Multiple House Democrats said on Thursday that they would continue to call former President Donald Trump a &#8220;threat to democracy&#8221; — even after calls for the party to tone down its language in the wake of a second assassination attempt on the Republican nominee.
Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn asked three House Democrats if they &#8220;think it&#8217;s time for Democrats to stop calling Trump a threat to democracy,&#8221; and all of them defended the description for the Democratic Party&#8217;s political rival.
&#8220;No, the fact of the matter is that he is a threat to democracy,&#8221; said Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hank-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hank Johnson</a> (D-GA).
Rep. Pramilla Jayapal (D-WA) responded to the Fox Business reporter&#8217;s question, saying, &#8220;No, I think we should be clear that he is a threat to democracy.
&#8220;Do you think the rhetoric needs to be toned down?&#8221; Vaughn pressed.
&#8220;I think [Trump&#8217;s] rhetoric should be toned down, absolutely,&#8221; Jayapal replied.
&#8220;Listen, these are the facts; he is a threat,&#8221; Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) added. &#8220;Period. Point blank.&#8221;
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DISGRACEFUL: House Democrats tell Fox News that they will refuse to stop calling President Trump a &#8220;threat&#8221; after the second attempt on his life in two months.
&#8220;He is a threat. Period. Point Blank&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/bu8cj6orEv">pic.twitter.com/bu8cj6orEv</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1837165356030300396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Trump <a href="https://x.com/jimsciutto/status/1835748500899770373" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> the Democrats&#8217; &#8220;rhetoric&#8221; and &#8220;lies&#8221; about him after Secret Service agents fired on a man who allegedly hid out for 12 hours near Trump&#8217;s golf course in South Florida to take a shot at the Republican nominee.
&#8220;Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse,&#8221; Trump wrote on Truth Social.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kjp-defends-calling-trump-a-threat-after-shes-confronted-by-peter-doocy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> calling Trump a &#8220;threat&#8221; earlier this week when she was confronted by Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy.
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“It’s been only two days since somebody allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump again, and you’re here at the podium of the White House briefing room calling him a ‘threat,&#8217;” Doocy said during a White House press briefing on Tuesday. “How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the president, the vice president, and you pick a different word to describe Trump other than ‘threat’?”
“Peter … I actually completely disagree with the premise of your question. The question that you’re asking, it is also incredibly dangerous in the way that you’re asking it,” Jean-Pierre responded. “Because the American people are watching, and to say that from an administration who has consistently condemned political violence, from an administration that the president called the former president and was thankful, grateful that he was okay … and now for you to make that comment in your questioning … that is also incredibly dangerous.”
Jean-Pierre then said her description of Trump as a &#8220;threat&#8221; is accurate, arguing, “What I have said about the former president about January 6 is facts.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign flooded Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram with ads during the week of her debate against former President Donald Trump, outspending the Trump campaign 20 to 1 on the social media sites.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/us/politics/kamala-harris-trump-campaign-spending.html?campaign_id=9&amp;emc=edit_nn_20240920&amp;instance_id=134806&amp;nl=the-morning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Friday that the Harris campaign spent $12.2 million on Facebook and Instagram in the week surrounding the debate, while the Trump campaign spent $611,228, according to Meta&#8217;s records. The Democratic nominee&#8217;s big social media advertising spend focused on battleground states, especially Michigan and Pennsylvania, where the Harris campaign spent $1.5 million and $1.3 million, respectively, on Meta&#8217;s social media platforms.
The Trump campaign, meanwhile, only spent $34,790 in Michigan and $22,465 in Pennsylvania on Facebook and Instagram over the same period, the Times reported.
Trump campaign National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump&#8217;s team doesn&#8217;t need to spend as much as the Harris campaign on social media advertising because &#8220;millions of people want to organically watch and engage with President Trump — you can’t put a dollar value on that.&#8221;
&#8220;The Harris campaign must spend an enormous amount on digital advertising, and we don’t because our campaign’s greatest asset is President Donald J. Trump,&#8221; Leavitt added.
Playing into Harris&#8217; spending on social media is her campaign&#8217;s large fundraising advantage over Team Trump. The Harris campaign has <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/kamala-harris/candidate?id=N00036915" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> bringing in nearly $500 million for the 2024 election, while the Trump campaign has <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/donald-trump/candidate?id=N00023864" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brought</a> in $265 million. Democrats immediately saw a boost in fundraising after President Joe Biden stepped out of the race as many Democratic donors expressed concerns about Biden continuing his 2024 campaign. Harris also benefitted from transferring the Biden campaign&#8217;s cash on hand into her campaign&#8217;s war chest after the president dropped out in July.
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The Harris campaign has not spent any money on advertising on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X, formerly Twitter, according to the Times. Musk endorsed Trump for president shortly after the July 13 assassination attempt on the Republican nominee. The Trump campaign has spent $100,000 on X since Harris became the Democrats&#8217; de-facto nominee.
Despite the Harris campaign spending big bucks on Facebook and Instagram last week, polls <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-debate-had-no-major-effect-on-battleground-state-polling?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> that neither candidate saw a significant spike after the September 10 debate on ABC. Harris and Trump remain neck-and-neck in battleground states, according to polling averages from RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight.
While Harris&#8217; campaign focuses on spending money on digital advertising, the Republican nominee is sitting down for numerous interviews and continuing his rigorous campaign schedule. Harris has been criticized for her lack of solo interviews with the media as her opponent continues to take questions from reporters regularly.

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Ten days have passed since the first and only debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, and the polling in battleground states has remained mostly unchanged, with neither candidate getting much of a bump.
Polling averages posted by <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> and <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FiveThirtyEight</a> show that the two candidates are still neck-and-neck in the seven major battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. According to RCP, Harris leads Trump by one-tenth of a percent in the averages of battleground state polling and has seen a slight dip since the September 10 debate on ABC. Trump&#8217;s average, meanwhile, is the same as it was 10 days ago.
Trump has held onto his slight lead over Harris in <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/arizona/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a> in the days following the debate, while his lead over Harris in <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/georgia/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia</a> has increased to just over 1 point, per the RCP average. FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s polling average also shows Trump remaining in the lead in <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/georgia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia</a>, but the candidates are tied in <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/arizona/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona,</a> with Trump seeing a small dip since the debate.
In Nevada, Harris&#8217; average has gone down since the debate, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/nevada/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RCP</a>, but <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/nevada/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s</a> average shows the vice president&#8217;s numbers in the state staying the same over the past week while Trump&#8217;s average has slightly dipped.
The best post-debate polls for Harris came from results in <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/michigan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> and <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/pennsylvania/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania</a> that showed the vice president leading Trump by five points in both states. A Quinnipiac poll of more than 900 likely voters in Michigan showed Harris leading 51% to 46%, while a Quinnipiac poll of more than 1,000 likely Pennsylvania voters put Harris ahead by the same margin.
The Quinnipiac results combined with other post-debate polls, however, only slightly moved the needle in Harris&#8217; direction in the two blue wall states. The Democratic nominee&#8217;s overall average lead in Pennsylvania since the debate has increased by just over a point while her lead in Michigan has gone up by less than a point since the debate, per FiveThirtyEight.
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The debate was viewed by many as lacking in-depth policy discussions, and the ABC News moderators were slammed by conservatives for targeting Trump and favoring Harris in their real-time fact-checks. Trump told Fox News&#8217; Greg Gutfeld on Wednesday night that his &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-he-regrets-not-going-after-abc-moderators-during-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only regret</a>&#8221; from the debate was not &#8220;going after&#8221; moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for their &#8220;wrong&#8221; fact-checks.
Overall, neither Trump&#8217;s nor Harris&#8217; standing in the polling averages of RealClearPolitcs and FiveThirtyEight shows much movement since their face-off on September 10, and neither candidate holds a lead larger than 3 points in any of the battleground states. Trump continues to outperform his polling numbers in battleground states at this point in both 2016 and 2020. His current numbers are 4 points better than where he was polling against President Joe Biden at this point in 2020.
Statistician Nate Silver, who founded FiveThirtyEight but now runs his own polling forecast, <a href="https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1837125195800183250" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Friday that the latest polling shows &#8220;more good than bad for Harris in state polls,&#8221; but he added that the race is still a &#8220;toss-up.&#8221;
&#8220;When you&#8217;re near 50/50, a 1-point shift in the polls = about 8% of win probability shift in November,&#8221; Silver wrote. &#8220;So easy to end up on either side of the line on any given day.&#8221;
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Los Angeles Dodgers star pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani had a day for the history books on Thursday against the Miami Marlins, batting a remarkable 6-for-6 and becoming the first player in the majors to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season.
Ohtani&#8217;s perfect batting performance began with an RBI single in the first inning and a two-RBI double in the 3rd. Ohtani only got better as the game progressed, hitting three home runs in his next three at-bats. The Japanese-born Dodger added two stolen bases in the game, pushing him into a club no MLB player has ever reached — 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases.
Dodgers play-by-play broadcaster Joe Davis was on the call when Ohtani crushed his second homer of the game, which set the MLB record.
&#8220;One-of-a-kind player! One-of-a-kind season! Shohei Ohtani starts the 50/50 club!&#8221; said Davis as Ohtani&#8217;s ball flew past the left-field wall
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&#8220;Triple for the cycle, homer for history. On a 1-2, Ohtani&#8230; SENDS ONE IN THE AIR, THE OTHER WAY, BACK IT GOES, GOOOOOONNNEEE! ONE OF A KIND PLAYER! ONE OF A KIND SEASON! SHOHEI OHTANI STARTS THE 50/50 CLUB!&#8221; &#8211; Joe Davis on the historic call⚾️🎙️🦄 <a href="https://t.co/JxDyNUfzTD">pic.twitter.com/JxDyNUfzTD</a>
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Ohtani wasn&#8217;t finished after setting the record as he crushed his 51st home run of the season in the 9th inning, helping the Dodgers dismantle the Marlins in a 20-4 victory.
&#8220;Oh my gosh! Shohei Ohtani! The greatest day in baseball history!&#8221; Davis said after Ohtani blasted another homer. &#8220;This is not real life. He is not human.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s the cliché that you never know what you&#8217;re gonna see when you go to the park. You gotta change that cliché from now on. There&#8217;s one thing you know you&#8217;ll never see- what you saw today,&#8221; Davis added.
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&#8220;OH MY GOSH! SHOHEI OHTANI! THE GREATEST DAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY!&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s the cliché that you never know what you&#8217;re gonna see when you go to the park. You gotta change that cliché from now on. There&#8217;s one thing you know you&#8217;ll never see- what you saw today.&#8221; &#8211; Joe Davis ⚾️🎙️ <a href="https://t.co/XHue8pgMmU">https://t.co/XHue8pgMmU</a> <a href="https://t.co/TuFiFXIXi2">pic.twitter.com/TuFiFXIXi2</a>
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href="https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1836913566969970981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Ohtani finished the game batting 6-for-6 with three home runs and 10 RBIs. Only two other players in the history of the sport that dates back to 1876 recorded six hits, three homers, and 10 RBIs in a game — Cincinnati Reds catcher Walker Cooper in 1949 and Anthony Rendon of the Washington Nationals in 2017, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/shohei-ohtani-50-50-club-5051eafa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The 30-year-old phenom also set a new Dodgers record on Thursday for the most home runs in a single season, passing Shawn Green&#8217;s 49 homers in 2022.
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“To be honest, I’m the one probably most surprised. I have no idea where this came from but I’m glad that I performed well today,” Ohtani <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/sport/shohei-ohtani-50-50/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The Dodgers have clinched a playoff spot and stand at 91-62 on the season, which currently ties them with the Philadelphia Phillies for the <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">best record</a> in the majors.

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The U.S. Air Force pursued a &#8220;goal&#8221; to reduce the &#8220;white male population&#8221; in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program, according to documents obtained by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/19/exclusive-new-docs-shed-light-air-force-reduce-white-male-population-joining-officer-ranks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Caller</a>.
The Caller reported on Thursday that in 2022, the Air Force created a slideshow focused on gender and racial quotas, which detailed how it hoped to &#8220;achieve&#8221; a &#8220;goal&#8221; of having fewer white men in its ROTC officer&#8217;s applicant program. The Caller reported on the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/770884913/Production-1-in-CASA-Air-Force-Racial-Quotas-Lawsuit-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a> after the Center To Advance Security In America (CASA) sued the Air Force earlier this year to obtain them. The Air Force previously responded to a 2023 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request claiming it could not find any records related to CASA&#8217;s ask.
In 2022, the U.S. Department of the Air Force also issued a <a href="https://www.af.mil/Portals/1/documents/2022SAF/Officer_Source_of_Commission_Applicant_Pool_Goals_memo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memorandum</a>, stating, &#8220;Diversity and inclusion are an essential part of our society and key to the success of any organization.&#8221;
One of the slides the Air Force put together is titled &#8220;AFROTC White&#8221; and shows a chart of the white population in the ROTC officer&#8217;s applicant program declining to under 50% by fiscal year 2029, which is marked as the &#8220;achieved goal.&#8221;
“White male population will decline as other demographics increase,” the slide states.
Another slide is labeled &#8220;Racial milestones&#8221; and shows how the Air Force is progressing in its race- and gender-based quotas. For African Americans, the Air Force slideshow says it will “target [the] male population through ongoing programs and marketing.” In the slideshow, the Air Force says it had already met its &#8220;female goal&#8221; for ROTC officer applicants, according to the Caller. The Air Force documents also show that the military branch requested $500,000 to be put toward “diversity advertising campaigns.”
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The racial goals include the Air Force’s Aim High Flight Academy (AHFA), according to the documents. The AHFA is an aviation scholarship program for students in high school, ROTC, and the Air Force Academy. The Air Force pushed to ensure that at least 35% of the AHFA applicant pool was made up of minorities.
The Air Force&#8217;s racial quotas are similar to plans workshopped by Federal Aviation Administration officials in 2022. Daily Wire host Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/plan-to-reduce-the-number-of-white-males-in-aviation-matt-walsh-reveals-troubling-internal-footage-of-faa-discussion-on-dei-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed footage</a> earlier this year showing FAA brass complaining about a &#8220;white-male dominated&#8221; industry. Deputy Chief Operating Officer Angela McCullough argued in the footage that the FAA needs to “get a little uncomfortable” and “talk about what the future could look like.”

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The Trump campaign is looking into reports of rallygoers in Tucson, Arizona, experiencing a mysterious illness and what appear to be chemical burns after attending former President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign event last week.
Around 20 people who were sitting on stage near where Trump entered the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall on September 12 said that in the hours after the rally, they became sick, the Arizona Globe <a href="https://arizonaglobe.com/fl/tucson-trump-rally-sparks-backlash-mysterious-illness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Most of those who reported a mystery illness were a part of the &#8220;Latinos for Trump&#8221; group. Symptoms included swelling in the face, blurred vision, and burning eyes.
NBC 4 Tucson reported that 48 people were allowed to sit on the stage behind Trump as he spoke, and it appeared that the only people who reported experiencing severe symptoms were sitting on Trump&#8217;s right. Trump&#8217;s Tucson rally took place just three days before the Secret Service fired on a gunman who appeared to be sitting in wait to take shots at the former president at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
A local pastor, Eli Moreno, and his wife, Francesca, said they were both affected by the illness. Pastor Moreno had opened the rally in prayer before he joined his wife and others who were seated on stage. Francesca said her nose started running, her face swelled, and her vision became blurry as they were driving home from the Trump rally. The couple reportedly stopped at a Walgreens store to find something to ease Francesca&#8217;s discomfort and met another person with similar symptoms who had attended the rally.
Another Trump supporter, Mayra Rodriguez — a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-worked-at-planned-parenthood-for-17-years-heres-why-i-am-saying-no-to-kamala" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former Planned Parenthood employee</a> and Hillary Clinton supporter — said she went to the emergency room after experiencing burning eyes and an intense headache and couldn&#8217;t even open her eyes after making it to the hospital. A doctor evaluated Rodriguez and said she had suffered a chemical burn, the Arizona Globe reported.
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&#8220;The emergency room staff [were asking] &#8216;Are you sure you weren&#8217;t sprayed by anything? Your symptoms look like you were sprayed by something.'&#8221;
Rodrigeuz told NBC 4 in an interview the morning after the Trump rally that she &#8220;can&#8217;t see anything,&#8221; adding that &#8220;it hurts a lot to open my eyes.&#8221; Rogriguez also said she told the Trump campaign about her symptoms and was informed that the campaign is looking into it.
&#8220;The Trump campaign has been collecting information. We remain committed to the countless patriots that attend our high-energy, high-impact rallies across the country,&#8221; Senior Trump Campaign Adviser Danielle Alvarez said.
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A MYSTERIOUS TOXIN AT THE TRUMP RALLY IN ARIZONA LAST WEEK SENT 20 AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO EMERGENCY ROOMS
Around 20 people at Trump’s Tucson rally suddenly fell ill, reporting blurry vision and swelling. One person was even diagnosed with a chemical burn!
All of them were seated… <a href="https://t.co/ZtTFqI6ggO">pic.twitter.com/ZtTFqI6ggO</a>
— Rob Vendetti (@rob_vendetti) <a href="https://twitter.com/rob_vendetti/status/1836612972967239858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rep. James McGovern (D-MA) believes that the 60% of Teamsters union members who back Donald Trump are &#8220;uninformed,&#8221; expressing disappointment after union leaders decided <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-first-democrat-in-decades-to-not-get-teamsters-endorsement-after-members-back-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not to endorse</a> a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union of more than 1.3 million members, released <a href="https://teamster.org/2024/09/teamsters-release-presidential-endorsement-polling-data/">internal polling</a> showing that Trump was supported by the union members over Harris 59.6% to 34%. The new internal poll showed a significant swing among union members in favor of Trump after Biden dropped out of the race. Members previously supported Biden over Trump 44.3% to 36.3%.
The Teamsters, which endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate in every election since 1996, said it would not endorse a candidate this year, adding that Harris would have only needed to gain &#8220;majority support&#8221; for an endorsement while Trump would have needed &#8220;universal support.&#8221;
McGovern, who <a href="https://www.jimmcgovern.com/2024/01/05/most-reasonable-people-would-agree/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">routinely</a> slams &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/McGovernMA/status/1793373121048916097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MAGA Republicans</a>,&#8221; said that Teamsters members who support Trump are &#8220;misinformed or uninformed.&#8221;
“It’s clear that these workers are misinformed or uninformed about Trump’s record on labor. He is the most anti-labor president we have ever had, and his allegiance isn’t toward working people,” he said, according to <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/18/democrats-seethe-over-teamsters-decision-to-not-en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Times</a>. “Look at his plans for a tax cut. I mean tax cuts for rich people, but not for people in the middle class.”
McGovern joined other House Democrats who expressed frustration with the Teamsters withholding an endorsement of Harris. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; with Teamsters President Sean O&#8217;Brien, saying she finds his &#8220;behavior, especially after he went out to eat at Mar a Lago with Donald Trump, to be a questionable change in his pattern.&#8221;
“At the end of the day, we know that when the Teamsters are in trouble, who do they call when they need to make sure that Teamsters pensions are bailed out?” she added, “When they need to make sure that they have a fair shake at the negotiating table? It was Sean O’Brien calling Democrats for help.”
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Rep. Pramilla Jayapal (D-WA) also argued that Democrats are responsible for saving Teamsters pensions and &#8220;fighting for union organizing.&#8221;
O&#8217;Brien also became the first Teamsters president to give a speech at the Republican National Convention when he addressed the GOP gathering in July.
&#8220;The American people aren’t stupid. They know the system is broken. We all know how Washington is run,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-teamsters-president-sean-obrien-speaks-at-republican-national-convention" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in the speech. &#8220;Working people have no chance of winning this fight. That’s why I’m here today because I refuse to keep doing the same things my predecessors did.&#8221;

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced on Wednesday night that he intends to visit Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado — two cities that have been thrown into the national spotlight over migrant influxes.
Trump made the announcement during his rally in Uniondale, New York, telling supporters that he will travel to Springfield &#8220;in the next two weeks,&#8221; adding that he will also visit Aurora in the near future. Both places have become the center of the Trump-Vance message on immigration as residents speak out about the influx of migrants in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-has-my-town-become-springfield-residents-say-its-falling-apart-amid-haitian-influx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Springfield</a> and Venezuelan gang activity in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/co-dem-governor-says-alleged-migrant-gang-takeover-of-apartments-is-imagination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aurora</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to Springfield and I&#8217;m going to Aurora,&#8221; Trump said as the crowd cheered. &#8220;You may never see me again, but that&#8217;s okay. I gotta do what I gotta do.&#8221;
&#8220;Whatever happened to Trump? Well, he never got out of Springfield,&#8221; he quipped. &#8220;I&#8217;m leading in Ohio by like 15 points — a lot. And we&#8217;re going to take care of Ohio, and we&#8217;re going to take care of Colorado, and we&#8217;re going to take care of every single state in the union. They&#8217;re all under siege.&#8221;
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In Springfield, which has a population of around 58,000 people, residents have witnessed 20,000 Haitian migrants move into the town in a matter of a few years. Democrats and the legacy media have also focused on the Springfield story, arguing that Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, are wrongfully targeting lawfully present Haitian migrants after the Republicans cited unconfirmed reports of them stealing and eating residents&#8217; pets.
Some residents in Springfield <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-has-my-town-become-springfield-residents-say-its-falling-apart-amid-haitian-influx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire that they feel less safe in their hometown, saying the police force is understaffed to deal with the large population increase thanks to the influx of migrants as crime in Springfield has spiked since 2020, according to FBI crime data.
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Meanwhile, Aurora — a suburb of Denver — is <a href="https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/aurora/aurora-police-identify-10-documented-tren-de-aragua-members-in-the-city-9-have-been-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dealing with members</a> of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and reports of the group taking over some of the city&#8217;s apartment complexes. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-shows-armed-men-walking-through-co-apt-building-after-official-warned-of-venezuelan-gang-takeover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Video</a> of armed men entering an apartment in an Aurora complex with guns drawn spread on social media, and two of the city&#8217;s leaders sounded the alarm on the gang threatening residents. Aurora police and Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis have denied that Venezuelan gang members have taken over any apartment buildings in the city.
Last week, Aurora police revealed that it had identified 10 Tren de Aragua members in the city, adding that nine had been arrested, ABC Denver 7 <a href="https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/aurora/aurora-police-identify-10-documented-tren-de-aragua-members-in-the-city-9-have-been-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-stupid-people-allowing-gangs-to-take-over-colorado-apartments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the reports of gang members taking over apartments in Aurora last month, saying, “Venezuelan gang members have taken over parts of the city. They’ve taken over apartment houses because these stupid people we have leading our country are allowing these people, these criminals to come into our country.”
“And we’re going to get them the hell out of here,” Trump added. “And this is just the beginning. Wait until you see what happens. Wait until you see what they’re doing.”

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Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he &#8220;wanted to be elegant&#8221; during his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris last week, but he now regrets not &#8220;going after&#8221; ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.
Trump appeared on Fox News&#8217;s late-night show &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-says-regrets-not-going-after-abc-moderators-during-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gutfeld!</a>&#8221; where he was asked about the legacy media&#8217;s bias against him. The Republican nominee pointed to the ABC debate and the moderators&#8217; numerous fact-checks against him as an example of the media treating him unfairly.
&#8220;I walked off that stage and thought I had the best debate, and I was very unfairly treated by the anchor. I&#8217;m not fans of those guys anymore, and you know, his hair was better five years ago,&#8221; Trump said referring to Muir.
Trump mentioned being fact-checked by Muir on rising crime rates, saying, &#8220;It turned out to be a false attack.&#8221; Muir cited FBI crime statistics to push back on Trump&#8217;s statement that crime rates across the country are rising. A DOJ report <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/13/us-news/violent-crime-has-increased-doj-report-says-after-david-muir-disputed-trumps-claim-that-crime-is-through-the-roof/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> just days after the debate, however, supported Trump&#8217;s claims, revealing that violent crime has spiked under the Biden-Harris administration.
Trump added that the moderators said nothing when Harris repeated the Left-wing lie about Trump&#8217;s Charlottesville comments.
&#8220;They didn&#8217;t correct her once, and they corrected me [on] everything I said practically — I think nine times or 11 times,&#8221; Trump said.
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Conservatives blasted the ABC News moderators during and after the debate, arguing that the fact-checks on Trump and none on Harris put the former president in an impossible-to-win fight.
The former president argued that in the days following the debate, more people realized that it &#8220;was all word salad&#8221; from Harris, adding that no matter how well he debated, the legacy media would claim that Trump &#8220;was nothing special.&#8221;
&#8220;I had people telling me that I&#8217;m wrong about things when I&#8217;m totally right. I was right about just about all of that stuff, and they were correcting me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think my only regret is that I wanted to be elegant, and I didn&#8217;t want to go after the anchors. I wish I did, in a way.&#8221;
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Former President Donald Trump is expected to attend the Alabama vs. Georgia game at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on September 28.
A person with knowledge of Trump&#8217;s campaign plans told the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/sec/2024/09/16/donald-trump-alabama-vs-georgia-game-schedule-confirmed/75255424007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tuscaloosa News</a> earlier this week that the former president plans to attend. The game, which features the two biggest SEC powerhouses currently ranked among the top four teams in the country, will take place under the lights beginning at 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC.
This will be the second Alabama-Georgia game for Trump after he attended the 2018 national championship matchup between the two teams while he was the sitting president. It will also be Trump&#8217;s second time attending a game at the historic Bryant-Denny Stadium. He was in attendance in Tuscaloosa for the 2019 game between the Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers, which marked the first time a sitting president had attended an Alabama home football game, according to Tuscaloosa News.
When Trump was introduced at the Alabama game in 2019, the crowd erupted in cheers.
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John Wahl, chairman of the Alabama Republican Party, confirmed that he was aware of Trump&#8217;s plans to visit Tuscaloosa and watch the game, saying he&#8217;s &#8220;extremely excited about the prospect.&#8221;
&#8220;The people of Alabama have a special relationship with Donald Trump and the Republican Party is always excited to welcome him to our state,&#8221; he added. &#8220;With that said, I’m not directly involved in the planning, and I don’t know if the most recent assassination attempt changes anything here in Tuscaloosa.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s reported plans are always subject to change, and as mentioned by Wahl, the second assassination attempt on Trump on Sunday has brought questions surrounding his security back into the spotlight. The former president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-praises-agent-who-spotted-rifle-on-golf-course-very-different-story-from-butler-rally?topStoryPosition=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> his Secret Service detail on Tuesday for spotting the barrel of a rifle and stopping a gunman before he was able to fire any shots at the president or others on Trump&#8217;s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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&#8220;In this particular case, you had a very sharp agent, as good as you could find, and did a fantastic job, but somebody could have missed the barrel of that rifle,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Somebody of lesser talents or somebody that was distracted could have missed or could have been shot, I mean, frankly, could have also been shot.&#8221;

Trump Set To Attend Major College Football Rivalry Game Later This Month

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Vice President Kamala Harris is extremely unpopular among independent voters, according to a poll from Gallup that was released on Wednesday — just 48 days before the election.
The Gallup poll shows Harris at a dismal 35% approval rating among independents with 60% of the voting group disapproving of the vice president. Trump&#8217;s approval rating among independents is underwater by 9 points — 44% approve of him while 53% disapprove. Among all U.S. adults, Trump has an advantage over Harris with a 46% approval rating to Harris&#8217; 44% approval rating, according to Gallup.
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Gallup poll: Favorability Ratings (shift from August)
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Favorable: 46% (+5) 
Unfavorable: 53% (-2)
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Favorable: 44% (-3) 
Unfavorable: 54% (+5) 
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Trump: 44-53 (net: -9) 
Harris: 35-60 (-25)
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&#8220;Despite the overall negative tilt in favorability, both candidates enjoy nearly unanimous positive ratings from their own party faithful and negligible positivity from the opposing party,&#8221; Gallup wrote.
Harris&#8217; approval among Democrats stands at 94% while Trump&#8217;s approval among Republicans is at 91%.
The Gallup poll presents potential concerns for the Harris campaign as the vice president attempts to convince uncommitted voters to back her run. In the 2020 election, Biden won independent voters by 9 points, 52% to 43%, according to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew Research</a>. Biden&#8217;s 2020 success among independents was a drastic swing in favor of Democrats compared to the 2016 election when Trump beat Hillary Clinton among independent voters 43% to 42%.
Political commentators reacted to the new poll on social media, arguing that it spells disaster for Harris.
&#8220;This absolutely tracks with the conversations I’ve had across the country this month,&#8221; Fox News columnist David Marcus <a href="https://x.com/BlueBoxDave/status/1836402309703647595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;Harris needs to turn this around. Nobody knows who she is or what she stands for, and she’s bleeding trust.&#8221;
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&#8220;Kamala’s favorability ratings are beginning to collapse. Look at the numbers for independent voters!&#8221; Outkick founder Clay Travis <a href="https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1836387661025591568" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;This is why they are trying to hide her. The more people see her, the less they like her.&#8221;
Trump and Harris&#8217; path to victory will likely come down to how well they perform in the seven critical battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. As of Wednesday morning, the race could not be any closer in the top battleground states with Trump and Harris tied at 47.8%, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> average of polling.
Trump holds small leads in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, while Harris is barely ahead in Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, per RCP.

Kamala’s Approval Rating Among Crucial Voting Bloc Underwater By 25 Points: Poll

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Former President Donald Trump described more details about the second attempt on his life on Tuesday night, praising the Secret Service agent who possibly prevented shots from being fired at the Republican nominee on Sunday.
Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-reveals-weakness-efforts-keep-him-safe-says-his-team-has-long-requested-more-manpower" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Sean Hannity that the apparent assassination attempt at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, is a &#8220;very different story&#8221; from when a shooter fired upon him in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. The former president praised the &#8220;very sharp agent&#8221; who saw the barrel of an AK-47-style rifle sticking out of a fence around 400 yards from where Trump was playing golf.
&#8220;In this particular case, you had a very sharp agent, as good as you could find, and did a fantastic job, but somebody could have missed the barrel of that rifle,” Trump said. “Somebody of lesser talents or somebody that was distracted could have missed or could have been shot, I mean, frankly, could have also been shot.”
&#8220;But in this case, it worked out very well,&#8221; he continued, adding, &#8220;Butler is a very different story. Somebody should have been on that building, and that&#8217;s a different story.&#8221;
Trump was shot in the right ear in Butler on July 13 after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks gained access to a rooftop point just 130 yards away from the Republican nominee. Crooks fired eight shots and killed one rallygoer, Corey Comperatore, and wounded two other attendees.
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hawley-drops-report-on-trump-rally-security-failures-after-2nd-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> earlier this week on the security failures at Trump&#8217;s Butler rally. The report stated that the incident was the “most stunning breakdown in presidential security since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.”
Asked by Hannity if the Department of Homeland Security, which is over the Secret Service, has rejected any requests from the Trump campaign for more resources, Trump replied, &#8220;We have long requested more people.&#8221; He added that &#8220;if there&#8217;s a weakness&#8221; with his Secret Service protection, it&#8217;s that his detail needs more &#8220;manpower.&#8221;
&#8220;We have tremendous rallies and crowds, and that&#8217;s a good thing, but you need more protection,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I will say, in Butler, we wanted more protection &#8230; and we never seemed to get that.&#8221;
After the second assassination attempt on Trump, President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-secret-service-needs-more-help-after-2nd-attempt-on-trumps-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Secret Service &#8220;needs more help,&#8221; and top lawmakers pushed for the agency to provide Trump with more protection.
“President Trump needs the most coverage of anyone. He’s the most attacked. He’s the most threatened, even probably more than when he was in the Oval Office,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawmakers-call-for-increased-secret-service-protection-for-trump-heres-what-former-agents-say-that-could-entail-185406861.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> earlier this week.
Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut also said Trump&#8217;s detail needs to be beefed up, saying the second assassination attempt &#8220;is deeply alarming and appalling.&#8221;

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