Category Archives: Politics

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, June 24, 2020: 

After the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced the dates of the three debates between the presumptive presidential candidates from each political party, the Biden campaign said that was all they wanted. They called Trump’s campaign efforts to expand to a fourth debate a “distraction.”

Biden campaign manager Jen Dillon wrote to the CPD on Monday that “Joe Biden looks forward to facing Donald Trump in a multi-debate series that the American people have come to expect from their leaders.… The Trump campaign’s … position is a debate distraction.”

Dillon added:

The Trump position seems to be saying that he will debate if he can pick the moderators; clearly the President … is afraid of facing questions from a neutral moderator….

 

Joe Biden will accept the Commission’s debates, on the Commission’s dates, under the Commission’s established format and the Commission’s independent choice of moderators.

Since 1988, when the CPD was formed as an independent nonprofit tasked with producing the presidential debates, every one of those “neutral” moderators came from the controlled media: PBS, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC. The only time Fox News moderated a debate occurred in October 2016 when Trump squared off with Hillary Clinton in a contest moderated by quasi-liberal Fox News commentator Chris Wallace.

That’s why Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, requested a fourth debate, with an actual neutral moderator presiding:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, June 22, 2020:

Heading up the transition team of the Democrat Party’s presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden, in case by some fluke he happens to win the White House in November, is Edward Emmett “Ted” Kaufman, the former Senator from Delaware who replaced Biden when he became vice president.

To get an idea where that transition team is headed, one only need look at Kaufman’s score on The New American’s Freedom Index, which rates politicians based on their fidelity to the U.S. Constitution. Out of a potential score of 100 percent, which would reflect a voting record that tracked and followed the Constitution of the United States completely, Senator Kaufman racked up a dismal and treacherous score of eight!

Said Kaufman in announcing the team:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, June 19, 2020:

The media is panicking over Trump’s first rally since lockdown. People started lining up on Monday for the Saturday-evening rally at BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The mayor says he is expecting more than 100,000 people trying to get into either the center or the alternate site next door. Together the two venues can hold 60,000.

The president tweeted that the numbers are out of sight:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, June 17, 2020:  

By last Friday, 200,000 people had signed up online to request a ticket to Trump’s grand opening in Tulsa on Saturday, June 20, the first in a series of reelection campaign rallies. Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, tweeted: “Trump MAGA Rally in Tulsa is hottest ticket ever! Over 200k tickets already & it’s not even political season.… Gonna be GREAT in the most open state in the nation!”

A day later he had to update his tweet: “Correction: now 300,000! Going to be epic!”

By Monday morning, the number had grown to almost a million. Tweeted President Trump: “Almost One Million people request[ing] tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma!”

Predictably, the Left lost it. The Huffington Post’s snarky response was predictable, calling the rally “an absurdist situation” as a million people couldn’t possibly fit into the Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center, which only holds 19,000 people.

The HuffPo writer, S.V. Date, couldn’t fathom why Trump would hold his kickoff rally in Oklahoma, a state which he won by 36 percentage points over his Democrat rival, Hillary Clinton, in 2016: “It is unclear why Trump’s campaign … is even holding a rally in Oklahoma, a deeply Republican state nearly completely surrounded by other Republican states.”

If someone has to explain to that HuffPo writer why Trump would deliberately go to his base for the first of his rallies then all hope is lost that he will understand anything else about the Trump phenomenon.

The HuffPo writer, a senior White House correspondent for the left-liberal outlet, just couldn’t understand it. After all, he wrote, “It is unlikely that many or even most of those who signed up for tickets on the Trump campaign’s website have any intention of making their way to Tulsa — a city with a population of 406,000 in a state of only 4 million.”

MSN said that

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, June 15, 2020: 

First-term Congressman Denver Riggleman, representing Virginia’s dark blue 5th District, had nearly everything going for him. But his decision to officiate at the gay wedding of two of his campaign workers last summer, as well as his support for increased immigration, sank his reelection bid.

As an incumbent he had name recognition. He had lots of money. He had endorsements from Jerry Falwell, Jr., the president of Liberty University. He had the endorsement of President Donald Trump. He was a member of the House Freedom Caucus.

During his ill-fated campaign he said, “My support for President Trump can’t be tepid if I’m endorsed by him. I vote with POTUS 94.5% of the time.… I was appointed the president’s campaign co-chair here in Virginia.… I have a 100% National Right to Life score and have been endorsed by the [pro-life, anti-abortion] Susan B. Anthony List with an A score. I’m a co-sponsor of the Born-Alive legislation.”

All that was not enough. Riggleman lost on Saturday at a local Republican Party convention to challenger Bob Good, 42-58.

Good, a Campbell County Board member who also worked as an athletics official at Liberty University, accused Riggleman of “betraying” the values of the Republican Party with his presiding over the “wedding” last summer of two gay men who worked in his campaign.

Riggleman dug his own political grave by declaring at the time that:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, June 12, 2020: 

The decision to move the Republican Party’s National Convention from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida, was announced with a flourish on Thursday night. Said Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC):

We are thrilled to celebrate this momentous occasion in the great city of Jacksonville. Not only does Florida hold a special place in President Trump’s heart as his home state [he and Melania officially moved there from New York City in November 2019], but it is crucial in the path to victory in 2020.

 

We look forward to bringing this great celebration and economic boom to the Sunshine State in just a few short months.

The state is crucial to Trump’s reelection. He captured the state over Hillary Clinton in 2016 by just 113,000 votes, out of more than nine million that were cast, and Duval County, where Jacksonville is located, by just 6,000 votes. At the moment Real Clear Politics has presumptive Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden leading the president by a little over three points in the state.

McDaniel explained why the party moved from Charlotte: “Governor [Roy] Cooper in North Carolina refused to work with us. It became very apparent that he was not going to give us guidelines so that we could hold our convention [there] and [so] we had to move the celebration to Florida.”

She touted the economic benefits to a city of 900,000, nearly a third of whom are black:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, June 10, 2020: 

Following the remarkably robust and surprising jobs report released last Friday, President Trump’s reelection campaign manager Brad Parscale announced that his political rallies would resume:

Americans are ready to get back to action, and so is President Trump. The great American comeback is real and the rallies will be tremendous.

 

You’ll again see the kind of crowds and enthusiasm that sleepy Joe Biden can only dream of.

The media immediately pivoted away from covering the George Floyd protests and riots without a murmur of concern about the lack of “social distancing,” and are now criticizing the president’s decision to resume his rallies.

Politico’s headline perfectly illustrated the pivot: “Trump to Restart MAGA Rallies this Month Despite Coronavirus.” NPR joined in, tweeting, “President Trump will hit the campaign trail this month — despite the deadly coronavirus pandemic, which continues to impact the lives and livelihoods of households across the country.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the floor of the Senate on Tuesday to call out the hypocrisy:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, June 8, 2020: 

New York Times opinion editor James Bennet was fired on Sunday. He didn’t resign. In a meeting with Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger following the brouhaha that erupted after an opinion piece by Republican Senator Tom Cotton’s was published on Wednesday, Bennet knew there was only one vote in the room, and it wasn’t his.

Cotton’s opinion piece, “Send in the Troops,” was well-written and reasonable, as The New American reported at the time. Only as a last resort, wrote Cotton, should the president consider using the Insurrection Act of 1807 to quell the Antifa-infested riots if local and state law-enforcement agencies were unable to.

Bennet defended publishing Cotton’s letter even though disagreed with it: “It would undermine the integrity and independence of The New York Times if we only published views that editors like me agreed with, and it would betray what I think is our fundamental purpose: not to tell you what to think but to help you think for yourself.”

Initially Bennet got some support from Sulzberger. On Thursday morning, the Times’ publisher wrote: “I believe in the principle of openness to a range of opinions, even those we may disagree with, and this piece was published in that spirit.”

And then he waffled:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, June 7, 2020:  

Following the extraordinary jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday, the president was exultant. In an impromptu Rose Garden event, President Trump said it was only a matter of time before “we will go back to having the greatest economy anywhere in the world — nothing close.… This is better than a V, this is a rocket ship!”

He then tweeted: “Oh, no, the Dems are worried again. The only one [who] can kill this comeback is Sleepy Joe Biden.”

Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic political strategist, agrees. He said on Friday, “If people think he [Trump] can’t win [in November], they are deluding themselves. He could be reelected. He lives and dies by these economic numbers.”

Opinion polls have consistently shown Trump’s performance on handling the economy winning broad approval. For instance, an Economist/YouGov poll released last week found that half of those polled approve of how he is managing the economy.

Several numbers stand out. According to Juan Williams, writing in the New York Times, 43 percent of black voters are moderates and a quarter identify themselves as conservative. As Williams put it, “These are the black people in church on Sunday. They are proud members of a sorority or fraternity.”

And, according to the latest Rasmussen poll,