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Recovering journalist and Nashville-area public policy expert Clint Brewer said last week’s general election proved that Americans no longer trust and are choosing not to believe information put out by “legacy media” outlets.
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, is not confident that Ohio Governor Mike DeWine will appoint a MAGA Republican to Ohio U.S. Senator JD Vance’s seat once he is sworn in as U.S. Vice President on January 20, 2025.
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Tom Pappert, reporter at The Pennsylvania Daily Star, said Democrats’ ongoing refusal to accept the election results of the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race which saw Republican Dave McCormick defeat incumbent Democrat Bob Casey (D-PA) is textbook “election denialism.”
While The Associated Press called the race for McCormick two days after Election Day last week, Casey has refused to concede.
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Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said president-elect Donald Trump’s strong border security message is being heard around the world and is already having an impact when it comes to deterring migrants from illegally making their way to the U.S. southern border.
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Pollster John McLaughlin said president-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election can be attributed to his character contrast from his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and his gut instinct about the overall needs of the American people.
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National political reporter Neil W. McCabe applauded president-elect Donald Trump’s nominations of combat veteran Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and U.S. Representative Matt Gatez (R-FL-01) as Attorney General, explaining how the men are expected to bring about a new atmosphere in their respective roles.
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Steve Baker, an opinion contributor for Blaze News and independent investigative journalist, said he pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor charges stemming from his presence at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, to avoid a “shaming exercise” of a trial by a liberal jury in a D.C. courtroom.
Baker, who is among a small group of journalists being prosecuted for being present at the Capitol on January 6, entered an Alfred plea to avoid a trial by jury in a Washington D.C. courtroom in front of U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper on Tuesday.
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Former U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Dan Foote detailed how he would advise the incoming Trump-Vance administration to approach Haiti and work to reform the country and reclaim it from violent gangs.
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Tom Basile, host of the Newsmax show “America Right Now,” discussed how critical it is for Republicans to “stick together” and “get stuff done” quickly during the incoming Trump administration, explaining how the Democratic Party is “already plotting to make a comeback” in the next election.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said he believes President-elect Donald Trump made a “brilliant” choice in tapping U.S. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21) and former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan to be a part of his administration.
On Monday, Trump announced that he is nominating Stefanik to serve in his cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Braden Boucek, vice president of Litigation for Southeastern Legal Foundation, explained the different avenues New York Judge Juan Merchan can pursue on Tuesday when he decides whether President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case should be overturned in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity.
In July, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. United States that Trump is immune from federal prosecution for official acts he took while in office.
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Impressionist Shawn Farash, who has gone viral in recent years for his impersonation of former and president-elect Donald Trump, said he discovered that he did a good impersonation of Trump while working as a salesman selling DirecTV in New York.
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Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign finance issues may end up being “a lot worse than it looks” in the coming weeks and months ahead.
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Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said he believes former and president-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose hefty tariffs on Mexico if the country does not work to curb the flow of immigration into the U.S. will pressure the country to break up existing caravans with a goal of reaching the border.
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Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, said Americans should expect to see a “new golden age” of the nation under former and president-elect Donald Trump during his incoming second term in the White House.
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Rachel Alexander, lead reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, is warning that Arizona’s final election results may be “dragged out” for days after Tuesday night as an opportunity for Democrats to “figure a way to change the results.”
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Jack Windsor, president and editor-in-chief at The Ohio Press Network, said the “anticipatory energy” in Ohio for Tuesday’s general election is “different than it was four years ago.”
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Matt Kittle, a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist, said conservatives should be keeping their “eyes wide open” tonight and in the coming days as ballots are being counted across the nation, specifically in swing states.
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Rob Bluey, executive editor of The Heritage Foundation’s The Daily Signal, said conservative media has flourished within the last 15-20 years as a result of the legacy media becoming “too lazy and corrupt to report the news truthfully and accurately.”
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National political reporter Neil W. McCabe said the Trump campaign is “completely aligned” and “perfectly in sync” going into the November 5 general election, which has led to the campaign dominating the news cycle and taking coverage away from Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign.
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Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, is confident that victory for former President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates on November 5 is “within our grasp.”
“We’ve got this fight teed up exactly where we want it,” Bannon explained on Friday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said he believes President Joe Biden is “sabotaging” Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign out of “pure resentment” for how the Democratic Party pushed him to end his reelection bid.
On Tuesday, Biden said on a Zoom call with members of the nonprofit organization Voto Latino that supporters of former President Donald Trump were “floating…garbage.”
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Robby Starbuck, Tennessee political commentator and documentary filmmaker, said the goal behind his work exposing companies that push DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) initiatives in the workplace is to have those companies get back to embracing “corporate neutrality.”
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, said Republicans’ message moving forward to voters from now until Election Day should be about policy and issues with “substance” that will motivate Americans to head to the polls.
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) “radical” election interference operation is on full display following Wednesday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that allows Virginia to remove individuals identified as noncitizens from its voter rolls.
Earlier this month, the DOJ sued Virginia over removing non-citizens from its rolls ahead of the November 5 general election.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, is offering a more “sober take” on the November 5 general election after serving a four-month prison term as one of the Biden-Harris administration’s “political enemies.”
Bannon was released from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday morning after serving a four-month prison sentence for a 2022 conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a subpoena from the January 6 Select Committee.
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John Solomon, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Just the News, said news outlets are refraining from endorsing candidates in this year’s presidential election at a time when Americans are “craving” unbiased news.
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Steve Cortes, former senior spokesman and strategist for the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns and current head of the League of American Workers, called former President Donald Trump’s three-hour long interview with podcaster Joe Rogan on Friday a “home run.”
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Long-time pollster John McLaughlin said former President Donald Trump has presented a solid closing argument to the American people in the final days leading up to the November 5 general election, which is offering voters a stark comparison between his policies and those implemented by the current Biden-Harris administration.
Noting how the former president maintains a slight lead in the race over Vice President Kamala Harris, McLaughlin explained on Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show how Trump’s current position in the race is comparable to Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2012 at the same point in time.
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Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has “no energy left” with just eight days to go until the November 5 general election.
Boyle compared Harris’ campaign to a “slowly deflating flat tire” which has caused Democrats to enter “stages of grief.”
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Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) said the legal challenge to Tennessee’s law that bans “gender-affirming care” on minors is not only an issue regarding a state’s interest to protect children, but also a state’s rights issue under the Tenth Amendment.
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Pennsylvania-based radio show host John Fredericks said Friday’s federal court decision ordering Virginia to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls proves the Biden-Harris administration’s intentions to have illegal aliens vote in U.S. elections.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Vice President Kamala Harris’ remarks comparing former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler shows that her campaign is “out of talking points” and has “lost every single issue” in the last few days leading up to the November 5 general election.
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) refusal to apply the First Step Act (FSA) good time credits accrued by Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, towards an early release to home confinement, is “absolutely illegal.”
Bannon is currently serving a four-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, for a 2022 conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a subpoena from the January 6 Select Committee.
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, detailed the tactics the Left may deploy on Election Day to commit fraud and ensure a victory for Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democratic candidates.
Kline said tactics to influence election results have been underway long before this year’s general election, including President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order permitting federal agencies to promote voter registration and participation in U.S. elections.
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EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to Tennessee, dismissed Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s claim that the Democratic Party is the “big tent party.”
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Craig Huey, California refugee and marketing expert, said pastors across the nation are “in fear” of speaking out against political issues, even as Christians are under attack, as a result of the Johnson Amendment.
The Johnson Amendment, enacted in 1954, bans nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax exemptions, including churches, from participating in political campaigns if they want to keep their tax-exempt status.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Biden-Harris administration is “ignoring” the Trump-era criminal justice reform called the First Step Act (FSA) in order to keep conservatives, including former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, in prison.
Under the FSA, federal inmates can earn “good time credits” to reduce their sentence through behavior and participation in prison programs.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Biden-Harris administration’s Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) refusal to uphold the First Step Act of 2018 when implementing the four-month prison sentence handed to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is “flagrantly illegal.”
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Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, returned to the U.S. on Saturday after traveling to Tapachula, Mexico, to document the Mexican government’s holding of approximately 150,000 illegal migrants who are waiting to continue their journey to cross the U.S. southern border.
Tapachula is located in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, near the Guatemalan border and the Pacific Ocean.
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Emily Evans, head of the Committee to Stop an UnFair Tax, is warning that the multi-billion dollar transit referendum presented to Nashville voters on the November 5 general election ballot is “unfair, unsafe, and unnecessary.”
Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s transit plan, “Choose How You Move: An All-Access Pass to Sidewalks, Signals, Service, and Safety,” would be funded by a half-cent increase in the city’s sales tax to construct miles of new sidewalks, bus stops, transit centers, parking facilities, and upgraded traffic signals throughout Nashville.
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Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official and current executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, said the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s censorship complex aimed at censoring Americans and people across the globe would be able to be dismantled in a manner of “five minutes” if former President Donald Trump was elected in the November 5 general election.
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Ben Cunningham, founder of the Nashville Tea Party, is warning that the multi-billion dollar transit referendum being presented to Nashville voters on the November 5 general election would “drive people out of Nashville” if passed.
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Cheryl Fritze, director of News Operations for Michigan News Source, discussed recent polling conducted in the battleground state of Michigan which shows former President Donald Trump with a slight lead over Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Robby Starbuck, Tennessee political commentator and documentary filmmaker, said staff members of the United Kingdom’s left-wing Labour Party campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground states ahead of the November 5 general election is “patently illegal” and should be a major news story.
On Thursday, The Tennessee Star reported that Sofia Patel, the head of operations for the Labour Party, recruited nearly 100 foreign nationals to travel to the U.S. and campaign for Harris in the final months prior to Election Day in key battleground states, including Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Virginia.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Vice President Kamala Harris is outright “denying the truth” when it comes to her prosecutorial record in California in an attempt to win over black male voters in the November 5 general election.
On Tuesday, Harris gave an hour-long interview on the popular radio show The Breakfast Club, hosted by Charlamagne tha God.
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Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, called into The Michael Patrick Leahy Show while on the ground in southern Mexico as part of his work to document the U.S. border crisis.
Bensman said he is documenting the holding of approximately 300,000-400,000 migrants in the Mexican cities of Tapachula and Villahermosa who collectively have a goal of reaching the U.S. southern border.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is urging Tennesseans to cast their votes in the November 5 general election by taking advantage of early in-person voting.
Blackburn, who faces Tennessee State Representative Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) on the general election ballot, said she is hoping for a “big margin” in her race and for Tennesseans to vote for former President Donald Trump and local candidates.
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Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said sources familiar with and from inside Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign are “depressed” as the state of the race continues to move in favor of former President Donald Trump.
Pointing to the NBC News poll released this week showing Harris’ previous five-point lead over Trump nationally diminished down to a dead heat between the two candidates just three weeks out from Election Day, Boyle said the momentum behind Trump has caused “massive infighting” within the Democratic campaign.
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Steve Cortes, former senior spokesman and strategist for the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns and current head of the League of American Workers, said Vice President Kamala Harris has a serious “authenticity” problem among voters in the lead-up to the November 5 general election.
Cortes said in Pennsylvania, for example, voters believe Harris is not genuine about her sudden support for fracking or her alleged support for tougher border security.
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