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Bidenomics continues to secure Trump’s swing-state leads– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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For all of Alvin Bragg‘s attempts to hijack the news cycle with a cavalcade of scorned friends and flings of Donald Trump, the former president has proven stubbornly resilient in his swing-state leads over President Joe Biden.

According to the latest slate of head-to-head polling from the New York Times and Siena College, the Republican is up by 14 percentage points over the Democratic incumbent among registered voters in Nevada, 10 points in Georgia, 7 points in Michigan, 7 points in Arizona, and 3 points in Pennsylvania. Only in Wisconsin does Trump trail Biden by 2 points, but among likely voters, Trump actually leads by 1 in Wisconsin, yet he trails by 1 point among likely voters in Michigan. His lead persists or grows in every other state.

A separate poll from the Financial Times explains why the sexcapades of Stormy Daniels haven’t cut through Trump’s lead: the continuous catastrophe that is Bidenomics.

Trump Draws Massive Crowd of 100,000 at Rally in Deep-Blue New Jersey– slaynews.com

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President Donald Trump drew a massive crowd for his rally in deep-blue New Jersey over the weekend.

It’s estimated that Trump’s rally at Wildwood Beach drew over 100,000 attendees.

In a post on X, Trump’s press secretary Karline Leavitt said there was “a crowd of more than 100,000” for the rally.

Black Wisconsin Voter Slams Joe Biden For His Racist “You Ain’t Black” Rant (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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Joe Biden made a stop in Racine, Wisconsin last week to promote his ‘investing in America’ agenda.

Everyone is worse off because of Joe Biden. No matter how Biden spins it, crippling inflation is destroying the working class.

Black voters in Wisconsin are not happy with Joe Biden.

“A key piece of [Biden’s] coalition is Black voters — some of whom don’t see how they benefit from his economic plan,” KWWL reported.

“As they see the prices rise with Biden, they think Trump made the economy BETTER and Biden is making it WORSE,” a black voter told KWWL.

Jen Psaki Outright Lies About Biden in Her New Book, and the Backlash Has Her Scrambling – RedState– redstate.com

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Kristi Noem isn’t the only one whose book is causing controversy. Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary turned MSNBC mouthpiece, found herself in hot water on Monday after it was reported that she lied about Joe Biden in her new book. For once, the heat isn’t coming from the right, either. Left-wing Axios reported the falsehood and pressed for an explanation.

The setup is a passage in Psaki’s book claiming that Biden never looked at his watch at Dover AFB during the ceremony for servicemembers killed during the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. She went so far as to call the claims “misinformation” in her writings.

Conservative outside group drops $70M on Senate Democrats in battlegrounds– www.politico.com

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One Nation, a top conservative group, is plowing $70 million more into hitting vulnerable Democrats in key Senate races nationwide according to details first shared with POLITICO, an extraordinary sum that’s roughly double the group’s Senate investment last cycle.

The nonprofit advocacy outfit, which is closely aligned with GOP leaders and the top GOP super PAC, is dropping tens of millions into five key battleground states to join a campaign already up in Montana.

The group is diving into Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada in a sweeping ad buy focused on the southern border and inflation, an effort branded as the “Stop the Insanity” campaign. The push includes spending on radio, mail, TV and digital.

KARI LAKE Drops a BOMB on Sunday Morning Futures – Exposes How Democrats Are ALREADY Stealing Votes in the 2024 Election (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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Kari Lakes explains how Democrats are going to steal illegal alien votes in the 2024 election.

Popular Arizona Senate Candidate Kari Lake joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning.

During their discussion, Kari described how Joe Biden’s open border crisis is endangering every American. Kari pointed out that border ranchers are seeing 8-9 illegal alien “gotaways” every day on their land. These same ranchers saw 8-9 “gotaways” a year when Trump was in office!

Trump allies Vance and Tuberville appear behind former president at New York courthouse– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) appeared behind former President Donald Trump at his New York hush money trial.

The two appeared behind the president while he gave a press conference outside the New York courthouse, alongside Eric Trump and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY). They stood in silence as Donald Trump spoke about his favorable poll numbers and denounced his prosecution.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) rear center, listens as former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Monday, May 13, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

House Democrats Should Stop Bailing Out Mike Johnson– www.thenation.com

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Mike Johnson, the most conservative speaker in the history of the US House of Representatives, faced down a challenge to his leadership role last week from members of his own caucus who don’t think the Louisiana Republican is sufficiently extreme.

Johnson got on the wrong side of Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and a handful of GOP dissidents when he decided it might be a good idea to maintain the US commitment to support Ukraine in its fight against the invading forces of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

So the Greene team made a ham-handed move to “vacate” the speaker’s position.

Chinese students in Britain ‘live in fear’ of being silenced by Beijing, report warns– www.dailymail.co.uk

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Chinese students in Britain live in fear from the ‘long arm of Chinese government’, a report warns today.

Students are being intimidated, harassed and silenced by Chinese authorities as part of a sinister pattern of ‘transnational repression’, according to Amnesty International.

Interviews with 32 students in eight countries, including the UK, reveal that many are being photographed and followed at university protests, leading to their families being threatened by police in China.

Almost a third of students said officials had harassed their families to prevent them from criticising the Chinese government or its policies while overseas.

Blinken Says U.S. Has Not Ruled Out Withholding More Military Aid From Israel– www.nytimes.com

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The United States has not ruled out withholding more military support to Israel’s campaign against Hamas if Israel undertakes a major attack on Rafah, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Sunday.

“If Israel launches this major military operation into Rafah, then there are certain systems that we are not going to be supporting and supplying for that operation,” Mr. Blinken told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” He did not elaborate.

Last week, the White House imposed a delay on the delivery of 3,500 bombs out of concern over the potential harm to civilians in Rafah, where many Gazans have sought shelter since the start of the fighting seven months ago. Mr. Blinken said those are the only weapons that the United States has held back “at present.”

Two days after the State Department sent a report to Congress raising “substantial questions” regarding Israel’s efforts to protect civilians in Gaza, Mr. Blinken was circumspect in his criticism of Israel’s response to the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7.

Protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’ now banned in city after appeals court overturns ruling– www.texarkanagazette.com

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HONG KONG — An appeals court on Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the once-freewheeling global financial hub.

“Glory to Hong Kong” was often sung by demonstrators during huge anti-government protests in 2019. The song was later mistakenly played as the city’s anthem at international sporting events, instead of China’s “March of the Volunteers,” in mix-ups that upset city officials.

It was the first time a song has been banned in the city since Britain handed the territory back to Chinese rule in 1997.

Critics have said prohibiting broadcast or distribution of the song further reduces freedom of expression since Beijing launched a crackdown in Hong Kong following the 2019 protests. They have also warned the ban might disrupt the operation of tech giants and hurt the city’s appeal as a business center.

Far-right pro-independence Aliança Catalana wins parliament seats for first time– www.catalannews.com

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Aliança Catalana, the far-right pro-independence party, has entered the Catalan parliament for the first time, winning two seats in Sunday’s election.

Party leader Sílvia Orriols will represent the interests of residents in the Girona province, after gaining a seat in the chamber, after coming to prominence as the Ripoll mayor ever since last year’s municipal election.

The party also won representation in the Lleida constituency, but none in Barcelona, the most populated area of Catalonia.

Warsaw suspends talks on Polish farmer protests due to ex-agriculture minister corruption suspicions– kyivindependent.com

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Poland has suspended talks with Ukraine regarding the Polish farmer protests at the countries’ shared border over corruption suspicions involving former Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi, Polish Deputy Agriculture Minister  Michal Kolodziejczak told the media outlet Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

Solskyi is suspected of illegally appropriating Ukrainian state-owned land worth Hr 291 million ($7.3 million) and attempting to seize another plot worth an additional Hr 190 million ($4.8 million), according to Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU).

Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court ordered Solskyi’s arrest on April 26. He was ordered to be held in custody until June 24, but he posted a Hr 75.7 million ($1.9 million) bail on the same day and was released.

Socialists to Seek the Catalonia Government Without Puigdemont|News|teleSUR– www.telesurenglish.net

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On Monday, Nuria Parlon, the spokesperson for the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC), stated that her party’s priority is to lead a tripartite regional government by joining forces with the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and the leftist formation Comuns Sumar.

Previously, the PSC achieved a historic victory in the Catalan elections, securing 42 seats on Sunday. Together for Catalonia (Junts) increased its number of seats from 32 to 35, while the ERC’s seats dropped from 33 to 20 and Comuns Sumar obtained six legislators.

Parlon stated that her political organization would talk to all parties, except for the far-right Vox and Catalan Alliance, an Islamophobic party that entered parliament for the first time.

On Monday morning, former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont asserted that he would present his candidacy to be invested as president and emphasized that his party could achieve a broader majority than the Socialist candidate Salvador Illa could form.

Appeasement of China as strategy for statecraft in WPS dispute– www.manilatimes.net

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OF the six recognized strategies for statecraft in conflict in international relations (negotiation, deterrence, coercive diplomacy, crisis management, war termination and détente), I have discussed so far coercive diplomacy and crisis management as strategic tools for statecraft that our government can employ in the present state of relations in the West Philippine Sea.

Ukraine plot will ‘scale back Russian summer offensive’ and ‘end war’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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Continued aid to Ukraine from the West could secure them a victory over Russia. (Image: Getty)

Ukraine is still in “desperate need” of aid from the West in order to “thwart Russian state attacks” and regain lost territory in the ongoing war, an expert has said.

Pushan Dutt, professor of economics at INSEAD, said that the continuation of aid to Ukraine could significantly diminish the likelihood of a Russian summer offensive and potentially bring an end to the drawn out war.

Dutt expressed skepticism towards Russian officials’ assertions of a potential nuclear war and wider conflict with NATO.

Haitians demand arrest of national police chief– www.taipeitimes.com

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The call came after men raided the community of Gressier, forcing residents to join more than 360,000 other Haitians who have had to flee their homes

A growing number of civilians and police officers are demanding the dismissal and arrest of Haiti’s police chief as heavily armed gangs launched a new attack in the capital of Port-au-Prince, seizing control of yet another police station early on Saturday.

Armed men raided the coastal community of Gressier in the western tip of Port-au-Prince late on Friday, injuring people, burning vehicles and attacking homes and other infrastructure as scores of people fled into the nearby mountains following a barrage of gunfire overnight.

It was not immediately known if anyone died.

Jury hears audio of Trump-Cohen conversation about buying Karen McDougal story – live | Donald Trump trials– www.theguardian.com

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Jury hears audio of Trump-Cohen conversation

They’re playing the September 2016 tape in which Michael Cohen and Donald Trump can be heard discussing how they would buy the rights to Karen McDougal’s story.

In the tape, Cohen can be heard explaining to the then presidential candidate his plans to open a company through which he would finance the purchase of the rights to McDougal’s story.

Trump can be heard saying:

Let me know what’s happening, OK? … For that one, you know, I think what you should do is get rid of this. Because it’s so false what they’re saying, it’s such bullshit.

DOJ Seeks 40-Year Sentence for Paul Pelosi Attacker › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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On Friday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally requested a sentence of 40 years in prison for the man who was convicted in the assault of Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

According to Axios, the demand was made by federal prosecutors in a 20-page sentencing memo, which specifically stated that the goal was for the steep sentence to serve as a warning to others who may try to carry out political violence.

In October of 2022, David DePape broke into the Pelosis’ residence in San Francisco late in the evening and assaulted Paul with a hammer just as police were arriving. The former Speaker was not home at the time. DePape allegedly said that he wanted to assault Nancy Pelosi herself in order to “show other members of Congress there were consequences to actions.”

Police clash with aggressive pro-Palestinian protesters outside Pomona College graduation– www.thecollegefix.com

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‘Officials say some protesters charged at officers and one was arrested after attempting to strike an officer’

Pomona College officials had already relocated their graduation ceremony from the main campus to the Shrine Auditorium because pro-Palestinian protesters camped out on the Los Angeles-based school’s main stage refused to leave.

After the new location was announced, the anti-Israel activists hunted the ceremony down to the Shrine, prompting a clash with police on Sunday. The activists refused to disperse despite several requests from police to do so.

ABC 7 reported:

Officials say some protesters charged at officers and one was arrested after attempting to strike an officer.

Chants of “From the river to the sea” were heard in the crowd, a controversial slogan which some say is just a cry for Palestinian freedom but in other interpretations is seen as an antisemitic call for the destruction of Israel.

Some protesters were also attempting to block entrance to the auditorium, police say.