Do Christians have a spiritual responsibility to vote? Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” and the senior pastor of Lakepointe Church, Josh Howerton, believe the answer to that question is a resounding “yes.”

“I’ll gently venture out on a limb,” Howerton tells Stuckey. “I think Christians have a spiritual responsibility to vote.”

Howerton, who says that we live in a constitutional republic and not a democracy, explains that “the voters are at the top of the org chart,” which is something that “a lot of well-meaning” but “a little naive” Christians forget.

“Romans 13 says that God has established the governments and governing leaders in our constitutional republic. If you are a voting Christian, God has placed you at this time, in this place, at the top of the constitutional republic org chart in which you find yourself,” Howerton says.

“So I would gently say in the same way that if a man won’t lead his family, we messed up. If a pastor won’t lead his church, we messed up. If the Christian voters of a nation refuse to lead that nation and abdicate their spiritual responsibility to lead, I think we’re messing up,” he continues.

And the biblical case for voting only gets stronger.

“Whatever God creates, Satan tries to co-opt,” Howerton says. “So in Genesis 2 and 3, Adam refuses to lead his family. So I’ll just say this to any husbands listening. The first thing that happens, Adam refuses to lead, so Satan does.”

“Fast forward, all the way to the end of the Bible. In Revelation 2 and 3, you’ve got the seven letters of the church,” he continues. “It literally addresses this, you had some passive pastors who instead of leading their churches to repent of sin, they led their churches to tolerate sin. So in their passivity, and Romans 2 and 3 literally says, those churches became quote ‘a Synagogue of Satan.’”

“So hey, pastors, if you won’t lead your church, Satan will be happy,” he says, adding, “In the same way, if Spirit-filled, godly people will not lead their nation by voting, godless people will.”

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The
Biden-Harris administration euthanized a 50-year-old elephant in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Its name was Kamala.

While zookeepers, members of Kamala’s herd, and distant animal lovers mourned the creature’s death, some commentators suggested online that Kamala’s demise — so soon after the New York Department of Environmental Conservation’s
slaying of Peanut the squirrel and on the eve of the election — might constitute some sort of omen.

The National Zoo, one of the many
federally owned Smithsonian Institution facilities in the D.C. area, announced Saturday that after helping manage Kamala’s osteoarthritis for 10 years, the creature’s keepers elected to “humanely” dispose of her.

According to the zoo, Kamala — not an African elephant but rather an endangered Asian elephant from Sri Lanka that was orphaned as a calf then raised by humans — found it increasingly difficult over the past several weeks to move, suffering limited motion in her wrists, hips, and shoulders. The elephant’s degenerative disease affected her joint cartilage and the underlying bone, leaving her stiff and in constant pain.

‘The elephant grew up in a middle class family.’

Hoping the flat terrain might help, the zoo let Kamala and her herd mates parade around the Elephant Community Center and neighboring outdoor habitat. Unfortunately, this change of scenery didn’t help as the old elephant “increasingly chose to stand in one spot rather than move about.”

The zoo also indicated that Kamala’s pain medications were no longer a match for her osteoarthritis.

On account of her limited mobility and increasing discomfort, Kamala’s keepers euthanized her in the Elephant Barn.

“The elephant care team fondly remembers Kamala as a smart and inquisitive individual who held a dominant role within the herd,” the zoo said in a release. “She built strong bonds with her keepers and enjoyed their attention. Whenever keepers approached, she would rumble and squeak, behaviors that indicated her happiness and excitement.”

Kamala was born in Sri Lanka in the mid-1970s, moved to Canada for a period during which she birthed two offspring, then was transferred with her daughter to the National Zoo in 2014.

Owing to the late elephant’s namesake in the United States Naval Observatory, superstitious commentators online suggested Kamala’s death had greater meaning while others made jokes at the vice president’s expense.

Rob Eno, Blaze Media’s director of content marketing,
tweeted, “The die has been cast. The omens have been read.”

Social media influencer Douglass Mackey, the man
sentenced to prison last year for Hillary Clinton memes, wrote, “Ominous.”

Since the elephant has long been a symbol for the Republican Party, it’s unsure precisely what such an omen might portend regarding the election.

“The elephant grew up in a middle class family,”
wrote one X user.

“Only 50% of the country loved this elephant,”
quipped another user.

“Her name is Kamala, she lives in DC, is of Indian descent (but is often mistaken as African), has never worked at McDonald’s, is claimed to be beloved by many (but is frankly not doing well) and is saying goodbye to supporters this week after a losing battle. She is an elephant,”
wrote X user Jolly Brandon.

The British political commentator Carl Benjamin, also known as Sargon of Akkad,
noted that as news of Kamala’s euthanization was spreading, there was also a trending video showing a baby hippopotamus “choos[ing] the Trump cake.”

The video,
reshared by the New York Post Monday, shows baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng of Thailand presented with a choice of two cakes, then eating the option emblazoned with President Donald Trump’s name.

Jimmy von Thron, producer for BlazeTV’s “Prime Time with Alex Stein,”
joked that his confidence was significantly shored up by the hippo’s selection, writing, “Just put my mortgage on Trump.”

Former NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch
said of the hippo’s prediction, “More accurate than most.”

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Key voting blocs that have voted reliably blue are underperforming compared to previous election cycles, which could send warning signs to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. At the same time, increased turnout from some reliably red demographics could give former President Donald Trump the edge he needs.

One of the most glaring disadvantages for Democrats going into the election is the comparatively low turnout from urban voters. At this point in the race, there is a 12.8-point deficit in urban voter turnout across battlegrounds compared to 2020. Rural voter turnout is comparatively higher, with just a 3.9-point difference.

This could be particularly harmful for Democrats this election cycle, given that the majority of urban voters are Democratic and a majority of rural voters are Republican.

Although early voter turnout looks rosy for the Trump camp, the race is still too close to call.

“Regardless of how we slice and dice the demographics, rural voters are going to be very supportive of the former president,” Jon McHenry, a GOP polling analyst and vice president at North Star Opinion Research, told Blaze News. “Urban voters won’t vote in lockstep, but they will be disproportionately in support of Kamala Harris, so that demographic turnout is going to matter.”

There is also a partisan divide between male and female voters, as men tend to lean more Republican while women lean more Democratic. Although women vote in greater numbers than men do, they are underperforming this election cycle, which could throw a wrench into Harris’ chances.

“It’s not just a ‘get out the vote rally.’ It’s a ‘you’ve got to vote because of X, Y, and Z,” McHenry told Blaze News. “There’s definitely a bit more urgency than what we would normally see from Democrats at this stage of the race.”

Women voters dipped down by 7.9 points across swing states compared to 2020, while men dipped down by seven points. Even though more women have voted than men, their deficit combined with slipping male support could put Harris’ campaign in jeopardy.

Declines in black and Hispanic votes could also put Harris in trouble. Compared to 2020, there is a 10.1-point turnout deficit among black voters in battlegrounds and an 11.7-point decline among Latino voters. Given that both Hispanic and black voters have overwhelmingly voted for Democrats in the past, this decline could threaten Harris’ campaign.

Harris has certainly taken notice of this trend. Over the past month, her campaign has released a tailored “opportunity agenda” for both black and Hispanic men.

“The idea that there’s this sort of opportunity agenda targeted at specific demographics, and the fact that Kamala Harris has drafted Barack Obama to turn out black males and essentially extending her reach to get people to turn out, shows that they’re definitely concerned about getting the traditional Democratic base out to the polls,” McHenry told Blaze News.

Although early voter turnout looks rosy for the Trump camp, the race is still too close to call.

“Like most poker players would say, just give me one of the hands, and I’ll beat you with that,” McHenry told Blaze News. “Honestly, it really is so close that it’s hard to say.”

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I’m not a Donald Trump fan. From the start, I’ve detested him as a candidate but believed wholeheartedly in his “greatness agenda.” America first? Count me in. Build the wall? By all means. Straighten out trade. Reassert the national interest. Put China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia in their place. Make NATO pay up. Sounds good. Let’s go!

But let’s also not pretend. Trump is a marvelous entertainer but a poor politician. He was a mixed bag as president — great in some ways, terrible in others.

We know what a Harris-Walz administration will do, and that would spell disaster for the country.

He started no wars but failed to end any. (Maybe nobody could have.) The trade deals were good, the tax cuts were better, and the judges weren’t too bad — though Neil Gorsuch is no Antonin Scalia and Amy Coney Barrett is no great shakes.

Trump was not a good judge of character. At least half of his Cabinet undermined him at every turn, and a few were straight-up traitors. He could not manage the permanent bureaucracy, and in many ways the permanent bureaucracy managed him. And his deference to what my friend Lloyd Billingsley calls “white coat supremacy” during the COVID crisis was a downright disgrace.

Operation Warp Speed as Trump’s “greatest accomplishment”? Please. Even he doesn’t believe that any more.

But as my father often liked to remind me, “you can’t have nice things.” Or nice candidates. In the end, I was happy to vote for Trump in 2016 and I am happy to vote for him now, not because I think he can fulfill half of his promises but because I very much want Kamala Harris and all that she represents to lose.

The stakes

In July 2016, I co-founded American Greatness, an upstart online journal with grand aspirations that has lately fallen on hard times. But I was an outlier at my own company at the beginning because I was the only one of three founders who was outspokenly and ostentatiously “NeverTrump.”

I know, I know. Stick with me here. It gets better, I promise.

Longtime readers of Blaze News know this company has published a variety of views on Trump over the years. Glenn Beck, Steve Deace, and Daniel Horowitz, among others, have been unsparing in their criticism of Trump at times. So I am not alone.

But we also understand the stakes. We aren’t going to sacrifice the country or our kids to vindicate some misbegotten or perverted sense of “honor.”

Politics often requires trade-offs. It’s important not to mistake policy preferences for high principles. Given the choice between deeply flawed and certain disaster, let us pray it remains true that “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”

When it came down to it, I voted for Trump in 2016, in cerulean blue California, because I despised his opponents more than I disliked him. My vote was a middle finger to his enemies … and to mine. That remains true today.

Oh, fascists? Up yours!

The fact is that they hate us. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their confederates have spent the better part of eight years tarring Trump and his supporters as Nazis, fascists, “semi-fascists,” deplorables, domestic extremists, insurrectionists, and, most recently, “garbage.”

The very online left would say, “Well, if the shoe fits …” And I would say most of those people wouldn’t know a real fascist if a Blackshirt was kicking them in the face with a steel-toe boot while belting out “Giovinezza.”

Language is like currency. The late, great Lenny Bruce in his act more than 60 years ago tried to make the point that if you overuse a word — in his case, the N-word — you could drain it of its power. I’m not sure he succeeded in that case, but Democrats and leftists have done a fine job of taking the sting out of “Nazi” and “fascist.” Fascist, fascist, fascist. Nazi, Nazi, Nazi. All the time. They’ve debased the words. The barb is now worth less than a penny. It’s worth nothing at all.

Half the country, give or take, simply isn’t listening any more. The words no longer wound. They’re stripped of meaning. That’s been true for a while, I think. Eight years ago, when the claims were fresh, I wrote:

Enough of this. Snark will not do. Insinuation will not do. Conversation stoppers — “he’s a bigot,” “he’s a fascist” — absolutely will not do. “He’s a fascist” is not an argument. There can be no reasonable response. Over and over, reasonable people plead, “No, he’s not.” What they’re really saying is, “No, I’m not.” But who is listening? We’re called to be charitable. But what good is charity when the other side has made up its mind? The only fitting response is the middle finger. Or the back of the hand.

The politics of the middle finger are fine as far as they go, but they don’t go far enough. We need a proper realignment. It’s been in the works for quite some time even if it’s been slow to manifest.

The “old” Republican Party — the party of Bush and Dole and McCain and Romney and McConnell and Ryan — abhors Trump and his America First agenda. Worse, these Republicans abhor and reject the base. Erstwhile “conservative” or “rock-ribbed” Republicans including Dick Cheney and Arnold Schwarzenegger have endorsed the obviously illiberal Harris. George W. Bush has stayed mum, but it’s not a stretch to think he’ll vote for Harris if he votes at all. She is the safe bet for establishment Republicans like him.

They would surrender their country to preserve their phony “honor” for … what? It isn’t honor at all. It’s self-interest. It’s a profound misunderstanding of politics. It’s a death wish. No, thank you.

Happily, their time has passed. They’re essentially Democrats now. They are finished, whether they realize it or not.

The argument is over

The realignment is real and it’s ongoing. The old left-right distinctions are losing their salience. But who knows where it will lead?

A dear friend the other day said to me, “I don’t want either one of them to win.” I sympathize, but too bad. You’re getting one or the other. The Vaunted Ron DeSantis Juggernaut never materialized, the Great NeverTrump Hope Nikki Haley flamed out (and ended up endorsing Trump anyway), and, tell me, who is the Libertarian Party’s candidate this year again?

On the eve of the 2016 election, I wrote, “For me, it isn’t a matter of Trump winning. All that matters is she loses.” Hillary Clinton was a criminal who said sinister things behind closed doors while peddling bromides and clichés to the public. She was wholly unacceptable, even if Trump was less than desirable.

My expectations for Trump are not much greater today than they were then. “Put not your faith in princes” (or Barrons), as the psalmist says. But the stakes are as great if not greater today than they were eight years ago. We know what a Harris-Walz administration will do, and that would spell disaster for the country.

We’re no longer having an argument. Our opponents have made it quite clear. When Harris speaks of “unity,” she means, for us, surrender and supplication. We have nothing left to discuss. If we have a decent chance at turning the country around for ourselves and our posterity, then like Trump or not, Kamala Harris must lose.

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Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) torched CNN for its biased reporting during a Monday interview with the network’s Kate Bolduan.

Bolduan brought up former President Donald Trump’s comments during a Sunday rally in Pennsylvania. The CNN host claimed that Trump used inflammatory rhetoric.

‘Every day, you try to create some sort of faux outrage.’

“Campaigning yesterday, the former president said as part of his message when he was speaking to voters is that he did not mind if someone would shoot at news crews and reporters covering the event,” Bolduan stated.

During the rally, Trump remarked on the bulletproof glass that has been installed around him for all his outdoor campaign events following two assassination attempts.

“I don’t have a piece of glass there,” he said, pointing to his right.

“And I have a piece of glass here,” Trump continued, gesturing to the barrier directly in front of him.

“But all we have really over here is the fake news, right? And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much,” he stated.

Trump explained that he would rather not have the protective glass in front of him because it does not “look great on television.”

After playing a clip of Trump’s remarks, Bolduan asked Schmitt whether he condoned Trump’s messaging.

“Every day, you try to create some sort of faux outrage. And I understand why because Kamala Harris has called President Trump a fascist; Joe Biden has called half of America garbage; and they have nothing to run on,” Schmitt responded.

He accused CNN of repeatedly trying to make Trump’s statements “blow up into something” that “no one takes literally.”

“I can’t believe you spend this much time on it on the air,” Schmitt said. “President Trump has the momentum in this race. It’s a change election cycle. President Trump, by 2-to-1 margins, is viewed as the change candidate. That’s a hard reality for some people to accept, but that’s what people are focused on, not these clips that you seem to air every day.”

Bolduan claimed that some Republicans are upset with Trump’s rhetoric. She asked Schmitt whether he would like Trump “to continue to repeat that today as part of your final message.”

Schmitt replied, “President Trump, he’s had two attempts on his life, and you don’t really talk about that anymore. And if it were Kamala Harris, ‘NBC Nightly News’ would be camped out in Butler [Pennsylvania], but it’s not convenient to humanize President Trump.”

He explained that Trump’s message to voters is “very clear: Kamala Harris broke it, he’s gonna fix it.”

“So again, you can pull up all the clips. And this has been over four years, or eight years now, the idea to try to marginalize him and his supporters has been ongoing,” Schmitt continued. “Every time you try to pull up a clip like this to create outrage, people see through it now.”

“It’s not creating outrage; it’s just asking if you agree with it,” Bolduan replied.

“Of course not!” Schmitt retorted. “This is insane.”

“You’re going to do this for another 24 hours, and the American people are going to have a say here, which is, they want a better life for their family,” he concluded. “That’s what this election’s about, not sort of your news of the day to try to create outrage.”

Bolduan argued that “people also want safety and security, which could also include journalists.”

Schmitt fired back again, explaining that the Biden-Harris administration is responsible for the uptick in violent crime.

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Billionaire Elon Musk gave his 2024 election prediction and is expecting a “crushing defeat” for Vice President Kamala Harris. The Tesla CEO noted that independents voting for former President Donald Trump would sway the 2024 presidential election.

Musk — a fervent supporter of Trump — made an observation about a difference between the 2020 election and the 2024 election that could swing the presidential election for Trump.

Harris wasn’t the only celebrity whom the SpaceX founder called a ‘puppet.’

“Last election, I didn’t know a single independent/swing voter who was voting for Trump,” Musk wrote on his X social media platform on Monday. “This time, I don’t know anyone who isn’t.”

Musk pointed out that many Trump supporters are silent because of fear of repercussions.

Musk added, “And one person after another has confided in me that they’re voting for Trump, but they’re afraid to say so publicly, because it will affect their friends/job/customers.”

Musk declared, “Crushing defeat is coming for the oppressive, big government machine represented by the Kamala puppet.”

Harris wasn’t the only celebrity whom the SpaceX founder called a “puppet.”

On Saturday, Musk called rapper Cardi B a “puppet” for stumping for Harris.

“Another puppet who can’t even talk without being fed the words,” Musk said of Cardi B. “The Kamala campaign has no authenticity or true empathy.”

Cardi B spoke in favor of Kamala at a Harris campaign event in Wisconsin on Friday. However, there was reportedly a teleprompter glitch, which caused the hip-hop star to be paralyzed.

“One second guys, one second,” Cardi B told the audience, according to Fox News.

For nearly two minutes, the rapper attempted to work the crowd until a staffer brought a cell phone to Cardi B so she could regurgitate her speech.

Cardi B lashed out at Musk for describing her as a “puppet.”

“I’m not a puppet Elon. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle,” Cardi B wrote on X.

As Blaze News reported last November, the “WAP” rapper proclaimed that she would not be endorsing presidential candidates any longer.

Cardi B — whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar — slammed President Joe Biden for funding wars as American cities deteriorate.

“I don’t give a f***, I’m not endorsing no f***ing presidents no more,” Cardi B stated. “Because how is that a $100 million budget cut in New York City for f***ing schools, library, police safety, and sanitation? Yet Joe Biden talking about like, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars. We can fund two wars.’ Motherf***ers talking about, ‘We don’t got it but we got it, like we’re the greatest nation.’ No, the f*** we’re not. We’re going through some s**t right now.”

Cardi B previously endorsed Biden during a softball interview less than three months before the 2020 presidential election.

Musk donated more than $118 million to his America PAC that’s helping to elect Trump, according to federal filings.

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“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg told former Congresswoman Liz Cheney she would love to have her be the U.S. attorney general in a Kamala Harris administration should the vice president win Tuesday’s election.

In an attempt to distance herself from her progressive positions, Harris has promised to have a “Republican” in her cabinet. While Harris has not officially named who the “Republican” might be, Cheney would appear to be a favorite as she has campaigned alongside the candidate.

‘We have to get Vice President Harris elected tomorrow.’

“Are you also a lawyer?” Goldberg inquired when Cheney was on Monday’s episode of “The View.”

When Cheney said she was, Goldberg floated the attorney general idea. “I say this,” Goldberg explained, “Your moral core is magnificent. And I know you probably don’t want to think about it, but I just feel like I would feel a lot better with you leading the FBI, the CIA. …That’s just me.”

“Please just think about it,” Goldberg pleaded.

“We have to get Vice President Harris elected tomorrow,” Cheney replied.

Cheney added it is not enough for Trump to lose the presidential race; the GOP must also lose the majority in the House of Representatives.

Goldberg has issued unhinged warnings about what would happen should former President Donald Trump win the election. Last week, Goldberg warned interracial couples that a Trump administration would separate them by deporting one spouse and reassigning the spouse who is staying in the United States to another person.

“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.

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A Kentucky high school basketball coach has voluntarily resigned after footage was posted to Facebook showing him cursing more than two dozen times while speaking to young athletes.

Lynn Camp High School’s boys’ basketball coach Tyler Wagner was shown in two videos using explicit language with his team in the locker room, criticizing them for playing fearfully and lacking “common sense” on the court.

“There’s not s*** out there. We’re getting f***ed in the ass by a bunch of f***ing kids who want it more than we do,” Wagner said in the first video. “That’s why they’re f***ing top-10 in the region.”

“That’s why we’re bottom of the f***ing scale,” he continued. “[Because] we think we just deserve it … that’s why you’re gettin’ your ass kicked every goddamned day,” the coach added.

In the second video, Wagner specified that his players were being too apprehensive in their defensive play and seemed afraid to go hard at the other team’s basket.

“Don’t just f***ing stop! Like, what are we doing?! We have no common sense. We’re playing back so far that we can’t f***ing do nothing!” he complained.

“What is it, 12 points, 14 points in a f***ing half? In a f***ing half?! 14 f***ing points! Quit being scared when you go in there and just launching it up.”

‘I allowed the competitive environment to get the best of me.’

Wagner apologized in a statement, noting that the video was actually from 2023, as the latest season hasn’t started yet.

“The language that I used in this video is not acceptable in any manner. I allowed the competitive environment to get the best of me and for that I am truly sorry,” Wagner wrote, per the Lexington Herald-Leader. “I have fully accepted that what I did was not right, and I pledge to be better.”

A Knox County, Kentucky, spokesperson said county officials had been “informed of a situation showing a coach inappropriately discussing issues with players.”

“We are unable to discuss specific personnel matters. The coach has since voluntarily resigned from the position,” the spokesperson confirmed.

Comments on the Facebook videos were seemingly entirely split between the two sexes, with women generally saying the coach went too far while men chalked it up to tough love.

“Coaches lead by example and are supposed to teach them how to be respectable young men,” one woman wrote.

“This is ridiculous. … You will not make these boys tough or play better cussing them like this,” another said.

“This coach needs to be fired!” a different woman replied.

Men’s comments were as follows:

“[It’s so] when/if they go to college they don’t get their feelings hurt because college coaches are 10000 times worse than this,” a user named Brandon said.

“So when they become adults and go off to college they know how to handle it,” another man wrote as a reason for the coach’s language.

“This is light compared to my coaches coming up,” another Facebook user said.

More women supported the coach than men who condemned him, with at least one woman stating that she wasn’t familiar with the locker-room dynamic of men’s sports until it was explained to her.

“At first I was upset with the whole thing until my husband explained to me. He could dial down the cussing but he’s doing what a coach does.”

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A coach for San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team was suspended indefinitely after filing a complaint about her team having a male athlete.

Associate head volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose was suspended after she made a Title IX complaint against SJSU, which has a male athlete named Blaire Fleming, born Brayden, on the women’s team. Fleming’s inclusion on the team has sparked five separate forfeits against SJSU and even caused his own teammate, Brooke Slusser, to speak out against him.

SJSU has been hammered over the controversy for months, and now the controversy continues with the suspension of Batie-Smoose, who has made shocking allegations against Fleming.

According to her interview with Quillette, Batie-Smoose alleged in her Title IX complaint that Fleming, the male player, conspired with an opposing player at Colorado State University to possibly injure his teammate Slusser.

SJSU was visiting CSU in early October when Batie-Smoose learned that Fleming visited the residence of CSU player Malaya Jones, whom he would line up across from on the opposing side during their game the next day.

Batie-Smoose said in her complaint that Fleming went on to defy his coaches’ instructions during the game by allowing Jones an unhindered hitting lane that exposed Slusser to the ball. The assistant coach further alleged that she saw Fleming and Jones laughing together after targeting Slusser.

Fleming’s behavior was allegedly so strange that head coach Todd Kress even took Fleming aside for a one-on-one discussion, but he didn’t change his behavior.

“At one point,” Batie-Smoose said, “Blaire sent an over pass, perfectly setting up Malaya to kill the ball again in the direction of Brooke Slusser, after [which] Jones blew a kiss toward Fleming and mouthed ‘thank you.'”

This moment was reportedly caught on video and posted on X.

It is alleged that Fleming essentially gave Jones the SJSU playbook and that the two concocted a plan to leave center court open so that Jones could target Slusser with unobstructed powerful strikes.

Colorado State University’s Malaya Jones [right] is accused of conspiring with Fleming against an SJSU player.Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images

SJSU responded to allegations made in the article and said the school “takes all reports and complaints seriously and is reviewing them.”

“Due to federal and state privacy laws, the University is not able to comment on active reports or complaints,” the school told Outkick.

“The University also has concerns about a number of inaccuracies in the article but is not able to comment further on those in light of those privacy laws. In addition, the University has significant concerns about apparent breaches of student and employee privacy and will be addressing those, as appropriate.”

SJSU’s coach Kress has also conspired against Slusser, Batie-Smoose claimed.

She said Kress told her that he has filed at least one Title IX complaint against Slusser on the basis that she referred to Fleming with masculine pronouns during media interviews. Kress allegedly described this as a threat to the rights of trans women.

SJSU coach Todd Kress reportedly filed a Title IX complaint against his own player for using the wrong pronouns.Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images

Slusser told Blaze News in an interview that in addition to having to share a changing room with Fleming, team meetings have focused on the transgender athlete’s well-being and not that of the female athletes.

“We’ve had meetings, and it’s a lot of just checking in on Blaire. … We were like ‘what about us?'” Slusser said. “It’s mostly just saying you can’t be the person to … identify Blaire’s gender identity. ‘Blaire needs to do that for himself,'” the girls are told.

“Everyone above you is telling you you shouldn’t be talking for Blaire, you need to make sure the other person is okay; and [the management] is not thinking about, ‘Are we okay?'” Slusser explained.

Kress, CSU officials, and Jones have not responded to requests for comments from other outlets.

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Heavily Democratic cities are now in the habit of boarding up windows and shuttering businesses ahead of political events that might upset local leftists.

That is certainly the case with Washington, D.C., which
erected “Black Lives Matter”-branded plywood boards and fencing outside of stores ahead of the 2020 election and saw businesses brace for chaos again when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Some businesses in the city also took precautions ahead of the January 2017 anti-Trump riots, where all the rioters ultimately got off scot-free, as well as ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, protests, where rioters were held to a different standard.

Possibly anticipating more chaos in the District of Columbia, where 92.1% of the vote in the last presidential election went to Joe Biden, businesses are once again reinforcing their windows and preparing for potentially “fiery but mostly peaceful protests.”

Resident Stacy Snyder
told WJLA-TV, “Hopefully no riots. Nobody wants to see anyone get hurt or any damage. After what happened last time, I guess, you have to be prepared for anything. So, like I said, better safe than sorry.”

Ebony Boger, who works downtown, indicated she recently received an email from building management indicating it was going to fortify the exterior.

“It’s not shocking. I’m kind of used to it. I think they should do it,” said Boger.

The managers of various buildings confirmed to WJLA that the election was the reason behind the plywood reinforcement.

According to the Washington Post, some business and property owners have also boosted their private security in anticipation of possible riots and looting.

‘If people choose to riot, I feel like we need to listen to the people.’

Leon Beresford, executive vice president of Admiral Security Services, indicated that his company, which provides security to 150 commercial office buildings in D.C., is mobilizing around 2,000 guards in time for Election Day.

“People would rather be overprepared and have nothing happen, as opposed to the alternative,” said Eric Jones, vice president of government affairs for the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington.

Washington Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela A. Smith
said at a press conference last week, “I want to be very clear: We will not tolerate any violence of any kind. We will not tolerate any riots. We will not tolerate the destruction of property. We will not tolerate any unlawful behavior. Offenders will be arrested and will be held accountable.”

Smith indicated that well over 3,000 police officers will be working 12-hour shifts through the election.

Storefronts in Portland, Oregon — another heavily Democratic city — have similarly disappeared behind protective boards. While big-name businesses like Chase Bank have reinforced their establishments, some have alternatively chosen to trust the mob.

Katherine Morgan, the owner of the relatively new Grand Gestures Books,
told KATU-TV, “When I got the business, the windows were boarded up because of the protest, and they just never came down. For me, if people choose to riot, I feel like we need to listen to the people.”

Morgan indicated she won’t be boarding up her establishment, noting, “I’m someone who believes in protesting, I’m someone who believes in doing whatever you can for your voice to be heard.”

Real estate developer Jordan Schnitzer
told the Oregonian he is praying his building will go unscathed.

“If your sports team loses, do you go out and break windows?” said Schnitzer. “In this day and age to see that this type of behavior in America is so commonplace is heartbreaking.”

Portland Police Chief Bob Day said last week, “We never can eliminate risk, but the confidence that I have in our community, the confidence I have in our law enforcement response, I’m really hopeful that that’s not going to be necessary.”

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Election Day is here, and the stakes for America could not be higher. With just one day to go, pollsters are putting out all kinds of predictions, from neck-and-neck races to forecasts of a sweeping blowout. The picture is murky, and even polling expert Nate Silver acknowledges that critical factors could push this election in either direction. We need to pay attention.

Let’s start with one of the most telling indicators in American politics: to what extent the American people believe the country is on the right track. President Ronald Reagan made this question a crucial barometer in his 1980 presidential campaign, and it has remained a crucial campaign question ever since. According to CNN, only 28% of Americans currently believe the country is headed in the right direction. Gallup’s version is even more dismal at 26%. That is a startingly low number, especially given its historical precedent.

The low “right direction” numbers indicate widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo — a red flag for the Democrats.

Since 1980, in the 11 presidential elections in which the incumbent party has lost the White House, only 25% of Americans on average believed that the country was headed in the right direction. The lowest point was 11% in 2008, right before the financial crisis hammered the nation. The result? A massive win for the Democrats, led by Barack Obama, which flipped the White House from Republican to Democrat. What’s the takeaway? When “right direction” numbers are this low, the incumbent party historically struggles to retain the White House.

But we can’t rely on historical precedent alone to predict this election, and here’s why: Kamala Harris is running instead of the actual incumbent, Joe Biden. But history still has some lessons to offer. When sitting presidents decide not to run for re-election, it rarely ends well for their party — especially for Democrats. This situation has only happened seven times in U.S. history: four for Democrats and three for Republicans.

All four times Democrats opted for a successor — James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Harry Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson — their party lost the White House. By contrast, when Republicans have done the same, their party’s successor won. Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge all managed to hand off power successfully.

The lesson? Democrats fare poorly when they try to swap out an incumbent president.

Where does that leave us in 2024? The low “right direction” numbers indicate widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo — a red flag for the Democrats. If that historical precedent doesn’t keep Kamala Harris from the White House, perhaps Joe Biden not running for re-election will.

To prevent Kamala Harris from occupying the Oval Office, one certain action remains: voting. Pollsters predict this will be one of the closest elections in our nation’s history. That outcome isn’t inevitable, though. We all have the power to shape it by exercising our sacred right to vote. The future of our republic depends on it.

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Fans at a Buffalo Bills NFL game on Sunday were shocked when they were told that no political clothing could be worn inside the venue.

During a 30-27 win over the Miami Dolphins, fans were approached by a stadium official who told them a “Trump 2024” shirt was prohibited.

Video was posted online showing the fan’s shirt — which also sported the “America First” slogan — and his interaction with a security official.

‘It’s not a “Trump shirt.” It’s nothing political.’

The exchange picks up already in progress, with one fan heard off-screen saying, “[It’s] NFL policy that he can’t wear his Trump shirt?”

“100% false!” another fan chimed in..

“It’s not a ‘Trump shirt.’ It’s nothing political,” a man in sunglasses and a headset tells the fans.

The security guard was wearing a shirt that read “Allied Universal,” which is listed online as a facility services company.

“So according to the NFL policy, you cannot wear anything political at all?” a shocked fan repeated back.

“We’re in a free country!” another fan also yelled in disagreement.

It turns out that while there is no NFL policy regarding political speech or clothing, the Bills home venue, Highmark Stadium, does indeed have its own policy.

According to the stadium guide, “Clothing or material with profane language or obscene graphics or anything political in nature” is prohibited from the venue.

This rule also extends to signs and graphics.

Until very recently, the stadium guide differed from the generic “gate entry and permitted items” page, which listed only “clothing or material with profane language or obscene graphics.”

However, during the writing of this article, that page was updated to include “anything political in nature” and now matches the stadium guide.

The NFL’s fan code of conduct does not appear to prohibit fans from wearing clothing with political messages but does prevent players from wearing political statements on their uniform or helmet.

“The League will not grant permission for any club or player to wear, display, or otherwise convey messages … which relate to political activities or causes, other non-football events, causes or campaigns, or charitable causes or campaigns,” the NFL rulebook states.

This does not appear to cover a recent incident with San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa. Bosa crashed a post-game interview sporting a “Make America Great Again” hat, causing his teammates to burst into laughter.

Bosa later explained he felt it was “an important time” to promote the message.

Similarly, 49ers offensive lineman Jon Feliciano defended a recent Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. Feliciano said that he didn’t believe critics were actually outraged when they claimed certain jokes told at the rally were offensive.

Trump, Elon Musk, and former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown and running back Le’Veon Bell have all appeared at recent NFL games to promote Trump’s presidential candidacy.

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Former President Donald Trump secured a free election promotion on NBC following complaints that the network attempted to give opponent Kamala Harris a boost with voters by featuring her on “Saturday Night Live.” The network was accused of violating the Federal Communications Commission’s “equal time” rule.

Trump’s advertisement aired on Sunday evening after NASCAR’s Xfinity 500 and the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings-Indianapolis Colts football game.

‘Just remember, Kamala and her friends broke it.’

The ad featured a “special message” from Trump to sports fans.

“We’re two days away from the most important election in the history of our country. We’ve got to save our country, and it needs saving — it’s in very bad shape,” Trump stated. “The worst economic numbers in generations were just announced two days ago. We’re losing jobs; we’re losing everything, including viability.”

Trump warned viewers that America is currently headed toward an economic depression.

“We’ve never seen anything like it, at least for the last 40 years,” he continued.

Trump called for closing the borders, lowering taxes, and eliminating inflation.

“Just remember, Kamala and her friends broke it,” he added. “I’ll fix it.”

“Go and vote,” Trump concluded.

The ad directed viewers to a webpage with a form to obtain voter location and registration information.

NBC was forced to give Trump the free airtime after featuring Harris for a minute and a half in a cold open sketch for “SNL,” the show’s final episode before Election Day, Blaze News reported.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called the skit “a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.”

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

NBC filed an Equal Time notice with the FCC late Sunday after the pushback.

Carr told Fox News Digital that the network’s filing confirms that it “views the Harris ‘SNL’ appearance as a free use of their facilities and airwaves within the meaning of the federal Equal Time rule.”

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital that Harris’ cringeworthy sketch indicated her campaign is desperate to appeal to voters.

“Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that’s why she’s living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on ‘Saturday Night Leftists’ as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity. For the last four years, Kamala’s destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it,” Cheung told the news outlet.

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Months before Joe Biden stepped out of the presidential race, Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” predicted that would be the exact outcome.

Bill Maher, despite claiming he likes Rubin, did not agree in the slightest.

“This is a done deal,” Maher told Jillian Michaels in an interview on “Club Random with Bill Maher.” “There’s no serious people running against him and now the primary season is underway.”

“The rumors that even Dave Rubin and Megyn Kelly are talking about, that when they get to the Democratic convention, he’s going to quietly be like, ‘Oh you know what, not going to do it,’ and then somebody will slot themselves in,” Michaels argued back.

“This is pure conjecture. This is just people making s*** up,” Maher responded, while Michaels continued arguing that “respectable people in the news are suggesting it’s a possibility.”

“I like both Megyn and Dave, they’re respectable,” Maher said. “These two have a lot of looney ideas also, right-wing looney ideas.”

“This is something just something they pulled out of their a**, and it’s not going to happen,” he added.

The old clip has Rubin understandably amused, as shortly after Biden quietly dropped out of the 2024 election.

“Pulled it out of my a** man,” Rubin laughs.

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Democrats are panicking over the early voting results for the Kamala Harris campaign, according to the former campaign manager for Barack Obama.

Jim Messina — a Democratic political operative who ran then-President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign — noted that early voting results are “scary” for the Harris campaign during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”

‘This is unprecedented in Georgia history.’

When asked what the major concerns were for the Harris campaign days before the election, Messina responded, “The early vote numbers are a little scary.”

“Republicans didn’t do what they did last time,” Messina added. “Last time, Trump said don’t early-vote, so they didn’t. Republicans do have an advantage in early vote numbers. When the early votes come in, it’s going to look a little bit different than 2020, and that’s scary.”

Messina confessed that the early vote totals have caused lots of his “friends to call me panicking” when comparing the data to 2020.

However, Messina noted that Democrats are excited about the early turnout of two key voting blocs: women and young voters.

“Women voters make up 55% of the early voters, and in the past 10 days, young voters in these battleground states are coming out in what looks to be, for early votes, historic numbers,” Messina stated.

At the time of publication, more than 78 million Americans have voted early, according to statistics from the University of Florida’s Election Lab. Over 42 million in-person early votes have been cast, and more than 35 million mail-in ballots have been returned across the country.

Based on states with party registration, nearly 38% have been by Democrats, 36% were Republicans, and 26% did not have any political party affiliation or supported minority parties.

In early voting results, 54% were women and 43% were men.

During the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump won the male vote against President Joe Biden: 53% to 45%, according to CNN. Biden easily surpassed Trump in the women’s vote: 57% to 42%.

Stats from 2020 show that 8% were ages 18-25, 16% were 26-40, 39% were 41-65, and nearly 36% were over the age of 65 years old.

In battleground states, early voting is up 80% in Georgia compared to the 2020 election, 80% in North Carolina, 76% in Nevada, nearly 65% in Arizona, 53% in Michigan, 45% in Wisconsin, and 25% in Pennsylvania.

The Georgia Secretary of State’s website said, “As of Saturday morning, 92 Georgia counties have exceeded 50% turnout. This is unprecedented in Georgia history.”

In Arizona, Republicans have nearly a 188,000 vote-return lead over Democrats, according to early voting totals compiled by UpLift Campaigns.

In North Carolina, Republicans have less than a 1% lead over Democrats.

In Nevada, Republicans have a 4% advantage over Democrats in early voting.

In Pennsylvania, Democrats have roughly a 400,000 vote lead over Republicans. During the 2020 election, Pennsylvania Democrats had more than 1 million more mail-in ballots than Republicans.

Early voting has traditionally been favored by Democrats.

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Left-wing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) openly demonized residents of her state who vote Republican, calling them “anti-American” — among other things.

Hochul made her comments during a Saturday appearance on MSNBC to discuss the 2024 election with host Al Sharpton, Mediaite reported.

‘Because you have just trashed American values and what our country is all about over and over and over.’

Sharpton asked the governor about House of Representative races in New York — as well as former President Donald Trump’s recent New York City rally at Madison Square Garden during which a comedian made a controversial joke about Puerto Rico, the outlet said.

According to Mediaite, Hochul noted that one wouldn’t think that leaders of “this great country” would “tolerate” such statements “at one of their rallies.” Hochul then said she believes Trump’s NYC rally “backfired on him,” Mediate added.

The outlet also noted that she said she’s “leading the effort in our state to ensure we flip these battleground seats.”

Hochul then said the rally controversy helped her paint Republican candidates in her state as closely aligned with Trump — and those who vote for them as “anti-American”:

“It gave me a chance to tie the Republicans running in these seats, the incumbents, closer to Donald Trump, and remind everybody, if you’re voting for these Republicans in New York, you are voting for someone who supports Donald Trump — and you’re anti-woman, you’re anti-abortion, and basically you’re anti-American,” Hochul said. “Because you have just trashed American values and what our country is all about over and over and over.”

You can view video of Hochul’s comments here.

Mediate said Sharpton didn’t ask Hochul any follow-up questions after her attack on her own constituents.

In response to Hochul’s remarks, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) called Hochul the “worst governor in America.” Stefanik devoted a longer post to Hochul’s words here.

Speaking of being anti-American

While we’re on the subject of anti-American behavior, let us not forget that the FBI in September announced that an agent working for the communist Chinese government infiltrated Hochul’s office.

Linda Sun — who worked as deputy chief of staff for Hochul and deputy diversity officer for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — was accused of money laundering conspiracy, violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and alien smuggling. Sun’s husband, Chris Hu, also was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and misuse by means of identification.

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Donald Trump’s afternoon working the fryer at a suburban Philadelphia McDonald’s will go down in history as one of the best political stunts of all time. Not only did it mock Kamala Harris’ unverified claims that she worked at the American multinational fast food chain in the ’80s, it also expressed Trump’s appreciation and respect for working-class Americans. And he got some incredible photos to add to the iconic album of his campaign trail.

What Trump doesn’t know, however, is that it did a fourth thing: It gave the Pimp on a Blimp the idea to eat McDonald’s French fries out of a 24k gold MAGA hat.

“You guys can go to memeranch.com and you can get your own gold MAGA hat,” says Alex, holding up the $5,000, gold-dipped hat to the camera.

“In honor of Donald Trump,” Alex dumps McDonald’s French fries into the hat, tops them with mayonnaise, and chows down while he discusses the aftermath of Trump’s day at McDonald’s.

“What about the dumba** left-wing media that’s coming out and saying, ‘This is a staged photo op!’ No s**t, Sherlock! What in the campaign trail isn’t some sort of staged photo op?” he laughs.

“Now they’re coming after Ronald McDonald; they’re saying that we got [E. coli] in the quarter-pounders!” says Alex, pointing to a recent story of an E. coli outbreak at chain.

“This is fake news. I’ve had two quarter-pounders today, and I don’t even eat meat.”

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CBS anchor Margaret Brennan on Sunday repeated false accusations suggesting that Donald Trump threatened Liz Cheney, prompting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to correct the record.

And in the end, Brennan could no longer defend that narrative.

‘You don’t normally give a gun to someone that is going to be facing a firing squad, which is what much of the media made it sound like.’

During an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Rubio argued that Trump is the presidential candidate who will promote safety and security in the U.S. and abroad. Brennan then used Rubio’s assertion to confront him over, in her words, “Donald Trump talking about training guns on the face of Liz Cheney.”

But Rubio was not interested in playing Brennan’s game.

“That’s not what he said,” Rubio told Brennan.

At first, Brennan defended her assertion because, according to her, CBS producers had played a “sound bite” of Trump’s remarks from last Thursday, when he accused Cheney of being a so-called chicken hawk. Notice, though, that CBS played only a sound bite of Trump’s remarks — not the full context.

“Donald Trump doesn’t talk like someone who’s been in Washington for 30 years,” Rubio defended.

“Training guns on her face?” Brennan pushed back.

“He doesn’t say it the way I would have said it, no, but that’s not what he said, Margaret. You guys know that. Come on,” Rubio responded. “I mean, everybody knows exactly what he was saying.”

Instead of acknowledging that Trump was not, in fact, threatening Cheney, Brennan for a third time pushed the media’s false narrative about Trump’s words.

“We played the sound bite,” Brennan said.

For Rubio, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

“No, you played a piece of the sound bite, because, in another piece of it, he said he would give her a gun to go stand in conflict as well. You don’t normally give a gun to someone that is going to be facing a firing squad, which is what much of the media made it sound like,” Rubio said. “The point he was making is not a new point. It is a point that has been made by people in both parties for decades. And that is: You’re all for war, and it’s easy to be for war when you’re in some fancy building and you’re safe and sound in Washington, D.C.”

After Rubio made the facts surrounding Trump’s remarks indisputable, Brennan appeared to concede and stopped disagreeing with him.

“Yep,” she said as Rubio continued speaking.

“Let’s see how much you are for war when you yourself get deployed into combat. That’s the point that he was making,” he said. “That he uses language that maybe is not what we typically hear from someone that works at a think tank —”

“Yes,” Brennan affirmed again.

“But I think it’s not just unfair, it’s egregious to see that reported the way that it was,” Rubio continued. “I have never seen such a concerted effort.

“And look, I have always believed there’s bias because no one’s unbiased, but I have never seen such a concerted effort like what I have seen, especially in the last two weeks, among multiple media outlets in this country to, in some cases, breathlessly distort and lie about what’s being said and to create and manufacture these gotcha moments against Donald Trump,” he added. “I have never seen it before. It’s over the top.”

Brennan, unfortunately, did not engage Rubio on his observation about the legacy media. Instead, she shifted the interview to a different topic.

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The news cycle may have moved on from Kamala Harris’ plagiarism scandal, but Mark Levin certainly hasn’t.

When the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo confirmed that there was “significant plagiarism” in “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer” that Harris co-wrote with Joan O’C. Hamilton in 2009, the Harris campaign simply denied the allegations and moved on.

“And so it goes away,” sighs Levin, referring to the media’s total abandonment of a story that should get significant attention, granted it proves that the current vice president and Democratic presidential candidate “[stole] the thoughts, the writings, the intellectual labor of somebody else.”

Levin explains that there’s no possibility that Harris accidentally plagiarized.

“She’s a trained lawyer, and I can tell you when you go to law school, over and over again they tell you the importance of getting your citations and getting them accurate,” he says.

While CNN did report on the story, it “trashed Christopher Rufo” and pointed to Kamala being “the first woman” vice president and “a minority,” as if that somehow canceled out her wrongdoing.

Then when CNN went to the Harris campaign, the network was met with a curt “we reject it all.”

“Excuse me? What do you reject? This page? … This page?” asks Levin, flipping through several pages of plagiarized information from Harris’ book.

“I’ve got 15 pages here — verbatim stealing language,” he says.

Unfortunately, all it took was a baseless denial — and poof! “It just goes away.”

Levin then points out that Joe Biden also was caught plagiarizing during his unsuccessful run for president back in 1988.

But unlike Kamala Harris, who can play the gender and race card and walk away scot-free, Biden actually suffered the consequences.

The scandal led to him “[dropping] out of the race,” says Levin.

To hear more of Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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President Joe Biden during a Saturday speech in support of Kamala Harris’ campaign gritted his teeth and snarled that former President Donald Trump and his “Republican friends” are “the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass.”

Biden — who last week called Trump supporters “garbage” — made his latest shocking remark to members of a carpenters’ union in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, while criticizing Trump and the GOP.

It wasn’t the first time Biden has expressed violent rhetoric in regard to Trump.

“There’s one more thing Trump and his Republican friends want to do,” Biden began. “They want another giant tax cut for the wealthy. Now, I know some of you guys are tempted to think it’s macho guy. I’ll tell you what, man, when I was in Scranton, I used to, we used to have a little trouble going down the plot once in a while. … But I’m serious. These are the kind of guys you like to smack in the ass.”

Biden’s statement was met with cheers, laughter, and applause.

You can view video of the president’s words here.

The headline in left-wing outlet the Huffington Post reads that “Biden Says He’d Like To ‘Smack’ Trump And His Supporters ‘In The Ass.'”

Reuters had a similar interpretation of Biden’s remarks:

Biden used colorful language when describing what he would like to do to those who would turn back his legislative accomplishments with a reference to his younger days in Scranton.

“I’m serious. These are the kind of guys you’d like to smack in the ass,” he said.

It wasn’t the first time Biden has expressed violent rhetoric in regard to Trump. In 2018, Biden infamously stated that if he were back in high school, he’d take Trump “behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”

A week before his “garbage” remark, Biden in another speech said of Trump that “we gotta lock him up.” While his listeners applauded, Biden attempted to correct himself and sputtered, “Politically lock him out.”

Biden also attempted damage control after his “garbage” remark by noting on X, “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”

The White House added an apostrophe to the transcript of his call with Voto Latino: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

Indeed, two U.S. government officials told the AP that White House press officials altered the official transcript of Biden’s “garbage” remarks, which elicited objections from federal workers who transcribe what the president says for posterity. The AP added that it also obtained an internal email to back its report.

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