Election News Commentary
Compiled by Michael Hernandez, 8-19-24
Aug. 8: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Former Democrat Blasts Kamala Harris And The Party, Declares Support For Trump at Kari Lake Rally: “I Don’t Owe The Democrats Anything”
In a powerful speech at a recent campaign rally for Kari Lake, Jade Gillum, a former Democrat turned Republican, took aim at Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party’s treatment of black Americans. During her speech, Jade left no stone unturned in her critique of the left.
“My name is Jade. I am a former Democrat. Unlike Kamala Harris, I’m an actual real-life black woman,” she began, immediately drawing cheers from the crowd. “I’m a former Democrat who is currently a registered Republican. I stand here before you today because I’m tired. I’m tired of the Democrats using the generational trauma of my people to garner votes. They invoke fear. They tell me I’m oppressed. They tell me I’m less than. They tell me I’m not good enough. And they tell me that my white brothers and sisters in Christ are my enemy. No. They are not.”
Jade went on to invoke her Christian faith, referencing Ephesians 5:11, which speaks of exposing the works of the enemy. For Jade, the Democrat Party has become that enemy, using fear and division to maintain power rather than offering real solutions to improve the lives of Americans, particularly Black Americans.
Aug. 9: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Kamala Harris Ordered Raid On Undercover Journalist Who Exposed Planned Parenthood’s Sale Of Baby Parts, Seized Videos To Block Their Release To The Public
Former California Attorney General Kamala Harris ordered a raid on David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, who exposed Planned Parenthood’s heinous practice of selling aborted baby parts. The controversy began in 2015 when Daleiden, posing as a laboratory wholesaler, secretly recorded conversations with top officials at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, including Dr. Ann Schutt-Ainé, the chief medical officer, and Tram Nguyen, RN, the branch’s vice president of abortion access.
In this video, Planned Parenthood staffers can be seen discussing the sale of body parts from late-term fetuses in a disturbingly casual manner.
According to The Center for Medical Progress, which did the undercover video, the organization in the Houston, TX branch described “delivering late-term fetuses intact and alive and mutilating the bodies afterward to cover up violations of the federal partial-birth abortion law, in conversations about selling fetal body parts.”
In 2015, the National Abortion Federation—representing Planned Parenthood—sought a federal injunction to prevent further dissemination of the footage. In March 2016, just two weeks after meeting with top Planned Parenthood officials implicated in the videos, Harris ordered agents from the California Department of Justice to raid Daleiden’s apartment and seize the videos, effectively blocking their release to the public.
The raid involved 11 state Department of Justice agents armed with rifles and K-9 dog. Instead of investigating Planned Parenthood’s illegal activities, Harris launched a criminal investigation against Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), which has continued for nearly nine years.
Aug. 11: Breitbart By Pam Key
Biden On Quitting: Dem Colleagues Thought ‘I Was Going To Hurt Them’ In The Election
President Joe Biden said on “CBS Sunday Morning” that he opted to not to seek reelection because his colleagues in the “House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them” in the November election.
Biden said, “Look, polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race, would have been down to the wire. but what happened was a number of my democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic.”
Aug. 11: Gateway Pundit By Cassandra MacDonald
JD Vance Says Trump Admin’s Mass Deportations Should ‘Start With One Million’
Senator JD Vance told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the Trump administration’s mass deportations should “start with one million” illegal aliens being removed from the country. Former President Donald Trump has said that if he is reelected, he will deport 15 to 20 million people who are in the country illegally.
ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl asked, “One of the proposals in the platform you’ve talked about, and Trump has talked about, is a mass deportation. You said he said he’ll start with the easy ones, the criminals, people who commit crimes, deport them, but he said deporting 15 million to 20 million people, how do you actually do that?”
“We have to start with the fact that we have a wide-open southern border because our border czar set a lot of open border policies,” Vance replied. “There’s 20 million people here illegally,” the VP hopeful continued. “You start with what’s achievable. You do that, and then you go onto what’s achievable from there. If you deport a lot of violent criminals and frankly if you make it harder to hire illegal labor, I think you go a lot of the way to solving the illegal immigration problem. But look, President Trump is absolutely right. You cannot have a border unless you’re willing to deport some people. I think it’s interesting that people focus on, well, how do you deport 18 million people? Let’s start with 1 million. That’s where Kamala Harris has failed and we can go from there.”
Aug. 11: Breitbart By Alana Mastrangelo
VP Kamala Harris Cast Tie-Breaking Vote To Let IRS Track Workers’ Tips So They Can Be Taxed
Vice President Kamala Harris — who on Saturday copied a campaign promise first announced by former President Donald Trump to eliminate taxes on tips — voted in 2022 to pass legislation that allowed the IRS to track down workers’ tips so that they could be taxed. On August 7, 2022, Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act that provided $80 billion in additional funding to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which then got to work cracking down on the service industry’s reporting of tips so that they could be taxed.
“Two years ago today, I proudly cast the tie-breaking vote to pass our Inflation Reduction Act,” Harris’s Facebook account reminded the public on Wednesday, sharing a video of the vice president voting to pass the legislation. “On this vote, the yay’s are 50, the nay’s are 50. The Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed,” Harris said in the August 7, 2022, video.
President Joe Biden’s White House also boasted that the Inflation Reduction Act “provided $80 billion in additional funding to the IRS.”
Aug. 12: Gateway Pundit By Margaret Flavin
Teacher At Harris Rally Says Education Is “The Greatest Instrument Of Social Justice In This Country”
A school teacher who spoke at the Harris-Walz rally in Arizona said the quiet part out loud when sharing why she chose a career in education. Because she can turn her classroom into an indoctrination camp.
The teacher shared, “I’m also a mother of three beautiful adult children, and they are all teachers like me. Growing up, I always knew I wanted to be a teacher because I saw education for what it really was, the greatest instrument of social justice in this country.”
Aug. 12: Breitbart By Alana Mastrangelo
Donald Trump, Elon Musk: ‘We Don’t Have A President Right Now’
Former President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk agreed that the United States does not “have a president right now” while speaking in an X Space on Monday.
“Biden is close to vegetable stage, in my opinion, I looked at him today on the beach, and I said, ‘Why would anybody allow him — the guy could barely walk. Does he have a political adviser that thinks this looks good? Because it looks so bad,” Trump said, referring to a recent video that surfaced of President Joe Biden at the beach. He can’t lift the chair,” Trump continued. “The chair weighs about three ounces. It’s meant for children and old people to lift, and he can’t lift it. The whole thing is crazy.”
Musk chimed in, adding, “It’s clearly, like, we just don’t have a president right now,” to which Trump replied, “You don’t have a president.”
Aug. 12: Breitbart By Elizabeth Weibel
Trump Tells Musk: ‘I’m More Of A Believer’ In God Since Shooting
Former President Donald Trump told Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk during an interview on X Spaces on Monday evening that he was “more of a believer” in God after the assassination attempt on his life last month. “I’m a believer now,” Trump said. “I’m more of a believer, I think. A lot of people have said that.”
The former president told Musk that the “bigger miracle was that” he had been “looking in the exact direction” that a chart on illegal immigration was located, adding that the bullet hit him at an “angle far less destructive any other angle. For those of you who don’t believe in God, I think we can all start thinking about that,” Trump added.
Trump has previously credited God for his survival. During a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, Trump described the Secret Service agents who had shielded him as being “brave” as the “bullets were flying,” and added that God was behind his survival.
“The first one was not a good situation, not a good situation,” Trump said. “That was really something incredible. That was from God. That was from God. Because the chances….that was from God. For all of you non-believers, that one was from God, right?”
Aug. 15: Breitbart By Simon Kent
Kamala Harris To Announce Price Controls on Food
Price controls on food and grocery prices will form part of the federal economic proposals U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil Friday when she finally delivers an insight into her 2024 policies.
Her address will mark the first time Harris offers a policy focused speech since she was anointed as the Democratic candidate in July and been roundly accused by critics since as being a policy-free zone, as Breitbart News reported.
The Democratic nominee is promising to institute a first-ever national ban on price gouging and price-fixing within her first 100 days in office in an effort to deflect many voters’ low marks for President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy.
Time magazine reports Harris plans to direct the Federal Trade Commission and other agencies to investigate and penalize “big corporations” that violate government rules. Other ways of tackling price fixing and selective anti-competitive practices in the food and grocery industries will also come under scrutiny, her campaign said by way of previewing her full set of economic proposals.
Harris will also reportedly detail plans to cut prescription drug and housing costs in the economic address during her visit to Raleigh, North Carolina.
Aug. 15: Right Side Broadcasting Network By Dillon Burroughs
Trump Vows To Cut Energy Prices By Half
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he will cut energy prices for Americans by at least half. Trump shared the announcement during his campaign stop in Asheville, North Carolina, before a large audience at Harrah’s Cherokee Center.
“I am announcing today that, under my leadership, the U.S. will commit to the ambitious goal of slashing energy and electricity prices by half—at least. Half!” Trump said. “We intend to slash prices in half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months,” he added.
The commitment to cut energy bills follows a new poll by Fox News that showed respondents agreeing that Trump is the best candidate to improve the nation’s economy. Trump received a surplus of support on the economy (52 to 46 percent) over Harris. Overall, Trump led Harris by one point in the presidential race.
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/trump-vows-to-cut-energy-prices-by-half/
Aug. 15: Breitbart News
AP: Kamala Harris Has A ‘Long Term’ Strategy For Border Migration
The Associated Press is perfuming Vice President Kamala Harris’ immigration record by saying she adopted a “long-term” approach to President Joe Biden’s migrant flood. The AP made its claim on August 14:
Harris was never the “border czar,” or put in charge of border security or halting illegal border crossings, as former President Donald Trump, Republicans and even the occasional media outlet have claimed. Instead, she was tasked in March 2021 with tackling the “root causes” of migration from the Northern Triangle and pushing its leaders — along with Mexico’s — to enforce immigration laws, administration officials said.
The Associated Press says Harris “was tasked” to deal with the “root causes” of migration from Central America.
But “root causes” were initially Harris’s words, not Joe Biden’s. They were delivered in March 2021 as Biden announced she had agreed to take on the much broader task of “stemming” migration from many countries.
Aug. 15: Gateway Pundit By Margaret Flavin
Secret Service Agent Abandoned Post At North Carolina Trump Event To Nurse Baby
A report from Real Clear Politics’ Susan Crabtree reveals that during President Donald Trump’s visit to North Carolina on August 14th, a Secret Service agent abandoned her post to breastfeed her baby. The details come just weeks after a failed assassination attempt against President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which has raised serious concerns about the Secret Service.
According to the report, five minutes before President Trump’s motorcade was scheduled to arrive, the site agent in charge of security for the entire event found the agent from the Atlanta Field Office breastfeeding her child in a room that was supposed to be set aside for Secret Service “official work.” According to Crabtree, the agent had no permission to leave her post, and she did not warn the site event agent.
Not only can a working agent not bring a child during a protective assignment, but Crabtree notes that two other family members were in the room with the agent, and the group bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint.
The Gateway Pundit reported in early August that the top Secret Service official who blew the security at the Trump Butler rally is still calling the shots and approving advance teams at Trump rallies.
Aug. 18: Fox Team
Vice President Kamala Harris To Formally Accept Democratic Nomination
Chicago police are bracing for a potential week of unrest as the city prepares for the Democratic National Convention. The convention is expected to draw an estimated 50,000 people to the city, including delegates, activists and journalists.
The city says it has made necessary preparations with police and the Secret Service. Security will be tight, with street closures around the convention center.To combat traffic concerns, city leaders are touting a new $80 million train station steps from the United Center. They also have tried to beautify the city with freshly planted flowers and new signs. City leaders also cleared a nearby homeless encampment.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/democratic-national-convention-august-18-2024
Aug. 19: Breitbart By Joel Pollak
Democrats Release Party Platform In Chicago: Calls For Reelecting Joe Biden
The Democratic Party released its official platform on Sunday night, to be voted on at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois — and it calls for reelecting President Joe Biden, who was still the candidate at the time the document was finalized in mid-July. “President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Democrats are running to finish the job,” it says. Read the full, 91-page document here.
The platform begins with a “land acknowledgment,” declaring that the convention is being held on lands once belonging to Native Americans. This is a left-wing practice that, the Wall Street Journal noted last weekend, is central to the ideology behind campus anti-Israel protests — the claim that the United States and Israel are guilty of “settler colonialism.” This also “means rejecting the understanding of American history that has been mainstream since the mid-20th century—that it is a story of slow progress toward fulfilling the nation’s founding promise of freedom for all,” the Journal notes.
The platform makes a number of misleading claims, including the claim that the U.S. is “finally rebuilding … broadband” as part of the administration’s investment in infrastructure. Despite a $42.5 billion fund for expanding broadband under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which Harris was meant to supervise, not new connection has been built.
Despite focusing on President Biden, the platform omits some of his recent plans to “reform” the Supreme Court by imposing term limits, which Democrats would hope to use to oust conservative justices and replace them with liberals.
Among other highlights, the platform defends surgery and drug treatments for “transgender youth,” without specifying the age at which children should be provided such surgeries. “Democrats will vigorously oppose state and federal bans on gender-affirming health care,” it says. It does not mention the issue of transgender sports, and the question of biological males participating in women’s sporting activities.
The platform also boasts that “President Biden ended America’s longest war, bringing our troops home from Afghanistan,” without mentioning the disaster than ensued, including the death of 13 American troops in a terror attack during the haphazard evacuation of Kabul.
Aug. 19: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Altercation Breaks Out Between Democrat Heavies As Convention Week Opens
As the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago, tensions are already boiling over. An altercation erupts on the convention floor between Kamala Harris’s most vocal supporter, Roland Martin, and Chicago local activist Ja’Mal Green.
The feud began when Martin, a host and former CNN contributor, took to X (formerly Twitter) and his show to hurl insults at Green, labeling him “dumb” for his criticism of Harris’s latest policy announcement.
Green, an independent activist, had previously taken to social media to question Harris’s $25K down payment plan for first-time homebuyers. As Democrats gather in Chicago, Green did not hold back in exposing the grim realities facing the city under Democratic leadership. He wrote:
Welcome to Chicago Democrats! As you move around our beautiful downtown, you will not experience the real Chicago problems because we put a bandaid on them until you leave. Chicago has spent millions to hide its problems for one week. Here’s the reality:
1. Chicago has one of the worst mayors in the world. Approval rating is less than 27%. You will hear him lie for 3minutes & 30 seconds straight tomorrow. The real mayor is the president of the public school teachers union Stacey Davis Gates who sends her kids to private schools.
2. Our migrant crisis has us with a billion dollar deficit. They are all over the streets but the city spent money to hide them for a week. While you’re here for a few days we will have spent 20+ million on shelters, apartments, food, childcare, transportation, and more.
3. Violence is still at an all time high and we are breaking records for the most car thefts this past year. So please be safe.
4. We have the highest unemployment rate of any large metro city with an urban population. Over 100,000 people are without jobs but we spend millions a day on migrants.
Aug. 19: Right Side Broadcasting Network By Dillon Burroughs
Trump Thanks Milwaukee Police Association For Endorsement
President Donald Trump expressed his thanks to the Milwaukee Police Associaton on Sunday for its endorsement of his campaign. Trump shared the video of the endorsement alongside his thanks in a Truth Social post. “THANK YOU—MAGA2024!!!” he wrote.
The full endorsement was released on Friday when Trump’s running mate JD Vance spoke in Milwaukee. The endorsement also addressed policing concerns faced in the city located in a key battleground state.
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,” and writes a column on “Revive America.”
