Opinion/Election*
Compiled By Michael Hernandez, 10-20-24
Oct. 12: Daily Wire By Ryan Saavedra
Trump Campaign Requests Military Assets To Protect Against Iranian Threats
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is requesting military assets to protect him in the final weeks of the campaign after receiving intelligence briefings from U.S. officials about Iran’s continued efforts to assassinate him. The New York Times reported. The requests come after Trump narrowly escaped death when he was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.
The newspaper seemingly acknowledged that the administration would loath to give Trump military protection because it could help him politically. “If the administration granted such assets, it would give Trump a distinct look in the final months that no challenger has ever had — and would remind voters visually, every day, that he is under threat,” the report said.
President Joe Biden said on Friday that Trump should receive the same level of protection that he does. “I’ve told the department to give him every single thing he needs … as he were a sitting president,” Biden said. “If it fits into that category, that’s fine.”
Oct. 13: Fox News By Danielle Wallace
‘Reagan’ Star Dennis Quaid Rallies For Trump In Coachella Rally: ‘Pick A Side’
“Reagan” movie star Dennis Quaid rallied for former President Trump in Coachella, California, on Saturday, addressing a crowd in the deep blue state that was once Vice President Harris’ turf.
“God bless you. God bless America. I’m here today to tell you that it’s time to pick a side,” Quaid said on stage. “Are we going to be a nation that stands for the Constitution? Or for TikTok? Are we going to be a nation of law and order? Or wide open borders? Which is it? Because it’s time to pick a side.”
Speaking in the desert city east of Los Angeles known for its namesake annual music festival, Quaid said he played President Ronald Reagan, his “favorite president of the 20th century,” in the 2024 biopic. The actor drew parallels between the political landscape when Reagan was first elected and the present. “It’s amazing how the issues of the 1980 election are very similar to what they are today,” he said, recalling the record high inflation back then, as well as the Iran hostages.
“We were a nation in decline. That’s what they told us. Ronald Reagan came along and said, no, we’re not a nation in decline. We’re going there. And we followed him,” Quaid said, pointing upwards. “The same with Trump, with President Trump. My favorite president of the 21st century.”
“I’m gonna ask you a question that Reagan asked America back then, and I think it’s the question that got him elected. Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Quaid said.
When Trump left office, Quaid said, inflation was low and there was “peace in the Middle East,” crediting Trump as having been “right on the verge of accomplishing the Abraham Accords,” making peace between Israel and Arab nations. The actor also said Trump was negotiating a withdrawal from Afghanistan with “honor and order,” recalling how the former Republican president said he threatened a Taliban leader with a satellite image of his house. “Iran was bankrupt,” Quaid continued. “They weren’t able to give weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah.
And look at where we are today. We basically funded that war. Four years ago, we had a secure border. We were on our way to even doing more and having a wall. That’s what a nation is. It has a wall.… But I guess it’s like voter I.D. you don’t need it in this country for some reason.
“So like I said, people, it’s time to pick a side. Who are you going to pick? God bless you,” Quaid added.
Oct. 14: Breitbart By Wendell Husebo
Kamala Harris, Fearing The Loss Of Black Support, Offers More Freebies
The Harris campaign announced more taxpayer-funded proposals for the black community on Monday. The proposals come after polling showed Harris has about 12-15 percent less black voter support than President Joe Biden won in 2020.
The Harris campaign’s new proposals to try to reduce the defections include legalizing marijuana, a new loan program, preferred banking options for entrepreneurs, preferred apprenticeship and mentorship programs, and preferred expanded health screenings, the New York Times reported.
The campaign is facing pressure to shore up support among Black men, as polls show that Ms. Harris is receiving significantly lower support from the voting bloc than President Biden did in 2020. The slip from Mr. Biden’s 2020 numbers among Black men is striking: 70 percent said they would vote for Ms. Harris in November, down from Mr. Biden’s 85 percent in 2020.
This softening support has so alarmed Democrats that former President Barack Obama issued an urgent call this week for Black men to drop “excuses” and rethink sitting out the election.
Black men, particularly younger ones, have been steadily slipping from the Democratic Party, frustrated that their experiences are not reflected in policy as much as other groups’. Ms. Harris’s proposals appear to confront those concerns head-on. Former President Barack Obama sounded the alarm and scolded black men Thursday night for not “feeling the idea of having a woman as president.”
Obama’s remark suggests any support among black men for former President Donald Trump is based on sexism, a tactic of guilt that may backfire on Vice President Kamala Harris.
Oct. 15: Fox News By Brooke Singman
Trump Says GOP Is ‘Party Of Common Sense’ During Contentious Bloomberg Interview
Former President Trump said the Republican Party is “the party of common sense” Tuesday during a contentious interview with Bloomberg News in Chicago. Trump sat for an interview with Bloomberg News’ editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago. The two discussed Trump’s plans for the economy in a potential second term during a heated interview that lasted nearly an hour. Micklethwait spoke about the economy to start, but later got into the state of the presidential race, asking the former president which state he believed was most critical to deciding the election.
“They say Pennsylvania. I think we’re doing very well there. I think you look at Michigan, too, and I’m doing very well,” Trump said. “We’re way up in Pennsylvania. We’re way up in Michigan. We’re doing very well in Arizona. In fact, somebody said they’re going to pull the plug in Arizona – they’re going to give it up because it looks like we’re quite a ways ahead.” A RealClearPolitics polling average as of Tuesday afternoon showed Trump slightly ahead in Pennsylvania, as well as in Arizona and Michigan.
Trump went on to say that the Republican Party is “the party of common sense. Forget about conservative, liberal. We’re, let’s say, conservative, but we’re really a party of ‘We need borders. We need fair elections. We don’t want men playing in women’s sports. We don’t want transgender operations without parental consent,’” Trump explained. “It is 99.9 percent common sense. It really is common sense. I say we’re really a party of common sense, and we want to have great people in our country.”
Trump added: “I have a good heart. I have a heart where I want people to be taken care of. But I don’t want to take in people where millions of people – 21 million people at least have come in the last three and a half years unvetted, unchecked. We don’t know anything about them.”
Earlier this year, Trump rolled out a plan to eliminate China’s most favored nation trade status on imports. In private, Trump has even floated tariffs as high as 60 percent on Chinese goods. Economists have warned that increasing tariffs would also cause an increase in prices for everyday goods due to American companies relying on cheap raw materials from China.
“It’s going to have a massive effect – positive effect. It’s going to be a positive effect,” Trump replied. “No, there are no tariffs – all you have to do is build your plant in the United States and you don’t have any tariffs,” Trump said. “That’s what I want.” The former president’s response was met with applause from the audience. “The higher the tariff, the more likely it is that the company will come into the United States and build a factory in the United States so it doesn’t have to pay the tariff,” Trump explained.
As for national security and foreign policy, Trump touted his relationships with adversaries, like Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying the United States was respected under his administration.
Oct. 16: Breitbart By Hannah Knudsen
Trump’s All-Women Town Hall: I Will ‘End All Sanctuary Cities Immediately’
Former President Donald Trump said he is going to “end all sanctuary cities immediately,” if he is elected, making the declaration during an all-women town hall in Georgia. Trump took a question from a woman named Nancy, who asked about the issue of immigrant crime in liberal cities and around the country. She said her son is a Georgia Bulldog who was actually on campus the day Laken Riley was murdered.
“How quickly can you remove those threats to our societies, that our children can go out on a run, as they rightfully should be able to do [at] any park in the daytime by themselves?” she asked.
“First of all, we are going to end all sanctuary cities immediately,” Trump said, explaining he could do it via executive order. He also cited The Alien Act. “We can do things in terms of moving people out. We can move them out of the sanctuary cities. You have some liberal, crazy people that — they fight. You know, normally you like to understand the opponent. Like in business, you want to understand what is the opposite. Why do they want this? … Why do they want open borders? Why do they want to do this? Why do they want sanctuary cities?” he said, explaining that sanctuary cities “are really meant for one thing: To protect criminals.” “That’s what they become. We’re going to end all sanctuary cities in the United States, and we’re going to go back to normalcy, and we’re going to have law and order,” he said, previewing a plan to also “reinvigorate our police.”
“We have great police. They’re not allowed to do their job,” he said. Trump said that his administration will allow law enforcement to do their job. “They want to do their job. We’re going to let them do their job, and I’m going to give them immunity. And I’m going to give them immunity. We’re going to protect them because they do things and they end up getting sued. They lose their family, they lose their house, they lose their pension, they lose everything,” Trump said.
Oct. 18: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Sounds The Alarm On Voting Machine Switching Votes In Georgia
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to social media platform X to sound the alarm on a disturbing incident reported by a voter in Whitfield County, Georgia’s 14th district. According to Greene, a constituent in Whitfield County noticed that their printed ballot did not reflect the selections they made on the voting machine, particularly changing their vote away from candidates they had chosen.
According to a viral Facebook post: “FYI to all my voting friends and family a friend of mine in Whitfield County yesterday voted/ checked his selections then printed it checked the printed version and it was not marked the same !!! Please really look at the printed ballot after completion. Very strange occurrence. After several attempts for correction they voided that ballot and machine and he had to revote on another machine! PLEASE CHECK YOUR PRINTED BALLOT!!!!!!!!!”
“This happened in Whitfield County in my district – GA-14,” Greene wrote on X. “We vote on Dominion voting machines then it prints a paper ballot with our selections made on the machines. This voter’s printed ballot had been changed from their selections made on the machine.”
“Good thing they checked their paper ballot before turning it in! After several attempts of trying to change it to reflect their correct choices, they had to void the ballot and use a different machine.” The issue reportedly persisted after multiple attempts to correct the ballot. The voter was eventually forced to void the ballot and use a different machine.
Greene emphasized the importance of double-checking the printed ballot to ensure accuracy, stating, “Please double check your printed ballot before you turn it in to make sure it has marked the candidates you voted for!!!”
Oct. 18: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Detroit Democrats Hold Training Session For Poll Challengers: Increased Number Of Goons Will Be Present To Abuse GOP Challengers, The Goal Is To Attack GOP Inspectors, All Ballots Will Be Allowed
There were three training sessions held this week for Detroit’s Democrat poll challengers. Reporter Shane Trejo, Big League Politics journalist and Michigan election integrity activist, sat in on one of the online training sessions and recorded it.
According to VoteBeat Michigan “poll challengers” — distinct from poll workers and watchers—are individuals stationed at polling places and vote-counting centers who have unique powers under Michigan law to challenge a voter’s eligibility or question the way officials are doing their jobs. Poll challengers are meant to ensure that election workers do their jobs correctly and only count legal votes.
Michigan has new rules passed by the Democrat legislature for poll challengers following the 2020 election when GOP challengers were kicked out and locked out of the counting room. These new Democrat rules make it possible for poll challengers to be easily removed from the facility if they make repeated challenges that don’t pass legal muster. Democrats have tried to make it a criminal offense to offend election workers.
The Democrat poll challenger training was led by David Jaffe, a well-known leftist activist and Democrat poll challenger in the Detroit area. The entire training was recorded by reporter Shane Trejo. Trejo has been active in Detroit politics and was a witness to the late-night ballot drops in the TCF Center in Detroit in 2020.
Trejo was the Paul Revere of 2020 voter fraud, where he caught the infamous 3:30 AM Biden Ballot Dump of tens of thousands of supposed “late arriving” absentee ballots. Many suspect that these ballots were fraudulent ballots used by officials within the City of Detroit to fraud the 2020 vote from Trump, where Trump had been winning on election night and suspicious ‘spikes’ of returns that were nearly 100% for Joe Biden, appeared in the middle of the night and switched the Trump victory into a defeat.
The #DetroitLeaks scandal revealed how far-left activists and City of Detroit officials were instructing election works on how to commit voter fraud in a variety of different ways. #DetroitLeaks revealed that the City of Detroit was purposefully using COVID to prevent Republican challengers from being able to participate in the election process. Officials bragged that the GOP would be kept so far away from the tables they would need binoculars in order to see the ballots.
Earlier this week, David Jaffe delivered an online training session in which he smeared and slandered Republican ballot challengers for this election cycle. Democrats are once again planning to abuse the process to ensure that there is no election integrity for the ballot processes in Democrat-controlled areas. Here’s our rundown on Jaffe’s Democrat training from the video provided to the Gateway Pundit, which you can verify yourself:
- Democrats are effectively looking to doxx election integrity activists, as a way to intimidate them against participating
- Democrats specifically name-drop the Election Integrity Fund as their opposition
- Democrats boast of a large number of people they have recruited and put into place to control the process
- Dems say the electronic poll book will be hidden from challengers and from election integrity activists. The electronic poll book is the only way to audit the ballots in real time against the paper ballots. In 2020, activists noted the electronic poll book had voters with birthdates in the 1800’s, and other obvious signs of fraud. Without access to that file, there will be no way to verify the validity of a ballot
- Dems coordinating everyone through team leads texting on electronic devices, which might have the result of preventing any paper trail
- Increased security goons will be on the side of the Democrats. They are working in concert with the Democrats — Here’s what Jaffe says: “We have a really good reputation with the security people. We have a good reputation with all the folks who work there. Introduce yourself as a Democratic challenger, a challenger from the Democratic Party, and you’ll very often get a smile of recognition.”
- Democrats plan to excessively use state law to interfere with election integrity workers, utilizing MCL 168.727 (3) to screw over election integrity activists
- Jaffe says the enemy is the election integrity activist: “Let’s be clear about their goals- they’re gonna be there to delay the count, because if it takes a long time, Trump can claim victory. Create chaos, cause problems in Detroit.” Jaffe says that documenting voter fraud is, in itself, fraud. He calls it “The fraud fraud.“
- Democrats are not inspecting the election, they are there to attack other inspectors and make them ineffective at challenging fraud. Again, Jaffe says during the training for challengers: “Some things we don’t do. We do not challenge voters. The Michigan Democratic Party doesn’t do that.”
- Democrats want to create propaganda to push for further litigation and legislation that will cripple the ability for poll challengers to exercise their rights by taking notes on everything poll challengers do and say.
- Jaffe boasts that far-left Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance limits the rights of poll challengers to do much of anything
- Jaffe says that ballots will be allowed regardless of anything challengers see, because challengers have little to no power to stop the process. Says Jaffe, gloating: “A challenged ballot is always counted.”
- Jaffe claims that the ballots should be finished counting soon on election night, even though they are anticipating a total of 100,000 absentee ballots for Detroit.
- He claims Security is gonna be much “better.” Part of that is because challengers are being restricted, even their movement in the facility will be restricted. Inspectors will be allowed to “red flag” any challengers so that City officials can justify removing them from the building.
- Jaffe brags that the process denies information to challengers, saying Republicans will be “surprised by a lot” because election officials keep challengers in the dark on purpose and will not explain the election processes to them.
- Jaffe instructs Democrat challengers to take enough information on Republicans that they might be identified later, and that if they refuse to identify themselves it’s a “sign of a guilty conscience” but then also hypocritically says Democrats should not identify themselves to Republicans, saying, “If another challenger asks for your credential, I advise you not to show it to them.”
From the training, it is clear that Democrats are doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to ensure the integrity of the election process. They are only there to push every ballot – real or fake – through the system. And, anyone who challenges ballots will be harassed and removed from the room.
Oct. 19: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Analyst Reveals Not One Arab-American Will Support Kamala Harris — Even If It Means the ‘Rise of Donald Trump’
CNN host Abby Phillip was left speechless when foreign affairs analyst Reena Ninan dropped a bombshell during a Thursday segment, revealing that not one Arab-American within her circle supports Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, even if it means supporting Donald Trump. Ninan, a well-connected voice within the Arab-American business community, expressed her shock over this discovery.
“I’ve been talking to people in the business sector, in the Arab-American community, and I was really surprised this week to get an earful, to hear them say that they would much rather either vote a third party, not vote at all or vote for Donald Trump,” Reena Ninan said.
Ninan noted that polling shows Arab-American support for Trump and Harris is “neck and neck,” but based on informal discussions, she couldn’t find a single Arab-American willing to back Harris.
One point of interest raised by Ninan was the influence of Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, Massad Boulos, a successful Lebanese businessman, who has reportedly made strides in communicating to the Arab-American community why Trump may be the better choice.
Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib, an Arab-American Democrat, has thrown his support behind former President Donald Trump. The Arab American News newspaper will not be endorsing Kamala Harris in next month’s presidential election, despite always endorsing Democratic candidates over the past decades. Also, MSNBC recently interviewed a group of Muslim voters in Michigan who told them that there is nothing that would make them vote for Kamala Harris. One of them actually says there is nothing that she can do to change their minds.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/thats-extraordinary-cnns-abby-phillip-stunned-as-analyst/
Oct. 20: Breitbart By Wendell Husebo
Trump Serves Customers At A McDonald’s Drive-Thru nI Philadelphia
Former President Trump nearly broke the internet when he arrived for a Sunday shift at a Pennsylvania-area McDonald’s and worked the drive-thru window. The campaign stop underscores allegations that Vice President Kamala Harris never worked at a McDonald’s during her college career as she apparently claimed on her resume.
“Hello everybody,” Trump said walking into the store. He then took off his jacket and donned a black and yellow apron. “I like it all,” Trump replied when asked what his favorite item is on the menu. “I like every everything, but I do like the french fries.”
Trump also mocked Harris’s alleged employment at the fast-food restaurant. “I listen to Kamala, she said, ‘it was so hot. It was so hot, it was such a tough job,” Trump recalled Harris’s apparent remarks about frying french fries:
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