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Vice President Kamala Harris Did Nothing To ‘Earn’ The Democrat Nomination


By: Jordan Boyd | October 11, 2024

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Vice President Kamala Harris confidently declared during her Univision town hall on Thursday night that she deserved the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee title she currently holds. The allegedly undecided voters who watched the Democrat and corporate media collusion to coup President Joe Biden out of power and replace him with Harris, however, aren’t so sure. One voter in the crowd at the Las Vegas event specifically asked the candidate to soothe his concerns that former President Joe Biden “was pushed aside” during Democrats’ 2024 presidential nomination process.

“I am honored to have earned the Democratic nomination. I am honored to have the endorsement of people from every walk of life,” Harris said, before commencing a rant about how former President Donald Trump would “terminate the Constitution of the United States.”

Contrary to her claims, Harris did nothing to “earn” her spot as Trump’s opponent in the race for the White House. Instead, she played a large role in the Democrats’ and the corporate media’s successful attempt to coup the flailing Biden out of future office.

Despite mounting pressure to hand the 2024 election reins to someone else, Biden pledged he was “staying in the race.” Days later, however, a letter posted to the president’s X account claimed he would suddenly not seek re-election. Instead, Biden announced the VP chosen based on her sex and skin color would take over the Democrat ticket that millions of primary voters and 3,896 delegates had already dedicated to him.

Even before the 2024 election, Harris failed to curry favor with Americans. In 2019, the then-senator’s unpopularity forced her to drop out of the Democrat presidential primary before raking in a single vote.

When Biden was successfully couped out of the 2024 race, Harris was quickly handed a list of high-profile endorsements, something she made sure to mention in her town hall answer. But not even a good word from the ClintonsNancy Pelosiformer President Barack Obama, or NeverTrump Republicans can change Americans’ concerns that the VP and her Democrat allies altered the course of the 2024 election against voters’ wills.

Harris recently admitted during her “60 Minutes” sit down that “no one should be able to take for granted that they can just declare themselves a candidate and automatically receive support.”

“You have to earn it,” she explained.

The only thing Harris has truly “earned” over the last four years, however, is the ire of the people and country she so clearly hates.

It wasn’t long into her tenure that Harris was awarded the worst vice presidential rating in the history of modern polling. That honor was followed by months of abysmal job approval numbers that routinely ranked her worse at fulfilling her White House duties than the crises-plagued president.

Nearly every time she opens her mouth, Harris lies to the people she claims she wants to represent. When she’s not spouting falsehoods that she knows her allies in the corporate media will refuse to fact-check, the VP is insulting voters everywhere by playing politics during devastating natural disasters and attempting to distance herself from the crises she helped create.

Just as the voter who questioned the circumstances surrounding Harris’ nomination suspected, the VP did nothing to “earn” his or any other Americans’ trust or vote. Instead, she’s done everything — including pledging to throw her political opponents in prison and trying to nuke the filibuster — to subdue those Americans’ voices and voting power.


Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.

Almost 50K Wisconsin Voters Choose ‘Uninstructed’ Over Biden


By Sandy Fitzgerald    |   Wednesday, 03 April 2024 01:38 PM EDT

Read more at https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/wisconsin-uninstructed-biden/2024/04/03/id/1159658/

Just under 50,000 voters in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary Tuesday cast ballots for an “uninstructed” delegation in a protest vote against how President Joe Biden is handling the war between Israel and Hamas. The approximately 48,000 votes, or about 8% of the total outcome, was more than 10 times as many as chose the “uninstructed” choice in 2020 while surpassing the general election margin separating Biden and former President Donald Trump, reports The Hill.

Meanwhile, only 2% of Republican voters in Wisconsin’s primary chose the “uninstructed” option.

“We had three weeks to pull off a presidential primary election,” the activist group Listen to Wisconsin said, celebrating the performance.

“Lots of tiring days and sleepless nights. But we would do it over again in a heartbeat,” the group said in a social media post. “Thank you, Wisconsin for making your voices heard today!”

In other states, protest votes have brought a total of 26 delegates, with Washington, Minnesota, and Michigan marking the strongest showings, but in Wisconsin, the “uninstructed” option did not result in any delegates, as that total did not go past the 15% support required.

Organizers in the movement set a goal of 20,000 votes, so the 48,000 cast more than doubled that target.

The votes come as critics call on Biden to back a full cease-fire in Gaza, which he is refusing to do, and after his criticism of the Israeli military action grows.

Progressive commentator Nina Turner applauded the vote, commenting on social media that Biden must “decide if loyalty to Netanyahu is worth delivering Trump the election in November. He must decide.”

The Biden administration has been pushing the Israeli government on civilian casualties and to let more humanitarian aid enter Gaza. The United Nations has warned that famine is beginning to set in in the region, with U.S. airdrops of aid falling too short of needs.

A planned pier in Gaza to deliver aid could take months, and according to the State Department, there are no plans for distributing the aid after the pier is finished.

Sandy Fitzgerald 

Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics. 

Today’s Politically INCORRECT Cartoon by A.F. Branco


A.F. Branco Cartoon – Wipeout

A.F. BRANCO | on January 23, 2024 | https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-wipeout/

Iowa and on to New Hampshire
A Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco 2024

The Iowa Primary was a Trump avalanche with DeSantis suspending his campaign and Haley moving on to New Hampshire pulling the race card with a load of dark money and the Democrats and RINOs helping her out.

Trump Takes Aim: Fiery Exchange with Haley Unveils Rifts and Strategies in New Hampshire Campaign

By Jim, January 17, 2024 Updated: January 17, 2024 WHATFINGER NEWS 

HALEY, WHO LEADS DESANTIS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, IS NOW TARGET NUMBER ONE FOR MAGA, TRUMP

At the rally tonight 1/17: Donald Trump says Democrats are infiltrating the Republican primary and voting for Nikki Haley in an attempt to take him out. Democrats just love rigging elections. Trump’s not wrong. According to CBS News, the situation was so bad in Iowa that in one precinct, they ran out of the forms to switch party registration. “The most interesting development… they had 50 forms for people who wanted to register tonight or switch their party registration,” said a reporter. “They ran out of those forms. Members of the caucus team here had to run out to multiple people’s homes to get printer paper and get their… READ MORE

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Colorado GOP Will Move to Caucus System If Trump Decision Stands


By Solange Reyner    |   Wednesday, 20 December 2023 12:39 PM EST

Read more at https://www.newsmax.com/us/colorado-gop-party/2023/12/20/id/1146648/

The Colorado Republican Party on Wednesday rallied around Donald Trump after the state supreme court ruled the former president was ineligible for reelection because he stoked an insurrection Jan. 6, 2021, saying it would withdraw from the primary election and move to a caucus system if the ruling stands.

“We think this is an absurd ruling and we’re going to do whatever we can to protect the rights of voters in Colorado and frankly, across the nation, if they choose Donald Trump,” Dave Williams, chair of the Colorado Republican Party, told CNN.

“But we’re going to appeal this to the United States Supreme Court. We’re a party to the case, and we’re not going to take this lying down and, if need be, we’re going to withdraw from the primary and go to a strict caucus process that would allow our voters to choose Donald Trump if they want,” he added.

A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race.

The decision from a court whose justices were all appointed by Democrat governors marks the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.

Trump has vowed to appeal the state high court’s 4-3 decision.

GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday pledged to withdraw if the disqualification of Trump is sustained.

“I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot until Trump is also allowed to be on the ballot,” Ramaswamy said in a video Tuesday.

“And I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley do the same immediately — or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver, which will have disastrous consequences for our country.”

Solange Reyner | editorial.reyner@newsmax.com

Solange Reyner is a writer and editor for Newsmax. She has more than 15 years in the journalism industry reporting and covering news, sports and politics.

3rd GOP Debate’s Ratings Plunge 71% Since 2015, RNC’s McDaniel Blamed


By Jim Thomas    |   Thursday, 09 November 2023 09:35 PM EST

Read more at https://www.newsmax.com/politics/gop-primary-third-debate/2023/11/09/id/1141741/

The third Republican presidential primary debate, hosted by NBC News, witnessed a dramatic viewership decline with just over 6 million viewers tuning in, marking the lowest audience turnout of the current campaign season and a 45% drop in viewers from the first debate. The drop in Wednesday’s debate was blamed on RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, with GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticizing her handling of the forums and calling for her to resign.

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“We’ve got [NBC’s] Kristen Welker here,” Ramaswamy said during the debate.

“Do you think the Democrats would actually hire [Fox News host] Greg Gutfeld to host a Democratic debate? They wouldn’t do it.”

McDaniel organized the presidential debates and reportedly offended former President Donald Trump by giving Fox News control over the first two forums. She has awarded the primary debate hosting position for the third and fourth debates to liberal media outlets, including NBC. Ramaswamy made waves challenging McDaniels during the debate.

“For that matter, Ronna, if you want to come on stage tonight, you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will turn over [and] yield my time to you,” he said.

“Think about who’s moderating this debate. This should be Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk. We’d have 10 times the viewership asking questions that GOP primary voters actually care about.”

NBC’s debate attracted 6.8 million viewers on linear television, with 1.3 million falling within the 25-54 age demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research. Wednesday night’s audience figure was lower than the 9 million viewers who tuned in for the second GOP presidential primary debate in September, which was broadcast on Fox Business and Fox News.

The third GOP debate was also significantly lower than the nearly 12.8 million who watched the inaugural debate on Fox News back in August — as that event saw a 50% decline in ratings from the first debate of the 2016 campaign.

With then-candidate Trump attending, the Fox News 2015 prime-time GOP debate drew a record 24 million viewers.

Ramaswamy urged McDaniel to step down during this week’s GOP debate, blaming her for recent party losses.

“Let’s speak the truth,” Ramaswamy said. “Since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost in 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave that never came. We got trounced last night in 2023. And I think that we have to have accountability in our party.”

Ramaswamy’s call for McDaniel’s resignation drew strong grassroots support.

“What, exactly, does Ronna McDaniel do besides lose? The only thing she SHOULD do is RESIGN. Effective immediately,” media contributor Monica Crowley wrote on social media platform X on Tuesday.

“If Matt Gaetz can vacate Kevin McCarthy, I think it’s time for President Trump to vacate Ronna McDaniel,” social media maven Rogan O’Handley wrote on his DC_Draino X account Wednesday. “Only he has the power to do it at this point.”

The fourth GOP primary debate is scheduled for Dec. 6 in Alabama, shifting from mainstream media to liberal cable.

Jim Thomas | editorial.thomas@newsmax.com

Jim Thomas is a writer based in Indiana. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, a law degree from U.I.C. Law School, and has practiced law for more than 20 years.

Rasmussen Poll: Trump Expands GOP Support to 50 Percent


By Eric Mack    |   Monday, 06 November 2023 01:42 PM EST

Read more at https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-gop-primary/2023/11/06/id/1141176/

Some GOP pollsters have considered former President Donald Trump having all but won the Republican presidential primary, and now his support in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll has reached a majority 50% among likely voters.

Trump now leads the field by 38 points after having pulled 45% support in September’s edition of the Rasmussen poll.

The full GOP primary results:

  1. Trump 50%
  2. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis 12%
  3. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley 9%
  4. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie 5%
  5. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy 3%
  6. Former Vice President Mike Pence 3%
  7. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. 2%
  8. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson 1%
  9. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum 0%
  10. Undecided 14%

Notably, Pence has since officially ended his campaign, saying, “it is not my time.”

When the nationwide poll expands to include Democrat and third-party voters for those with open primaries, the also-rans pick up a little bit of support against Trump.

“In states with open primaries — allowing voters to choose which primary they vote in without regard for their party registration — Trump’s advantage could be diluted by the potential ‘crossover’ vote,” according to the Rasmussen Reports analysis.

“While Trump gets 63% of the vote among self-identified Republican voters, the former president is supported by only 33% of Democrats and 46% of unaffiliated voters who say they’re likely to vote in their state’s 2024 GOP primaries.

“Several of Trump’s primary rivals — including DeSantis, Haley, and Christie — draw a significant share of their support from Democrats and unaffiliated voters.”

Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,344 likely Republican primary voters and 2,015 likely U.S. primary voters Oct. 26-31 and Nov. 1-2, 2023. The margin of error for GOP primary voters is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Eric Mack | editorial.mack@newsmax.com

Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.

Morning Consult Poll: Trump Tops GOP, Ties Biden


By Eric Mack    |   Tuesday, 03 October 2023 11:47 AM EDT

Read more at https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/morning-consult-poll-donald-trump-gop/2023/10/03/id/1136792/

After the second Republican Party primary debate, it has become increasingly clear the GOP presidential nomination is former President Donald Trump’s to lose.

Another poll shows the 2024 presidential election might be his to win, too.

Trump is tied with President Joe Biden at 43% in a hypothetical matchup in the latest Morning Consult Poll released this week.

Trump’s standing among GOP voters has been steady and dominant for a long time, but even Democrat (53%) and independent (63%) voter majorities say it is likely Trump will win the GOP primary. Those figures are up 7 and 8 points since the first debate among those registered voters, respectively, according to the pollster.

Not only do potential GOP primary voters side with Trump by 48 points over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the rest of the field, but 61% say Trump has the best chance of beating President Joe Biden.

That matches his overall support in the GOP primary field, according to the poll:

  1. Trump 61%
  2. DeSantis 13%
  3. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley 7%
  4. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy 7%
  5. Former Vice President Mike Pence 5%
  6. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie 3%
  7. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., 1%
  8. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum 1%
  9. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson 0%

Trump outperforms DeSantis against Biden, too, drawing 4 more points in support their head-to-heads. DeSantis trails Biden by 3 points 42%-39%.

Much of Trump’s big lead is attributable to the lack of strength of a runner-up choice. Ramaswamy had surged to challenge DeSantis for that position after the first debate, but now that bump has gone from Ramaswamy to Haley.

“Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy’s backing has fallen from an 11% high a month ago to 7%, matching former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s level of support,” according to pollster Eli Yokley. “This aligns with a shift in the kind of buzz that’s breaking through to the GOP’s electorate about the two candidates, with Ramaswamy’s trending more negatively and Haley’s trending more positively.”

Morning Consult polled 3,587 potential Republican primary voters Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 with a margin of error of plus/minus 2 percentage points. No methodology was provided for the hypothetical general election tests.

Eric Mack 

Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.

HUGE SCANDAL: Oregon Changes Hundreds Of Republican Ballots To “Non Partisan” Denying GOP Voters the Right To Participate In Primary


Reported By Brock Simmons | Published May 18, 2020 at 9:48pm

Disturbing news is coming out of Oregon, as hundreds of people are reporting that their voter registration was switched from Republican to non affiliated without their knowledge or permission.

Oregon is entirely vote-by-mail, and ballots were sent out in the last week of April, and due this Tuesday at 8:00 PM. Many were shocked to open their ballot to find that they were no longer with the party they thought they were with, and they received non partisan ballots. As Oregon is a closed primary state, this effectively denies these people the right to vote in the party’s primary that they thought they were registered as.

This is only reportedly happening to folks who were registered as Republican.

The non affiliated ballots allow the voter to vote for local non partisan races, judge seats, and ballot measures, but they do not get to vote in any of the Republican primary races, which includes two hotly contested Congressional races, along with several state legislature seats, and the Secretary Of State race.

The deadline to update your voter registration in Oregon was April 27th, so it’s too late for any of these people to get the right ballot. Some are reporting that they didn’t even get options for local non partisan races or ballot measures on their ballot, only judge seats. Others are reporting that they straight up received the wrong party ballot. Some are saying they’ve switched their registration back to republican, but then they check again and it’s been re-switched back to non affiliated.

A facebook group called My Party Was Changed Oregon has been started, and hundreds have congregated there to share their stories. Here are a few screencaps of what people are experiencing (personal identifiers have been redacted):

State representative Mike Nearman has been following this and went on the radio with Lars Larson today:

The confusion seems to have something to do with the new-ish Motor Voter law, which automatically registers people to vote who visit the DMV. By default, they are registered as non affiliated unless they either opt out or specify that they want to be part of a party. Except many of the people in this group say they haven’t done anything at the DMV in quite some time, and received Republican ballots in the last election.

Nonetheless, the DMV seems to be the scapegoat in all of this.

Furthermore, as Representative Nearman explains, the elections office is supposed to mail you a little card if there’s been a change in your registration.

A select few of these people were able to contact their county elections office in time, and were able to procure a Republican ballot after going down to the office and explaining the situation. Knowing how crooked and backwards Oregon is, I wouldn’t be surprised if these people end up getting charged with some kind of crime because wacked out democrat attorney general Ellen Rosenblum and Secretary of State Bev Clarno will claim that those folks are somehow illegally voting in the republican primary that they originally wanted to vote in.

If this is happening to you, join the Facebook group and share your story, as this could result in some sort of legal action against the state. If you believe your civil rights are being violated, you can file complaints with the FBI’s civil rights division and with the federal Department of Justice’s civil rights division.

Here are a bunch more screen captures from that Facebook group, as people tell their stories (click to enlarge):

 

Over 1.8 Million Republican Texans Voted for Donald Trump in Unopposed Presidential Primary


Reported by Charlie Spiering | 

URL of the original posting site: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/04/over-1-8-million-republican-texans-voted-for-donald-trump-in-unopposed-presidential-primary/

Donald Trump smiles at State of the Union (Win McNamee / AFP / Getty)

President Donald Trump did not face a serious Republican challenger in Texas, but he still earned nearly two million votes in the state for his re-election.

Trump received 1,871,515 total votes in the Texas Republican primary on Tuesday, with 99.5 percent of the vote reporting. That’s more than the top four remaining Democrats combined, as currently former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, and Elizabeth Warren have earned a total of 1.7 million votes in Texas, with 91.3 percent of the vote reporting, although the Democrat votes are still being counted.

Trump received the most votes ever for an incumbent president running in Texas.

Fifteen years ago, 635,948 Republican Texans voted for then-President George W. Bush in the 2004 Republican primary. In 2012, 520,410 Democrats voted for then-President Barack Obama in their primary.

Texan Republicans did have a Senate primary in the state in 2020, but Sen. John Cornyn was the easy winner with 74 percent of the vote.

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