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Kamala Almost Stumbles Into ‘Deplorables’ Moment During Michigan Campaign Event

Kamala Harris almost stumbled into a ‘deplorables’ moment during her campaign event in Michigan, before awkwardly catching herself at the last moment.

Harris appeared alongside Liz Cheney during a town hall event in Royal Oak, Michigan.

“The notion over the last several years coming from Trump and those who follow him,” said Harris.

She immediately clarified by asserting, “Meaning people like who he’s running with, not his voters, just others, erm…,” sounding incredibly uncomfortable.

By referring to “those who follow him,” Harris was almost certainly referring to Trump supporters and not people like JD Vance, since Vance is Trump’s running mate, he’s not ‘following’ him.

During last week’s grilling by Brett Baier, the Fox News host asked Harris whether she thought Trump supporters were “stupid”.

“Oh, God. I would never say that about the American people. And, in fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watch any of his rallies, he’s the one who tends to demean and belittle and diminish the American people,” she responded.

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Trump’s complaints about ’60 Minutes’ put a spotlight on editing at the nation’s top newsmagazine

Donald Trump skipped a “60 Minutes” interview this past week, but he’s attacking CBS for how it handled its session with opponent Kamala Harris, calling it a “giant fake news scam” and suggesting the network was out to protect her.

Portions of the Harris interview ran Monday on the newsmagazine and on the Sunday morning political show “Face the Nation.” On two occasions, it depicted Harris giving different answers to questions posed by correspondent Bill Whitaker on the Biden administration’s efforts to stop the war in the Mideast.

For CBS News, it was considered part of the typical editing and cross-promotion process that takes place for a big interview. Yet to those unfamiliar with journalism and television production, the effect can be jarring.

How did Harris appear to give two answers?

Whitaker interviewed Harris on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 5, in Washington for the special broadcast that aired Monday, two days later. But “60 Minutes” offered a portion of that interview to colleagues at “Face the Nation,” both to give the Sunday morning show some fresh news and to “tease” the longer interview.

At one point, Whitaker observed that it appeared Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did not appear to be listening to the administration’s suggestions.

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’60 Minutes’ Claims Trump Lied About Deceptively Edited Kamala Harris Interview

CBS’ 60 Minutes finally issued a statement on Sunday, claiming Donald Trump’s accusation that the show deceptively edited its interview with Kamala Harris earlier this month is “false” two weeks after the segment aired.

“Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false,” the press release stated.

The statement went on to admit they edited Harris’ answer to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, but argued the alteration was not deceptive.

“60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes,” the CBS program wrote. “Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.”

Proving the mainstream media show’s message is political in nature, the statement went on to attack GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

60 Minutes added, “Remember, Mr. Trump pulled out of his interview with 60 Minutes and the vice president participated. Our long-standing invitation to former President Trump remains open. If he would like to discuss the issues facing the nation and the Harris interview, we would be happy to have him on 60 Minutes.”

The network can claim it didn’t try to manipulate the footage to make Harris’ answer more palatable, but readers can come to their own conclusions when comparing the longer answer aired on Face the Nation to the response aired by 60 Minutes.

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Votes On Arkansas Medical Marijuana Expansion Measure Won’t Be Counted, State Supreme Court Rules

Arkansas voters will get to decide on a medical marijuana expansion initiative at the ballot next month—but those votes will no longer count following a new state Supreme Court ruling.

Prohibitionists who challenged the cannabis measure from Arkansans for Patient Access (APA) successfully convinced the court that the ballot title was affirmatively misleading, and justices ruled on Monday that votes will not be processed after Election Day.

The state’s highest court said it was siding the anti-marijuana group Protect Arkansas Kids (PAK), agreeing that the measure’s title is misleading because it fails to adequately explain that—beyond expanding the state’s medical marijuana program—it would also more broadly legalize possession of cannabis if a federal policy change is made and would also restrict the legislature from revising the voter-approved law if enacted.

“For these reasons, we hold that the proposed amendment is misleading,” Justice Shawn Womack wrote in the majoity opinion. “Accordingly, we grant the Intervenors’ request for relief and order that the Secretary be enjoined from canvassing or certifying any ballots cast for the proposed amendment at the November 5, 2024, general election.”

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The Danger Is Real: The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out … without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” — H. L. Mencken

If the three-ring circus that is the looming presidential election proves anything, it is that the Deep State’s plot to destabilize the nation is working.

The danger is real.

Caught up in the heavily dramatized electoral showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Americans have become oblivious to the multitude of ways in which the government is goosestepping all over our freedoms on a daily basis.

Especially alarming is the extent to which those on both sides are allowing themselves to be gaslighted by both Trump and Harris about critical issues of the day, selectively choosing to hear only what they want to hear when it casts the opposition in a negative light.

This is true whether you’re talking about immigration and border control, health care, national security, the nation’s endless wars, protections for free speech, or the militarization of the U.S. government.

For starters, there’s the free speech double standard, what my good friend Nat Hentoff used to refer to as the “free speech for me but not for thee” phenomenon in which the First Amendment’s protections only apply to those with whom we might agree.

Despite her claims to being a champion for the rule of law, which in our case is the U.S. Constitution, Harris isn’t averse to policing so-called “hate” speech. In this, Harris is not unlike those on both the Right and the Left who continue to express a distaste for unregulated, free speech online, especially when it comes to speech with which they might disagree.

Then there’s Trump, never a fan of free speech protections for his critics, who has been particularly vocal about his desire to see the military vanquish “radical left lunatics,” which he has dubbed “the enemy from within.”

If it were only about muzzling free speech activities, that would be concerning enough.

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Pop star Lizzo ripped online after saying ‘the whole country will be like Detroit’ if Kamala wins

Pop star Lizzo was ripped online after she claimed that if VP Kamala Harris is elected president “the whole country will be like Detroit” at a rally for the Dem candidate in her hometown.

Harris appeared with the “Truth Hurts” singer at a rally in the motor city Saturday where the two sang the city’s praises after former president Trump had disparaged it at an appearance at the Detroit Economic Club last week.

“I mean, the whole country is going to be like — you want to know the truth — it’ll be like Detroit… Our whole country will end up being like Detroit.”

The singer echoed the former president’s sentiment but attempted to put a positive spin on it.

“They say if Kamala Harris wins, the whole country will be like Detroit. Proud like Detroit. Resilient like Detroit,” Lizzo said to cheers from the crowd.

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Did Brad Raffensperger Just Telegraph the 2024 Steal in Georgia? He’s Going to Accept UOCAVA Votes for 3 EXTRA DAYS! Are Republicans Paying Attention

Today, we know that in 2020, Joe Biden received all of the military and overseas votes in Fulton County, Georgia.

All 900 ballots counted in Fulton County went for Joe Biden.

In December 2020, Rudy Giuliani and Attorney Jacki Pick told a Georgia Senate committee that 93% of the military ballots in Georgia went for Joe Biden.

Although this was shocking news, we saw similar results in other battleground states.

It was not until much later that we learned that these were not just military votes. The overseas ballots included military and US citizens living abroad. They are listed as UOCAVA voters.

Despite citizens flocking home to America’s shores in 2020 due to fears of COVID-19, non-military UOCAVA voters more than doubled to 573,000 from 2016 numbers of around 228,000. Meanwhile, military overseas voters dropped to 37% of total UOCAVA voters.

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Trump Exposes ‘Lyin’ Kamala in Scathing Message — Claims McDonald’s Confirms ‘Definitively’ No Record of Kamala Ever Working in the Company

In yet another fiery swipe at Kamala Harris, President Trump is accusing her of fabricating a story about working at McDonald’s when she was a student and claims to have confirmation from the fast-food giant itself that there is no record of her ever working there.

Trump made the blistering remarks after his visit to a McDonald’s in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he swapped his signature suit for a McDonald’s apron and manned the fry station, much to the delight of supporters.

“Heading to McDonald’s now. If I stay for 20 minutes, it will be 20 minutes longer than Lyin’ Kamala Harris has worked there,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“She said what a tough job it was, only to find out, much to everyone’s chagrin, that she never worked there!”

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Elon Musk Blasts Dishonest MI SOS For Having More Registered Voters on Voter Rolls Than Eligible Voters: “Shame on you for blatantly lying to the public!”

There is no question that America’s elections are broken. However, one state arguably wins the prize for the most crooked elections in the nation, and that state is Michigan.

To date, Michigan’s Soros-funded SOS Jocelyn Benson has lost 10 election-related lawsuits, in which the plaintiffs sued her for intentionally weakening the state’s election security.

One of the many lawsuits against MI SOS Benson was filed by the RNC in March. The lawsuit accuses the Democrat SOS of having more active voters on the voter rolls than eligible voters in 53 counties in Michigan.

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Democrats in tight Senate races run ads touting their work with Trump

Ads have been released that show four Democratic Senate candidates in battleground states either working with former President Donald Trump or agreeing with his messaging as the November election is less than a month away.

Campaign ads for Rep. Elissa Slotkin in Michigan, Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, and Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin focus on the Democratic candidates’ alliance with Trump or his policies, implying that aligning with the former president may benefit their campaigns more than siding with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

While Trump is behind Harris by 1.4 points nationally according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, he leads the vice president in every battleground state.

Slotkin, who is running for Senate, released an ad in which she criticized electric vehicle mandates and promoted manufacturing EVs in the U.S.

“I live on a dirt road, nowhere near a charging station, so I don’t own an electric car,” Slotkin said. “No one should tell us what to buy, and no one is gonna mandate anything. But here’s the thing: If there’s gonna be a new generation of vehicles, I want that new generation built right here in Michigan, not China.”

However, Slotkin voted against the GOP-led bill last month that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency’s new emissions standards requiring up to two-thirds of new cars sold to be EVs by 2032.

In Ohio, an ad produced by a PAC for Brown noted that “he wrote a bill that Donald Trump signed to crack down on drugs at the border.”

Meanwhile, a clip of a Casey ad described how the senator “sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating.”

In Baldwin’s ad, it says, “Tammy Baldwin got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill. Then she got President Biden to make it permanent.”

The Trump campaign criticized the Democrats’ ads, distancing them from the GOP presidential nominee.

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