“Was CNN’s big Kamala Harris interview a dud?” asked the Washington Post. CNN itself criticized Kamala for her flip-flopping on border security. MSNBC ripped her for her flip flopping on Israel. Arch-leftist Chris Cillizza wondered if there is anything Kamala actually believes. Axios called her out for mimicking Biden’s basement campaign strategy. Even the Guardian insisted she needs to stop hiding and to talk to the press.

That’s certainly a 180 degree change from the headlines she was making throughout July.

What to make of all this? At this point in the Gore, Kerry, Obama, Clinton, and Biden campaigns, the media had by now firmly circled the wagons and was playing its dutiful part as a neutered Pravda to the Democrat Politburo. There was no question of ever criticizing their candidate in public. So what is different this time around?

There are two possible explanations for this newfound media skepticism and criticism of Kamala. The first explanation is that the media found its soul and is once again doing its job as a fair and balanced, objective arbiter of news and politics.

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But is that even true?

In reality, it doesn’t look like it would make much of a difference. It should come as no surprise that alternatives to Biden have already been polled against Trump to see what might happen if Joe Biden does drop out. […]

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The article was quickly debunked after it was first published, and Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, even admitted the story may have been wrong and that subsequent reports that the trip to the cemetery was canceled due to weather were likely true. In fact, weather reports confirmed that Trump’s visit to the cemetery was, indeed, canceled due to weather.

But, just because a story is debunked for years doesn’t mean Joe Biden won’t keep repeating it, and he, of course, did so during the debate.

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No one is immune from the impact of Bidenomics. According to a new report, the average renter can’t afford a typical U.S. apartment.

According to Redfin, the typical U.S. renter household earns about $54,712 per year, which is 17.3% less than the $66,120 needed to afford the median-priced apartment at $1,653 per month. This means that 61% of renters can’t afford their housing without significant financial stress. […]

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Pere Marquette Park will now be inside the security zone, meaning only credentialed attendees can access the park.

Instead of Pere Marquette, the protest zones will be smaller. Haymarket Park is located due east of the Fiserv Forum but attendees won’t have to worry about mixing it up with protesters since most of the hotels are west of the forum. Another protest zone, Zeidler Union Square, is five blocks from the Forum.

What does the RNC think of the new arrangement? […]

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Yet, it’s a poll from a non-battleground state making waves now.

A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll shows Trump ahead of Joe Biden by double digits in Iowa, with Trump leading 50% to 32% among likely voters with third-party candidates included in the poll. That’s an 18-point lead. The results come less than five months out from Election Day and before either candidate formally accepts his party’s nomination at their respective national conventions this summer.

They also come just weeks after Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts related to […]

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We’ve talked about how Joe Biden has been losing significant support from black voters since 2020, and this new poll continues to show the same trend.

In Pennsylvania, Biden gets 56% of the black vote, with Donald Trump getting 11%. Third party candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein collectively get 16%.

In Michigan, another must-win state for Joe Biden, he captures only 55% of the black vote, compared to Donald Trump’s 15% with another 15% going to the third party candidates. […]

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Professor and China expert Christopher Balding wrote a commentary piece for The Epoch Times that provided an interesting analysis of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attitudes and plans as revealed at the recently ended Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. But what is particularly striking is Balding’s explanation of the CCP sense of dominance by right or destiny. The CCP absolutely has dreams of global empire and sees such a reality as its due, but few Westerners appear to know about or understand this ideology.

Balding analyzes how the technically accurate translation of China’s name as the “Middle Kingdom” can confuse the West. The word “middle” in Chinese does not exactly mean what Westerners might think, “the middle seat in a row, for instance,” as […]

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Wearing a MAGA hat in a restaurant was all but asking for a side order of DNA on your cheeseburger.

The Biden administration was partly to blame. The DOJ decided that traditionally patriotic symbols like the Betsy Ross flag were suddenly signs of […]

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More practically, the verdict has opened the spigot of donations large and small. Money is pouring into the Trump campaign’s coffers to the tune of $53 million in the first 24 hours after the verdict.

The amount was “nearly double the biggest day ever recorded for the Trump campaign” and demonstrated that the guilty verdicts “have awakened the MAGA movement like never before.” One-third of the donors had never given to Trump previously.

“You can’t tell me that it doesn’t drive that low-propensity, unlikely voter into a frenzy and one where they are more inclined to engage in the election,” said Zack Roday, a Virginia-based Republican strategist. “This will drive turnout, and I think it will also drive people […]

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