Sept 20, 2024
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We have been alerting you to the roller coaster ride we are all on through this election.
We have come to the end of another week of highs and lows. It is hard to get a read on what exactly is going on because there are so many lies to weed through. Plus, nothing happening has ever happened in our lifetimes.
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1- The American worker has spoken. The left is sputtering.
Internal polling by the union shows: Trump 59.6% to Kamala 34%.
For the first time in almost 30 years, the Teamsters have not endorsed the Democrat candidate.
In addition to the Teamsters, 70% of Steamfitters Local 638 are voting for President Trump.
And it has been estimated that 65-70% of UAW members are voting for President Trump.
Harris takes a BLOW so brutal, not even her media BFF's can spin it for her
QUOTE: Team Harris just took a massive hit, and it came straight from American workers. The Teamsters released their polling data, and it’s bad news for Harris, Walz, and the entire Democrat Party. According to a new presidential poll, Teamsters Union members don’t like Kamala Harris one bit. In fact, they’re overwhelmingly backing President Trump in what’s shaping up to be a landslide. And who can blame them? Harris wants to end fracking. Look at what happened to those pipelines—destroyed. Jobs gone. Communities left with moms and dads out of work. Comrade Kamala is a one-woman job-wrecking crew and the working-class in this country know it and are flatly rejecting her.
Just think about it—Kamala Harris met with the Teamsters just a few days ago. Clearly, that meeting didn’t go well.
The results of this poll were so overwhelmingly anti-Harris and pro-Trump that even the Union bigwigs couldn’t endorse Kamala. For once, they’re listening to their members. And the fact that the Teamsters are refusing to endorse Kamala Harris speaks volumes. They’ve backed a Democrat candidate every election since 1996—until now. Needless to say, the media and DC swamp are in a complete tizzy.
Shame on the Teamsters for not endorsing President Trump like they should have. But even a non-endorsement for Kamala Harris is huge. President Trump knows how monumental this is, and he’s already spoken out on this historic moment.
Meanwhile, Teamsters took to X, where they shared their polling data. These numbers are absolutely brutal—so brutal that even Kamala’s media pals can’t spin it or run cover for her. This is raw, in-your-face reality. No smoke screens, no PR tricks—just real American workers speaking out. And that’s the last thing Team Harris wants as we inch closer to election day. The harsh reality is that Kamala Harris is sleep-walking into election day without the backing of the unions, and that’s gotta hurt.
2- You know what they say about karma!
ABC’s David Muir takes hit to ratings after performance as debate moderator
QUOTE: Muir was a debate moderator alongside Linsey Davis, frequently fact-checking Trump while failing to do so for Harris. Muir was criticized for disputing the former president’s claim that crime was going up by countering with incomplete data and questioning whether he was being sarcastic or not in a previous interview. The flak Muir took from the experience appears to have taken a toll on his ratings.
According to Fox News, Muir’s ABC World News Tonight ratings fell by 12% after the debate, with an average of 6.7 million viewers on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, compared to an average of 7.6 million before the debate.
That was a substantially steeper decline than that suffered by CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News.
3- Who had a massive Trump rally in New York on their bingo card? We continue to witness unprecedented events. But, the Drive By Media will not be reporting on this.
What the heck is happening in New York? Trump ROCKS the city to its core
QUOTE: What the heck is going on in the Big Apple? President Trump showed up, rocked the entire city to its core, and brought everyone to their feet at a huge arena in Long Island. Sounds impossible, right? Well, it’s not—that’s exactly what happened. Who would’ve thought we’d ever see a crowd like this for President Trump in New York on Wednesday night?
And forget what was happening inside for a minute—just look at the streets of NYC, where people were packed in and lined up just to catch a glimpse of President Trump as his motorcade passed by on its way out to Long Island. This is the man of the people, and that’s a fact.
Thousands of people flooded the Nassau Coliseum just to catch a glimpse of the popular former president and frontrunner for the 2024 election. Do you think Kamala Harris could show up in the reddest city in the nation and pull a crowd like that on her own—without pretending Beyoncé will be there? Of course not.
The Nassau Coliseum is a hockey arena that can fit 20,000 people.
Is New York actually in play? Time will tell, but if it is, that means lights out for Kamala.
The rally was incredible, and President Trump rolled out a huge number of new policies, jokes, stories, and lines.
4- Some good news on several very important Senate races.
Montana Supreme Court Deals Another Huge Blow to Jon Tester's Reelection Campaign
QUOTE: With less than two months to go before Election Day, all eyes are on not just the presidential race between GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democrat opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, but on the key Senate races across the country that will determine who controls the upper chamber in 2025 regardless of which side wins the presidency.
Republican Senate nominee Dave McCormick is giving Democrat Sen. Bob Casey nightmares in Pennsylvania. Further, there's a strong possibility West Virginia will flip red thanks to Gov. Jim Justice's Senate candidacy and Sen. Joe Manchin's retirement.
But it is in the great state of Montana that Republicans are seeing their second-best (next to WV) hope for a crucial seat flip thanks to the floundering candidacy of Democrat Sen. Jon Tester.
Tester is currently in the battle of his political life thanks to Trump-endorsed GOP Senate nominee Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL and veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. In early September, the race was moved from "toss-up" to "leans Republican," according to an analysis from the Cook Political Report, which among other things took into account a wave of summer polling trends that looked really good for Sheehy.
On Tuesday, Tester's reelection bid was hit with even more bad news thanks to the Montana Supreme Court, in a case brought by the state Democrat Party involving whether or not the Green Party Senate candidate, Robert Barb, could remain on the ballot.
The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that allowed the state’s Green Party Senate candidate to remain on the ballot in November, a blow to Democrats’ efforts to prevent what they expect could be a spoiler in the close race between incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D) and his Republican challenger, Tim Sheehy.
As RedState documented at the time, an AARP poll taken in late August by a bipartisan polling firm showed Tester down eight points to Sheehy in a four-way race (including the Libertarian and Green Party candidates) and down six points in a two-way race.
So if current polling patterns hold, it's not just a matter of Tester losing to Sheehy in November - but by how much.
This one is another big one to keep an eye on.
5- Good news. More children in New York will not be getting indoctrinated in public schools. Hopefully they will be taught to read and do arithmetic.
New York’s latest test scores show why families are fleeing the public schools
QUOTE: It’s easy to see why the State Education Department stalled on releasing the latest English and math test scores for grades 3-8, and why New Yorkers won’t get the final (whitewashed) results until November: They show fewer than half of all kids statewide scoring grade-level-proficient or better in English; just 52% in math.
And, for those that took the science exam, even worse: just 35%.
The kids took the multiple-choice tests back in April and May: SED has no excuse for the absurdly long time in releasing even preliminary results; officials’ protest that they’re trying to produce them “as quickly as possible to improve classroom instruction” is total smoke.
All the tests do now is help expose the failure of public schools to educate our kids (especially those in poor and minority neighborhoods) — which is why SED, the Regents and the unions are pushing to ditch standardized testing entirely.
The educrats should be so ashamed they’d commit seppuku.Instead, Education Commissioner Betty Rosa, Regents Chancellor Lester Young & Co. just push for ever-greater school spending.
New York leads the nation in education spending but ranks near the bottom when it comes to student achievement.
Families fed up with New York’s public schools are fleeing to private academies, charter schools, home-schooling — and other states.
Good for them: With state leaders bent on doing nothing but hide the truth while sucking up ever more cash, those parents would be insane to stay.
6- Fascinating story about our poor, battered Constitution. We hope that it finds a good home.
'Super spectacular' find: Signed Constitution to hit auction block, could fetch millions
QUOTE: Some people have a cluttered attic, basement or garage. Others have boxes of papers from high school or college that should be gone through, to sift memories from amid the junk.
They've got nothing on an old house in Edenton, North Carolina — once the home of the state's governor, after the Revolutionary War — where two of our nations founding documents were found, decades apart.
In 1983, a copy of the Declaration of Independence was found at Hayes Farm. It sold to Williams College in 1993 for $412,500.
In 2022, a signed ratification copy of the U.S. Constitution, on a single page in pamphlet form, was found in a dusty metal filing cabinet there. The rare piece of history — believed to be the only such copy in private hands — goes on the auction block Sept. 28, at Brunk Auctions in Asheville, North Carolina. It could fetch tens of millions.
For now, though, the precious document is in the safekeeping of Seth Kaller, a Westchester historic documents dealer.
The Constitution approved by Congress was clear: It was no more than words on paper until and unless it was ratified by at least nine of the 13 states. That’s where the unearthed Carolina document comes into play.
One hundred copies of the completed Constitution were printed. Of those, each state received two copies signed by Secretary of Congress Charles Thomson for their ratification. It was Thomson's signature that certified the document as having been passed by the convention. Ratification took months (in the case of Delaware, which ratified on Dec. 7, 1787) or years (Rhode Island ratified on May 29, 1790).
What sets the Carolina document apart is Thomson's signature, and the document's heightened purpose.
"It is that resolution, along with Thomson’s signature, that makes the present copy one of the true official editions of the Constitution as it went to the states for ratification," the brochure reads.
The opening minimum bid of $1 million has been established. But Kaller thinks things could get interesting once the bidding starts in earnest. It could eclipse the record amount spent on a historic document, in 2021.
That was a copy of the Constitution printed a couple of days before this newly found document. It was one of 14 known copies from a print run of 500 copies. It sold for a record $43.2 million in 2021, a bid bolstered but not won by a group that collected crypto and amassed a considerable bidding war chest, Kaller said.
7- Listen to this interview for a lot of information, especially on polling.
JD Vance: The Immigration Crisis, How Polls Are Used to Fool You, and the Left’s Plan to Stop Trump
The Tucker Carlson Show
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