Another person has been sentenced for committing voter fraud during the 2020 election — and once again it was on behalf of a Republican candidate. An Iowa woman named Kim Taylor was sentenced to four months in prison Monday after a federal jury convicted her last year on more than 50 counts of voter fraud as part of a scheme to help her husband in a congressional primary and a county supervisor race.

No matter what former President Donald Trump claims, actual incidents of voter fraud are extremely rare. Those instances that have come to light in the aftermath of the 2020 election are nowhere near widespread enough to swing a presidential election, let alone most down-ballot races. Taylor’s case, one of those rare instances, highlights one supreme irony of the GOP’s obsession with voter fraud: many of the cases of knowing fraud that have been prosecuted since then have had Republicans as the perpetrators.


According to prosecutors, Taylor helped fill out voter registrations and absentee ballots for members of the Vietnamese American community and their families in Woodbury County, Iowa. Taylor, who is of Vietnamese descent, took advantage of the state’s absurd law that all election material can only be printed in English to pretend that she was simply assisting voters with their forms. In fact, she was abusing their trust to increase her husband’s vote totals.

Taylor’s case is a real example of the sort of fraud that right-wing grifters have insisted is rampant among Democrats. In reality, many of those supposed cases are the entirely legitimate use of drop boxes and other approved early voting techniques in areas that lean Democratic. Other Trump supporters have been caught trying to vote more than once, including multiple residents at Florida’s retirement community The Villages. Still others have been caught trying to cast votes in the names of their dead spouses or family members, one of whom was initially a right-wing cause célèbre after claiming someone had stolen his dead wife’s absentee ballot. And just last month, a former election official in Milwaukee was found guilty of voter fraud for using her position to get obtain fraudulent absentee ballots and send them to a Republican state lawmaker who’d boosted Trump’s election lies.

More often though, we’ve seen that votes cast illegally not because of deliberate fraud, but due to constraints on voting rights for the formerly incarcerated. Crystal Mason, a Texas woman whose five-year sentence for voter fraud was recently overturned by an appeals court, testified that when she cast a ballot in 2018 that she was unaware that she was ineligible to vote. And since Florida formed its Office of Election Crimes and Security in 2022, most of its targets have likewise been people who’d voted after being told that they were allowed to do so only to learn otherwise when arrested.

Even on that front, Republicans have found themselves on the wrong side of these restrictions. Most recently, a judge ruled that Brian Pritchard, the first vice chairman of Georgia’s Republican Party, had violated state election law. Between 2008 and 2010, Pritchard voted nine times while on probation for a felony sentence, which is not allowed in Georgia. You’d think this might provoke sympathy or some kind of reconsideration of those restrictions from other Republicans, but his fellow election deniers have instead chosen to throw him under the bus.

The second deep irony of the GOP’s hunt for mass voter fraud is how much it’s detracting from the party’s efforts to win legitimately. The recent Trumpian shakeup at the Republican National Committee put former Trump lawyer Christina Bobb in charge of the group’s Committee of Election Integrity. That committee was set up in response to Trump’s claims, even as RNC lawyers have warned against the kind of voter suppression activity that got Republicans barred from running “ballot security” in polling places from 1982 until just six years ago. It’s also undercut the real work of verifying election security, as multiple GOP-led states have withdrawn from the Electronic Registration Information Center, which helped prevent actual voting fraud as people move between states.

Those efforts at fearmongering about voter fraud are unlikely to bring in more Republican votes. That’s in contrast to the efforts to encourage mail-in voting — efforts that the RNC has recently shuttered. Officials who understand that getting people to lock in their votes early ahead of Election Day can make or break a campaign are facing enormous pushback, thanks to Trump’s lies. “I think Trump can win Erie County, but I have to get Republicans to accept the mail-in ballot,” Tom Eddy, head of the Pennsylvania county’s Republican Party, recently told NBC News.

That brings me though to a most disturbing conclusion: The insistence that mass voter fraud exists can be used by individual Republicans to justify committing voter fraud. After all, if the assumption is that Democrats are busy stuffing ballot boxes, why shouldn’t conservatives follow suit to supposedly even the score? And any GOP losses thanks to a lack of trust in early voting are more than likely to be chalked up to fictional voter fraud. It’s a self-sustaining cycle that would require real leadership from the top to counter. Unfortunately, there’s not much chance that Republicans stop projecting their claims onto Democrats, no matter how many of them get caught red-handed committing fraud themselves.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday unanimously rejected a Republican bid to have election officials segregate overseas ballots cast by people who have never resided in the state for additional checks of the voters’ eligibility.

The court’s decision is the latest blow to Republican efforts to attack overseas ballots in critical battleground states.

Earlier Tuesday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissed a challenge to the vetting procedures for overseas ballots in that state. And last week, a state judge in Michigan sided against the GOP in a case targeting ballots cast by people who had never lived there but were eligible to vote in the state because of familial ties to it.

The Republican National Committee sued North Carolina in early October to block a policy that allows citizens abroad to cast ballots in the state if their parents resided there before leaving the country, even if the voters themselves never lived there.

The law permitting such votes was passed with bipartisan support in 2011 and has been in effect in every election since 2012, but Republicans argued in their suit that it ran afoul of the state constitution’s requirement that limits voting in the state’s elections “to North Carolina residents and only North Carolina residents.” They claimed that it could expose the election to “fraud and other misconduct.”

Last week, Wake County Superior Court Judge John W. Smith denied the RNC’s request for an emergency court order that would require election officials to set aside ballots from overseas voters who hadn’t themselves lived in the state. The judge said that “there is absolutely no evidence that any person has ever fraudulently claimed (the exemption at issue) and actually voted in any North Carolina election.”

The RNC quickly appealed to the Court of Appeals, making the same request that Smith turned down.

The North Carolina State Board of Election and Democratic National Committee, which intervened in the case to defend the state law, pressed the appeals court to maintain the status quo by declining to segregate the ballots, warning that a ruling in favor of the RNC would invite chaos into an election that is already underway.

“It is difficult to conceive of an outcome more disruptive, unanticipated, or unfair than throwing out the ballots of U.S. citizens who have already voted in good-faith reliance on a statute that has been in place for more than thirteen years,” attorneys for the state told the appeals court.

State officials announced Tuesday afternoon that nearly 2.3 million ballots had already been cast in the general election, a figure that included more than 15,000 overseas votes and just under 5,000 military ballots.

Though North Carolina’s policy of accepting ballots from overseas voters has been on the books for several years, starting in 2016, civilian voters abroad began outnumbering the military vote overseas – which itself is not as conservative as it once was.

Democrats announced earlier this cycle a six-figure investment into turning out eligible Democrats abroad, particularly those who can vote in battleground states.

The judge said that “there is absolutely no evidence that any person has ever fraudulently claimed (the exemption at issue) and actually voted in any North Carolina election.”

“It is difficult to conceive of an outcome more disruptive, unanticipated, or unfair than throwing out the ballots of U.S. citizens who have already voted in good-faith reliance on a statute that has been in place for more than thirteen years,” attorneys for the state told the appeals court.

“Notably, the RNC Republican national committee presented no evidence or allegations that counting mail ballots without postmarks … would be subject to voter fraud, or that the election security measures currently in place are inadequate to address its concerns regarding these ballots,” the ruling said.

Conner also said Erick Kaardal, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, had not provided evidence that there had been foreign influence over Pennsylvania's overseas ballots. The judge wrote that when he pressed Kaardal for such evidence during an Oct. 18 hearing, the lawyer "effectively conceded that all he had was 'concerns.'"

"Plaintiffs cannot rely on phantom fears of foreign malfeasance to excuse their lack of diligence," Conner wrote.

Yes, the inflation rate in the United States is currently low, at 2.4% annually. This is the same rate as February 2021.

Former President Donald Trump was confronted with multiple empty seats at a campaign event in Atlanta on Monday, as the two presidential candidates focus their efforts on the country's key swing states with just over a week to go before the election.

By contrast, Kamala Harris' campaign said that as many as 21,000 people were present at a campaign event in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the same day, during which the Democratic candidate and her running mate Tim Walz tried to appeal to the younger generation of vote

Kamala Harris' Crowd Size Crushes Previous Record With Ellipse Speech


ore than 75,000 spectators gathered in Washington, D.C., to hear Vice President Kamala Harris' closing argument speech at the same site of former President Donald Trump's infamous "Save America" rally that preceded the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Harris' event at the Ellipse arrived one week before Election Day and followed Trump's closing arguments at Madison Square Garden on Sunday that received backlash for its inflammatory and racist rhetoric.

As the vice president took the stage Tuesday night, her campaign's rapid response director, Ammar Moussa, posted to his account on X, formerly Twitter, that there were "OVER 75,000 people on the National Mall to watch Kamala Harris deliver her closing remarks."

Former President Donald Trump delivered more than 30 false claims during Tuesday’s presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, CNN’s preliminary count found – as he did during his June debate against President Joe Biden.

Trump again delivered a staggering quantity and variety of false claims, some of which were egregious lies about topics including abortion, immigration and the economy.

Harris was far more accurate than Trump; CNN’s preliminary count found just one false claim from the vice president, though she also added some claims that were misleading or lacking in key context

Oct 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to force election battleground state Pennsylvania to strengthen its procedures for verifying ballots submitted by military and overseas voters.

Six Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives seeking reelection on Nov. 5 had sued Pennsylvania's top election officials on Sept. 30. The Republicans had argued that the state was improperly exempting overseas voters from a requirement that their identity documents be verified, creating a vulnerability for fraudulent votes to be submitted.


Pennsylvania is one of a handful of closely contested states that are expected to decide the outcome of the U.S. presidential race pitting Republican Donald Trump against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner dismissed the case in Harrisburg, deciding that the plaintiffs had waited too long to file their complaint given that Pennsylvania's procedures had been in place for years. The suit was one of dozens around the country in which Republicans have challenged voting procedures or sought to purge voter rolls in what they call a push to ensure that people do not vote illegally. That legal blitz has been faltering. In the past three weeks, Trump allies have been dealt at least 11 court losses.


Conner also said Erick Kaardal, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, had not provided evidence that there had been foreign influence over Pennsylvania's overseas ballots. The judge wrote that when he pressed Kaardal for such evidence during an Oct. 18 hearing, the lawyer "effectively conceded that all he had was 'concerns.'"
"Plaintiffs cannot rely on phantom fears of foreign malfeasance to excuse their lack of diligence," Conner wrote.


"We don't want votes from Iran or Russia or invalid votes counting," Kaardal had told the hearing in Harrisburg federal court over a motion to dismiss the case. filed by the Democratic National Committee and Pennsylvania's top elections official.

Kaardal did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

Judges in the election battleground states of Michigan and North Carolina this month also rejected lawsuits filed by the Republican National Committee seeking to block votes from some Americans living overseas.

In those cases, the Republicans argued the states improperly allowed U.S. citizens living abroad who had never lived in those states to vote there.

"Plaintiffs cannot rely on phantom fears of foreign malfeasance to excuse their lack of diligence," Conner wrote

In the past three weeks, Trump allies have been dealt at least 11 court losses.

Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss scored a legal victory on Thursday when they settled a defamation lawsuit with The Gateway Pundit, the far-right news website that falsely accused them of interfering with ballots in the 2020 presidential election.

The Gateway Pundit was the first site to publicly identify the mother and daughter, who were accused by former President Donald Trump and Rudy Guiliani of ballot fraud on election night in Fulton County, Georgia.

The allegation that the pair had pulled “suitcases” of ballots from under a table, away from poll watchers was debunked almost immediately. But the conspiracy theory continues to circulate among far-right groups and Trump allies who believe the 2020 election was “stolen.”

By Thursday afternoon, nearly 20 articles accusing Freeman and Moss of ballot tampering were removed from The Gateway Pundit, according to a review by the Guardian.

The settlement was filed in circuit court in Missouri, where Freeman and Moss had sued the website for defamation. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed in the court filing.

While the pair was cleared of any wrongdoing years ago, the allegations have continued to negatively impact their lives.

The lawsuit said that the falsehoods "have not only devastated their personal and professional reputations but instigated a deluge of intimidation, harassment, and threats that has forced them to change their phone numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear for their physical safety.”

Freeman and Moss are also still attempting to collect on the nearly $150 million Guiliani owes them, after winning a separate defamation case against him.

During a hearing last year in the Guiliani case, Freeman tearfully described how her life had been impacted by the allegations.

She had to flee her home and live out of her car after strangers came to her door with bullhorns, threatening Freeman and her daughter’s lives. She received messages to her online boutique that threatened her with lynching.

“I took it as though they were going to hang me with their ropes on my street,” Freeman said. “I was scared. I didn’t know if they were coming to kill me.”

The Gateway Pundit’s legal troubles don’t end with Freeman and Moss. The company still faces a libel suit from Eric Coomer, a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems who was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden.

The site unsuccessfully attempted to delay Moss and Freeman’s case earlier this year by filing for bankruptcy. Despite the bankruptcy filing and multiple lawsuits, the site continues to post hundreds of articles containing false claims about election fraud.

By Thursday afternoon, nearly 20 articles accusing Freeman and Moss of ballot tampering were removed from The Gateway Pundit, according to a review by the Guardian.

Former Secretary of Homeland Security and Donald Trump's Chief of Staff, John Kelly, is back with a scathing criticism of his former boss. He characterized Trump as an authoritarian who lacked empathy and disdained military service. The New York Times also recently released an audio recording in which Kelly claimed that Trump had previously praised Hitler, arguing that the dictator 'did some good things.' As per reports, Trump even believed that a fascist style of governance would be a more effective way to lead America and changed the subject anytime he was questioned about such beliefs.

Conspiracy theory numbers don't cut it.

Your argument is too stupid to stand scrutiny

“Notably, the RNC Republican national committee presented no evidence or allegations that counting mail ballots without postmarks … would be subject to voter fraud, or that the election security measures currently in place are inadequate to address its concerns regarding these ballots,” the ruling said.

Republican national committee presented no evidence or allegations that counting mail ballots without postmarks … would be subject to voter fraud

The Nevada supreme court on Monday upheld the state’s post-election deadline for mail ballots lacking a postmark, CNN reported. The ruling is a rejection of a lawsuit brought by Republicans and the Trump campaign.

The lawsuit challenged Nevada’s acceptance of mail ballots that are missing postmarks up to three days after an election. The supreme court, however, said the plaintiffs had failed to make a convincing case.

“Notably, the RNC Republican national committee presented no evidence or allegations that counting mail ballots without postmarks … would be subject to voter fraud, or that the election security measures currently in place are inadequate to address its concerns regarding these ballots,” the ruling said.

According to CNN, a similar case was filed by Republicans in federal court, but the US ninth circuit court of appeals is unlikely to resolve that case before next Tuesday’s election.

CamelaHO pushing for war in the mideast.

Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters


It’s a common refrain from some of those charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and their Republican allies: The Justice Department is treating them harshly because of their political views while those arrested during last year’s protests over racial injustice were given leniency.

The dissonance between the rhetoric of Capitol rioters and their supporters and the record established by courts highlights both the racial tension inherent in their arguments — the pro-Donald Trump rioters were largely white and last summer’s protesters were more diverse — and the flawed assessment at the heart of their claims.

“The property damage or accusations of arson and looting from last year, those were serious and they were dealt with seriously, but they weren’t an attack on the very core constitutional processes that we rely on in a democracy, nor were they an attack on the United States Congress,” said Kent Greenfield, a professor at Boston College Law School.


To be sure, some defendants have received lenient deals.

At least 19 who have been sentenced across the country got no prison time or time served, according to the AP’s review. Many pleaded guilty to lower-level offenses, such as misdemeanor assault, but some were convicted of more serious charges, including civil disorder.


In Portland, Oregon — where demonstrations, many turning violent, occurred nightly for months after a white Minneapolis police officer killed Floyd — about 60 of the roughly 100 cases that were brought have been dismissed, court records show.

Most of those defendants received deferred resolution agreements, under which prosecutors promise to drop charges after a certain amount of time if the defendant stays out of trouble and completes things like community service. Some Jan. 6 defendants have complained it’s unfair they aren’t getting the same deals.

But President Joe Biden’s Justice Department has continued the vast majority of the racial injustice protest cases brought across the U.S. under Trump and has often pushed for lengthy prison time for people convicted of serious crimes. Since Biden took office in January, federal prosecutors have brought some new cases stemming from last year’s protests.

Conservatives have sought to equate the attack on the Capitol with the Black Lives Matter protests, accusing Democrats of being hypocrites for not denouncing the violence after Floyd’s death as loudly as the Jan. 6 insurrection. And some Republicans have seized on the handling of the protest cases in Portland to suggest that the Jan. 6 defendants are being politically persecuted.

That has not been borne out when comparing the sentences that federal judges have given to Jan. 6 defendants and those who are accused of crimes during the protests against police brutality across the country.

Only a handful of the nearly 600 people who’ve been charged in the insurrection have received their punishments so far, and just three people have been sentenced to time behind bars. The vast majority of the most serious cases — involving those accused of assaulting police officers or conspiring to block the certification of Biden’s victory — remain unresolved.

The catalysts for the riot and the demonstrations for racial justice were also fundamentally different.

The mob of Trump supporters whipped up by the former president’s lies about the election descended on the Capitol and pushed past police barriers, assaulted officers, smashed windows and sent lawmakers running in a stunning attempt to overturn the presidential election.


The demonstrations after Floyd’s death were largely peaceful calls to address racial inequality and police brutality that occasionally turned violent. In some cities, protests descended into chaos after dark, with people smashing windows, looting stores, setting fires and assaulting officers.

William Barr, who as attorney general led the Justice Department last year under Trump, pushed federal prosecutors to aggressively go after protesters who caused violence. Defense lawyers complained that many of the cases belonged in state court — punishments are typically lighter there — and accused Justice Department officials of carrying out a politically motivated effort to stymie the demonstrations.


Just this month, a man was sentenced to four years behind bars and ordered to pay what his attorney said is likely to exceed $1.5 million in restitution after pleading guilty to inciting a riot last spring in Champaign, Illinois.

Shamar Betts, who was 19 at the time, posted a flyer on Facebook on May 31, 2020, that said “RIOT @ MarketPlace Mall” at 3 p.m. and instructed people to bring “friends & family, posters, bricks, bookbags etc.” He participated in the looting, went live on Facebook during the riot and bragged about starting it, authorities said. More than 70 stores were looted, and the riot caused $1.8 million in damage, prosecutors said.

Betts’ lawyer, Elisabeth Pollock, said Betts was frustrated about police brutality across the U.S., had lost his job because of the coronavirus outbreak and never intended to hurt anyone. Prosecutors pushed for the maximum punishment of five years in prison and the maximum restitution amount for Betts, who had no criminal history, she said.

“They took into account not a single mitigating factor: nothing about how he grew up, nothing about about how the George Floyd protests had affected the community, nothing about how the pandemic had affected Shamar personally and the community. There was absolutely no quarter given to him at all,” his attorney said in an interview.

In another case this month, an Illinois man was sentenced to nearly nine years behind bars for lighting a Minneapolis cellphone store on fire in June 2020. A Charleston, South Carolina, man who livestreamed himself looting a store downtown was sentenced to two years in prison.

In the Capitol riot, dozens of defendants have been charged only with misdemeanors, and a standard plea deal has allowed many to plead guilty to a single count of demonstrating in the Capitol.

An Indiana woman who admitted illegally entering the Capitol but didn’t participate in any violence or destruction avoided jail time, and two other misdemeanor defendants got one and two months of home confinement. Two other people who were locked up pretrial were released after pleading guilty to misdemeanors and serving the maximum six-month jail sentence.

Only one defendant convicted of a felony has received his punishment so far. Paul Hodgkins, who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag, was ordered to serve eight months behind bars.

The political fighting over the cases comes as some Republicans in Washington have tried to downplay the attack on the Capitol, with many of them portraying the siege as a mostly peaceful protest despite the shocking violence that unfolded on live TV.

In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland in June, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and four other Republican senators expressed concern about “potential unequal administration of justice” in how prosecutors have responded to the Jan. 6 riot and the Black Lives Matter protests.

Despite “numerous examples of violence” during last year’s protests, they said “it appears that individuals charged with committing crimes at these events may benefit from infrequent prosecutions and minimal, if any, penalties” and claimed the Justice Department’s “apparent unwillingness” to punish them stands in “stark contrast to the harsher treatment” of the Capitol defendants.

One Jan. 6 defendant has similarly accused the Justice Department of selective prosecution based on different political viewpoints, comparing his case with how the department has handled charges stemming from the Portland protests.

Garrett Miller, of Texas, was wearing a T-shirt that said, “I Was There, Washington D.C., January 6, 2021,” when he was arrested. Prosecutors say Miller posted threatening messages on Twitter directed at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, after the riot. His lawyer said Miller isn’t trying to excuse his actions.

“Nevertheless, Mr. Miller should not be treated differently based upon the political views he espoused viz-a-viz the political views espoused by the Portland rioters,” his attorney, F. Clinton Broden, wrote in recent court papers.

Federal prosecutors say Miller hasn’t presented any evidence that his case was politically motivated.

They also rejected comparisons between Miller’s actions and those of the Portland defendants, “who — despite committing serious offenses — never entered the federal courthouse structure, impeded a congressional proceeding, or targeted a specific federal official or officer for assassination.”

One Portland defendant who recently received a deferred resolution agreement was accused of using a wooden shield and hoses to hit an officer in the head. Another was accused of punching an officer in the side of her face. Other cases were dismissed after defendants agreed to plead guilty to similar charges in state court, records show.

“Our approach depends on the circumstances of the charged offense and unique characteristics of each defendant, rather than on any across-the-board standard being applied to all cases,” said Kevin Sonoff, spokesman for the Oregon U.S. attorney’s office.

Meanwhile, in Utah this month, a federal judge sentenced 25-year-old Lateesha Richards to nearly two years in prison for tossing a pair of basketball shorts onto an overturned, burning patrol car and hurling a baseball bat toward police officers during a May 2020 protest in Salt Lake City. There’s no evidence that the bat struck anybody.

Richards initially was charged with an arson count that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, but she avoided that possibility with a deal under which she pleaded to a charge of civil disorder.

The judge said Richards’ actions were dangerous and put hundreds of peaceful protesters in harm’s way. Richards didn’t start the fire that engulfed the police vehicle, but she did “add fuel to the flames,” he added.

Defense attorney Alexander Ramos, who had pushed for the judge to sentence Richards to the one year in jail she has already served, said the Floyd protesters appear to be getting even more scrutiny than comparable “run-of-the mill” cases.

“If it didn’t have this political background, I think more people would have been let out,” Ramos told the AP.

On the same day in May, Kelsey Donnel Jackson traveled to downtown Charleston, South Carolina, with a cousin to join a protest over Floyd’s killing. Hours later, as other protesters began flipping tables and taunting police officers, Jackson lighted a shirt on fire and tossed it onto the trunk of a vandalized police car.

Jackson also vandalized businesses and public property, assaulted two people and streamed a video of himself on Facebook Live in which he held a handgun and made threatening statements about police, according to prosecutors.

He was sentenced this summer to two years in prison after pleading guilty to maliciously damaging a police vehicle with fire.

Jackson’s lawyer wrote in court documents before his sentencing that many people who stormed the Capitol “with the clear intent to disrupt a session of Congress and overturn a lawful election” were charged only with misdemeanor offenses.

“We do not make reference to unrelated conduct in other jurisdictions in order to minimize (Jackson’s) conduct and culpability, but rather to point out that similar (and more egregious) conduct that was very obviously intended to intimidate law enforcement and interfere with government operations has been treated in a less heavy-handed manner elsewhere,” his attorney wrote.

Trump is even popular in foreign countries

Trump Ratings Remain Low Around Globe, While Views of U.S. Stay Mostly Favorable
Trump foreign policies receive little support

As has been the case throughout his presidency, U.S. President Donald Trump receives largely negative reviews from publics around the world. Across 32 countries surveyed by Pew Research Center, a median of 64% say they do not have confidence in Trump to do the right thing in world affairs, while just 29% express confidence in the American leader.

Where are Biden and Trump supported in the world? What poll of 34 countries found


Throughout the world, President Joe Biden is seen more positively than former President Donald Trump — though there are exceptions in some countries, according to new polling. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in 34 countries found that 43% of respondents have confidence in Biden “to do the right thing regarding world affairs,” while 28% said the same for Trump.

The clip is from 2019 it shows Harris speaking with CNN host Jake Tapper after a Democratic primary debate, discussing whether then President Donald Trump’s profile should be removed from the platform, called Twitter at the time…

The clip is from 2019 it shows Harris speaking with CNN host Jake Tapper after a Democratic primary debate, discussing whether then President Donald Trump’s profile should be removed from the platform, called Twitter at the time…

Question is,
how reckless, lawless will they ( maga ) go

and to show in exact words where Kamala said she wants to shutdown X. Where she even mentioned X or Elon.

The clip is from 2019 it shows Harris speaking with CNN host Jake Tapper after a Democratic primary debate, discussing whether then President Donald Trump’s profile should be removed from the platform, called Twitter at the time…

NEW YORK — As former President Donald Trump courts the community’s vote, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe crudely mocked Latinos — a key constituency for any winning campaign in 2024 — during preprogramming for the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally.

With nine days remaining until the election, Trump gathered scores of his most popular surrogates and allies to rally thousands in midtown Manhattan, a reliably deep-blue area.

Hinchcliffe, taking the first slot among nearly 30 warmup speakers, launched into a crude and disparaging set of jokes about the conflict in the Middle East, Black voters and Latinos.

“These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe said, setting up his joke: “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They c-- inside, just like they did to our country.”

A few moments later, the comedian took a second swing at a key voting bloc within the community: Puerto Ricans.

“There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” he said to a scattering of claps and jeers.

He also told a joke about one of his Black “buddies” and how they “carved watermelons” together.

Battleground Pennsylvania, where polling margins show a razor-thin race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, is home to the third-largest Puerto Rican diaspora in the country. Last month, the former president invited Puerto Rican artist Anuel AA onstage at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to publicly throw his support behind the Republican ticket.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment about Hinchcliffe’s jokes.

Speaking on a livestream with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sunday afternoon, Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, responded to the comedian’s comments.

“Who is that jack-wad? Who is that guy?” Walz asked after a clip of Hinchcliffe’s joke played on their stream.

“People in Puerto Rico are citizens. They pay tax and they serve in the military at almost a higher rate than anybody else,” Walz added, knocking Trump for his response to Hurricane Maria in 2017 — including a now-famous video clip of the then-president tossing paper towel rolls to Puerto Ricans seeking aid.

“Obviously, it’s super upsetting to me,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I need people to understand that when you have some a-hole calling Puerto Rico floating garbage, know that that’s what they think about you.”

Puerto Rico, which is home to over 3 million American citizens, according to the 2020 census, experienced significant outward migration to the mainland United States after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island territory in 2017.

Puerto Ricans who live on the island are not eligible to vote in presidential elections (the commonwealth does hold elections and award delegates to both Democratic and Republican primary candidates) despite being U.S. citizens.

But their relatives on the mainland can.

Harris, for her part, unveiled her plan for Puerto Rico as she campaigned in Pennsylvania on Sunday, posting details to her social media accounts and adding a section to her campaign website. Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican rapper and singer, shared Harris’ announcement with his more than 45 million Instagram followers.