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George Beebe, Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, says ending the Ukraine-Russia war is in the best interests of both nations, as well as the United States. “The only way we’re going to do that is if we reach some sort of settlement with the Russians, some kind of compromise that preserves the viability of Ukraine. I still believe that’s possible, but we have to be talking to the Russians for that to happen,” he says.

American Principles Project Director of Policy Jon Schweppe says former President Donald Trump should make social justice issues, like DEI policies and gender care, a main attack point against Vice President Kamala Harris. Schweppe says Trump is polling better in swing states compared to the 2016 and 2020 elections.

Article III Project Founder and President Mike Davis says former President Donald Trump learned from his first administration the importance of staffing White House personnel. “He’s not going to make that mistake again. He’s going to put great people in these key jobs, like the Attorney General, like the White House counsel. And they’re going to come in there with a plan on day one to clean house,” he says.

Article III Project Founder and President Mike Davis calls out the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party’s cries to defend democracy. “Nothing screams democracy like trying to rig these swing state elections by keeping RFK Jr. on the ballot when he’s dropped off and endorsed Trump,” he says. “It sounds like the people who pretend like they’re protecting democracy are the ones destroying it.”

Article III Project Founder and President Mike Davis says New York Judge Juan Merchan pushed back President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case until November 26 because “he’s feeling the political heat.” “He knows that the American people are on to this Biden and Kamala Democrat lawfare and election interference,” he says. “And I think he understands the American people would not accept a local judge and a local courtroom trying to throw the former president and likely future President of the United States in prison before the presidential election.”

Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan says the Biden-Harris administration’s facilitation of illegal immigration has led to the rise of MS-13 in Aurora, Colorado. “When you receive illegal aliens from 180 different countries to the tone of about ten and a half million in the last three and a half years, we do not have the ability to vet them,” he says.

Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan says he doesn’t think Vice President Kamala Harris has flip-flopped on immigration policy, she’s “just saying anything she can to get elected.” “She believes that we should decriminalize illegal immigration. She’s been for sanctuary cities. She’s voted against the wall. She’s been for abolishing ICE, referred to them as the ‘KKK.’ She believes in giving free education and free healthcare to every single illegal alien. We could go on and on,” he says.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance told a rally in Phoenix, Arizona that Vice President Kamala Harris is “joyful” because she “got promoted to the presidential nomination without earning a single vote.” “I’d like a president, or a vice president, who’s joyful because they did a good job for the American people. And that is Donald Trump,” he says.

Speaking at a campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said the Trump 2024 ticket is uniting Americans with common sense policies. “We’re going to close down that border. We’re going to bring down the cost of housing and groceries for American citizens. We’re going to try to persuade our fellow Americans instead of censoring them and we’re going to fire that crazy person Kamala Harris,” he said.

Speaking at a campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said former President Donald Trump will finish building the southern border wall. Vance said Trump’s administration will also stop giving Medicare benefits to illegal immigrants.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, says the pathology of the red-green alliance between radical leftists and Muslims is rooted in a self-hatred of the West. “It makes no sense unless we understand that sometimes those who claim to be acting in the name of virtue are sometimes actually acting out aggression, even antisemitism, other pathologies, in the cloak of virtue,” he says.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, says the United Nations has failed to deliver on its founding promise to uphold international peace and establish human rights for all. Neuer says there aren’t enough members, particularly European countries, willing to replace the alliance.

Minnesota State Representative Jim Nash (R) says Americans deserve to know which version of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is running for office. “There’s sort of the story of two Tim Walzes. The quirky, genial, downhome Southern Minnesota guy that can talk about the wiring harness of a headlight on a Ford Probe. Or there’s also the guy who has sort of governed over some of the largest waste, fraud, and abuse cases in Minnesota’s history, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money and local Minnesotans money,” he says.

National Taxpayers Union Executive Vice President Brandon Arnold says former President Donald Trump’s economic platform is far superior to Vice President Kamala Harris’. “Low taxes, low regulation—we're getting a lot more of that from the Trump campaign than we are from Kamala, certainly even as she has tacked toward the center a little bit just in the past few hours,” he says.

Former Colorado State Senator Ted Harvey says House Democrats gun legislation will take away Colorado citizens’ right to defend themselves. Harvey predicts neighboring states like Kansas and Wyoming will see a boost in firearm sales when these bills are passed.

Former Colorado State Senator Ted Harvey says Democratic Governor Jared Polis and Colorado Democrats want to take away citizens right to defend themselves while armed immigrant gangs are allowed to take over apartment complexes. “The police realize that they can’t arrest these people. Colorado is a sanctuary state, Denver is a sanctuary city and if they try to arrest them or try to give them over to ICE...They’re going to get fired or they’re going to get disciplined for turning them over,” he says.

Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson says anti-Israel campus groups have succeeded at making Palestine the “Omnicause.” “There is a mania that has captured a significant portion, not the majority, but a significant portion of the student body and its being egged on by the faculty,” he says.

Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson says the October 7 anti-Israel student protests should not be shut down but instead used as an example of “how vile the opposition is." “I don’t know that the answer, assuming it's not going to be violent, is to ban them. I think the answer is to point out to everybody what terrible human beings they are and what horrible people they are,” he says.

Actor Nick Searcy says the movie industry has turned “woke” because it’s no longer beholden to box office numbers. “Everything's done in partnership with a streaming service. So that’s why all the films that you find on Netflix and Amazon are mostly a bunch of woke garbage because they don’t care what the audience thinks about it,” he says. “The way they get their next movie done is by proving what a good, woke soldier they are and so they keep turning out this garbage that you don’t want to see because it doesn’t hurt them and [in the] end they get their next movie made.”

Actor Nick Searcy says the Ronald Reagan biopic highlights the close parallels between Reagan and former President Donald Trump. “That’s what struck me the first time I saw the film is just how many parallels there are to what’s going on today. I mean, Reagan’s fight against communism. Reagan identifying what was really the biggest danger to America at that time. It’s the same danger that we’re facing today,” he says.

Carl Szabo, vice president and general counsel for NetChoice, calls to put international pressure on Brazil over the government's war on free speech. “Brazil is supposed to be upholding democratic values, free speech, all those things that we hold dear to our hearts here in the United States of America,” he says. “Unfortunately, it seems to be the policy of the Biden-Harris administration to give every foreign country that violates democratic norms or free speech protections a pass.”

Carl Szabo, vice president and general counsel for NetChoice, says Brazil has threatened to fine its citizens nearly $9,000 a day if they attempt to use social media platform X. “What’s frightening is what happens in Brazil doesn’t stay in Brazil. It spreads. And we are seeing this epidemic of free speech cancelation go global,” he warns. “France is trying to ban Telegram. England is trying to ban X. Russia is banning Facebook and even here in the United States of America, we are seeing calls to ban speech online—whether it is from politicians or even from the White House itself.”

Todd McMurtry, attorney and author of “Dismissed: How Media Agendas and Judicial Bias Conspire to Undermine Justice,” explains how former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s defamation case against The New York Times demonstrates the need for judges to respect juries' ability to make independent decisions. “Judges come into cases and they have a particular perspective. It could be that they’re progressive, it could be that they’re liberal, it could be that they’re conservative. And the jury is the best way to allow a good, clean decision to be made because most often a jury’s going to be made up of 12 people from diverse backgrounds who won’t necessarily have a political bias,” he explains.

Michael Chamberlin, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, exposes Democrats’ hiring strategy to “Trump-proof” the federal government and Justice Department. “Normally to be hired into a career civil service job, it takes a listing in USAjobs.gov and they’ll have several candidates and they’ll go through a competitive process to choose these. But the DOJ is using a process outside of that, the non-competitive process, to hire hundreds of attorneys into areas that are going to be vital to protecting the Biden-Harris administration’s policies from a Trump administration or another future administration,” he explains.

Former Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates suggests slashing federal and state funding to universities in order to stop the antisemitic protests. “They’re not going to do it out of the goodness of their hearts or because they become educated on the issue. They’re only going to do it if they see their livelihood held at risk,” she says.