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Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is apparently still fuming over her loss to President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. During a recent appearance on Kara Swisher’s New York Times Opinion podcast, “Sway,” the former secretary of state alleged that she was “born” to be president and that it literally makes her “sick” to her stomach to think of another Trump win. At one point during the lengthy interview, Swisher asked Clinton if she thought a woman president would handle the coronavirus pandemic more ably. Clinton quickly responded by tooting her own horn, saying, “I have no doubt, especially if it were me.” I was born for that. I mean, that’s why I knew I’d be a good president. I was ready for crises and emergencies, and I would have done what you see these women leaders doing. You listen to the science. You bring in people in an open, inclusive way. You communicate constantly, you make the case by explaining why what you’re doing is in the long-term interests, not ...

If President Donald Trump wins re-election next month, he will move to “immediately” dismiss at least three senior government officials, according to a new report from Axios. The three officials include FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper. According to Axios, Wray will be first on the chopping block. Two sources who reportedly have discussed the plans personally with Trump told Axios that Wray and Haspel are “despised and distrusted almost universally in Trump’s inner circle.” One source told Axios that Trump would have fired both officials already, but did not want to instigate another political headache before Election Day. Trump is reportedly angry that Wray has not opened an investigation into Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, which have come under intense scrutiny this month after the New York Post obtained a hard drive that reportedly belonged to Hunter Biden. According to Axios, Trump was also angry when Wray told...

President Donald Trump mocked Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Monday after he confused the current commander-in-chief with former President George W. Bush. “Joe Biden called me George yesterday. Couldn’t remember my name. Got some help from the anchor to get him through the interview. The Fake News Cartel is working overtime to cover it up!” Trump wrote on Twitter. Joe Biden called me George yesterday. Couldn’t remember my name. Got some help from the anchor to get him through the interview. The Fake News Cartel is working overtime to cover it up! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 26, 2020 Biden mixed up the two presidents delivering a speech during an “I Will Vote” event on Sunday. “The character of the country, in my view, is literally on the ballot,” the 77-year-old said. “Four more years of George, uh, George, uh, he, uh—we’re going to find ourselves in a position where, if Trump gets elected, we’re going to be in a different world.’ Biden appeared...

Over the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, referring to a story of a veteran from Rochester, New York, who had reportedly committed suicide because he couldn’t pay his mortgage, tweeted, “We recently learned the tragically sad story of a veteran in the Rochester region. When he stopped receiving increased unemployment insurance, he couldn’t pay his mortgage and heartbreakingly committed suicide. I just demanded we pass suicide prevention acts.” Schumer reportedly left the tweet, which was termed “horribly tone deaf,” up for hours before deleting it. Chuck @SenSchumer finally deleted this horribly tone deaf tweet. Amazing that he left this mess up for 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/i6SPcznIPI — Matt Poldberg (@NotSpamIpromise) October 25, 2020 Schumer’s focus on suicide prevention rather than addressing the heart of the matter, the Democrats’ refusal to pass a coronavirus relief bill so the veteran could have gotten the money he needed, dovetails with House Speaker Nan...

It’s no secret that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his VP pick Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) have struggled with less than stellar supporter turnout at their events, drawing crowds so small that local anchors have been left scratching their heads on-air. For example, on Saturday, only 130 cars reportedly showed up for a Biden drive-in rally at the Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania, according to the New York Post. Moreover, as reported by CNN’s MJ Lee, Trump supporters gathered where Biden was speaking and waved their flags and honked their horns. Rowdy scene as Joe Biden speaks at drive-in rally in Bucks County, PA — Trump supporters waving flags and honking during his speech pic.twitter.com/Qa6m9Zdbsr — MJ Lee (@mj_lee) October 24, 2020 Former President Barack Obama apparently has the same problem — especially when contrasted with President Donald Trump’s rally sizes. While asking Floridians to support Biden at a drive-in rally on Saturday,...

Senate Democrats asked Vice President Mike Pence to stay away from the vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett because of his reported exposure to staffers who have tested positive for COVID-19. Pence would serve as the tie-breaking vote should the Senate be deadlocked 50-50 on Barrett’s nomination, but only one Republican has so far said she will vote against the 48-year-oold mother of seven, and Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the chamber. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his leadership team wrote in a letter to Pence that not only would his presence violate Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, “it also be a violation of common decency and courtesy.” Democrats said in the letter that it’s “not a risk worth taking,” according to copy obtained by the Associated Press. “Nothing about your presence in the Senate tomorrow can be considered essential,” the Democrats wrote, warning that there would be a risk not just to senators but the Capi...

After Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee decided they would boycott the committee vote on Thursday sending the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Senate floor for confirmation, Rep. Dan Crenshaw ridiculed them on Twitter. Crenshaw wrote, “‘We can’t vote for her, because our radical base will get mad. We can’t vote against her because she’s immensely qualified and Americans actually like her. So we will just be dramatic juveniles and not show up.’ That’s Senate Dems for ya.” “We can’t vote for her, because our radical base will get mad. We can’t vote against her because she’s immensely qualified and Americans actually like her. So we will just be dramatic juveniles and not show up.” That’s Senate Dems for ya. https://t.co/t3mAgGEVza — Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) October 22, 2020 As The Daily Wire reported, instead of voting, the Democrats on the committee petulantly placed large photos of individuals they claimed would be detrimentally affecte...

Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign appeared on Thursday to respond to the latest explosive reports regarding a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden by claiming that if President Donald Trump attacks Biden’s family at the debate, then he is “amplifying Russian misinformation.” The statement from Biden Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield comes hours after new explosive reports outlined more messages that purportedly came from the laptop and after an alleged former business associate, a pro-Democrat Navy veteran, came forward and said that Hunter Biden asked his father to “sign-off” on deals. “If we see tonight from Donald Trump these attacks on Vice President Biden’s family, I think we need to be very, very clear that what he’s doing here is amplifying Russian misinformation,” Bedingfield said, according to Wall Street Journal reporter Ken Thomas. Biden campaign's @KBeds on debate: "If we see tonight from Donald Trump these attacks on Vice Preside...

After largely staying quiet about her political views in the wake of her saying that deadly, destructive hurricanes were “mother nature’s wrath” due to climate change, actress Jennifer Lawrence has jumped into the fray again to air her grievances about President Trump. Speaking on the “Absolutely Not” podcast, the “Hunger Games” star said she changed her original Republican “politics based on the things I learned.” “My first time voting, I voted for John McCain. I was a little Republican,” Lawrence said. Lawrence appreciated “the fiscal benefits of the Republican policies” at the time she first voted while recognizing that the “social issues weren’t in line with my views.” “When Donald Trump got elected, that just changed everything,” she said, as reported by USA Today. “This is an impeached president who’s broken many laws and has refused to condemn white supremacy, and it feels like there has been a line drawn in the sand. I don’t want to support a president who supports white su...

With the GOP in serious danger of losing control of the Senate, every contested seat counts, and if the GOP picks up a seat from a Democratic incumbent that would mean the Democrats would have to pick up two extra seats to gain an advantage. Thus, the suddenly neck-and-neck race in Minnesota, where GOP senatorial candidate Jason Lewis has surged from an 11-point deficit to incumbent Democrat Tina Smith to a tiny one-point differential, has a chance to cement the GOP’s control of the Senate if Lewis can triumph. KSTP/SURVEYUSA: Tina Smith 43%; Jason Lewis 42%; 12% undecided; 3% people other. Confidence Interval +/- 5%. Smith had 11-point lead in September and 7-point lead earlier this month. pic.twitter.com/mX91q0MI6X — Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) October 21, 2020 John Hinderaker of Powerline notes: As everyone knows, control over the Senate is teetering on a knife’s edge. If the Democrats take control (perhaps needing a seat or two to spare), they will abolish the filibuster, pa...

On Thursday, the judge overseeing the case against four former Minneapolis police officers charged with killing George Floyd dismissed a third-degree murder charge against lead officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin will now face charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, both of which carry much heavier penalties than the third-degree charge. KARE Minneapolis reports that all four defendants in the Floyd case — Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas Lane, and J. Alexander Kueng — petitioned for the judge to dismiss their charges, but the judge in the matter ruled against all but one of the petitions — the petition to drop the third-degree murder charge leveled against Chauvin. The other three officers are still charged with “aiding and abetting” a second-degree murder. Thursday morning’s decision is expected to be the first in a flurry of decisions outlining how Chauvin’s and the other officers’ trials will proceed. All four officers moved not just to have their charges dropped but...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who masterminded the boycott plan, was left to hold a planned press conference, announcing the boycott, at 10 am — an hour after Republicans had finished voting. “Democrats will not lend a single ounce of legitimacy to this sham vote in the judiciary,” Schumer said at his hastily pulled together presser on the Capitol steps. “The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process I have ever witnessed in the Senate, and her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the Senate for the Supreme Court and our entire country for generations to come,” Schumer, who has been working to roadblock Barrett’s nomination for the last week, added. “The Senate Republican majority is conducting the most rushed, the most partisan, and the least legitimate nomination to the Supreme Court in our nation’s history.” “This hearing was anything but fair,” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) added. “Republicans broke committee rules, but i...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to subpoena the testimonies of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after all 10 Democrats boycotted the panel’s hearing to advance the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. Republican members want the two CEOs to testify about their handling of a recent series of articles by the New York Post, America’s fourth-largest newspaper, concerning former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s business dealings. Both social media sites suppressed the stories. Zuckerberg and Dorsey are already set to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee next week. The Judiciary Committee voted to compel the CEOs to testify about their “suppression and/or censorship” of the Post articles, one that alleged Hunter Biden introduced his father to a top executive at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company where he worked. Joe Biden repeatedly refused to answer questions about the matter, but finally broke...

National polls on the presidential race are mostly pointless. They may show trends in popularity, but in the end, it’s the individual states that matter. Consider this: In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton beat President Donald Trump in the popular vote by 2,868,518 votes. But she lost in the Electoral College, the only vote that counts, by a huge margin: 304-227. So all eyes will be on a batch of key battleground states come Election Night. And some new polls are now showing that Joe Biden’s once-hefty lead in several of those states is dissipating. A University of Northern Florida-Public Opinion Research Lab poll released on Wednesday puts Biden’s lead over Trump at just one point, 48% to 47%. “While some polls have shown Biden with a big lead in Florida and other key states, we made an effort to capture hard-to-reach voters and our results suggest that it might be a long night on November 3rd,” said Dr. Michael Binder, faculty director and associate professor of po...

None of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee showed up Thursday for the planned committee vote on whether to send Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the full Senate. The rules say in order to have a quorum, at least two members of the minority party must be present. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday said “to my Democratic colleagues, you had four days of hearings, two days to question the judge. She deserves an up-or-down vote. She did an outstanding job representing herself… She deserves better than this but she will get out of the committee today. I have the votes to get her out of committee.” Instead of showing up, Democrats on the panel put pictures of people who rely upon the Affordable Care Act in their chairs. Graham waived the rule requiring minority participation and the committee voted unanimously 12-0 to move ACB’s nomination forward. On Wednesday, Graham said that Barrett would receive a vote on ...

A laptop allegedly belonging to Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was reportedly subpoenaed by the FBI late last year in connection to a money laundering investigation, according to documents obtained by Fox News. The documents were reportedly confirmed as being authentic by multiple federal law enforcement officials and by “two separate government officials.” Fox News reported: The document has a “Case ID” section, which is filled in with a hand-written number: 272D-BA-3065729. According to multiple officials, and the FBI’s website, “272” is the bureau’s classification for money laundering, while “272D” refers to “Money Laundering, Unknown SUA [Specified Unlawful Activity]—White Collar Crime Program,” according to FBI documents. One government official described “272D” as “transnational or blanket.” “BA” indicates the case was opened in the FBI’s Baltimore field office, sources said. One government source told the network that “[t]he FBI cannot open a ...

Legendary Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, said Wednesday that, after being hospitalized, he was driven to beat his fight against the coronavirus because he wanted to be alive to vote for President Donald Trump. Bowden, 91, was admitted to the hospital earlier this month after testing positive for the coronavirus and experiencing symptoms. “I want to thank all the many, many people who were thinking of and praying for me over the last few weeks. I just went through a battle with Covid-19, and God just wasn’t ready to take me Home yet to be with Him,” Bowden said in a statement. “Most of you know I’m 91 years old, and the fight was tough. But thanks to the help of Dr. Michael Forsthoefel, and the support of Ann and all my children, I beat It.” “I’ve had the chance to get a lot of wins In my life, but I really wanted to win this one because I wanted to be around to vote for President Trump,” Bowden said. “I have always said that...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously Thursday Morning to send Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the full senate. Democrats on the committee boycotted the vote, falsely claiming the process was illegitimate. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) noted the Democrats’ boycott at the beginning of Thursday’s hearing, saying “we are not going to allow them to take over the committee.” He added: “They made a choice not to participate.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the process was illegitimate since the election is so close and people have already started voting. “We will not grant this process any further legitimacy by participating in a committee markup of this nomination just twelve days before the culmination of an election that is already underway,” Schumer said in a statement that included the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. Now that Barrett’s nomination has passed the committee, she will likely be confirmed by the full S...

Staying true to form, actor Matthew McConaughey has sent another message of unity ahead of the 2020 presidential election by encouraging Americans to “embrace” the results, whichever way they land. Speaking with “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday, the Academy Award-winning actor said that people need to get constructive after the election. “It’s not inevitable who’s going to win,” McConaughey said. “After that happens, whether it’s an incumbent or whether it’s Biden, after it happens is when it’s time to get constructive and not be in denial,” McConaughey added. Rather than getting caught up in thoughts of denial, McConaughey said that people should “embrace the situation” and not allow themselves to wallow in negativity about the future. “It’s time to get constructive and not deny the fact of whatever’s happened and embrace the situation,” he said. “Whoever is going to be commander in chief and president of the United States of America, that’s not something, hopefully, that we’re ...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared that Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson “should be ashamed of himself” for suggesting that members of the Biden family profited off the family’s name. “Hunter Biden, together with other Biden family members, profited off the Biden name,” Johnson stated during an interview on Fox News this week. “That’s what’s happening here. What we revealed in our 87-page report is a vast web of connections with Chinese nationals, with people all over the world. Again, trading on the Biden name. But it’s these business dealings – you know, our report raises far more questions than it actually answered – but it raises so many troubling issues that the mainstream media is simply not looking at. They are suppressing the information, which is a scandal in and of itself.” A reporter for WISN 12 asked Biden, “Wisconsin’s Republican senator, Ron Johnson, put out a statement on Homeland Security letterhead, saying Hunter Biden, together with other Biden fami...

Pope Francis came out in support of civil union laws for same-sex couples, according to a new documentary that premiered Wednesday in Rome. “Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family,” Francis said in “Francesco,” a new film about his life and papacy, according to Catholic News Agency. “They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it.” “What we have to create is a civil union law,” the pope continued. “That way they are legally covered. I stood up for that.” “Francesco,” according to its website, is “a film that shows us the world as it is today and a path to understanding a better future for tomorrow, through the remarkable work of Pope Francis. It is a search for hope, humanity, compassion, unity, and redemption inside the darkness of our times.” Its trailer highlights some of the pope’s comments on the coronavirus pandemic, the environment, and clerical sex abuse, as well as his oblique condemnation o...

British media personality Piers Morgan slammed mainstream journalists and tech companies during an appearance on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday, saying that if the Hunter Biden laptop story were about the Trump family, they would be acting in a completely different manner. “Journalism, freedom of speech dictates, the First Amendment dictates that when a story like this drops, and it’s not being denied by the people it’s accusing for six days now, clearly there’s something there that they want to hide,” Morgan began. “The job of a newspaper, of a television network, of anybody frankly in the media who believes in freedom of speech and believes in journalism, is to go and investigate the allegations the New York Post has made.” “It’s not the job of tech giants like Facebook and Twitter to have an instinctive reaction to suppress every element of that story or for most of the mainstream media to say, nothing to see here, in fact, the only story is this terrible smear on ...

Four newborn babies have died after they were denied lifesaving treatment due to coronavirus-related lockdown travel restrictions implemented by politicians in Australia. “Four Newborns in Adelaide have died after being denied lifesaving heart surgery because it wasn’t available in Adelaide, and they couldn’t be transferred interstate because of travel restrictions,” reported 9News Australia. Their deaths have sparked outrage from medical professionals in the area demanding change. “Medical professionals in South Australia are calling for urgent action this morning following shocking revelations of the deaths of four babies,” said a 9News Australia anchor on-air, Tuesday. “The newborns were denied lifesaving heart surgery because it wasn’t available in Adelaide, and they couldn’t be transferred interstate because of travel restrictions.” “Adelaide is the only capital city in mainland Australia that doesn’t have its own infant cardiac unit,” he noted. “As one obstetrician said yest...