “threats” to clinics and their staff. In other words, this will only happen more under her watch.

In California, under Assembly Bill 957, a child’s gender identity must be considered in custody decisions during divorce or custody disputes. This includes custody disputes involving whether the state should have custody of the child.

In Oregon, the state can refuse Christian couples the opportunity to foster and adopt if they don’t comply with their potential future child’s “gender identity” and pledge to seek “gender-affirming care” accordingly.

This is religious “liberty” under Democrat rule.

Boiling it down

Trump or Harris? It’s really not that complicated, after all. And the same logic applies to local elections. When considering your vote, take a cue from Howerton’s sermon, in which he suggests asking the following questions.

Which candidate:

Promotes policies most likely to slow societal decay?
Will best protect our national security?
Is more likely to protect religious liberty?
Will oppose the erasure of gender?
Is more likely to stop the corrosion of the definitions of the family?
Will best limit the taking of unborn lives?

It may feel uncomfortable to admit when it’s tempting to reject party lines, but I’m more than confident that the answer to whom the Christian should vote for will simply never be “blue.”

It’s not because the Republican Party is right all the time or because Republicans don’t have their own glaring issues that need to be addressed.

It’s that the Democratic Party is a cancer to society that promotes baby murder, child genital mutilation, the destruction of the family and parents’ rights, and the unfettered influx of (sometimes violent) illegal aliens, who are draining taxpayer resources while citizens suffer. Been to North Carolina lately?

There is only one alternative. Christians, we must choose it.

The reality is that it is your duty to vote, because in a constitutional republic, you lead by electing representatives. As a Christian, you’re the leader appointing people to represent you as close to the biblical view on these issues as you can get.

To neglect to do so is a dereliction of duty. And the answer on whom to vote for isn’t complicated. As Howerton says, “Personalities are temporary; policies last a long time.”

Yes, Donald Trump is uncouth at times and posts silly little name-calling rants on X, but he also appointed Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade.

Imagine the numerous lives that were spared and will be spared because of that decision. That is what you’re voting for.

Around 30 million Bible-believing Christians didn’t vote in the last presidential election. That election is argued to have been decided by 42,000 votes.

That is why your vote matters.

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Will Joe Biden succeed in undermining the pillars of American capitalism? The Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 13 that the November election could decide whether Biden’s push to break up American companies simply for being “big” will succeed in the long run.

The Journal is correct. This election isn’t just a referendum on what the Biden-Harris administration has done to entrepreneurs over the past four years; it’s also a vote on the future of America’s economy. Another four years of the status quo could turn Biden’s unconventional policies into economic and legal precedents, causing lasting damage.

Once-successful companies are closing stores and laying off workers due to the unprecedented anti-business environment fostered by this White House.

This issue centers on how, after taking office, Biden and Harris ensured the confirmation of Lina Khan, a progressive favorite, to lead the Federal Trade Commission. Khan quickly reversed 40 years of consensus on antitrust policy by overturning the consumer welfare standard, which had limited government intervention in the economy to cases where consumers faced harm. The Department of Justice, which shares antitrust enforcement with the FTC, soon followed her lead.

Under the Biden-Harris administration’s aggressive approach to antitrust, businesses can now be regulated, broken up, or even dissolved for reasons determined by the White House, regardless of whether they lower consumer prices or increase competition. Over the past four years, this approach has led to challenges against companies for simply being “too big.”

The good news is that the Biden-Harris administration has lost nearly every corporate challenge it initiated, as courts recognize its anti-capitalism agenda lacks legal grounding and is politically motivated. However, these challenges have still cost thousands of jobs and discouraged businesses from pursuing innovation.

When the Biden-Harris administration blocked mergers like Spirit Airlines-JetBlue and Roomba-Amazon, the results were disastrous. Roomba lost jobs and declared bankruptcy, while Spirit now teeters on insolvency due to the administration’s actions.

Despite these failures, Biden and Harris continue their push, as shown by a late September lawsuit against Visa.

In its latest campaign against capitalism, the Biden-Harris administration’s antitrust cops claim Visa’s debit market is an unchecked monopoly raising consumer prices. But this is far from true. Consumers have a wide range of choices, not only with other debit cards but also through peer-to-peer payment networks like Apple Pay, Cash App, and Venmo.

Payment volumes and the number of competitors in this space continue to rise steadily. In a capitalist economy, being a popular choice among consumers isn’t a crime, but the administration is acting as if it is.

By overturning the consumer welfare standard, the Biden-Harris administration has created the worst business climate since the Carter era. Once-successful companies — even large chains like 7-Eleven and Walgreens — are closing stores and laying off workers due to the unprecedented anti-business environment fostered by this White House.

With the November election now in clear view, voters face a crucial decision.

The Wall Street Journal noted that “it is a near certainty that [Khan’s] authority will end if Donald Trump wins the presidency, as many in the GOP favor more latitude for mergers and view Khan as too tough on business.”

Voters must make the right choice, as the continuation of this anti-business agenda could lead to incalculable long-term consequences for the free market.

As voters stand at this crossroads, the choice is clear. Will they back a government that prioritizes regulation over innovation, or will they support policies that encourage free markets and allow businesses to thrive?

The costs of staying the current course are evident — job losses, higher prices, and economic stagnation. A change in direction, however, could promise economic freedom, growth, and prosperity.

We’ll have the answer soon, but one thing is clear: The current path of overregulation and government interference is unsustainable. It’s time to empower businesses, foster competition, and create an environment where innovation can flourish for all Americans.

Let’s hope voters agree.

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A 60-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a Trump supporter in a New York grocery store for wearing a “Trump 2024” hat.

According to a statement released by the Village of Bath Police Department, officers were dispatched to the Tops Friendly Markets grocery store around 10 a.m. on Friday. Police were responding to an alleged fight at the grocery store.

Police said the suspect punched the Trump supporter in the mouth and head several times, which caused the victim’s ‘teeth to be broken and mouth bloody.’

The altercation allegedly was an incident of political violence.

A man reportedly assaulted a supporter of former President Donald Trump.

The Village of Bath Police Department said 60-year-old Robert Yott “initiated a confrontation” after he became “aggressive over the fact that a stranger was wearing a Trump 2024 hat.”

Police said the suspect punched the Trump supporter in the mouth and head several times, which caused the victim’s “teeth to be broken and mouth bloody.”

Investigators noted that the two men didn’t know each other, and the alleged attack was a “random act of violence.”

Yott was arrested and charged with one felony count of assault in the second degree and one misdemeanor count of fourth-degree criminal mischief.

Yott was transported to Steuben County Jail. He is currently being held at the jail without bail.

You can watch a local news report of the alleged assault here.

This is the latest act of political violence against a Trump supporter.

In June, a 27-year-old Massachusetts man was accused of assaulting an 82-year-old Trump supporter holding a sign supporting Trump. The alleged assailant reportedly shoved the elderly man to the ground and kicked him in the ribs and legs.

Aidan Courtright of Fall River, Massachusetts, was charged with committing a civil rights violation with injury, assault and battery on a person over 60 years old, vandalizing property, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a person over 60.

In April, a 36-year-old Pennsylvania man allegedly attacked a 64-year-old Trump supporter from New Jersey. The alleged assailant reportedly attacked the man with a sledgehammer at a tire store in New Jersey. The alleged victim’s injuries to his head were apparently so severe that he had to be airlifted to the hospital.

Michael Gonzales, of Philadelphia, was charged with attempted murder.

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Blue counties in and around Atlanta, Georgia, are apparently engaging in some election shenanigans this weekend that may run afoul of state law, prompting the RNC to file yet another election integrity lawsuit.

According to a Saturday morning X post from RNC chairman Michael Whatley, Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett Counties will permit voters to drop off absentee ballots at designated polling locations this weekend. Whatley added that extending hours for ballot drop-offs “disregards the law.”

‘The Secretary of State has issued guidance to allow Republican poll watchers in but local officials REFUSE.’

Indeed, Georgia Code § 21-2-385, passed during the 2023-2024 legislative session, says that early voting in Georgia will begin “on the fourth Monday immediately prior to each primary or election” and “end on the Friday immediately prior to each primary, election, or runoff” (emphasis added).

In 2024, that end point should have been November 1.

Furthermore, Ga. Code § 21-2-382 adds that “all drop boxes shall be closed when the advance voting period ends.”

Nevertheless, a report from local PBS and NPR affiliate WABE confirmed that “metro Atlanta residents who live in Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb or Gwinnett counties can drop off their absentee ballots over the weekend and on Monday, Nov. 4, the day before Election Day, at their local election offices.”

What’s worse, there initially may not have been official oversight of some of these drop-off locations. A photo of an email apparently written by Kathryn Glenn, the registration manager of the Department of Registration & Elections in Fulton County, and apparently sent to dozens of office employees indicates that no poll watchers had been authorized.

“FYI – There are NO WATCHERS approved for ballot drop off! Do not let them in the building,” Glenn wrote, according to the photo.

“If they want to observe from the parking lot, you can’t stop that,” her email apparently continued, “but they are not allowed to sit in the building. Have your security detail enforce it!!!”

As a result, the RNC has already filed a lawsuit, Whatley claimed. As of Saturday afternoon, it remains “pending,” he said.

Josh McKoon, the leader of the Georgia Republican Party and a former state senator, called these latest moves from Democrat-area election officials a “blatant violation” of Georgian election law.

“We all know what is going on — Democrats are panicked by the incredible Republican turnout in early voting and will do anything to try to catch up even if it means doing it under the cover of darkness and stiff arming any independent observation of whatever the hell is going on in their four ‘special voting locations’ open today with no notice or approval by anyone authorized to oversee elections administration,” McKoon tweeted on Saturday morning.

McKoon tweeted Saturday afternoon that poll watchers had finally been permitted on the premises.

“Fulton County and other counties are now allowing our poll watchers to observe the voting activity occurring” on Saturday, he wrote.

He attributed the change to a pressure campaign from Republican leaders at the state and national levels.

“While we should not have to alert the public to have Georgia law enforced, I am pleased that lawful observation is now occurring.”

Blaze News reached out to Kathryn Glenn and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for comment but did not receive a response.

This is a developing story. Check back with Blaze News for further updates.

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Hendersonville, North Carolina — The devastation of Hurricane Helene has not dampened the spirits — or suppressed early voting turnout — in storm-ravaged western North Carolina.

“It’s a phenomenal turnout, but you’re actually seeing quite a bit fewer today because we’ve opened up three additional locations around the county,” said Brett Calloway, chairman of the Henderson County Republican Party.

“So we were setting records, still setting records, every day on turnout, but now it’s spread over four locations instead of just the one,” Calloway told Blaze News at a polling station. “That happened late last week. And we’ve had 3,000 to 4,000 every day.

“In 2016, which was a good turnout, 72% turnout, we were having 1,600, 1,800 a day. So we’re doubling that.”

Calloway said voters have been motivated not just by the failures coming out of Washington but also the anemic federal hurricane relief response.

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“They were motivated before with the failures of the Biden and Harris administration, but even more so after that, and you can see it with the turnout,” he said. “The turnout has been very high.

‘They are determined to come vote.’

“We’ve got a hundred counties in North Carolina, and [in] none of the counties have the Democrats performed at previous levels,” Calloway said. “In other words, they’ve underperformed every single county.”

“We have overperformed. So we’re very motivated,” he said. “We’re fed up with what we’ve seen in the administration, and their response here to the storm has just put fuel on the fire.”

‘Tremendous’ devastation

Calloway said the storm damage still makes travel inconvenient, but it does not stop the voters from coming out.

“The devastation was tremendous. Still, coming in here, I had to go alternate routes to get around bridges that were out,” he said. “And there are a lot of trees still down. Most of the county is now able to get where they need to go, but it’s not as convenient as it had been.

“So that’s been a real challenge, but what I will tell you is those areas that were most affected have not seen a drop off on their turnout. They are determined to come vote,” Calloway said.

Ryn Riley, a first-time voter, said she drove two hours from her university to make her voice heard.

“I’m here to vote for the candidate that I think will better our country,” Riley said at a polling station in Hendersonville. She said the abortion issue motivated her to vote for Donald J. Trump for president.

Ryn Riley, a student at East Tennessee State University, made the two-hour drive to vote at her home polling station in Hendersonville, North Carolina.Photo by Steve Baker/Blaze News

“I think that is really sad that people are trying to promote abortion and promote that to be a free will,” she said. “And I think that it’s wrong to murder because I think that life begins at conception. And so that one for me is a really big one.”

Riley said her position on abortion is in the minority at school and among her peers.

“There’s not many people who believe what I believe. Most people are pro-choice — or pro-abortion, as I call it,” Riley said. “That baby, even from day one, has the rights of [an] American citizen, and one of those rights is the right to live.

“I think that they’re just, it’s like a nonverbal person. They still have rights, even though they can’t speak. They’re in the womb, and I need to speak up for them because they can’t speak up for themselves yet.”

A Democrat poll-greeter at the Hendersonville polling station said she has noticed strong support for Trump among Hispanics and younger voters.

“Well, I’ve previously volunteered in Buncombe County, and I’m kind of just discouraged to see in Henderson County the number of Latinos and young people that are voting for the Republicans,” Michelle Persons told Blaze News. “And I can tell that by which voter guide they accept and which one they don’t accept. And I’d say a lot of Latinos are voting for Trump, and I don’t get it.”

Persons said she has seen a similar trend among younger voters.

“I see a lot of young people that are voting for Trump, and I don’t get it,” Persons said. “I think they must be influenced by their family members, and they haven’t formed an educated opinion yet.”

Michelle Persons, a Democratic poll-greeter in Henderson County, North Carolina, said Hispanics and younger voters are trending toward former President Donald J. Trump. “I don’t get it,” she said.Photo by Steve Baker/Blaze News

Persons said her second home in Buncombe County was swept down the river by the massive floods. She said dealing with the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been frustrating.

“So it’s been kind of disappointing. I mean, I don’t want to believe it because I’m a Democrat, and I don’t want to believe that you can’t depend on FEMA, because I know there’s people getting help, and I know I probably will eventually get help, but the process has been cumbersome and it makes you want to give up.”

Carolyn Stewart, vice chairwoman of Moms for Liberty in Buncombe County, said Trump’s Oct. 22 visit to Swannanoa was a morale boost for the region. Her husband, Mike Stewart, was among those who met with Trump during his visit.

“When he hugged him, he felt his heartbeat,” she said. “That’s what he told me. And he said it was beating for all of us, for America, not just for western North Carolina.”

Stewart, who was volunteering at a polling location in Black Mountain, said she has seen communities come together and residents help make sure each other can get out to vote.

President Trump’s visit to the area on Oct. 22 was uplifting, says Buncombe County Moms for Liberty Vice Chair Carolyn Stewart.Photo by Steve Baker/Blaze News

“I was surprised at the effort … that neighbors are supplying rides, and it’s so good,” she said. “And some of them couldn’t get out of their driveways, even in very affluent neighborhoods. They couldn’t because of trees or mud or blockage of cars. And people uniting to help each other. Yes, I’ve seen that.”

Roxanne Wetzel, former McDowell County GOP chairwoman and one of the Electoral College voters for the 11th Congressional District of North Carolina, said there has been record early voting turnout.

“We’ve been pushing that very strongly,” she said. “We will see it in the tale of the tape. [For] recovery for western North Carolina, [it’s] imperative that we elect our conservative slate of candidates.”

Wetzel said voters have taken notice of who came to help after the storms.

“The citizens of western North Carolina know who came to help. It wasn’t our current administration in the governor’s mansion in North Carolina. It was our lieutenant governor who’s running for governor [Mark Robinson]. It was the citizens. Mountain people helping mountain people. They saw who came to help.”

The North Carolina legislature voted to open a second voting location in McDowell County with almost total bipartisan support, she said.

“Only two Democrats in the house voted against it,” she said. “Otherwise, it was unanimous in the House and Senate to mandate that we open up our second voting location in the most hardest hit area of McDowell County for the hurricane so that they have access to voting.”

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Donald Trump may be the king of trolling after turning a controversial comment from President Biden — he called Trump supporters “garbage” — into a media spectacle.

Trump arrived in Wisconsin aboard a garbage truck emblazoned with “Trump Make America Great Again 2024” while wearing a bright orange reflective vest like a garbage man.

“How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden,” Trump joked to the cameras, immediately catching media attention and intensifying the debate around Biden’s comments.

However, the mainstream media has been doing everything it can to mitigate the disaster Biden created, literally rewriting history by adding in words and context that were not there.

In an article published by Politico, Jonathan Lemire wrote that “Biden, in a Zoom call with the organization Voto Latino, said ‘the only garbage’ was the ‘hatred’ of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens.”

“This is the worst, this was the most egregious,” Keith Malinak of “Pat Gray Unleashed” says of the blatant rewrite. “They actually added in the words.”

“There’s just no defending the indefensible,” Gray adds. “Really, thanks to Joe Biden for putting a lot of this focus right back on them. That’s fantastic. It just again goes to show how they feel about you.”

And Trump has not wasted the opportunity Biden laid out for him.

“He’s doing some really smart things right now. This is really good. So he posed, he had a photo op with some garbage men, he did a press conference in a garbage truck,” Gray says, adding, “So, the focus is right back on Kamala and their hatred for America.”

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Bill Maher delved into the hot-button election topics of President Joe Biden’s “garbage” comment, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico, and the legacy media’s deception about former President Donald Trump’s chickenhawk remarks regarding Liz Cheney.

On Friday’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the liberal talk show host defended Hinchcliffe following the controversy over the insult comic’s joke that Puerto Rico is a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” delivered during Trump’s recent rally at Madison Square Garden.

‘Just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad.’

Maher began, “Well, it was insulting. But look, I have to defend my profession. I’m a comic; I’m a free speech [supporter]. … But this guy’s an insult comic. Why he’s at this particular [event], it’s like bringing cocaine to a funeral.”

During his discussion with guests Tim Miller from the Bulwark and “The Fifth Column” podcast co-host Michael Moynihan, Maher asked, “Did the Democrats look weak because they can’t take a joke? Because I think that’s another Achilles’ heel that they have.”

“What the Trump people did at this rally — it’s so Trump — they hired an insult comic,” Maher stated. “Really, he went up there and did very insulting things. I’d never heard of him, but this is his act he does all the time. And he told a really demeaning joke about Puerto Rico. … It didn’t even go over with the Trump crowd. They said, ‘Look, we didn’t come here to hear vicious remarks from an insult comic. We came here to hear it from the candidate.’”

Maher claimed that Republicans would have had a much different reaction if he attempted a similar joke.

“They are just as big snowflakes, they are. Because if I did that joke in reverse and instead of Puerto Rico said Staten Island, they would have had a s**t fit,” Maher contended. “They would have found that completely unacceptable.”

As Blaze News previously reported, Hinchcliffe has refused to bend the knee for his joke despite the overwhelming fury about the quip.

Maher slammed President Biden for calling Trump supporters “garbage” and compared him to New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge who dropped an easy fly ball in the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“I think it’s a bigger gaffe than people think,” Maher said. “It’s so funny, Joe Biden, his whole career, he was like Mr. Gaffe, and then here at the very end — he’s like Aaron Judge in Game 6. He just f***ing muffed the fly ball and at the end of the thing and blew the whole [game].”

Maher declared Biden’s insult to be far worse than Hillary Clinton’s disastrous 2016 smear of Trump supporters as “deplorables.”

“Because I feel like it epitomizes everything that the Trump people hate about the Democrats. They look down at us. It’s like ‘deplorables’ times ten,” Maher noted.

Moynihan added that former President Barack Obama proclaimed that rural working-class Americans are “bitter” people who “cling to guns or religion” while on the campaign trail in 2008.

He then mocked the media for attempting to cover for Biden by asserting there was an apostrophe that they claimed altered the sitting president’s comment.

Moynihan said Trump voters feel like: “The media hates you. The elites hate you. They think that you’re garbage.”

He added that “any sort of hint of that” is not a “net positive for Democrats.”

Miller chimed in by saying that “having the elderly president give a marble-mouthed answer” was “dumb” but didn’t think it would hurt the Kamala Harris campaign significantly.

Maher blasted Biden over his inability to “shut the f*** up.”

“In fairness, he was on a video call, and he thought he was just yelling at the TV,” Maher joked.

Also during this week’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the HBO host skewered the media for intentionally misrepresenting Trump’s recent comments about Liz Cheney.

“I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney,” Maher stated. “And this is what I really don’t like about the media — no, he didn’t. You don’t have to move me to not like Donald Trump more than I already [don’t].”

Maher continued, “He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean, she is Dick Cheney’s daughter.”

Maher read Trump’s actual quote, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in the nice buildings saying, ‘Oh gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.'”

Maher compared Trump to anti-war hippies.

Maher noted, “Just to be clear, this is exactly what hippies always said. This is exactly what peaceniks always said. This is ‘Fortunate Son’ the song. It’s like, you know what? It’s very easy to sit in your building and send young men to die.”

He declared, “Just don’t lie to me. I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that, by the way, if it came out of the mouth, some of it, not the stupid part, again, sounds like what hippies used to say about not sending people to [war].”

Moynihan pointed out that Trump did say Cheney would be given a weapon, “which is not typically something you do to have someone executed.”

Even Trump adversary Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) reprimanded the media’s deceptive coverage as “ridiculous, absurd and counterproductive.”

Cheney – the former Republican representative from Wyoming – has been a vocal supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail.

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Social media was lit afire with outrage on Saturday over the death of Peanut the squirrel, a pet and online star, at the hands of the New York state government.

The pet squirrel was euthanized by the Department of Environmental Conservation after anonymous complaints were lodged against the owner Mark Longo. Another pet belonging to Longo, Fred the raccoon, was also euthanized.

Longo said he had rescued Peanut after seeing the squirrel’s mother get run over by a vehicle.

The squirrel was known as “P’nut” on various social media accounts until his untimely death at the age of seven by order of the state.

“RIP MY BEST FRIEND. Thank you for the best 7 years of my life. Thank you for bringing so much joy to us and the world. I’m sorry I failed you but thank you for everything,” wrote owner Mark Longo in a post announcing his death.

Longo said the squirrel was very friendly and docile, but state officials claimed the squirrel bit an officer while they tried to confiscate him. That provided the pretense for his state execution.

“Well internet, you WON,” Longo wrote after the animals were seized. “You took one of the most amazing animals away from me because of your selfishness.”

The incident enflamed critics of state tyranny online where many memes were cast.

“I want a government small enough to have neither the time nor the resources to conduct a 5 hour raid over a pet squirrel,” read one popular response.

“Petty bureaucrats can, at a whim, terrorize people. Nobody was being hurt, good things were being done, but some petty rule was broken. They mobilized goons and destroyed something good,” read another tweet.

“Euthanizing someone’s indoor pet squirrel under the guise of a rabies concern when New York is infested with rats is a perfect allegory for how the government functions writ large – DRAIN THE SWAMP,” said another critic.

Longo said he had rescued Peanut after seeing the squirrel’s mother get run over by a vehicle.

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A finding from a poll conducted by a Muslim civil rights group may explain why Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is losing in some states with large Muslim populations.

The Center for American Islamic Relations said its poll found that Green Party candidate Jill Stein has more support among Muslims than Harris does. Stein garnered the support of 42.3% of respondents in the poll while Harris got the support of only 41%.

‘These findings are definitely concerning for Harris, given how close the race is in this state.’

Former President Donald Trump got support from only 9.8% of the Muslim voters in the CAIR poll.

Pollster Carly Cooperman told the New York Post that the results could prove disastrous for the Harris campaign.

“These findings are definitely concerning for Harris, given how close the race is in this state,” Cooperman said. “If Harris is able to have an advantage in this state similar to Biden’s margin in 2020 (150k votes), she can still hold on, but if she underperforms with black voters, as the polling suggests, losing these voters could be decisive.”

A Muslim faction of the Democratic Party has threatened to withhold its support for Democrats over the support that the Biden administration has given to Israel’s military operation against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

Trump has taken advantage of the internecine fighting by courting the Muslim vote. On Friday, he became the first major presidential candidate to visit Dearborn, Michigan, a majority-Muslim city. While the city’s Muslim mayor rejected an invite to meet with Trump, a popular restaurant owner gave Trump a peace award for his statement calling for peace in Lebanon.

“To the Dems – your unwillingness to stop funding & enabling a genocide created the space for Trump to infiltrate our communities. Remember that,” wrote Mayor Abdullah Hammoud about the Trump visit.

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Election Day is now less than a week away, and Donald Trump appears to be gaining ground in some states.

A new poll shows the former president taking marginal leads in Wisconsin and New Hampshire — which might spell disaster for Kamala Harris.

“Look at the vote share,” Justin Robert Young, the host of “Politics Politics Politics,” tells Jill Savage and Rob Eno of “Blaze News Tonight.” “If Kamala Harris is at 47% or below, that’s where the Donald Trump campaign really, really wants them, because Donald Trump is essentially a hard-capped 48% candidate.”

“The trajectory seems to be going toward Trump,” Eno adds. “Harris is below other places where she’s been, especially with African-American voters.”

Harris has reportedly been spending this last week of the campaign going on “black podcasts” and “urban radio stations” for interviews.

“Do you think that they feel like they’re hurting … with that vote, that they need to go get what should have been sealed, you know, for two generations — years ago?” Eno asks.

“No, it’s not a good sign for her to be trying to shore up and not specifically the black vote, the black male vote very specifically. They are very much worried about that,” Young responds, noting that Kamala recently went on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast, where he was reading pre-written questions “literally off cards.”

“I wouldn’t say that it’s ridiculous to say, ‘Well, maybe this is a major problem,’ because if there is tremendous attrition with the black male vote, it’s not just a problem for Kamala Harris, it’s a problem for the Democratic Party going forward,” he adds.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump has “absolutely dominated this cycle” after his McDonald’s stunt, Joe Rogan podcast appearance, his huge Madison Square Garden rally, and his master response to Joe Biden calling his supporters “garbage.”

“There’s no doubt that this election is about Donald Trump, and both campaigns want it that way,” Young says. “The closing argument for the Kamala Harris campaign is that Donald Trump is a dangerous, unhinged, unchecked fascist that is going to destroy the country and democracy in general.”

“We will see whether or not that’s effective. If I were involved in their campaign, I would spend less time using my resources to direct attention to obvious Donald Trump wins,” he adds.

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Once, not so long ago, the Red Guard “spontaneously” swept through China in force, destroying the “Four Olds” and creating the illusion of a grassroots, youth-led, mass movement of revolution. As it turns out, there was nothing spontaneous about it. Rather, the illusion was created by gathering dozens of smaller units led by trained cadres into one space, like Tiananmen Square, where Mao Zedong held his enormous rallies. The effect was as magnificent as it was artificial, yet it took the good people of China too long to realize what was happening to their country. Mao’s coordinated propaganda machine mobilized a popular revolution out of thin air.

America is currently experiencing something similar, but the propaganda machine has moved to the digital world. The Harris-Walz presidential campaign is leading an active campaign to manipulate information on multiple social media platforms.

The Harris campaign is creating an illusion of mass support, spreading lies about its opponents and violating various rules on these platforms – not to mention the blatant dishonesty at play here.

According to a multi-part report from the Federalist, the Harris campaign is behind a coordinated effort to “artificially boost their popularity, spread election disinformation, and skirt election laws.” The author saw a post inviting Reddit users to join a Discord server, coordinating an “astroturfing” campaign.

Astroturfing is a “political and marketing term that describes creating swarms of coordinated and/or paid messages and posts to create the illusion of support from ordinary people deceptively. Essentially, ‘astroturfing’ is the opposite of grassroots support.” Accordingly, several moderators, who are Harris campaign volunteers sometimes, spam certain pieces of information onto social media. Then, they direct people to like and comment on it in a very organized fashion. Check out the original report for a full breakdown and screenshots of the Discord server and spreadsheets they use.

How effective was the Reddit inflation campaign? The report found “1,728 posts created by 67 unique Harris-Walz campaign volunteers since Oct. 4, many of which received a LOT of traction in a very short time span.” Further, by applying a filter on the last 1,000 posts on r/Politics, which has a reach of 8 million users, it was found that this subreddit was glutted with Harris campaign workers: “Of the top 1,000 posts on r/Politics, 126 were written by a user bearing the mark ‘Kamala Harris Volunteer.’”

These actions directly violate Reddit’s terms of service, which explicitly forbid vote manipulation of any kind. The Harris campaign has manipulated other platforms as well.

On X, the goals differ slightly because of the structure of the platform: One particular goal, according to a user of the Harris-Walz campaign Discord server, is to get campaign volunteers to swarm the site and “block [Community Notes] we don’t like.” The Community Notes feature is designed to correct false information, but there is a voting system to ”mitigate political bias” on a post. A community note will only stay with enough “upvotes,” but it can also be “downvoted,” and it can eventually disappear.

According to the second part of the report, this system is likewise being artificially manipulated by the Harris campaign volunteers running the Discord server. While community notes have more effectively mitigated the impact of political bias on X, the Discord server volunteers have been contributing false Community Notes as well as advising and soliciting support from users: “In the ‘twitter-community-notes’ channel found on the Harris-Walz Discord, paid Democrat staffers are also writing dubious Community Notes on X to undermine GOP and Trump messaging. They then encourage volunteers to rate them positively.”

In a fitting conclusion to this saga, Reddit moderators removed the original report from the Federalist when a user posted it on the platform: “The moderators of Reddit’s 8 million-member politics message board, known as a subreddit, removed The Federalist report itself when a user posted it. The headline — ‘The Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit to Control the Platform’ — allegedly violates the board’s rules.”

Thanks to the excellent reporting from Reddit Lies on X, this campaign move was brought to light. The Harris campaign is creating an illusion of mass support, spreading lies about its opponents, and violating various rules on these platforms — not to mention the blatant dishonesty at play here. The Chinese were crushed by a similar deceitful propaganda campaign. We can only hope that we don’t repeat history.

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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris made appearances across the Rust Belt on Friday but had very different messages for voters.

Both Trump and Harris held rallies in Wisconsin, with the Republican also making a pit stop in Michigan. In a race that will largely be decided by undecided voters or key demographics that may be up for grabs, the candidates have chosen contrasting messages to close with.

How does she plan to improve the state of affairs for Americans, and as sitting vice president, why hasn’t she?

“Oh, it’s good to be in the house of labor!” Harris remarked at her rally in Janesville, Wisconsin.

“I proudly stand with labor. I have my whole entire career. I always will,” Harris continued. “This is about the dignity of work. It is about America’s work force. It is about our future. And it’s just about what is right.”

Notably, the jobs report was released the same day, revealing that the Biden-Harris administration added only 12,000 more jobs in the month of October. This is the lowest increase since 2020.

Harris also put forth a last-ditch economic pitch to rally-goers in Little Chute, Wisconsin, promising to implement a middle-class tax and a federal ban on corporate price-gouging on groceries.

It’s clear the Harris camp is tailoring its message to voters’ priorities, as the economy ranks the most important issue going into November. However, the Achilles’ heel of the Harris campaign has been this very issue. How does she plan to improve the state of affairs for Americans, and as sitting vice president, why hasn’t she already done so?

Harris closed out her Rust Belt tour in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with celebrity appearances and endorsements from rappers like Cardi B and GloRilla.

“Just like Kamala Harris, I too have been the underdog,” Cardi B said. “I’ve been underestimated. My success belittled and discredited. Let me tell you something. Let me tell y’all something. Women have to work ten times harder, perform ten times better, and still, people question us, how we got to the top.”

Cardi B went on to speak about abortion “rights,” an issue the Democratic Party has made a focal point for the Harris campaign.

“Donny Dump, if your definition of protection is making sure our daughters have fewer rights than their mothers, then I don’t want it,” she said.

Trump, on the other hand, has spent time securing a key demographic in Michigan: Muslim and Arab voters. In the aftermath of Trump’s Thursday campaign stop in Dearborn, a Muslim-majority city, left-wing politicians like Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan sounded the alarm for her own party.

“Trump is a proud Islamophobe + serial liar who does not stand for peace. The reality is that the Biden admin’s unconditional support for genocide is what got us here,” Tlaib said in a post on X. “This should be a wake-up call for those who continue to support genocide. This election should not be this close.”

Although Tlaib expressed her vehement opposition to the Republican nominee, she pointed out a key weakness within her own party. Harris’ campaign has been weighed down by the Israel-Gaza conflict and the administration’s apparent inability to resolve it.

Although Muslims and Arabs may have been a reliable demographic for Democrats to secure, the ongoing war has turned many away from Harris. This could be particularly detrimental for Democrats in key states like Michigan that have a substantial Arab population. Harris knows this, and Trump is capitalizing on it.

Trump also took time to counterprogram Harris in Milwaukee. Trump hit on recurring themes like illegal immigration and using tariffs to protect American workers and punish foreign adversaries. The campaign stops were wrapped up with a hopeful closing message.

“My closing message is that I love America, and I’m inviting you to join us in building an extraordinary future,” Trump said. “My oath of office is an oath of allegiance to you, the American people. I’m asking for your vote, but I want you to know that whether or not you vote for me, when I win, I will fight for you with every breath of my body.”

“Everything we have been fighting for these last four years comes down to these next four days,” Trump continued. “With your help, from now until Election Day, we will restore America’s promise, and we will take back the nation that we love.”

On Saturday, Trump is continuing his campaign with rallies in Gastonia, North Carolina, and Salem, Virginia. He will then return back to North Carolina to hold a rally in Greensboro.

Harris is traveling to Atlanta, Georgia, to hold a rally and then later to Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) explained why she recently remarked that former President Donald Trump will put political opponents in internment camps should he win next week’s election.

Dingell told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Trump wants to put Muslims in internment camps after being asked about the support he is receiving from the Muslim community in Michigan. She then told Tapper, “You may have to visit me in one. I get worried enough when he talks about what he’s going to do to his political enemies.”

‘You stand by that remark?’

Dingell was pressed on her comments during an interview with Fox News host Neil Cavuto.

“No, I don’t regret those comments. And I’m going to be very …” Dingell said.

“You really think you would be thrown in an internment camp? You? A sitting U.S. congresswoman?” Cavuto interjected.

“I said it half-sarcastically,” she replied. “Donald Trump has been very clear that he is going to go what he calls ‘the enemy from within.’ I think we’re all Americans, and you can disagree agreeably. He names his enemies by name.”

Dingell then gave a false impression of what Trump said about former Congresswoman Liz Cheney needing to fight in wars she advocates for to know the full impact of such decisions. Dingell then incorrectly described the enhanced security measures during Trump’s first term for countries with terrorism as a Muslim ban.

“You stand by that remark? You stand by the internment-camp remark? And was that to put fear into voters’ minds in your state?” Cavuto asked again.

Dingell repeated that Trump talked about “internment camps” despite Cavuto pointing out he could find no evidence of such language from Trump.

The Trump campaign has called Dingell’s comments a “HOAX.”

“Top Kamala surrogate Debbie Dingell pushes an absurd, dangerous lie that President Trump will put his political enemies, Muslims, and Arab Americans in ‘internment camps.'”

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Tim Walz is drowning in scandal. Some of that has to do with his political history — like how he made Minnesota a transgender sanctuary, removed all restrictions on abortion, and allowed Minneapolis to burn to the ground during the BLM riots. But some of the scandal has to do with his personal history — most notably his hushed love affair with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official while he was teaching in Foshan, China.

“Tim Walz had a secret fling with the daughter of a high-ranking communist official during his 1989 teaching stint in China. Jenna Wang, who is now 59 years old, claims that the VP hopeful showered her with gifts and seduced her,” says Liz Wheeler, reading from a Daily Mail news article.

According to the outlet’s report, Walz and Wang had to keep their relationship under wraps because the girl’s father would have “[disowned] her for fraternizing with a Westerner.”

Although Wang hoped for marriage, “no proposal was forthcoming from the future Minnesota governor, and the shame of being treated ‘like a prostitute’ eventually left Wang feeling angry and suicidal.”

While Walz was sneaking around with Wang, the CCP was taking notes on him — specifically how he was “a prime target for its influence operations in the U.S.,” according to a report from the New York Post.

“They thought that they could use Tim Walz as part of their influence operations in Washington, D.C., and you know what? Somehow I suspect that they were successful,” says Liz.

“You’ll notice that the same press that falsely accuse you and I of being Nazis because we support Trump, the same press that is running interference like crisis PR for Joe Biden after he called all of us garbage won’t ask Kamala Harris or Tim Walz a single question about this affair that Tim Walz engaged in with the daughter of a Chinese communist politician,” she adds.

To hear more about the suppressed scandal, watch the clip above.

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Florida issued a reminder to the Department of Justice that federal election monitors are not allowed inside the state’s polling places after the Civil Rights Division announced agents will be in 27 states to ensure “compliance with federal voting rights laws.”

“The Justice Department enforces federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all eligible citizens to access the ballot. The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country,” the DOJ said in a press release on Friday.

Florida will be sending its own election monitors to polling locations next Tuesday to ensure election laws are being followed.

“The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will coordinate the effort. Monitors will include personnel from the Civil Rights Division, other department divisions, U.S. Attorney’s Offices and federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management. Throughout Election Day, division personnel will maintain contact with state and local election officials,” the DOJ said.

Alongside Florida, the DOJ is sending monitors to states such as Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, and North Carolina.

Shortly after the DOJ’s announcement, the Florida Department of State posted the letter the agency sent to the federal government.

“As a reminder, Department of Justice monitors are not permitted inside a polling place under Florida law. Section 102.031(3)(a) of the Florida Statues lists the people who ‘may enter any polling room or polling place.’ Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list,” Secretary of State Cord Byrd wrote.

“Even if they could qualify as ‘law enforcement’ under section 102.031(3)(a)6 of the Florida Statues, absent some evidence concerning the need for federal intrusion, or some federal statute that preempts federal law, the presence of federal law enforcement inside polling places would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in the election,” Byrd continued.

Florida will be sending its own election monitors to polling locations next Tuesday to ensure election laws are being followed.

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Donald Trump currently holds a razor-thin 0.6% lead over Kamala Harris in the RealClearPolitics Polling Average for Pennsylvania. With this key swing state potentially deciding the outcome of the Electoral College, Democrats can only wonder how different the polls might look if Pennsylvania’s popular governor, Josh Shapiro — once considered a front-runner for Harris’ vice presidential pick — were on the ticket instead of Tim Walz.

One factor that pushed Walz to the top of Harris’ list, despite the strategic advantages of choosing a swing-state governor like Shapiro, stands out: Across the board, Walz has been more progressive on education issues.

As a former teacher, Walz would be poised to play a leading role in education policy if he and Harris win on Election Day.

Last year, Shapiro angered fellow Democrats and teachers’ unions by working with state Republicans on a plan to enact a private school voucher system. Later, facing pressure from his own party, Shapiro reversed course and vetoed the proposal, leaving Republicans and school-choice advocates feeling betrayed.

His reversal mollified some within his party, and dozens of unions publicly released statements of support — but others on the left never quite forgave him. When Shapiro’s name was floated as a likely VP candidate, a coalition of progressive groups published an open letter to Harris. The letter attempted to link Shapiro’s voucher-friendly stance to the Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 and “respectfully” urged Harris not to choose him.

Accordingly, some Democratic leaders worried that Shapiro’s past support for vouchers might erode support among a critical part of their base. Nikhil Goyal, a DNC delegate from Vermont, said he would have “grave concerns” about Shapiro “when we have a great desire to win over educators and school staff and Americans who support public education.”

In contrast, Tim Walz boasts sterling credentials from the standpoint of anyone opposing school vouchers. Walz is the first former schoolteacher to appear on a major-party ticket in half a century. As governor of Minnesota, he strongly opposed school-choice initiatives like the one Shapiro had backed. When the state’s Democratic House Speaker suggested a minor compromise with Republicans on vouchers, Walz’s response was unequivocal. “It was kind of ‘over my dead body,’” she recounted.

Trump has vowed to enact “universal school choice” if given a second term, and he appointed outspoken voucher advocate Betsy DeVos as his education secretary during his first term.

On the other hand, the Democratic Party platform released this summer included a strong statement against private school vouchers. Support for publicly funded school vouchers has become a third rail in Democratic politics. And Shapiro’s past flirtation with vouchers may well have cost him the VP slot.

What’s more, in a year when college campuses erupted in pro-Palestinian protests over the Biden administration’s support for Israel in the Gaza war, Shapiro’s Jewish heritage and public efforts to hold university leaders accountable for anti-Semitic incidents on Pennsylvania campuses may have been seen as an additional electoral liability among young progressives who view Israel as an oppressor and the chief evildoer in the war in Gaza.

Walz, by contrast, has been more outspoken in his support for pro-Palestinian protesters. While he condemned Hamas, he said he believes students are protesting on behalf of Palestinians “for all the right reasons.”

As a former teacher, Walz would be poised to play a leading role in education policy if he and Harris win on Election Day. Republicans, accordingly, have drawn attention to Walz’s education record as governor, betting that the progressive policies that helped him win the VP race may not endear him to swing voters. Walz, for instance, signed a law preventing libraries from removing sexually explicit books from children’s shelves and mandated that public schools stock tampons in boys’ bathrooms — a policy that JD Vance has criticized on the campaign trail.

Team Trump has also highlighted Walz’s support for critical race theory and his overhaul of the state’s social studies curriculum. In September, Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign supporters began posting a video on X featuring Brian Lozenski, a professor of multicultural education at Macalester College whom Walz tapped to help write the state’s ethnic studies standards.

In the video, Lozenski describes himself as a critical race theorist and explains his views:

The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States as constructed is irreversibly racist. So if the nation-state as constructed is irreversibly racist, then it must be done with, it must be overthrown. … You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S., OK. It is an anti-state theory that says the United States needs to be deconstructed, period. Right. Like that’s, you know, and so I think, I think it’s an interesting argument there. And that’s why I’m a critical race theorist.

Katherine Kersten dug deeper into the curriculum standards Lozenski helped craft in her piece for the Wall Street Journal: “High school students are told to ‘develop an analysis of racial capitalism’ and ‘anti-Blackness,’” she wrote, “and are taught to see themselves as members of ‘racialized hierarchies’ based on ‘dominant European beauty standards.’”

Lozenski is a founding organizer of Education for Liberation Minnesota, a group that Kersten notes has advocated for “defunding the police” and “abolishing the social order and building a new society.”

If Walz is poised to take a leading role in education policy in a potential Harris administration, his record offers much for progressives to celebrate. Whether more moderate swing voters — those Harris and Walz need to win over in Pennsylvania — will be impressed by the kinds of ideas promoted by Walz’s appointee Lozenski is another matter.

If Pennsylvania goes red on Nov. 5, Democrats will be left with many questions. Here’s one: What if the uncompromising brand of progressivism that helped Walz secure the VP nod over Shapiro is the very thing that gives Trump a second term?

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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Sam Harris was once a key thinker when it came to waking liberals up to the dangers of identity politics on the left. However, that has not stopped him from contracting a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, which he has tragically been unable to shake.

“My original claim, Sam, is that Donald Trump is very obvious in his excesses. Democrats and the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris are much more, I would say much more, subtle in their excesses,” Ben Shapiro said in a debate with Sam Harris on Bari Weiss’ “The Free Press” podcast. “But those excesses are no less dangerous for being more subtle, in fact, in some ways I think they are more dangerous.”

“You can’t use a phrase like ‘no less dangerous.’ Hillary Clinton conceded in 24 hours. That is less dangerous than this continuous provocation that has gone on for years,” Harris responded, referencing Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results.

“I disagree with you,” Shapiro shot back. “I think that the attempt by members of the media, by Hillary Clinton who herself said that Donald Trump was illegitimately elected based on Russian interference in the 2016 election, was highly damaging.”

Harris then acted as though Clinton no longer says anything of the sort.

“She will still claim openly that there was manipulation that took place during the 2016 election,” Shapiro responded, while Harris repeated, “That’s not true.”

Harris then went on to make the case that “the sane thing to say is that there is continuous foreign interference in our elections.”

“Sam, now you’re proposing a double standard. When Hillary says it, it’s totally subtle and fine, and when Trump says it in the most obvious, foolish way, it’s totally different,” Shapiro said, stifling a laugh.

“You’re just missing the relevant details,” Harris concluded.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is dismayed to see how bad Harris’ TDS has gotten, as Rubin once looked up to him.

“He’s not missing the relevant details. Hillary repeatedly, multiple times on Twitter and throughout the media, over the course of the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, referred to him as illegitimate and said that the election was stolen,” Rubin says.

“They also had a sham impeachment, they had 51 intelligence officials who claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation,” he continues, noting Big Tech banned the story.

“You had an entire machine that was designed to destroy Donald Trump,” he adds.

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Federal law enforcement officials said that Russian troll farms were responsible for a viral video hoax meant to create chaos ahead of Election Day.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement Friday that officials had assessed “that Russian influence actors manufactured a recent video that falsely depicted individuals claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in multiple counties in Georgia.”

‘As Americans we can’t let our enemies use lies to divide us and undermine our faith in our institutions — or each other.’

The statement was also signed by the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

“This Russian activity is part of Moscow’s broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the US election and stoke divisions among Americans,” ODNI added.

The people in the video claimed to have entered the U.S. six months prior, obtained U.S. citizenship, and that they were voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in several counties in Georgia.

“Yesterday, we voted in Gwinnett County, and today we’re voting in Fulton County,” said the man in the hoax video. “We have all our documents, driver’s license. We invite all Haitians to come to America and bring families.”

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, also said his office had determined the video was false.

“This is false and is an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen in this and other elections. It is likely foreign interference attempting to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the 2024 Presidential election,” wrote Raffensperger.

“As Americans we can’t let our enemies use lies to divide us and undermine our faith in our institutions — or each other,” he added.

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When I woke up the morning after Trump’s 2016 victory, it was clear that the world was ending.

I was a junior in college, pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting. The theater department was housed within the humanities building. We shared space with the students studying women and gender studies.

Another student, both gay and black, said, ‘Anyone who voted for Donald Trump hates me.’

I only knew one other person who, like me, had cast their vote for Donald Trump. We had both filled out our mail-in ballots in guilty silence.

When I arrived on campus that morning, I collided with a good friend; she had filled a 7-Eleven Slurpee cup with booze and was drinking it somewhat discreetly in the hallways. She was not the only one, and she was not reprimanded.

In the quad, my physical theater professor (yes, that was a real course) was handing out free, consolatory pancakes to students with swollen, red eyes.

In my afternoon scene study class, a young woman sat in the corner and cried, “I really thought we would finally have a woman for president.”

Another student, both gay and black, said, “Anyone who voted for Donald Trump hates me.”

My professor nodded with the bravado of righteous indignation, like a wise elder at the gate watching as the city crumbled to pieces, pitying the young people who would have to go on living.

As I ascended the staircase toward my bedroom that evening, my roommate, the one other person who was not utterly demoralized by Hillary Clinton’s defeat, popped his head out, surveyed the room to ensure we could not be overheard, and whispered, “I’m not sad that he won.”

“Me, neither,” I breathed.

That was all we said. Even in our own home, it was not safe to say more.

I kept my vote for Donald Trump a secret for years. There were many days, listening to my friends bemoan the callous inhumanity of Republican voters and the inevitable rise of fascism because Donald Trump wanted to cut taxes, that I would wonder if — at my lowest points, fantasize that — my ballot had been lost in the mail. Maybe I was not culpable in his victory at all.

The vigil for American democracy that had taken place in my humanities building had convinced me that if I were to be a conservative traversing among the creative society, I must be a quiet one.

But times change, don’t they?

Times change when men invade women’s locker rooms. When doctors sterilize children. When Big Pharma lies to us. When free speech is compromised.

Today, the conservatives are more classically liberal than the liberals. And I, as someone with classically liberal tendencies, am living in my era.

I’m fist-bumping RFK Jr. as he promises to “Make Frying Oil Tallow Again.” I’m vibing with JD Vance’s commitment to the hard-working blue-collar class of America. I’m getting behind Elon Musk’s defense of free speech on the internet. And yes, I am no longer ashamed to say that I really hope Trump can Make America Great Again.

But regardless of which way this election goes, I refuse to behave like my humanities department did in 2016. I will not hold a vigil for the bygone American republic. I will not assume the worst of those who voted differently than I did or didn’t even vote at all.

What matters to me most this election season is the way we treat one another.

At the end of the day, most of us will never meet our president. He or she will not keep our keys for us when we leave for vacation. Our president will not gather with us for Thanksgiving dinner. It’s unlikely our elected officials will come together to pray for our sick mother or celebrate our new child. But our neighbors, our family, our community who may vote differently than us, they will be there.

This is America.

Go out and vote for the best candidate without shame. Put that campaign sign in your yard, if you want to, because we can handle a nation of people who don’t all vote the same way, and, in fact, we must.

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