Month: July 2024

CNN data analyst Harry Enten was just looking at the numbers for Joe Biden, relating specifically to the Democrats who want Biden to drop out of the 2024 race.

He pulls up a surprising figure, showing that 66 percent of Democrats do not want Biden to drop out.

Enten notes that Biden’s numbers aren’t as bad as some candidates from the past who ultimately dropped out but then suggests his numbers are very similar to that of George H.W. Bush, who lost his bid for reelection in 1992.

Breitbart News reported:

CNN data reporter Harry Enten said Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that polling shows President Joe Biden’s base wanted him to get out of the race more than former President George H.W. Bush’s base in 1992, who lost that race…

Bolduan said, “How does how does this compare and what you can compare to in terms of past incumbents who then decided to not run for reelection?”

Enten said, “There are two incumbents who were going to potentially run and then they decided to get out. In 1952, it was Harry S. Truman, in 1968 it was Lyndon B. Johnson. They quit before the nominations were decided. They quit as the primary season was going on.”

He continued, “Back in 1992 remember, George HW Bush faced Pat Buchanan in a primary, it wasn’t too serious. He won all the primaries, but there were still some inkling for him to get out of the race. This polling was taken after he was the presumptive nominee, 21% of Republicans thought that George HW Bush should get out of the race. Compare that now 32% of Democrats think that Joe Biden should get out. These numbers look a lot more comparable than the 52 or the 68 scenario.”

Watch the video below:

A big issue with getting Biden out? Democrats don’t want Biden to leave the race. The voters who could pressure their elected leaders want Biden to stay in.

The data right now don’t look like Truman (52) or Johnson (68). They look a lot more like Bush (92), who stayed in & lost pic.twitter.com/HxmyO57fQP

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 3, 2024

It should be noted that voters did not have concerns about George H.W. Bush’s cognitive state or his ability to serve for another four years. The situation that Biden finds himself in is far more serious.

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Billionaire Trump backer David Sacks recently talked about what the Democrats and the Biden regime have become, describing them as nothing more than a collection of special interests who only want to remain in power.

Now he is addressing what the Democrats are trying to do in their efforts to replace Biden.

Speaking to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Sacks suggests that the Democrats are engaging in insurrection by trying to subvert the democratic process just because they think they’re going to lose.

Transcript via Twitter/X:

“What we’re seeing here is a full-scale insurrection by media elites and other powers that be in the Democratic Party to subvert the democratic process.

After all, we had 50 state primary elections in which voters gave Joe Biden all the necessary votes and delegates to be the Democratic nominee for President.

You’re seeing now a major effort to prevent the certification of that result. It’s playing out in broad daylight in the press. So, I don’t know what you could call this except an insurrection.

What democracy really means to them is permanent rule by the Democratic Party, just like communism used to mean permanent rule by the Communist Party. They’re perfectly willing to disenfranchise their voters if it means staying in power.

And that’s exactly why they tried to hide Joe Biden’s senility from the country for so long. What the country is now concerned about is Joe Biden’s competency to do the job. What senior Democrats care about is Joe Biden’s electability. That’s the only reason they are suddenly concerned about his mental condition.

They knew all about Joe Biden’s condition for months and years.

Watch the video:

.@DavidSacks: “What we’re seeing here is a full-scale insurrection by media elites and other powers that be in the Democratic Party to subvert the democratic process.

After all, we had 50 state primary elections in which voters gave Joe Biden all the necessary votes and… pic.twitter.com/ohtui85jNi

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 3, 2024

This is the problem Democrats face. They cannot call themselves the defenders of democracy, then turn around and disenfranchise all of the Democrat primary voters who voted for Biden. It’s a nightmare scenario for them.

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Democrat governors from across the country met with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the White House today amid cries from many in the party and the media for Joe to step aside.

A few of them emerged from the meeting and spoke to the press, saying that they are standing by Joe Biden and support his decision to stay in the race.

They repeated the claim that Biden just had a ‘bad night’ at the debate.

FOX News reports:

Democratic governors from across the nation descended on the White House Wednesday evening to speak with President Biden after his widely panned debate performance last week.

The aim of the meeting was to shore up support among the party’s top leaders and stave off diminishing confidence in Biden’s candidacy.

Among the Democratic governors who were planning to attend in person were Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who leads the Democratic Governors Association, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, among others.

After the meeting only Govs. Walz, Hochul, and Moore spoke to reporters.

Gov. Walz said he and his colleagues had a “great conversation” with President Biden.

Walz said his fellow governors were worried not because of any lingering doubts about Biden’s cognitive abilities but because of “the threat of a Trump presidency.” That threat, Walz said, “is not theoretical for governors.”

Walz praised the Biden administration for its handling of Covid, and “investing in infrastructure and the middle class.”

Walz clarified that none of the governors were denying that last Thursday, the night of the debate, was a “bad performance.”

Here’s a video:

Democrat Governors speak after meeting with Joe Biden at The White House pic.twitter.com/cEhf2mtvcE

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 4, 2024

Biden repeated his claim today that he is staying in the race. Despite their worries, Democrats might be stuck with him.

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Hollywood Democrat megadonor Ari Emanuel recently spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival and addressed the situation that Democrats currently find themselves in with Biden.

His voice sometimes trembling, Emanuel did not hold back. He is obviously angry at Biden, his team, and the media for not telling voters the truth about all of this sooner.

He also is very realistic about the Democrats’ chances to remove Joe Biden from the ticket, noting that so much of the election machinery is already in motion. He correctly states that there are serious legal issues involved.

Partial transcript via Real Clear Politics:

HOST: Democrats are jumping out of the window. What are you thinking?

ARI EMANUEL: Well, I’m pissed off at the founding fathers. They had the start date of 35, they just didn’t give us an end date. Well, everybody dies,m so they didn’t have to give an end date.

I don’t want to deal with Donald Trump and whether what he said was true or false — it’s a given, certain things. I’m not gonna talk about CNN.

Here’s what Biden did. He said he was gonna run for one term and he was doing it to restore democracy. He now runs for a second term. That’s the first bit of malarkey, as he would say.

Then he says that this is a quintessential thought about saving democracy and it’s so important, etc. His cohorts have told us that he’s healthy for over a year, and I think it was two weeks ago, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal.

I had a father who died at 92 but at 81, I took away his car. It’s a very simple test for me. If you were driving from downtown Beverly Hills to Malibu, would you want Biden to do it at night? Would you want Trump to do it in a night? We want neither.

If the answer is neither, you cannot have them running a $27 trillion company called the United States.

And then we had a situation where he went to France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day and talked about the sacrifice that those soldiers made for us. His cohorts have said he’s the only one that has defeated Trump.

Donald Trump said, “I alone can save — make all these problems go away.” And now Biden is saying, “I’m the only one that can beat Trump.” Seems like it’s pretty similar here.

And we have a great bench in the Democratic Party. So we’re looking at a man who is saying the other guy is a liar, and he’s telling us malarkey, his people are telling us malarkey, but we’re in a very bad problem.

Watch the whole video below:

NEW: Hollywood Democratic megadonor Ari Emanuel torches President Joe Biden

“I talked to a bunch of big donors, and they’re moving all their money to Congress and the Senate.”

“He gave us a bunch of malarkey, and I’m really pissed. We all should be really pissed.”

“He is not… pic.twitter.com/mKF8VuDVxz

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 3, 2024

The fear and panic that you see from people like Emanuel is stunning. He knows how serious this problem is for Democrats. There is no easy fix.

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The Daily Beast reported Wednesday evening on a leaked video recorded sometime after last Thursday’s debate of President Trump speaking while out golfing where he trash talked Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The video has quickly gone viral on social media.

Trump has keep a low public profile in recent days as Biden’s candidacy implodes.

The short video shows Trump in a golf cart handing what appears to be tip money to caddies while speaking to them about the debate. Apparently son Baron is in the golf cart next to Trump.

Rough transcription by TGP:

Trump: “How did I do with the debate the other night?”

Off camera: “Amazing” “Fantastic.”

Trump: “I kicked that old broken down pile of crap. Too bad. He just quit, you know. He’s quitting the race.

Off camera: “Is that right?”

Trump: “Yeah, I got him out. And that means you have Kamala. I think she’s gonna be better. She’s so bad. She’s so pathetic. She’s just so f***ing bad, so. Can you imagine that guy dealing with Putin and the president of China who’s a fierce person, who’s a fierce man, a very tough guy. When they (garbled recording). They just announced he’s probably quitting….Keep knocking ’em out. Thank you fellas.”

Higher quality video pic.twitter.com/JHgK6RwljV

— Peter Walkerson (@Peter_Walkerson) July 3, 2024

The Daily Beast said the Trump campaign pointed to a press release from earlier Wednesday when asked for comment about the video.

Trump Campaign Statement on the Total Collapse of the Democrat Party

“Every Democrat who is calling on Crooked Joe Biden to quit was once a supporter of Biden and his failed policies that lead to extreme inflation, an open border, and chaos at home and abroad. Make no mistake that Democrats, the main stream media, and the swamp colluded to hide the truth from the American public – Joe Biden is weak, failed, dishonest, and not fit for the White House. Every one of them has lied about Joe Biden’s cognitive state and supported his disastrous policies over the past four years, especially Cackling Copilot Kamala Harris.

President Trump will beat any Democrat on November 5th because he has a proven record and an agenda to Make America Great Again.”

– Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles

Biden said on Wednesday in a conference call with campaign staff he is not quitting the race. At least three Democrat members of Congress have called on Biden to drop out of the race so far this week, as have several liberal newspapers including the New York Times.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security have issued a warning over attackers potentially targeting July 4th celebrations.

According to an FBI bulletin, authorities are on alert for potential lone offenders and small groups targeting Fourth of July celebrations for terror.

ABC News investigative reporter Aaron Katersky stated that the FBI’s bulletin states, “Lone offenders and individual groups that are wanting to make a point pose the biggest threat to large scale fireworks celebration in places like New York, San Fransisco, and Las Vegas.”

Katersky added, “The police are being told by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to be on watch for these types of things which are notoriously difficult to guard against.”

WATCH:

The FBI and Dept. of Homeland Security issue a warning about large Fourth of July celebrations. @aaronkatersky joins @dianermacedo for more on what police will be on the lookout for. pic.twitter.com/new95KhM1P

— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) July 3, 2024

Per The Daily Express:

The FBI and Department of Homeland Securityissued a warning on Wednesday morning about large Fourth of July celebrations.

The security organizations say the biggest threats are lone offenders and small groups, who may have a larger agenda, and find large events such as holiday gatherings “attractive” targets, according to a bulletin.

“The political environment of the country certainly doesn’t help,” Aaron Katersky, a security correspondent, told ABC News.

“The police are being told by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to be on watch for these types of things that are notoriously difficult to guard against.”

Authorities are warning Americans to keep their head on a swivel while attending Independence Day events.

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President Joe Biden’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week since the presidential debate is getting worse.

As if the open panic among Democratic politicians and pundits about Biden’s disastrous performance Thursday weren’t enough, polling results leaked Tuesday to the digital news outlet Puck show he has done more than lose ground in swing states.

Now, even states considered Democratic strongholds are in play, according to a memo from a polling firm influential in Democratic circles.

The memo, reported by veteran political journalist and former CNN correspondent Peter Hamby, came from the progressive polling group OpenLabs.

The nonprofit OpenLabs “conducts polling and message-testing for a constellation of Democratic groups, including the 501(c)4 nonprofit associated with Future Forward, the preferred Super PAC for Biden’s reelection campaign,” Hamby wrote.

But its news about polling in the 72 hours after the Atlanta debate could not have been comforting for the Biden team.

It found that 40 percent of voters who supported him in 2020 now think he should withdraw from this year’s race, Hamby wrote. An OpenLabs poll in May had that number at only 25 percent, according to Hamby.

Hamby offered a caveat about the results but also noted that OpenLabs carries weight among Democratic strategists.

“This is, of course, only a single poll, conducted during the initial aftershocks of the debate. It will take a few weeks to determine if Biden’s slippage in the polls is a trend and not a blip,” he wrote. “But given their reputation inside the party and connections to Future Forward, OpenLabs is a firm that Democratic campaigns take seriously.”

The poll found Biden’s support in the swing states that will decide the November election badly dented by the debate.

“In the tipping-point state of Pennsylvania, Biden now trails by 7 points, compared to 5 points before the debate,” Hamby wrote. “He has also dropped in Michigan, where he now trails Trump by 7. OpenLabs also found that he is now losing by roughly 10 points in Georgia and Arizona, and by almost 9 points in Nevada.”

By itself, that points to disaster for Democrats, but data Hamby reported about states that might have been thought to be safely in the blue column should have even Jill Biden paying attention.

“Biden is now only winning by a fraction of a point in Virginia, Maine, Minnesota, and New Mexico — and he’s now only winning Colorado by around 2 points,” Hamby wrote.

“Biden is now only winning by a fraction of a point in Virginia, Maine, Minnesota, and New Mexico” — actually, it looks like the OpenLabs poll has Biden DOWN by a fraction of a point in NM and VA. @PeterHamby pic.twitter.com/jjhDY2cHQz

— Jared Walczak (@JaredWalczak) July 2, 2024

All of that is likely to only increase the clamor among some Democrats to find a way to get Biden to withdraw from the race and for the party to find a new standard-bearer to battle the presumptive GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump.

In the immediate aftermath of Thursday’s debate, even the reliably left-leaning talking heads on CNN and MSNBC were rattled by Biden’s performance.

In the days since, even the most left-leaning establishment media outlets have been forced to cover Democratic unease about the president going into November.

And Tuesday, Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett became the first congressional Democrat to declare that Biden should follow the example set by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968 and withdraw from the race.

Texas is solidly red, of course, and Doggett’s words weren’t likely to change anything about the outcome in the Lone Star State.

But Virginia, Maine, Minnesota and New Mexico are a different story. For Democrats, losing in those states would be like reliving the nightmare of Republican Ronald Reagan’s 49-state landslide in 1984. (For most American voters, clearly, that wasn’t a nightmare at all.)

If those states are as competitive as the leaked memo indicates, for Biden’s team and Democrats in general, there is nothing good about that.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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We’ve known for years that Joe Biden is a mean, nasty and corrupt career politician.

However, the fake news media for the last several years has laughably portrayed Biden as a kindly benign grandfather.

Things suddenly shifted after Joe Biden bombed during last week’s presidential debate against Trump.

The knives are out for Joe Biden. The New York Times and other left-wing media outlets are calling for Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 race.

Biden’s inner circle of senior advisors is also starting to turn on him.

One senior advisor told Politico that Joe Biden is ‘not a pleasant person to be around’ and that people are ‘scared shitless of him.’

“It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off,’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that,’” said one senior administration official told Politico. “It’s a Rorschach test, not a briefing. Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he’s being briefed. It’s very difficult, and people are scared shitless of him.”

This is no secret but it is fascinating to watch the media turn on Joe Biden.

Excerpt from Politico:

Over the course of his presidency, Joe Biden’s small clutch of advisers have built an increasingly protective circle around him, limiting his exposure to the media and outside advice — an effort to manage public perceptions of the oldest person to ever hold the office and tightly control his political operation.

But inside the White House, Biden’s growing limitations were becoming apparent long before his meltdown in last week’s debate, with the senior team’s management of the president growing more strictly controlled as his term has gone on. During meetings with aides who are putting together formal briefings they’ll deliver to Biden, some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information being presented in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction.

The official said, “He doesn’t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it.”

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It’s official: A transgender athlete is on the U.S. Olympic team.

That said, the athlete in question, 29-year-old Nikki Hiltz, will be competing in the category that correctly aligns with her sex.

Hiltz, a middle-distance runner, is a woman who identifies as “non-binary,” meaning she claims she is neither a man nor a woman. She uses the pronouns “they” and “them.”

On Sunday, she won the women’s 1,500-meter final at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, qualifying for this month’s Summer Olympics in Paris.

“Transgender runner Nikki Hiltz is headed to the Paris Olympics,” NBC News declared.

Transgender runner Nikki Hiltz punched their ticket to Paris after winning the 1500 meter race at Sunday’s U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials. https://t.co/WMqyVga1fR

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 2, 2024

After the qualifier, Hiltz talked about how glad she was to have garnered the achievement on the final day of LGBT “pride” month.

“This is bigger than just me. It’s the last day of pride month. … I wanted to run this one for my community,” she said.

“All the LGBT folks, yeah, you guys brought me home that last hundred [meters]. I could just feel the love and support.”

Hiltz set an Olympic trial record for the 1,500-meter race, coming in at 3:55:33, according to NBC News.

The second and third-place runners, Ellen St. Pierre and Emily Mackay, also qualified to represent the U.S. at the Olympics in the women’s category.

In an Instagram post on Monday, Hiltz said going to the Olympics was a dream come true.

“[W]oke up an Olympian,” she said.

“Yesterday afternoon in Eugene Oregon a childhood dream of mine came true. I’m not sure when this will fully sink in …

“All I know is today I’m waking up just so grateful for my people, overwhelmed by all the love and support, and filled with joy that I get to race people I deeply love and respect around a track for a living.”

The International Olympic Committee allows transgender athletes to compete in certain events and under certain circumstances.

In track and field, World Athletics dictates that men who went through puberty cannot compete in women’s sports.

However, the policy does allow women who claim to be men to compete in men’s events.

All that’s required for the second group is “signed declarations of their gender identities.”

A female who identifies as trans earned a spot on the U.S. women’s Olympic team.

I wonder why she didn’t try out for the men’s team. It’s almost as if she understands she would never be able to compete or succeed at same level against the men.

Tellinghttps://t.co/M5Lj9G0aEi

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) July 2, 2024

The Paris Olympics begin on July 26.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Joe Biden on Wednesday emerged from hiding to attend his first public event for the day at 4:45 pm ET.

Biden delivered remarks at a Medal of Honor Ceremony at the White House in the East Room.

“President Biden awarded posthumous Medals of Honor on Wednesday to two Army privates who were part of a plot to hijack a train and destroy Confederate infrastructure during the Civil War. Mr. Biden said the honor was a “long time coming.”” – CBS News reported.

“The president honored Philip Shadrach and George Wilson for their “gallantry and intrepidity” in carrying out a covert operation called the “Great Locomotive Chase,” which played out 200 miles behind Confederate lines in Georgia in 1862, the White House said. Union soldiers dressed as civilians infiltrated the Confederacy, hijacked a train and drove it north for 87 miles, destroying Confederate infrastructure along the way.” CBS News reported.

Biden robotically shuffled into the East Room. His son Hunter was also in attendance.

WATCH:

Crooked Joe Biden shuffles in for his first and only public event of the day pic.twitter.com/7JdVFkTDbO

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 3, 2024

Hunter was spotted at the White House event:

There’s Hunter pic.twitter.com/NNhEGrdmEi

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 3, 2024

Joe Biden delivered brief remarks (he read from a teleprompter) and then literally ran out of the room without answering any questions.

This is the fastest you’ll ever see Biden move!

Reporters were shouting questions as Biden speedily shuffled away.

WATCH:

Biden ends his very brief remarks and shuffles out of the room — ignoring reporters’ MANY questions about his declining cognitive health pic.twitter.com/6aubsySdbs

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 3, 2024

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