Politics

• Three Dem senators to snub the DNC: Democrat Senators Jon Tester (MT), Jacky Rosen (NV), and Sherrod Brown (OH) will not be seen at the Kamalafest coronation convention next week in Chicago. The reason they will be absent is because they find themselves in tight races in their home states; a single one of them losing could swing majority control of the Senate to Republicans. The current makeup of the Senate is 51-49. However, with West Virginia’s Joe Manchin retiring — and with his likely successor being Republican Governor Jim Justice — the Democrats are staring at an uphill battle to hold onto the Senate. It’s also telling that Tester, Rosen, and Brown are effectively distancing themselves from Harris in an effort to hold onto their seats.

• Tim Walz’s other lie: In 1995 in Nebraska, 31-year-old Tim Walz was pulled over for speeding. He was clocked going 96 MPH in a 55 MPH zone and subsequently arrested for drunk driving. However, a little over a decade later when he ran for Congress, Walz’s campaign claimed that he was not drunk but rather had failed the field sobriety test because of an alleged hearing loss he suffered while serving in the National Guard. Walz’s campaign manager at the time, Meredith Salsbery, claimed Walz “couldn’t understand what the trooper was telling him during the field sobriety test, and the trooper refused to speak up.” It wasn’t until his run for governor in 2018 that Walz finally admitted the truth, which was apparently due to court records being made available. And those records clearly show that Walz was drunk, having a blood-alcohol level of 0.128, well above the legal limit. Whether it’s about his military service record or his DUI arrest, Walz is clearly willing to deceive voters if it helps him get elected.

• “Evangelicals for Harris” invokes Billy Graham: One of Donald Trump’s most loyal constituencies are the evangelicals, and Democrats know it. Which is why the hard-left “Evangelicals for Harris” group has trotted out a new ad with a brief clip of the late Reverend Billy Graham preaching about sinning and repentance, followed by a nine-year-old video of Trump being asked at the Family Values Summit in Ames, Iowa, whether he’s ever asked God for forgiveness. Trump called it “a tough question” and said, “I don’t bring God into that picture.” Were Trump asked the same question today, especially in light of his recent near-death experience, we suspect his answer would be markedly different. Nevertheless, the ad decries Trump’s response, saying. “Is there any greater denial of Christ than to say, ‘I don’t need his forgiveness’?” In response, the legendary preacher’s son Franklin, who himself is a preacher and also the founder of Samaritan’s Purse, posted the following: “The liberals are using anything and everything they can to promote candidate Harris. They even developed a political ad trying to use my father Billy Graham’s image. They are trying to mislead people. Maybe they don’t know that my father appreciated the conservative values and policies of President Donald Trump in 2016, and if he were alive today, my father’s views and opinions would not have changed.”

• Avoiding interviews, Harris sits down with running mate to talk “tacos” (Washington Free Beacon)

• VP debate hosted by CBS News set for October 1 between Vance and Walz (CBS News) | Harris says she’ll debate Trump again in October (PM)

Culture

• Harris campaign’s nine pronoun choices: Demonstrating just how radically leftist and woke Kamala Harris is, her campaign includes in its job application several questions regarding “preferred pronouns.” Applicants are given a number of pronouns to choose from beyond “he/him,” “she/her,” and “they/them.” These “pronouns” include “Xe/xem,” “Ze/hir,” “Ey/em,” “Hir/hir,” “Fae/fair,” and “Hu/hu.” In other words, completely made up, fake words that have literally no real meaning. Other questions in the application include, “How would you contribute to building a diverse culture?" and, "Describe a time when you had to overcome adversity.” Furthermore, sexual orientation is apparently really important to the Harris campaign as well, since the application includes this question: “Do you identify as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community?” Talk about identity politics.

• ESPN fires woman of integrity: ESPN has fired Samantha Ponder, anchor of “Sunday NFL Countdown.” The Leftmedia sports outlet claimed the decision to fire Ponder was due to “financial reasons.” However, other notable figures in the sports media landscape aren’t buying the claim. Ponder was one of the few remaining ESPN personalities who stood against males competing in women’s sports. For example, last year, Ponder posted on social media, “Biology is not bigotry. Loving people does not require the absence of boundaries.” Riley Gains responded to the news by noting, “So ESPN fires [Sam Ponder], the only woman at the network who [has] publicly said men don’t belong in women’s sports. Three weeks before football season? Sam is one of the most beautiful, genuine women I’ve ever met along with [former ESPN host Sage Steele] who had a similar fate….not a coincidence.”

• Leftist nonprofits dodge Affirmative Action ban: Last year, immediately after the Supreme Court struck down the racially discriminatory practice euphemistically known as Affirmative Action, we warned that leftist colleges and universities would devise their own end runs around the ruling in order to continue their discriminatory practices without subjecting themselves to lawsuits. Not surprisingly, that corruption has since spread to the realm of nonprofits. As The Washington Free Beacon reports, “Nonprofit leaders devoted to DEI led a discussion on Tuesday about how to continue making race-based decisions while staying ‘under the radar’ and avoiding anti-discrimination lawsuits … the webinar was advertised as a discussion of ‘recent efforts to stymie diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the United States.’” One of the event’s presenters said a simple and effective example of this workaround would be to describe a grant not as “only open to black entrepreneurs” but instead as one in which “preference will be given to black entrepreneurs.” Same discrimination. Just slightly different language.

• Woke Harley-Davidson CEO compares himself to the Taliban (PJ Media)

Around the Nation

• New York’s Nassau County bans face masks: It’s an idea whose time has long since come but whose implementation has nonetheless been nonexistent. Until just now. New York’s Nassau County has banned face masks in public. The county, which includes part of Long Island, thus becomes the first in the nation to officially ban the pandemic-era masks, which have been used by thugs, criminals, and lawless protesters to hide their identity. As Just the News reports, “Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed the bill into law during a news conference, which includes exemptions for health and religious reasons. The ban will affect part of the New York City suburb of Long Island, and goes into effect immediately.” At a news conference, Blakeman added that such a law could be put to good use elsewhere: “Mayor Eric Adams has been very vocal that he’d like the New York City council to pass a similar legislation. This is not an abridgment of anybody’s rights. Nobody has a constitutional right to hide their identity in public.”

• New study ranks Washington, DC, as the least desirable to live in for a second year running (Fox News)

• A record 8.5% of U.S. homes are worth $1 million or more (Business Wire)

• Court rules that a fetus can be referred to as “unborn human being” in Arizona’s voter pamphlet (Townhall)

Immigration

• Biden-Harris released illegal alien mass murderer into U.S.: Back in 2019, when Kamala Harris announced her first woefully uninspiring campaign for the presidency, she called Donald Trump’s proposal to build a border wall a “medieval vanity project” and scoffed at the need to protect our border from terrorists and other dangerous invaders. Needless to say, those characterizations haven’t aged well. More evidence of this comes courtesy of the AP, which reports: “A reputed Peruvian gang leader suspected in 23 killings in his home country was arrested Wednesday in New York by U.S. immigration authorities. Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, the leader of ‘Los Killers’ who is wanted for the killings in Peru, was arrested in Endicott, New York, about 145 miles (233 kilometers) northwest of New York City, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday. He is being held at a federal detention facility near Buffalo pending an immigration hearing.” In an understatement, House Speaker Mike Johnson said the open-borders malfeasance of the Biden-Harris regime “should alarm every American.”

• Republicans call for enhanced northern border security as Gazans flock to Canada (Just the News)

Misc.

• Secret Service investigating report agent left post to breastfeed during Trump campaign event (Fox News) | Secret Service OKs new outdoor security plan for Trump rallies with bulletproof glass (NY Post)

• New round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations begin without Hamas (The Guardian)

• Ukrainian troops have taken full control of the Russian town of Sudzha (AP)

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