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Liberal comedian Jon Stewart defended his colleague, who made a joke about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally, and instead jabbed at the Harris-Walz campaign for its own debacle involving Beyoncé.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe is known for his comedy roasts, but some of the politically incorrect jokes he made at the Madison Square Garden rally for former President Donald Trump led to a media firestorm. The Trump campaign distanced itself from the comments, especially in reference to Puerto Rico.

Stewart featured a clip of the jokes on “The Daily Show” Monday.

“For the media, there was one moment in particular that raised the alarms,” he said.

“Obviously, in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before Election Day and roasting a key demographic … probably not the best decision by the campaign politically, but to be fair, the guy’s just really doing what he does,” he continued.

Stewart then laughed after playing video of Hinchcliffe’s edgy jokes at a roast of Tom Brady.

“Yes, yes, of course, terrible, boo. There’s something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny. I’m sorry, I don’t know what to tell you,” he added. “I mean, bringing him to a rally and having him not do roast jokes? That’d be like bringing Beyoncé to a rally and not …”

Stewart was referring to an appearance by the popular singer at a Houston rally for Vice President Kamala Harris during which she spoke for a few minutes but did not perform as expected. Some of the rally attendees booed and interrupted Harris’ speech in their disappointment.

Democrats and some in the media have used Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico to try to revive racist allegations against Trump. The comedian refused to apologize for the joke, and some in the Puerto Rican community came out to support Trump regardless of the controversy.

Stewart’s commentary can be viewed on the video on his YouTube channel here.

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A Pennsylvania man who purports to be a woman has been arrested and held without bail after he allegedly threatened to kill former President Donald Trump last week.

On Friday, Paul Gavenonis, 74, approached a transportation office employee at Penn State University and attempted to purchase a commuter lot parking pass. During a conversation with the employee, Gavenonis mentioned a Trump rally scheduled to take place at PSU the following day.

‘Frankly, I hope somebody would get him.’

As their conversation continued, Gavenonis then allegedly made violent threats against the former president. “I hate Donald Trump. I’d like to shoot that guy,” he reportedly said while pretending to rack a gun with his hands, according to the New York Post.

“You can’t take a gun in or the students will see it,” he allegedly added after discussing scaling a tall building.

Gavenonis’ alleged comments worried the employee, who reported them to the authorities within minutes. Gavenonis was arrested just after 10:30 p.m. Friday, jail records showed.

When questioned by the U.S. Secret Service, Gavenonis allegedly admitted that he “probably” could kill Trump at a rally and that he had a rifle at home.

“Frankly, I hope somebody would get him,” he also told federal and local law enforcement, according to the arrest affidavit.

Gavenonis was eventually charged with making terroristic threats and disorderly conduct, a court docket showed.

He was also denied bail in part because he was deemed “suicidal,” the docket noted.

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Both the court docket and jail records list Gavenonis as a white female. The Centre County Public Defender’s Office also claimed he uses she/her pronouns, the Post reported.

When Blaze News reached out to the Centre County jail, Lt. Mark Waite provided Gavenonis’ booking photo but did not clarify whether he is being housed in a male or female facility.

The Kansas City Star reported that Gavenonis is a registered Democrat.

Three months ago, Trump came within millimeters of losing his life after Thomas Crooks fired multiple shots at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, about 140 miles west of the Penn State campus in State College. One bullet tore through Trump’s ear, while another killed former fire chief Corey Comperatore. Two others were critically wounded.

Then last month, Ryan Routh allegedly set up a sniper’s nest at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, with the intention of assassinating Trump. Fortunately, the suspect was spotted before he could fire a shot.

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Arabic readers are lambasting socialist Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York for publishing a flyer meant to court the Muslim vote with obvious errors.

Ocasio-Cortez posted an image of the flyer to her X account, but she was immediately assailed for incompetently putting out the image without enough proofreading.

‘This is offensive and a stupid own goal at a time when you truly can’t afford it.’

“I can read Arabic so this is giving me severe psychic damage but I like to think that people who can’t can at least see how wrong this looks? Like it is very very obviously not how Arabic looks even if you don’t understand the language,” read one response.

Blaze News confirmed the error with a fluent Arabic speaker who said the mistake appeared to be on the part of the graphic designer who placed the text on the image without maintaining the proper direction of the letters.

Ocasio-Cortez deleted the tweet after the ridicule, which was extensive and detailed.

“Incredible. @AOC‘s team clearly didn’t even bother to consult an Arabic speaker for their flyer targeting Arab Americans. All the letters are disjointed and the words are reversed,” replied Tamara Nassar, an associate editor at Intifada magazine.

“Today AOC presented illegible fliers with backwards Arabic script. The gibberish being a clear indication that neither Arabs nor Iranians work in her campaign,” said comedian Chelsea Hart.

“No f***ing way,” responded an account identifying as pro-Palestinian. “She is trying to grift Arab vote but clearly doesn’t have a single Arab on her staff. Or even Central/South Asian cuz even they couldve pointed out the glaringly obvious error here.”

“I BEG you to have someone who knows Arabic produce or at least review your outreach materials,” replied Egyptian-American Amir Beshay. “This is offensive and a stupid own goal at a time when you truly can’t afford it.”

“It is breathtaking how deeply unserious and racist @AOC is towards the Arab community,” read another tweet.

Ocasio-Cortez and others on the left have been targeted by the pro-Palestinian fringe of the Democratic Party over their lack of extreme opposition to Israel. The politician’s own party, the Democratic Socialists of America, are considering to censure her for daring to sign onto congressional bills that acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.

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Weaponization of the government’s power against its opponents and even its own citizens has been steadily growing worse and for a reason.

FBI whistleblower Steve Friend is well aware as to why that is.

“To set the foundation for it, you have to go back to Barack Obama assuming office in 2009. So, a Kamala Harris presidency would mean 20 years. That’s an entire government career, a full generation of hiring that has gone across every single agency,” Friend tells Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show.”

“Now you have 20 years of ideologies,” he continues, adding, “and that’s how you’re getting things like McDonald’s the other day, who had one franchise allow him to do one photo opportunity and then we had an E. coli breakout, CDC all over that one, and then the United States senators accusing them of price gouging and driving the stock share price down.”

Not only did the government jump at the chance to punish McDonald’s for allowing a photo op with a political opponent, but citizens across the country have fallen victim to the FACE Act.

“In the Biden administration, it’s been applied more than any other presidential administration in history,” Friend explains. “92% application towards pro-lifers, not people who were subject to fire bombings at their crisis pregnancy centers.”

“People do not know exactly the powers that are at their fingertips,” Friend continues. “They have the ability to have an assessment from the Patriot Act, which means that they can open up an investigation on any American for an articulable purpose. Don’t need probable cause of a crime.”

Deace is rightfully disturbed.

“In other words, you’re describing investigations in search of crimes. Not criminal investigations, but investigations in search of crimes. That’s what you’re describing,” Deace says.

“Find me a man, and I’ll show you the crime,” Friend agrees.

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Armin Mizani, the mayor of Keller, Texas, explained on X why the joke made by roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe about Puerto Rico’s trash problems will not sway him and many other Latinos from voting for former President Donald Trump.

Hinchcliffe’s joke at the Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday resulted in intense backlash for him and Trump.

“As one of the few Mayors in this country who is actually Puerto Rican (born and raised), lets get real for a moment and let me offer an explanation as to why [Trump] and [Vance] are surging in the polls amongst Latinos and why they’ll continue to do so through election day,” said Mizani, who lived on the island until he was 9 years old.

Harris’ support among Latinos in Nevada and Arizona is small when compared to President Joe Biden’s support.

“For Latinos, faith, family, and economic opportunity motivates us – not some bad joke by a comedian. America has had a first hand account of the two choices before us,” Mizani explained. “Under the Biden and Harris administration, Americans have seen record inflation, an open southern border, increased crime, the weakening of the family structure, and the taking away of God from our daily lives.”

Under Trump, Mizani continued, “Americans saw secured borders, economic prosperity, a respect for people of faith, and a respect for American values. This is why I, along with millions of Latinos, will help re-elect President Trump back into the White House.”

Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) likewise said a joke by an insult comic may not appeal to everyone, but the real issue is what has happened under the Biden-Harris administration.

“What isn’t a joke is how Kamala Harris destroyed our economy and allowed dangerous criminals to illegally enter our country and terrorize, rape and murder Americans,” Rubio said. “And what isn’t a joke and truly outrageous is how ‘journalists’ are helping Kamala [Harris] with her dangerous campaign of hate by calling Trump the new Hitler and how MSNBC used old footage of Nazi rallies TO SMEAR TRUMP SUPPORTERS AS NAZIS!”

CNN reported Harris’ support among Latinos in Nevada and Arizona is small when compared to President Joe Biden’s support from that voting bloc in 2020. Harris is up 18 points with Latinos in Arizona, down from Biden’s 24 points, and she is up only one point in Nevada, down from Biden’s 26 points four years ago.

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This election season has been stuffed full of cringe-worthy moments, but Vice President Kamala Harris has overtaken all contenders with this latest entry into the contest.

‘That was just so awkward. It was painfully awkward to even watch.’

Harris was speaking before a number of supporters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when they began chanting her name. The presidential candidate attempted to make a point about their individual efforts when she made a bizarre request.

“Now I want each of you to shout your own name. Do that!” she said and laughed maniacally.

The crowd paused and quieted in confusion.

“Cuz it’s all about all of us!” she said in the uncomfortable silence. “It’s all about all of us!”

Video of the moment spread far and wide on social media, where it was met with hilarious ridicule. Just one post of the video garnered 5.4 million views on its own.

“She cannot control a crowd,” replied commentator Collin Rugg. “To her credit, she never deserved to be in this position. She was installed.”

“I honestly thought Hillary was the least likeable candidate ever in all our history, but I do believe Kamala has taken the title away from her,” read another response.

“This has to be the most embarrassing moment I’ve ever seen at a political rally. I feel bad for her campaign staff. This is not what you want happening 7 days before an election,” said another critic.

“That was just so awkward. It was painfully awkward to even watch. Ouch,” read another tweet.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz didn’t fare much better in the week before Election Day. A message meant to reach out to male voters was brutally mocked and ridiculed for a weird gaffe about football.

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With just a week until Election Day, Republicans’ record early voting and registration turnouts may be sending warning signs to Democrats.

Roughly 27.4 million Americans nationally have cast their votes early, with some swing states already exceeding 2016 rates. Although Republicans have historically hesitated to embrace early voting, several swing states that collect data based on party affiliation show that Republicans are now outpacing their Democratic counterparts.

“You’d rather be in our position than theirs,” James Blair, a political director for Trump, told the Wall Street Journal. “It’s too early to start declaring victory, but the swings in our direction are very positive.”

‘Looking at who is showing up, I would say Republicans should feel good and Democrats may have some work to do.’

Trump is currently outperforming Harris in Arizona by 1.5 points despite losing the state to Biden by 0.4% in 2020. At the same time, Republicans are also outpacing Democrats when it comes to early voting.

As of Monday, 32% of Arizona’s electorate have cast their ballots by mail-in or early voting. Of those 1.4 million ballots, 589,000 are Republican ballots, 486,000 are Democratic, and 326,000 are from third-party or independent voters.

Arizona Republicans have also registered in greater numbers going into November compared to previous election cycles. As of October 2024, there are over 1.5 million registered Republicans and roughly 1.2 million registered Democrats. This nearly six-point registration gap between the parties is double the advantage Arizona Republicans had going into 2020.

Republicans hold a similar advantage in the neighboring Sun Belt state of Nevada. There, Harris is trailing Trump by an average of 0.7 points, although Biden won the state by 2.4% in 2020.

Republicans also have an unprecedented leg up in Nevada when it comes to early voting. Of the 712,000 early ballots that were cast as of Friday, over 280,000 are Republican ballots, 245,000 are Democratic, and nearly 180,000 were from unaffiliated voters.

There has also been a favorable shift toward Republicans with respect to voter registration. Of the 2.4 million registered voters in Nevada as of September 2024, there are about 718,000 Democrats, nearly 674,000 Republicans, and about 1 million third-party or unaffiliated voters. In contrast, of the 1.9 million registered voters in September 2020, about 742,000 were Democrats, 626,000 were Republicans, and 604,000 were third-party or independent voters.

Not only did overall voter registration in Nevada increase by roughly half a million, but there was also an increase in Republican, independent, and third-party registration while Democrats saw a decrease. However, unlike Arizona, Nevada implemented automatic voter registration in 2020, which may have contributed to this shift.

Some voters attribute Trump’s edge in the Sun Belt to a broader shift among Latino voters. Polls comparing Harris’ and Biden’s support among Hispanics have shown that the current Democratic nominee is hemorrhaging support with the demographic, while Trump has managed to gain ground.

Farther east, in North Carolina, Trump is leading Harris by an average of 0.9 points, while also winning the state in 2020 against Biden and in 2016 against former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Although the race is tight, Republicans have made strides.

Over a third of North Carolina’s eligible voters, or 3.1 million ballots, have been cast as of Tuesday. Of those early votes, Republicans are slightly outperforming Democrats, with roughly 1.1 million votes from Republicans and about 1 million from Democrats. Despite the close margin, Harris has actually pulled ads and resources from the state just a week from the election.

Although Republicans are slightly ahead, they are actually outnumbered when it comes to voter registration in North Carolina. As of October 2024, roughly 2.4 million voters are registered Democrats and 2.3 million are Republicans. The registration gap has significantly narrowed compared to October 2020, with over 2.6 million registered Democrats and 2.2 million Republicans.

Republicans are also gaining ground in Pennsylvania, the most electorally significant of the swing states. Although Trump lost the state to Biden in 2020 by 1.2%, the Republican nominee now boasts an average lead over Harris of 0.4 points.

Of the 1.4 million early ballots cast in Pennsylvania, nearly 815,000 have been cast by Democrats, while just 439,000 have been cast by Republicans. Although Democrats are outpacing Republicans, the GOP has begun to close the gap.

Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin don’t collect data based on party affiliation, but there is still a record turnout for early voting and voter registration.

“Looking at who is showing up, I would say Republicans should feel good and Democrats may have some work to do,” Michael Bitzer, a professor at Catawba College, told the Wall Street Journal.

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A Catholic group released an eye-opening new ad revealing Kamala Harris’ previous support for an “anti-Catholic hate group” and suggesting she harbors anti-Christian antipathy more generally.

On Monday, CatholicVote released the video ad featuring a photo of Harris posing with two drag queens from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at an LGBTQ-themed celebration in San Francisco in 2019. In the photo, Harris grins from ear to ear as she stands between longtime SPI member Michael Williams, aka “Sister Roma,” and San Francisco transgender activist James Mitchell, aka “Saint Honey Mahogany,” CatholicVote claimed.

‘Kamala Harris does not care about Christians in this country.’

“Why is Kamala Harris posing with the founder of an anti-Catholic hate group?” a voice-over begins. “They mock our faith.”

The ad then includes footage of members of SPI conducting sexual performances on sacred Christian symbols, including the cross.

“For Catholics, it’s hard to imagine anything more offensive,” the voice of Bishop Robert Barron says.

“Kamala Harris does not care about Christians in this country,” another male voice adds.

The ad closes by encouraging all Christians to vote this year to prevent Harris from acceding to the highest office in the land. “Christians can’t stay home November 5,” the voice-over says as the message “Reject Harris” flashes on screen.

In a statement, CatholicVote President Brian Burch referred to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as “a ‘drag’ troupe whose whole purpose is to mock and harass Catholics.”

Not only do their costumes and makeup attack innocent and faithful nuns, Burch claimed, but SPI then routinely blasphemes Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Christianity in general by hosting “Hunky Jesus” competitions during which drag queens “perform stripteases, simulate sex acts, and mock the crucifixion.”

Harris’ appearance with the blasphemous drag queens is hardly the only time she has demonstrated anti-Catholic animus. In 2018, then-Sen. Harris grilled Brian Buescher, nominated to the federal bench by President Donald Trump, for his membership in the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men’s charitable organization.

During her line of questioning, Harris repeatedly implied that Buescher’s association with the Knights of Columbus — which embraces Catholic teaching on abortion and marriage — meant he was unfit to serve.

The Biden-Harris administration has also engaged in ruthless lawfare against Christians who protest peacefully near abortion clinics, sending some to prison for years. The administration even targeted the Little Sisters of the Poor — a group of actual Roman Catholic nuns who dedicate their lives to serving Christ by assisting the elderly and vulnerable — over their moral objection to contraception.

Just last week, NBC News’ Hallie Jackson asked Harris whether she supported any restrictions on abortion, including “religious exemptions” ostensibly for performing abortions. Harris rejected the premise and indicated instead that abortion rights trumped all other considerations.

“I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body,” Harris replied.

Harris did not clarify whether she also considers the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects the free exercise of religion, a “fundamental freedom.”

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The federal response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and elsewhere is “pathetic” and “inexcusable” compared to the massive deployment of U.S. military resources made in other hurricanes since 2017, a former top Pentagon official tells Blaze News.

Casey Wardynski, assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and Reserve affairs under former President Donald J. Trump, said the failing response by the Biden-Harris administration has the hallmarks of a political decision not to help because most of the affected areas are inhabited primarily by Trump voters.

“These are Americans who are apparently still in very dire straits a month after a disaster,” said Wardynski, who oversaw the Army’s manpower division from 2019 to 2021.

‘I know the sense of urgency that you would’ve had with Trump. I don’t see it here.’

“We have any number of folks running around our country talking about global climate change, or whatever that is, and the need to change every aspect of life to minimize [climate] change,” Wardynski said. “And yet when a disaster hits and the weather plays dirty tricks on people, they don’t seem to be able to mobilize key resources to relieve the suffering and restore the lives of Americans.”

Wardynski said his criticisms are aimed at the policymakers, not the men and women with boots on the ground.

“It works from the president on down in terms of allocation of resources. The military services, the Department of Defense, typically get the word from the president in terms of the level of commitment to make to these kinds of disasters,” he said. “Obviously there have been disasters with a much greater level of commitment from the national level through the policymakers than this one has.”

“The people on the ground are doing yeoman work, both the folks that are there in the private capacity and the military people that are working under those circumstances — they’re obviously doing great work,” he said. “It’s not up to them to figure out whether we need a couple of engineer brigades or not. That’s up to the people at the Pentagon and the White House.”

Wardynski said in the largely rural areas of Western North Carolina that are dominated by Trump voters, most of the humanitarian relief is being done by volunteers, church groups, and non-governmental organizations. “Support from the federal and even state government is very, very thin, and that should not be the case,” he said.

There are 1,500 regular Army troops performing relief operations in North Carolina, paltry by comparison with the 142,000 Guardsmen who fought wildfires in 2022 or the 62,000 military troops who responded to Hurricane Ivan, Wardynski said. Elements from the XVIII Airborne Corps have been performing a wide range of duties.

The National Guard had more than 11,000 troops committed to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton relief missions, and nearly 2,000 remain on duty in North Carolina, officials said. The Army Corps of Engineers also has nearly 300 members on mission in North Carolina.

Last week North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said the state was leading an “unprecedented response and recovery effort with the support of federal, local, and nonprofit partners.”

The Department of Defense committed more than 16,000 personnel after Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Some 17,000 troops were deployed to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricanes Maria and Irma later that same year. The U.S. military committed 17,000 troops to Haiti after a 2010 earthquake and sent 15,000 to Indonesia after a tsunami in 2005.

So why only 1,500 Army troops for what many on the ground are calling “biblical” devastation from Helene?

“Here we are a month later, and people have no electricity, no water,” Wardynski said. “It is pathetic.”

“I know the response one would’ve seen with Trump, and I know the sense of urgency that you would’ve had with Trump,” Wardynski said. “I don’t see it here. I see it from good Americans where they just see another American as red, white, and blue.

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Brigade, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) speak with the local community to provide debris clearance assistance at Marshall, North Carolina, on October 10, 2024. Photo by Sgt. Nicholas Session/U.S. Army

“But I’m afraid some of these governmental levels, it looks like they see it through either blue or red lenses, and they’re giving it the response they think is appropriate for a time that’s drawing close to an election.”

Blaze News reached out to the Pentagon for comment but did not receive a reply by press time.

On Oct. 17, Blaze News asked the public affairs officer for the Army XVIII Airborne Corps why the authorized North Carolina strength was 1,500 for the hurricane and not 15,000.

“It’s a great question,” said Maj. Aimee J. Valles. “We at the 18th Airborne Corps, we’re not policymakers. We’re not the decision-makers for that. We allow the folks who make those decisions to make that call, right? So I’d have to refer you to the DOD. They’re absolutely the ones cutting the orders, and also the governor. So the governor made a request for the amount of troops that he needed, and so I’d refer you to him as well.”

The Department of Defense should send combat engineering brigades from the National Guard to rebuild roads and bridges, set up temporary water pipelines, and install power grids, Wardynski said.

Wardynski said the Army could quickly send the 111th Engineer Brigade of the West Virginia National Guard, the 117th Engineer Brigade of the South Carolina National Guard, and the 194th Engineer Brigade of the Tennessee National Guard. There are eight such brigades in the National Guard, he said.

“They bring a ton of that equipment to bear to clear debris, put in roadways, put in pipelines, help prepare the way to bring in power, and restore services on the battlefield,” he said. “These are the guys that built the Burma Road into China from Burma through the mountains. They can do anything if you give them a chance.”

Combat engineer brigades would bring in large construction equipment for debris removal, road construction, bridge repair, and more.

“These National Guard units are handy in these kind of gap-filling moments,” he said. “They bring their own maintenance, they bring their own fuel, they bring their own medicine, they bring their own communications, they bring their own everything. And most [private] contractors aren’t set up to operate with no communication, no fuel, no maintenance, no logistics.

“They run dozers, Caterpillars, excavators, and they put in roads and all this kind of stuff for the Army,” Wardynski said. “This should have been happening now, and we shouldn’t still be looking at logistics by helicopter. The helicopters are great for quick relief, but you can’t restore power and you can’t restore water and you can’t restore fuel very reliably with Chinooks and Black Hawks. It’s a stop gap.”

Tent cities could house large numbers of displaced residents until more permanent housing can quickly be built, Wardynski said.

“These people with no homes, I mean, these kinds of things are not long-term solutions, but they’re better than living out in the open or some pup tents you might’ve had that survived this disaster,” he said. “A month in, this doesn’t seem reasonable any more.”

Wardynski said under the federal Stafford Act, the U.S. military has a significant role to play in disaster response, and it does not require taking away from preparedness to fight war if called upon.

Former President Donald J. Trump greets Adam Smith of Savage Freedoms Relief Operations, a group that turned a motorcycle dealership into a helipad and storm relief center, during a visit to Swannanoa, North Carolina, on Oct. 21, 2024.

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“The Stafford Act federal law provides for federal aid to state and local government a case of a disaster,” he said. “It talks about cost-sharing. States are supposed to pay about 25% of the money. The federal government is expected to bring somewhere around 75% of money.

“That money comes through FEMA and through expenditures for things like engineer brigades that are mobilized, National Guard brigades that are brought up to scratch to respond to disasters, Reserve units that are brought up to scratch to respond to disasters.

“In the Trump years we moved heaven and earth to help in Puerto Rico. When there was a disaster there, terrific resources were expended,” he said. “Typically these resources are available, and they don’t cause you to stop doing something else to begin doing disaster relief.”

The Army Corps of Engineers has the ability to set up a power grid to serve tens of thousands of homes, Wardynski said.

“Their prime power capability is truck-mounted, can bring in 72,000 homes’ worth of electricity on very quick notice. And they’ve done it before,” he said. “They did it when Trump was president in Puerto Rico. They even did it in the Maui fires. Where are they? Why are these people running off of Honda generators and fuel delivered by helicopters?”

Wardynski said the position that used to support him at the Pentagon coordinating military resources for disaster relief was eliminated by the Biden administration.

“The Biden bunch apparently didn’t see this as a priority. So that capability at the policymaking level … that job doesn’t exist and those people don’t exist, even though had they had existed through decades before.”

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 161st Engineer Support Company (Airborne), 27th Engineer Battalion (Airborne), 20th Engineer Brigade remove debris during route clearance near Green Creek in Bakersville, North Carolina, Oct. 18, 2024. Photo by Staff Sgt. Charles Brock/U.S. Army

The military could help state and local governments by setting up temporary post offices and voting locations so that no one misses a chance to vote in the Nov. 5 election.

“There are resources that people in FEMA and the Army Guard and at the Department of the Army know about,” Wardynski said, “that could be put in place lickety-split to fly in on a helicopter, open a post office for a certain number of hours a day in these disaster areas, and collect absentee ballots and provide a way for people to communicate with loved ones and get a check and do banking and all the things you need to do.”

Wardynski said the feedback he has gotten from those on the ground in Western North Carolina leaves him with the feeling that politics continues to drive the lack of urgency to storm response.

“The resources that are coming in, flowing in, are still mostly private,” he said. “And then you’ve got state-level leaders bragging about a paltry response.”

Wardynski said it’s “inexcusable” that the post-Helene response is still in emergency mode.

“Roads and power and fuel and the necessities of living should be rolling in there,” he said. “And it doesn’t sound like they are. We’re still at the NGO [non-governmental organization], private-citizen level of response, and it doesn’t sound like they’re getting a hell of a lot of help from the Stafford Act, federal and state level actors either.”

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Kamala Harris suggested at her embarrassing
CNN town hall last week that President Donald Trump is a fascist — her rhetorical capstone to a years-long campaign to characterize the Republican as both a threat to democracy and a suitable target for lawfare or worse. Her running mate soon joined liberal media propagandists likening Trump and his supporters, including a Holocaust survivor, to the Nazis of yesteryear. The Democratic National Committee lent a helping hand, projecting Nazi accusations outside Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden.

Democrats and their
allies in the media have long employed Nazi and fascist analogies to defame, discredit, and isolate political opponents such as Barry Goldwater, President Ronald Reagan, President George W. Bush, and former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. These historically illiterate smears have not only served to spike rigorous debate, increase political polarization, and minimize the evils perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and his forces but have also proven largely ineffective.

A super PAC supporting Harris recently acknowledged as much.

Future Forward USA Action,
touted earlier this month by the New York Times as “an ad-making laboratory” with a $700 million war chest, suggested in an email to Democrats regarding effective campaign messaging that playing up the Trump-as-fascist fiction in the final stretch before Election Day is a strategic blunder.

The New York Times
indicated that the email noted in bold type, “Attacking Trump’s Fascism Is Not That Persuasive.”

Another line said, “‘Trump Is Exhausted’ Isn’t Working.”

‘No wonder they’re in hysterics.’

“Purely negative attacks on Trump’s character are less effective than contrast messages that include positive details about Kamala Harris’s plans to address the needs of everyday Americans,” said the email.

According to Future Forward, Harris’ suggestion that Trump is a fascist at her CNN town hall was only in “the 40th percentile on average for moving vote choice.” She apparently would have been better off discussing Medicare expansion to include in-home care for geriatrics as she did previously on Howard Stern’s show, which tested in the 95th percentile.

The trouble for Harris — besides the late notice about the inefficacy of her go-to smear — is that attacking Trump is easier than defending her record or her vision for America.

Even in those instances in which she has a policy to promote that she did not
copy and paste from the defunct Biden campaign, such as the taxation policy she instead copied and pasted from the Trump campaign, Harris trips over her own tongue and into what Democratic strategist David Axelrod recently called “word salad city.”

Facing such difficulties, ad hominem attacks might be the easier alternative, even if ineffective.

While the core sales pitch — Trump is bad — has remained the same throughout, the Times noted that Harris’ team has tried some variations since the Democratic National Convention:

Ms. Harris’s team had made it clear immediately after the Democratic National Convention that they planned to switch from the message that President Biden had used most, that Mr. Trump is a unique threat to the country. They argued that making Mr. Trump smaller in the minds of voters was crucial. In her convention speech, she called him an “unserious man” but warned that restoring him to power would have “extremely serious” consequences.

Judging from recent polls, the “unserious man” line of attack didn’t work. This might account for why Harris went back to smearing Trump as “unhinged, unstable,” and ultimately a fascist, blowing $10 million on a recent
ad claiming the Republican is “too big a risk for America” — an ad that Future Forward indicated fared poorly.

Future Forward’s email warned, “Focusing on Trump’s disturbing, ludicrous and outlandish behavior can be an effective lead-in to talking about substantive policy, but is not effective at moving vote choice on its own.”

The weakness of Democrats’ Nazi strategy is not exactly a well-kept secret.

In 2018, privacy lawyer and journalist Allan Richarz
penned an op-ed for The Hill, stressing that “overwrought comparisons to the Nazis are both historically illiterate and an extreme strategic misstep.”

Richarz warned that by branding Trump a Nazi, Democrats had committed to continuous escalation and a weakening of language.

“Now that Trump is ‘actually Hitler,’ any compromise by Democrats will be viewed as kowtowing to fascism. Conversely, sticking with the Nazism line of attack cheapens its effect and, frankly, makes its proponents come off as a little more than unhinged, something perhaps already at play given that a Gallup poll has put Trump at his highest approval rating to date,” wrote Richarz.

Jay Cost, a Gerald R. Ford nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute,
noted, “Always a sign of struggle when the Super PAC has to yell at the campaign, but can only do it legally via the media.”

David Reaboi, fellow at the Claremont Institute, responded to the Times report,
tweeting, “This is insanity. Kamala spent over $10M on ads focused on ‘Trump is Hitler/Fascist,’ and her largest Super PAC said they barely moved the needle, if at all. No wonder they’re in hysterics.”

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Tom Brady caused a stir with fans and media members who took offense to him using the term “spaz” when describing the way Josh Allen used to play.

Brady was in the commentary booth with announcer Kevin Burkhardt during the Buffalo Bills’ 31-10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks Sunday afternoon. It was only about 13 minutes into the game when the former player started to rain praise on Buffalo’s star quarterback.

“You really begin to take total ownership of the team as a leader in the workouts, in the offseason,” Brady said on Fox.

“How you communicate to everybody and integrate new players becomes a great challenge to a quarterback like Josh [Allen] who has really lit the league on fire since he’s been in the league.”

‘Sometimes he played like a spaz, like a grade-schooler on a sugar high.’

Then, Brady remarked on how Allen previously looked spastic or uncontrolled when he first came into the NFL but has greatly progressed since then.

“Sometimes he played like a spaz, like a grade-schooler on a sugar high, but now he’s controlled the chaos. He’s like a storm coming into town and you don’t want that storm coming into this town.”

Brady’s seemingly harmless comments, which co-host Burkhardt even chuckled at, were not taken likely by some viewers.

Awful Announcing’s Brandon Contes called the statement an example of an “insulting term” that has been “deemed wildly offensive.”

The writer added that the comment was an “ableist slur” and “meant as an insult.”

The outlet’s own readers overwhelmingly disagreed, calling the article “pathetic” while labeling the writer “the word police.”

One reader joked that Brady should be put in jail for his use of the term while another reader simply called the writer a “blogging spaz.”

Of course, other fans — responding on an X post — suggested muting their television whenever Brady speaks.

“Brady’s awful, mute the TV awful,” one viewer wrote.

“Thankful for the mute button,” another said.

“Brady is so cringe. He probably spent 45 minutes writing this out,” a fan theorized while another simply wrote “F U Tom Brady.”

The seven-time Super Bowl champion has made the media rounds since his retirement and has been featured in both the broadcast booth and a weekly roundup show for Fox Sports.

When Brady visited England to support Birmingham City, a soccer team he owns a minority share of, the former quarterback showed he indeed has a little bit of bite to his commentary.

Brady was clearly irritated when a Sky Sports reporter asked Birmingham chairman Tom Wagner about how Brady has been able to help the team. The only problem was Brady was standing right there.

“Why do you ask that like I’m not here?” Brady said, giving the interview an incredibly-awkward turn.

Brady has hinted multiple times in 2024 that he isn’t opposed to a comeback in football, however that would now be far more difficult since he is now a part of the Las Vegas Raiders ownership group.

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Hurricane Helene coverage might be dwindling in the mainstream media, but Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker isn’t giving up on the victims.

“I actually met with the primary director here on the ground of FEMA,” Baker, who’s on the ground in North Carolina, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

And what he’s found is “interesting.”

“There is absolutely incontrovertible evidence that FEMA has a much larger footprint on the ground in the disaster zone here. They have ten disaster relief centers already set up. They now have a massive warehouse with just thousands of pallets of dry goods, of drinks of water, all types of humanitarian aid and needs that are required to be delivered,” Baker explains.

“Yet all of the people also on the ground, working in these distant remote communities, never see them,” he adds.

Baker, who’s been working in two of the worst-hit areas in North Carolina, has seen “no FEMA.”

“Zero. Not one sign of them. So they have more goods, they have more services, they have more people,” he says. “They dwarf everyone else’s operations; we just don’t know where they’re delivering everything.”

When Baker did get a chance to speak with someone from FEMA, that individual’s response was not comforting.

“I asked him, ‘Why are we not seeing the government agencies, federal agencies, state, local, county, whatever, out at these recovery sites?'” Baker explains. “He just shrugged and he said, ‘I think that they’re just tired of seeing the death.’”

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Donald Trump was not messing around when he picked JD Vance to be his vice president — and Americans all over the country are starting to see why.

Vance is not only incredibly smart and extremely likeable, but he’s the farthest thing from “weird,” as the Democrats attempted to paint him. And his latest interview with comedian Theo Von is testament to that.

When Theo joked about cocaine, telling Vance that “you can’t even do cocaine in this country any more” because of the fentanyl crisis, Vance broke out in laughter. “Don’t say that, but I said it. But don’t say that any more,” Theo added, while Vance kept laughing.

“Dude, I was in an AA meeting, some guy had a fishhook stuck in his freaking cheek, dude,” Theo said in another joke, adding, “But he had two weeks clean.”

“He either had a really bad night or a really good night,” Vance shot back, before Theo, also laughing, took the joke even farther.

“Catch and release. He probably tried to come across the border,” he joked, while again, Vance laughed.

The back-and-forth joking between the two was peppered over some serious moments in the podcast, and Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” believes it was an excellent peek into the kind of man Vance really is.

“You can see, JD, even with his white T-shirt and his light blue jeans, he’s kind of a dork. But he can joke around and it’s humanizing and real, and that’s just in such contrast to what we’ve seen of Tim Walz trying to shoot a gun and all of just everything they’ve done with Kamala to try to make her look real,” Rubin says.

While the humanizing aspect of the interview was great, Vance did bring up issues very near and dear to his heart and expertly explained the obesity and fentanyl crises in their entirety to Theo.

“It contrasts just like the silly stuff and then a command of the issue,” Rubin comments. “China has declared war on us; we know what they’re doing. JD just laid it out there.”

“And he’s not calling on our troops; he goes out of his way to say, ‘We shouldn’t be sending troops into Mexico, but how about we just close the damn wall, close the damn border,’” Rubin continues, noting that from the literal health of America to the strength of our borders, the “level of competency” we’d see in a Trump administration is unmatched.

“I just thought that was a nice moment of the silly and the serious at once, and that is, again, in stark contrast to what we’re seeing on the other side,” Rubin adds.

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A motorist with a long criminal history allegedly tried to run over a father and son Saturday in Florida — but authorities said the father fatally shot the motorist.

Marcus Blicker, 47, followed two vehicles driven by a neighbor’s son and his friend and aggressively swerved toward them in traffic, deputies from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Blicker was found dead in the driver’s seat of his pickup.

The neighbor’s son called his father and told him he was being followed, the News-Journal said.

When the son and his friend got to the father’s home on Jackson Lane in Port Orange, deputies told the paper that Blicker arrived there as well and started yelling and threatening the son and his friend. Port Orange is about 15 minutes south of Daytona Beach.

The homeowner fired warning shots, asking Blicker to leave, the News-Journal reported.

However, the paper said Blicker around 7:40 p.m. tried to ram them with his truck and was shot.

When deputies arrived at the scene, Blicker was found dead in the driver’s seat of his pickup, the sheriff’s office told the News-Journal.

The incident was captured on video and audio recordings that support the accounts of the shooter and witnesses, deputies told the paper.

No criminal charges have been filed against the homeowner who shot Blicker, the News-Journal reported. The sheriff’s office added to the paper that the shooting remains under investigation.

The News-Journal also noted that a Rottweiler in Blicker’s truck was injured during the shooting, after which Volusia County Animal Services responded and took the dog for veterinary care. The dog is expected to recover, the paper said.

The News-Journal, citing court records, said Blicker has a long criminal history. He was arrested in 2020 for aggravated stalking, for which he served 12 months’ probation, the paper said, adding that in 2012 he was sentenced to 12 months’ probation for battery after punching a woman in the cheek at the Flagler Tavern in New Smyrna Beach.

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NBA head coach Doc Rivers took offense at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally causing him to urge non-white citizens to vote against the former president.

The Milwaukee Bucks coach spoke to reporters at a press conference and was mostly lost for words when referring to the massive rally at MSG.

“If you saw Madison Square Garden … to me, it’s just, it’s so important to vote. I’ll keep it as close to that as possible,” Rivers began.

However, the coach quickly got into remarks about Trump, strangely citing the popular vote from the 2020 presidential election.

“What I tell people, ‘If the guy was so great, why did 80 million people vote against him the last time he ran?'” the veteran coach said.

President Joe Biden tallied approximately 81 million votes in 2020 while Trump was around 74 million.

‘They hit everybody, and it was awful.’

“I don’t know, I don’t get it, we gotta do something about it,” Rivers continued.

The NBA champion added that the rally was “atrocious” and then urged voters of different races and backgrounds to vote.

“If you’re a black man or a woman, or brown, Latino, or Puerto Rican … they hit everybody, and it was awful,” he concluded.

The 63-year-old was likely referring to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who offended media members over his jokes about Puerto Rico while mocking the press for their characterization of the Trump gathering as a Nazi rally.

“These people have no sense of humor … I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone … watch the whole set,” Hinchcliffe said after the rally.

Rivers’ comments were posted by Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix, who turned off comments after the overwhelming majority of responses spoke against Milwaukee’s coach.

“Brother u ain’t that good at coaching u think we taking advice on voting from you,” one fan wrote.

Another reader pointed out that Trump never actually made any offensive remarks during the rally, while also noting to the diversity of the audience:

“Apparently Doc didn’t watch the rally otherwise he’d know that DJT didn’t disparage one single minority. That rally was attended by just about every race living in the U.S.. For those calling it a Nazi rally, I saw an awful lot of Jewish flags and people in the audience.”

Another viewer made reference to the apparent anti-Trump sentiment among NBA coaches.

“They literally live in a virtual world. Nothing they say makes sense,” the fan wrote.

Just days earlier, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich called Trump a “racist” and a “bully” in a tirade that lasted almost 15 minutes.

“He’s pathetic, he’s small, you wouldn’t have him babysit your kids. If you had a small business, you wouldn’t hire him — do you want that man in your business?! There’s no way! But you’re going to vote for him for president?!” Popovich said.

As well, Golden State Warrior’s coach Steve Kerr has been an open Trump critic (and a critic of Republicans as a whole) while simultaneously endorsing Kamala Harris.

Despite his often heated rhetoric surrounding GOP legislation and gun laws, Kerr has still expressed concern over the attempted assassination of Trump in July.

“It’s such a demoralizing day for our country,” Kerr said regarding the shooting. “Thank God Trump wasn’t hit, but it’s just so demoralizing in every which way,” he added.

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The Commonwealth of Virginia has played what might be its last card against the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, betting the U.S. Supreme Court might allow election officials to resume taking noncitizens off the state’s voter rolls.

Like other red states, Virginia has worked diligently to remove foreign nationals from its voter rolls in an effort to ensure that only American citizens are casting ballots in this election. These efforts, ramped up by Gov. Glenn Youngkin via
executive order on Aug. 7, drew the ire of the DOJ, which sued earlier this month to foil the election integrity initiative — just as it had sued Alabama weeks earlier.

A Biden-nominated district judge obliged the DOJ Friday,
ruling that Virginia — where the latest Quantus Insights poll shows Kamala Harris leading President Donald Trump by only one percentage point — must restore the voter registrations of thousands of individuals who allegedly identified as foreign nationals.

Virginia asked the 4th Circuit to put a hold on Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles’ order, but a pair of Obama-appointed judges and another Biden appointee denied the request Sunday.

‘About 1,000 presented noncitizen residency documents to DMV and were then positively identified as noncitizens.’

Left with one more option, Republican state officials turned to the U.S. Supreme Court, filing late Sunday night for an emergency stay of Giles’ injunction, which is scheduled to go into effect on Wednesday.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares
stated upon filing, “Americans citizens — and no one else — should determine American elections.”

Youngkin
responded, “It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls.”

According to the commonwealth’s emergency application, the injunction sought by the Biden-Harris DOJ will “irreparably injure Virginia’s sovereignty, confuse her voters, overload her election machinery and administrators, and likely lead noncitizens to think they are permitted to vote, a criminal offense that will cancel the franchise of eligible voters.”

Blaze News previously reported that Giles claimed the removals were a “clear violation” of the National Voter Registration Act’s quiet period provision, which requires states to complete programs intended to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from registration lists by no later than 90 days prior to a primary election or general election for federal office.

Virginia’s emergency application stressed that contrary to Giles’ understanding and the DOJ’s claim, the commonwealth’s process is not systematic — which would run afoul of the NVRA — but is instead individualized. Moreover, the state indicated the lesser court’s injunction was based on a provision of the NVRA that “does not even apply to the removal of noncitizens and other voter registrations that are void ab initio.”

The state told the high court that of the over 1,600 suspected noncitizens whom the Biden judge ordered back onto the voter rolls, “About 600 of these individuals personally informed Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that they are not citizens, and about 1,000 presented noncitizen residency documents to DMV and were then positively identified as noncitizens through the United States’ own Systematic Alerian Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database.”

Chief Justice John Roberts requested that the opponents of Virginia’s election integrity initiative respond to the state’s emergency appeal by Tuesday afternoon, CNN indicated, a signal that the high court will act swiftly.

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, recently
told the Daily Caller that the Biden-Harris DOJ’s lawsuits against Virginia and Alabama are the “exact opposite of what DOJ should be doing, it is a criminal violation … — in fact, it’s a felony for an alien to register to vote.”

“And so what the DOJ ought to be doing is going to Virginia and saying, ‘Can you please give me the files of each of these voters so we can investigate and potentially prosecute them?’ And no, instead, they’re saying, ‘No, you have to keep on the voter rolls aliens who are breaking federal law,'” continued von Spakovsky.

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With Election Day just eight days away, Americans are holding their breath anxiously awaiting the verdict of what has been an incredibly contentious election season. But it’s almost over. Soon, we will know who our next commander in chief will be.

And according to Tucker Carlson, it’s going to be Donald Trump.

“Blaze News’ Tonight’s” Jill Savage, Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson, and Blaze News senior editor for politics Christopher Bedford discuss whether or not Carlson’s optimism is misguided.

“This is the end of a redemption arc,” said Carlson, speaking at a Turning Point Action rally in Duluth, Georgia, on Oct. 23.

“I’ve really never seen anybody treated like Donald Trump was treated – ever,” he said, pointing to the way the left attacked, defamed, indicted, and arrested him and even “let him get shot in the face.”

“And he’s gonna win anyway!” he declared to a roaring crowd.

“Do you think that the Republicans can actually be this optimistic right now?” Jill asks Bedford.

Even though Bedford has been searching for anything that would suggest Carlson’s optimism is misplaced, he’s come up empty-handed.

“There’s no positive echo chamber for the Democratic Party right now,” he says.

“Democrats have tried to make Republicans, populists, conservatives, MAGA people feel like they are an awful minority, feel like they are alone out there, that they are radicals, and it’s not true. People who listen to Donald Trump and say, ‘This has got a point, something’s got to change, the Democrats and the Mitch McConnells are rotten’ – you’re the majority of people right now,” says Bedford.

“Don’t let yourself be told by these folks that you’re the weirdo. Democrats have abandoned the working class. … They basically abandoned American voters,” specifically “men,” he explains. “They are actually kind of the party of weirdos.”

More people than we know have realized that “maybe MAGA is normal. Maybe it’s a populist rebellion that is grounded in American principles, and maybe it’s actually a testament to just how generous and kind and gentle the American people are that we’ve put up with this sick expert rule for as long as we have,” he adds.

“Tucker’s point is there’s a very, very powerful story here that is unfolding and that everyone can be part of if he gets back in after everything that has been done to him,” says Matthew. “They’ve thrown everything at the guy, and they’re failing.”

“You can feel the tottering in the sort of the spirit or the soul of the regime right now because after all that, if he wins, it’s sort of the emperor wears no clothes at that point,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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A Republican Party official was arrested at a polling station in Pennsylvania on Monday after she repeatedly encouraged voters to stay in line despite the lengthy wait.

On Monday, a video of the arrest of a woman at a polling station in Delaware County went viral. “Do not get out of line,” the woman insists as several officers place her in handcuffs. They then escort her out of the area where many people were standing in line.

“Wow!” the man filming the arrest repeatedly states. “You locked her up? That is insane, man!”

“That’s crazy.”

The woman arrested on the video was later identified as Val Biancaniello, a Pennsylvania Republican Party state committeewoman.

‘President Trump’s supporters should not be intimidated at the polls.’

Following the incident, Biancaniello claimed on X that an official with the Delaware County Bureau of Elections had told people gathered at the polling station that they “should only be in this line if [they] have a pressing reason to vote.”

Biancaniello called such a directive “VOTER SUPPRESSION.” “No one requires a ‘pressing need’ to vote by mail,” her X comment continued, “that is why it is called ‘no excuse mail in voting.'”

Biancaniello also alleged that an elections worker warned voters that the lines could be hours long, ostensibly in an effort to dissuade them from staying. “Can you imagine if we said this to a long line of Democrat voters?” she asked rhetorically.

Biancaniello claimed she was marched out of the area, handcuffed to a bench, and later released with a citation for disorderly conduct.

“I will fight that. I broke NO laws. I encouraged people to stay in line and vote. There are plenty of witnesses who know the truth,” her X comment added.

A woman standing in line alleged in the video of the arrest that Biancaniello had been “influencing people,” but the man filming the video denied that accusation. “She is not influencing people,” he immediately replied. “She is not at all.”

Pennsylvania law forbids voter intimidation.

RNC co-chair Michael Whatley shared the video on X, claiming that it showed the left engaging in “voter suppression.”

“A supporter of President Trump’s was arrested today for encouraging people to stay in the early voting line and cast their ballots freely in Pennsylvania,” he wrote. “This follows reports from across the commonwealth that voters are being turned away in conservative areas. This is voter suppression from the left. Do not let them turn you away. GO VOTE!”

The Trump campaign likewise released a statement calling the incident an example of “voter suppression.”

“Election officials in Pennsylvania must immediately secure a fair and transparent election for Pennsylvania voters,” the statement said in part. “President Trump’s supporters should not be intimidated at the polls.”

Neither Biancaniello nor the Delaware County Bureau of Elections responded to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Popular podcast host Joe Rogan revealed earlier this week Vice President Kamala Harris has not officially said no to being interviewed on his show, but the sticking points to scheduling the interview have been some of her campaign’s conditions for doing it.

Rogan posted the full episode of his interview with former President Donald Trump on his X account late Monday night. He did so after some reportedly had difficulty finding it on YouTube on Monday, even when searching very specific keywords on the platform. Searching for it on Tuesday now brings the correct episode.

Trump and Vance have done a wide range of podcast interviews with popular hosts such as Theo Von, Tucker Carlson, and the Nelk Boys.

After posting the video, Rogan addressed rumors about possibly interviewing Harris as well. According to Rogan, Harris’ campaign said he could interview her on Tuesday but that “I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour.” Trump’s interview with Rogan lasted for nearly three hours, which is a common episode length.

“I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen,” Rogan concluded.

It was then reported Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, will go on Rogan’s podcast sometime this week. The episode will be released before Election Day.

Trump and Vance, while still doing traditional media interviews, have done a wide range of podcast interviews with popular hosts such as Theo Von, Tucker Carlson, and the Nelk Boys. The strategy is to showcase the candidates in an unfiltered and unedited format, which has been a weakness for Harris as she seemingly wants to have highly produced and scripted appearances on the campaign trail.

The shows are also popular with males, a critical voting bloc that supports Trump but that may be less likely to vote. His campaign hopes these appearances will motivate those male supporters to go to the polls.

Rogan’s interview with Trump has received over 37 million views on YouTube. Harris’ interview with Charlamagne tha God almost two weeks ago has under 600,000 views.

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump released a poignant campaign advertisement on Monday afternoon that illustrates the heartbreaking consequences of the Biden-Harris administration’s open-border policies.

The ad features Alexis Nungaray, the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn, who was allegedly brutally murdered by two illegal aliens from Venezuela. The men were initially captured by Border Patrol and released into the interior of the country just weeks before the murder in Houston, Texas.

‘I truly believe this all could have been prevented.’

The suspects, Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 22, and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, are being investigated for potential ties to the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which has increased its presence in the U.S. under the current administration’s leadership.

On June 17, 2024, the men allegedly lured Jocelyn under a bridge as she was walking back home from a nearby convenience store. The suspects were accused of stripping her, binding her hands and ankles, sexually assaulting her for hours, and ultimately strangling her to death.

In Trump’s latest campaign ad, Jocelyn’s mother details the horrific murder and reaffirms her support of more robust border policies.

Alexis Nungaray said she woke up that morning to find her daughter was not home. She noticed her phone’s location was pinging a couple of minutes from their home.

“I start driving to the direction the phone was being pinged at, and I see a couple cop cars with lights on. I see yellow tape. And immediately my heart drops and sinks to the bottom of my stomach,” Nungaray stated.

“Kamala Harris was in charge of immigration and our borders,” she continued. “If we had better border policies and not open border and not these catch-and-release policies, I truly believe this all could have been prevented.”

“Under her being vice president of this country, my daughter’s life was ripped away from her,” Nungaray added. “She had her entire life ahead of her. My daughter is six feet in the ground based off of policies that she allowed to keep. Kamala Harris did have one job, and she not only failed, not me, she failed my daughter.”

Nungaray explained that Trump reached out to her after Jocelyn’s murder and gave her “his sincerest condolences as not a former president, but just as a father — someone who cares.”

She stated that with Trump back in office, “I can at least know that my next child will be safe in this country.”

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