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Trump and Vance Target Swing States, Seek to Expand Map in Final Push to Election Day
Time is running out for former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to court voters before Nov. 5. With just one week until Election Day, the Trump-Vance campaign is not only looking to shore up its support in the all-important swing states, but also seeking to expand the electoral map. The former… -
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Steve Bannon Unchained: Federal Prison ‘Empowered Me,’ Former Trump Advisor Says After Serving Sentence
Steve Bannon, a political pundit and former White House chief strategist for President Donald Trump, was released from prison Tuesday morning after serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a Jan. 6 House committee subpoena. Bannon departed from the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday morning, and mere hours later was… -
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Meet Voters in This Swing County in a Swing State
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.—The 2024 presidential election is only the second election in which 38-year-old Cody Morris has voted. He says he chose to vote this time because he remembers a “way of life” he'd like to see again. Despite having “the best job I've ever had and [making] the most money I've ever had,” Morris told The… -
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‘Wrong Side of History’: Jordan Peterson Promotes Short, Timely Documentary on Iran
More than a third of American Muslims deny the rapes and murders committed by the Hamas terrorist organization in Israel occurred, according to a poll first reported by The Daily Signal earlier this month. Just over a year after the Oct. 7 attacks and a week before the Nov. 5 presidential election, Muslim-American voters who… -
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Former Democrats, First-Time Voters Flock to Trump Rally in Michigan
NOVI, Michigan—Concerns about the economy, religious freedom, and border security are driving unlikely Michigan voters to the polls to vote Republican for the first time. One of the most hotly contested swing states, with its 15 Electoral College votes, Michigan may determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Members of Naomi Steury’s Amish community in… -
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Harris’ Plan to Spread California’s Economic Dysfunction
Vice President Kamala Harris was born and spent most of her life in California, where she was elected to the Senate. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that her proposed policy agenda is aligned with California-style governance. Since the effects that high taxes and heavy regulation have had on the Golden State are clearly… -
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Former Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Released from Prison
Conservative podcaster and former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon was released from prison Tuesday morning. Bannon served four months in a federal prison in Connecticut for defying a subpoena to appear before Congress to testify as part of its investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. His scheduled release was announced by the Bureau… -
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After Backlash, Bezos Explains Why Washington Post Won’t Endorse Harris
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said Monday that the Post’s decision not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris is in response to a larger issue of media credibility being eroded. Bezos pointed to the recent surveys on trust and public reputation, with media institutions consistently ranking near the bottom,… -
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How ‘Rare’ Are Sex-Trait Modification Surgeries on Children?
As recently as two years ago, only three states banned surgeries on children to address gender dysphoria, up from just one a year earlier. Today, exactly half the states have such bans, and more are considering them. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a Tennessee case challenging those bans on Dec. 4…. -
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Inflation: Government’s Secret Tax That Erodes Your Hard-Earned Cash
Those in power talk about inflation as if it’s a natural occurrence. They’d have you believe that there’s no more sense in blaming government leaders for a bout of inflation than in blaming them for rainy weather on the weekend. This is nonsense. The White House and Congress deserve to be blamed for inflation, because… -
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Andrew Klavan Examines American Culture Through New Mystery Novel
Podcast host for The Daily Wire and bestselling author Andrew Klavan’s newest mystery novel examines American culture without being a political book. “I’ve sort of taken the issues out so that I’m not lecturing people on what I think, how I think they should vote, or what I think they should think, and just describing… -
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OVERFLOW CROWDS: What Trump Gets and Harris Can Only Hope For
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine one of the greatest dichotomies in a two-party presidential election. Former President Donald Trump canvasses the nation seeking to create as big a tent for the Republican Party as possible, resulting in massive events sold out, even in traditionally blue cities. Vice President Kamala… -
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Kamala Harris’ Indirect Connection to the Menendez Brothers Case
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon is the sort of progressive prosecutor who thinks it is his job to curb mass incarceration. Last week, the L.A. DA announced he is reviewing the sentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of the savage shotgun killing of their parents in 1989 and sentenced to… -
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DA Larry Krasner, 2-Time Campaign Finance Violator, Sues Elon Musk Over Voter Lottery
Philadelphia’s rogue prosecutor, Larry Krasner, has sued billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, arguing that he conducted an illegal lottery under Pennsylvania law because he said he would pay individuals $1 million a day to sign a petition supporting the First and Second amendments. But the one case Krasner relies on to support his legal theory actually… -
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Virginia Appeals Order to Return Noncitizens to Voter Rolls
THE CENTER SQUARE—Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced late Sunday the commonwealth will file an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to block the return of more than 1,500 noncitizens to voter rolls. The appeal follows a unanimous panel ruling Sunday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting… -
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Leftist Policies Have Increased Crime, Left First Responders at Highest Risk in Past 20 Years
With violent crime on the rise, the past three years have been increasingly perilous for law enforcement officers. In honor of National First Responders Day on Monday, it’s important to protect the brave men and women preserving public safety by sounding the alarm on the policies of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris,… -
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Democrat-Donating FBI Agent Hunted Jan. 6 Protest Cases
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An FBI agent who investigated multiple Jan. 6 cases contributed more than $7,000 to Democrat candidates and causes, including President Joe Biden’s 2020 race, campaign finance records show. FBI Special Agent Clarke G. Burns also donated six times to The Lincoln Project, a political action committee that opposes Donald Trump, who… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Rubio Demands Transparency as NIH Seems to Hide Effects of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
The National Institutes of Health could be hiding the effect of puberty blockers, drugs that often are given to minors as part of so-called gender-affirming care, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., suggested Monday in a letter to the agency’s director obtained by The Daily Signal. In his letter to NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, Rubio draws… -
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Democrats Flip-Flop on Unpopular Positions on Transgenderism
Democrats are scrambling to downplay their radical positions on men playing as “transgender” women in women’s sports and so-called transgender medical procedures for children ahead of an election where polls show most voters hold commonsense views on these issues. Left-wing candidates must walk a fine line between maintaining the flow of hundreds of thousands of… -
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Likening Trump, Other Republicans to Hitler: The First and Last Refuge of Democratic Scoundrels
Top Democrats and Trumpophobes scream that former President Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler’s fascist twin. English translation: Trump is a Republican. John Kelly, Trump’s disgruntled former chief of staff, said last week that Trump matches “the general definition of fascist” and “certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.” Relying, as usual, on anonymous sources, The Atlantic’s fabulist-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, “reported” that Trump said…