Month: July 2024

July 24, 2024, may prove to be one of America’s most extraordinary days.  As it would unfold, events of the 24th would not have the overwhelming shock and trauma of Pearl Harbor, Sept. 11, 2001, or the murder of President John F. Kennedy.   But at no other time in American history has a current and former president…
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Janiyah Thomas has carved her way through the Republican Party, working both for South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s presidential campaign, which he ended in November and later endorsed former President Trump, and for the Republican National Convention. She has since joined the Trump campaign, where she now serves as the former president’s Black media director.…
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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP vice presidential nominee, said this weekend his feelings are not hurt by Democrats labeling him “weird” as past comments he made before being tapped as former President Trump’s running mate are resurfaced. “No, not at all,” Vance told a Fox News reporter in an interview that aired Sunday. “It…
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Trump gunman planned to use explosives to help escape rally site, lawmaker says  CBS Pittsburghsource

In ‘vibe’ election, battleground poll shifts should scare Donald Trump as 2024 race could be slipping away  New York Post source

As a novelist, it’s my belief and experience that stories are the most — maybe the only — effective way to move people.   At every juncture in our lives, we seek narratives to explain and comfort and celebrate. We bond through shared stories, choose friends and spouses and jobs and places to live based…
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President Biden’s former communications director poured water on some Democrat’s concerns Sunday that former President Trump implied there won’t be future elections if he’s elected again. Trump made the remarks at a Turning Point USA event on Friday, telling supporters, “In four years, you won’t have to vote again.” Kate Bedingfield wrote on social media…
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Cardi B Worries About Donald Trump ‘Dictatorship’ After Ex-Prez Promises Followers ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’  Yahoo! Voicessource

FBI confirms that a sniper’s bullet caused Donald Trump’s ear injury  USA TODAYsource

Well, that didn’t take long.  MAGA-supporting Republicans set a land speed record rolling out sexist and racist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris as soon as it looked like she’d be the Democratic presidential nominee.  So much for unifying the country.  Many of these attacks leaned on the offensive trope that she is a “DEI” (diversity,…
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Trump endorses both candidates in Arizona House primary after previously taking sides  The Hillsource

Fraud claims emerge in Venezuelan election. And, Trump hopes to regain the spotlight  NPRsource

Donald Trump’s real estate fraud judge won’t recuse based on ‘forced encounter’ with lawyer  USA TODAYsource

Security at former President Trump’s Butler, Pa., rally first noticed the man who later shot at Trump more than 90 minutes before shots were fired, according to texts reported by The New York Times, adding to criticism of the Secret Service’s handling of the event. A local countersniper first noticed gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks at…
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Trump gunman planned to create ‘diversion’ with explosives to escape, Mike McCaul says  POLITICOsource

Veteran political strategist James Carville smartly said that the big challenge for Kamala Harris is introducing herself to voters before the Trump camp trashes her. “We’re holding the bucket of paint to define her at a time of our choosing,” Chris LaCivita, the Trump campaign’s co-manager, recently told The Bulwark. “She owns the Biden record. We’ve got…
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Schumer: Trump Probably Regrets Picking ‘Weird’ J.D. Vance  Rolling Stonesource

Attorney General Rokita warns Hoosiers of charitable scams related to attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump  WTCA – GIANT fm – Real Radiosource

Just a week after President Biden upended the presidential race with his withdrawal from the ticket, despite Donald Trump maintaining his lead, early polling suggests that Vice President Kamala Harris is certainly an improvement over Biden thus far.   Indeed, while polling is limited so shortly after Harris was effectively crowned Democratic nominee, the polls conducted since Biden…
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Mark Meadows takes bid to toss Georgia election charges to Supreme Court  The Washington Postsource

Trump and Vance team up to campaign in Minnesota, a state that hasn’t backed the GOP in 52 years  The Associated Presssource

None of the candidates on November’s election ballot will be listed as totalitarians, but we know totalitarianism is between the lines. Unfortunately, it’s not the election’s only ugly “ism.” Donald Trump record and rhetoric includes racism, militarism, misogynism, amoralism and even MAGA militia terrorism against those who oppose him.  However, another “ism” gets too little…
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Fox News host Trey Gowdy questioned Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sunday over a past remarks from the VP candidate criticizing people who are “childless” and calling Vice President Harris a “cat lady” in an insult that has resulted in bipartisan blowback. Gowdy, himself a former congressman, defended those without children in the opening monologue…
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Second man injured during Trump rally shooting has been released from the hospital  The Hillsource

Victim of undocumented immigrant’s 2008 attack, now cited by Trump allies, swipes at Harris  ABC Newssource