by | Nov 2, 2024 | The Hill
Vice President Harris’s campaign will hold a national livestream show that features events from the seven battleground states on Monday night, a senior campaign official announced on Saturday.
To mark the night before Election Day, the campaign will host simultaneous “get out the vote” organizing events in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Those events will then be tied together in a show for voters nationwide to tune into, according to the official.
The events will feature Harris, her running mate Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), top surrogates and performers, the official said, adding that details on the performances are forthcoming. The campaign is also offering VIP seating at the events for every volunteer who completes a phone banking or door knocking shift between Oct. 28 and Sunday, Nov. 3.
Harris will be in Pennsylvania, the battleground state that carries the most votes in the Electoral College, on Monday for stops in Allentown, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
The battleground states are largely neck and neck. Trump has a 0.5 percentage point lead
, a 0.4 percentage point lead
, and a 1.7 percentage point lead
, according to Decision Desk HQ/The Hill’s aggregate polling.
The former president also has a 1.4 percentage point lead
, a 1.9 percentage point lead
, and a 2 percentage point lead
while Harris has a 0.5 percentage point lead
.
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It’s not so much the people flooding across the
affecting Arizonans, as what some of the illegal immigrants carry with them.
Illegal aliens don’t stay in the state, according to Pinal County, Arizona, Sheriff
. Instead, they travel to “California, Massachusetts, New York, Chicago, Iowa, Alabama,” he says, adding, “But what we are feeling is, just like every state and every American family, we’re feeling the effects of fentanyl.”
the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
“I don’t want to take away from 9/11, but I want to put it into perspective,” Lamb says. “On 9/11 we lost, I think, about 3,600 American lives that day … and we went to war for 20 years for that.”
An estimated 74,702 people died from fentanyl poisoning in America in 2023, a slight decline from the 76,226 fentanyl-related deaths in 2022, according to the
.
“Right now, China is putting fentanyl in the hands of the [Mexican drug] cartels,” Lamb explained.
Many of the precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl originate in China. On Oct. 24, the Justice Department announced “charges against eight China-based companies and eight individuals we allege are responsible for trafficking precursor chemicals that cartels use to manufacture lethal fentanyl,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in
China and the cartels “are managing to kill 100,000 American civilians a year, and our government doesn’t talk about it,” Lamb said. “They don’t talk about it in their politics. … I don’t hear [Vice President] Kamala Harris talking about it.”
Lamb argues that the fentanyl crisis should be discussed more in the news and during the
, but isn’t because “to talk about it would mean you’d have to accept responsibility [for] it, and to accept the responsibility would cost you an election.”
The Harris campaign did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.
According to Lamb, over 50% of all the fentanyl in America enters the U.S. through Arizona’s border with Mexico.
In 2021, 44 children died from fentanyl poisoning in Arizona, according to the
. Among the deaths, “seven were under the age of one,” Lamb said. “I mean, those statistics alone should get your elected officials unelected, you know? But we as Americans don’t seem to want to hold our elected officials accountable, because we were offended by … the way somebody talks or the things they tweet.”
Lamb ran for U.S. Senate, but Republican Kari Lake defeated
GOP primary election in July.
The sheriff joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what to expect on election night in Arizona, one of seven swing states, and the role the border crisis is playing in the way Americans are voting this election.
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by | Nov 1, 2024 | The Hill
Former President Trump’s rally in Milwaukee on Friday was derailed by
as he seethed over microphone issues during his final planned stop in the swing state of Wisconsin.
The crowd at Fiserv Forum, the same venue that hosted July’s GOP convention, chanted at times “fix the mic,” while Trump pulled the microphone out of its holder and held it by hand.
“I think this mic stinks, by the way. And then we don’t pay the contractor. I say don’t pay the contractor, then they write a story, ‘Trump doesn’t pay his bills, he’s a bad guy,'” Trump said.
“Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage?” Trump added later, calling it a “pretty stupid situation.”
“I get so angry. I’m up here seething. I’m seething. I’m working my ass off with this stupid mic. I’m blowing out my left arm, now I’m going to blow out my right arm, and I’m blowing out my damn throat too, because these stupid people. I’ll make you a deal. Pretend you’re listening to it perfectly and I’ll come back and do another one, OK?” he added, slamming the microphone against the podium.
The former president’s remarks largely echoed his recent campaign speeches, as he attacked former first lady Michelle Obama as “nasty,” disparaged Vice President Harris’s qualifications to be president and vowed to crack down on immigration at the southern border.
Friday’s rally in Milwaukee is the last visit to Wisconsin on Trump’s schedule. He has events planned on Saturday in North Carolina on Virginia, on Sunday in North Carolina and Georgia, and on Monday in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Trump narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016 then lost the state by roughly 20,000 votes in 2020, though he made the false claim on Friday that he won the state twice. A Decision Desk HQ/The Hill
from Wisconsin shows Trump and Harris essentially tied in the Badger State ahead of Election Day.
by | Nov 1, 2024 | The Hill
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) urged former President Bush to endorse Vice President Harris during an episode of the
that aired on Friday.
“I can’t explain why George W. Bush hasn’t spoken out but I think it’s time, and I wish that he would,” Cheney said during the recording at The New Yorker Festival.
The GOP leader is one of the highest profile members to publicly criticize former President Trump while actively campaigning for Vice President Harris. However, in recent days, former President Bush’s daughter, Barbara has also stepped out on the campaign trail to
in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” Bush told People Magazine in a statement Tuesday. “I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”
Former President Bush has kept to his promise of
in the 2024 race. In September, Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney who served under Bush
.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Vice President Cheney
of the Republican nominee in a 2022 ad for his daughter.
Earlier this month, she campaigned for the Democratic nominee in her home state of Wisconsin, a battleground location that will be crucial in determining the next president.
At The New Yorker festival, Cheney also touched on The Washington Post’s announcement that it would
earlier this week.
“When you have Jeff Bezos apparently afraid to issue an endorsement for the only candidate in the race who’s a stable responsible adult because he fears Donald Trump, that tells you why we have to work so hard to make sure that Donald Trump isn’t elected,” she said at the New Yorker Festival, adding that she
her Post subscription.
After the news broke, Rep. Cheney shared that Bezos and potentially others’ decision to remain neutral may have been made out of “
.”
“And I think also, why we ought to not forget what has happened, forget who’s taken brave and courageous stands,” she said at the festival.
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In an attempt to insult
and appeal to women, billionaire Mark Cuban instead insulted women and made Trump’s record with women look appealing.
Cuban, appearing on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday morning, said Trump doesn’t surround himself with “strong, intelligent women.”
“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever,” Cuban said. “It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.”
It’s clear that the Dallas Mavericks owner’s comment about Trump
didn’t land the way he intended.
By Thursday evening, Cuban had
about Trump on social media.
“I know he has worked with strong, intelligent women, like Elaine Chao,
, Ivanka [Trump] and many others,” Cuban said. “I stand by my opinion that he does not like being challenged publicly.”
The anti-Trump billionaire wrote more
, acknowledging that his comments about Trump and “strong, intelligent women” weren’t exactly well received.
Despite Cuban’s follow-up remarks, his initial comments on “The View” triggered responses from millions of female Trump supporters, who now demand that Vice President
respond to Cuban’s insinuation that they are weak and stupid.
“Joe Biden called
and now Kamala’s top surrogate Mark Cuban insinuated female Trump supporters are ‘weak and dumb,’” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital.
“Women want a president who will secure our border, remove violent criminals from our neighborhoods, and put more money in our pockets—and that’s exactly why we are supporting President Donald Trump,” Leavitt said. “Kamala Harris must immediately condemn Mark Cuban’s disrespectful insult to women.”
Trump personally responded on both
and
, writing: “Actually, he is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women—With the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong. This guy is such a fool.”
An email statement paid for by the Trump campaign compiled the responses of some high-profile, successful women who back Trump. Among them: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders; fellow former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, now a Fox News host; former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga.;
cofounder Tiffany Justice; and daughter-in-law
, co-chair of the Republican National Committee.
“I’ve been a CEO and professional sports team owner JUST like you,”
, addressing Cuban. “I’m one of the millions of strong, conservative women who back Trump. You might think we’re stupid, or that we’re garbage. We think it’s time to replace you and Kamala with leaders who don’t hate us.”
Trump’s running mate, Sen.
of Ohio, responded to Cuban’s comments through a prerecorded interview with SiriusXM Patriot host Matt Boyle.
“First of all, it’s insulting my wife, who’s a very strong and very intelligent woman, and goes to nearly every one of my campaign events with me,” Vance said. “And it’s insulting to Lara Trump, who’s done an incredible job as co-chair of the RNC. It’s insulting to Melania [Trump], who has the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book right now.”
Vance’s full comments are
. The interview was to air in its entirety Saturday at noon EDT on SiriusXM’s “Breitbart News Saturday” with Boyle.
There are a few important takeaways from Cuban’s comments about Trump and strong, intelligent women.
The first and obvious one is that Cuban fumbled his job as a campaign surrogate, and he will likely not be seen again in this kind of public appearance until the presidential campaign is over.
The second takeaway is related: When Cuban talks about politics, he generally speaks in liberal platitudes without the focus-group finesse of your typical Democrat politician.
On “The View,” Cuban chose to uphold a variation of the old left-wing canard that Trump and men on the right are macho brutes who can’t handle strong women and that right-leaning women are doormats.
(Never mind that at least two current co-hosts of “The View,” Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, used to pal around with Trump and gladly welcomed him to the show before he first ran for president in 2016, as the former president recalled recently on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast.)
Not only was Cuban’s half-baked comment entirely and immediately debunked, he also revealed how the Left has created a sterile archetype of what is defined as a strong woman.
The Left’s model is akin to a Hillary Rodham Clinton or Kamala Harris type. This mentality says that to be strong, a woman must dream of power over men and a glamorous career that inspires worship of her work ethic.
But wearing a pantsuit and pursuing male-dominated fields isn’t an appropriate measure of strength, and the relationship between men and women need not be a fruitless power struggle.
Clearly, plenty of strong women with careers, families, and husbands know this. And they will continue to support and work for Trump, regardless of what Mark Cuban and the ladies of “The View” think.
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