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Compiled by Michael Hernandez, 9-7-24
Sept. 1: Breitbart Commentary By John Nolte
Harris Closes An Already Disastrous Week By Trashing Gold Star Families
Incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris closed out what was already a terrible week by trashing 13 Gold Star families.
First, let’s review the last seven days. After six of the best weeks any presidential candidate has ever enjoyed, six weeks filled with billions and billions of dollars in free corporate media cheerleading and propaganda, it all fell apart at the Democrat National Convention.
No Post-Convention Bounce
A country gripped by the cruelty of record inflation, two horrific overseas wars, an explosion of violent crime, and a wide-open southern border, America was looking for answers, a vision, an idea of where the next president planned to lead us. Instead, Kamala delivered policy-free pablum, empty rhetoric, a hate campaign against Trump, and happy talk. The result…In the RealClearPolitics average poll of national polls, on the last day of her convention, Kamala enjoyed a national lead of 1.7 percent over former President Trump. Today her lead is 1.8 points.
In context, on this same date in her losing campaign, Hillary Clinton had a 4.9 point lead. Barring some unforeseen event, which is always possible, Kamala has peaked, her peak is a statistical tie, and the polls always underestimate Trump’s strength.
Losing The Debate Fight She Started
The rules for next week’s presidential debate between Harris and Trump were all set and agreed upon. Then, for whatever reason, Kamala launched a bizarre, week-long whining spree to change the rules. This not only made her look weak, she lost a fight she’d started.
McDonald’s Gate
A big part of Kamala’s drive to create a myth around her political rise involves the repeated claim she worked at McDonald’s while attending college. It’s become a central part of her biography. It was front and center in a recent campaign ad. Thus far, though, no amount of reporting has been able to validate her employment at McDonald’s. Thus far, the Harris campaign has not been forthcoming with details that could verify that claim.
That Disastrous CNNLOL Interview
Kamala had six weeks to prep, she had Obama’s A-Team prepping her, she had a sycophantic interviewer in CNN’s hideous Dana Bash, she had a sycophantic network desperate to make her look good, and…Incredibly, she had no answer for what she would do as president on day one. She had no answer for her supposed flip-flops on radical ideas she’s held for two decades. She looked diminished, unsure of herself, and, above all, unpresidential. The optics of the interview, was bad enough, but her decision to bring running mate Tim “Stolen Valor” Walz along made her look especially weak.
On three different occasions, the open border/outlaw private insurance/defund the police/free healthcare for illegal aliens/ban fracking/ said, “My values haven’t changed.” Within hours, the now firing-on-all-cylinders Trump campaign used that statement to launch one devastating meme after another. Those words will haunt her straight through to November. Above all, Kamala stepped right into the Trump campaign’s narrative that she cannot handle the pressure of going off-script. And then, on Saturday afternoon, came the big finale.
Kamala Trashes 13 Gold Star Families
Kamala’s insanely Saturday afternoon tweet accusing 13 Gold Star families of agreeing to act as props. In the history of unforced presidential campaign errors, this one’s a doozy…That tweet is the act of a drowning campaign. Kamala has bragged about being the “last one in the room” when the calamitous decision was made to surrender Afghanistan to terrorists before all of our people and billions of dollars in weaponry had been removed. That’s why these 13 men and women died.
Worse still, according to these 13 families, neither Biden nor Kamala has ever reached out in any way to them, not even to offer their condolences. We all know why. These 13 heroes died needlessly due to Biden’s and Kamala’s dreadful judgment and now Kamala wants their inconvenient memory forgotten, memory-holed, and discarded. Naturally, the craven corporate media have done everything to aid and abet this moral crime.
President Trump has been there for them every step of the way. And They invited him to share their anniversary visit to Arlington. They asked that this solemn moment be photographed as a tribute. They also say they invited Biden and Harris to attend the Arlington and never even received a reply.
Nevertheless, on a Saturday afternoon, after what seemed like an unwary truce between the 13 families and the Harris campaign, a desperate Kamala looked at her falling poll numbers and broke the truce by smearing these families with the false claim they had visited Arlington as a political stunt. The families quickly and righteously fired back with the kind of raw intensity that hits voters where they live.
As we have seen through the decades, American voters are willing to forgive a presidential candidate almost anything—lies, infidelities, scandals, mistakes. What they will not tolerate is incompetency. Trashing Gold Star families is amoral, but it is also incompetent.To View Social MediaAccept Cookies
Sept. 1: Breitbart By Warner Todd Huston
Mark Cuban Pushes Social Media Poll To Attack Trump, It Backfires
On Friday, billionaire Dallas Mavericks minority owner and hardcore left-winger Mark Cuban pushed out a poll to his 8.8 million followers in an effort to attack Donald Trump. But it seems likely he didn’t expect the outcome he got. In his poll, Cuban asked, “Who’s persona and character would you like to see young children grow up to have?”
He gave his followers the choice of “Donald Trump” and “Kamala Harris.” Unfortunately for Cuban, a Harris supporter, Donald Trump won this poll, and not by just a little, either. Trump’s lead was double that of Harris.
Sept. 2: Gateway Hispanic By Maria Herrera Helado
The Growing Impact Of The Hispanic Vote: 36.2 Million Eligible Voters By 2024 In The U.S.
The population of eligible Hispanic voters in the United States is projected to reach 36.2 million by 2024, an increase of nearly 4 million since 2020. Hispanic Americans will make up approximately 14.7% of the total eligible voters in the country.
California and Texas stand out among the states with the highest number and percentage of eligible Hispanic voters, while New Mexico, California, and Texas have the highest proportions of eligible voters who are Hispanic. Overall, just over half of Hispanics in the United States are eligible to vote. They are projected to account for 14.7% of all eligible voters in November 2024, reaching a new all-time high. This share has risen steadily over the past two decades, rising from 13.6% in 2020. In 2000, by comparison, Hispanics made up just 7.4% of eligible voters in the United States.
This represents a 153% increase since 2000, when 14.3 million Hispanics were eligible to vote. California is home to a quarter of all eligible Hispanic voters. Approximately 8.5 million of the 33.7 million eligible Hispanic voters in the country, or 25%, lived in California in 2022. In California and Texas, Hispanics make up about one-third of the eligible voter population (33% and 32%, respectively). These states are also the only ones in which non-Hispanic whites make up a plurality, but not a majority, of the eligible voter population (42% in California and 47% in Texas). In both states, Hispanics rank second in proportion among major racial and ethnic groups.
A slim majority of Hispanics in the U.S. are eligible to vote. Just over half of all Hispanics (53%) were eligible to vote in 2022. However, this share varies widely across states with a Latino population of 50,000 or more. Hispanics are considerably less likely than the general U.S. population to be eligible to vote (53% vs. 72%). This is partly because the country’s Hispanic population includes a large number of people who are too young to vote or who are not U.S. citizens:– 29% of Hispanics are under age 18, compared with 22% of the total U.S. population.
– 19% of Hispanics are not U.S. citizens, compared with 6% of the total U.S. population. Eligible voters tend to be younger than eligible voters overall. Only 33% of eligible Hispanic voters are 50 or older, compared to 48% of all eligible voters in the U.S.
Sept. 3: Fox News Team
With 3 Days Until Voting Starts, ‘Election Season’ Kicks Off Sooner Than You Think
There are 63 days until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5. But if Americans vote like they did in the last two election cycles, most of them will have already cast a ballot before the big day. Early voting starts as soon as Sept. 6 for eligible voters, with seven battleground states sending out ballot to at least some voters the same month. It makes the next few months less a countdown to Election Day, and more the beginning of “election season.”
States have long allowed at least some Americans to vote early, like members of the military or people with illnesses. In some states, almost every voter casts a ballot by mail. Many states expanded eligibility in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic made it risker to vote in person. That year, the Fox News Voter Analysis found that 71 percent of voters cast their ballots before Election Day, with 30 percent voting early in-person and 41 percent voting by mail. Early voting remained popular in the midterms, with 57 percent of voters casting a ballot before Election Day.
The are a few ways to vote before Election Day. The first is earl in-person voting, where a voter casts a regular ballot in-person at a voting center before Election Day. The second is voting by mail, where the process and eligibility varies by state. Eight states vote mostly by mail, including California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah. Registered voters receive ballots and send them back.
Most states allow any registered voter to request a mail ballot and send it back. This is also called mail voting, or sometimes absentee voting. Depending on the state, voters can return their ballot by mail, at a drop box, and/or at an office or facility that accepts mail ballot. In 14 states, voters must have an excuse to vote by mail, ranging from illness, age, work hours or if a voter is out of their home county on Election Day.
State process and tabulate ballots at different times. Some states don’t begin counting ballots until election night, which delays the release of results. Voting begins on Sept. 6 in North Carolina with six more battleground states starting that month.
Sept. 4: Gateway Pundit By Cristina Laila
“WALZ’S FOR TRUMP” – Tim Walz’s Family Snubs Harris-Walz, Endorses Trump
Tim Walz’s family in Nebraska endorsed President Trump. The family of Kamala Harris’s running mate is backing Trump! Last week it was reported that Tim Walz’s own brother, Jeff Walz, has reportedly considered joining forces with Trump, publicly criticizing his brother as “not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.”
One post, dated May 2023—the same day the Biden-Harris administration indicted Donald Trump in New York City—reads, “We’ve just become a third world banana republic.” When prompted by a follower to discuss these concerns with his brother, Jeff revealed that he hasn’t spoken to Tim in eight years and is “100 percent opposed to all his ideology.”
Sept. 5: Breitbart By Paul Bois
Kamala Harris, Tim Walz Promote False Framing Of JD Vance Statement On Shootings
The Associated Press ignited massive backlash on Thursday when it blatantly misquoted Republican vice-presidential pick JD Vance on school shootings. Speaking at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, Vance said he does not like that school shootings have become a “fact of life” while calling for better security.
“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Vance said. “But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able.” Instead of reporting on his comments accurately, the AP originally reported only that Vance called shootings a “fact of life.”
Sept. 6: Breitbart By Wendell Husebo
Kamala Harris’s Aides Are Unsure Of Her Policy Positions
Not even campaign aides are sure of what Vice President Kamala Harris’s policy positions are, Axios reported Friday, fueling concerns that Harris is an empty political shell with intentions to do or say whatever is needed to get elected.
With only 60 days left until the presidential election, time is running out for Americans to learn about Harris’s ambiguous plans. She has only sat for one pre-recorded interview since joining the race seven weeks ago on July 21, 2024.
In those seven weeks, Harris allegedly changed her view, outright flip-flopped, or has an unknown position in nine areas:
- Banning plastic straws (Flip-flopped)
- A mandate for only producing electric and hydrogen vehicles by 2035 (Unknown)
- Banning fracking (Flip-flopped)
- Gun confiscation through a buyback program (Allegedly no longer supports via anonymous campaign spokesperson)
- Decriminalizing illegally crossing the southern border (Allegedly no longer supports via anonymous campaign spokesperson)
- Reparations (Unknown)
- Building a border wall (Allegedly no longer supports via anonymous campaign spokesperson)
- A Federal job guarantee (Allegedly no longer supports via anonymous campaign spokesperson)
- Medicare For All (Flip-flopped)
“Harris and her campaign haven’t provided many details explaining her policy shifts,” Axios admitted Friday. “[E]ven some of her own staffers aren’t sure where she stands on a range of issues.” Axios reportedly asked the Harris campaign six days in a row about her unknown policy positions before getting a “no comment” from aides.
Harris’s treatment of the media underscores her conundrum: Harris cannot powerfully campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s policies, but she must tout the administration’s policies to validate her record and candidacy.
Sept 6: Breitbart By Neil Munro
Trump Promises To Revive The ‘American Dream’ With Housing For Young Families
President Donald Trump promised to revive the American Dream on Thursday by reducing the cost of housing for young Americans.
“It’s all about the American Dream,” Trump told a roomful of business elites and billionaires at the Economic Club of New York.
“We will make housing much more affordable… [and] we will get [mortgage rates] back down to 3 percent … [so] young people will be able to buy a home again and be part of the American dream,” he said.
Sept. 6: Gateway Pundit By Patty McMurray
Democrats are Using an Easy and Almost Undetectable Way to Steal the Election From Trump – UOCAVA Voters – Will Anyone Stop Them?
In the 2000 presidential election, a mere 629 votes separated the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida. When the absentee overseas votes finally arrived, George W. Bush was able to take the 537-vote lead from Al Gore and win the presidency. Democrats paid attention.
Are Democrats really interested in attracting more overseas voters, or is it the flawed voter registration system they use that could be a game-changer in our upcoming election if properly utilized by unscrupulous election officials?
On August 12, 2024, the DNC released a memo announcing it would spend six figures to collect up to 9 million Democratic votes from overseas. The DNC clearly states its goal in their memo: For the first time ever in a Presidential cycle, the DNC is investing in Democrats Abroad. The DNC is doing the work to win in battleground states across the country.
With under 100 days until Election Day and ahead of the Democratic National Convention, the DNC announced a significant six-figure investment in Democrats VoteFromAbroad, for the first time ever in a Presidential cycle, helping fund their efforts to win the votes of approximately 9,000,000 Americans– of which only about 8% are registered voters from 2020 – who are living or serving outside of the United States. Here’s the problem with the DNC’s stated goal: The DNC’s stated goal of winning the votes of approximately 9 million Americans through its Democrats Abroad website seems impossible, given that according to a recent report by the federal government, only 4.4 million US citizens reside overseas, and only 2.8 million of thoseare of voting age.
Curiously, the DNC memo claims that “over 1.6 million Americans from the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin” live overseas, adding that they plan to “fight for every vote.” Democrats want you to believe that over half of those eligible overseas voters have residence in the crucial swing states! That is absurd!
Michael Hernandez, from California is co-founder of the Citizens Journal—Ventura County’s online news service. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor. Mr. Hernandez can be contacted at [email protected] and is editor of the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes” and “Nov. 5 Election Day Countdown.”
