🚨 BOMBSHELL from @mikeallen + @JimVandeHei: Top Dems now believe Biden will exit
"Top Biden aides – including ones who initially urged him to fight on after the debate – are saying it's now when, not if, Biden announces he's not running."https://t.co/R45PhVPO5Q
— Jake Wilkins (@JakeWilkns) July 18, 2024
Not sure anyone is taking this too seriously.
I bet Jill floated it to take the heat off for a couple of days.
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump’s running mate, torched President Joe Biden during his Republican National Convention (RNC) speech on Wednesday evening, calling him a “career politician” who has spent his life in politics pillaging middle-American communities with job-killing free trade and endless wars.
Never in my wildest imagination would I have believed that I could be standing here tonight.
I grew up in Middletown, Ohio, a small town where people spoke their minds, built with their hands, and loved their God, family, community, and country with their whole hearts.
But it… pic.twitter.com/GogFo9ZbMp
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) July 18, 2024
Who does Justin Trudeau listen to? Who can tap him on the shoulder and tell him it might be time to go? That’s a question that came up among Liberals this summer.
In the U.S., a similar question was asked, with more urgency, about President Joe Biden. His halting debate performance in June has many Democrats fearing that if he is the party’s candidate, he will hand the presidency to Donald Trump. A series of private delegations of Democrats have reportedly sought to give him that message.
In recent weeks, China has surged its naval fleet into both surrounding and far away waters.
Most significantly, the People’s Liberation Army Navy sent two strike groups into the South China Sea. The larger, centered on the Shandong aircraft carrier, operated off the main Philippine island of Luzon before transiting into the Western Pacific for blue water flight operations. The other is an Expeditionary Strike Group led by a Type 075 Yushen-class amphibious assault ship, one of China’s largest and most advanced. Four of China’s Type 055 Renhai-class cruisers, described as “the most lethal surface combatant in the world,” escorted the two strike groups.
J.D. Vance, who was selected on Monday as former president Donald Trump’s running mate, once panned Trump’s promises as a kind of “opioid of the masses.” After rising to prominence as the author of the 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” — which chronicled his difficult upbringing in a steel mill community in Ohio — Vance was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022. Vance, 39, has moved on from the “Never Trump” camp to embracing Trump and his populist style.
Now that the Ohio freshman will be on Trump’s ticket, his policy positions are likely to come under greater scrutiny. Here’s what to know.
Donald Trump’s choice for vice president described the UK as an “Islamist country” with nuclear weapons during a speech at a right-wing conference last week.
JD Vance, the Ohio senator, was announced as Mr Trump’s running mate on Monday after the former president was shot in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania at the weekend.
JD Vance takes a shot at the UK Labour Party:
“What is the first truly Islamist country to get a nuke? And we were like, maybe it's Iran, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts. And then we finally decided maybe it's actually the UK since Labour took over."pic.twitter.com/WYrs7vWs3G
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) July 12, 2024
h/t Mauser
In Milwaukee, it’s clear what the attempted assassination of Donald Trump really changed
“… For those who think, correctly, that he is dangerous and unfit, the fact that someone tried to kill him isn’t likely to sway any votes. For his supporters, the attack may add to the myth, but they were already in the bag.”
SARVER, Pa. — The heartbroken widow of Corey Comperatore, the hero firefighter shot dead by a sniper at a Trump rally, wanted nothing to do with President Biden when he called after the tragedy, she told The Post.
“I didn’t talk to Biden,” Helen Comperatore said from her Pennsylvania home on Monday. “I didn’t want to talk to him. My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.”
Donald Trump has significant momentum in the race for the White House, moving ahead of President Biden in every swing state even before Saturday’s assassination attempt, new polling for The Times reveals.
Trump leads Biden in seven states where voters were surveyed and November’s election is expected to be won or lost: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Where does US President Joe Biden obtain his knowledge on Palestinians is a question that has to be asked, especially in light of his recent statement regarding the popularity of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas.
“If you notice, there is a growing dissatisfaction in the West Bank, from the Palestinians, about Hamas,” Biden said during a press conference. “Hamas is not popular now.”
Biden, whose approval ratings are plummeting, can only be jealous of Hamas’s increasing popularity among the Palestinians.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says top Canadian security officials have assured him that they have upped their vigilance following Saturday’s assassination attempt on former U.S. president Donald Trump.
In a series of posts on social media on Sunday, LeBlanc said he met with RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme, David Vigneault, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and Public Safety Canada officials.
“They have assured me that they are exercising increased vigilance and are in close contact with their American partners,” the minister said. “I have every confidence that they will continue to keep Canadians safe.”
I’m used to seeing my friends pack up bags and move to the United States. Most of my graduating class of software engineering at the University of Waterloo decamped for the U.S. right after graduating in 2019. The few who stayed back, have strongly considered moving or have gradually made the jump since.
Recent data shows that this trend is accelerating and is no longer isolated to tech. According to data from the U.S. census, more than 126,000 people from Canada moved to the United States in 2022, a 70 per cent increase from 2021 and one of the highest numbers seen yet.
Concerns are growing about how a far-right policy agenda known as Project 2025 could influence a second Donald Trump presidency — as well as Canada’s relationship with the United States.
Democrats have been attempting to tie Trump to the controversial initiative and convince voters its extreme conservative policies would be representative of how Trump will govern if he wins the U.S. election in November.
At the heart of Project 2025 is a plan to overhaul the U.S. government bureaucracy to make the civil service much more aligned with the political interests of the White House. That would have major implications on the day-to-day business of managing Canada-U.S. relations in important areas like trade, analysts say.
No. 1 – Trump is on record stating Project 2025 is not on his radar making this one more example of MSM TDS.
No. 2 – Making the civil service much more aligned to his political interests is exactly what Justin Trudeau has done in Canada.
The image of Donald Trump with his fist in the air and blood on his cheek will be an enduring one.
Whatever happens next, it is likely to consolidate this man’s extraordinary power over the course of modern US politics. Some are responding by saying the attack was “un-American”, but in reality the history of the United States is one of deep, roiling political conflict that has frequently turned violent.
