WHY DEMS ARE STRUGGLING WITH MINORITY MALE VOTERS
WHY DEMS ARE STRUGGLING WITH MINORITY MALE VOTERS
The big headline is that the California recall failed. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom gets to keep his job. He handily fought off the Republican challenge.
But there is a worrisome detail in the data, one that keeps showing up, one that Democrats would do well to deal with: Black and Latino men are not hewing as close to the party line as Black and Latina women.
There are, of course, issues with exit polls, and results often change as more votes are counted. But that said, the California exit polls do seem to reflect what polls have shown for some time now.
In CNN’s exit poll, nearly half of the Hispanic men surveyed and nearly a quarter of the Black men voted to support the recall. The largest difference between men and women of any racial group was between Black men and Black women.
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CRUZ BIDEN ADMIN HIDING HORRIFIC BORDER SCENE
CRUZ BIDEN ADMIN HIDING HORRIFIC BORDER SCENE
CRUZ BIDEN ADMIN HIDING HORRIFIC BORDER SCENE
CRUZ BIDEN ADMIN HIDING HORRIFIC BORDER SCENE
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Joe Biden Has ‘Great Confidence’ In Top General Milley After Trump Revelation
Joe Biden Has ‘Great Confidence’ In Top General Milley After Trump Revelation
Joe Biden threw his weight behind the top US military officer on Wednesday, saying he had “great confidence” in the general who, according to a new book, took steps to prevent the outgoing Republican president Donald Trump from “going rogue” and launching a nuclear war or an attack on China.
Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, also defended phone calls he made to his Chinese military counterpart in the tumultuous final months of Trump’s presidency, signaling that the hitherto secret conversations were in keeping with his duties.
“I have great confidence in General Milley,” Biden said at the White House, when asked if the military leader had done the right thing by intervening.
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Pompeo Reacts To Bombshell Allegations That Milley Tried To Undermine Trump
Pompeo Reacts To Bombshell Allegations That Milley Tried To Undermine Trump
Pompeo on Milley allegations: We need to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave his take on the accusations against General Milley on ‘Hannity,’ saying that if the conversation between Milley and his Chinese counterpart did take place, China would "use that to their advantage."
MIKE POMPEO: We should make sure that we, as quickly as we can, find out if Gen. Milley spoke to Woodward himself. We should find out if Gen. Milley is prepared to testify, we can do it tomorrow or the next day to get clarity about what Gen. Milley said. I don't know the DOD's policy on whether there would be a transcript of this phone call, but I promise you there were note-takers in the room. I am very confident that conversation could be reconstructed.
If you had a senior military leader who was simply an advisor tell the Chinese Communist Party that they would get notice of an attack, this rivals anything we've seen in our nation's history. Only the President of the United States has the capacity to make those decisions, and I'd be shocked if the then-acting Secretary of Defense gave him any authority to even contemplate that very conversation.
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Trump tears into Joint Chiefs Chairman and says the only reason Biden won't fire him is because ....
'Milley is a complete nutjob': Trump tears into Joint Chiefs Chairman and says the only reason Biden won't fire him is because he knows his 'dirty secrets' about Afghanistan withdrawal
Former President Donald Trump tore into Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and President Joe Biden on Wednesday night after the commander-in-chief staunchly defended the embattled general from accusations he broke the chain of command with his calls to Chinese officials and should face consequences.
He accused Biden of covering for Milley because of 'dirty secrets' the general may know about Biden's chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal.
'Milley never told me about calls being made to China. From what I understand, he didn’t tell too many other people either,' the statement began.
On Wednesday Milley admitted to making two calls to his Chinese counterpart, both before the election and in January, after claims he went behind Trump's back for fear of rogue action the then-president may take.
Trump called him 'a complete nutjob.'
'He put our Country in a very dangerous position but President Xi knows better, and would’ve called me,' Trump continued.
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BIDEN USES CRISES TO DISTRACT FROM HIS FAILURES TRUMP COMEBACK
BIDEN USES CRISES TO DISTRACT FROM HIS FAILURES TRUMP COMEBACK
Steve Hilton: President Biden is nothing but a corrupt, machine politician with no principles
‘The Next Revolution’ host slams the ‘cruel, weak, incompetent’ administration for using crises to distract from their failures.
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BIDEN ADMIN TO ANSWER FOR AFGHANISTAN MISSTEPS .....TRUMP COMEBACK 2024
BIDEN ADMIN TO ANSWER FOR AFGHANISTAN MISSTEPS .....TRUMP COMEBACK 2024
Top US commanders in Afghanistan wrestle with mistakes and regrets as America's longest war ends
US commanders who led the war in Afghanistan are wrestling with the country's collapse to the Taliban, with some ruing the "pretty horrible mistakes" the US military made along the way and one of them flatly declaring America's longest war was not worth the price.
"The 20-year war in Afghanistan was -- for the results that we have achieved -- not worth the cost," Karl Eikenberry, both a commander in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007 and ambassador to the country from 2009 to 2011, tells CNN's Jake Tapper in a two-hour documentary that airs Sunday.
In "America's Longest War: What Went Wrong in Afghanistan," Tapper conducts in-depth interviews with eight US commanders who led the war effort over two decades and four administrations, and who speak with new candor about decisions made by their commanders-in-chief that they believe undermined the war effort and might have prevented its success.
In the interviews with the former military leaders and others, Tapper examines the mission and the missteps, how political decisions hurt the ability of service members to succeed, whether the Pentagon misrepresented the Afghan military's abilities to the public, and how after 20 years of sacrifice, the US withdrawal resulted in the return to power by the Taliban in August.
After nearly two decades and more than $2 trillion in US taxpayer funds, after the deaths of more than 6,000 Americans and 100,000 Afghans, the bipartisan debacle that was the war in Afghanistan ended much like it began, leaving Americans -- especially those directly involved in the conflict -- struggling to understand how it all fell apart.
No longer in uniform, Gens. Stanley McChrystal, David Petraeus, Joseph Dunford, John Allen, David McKiernan, Dan McNeill, and Lt. Gens. Eikenberry and David Barno, speak frankly.
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BIDEN'S WAR ......TRUMP COMEBACK 2024
What is there to say about the disastrous pullout from Kabul? The Taliban will stop at nothing. There is no respect for human life — not only of our soldiers but also of their fellow citizens.
Thursday’s suicide bombing, killing 13 American troops and scores of Afghans, only makes that clear.
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Donald Trump Delivers Remarks on 9/11 Anniversary
Donald Trump Delivers Remarks on 9/11 Anniversary
Former President Donald Trump made a visit to a New York City firehouse Saturday afternoon to meet with first responders in the city. During his meeting, he expressed support for the NYPD.
"We love the blue," Trump said while speaking with members of the New York Police Department and Fire Department. "I'll say it loud. You know you're not supposed to say that. We love the blue!"
"The support I've been given by fire and police has been incredible," he added.
Trump also Saturday hinted at a 2024 presidential run.
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TRUMP SAW WHAT A BIDEN PRESIDENCY WOULD MEAN
TRUMP SAW WHAT A BIDEN PRESIDENCY WOULD MEAN
TRUMP SAW WHAT A BIDEN PRESIDENCY WOULD MEAN
TRUMP SAW WHAT A BIDEN PRESIDENCY WOULD MEAN
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Today Marks 20 Years Since September 11th Attacks
Today Marks 20 Years Since September 11th Attacks
Commemorations have been taking place in the US today, as the country marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the series of attacks exactly 20 years ago today.
US President Joe Biden was joined by his predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York for the first of a series of ceremonies.
The ceremony at ground zero was started by a choir singing the American national anthem, followed by a minute's silence.
The relatives of the victims are reading out the names of every person who lost their lives, while bells tolled at the exact moment the planes hit the Twin Towers.
Other events are due to take place in Washington and Pennsylvania later today
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We All Remember The Scenes Out Of Kabul
We All Remember The Scenes Out Of Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan — Ten days after the chaotic evacuation of Afghanistan came to an end, a lone jetliner lifted off from Kabul’s airport on Thursday, the first international passenger flight since American forces ended their 20-year presence in the country.
The departure of the chartered Qatar Airways Boeing 777, with scores of Americans, Canadians and Britons on board, was hailed by some as a sign that Taliban-ruled Afghanistan might be poised to re-engage with the world, even as reports emerged that the group was intensifying its crackdown on dissent.
“Kabul Airport is now operational,” Mutlaq bin Majed Al-Qahtani, a special envoy from Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a news conference on the tarmac.
In recent days, Qatari and Turkish personnel worked with the Taliban to repair damage and make the airport basically functional again. But just more than a week ago, the facility was a scene of frantic desperation as people jockeyed to find seats on the last commercial and military planes out.
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Now President, Biden To Mark 9/11 Rite Amid New Terror Fear
Now President, Biden To Mark 911 Rite Amid New Terror Fear
He will again make the ritual journey to sacred American landmarks of loss. He will once more bow his head in silent prayer. He will repeat words of comfort for those whose lives changed forever on that brilliant September day two decades ago.
But this time, Joe Biden will hold the rank of commander in chief as he marks the anniversary of the nation’s worst terror attack. Now, he shoulders the responsibility borne by previous presidents to prevent future tragedy, and must do so against fresh fears of a rise in terror after the United States’ exit from the country from which the Sept. 11 attacks were launched.
This 9/11 comes little more than two weeks after a suicide bomber in Kabul killed 13 U.S. service members as the military concluded its withdrawal from Afghanistan. And as Afghanistan returns to Taliban rule, there are fresh concerns that the country could again be a launching pad for attacks that Biden’s government will be charged with preventing.
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Biden Admin Has No Established Plan After 08/31 Deadline
Biden Admin Has No Established Plan After 08/31 Deadline
Biden Admin Has No Established Plan After 08/31 Deadline
Biden Admin Has No Established Plan After 08/31 Deadline
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House Republicans Privately Beg Trump to Help Them Impeach Biden
House Republicans Privately Beg Trump to Help Them Impeach Biden
Republicans increasingly show willingness to call for President Joe Biden’s impeachment, there’s one GOP voice that’s notably absent: Donald Trump.
At least, he’s been absent publicly.
When he hasn’t been advocating for the re-invasion of Afghanistan or fundraising off Biden’s troop withdrawal, the ex-president has been fielding phone calls from members of Congress who are trying to gin up support in the U.S. House to remove his successor. In recent weeks, Trump has talked to multiple GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill to discuss their progress—or lack thereof—on moving to impeach Biden over the tumultuous, violent withdrawal from the Afghanistan War, according to two Republican sources with knowledge of the situation.
At this time, Republicans of course have nowhere near the numbers in the House to actually impeach Biden, despite the bluster and the messaging push.
One of the sources said most of the conversations have been initiated by lawmakers themselves, as they try to recruit Trump to publicly support various legislative attempts to embarrass Biden, either by impeachment of him or members of his administration—or by invoking the 25th Amendment.
And yet, Trump has been somewhat resistant to attach his name to these efforts.
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state dept accused of blocking AFGHAN evact flights
state dept accused of blocking AFGHAN evact flights
Americans engaged in the rescue of U.S. citizens, SIVs and green card holders left behind by President Biden in Afghanistan are horrified by what they describe as inexplicable delays from the State Department that are preventing evacuation flights from leaving the country.
The State Department's delays are recklessly endangering American lives, three different individuals involved in the private evacuation effort told Fox News.
Rick Clay, who runs the private rescue group PlanB, told Fox News that the State Department is the only thing preventing the flights he's organizing from leaving Afghanistan.
Two other American individuals separately involved in evacuation efforts, whom Fox News is not naming to avoid jeopardizing ongoing rescue efforts, similarly said that the State Department is the sole entity preventing their charter flights from leaving Afghanistan.
"This is zero place to be negotiating with American lives. Those are our people standing on the tarmac and all it takes is a f---ing phone call," one of those individuals, who has been integral to private evacuation efforts from Afghanistan,
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West Verginia Attorney General Suing The Biden Admin To Stop Fentanyl Trafficking
West Verginia Attorney General Suing The Biden Admin To Stop Fentanyl Trafficking
West Verginia Attorney General Suing The Biden Admin To Stop Fentanyl Trafficking
West Verginia Attorney General Suing The Biden Admin To Stop Fentanyl Trafficking
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Taliban Claims Victory In Last Afghan Province
Taliban Claims Victory In Last Afghan Province
The Taliban has claimed victory over opposition forces in the last holdout province of Panjshir, completing their takeover of Afghanistan three weeks after capturing Kabul.
“With this victory, our country is completely taken out of the quagmire of war,” chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Monday.
The anti-Taliban National Resistance Front (NRF), pledged to carry on fighting in Panjshir Valley, saying it is present in “strategic positions” and that “the struggle against the Taliban… will continue”.
The whereabouts of resistance leader Ahmed Massoud and Amrullah Saleh, the former vice president who had joined the resistance after the fall of Kabul, were not immediately known.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has flown to Qatar to discuss the chaotic aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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U.S. Citizen In Afghan Says Taliban Going Door-to-door Hunting American
U.S. Citizen In Afghan Says Taliban Going Door-to-door Hunting American
A pregnant California native still trapped in Afghanistan says the Taliban are going door to door hunting for Americans.
Nasria, 25, who requested only her first name be used out of fear for her safety, is one of the roughly 100 Americans believed to still be stuck in the country, and trying to find a way out.
She had flown there in June to visit family, and get married to her longtime boyfriend, who is an Afghan national.
'There's been days where I think to myself, "am I going to make it home? am I going to end up living here? Am I going to end up dying here?" What's going to happen?' she told Voice of America.
Now, with American presence in the country gone, she says, 'Apparently they're [the Taliban] going door-to-door now. Trying to see if anyone has a blue passport.'
Her tale came as Texas Rep. Mike McCaul said on Sunday that he believes the Taliban are continuing to block Americans from leaving the country, and have stopped passengers aboard six planes at Mazar-iSharif International Airport while making demands of the US.
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Biden Call Afghan Exit An "Extraordinary Success"
Biden Call Afghan Exit An Extraordinary Success
President Joe Biden defended his withdrawal from Afghanistan in a speech Tuesday, one day after the final U.S. troops left the Taliban-run country following two decades of war, insisting the departure was timed appropriately and calling the frenzied, dangerous and often chaotic effort to evacuate Americans and Afghans from the country an “extraordinary success.”
The last U.S. military jet departed Kabul’s airport late Monday, ending the longest war in American history with the Taliban — which the United States pushed out of power in 2001 and spent 20 years attempting to vanquish — back in control of Afghanistan. The United States spent its final weeks occupying Kabul’s airport and flying out thousands of American citizens, Afghans who worked for the U.S. military and others at risk of Taliban retaliation. The evacuation was interrupted after scores of Afghans flooded onto the airfield and attempted to board departing planes two weeks ago, and last week’s suicide bombing reportedly killed more than 100 civilians and 13 U.S. troops working to secure the airport. Biden has faced intense criticism for his handling of the withdrawal, but he’s argued the only alternative to leaving Afghanistan this year was prolonging — and possibly escalating — a war he views as obsolete, unwinnable and disconnected from the United States’ strategic interests. “I was not going to extend this forever war, and I was not extending the forever exit,” Biden said Tuesday.
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'A Decision Was Made ' Biden Faces the Fallout for His Chaotic Retreat in Afghanistan
'A Decision Was Made ' Biden Faces the Fallout for His Chaotic Retreat in Afghanistan
It was the first time Joe Biden had witnessed dead Americans returning home from a foreign battlefield as President and Commander in Chief. The bodies of 11 Marines, a Navy medic and an Army staff sergeant arrived on U.S. soil on Sunday, Aug. 29, all killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport on Aug. 26 amid America’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan after 20 years of war. For 35 minutes, as the flag-draped cases were carried down the ramp of an Air Force C-17 cargo plane at Dover Air Force Base, in silence except for the hum of aircraft engines and muted troop commands, Biden stood in front of the cold reality of his decisions.
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"MY BODY, MY CHOICE" IN THE AGE OF MANDATES
"MY BODY, MY CHOICE" IN THE AGE OF MANDATES
Employees of Wyoming County Community Health System, along with participants from other locations and retired nurses, spoke out over the weekend against the mandatory COVID-19 vaccines the state has mandated for healthcare workers and volunteers statewide.
On Monday, the hospital’s chief executive officer said WCCHS has been corresponding internally with its staff and providing updated information.
Among the WCCHS workers lined up along North Main Street, across from the hospital Saturday, were Tina Burton and Lida Sperry.
Burton, a licensed practical nurse, said the rally was not a rally against the hospital.
“The hospital’s hands are tied. They can only do what the state says they have to do,” said Burton. “This is against the mandate. This is my body, my choice.”
Sperry, a certified nursing assistant, said this is a deeper issue than what the rally participants were there for Saturday.
“It’s the basic principle, that they’re trying to take away our basic constitutional freedoms. If that doesn’t outrage the public, no matter what side you’re on, there’s something wrong,” she said.
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American Abandoned, Taliban Terrorists
American Abandoned, Taliban Terrorists
‘We have failed that no-fail mission,’ administration official says as evacuation ends; Afghans left behind also feel betrayed by US and allies
Despite US President Joe Biden calling the American evacuation from Kabul an “extraordinary success,” officials in his administration were appalled that US forces left with several hundred Americans still in Afghanistan, now under Taliban rule.
“I am absolutely appalled and literally horrified we left Americans there,” one administration official told the Politico news site.
Biden on Tuesday appeared to say that those who remained did so out of their own free will and could leave in the future.
“The bottom line: 90 percent of Americans in Afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave. For those remaining Americans, there is no deadline. We remain committed to get them out, if they want to come out,” Biden said.
He contended 100 to 200 Americans are still there and have “some intention to leave,” adding: “Most of those who remain are dual citizens, longtime residents, but earlier decided to stay because of their family roots in Afghanistan.”
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Longest War’s Cost Thousands Of Lives, Trillions Of Dollars
Longest War’s Cost Thousands Of Lives, Trillions Of Dollars
U.S. military planes have carried the last U.S. service members and diplomats from Kabul’s airport, ending America’s longest war. Ordinary Americans closely watched the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, as they did the start of the war nearly 20 years ago, in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks. But Americans often tended to forget about the Afghanistan war in between, and it received measurably less oversight from Congress than the Vietnam War did. But its death toll for Afghans and Americans and their NATO allies is in the many tens of thousands. And because the U.S. borrowed most of the money to pay for it, generations of Americans to come will be paying off its cost, in the trillions of dollars.
A look at the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, by the numbers, as the last Americans deployed there departed.
Much of the data below is from Linda Bilmes of Harvard University’s Kennedy School and from the Brown University Costs of War project. Because the United States between 2003 and 2011 fought the Afghanistan and Iraq wars simultaneously, and many American troops served tours in both wars, some figures as noted cover both post-9/11 U.S. wars.
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Biden Admin's Complete Incompetence
Biden Admin's Complete Incompetence
THE family of a Marine killed in the Kabul blast are "disgusted" at the "incompetent" Biden administration and said no US troops needed to die.
Rylee McCollum, 20, one of the marines who was killed in the ISIS-K attack on Thursday, was a newlywed whose wife will give birth to their first child in just weeks.
His sister, Roice McCollum, told The Sun exclusively that her family believes the entire tragedy, which took the lives of 13 US service members, was avoidable.
"As far as Biden goes we are truly disgusted with the administration and how they handled the entire thing," she said.
"It was avoidable and none of those Marines needed to be put in that situation. It was incompetent."
She went on to describe her hero brother as an "amazing man" who always wanted to join the military.
"He wanted to be a marine his whole life and carried around his rifle in his diapers and cowboy boots," she said.
"He was determined to be in the infantry and this was his first deployment."
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