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Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris challenged Republican former President Donald Trump to a cognitive test in the last week of the presidential campaign.

Trump had mocked Harris as having cognitive problems and even called her “mentally impaired” at one point.

‘Obviously, he’s kind of joking around there with the crowd at a Trump rally when he says those things.’

“Kamala is mentally impaired,” said Trump in Wisconsin. “Joe Biden became mentally impaired, Kamala was born that way!”

On Monday, CBS News reported that Harris had agreed to take a cognitive test and was challenging Trump to do the same.

“This is what he has resorted to, and I think he actually is increasingly unstable and unhinged and has resorted to name calling because he actually has no plan for the American people,” said Harris of Trump in the interview with CBS.

Trump has hammered Harris at various events and mocked her intelligence.

“She’s got bigger cognitive problems” than President Joe Biden, he said at a rally in Georgia.

“She is a very dumb person, and we can’t do that. We can’t do that. I don’t want to be rude,” he said at an event in Pennsylvania.

However, when the Republican National Committee was asked about the comments, RNC co-chair Lara Trump walked them back a bit.

“This is Donald Trump, and he has never tried to make himself out to be anyone other than who he is,” said the daughter-in-law of the former president. “And obviously, he’s kind of joking around there with the crowd at a Trump rally when he says those things.”

In the CBS interview, Harris acknowledged that the election was very close.

“It’s a presidential race. And it should be close,” she said. “In all honesty, I’m seeing a lot of enthusiasm around our campaign.”

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A family of 49ers fans said that stadium officials tried to deny them entry into the San Francisco Levi’s Stadium over a “Make America Great Again” hat.

Ailynn Espino posted video of the alleged altercation on her Instagram account and described what happened.

‘This is usually stuff you see on social media but never a thought it would happen to you. We are so disappointed.’

“So what was meant to be a fun first time experience for our kids turned out to be an eye opener to us,” Espino wrote.

The video shows about half a dozen fans in 49ers jerseys stopped by two stadium workers who are trying to keep them out. The woman gains support from some of the bystanders who are walking into the stadium.

“We were stopped after we scanned in tickets and security check points, by one male asking my husband to either throw away the hat or leave the stadium,” she added.

Espino said a supervisor was called out, and they spent between 30 and 45 minutes arguing about the disagreement before they were allowed into the game. She says they missed the beginning of the game, however.

“This is usually stuff you see on social media but never a thought it would happen to you. We are so disappointed,” Espino added.

Blaze News reached out to Levi’s Stadium for comment about the incident but did not hear back by time of publication.

A similar incident unfolded in September against an Arizona Cardinals fan who tried to bring a Trump hat into a State Farm Stadium in Glendale. The fan was forced to toss the hat into the trash to be allowed entry, but the team later apologized for the incident.

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The Kamala Harris campaign announced its own map on the popular shooter game Fortnite just a week before the election as part of a bid to reach gamers. The map was met with very few initial users.

“Freedom Town, USA” sports some of the Harris campaign promises and presents itself in the exact way an out-of-touch politician would attempt to reach young audiences.

In a promo video, “Fight for freedom” appears in large text as generic rock-rap music begins to play. On the map’s backdrop, fictional retail outlets like “Kamala’s Kicks” fill the streets.

The imagery also showcases signs in rainbow colors that display generic messages like “Promise of America” and “Freedom.”

“Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s campaign have released their very own Fortnite map in a bid to court the most oppressed demographic: 12-year-old gamers who play Fortnite,” writer Ian Miles Cheong wrote on X.

“Freedom Town, USA is a custom creative map themed around some of Harris’ campaign, including tax breaks for small businesses and affordable housing.”

Cheong also revealed that audio cues in the new map included clips from Donald Trump. For example, when you pick up a cat, Trump says, “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats,” plays.

“You have to wonder who they’re even campaigning for,” Cheong added.

The map, which was officially released on October 28, so far has not been a hit. It carried an impressively low all-time peak of 261 concurrent users and is ranked No. 435 as a map. At the time of this publication, there were 1.7 million people playing Fortnite.

Other pushes from the Harris campaign into the gaming world have included a Geeks & Nerds for Harris fundraiser.

Embarrassingly broken up into the categories “Earth heroes” and “space explorers,” the organizers describe themselves as a “diverse group of fandoms and artists teaming up to support Kamala Harris.”

‘Those guys drew up a playbook and it’s project 2025.’

Additionally, vice presidential candidate and Governor Tim Walz was joined in a video game streaming session by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The pair played the football game Madden 25 and the driving game Crazy Taxi.

During their stream, Walz attacked Trump for wanting an administration that tells citizens “what books to read” while connecting him to Project 2025.

“I think a lot of folks on here are kind of independent folks, independent thinkers about things,” Walz stated. “Why would you want the government telling you what books to read, or what doctor to see, or what how big your family can be?”

“It’s that kind of stuff [that] is ridiculous and so I think, you talk about football planning, it’s the same way; if you’re going to drop a playbook in football you’re going to use it. Those guys drew up a playbook and it’s project 2025.”

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Last week the mother of all interviews happened when Donald Trump, arguably the most famous man on the planet, appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the top-ranked podcast on the planet.

In their three-hour interview, Rogan and Trump broached a number of issues, but one that’s getting a ton of media attention is Trump’s reiterated claims that he will potentially end income taxes by substituting tariffs.

Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere discuss the possibility of such a drastic change to America’s tax infrastructure.

As for repealing the 16th Amendment, Stu says, “I am a huge fan.”

Glenn shares Stu’s enthusiasm and thinks that “it’s the right time” to do it.

“[Trump] is talking about tariffs in a different way. … You build your cars outside of the United States? Okay, we’re going to put a tariff on it to keep cars that are made here in the United States cheaper,” says Glenn, adding that this is the first time he’s ever “started to agree with tariffs.”

“We must rebuild our infrastructure. We have to have manufacturing here in America,” he says, pointing to the fact that America “made the planes and the tanks and the Jeeps … that brought the whole world into Germany” during WWII.

“Tariffs have a chance of saying, ‘Look, you want to sell your stuff? Fine, make it in America. … We’ll give you incentives to bring your company, your manufacturing here so we have these plants, we are producing our own steel, we’re doing these things.’ Meanwhile, we’re also going to drill, baby, drill,” which will “bring our energy costs down,” Glenn explains.

While Stu doesn’t love the idea of tariffs, he does love what they would do to the magnitude of our current federal government.

“The size of the government that would be required for a government to be funded by tariffs is the size of a government I like,” he says, adding that “it’s a lot smaller than the one we have.”

“Yes!” Glenn agrees. “We were all about that up until the 16th Amendment.”

However, the question still remains: Will Trump actually do it?

Even though almost all politicians promise tax cuts leading up to an election, Glenn thinks Trump “is actually going to do a lot of these things” he’s talked about during his campaign, as long as “he has the Senate and the House.”

But he also has to “turn it around quickly.”

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

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The internet is mercilessly mocking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over the Democrat’s bizarre gaffe about football in a deleted tweet.

The tweet showed the Democratic vice presidential candidate playing the Madden football video game against Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, but it was his message that confused many.

‘No one has ever used this phrase in football… Their entire campaign is a disaster.’

“@AOC can run a mean pick 6 – and I can call an audible on a play. And we both now that if you take the time to draw up a playbook, you’re gonna use it,” read the Walz tweet.

However, anyone with a modicum of football knowledge knows a “pick 6” is not a play that can be simply selected but depends on chance and opportunity. The campaign appeared to realize the mistake and deleted the tweet but not before screenshots were saved and went viral.

Many noted that Walz had been a high school football coach himself.

“Are we sure Tim Walz has even watched a game of football, let alone coached a team?” joked commentator Siraj Hashmi.

“All the Harris campaign needs to do to win the election is line up in a pick 6 formation. It’s simple, just like teaching football,” read another joke.

“I’m not sure Kamala ever worked at McDonald’s and now I’m unsure if Walz ever coached football,” responded commentator Mark Hemingway.

Others pointed out that it was likely a social media manager who fumbled the tweet, not Walz himself.

“I get it, interns run social media for these people, but I’m starting to believe Tim Walz didn’t coach football either. No one has ever used this phrase in football. You can’t ‘run a mean pick 6’. Their entire campaign is a disaster,” said T.J. Moe, BlazeTV contributor.

“I’m dubious Walz posted this himself. It’s THAT bad. He’s getting dunked on for it, but I can’t bring myself to believe a former assistant high school football coach would type that. Pretty funny, tho,” read another response.

Walz has been hammered by numerous accusations that he exaggerated or outright lied about details of his life’s story in order to climb the political ladder.

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A Tennessee man called police saying he’d fallen off a cliff while a bear was chasing him. However, law enforcement is now saying the 911 caller murdered a hiker and then attempted to stage the victim’s death as a bear attack.

A man called 911 dispatch at 11:34 p.m. Oct. 18 to inform authorities that he was “injured and partially in water,” according to a news release from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

A manhunt is under way for Hamlett, and police said he should be considered armed and dangerous.

The “distressed hiker” told police he had fallen off a cliff while running away from a bear. The hiker told law enforcement that his name was Brandon Andrade. The call was pinged in the area of the Charles Hall Bridge on the Cherohala Skyway in Tellico Plains — a small mountain town in east Tennessee.

When first responders arrived, they searched the area and discovered a bloody corpse at the bottom of a cliff. The dead man had Brandon Andrade’s identification.

But law enforcement determined that the victim was not Andrade. Investigators said the ID had been stolen and used multiple times.

Detectives with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division and the Monroe County Violent Crimes Unit identified Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45, as the suspect who had been using Andrade’s stolen identification.

“Mr. Hamlett had used a false name when speaking with law enforcement in Knox County, TN after the distressed hiker call. Before his real identity had been verified, Mr. Hamlett is believed to have fled from his Tennessee residence,” the sheriff’s office said.

Investigators said the man who was found dead at the bottom of the cliff was murdered. Police did not identify him; they referred to him as John Doe.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Hamlett for first-degree murder. A manhunt is under way for Hamlett, and police said he should be considered armed and dangerous.

Hamlett is 5’7″ tall, weighs 170 pounds, and has brown hair and blue eyes.

Authorities said if you see Hamlett, call 911 or Monroe County Dispatch at 423-442-4357.

Apparently, this isn’t the first time Hamlett has been accused of an incident like this.

In 2009, Hamlett was accused of holding a man at gunpoint, trying to hit him with a baseball bat, and attempting to bury him alive, according to AL.com. He was charged with attempted murder and kidnapping before pleading to a lesser offense of felony assault. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his crimes in 2012. In that case, Hamlett used the alias Joshua Jones. Hamlett also was wanted in Alabama on a parole violation.

As Blaze News reported earlier this month, a Montana father was so brutally mangled to death while camping that his friends thought he was mauled in a bear attack. However, detectives said the “loving” dad was not killed by a bear – but rather he was the victim of a grisly homicide.

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“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg issued a crazed warning about what will happen to interracial couples under a second term of President Donald Trump, whose re-election prospects look high.

On Monday, Goldberg said Trump will split up couples in which one spouse is an illegal immigrant and reassign the white “guy” to another woman.

‘These are the final hours.’

“He is talking about you. It’s us. He’s not going to be — he’s not going to, you know, say, ‘Oh, you’re with a white guy, I’m going to keep you from being deported.’ No, he’s going to deport you and put the white guy with someone else. The man is out there,” Goldberg yelled.

Goldberg and the other hosts of “The View” were in hysterics on Monday following Trump’s massively attended rally in New York City at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Guest Mika Brzezinski added to the hyperventilating over the rally, calling it a “Nazi-type” gathering, even though minorities and Jewish supporters were at Madison Square Garden for the event.

“It was everything that you need to know about Donald Trump in one weird, white nationalist, Nazi-type rally and, of course, there are historic parallels to where and when this happened,” she continued. “I come with such dire warnings, and I mean them from the bottom of my heart!”

“These are the final hours. We need you, we need you, you, you, you, and all of you to vote,” Brzezinski added.

The prospect of mass deportations has become more stark with Trump leading in the polls against Vice President Kamala Harris. Tom Homan, who was the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under former Trump, said if there are concerns about families being split up because some are in the country illegally, then “families can be deported together.”

Trump has proposed using the National Guard and local law enforcement to help ICE officers track down and remove illegal aliens since that population has grown exponentially under the Biden-Harris administration. Democrats and open-border advocates have claimed the deportation process will be too costly and will do more harm than good.

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I just finished Joe Rogan’s interview with Donald Trump and wanted to share my thoughts while it’s still fresh in my mind.

This interview will likely be the most consequential political event of my lifetime — maybe ever. Future interviews will try to emulate its style and influence, making it a generational harbinger much like the Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate of 1960. But whatever comes next will only build on the precedent set here for the following reasons.

If the culture war needs voices like Rogan and Trump, so be it.

Rogan arguably has the widest reach of any show since Oprah Winfrey, and his audience is distinct: men who see themselves as truth-seekers and who distrust the current political and media landscape.

For better or worse, Rogan now guides more of the next generation of male discipleship and leadership in this country than the church does — an influence shift that the church has allowed.

Trump is arguably now the most famous living person in human history. And yet the largest platform in the country was still able to grant him the opportunity to counter so many misconceptions of who he actually is, what he actually thinks, and the resistance movement he represents.

This interview alone won’t erase nearly a decade of malevolent corporate journalism, but it’s a D-Day invasion-level event. The marriage of the largest alternative media platform yet devised and the biggest living threat to the current media-political-industrial complex has established a beachhead in the enemy’s occupied territory. Just as June 6, 1944, forever shifted the momentum in the last great war, it is quite possible that October 25, 2024, will be seen by future generations as the great momentum-shifter in the great information war.

The benefit of this interview for candidate Trump could be equivalent to the largest and most expensive media ad buy in political history — something unattainable given the resources and precise messaging required to pull it off effectively.

This may become the most-watched interview in human history, featuring a candidate whose last two campaigns were decided by a combined margin of fewer than 130,000 votes in key swing states. It granted him an unrestricted platform to redefine himself for millions just as the election unfolds.

This single conversation inflicted more epistemological damage on the Spirit of the Age that threatens Western civilization than the Christian Church has managed in a generation. Once the institution that shaped this civilization, the church has become weakened and passive in confronting today’s cultural battles.

It was just two individuals, each with their own unconventional beliefs, pursuing truth, common sense, and the common good. It’s clear why the Spirit of the Age attempted to dismantle Rogan’s platform during the COVID-19 pandemic and has targeted Trump himself for assassination not once but twice. By contrast, it’s equally clear why many pastors don’t face such opposition — they simply aren’t seen as a threat, and tragically, few even aspire to be.

The conversation about environmentalism may be the best example. Trump demonstrated a surprising command of the issue and, in one interview, inflicted more damage on a core tenet of the left’s occult religion than I’ve ever seen in a single setting. Given Rogan’s largely post-partisan audience, the reach and impact of this moment are significant.

This was cultural evangelism in action. Trump dismantled the left’s climate narrative as effectively as John of Damascus challenged Islam or Francis Schaeffer deconstructed the counterculture. This approach poses a serious threat to the prevailing Spirit of the Age.

If Trump and Rogan can reframe common sense in a way that transcends the mostly artificial partisan divide, they present a far more existential threat to societal darkness than the current state of the church, sadly. This conversation unfolds against the backdrop of leftists attacking publications like the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times for not rubbing their bellies.

This interview also signals where the culture war may go post-Trump. With the church caught up in self-censorship and essentially emasculating itself, something else must emerge to confront the darkness. Would God prefer to use our family-values pastors who speak with little vice? Absolutely. But just as Gideon sounded the trumpet for battle, the church has decided it has better things to do.

So if the culture war needs voices like Rogan and Trump, so be it. As believers, we shouldn’t compromise our core principles — we’re not allowed that luxury. But we should recognize where the battle is, go there, and stand with those willing to fight. Not everyone storming the beaches of Normandy was a devout believer, yet they fought. Cast aside your sweater vests and furrowed brows and join this fight while we still can. Joe Rogan’s interview with Donald Trump confirms that this battle will happen — with or without us.

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Tens of thousands of people reportedly attended the campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Houston, Texas, on Friday night in hopes of seeing Beyoncé perform, but many left very disappointed.

The Harris campaign estimated that 30,000 attended the rally at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, the hometown of the popular R&B singer-songwriter.

‘They booed the hell out of everybody. They thought she was going to perform.’

“We are at the precipice of an incredible shift, at the brink of history,” Beyoncé told the crowd. “I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live, a world where we have freedom to control our bodies, a world where we are not divided — our past, our present, our future meet us here.”

MSNBC and other outlets cited a campaign source to report that Beyonce would be performing at the rally, but she instead only spoke for a few minutes and left. After she walked off the stage, the audience appeared to turn on Harris.

A Blaze News review of Harris’ speech available on YouTube confirmed that the Democrat was constantly interrupted by large portions of the crowd booing and shouting.

Videos posted to social media captured some of the moments when outraged attendees interrupted Harris, but it’s unclear if those were edited.

Former President Donald Trump mocked and ridiculed Harris over the apparent debacle.

“Beyoncé went up and spoke for a couple of minutes and then left, and the place went crazy,” Trump said at a rally in Michigan. “They booed the hell out of everybody. They thought she was going to perform. What happened was my opponent got up and started speaking, and they booed the hell out of her. It’s crazy.”

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The New York Times published a
think piece last week strategizing how leftists might be able to thwart the will of American voters and rescue democracy from President Donald Trump should he win on Nov. 5.

Using the term “democracy” euphemistically for a state of things in which Democrats or leftists of other stripes are in power, the authors — a pair of Harvard University professors
hostile to Trump, the Constitution as written, and the Electoral College — recommended “societal mobilization” should the powers that be fail to get their way.

Daniel Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky‘s call to action, which critics have noted sounds a lot like color revolution, appears to be the desperate finale following a series of failed efforts by Democrats to remove Kamala Harris’ opponent from the ballot or to kneecap him with lawfare.

The duo, working under the assumption that Trump would “dismantle” the republic’s electoral system of which they themselves are
critics, identified “five strategies that pro-democratic forces around the world have employed” against so-called “authoritarian threats.”

The first four are as follows:

laissez-faire — the “self-correcting power of electoral competition,” which the Harvard authors say is “distorted by an 18th-century institution, the Electoral College”;
militant or defensive democracy, whereby public officials who self-identify as pro-democracy censor supposedly undesirable speech, outlaw undesirable groups, and criminalize opponents — a tactic Germany’s leftist establishment is presently bringing to bear against the popular right-leaning populist party Alternative for Germany;
partisan gatekeeping, whereby establishmentarians neutralize popular candidates deemed “antidemocratic” or prevent their ascent through the ranks; and
containment, where establishmentarians form coalitions across party lines to deny voters the option of a choice deemed “antidemocratic” by the ruling elite.

Ziblatt and Levitsky, convinced that these four strategies have failed, noted that there is yet a fifth way by which supposed champions of democracy could rob the electorate of their desired outcome: “societal mobilization.”

“Democracy’s last bastion of defense is civil society,” wrote the duo, who made no mention of the antidemocratic provenance of Harris’ candidacy. “When the constitutional order is under threat, influential groups and societal leaders — chief executives, religious leaders, labor leaders and prominent retired public officials — must speak out, reminding citizens of the red lines that democratic societies must never cross. And when politicians cross those red lines, society’s most prominent voices must publicly and forcefully repudiate them.”

‘It was always a Color Revolution.’

The Harvard duo’s
German and Brazilian examples suggest that they are advocating far more than for Americans simply to “speak out.” These examples, when coupled with their other other coercive strategies, call to mind violent demonstrations — not just those of yesterday, such as the Black Lives Matter riots, but the bloody roundup executed by the republican radicals ahead of the Spanish Civil War.

The duo wrote,

The U.S. establishment is sleepwalking toward a crisis. An openly antidemocratic figure stands at least a 50-50 chance of winning the presidency. The Supreme Court and the Republican Party have abdicated their gatekeeping responsibilities, and too many of America’s most influential political, business and religious leaders remain on the sidelines. Unable to rise above fear or narrow ambition, they hedge their bets. But time is running out. What are they waiting for?

Jeffrey Tucker, president of the Brownstone Institute,
said of the piece, “That is one chilling article: abolishing democracy to protect it. Amazing. Harvard. Notice how at the end, they tip their hand and call for a defense of ‘the U.S. establishment.’ Every single one of the cases they mention concerns a populist movement against elites.”

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) responded to the Times piece,
writing, “Once again, NYT publishes something fundamentally un-American.”

“This op-ed is advocating pure authoritarianism under the guise of guarding against authoritarianism,”
wrote Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. “It’s amazing how far Harvard’s Government department has fallen that it would have professors express such views.”

The Federalist’s editor in chief, Mollie Hemingway,
noted, “I just read a bat guano insane NYT op-ed that said four ways to stop MAGA had failed (hoping it loses, banning the GOP/Trump from ballot, having GOP overturn its voters, establishment resistance) and now recommends what sounds like a color revolution.”

“It was always a Color Revolution,”
wrote Blaze News senior editor and Washington correspondent Christopher Bedford.

Color revolutions —
such as the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia, the 2005 Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in 2004 — are political upheavals aimed at toppling supposedly illegitimate or abusive regimes and replacing them with supposedly liberal democratic regimes. Blaze News previously highlighted that in many cases, the revolutionaries appear to have been afforded help and direction by state actors and/or by non-governmental organizations.

Christopher Rufo
noted in April, “The West’s favored methods of supporting Color Revolutions include fomenting dissent, organizing activists through social media, promoting student movements, and unleashing domestic unrest on the streets.”

New Hampshire state Rep. Mike Belcher
tweeted, “Communist have no qualms about a (any) solution to the paradox of toleration. Our republic tried, but failed to solve for this problem re: Communist subversion about 80 years ago and failed. Recognize that, even in a Trump victory, we are still counter-revolutionary to the established Marxist Regime.”

In June, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck detailed the seven conditions that must be met for a color revolution to successfully topple a government.

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Abortion is the biggest issue that the Democrat Party is running on, but Democrats never tell you how dangerous the procedure really is.

Which is why when young mother Amber Thurman died after taking the abortion pill, the mainstream media went after the abortion laws in Thurman’s home state of Georgia rather than the pill that killed her.

“She left Georgia, where she could not get an abortion at the time of her pregnancy that she was in, she went to another state, got abortion pills, took them, came back, was told everything is going to be fine, no big deal,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” explains.

“She took them, had a very, very big deal, and she wound up going to the hospital. They didn’t treat her for a long time, and she wound up dying. Now, she didn’t go to the hospital because of the Georgia abortion law. She went to the hospital because the pills she was told were going to be totally innocuous wound up putting her in a situation where she needed to go to the hospital,” he adds.

The babies in her womb were already dead from the abortion pill, so no abortion laws would have applied to her situation when she went to the hospital. The poor infants were not evacuated from her system, so that’s when sepsis set in.

While the Democrats jumped on this story because they felt they could mess with the truth and pin Thurman’s death on abortion laws, one story they ignored was the case of Eliana Dickson.

Dickson, a Nevada woman, also died of sepsis after taking abortion pills.

“You might note that Nevada does not have the Georgia abortion law,” Stu says, commenting that these women are sold a much different idea by doctors, politicians, and the media — so they have no idea what they could be getting themselves into.

“If you have a woman in your life that, God forbid, has gone down this road and is having these problems, please let them know, because the media is not going to do that. They’re going to do the exact opposite of that. They’re going to try to hide that information from them because they want political points. It’s disgusting,” he adds.

And they don’t just hide that information, but they lie about it.

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins even compared the abortion drug mifepristone’s “safety” to being “on par with those of common over-the-counter pain relievers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen.”

“Forget for just a moment all the stats I’m about to bring up and just, does that pass the sniff test to you? Have you ever had Tylenol? Have you ever had Advil?” Stu asks, disturbed. “Do you think that has a safety profile equal to the abortion drug? Do you think that? But no, experts are telling you it, so it must be so.”

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Former President Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in New Hampshire, according to a New Hampshire Journal/Praecones Analytica poll released Sunday. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won New Hampshire was over two decades ago, when George W. Bush was running in 2000.

Trump has managed to gain momentum in the longtime blue state, polling at 50.2% while Harris trails at 49.8%, according to the poll. Although Trump’s lead is slim, this poll may sound the alarm for Democrats who have otherwise dominated the state in seven of the last eight presidential elections.

‘She’s on defense and knows President Trump is on the path to victory.’

Trump previously lost the state to President Joe Biden in 2020 by 7.3% and to Hillary Clinton in 2016 by 0.3%. In 2012 and 2008, former President Barack Obama won the state by 5.6% and 9.6%, respectively.

“There’s a reason Kamala Harris has been spending money in New Hampshire,” Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokeswoman and New Hampshire native, told the New Hampshire Journal. “She’s on defense and knows President Trump is on the path to victory.”

Nearly half of adults in New Hampshire, 44%, self-identify as Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters, while just 35% self-identify as Republican or Republican-leaning and 20% self-identify as having no partisan leaning, according to a Pew Research study. Despite having more Democratic-leaning voters, Trump is pulling ahead of Harris, likely due to a growing favorability among independents.

“To my fellow Granite Staters who want to keep our beautiful state safe, business-friendly, and free — get out and vote for President Trump,” Leavitt told the New Hampshire Journal. “Kamala is a radical liberal who would destroy New Hampshire and America forever.”

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Republican vice presidential nominee Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio) sparred with CNN’s Jack Tapper on Sunday, challenging the accuracy of comments Tapper attributed to former President Donald Trump.

Tapper opened the interview by questioning Vance about criticisms from Trump’s former chief of staff, retired Marine General John Kelly, who expressed concerns that the former president would allegedly deploy the military against “the enemy from within.” Last week, Kelly accused Trump of being a “fascist” and an “authoritarian.”

‘Show me the quote where he said that.’

Vance dismissed the allegations and described Kelly as a disgruntled former employee attempting to tarnish Trump’s reputation. He told Tapper that several witnesses have accused Kelly of fabricating false statements he has attributed to Trump.

Tapper claimed that Kelly and Trump are in alignment on policies, but Vance stated, “I don’t buy that.”

Vance said, “If you actually look at John Kelly and folks like Liz Cheney, the fundamental disagreement they have with Donald Trump is, even though they say they’re conservative, they’re conservative in the sense that they want America to get involved in a ton of ridiculous military conflicts. They want America to police the world, and Donald Trump [doesn’t].”

Tapper interrupted Vance, stating, “John Kelly lost a son in Afghanistan. Why are you saying, like — I’ve never heard John Kelly say whether he supports Iran or Afghanistan.”

Vance responded, “And I honor his son’s sacrifice and his family’s sacrifice; that doesn’t mean he’s not wrong about policy.”

“Is your argument that a person that lost a son in Afghanistan can’t be wrong about public policy?” Vance asked Tapper.

Vance stated that many of Trump’s conservative critics who were previously in his Cabinet had turned against him because he “wouldn’t listen to the leadership of the military when they wanted him to start ridiculous conflicts.”

Tapper pressed Vance on his claim that Kelly coordinated with Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign before making his critical comments about Trump. Tapper reported that sources close to Kelly and the Harris campaign denied any such communication.

“I’m highly skeptical of that, Jake. You know the way that these attacks work,” Vance responded. “You’re telling me that based on secondhand conversations with John Kelly.”

Vance contended that the only reason Harris does not have former staff criticizing her is because “she doesn’t fire people who fail.”

“That’s why we haven’t had a real audit of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal,” he added. “Kamala Harris protects failures in government; Donald Trump fires them.”

Tapper argued that several of Trump’s former staff members think Trump is “not fit for office.”

“Oh, they didn’t think he was unfit for office until they had a falling-out with him because he fired them, and we’re not talking about public policy,” Vance responded.

The senator tried to steer the conversation to policy issues, urging Tapper to question him on Trump’s strategies for reducing grocery and housing costs for Americans.

“You’d much rather talk about what Donald Trump allegedly said than what Trump did in office,” Vance stated.

Tapper stated that Trump threatened to use the military against American citizens, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

“He did not say that, Jake,” Vance fired back. “Show me the quote where he said that.”

“He’s talking about people rioting after the election,” the senator continued. “People who burn down American cities in the summer of 2020. Yes, we should have a federal law enforcement response.”

Tapper persisted, claiming that Trump intends to use the military to “go after the enemy from within.”

“Here’s the game that you’re playing,” Vance explained. “He said that he wanted to use the military to go after far-left lunatics who are rioting, and he also called them ‘the enemy within.’ He separately, in a totally different context and a totally different conversation, said that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff were threats to this country.”

“You’re imputing things. You’re taking words out of context. You’re taking two separate conversations and pretending they were made at the exact same time,” Vance remarked.

Vance then slammed Tapper and CNN for giving credence to the “Russia hoax.”

“Ask yourself a basic question on network integrity. You guys talked about the Russia hoax nonstop,” Vance stated. “And so you took the words of unnamed FBI agents and put them on your network as though they were the gospel truth. You did it again and again.”

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A former Colorado cardiologist learned his fate after being convicted of drugging and raping “dozens or more” women he met on dating apps.

Judge Eric Johnson sentenced 37-year-old Stephen Matthews to 158 years in prison — the maximum sentence for his crimes. Matthews had been charged with 38 counts in connection with what prosecutors said were patterns of alleged sexual assaults. He was convicted on 35 charges, including eight sexual assault convictions in August. Matthews also was ordered to register as a sex offender.

‘So much suffering, none of it deserved.’

Matthews’ victims and their families inside the courtroom applauded the longer-than-life prison sentence, according to the New York Post.

“Evidence in this case is overwhelming,” Judge Eric Johnson said during sentencing. “Mr. Matthews, you know, you have diminished this world. You have dimmed many of its lights. You’ve hurt our society, and it’s a darker place because of you.”

The judge added, according to KMGH-TV, “It would be improper — it would depreciate what you have done, the heinousness of your crimes — if you did not serve a sentence for each victim individually.”

Johnson continued, “And in here today, there is a room full of pain. And this is pain that you have caused your victims. So much suffering, none of it deserved.”

The judge said Matthews “even managed to ruin dating applications” by causing young girls and young women to fear dating apps “as another danger zone.”

Johnson told the victims, “You were believed. The verdict said that.”

The district attorney filed charges in connection with 11 victims — nine of whom said they were sexually assaulted.

Between 2019 and 2023, prosecutor Victoria Kelley said she was certain there were “dozens or more” victims of Matthews’ sexual assaults.

“This guy is one of the most prolific serial rapists in the history of the state of Colorado,” said former Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey.

One of the victims said, “We are now a powerful army of survivors — and you are nothing.” She described Matthews as a “narcissistic monster” and a “serial rapist.”

Matthews was first arrested in March 2023 after a woman filed a report with the Denver Police Department saying that during a date he drugged and sexually assaulted her. Matthews was arrested again in May 2023 after nine more women came forward with similar allegations against the doctor.

Prosecutors said Matthews preyed on his victims and had a disturbing pattern to his sexual assaults.

After matching on dating apps such as Hinge and Tinder, Matthews would set up dates at public places such as parks, bars, and restaurants that were in a close proximity to the former doctor’s home.

‘I knew that my ability to control my body was quickly disappearing, and if I did not leave within minutes, I didn’t think I would ever be able to leave.’

Some victims said Matthews claimed he had to go back to his house nearby to walk his dog. Matthews allegedly would ask the women to play board games and then gave his victims alcohol. The women said they suffered large memory gaps after having the drinks.

One victim said she agreed to go to his house to let his dog out. Once inside, she used the bathroom, and he had mixed a drink for her that she never asked for.

“I didn’t want to be rude and didn’t want to offend him so I took the drink,” she said.

After drinking about a quarter of the drink, the woman quickly began to feel physically ill, her speech was slurred, and she began losing her memory and her motor skills.

“I remember at one point falling all the way to the ground and looking up at him as he was about to film me,” the victim said.

She said the Matthews put his arm around her neck and shoulders and put her in a headlock, then pulled her head back to forcibly kiss her, which she said was “painful.”

“I felt like I had to get out,” she said. “I knew that my ability to control my body was quickly disappearing and if I did not leave within minutes, I didn’t think I would ever be able to leave.”

She ran from the cardiologist’s home without her coat, purse, and shoes.

The victim got into an Uber vehicle and vomited “uncontrollably” while in the car. Several other women said they also vomited after Matthews drugged them.

Another victim was drugged and then handcuffed to a sofa inside the former doctor’s house.

“She talked with [a detective] about the horrific things she remembers,” prosecutor Bree Beasley told the jury. “She remembers brief periods of time where she wakes up handcuffed, and she’s naked on the defendant’s sofa and wakes up vomiting.”

Another victim said within an hour and 27 minutes, Matthews drugged her, filmed her as he assaulted her, and put her into a rideshare car that took her home. She had suffered a head injury, and her underwear was ripped.

“You drugged me and raped me and manipulated me into thinking it was my fault,” one of the victims said.

One of the victims added during Matthews’ sentencing, “This was methodical. This wasn’t about consent. This wasn’t about sex. It was about control. He used his position and the title of former doctor to abuse trust with myself and others.”

Matthews did not speak at his sentencing hearing. His attorney, Douglas Cohen, said that was because his client plans to appeal his conviction.

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Billionaire Jeff Bezos is reportedly pressuring the leaders at the Washington Post to hire writers with different viewpoints for its radically liberal opinion section.

In fact, he wants conservatives to contribute as well. According to the New York Times:

Mr. Bezos has told others involved with The Post that he is interested in expanding The Post’s audience among conservatives, according to a person familiar with the matter. He has appointed Mr. Lewis — a chief executive who previously worked at the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal — and has informed Mr. Lewis that he wants more conservative writers on the opinion section, the person said.

The new push comes amid the paper’s decision not to endorse any presidential candidate for this election despite its heavy slant against former President Donald Trump. The Post will also not be making any endorsements for president in the future.

‘The way democracy dies in darkness is if journalism is left to die in cowardice.’

The New York Times reported that Bezos told CEO Will Lewis and opinions editor David Shipley to end the endorsements. A spokeswoman for the Post said, “This was a Washington Post decision to not endorse, and I would refer you to the publisher’s statement in full.”

The Post’s decision not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president sparked intense backlash both from outside and inside the liberal paper. Subscribers canceled their memberships, prompting some reporters to beg readers to reconsider. Critics say the lack of support for Harris means the WaPo tagline of “Democracy Dies In Darkness,” launched under Trump, is nothing more than a virtue signal. Conservatives have long pointed out the melodrama of such a motto.

“This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage,” said Martin Baron, the former editor for the Post.

“It’s not too late for The Post to express its editorial view of the priorities, relative values and principles at stake in this highly consequential election. Will it do so? An ‘independent’ news organization, which Lewis extolled, does not mean silent. As misinformation, confusion, dissonance, anxiety and anger spread through America, The Washington Post must be a beacon. The way democracy dies in darkness is if journalism is left to die in cowardice,” wrote Post columnist Karen Attiah.

The decision has prompted speculation that Bezos is either hedging his bets that Trump will win next week’s election or trying to make the newspaper profitable by not being so one-sided in support of Democrats.

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Hundreds of ballots likely went up in flames after an explosive device apparently went off in a ballot drop box in Washington state, one of two such explosions that occurred early Monday morning.

Around 5:30 a.m. on Monday, police began working tirelessly to put out a fire in a ballot box near a bus station in Vancouver, Washington. Video of their efforts shows crews toiling in the pouring rain as the contents of the ballot box were reduced to ashes.

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“It appears that a device was attached to the outside of the ballot drop box that resulted in the ballots being ignited,” Clark County auditor Greg Kimsey said, according to Oregon Live.

The ballot box was outfitted with a fire suppressant, Kimsey noted. Unfortunately, it did not work effectively.

When asked how many ballots were affected, Kimsey declined to give an exact number but claimed it was in the “hundreds.”

Kimsey described the incident as “heartbreaking.” “It’s a direct attack on democracy,” he added.

Police likewise described the device as “suspicious.”

‘Southwest Washington cannot risk a single vote being lost to arson and political violence.’

Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs (D) suggested the incident may have even been an act of “terror.”

“I strongly denounce any acts of terror that aim to disrupt lawful and fair elections in Washington state,” he said in a statement, according to ABC News.

The drop box is located in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, where Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D) and Republican Joe Kent are in a tight rematch. In 2022, Perez beat Kent by fewer than 3,000 votes.

“Southwest Washington cannot risk a single vote being lost to arson and political violence,” Perez said in a statement, according to ABC News.

Kent’s team did not respond to a request for comment, the outlet claimed.

Ballots at the drop box were last collected around 11 a.m. on Saturday, so anyone who deposited a ballot after that time is encouraged to check the status of their ballot online. They may also contact the county elections office to receive a replacement ballot by calling (564) 397-2345 or emailing elections@clark.wa.gov.

Sadly, the drop box in Vancouver was not the only one in the area to be hit. About two hours before the incident in Vancouver, an “incendiary device” exploded in a drop box in Portland, a press release from the Portland Police Bureau indicated. Portland, Oregon, is located about 10 miles south of Vancouver, Washington.

Fortunately, a fire suppressant installed in the Portland ballot box activated, preventing a significant fire. Multnomah County Elections Director Tim Scott claimed that only three ballots had been damaged and that elections workers had already made plans to contact the affected voters.

“By the time officers arrived, the fire had already been extinguished by security personnel who work in the area,” the PPB press release said. “Officers determined an incendiary device was placed inside the ballot box and used to ignite the fire. PPB’s Explosive Disposal Unit (EDU) responded to the scene and cleared the device.”

It is unclear whether the two incidents are linked.

Yet another incendiary device was discovered at a drop box in Vancouver on October 8. Luckily, it did not cause any damage.

A man also allegedly admitted to lighting a fire in a ballot box in Phoenix last week, destroying perhaps 20 ballots, as Blaze News previously reported. The suspect denied having any political motivation, claiming instead that he “wanted to be arrested.”

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The answer to that question is: It depends on which subcategory of the red-pill right you’re looking at. On one hand, you have those whose eyes have opened to the corruption of the establishment. These people “used to support establishment Republicans” but, having seen the rampant corruption, now oppose these politicians.

“All the way on the other end of the spectrum, we have the Andrew Tates,” says Liz Wheeler, who points out that these kinds of red-pill bros tend to denounce marriage and the nuclear family.

It’s this latter category of men that Liz and the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles are interested in.

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As for “guys who appear to hate women” and, more broadly, the “manosphere movement that discourages marriage and encourages promiscuous sex,” Knowles says, it’s “the flip side of the coin of feminism.”

What third-wave feminism and the manosphere movement have in common is that they both “misunderstand men and women” and “human nature” in general.

Knowles calls the “irrational, passionate kind of tyranny” that defines the red-pill bro movement “unreasonable.”

It “won’t lead to human flourishing,” he tells Liz.

Having met with many men who adhere to this ideology, Knowles says that they discourage marriage on the grounds that “family courts favor women in cases of divorce.”

However, the answer lies in “amending the laws,” not denouncing marriage, says Knowles.

But even that isn’t enough, according to him. True conservatives believe that “divorce is really evil,” and “if it is to be tolerated at all, it should be in really circumscribed cases.” Of course, we’re a far cry from that since the introduction of the no-fault divorce law that has essentially made divorce nothing more than an expensive, time-consuming breakup.

“I think that promiscuity and adultery ought to be discouraged, including in some cases, with the force of the law as was the case in America until relatively recently,” says Knowles. “I know there are going to be some people listening maybe on the red-pill right or certainly the feminists and the leftists who will look at me like I have three heads,” but “what I am stating is what everybody believed just about 50 or 60 years ago for all of American history and throughout the West, so this isn’t radical stuff.”

“Embracing divorce and radical individualism and just using people for your own pleasure. … If that’s the right, then really there’s no difference between the right and the left,” he says.

To hear Liz’s response, watch the clip above.

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When Americans sit down for dinner or prepare their breakfast, seldom do they ask themselves where their food comes from. And unfortunately, the farmers who have kept them fed for generations may be going extinct.

Brian Reisinger, a fourth-generation farmer himself and author of “Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family’s Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer,” is seeing firsthand the economic and cultural crisis that’s threatening America’s food supply.

Rick and Bubba of the “Rick and Bubba Show” grew up in rural Alabama, and this hits close to home.

“We were an agricultural society, and boy, have we moved away from that,” Rick tells Bubba. “And unfortunately, it’s as if the farmer has, like Brian says, disappeared.”

“I like to say we’re not only losing the farms that feed us — which is true, this affects food prices, the security of our food supply, all kinds of economic issues — but we’re also losing a part of ourselves because this is a big part of our American values and a big part of who we are as a people, and it’s slipping away,” Reisinger agrees.

While Reisinger grew up learning from his father how to be a farmer himself, it’s a way of life that most Americans are now divorced from.

“It’s a beautiful way of life,” he tells Rick and Bubba. “I grew up working with my dad from the time I could walk.”

“The values, things you learn, you get up at sunup to work with your dad, and you do it till sundown. You come in at odd hours. The barn, when there’s a cow having a hard time delivering her calf, and you see your dad help deliver that calf and you see the calf take its first life breaths, you learn about the circle of life,” he explains.

“Not everybody has to grow up on a farm, we don’t have to force everybody to do that, but we’re losing this to such a degree that I really think it’s affecting our culture,” he adds.

But this isn’t happening just because the culture has changed.

“We come out of the depression, when the disappearance first started happening,” Reisinger explains, noting that the government “had all kinds of programs that were meant to control the price and the supply.”

“They had farmers leaving land idle. They had animals slaughtered. They did all kinds of things to try to bring the supply down and the prices up,” he continues, adding, “Our government began just piling more programs on top of one another.”

The government has continued to attempt to control farmers and their land while allowing foreign governments to buy farmland as well.

“It’s one of many things that our country allows that other countries don’t allow us to do,” Reisinger says. “The issue that we face with that is the incredible pace of foreign ownership of farmland.”

In just two years, foreign-owned farmland in the U.S. increased by 15% — and China is one of the biggest owners.

“That’s alarming,” he adds.

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A CNN report documented that CEOs of some big tech companies are giving former President Donald Trump a phone call after recent polling showed that he might get elected again.

Trump has mentioned in various interviews that the CEOs of Apple, Google, Meta, and Amazon have reached out to him in the closing weeks of the election campaign.

‘I don’t want to have him, his administration, going after us.’

A person who is close with Trump and has knowledge of the calls spoke to CNN and said the CEOs were likely hedging their bets in case Trump won, the outlet claimed.

“There are some that seem to be waking up to the fact that like, ‘Holy s***, this guy might get elected again. I don’t want to have him, his administration, going after us,’” the person said. “What he’s saying out loud, I think they hear, and they’re taking it seriously.”

Of course, Trump has already obtained the enthusiastic and influential endorsement of tech billionaire Elon Musk, who owns the popular social media platform X.

Trump revealed that Google CEO Sundar Pichai called him to praise the success of his photo op at a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant.

“He said, ‘This is one of the hottest things. We have never seen anything like this,’” Trump said of the call with Pichai.

CNN cited a source who claimed Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg called the former president after the first assassination attempt on his life in order to praise him for his composure during the incident. The two had a combative relationship before the call but have since then been far more friendly in public comments about each other.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy also reached out to Trump, according to CNN sources, with a “general, hello-type thing.”

Recent polling shows voter support for Trump surging just ahead of Election Day, and pundits believe that he will win if voting follows historic trends from 2016 and 2020.

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Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance was forced to correct NBC News anchor Kristen Welker on Sunday after she made a false claim about Donald Trump.

Instead of asking Vance about the Trump-Vance vision for America, Welker chose to begin her interview with Vance — which aired just days before Election Day — by asking him if he views Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “ally” or “enemy.”

‘I think that that’s a misunderstanding of the history, Kristen.’

Vance, in response, called Putin an “adversary” and “competitor,” explaining America needs “to be smart about diplomacy.” Vance then tried to shift the conversation to topics Americans care about, but Welker refused to ask about those issues. Instead, she asked Vance why he’s “not willing to go so far as to call [Putin] an enemy.”

“Well, we’re not in a war with him, and I don’t want to be in a war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” Vance shot back.

And that’s when the interview took a turn.

Vance told Welker that America needs “smart diplomacy” to restore peace in the world and to turn the page from the foreign policy disasters of the Biden-Harris administration. Oddly, Welker responded by asserting that Russia invaded Ukraine when Trump was president, forcing Vance to give her a history lesson.

“Of course, Donald Trump was president for four years while Russia was essentially invading Crimea,” Welker said. “Why didn’t he kick him out when he had the chance? He had four years.”

“Oh, I think that that’s a misunderstanding of the history, Kristen,” Vance responded.

“Well, there was fighting going on,” Welker insisted

“First of all, we had Russia invade another country, a sovereign nation, during Obama,” Vance corrected. “We had Russia invade a sovereign nation during Bush’s term. We had Russia invade a sovereign nation during the leadership of Kamala Harris.”

“The one four-year term where Russia did not launch a full-scale invasion against a neighbor was under the leadership of Donald Trump,” he explained. “We also have to remember, just on that point, if Donald Trump had not given Ukraine javelins, the country would not exist as an independent sovereign nation anymore. So, the idea that Donald Trump wasn’t sufficiently strong on Russia, I think, is belied by the actual history of the period.”

Vance is right.

When George W. Bush was president, Russia invaded the country of Georgia in 2008. When Barack Obama was president, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. And, of course, under Biden and Harris, Russia expanded its invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and launched a full-scale war.

It is, moreover, not correct to assert there was ongoing conflict in Crimea under Trump.

Crimea was annexed and incorporated into Russia in March 2014. It has remained under Russian occupation since then. Prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine 2.5 years ago, Crimea remained relatively peaceful. There was, however, ongoing fighting in Donbas, a region in eastern Ukraine, which also began in 2014.

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