The Hill,
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Nick Mulvaney
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I know the conventional wisdom is that this election is too close to call. And it is. Predictions on the outcome are little better than guesses.
Still, this is Washington. And while prognostications in U.S. politics is fraught with risk, it doesn’t stop most of us — even though we know that, if you are right, nobody cares, and if you are wrong, it goes on your Wikipedia page forever. Predictions are pedestrian, oftentimes biased, and generally uninteresting. But the reasoning behind them might occasionally offer something of value.
So, here’s the uninteresting part: I think that Donald Trump is going to win.
Real Clear Politics,
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Shane Harris
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ comments about owning a “Glock” are proving to be, more than just a short-lived embarrassment, a microcosm of the problem plaguing her candidacy. Like other failed campaigns before, Harris’ camp seems to believe the public can be hoodwinked with prepared lines and ads and images that are at odds with the candidate’s record and identity.
“Tim Walz and I are both gun owners,” Harris said on stage in Philadelphia last month during her debate with Donald Trump. “We’re not taking anybody’s guns away.”
Fox News,
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Gael Halon
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After halting donations to his alma mater last year, a former University of Pennsylvania donor has redirected $5 million to Israeli universities instead, citing the Ivy League institution's refusal to address antisemitism on campus. David Magerman, a venture capitalist and philanthropist, has reallocated millions in donations to universities in Israel after witnessing the anti-Israel protests and antisemitism that has permeated U.S. college campuses in the months following October 7, he told Fox News Digital.
Magerman said he will give $1 million grants to five institutions of higher learning across Israel
Fox News,
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Joshua Q. Nelson
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A video showing Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D., feeding a kneeling "feminist" podcast host a Doritos chip while wearing a Harris/Walz cameo campaign hat, prompted questions and criticisms on Thursday.
Author and filmmaker Liz Plank shared the video on her Instagram account "feministabulous" showing Whitmer feeding her a Doritos chip while she is kneeling.
"If he won’t, Gretchen Whitmer will," a caption under the Instagram video post reads. "Chips aren’t just delicious, the CHIPS Act is a game-changer for U.S. tech and manufacturing, boosting domestic production of semiconductors to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers! Donald Trump would put that at risk."
The Hill,
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Steve Krakauer
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If former President Donald Trump wins a second term in November, his triumphant return to Butler, Pennsylvania — the site of the first assassination attempt he survived thanks to a fortuitous head turn — could be what puts him back into the White House.
The second Butler rally was a revival, in multiple definitions of the word. It was an improvement. A return. A religious gathering, highlighted by deep excitement. There was opera singer Christopher Macchio on hand to belt out beautiful renditions of “Ave Maria” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” There was a touching tribute to Corey Comperatore, the Trump supporter who was killed at the July rally. And
Washington Times,
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Isaac Schorr
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10/11/2024 11:42:43 AM
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When was the last time you can remember a president rebuking his own party’s nominee to succeed him with less than a month to go until Election Day?
As it turns out, for every 10 or so of his faults, President Biden does boast a virtue.
A few of his old-school instincts have survived his half-century in electoral politics, and one of those instincts is an aversion to using a crisis — like the one brought about by Hurricanes Helene and Milton — to smear his rivals.
Real Clear Politics,
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Josh Hammer
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Within minutes of Hamas jihadists breaching the Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, and commencing the largest slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Western leftists and other defenders of the genocidal Palestinian-Arab cause rallied around a talking point: "This did not occur in a vacuum." The claim, blithely offered by armchair revolutionaries without even acknowledging the many hundreds of butchered babies, sadistically tortured families, raped women and young music festivalgoers taken hostage, was that Israel had somehow impelled the horrific rampage on its own civilians. Those with a functioning moral compass recognize this as obvious terror apologia.
Fox News,
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Joseph A. Wulfsohn
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Former CBS News staffers are reportedly calling on the network to launch an external probe into the ongoing "60 Minutes" editing controversy. CBS News has been at the center of outrage after it aired an edited clip of Vice President Kamala Harris during its primetime "60 Minutes" election special Monday that was different from a preview of the unflattering exchange she had with veteran correspondent Bill Whitaker that was widely panned by critics.
"I think there should be an outside investigation," a former CBS News journalist told The New York Post on Thursday.
"Obviously, there’s a problem here. If they care about journalistic integrity, they would conduct an investigation
Fox News,
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Alec Schemmel
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Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, remained silent Thursday on whether he still supports eliminating the Electoral College, after the Harris campaign insisted his position did not reflect that of the campaign's. "I think all of us know, the Electoral College needs to go. We need a national popular vote," Walz said Tuesday during a campaign fundraiser at the home of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Walz made similar comments at an earlier fundraiser in Seattle, as well.
While running for president in 2019, Harris said she was "open" to the idea of abolishing the Electoral College. However,
Fox News,
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Kristine Parks
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A University of Kansas instructor has been placed on leave after violent comments he made about men who don't support female presidential candidates went viral on social media. In a video shared on X, the instructor railed against men who think they are smarter than women, before apparently connecting these thoughts to the presidential race.
[If you think] guys are smarter than girls, you got some serious problems," the instructor appeared to say to a lecture hall full of students at the start of the recording.
Real Clear Politics,
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Tim Hains
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Megyn Kelly compares what Kamala Harris told "60 Minutes" about the Biden administration's record on immigration with what actually happened:
MEGYN KELLY: "You recently visited the southern border and embraced President Biden's recent crackdown on asylum seeker seekers."
This was his break-glass-in-case-of-emergency plan he did in June, recognizing that he was losing and that he needed to shore up the border because it was turning into the number one issue for Democrats. So he started banning asylum seeker seekers with executive order.
USA Today,
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Ingrid Jacques
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Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris just gave us a look at what kind of leader she’d be in an emergency. And it’s not great. Florida is about to get slammed with its second major hurricane in two weeks, and rather than offer to help in any way she can, Harris is throwing barbs at Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis on Monday called the approaching Hurricane Milton a “monster” and is encouraging citizens in its path to evacuate as soon as possible. Meanwhile, he is still busy overseeing cleanup efforts from Hurricane Helene, which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 20 Floridians.