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Election officials in Minnesota fired a ballot courier last week after Republicans spotted unsecured ballots in the back of a van.

While walking through the parking lot of the Edina City Hall on Oct. 18, a man spotted a Hennepin County courier vehicle with the rear door ajar. Inside the back of the van were approximately a dozen boxes of unsecured ballots.

‘This is exactly what can’t happen.’

Surveillance video shows the unsecured ballots were left exposed in the parking lot for nearly 10 minutes.

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The eyewitness who snapped the photograph of the unsecured ballots told KSTP-TV that he is concerned about a fair election, telling the news station, “This is exactly what can’t happen.”

One day after that witness spotted the ballots, Hennepin County officials released a statement acknowledging a “lapse in protocol” had occurred.

“The protocol for transporting ballots is that they are to be secured at all times and Hennepin County has alerted its courier of this incident,” county officials said. “Hennepin County acknowledges that this lapse in protocol occurred, should not have happened, and is unacceptable. Corrective actions have been taken by the county and its courier to prevent any recurrence.”

Officials, moreover, fired the election worker who left the ballots unsecured.

Because of the security lapse, Hennepin County officials inspected the unsecured ballots and determined all remain legitimate.

The statement explained:

Hennepin County has determined that all expected ballots have been accounted for and found no evidence of tampering with sealed transfer cases. This is done by comparing the ballots received from the courier with the record in the Statewide Voter Registration System for all absentee ballots accepted by cities. The comparison demonstrated a 100% match. This step is routine in the ballot integrity process, occurring with every transfer.

County staff have also inspected individual ballots and determined that absentee ballot envelopes within the cases were received in sealed condition. This inspection is also a routine election integrity process.

Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon (D), meanwhile, said the incident “was totally unacceptable,” yet he still chalked it up as a “teachable moment.”

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During a hearing earlier this month, Tim Ballard’s attorney, Mark Eisenhut, offered a startling theory about semen found on the skirt of one of Ballard’s accusers. Eisenhut indicated that Ballard may have masturbated onto the skirt in response to a meeting with a “high-end escort” named Juli.

Celeste Borys has accused Ballard of sexual misconduct while the two worked together at Operation Underground Railroad from October 2022 until September 2023. According to Borys and her attorney, Suzette Rasmussen, Ballard sexually assaulted Borys 30 times during that 11-month period, as Blaze News previously reported.

‘So when he masturbated, your position is that it got on the skirt?’

One such alleged assault occurred on Jan. 8, 2023, when Borys and Ballard flew to Mexico for a supposed operation. Borys later stuffed a leather skirt she had been wearing that day into a drawer.

DNA from semen was later extracted from the skirt. A Utah County detective confirmed that “the DNA was a 100% match of Ballard’s DNA” and that Borys’ husband had been excluded, Borys and her attorney asserted in court documents.

A Utah state crime lab has yet to confirm the results of the DNA test.

At an Oct. 3 hearing regarding a sexual violence protective order against Ballard, Eisenhut claimed to district Judge Kristine Johnson that while his team had yet to examine “the skirt, the semen, or the test results,” his client did apparently ejaculate on Borys’ skirt after returning with Juli to his Ritz Carlton hotel room in Mexico in the hopes of getting information from her.

“He actually gets the information out of her,” Eisenhut said of Ballard and Juli, “but the problem is, she now wants to have sex.”

Eisenhut then went on a tangent, discussing prostitutes in seedy areas who are often ready and willing to sell their services — and Ballard’s determination to remain faithful to his wife and family.

After some time, Judge Johnson interjected and asked: “So when he masturbated, your position is that it got on the skirt?”

“He was in her room,” Eisenhut replied, now referring to Ballard and Borys. “He used her skirt to do it, and that’s the excuse he used with the prostitute.” In other words, Eisenhut suggested Ballard may have masturbated as an “excuse” not to have sex with Juli.

Eisenhut reiterated that this alleged semen deposit “could have and probably did happen.”

Kim Luhn, commissioner of the 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City, ultimately granted Borys the sexual violence protective order against Ballard, which compels him to remain at least 250 feet from her and avoid all contact with her. The order is set to expire in October 2027.

“We commend the court for its careful examination of the full context surrounding this case. By taking the time to understand the grooming, manipulation, and threats and dangers faced by the victim, the court has demonstrated a commitment to justice and safety,” Rasmussen said in a statement to Blaze News. “This decision not only protects the victim, but also reinforces the importance of a judicial system that prioritizes safety and accountability.”

In response to a request for comment, Ballard spokesperson Chad Kolton told Blaze News: “The commissioner’s decision in the [Borys] PO matter is considered a recommendation. The judge will make a final ruling.”

Neither Ballard nor Borys still work at Operation Underground Railroad. OUR did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly identified more than 600 immigrants currently in the United States who have possible ties to Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang.

According to data obtained and released by NBC News on Wednesday, approximately 100 of the individuals have been designated as “subjects of interest” after they were found to be confirmed gang members. The DHS advised the FBI to place those individuals on its watch list, officials told the news outlet.

‘Almost disturbingly low.’

It noted that after further review, the rest of the 500 immigrants may be gang members themselves or victims and witnesses linked to the gang.

The DHS data obtained by NBC News also revealed that TDA has confirmed activity in at least 15 states and may have a presence in another eight.

A spokesperson for the department told the news outlet, “DHS has an ongoing operation to crack down on gang members through re-screening certain individuals previously encountered, in addition to the rigorous screening and vetting at the border.”

“All individuals confirmed or suspected to be gang members are referred for criminal prosecution or detained and placed into expedited removal,” the spokesperson added.

However, the data revealed that fewer than 5% of the 600 individuals identified by the DHS are in federal custody with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A DHS official told NBC News that ICE has not yet detained some of the individuals because they are currently in custody with other law enforcement agencies, or ICE may not know where the individuals are located. The official also stated that the federal government may still be confirming the individuals’ connections to the gang or to crimes.

According to the DHS official, TDA “prey[s] first and foremost on Venezuelans.”

“We know that they control human smuggling routes out of Venezuela and into Colombia and into Panama. And they are controlling more of these passages as individuals move north through Mexico,” the official said.

Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence and an NBC News contributor, called the DHS’ discovery of 600 immigrants with possible ties to TDA “almost disturbingly low.”

“It should be higher,” he added.

Ammon Blair, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and former Border Patrol agent, told NBC News that the federal government does not know the full extent of TDA’s presence in the U.S.

“When you look at the process, unfortunately, they’re just steamrolled through,” Blair stated. “The Border Patrol has created a conveyor belt, an automated system to process them and release them as fast as possible into the United States. We were not asking questions.”

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One of the first orders of business for President Joe Biden (D) when he took office was to immediately undo former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, which included halting construction of the border wall. In fact, within his first year, Biden took nearly 300 immigration-related executive actions that have ultimately led to the nation’s current unprecedented immigration crisis.

Perhaps even more damaging than leaving the nation’s doors open to illegal immigration, Biden, along with his vice president and now the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, spent the past three and a half years using the administration’s executive powers to circumvent Congress and rapidly expand “lawful pathways,” including parole programs, Temporary Protected Status, and the CBP One app.

The Biden-Harris administration has rolled out these executive actions under the guise of curbing illegal crossings by incentivizing foreign nationals to pursue so-called legal routes instead. However, while their measures may have slightly reduced southern border encounter numbers in recent months, they have ramped up questionably legal immigration nationwide.

As far as the current administration is concerned, these expanded immigration pathways have granted millions of foreign nationals legal status in the U.S.

However, with election season in full swing and immigration a top concern for a vast number of voters, the Biden-Harris turned Harris-Walz campaign is attempting to appear more moderate on immigration issues and distancing itself from its self-inflicted crisis by, among other things, touting its lowered border encounter stats while glossing over how its expanded pathways have allowed millions of lightly vetted foreign nationals to enter the country.

Background on pathway expansion

Until May 2023, Title 42 allowed the federal government to quickly expel illegal immigrants who had recently been in a country where COVID-19 was present. With the expulsion program set to end, the administration anticipated a significant spike in border crossings. As a way to mitigate that increase and “discourage irregular migration,” the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice issued “a final rule to incentivize the use of lawful pathways.”

The administration sold its expanded pathways firstly as a “lawful” process that encouraged “safe” and “orderly” immigration into the U.S.

With the number of illegal border crossings over the first three years of Biden’s presidency exceeding nine million, the expanded pathway measures provided ways for the administration to continue allowing foreign nationals to enter the country in large numbers while potentially reducing eye-popping encounter stats at the southwest border.

‘CHNV program, which allows inadmissible Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to fly in.’

In the summer of 2023, the Biden-Harris administration listed the ways it planned to increase so-called legal migration, including by “establishing country-specific and other available processes to seek parole for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit; expanding opportunities to enter for seasonal employment; putting in place a mechanism for migrants to schedule a time and place to arrive in a safe, orderly, and lawful manner at ports of entry via use of the CBP One mobile app; and expanding refugee processing in the Western Hemisphere.”

Jessica Vaughan, the director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, told Blaze News, “The most consequential, and unlawful, ‘lawful pathway’ used by the Biden administration has been the use of parole to allow about 5 million inadmissible migrants into the country who would not otherwise qualify either for asylum or a legal visa.”

She noted that the administration’s pathways have “taken several forms,” including “catch-and-release at the border, the CBP One app to enable unqualified people from anywhere in the world to make an appointment to cross the border, and the CHNV program, which allows inadmissible Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to fly in and settle where ever they like, and in the case of the Cubans and Haitians, immediately apply for welfare programs and enroll their kids in public schools at taxpayer expense.”

CBP One mobile app

The Biden-Harris administration has significantly expanded Customs and Border Protection’s CBP One application, which allows foreign nationals located in certain parts of Mexico to schedule an appointment at a port of entry to make an asylum claim. The catch-and-release policies under the current administration mean that applicants undergo a quick and abbreviated vetting process before they are released into the interior of the U.S. and provided with years-out court dates to later review the legitimacy of their asylum claims.

Under the Biden-Harris leadership, the mobile app has expanded eligibility territory, allowing foreign nationals to apply from Northern, Central, and some parts of Southern Mexico, thereby incentivizing individuals worldwide to travel to Mexico to schedule an appointment. CBP schedules 1,450 appointments per day.

A recent report from the DHS’ Office of Inspector General revealed that the application lacks some capabilities to assist with vetting foreign nationals.

The application’s limited vetting ability, coupled with overwhelmed federal immigration agents at the border forced to expedite the release of those requesting asylum, has allowed gang members and criminals to enter the country.

In just one recent example, two young men suspected to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were recently busted in Aurora, Colorado, for alleged ties to a shooting. According to reports, the men used the CBP One app to enter the U.S. in August.

The CHNV pathway

The administration’s CHNV program allows 30,000 individuals per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to immigrate to the U.S. and receive a two-year work permit. It is worth noting that CHNV beneficiaries are being flown into the U.S. not necessarily from their country of origin. In fact, the CIS discovered that individuals have been flown from 77 countries into 45 international U.S. airports.

In recent weeks, the program has stirred up a firestorm of controversy after a report by the Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate uncovered fraud among sponsors’ applications. Foreign national beneficiaries must have a U.S.-based sponsor, also called a supporter — individual or entity — to be eligible for the program.

‘The president and his border czar play a massive shell game.’

Those currently in the country on Temporary Protected Status or asylum can serve as supporters to CHNV beneficiaries, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ website. In other words, beneficiaries do not require an American citizen sponsor to enter the country through this program, leaving it vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.

The report found that some supporters had used the same Social Security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers hundreds of times. Additionally, approximately 3,000 sponsors had filed more than 100,000 forms. Some of those forms included phone numbers belonging to deceased individuals, addresses of storage units, and fake zip codes.

While news of the discovered fraud did not break until early August, the DHS reportedly paused the CHNV program in mid-July while investigating the findings.

Roughly a month and a half later, the Biden-Harris administration announced that it was rebooting the program, with the DHS claiming that it would conduct “additional vetting” of sponsors moving forward.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) urged the federal government to end the “clearly flawed” and “unlawful” program.

“The CHNV program, along with the use of the CBP One app at the Southwest border, has helped the president and his border czar play a massive shell game, encouraging otherwise inadmissible aliens to simply cross at ports of entry instead of between them,” he stated following the administration’s announcement.

A group of senators led by Ted Cruz (R-Texas) recently penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also calling for the program’s termination.

Cruz accused the DHS of continuing the program after implementing “stop-gap marginal improvements” that would not “solve the fundamental fraud, failure, and illegality of the CHNV program.”

“This fundamentally flawed program must be permanently dismantled. The program has not only facilitated widespread fraud, but has also exposed serious vulnerabilities in our immigration system, leading to dire consequences for public safety. The tragic sexual assault and murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray by two Venezuelan illegal aliens indicates the dangers posed by the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies,” Cruz wrote in the letter.

The senators linked the CHNV program and the administration’s expansion of TPS for Venezuelans to the “troubling rise in crime” and the increased presence of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang now operating in some areas of the U.S.

Furthermore, they accused the Biden-Harris administration of “creat[ing] a parallel immigration system without congressional approval.”

‘Keeping Families Together’ program

In addition to implementing more pathways for foreign nationals to enter the U.S., the Biden-Harris administration has also promoted mass amnesty processes for those already in the country seeking permanent legal status.

The DHS announced the “Keeping Families Together” program in mid-August, calling it “a step toward … Biden’s commitment to promoting family unity in the immigration system.”

If permitted to move forward, it would allow some illegal immigrants to “request parole in place under existing statutory authority.” Those eligible for the program include spouses and stepchildren of American citizens. Spousal applicants must have lived in the U.S. since June 2014 and have been married to a citizen since June 2024. Stepchildren applicants must be under 21 years old and unmarried, have resided in the country since June 2024, and have an illegal alien parent married to a citizen.

‘The Biden-Harris-Mayorkas schemes were deliberately created to circumvent the immigration laws.’

As part of the program, eligible individuals would be granted parole in place, allowing them to remain in the country while they request an adjustment of status.

USCIS’ website states, “If granted parole, and if otherwise eligible, these noncitizens may apply for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident without being required to leave the United States and be processed by a U.S. consulate overseas.”

“DHS estimates that 500,000 noncitizen spouses of U.S. citizens could be eligible to access Keeping Families Together; on average, these noncitizens have resided in the United States for 23 years,” it continues. “In addition, approximately 50,000 noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens are estimated to be eligible to seek parole under Keeping Families Together.”

Critics have called it a mass amnesty program.

Shortly after it was announced, 16 Republican-led states filed a lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration to prevent the program from moving forward. The complaint claimed that the administration’s estimate that it would extend legal status to up to 550,000 illegal aliens is “likely a significant underestimate,” arguing that the number could be as high as 1.3 million.

The lawsuit, filed in partnership with America First Legal, read, “DHS has announced the creation of a program that effectively provides a new pathway to a green card and eventual citizenship … to circumvent the process established by Congress to apply for permanent residency.”

It stated, “This action incentivizes illegal immigration and will irreparably harm the Plaintiff States,” which included Texas, Idaho, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

In response to the suit, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a stay order, preventing the federal government from implementing the program at least until September 23 while the case is pending.

USCIS noted that it is still accepting applications for its “Keeping Families Together” program, including scheduling biometric appointments for applicants, but it is not currently granting any parole-in-place requests due to the ongoing lawsuit.

Final thoughts

The most troubling aspect of the Biden-Harris administration’s open-borders policies has been the limited vetting processes that have allowed criminals from all over the world to slip into the country.

“Besides the huge expense to taxpayers, there is a human cost as well, as some of these individuals are violent gang members, deviants, and human traffickers, and they have caused incalculable harm in a number of communities around the country, from New York City to Aurora, Colorado, to Springfield, Ohio, to Nashville, Tennessee,” Vaughan told Blaze News.

Despite the federal government’s claims that every foreign national granted asylum or other form of parole has been thoroughly vetted, law enforcement officials’ ability to access an individual’s criminal background is extremely limited.

Immigration officials tasked with performing background checks on foreign nationals making asylum claims at the border are limited to U.S.-based background checks and Interpol.

Vaughan explained, “There is no meaningful vetting process. The only vetting that the immigration officers can do is to check if the migrant has a record here in the United States, and most of them have never been here before. We have next to no information on their background.”

Vaughan confirmed to Blaze News that potential lawsuits against the administration’s expanded pathways could have legal standing.

“The Biden-Harris-Mayorkas schemes were deliberately created to circumvent the immigration laws as Congress wrote them, and especially the numerical limits,” she said. “The law explicitly prohibits using parole to allow defined categories of migrants to enter without a visa or after crossing illegally; it is permissible only on a case-by-case individual basis and only if it can be justified as a significant public benefit.”

The administration’s expanded pathways and asylum programs refer to 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5), which states that the attorney general may “parole” a foreign national into the country “temporarily” but “only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.” However, it notes, “Such parole of such alien shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien and when the purposes of such parole shall, in the opinion of the Attorney General, have been served the alien shall forthwith return or be returned to the custody from which he was paroled and thereafter his case shall continue to be dealt with in the same manner as that of any other applicant for admission to the United States.”

Vaughan noted, “A lot of people are asking what possible public benefit has come from these policies, especially the families of people harmed by illegal migrants, or taxpayers seeing their hard-earned money spent on hotel rooms, Uber rides, pizza dinners, health care, schooling, and sometimes prosecution and incarceration of people who have no interest and no prospect of contributing to their community.”

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Mark Hamill decided to make the tragic death of his “Star Wars” co-star Carrie Fisher into a pro-Democrat advertisement, and some fans online didn’t appreciate it much.

Hamill has been more vocal about his left-wing beliefs, but he took them to a new level on Monday in a post on social media. He said he was doing so for Fisher’s birthday.

‘Using a dead friend as a political token is disrespectful.’

“For those wondering how she would vote in this election: one of the last (of many) arguments we had was who hated the Orange Atrocity more. After half an hour, we had to agree to disagree,” he posted, adding a hashtag for “Carrie on Forever.”

Few cast aspersions on the veracity of the story since Fisher had frequently made her liberal beliefs known, but many excoriated Hamill for politicizing her birthday after her death.

“Using a dead friend as a political prop to hate Trump is disgusting,” read one popular response.

“I hope one day once you become sane again you can look back and realize using a dead friend as a political token is disrespectful,” replied another social media user.

“This is disgraceful to Carrie Fisher’s memory, Mark Hamill of all people should understand that using a dead friend for political bs is disgusting. Just another example to never meet your heroes,” said another critic.

The tweet garnered more than 3.5 million views, many of them critical.

Fisher would have been 68 years old on Monday. She died in 2016 at the age of 60 from cardiac arrest, but her daughter said that Fisher’s lifelong battle with addiction and mental illness was the underlying cause of her early death.

The famed “Princess Leia” actress was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood in 2023.

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While the left is gearing up to “pull their shenanigans” in swing states in a last-ditch effort to win the election, Donald Trump took a different approach.

In the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, Trump took a jab at Kamala Harris’ unverified claims that she worked at McDonald’s by actually working at McDonald’s for an afternoon. And per usual, he was a huge hit.

“There’s a reason that Donald Trump’s McDonald’s visit and the photograph of Donald Trump looking out of the drive-through window at McDonald’s has instantly become a global phenomenon,” says Liz Wheeler.

However, the reason that these things “have resonated with so many people” is not what Liz expected.

“The reason that it resonated with so many people was not because it was just a gotcha on Kamala Harris,” says Liz. “The reason that it resonated with so many people is because Donald Trump is not the working man. Donald Trump actually is one of the elite.”

Working at McDonald’s shows that he is “actively making an effort to understand the working man’s plight” and that he acknowledges the “dignity in all work.”

“He’s saying, ‘Yeah, I want to do this with you; I want to stand next to you; I want to use my position in power, my position of wealth, my position of prosperity, my position as an owner of businesses that employ people just like you. I want to listen to you, and I want to be your champion,”’ says Liz.

Unlike Harris, who is denying her station as “a San Francisco elitist” in an effort to pander to the commoner, Trump has adopted the position of “I use my position knowing the dirty tactics that my peers, the elitists, use against you to be your champion,” Liz explains.

To hear more of her commentary, including on what election fraud we need to be on the lookout for, watch the episode above.

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Vice President Kamala Harris admitted during an interview with MSNBC that she wants mass amnesty for the millions of illegal immigrants who have come to the United States during the Biden-Harris administration.

Telemundo host Julio Vaqueiro grilled Harris on her plans for addressing the massive issue, a longtime weak spot for Democrats even before the border crisis started when Joe Biden became president.

“Right now, we’re talking about border security, and there’s nobody, no Democrat, talking about pathway to citizenship, immigration relief, benefits that migrants bring to this country,” Vaqueiro said to Harris.

“I am. I am talking about it. … There’s no question that … migrants bring — America is a country that was built in part by immigrants,” Harris stammered.

When Vaqueiro brought up former President Donald Trump’s plan to conduct mass deportations, Harris interjected that she is not proposing that.

“We need smart, humane immigration policy that includes a pathway to citizenship,” Harris continued, adding a need for more “resources in terms of security” at the southern border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection finally released the data for the number of illegal immigrants encountered at the southern border for fiscal year 2024, which ended at the start of October.

U.S Border Patrol encountered over 1.5 million illegal immigrants in this recent fiscal year, a slight drop from 2 million in fiscal year 2023. The drop in encounters, while still historically high, is due to the Biden-Harris administration expanding the nation’s parole program, typically used on a case-by-case basis, to thousands of people per day. This was an effort to reduce the number of illegal crossings in order to reduce the bad optics of people flooding the border even though the strength of their cases is very much in doubt.

Despite those efforts, illegal crossings in areas around Eagle Pass, Texas, are starting to pick up again as illegal immigrants want to enter the country before the presidential election.

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It’s been two weeks since CBS was slammed for editing Kamala Harris’ interview with “60 Minutes’” Bill Whitaker — specifically the answer (or rather word salad) she gave regarding Israel.

“There’s been one question,” says Glenn Beck. “Why is one answer different in the promo than the answer you aired the next night in the special?”

Well, CBS has finally answered that question, but unfortunately, its statement is entirely void of the humility one would expect from a scandal of this caliber.

First, the news platform denied the accusation from Donald Trump that it engaged in “deceitful editing.”

“That is false,” the statement claimed.

Glenn then reads the explanation justifying the editing: “’60 Minutes’ gave an excerpt of our interview to ‘Face the Nation’ that used a longer section of her answer than that on ’60 Minutes.’ Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response.”

“The portion of her answer on ’60 Minutes’ was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide-ranging, 21 minute-long segment.”

Already, the statement is not off to a great start. But then it got even worse when it changed the subject to — surprise, surprise — Donald Trump.

“But remember, Mr. Trump pulled out of his interview with ’60 Minutes,’ and the vice president participated.”

“Why was that last line necessary?” asks Glenn. “That shows that they have an agenda.”

“There’s something there that they are literally trying to hide,” adds Stu Burguiere, noting that the full interview still hasn’t been released.

Glenn says that in response to CBS’ deception, the people need to take action.

“Look for your local CBS television station,” “email or write snail mail” to “the general manager,” and ask him or her “why they are not demanding for their own local audience to be informed on what looks like CBS News election interference,” he instructs, adding that “any complaint like that has to be saved for the FCC.”

“That’s how you get their license pulled.”

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The Heritage Oversight Project exposed efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to downplay its support for agents who publicly kneeled with Black Lives Matter protesters against police.

Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project, spoke to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck about the revelations from documents his organization obtained about the FBI agents referred to as “Kneel Team Six.”

‘It wasn’t just this isolated incident of a liberal sect of the FBI. No, it was approved and sanctioned by the FBI brass in their reaction to it.’

Howell explained how some FBI agents, whom he said were predominately female, had kneeled in solidarity during a BLM riot in Washington, D.C., in 2020.

“Think about how outrageous that is. The FBI is supposed to be the top legal arm in this country, and here they are in the midst of the country burning down, in front of everybody’s eyes, kneeling in solidarity with the rioters,” said Howell.

“This garnered some traction on social media and elsewhere and some of the pictures are absolutely outrageous. You have a woman in there who clearly can’t pass any sort of physical fitness test. It’s just a terrible look for the FBI,” he explained.

The Oversight Project sued the FBI in 2020 for the release of documents related to the incident and published some of the findings on Monday.

“It wasn’t just this isolated incident of a liberal sect of the FBI. No, it was approved and sanctioned by the FBI brass in their reaction to it,” he said.

Howell said the FBI tried to downplay the incident as an act of de-escalation and not to show solidarity with rioters, but the documents published by the Oversight Project show that the agents were rewarded for their outrageous behavior.

“They were greeted with gift cards, rewards, promotions, all praise from the tippity-top of the brass, including Director Christopher Wray,” said Howell.

He also suggested that the disappearance of a viral video on TikTok about the incident pointed to possible measures taken by the FBI to prevent the public from seeing what happened.

“You have elements potentially of what screams of a cover-up,” he concluded.

The FBI declined a request for comment from Blaze News.

Here’s part of the Howell interview with Glenn Beck:

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America is currently standing at a fork in the road. Which path we take will determine our fate as a nation.

One path is “we try something entirely new,” as in “not the Constitution,” and the other path is “we go back towards the Constitution,” says Glenn Beck.

The stakes for this decision are higher than they’ve ever been.

“We’re deciding this year whether or not our kids are going to grow up in a country that gives them the opportunity to be themselves and to move forward and chart their own course, or we’re going to continue to live in a place where we’re not sure if our kids are going to have a better life than we did,” Glenn warns.

Regardless of who you vote for, Glenn says that one thing applies to everyone: “You’ve got to get involved this year,” which includes voting.

Election Day is rapidly approaching, and it will undoubtedly be a night that goes down in history, which is why BlazeTV will be broadcasting it live.

“We’d love to share it with you,” says Glenn.

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Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard helped torpedo Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in 2020.

Keen to do so once again but also to spare America from losing further blood and treasure abroad as a consequence of the interventionism favored by the vice president and her new buddy Liz Cheney, the former congresswoman endorsed President Donald Trump in August, stressing that unlike Harris, he would “do the work and walk us back from the brink of war.”

At a rally Tuesday in Greensboro, North Carolina, the former Democrat went a step farther, announcing that she was joining the Republican Party.

“To those of you here and those watching at home who are independent people like myself, who love our country and are committed to the Constitution and to freedom, the Democrat Party has no home for people like us,” said Gabbard. “But we do have a home in the Republican Party.”

“It is because of my love for our country and specifically because of the leadership that President Trump has brought to transform the Republican Party and bring it back to the party of the people and the party of peace that I’m proud to stand here with you today, President Trump, and announce that I’m joining the Republican Party,” added the former Hawaii congresswoman, to the sound of thunderous applause.

‘A vote for President Trump is a vote for peace.’

Earlier in her remarks, Gabbard noted that she spent over 20 years as a Democrat but found that the party had morphed into something unrecognizable.

Gabbard noted that like her party, Harris is “anti-freedom, she is pro-censorship, she is pro-open-borders, and she is pro-war.”

The former congresswoman is particularly sensitive to Harris’ disregard for American freedoms, having learned over the summer from several federal Air Marshal whistleblowers that the Biden-Harris administration was apparently surveilling her via a program designed to identify and monitor potential terrorists.

Gabbard’s alleged enrollment in the Transportation Security Administration’s Quiet Skies program was all the more offensive because she enlisted in the military in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, countering extremism across three war zones.

The congresswoman previously told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, “The only assumption that I can make is that they’re coming after me because of my speaking the truth and revealing who they really are.”

While continued abuses under a possible Harris administration are clearly a concern for Gabbard, she underscored that the choice between Trump and the vice president was ultimately a choice between peace and war.

“President Trump has pledged to stop wars, not start them,” Gabbard told the crowd Tuesday in Greensboro. “And this is why, in the eyes of the Kamala Harris, Dick Cheney Democrat Party, they will do everything possible to try to destroy him.”

Noting that Election Day was just two weeks away, Gabbard impressed upon the crowd that “a vote for President Trump is a vote for secure borders and safe communities, and a vote for President Trump is a vote for peace here in America and around the world.”

The pro-peace message at the Trump rally was at odds with the message advanced at Harris’ phony town hall Monday in Royal Oak, Michigan, where the vice president and Liz Cheney criticized Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine.

Cheney said, “I think that if you look at where the Republican Party is today, there’s been a really dangerous embrace of isolationism.”

Harris signaled her agreement, stating, “Isolationism, which is exactly what Donald Trump is pushing — pull out of NATO, abandon our friends — isolationism is not insulation. It is not insulation. It will not insulate us from harm in terms of our national security.”

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Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic, is sticking to his latest story in which he claims former President Donald Trump rudely refused to pay for the funeral of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen after initially offering to cover the expenses. Multiple people affiliated with the story went on the record to deny the allegations against Trump.

Guillen was killed in 2020 by a soldier she worked with. Guillen’s death became a nationwide story after her family members jumped into action when a military investigation into her initial disappearance was severely mishandled.

Goldberg alleges that Trump became enraged when he found out the cost of the funeral in December 2020:

‘It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f***ing Mexican!’ He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: ‘Don’t pay it!’ Later that day, he was still agitated. ‘Can you believe it?’ he said, according to a witness. ‘F***ing people, trying to rip me off.’

Goldberg’s story was met with a flurry of denials, most importantly from Meadows. Guillen’s family and attorney also said the story does not match their experience with Trump.

‘Treat this dishonest piece accordingly.’

— (@)

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Goldberg was asked what he thought about the denials.

“I don‘t make much of them at all. The sister wasn‘t in the meeting. The lawyer for the family wasn‘t in the meeting. Mark Meadows was in the meeting. Kash Patel was in the meeting. A whole bunch of other senior officials were in the meeting. I have sources who are sitting in that meeting. I have contemporaneous notes taken by participants in that meeting that describe exactly what I described in the story,” said Goldberg.

Goldberg pointed to his poorly sourced “suckers and losers” story from 2020 as an example of why he has creditability this time around.

“So it‘s not surprising that Mark Meadows is going to deny it, but the denial doesn‘t hold weight. I have contemporaneous sources, contemporaneous notes from that meeting. [Trump] said it. It also tracks with everything that we know about the way he speaks,” he insisted.

Patel likewise denied the allegations about Trump.

Ben Williamson, a spokesman for Meadows, showed how the Atlantic twisted the denial to make it seem less credible.

“I sent … a comment saying President Trump ‘absolutely did not say that,’ referring to the alleged comments about Ms. Guillen they printed. … Atlantic translated that comment to ‘didn’t hear Trump say it.’ Treat this dishonest piece accordingly,” he said, showing a screenshot of the statement he sent.

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Donald Trump has enraged the left yet again, this time by stopping at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s to make french fries and work the drive thru.

Considering Trump is the Republican nominee for president of the United States and has survived two assassination attempts — it makes sense that all the customers who went through the drive thru would be screened first.

However, according to the media, the fact that these customers were screened and Trump doesn’t work at McDonald’s made this a massive scandal.

“I found out from the press today that he didn’t actually work at McDonald’s,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” mocks. “This was fake, this was a publicity stunt.”

“The people in line, they were all hand-selected. So they weren’t just strangers driving up to the drive thru,” he continues. “They checked to make sure they were the right people. And you know what I mean by ‘right people.’”

“People without guns,” he adds.

“How did they uncover this?” Stu Burguiere jokes. “What a scam, I’m voting for Kamala Harris. She’s the only honest person who seemingly worked at McDonald’s but has no evidence of it whatsoever.”

And there’s no doubt that Trump has stolen all of Kamala’s McDonald’s thunder with his publicity stunt, bringing thousands of Americans to surround the Pennsylvania restaurant as they cheered in support of the former president.

“I have never seen an election like this,” Glenn comments as he reviews the footage of the massive crowd, adding, “It goes on and on and on and on.”

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A coalition of more than 40 sheriffs from 18 states released a joint letter addressed to the public on Tuesday, slamming the Biden-Harris administration’s destructive open-border policies for unleashing crime and drug surges in small-town America.

In the letter, obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, the sheriffs expressed “grave concern for the safety and security of our communities” nationwide, noting that under the current administration, “Every town is a border town.”

‘The impact is broken families, lost futures, and devastated communities.’

“As sheriffs, our first duty is to protect the citizens we serve, but today, we find ourselves confronted by a growing crisis that threatens the very fabric of our country and its sovereignty: open-border policies,” they wrote.

The sheriffs blamed the administration for allowing between 10 to 15 million foreign nationals to cross the border illegally, adding that those totals are “more than the individual population of 46 states in our nation.”

By refusing to enforce the country’s existing immigration laws, the Biden-Harris administration has “allowed dangerous criminals, human traffickers, and drug cartels” to infiltrate American communities, they contended.

“The result is a flood of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into our cities and towns. The impact is broken families, lost futures, and devastated communities,” the sheriffs continued.

The Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, and their Democratic allies have repeatedly insisted that the only way to stop the immigration crisis is for Congress to pass more laws — specifically, the failed so-called “bipartisan” border Senate bill, the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, H.R. 815.

However, the coalition of sheriffs appeared to push back on the administration’s false claims that it does not already have the authority to shut down mass illegal immigration.

“The President alone can act to fix this crisis. The president can suspend or restrict the entry of noncitizens if it is deemed in the national interest, proclaim a national emergency along the border, and redirect federal funds to construct a border wall. The Biden-Harris Administration has done none of these. And we are seeing the consequences,” they wrote.

Sheriffs Rich Stanek of Hennepin County, Minnesota; Chad Leonard of Dallas County, Iowa; Adam Infante of Dallas County, Iowa; and Mark Lamb of Pinal County, Arizona, were among those who signed the letter.

Sheriff James Custer of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, another signatory, told the DCNF about how the fentanyl crisis has impacted his community.

“I’ve seen this trend has been going on over the last three years, the fentanyl crisis, that has come across our southern border. … Our overdose deaths rose each year,” Custer stated. “Now we are in a slight decline this year, but we have several deaths pending toxicology results.”

Sheriff Bob Songer of Klickitat County, Washington, who also signed the sheriffs’ letter, told the DCNF, “Personally, I think both the Biden administration and their administrative staff ought to be charged with treason, they’ve broken this country to where we don’t have a border.”

The Biden-Harris administration and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

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The location of a highly anticipated women’s volleyball match between San Jose State and the University of Nevada scheduled for Saturday in Reno has been moved to San Jose as the schools prepare for a forfeit over an SJSU transgender player.

“The decision to move the location of the match has been made in the best interest of both programs and the well-being of the student-athletes, coaches, athletic staff and spectators. The decision has been made with the approval of the Mountain West Conference,” the Nevada Wolf Pack said on its website.

Nevada’s captain, Sia LiiLii, told Blaze News in an exclusive interview that observers will ‘just have to see’ if the team decides to protest on the court or simply not show up.

Nevada players last week announced their intention to forfeit their game against SJSU, which has a 6’1″ male — Blaire Fleming, born Brayden — on its roster.

San Jose State’s controversial transgender athlete Blaire Fleming.Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images

However, University of Nevada officials rejected the players’ vote and said the game would go on as scheduled in accordance with NCAA rules and state laws surrounding gender inclusion.

An OutKick report said the Mountain West Conference previously indicated that SJSU would need to travel to Reno in order to accept a potential forfeit from Nevada.

But sources confirmed to Blaze News that because Nevada players intend to go through with the forfeit, that ultimately cemented the joint decision by both schools to move the game to California so that SJSU could receive the forfeit-victory without traveling.

Whether Nevada plans to step foot on the SJSU campus remains to be seen, as it’s unclear whether Nevada Athletics will field a team after stating the players’ decision to forfeit was “made independently, and without consultation with the University or the athletic department.”

Nevada’s captain, Sia LiiLii, told Blaze News in an exclusive interview that observers will “just have to see” if the team decides to protest on the court or simply not show up.

Several politicians have shown support for the Nevada players, including Tulsi Gabbard and U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.).

Gabbard posted a message of encouragement on X. “The courage of the University of Nevada-Reno women’s volleyball team to stand up for objective truth by refusing to play against biological males is inspiring others to do the same,” Gabbard wrote.

She added, “Harris-Biden destroyed Title IX and over 50 years of progress for women and girls. We must stop them by standing with these brave young women for objective truth, common sense and fairness, and make sure our voices are heard in this election.”

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The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, is at it again, smearing former President Donald Trump with anonymous sources and providing ammunition for Democrat political attacks ahead of Election Day. Unfortunately for Goldberg and his anti-Trump narrative, people who were actually in the room at the time the remarks were supposedly made have indicated that nothing of the sort happened — that it’s more fake news.

Army Private Vanessa Guillén — posthumously promoted to the rank of specialist — was murdered inside the armory at Fort Hood in April 2020 by a fellow soldier.

Goldberg
claimed that Trump volunteered to help financially with Guillén’s funeral but then raged upon learning the total cost. According to the hit piece, Trump said, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f***ing Mexican!” and ordered his then-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, not to pay.

Meadows, a leading character in Goldberg’s narrative,
noted Tuesday, “I was in the discussions featured in the Atlantic’s latest hit piece against President Trump. Let me say this. Any suggestion that President Trump disparaged Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her funeral expenses is absolutely false.”

‘President Donald Trump absolutely did not say that.’

“He was nothing but kind, gracious, and wanted to make sure that the military and the U.S. government did right by Vanessa Guillen and her family,” added Meadows.

Ben Williamson, a former senior communications adviser for the Trump White House and spokesman for Meadows,
provided insight into the extent of Goldberg’s dishonesty, highlighting the substantial disparity between Meadows’ statement, as provided to the Atlantic, and what was ultimately printed in the final piece.

Williamson indicated that he shared the following statement from Meadows with the Atlantic via text:

President Donald Trump absolutely did not say that. He was nothing but kind, gracious, and wanting to make sure that the military and the U.S. government did right by Gloria Guillen and her daughter Vanessa Guillen. As for the allegation that he told me to refuse payment: That is not true.

Williamson noted that the “Atlantic translated that comment to ‘didn’t hear Trump say it.’ Treat this dishonest piece accordingly.”

‘He used and exploited my clients, and Vanessa Guillen’s murder … for cheap political gain.’

Trump spokesman Alex Pfeiffer similarly relayed a narrative-killing statement to the Atlantic from then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller’s chief of staff, Kash Patel, but it appears to have made it into the article unscathed:

As someone who was present in the room with President Trump, he strongly urged that Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s grieving family should not have to bear the cost of any funeral arrangements, even offering to personally pay himself in order to honor her life and sacrifice. In addition, President Trump was able to have the Department of Defense designate her death as occurring “in the line of duty,” which gave her full military honors and provided her family access to benefits, services, and complete financial assistance.

Natalie Khawam, the attorney for the Guillén family quoted in the Atlantic hit piece, characterized Goldberg as a liar.

“After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg,”
wrote Khawam. “Not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story. More importantly, he used and exploited my clients, and Vanessa Guillen’s murder … for cheap political gain.”

Extra to noting the curious timing of the hit piece, Khawam tweeted, “Not only did Trump support our military, he also invited my clients to the Oval Office and supported the
I Am Vanessa Guillen bill too.”

Goldberg’s smear was so unbelievable that even Guillén’s sister, Mayra, put her foot down Tuesday, calling out the Atlantic for its dishonesty and ghoulish attempt to exploit the service member’s death for political purposes.

“Wow. I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics,”
wrote Mayra Guillén. “Hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members. President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today.”

Even though Goldberg’s report has significant credibility issues, the Democratic National Committee
circulated it widely as though it were true — just as it circulated Goldberg’s last election-time hit piece.

Weeks ahead of the 2020 election, Goldberg claimed that during a trip to Paris in 2018, Trump called fallen soldiers “suckers” and “losers.”

Despite its liberal skew, even Snopes
acknowledged there was “no evidence of an audio or video recording of the remarks in question, nor was there any documentation, such as transcripts or presidential notes, to independently confirm or deny the alleged quotes’ authenticity.”

Blaze News senior editor for politics Christopher Bedford
noted shortly after Goldberg’s 2020 hit piece debuted that Goldberg had centered his piece on “secondary-source rumor-mongering” even though it was contradicted by substantial primary sources, including both people and documents.

“That should have earned a swift no-publish call, but instead their qualms went completely unmentioned,” wrote Bedford. “An unskeptical belief the president is a bad man who must be defeated has led to discarding an ever-growing number of essential journalistic practices. It’s the reason more and more Americans don’t trust their media — and it’s a good one.”

None of those problems stopped Democrats from running with a story they’d already known was coming. The 2020 hit piece was published on a Thursday night, but by Friday morning, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” had “the exclusive” on a polished Democrat attack ad featuring veterans attacking Trump over specific allegations in the article.

Laurene Powell Jobs — the president of Emerson Collective, which owns the Atlantic — just happens to be one of Kamala Harris’ biggest financial backers and has been
shoveling cash her way since 2003. Goldberg’s article ostensibly serves as a different kind of campaign support.

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DORAL, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump hosted a campaign event at his golf property near Miami for one audience in particular: the state’s well-known Latino community.

Despite Democrats and mainstream media attempting to fearmonger Latinos into believing a second Trump presidency would be detrimental to them, his support among the demographic has grown since he left office. A new poll from USA Today/Suffolk University found that 49% of those surveyed supported Trump as opposed to 38% who are with Vice President Kamala Harris.

While other polls show Harris having a slight lead with Latinos, that lead is a far cry from what Democrats were hoping for when President Joe Biden stepped down from the race.

‘God’s hands are on this man because he is chosen to bring us back to greatness.’

The roundtable event at Trump National Doral Miami highlighted top issues such as the economy and the dangers posed to it by the far-left ideas that Harris has floated, along with ongoing issues with the southern border.

“I really think that the biggest problem this country has is what they’ve allowed to happen to us on the border. They’ve allowed our country to be destroyed. They’re allowing thousands of murderers, and drug dealers, and terrorists. …They’re emptying out their jails,” Trump said about the Biden-Harris administration’s approach to border security.

— (@)

A common theme at the roundtable was how thankful everyone was that Trump has survived two assassination attempts.

“You love this country. You love us, and we love you. … A courageous president who has God’s hands on him turned his head at 6:11 in the afternoon on July 13. God’s hands are on this man because he is chosen to bring us back to greatness,” Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue said to a rousing applause from the audience.

With early voting in Florida now under way, there is a glimpse into how the state, with its large Latino population, will shake out this election cycle.

In Miami-Dade County, which was a longtime Democratic stronghold until recently, Democrats are outpacing Republicans in mail-in ballots and in-person early voting by only four points. Statewide, Republicans are leading Democrats 42% to 37%, a sign that GOP voters are not only enthusiastic but trust that their votes will be counted.

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Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado criticized the Biden-Harris administration’s policies that “carelessly” permit government agencies to facilitate the transportation of illegal migrants in a letter obtained exclusively by Blaze News Wednesday.

In the letter, addressed to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, TSA Administrator David Pekoske, and ICE Director Patrick Lechleitner, Boebert expressed her concern for American citizens’ safety in light of the surge of migrants entering the country illegally.

‘The lack of leadership and inability to secure our borders shows that the current administration has continuously put illegal aliens first, and Americans last,’ the letter reads.

Boebert also called out the Biden-Harris administration for “carelessly permitting migrants” to utilize various informal kinds of identification while applying a separate, more stringent version of identification to Americans, according to the letter. In a surfaced video, a TSA agent explains that migrants use a “different process on a need-to-know basis.”

“As an influx of illegal aliens continues to infiltrate our border, the safety and security of American citizens is put at an all-time risk,” the letter reads.

“At a bare minimum, the rules that apply to American citizens should also apply to illegal immigrants, particularly regarding identification,” the letter continues.

Currently, there are over 13,000 illegal aliens convicted of homicide, nearly 16,000 convicted of sexual assault, and over 425,000 total “non-detained, noncitizen convicted criminals” walking free in the United States under the Biden-Harris administration, according to the letter. Additionally, there have been two million migrant “getaways,” 1.7 million migrants with final removal orders, and seven million on the non-detained docket.

In light of these details, Boebert pressed the federal agencies to explain how these migrants are being transported, why TSA is assisting them, as well as whether their travel is taxpayer-funded.

“These illegals pose a direct threat to the safety and security of Americans,” the letter reads. “Instead of securing our border and nation, these illegals are further infiltrating our nation as they are unlawfully flown around across the United States with federal funding.”

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Comedian Jim Gaffigan may be a lifelong Democrat, but that didn’t stop him from absolutely obliterating his own party during his Al Smith Dinner speech.

“President Biden couldn’t be here tonight, the DNC made sure of that,” Gaffigan said to thunderous applause. “You know, this has been an interesting presidential campaign. The Democrats have been telling us Trump’s re-election is a threat to democracy.”

“In fact, they were so concerned of this threat, that they staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent, and installed Kamala Harris,” he continued. “In other words, all her dreams have come true.”

Gaffigan’s jokes were so undeniably true, that even Chuck Schumer was laughing — and Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is impressed.

“The whole point of comedy is that you say something true, and you have a twist to it, then you laugh, and then you’re able to think about something. That’s what good comedy is, right? You get somebody to think about something through laughter,” Rubin says.

“If you just run up to somebody and say the truth, they might punch you in the face, but Chuck Schumer laughing at the joke about the DNC pulling off the coup, does kind of tell you a little something,” he continues.

While conservatives felt relieved by Gaffigan acknowledging the truth through his jokes, he didn’t just go after the Democrats.

“He made fun of Trump, he made fun of Republicans,” Rubin says. “Just a year ago, it would be fair to say he had Trump Derangement Syndrome, talking about January 6 with Joe Rogan.”

“This guy is certainly not a Trumper, he’s not a Republican, he’s not a conservative, anything else, but here he is making fun of the Dems, and the Dems don’t even show up,” he adds.

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Team Blue is jittery. Republicans risk overconfidence for sure, but Democrats risk disaster, and they know it. Vice President Kamala Harris might act tough at her rallies, but you can hear a different message from her surrogates on the campaign trail and in the media. There, you’ll catch increasingly shrill appeals to race and to racial debts — and the hopeful expectation of a silent hero who will save the day.

First: race. Long a cornerstone of Democrats’ politics, racial fealty, animus, and vengeance have played increasingly loud roles. Still-alive President Joe Biden infamously told a podcast host in 2020 that if you weren’t voting for him, “you ain’t black.” After the coup, that job fell to his boss, former President Barack Obama.

We live in an age when those fallen champions of silence, librarians, are hosting gay drag shows for kids. Forgive me if I doubt the silent Democrat thesis.

Obama dutifully answered, heading first to Philadelphia and then beyond to tell black men they have a duty to vote for Harris. It was sold as tough love from black America’s father figure, or something to that effect, but it hasn’t gone over so well.

“As Obama campaigns for Harris, he has a tough crowd among young black men,” read a Monday headline from NBC. “Obama’s comments reveal what the Democratic Party thinks about the black electorate,” an op-ed in The Hill blared. “Kwame Kilpatrick says Obama is ‘not the messiah,’” reads one Detroit News piece.

“Why,” a report by the Brookings Institute asked, “are black men mad at Obama?” You might accidentally get an answer from “The Daily Show,” which is still on the air and last week featured a joke about the 44th president “grounding a whole demographic” to whoops and applause from the largely white audience.

Speaking of white people, they also have a racial duty to vote for Harris. “White folks,” pro-Kamala CNN commentator Angela Rye explained over the weekend, can’t be allowed to “escape the accountability that they must face for not showing up to save democracy themselves.” The anchor didn’t seem to have any problem with this.

Earlier in the week, “justice correspondent” Elie Mystal condemned white people in a column the Nation thought was OK to run, calling us “the ‘problem’ in this country” and accusing us of “holding this country back,” opposing democracy, and forming a “global force destroying the environment of this earth.”

Speaking of problems with the country, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter returned to the trail this week to assuage nervous Democrats with the promise that her friends are secretly voting for Harris: the “quiet Democrat voter.”

Search your memory for any time over the past 20 years and ask yourself if you can think of a situation in national politics, popular culture, or your local book group where Democrats have been shamed into some kind of self-aware silence. Think back over the “IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE” yard signs, the “THIS IS NOT NORMAL” bumper stickers, or those rich Hillary Clinton supporters in “p***y hats.”

We live in an age when those fallen champions of silence, librarians, are hosting gay drag shows for children. Forgive me if I doubt the silent Democrat thesis. But this is the state of Democratic coping: racial allegiance, racial debt, and “quiet Democrats.” Best of luck.

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5 key House seats Republicans are likely to flip

By Rebeka Zeljko

While the Republicans’ majority is increasingly narrow, there are currently five competitive blue seats that may help the GOP hold on to the House.

The seats of Democratic Reps. Mary Peltola of Alaska, Yadira Caraveo of Colorado, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, and Jared Golden of Maine have all been ranked as toss-ups by Cook Political Report.

In 2022, Peltola was the first Democratic candidate to have been elected to Alaska’s sole congressional seat in more than half a century, after the state adopted a ranked-choice voting system, which allows voters to rank their preferred candidates rather than a typical two-party primary system. As a result, Republican candidates Nick Begich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin split the GOP vote, allowing Peltola to flip the seat blue for the first time since 1970.

Despite the ranked-choice system, Peltola is facing a challenge from just one Republican candidate, Nick Begich, after Nancy Dahlstrom dropped out to consolidate the GOP vote. Combined with Alaska’s reliably red voting history, recent polls from the National Republican Congressional Committee put Peltola at an electoral disadvantage.

Peltola is also featured on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “frontline members” list consisting of the most competitive blue seats.

Peltola’s fellow frontliner, Caraveo, is also at risk of losing re-election to her Republican challenger. While one September poll puts the Colorado Democrat at a narrow three-point edge, a recent poll from early October puts her in a dead heat with Republican challenger Gabe Evans. Colorado’s 8th Congressional District is also perfectly split between Republicans and Democrats, according to Cook Political Report.

Caraveo won her seat in 2022 against Republican candidate Barbara Kirkmeyer by less than 1%.

Since Slotkin opted to run for Senate, Democratic candidate Curtis Hertel and Republican challenger Tom Barrett have gone head-to-head for the seat. Slotkin flipped the longtime red seat blue in 2022, making the +2 Republican district a potential layup. Polling is also trending in Republicans’ favor, with Barrett ahead of Hertel by four to six points.

Slotkin secured her seat in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District in 2022 by 5.4 points.

Perez, who is also featured on the DCCC’s list of vulnerable frontliners, is set to face off against Republican candidate Joe Kent for the second time. Although Perez managed to flip the seat in 2022, she is currently polling dead even against Kent in the +5 Republican district, which may reinstate a red streak in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District.

Perez, who has refrained from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump, defeated Kent in 2022 by less than 1 percentage point after former Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler retired.

Golden, who has served Maine’s congressional district for three consecutive terms, is also facing a tight race against Republican candidate Austin Theriault. Despite being a +6 Republican district, Golden won his seat by a 1% margin in 2018 and just over 6% in 2020 and 2022.

Despite his historical electoral advantage, a recent poll shows Golden at a three-point deficit against Theriault.

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