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    GOP Challenger Gains in Ohio Senate Race as Trump Leads Harris, Poll Finds
    The U.S. Senate race in Ohio between Republican challenger Bernie Moreno and incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown is too close to call, although Donald Trump leads Kamala Harris by 11 percentage points in the presidential race. That’s according to a recent poll of 781 likely voters conducted by RMG Research from Sept. 18-20. The margin of…
    Tom Gantert
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    In Speech on Economy, Trump Calls for ‘New American Industrialism’
    “To the autoworkers in Michigan, Georgia, and all other parts of our country, I am pinpointing you for greatness,” former President Donald Trump said in a campaign speech on Tuesday. In a rally held in Savannah, Georgia, Trump laid out his economic vision for the United States if he is reelected in November. His message…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Debunking the Worst Gun Control ‘Hot Takes’ After Second Trump Assassination Attempt
    Donald Trump by all accounts survived another assassination attempt earlier this month when Secret Service agents engaged a rifle-wielding man lying in wait in bushes adjoining a hole at his private golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the former president was playing. As is so often the case after high-profile incidents involving the…
    Amy Swearer
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    Voters Don’t Want Harris’ or Trump’s Campaign Policies
    Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday’s front page, has any proposals to cut the rapidly increasing national debt. Instead, both are proposing to hand out goodies to strategically positioned voters. Harris, with an eye on polls showing young voters not as pro-Democratic as in…
    Michael Barone
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    Another Month, Another Trump Assassination Attempt
    This week, a would-be assassin aimed a rifle at Donald Trump through the fence at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. A Secret Service agent saw the man and shot at him; he was later arrested. The alleged shooter has a long record of clear-cut, left-wing hatred: He has opined that…
    Ben Shapiro
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    PolitiFact Throws Its 200th ‘Pants on Fire’ Tag at Donald Trump
    Kamala Harris consented to a puffball panel discussion with the National Association of Black Journalists on Sept. 17, and it was announced that PolitiFact would engage in live “fact-checking.” Its Twitter feed then displayed 14 checks on Harris’ answers. The first one was labeled “False,” and all the rest of them were “True,” “Accurate,” or…
    Tim Graham
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    ABC News May Have ‘Inappropriately Influenced’ Harris-Trump Debate, Senator Says
    Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., has accused ABC News of partiality and left-leaning bias during the recent presidential debate, saying that Kamala Harris’ campaign may have “inappropriately influenced the proceedings” against Donald Trump.   In a letter Wednesday, the senator demanded that ABC release all pre-debate communication and coordination with the Harris campaign, saying the public…
    Ann Moreno
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    Teamsters Decline to Endorse for President Despite Members’ Overwhelming Support for Trump
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Teamsters union has declined to make an endorsement in the 2024 presidential election just hours after releasing internal polling data showing that workers it represents strongly favor former President Donald Trump. Among rank-and-file members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 59.6% surveyed said they believe the Teamsters should endorse Trump, compared…
    Robert Schmad
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    WATCH: Trump, Harris Promise the Moon to Swing States
    On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we dive into the details on the neck-and-neck race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump as the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and (almost) North Carolina are hit with a tsunami of promises from the candidates. Harris goes…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Media Victim-Blames Trump for Assassination Attempts. But They’re the Ones Sowing Chaos.
    By a miracle, really a series of miracles, former President Donald Trump has survived two assassination attempts in little more than two months.    The implications of Trump being murdered are almost too disturbing to contemplate. The fact that a man running for president continues to be targeted like this is certainly worth a “national conversation.” Yet,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Shocking Number of Democrats Say US Would Be ‘Better Off’ If Trump Had Been Killed
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—More than 1 in 4 Democrats believe America would be better off if former President Donald Trump had been assassinated, according to a poll released Wednesday. Veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen’s national survey of 1,000 registered voters, conducted by RMG Research for the Napolitan News Service, asked Americans about Sunday’s second assassination…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Trump Issues ‘Cease and Desist’ Warning to Election Cheaters
    As early voting begins this week in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump posted another warning to cheaters on Truth Social.  “CEASE & DESIST,” the 45th president posted Tuesday. “I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: McConnell Focuses on Raising Taxes, Not Trump Assassination Attempt, at Senate Luncheon
    Time is running out for lawmakers on Capitol Hill to address a number of pressing issues before the session ends and they leave Washington until after the Nov. 5 election. The government will run out of funding come Sept. 30 without a continuing resolution; House Republicans are putting a full-court press on the Harris-Walz ticket…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Hillary Clinton Condemns Media for Their Coverage of Trump
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday condemned the media for not sufficiently covering the peril she believes former President Donald Trump poses to the planet while calling on Americans to be “outraged by what he represents.” Clinton’s remarks follow federal and local officials confirming Sunday the arrest of 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh for allegedly…
    Aaron Hedlund
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    Trump Is Ultimately Responsible for Assassination Attempts Against Him, Alexander Vindman Says
    Alexander Vindman, the retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel of Ukrainian descent whose testimony led the House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump in 2019, blamed Trump after a second gunman reportedly attempted to assassinate the former president on Sunday. Vindman's brother, Yevgeny who goes by Eugene, is running for Congress as a Democrat in…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    More Good News for Trump in Fani Willis’ Case Against Him
    The second attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend came just after the dismissal by a Georgia judge of more lawfare charges against the former president and other defendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ partisan prosecution.  But on Friday, two days before Sunday’s second shocking attempt to kill Trump, another dismissal occurred….
    Hans von Spakovsky | Cully Stimson
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    12 Influencers Who Called for Violence Against Trump, Called Him an ‘Existential Threat to Democracy’
    Ahead of the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, many influential actors, journalists, and influencers warned that Trump is an “existential threat” to democracy, compared him to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and suggested he or his supporters should face violent attacks. Some continued attacking Trump even after the first assassination attempt July 13….
    Tyler O’Neil
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    WATCH: Trump to Speak to Country After Second Attempt on His Life
    On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we deliver the quick news and analysis on the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump before we cover his remarks to the nation on X Spaces live. The corporate media’s coverage of the attempt on the former president’s life is not only as misleading…
    Tony Kinnett
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    DeSantis Questions Propriety of Federal Agencies Probing Assassination Attempt on Trump While Prosecuting Him
    Having the same federal agencies prosecuting former President Donald Trump investigating Sunday’s assassination attempt on him “may not be the best thing,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a Monday press conference. Trump is being prosecuted in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida, a little more than an hour northwest of the Trump International Golf…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    7 Takeaways From Hawley Report on Secret Service Failures in First Trump Assassination Attempt
    The Secret Service missed several opportunities to stop the first attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in July, according to a Senate report released a day after the second such attempt on Trump’s life at his golf club in Florida.  Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., released a 22-page report Monday that says the Department of…
    Fred Lucas
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