President Trump on death of Justice Ginsburg: "She just died? Wow. I didn't know that…She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman, whether you agree or not. She was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hear that." pic.twitter.com/6oKuL671qO
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 19, 2020
NEW: GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski announces she will NOT vote to replace RBG on SCOTUS until after Election Day, saying, "fair is fair."
— Stephanie Myers (@_StephanieMyers) September 19, 2020
Prepare for a real throw down.
Via The Hill:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed on Friday night that Republicans will move to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.
“Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise,” McConnell said.
“President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate,” McConnell added.
R.I.P., Justice Ginsburg. And hold onto your hats for what comes next.
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday evening of complications form pancreatic cancerhttps://t.co/UW6eBjZYur
— Bloomberg (@business) September 18, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this evening of complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 87. pic.twitter.com/D4DnIXux0l
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) September 18, 2020
Michigan is not looking good for Democratic nominee Joe Biden with less than two months to go until Election Day, according to filmmaker Michael Moore.
Biden leads in most polling, but the Michigan native and prominent liberal activist said there’s an absence of a ground game in the crucial swing state that’s weaker than what Hillary Clinton had in 2016 when she lost the state.
“It’s actually worse than Hillary,” Moore told the Hill. “At least there was a ground game, even though she didn’t show up. There were Hillary offices in many towns, campaign offices, there was door to door campaigns.”
One of the most memorable factors of 2016, Moore recalled, was the lack of available yard signs for Clinton. He said after speaking with people who worked on her campaign, not having yard signs was intentional in order to avoid reminding supporters of President Trump to get out and vote.
Much to his dismay, Moore said the Biden campaign appears to have adopted this same strategy.
Via Free Beacon:
Hunter Biden touted his family’s political clout to solicit a $5 million investment from China for his U.S.-based financial advisory firm, according to a court filing by a white-collar convict who claims he had an inside view into Biden’s murky foreign business dealings.
John Galanis, 77, argues that the younger Biden used his businesses as a “pay-to-play influence peddling operation” by offering access to influential people in Washington, D.C., in exchange for investments. Galanis, who was convicted in 2018 of defrauding investors and the Wakpamni tribal community, states in the affidavit that his son, Jason Galanis, provided him with details of Biden’s offshore deals after befriending Biden’s longtime business partner Devon Archer.
In the affidavit, Galanis says that Biden and Archer worked to secure $15 million for their financial advisory company from the Chinese investment fund Harvest Fund Management in 2015, which agreed to provide them with $5 million after Biden reached out directly to the firm’s chairman and said it would be important to the Biden family.
Well it’s the Browns. They certainly aren’t going to watch the team win. Might as well watch SOMETHING entertaining.
Via NY Post:
Around 6,000 fans were allowed into the Browns’ 35-30 victory over the Bengals on Thursday night in Cleveland. And a handful of those fans got into a melee that was captured on video by a fellow fan with the fitting caption, “Lol I love Browns game.”
The order by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine specified that fans were to be divided evenly between the four sides of the stadium in a plan that also encompassed Bengals home games. At least on Thursday night they were not spaced far enough apart to keep tensions from rising.
In the video, the combatants can be briefly seen as security rushes in to separate them. Another fan in a Nick Chubb jersey backs away with a beer held above his head.
Via Dailymail:
A California man has been arrested after he allegedly attacked several people, including an elderly woman, during a rally held in support of President Donald Trump on Wednesday night.
Alvin Gary Shaw, 33, confronted the small group of people during the gathering in Aliso Viejo – 50 miles south of Los Angeles – around 6.30pm.
Shaw allegedly blew smoke in some of the supporters’ faces and used his cigar to burn one person’s Trump sign, according to local reports.
Damn you climate change!
Via Daily Caller:
As wildfires rip through the Pacific states, environmentalists and liberal politicians are blaming man-caused global warming. But the particular severity of this year’s fires may be traced to a different cause: arson.
There’s evidence of criminal human activity causing forest fires. Over a dozen people have been charged recently with setting western wildfires. Domingo Lopez Jr. may be the champion firebug. He started a brush fire along I-205 in Oregon using a Molotov Cocktail, was arrested, booked and later released. Then Lopez proceeded to start six more small fires in the next twelve hours before being apprehended again. Another alleged arsonist, BLM activist Jeffrey Acord, livestreamed the fire on Facebook as police arrived, then claimed to be calling the incident in.
This National Black Voter Day, #ReclaimYourVote. Go to https://t.co/ZKn8fJEh9z to register and make your voting plan. pic.twitter.com/yu7vfUAPAu
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) September 18, 2020
If Murphy had opened the damn state 5 months ago this wouldn’t have happened.
Via NY Times:
New Jersey officials agreed on Thursday to make the state one of the first to adopt a so-called millionaires tax to alleviate shortfalls caused by the pandemic, intensifying a national debate over whether to increase taxes on the rich to help address widening income gaps.
Gov. Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat, announced a deal with legislative leaders to increase state taxes on income over $1 million by nearly 2 percentage points, giving New Jersey one of the highest state tax rates on wealthy people in the country. The agreement also includes an annual rebate of as much as $500 for families making less than $150,000.
“We do not hold any grudge at all against those who have been successful in life,” said Mr. Murphy, a former executive at the investment bank Goldman Sachs. “But in this unprecedented time, when so many middle-class families and others have sacrificed so much, now is the time to ensure that the wealthiest among us are also called to sacrifice.”
Via Rasmussen:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-six percent (46%) disapprove. The last time the president’s job approval reached a high of this number was in September 2019.
The latest figures include 44% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +4. (see trends)
The ladies of @TheView didn’t like what I had to say, so naturally they cut me off.
Why are they silencing Black Women?
Hey, @JoyVBehar — I think your White Privilege is showing through your blackface! pic.twitter.com/d39hPOAPOV
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) September 18, 2020
Look, there's just no equivalence.
Biden makes some false and misleading claims. It's important to note them. We will. But his assertions of fact have been largely factual.
Trump, as we saw at the town hall and see again tonight, has been incessantly and egregiously dishonest.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2020
But no bias here.
Via Fox News:
CNN was labeled “propaganda” following Thursday night’s Joe Biden town hall event when a pair of reporters from the liberal network tried to explain why coverage of President Trump is more aggressive than the Democratic nominee.
CNN’s in-house fact-checker Daniel Dale set the tone by tweeting that there’s just no equivalence between Biden and Trump. He admitted that Biden makes false claims but said they aren’t as egregious as ones uttered by the president.
“Biden makes some false and misleading claims. It’s important to note them. We will. But his assertions of fact have been largely factual,” Dale wrote. “Trump, as we saw at the town hall and see again tonight, has been incessantly and egregiously dishonest.”
Via MSN:
A senior cybersecurity adviser to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign spent years affiliating with a hacking organization and boasted on a personal blog about breaking into her neighbor’s computers.
Jackie Singh, who joined the Biden campaign in July as a senior cyber incident responder and threat analyst, was an affiliate of the hacking organization the Gay N—– Association of America, once headed by white nationalist Andrew Auernheimer.
Via NY Post:
A total of 22 people were busted by the NYPD during an anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan Thursday evening, cops said Friday.
Sixteen men and six women were arrested during the rally, which began in Foley Square and made its way down to World Trade Center to speak out against allegations of unwanted hysterectomies at the border.
A dozen people received summonses, six received desk appearance tickets and four were slapped with both, according to police.
Charges included using a no-permit sound device, obstruction of governmental administration, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, cops said.
No one was hurt during the demonstrations, according to police.
CNN town hall participant to Joe Biden: "Mr. Vice President, I look out over my Biden sign in my front yard and I see a sea of Trump flags and yard signs."#MAGA pic.twitter.com/uOV9xFEUxT
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 18, 2020
Hilarious.
And if anyone else wants one, please stop down the #Scranton campaign office or visit us at https://t.co/8eoSTbNMsn https://t.co/VQiCCgnwzr
— Lackawanna GOP (@LackawannaGOP) September 18, 2020
Joe Biden and Anderson Cooper are making a point of social distancing during the CNN Town Hall while on the stage.
But when they think they’ve gone to commercial break, they get so close to each other that Biden is whispering in Cooper’s ear: pic.twitter.com/ClZXrxFfSo
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) September 18, 2020
Social distancing only for the cameras. And this was after he flipped for the umpteenth time about a national mask mandate.
Joe Biden and Anderson Cooper are making a point of social distancing during the CNN Town Hall while on the stage.
But when they think they’ve gone to commercial break, they get so close to each other that Biden is whispering in Cooper’s ear: pic.twitter.com/ClZXrxFfSo
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) September 18, 2020
Via Fox News:
A former CNN employee noticed that Anderson Cooper and Joe Biden stopped social distancing during Thursday’s town hall when they thought the liberal network had cut to a commercial.
CNN digital producer-turned-Fourth Watch editor Steve Krakauer tweeted video of Cooper and Biden, who kept their distance throughout the coronavirus-era event, but appeared to get within inches of each other as the camera zoomed out prior to a commercial break.
“Joe Biden and Anderson Cooper are making a point of social distancing during the CNN Town Hall while on the stage,” Krakauer wrote to accompany the video. “But when they think they’ve gone to commercial break, they get so close to each other that Biden is whispering in Cooper’s ear.”
Via NY Post:
A 17-year-old boy interning for the Republican challenger of Rep. Ilhan Omar was fatally shot in north Minneapolis on Monday, according to reports.
The fatal victim, Andre Conley, was among two outreach workers for Lacy Johnson’s campaign that were struck by gunfire outside of a Super USA convenience store, WCCO reported.
Lacy’s campaign told the network that the two were not performing campaign duties at the time of the shooting, and the act of violence is not believed to be politically motivated.
“My nephew Andre did not deserve this,” Conley’s aunt, Fatemah Green, said at a Wednesday night vigil, KARE11 reported.
The surviving victim, a man, was hospitalized in stable condition.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of this senseless act of violence,” the Johnson campaign wrote in a Monday statement.
Sadly, it won’t.