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Today — May 9th 2024U.S.

Report: Doug Burgum in Trump Veepstakes Hunt

Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) is in the mix to be former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, according to a report.

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Exclusive: Vivek Ramaswamy to Debate, Deliver Speech at Libertarian National Convention

Entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will deliver remarks at the Libertarian National Convention in two weeks in Washington, DC, and debate one of the party’s vice presidential candidates, Breitbart News has learned.

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Defense Paints Picture That Stormy Daniels Tried to Get Rich Off Trump

Former President Donald Trump’s defense on Thursday seemingly worked to paint the picture that porn actress Stormy Daniels attempted to financially benefit from his wealth and fame, according to reports.

The post Defense Paints Picture That Stormy Daniels Tried to Get Rich Off Trump appeared first on Breitbart.

This Liberal Donor Pushes Left-Leaning Groups to Fund Efforts to Turn Out Voters

An influential left-of-center donor’s charity has launched an initiative compelling other philanthropies to pour money into voter-mobilization efforts for this fall’s elections.

Democracy Fund, founded and funded by liberal philanthropist Pierre Omidyar, has rallied 174 organizations and individuals pledging to expedite disbursement of grants related to get-out-the-vote operations and other efforts.

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The pledge called on signatories either to make the bulk of their election-related donations by the end of April, to “move up” disbursements scheduled for later in the year, or to streamline grant approval processes.

Alex Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the liberal dark money giant Arabella Advisors, Tides, and Democrat megadonor Susan Pritzker are among the major left-of-center philanthropic players to sign the pledge.

Omidyar, who founded eBay and has become a prolific investor, is worth over $10.9 billion, according to Bloomberg. Omidyar gave roughly $1.2 billion through various charitable arms to an array of primarily left-of-center causes between 2004 and 2020, according to a Capital Research Center report.

In 2020, Omidyar gave the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a sprawling Democrat-aligned political outfit, $45 million to support its Civic Action Fund project, a now-defunct voter-turnout initiative that focused on “empower[ing] those typically underrepresented in our democratic process” by ensuring they voted in 2020. The group collaborated with liberal politicians and activists to organize local get-out-the-vote efforts targeting low-propensity voters, according to Influence Watch.

In explaining his donation to Civic Action Fund, Omidyar cited the importance of “supporting local voter outreach and engagement of young people and people of color.” Young people and minority voters favor the Democratic Party by considerable margins, with voters 18 to 29 and all nonwhite constituencies favoring President Joe Biden by double digits in 2020, according to a CNN exit poll.

Civic Action Fund was active in 14 states, including the key states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, during the 2020 election season, according to its website. The group had staffers with ties to notable Democrats such as former President Barack Obama and former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, according to Influence Watch.

Many of the signatories of Democracy Fund’s “All by April” pledge have clear ideological slants.

Alex Soros, son of influential liberal financier George Soros, has described himself as “more political” than his father.

Arabella manages a network of nonprofits that pours tens of millions into liberal causes every year. 

Tides comprises a variety of organizational arms, including one of the largest pass-through organizations for liberal philanthropists. And Pritzker has donated millions to Democratic and otherwise left-of-center political committees.

Arabella’s nonprofit network and the Soros family’s philanthropic ventures have dropped large sums on election spending.

Arabella’s nonprofits spent more than $62 million on voter registration and mobilization efforts during 2022, a midterm election year.

Much of the Arabella network’s spending also focused on getting Democrat-friendly demographics to the polls. New Venture Fund, one of Arabella’s arms, gave millions to the Voter Registration Project, a group “commissioned” by veteran Democratic operative John Podesta that, according to Influence Watch, “targets African-American, Latino, Native American, low-income, and other voter groups likely to lean left-of-center.”

The Soros philanthropic empire also gave millions to the Voter Registration Project between 2016 and 2022. The project’s efforts in 2020 netted Biden between 1 million and 2.7 million votes, according to a Capital Research Center report.

Open Society Policy Center, part of the broader Soros network, gave $1.4 million to the Voto Latino Action Fund in 2022. The organization focuses on registering Latino voters and loosening voting laws, according to its website.

High voter turnout among Latinos was among the reasons Democrats outperformed expectations during the 2022 midterm elections, according to Politico.

“Voter registration nonprofits are nothing more than a cost-effective way to achieve partisan electioneering results for Democrats while keeping the donors totally anonymous and giving them a tax write-off for their troubles,” Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Democracy Fund, Arabella, Tides, and Open Society Foundations did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation

The post This Liberal Donor Pushes Left-Leaning Groups to Fund Efforts to Turn Out Voters appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Clinton: Some Trump Supporters Care More About Tax Cuts than the Sanctity of the Constitution

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that some supporters of former President Donald Trump cared more about tax cuts than the sanctity of the Constitution.

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Hillary Clinton: Any Woman with Self-Respect Should Vote for Biden

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that any woman with self-respect should vote for President Joe Biden.

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Nolte: Biden Says He 'Will Not Rest’ Until Israeli Hostages Freed -- That's a Lie

His Fraudulency Joe Biden falsely claimed via Xwitter that, “I will not rest until every hostage … ripped from their families and held by Hamas is back in the arms of their loved ones.”

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Trump Says He's ‘Good’ with Crypto

Former President Donald Trump gave his personal support to cryptocurrency at a special event for Trump non-fungible token (NFT) holders Wednesday who were gathered at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

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Joe Biden, 81, to Debate Donald Trump at Least Once, His Campaign Confirms

President Joe Biden, 81, will debate former President Donald Trump at least once, Biden campaign spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod confirmed Wednesday on MSNBC's Morning Joe. 

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Exclusive: Navy Veteran, VA Senate Hopeful Hung Cao Visits Rubber Manufacturing Plant Biden Abandoned

Virginia U.S. Senate candidate and retired U.S. Navy captain Hung Cao earlier this month toured a nearly-finished state-of-art nitrile rubber plant in southwest Virginia that President Joe Biden's administration has abandoned, allowing China to be on track to become America's largest supplier of rubber medical gloves, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.

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Yesterday — May 8th 2024U.S.

Trump: Moment for Mike Johnson Removal May Come Soon but Not Now

Former President Donald Trump issued a statement regarding Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) bringing forward a motion to vacate the position of the Speaker of the House, saying that this is "not the time."

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How the Left Tried to Use Stormy Daniels to Impeach Trump

Years before the prosecution called the former porn star to testify Tuesday in Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial in Manhattan, Democrats viewed Stormy Daniels as an avenue for impeaching Trump when he was president. 

My 2020 book “Abuse of Power” details the origins of Left’s lawfare against Trump, which began immediately after his 2016 election to the presidency.  

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, led the first criminal case against Trump, followed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia and two federal prosecutions by special counsel Jack Smith.

Indicted in four separate criminal cases for a total of 91 counts, Trump got some good news Tuesday when a federal judge in Florida postponed indefinitely his trial in the classified documents case, one of Smith’s.

Below is an adapted excerpt from “Abuse of Power”:

It’s funny how “legal experts” who would pop up working for Democrats were talking and writing about Trump’s demise for other reasons months earlier. 

Two lawyers whom the House Judiciary Committee hired for impeachment, Norman Eisen and Barry Berke, wrote a New York Times opinion piece along with Noah Bookbinder, also a lawyer, with the headline: “Is This the Beginning of the End for Trump?” 

The lawyers suggested Trump could be taken down for a possible campaign finance violation tied to alleged flings with former porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. 

Or, as the lawyers characterized it in their Times piece, federal prosecutors determined that “Mr. Trump, the Trump Organization, and the campaign were all directly involved in an illegal scheme to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with Mr. Trump.” 

The lawyers’ op-ed in the Times further says Trump “could be named as an unindicted co-conspirator” or “charged if he leaves office before the statute of limitations runs out (most likely in 2022).”

Still, regarding the hush money [for Daniels and McDougal], even House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi had said after the news of  Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s planned guilty plea that it wasn’t grounds for impeachment, even as some of her members were pushing for that. 

“Impeachment has to spring from something else. If and when the information emerges about that, we’ll see,” Pelosi said in 2018. “It’s not a priority on the agenda going forward unless something else comes forward.”

But impeachment was a priority for members of the House Democratic Caucus, which she led. 

In December 2018, when Cohen pleaded guilty to a campaign finance violation for paying hush money to Daniels, the plea agreement referred to “Individual 1” as directing him to do so. It was clear that this individual was Trump. 

Cohen also pleaded guilty to tax evasion and other financial crimes and was sentenced to three years in prison. He later pleaded guilty to lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

In late 2019, with Democrats in control of the House, many of the hardliners in Pelosi’s caucus were pushing the speaker to go beyond Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as grounds for impeachment.

Democrats in the House Progressive Caucus wanted to include the ambiguous obstruction arguments from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the discredited Trump-Russia claims, the campaign finance allegation in the Stormy Daniels case, the emoluments clause of the Constitution, and potentially other matters. By this point, the House had launched 12 separate investigations into Trump. 

But after initial resistance, Pelosi had already caved once to the members demanding Trump’s impeachment on the Ukrainian phone call. The other matters would only prolong the process. 

Trump admitted he and Zelenskyy talked about Joe Biden. Now, Democrats just had to turn it into an impeachable case. 

Nevertheless, keeping swing district House Democrats in the loop was one reason why, early in the process, leadership had considered progressives’ demands for a “kitchen sink” impeachment involving Russia, Stormy Daniels, emoluments, and anything else they could think of. 

This would allow moderate Democrats to go home and say they had voted against some articles of impeachment while still voting to oust Trump in order to appease the base and avoid a potential primary challenger from the left. In the age of MAGA and #Resistance voters, primary challenges are a forefront concern for incumbents on both sides.

During the impeachment hearing, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee called former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to testify. 

As with other witnesses, Yovanovitch’s legal counsel was steeped in Democratic politics. Lawrence S. Robbins represented both Republican and Democrat clients. 

But in a December 2018 op-ed for Politico, Robbins called for either impeaching or prosecuting Trump for campaign finance violation regarding the Daniels hush money.

Robbins wrote: “The Department of Justice’s description of the role of Individual 1—the president himself—leaves no doubt that career Justice Department prosecutors regard Trump as a full blown co-conspirator. And most serious-minded criminal lawyers agree that, if these allegations are true, the president, but for his day job, would have been sitting in the dock with his long-time fixer.” 

Robbins further wrote that Trump would use his office as president to shield himself from prosecution, so “Congress would surely have no choice but to hold him accountable in the way prescribed by the Constitution.”

That way, of course, was impeachment.

The post How the Left Tried to Use Stormy Daniels to Impeach Trump appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Behar: Trump Is a 'Despicable Person' Who Can't Be Trusted with the Nuclear Codes

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC's "The View" that former President Donald Trump was a "despicable person" who should not be trusted with the nuclear codes.

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Biden Aims to Shield Hundreds of Billions of Dollars of Spending to Preserve His Legacy from Trump

President Joe Biden hopes to shield hundreds of billions of dollars in climate spending and other parts of his legacy from a potential Donald Trump return to the White House.

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Report: Biden Officials Questioned Why Hunter Appeared with Joe Biden in Public 

Biden administration officials raised concerns about Hunter Biden appearing in public with President Joe Biden while authorities investigated him for tax and gun violations, emails released upon a FOIA request show.

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Fox Board Member Paul Ryan Will Not Vote for Donald Trump

Paul Ryan, a member of the Fox Corporation Board of Directors, says he will not vote for former President Donald Trump.

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Signs Election Rules Bill into Law

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law on Tuesday, establishing rules and processes regarding voter registration and how elections are conducted.

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Reporters Lob Questions at Trump He Can't Answer Under Gag Order

Reporters this week have asked former President Donald Trump questions about the jury and witnesses in the business records trial in Manhattan that, if he answered, would be a violation of Judge Juan Merchan's restrictive gag order and possibly land him in jail.

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Stormy Daniels’ Ex-Lawyer Michael Avenatti Accuses Porn Star of Falsifying Business Records in Blow to Prosecutors in Trump Trial

Former Stormy Daniels attorney and convicted felon Michael Avenatti on Tuesday accused the porn star of engaging in “falsification of business records, wire fraud, and fraudulent transfers” to defraud former President Donald Trump out of money she allegedly received from a documentary.

The post Stormy Daniels’ Ex-Lawyer Michael Avenatti Accuses Porn Star of Falsifying Business Records in Blow to Prosecutors in Trump Trial appeared first on Breitbart.

John Leguizamo Laments Trump Winning over Latino Voters: Democrats ‘Take Us for Granted’

Democrats take Latino voters “for granted” and that lackadaisical approach could haunt them in November’s contest between President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump, leftist actor and comedian John Leguizamo lamented Monday.

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These States Withhold Voter Registration From Public That Most States Are Federally Mandated to Disclose

Wisconsin is one of the most fiercely contested battleground states in this election cycle, but it lacks federal transparency requirements for voter registration imposed on most states, according to a lawsuit by an election watchdog. 

Minnesota, generally a solidly blue state although it saw a razor-thin margin in the results of the 2016 presidential race, also doesn’t make its voter rolls available to the public, the lawsuit contends. 

Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity advocacy organization, announced the litigation last week, alleging that the exemption of six states from a provision in the National Voter Registration Act violates the principle of equal state sovereignty. 

“No state should be exempt from transparency,” J. Christian Adams, president of Public Interest Legal Foundation, said in a written statement. “All states should be treated equally under the law and no exemption should allow certain election officials to hide documents relating to voter list maintenance activities.”

In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, better known as the “Motor Voter Law,” which allows Americans to register to vote when they get a driver’s license. 

The federal law also requires states to update voter registration lists to ensure that dead people or those who have left a jurisdiction no longer are listed. 

For accountability, the law says that states must “make available for public inspection and, where available photocopying at a reasonable cost, all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters.”

However, Congress carved out an exception to the transparency requirement for seven states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Maine, and Wyoming. 

The reason was that the seven states offered same-day voter registration or, in the case of North Dakota, didn’t require voter registration. 

After briefly stopping same-day voter registration, Maine lost its exemption from the disclosure provision of the federal law. 

The new complaints, filed in two federal courts, contend that the exemptions from U.S. law violate the principle of equal state sovereignty by treating the remaining states differently.

Public Interest Legal Foundation is suing Minnesota and Wisconsin first. 

“This lawsuit is the first step to bringing the National Voter Registration Act’s transparency requirements to all 50 states,” Adams said. 

The Wisconsin lawsuit names Wisconsin Election Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe as the defendant. The Minnesota litigation names Secretary of State Steve Simon as the defendant. 

A Wisconsin Election Commission spokesperson declined comment for this report, but pointed to the applicable portion of state law, which says the commission and local governments can decide the cost of obtaining voter information.

“The commission shall establish by rule the fee for obtaining a copy of the official registration list, or a portion of the list. … The amount of the fee shall be set, after consultation with county and municipal election officials,” a portion of the law says. 

The Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office didn’t respond to a request for comment from The Daily Signal. 

The litigation cites the Supreme Court case of Shelby County v. Holder, in which the high court reaffirmed that all states enjoy equal sovereignty and determined that if Congress treats states differently, it must be “sufficiently related to the problem [the statute] targets” and must “make sense in light of current conditions.”

Public Interest Legal Foundation’s complaints argue that Minnesota and Wisconsin grant and remove voting rights through voter registration and maintenance of that voter list. So, they argue, Congress’ goal of making the process transparent should apply to both states. 

Thirteen of the 20 states that offer same-day voter registration are still subject to the federal transparency requirements, the litigation notes.

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Judge Aileen Cannon Delays Trump Documents Case Trial Date Indefinitely

Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday delayed the May 20, 2024, trial date for the documents case involving former President Donald Trump indefinitely, signaling it would not take place before the November 2024 presidential election, according to a filing.

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AARP Poll: Trump Leads in Pennsylvania

Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, a recent AARP poll found.

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Trump Defense's Move for Mistrial over Stormy Daniels' Testimony Denied by Merchan

Justice Juan Merchan denied former President Donald Trump’s defense's move for a mistrial on Tuesday over adult film star Stormy Daniels’ testimony at his business records trial in Manhattan.

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RFK Jr. Challenges Trump to Debate at Libertarian Convention

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is challenging former President Donald Trump to debate at the Libertarian convention.

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'You Need to Stop': Kristi Noem Defends Story About Dog Shooting

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD) said Tuesday on Fox Business Network's "Varney and Co." that the host Stuart Varney needed to stop questioning her about killing her dog.

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Kristi Noem Denies Kim Jong Un Meeting Was 'Untrue'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD) said Monday on NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" that her alleged meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was not removed from her book because it was "untrue."

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Jim Jordan Probes into Jack Smith's Acknowledgment that Evidence Against Trump Was Altered 

Jim Jordan launched an investigation into special counsel Jack Smith's acknowledgment that alleged evidence against Donald Trump in the classified documents case was altered or manipulated.

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Gallup Poll: Confidence in Biden's Economic Leadership Historically Low

Confidence in President Joe Biden's economic leadership sunk to a historically low point, Gallup polling found Monday, underscoring Biden's vulnerability on the top issue of the 2024 presidential election.

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CNN's Collins: Trump 'Is Being Careful,' He Doesn't Want to Go to Jail

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

CNN host Kaitlan Collins said Monday on "Anderson Cooper 360" that former President Donald Trump is now being careful because he does not want to be sent to jail for violating the gag order in his New York business record trial.

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Bloomberg: Migration Drives Up Housing Costs in 13 Countries

Migration is expanding per-person poverty in many advanced countries, chiefly by raising housing costs, said Bloomberg, a pro-migration business magazine.

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Do Trump’s Words on These Contenders Hint at His VP Pick?

As the veepstakes speculation grows, Donald Trump—Republicans’ presumptive nominee for president for the third straight time—has had plenty to say about the group of contenders for the second spot on the ticket.

Axios reported over the weekend on an audio recording obtained from a gathering at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in which the former president comments on numerous contenders for his choice to be vice president. 

Those possible Trump choices include three fellow Floridians who are in Congress: Sen. Marco Rubio and Reps. Byron Donalds and Michael Waltz. Trump also talked about two former 2024 primary opponents, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. 

The names of three more senators also were in the mix: Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Mike Lee of Utah, and JD Vance of Ohio. And Trump commented on the often-mentioned chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, Elise Stefanik of New York. 

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican who made the news last week for telling a story in her new memoir about shooting and killing a 14-month-old farm dog, was among those that Trump commented on. (For her part, Noem said the dog posed a danger to her family and other animals after killing chickens.) 

“Somebody that I love,” Trump says of Noem in the audio recording released by Axios. “She’s been with me, a supporter of mine, and I’ve been a supporter of hers for a long time.”

Axios reported that Trump’s “most prominent surrogates” went to Mar-a-Lago on Saturday to “audition for vice president.” At a private luncheon, Trump commented on the potential running mates, the outlet said. 

In the recording,Trump doesn’t seem to resent by name any former opponents in the 2024 Republican primaries who reportedly have been in the running for his nod to be vice president. (However, he doesn’t mention Nikki Haley, his former U.N. ambassador, who didn’t drop out until March 6.)

As for North Dakota’s Burgum, governor of a state next door to Noem’s, Trump says: “I didn’t know this: He was a supporter of my two campaigns. He’s a very rich man.”

On Scott, the South Carolina senator, Trump says: “As a candidate, he did a good job, but as a surrogate, he’s unbelievable.”

In a press release Monday, BetOnline announced that it was updating its betting odds after the Mar-a-Lago meeting, giving Scott and Burgum the best odds at 4-1. Vance, once seen as a longshot, rose to 5-1. Rubio is 8-1. 

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a Democrat in Congress who became an independent after leaving office, is at 9-1. Gabbard’s name, however, doesn’t come up in the Trump audio leaked to Axios. 

Interestingly, none of the possible contenders mentioned by Trump were from battleground states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin.

Trump notes that Vance wasn’t always on board, according to the audio, but calls the junior senator from Ohio “great,” Axios reported. 

“He wasn’t a supporter of mine at the very beginning [and] was saying things like ‘the guy’s a total disaster’… Anyways, I got to know him a little bit,” Trump says of Vance. “As a non-politician, he’s become one of the great senators.” 

In the 2016 Republican primary cycle, Trump mocked Florida’s Rubio as “Little Marco.” Rubio at one point referred to Trump’s small hands. 

In the audio, Trump only says of Rubio: “His name is coming up a lot for vice president.”

Significant news coverage has shown Trump gaining support among black men. Beyond Scott of South Carolina, Trump mentions two other possible black running mates in the audio recording. 

Of Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas, Trump says: “Another friend of mine … makes the best commercials … beautiful family.”

Of a potential choice that would create a team of Donalds, Trump says of Donalds, the Florida congressman: “Somebody who’s created something very special politically. … I like diversity. Diversité, as you would say. I like diversité. [Donors] worth millions of dollars … all want a piece of Byron.”

There has also been plenty of speculation about Trump picking a woman to close the gender gap. 

Regarding Blackburn of Tennessee, Trump says “she was like the Energizer Bunny” in 2018, when she successfully campaigned to leave the House for the Senate. “She would go from stop to stop to stop.”

Of Stefanik, Trump says in the audio: “A very smart person. She was in upstate New York when I met her. … little did we realize she would be such a big factor.”

Trump is a former resident of New York City, where he built much of his real estate empire. He is now a resident of Florida. 

There is some debate about whether the 12th Amendment allows a president and vice president to be from the same state, and that debate could come into play if Trump wanted to select Stefanik, Rubio, Donalds, or Waltz.

Of Waltz, Trump says in the recording: “A man that knows more about the military. When I want to know about the military, I call him.”

Lee is a one-time critic of Trump who supported Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in the 2016 presidential primaries for the GOP nomination, when Lee also sported more hair.

In the audio, Lee gains some praise from the former president, who says of him: “I love your haircut” before adding: “And he’s a good man too.”

The Trump campaign didn’t respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment for this report. 

The post Do Trump’s Words on These Contenders Hint at His VP Pick? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Poll: Biden Suffers 28% Decline Among Black Voters

President Joe Biden is suffering a 28 percent decline in support among black voters, an I&I/TIPP Poll survey released Monday found.

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Jim Jordan Schedules Hearing to Hold Merrick Garland in Contempt of Congress 

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) scheduled a markup hearing for May 16 to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to provide audio recordings of President Joe Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, a source confirmed to Breitbart News.

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Poll: Trump Ties Biden with Suburban Women, Massive Setback for Democrat President

Former President Donald Trump surged to a dead heat with President Joe Biden among suburban women, an ABC News/Ipsos poll found in May, reversing another key demographic that previously favored Biden.

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Maxine Waters Calls on DOJ to Investigate Trump Supporters 'Training Up in the Hills' for Civil War

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on this week's broadcast of MSNBC's "The Sunday Show" that the Department of Justice should investigate "right-wing organizations" who supported former President Donald Trump "training up in the hill" for a civil war.

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New York Judge Juan Merchan Calls Trump 'Possibly the Next President'

Judge Juan Merchan admitted in court Monday that former President Donald Trump could become "the next president" -- a tacit acknowledgement that his business records trial is occurring in the middle of a presidential election with direct bearing on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

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Judge Juan Merchan Holds Donald Trump in Contempt Again for Violating Gag Order

New York County Judge Juan Merchan ruled Monday for a second time former President Donald Trump violated his gag order during the trial, holding him in criminal contempt and threatening him with jail time for any further infractions.

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S.E. Cupp: 'Donald Trump‘s Voters Have Very Low Standards'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Political commentator S.E. Cupp said Monday on CNN's "News Central" that former President Donald Trump's voters "have very low standards."

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'Great News': RNC's Establishment Election Integrity Lawyer Suddenly Resigns 

An establishment lawyer handling election integrity portfolio at the Republican National Committee suddenly resigned over the weekend, citing an alleged conflict of interest.

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Fetterman: Joe Biden Will Beat Trump in Pennsylvania

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation" that he was confident President Joe Biden will beat former President Donald Trump in November in his home state.

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Poll: More Americans Trust Trump over Biden on Economy, Inflation

A poll shows that more Americans trust former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden on the handling of inflation and the economy.

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Rubio: Our Border, Campuses in 'Chaos' Because Biden Is 'Weak and He's Feeble'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said on this week's broadcast of "Fox News Sunday" that the United States was in "chaos" because President Joe Biden is weak and feeble.

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Noem Defends Killing Dog, Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Be Shot

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that she had to kill her dangerous dog, adding that President Joe Biden’s dog “has attacked 24 Secret Service people.” Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, so you

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Liberal Political Scientist: Trump's Immigration Policies Sabotage Biden's Most Popular Proposal

Former President Donald Trump's America First immigration policies could shatter President Joe Biden's political career, a highly respected liberal political scientist warned Thursday.

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Burgum: 'Travesty of Justice' if Trump Convicted in NY Trial

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Governor Doug Burgum (R-ND) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that it would be a "travesty of justice" if former President Donald Trump were convicted in the New York business records trial.

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Exclusive–Florida GOP Congressional Candidate Mara Macie: Constituents Fed Up with Establishment Rep. Rutherford's Voting Record

Republican Mara Macie, who is challenging establishment Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL) in Florida’s conservative Fifth Congressional District primary, told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday that her “salesman” opponent consistently votes the opposite of what his constituents want and is facing

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Biden Campaign: Biden 'Believes in What These Protesters Are Saying' and Doesn't Accept Violence, Antisemitism

On Saturday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Biden 2024 Principal Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks stated that President Joe Biden will not accept violence or antisemitism and "believes in what these protesters are saying and he is working to bring peace to the Middle East and bring the situation to a close."

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George Conway: Hope Hicks' Testimony Was a 'Devastating Hammer Blow' to Trump

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Attorney George Conway said Friday on CNN's "The Situation Room" that former campaign press secretary and White House communications director Hope Hicks' testimony was a "devastating hammer blow" to former President Donald Trump.

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Larry Fink: Migration Is Bad for Productivity and Wealth

Wall Street's most influential mega-investor says migration makes it difficult for developed countries to embrace the high-tech, productivity-boosting technologies that will raise the income of ordinary people.

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Jeff Daniels: Midwesterners Are Done with Trump's 'Lack of Decency'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Actor Jeff Daniels said Friday on MSNBC's "Deadline" that he believed midwesterners were done with former President Donald Trump's "lack of decency."

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Survey: A Trump Conviction Would Not Result in More Votes for Biden

President Joe Biden would not receive more votes if former President Donald Trump is convicted of a crime, a recent survey by Leger found.

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AP: California Voters Growing Skeptical of Months-Long Ballot Counting Process

Most California residents vote by mail, and the nation's most populous state has gained a reputation for tallies that can drag on for weeks — and sometimes longer.

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'The Guy Is a Monster': Robert de Niro Says Trump's Rise Is Like Hitler's

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Actor Robert De Niro said Thursday on MSNBC's "The 11th Hour" that former President Donald Trump's rise was like that of Adolf Hitler's in 1930s Germany.

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Blue State Blues: Democrats Should Skip Chicago, Hold Zoom Convention Again

The Democratic Party should cancel its national convention in Chicago in August and hold its meeting via Zoom, as it did during the 2020 campaign and the coronavirus pandemic -- for the sake of the city, and for the country as well.

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Poll: Potential Trump Conviction Would Not Lift Biden's Lagging Support

President Joe Biden's historically low polling numbers would not receive a boost if former President Donald Trump is potentially found guilty in any legal case against him, a poll shows.

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Arrests Hit 2000+ as Anti-Israel Protests Continue to Roil U.S. Campuses

Anti-Israel protests have rocked college campuses across the United States in past weeks and now protester arrest numbers are rising as authorities try to end the disruption.

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Bernie Sanders on Israel: 'This May Be Biden's Vietnam'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Thursday on CNN International's "Amanpour" that the pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses could be President Joe Biden's Vietnam.

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Poll: Plurality Says Joe Biden Is 'Getting Worse' as President

A plurality believes President Joe Biden is "getting worse" as president, April's survey from Harvard-Harris found.

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EXCLUSIVE: Harvesting Voters? These Left-Wing Groups Are Teaming With USDA

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A White House official told the Agriculture Department to include left-leaning groups, including the United Food and Commercial Workers union and the League of United Latin American Citizens, among “stakeholders” to help implement President Joe Biden’s executive order aimed at turning out the vote.

At the same time, records obtained by The Daily Signal show that USDA brass had extensive discussions with the Raben Group, a Democrat-aligned lobbying group managed by former officials of the Clinton and Obama administration. 

The Raben Group represented the left-wing advocacy group Demos, which has pushed the so-called Green New Deal and labor unions’ policy goals. As The Daily Signal previously reported, Demos worked with the USDA on “best practices” to boost voting. 

The United Food and Commercial Workers, the League of United Latin American Citizens, and the Raben Group were not on a previously reported list of more than four dozen left-leaning organizations that participated in a “listening session” with White House officials on July 12, 2021, under six months after Biden became president. 

Two days before that “listening session” via Zoom between White House officials and the left-wing groups, Raben Group associate Dylan Tureff wrote on behalf of Demos to DeWayne Goldman, USDA’s senior adviser for racial equality to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. 

Tureff’s goal: to set up a meeting with Goldman to “discuss how your office can play an essential role in protecting and expanding democracy.”

Biden signed the executive order in March 2021, directing federal agencies to partner with private organizations to increase voter registration and participation in elections.

Since that time, records emerged through Freedom of Information Act requests from multiple agencies showing that the Biden administration’s bureaucracy has enlisted an army of left-leaning nonprofits to mobilize voters.

Critics of Biden’s order have called it “BidenBucks.”

They also say Biden’s Executive Order 14019 weaponized taxpayer-funded agencies to advance his reelection effort—and those of Democrats. 

Demos long has been associated with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

“Demos and its organizational partners have identified the below-stated agency systems and programs as areas of great opportunity for the implementation of this vital executive order,” Tureff told USDA’s Goldman in his July 2021 message.

Writing on behalf of Demos, Tureff said get-out-the-vote efforts for Agriculture Department offices could include online portals; “direct interaction programs”; grant programs “for both state and private actors” grants for governments and authorities; and programs focused on tribal services and support.

Goldman wrote to colleagues July 27: “Do we have any activities around this EO [executive order] on Voting Access? I have a meeting request from Demos to engage with USDA, but could use some help understanding the prioritization. Do you have any knowledge of this group?”

In response, Lynn Overmann, USDA senior adviser for data and technology, seemed to raise some concerns in the email thread under the subject line “Demos Meeting Request on Voting Rights EO.”

Overmann wrote to Goldman and others: “Has USDA supported voting rights efforts in the past? Given our footprint in communities, I could imagine offering voter registration information at in-person locations or sharing information broadly across our communications channels, but think there would be privacy/consent issues around sharing data.” 

The Biden executive order directed all federal agencies to develop a strategic plan for increasing voting by September 2021. 

The Agriculture Department’s first interim response to a records request by The Daily Signal didn’t include the department’s strategic plan, but did include emails discussing what its key priorities likely would be. 

Kumar Chandran, acting undersecretary for food, nutrition, and consumer services, sent an email to colleagues on May 29, 2021, that said an attached draft strategic plan contained the “top 5 suggestions.” 

The email released to The Daily Signal, in which several redactions were made, summarizes the top five recommendations as including voter registration at “Voter Registration & Information at Food and Nutrition Service Program Sites Though WIC and SNAP sites.”

WIC is an Agriculture Department food program for “women, infants and children.” SNAP, better known to Americans as food stamps, is an acronym for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Critics of Biden’s executive order allege that government agencies could give a false impression to the public that benefits of social programs are tied to voting. 

The USDA also listed “Rural Development” as the second of the top five suggestions. Details were redacted. 

Third on the list was “voter registration and information through production and conservation,” but again details were missing. 

Fourth was ensuring that the Agriculture Department’s 100,000 employees were registered to vote and had leave time to vote. 

The fifth and last suggestion for implementing Biden’s order pertained to social media and communication about voter information using Twitter and other such platforms.

An email dated April 7, 2021, from Paul Zeiss with the White House scheduling office sent a list of “stakeholders” on voting issues to Akhil Rakam, then a USDA official. 

The mail included the mentions of the United Food and Commercial Workers, or UFCW, and the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC.

UFCW, the sixth-largest labor union in the United States, represents workers in the food production, retail, and chemical industries. 

LULAC, an advocate for Hispanic Americans, sued Texas in 2006 over the state’s redistricting, alleging that the new election districts violated the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court upheld the districting plan, but found some districts needed to be revised. 

In 2021, the League of United Latin American Citizens served subpoenas on several Republican state legislators in Texas in connection with a lawsuit over the state’s election reforms

Other “stakeholders” the White House identified for USDA are more directly related to agriculture and not overtly political. 

These groups include the Intertribal Agriculture Council, the National Black Farmers Association, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, the National Association of Counties, the Rebuild Rural Coalition, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, the American Public Human Services Association, and Rural Organizing.

A USDA spokesperson didn’t respond to The Daily Signa’s request for comment on this report. 

Demos, the Raben Group, UFCW, and LULAC also didn’t respond to inquiries from The Daily Signal.

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Anti-Trump Media Denounce 'Migrant Detention Camps'

The establishment media are trying to scare swing voters away from President Donald Trump's popular, normal, and beneficial promise to guard the nation's borders.

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Exclusive: ‘America First’ Trump Supporter Seeks to Unseat Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Former Republican congressional candidate Bryan E. Leib has officially entered the 2024 GOP primary in the Sunshine State’s 25th District, advocating for fresh leadership in Congress to uphold “common sense,” Judeo-Christian values, and Trump's “America First” agenda; he is challenging long-serving Democrat Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

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Investigation: Biden Executive Order Focuses on Registering Convicts to Vote

An executive order signed by President Joe Biden has focused on registering convicts to vote and exclusively involved left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs), an investigation from the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project revealed.

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Scarborough: If You Are 'Too Stupid' to See Campus Protests Hurting Biden, Change the Channel

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday on his show "Morning Joe" that viewers should change the channel if they were too stupid to realize that the protests on college campuses are hurting President Joe Biden's chances of winning in November.

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Mike Johnson Holds Negative Approval Rating as Democrats Plot to Save His Job

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) holds a negative approval rating as he seeks to rally House Democrats to protect his job and thwart a motion to vacate next week.

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J.D. Vance: Idea that Trump Endangered Lives on January 6 Is 'Absurd'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) said Wednesday on CNN's "The Source" that it was "absurd" to claim former President Donald Trump endangered lives on January 6, 2021.

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Trump’s Business Records Trial Resumes with More Witness Testimony

Donald Trump returns to a New York City courtroom Thursday as his business records trial resumes. Testimony is expected from a lawyer who represented two women who allege they had sexual encounters with the former president.

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MSNBC's Wallace: If Trump Wins in November Freedom of the Press Could End

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Monday on "Deadline" that freedom of the press could end if former President Donald Trump wins re-election in November.

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Trump Vows to End Biden's 'Insane Electric Vehicle Mandate': Would 'Kill Michigan's Economy'

Former President Donald Trump vowed to end President Joe Biden's electric vehicle (EV) mandate, which he says would "kill" Michigan's economy and benefit China, if elected while speaking in Freeland, MI, on Wednesday night.

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Breitbart Business Digest: Biden Is the Chaos Candidate

Republicans looking out across the chaos that has engulfed American campuses should take Richard Nixon's advice: "Never murder a man who's committing suicide."

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Donald Trump to Speak at Libertarian Party National Convention

The Libertarian Party revealed that former President Donald Trump would be speaking at its national conference at the end of May.

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Polls Show Mike Johnson’s Betrayals Have Fueled Historic Approval Plummeting Among Republicans, Surge Among Democrats

Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson, who will face a historic vote next week in the House of Representatives to remove his gavel and strip him of the Speakership, is plummeting among Republicans and supporters of former President Donald Trump and surging among Democrats and supporters of Democrat President Joe Biden.

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Watch Live: Donald Trump Holds Rally in Freeland, Michigan

Former President Donald Trump will speak to supporters at a rally in Freeland, Michigan, on Wednesday, May 1.

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Donald Trump Vows to Trash 'Bidenomics,' Reinstate 'MAGAnomics'

Former President Donald Trump vowed in Wisconsin to trash President Joe Biden's so-called "Bidenomics" and reinstate "MAGAnomics" upon victory in November. 

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Poll: Donald Trump Widens Lead Against Joe Biden

Former President Donald Trump's lead against President Joe Biden is widening, according to April's Harvard-Harris survey.

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Time Magazine Interview: Trump Renews Pledge to Purge Administrative State 

Former President Donald Trump renewed his pledge on Tuesday to purge the unaccountable administrative state that creates and directs vast amounts of far-left policy in the federal government.

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Watch Live: Donald Trump Holds Rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin

Former President Donald Trump will speak to supporters at a rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, May 1.

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Speaker Mike Johnson: MTG's Motion to Oust Me is 'Wrong'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized the motion to vacate that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is bringing against him next week.

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Exclusive: Wesley Hunt Presents Bill to Ensure Lifelong Protection for Presidents

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) is introducing legislation to permanently guarantee Secret Service protection for all former U.S. presidents, ensuring it remains unaffected by personal or political biases.

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Trump’s NY Prosecution Is a Bogus Case by a Bogus Prosecutor

There are many reasons why legal experts are questioning the legitimacy of the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump. But the major reason is that the main claim in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case—that Trump’s $130,000 settlement payment of a potential claim by Stormy Daniels was a campaign-related expense—is totally bogus. 

Here’s a quick tutorial on why Bragg doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on—call it “Federal Campaign Finance Law for Dummies 101”—an apropos title, given what’s going on.

Daniels claims that she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, fully 10 years before the 2016 presidential election, which Trump denies. For the payment, Daniels agreed to sign a nondisclosure agreement, which is a standard provision in many settlement agreements of personal injury cases and other claims.

Bragg contends that Trump falsified business records, a misdemeanor, when this payment was listed as legal expenses instead of a campaign expense.

Supposedly, according to Bragg, that converted the misdemeanors into felonies because Trump was concealing another crime. That other crime, according to prosecutors, is a violation of Section 17-152 of New York law, which makes it a misdemeanor to “promote … the election of any person to public office by unlawful means.”

Besides the fact that it’s very strange to allege that the commission of a misdemeanor for the purpose of covering up the commission of another misdemeanor is enough to allege a felony, the only plausible theory that Bragg is pushing for the alleged “unlawful means” was a violation of federal law by concealing a campaign-related payment. 

With me so far? 

But Trump was running for president. The raising and spending of money for campaigns for president and Congress is governed by federal law, the Federal Election Campaign Act, not state law. Any wrongdoing related to federal campaign financing falls under the enforcement authority of federal officials, not a local prosecutor like Bragg. 

In fact, the Federal Election Commission, on which I served as a commissioner, has civil enforcement authority and the U.S. Department of Justice has criminal enforcement authority over violations of this law.

For the nuisance-value settlement payment to Daniels to fit within Bragg’s rickety legal structure, it would have to be a crime under federal law. In other words, it would have to be considered a campaign-related expense that was falsely reported under the Federal Election Campaign Act. 

If you want an example of such a violation, just look at the $113,000 civil penalty the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee agreed to pay in 2022. They listed the payments for the opposition research that formed the basis for the infamous Steele dossier, which fabricated the entire Trump-Russia collusion hoax, as legal expenses instead of opposition research.

But opposition research on the opposing candidate is obviously a campaign-related expense under applicable federal law, so the FEC had authority to investigate and enforce the law against this deception.

That’s not the case with the Daniels’ payment. For starters, the incident in question that led to the payment is alleged to have happened 10 years before the 2016 campaign. More importantly, the payment fails the test the FEC applies to determine whether an expense is campaign-related.

Under federal law and corresponding regulations, the FEC applies the “irrespective test” to “differentiate legitimate campaign and officeholder expenses from personal expenses.” As the FEC explains on its website, under the irrespective test, “personal use is any use of funds … to fulfill a commitment, obligation, or expense of any person that would exist, irrespective of the candidates’ campaign.” 

In other words, if the expense would exist even if the individual were not a candidate, then it’s personal and not a campaign expense.

The payment to Daniels clearly fails that test. Trump was a celebrity long before he ran for office, and celebrities get these kinds of nuisance claims all the time. In fact, the prosecution’s first witness in the New York case, David Pecker, said he had helped settle similar claims to avoid legal costs and embarrassment by suppressing stories for numerous other celebrities, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tiger Woods.   

The easiest way to understand this test is to take the example of a personal injury claim.

Candidate A has a car accident several years before he runs for Congress that injures another driver. After the campaign has started, the candidate decides to settle the personal injury claim made by the other driver by paying that driver $130,000 in exchange for a nondisclosure agreement. 

Settling and paying the claim may help the candidate in his campaign by avoiding personal embarrassment. But that doesn’t make it a campaign expense. It’s a claim that would exist even if the candidate were not running for office and is thus considered a personal expense under federal law. 

Daniels’ claim is also a personal claim that existed long before Trump ran for the presidency and, given his celebrity status, would have continued to exist even if he never ran for president.

That’s no doubt why neither the FEC nor the Justice Department ever filed an enforcement action against the Trump campaign or Trump personally over the payment; specifically, because it was not a campaign-related expense. 

You know what would have led to enforcement actions? If Trump had actually claimed this was a campaign-related expense and had used campaign funds to make the payment, I have no doubt he would have been prosecuted by the feds for the illegal use of campaign funds to pay a personal expense.

That’s what former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., went to prison for after he pleaded guilty in 2013 to spending $750,000 on personal expenses.

Keep in mind that Bragg’s entire manufactured case of 34 counts of falsifying business records depends entirely on the legitimacy of his contention that the settlement payment should have been listed as a campaign-related expense.

It shouldn’t because it wasn’t. 

And all of the other testimony from the prosecution’s witnesses about this payment and other settlement payments that are obviously intended to blacken the character of the former president and prejudice the jury doesn’t change the fact that none of these payments were campaign-related expenses. Period. End of story—or at least it should be.

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Biden Team Edits His Scripted Video 8 Times in 24 Seconds

Joe Biden's aides spliced a 24-second scripted video of the president 8 times, raising concerns about whether he can deliver simple remarks.

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Michael Moore: Biden Is Losing Youth Vote, Likely He Won't Be Reelected

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said Monday on CNN's "The Source" that the college protests were a danger to President Joe Biden being re-elected in November.

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Trial-Free Day Releases Trump for Return to Campaign Trail

Donald Trump's business records trial will not be heard in Manhattan on Wednesday, freeing him to use the one-day break to greet voters at rallies in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan.

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Poll: Most Agree Democrats Are Using Legal System to Take Out Political Opponents

Most voters agree that Democrats are using the legal system to take out their political opponents -- namely, former President Donald Trump -- April's Harvard-Harris survey found.

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Donald Trump Can Attend Son Barron's Graduation, Judge Says

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's business records trial will allow him to attend his son Barron's high school graduation.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Praised Obama as ‘Good’ President

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once praised former President Barack Obama as a "good" president, which serves as a reminder for voters ahead of the presidential election.

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Poll: Republicans Competitive in Key Swing State Senate Races

A poll shows Republican Senate candidates in competitive positions in hypothetical races in four of five key battleground states.

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Whoopi Goldberg to Donald Trump: There Is No Anti-White Feeling in the U.S.

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC's "The View" that former President Donald Trump was incorrect about a "definite anti-white feeling in the country."

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Behar to Protesters: 'Don't Displace Dissatisfaction with a Dictatorship'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC's "The View" that those participating in the anti-Israel college campus protests across the country should be careful because they could help elect former President Donald Trump.

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Poll: Cases of Lawfare Against Trump Not Helping Biden

Cases of lawfare against former President Donald Trump are not helping President Joe Biden, a survey from Harvard-Harris reveals.

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Judge Merchan Holds Donald Trump in Criminal Contempt for Gag Order Violations, Threatens Jail Time

New York County Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that former President Donald Trump violated a gag order during his trial, holding him in criminal contempt and threatening him with jail time for any further infractions.

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Donald Trump's Business Records Trial Resumes in New York

Former President Donald Trump will be back in a New York City courtroom Tuesday as his business records trial resumes.

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MSNBC's Wallace: 'As with Racists, All the Conspiracy Theorists Are Republicans'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Monday on her show "Deadline" that it was not accurate to say everyone in the Republican Party is a conspiracy theorist but "as with racist, all of the conspiracy theorists are Republicans."

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Watch: Pelosi Accuses MSNBC’s Katy Tur of Being 'an Apologist for Donald Trump'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC's "Katy Tur Reports" that she believed host Katie Tur was an "apologist" for former President Donald Trump.

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Pelosi: After Election Dems Will Ditch Filibuster to Legalize Abortion Nationally

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC's "Katy Tur Reports" that if the Democrats win majorities in Congress and the White House, they will ditch the filibuster to legalize abortion nationwide.

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Biden Administration Lets Another PPE Factory Languish, Leaving U.S. Dependent on China

The Biden administration is letting yet another factory languish that was meant to provide America with critical medical supplies instead of relying on China in the event of another national emergency.

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Poll: Just 26% Believe Trump Will Be Convicted in Criminal Trial

Less than half adamantly believe that former President Donald Trump will be convicted of a crime in his criminal trial at the hands of Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a recent survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

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CBS Poll: Half of Swing State Voters Say Economy Got Worse Under Biden

With the economy ranked as the top 2024 issue, Biden's poor marks in key swing states is terrible news for the president's reelection hopes. 

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Exclusive -- AZ State Rep. Travis Grantham: 'I Think Donald Trump Will Win Arizona'

Former President Donald Trump will likely win the swing state of Arizona in November, Arizona State Rep. Travis Grantham (R) said during a Monday appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

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Gallup Poll: Joe Biden Sinks to Historically Lowest Approval Average in 13th Quarter at 38.7%

Biden's terrible approval rating in his 13th quarter in office, which began on January 20 and ended April 19, suggests he will have a difficult time winning reelection. Presidents historically need to average around 50 percent to win reelection. 

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Exclusive -- Arizona State Rep. Travis Grantham: Abortion Law Was Recodified in 1977 By Democrats

The controversial 1864 abortion law in Arizona was actually recodified in 1977 by a Democrat governor and a Democrat legislature, Arizona State Rep. Travis Grantham (R) revealed during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

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Exclusive: Mara Macie is Fighting the 'Uniparty Swamp' in 'Number One Race in America'

Mara Macie joined Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM days after qualifying for the ballot in her challenge to Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL) in what host Matt Boyle declared "might be the number one race in America."

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U.S. Navy Wants Migrants to Build Warships

President Joe Biden's Navy secretary wants to import skilled blue-collar migrants to build the U.S. Navy ships that protect Americans and their job opportunities.

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Report: Jim Biden Was in Business with Qatari Officials, According to Testimony

Hunter Biden was not the only family member who leveraged ties to President Joe Biden to win business deals with business partners linked to foreign governments, a Politico report details.

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Arabella Network’s Leftist ‘Dark Money’ Influence Expanding, Author Reveals

The left-wing Arabella Advisors network has raked in more money than either of the two major political parties and affects almost every element of public policy and elections, argues Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, a Washington-based investigative think tank. 

Walter’s new book “Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America” shows that in the 2020 election cycle, Arabella Advisors’ nonprofits took in $2.4 billion. That’s $1 billion more than the combined fundraising of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee.

That amount rose to $3 billion in the 2022 election cycle, Walter says. Moreover, he adds, nothing on the Right comes close to competing. 

“Arabella does not discriminate. It is working on arcane regulatory issues … but it also is running Facebook ads, attacking certain congressional candidates and boosting others. It plays in environmental issues. It plays in abortion issues. It plays in election policy,” Walter says on “The Daily Signal Podcast.”

Walter is set to testify Tuesday before the House Natural Resources Committee about what he calls “left-wing dark money [used] to influence environmental policy.”

“Arabella also continues to be very active in the environmental policy area in all sorts of ways,” he adds.

Arabella-backed organizations have been involved in battles over abortion and Supreme Court nominations and advocated that biological males compete in women’s sports. 

Walter’s book details how two Arabella-aligned groups, the Center for Secure and Modern Elections and the Institute for Responsive Government, are involved in shaping election policy at the local level. 

He notes that an Arabella-sponsored group funded by billionaire financier George Soros helped formulate the Biden administration’s recent change in Title IX policy to make it easier for biological males to compete in girls’ scholastic sports. 

“That was plotted through a highly secretive group in the Arabella network, funded entirely with Soros money,” Walter said. “Governing for Impact, which they started in 2019, two years before the Biden administration was even sworn in. And they worked with Harvard Law School folks to do very sophisticated legal strategy memos of how to overturn dozens of regulations in the federal government, the most famous being Title IX.”

What’s differentiates Arabella from other major donors on the Left is the level of secrecy, Walter says. The network is more secretive than most nonprofits financed by Soros and his family, he says. 

“We have tracked the institutional donors, and we can tell you that for almost all of the Arabella nonprofits, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, which provides donor-advised funds to wealthy people, is the largest,” Walter said. He added, “Other really big donors to the Arabella network have [included Microsoft co-founder] Bill Gates. He is one of the largest, mostly through his foundation. [Facebook founder] Mark Zuckerberg has given tens of millions, mostly for criminal justice reform—quote unquote—[that results in] letting criminals back on the streets.”

A spokesperson for Arabella Advisors didn’t respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment for this report.  

Listen to Walter outline Arabella’s reach in a discussion of his book in the podcast below: 

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Report: Trump and DeSantis Meet in Miami, Talk Fundraising

Former President Donald Trump and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reportedly met in Miami on Sunday where they settled their political differences and discussed fundraising.

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