Biden White House Update: “Everyone Is Miserable”; “Feels Like Weekend at Bernie’s”: Report

The Biden White House and campaign is still in disarray a week after Joe Biden’s debate debacle with President Trump. Axios reporter Alex Thompson is wired in to the doom and gloom of Biden world and has been filing reports that paint a stark picture of a candidacy and presidency in serious trouble with crushingly low morale.

Biden has been struggling to inspire confidence since the debate, but each attempt–whether a meeting with Democrat governors, softball radio interviews with liberal Black hosts or his off-the-cuff remarks at the White House Independence Day picnic–have each served to reinforce the perception that Biden is not all there.

Axios’ Alex Thompson reported Friday that a White House official saying the staff is miserable and a DNC official saying Biden’s situation “feels like Weekend at Bernies,” a reference to the 1980s hit comedy movie about trying to pretend a corpse was still living.

Excerpt:

The big picture: “Everyone is miserable, and senior advisers are a total black hole,” a White House official told Axios. “Even if you’re trying to focus on work, nothing is going to break through or get any acknowledgment” from bosses.

A high-ranking Democratic National Committee official told Axios: “The only thing that can really allay concerns is for the president to demonstrate that he’s capable of running this campaign.”

“Everything else feels like ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ by his inner circle to prop him up.”

Axios also reported Biden is being controlled by a cabal of senior staff:

.@Axios with a blaring sentence this morning – Joe Biden has “lost all independence” according to a former WH staff member. Um, guys… pic.twitter.com/XcaHXnhknW

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) July 5, 2024

Biden is campaigning in Wisconsin Friday and taping an interview with ABC News set to air Friday night at 8 p.m. EDT.

Biden said, “yes” when asked if he thinks he can still beat Trump.

WATCH: As President Biden boarded Air Force One to go to a campaign rally in Wisconsin, he was asked whether he could beat his rival, former President Trump.

“Yes,” he responded. pic.twitter.com/liDIQ3aXGT

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 5, 2024

Biden’s radio interview miscues on Thursday were so bad MSNBC felt compelled to discuss them Friday morning:

The leftist group Shutdown DC is planning to show Weekend at Bernie’s at the DNC headquarters just off Capitol Hill Friday night:

The Biden campaign is starting to remind us of a 80’s comedy, Weekend at Bernie’s. So we’re going to screen the movie at the DNC headquarters this Friday! Show stats at 8:30pm. Bring your own popcorn! https://t.co/mVcuoLz04J pic.twitter.com/ybVpz2Xb4N

— ShutDownDC (@ShutDown_DC) July 3, 2024

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June Jobs Report: American Economy Limps On

The June jobs report is here.

The U.S. Department of Labor claims that last month American employers added 206,000 jobs. The additional 206,000 jobs exceeded economists’ prediction of 189,000. Private sector job growth, however, fell short of the 160,000 jobs forecast with the addition of 136,000 jobs. Government jobs, which increased by 70,000, picked up the slack.

Nevertheless, a downward revision could be coming in the future. The Labor Department revised April and May’s job growth numbers down by a combined 111,000 jobs. April’s job growth went from 165,000 to 108,000, a drop of 57,000. May, meanwhile, had its job numbers revised from 272,000 to 218,000—54,000 fewer jobs.

Even with the Labor Department’s revisions, June’s job report marked a slight hiring slow down from May. June’s job report and the downward revisions for April and May show that the three-month average for private-sector hiring was just over 145,000—the slowest private-sector hiring rate since the start of Covid-19.

Meanwhile, June saw the unemployment rate increase by a tenth of a percent, from 4 percent to 4.1 percent, which is fairly low but still the highest rate of unemployment since November 2021. Economists predicted no change in the unemployment rate. The increase, however, is largely due to the 277,000 people who re-entered the labor market and began looking for work in June.

Wages, on the other hand, matched economic forecasts. In June, average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent, whereas the twelve-month wage growth remained at 3.9 percent—the lowest since June 2021.

Though the job market appears to be heading for a slowdown, the numbers are fairly strong given the high interest rate environment. Which is why the Federal Reserve will be paying close attention to the June jobs report and the slowdown it portends. 

While the Fed has taken a soft approach to rectifying the American economy’s struggles, June’s jobs report could potentially trigger an earlier than expected rate cut. Previously, Chairman Jerome Powell hinted that the Fed could act more quickly if job growth started to weaken. Yet, markets are predicting that a rate cut will come in September and not after the Fed’s meeting at the end of July.

The real question: Are these numbers good enough to save President Joe Biden come November? But an American economy that’s just limping along is not the president’s biggest worry at the moment.

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This is Who They Are: Pro-Hamas Mobs Burn American Flags in Dem Cities Across America On July 4th

Image: Video screenshot/@ShirionOrg/X

While Americans spent Thursday celebrating the birth of our great nation, pro-Hamas mobs gathered in Dem cities to show how much they hate us and everything we stand for.

In cities like Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and New York, pro-Hamas protestors burned American flags, set off smoke bombs to block people from enjoying the fireworks, and, in at least one case, allegedly physically assaulted a young man wearing the American flag as a cape.

Todd Starnes noted, “This is happening on Independence Day, America’s freedom celebration. At least one young American, who was wearing Old Glory as a cape, was physically assaulted. It’s time to round up every Muslim protester and their allies and ship them back to Gaza. We have graciously allowed these savages into our nation. In return, they burn our flag. Deport now!”

In Philadelphia:

Palestinian terror enthusiasts burn American flags in the middle of Philadelphia on 4th of July.

There is no group more anti-American on US soil right now than the Palestinian supporters.pic.twitter.com/xK2kEFfQdI

— Marina Medvin (@MarinaMedvin) July 5, 2024

In Los Angeles:

LOS ANGELES: Pro-Pally Marxists Stop Traffic, Burn American Flags

These Sociopaths Hate America

Yesterday, July 4th, pro-Palestinian narcissists in Los Angeles disrupted traffic on the 101 freeway, burning American flags and chanting anti-American slogans.

They… pic.twitter.com/uDmwulwcqC

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) July 5, 2024

In New York:

Pro Hamas supporters burn American flags on July 4th in New York City. pic.twitter.com/7O4uIvkRIv

— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) July 4, 2024

The mob is marching through Manhattan right now. pic.twitter.com/cqBRgcZqdX

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) July 5, 2024

In Washington Square Park, there was not a single American flag being held with respect, but there were dozens of Palestinian flags.

July 4th in Washington Square Park. Not a single American flag in the crowd. pic.twitter.com/cBuCsfpPC0

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 4, 2024

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Jerome Corsi on Theories Surrounding Archbishop Viganò’s Excommunication

Yesterday, on July 4th, the day we celebrate American independence, the Vatican excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò for his refusal to submit to the authority of Pope Francis [aka, Jorge Mario Bergoglio]. The move opens the door for the left’s radical sexual theories to displace the traditional Catholic Church view that marriage is a sacrament for one man to marry one woman to procreate children raised by both parents through a traditionally moral Christian education.

Archbishop Viganò, a strong defender of the traditional Catholic Church liturgy and theology, had refused to appear before the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to defend himself against charges that he was guilty of heresy because he refused to accept the dictates of Vatican II, a Catholic Church council that in 1962 eliminated the Latin mass and introduced progressive values into what then Pope John XXIII considered a “modernized” Catholic Church.

In a bold statement entitled “J’Accuse,” [“I Accuse”], named after the famous open letter that author Émile Zola published in the 1898 in the newspaper L’Aurore accusing the president of France of antisemitism in wrongly convicting Alfred Dreyfus, Viganò turned the tables on the leftist Argentinian pope Bergoglio, accusing him of bringing LGBTQ+ queer critical gender theory into Catholic orthodoxy.

Archbishop Viganò statement made clear his conviction that Vatican II and Bergolio are the forces of the “Deep Church,” intentionally causing a schism in the Catholic Church by implementing the agenda of the globalist elite. In “J’Accuse,” Archbishop Viganò wrote:

“Because the true project of the New World Order—to which Bergoglio is enslaved and from which he draws his legitimacy from the powerful of the world—is an essentially Satanic project, in which the work of the Creation of the Father, the Redemption of the Son, and the Santification of the Holy Spirit is hated, erased and counterfeited by the simia Dei [in English, “Monkey God”] and his servants.”

Archbishop Viganò stressed that the true Catholic Church “does not dialogue with Satan: She fights him.”

Specifically, Archbishop Viganò attacked Pope Francis’s “Synodal Process” through which Bergoglio is trying to wedge the LGBTQ+ gender dystopia into Catholic Church theology. Synods are meetings groups of Catholic Bishops hold with Catholics. Bergoglio has charged the Synods to “listen” to the Catholic faithful to advance Vatican II’s modernization of the Catholic Church. Synods aim to listen to “marginalized minorities” to “include” neo-Marxist views, emulating the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) movement in the USA. The ultimate goal is to establish “a more meaningful dialogue, reducing the tensions between belonging to the Church and their own loving relationships, such as: remarried divorcees, single parents, people living in polygamous marriage, LGBTQ people, etc.”

Bergolio’s decision to excommunicate Archbishop Viganó will likely reignite the controversy whether as pope he has been vigilant to expel Catholic clerics guilty of homosexual relations with seminarians and pedophilia with altar boys. Archbishop Viganó has been a harsh critic of the Vatican for many years regarding the severity and consequences of priest sexual abuses within the Catholic Church.

Dr. Corsi’s most recent book is his second book on the JFK assassination: David Mantik, M.D., Ph.D. and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis: Forensic Analysis of the JFK Autopsy X-Rays Proves Two Headshots from the Front and One from the Rear. Since 2004, Jerome R. Corsi has published over 30 books on economics, history, and politics, including two #1 New York Times bestsellers. In 1972, he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University. His book, Volume I, in his Great Awakening Trilogy, The Truth About Energy, Global Warming, and Climate Change: Exposing Climate Lies in an Age of Disinformation, received highly positive reviews from prominent climate scientists and professional meteorologists. Volume II, The Truth About Neo-Marxism, Cultural Maoism, and Anarchy: Exposing Woke Insanity in an Age of Disinformation, was published in August 2023. Dr. Corsi has resumed podcasting on his new website TheTruthCentral.com.

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Trump Denounces Project 2025

Former President Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social Friday to distance himself from Project 2025, which seeks to provide a personnel database and policy proposals to aid the next president in taking on the administrative state. Project 2025 was created by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Trump said that knows nothing about Project 2025 and has “nothing to do” with it. 

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/aLwHei6LQ8

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 5, 2024

Trump added that he disagrees with “some of the things” put forward by Project 2025, and that some of the policy proposals are “ridiculous and abysmal.” He did not specify which proposals he disagreed with.

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Biden’s DHS Simulated Scenarios for Climate Change Catastrophes Such as Nationwide Droughts, Wildfires, Great Power Disruption, and Water Crises

Credit: Homeland Security

Under the Biden regime, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been conducting political “war games” to prepare for potential climate change emergencies, according to a report from War Room.

These include nationwide droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, blackouts, and water crises.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) National Risk Management Center is behind these simulation exercises, known as “Scenario Based Planning.”

CISA is one of the primary cabals that coordinated with social media companies to effectively censor, suspend, deplatform, and flag millions of people.

EXC: DHS Simulated ‘War Game’ Prepping For ‘Plausible’ Nationwide Droughts, Blackouts.

Story linked below pic.twitter.com/WIZLFRwMDz

— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) July 5, 2024

Among the tabletop exercises drafted by CISA, revealed in a July 1st document uploaded to the agency’s website obtained by War Room, are “Water Woes” and “Day Zero,” which predicts an energy shortage crisis.

The scenarios operate “under the premise that we cannot successfully predict the future, we prepare for change by treating the future as a set of plausible alternatives,” according to CISA.

However, conservatives may question whether these scenarios reflect an objective consideration of future risks or if they’re shaped by a politically driven narrative around climate change.

The scenarios seem to focus heavily on issues tied closely to liberal policy priorities, such as transitioning to clean energy and handling the effects of climate change.

War Room noted that this approach by CISA aligns with the talking points of globalist organizations like the United Nations and World Economic Forum (WEF).

For instance, Scenario #1: Water Woes, paints a picture of extreme weather becoming the norm by 2029 due to climate change, with regions either flooded or parched by drought.

It suggests that efforts to transition to clean energy have been insufficient thus far, hinting at a need for more aggressive policy actions.

“Different regions of the United States increasingly find themselves threatened by either too much or too little water. In 2029, extreme weather has come to feel like the norm; the country is a patchwork of regions either inundated with floods and hurricanes or parched by drought and choked by wildfires.

Three issues have exacerbated the challenges that jurisdictions face with water:

(1) the growing effects of climate change;

(2) aging water infrastructure; and

(3) breakdowns in public trust.

To date, efforts to address these issues have proven insufficient. Transitioning to clean energy, for example, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change has been hindered by slower-than-expected adoption of electric vehicles, challenges with workforce development and reskilling, and a failure for new materials and greener processes to be incorporated at scale. A more moderate future will require an immoderate effort to address these issues moving forward.”

War Room reported, “In a similarly styled political “Matrix Game,” CISA officials detail looming acts threatening water security such as “demographic shifts,” “the presence of novel contaminants (e.g., pharmaceutical byproducts, perfluorinated compounds, nanoplastics),” and “competition over water resources.”

Scenario #2: Great Power Disruption, looks at the U.S. in a new chapter of great power competition, with technological leadership as the primary battleground. By 2030, despite gains in onshoring the manufacture of critical technologies, the scenario suggests that the U.S. faces an uncertain future without government subsidies and continued protectionism.

“In the 2020s, the United States finds itself in a new chapter of great power competition, this time driven by competition for technological leadership. Efforts to control key technologies such as semiconductors leads to partial decoupling internationally, onshoring of production for critical sectors, and tensions over supply chains.

By 2030, despite achieving considerable gains in onshoring the manufacture of critical technologies, the United States faces an uncertain future about whether its policies and investments over the past decade will be sustainable absent permanent government subsidies and continued protectionism.

Furthermore, protectionist trade and investment policies have limited U.S. access to several international markets. Meanwhile, the emergence of artificial intelligence has reshaped the landscape for both cyber offense and defense.”

Scenario #3: Day Zero, anticipates a severe water crisis in multiple U.S. cities due to increased demand from the energy sector. It argues for a more holistic approach to water resources, including cross-jurisdictional and sectoral solutions.

“The city of Monroe declared that it has less than six months of water supplies remaining and must make drastic cuts that will harshly impact both citizens and businesses. However, Monroe is just one of many cities in the United States facing a likely water crisis.

There are many stresses on water systems, but an underappreciated one is the demand from the energy sector.

As the United States pursues the clean energy transition (i.e., investing in alternative fuels, photovoltaics, electric batteries, etc., with the goal of reducing carbon emissions), demand for energy is increasing and, at least in the short term, this is causing increased dependence on traditional sources of energy.

Energy production is a water-intensive process, as is the production of necessary equipment.

The author of the scenario’s fictitious essay advocates for approaching water resources more holistically: examining demand and exploring solutions across jurisdictions (where they draw from the same water sources) and sectors, most critically the energy and agriculture sectors.”

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‘Reporters’ Say They Suppressed Biden’s Decline Because ‘Right-Wing Media’ WAS Reporting It

This article originally appeared on WND.com

Guest by post by Bob Unruh

‘It is a telling admission’

Last week’s presidential debate confirmed to millions of viewers the stunning deterioration in Joe Biden’s capacities: He sometimes failed to finish a sentence, he mumbled, he missed points, he stared vacantly.

President Trump, in fact, openly noted he didn’t know what Biden was saying, and he didn’t think Biden did either. And since the event, discussions about whether he can continue his candidacy, or even continue as president, have erupted across the country.

The problem was so suddenly thrust into the public’s view, as his performance was televised, that even legacy media had to start covering it.

But we now know why the problem, obviously developing for a number of years, was so suppressed by those same outlets earlier.

It was because “right-wing media” WAS reporting it.

Legal commentator and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley explained in a column.

“The media is sorry . . . sort of. After the shocking appearance of President Joe Biden in the presidential debate, the public has turned its attention to the press which has, again, buried a major scandal for years. According to CNN, the reporters at the White House are really, really sorry but explained that it was the ‘right-wing media’ that prompted them to avoid the story.”

Turley called that “a telling admission that, yet again, reporters chose not to report on a story because they wanted to frame the news for political purposes.”

He said his book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” addresses the problem that “the media now rejects objectivity and neutrality as core values in journalism.”

He said there have been “questions” about Biden’s mental decline for years. It reached a peak when special counsel Robert Hur concluded Biden did illegally retain government documents, but said prosecution would be difficult because “a jury would be swayed by the appearance of an elderly man with declining memory.”

Videos backing that exact characterization then were attacked by the White House, with a new talking point that alleged they were “cheap fakes,” even though they were unedited videos.

But then the debate.

“And, after years of being protected by staff, tens of millions of people watched the president struggle to stay focused and responsive,” Turley said.

So the “embarrassed” media outlets that had been suppressing the news explained that happened because the “right-wing press.”

Turley warned, “It was just part of shaping the news, which is now the priority in journalism.”

That’s evident by blatant statements advocating bias, including from Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, who said, “Objectivity has got to go.”

And Stanford journalism teacher Ted Glasser insists reporting needs to “free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice.”

Copyright 2024 WND News Center

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Plan to ASSASSINATE Trump?! MSM Says The Quiet Part Out Loud | Elijah Schaffer’s Top 5 (VIDEO)

Welcome to The Gateway Pundit’s Week-in-Review with Elijah Schaffer, where he covers the top 5 stories throughout the week in around 10 minutes.

ARTICLE 1:  HuffPost Reported to FBI for ‘The Most Dangerous Headline in American History’ After Supreme Court Ruling

ARTICLE 2: Joe Biden Goes Rogue at 4th of July BBQ, Grabs the Mic and Starts Rambling About Traffic Congestion and ‘Losing All the Votes’ (VIDEO)

ARTICLE 3: BREAKING: Leftist Labour Party Wins UK Election in Landslide, Exit Polls Show — Worst Result in Tory Party History — Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Surges

ARTICLE 4:  Undercover Video Exposes Illegal Aliens Admitting to Being Registered to Vote in North Carolina

ARTICLE 5: Biden Tells Black-Owned Philly Radio Station That He’s “Proud” to Be “The First Black Woman to Serve with a Black President” (AUDIO) 

Please leave your opinions / comments on these stories below as Elijah reads every single one and appreciates your perspective.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Reinstates Ballot Drop Boxes for 2024 Election – This Is Despite Exclusive Gateway Pundit Video Showing Dozens of Individuals Stuffing Drop Boxes in 2020

Individuals in Michigan drop several ballots in an unguarded Detroit drop box in 2020 (via MC4EI and Gateway Pundit)

The Wisconsin Supreme Court in July 2022 ruled that absentee drop boxes are illegal in the state. The court ruled 4-3 at the time that drop boxes can only be placed INSIDE election offices.

This was good news for those who value safe and secure elections. Unguarded drop boxes makes it easier for people to cheat. Democrats know this and support it.

On Friday the Wisconsin Supreme Court reinstated the ballot drop boxes in the state.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported:

Wisconsin’s liberal-controlled Supreme Court on Friday restored the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in the swing state ahead of the upcoming elections — a reversal of a past decision from the court that could impact voter participation.

The 4-3 decision was a win for Democrats who argued the longstanding practice of allowing voters to file ballots into the locked, unmanned boxes made voting more accessible. That process, however, was highly criticized in 2020 by former President Donald Trump and Republicans who claimed without evidence that the boxes and absentee voting were rife with fraud.

“Our decision today does not force or require that any municipal clerks use drop boxes. It merely acknowledges what (state law) has always meant: that clerks may lawfully utilize secure drop boxes in an exercise of theirstatutorily-conferred discretion,” Justice Ann Walsh Bradley wrote in the majority opinion.

Democrats and their media lapdogs like to say there was no evidence that the boxes and absentee ballot voting was rife with fraud. They are able to say this when they ignore all of the published evidence to the contrary.

The Gateway Pundit was the only national organization in 2020 that published exclusive footage of numerous individuals dumping multiple ballots into the drop boxes in Detroit, Michigan prior to the 2020 presidential election.

in 2022, The Gateway Pundit purchased video footage from 13 drop boxes in the Detroit area from the 2020 election. What we found was astonishing.

In early September 2022, The Gateway Pundit released a shocking video compilation of individuals and sometimes teams of people depositing stacks of ballots into absentee ballot drop boxes at Detroit’s satellite voting centers before the November 2020 election.

The Gateway Pundit and 100 Percent Fed Up have been working with a team of investigators at MC4EI to uncover potential voter-related crimes and “irregularities” found on hundreds of hours of Detroit satellite office surveillance footage.

Thank you MC4EI for their investigative work on this.

Also on X.

In early September, The Gateway Pundit released a shocking video compilation of individuals and sometimes teams of people depositing stacks of ballots into absentee ballot drop boxes at Detroit’s satellite voting centers before the November 2020 election.

The Gateway Pundit and… pic.twitter.com/OajNJCJ8YK

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) August 9, 2023

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Labour Wins British Election in Landslide

The Labour party won a massive governing majority Thursday in Britain’s general election. Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won 412 seats, a gain of 214, while Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party lost 251 seats, falling to 121, the lowest seat count in the party’s history. Two seats are still tabulating votes.

UK, national parliament election:

Vote share (648/650 seats declared)

LAB-S&D: 33.7% (-3.6)
CON~ECR: 23.8% (+1.9)
REFORM~NI: 14.3% (-0.7)
LDEM-RE: 12.2% (+1.5)
GREENS-G/EFA: 6.8% (+0.1)
SNP-G/EFA: 2.5% (-0.1)
Ind.-*: 2.0% (+0.1)
PC-G/EFA: 0.7% (-0.3)
WPB-*: 0.7% (-0.2)
SF-LEFT:… pic.twitter.com/F27gXpbwZO

— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) July 5, 2024

Voter enthusiasm was anemic. Starmer’s party won only 33.8 percent of the vote, up from Corbyn’s 32.1 in 2019. Furthermore, as turnout was down 7.4 percent, Labour won fewer votes than it did in 2019. At the same time, the Tory party collapsed from 43.6 percent of the vote to 23.7.

🚨 NEW: This election has the highest percentage of third party votes for 100 years

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) July 5, 2024

Third parties made their best showing for them in over a hundred years. This did not necessarily translate to seats, owing to Britain’s first-past-the-post system, which favors large and well-established parties. Reform UK, a right-populist party led by the Brexit mastermind Nigel Farage, came in third with 14.3 percent of the vote. This performance exceeded expectations, but scored only four seats, including Farage’s seat of Clacton. The Liberal Democrats came in fourth for total votes, with only 12.2 percent of the vote, but managed to win 71 seats.

🚨 BREAKING: Reform have come 2nd in 98 seats

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) July 5, 2024

The election saw the collapse of the separatist Scottish National Party, which fell from 48 to 9 seats with 2.5 percent of the vote, down from 3.8 percent last time. One seat in Scotland, which was competitive between the SNP and Labour, is still counting votes. 

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