A Cook Political Report shows that the freefall President Joe Biden was in before the debate is only accelerating post-debate, as most of the battleground state are leaning Trump, with only three now in toss-up status. This follows news that both New Jersey and New York State are now considered contestable, though they still mostly lead Biden (with one New Jersey poll showing Trump slightly ahead).
For months now, analysts have considered the 2024 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden a toss-up because national polling has generally shown the race to be within a couple of points. As it stands right now, Trump has a 3.3-point lead in the RealClearPolitics national average.
The Electoral College, however, is a different story. While Trump generally had the lead in the battleground states, his lead was sometimes razor-thin. For example, Trump and Biden were tied in Wisconsin before the debate. Now, Trump has a 2.2-point lead in the RCP average for the state — his highest lead during the campaign. Biden’s position has become worse all around, and a new update from the Cook Political Report is absolutely devastating for Biden.
NEW: @CookPolitical is shifting six Electoral College ratings towards Republicans.
AZ: Toss Up to Lean R
GA: Toss Up to Lean R
MN: Likely D to Lean D #NE02: Likely D to Lean D
NH: Likely D to Lean D
NV: Toss Up to Lean R
“The notion that the presidential [race] is a Toss Up was a stretch even before the debate,” Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report wrote in a post on X/Twitter. “Today, Trump has a clear advantage over Biden and a much more plausible path to 270 Electoral votes.”
President Joe Biden appears committed to blocking the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would mandate proof of American citizenship for voter registration in federal elections.
The SAVE Act, introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and co-sponsored by over 100 House Republicans, proposes that state election officials must ensure voter registration applicants provide proof of American citizenship before being added to the national voter rolls.
“Federal law has been interpreted to prohibit states from checking to see if you’re a citizen even though, technically, the law says you must be a citizen,” Rep. Chip Roy said.
This week, the Biden administration issued a statement regarding the SAVE Act, indicating their intention to prevent it from becoming law if it reaches the president’s desk.
There’s a key reason why Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) could be a tantalizing pick for former President Donald Trump’s running mate: GOP megadonor Ken Griffin.
According to The Daily Mail, longtime Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski says that “If Sen. Rubio is the choice there are plenty of donors I’m sure will come along – including Ken Griffin, allegedly.”
Griffin, a hedge fund tycoon estimated to be worth $37 billion, backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over Trump in the primary, who went on to flame out with a botched campaign. He was outspoken against Trump in 2022, calling him a “three-time loser” and saying the GOP should “move on” from him.
Rubio being on the ticket, however, could reportedly sway Griffin, who moved his company, Citadel, from Chicago to Miami in recent years, unlocking a deep source of campaign funding for GOP PACs.
A new poll spells doom for Democrats as they try to smear President Donald Trump with a “convicted felon” label ahead of the critical November elections.
As Trump prepares for a rematch against President Joe Biden, the new poll from the Associated Press (AP) shows that Americans are more concerned about the Democrats’ weaponization of government.
The AP poll shows that Americans are against jailing Trump.
However, the majority of respondents do approve of Hunter Biden serving prison time for felony gun crimes.
Biden and the Democrats have relentlessly attacked Trump as a “convicted felon” since he became the first U.S. president to be found guilty of a crime in May.
Joe Biden and the Democrats (as well as their media lapdogs) keep trying to gaslight us all into thinking he is “fixing” the economy, but the truth is that the U.S. misery index has soared over his horrid four years in office.
The misery index was lower under Trump than it had been for a long time, but under Biden it has risen to new heights (or depths, if you will).
The only year it was up during Trump’s term was in 2020 when the scamdemic hit the nation. And then it was at 9.35. But before that, it was well under seven. and the lowest was the 5.44 seen in 2019. This was evidence that what Trump was doing was reversing the mess Obama had made.
New York has essentially been a blue state for the past two decades, however in recent weeks it has become clear that this election season, it is in play for Republicans. Four years after Joe Biden bested Donald Trump there by 23 points in polling, polls have shown that the gap is narrowing following Biden’s miserable debate performanc.
Many Democratic allies of the president in the state have voiced their concerns about the possibility their party may lose ground. Few, however, have called on Biden to step down, with the most prominent politicians making it clear they still plan on backing him come November.
As Politico reports, a number of Democratic Party officials past and present have called on Biden to accept that New York is not as secure as it was during the last election, and spend more of his time and money there. While Biden was recently in the Hamptons for a private fundraiser, he has been urged to try and connect with everyday voters, as Trump did when he held a massive rally in the Bronx. On the night Trump attended a wake for a fallen NYPD officer, Biden partied at a tony, celeb-studded fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall.
Billionaire and top Democrat donor Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, has been revealed to be funding a lawsuit to silence election reporting. Hoffman is the same Democrat donor who funded a “Russian-style” disinformation campaign in 2017, financially backed E. Jean Carroll’s suspicious lawsuit against Donald Trump, and visited pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.
Hoffman is investing millions in Smartmatic, the electronic tabulator company suing Fox News and Newsmax for defamation following the 2020 election, according to The Washington Post. Hoffman said he intends to help keep the company afloat, as it has been pursuing expensive legal retribution against the outlets for their election reporting.
In a statement to The Washington Post, Hoffman claimed “Smartmatic became a target of the defamatory campaign to overturn [Trump’s] defeat.”
Fox and Newsmax hosted commentators who aired concerns that tabulators were not secure, were vulnerable to voter fraud, and had possibly changed Trump votes to Biden votes. Smartmatic alleges that hosting these discussions constituted defamation. Fox settled a suit with Dominion Voting last year over similar allegations.
New polling in Arizona’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race is showing a path to victory for firebrand conservative Kari Lake after she remained mired on the losing side of the numbers for months.
Lake, who ran for governor in 2022 with President Trump’s endorsement, now leads her likely Democratic rival, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) by two percent, according to an analysis conducted by The Hill. As the outlet notes, early polling gave a leg up to Gallego, but Lake for months has been hammering home the message that the uncontrollable flood of migrants across the state’s southern border is the result of his enabling of President Biden’s immigration policies. The state went for President Trump by 3.5% in 2016 and was narrowly carried by President Joe Biden by 0.3% four years later.
Meanwhile, Trump’s recent denial that he knows anything about Project 2025, a 900-page proposal by the Heritage Foundation think-tank for a radical reconfiguring of the US federal government to suit hard-line conservatives, has been ridiculed by former adviser to Mike Pence, Olivia Troye, who named ex-Trump administration figures involved and said she sat in on those policy meetings.
An FBI Agent who also served as a Twitter lawyer and a liaison between the government and Twitter in their joint venture to interfere with the 2020 election has been selected to be part of an Election Integrity Board. Jim Baker was selected to be part of the National Task Force for Election Crisis, most likely to help create it, not prevent it.
An FBI agent and Twitter lawyer who previously worked to censor election-related free speech has now joined a national election task force—just in time for the 2024 presidential election.
Former FBI agent Jim Baker, whose bio appears on the National Task Force for Election Crises, might be engaging in more election interference.
The National Task Force for Election Crises claims to work on securing elections and preventing fraud, including by rapid censorship of supposed disinformation. Baker’s tie to the group is particularly concerning because Baker previously helped coordinate the censorship industrial complex built up between federal government agencies and Big Tech companies like Twitter.
Baker’s Task Force bio brags about his career, including roles as the FBI’s general counsel and the Justice Department’s senior staffer and associate deputy attorney general.
During his time at the FBI, Baker helped initiatethe bureau’s investigation of former President Donald Trump’s supposed ties with Russia. What the profile does not mention is Baker’s role at Twitter, where he was allegedly complicitin election interfering censorship.
Before being fired by Twitter (now X) owner Elon Musk, Baker was still reviewing the Twitter Files and even complicated the release of information on how Twitter censored the 2020 Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) released the party’s official 2024 platform on Monday, July 8, 2024. The platform focused on the economy, restoring election integrity, dealing with illegal immigration, and restoring a strong pro-American foreign policy. It noticeably de-emphasized the pro-life statement of the 2020 platform, leading some Pro-Life groups concerned.
The platform seems designed to capture as broad a base as possibly, potentially serving independents first and foremost by addressing economic and security needs over cultural ones (such as gay marriage and abortion, though the platform does include a pledge to end wokeness in all federally funded institutions).
On Monday the RNC’s Platform Committee adopted Donald Trump’s platform as the Republican Party platform for 2024 – and it’s been slimmed down from 66 pages to 20 bullet points.
Trump’s major themes of securing the border and ending the migrant crime epidemic, requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship to vote, strengthening the military, bringing the manufacturing industry back to the United States, and ending the weaponization of government are featured prominently. The platform also opposes any cuts to Social Security and Medicare, including opposition to raising the retirement age, and proposes middle class tax cuts and the “no tax on tips” point that Trump’s repeatedly brought up at rallies. It also emphasizes rebuilding America’s cities and making them “safe and clean” again.
As has been anticipated, the platform is silent on abortion and gay marriage, though the ongoing battle against radical gender ideology and sexualization of children is addressed in two bullet points:
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With just a week until the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee where former President Donald Trump is expected to be renominated as the Republican presidential candidate, the GOP has officially adopted a new platform that reinforces Trump’s deep influence on the party.
Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC) Platform Committee announced the approval of the 2024 Republican Party Platform, a robust agenda that starkly contrasts with the “record of weakness, failure, and dishonesty” of the current administration under Joe Biden. The platform outlined Trump’s blueprint for his potential second term, with a return to his “America First” policies.
The platform accuses past politicians of selling out American interests through unfavorable trade deals and neglecting national security, contributing to a broad range of domestic issues. Trump’s 2024 platform is reminiscent of his 2016 campaign promises, focusing heavily on economic growth, job creation, and a revival of American manufacturing. Trump also blamed the Biden administration for a host of woes including “raging inflation, open borders, rampant crime,” and a decline in global stability.
Key promises in the 2024 GOP Platform included:
Sealing the border and halting the “migrant invasion.”
Carrying out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.
Ending inflation and enhancing affordability for Americans.
Reclaiming the title as the top global energy producer.
Transforming the U.S. into a manufacturing superpower, curtailing outsourcing.
Implementing significant tax cuts for workers and eliminating taxes on tips.
Defending constitutional rights including freedom of speech, religion, and gun ownership.
Aiming to prevent global conflicts and promising to build a comprehensive missile defense system.
Overhauling federal educational funding to exclude schools that promote what the GOP considers radical ideologies.
Ensuring election security through measures like voter ID laws and same-day voting.
After the debate debacle caused doubts about President Biden’s competency, he was rushed to do interviews to show he is perfectly fine. One of those interviews was with Philadelphia radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders, who exposed afterwards that she was given 8 questions ahead of time she should select from.
After her disclosure, she resigned after being encouraged to do so from her position at WURD radio, with the president and CEO of the radio station, Sara Lomax, saying “The interview featured pre-determined questions provided by the White House, which violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners. As a result, Ms. Lawful-Sanders and WURD Radio have mutually agreed to part ways, effective immediately.”
President Joe Biden’s media campaign is under fire after a radio host revealed damning information that doesn’t help his case.
CNN reporter Victor Blackwell pointed out that two separate radio hosts in two different states asked almost identical questions during their interview with Biden.
Philadelphia radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders revealed that Biden’s media team provided a list of questions to approve prior to the interview. She said she picked four pre-written questions from a list of eight submitted to her by the White House.
“Okay, so, the White House sent the questions to you ahead of the interview?” Blackwell asked.
“Yes, and I got several questions, eight of them. And the four that were chosen were the ones that I approved,” Lawful-Sanders confirmed.
After receiving backlash, the Biden media team announced it would no longer provide pre-approved questions to interviewers.
“While interview hosts have always been free to ask whatever questions they please, moving forward we will refrain from offering suggested questions,” Biden’s booking operation for media outlets said.
However, despite already knowing, and I’m sure rehearsing answers to the pre-approved questions, Biden still stumbled over his words.
During his interview with Lawful-Sanders, Biden claimed he was the “first black woman to serve with a black president.”
No wonder 72 percent of Americans think Biden is too old to serve in office another four years.
It is not uncommon for the 81-year-old president to rely on help during public appearances. Biden has been known to use cheat sheets and teleprompters throughout his entire presidency. The president has also been caught using notecards with a list of approved reporters to call on during press conferences.
U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon has granted numerous delays in the Classified Documents case against former President Donald Trump. The delays are expected to push the prosecution of this case until after the election. The delays were the result of the Supreme Court Ruling granting immunity to a President when executing “official” acts of the office.
On Saturday, the judge overseeing the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump ruled that several deadlines can be pushed back further, in another victory for the former president and his team.
Axios reports that the ruling by Judge Aileen Cannon grants a temporary stay on expert disclosures which were originally set for July 8th, as well as the reciprocal discovery by the defense originally scheduled for July 10th. Judge Cannon also set a new deadline of July 18th for Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team to respond to the Trump team’s motion to stay, as well as a request for a supplemental briefing; she gave both sides a deadline of July 21st to respond.
Judge Cannon’s ruling follows a historic ruling by the Supreme Court in late June which reaffirmed that President Trump has sweeping immunity from prosecution over his conduct while in office. The 6-3 ruling by the court’s conservative majority determined that he has absolute immunity for actions that fall within his “conclusive and preclusive” constitutional authority, as well as presumptive immunity for other official acts.
The Supreme Court’s ruling makes it nearly impossible for Special Counsel Smith, as well as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, to prosecute Trump in their respective cases in Washington D.C., Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia. It also ensures that the cases will not go to trial before the November election, in which Trump is set to face Joe Biden in a rematch of the 2020 election.
President Trump and his team have also successfully delayed his sentencing in his Manhattan conviction; originally scheduled for July 11th, just days before the Republican National Convention, District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan have agreed to reschedule the hearing for September 18th.
The evidence is now clear that while 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop was not real, that it was a Russian disinformation campaign, they all knew they were lying, lying to advance the coup that was the 2020 Mass Mailer Election (which is no election at all).
The House Judiciary Committee released a statement on their findings, claiming, “High ranking CIA officials, up to and including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, were made aware of the Hunter Biden statement prior to its approval and publication. Because several former senior intelligence officials signed the statement, the PCRB sent the draft statement to the CIA’s then-Chief Operating Officer (COO) Andrew Makridis, who said he subsequently informed then-Director Haspel or then Deputy Director Vaughn Frederick Bishop that the statement would be published soon. Senior CIA leadership had an opportunity at that time to slow down the CIA’s process for reviewing publication submissions and ensure that such an extraordinary statement was properly vetted.”
The House Judiciary Committee disclosed on Tuesday that CIA contractors collaborated with the Biden campaign in 2020 to undermine the credibility of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
In October 2020, just days before the presidential election, 51 former intelligence officials signed and released a letter alleging without evidence that the contents of Hunter Biden’s controversial laptop bore “all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
This falsehood was known to be untrue by all involved. Despite this, the mainstream media still propagated the story and even used it during the debate to criticize President Trump.
In a victory within a defeat, the Michigan GOP was able to secure a win from a Michigan judge that would prevent a secret order by far-left anti-Americanist activist and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson from taking effect. That order would allow election ballot counters to disregard the legally required process of signature verification before they do so.
The ruling, however, does nothing to touch the voter disenfranchising tactic of mass mailer “voting” in the first place. It merely makes it slightly harder for the Democrats of the fallen state of Michigan to count the votes they need to win, no matter how the American people actually voted.
… I’m happy to report that with the removal of Karamo months ago and the election of Pete Hoekstra, the party statewide is now positioning itself to be competitive. The more blue states that Biden has to compete in, like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the better it is for Donald Trump come election day.
This press release below shows that a number of Republican organizations are working together to ding the current Democrat Secretary of State here in Michigan, Jocelyn Benson, for her sloppy attention to detail with voter signatures.
The RNC, Michigan GOP, and NRCC have won a major victory to protect mail ballots in Michigan. We discovered that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson issued secret instructions to election officials to disregard signature verification requirements and instead “presume the validity” of signatures. We filed suit to protect these important safeguards. The court agreed with us, holding that the Secretary’s instructions are unlawful and that officials cannot presume the validity of signatures.
RNC Chairman Michael Whatley stated: “This RNC legal victory confirms the importance of mail ballot safeguards in Michigan’s Constitution. The Secretary of State’s covert attempts to sidestep these rules were rightfully rejected by the court, exposing that her attacks on election integrity have no substance. This win is just the latest development in our ongoing fight to promote fair and transparent elections in the Great Lakes State.”
Biden and Trump agree rules for first election debate of 2024
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face off in a 90-minute debate with mutable microphones, broadcaster CNN said Saturday (Jun 15), as it laid ground rules for the first in-person clash between the pair ahead of November’s election.
The rules for the Jun 27 debate, which will have two hosts and no studio audience, were agreed by the Biden and Trump campaigns, according to CNN.
“Both candidates agreed to appear at a uniform podium, and their podium positions will be determined by a coin flip,” the channel said, adding that microphones “will be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak.”
No props or notes will be allowed on stage, with candidates only given a pen, pad of paper and a bottle of water, CNN said.
It said the debate, hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, will last 90 minutes with two commercial breaks – during which campaign staff cannot interact with their candidate.
Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk has advised against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), citing concerns about their potential vulnerabilities to hacking. His remarks come amidst growing debates over the security of EVMs worldwide, especially following allegations of irregularities in Puerto Rico’s recent primary elections.
“We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high,” Musk posted on X.
We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high. https://t.co/PHzJsoXpLh
President Joe Biden had the perfect answer for why former President Donald Trump is “ranting on Truth Social at 3 in the morning,” saying Trump has a “guilty conscience” in a video showing him answering questions that “Trump can’t.”
Biden’s words came weeks after Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes. A New York jury last month found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels to corruptly influence the 2016 election. His sentencing is set for July 11.
In a clever campaign video dropped on Wednesday, Biden was asked a series of this or that questions, which are no-brainers for Biden but would be tough calls for Trump.
Milwaukee Democratic Mayor Cavalier Johnson defended his city, which is set to host the Republican National Convention this summer, after former President Donald Trump called the city “horrible” in a closed-door meeting with House Republicans earlier Thursday.
“This is a great place, and the former president and every Republican who’ll have the chance to come to our great city, they’ll see that when they’re here on the ground in Milwaukee for the convention,” Johnson told CNN’s Laura Coates Thursday night.
Johnson added that insulting the home of tens of thousands of Republican voters in Wisconsin, a swing state, could be politically costly for the former president as he seeks to return to the White House.
A member of the House Freedom Caucus is taking an unprecedented step to endorse the primary challenger fighting to unseat the ultra conservative group’s chair.
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) is endorsing John McGuire, a state senator who is in a highly watched race against Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), McGuire’s campaign first shared with POLITICO.
“I love this country with a soldier’s passion. I’ve served in Congress since 2016, and we need reinforcements to help Make America Great Again. I’m happy to join President Trump by supporting and endorsing John McGuire for Congress,” Davidson said in a statement, describing McGuire as conservative, effective and someone who will drain the swamp.
He added: “I look forward to serving with him in the 119th Congress to support President Trump and the America First agenda. Drain the swamp!”
NEW ROCHELLE, New York — The New York Democrat running to unseat Rep. Jamaal Bowman has an unusual double advantage against the incumbent: local political clout and the backing of a national pro-Israel group.
And it’s Westchester County Executive George Latimer’s ties at home — even more so than his position on the war in Gaza — that could deny the Squad member a third term.
Latimer has picked up endorsements from fellow local leaders week after week — including the mayor and three City Council members in Yonkers, where Bowman lives. And while just 10 percent of Bowman’s campaign contributions come from his neighbors, more than half of Latimer’s donations come from within the district.
Latimer may not have any national name recognition compared to Bowman — who has built his reputation in Congress as a left-wing agitator for sweeping change nationwide — but he enjoys a different kind of celebrity. He’s the Cher of Westchester County, known as just “George” to many in the suburban enclave north of New York City thanks to his 35 years in state and local government.
Donald Trump has hit back at billionaire Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who branded him a ‘felon’ in an interview earlier this week as the pair’s war of words escalates
Donald Trump has unleashed a scathing attack on governor JB Pritzker on Sunday, calling him “rotund,” “sloppy” and “pathetic” after the Illinois governor labeled the ex-president a “felon” earlier in the week.
The billionaire Democrat, who holds the title of America’s wealthiest elected official, makes no effort to conceal his contempt for the 77-year-old presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Nineteen minutes after Trump’s conviction on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial last month, Pritzker denounced the former president as a racist, homophobe, and a con artist.
Pritzker, 59, is a loyal supporter of president Joe Biden and is driven to “fight to keep him in the White House,” thereby keeping Trump at bay, he wrote on X on Friday.
JB Pritzker called Trump a ‘felon’ on Wednesday(Joel Angel Juarez/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock)
“I can’t mince words when it comes to talking about who Donald Trump is,” Pritzker told The New York Times on Wednesday. “It’s important, I think, for people to really refocus on the idea that: Do they really want a president who is a felon who faces jail time?”
Trump didn’t waste any time hitting back as their feud escalated, taking several low blows at Pritzker’s physical appearance, business achievements, and political acumen, reports the Mirror.
“Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model,” Trump wrote, while also throwing shade at the Republican ex-governor of New Jersey in a fiery Truth Social tirade on Sunday.
Despite Pritzker’s estimated $3.5 billion fortune, as reported by Forbes, the former president alleged that his family “wanted him out of the business” – the global hotel chain, Hyatt – before he doubled down on his “pathetic” business acumen.
After Trump’s initial barrage of insults about his business ventures, he proceeded to criticize the senior Democrat’s politics. The incumbent has been a longtime financial supporter of the Democratic Party and has served since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Illinois.
JB Pritzker was the latest Democrat in Donald Trump’s crosshairs(AFP via Getty Images)
However, the ex-president accused Pritzker of presiding “over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen before in any State,” he claimed.
Trump concluded: “Crime is rampant and people are, sadly, fleeing Illinois. Unless a change is made at the Governor’s level, Illinois can never be Great Again!”
Pritzker has long been critical of Trump’s inflammatory language and staunch conservative stance on women’s rights.
“It’s President Biden who is fighting to restore reproductive rights or Trump who bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade,” Pritzker stated last month at The Democratic National Convention.
Flashback to November and he also accused Trump of using descriptions mirroring those of Nazis in the 1930s.
“The rhetoric that’s being used by Trump, by some of the Maga extremists, is rhetoric that was used in the 1930s in Germany [and] I am very concerned about the direction of the country if we see policies like what Donald Trump is espousing come to light,” he expressed on MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki.
“And I’m deeply concerned about his predilection for revenge and what that will mean for groups of people that didn’t support him in the 2024 election if he gets elected.”
The best antidote to the left’s caricatures of him as a fascist and a buffoon are calm, coherent and factual responses. Bottom line: He needs to act and sound more like a president than a challenger,” New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin advised.
In recent years, Elon Musk appears to have gone from lightly flirting with politics to having a full-blown love affair with growing his influence in Washington.
As the presidential election inches closer and the billionaire businessman continues teasing the idea of a Trump endorsement, it’s becoming clear that Musk has a lot at stake depending on who next leads the country.
While Musk hasn’t publicly endorsed any candidate, Business Insider previously reported he bonded with fellow billionaires over a shared distrust of Democrats and privately discussed how best to defeat them in this year’s election.
According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, Musk has also talked with the Trump campaign about taking on a potential advisory role if the former president returns to the White House.
“Age is just a number, the adage goes. For Donald Trump, that number just got bigger,” writes national political “reporter” Marianne LeVine, who adds that Trump’s age “has also drawn notice from some voters and experts on aging.”
Oh, experts you say? The Post and other media lapdogs love nothing more than laundering their opinions through self-styled “experts,” as we all saw with the Covid panic, Democrats’ republic-destroying lawfare, “cooling” inflation, forever wars, and more — including now apparently presidential fitness and “aging.” As for what the voters notices, let’s just say it diverges from the headline.
On Sunday, former President Trump targeted Illinois Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker, who has been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party but who has presided over the state while natives flee.
Pritzker was inaugurated as governor of the state in January 2019; between July 2021 and July 2022, over 142,000 people left Illinois. The only state that had a faster rate of population decline during that same time period was New York.
“Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen before in any State. Crime is rampant and people are, sadly, fleeing Illinois. Unless a change is made at the Governor’s level, Illinois can never be Great Again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Detroit — Former President Donald Trump warned of increases in illegal immigration, weakened global policy and a struggling economy under another Biden term as he courted both Black voters at a Detroit church and conservative stalwarts at a convention at Huntington Place.
The former president dinged the leader of United Auto Workers, Shawn Fain, as doing an “absolutely terrible job” and warned of environmentally-friendly emissions limits implemented under Biden.
“We can’t let these people destroy our country like this,” Trump said. “They’re going crazy.”
Christian approaches to political engagement often fall into one of two camps: ‘distinctive’ or ‘engaged’.
The ‘distinctives’ tend to be pessimistic about politics and say that the Church should stick to its priorities of evangelism and discipleship for eternity, rather than wasting energy in social action and politics in the present. But the Bible nowhere presents the Christian with such an either/or choice. Instead, it calls the Christian both to teach the gospel and love their neighbour.
The creation mandate of Genesis 1.26–28 to look after the earth still stands alongside Jesus’ great commission to his followers in Matthew 28.19 to make disciples of all nations. Paul commands the Galatian church to do good to all people, beginning with those in the Church. And when Paul summarises the purpose of the Bible in 2 Timothy 3.15–16, he writes that it is to make us wise for salvation in Christ Jesus and to equip the Christian for every good work. All this stewarding the earth, loving neighbour, doing good to all people cannot avoid involvement in politics.
