Have nothing to do with the [evil] things that people do, things that belong to the darkness. Instead, bring them out to the light... [For] when all things are brought out into the light, then their true nature is clearly revealed...

-Ephesians 5:11-13

Zogby: Trump “Dominates Swing Voters” in Latest Survey of Battleground States

Thursday, 06 August 2020 09:08
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, August 6, 2020: 

In its latest polling in four battleground states — Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania — Zogby confirmed on Wednesday what the Swing Voter Project suspected: Those who switched parties and voted for Donald Trump in 2016 are staying with him in 2020.

Rich Thau, head of the Swing Voter Project for the political consulting firm Engagious, said last week: “Our Swing Voter Project has uncovered that many of these people … prefer Trump over Biden. In fact, 22 of 33 respondents [in our focus groups in Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Michigan] feel this way.”

Zogby reported that in Florida, Trump is

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ADP’s Disappointing July Jobs Report Offset by June’s Upward Revision

Wednesday, 05 August 2020 13:29
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, August 5, 2020:  

ADP’s National Employment Report was a massive miss. Most private economists were expecting job growth in July to approach two million, as the economy continues to recover from the COVID shutdown. Instead, ADP reported just 167,000 new jobs were created in July.

The miss, however, is likely to be offset when the Department of Labor reports on Friday, with expectations that it will show July job growth more in line with expectations of about two million.

ADP’s miss was also softened by its revision upward of June’s jobs numbers, from the 2.4 million new jobs it reported last month to 4.3 million as more accurate data became available.

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Republicans Registering Thousands More Voters Than Democrats in Battleground States

Wednesday, 05 August 2020 10:40
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, August 5, 2020: 

In a report released by the Trump Victory committee exclusively to Axios on Monday, Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) said, “As enthusiasm for President Trump continues to grow, so does the Republican Party. Over 100,000 new voters are ready to cast their ballot for four more years of President Trump’s ‘Promises Made, Promises Kept’ agenda, and elect Republicans up and down the ballot on November 3rd.”

Despite the COVID shutdown, the report showed that those newly registered voters are more than double the number at the same stage of the election cycle in 2016.

The Democratic advantage in Pennsylvania has been lessened by 133,000 voters since 2016, and 87,000 voters in Florida. The Democrat’s net advantage in North Carolina, Arizona, and Iowa has also shrunk significantly.

This is more evidence of the president’s accelerating momentum as Election Day draws closer. On Monday, for example, a survey taken by Rasmussen Reports show that the president has the approval of more than half of likely voters in November, way ahead of the 44-percent approval rate of then-President Obama at the same time during his first term, August 3, 2012.

More revealing from the Rasmussen survey is that Trump has the approval of 30 percent of likely Democrat voters, 49 percent of likely Independent voters, and perhaps most importantly, 48 percent of likely Black voters. Among other “non-white” likely voters, Trump’s approval rate is 63 percent.

While these numbers may not translate directly into votes in November, it is one more indicator of Trump’s momentum.

As The New American reported last Friday,

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Senate Dems Threaten Retaliation if Republicans Try to Fill SCOTUS Vacancy Before Election

Tuesday, 04 August 2020 13:31
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, August 4, 2020: 

If a vacancy at the Supreme Court occurs before the election and Senate Republicans try to fill it with another “originalist” nominee, there will be consequences, according to Hillary Clinton’s former running mate, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.):

If they show that they’re unwilling to respect precedent, rules and history, then they can’t feign surprise when others talk about using a statutory option that we have that’s fully constitutional in our availability.

 

I don’t want to do that. But if they act in such a way, they may push it to an inevitability. So they need to be careful about that.

This is a veiled threat by Senator Kaine that if there is a vacancy and the Republican majority moves to fill it before the election, the next time Democrats control the Senate they will move to pack the court by expanding its numbers from nine to perhaps 11 or 13 seats, fill them with ideologically liberal judges, set term limits, impose a code of ethics, and require all future nominees to adhere to certain promises as to how they will rule on controversial issues in the future.

All these come from the playbook designed by Demand Justice,

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California Pastor Defies New Restrictions on Indoor Services

Tuesday, 04 August 2020 13:25
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, August 4, 2020:

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said on Monday that officials from its Environmental Health division are “investigating and will be reaching out to the church leaders [at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley] to let them know they need to comply with the Health Officer’s Order” to discontinue singing at places of worship and limit indoor attendance to 25 percent of capacity or 100 people, whichever is lower.

Senior Pastor John MacArthur already knows about that order, and he isn’t obeying it.

On Friday, July 24, he let them, and the whole world, know why. In his “Biblical Case for the Church’s Duty to Remain Open,” he wrote:

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Trump Using Twitter as a Tool to Drive Media Conversation

Tuesday, 04 August 2020 05:29
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, August 3, 2020: 

When Dante Chinni, writing for NBC News last month, said that the president’s Twitter account gives him a “direct line to voters” and “lets him drive news coverage” by the media, he missed the most important part: Every tweet is carefully crafted and deliberately intended to accomplish a specific purpose.

Trump’s former chief economist, Casey Mulligan, who served as chief economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisors, explained just how it works. His book “You’re Hired! Untold Successes and Failures of a Populist President”, scheduled to be released on September 3, reveals the process and the thinking behind much of the White House’s strategy on major issues of the day. And Trump’s Twitter account is a primary tool.

First, writes Mulligan, the president doesn’t do the tweeting himself. He leaves that up to Dan Scavino, who is Trump’s deputy chief of staff for communications and director of social media. Second, the president doesn’t walk around carrying an iPhone tweeting something whenever he is in the mood. Third, every tweet is reviewed by “many people” on his staff before it is released.

Every tweet is designed to focus the conversation on a specific topic or issue, says Mulligan, sometimes using exaggeration or embellishment to get the mainstream media’s attention.

Trump’s audience is enormous:

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Democrats Continue Push to Cancel Presidential Debates

Monday, 03 August 2020 15:01
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com Monday, August 3, 2020: 

Last week’s opinion piece by Joe Lockhart at CNN confirmed, if any confirmation was necessary, that Democrats are frightened by the prospect of “Sleepy Joe” Biden mixing it up in nationally televised presidential debates with President Trump.

Lockhart is CNN’s political analyst and former White House press secretary during President Bill Clinton’s administration. He warned Biden: “Whatever you do, don’t debate Trump.”

He explained that it would be “a fool’s errand to enter the ring with someone who can’t follow the rules or the truth. [You] will undoubtedly take heat from Republicans … for skipping the debates. But it’s worth the risk as trying to debate someone incapable of telling the truth is an impossible contest to win.”

Besides, penned Lockhart,

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New Jersey Gym Owners Defy Court Order, Break Open Doors Shuttered by State

Monday, 03 August 2020 06:39
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, August 2, 2020: 

Following their arrest and release last Monday, Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti, the owners of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey, were scolded by a spokesman for New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal:

After Atilis refused to comply with multiple citations and Superior Court orders, including a contempt-of-court order issued [the previous] Friday, today [Monday] law enforcement entered the premises to ensure closure and to abate public health risks.

 

As the attorney general previously said, the state wishes it had not come to this, but the gym refused to comply even with a contempt order.

Smith told the Washington Examiner that he and Trumbetti have been singled out by the governor:

We’re being targeted. It’s very clear that he’s on a mission to destroy our business because we dared to defy him.

 

There are plenty of other businesses that are open and operating just like we are [who are] defying the shutdown. But Governor Murphy has a personal vendetta against us, and it couldn’t be more clear than it is today….

 

We’re the only business in the state to be punished in a way that we have, including locking our doors and changing our locks on us, arresting us and boarding up our doors. So it’s very clear that he is on a mission to get us.

This triggered a response from the governor, who Tweeted on Friday: “We are not past COVID 19. I am not announcing any specific action today [against the owners], but consider this as being put on-notice: we will not tolerate these devil-may-care, nonchalant attitudes any more.”

After kicking in the plywood sheets that the sheriff’s office had installed, Smith took to Instagram not only to publish a video of the event but to respond to Murphy’s tweet:

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Latest Polls Show Trump Closing on Biden

Monday, 03 August 2020 06:32
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, August 2, 2020: 

The latest poll from Emerson College released on Friday not only shows the Democrat Party’s presumptive presidential candidate, Joe Biden, leading president Trump in the run-up to the general election in November by just four points (with a margin of error of more than three points), it reports that “A majority of voters, 53%, still think Trump will be re-elected in November.”

The poll released by Zogby Analytics last Wednesday also showed the gap between the candidates narrowing to four percentage points. Zogby showed Trump’s strength among weekly Walmart shoppers, where Trump leads Biden 56 percent to 36 percent; among weekly Amazon shoppers, with Trump ahead of Biden 49 percent to 41 percent; among NASCAR fans, Trump 50 percent to Biden’s 33 percent; urban men, where Trump leads Biden 47 percent to 41 percent; urban parents, with Trump ahead of Biden 52 percent to 34 percent; and small-city voters, Trump at 44 percent to 36 percent for Biden.

Zogby noted that

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McCloskeys Fire Back at Prosecutor Who Charged Them With Brandishing

Friday, 31 July 2020 15:28
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, July 31, 2020: 

When St. Louis Circuit Attorney (chief prosecutor) Kimberly Gardner announced last week that she was bringing charges against the St. Louis couple who made the news defending themselves and their home against rampaging protestors in June, she said:

Today, my office filed charges against Mark and Patricia McCloskey following an incident involving peaceful, unarmed protesters on June 28th.

 

It is illegal to wave weapons in a threatening manner [i.e., brandishing] at those participating in nonviolent protest, and while we are fortunate this situation did not escalate into deadly force, this type of conduct is unacceptable in St. Louis.

This resulted in immediate pushback from the White House to the U.S. Senate to the Missouri governor’s mansion to the state’s attorney general. It also resulted in the McCloskeys filing a lawsuit demanding that Gardner be disqualified, along with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office (CAO).

According to Missouri Governor Mike Parson, the president is “interested” in being kept informed about the case and has offered any assistance he could as president. Parson said he would likely pardon the couple if they should be convicted, adding: “A mob does not have the right to charge your property. They [the McCloskeys] had every right to defend themselves.”

Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr asking him to investigate Gardner, whom he said had expressed hostility to Second Amendment rights in the past.

Missouri’s Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a brief seeking to dismiss Gardner’s charges on the grounds that their Second Amendment rights had been violated:

The right to keep and bear arms is given the highest level of protection in our Constitution and our laws, including the Castle Doctrine, which provides broad rights to Missourians who are protecting their property and lives from those who wish to do them harm.

 

Despite this, Circuit Attorney Gardner filed suit against the McCloskeys who, according to published reports, were defending their property and safety. As Missouri’s Chief law enforcement officer, I won’t stand by while Missouri law is being ignored.

And then he pointed directly at Gardner, calling her charge “a political prosecution”:

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