Somehow the United States ended up this summer with no engaged president and an absent vice president who avoids the missing president and is frantically repudiating everything she co-owned the last three years.
The world was already confused over how President Joe Biden was apparently declared by unnamed Democratic insiders and donors unfit and unable to continue as their presidential candidate — as if he were a dethroned Third-World usurper.
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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares on Sunday responded to the recent arrest of an illegal immigrant who is charged with the abduction of a teenage girl and falsely claiming he was police officer by condemning Vice President Kamala Harris’ oversight of the southern border as “a betrayal” of the American people.
“This horrific crime is a direct result of Kamala Harris putting her political agenda above the safety of American citizens,” said Miyares in a post to the social media platform X. “It’s not just negligence; it’s a betrayal. Our communities’ safety should never be sacrificed for reckless, politically driven decisions.”
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Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick were both interviewed on Sunday by CNN host Manu Raju. In his remarks to the network, Casey declined to name a single area of disagreement with the Biden-Harris administration.
Asked why he continues to align himself with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris despite efforts by the McCormick campaign to remind voters of their alignment, Casey claimed Harris’ presidential campaign “brought a real lift to the turnout dynamics” in Pennsylvania.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued an immigration hold for Jeinson Hernandez-Moran, who is charged with attempted second degree murder in Knoxville after he allegedly struck another person in the head with a pickaxe. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly confirmed Hernandez-Moran is an illegal immigrant.
The Knoxville Police Department (KPD) reported the incident on Sunday, when it revealed a suspect was detained, and later confirmed Hernandez-Moran was charged with attempted second-degree murder after police claim he “critically injured another man,” who remained hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
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U.S. labor markets continued showing signs of weakening as job openings fell to 7.6 million in July, the lowest level since Feb. 2021. Job openings are now 4.6 million below their March 2022 high of 12.2 million, a more than 37 percent drop.
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A poll released Wednesday found Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) tied with his Republican opponent, Dave McCormick, as a plurality of Pennsylvania voters said the state of the economy was their most important issue.
The polling, released by SRSS and CNN on Wednesday, found Casey and McCormick both with the support of 46 percent of likely voters, tying the men in a race the Democrat previously dominated for months.
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President Joe Biden on Monday said Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure the release of hostages in brief remarks made after the recovery of the bodies of six who were captured by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, including U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Biden made the remarks ahead of his Monday rally in Pennsylvania with Vice President Kamala Harris, who Republicans have suggested was influenced by concerns of antisemitism within the Democratic Party when she passed over Governor Josh Shapiro and instead picked Governor Tim Walz to complete her presidential ticket.
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A Monday poll of Pennsylvania voters found former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris tied in a head-to-head race, but the former president with a narrow lead when voters were given the options of Green Party and Libertarian Party presidential candidates.
In a head-to-head contest, pollsters at Wick Insights reportedly found Harris and Trump tied, each with 49 percent of the vote.
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Two campaign staffers for Vice President Kamala Harris were previously involved in efforts to censor Americans for spreading purported “disinformation” about COVID-19 while working in the Biden-Harris White House.
Then-administration officials Rob Flaherty and Aisha Shah are named as having been involved in the government’s efforts to censor Americans in legal filings related to the Murthy v. Missouri lawsuit, which alleged that the federal government violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies to censor content related to the pandemic and other hot-button topics. On the Harris campaign team, Flaherty is now a deputy campaign manager and Shah is the director of digital partnerships, according to their respective LinkedIn profiles.
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Senator JD Vance (R-OH) on Wednesday told reporters gathered at his rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, that the end of the feud between former President Donald Trump and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, as well as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s and former Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s recent endorsements of the Trump-Vance ticket, prove Republicans are now the “big tent party.”
Vance’s remarks come after Kemp endorsed Trump earlier this month, despite the former president describing him as “disloyal” in a recent rally. The relationship between the former president and Georgia’s governor first deteriorated publicly as Trump contested the state’s election results in 2020.
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Governor Glenn Youngkin said on Wednesday that Virginia remains competitive for former President Donald Trump and Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) despite President Joe Biden dropping out of the race in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been credited with making up ground lost under Biden.
Youngkin made the remarks during an appearance on The Brian Kilmeade Show, initially acknowledging the recent poll results that showed Harris narrowly leading Trump within the survey’s margin of error.
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick on Wednesday released its Casey Inflation Calculator, a website known as Bobflation.com that charts price increases for popular Pennsylvania purchases and everyday necessities.
“Pennsylvania’s iconic food and experiences are becoming increasingly unaffordable because of Kamala Harris and Bob Casey’s reckless spending,” said McCormick in a statement. “See for yourself just how much prices have increased with our Casey Cost Calculator.”
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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will reportedly be in Atlanta on Thursday to attend a fundraiser benefiting former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance (R-OH) in their campaign to recapture the White House for the Republican Party.
Kemp’s appearance at the Atlanta fundraiser, revealed on Tuesday, will be the first since he and Trump publicly set aside their feud. It will occur as a Democratic bus tour featuring Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz reaches Savannah.
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As the third anniversary of the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 American soldiers dead and hundreds of Americans stranded nears, both former President Donald Trump’s campaign and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) criticized Democrats for the failed operation.
“On this day 3 years ago, Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss of Tennessee was tragically killed because of Biden & Harris’ colossal failure in pulling out of Afghanistan,” Blackburn said on X. “May we never forget the 13 brave servicemembers who lost their lives because of this administration’s negligence.”
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During a Monday campaign event, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said the fate of the control of the U.S. Congress will fall to Bucks County, where Republicans have gained a lead among registered voters for the first time in over a decade.
Shapiro delivered the remarks at a Bucks County campaign event in support of Senator Bob Casey, who will face former Trump administration official Dave McCormick in November, according to by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Former President Donald Trump held a slight lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in a poll that included Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former independent presidential candidate who suspended his campaign and endorsed Trump last week.
Noble Predictive Insights conducted the polling between August 12 and August 16, which occurred directly before the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and before Kennedy endorsed Trump.
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Rising grocery store prices over the last few years aren’t the fault of farmers or “greedy” corporations, a conservative North Carolina research organization concludes in a new documentary series and report.
Instead, higher energy prices and more regulations are the culprit, according to the John Locke Foundation documentary series Sowing Resilience.
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick issued a statement on Thursday, “slamming” Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) for his Democratic National Convention (DNC) speech that pinned the blame for higher prices on “greedflation,” with McCormick accusing the Democrat of voting for policies that were actually behind price hikes.
“Weak career politician Bob Casey voted for every bill that is driving higher prices, enabling open borders and the flood of fentanyl, crushing Pennsylvania’s energy sector, and encouraging violent crime,” said McCormick in a statement posted to the social media platform X.
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Former President Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp found the perfect narrative Thursday night to upstage Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination acceptance speech, ending their feud dating to the 2020 election with a full-throated embrace that played out on national television.
The mutual endorsement reunited two of the GOP’s most powerful figures heading into the November election, and made the road for Democrats to score a win in Georgia more difficult.
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Former Governor Terry McAuliffe on Thursday disputed the results of a Virginia poll that showed former President Donald Trump statistically tied with Vice President Kamala Harris in the commonwealth, raising allegations about the pollster’s credibility and claims its data was skewed, before arguing federal workers would turnout in sufficient numbers to propel the Harris-Walz ticket to victory.
McAuliffe claimed the pollster who released the Tuesday survey showing Trump and Harris statistically tied, with the Democrat leading the former president by just 3 percent, “has never had a poll that’s been correct in their life,” according to The Washington Times.
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Former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry on Tuesday announced an event titled “VP Kamala Harris Day” will take place on Saturday, issuing a flyer that invited Nashville Democrats to “win with black women” by attending.
The Barry campaign posted a campaign flyer to social media advertising an event, titled “VP Kamala Harris Day,” which will be held in Nashville on Saturday.
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Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump and co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), on Tuesday predicted softening in the feud between former President Donald Trump and Governor Brian Kemp after the Georgia leader reportedly offered his “political machine” to the Trump-Vance ticket.
The prediction came after the former president described Kemp as “disloyal” during an August 3 rally in Atlanta, which prompted questions about whether the terse relationship between the men that developed after the 2020 election results would impact the Trump campaign in November.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday blamed Democrats for the ballot access lawsuits by his independent presidential campaign faces from outside a courthouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he claimed a judge refused to allow him or a campaign official to testify because they were late to the courtroom.
Kennedy attributed blame for the legal challenges to his candidacy solely to Democrats, specifying Republicans have not engaged in such tactics, on the same day his vice presidential running mate suggested Kennedy could soon end the campaign and endorse former President Donald Trump.
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The Montgomery County Republican Committee (MCRC) in Pennsylvania removed a committeeman on Monday after he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and appeared on CNN to confirm his interest in Republican activism was inspired by his opposition former President Donald Trump.
After initially endorsing “the Democrat” against Trump in July 3 opinion column written for The Philadelphia Inquirer during the period when Democrats were urging President Joe Biden to step down in favor of another candidate, MCRC committeeman McCaffery confirmed his endorsement of the Harris-Walz ticket during a Friday appearance on CNN.
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Virginia appears to be in play in the presidential election, with Vice President Kamala Harris holding a slight lead over former President Donald Trump in the commonwealth, according to a poll released Tuesday morning.
The Institute for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College shows Harris ahead of Trump by three percentage points (47%-44%) in a head-to-head matchup. When other candidates were included, Harris still leads by three points (45%-42%). When factoring in the poll’s 4.5% margin of error, Harris and Trump are in a statistical dead heat.
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Both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have now visited Sheetz convenience stores in Pennsylvania during their respective 2024 presidential campaigns, with the vice president stopping at one Pittsburgh location on Sunday.
Not mentioned in either campaign appearance was the lawsuit brought by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) against Sheetz Inc., which claims the company discriminated against minority groups in its hiring process, which excludes convicted criminals when selecting candidates.
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Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno has launched a $25 million ad campaign across television, mail and radio.
The Trump-backed Moreno hopes to unseat incumbent Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown in November.
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Teresa Sheehan was shot by two officers at a group home during a mental health crisis with the San Francisco Police Department in 2008, when Vice President Kamala Harris was serving as the District Attorney of San Francisco.
Police officers were called to a group home for people with mental illnesses after it was claimed Sheehan, a Japanese Americna woman who was then 56 and reportedly suffering from a schizophrenic episode, locked herself in a room with a knife. When police eventually opened the door using a key, Sheehan reportedly greeted them with the knife and ordered them to leave.
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick spoke at the Saturday rally held in Wilkes-Barre by former President Donald Trump. McCormick relayed his experiences being raised in Pennsylvania and achieving successes within the commonwealth, before warning voters the “American Dream is slipping away unless we turn this country around.”
Revealing his Pennsylvania roots, McCormick briefly mentioned his childhood in Bloomsburg before parlaying his mother’s birthplace in Punxsutawney into a quip about the incumbent, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA).
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Polls are consistently showing two key indictments on the Biden-Harris administration border policy: Americans not only overwhelmingly oppose illegal immigration but also want troops sent to the southern border and the border secure.
Two new recent polls support this trend, although polls have consistently shown that Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Vice President Kamala Harris’ job as “border czar.”
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Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is expected to send people into the field next week to counterprogram the Democratic convention, a campaign official told Fox News.
Presidential candidates usually keep a low profile during the nominating conventions of their opponents, but President Joe Biden broke with tradition last month by campaigning in Nevada during the Republican convention. However, Biden only made a couple stops because he contracted COVID-19.
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Internal Arizona polling data commissioned by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), and released to one media outlet this week, shows Republican U.S. Senate nominee Kari Lake is tied with Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03) in the race to fill the seat being vacated by Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) in January.
The polling was obtained exclusively by National Journal, which reported both Lake and Gallego are tied at 46 percent, with an additional 8 percent of Arizona voters undecided.
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The decision by President Joe Biden to step down in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris could help Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell pass his WeGo Transportation Referendum in November, according to the longtime chief of staff to former Representative Jim Cooper prior to his retirement in 2022.
Lisa Quigley claimed the key to electoral success for Democrats and their issues in Nashville depends on activating key voting blocs in a statement to Axios, stressing that “younger” and black voters are vital.
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Pennsylvania U.S. House candidate Alfe Goodwin told The Pennsylvania Daily Star on Tuesday the past support of the Defund the Police movement by Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor Tim Walz, and her opponent Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05) contributed to the police shortage in Philadelphia and its surrounding communities.
Goodwin told The Star her 14 years of experience with the Philadelphia Police Department gave her a “unique perspective” when Scanlon and other Democrats in 2020 expressed support for defunding the police, who she called “the first ones to see the results of policy” due to their presence in local communities.
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A man who was wrongly convicted of murder in San Francisco when Vice President Kamala Harris was serving as the city’s district attorney, and who later received more than $13 million in a settlement after he was acquitted following six years in prison endorsed former President Donald Trump in his bid for the White House in 2024.
Trulove endorsed Trump in a video posted to YouTube on July 28, explaining that he previously supported the Biden-Harris ticket during the 2020 election in a bid to preserve his entertainment career.
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A 23-year veteran of the U.S. Army told The Pennsylvania Daily Star the explanation offered by the Harris-Walz campaign about the stolen valor allegations levied by Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) and veterans against Governor Tim Walz would only lead to more questions and skepticism from veterans.
Alfe Goodwin, the Pennsylvania Republican who will oppose Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05) in November, told The Star she enlisted after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and continues to serve in the reserve component.
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A prominent pro-life group is warning Republicans about the “extreme” abortion platform of the Democratic presidential ticket, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA) sent a memo, obtained by the DCNF, to GOP candidates, leadership and state leaders about Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who have a record of supporting unlimited abortion and voting against life-saving legislation.
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Former President Donald Trump on Monday reportedly placed nearly $40 million in seven battleground states, including $23.8 million in Georgia, as polling shows him statistically tied with Vice President Kamala Harris in the state that helped propel President Joe Biden to the White House in 2024.
Trump’s campaign placed a $37.2 million television ad buy across Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada, according to AdImpact, which reported it is “the most he’s reserved on TV ads in a single day this cycle.”
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The Tennessee Star has identified seven people who the leftist political donation platform ActBlue reported to campaign finance authorities “donated” more than 1,000 times since the beginning of 2023, further adding to the suspicions that the company is committing fraud.
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President Joe Biden confirmed in an interview broadcast Sunday that he will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, even as nearly 60 percent of voters in the commonwealth disapprove of his performance in the White House.
The 81-year-old president confirmed on CBS Sunday Morning Americans will see him campaigning for Harris, beginning with a tour of Pennsylvania with Governor Josh Shapiro, who was controversially skipped over by the Harris campaign in favor of Governor Tim Walz.
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Recent polls out of Georgia have former President Donald Trump just barely leading Vice President Kamala Harris.
With just 89 days until the election, Harris is riding a wave of momentum since launching into the race July 21 with President Joe Biden’s exit.
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A legal challenge which seeks to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the ballot in November ballot in Pennsylvania claims the former Democrat misled voters when requesting signatures by claiming to live in New York, despite actually living in California.
The challenge claims the Kennedy campaign displayed “a fundamental disregard” for Pennsylvania’s election system because the candidate “provided the wrong address” on his affidavit and nomination papers, allegedly “with the intent to deceive Pennsylvania voters.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff donated to a liberal legal group in favor of defunding the police and permanently designating Washington, D.C as a “sanctuary city” that does not report illegal immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to their joint tax returns.
Harris and Emhoff donated $1,000 in 2021 and 2023 to Legal Aid DC, noted a Washington Examiner report.
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick released a new ad for his Pennsylvania election that declares Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor Tim Walz, and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) are “dangerously soft on criminals” and highlighted their response to the 2020 riots that followed the death of George Floyd.
“Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Bob Casey are dangerously soft on criminals,” wrote McCormick in a post to the social media platform X.
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Confirmation last week by the Department of Homeland Security that Vice President Kamala Harris came within several yards of an explosive device on the afternoon of January 6, 2021 should be one of the hottest stories right now.
The fact that the installed Democratic candidate for president barely escaped an attempt on her life by an alleged MAGA terrorist during what she compares to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor makes for ripe clickbait. Further, her stoicism in the face of such a grave threat—she has never discussed the matter publicly—not just to herself but to her staff and police officers protecting her that day at the DNC is the stuff heroes are made of.
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President Joe Biden talked incessantly about his “middle class out” economic strategy. Given his record, it would have been more accurate to call it the “middle class down and out” plan. Inflation has eroded away any income gains under Biden’s presidency.
Now Vice President Kamala Harris has her own riff on this theme. Her campaign motto is “Building up the middle class.” It isn’t exactly “Make America Great Again,” but Democrats don’t have a lot of time to come up with anything catchier, given that Harris was reluctantly chosen as the 8th-inning relief pitcher for Old Joe, who had long ago lost his fastball.
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The Tennessee Star learned the controversial and allegedly politicized FBI on Friday executed a search warrant at the Maury County, Tennessee, home of Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05).
Ogles confirmed in a statement provided to The Star that the FBI executed a search warrant for his personal cell phone in an apparent investigation of his campaign filings.
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One of the Pennsylvania Republicans selected on Sunday by the presidential campaign for Vice Presidential Kamala Harris to run the commonwealth’s chapter of Republicans for Harris is former Lancaster County Republican Committee chair Ann Womble, who pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of alcohol in June.
Named as one of two leaders of Republicans for Harris in Pennsylvania by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday, Womble will reportedly help the Biden campaign reach Republicans who supported former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley during the Republican Party’s primary.
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The U.S. unemployment rate once again ticked up in the month of June to 4.3 percent as another 352,000 Americans said they were unemployed, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Markets are crashing in response.
Overall, 1.47 million more Americans say they’re unemployed since Dec. 2022, with the number of unemployed now up to 7.16 million, the highest since Oct. 2021 following the Covid recession.
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U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) on Saturday reportedly warned the presidential campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris that Governor Josh Shapiro holds “excessive” political ambitions.
Fetterman contacted the Harris campaign to provide information about Shapiro as the vice president interviewed the short list of contestants to become complete the Democratic presidential ticket ahead, which reportedly includes the first-term governor, according to German-owned Politico, which reported, “the senator believes that Shapiro is excessively focused on his own personal ambitions.”
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