The campaign team for U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn, which refers to him as a “lifelong Independent” as he challenges incumbent Nebraska Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts in 2026, has launched a group called “Conservatives for Osborn.”
That’s curious, since Brandon Philipczyk and James Vihstadt, the treasurers of the Osborn campaign and also &#8220;Conservatives for Osborn,&#8221; have strong ties to the Democratic Party.
Philipczyk “served as director of operations in Nevada for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 and national coordinated operations director for the Democratic National Committee until 2017, according to his LinkedIn profile,” The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/veteran-dem-operatives-behind-conservative-group-supporting-nebraska-independent-dan-osborn/">reported</a>, adding that he also worked on Mike Bloomberg’s Democratic presidential primary campaign in 2020. “Vihstadt is a delegate for the Nebraska Democratic Party and has donated exclusively to Democratic political candidates over the years,” the Beacon noted.
Osborn narrowly lost his race against incumbent Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) in 2024, but during the campaign, the Senate Majority PAC, run by then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), gave $3.8 million to the PAC Retire Career Politicians, which supported Osborn. “Nearly $30 million, that’s the amount of money out-of-state Democrats spent trying to buy a Nebraska Senate seat,” Fischer <a href="https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/11/05/red-scare-incumbent-fischer-survives-osborn-in-nebraska-u-s-senate-race/">stated</a>. “It did not happen. … They wasted their money.”
“Osborn launched his campaign in 2023 with the help of a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who authored a blueprint on how to achieve ‘socialism in our lifetime,’” the Washington Free Beacon noted.
In September 2024, Osborn <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3157103/nebraska-independent-dan-osborn-praises-bernie-sanders/">gushed</a> over hard-Left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), saying, “I love Bernie. But the bottom line is we do have to peel off some conservatives.” Then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “Dan is a ‘Bernie Sanders Democrat’ who does not stand for Nebraska Values, and never will.” Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton said Osborn “supports socialist Bernie Sanders but pretends to be non-partisan. A total fraud.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> is right. <a href="https://twitter.com/DebforNebraska?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DebforNebraska</a> is a strong conservative who fights for secure borders and to stop the Biden-Harris inflation. 
Her opponent supports socialist Bernie Sanders but pretends to be non-partisan. A total fraud. 
Support Deb here: <a href="https://t.co/wbtahofbhs">https://t.co/wbtahofbhs</a> <a href="https://t.co/7ci5pWkAzb">https://t.co/7ci5pWkAzb</a>
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“Dan Osborn is a Bernie Sanders Democrat who apparently can&#8217;t take no for an answer,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Communications Director Joanna Rodriguez <a href="https://nebraska.tv/news/local-politics/nrsc-launches-digital-ad-targeting-dan-osborns-senate-campaign">declared</a>. “Nebraskans rejected Democrat Dan after Chuck Schumer and national Democrats spent millions to prop up his fake &#8216;independent&#8217; campaign and they&#8217;ll do it again in 2026.”
The NRSC recently released an ad highlighting Osborn&#8217;s admiration for Bernie Sanders and inappropriate internet activity:
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‘Independent’ Nebraska Senate Hopeful Courts Conservatives, But His Democrat Ties Raise Red Flags

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Six Secret Service agents were suspended without pay due to security failures during the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly a year ago.  
Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-assassination-attempt-butler-secret-service-suspension/">told</a> CBS News on Wednesday that the suspensions ranged from 10 to 42 days, and the personnel were placed on restricted duty with reduced responsibilities upon their return to work. Quinn’s revelation came just days before the one-year anniversary of the July 13 Butler attack, when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired off eight rounds at Trump, striking him in the ear, killing one rallygoer, and injuring two others. 
&#8220;We aren&#8217;t going to fire our way out of this,&#8221; Quinn said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.&#8221; 
Quinn said that the department was “laser-focused” on addressing the problems that left Trump, rallygoers, and the general public vulnerable during the assassination attempt. 
&#8220;Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again and executing our strategic plan to increase technology, to improve communications, to make sure our personnel are well-trained, equipped and deployed.”
He stated that the agency was now utilizing mobile command posts to maintain radio contact with local law enforcement and had begun using new, military-grade drones. At Butler, no drones were used, and Crooks was able to climb onto a rooftop outside of the security perimeter with a rifle about 150 yards away from the stage where Trump was speaking.
ABC News<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/secret-service-agents-suspended-conduct-attempted-trump-assassination/story?id=123628351" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reported</a> that those disciplined ranged from agents at the supervisory level to the line agent level, and the suspensions had been served in &#8220;recent months.&#8221;
Reports from both the House and Senate concluded that the attack was preventable, finding that the Secret Service was woefully unprepared. 
The Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-was-told-of-credible-threat-to-trump-days-before-butler-rally">report</a> found that Crooks was also able to “fly a drone 200 yards from the site, use a rangefinder capable of gauging the distance to the former president less than an hour before he began speaking, and bring two explosive devices within proximity of the site of the rally.&#8221; 
The report detailed that local law enforcement had warned the Secret Service about the potential threat posed by the roof was a possible security vulnerability, but did not allocate resources to secure it. 
Furthermore, the Secret Service was informed that Crooks was on the roof of the building at least two minutes before he started shooting, yet Trump was not moved from the stage. Prior to that, they had known that a suspicious person was hanging around the same building for at least 27 minutes before the shooting. 
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned from her position about 10 days after the attack, shortly after she was grilled by lawmakers about the security failures and faced calls from both Democrats and Republicans to step down.

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A new poll shows Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani holding a commanding 10-point lead in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race this week, with incumbent Mayor Eric Adams trailing in fourth place.
The Slingshot Strategies <a href="https://www.slingshotstrat.com/media/slingshot-mayoral-poll-general-election-7-9">poll</a>, conducted between July 2-6, showed socialist Mamdani capturing 35% of registered voters, with former Governor Andrew Cuomo at 25%, Republican Curtis Sliwa at 14%, and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams trailing with just 11%.
Adams faces an uphill battle with a dismal 28% approval rating and 62% disapproval. By contrast, Mamdani enjoys a net favorable rating of +4 (40% favorable vs. 36% unfavorable), while even the scandal-plagued Andrew Cuomo outperforms Adams, with 44% viewing him favorably and 46% unfavorably.
Other polls have found similar results, including a pro-Adams <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/04/us-news/new-pro-adams-poll-still-has-nyc-mayor-trailing-cuomo-by-double-digits/">poll</a> that still showed Mamdani leading with 41%, followed by Cuomo at 26%, Adams at 16%, and Sliwa at 10%.
Adams&#8217; support has collapsed even among his traditional base, with only 16% of black respondents saying they would back the mayor in the general election, compared to 35% for Mamdani and 32% for Cuomo, according to the poll.
The current contest represents a significant fracturing of Democratic power, with incumbent Mayor Adams – who campaigned as a moderate, pro-police Democrat – now being challenged from both the far-Left in Mamdani and the establishment wing in Cuomo.
While Mamdani&#8217;s 35% support is far from a majority, Slingshot founding partner Evan Roth Smith <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/eric-adams-nyc-mayoral-election-chances-are-under-water-poll/">emphasized</a> to the New York Post that the electoral math looks increasingly difficult for Adams.
&#8220;The problem is the ballot is set. And the strongest Mamdani alternative in this poll is Andrew Cuomo, who just lost to him decisively in the Democratic primary,&#8221; Smith noted. “And the Mamdani alternative that seems to have the most momentum as a fresh alternative is Eric Adams, who’s polling barely in the double digits and seems to have lost credibility everywhere in the election.”
Adams has faced widespread dissatisfaction with his administration, which has faced multiple federal investigations and criticism over the handling of the migrant crisis and public safety issues.
Despite being a Democrat, Adams performs best among Republican voters, receiving 26% support compared to Mamdani&#8217;s 7%, although Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa leads that demographic with 43%.
“There’s simply not enough Republican support for someone who is a sitting Democratic mayor of New York,” Smith added. “So it’s really, really difficult when someone is polling at 11% and the ballot isn’t changing to see what the path to victory is.”
Mamdani, a 33-year-old Assemblyman from Queens, has positioned himself as an unapologetic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zohran-mamdani-says-he-has-many-critiques-of-capitalism?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Zohran+Mamdani+Says+He+Has+%E2%80%98Many+Critiques+Of+Capitalism%E2%80%99">socialist</a>. He has advocated for rent control, increasing taxes on the wealthy, and reallocating police funding to social services – policies that have raised concerns among moderate Democrats and the business community.
“You have a large number of largely white, largely outer borough homeowners who are not necessarily Democrats, who are skeptical of Mamdani,” Smith explained. “The problem is getting those voters together behind either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams seems to still be a pretty tall order, and becomes even more difficult since they’re both in the race.”
Cuomo and Adams have engaged in public <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/zohran-mamdani-leads-general-election-poll-00443469">feuding</a>, with each calling for the other to drop out to consolidate opposition against Mamdani, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-falls-to-radical-socialist-zohran-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-primary?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+Cuomo+Falls+To+Radical+Socialist+Zohran+Mamdani+In+NYC+Mayoral+Primary">won</a> the Democratic primary with 56% to Cuomo&#8217;s 44% in the final round of ranked-choice voting.
Adams’ campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro dismissed the poll in a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/eric-adams-nyc-mayoral-election-chances-are-under-water-poll/">statement</a> to the New York Post, saying, “just weeks ago, Andrew Cuomo was ahead in multiple polls and then went on to lose the primary by double digits.”
“The latest Slingshot poll is just another example of how out-of-touch and unreliable political polling has become,” he said.

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New <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/biden-aides-election-age.html">reporting</a> reveals an extraordinary isolation campaign by former President Joe Biden&#8217;s closest aides at the end of his term, with staffers screaming at reporters, changing his phone number, and blocking access from panicked Democrats trying to tell him the truth about his failing campaign.
The revelation appears in the recently published <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/754957/2024-by-josh-dawsey-tyler-pager-isaac-arnsdorf/">book</a> by a trio of legacy media reporters, titled &#8220;2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,&#8221; written by Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey, New York Times White House correspondent Tyler Pager, and Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf.
Pager, conducting research for the book, managed to obtain Biden’s cellphone number in March 2025. The former president quickly agreed to an interview despite his aides repeatedly turning down similar requests from Page for several months.
Asked if he regretted dropping out of the presidential race, Biden said in a dispassionate tone, “No, not now. I don’t spend a lot of time on regrets.” He then ended the conversation to board an Amtrak train, Pager <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/biden-aides-election-age.html">recalled</a> for the Times.
Pager’s brief discussion with Biden reportedly sparked panic among the former president’s top aides. “After the first call,” the authors <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bidens-team-scolded-reporters-changed-his-number-after-they-called-personal-cellphone-report/">report</a> in the book, “furious Biden aides repeatedly called and texted [Pager].”
“One screamed at me for calling the former president directly. Others texted furiously, trying to figure out how I had obtained Mr. Biden’s phone number,” Pager said.
Although Biden himself initially seemed open to continuing to talk to Pager, the reporter’s calls began to go straight to voicemail.
Within days, Pager’s calls were greeted with a message from Verizon: “The number you dialed has been changed, disconnected, or is no longer in service.”
The Times reporter writes that this incident is reflective of the insularity of Team Biden throughout his doomed presidential campaign.
Pager reports that instead of confronting Biden with the harsh reality after his disastrous debate performance, his inner circle restricted access to him, making it difficult for even longtime allies, such as Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, to connect with the president.
On his way to a fundraiser after the debate, Biden asked his traveling aides aboard Air Force One what people were saying about his performance.
Rather than providing an accurate assessment, they offered what witnesses described as a &#8220;sanitized version&#8221; of the situation.
According to Pager, Biden’s aides never even allowed him to meet with campaign pollsters, instead presenting Biden with overly optimistic outlooks that alarmed campaign staff.
Following the debate, campaign pollsters presented their findings to Biden&#8217;s advisers, and their conclusion was damning: all polling indicated that Biden had no path to victory, and voters were not convinced that he was up for the job.
This assessment enraged Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the former president and chairman of Biden&#8217;s 2020 presidential campaign, who reportedly preferred a sanitized version of events.
“Two days after the presentation, Geoff Garin, one of the pollsters, checked in with Mr. Ricchetti. Mr. Ricchetti lit into him and said the presentation was out of line,” Pager reported. “It was not their job to tell them there was no path to victory. The pollsters, Mr. Ricchetti said, were supposed to provide the path to win.”
Rep. Pete Aguilar, a top House Democrat from California, confronted Ricchetti in a heated call, asking, &#8220;Do you realize how bad it is? Has anyone told the president how bad it is?&#8221;
When Ricchetti insisted that many members of Congress still supported the president, Aguilar pushed back: &#8220;Steve, has anyone walked into the Oval and told him we could lose everything?&#8221; Ricchetti admitted no one had.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/biden-aides-election-age.html">The Times</a>, the situation was so dire that reliable Democratic strongholds, including Virginia, Minnesota, and New Mexico, suddenly became competitive – a devastating development that Biden&#8217;s inner circle concealed from him.
When former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) met privately with Biden at the White House during this crisis period, she grew frustrated by his insistence that polling showed no real change since the debate.
At one point, Biden called his longtime adviser, Mike Donilon, to refute Pelosi&#8217;s claim that polls showed he would lose to Trump. Donilon got on the line and reportedly contradicted Pelosi&#8217;s assessment.
Campaign adviser Adrienne Elrod was so concerned that Biden wasn&#8217;t getting an accurate assessment that she contacted &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, knowing the president watched their show on MSNBC every morning.
Days before Biden dropped out, Scarborough aired these concerns, saying, &#8220;The anger I hear are the people who are keeping him in a bubble.&#8221;
Even when confronted directly by donors at a Hamptons fundraiser who challenged him on his debate performance, Biden dismissed concerns as &#8220;one bad night&#8221; and vowed to stay in the race. His closest aides brushed off the concerns as typical donor anxiety.
The controversy over Biden&#8217;s isolation mirrors similar concerns that arose during his presidency, when critics frequently questioned whether his staff was shielding him from unscripted interactions with the press and public.
Throughout his term, the White House faced persistent accusations that Biden&#8217;s handlers were deliberately limiting his exposure to mask cognitive decline – allegations his team consistently dismissed as partisan attacks despite mounting video evidence of verbal stumbles and confusion during public appearances.

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Speaking to attendees at the Claremont Institute over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance took aim at New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, explaining that he embodied all the contradictions within the American Left.
Referring to Mamdani as a “33-year-old communist running an insurgent campaign,” Vance posited that Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic mayoral primary revealed “interesting threads&#8221; that were &#8220;reflective of where the broader American Left is at this moment in time.”
Vance spoke of how President Donald Trump’s victory represented a “broad working-and-middle-class coalition,” while Mamdani’s coalition was “almost the inverse of that.”
Vance pointed out that Mamdani “won high-income and college-educated New Yorkers, and especially both young, highly educated New Yorkers, but he was weakest among black voters and weakest among those without a college degree.” He added that Mamdani “did particularly well in the Bangladeshi areas of New York, but he did particularly poorly with non-Bangladeshi Asian immigrants, particularly Chinese-Americans.”
“His victory was the product of a lot of young people who live reasonably comfortable lives, but see that their elite degrees aren’t really delivering what they expected, and so their own prospects with all the college debt may not in fact be greater than those of their parents,” he said.
“We have to be honest about where his coalition is,” Vance opined. “It is not the downtrodden. It is not poor Americans. It is not about dispossession. It’s about elite disaffection and elite anger. The party of highly educated, but downwardly mobile elites &#8230; they comprise a highly energetic activist base, but it’s important because it’s not just the elites, the college-educated New Yorkers, that base was supplemented by carefully selected ethnic blocs carved out of the electorate using identity politics as the knife.”
Vance noted that Mamdani’s desire to appeal to ethnic blocs was reflected in his “bizarre appeals to foreign politics, intended to signal to one particular group of New Yorkers or another.”
“Let us ask ourselves why is a mayoral candidate in our nation’s biggest city whining about banning Bibi Netanyahu, a country whose population is about the same size as that of New York, and threatening to arrest a foreign leader if he tries to come to New York City?” he asked. “Why is a New York mayoral candidate attacking Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, as a war criminal? Why is he talking about ‘globalizing the intifada’?”
“But what might seem like a contradiction makes a little bit of sense if you peel back the onion,” he speculated. “Consider a movement that rails against the billionaire class, despite the fact that the billionaire class remains firmly in the corner of the modern Left; a movement that idolizes foreign religions, even as it rejects the teachings of those faiths. It rails, this new modern Left against white people, even as many of its funders and its grassroots activists are privileged whites themselves.”
“What unites Islamists, gender-studies majors, socially liberal white urbanites, and Big Pharma lobbyists &#8230; isn’t the ideas of Thomas Jefferson or even of Karl Marx; it’s hatred,” he stated. “They hate the people in this room. They hate the President of the United States, and most of all, they hate the people who voted for that President of the United States in the last election in November. This is the animating principle of the American far-Left.”
“That’s why Mamdani himself is such an appealing instrument to the Left,” Vance said. “He captures so many of the movement’s apparent contradictions in a single human being; a guy who describes the Palestinian cause as central to his identity yet holds views like abortion on demand or using taxpayer-funded money to fund transgender surgeries for minors. These views, of course, are completely incomprehensible on the streets of Gaza. This guy represents that contradiction.”
“He’s trying to tear something down and he’s very effective at articulating all of the things that the far-Left hates in modern America,” he concluded.
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A Tennessee state lawmaker running for Congress said one of the first thing he does if elected would be to push for a nationwide law to protect children from transgender procedures if elected. 
State Rep. Johnny Garrett, a Republican, told The Daily Wire in an interview announcing his run for Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District that one of the first bills he hoped to introduce would mirror Tennessee&#8217;s law shielding kids from transgender procedures. Garrett, a seventh-generation Tennessean from Goodlettsville, said that even one surgery on a gender-confused child was unacceptable, and that the issue would be one of his top priorities. 
“If indeed the good people of the 6th District want me to be their congressman, I want that to be the first bill that I file, to make sure that&#8217;s a nationwide ban that you cannot mutilate children,” he told The Daily Wire. “We have to protect our children, and that should be a priority. There should be a federal law filed tomorrow to make that a nationwide law, just like Tennessee.”
Garrett&#8217;s first campaign ad, shared with The Daily Wire, features him in a baseball uniform as president of the Goodlettsville Little League Baseball program. 
“Washington’s been throwing curveballs at Tennessee for years: open borders, out of control spending, boys in girls sports, and zero accountability,” he says in the ad. “I’m not going to Washington to play nice, I’m going to help President Trump fight and win.” 
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He says that he will fight to finish the border wall, deport all illegal immigrants, and stop China from buying American land. 
Last month, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning the practice of giving kids puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and performing surgeries like removing the breasts of a girl who identified as a boy. 
“That was a great win for children. A great win for the kids of Tennessee,” Garrett, who was part of the legislature when that bill passed, said. “We didn&#8217;t even realize that was taking place.”
Garrett, the current Tennessee House Majority Whip, is running for a seat currently occupied by Rep. John Rose. Rose announced earlier this year that he is running for governor to replace outgoing Governor Bill Lee, in a race that is also expected to include Senator Marsha Blackburn. 
The 6th District stretches from Middle Tennessee to the edge of Eastern Tennessee and includes parts of Nashville, and cities like Cookeville and Crossville. The area is solid red, and swung for President Donald Trump by over 65%. 
Garrett said he supported Trump’s America First agenda and was “inspired” with what the president has done since returning to the White House. He praised the passage of Trump’s signature “big, beautiful bill,” saying that the tax cuts provisions would benefit Tennessee and also lauded the dramatic decrease in illegal border crossings since Trump’s inauguration.
The lawmaker said he would like to see Congress adopt the Volunteers State&#8217;s approach to spending, as state law mandates a balanced budget.  
“Two things that I do when a piece of legislation is presented to me is I say, &#8216;One, how much does it cost and does it grow government? And if it costs a lot of money and it grows government, I can&#8217;t support it,” he said. “That has boded me well throughout my time in the legislature.”

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Speaking at the America250 kickoff event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday, President Donald Trump took aim at Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor who has made openly communist statements, declaring, “Generations of Americans before us did not shed their blood only so that we could surrender our country to Marxist lunatics on the eve of our 250th year.”
Mamdani has made openly Marxist statements such as “the end goal of seizing the means of production,” while iterating, “we have to continue to elect more socialists.”
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“As you know, recently we’ve seen some in our political system attempting to overthrow the timeless American principles and pillars of our liberty and replace them with some of the most noxious ideas in human history; ideas that have been proven false,” President Trump stated. “Members of Congress and even former presidents have been openly embracing vile creeds such as socialism, Marxism, and straight-up communism.”
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Then he turned to Mamdani: “In New York, they’re trying to elect a communist, Zohran Mamdani, the guy who wants to defund the police, take over the stores, and run the stores and have the people hand out goods. And when everything falls apart, it always does; it always works that way; it never has worked any other way, anarchy and dictatorships prevail.”
“This guy is a communist at the highest level and he wants to destroy New York,” he asserted. “I love New York and we’re not gonna let him do that. Generations of Americans before us did not shed their blood only so that we could surrender our country to Marxist lunatics on the eve of our 250th year.”
Trump then made a fateful promise, finishing with a flourish: “As President of the United States, I am proclaiming here and now that America is never going to be communist in any way, shape, or form. “
“And that includes New York City,” he concluded.
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New York City&#8217;s Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani does not consider himself to be black — but that did not stop him from checking the &#8220;African-American&#8221; box in addition to the &#8220;Asian&#8221; box on his application to attend Columbia University.
The New York Times revealed the information — discovered through a hack of the university and then shared with the outlet — in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.dq-_.OgG4Ktak82Hp&amp;smid=url-share">report</a> published on Thursday afternoon, just ahead of the July 4th holiday weekend.
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Though both of his parents are of Indian descent, Mamdani was born in Uganda and spent his early childhood there. He has said that he considers himself &#8220;an American who was born in Africa,&#8221; not black or African American — and instead, he has leaned in to his South Asian ancestry and his Muslim faith.
&#8220;As the first South Asian elected official, the first Muslim elected official to ever run for mayor, the turnout in those same communities has been incredible to see,&#8221; he said after besting disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the primary.
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But, as the hacked data revealed, he did consider himself African American for the purpose of his application to Columbia — and he admitted he&#8217;d done the same on other college applications. His explanation was that the available selections did not paint a complete picture of who he was.
&#8220;Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” he said. “Even though these boxes are constraining, I wanted my college application to reflect who I was.&#8221;
The Times even appeared to cast doubt on Mamdani&#8217;s motivation:
<blockquote>Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.</blockquote>
In addition, the Times pressed Mamdani on whether he&#8217;d ever identified as African American on any other occasion: &#8220;The Times could not find any speeches or interviews in which Mr. Mamdani referred to himself as Black or African American.&#8221; Mamdani said that outside of college applications, he could not recall ever doing so.

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Mamdani Said He Was ‘African American’ On Columbia University Application

Mamdani Said He Was 'African American' On Columbia University Application

Africa

Uganda

President Joe Biden complained Wednesday that what he was able to accomplish during his time in the White House is “changing so rapidly” under President Donald Trump.
Biden delivered the keynote speech in front of a conference of human resources professionals put on by the Society for Human Resource Management in San Diego. The former president’s roughly hour-long address was his lengthiest public remarks since he announced his cancer diagnosis in May.
“Many of the things I worked so damn hard, that I thought I changed in the country, are changing so rapidly,” he said, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-in-rare-remarks-since-presidency-warns-his-accomplishments-are-coming-undone-18c58c50">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Biden also said he has been advising European leaders on how to handle Trump. The 82-year-old ex-president said that European officials have called him and asked him to get involved in politics again. Biden said he is not involved, but is still talking to and advising U.S. and European lawmakers.
“We strengthened NATO in a significant way,” Biden told the conference, adding that now “I’m getting calls — I’m not going to go into it, I can’t — from a number of European leaders asking me to get engaged.”
“I’m not, but I’m giving advice,&#8221; Biden said.
The White House pushed back on Biden’s claims. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said that Biden’s leadership left “America weaker than ever before,” according to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-says-world-leaders-are-asking-him-for-advice-in-new-trump-era/">The Daily Beast</a>.
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“Absolutely no one is calling Joe Biden for advice because his disastrous foreign policy left America weaker than ever before. Thanks to President Trump, NATO allies have made a historic 5% defense spending pledge, Iran’s nuclear capabilities are obliterated, and our country’s standing on the world stage is restored,” Kelly said.
Last month, Trump scored a diplomatic win with NATO countries, convincing all but Spain to increase defense spending to 5% of each country’s relative GDP. The 5% target <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49198.htm">includes</a> 3.5% dedicated to core defense requirements and at least 1.5% on security and defense-related “critical infrastructure,” including strengthening each country’s “defense industrial base.”
“There is absolute conviction with my colleagues at the table that, given this threat from the Russians, given the international security situation, there is no alternative,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-triumphs-nato-bows-to-u-s-pressure-with-5-defense-pledge">said</a> of the increase.

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California

San Diego

Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s bombshell upset win in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City has some wondering if far-Left radicalism is the future of the Democratic Party, which is struggling to find its footing after last year&#8217;s crushing presidential defeat.
Ryan Girdusky, host of the podcast &#8220;It&#8217;s A Numbers Game,&#8221; broke it down for The Daily Wire&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Wire,&#8221; explaining that urban areas like New York City are &#8220;sponges&#8221; for far-Left radicalism.
&#8220;If you have purple hair and 36 genders and don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re a boy or a girl, why would you stay in Long Island? Why would you stay in Tennessee? Why would you stay in Ohio? You come to New York,&#8221; Girdusky told &#8220;Morning Wire.&#8221;
However, Girdusky noted that self-described socialist Mamdani did not receive a majority of first-round votes.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if in a head-to-head combat, he could have won,&#8221; Girdusky said, &#8220;and he was challenging a very problematic figure, being Andrew Cuomo, who had to resign in disgrace, and he was not considered an ally of progressives, and a lot of other people didn&#8217;t like him because of the COVID response.&#8221;
Cuomo, former governor of New York, was widely expected to snag the Democratic nomination for mayor before Mamdani&#8217;s win.
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Zohran Mamdani’s far-left mayoral victory in New York could signal a takeover of the Democratic Party—and a warning for November. Political analyst and native New Yorker <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RyanGirdusky</a> breaks it all down. <a href="https://t.co/jA9fncwcJg">pic.twitter.com/jA9fncwcJg</a>
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Girdusky noted that over the last year, Republicans have registered more new voters than Democrats have in Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx.
&#8220;There is an increasing number of people who live without of a five mile radius or eight mile radius of Manhattan who are aligning themselves increasingly with the Republican Party,&#8221; he said.
Trump won 37% of the vote in Queens and 27% in the Bronx, both the highest for a Republican since the 1980s.
&#8220;These are astronomical numbers for a Republican, especially a Republican that had no support as far as a ground game or commercials or anything. It&#8217;s completely organic and it&#8217;s really happening,&#8221; Girdusky said.
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Meanwhile, the people still registering as Democrats look at &#8220;identity-based, Neo-Marxists&#8221; like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) or Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and think, &#8220;this is my kind of party,&#8221; Girdusky said.
The Democratic Party has changed in New York City because many Democrats who were not far-Left progressives have either moved, died, or become independent or Republican, and now the progressives outnumber them, he explained.
&#8220;That is the recipe for a lot of parts of our country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In these urban areas where organization, especially around high-propensity voting, college educated, mostly white uber-progressives — when they can coalesce, they vote like it is their religion, mostly because they don&#8217;t have one.&#8221;
He added that places with high concentrations of ethnic minorities often &#8220;demand elected officials cater to them,&#8221; and this has intensified with mass immigration.
&#8220;That could be a good thing in some capacity, but when you&#8217;re doing it solely based on left-wing identitarian politics, you almost surely get people who are more like Ilhan Omar, AOC, Cori Bush, and all the rest of them,&#8221; he said.
Girdusky said that the groups driving far-Left politics are white, college-educated millennials and Gen Z-ers, Southeast Asian immigrants like Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, and black women, who often push a narrative that &#8220;all the cancers of society are because of whiteness.&#8221;
&#8220;Black women are increasingly identity-driven, far-Left radicals. Look at the cast of MSNBC. None of them can read, and it doesn&#8217;t matter,&#8221; he said.
Also, the children of Southeast Asian immigrants &#8220;usually assimilate very well because they all go to college, but they assimilate to — pardon my French, but s***lib behavior,&#8221; he said.
Girdusky noted that prominent Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) did not immediately embrace Mamdani, and Democrats on Long Island &#8220;openly said this was a mistake.&#8221;
Powerful Democrats like Schumer, who represent urban areas, are &#8220;all going to be primaried out of this machine,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;There used to be parameters that kept them in power, the black vote, unions, senior citizens, certain Jewish coalitions. Those are becoming one, less powerful, and two, less organized,&#8221; Girdusky said.
&#8220;I think that they&#8217;re genuinely worried. There&#8217;s definitely Democratic politicians and political operatives and donors behind the scenes as of right now saying, &#8216;How do we either get Cuomo or Eric Adams to run in the general, and how do we stop this guy now?'&#8221; he said.
He added that, going into the 2026 midterms, he would advise Republicans to encourage non-college-educated people to vote early.
&#8220;It is the most essential thing,&#8221; Girdusky said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the only way to counter this very active, very strong minority of the population, but a majority of the voting base, and that is what we&#8217;re going to see around the entire Democratic Party is how they can sit there and cater to them.&#8221;

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New York

Democrat strategists have revealed their latest plan to retake the White House: Project 2029.
Project 2029 aims to create a list of policies for the next Democrat presidential nominee, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/democrats-project-2029.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.3w9n.qKQ9kNPgnL-o&amp;smid=url-share">reported</a>.
Andrei Cherny, a former Bill Clinton speechwriter and Arizona congressional candidate, is organizing the effort through Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a liberal thought magazine Cherny co-founded in 2006.
The name is a play on the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Project 2025, despite leftists making it the center of their attacks against President Donald Trump in 2024. Trump repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-again-addresses-project-2025-says-dems-are-engaging-in-pure-disinformation">distanced</a> himself from the project, <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47">focusing</a> instead on Agenda 47.
But Cherny plans to use Project 2029 to &#8220;rally leading Democratic presidential candidates,&#8221; the Times said.
Cherny launched Project 2029 after the failed Kamala Harris campaign. He said Harris failed because she ran against Trump instead of for her own policies, the Times reported.
Cherny told the Times that Project 2029 will release over the next two years in quarterly installments and will eventually be made into a book, like Project 2025.
The advisory board for Project 2029 &#8220;includes Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; Anne-Marie Slaughter, the former president of the New America Foundation; the economist Justin Wolfers; Felicia Wong, until recently the president of the progressive Roosevelt Institute; and Jim Kessler, a founder of the centrist group Third Way,&#8221; the Times said.
Cherny called the group &#8220;the Justice League&#8221; or &#8220;the Avengers of public policy,&#8221; the Times reported. The board will work through policy differences at public conferences.
The Times did not report the project&#8217;s planned policies, but a March 2025 Democracy article, <a href="https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/needed-a-peoples-project-2029/">titled</a> &#8220;Needed: A People&#8217;s Project 2029,&#8221; proposes increasing the minimum wage.
&#8220;Bold, popular solutions like a $25 minimum wage and ending the subminimum wage are just the beginning,&#8221; the article said.
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Project 2029 comes as Democrats are trying to course-correct after the 2024 election.
In November 2024, Democrat strategist Julian Epstein <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-strategist-the-left-has-a-wokeness-moral-condescension-problem">said</a> that the Democrats needed to recruit “better candidates and they need to move back to the center on economic and cultural policies.”
Epstein said the Democrats had become the &#8220;party of wokeness&#8221; and &#8220;moral condescension.&#8221;
&#8220;And what that has done is it has caused the Left to shut its ears and to stop listening to people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it’s made it a lot dumber.&#8221;
In April 2025, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said approval ratings of Democratic leaders have fallen dramatically since last year. In 2024, Democrats in Congress had an 80% approval rating. By that same time in 2025, the number had fallen to 39%, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/holy-toledo-the-bottom-has-dropped-out-for-democrat-leadership-cnn-pollster-says?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Holy+Toledo%E2%80%99%3A+The+Bottom+Has+Dropped+Out+For+Democrat+Leadership%2C+CNN+Pollster+Says">reported</a>.
&#8220;Democrats hate, hate, hate, hate what their congressional leaders in Washington are doing right now on the key issue of the day, the economy,&#8221; Enten said. &#8220;And their confidence has fallen through the floor.&#8221;

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Kamala Harris

Minimum Wage

Several high profile Democrats have responded after Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, refused to condemn the phrase &#8220;globalize the intifada&#8221; over the weekend.
On Sunday, Mamdani was pressed three times to condemn &#8220;globalize the intifada&#8221; during an appearance on NBC, and each time he refused to do so, but said, &#8220;it&#8217;s not language that I use.&#8221;
&#8220;But do you actually condemn it?&#8221; NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker pressed, noting that many people hear it as a &#8220;call to violence against Jews.&#8221;
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“Globalize the Intifada” is a call to violence. Full stop.
Words matter—whether Mamdani cares to believe that or not.
New Yorkers need to reject this lunatic. <a href="https://t.co/xLk9kyR9vQ">pic.twitter.com/xLk9kyR9vQ</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1939490143104360878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech in the manner, especially, of that of Donald Trump, who has put one New Yorker in jail, who has just returned to his family, Mahmoud Khalil, for that supposed crime of speech,&#8221; Mamdani said.
Mahmoud Khalil was a prominent participant of pro-Palestinian protests and campus occupations at Columbia University.
Also on Sunday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) demanded Mamdani &#8220;clarify&#8221; his position on the controversial phrase.
“Globalizing the intifada, by way of example, is not an acceptable phrasing,” Jeffries said on ABC. &#8220;He&#8217;s going to have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward.&#8221;
&#8220;With respect to the Jewish communities that I represent, I think our nominee is going to have to convince folks that he is prepared to aggressively address the rise in antisemitism in the City of New York, which has been an unacceptable development,&#8221; Jeffries said.
&#8220;Any mayor, whether you&#8217;re a Democratic mayor, a Republican mayor, an independent mayor, has got to commit to the safety of all of the people of the city of New York,&#8221; Jeffries said.
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Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: &quot;&#39;Globalizing the intifada&#39; by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He&#39;s gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/TA9Hn6lFD9">pic.twitter.com/TA9Hn6lFD9</a>
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Jeffries was also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-mamdani?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News+and+Commentary&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Spin+Cycle%3A+How+Do+You+Solve+A+Problem+Like+Mamdani%3F">hesitant</a> when asked whether he planned to endorse Mamdani, and said his district includes many Jewish Americans.
&#8220;Well, we don&#8217;t really know each other well. Our districts don&#8217;t overlap. I have never had a substantive conversation with him, and so that&#8217;s the next step,&#8221; Jeffries said, adding that he and Mamdani have agreed to sit down and talk.
Meanwhile, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat came out swinging against Mamdani for refusing to condemn the phrase &#8220;globalize the intifada.&#8221;
“New York constituents I talked to are alarmed. They are alarmed by past public statements. They are alarmed about past public positions, referring to global jihad,” Gillibrand <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/26/us-news/ny-dem-reps-suozzi-gillen-distance-from-socialist-nyc-mayoral-nominee-zohran-mamdani/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a WNYC interview on Thursday.
“This is a very serious issue because people who glorify the slaughter of Jews create fear in our communities,” she said. “The global intifada is a statement that means destroy Israel and kill all the Jews.”
Other Democrats weighed in as well.
Rep. Laura Gillen, a freshman Democrat representing Long Island who is known as a centrist, <a href="https://time.com/7298136/zohran-mamdani-nyc-laura-gillen/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> Mamdani of “a deeply disturbing pattern of unacceptable antisemitic comments.”
“He is the absolute wrong choice for New York,” Gillen said.
Mamdani, a New York assemblyman representing Queens, won the Democratic primary last week in an upset that threw the New York City mayor&#8217;s race into chaos. Current Mayor Eric Adams and former Governor Andrew Cuomo will both likely run as independents, and Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, will face them all as the Republican candidate.
The general election for mayor will be held on November 4.

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