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2024 Presidential Election
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So it's cut off the part where signs it "childless cat lady"
So....Trump keeps talking about all that money people are giving him.....But he isn't sharing it at all. GOP Senate Whip John Thune is having to transfer $4 million out of his OWN campaign acct to fund the National Republican Senatorial Committee
This in response to Harris donating $10 Million of her Campaign Fundraising haul to the National Democratic Senatorial Committee
Both of these Donations and Funds are used to Fund Down Ballot Senate Races in the States to try to control a majority of the Senate.
Republicans are Funding themselves as Trump isn't Sharing. Harris is Well Overfunding the Dem's from her Massive Haul.
Trump cares about NO OTHER CANDIDATE than himself. He isn't interested in the GOP winning the Senate or the House. Its just all about him.
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) told colleagues at a special political strategy meeting Tuesday that he will transfer $4 million from his campaign account to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to help chip away at the big fundraising advantage Senate Democrats have enjoyed so far this cycle.
Thune’s transfer from his personal campaign fund is the largest ever by a Senate Republican, according to a source familiar with the transaction. The current record was also set by Thune, with a $2 million transfer in 2016.
The gift will boost Thune’s reputation among colleagues heading into the special leadership election Senate Republicans will hold in November or possibly later to replace 82-year-old Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Thune said Tuesday he was thinking more about helping secure a Senate Republican majority in 2025 than how it might affect his leadership race against Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).
“Everybody’s trying to win a majority. That’s what we’re all focused on. I think the team realizes that the next [GOP] leader should be the [Senate] majority leader, and so everybody is doing what they can to help us get the majority,” Thune told The Hill.
Republican senators applauded Thune’s huge gift at Tuesday’s meeting.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said he’s “delighted” that Thune is stepping up in such a big way.
A Republican senator who requested anonymity said, “it’s a lot of money!”
But Thune’s rival for the top GOP leadership job, Cornyn, has also raised a lot of money for Senate GOP candidates, employing the Cornyn Victory Committee to tap major donors in Texas for Senate races around the country.
“I think we’re on track to raise about $25 million in hard money. There are other efforts underway to help provide with resources but, again, I think everybody needs to be on the field,” he said. “If people can give money by transferring from their accounts, that’s great. If they raise money, like hard dollars and soft dollars like the Senate Leadership Fund does, we need all of the above.”
NRSC Chair Steve Daines (R-Mont.) is warning colleagues that Senate Democrats are pulling ahead in the fundraising battle, noting that Vice President Harris has transferred $10 million to help the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
“If there’s one thing that Kamala Harris can do well, and maybe the only thing, that is raise money. So we got a gap we need to close,” Daines told reporters Tuesday.
This in response to Harris donating $10 Million of her Campaign Fundraising haul to the National Democratic Senatorial Committee
Both of these Donations and Funds are used to Fund Down Ballot Senate Races in the States to try to control a majority of the Senate.
Republicans are Funding themselves as Trump isn't Sharing. Harris is Well Overfunding the Dem's from her Massive Haul.
Trump cares about NO OTHER CANDIDATE than himself. He isn't interested in the GOP winning the Senate or the House. Its just all about him.
GOP leadership candidate Thune transfers $4 million to NRSC
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) told colleagues at a special political strategy meeting Tuesday that he will transfer $4 million from his campaign account to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to help chip away at the big fundraising advantage Senate Democrats have enjoyed so far this cycle.
Thune’s transfer from his personal campaign fund is the largest ever by a Senate Republican, according to a source familiar with the transaction. The current record was also set by Thune, with a $2 million transfer in 2016.
The gift will boost Thune’s reputation among colleagues heading into the special leadership election Senate Republicans will hold in November or possibly later to replace 82-year-old Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Thune said Tuesday he was thinking more about helping secure a Senate Republican majority in 2025 than how it might affect his leadership race against Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.).
“Everybody’s trying to win a majority. That’s what we’re all focused on. I think the team realizes that the next [GOP] leader should be the [Senate] majority leader, and so everybody is doing what they can to help us get the majority,” Thune told The Hill.
Republican senators applauded Thune’s huge gift at Tuesday’s meeting.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said he’s “delighted” that Thune is stepping up in such a big way.
A Republican senator who requested anonymity said, “it’s a lot of money!”
But Thune’s rival for the top GOP leadership job, Cornyn, has also raised a lot of money for Senate GOP candidates, employing the Cornyn Victory Committee to tap major donors in Texas for Senate races around the country.
“I think we’re on track to raise about $25 million in hard money. There are other efforts underway to help provide with resources but, again, I think everybody needs to be on the field,” he said. “If people can give money by transferring from their accounts, that’s great. If they raise money, like hard dollars and soft dollars like the Senate Leadership Fund does, we need all of the above.”
NRSC Chair Steve Daines (R-Mont.) is warning colleagues that Senate Democrats are pulling ahead in the fundraising battle, noting that Vice President Harris has transferred $10 million to help the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
“If there’s one thing that Kamala Harris can do well, and maybe the only thing, that is raise money. So we got a gap we need to close,” Daines told reporters Tuesday.
But I was told last night that I can't afford cereal and bacon. Also, what a weird obsession he has with bacon.
mugatu
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Bacon cheeseburgers.
And adderal. Lots of adderal.
GOP led State Department office violated its own mandate to "Thwart foreign disinformation" by using TAX PAYER DOLLARS TO FUND ‘censorship’ against small US businesses: House GOP
EXCLUSIVE — An office housed within the State Department is faulted in a new congressional report with violating its mandate to thwart foreign disinformation through its funding of groups engaged in "censorship" against small businesses in the United States.
"This interim report outlines how government agencies are working with the private sector to ensure that certain businesses do not have a fair chance to compete online," said Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX), who chairs the House Small Business Committee. "Even worse, this report uncovers how taxpayer dollars contributed to the censorship that picks winners and losers in the online marketplace."
The 66-page report was prepared by investigators on the Republican-led House Small Business Committee. For over a year, the panel has sought sprawling funding records from the State Department's Global Engagement Center on its programs fighting alleged disinformation and misinformation. That investigation began due to a series of Washington Examiner reports on the office bankrolling the Global Disinformation Index — a British group pressuring advertisers to defund right-of-center media outlets in the U.S.
The release of the report comes as the Global Engagement Center, which has an estimated budget of $61 million and a staff of 125, faces the potential to lose funding over GOP-led frustrations about its involvement with apparent domestic censorship groups. A provision through the annual State Department appropriations bill, which passed the House this summer and will be negotiated in the Senate, aims to ban future checks to the GEC. The office is also facing a lawsuit from conservative media outlets over the $100,000 the GEC sent to GDI and its support of a company called NewsGuard that rates the “misinformation” levels of news outlets.
Titled "Instruments and Casualties of the Censorship-Industrial Complex," the House report argues the GEC promoted "tech start-ups and other small businesses in the disinformation detection space to private sector entities with domestic censorship capabilities." Moreover, the report argues the National Endowment for Democracy, a State Department-funded nonprofit group that awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to GDI, "violated its international restrictions by collaborating with fact-checking entities in assessing domestic press businesses’ admission to a credibility organization."
Formed in 2016 by then-President Barack Obama, the GEC works closely with the Defense Department, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies. Since 2019, the GEC's Technology Engagement Division has regularly met with social media platforms, while the office awarded many direct and subaward grants to entities pushing U.S. fact-checking initiatives, the House report found.
These initiatives, the report said, demonstrated the ways in which the GEC violated its international mandate. One such initiative was a secret group chat targeting conservatives over alleged "fake news," the Washington Examiner confirmed.
The GEC, according to documents cited in the report, recently awarded taxpayer dollars to the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, a London-based entity that delivered a subaward to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. But the subaward "was used to convince international news outlets to join Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network’s (IFCN) Code of Principles, which is a group of news and information organizations that abide by a certain set of qualities denoting journalistic standards," the report found.
To implement this award, the GEC was apparently added to a private email list in which apparent censorship activists "critiqued applicants, including domestic businesses such as the Daily Caller and its fact-checking organization," according to the House report and documents obtained by the Washington Examiner through public records requests.
Internal documents show that in the email list titled "#FakeNewsSci," participants were also affiliated with the National Endowment for Democracy, Snopes, Poynter, Clemson University, and other entities. Kate Starbird, a professor at the University of Washington, has also participated in the listserv, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner through a public records request.
"I have no role with the email list Fake News SCI and I have only messaged it a few times, primarily to share our job postings," Starbird told the Washington Examiner.
In one February 2021 email in the listserv, then-National Endowment for Democracy official Dean Jackson slammed the Daily Caller, noting, "I personally wouldn't lend them the credibility." He cited a link to an analysis article by writer Marlo Slayback titled "Public Schools Are Becoming Cesspools Of Woke Liberal Activism. What Happened?" Jackson also cited a link to a report in Snopes titled "Why Have So Many Daily Caller Writers Expressed White Supremacist Views?"
Jackson's email, according to other records obtained by the Washington Examiner, came two days after a professor in the chat named Harith Alani said the Daily Caller "published several misinforming articles themselves."
Meanwhile, in a February 2021 email in the private chat, Snopes founder David Mikkelson asked about the outlet's funding for its fact-checking arm and foundation. An email signature for the Google group said, "All exchanges are to be treated as 'off the record' unless the member(s) in question explicitly agree otherwise." Members, according to the email signature, "must be recommended by two other group members to be added to the group."
"Check Your Fact is funded from the Daily Caller's newsroom budget, and the Daily Caller is funded by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF)," Mikkelson said. "So where does the DCNF get its money from? Providing tax forms that merely document how much revenue the DCNF takes in does nothing to answer that question."
"One of the key requirements of IFCN certification is supposed to be transparency of funding," Mikkelson wrote to the chat on Feb. 23, 2021, linking to an "About Us" page for the Daily Caller's fact-checking arm. "If anyone can parse through this word salad and figure out who or what funds the Daily Caller's fact-checking arm, I'd like to know."
In the congressional report, the House Small Business Committee said it's "not appropriate" for the GEC or the NED to "belong to a cohort that gatekeeps domestic press companies from belonging to a private credibility organization."
The panel's report, which cites various stories by the Washington Examiner last year along with separate funding records to "disinformation" groups, includes an audit of the GEC. The audit section notes that the GEC "has several issues in its recordkeeping and that there are not sufficient audit procedures in place to efficiently track its use of taxpayer dollars."
"Despite State’s claims that it conducts rigorous oversight of subawardees, the GEC’s records indicate that there are numerous subawardees for which State has little or no information," the report said.
"No Federal funds should be used to grow companies whose operations are designed to demonetize and interfere with the domestic press," the report continued. "Though the government is no longer in a relationship with NewsGuard or the GDI, the damage has already been done — they have already received the backing of the Federal government in hosting their products on the GEC's Testbed and recommending them to its partners, using their services, and helping to grow their products."
The full report can be viewed below:
Parents of the boy who was tragically killed in OH are speaking out against Trump for exploiting their son's name to promote hate.
"Chip Roy,JD Vance, & Donald Trump,they have spoken my son's name & use his death for political gain.They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, border crisis & even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged & eaten by community members.However, they are not allowed,nor have they ever been allowed to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield,Ohio"
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"Chip Roy,JD Vance, & Donald Trump,they have spoken my son's name & use his death for political gain.They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, border crisis & even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged & eaten by community members.However, they are not allowed,nor have they ever been allowed to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield,Ohio"
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Parents of the boy who was tragically killed in OH are speaking out against Trump for exploiting their son's name to promote hate. "Chip Roy,JD Vance, & Donald Trump,they have spoken my son's name & use his death for political gain.They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants...
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BREAKING: Connecticut man Dave McCormick tells reporters that he's trailing in the polls because unlike him, Bob Casey and his family live in Pennsylvania.
“I was always going to be an underdog. This is the place where Bob Casey and his family have lived forever." PASen
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“I was always going to be an underdog. This is the place where Bob Casey and his family have lived forever." PASen
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BREAKING: Connecticut man Dave McCormick tells reporters that he's trailing in the polls because unlike him, Bob Casey and his family live in Pennsylvania. “I was always going to be an underdog. This is the place where Bob Casey and his family have lived forever." PASen
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Elon would wet his pants at the sight of Kelce.
mugatu
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Yeah. He ran from Zuckerberg, so imagine the reaction to a pissed of Kelce.
Local Republican official in Michigan promises to certify election results after being sued
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A local Republican election official in Michigan has promised to certify the results of the November presidential election after being sued for stating that he wouldn’t sign off on the results if he disagreed with how the election was run.The lawsuit, filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, came after a Detroit News article quoted Kalamazoo County Board of Canvassers member Robert Froman saying he believed the 2020 election was “most definitely” stolen and that he wouldn’t certify the upcoming November presidential results if a similar situation occurred this year. In a sworn affidavit signed Monday, Froman agreed to certify the results of the 2024 election based solely on vote returns and that he would not “refuse to certify election results based on information extrinsic to the statements of return.”
There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and a detailed review by Republican lawmakers in the Michigan Senate affirmed that, concluding that Democrat Joe Biden defeated Republican Donald Trump. The report also urged the state attorney general to investigate those making baseless allegations about the results.
Biden won Kalamazoo County by almost 20 percentage points four years ago and beat Trump in Michigan by nearly 155,000 votes.
Froman’s remarks contributed to growing concerns around the country, especially in presidential battleground states, that canvassing board members who support Trump will refuse to certify the results if the former president narrowly loses, a development that would lead to chaos and intervention by the courts.
“Michigan law clearly states that county boards of canvassers have a ministerial duty to sign off on clerks’ canvassing of votes and procedures. Then opportunities for audits and recounts follow,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson wrote on social media Tuesday, praising the ACLU of Michigan for filing the lawsuit.
Froman did not respond to an email seeking comment.
The ACLU of Michigan agreed to drop the lawsuit after Froman submitted the signed statement.
Trump and his allies began targeting election boards to block certification in 2020. He pressured two Republicans on Wayne County's canvassing board and two others on Michigan’s state board of canvassers, who briefly hesitated to certify the results before one relented and cast the decisive vote. Trump applauded the delay as part of his effort to overturn his loss, one tactic in a multipronged effort to subvert the election results that culminated in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
A Michigan law passed in 2023 makes clear that canvassers have a “ministerial, clerical, and nondiscretionary duty” to certify election results based solely on the election returns.
Still, some Republican officials have attempted to take matters in their own hands. In May, two Republican members of a county canvassing board in the state's Upper Peninsula refused to sign off on the results of an election that led to the recall of three GOP members of the county commission. They eventually relented after receiving a letter from state Elections Director Jonathan Brater, which reminded them of their duties and warned them of the consequences of failing to certify.
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My Red friends are losing their minds today…biased moderators, only fact checking trump, how can they call him divisive?, Taylor Swift and her brainwashed fans (this one is ironic that trump has a few brainwashed “fans”) Kamala’s smirk, they should smack that smirk off her face, etc.
Good news this ain’t over and it could go down to the wire! 270-268 anyone?!?!
Good news this ain’t over and it could go down to the wire! 270-268 anyone?!?!
This is INSANE
Megan Kelly unglued
“F U Taylor Swift!”
She’s not taking this endorsement well
I’m not exaggerating, Kelly’s head practically explodes
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Megan Kelly unglued
“F U Taylor Swift!”
She’s not taking this endorsement well
I’m not exaggerating, Kelly’s head practically explodes
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Megan Kelly unglued “F U Taylor Swift!” She’s not taking this endorsement well 🤷🏻♂️ I’m not exaggerating, Kelly’s head practically explodes. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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