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By rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats are setting themselves up for a replay of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat—and they’re OK with that. As humiliating as Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump was, she didn’t drag down congressional Democrats, who gained six seats in the House and two in the Senate that year. Former House…
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden’s letter announcing that he is standing down from the general election documented all the reasons the incumbent had to go. But it’s too late, Joe. Your legacy is lost. Biden should have announced he was not running for reelection a year ago—or, at the very least, before he blew the June 27…
As people grow increasingly wary of dangers around them, a split-screen has again opened up on how the Left and Right approach the threat of terrorism. On the Left, you have the Army being trained on the purported terrorist threat posed by Christian pro-lifers. On the other, elected officials are finally probing pro-Hamas groups. The pro-life groups…
It makes “absolutely no sense” that the roof of the building from which the gunman fired was not secured by the Secret Service, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Sheriff Dale Schmidt told The Daily Signal in an interview discussing the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Following the attempt on Trump’s life during a campaign rally…
Shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, he endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, in what is now an open Democratic primary. In addition to Biden’s endorsement, Harris enjoys many advantages, such as the fact that her candidacy will face fewer fundraising and ballot-qualifying challenges than other potential…
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Two of America’s biggest banks just warned of incoming disaster. Even poker-face Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is starting to crack, sprinkling his usual sweet nothings with warnings that the Fed’s close to being forced to restart…
The horrid attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Bulter, Pennsylvania, has the entire nation justifiably outraged and demanding answers to fundamental questions about the colossal security failure that nearly ended the life of the 45th president of the United States. Few actions rise to the level of a clear and present danger to our nation’s…
In the back seat of a Toyota Sienna headed north through the winding roads of the Blue Ridge Mountains, I rapidly bought an internet domain name and a WordPress subscription. I then furiously began constructing a website on my iPhone 12 Mini—a task not for the faint of heart. On this vacation with my family…
MILWAUKEE—Security expert Brian Cavanaugh says former President Donald Trump was “a gust of wind away” from being assassinated on July 13th. “To have a round pierce your ear, which is attached to your head, we’re talking less than two millimeters away,” says Cavanaugh, a senior vice president at American Global Strategies. For a bullet to…
Who is most likely to replace President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket now that he has stepped aside in the presidential race? Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take on former President Donald Trump. “Today I want to offer…
I have a confession to make. If you told me five years ago that I’d be an intern at The Heritage Foundation, the most influential conservative think tank in America, I would have been stupefied. I’m a Californian born and raised, so inevitably, I was a very passionate liberal for most of my teenage years….
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Joe Biden’s handlers, desperate to take the spotlight off their candidate’s cognitive dumpster fire—as well as countering Donald Trump’s Matrix-level heroics—announced one of their dumbest plans yet: nationwide rent control. Biden appears to be proposing a 5%…
For those of a certain age, or with more than a woke education, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump brings back echoes of history. Not exactly the history of the abysmal political year of 1968, which saw the murders of Martin Luther King Jr., 39, and Robert F. Kennedy, 42, riots in major…
I think it was 2019 when I first interacted with Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio. I had just finished my judicial clerkship and begun my career in media. JD, just a few years older than me, was already a bestselling author and a tech venture capitalist. We were both interested in some of the energetic and…
Donald Trump has a lot of things to celebrate this week, but a foregone conclusion in November isn’t one of them. Joe Biden is down in the polls and losing the unwinnable war against time’s toll. But Biden is nothing if not tenacious, and the president has a trick ready to turn Trump’s latest triumph—…
Our republic averted a national catastrophe by one inch: The tilt of former president Donald Trump’s head, an imperceptible difference in the wind, a slight shake in the nervous hand of the would-be assassin. Change any one of these factors and our country and the world would never be the same. We should all…
When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican primary, the Democratic Party concluded that the people could not be counted on to do the “right thing” of electing the Democratic candidate in waiting Hillary Clinton. What followed were eight long years of extralegal efforts to neuter candidate, then president, then ex-president,…
The Left’s efforts to push a fragile Joe Biden out of the presidential race are probably hitting an apex around now, as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer reportedly showed up at the old man’s house to “forcefully” ask him to pack it up. Many Democrats are now looking around for political saviors. I’m not sure…
On July 15, the opening day of the Republican convention, federal judge Aileen Cannon dismissed special counsel Jack Smith’s indictments of former President Donald Trump for misuse of classified documents. Legal arguments aside, it cast a shadow over all the breathless media hype that came before it. Year after year, partisan “legacy media” outlets have…
A man can sleep better at night thinking evil men in charge have a plan than realizing incompetent idiots with no plan are in charge. Many Americans have resorted to conspiracy theories because they will not process that idiots are in charge in a confluence of random events who make matters worse through their gross…