Politics

• Democrats regret their coup: With election polls showing a toss-up victory for Kamala Harris at best or a landslide win for Donald Trump at worst, panicking Democrats have begun to question whether the ouster of Joe Biden was the wrong move. The Leftmedia fanfare and “good vibes” when Harris first took over are gone, as she has failed to deliver despite a mountain of positive press singing her praises while simultaneously vilifying Trump as a “threat to democracy.” Hence, there seems to be growing remorse and a belief that Biden, despite his clearly diminished state, is the better politician with broader support. Indeed, Bob Woodward delves into Biden’s record as president in his new book, War, wherein he argues that Joe’s diminishment was physical and not mental. Meanwhile, despite no concerns regarding her age or physical ability, Harris clearly lacks the political dexterity to get her message across in an easily understandable and winsome manner. The more Americans have gotten to know her, the more she has turned them off.

• Harris claims she was “honest with the American people” about Biden’s mental acuity (Fox News)

• James Carville calls for insurrection: You can feel the panic among leftists as they feel a presidential election slipping away. And desperate times call for desperate and unhinged rhetoric — including talk of insurrection. Take former Clinton strategist James Carville, for example. In a recent chat with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Corporal Cueball reflected on the political environment just prior to the two bloodiest conflicts in the history of the Republic: the Civil War and World War II. “When the Republic was threatened,” said Carville, “people picked up arms and answered the call. Or, you know, in 1965, in the middle of the Civil Rights movement, I think people decided they were gonna take matters into their own hands and create a better country, and that’s what I hope we do here in the next few weeks.” So, where’s the outrage? Where are the denunciations from Carville’s fellow Democrats about this dangerous rhetoric, this call to arms, this naked threat to “the peaceful transfer of power” that they’re constantly chirping about?

• Obama mystified by division: “I don’t understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter,” Barack Obama marveled at a campaign rally for Kamala Harris in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Well, Obama might find the answer to that question by taking a hard look in the mirror. After all, there’s a reason why he was dubbed the “divider-in-chief.” To borrow a phrase from his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, Barack’s “chickens are coming home to roost.” In 2008, Obama smeared Republican voters as “bitter” for how they “cling to guns or religion.” In 2014, he called racism “something that’s deeply rooted in our society, deeply rooted in our history.” He infamously and repeatedly lectured and scolded Americans who didn’t share his political views as “backward” and “on the wrong side of history.” And he now bullies black men into voting for Harris. While Obama claimed to want to unite America, his clear expectation was for everyone to get in line with his political vision. No wonder we’re more divided than before he came onto the scene.

• Harris’s history of plagiarizing: The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media have largely given Kamala Harris a pass for her plagiarism of at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book. Now we know that her penchant for plagiarism goes way back. Seventeen years ago, when Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco, she was on Capitol Hill to testify on behalf of a piece of legislation that would’ve helped state and local prosecutors repay their student loans. But in doing so, she stole the words of another DA. The Washington Free Beacon reports, “Virtually her entire testimony about the bill was taken from that of another district attorney, Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, who had testified in support of the legislation two months earlier before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both statements cite the same surveys, use the same language, and make the same points in the same order, with a paragraph added here or there. They even contain the same typos, such as missing punctuation or mistaken plurals.” We can understand why Harris would resort to plagiarism, given how much difficulty she has in forming coherent thoughts of her own.

• Joe Rogan will soon experience Donald Trump: The political media winds are shifting away from the Big Three networks and toward other media outlets, and Donald Trump gets it. Much like Ronald Reagan talked over the top of the networks and directly to the American people, Trump is taking his message to audiences that might not otherwise hear it. On Friday, for example, Trump will head to Austin, Texas, to do an interview with Joe Rogan, whose podcast boasts 14 million followers on Spotify. Rogan has been critical of Trump in the past, even blurting out the leftist idiocy that he is “an existential threat to democracy.” But, as Politico notes, “Rogan has more recently been complimentary of Trump, saying last month that the economy under Trump ‘did really well and he really did try to cut some of the [crap] down that’s going on in this country.’”

• LA Times owner blocks Harris endorsement: The Los Angeles Times published its typical state of the presidential election race last week but with a significant difference. Back in 2008, the LA Times resurrected the practice of endorsing a presidential candidate when it endorsed Barack Obama. Ever since, the paper has faithfully supported the Democrat candidate. The editorial board was on its way to doing that again, even writing that it’s “no exaggeration to say this may be the most consequential election in a generation,” yet no endorsement was given. Why the sudden change? According to individuals familiar with the situation, LA Times Executive Editor Terry Tang told the editorial board that the paper would not be making an endorsement this election cycle because the paper’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, decided there was not to be one. This is not a new move for Soon-Shiong, who purchased the paper in 2018. During the 2020 Democrat primary, he nixed the board’s plan to endorse Elizabeth Warren.

• Trump now leads Harris by 11 points among Hispanics: A recent USA Today/Suffolk poll showed a tight race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, but it’s hard to see how they have it so tight, given Harris’s continued hemorrhage of core Democrat constituencies. For example, buried beneath the top-line news from that poll is a stunning stat about the voting preference of the nation’s largest minority: “The new poll showed Latino voters backing Trump with 49% to Harris’ 38%.” What this shows is that Trump continues to expand the Republican tent. As Fox News reports, he continued to make his case to Hispanics during a roundtable with Latino leaders in Miami yesterday. So much for the Democrats’ cynical belief that a browner America is a more “Democratic” America.

Security

• A group of 2,000 migrants in southern Mexico depart for the U.S. weeks before election (NY Post)

• Family wants federal investigation after Marine veteran murdered in Mexico (Washington Examiner)

• Iranian general charged in alleged plot to kill New York-based journalist (ABC News)

• Israel says it killed a Hezbollah official expected to become the group’s next leader (AP)

Culture

• Female pro golfers object to trans inclusion: The Ladies Professional Golf Association is facing backlash from women golfers for allowing “transgender”-identifying male Haily Davidson to compete for a spot on the LPGA Tour. More than 275 pro women golfers signed a letter to the LPGA from the Independent Women’s Forum calling on the LPGA to reinstate its previous policy of only allowing women born “female at birth” to be allowed in the league. The letter notes that the “LPGA policy does not explicitly state eligibility based on sex. It is essential for the integrity and fairness of women’s golf to have a clear and consistent participation policy in place based on a player’s immutable sex.” Back in 2010, in response to a lawsuit, the LPGA removed its female-at-birth restriction and recently promised to provide an updated gender policy ahead of the 2025 season. Activist Riley Gaines responded to the LPGA, writing, “It really is remarkable how little the LADIES Professional Golf Association cares about ladies.” Thankfully, more female athletes are standing up against the push to allow men into women’s sports.

Misc.

• Kamala Harris once suggested it “would be great” to ban all gun ownership (Washington Free Beacon)

• Georgia Supreme Court rejects bid to hand count ballots for November election (Just the News)

• Tulsi Gabbard announces she is officially joining the Republican Party (Just the News)

• Rudy Giuliani must give up luxury items and Manhattan apartment to Georgia election workers (Just the News

• IRS sets higher standard deduction, new tax brackets for 2025 (USA Today)

• Meta pulls the plug on accounts tracking celebrity private jets (NY Post)

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