Thursday, October 31, 2024

Pennsylvania Voter Fraud Allegations: Everything We Know

 https://www.newsweek.com/pennsylvania-voter-fraud-allegations-everything-we-know-1977920

While officials in both counties are yet to come to a conclusion over whether they received some fraudulent voter registration application forms, Trump launched several false claims earlier this week about the two counties engaging in widespread voter fraud.

Jesse Watters Says Wife Voting for Kamala Harris Is Like ‘Having an Affair’

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/jesse-watters-says-wife-voting-for-kamala-harris-is-like-having-an-affair/

“If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” he said.

“That violates the sanctity of our marriage. What else is she keeping from me? What is she lying about?” he continued. “Why would she do that and vote Harris? Why would she say she was voting… If I caught her and she said, ‘I lied to you for the last four years.’”

Trump’s Transition Chief Spews RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Lies and Says They’re ‘Fun’

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-transition-chief-howard-lutnick-spews-rfk-jrs-fun-anti-vax-lies/

Lutnick denied that Kennedy had any interest in a government position, instead claiming that all he wanted was more data on vaccines to investigate their efficacy.

“I think it’d be pretty cool to give me the data we’ll see what he comes up with,” Lutnick said. “It’s pretty fun.”

After being confronted about the dozens of leading scientific experts who have raised alarm bells about such an arrangement, Lutnick made a truly wild claim: that those scientists “were paid to say [RFK Jr.] pushes lies.”

He failed to offer any evidence to back the claim up.

Trump Team Co-Chair Questions Vaccines on CNN: 'They're Not Proven'

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-team-co-chair-questions-vaccines-cnn-theyre-not-proven-1977704 

Lutnick also claimed that both he and Collins "know so many more people" now that have autism versus when they were younger. Collins quickly asserted that "vaccines don't cause autism," pointing to Kennedy also peddling that falsehood, "which is why people are concerned that he could get a job like HHS."

The Garbage Can Can

Using the language of Hitler, Trump calls Americans 'garbage' all the time

Trump wants to compare now to four years ago. Here’s what it looks like

 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/does-trump-really-want-compare-now-four-years-ago-2024-10-30/

After adjusting for inflation the economy overall is 11.5% larger now than it was at the end of 2019, when output under Trump reached its peak. Growth rates were comparable: From the third quarter of 2023 to the third quarter of this year, inflation-adjusted output rose 2.66%; in the comparable pre-COVID quarters, comparing the third quarter of 2019 to the third quarter of 2018, the economy expanded 2.8%.

Trump sparks concern with claims of fraud in Pennsylvania

 https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4962489-trump-casts-doubt-election-results-pennsylvania/

“They’ve already started cheating in Lancaster. They’ve cheated. We caught them with 2,600 votes. No, we caught them cold,” Trump said.

Officials in Lancaster County announced last week they were reviewing roughly 2,500 voter registration forms due to potential fraud. But there were no fraudulent ballots involved and no indication that the registration forms are a sign of wider fraud, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

RFK Jr. claims Trump pledged to give him ‘control’ of HHS, USDA

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/30/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-administration-00186227

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that former President Donald Trump has promised him “control” of HHS and the Department of Agriculture, according to a video obtained by POLITICO.

Speaking at a virtual event, the former presidential candidate said “the key that President Trump has promised me is control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH, and a few others … and then also the USDA.”

Puerto Rican Artist Nicky Jam Withdraws Trump Endorsement

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/puerto-rican-artist-nicky-jam-u-turns-on-donald-trump-support/

On Wednesday, however, Jam announced he no longer supported Trump in an Instagram video.

“Never in my life did I think that a month later a comedian would come to criticize my country and speak badly about my country,” he told his 43 million followers on the app. “And therefore, I withdraw any support for Donald Trump and step aside from any political situation. Puerto Rico deserves respect.”

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

That photo of people wearing ‘Nebraska Walz’s for Trump’ shirts? They’re distant cousins

 https://apnews.com/article/walz-family-nebraska-trump-elelction-2f2e29586b0e9ebe094ff2cf546e1ae4

A sister of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz says she doesn’t recognize the people wearing “Nebraska Walz’s for Trump” T-shirts in a photo that is making the rounds on social media. It turns out they are distant cousins.

Dershowitz says he could ‘enthusiastically’ vote for Biden over Trump

 https://thehill.com/homenews/media/448480-dershowitz-says-he-could-enthusiastically-vote-for-biden-over-trump/

“I’m a strong supporter of Joe Biden. I like Joe Biden. I’ve liked him for a long time, and I could enthusiastically support Joe Biden,” Dershowitz said during a radio interview with Dan Abrams on his Sirius XM radio show.

“Over Donald Trump?” Abrams asked.

“Over Donald Trump, yeah,” Dershowitz replied. 

Will Alan Dershowitz Vote For Trump?

Trump Rage-Posts Through Night After Harris’ Massive D.C. Rally

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-rage-posted-on-truth-social-in-the-middle-of-the-night-after-massive-kamala-harris-rally/

Trump has a tendency to lash out on Truth Social when he’s upset, and although he claims nobody draws crowds like he does, the size of Harris’ rallies has been a sore spot throughout the campaign. A Harvard analysis found that Harris rallies draw, on average, twice as many attendees as Trump’s. The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department expected about 20,000 people to show up to Harris’s D.C. rally—roughly the same number that packed Madison Square Garden for Trump on Sunday. In fact, the vice president’s event ballooned to more than 52,000 people, causing overflow on the Washington Mall, before ultimately reach 75,000, a campaign official said.