'Not a fair or competitive match'

'Closer to completing the task'

Donald Trump will square off Tuesday night against Kamala Harris in Philadelphia in what could be the only debate between the two major parties’ presidential nominees. The stakes of the Harris-Trump debate couldn’t be higher. For Harris, the current vice president, it could be her best chance to put the Trump era in the rearview mirror. For Trump, the former president, it could be his only chance to personally and effectively brand the elusive Harris on key issues and point out where Harris has flip-flopped. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., seems to believe it shouldn’t be all that difficult, given Harris is President Joe Biden’s sitting vice president. “Any opportunity President Trump has to contrast secure borders, the Trump economy, and $2 gas with Kamala Harris’ disastrous record is going to help him on Election Day,” Banks told The Daily Signal. “The more voters are reminded of the Harris-Biden administration, the less they like it, which is why the vice president has only given one softball CNN interview since she announced her campaign.” Harris spent the five days leading up to the debate with Trump in rigorous preparation inside a hotel in Pittsburgh. Her campaign brought in a full stage and TV lighting to give the vice president a feel for what being on stage at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the debate venue, would be like. Harris was accompanied in her lockdown by lawyer and Democratic debate whisperer Karen Dunn, political consultant Sean Clegg, domestic policy adviser Rohini Kosoglu, Democratic National Convention chair Minyon Moore, and her campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond. The group worked around the clock, attempting to help Harris hone answers to follow ABC News’ debate guidelines. That’s not all: Harris had a sparring partner. Philippe Reines, former deputy assistant secretary of state, reportedly was in full method-actor mode while playing Trump—even to the point of dressing like the former president. Trump prepared a little differently. As he did before meeting Biden in June on the debate stage, Trump hosted policy roundtables with allies to prepare for the debate with Harris. These roundtables featured commonplace figures in the Trump campaign such as campaign co-manager Susie Wiles, senior advisor Jason Miller, and policy adviser Stephen Miller. This time around, however, Trump was joined by former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii (who made a splash in the 2020 Democratic primary by attacking Harris) and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R.-Fla., who is peppered the former president with tough questions. Last time Trump was onstage in a presidential debate he was opposite Biden, whose performance was so abysmal it triggered a chain reaction that ultimately ended with him dropping out of the race. Now Trump faces Biden’s current understudy and chosen successor. Nevertheless, Harris isn’t to be underestimated. In less than a decade, she has gone from being the attorney general of California to spitting distance of the presidency. Since entering the race July 21, Harris has enjoyed what election observers called a “honeymoon” phase—high poll numbers and enthusiasm in response to her unpopular boss’ unceremoniously exiting the race. The honeymoon, however, could be at an end. Harris surged ahead of Trump in the weeks after she took the top spot on the Democratic ticket. However, polls now have Trump and Harris in a dead heat, with some predictive models giving Trump a substantial edge in the Electoral College. Harris’s regression in the polls could be because her campaign seems to have bungled aspects of its launch. It took nearly 40 days for Harris to sit down for an interview with a major news outlet. It took nearly 50 days for her to put an “issues” page on her campaign website. Media figures on the Right and Left, much less the Trump campaign, were starting to make a stink about Harris’ evasiveness. Alternatively, Harris’s honeymoon could be at an end precisely because American voters are catching wind of her policy proposals and aren’t impressed. On the Harris campaign website’s new policy page, the Democratic nominee claims that she will be the candidate to enact “tough, smart solutions to secure the border, keep communities safe, and reform our broken immigration system.” The question, then, is why she has not done so as Biden’s vice president and appointed border czar. Nevertheless, Harris’ website adds, “as president, she will bring back the bipartisan border security bill and sign it into law.” “At the same time,” the campaign website adds, “she knows that our immigration system is broken and needs comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.” Lora Ries, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, says she isn’t buying Harris’ about-face on border security. “No one believes Kamala Harris suddenly supports a secure border or wants to keep communities safe because, as vice president (really, as the acting president, given Joe Biden’s incapacity), she could change policies today to secure the border and keep criminals off the street. But she doesn’t,” Ries told The Daily Signal. “Remember, Harris repeatedly said during her CNN joint interview that her ‘values have not changed.’ With that, she was telling her base: ‘Don’t worry, I still believe what I did and said before July 2024.’” “The failed Senate border bill,” Ries continued, “failed for a reason.” The reason being that it wouldn’t have closed the southern border to illegal aliens. Instead, “it would expand and codify the very open border tools the Biden-Harris administration has used to implement its mass migration agenda,” Ries told The Daily Signal. “The House-passed bill, HR 2, the Secure the Border Act, would, in fact, secure the border. The campaign’s final words are the buried lede–mass amnesty is Harris’ ultimate goal.” Another key issue is the economy and inflation. Although inflation has slowed from its 9.1% peak in June 2022, it remains far above the 1.9% average during the Trump years. The Harris-Walz campaign website claims that as president Harris would beat back inflation by “crack[ing] down on anti-competitive practices that let big corporations jack up prices and undermine the competition that allows all businesses to thrive while keeping prices low for consumers” and instituting “the first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries.” American Compass’ Duncan Braid told The Daily Signal that Harris’ proposed ban on price gouging is “a price control premised on gouging that isn’t happening.” “Harris is targeting one of the lowest margin, most competitive markets out there,” Braid said. “Maybe instead she could propose some controls on Washington’s out-of-control spending.” It seems like it was a catch-22 for Harris and her campaign: Either get attacked Tuesday night for not having a list of policies on her website, or list her policies and get attacked for those. The campaign seems to have opted for the latter, but the risk Harris runs by releasing these policy proposals so close to the debate is having an incomplete mastery of her proposals when she goes onstage and contradicting herself yet again. “We’re curious which Kamala Harris is going to show up to the debate,” Sen. Rick Scott, R. Fla., told The Daily Signal. “Will it be the one who was the most liberal senator, more liberal than Bernie Sanders? Will it be Comrade Kamala who supported the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and amnesty and citizenship for illegal aliens? Or will it be the Kamala who has flipped on everything she believes via quotes from anonymous staffers?” Whichever Harris shows up Tuesday night, the continuing positive media coverage likely will give Harris a tailwind. “The media is trying to help package Kamala as new and the future,” Scott said. “She is not the future, she represents one of the oldest failed ideas in human history: socialism. That’s why she’s doing what most politicians like her do … lying about it.” Scott said he believes—like Banks—that if Trump can keep it to the two candidates’ records and priors, Trump will be in the driver’s seat. “The American people know Trump; they know how great our economy was and how safe our communities were when he was president,” Scott said. “Kamala is going to focus on viral gotcha moments, Trump is going to focus on real solutions to make our country great again. The American people want nothing to do with California socialism. That’s why he’s going to win the debate and on Nov. 5.” The post Trump, Harris Prepare to Square Off in High-Stakes Debate appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, speaker of the lower chamber of the British Parliament, has shared his thoughts about the dangers of “misinformation” during an interview with BBC Radio, at the same time coming up with some fairly unusual proposals on how to counter that – even by the standards of today’s political climate of a “misinformation witch-hunt.” Opponents will easily ridicule – but also warn about – his proposals as yet another attempt to set up a real-world Ministry of Truth, but this one comes with a twist: Hoyle wants his country to enact more “anti-misinformation” laws, but the sort that would be valid outside the UK. https://video.reclaimthenet.org/articles/uk-speaker-house-misinformation-09834.mp4 So, a Global Ministries of Truth, if you will; and while (actual) misinformation can indeed prove to be dangerous, as the speaker of the Commons underlines – so surely are out of-whack proposals coming from prominent politicians. Hoyle laments that the degree of taking responsibility for what he says is misinformation and fake news has gone down lately. Referring clearly to the era before Musk takeover (he at one point comments to say, “We have a better relationship with some (other sites)”) – Twitter was a platform that Hoyle said “we” (apparently referring to himself and his team) could just contact to get content deleted. “Look, these things are up there. Can you take them down? Threats against MPs, you know, threatening to whatever,” Hoyle recounts his past communications with Twitter. And back in the “good old days” only 8% of those “threatening to whatever” posts would remain up, the rest would get taken down – while now, the speaker complained, the reverse is true. And now, for the solution: unless social media platforms go back to what, in the (roundabout) way he explains it, comes down to heavy censoring at the authorities’ request – then those authorities should enact new laws. The UK authorities, that is, with a parliamentary bill. But, Hoyle reveals, “And I believe it should be across. It doesn’t matter what country you’re in.” People – and governments – in those other countries might beg to differ, but in the meantime, Hoyle is engrossed in his own “war on misinformation” that includes advocating for monitoring what users are saying about members of the British parliament on social media. Ministry of Truth, Police State – it’s hard to tell what the key push Sir Lindsay is trying to make here might be. But it doesn’t sound like anything that should be coming out of a “true democracy.” If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post UK Speaker’s Global War on Free Speech: Lindsay Hoyle’s Bold Push for Worldwide Censorship appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Former first lady Melania Trump wants to know why law enforcement did not arrest would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks before he opened fire on former President Donald J. Trump at the July 13 campaign rally in Butler Township, Pennsylvania. “The attempt to end my husband’s life was a horrible, distressing experience,” the former first lady said in a video posted Sept. 10 on X. “Now, the silence around it feels heavy." “I cannot help but wonder, why didn’t law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech?” Mrs. Trump continued. “There is definitely more to this story, and we need to uncover the truth.” In the nearly two months since the Butler shooting, the assassination attempt has slipped from the headlines as nearly a dozen federal and state investigations churn away with sporadic public updates. The U.S. House-appointed Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump is gathering records from local and state authorities. The task force recently asked the Butler County coroner and the Allegheny County medical examiner for a copy of the autopsy done on Crooks, who was killed by a Secret Service sniper after he fired eight shots into the crowd. The task force has also asked for transcribed interviews with local law enforcement and for a slew of documents from the Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, and local officials on the security planning for the July 13 event. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs investigators have been conducting transcribed interviews with officials involved in the Butler rally. The FBI’s updated timeline says that Crooks, 20, accessed the roof of the American Glass Research complex at 6:05 p.m., then made his way south across several buildings in the complex before selecting a shooting perch. He opened fire at 6:11:32 p.m. A Pennsylvania state trooper posted under a nearby water tower spotted Crooks at 6:08 p.m. and put out a radio dispatch warning, “There’s someone on the roof.” The Secret Service never heard that broadcast because it had no shared communications system with state and local police. Specially programmed radios set up for the Secret Service were not only never used but never even picked up by Secret Service officials, according to local law enforcement sources and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

UFC champion Sean O'Malley made a brief appearance on a podcast, but it took him less than a minute to close his laptop on the hosts.O'Malley has an upcoming title defense at UFC 306 for Mexican Independence Day, where he will face Merab Dvalishvili for the bantamweight championship. The event is gearing up to be a one-of-a-kind experience taking place at the unique venue known as the Sphere in Las Vegas.The champion accepted an invitation to appear on the podcast of former champions Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo, but it didn't last very long.'How'd you let Aljo take you down so easy?'Usman gave O'Malley a respectful introduction before the interview went off the rails:"We have a special guest. The man that will be gracing us with his presence in the Octagon next weekend at the Sphere, a man that needs no introduction. The most colorful man right now in the octagon, one of the most dynamic [fighters and the current bantamweight champion of the world, 'Suga' Sean O'Malley."O'Malley, sitting like he was plotting his attack, responded with a quick message."Boys, you guys know I'm a very, very busy man," O'Malley said on the "Pound 4 Pound" podcast. "I'll keep this short. I came here for two reasons: one to praise you, Kamaru, you're an absolute Legend, and two, Henry ... how'd you let Aljo take you down so easy?!" O'Malley added, before laughing maniacally."You're welcome!" the champion said before closing his laptop.O'Malley was of course referring to Cejudo's May 2023 TKO loss to former champion Aljamain Sterling. Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThe podcast clip has nearly one million views on the X platform alone, as fans have always enjoyed the antics of both O'Malley and Cejudo.Cejudo made traditional news headlines in 2019 when he jokingly challenged then-female champion Valentina Shevchenko to a fight for the "intergender" title."Valentina Shevchenko, I have a message for you: I'm looking to become the first intergender world champion this world has ever seen. I'm calling you out," Cejudo said from his car.Shevchenko later appeared on ESPN and told Cejudo, "Be careful what you wish!"Despite saying she didn't know if he was joking, Shevchenko said Cejudo was in danger of losing "all of his gold forever."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

According to a new report, Elon Musk is on pace to become the world's first trillionaire soon. Musk currently has a net worth of $248 billion, according to Forbes' wealthiest billionaires list. However, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO will reportedly quadruple his net worth in three short years. Tesla has an annual growth rate of 173%, which would enable the electric car manufacturer to become a trillion-dollar company in 2025. Musk — already the world's wealthiest person — is the "clear favorite" to become the first trillionaire by 2027, according to Informa Connect Academy.The outlet noted that Musk's net worth is growing at an average rate of 109.88% yearly.Informa Connect Academy also named other billionaires who are likely to have a 13-figure net worth in the near future. Indian billionaire business magnate Gautam Adani has an estimated net worth of $84 billion and an average annual growth rate of 122.86%. Adani is expected to become a trillionaire by 2028.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has an approximate net worth of $77 billion and an average growth rate of 111.88% per year. Huang is estimated to become a trillionaire in 2028. Prajogo Pangestu is an Indonesian business tycoon known for his involvement in the timber, petrochemical, and energy industries. He has a net worth of $43.4 billion and an average growth rate of 135.95% annually. Pangestu is expected to be a trillionaire by 2028.Other notable billionaires are expected to become trillionaires.Bernard Arnault is a French billionaire and chairman and CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton — the world's largest luxury goods conglomerate. Arnault and his family have a net worth of $172 billion. He could join the trillion-dollar club in 2030. Mark Zuckerberg — the founder, chairman, and CEO of Meta, which he originally founded as Facebook in 2004 — is expected to become a trillionaire by 2030. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — currently the second-richest person in the world with a net worth of $197 billion — will reportedly become a trillionaire in 2036.Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison — currently the third-wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of $192 billion — could become a trillionaire by 2035. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates — who has a current net worth of $136 billion — is estimated to become a trillionaire by 2054. Seven companies currently have a market cap valuation of over a trillion dollars, including Microsoft ($3.394 trillion), Apple ($3.323 trillion), Nvidia ($3.057 trillion), Alphabet ($2.269 trillion), Amazon ($2.052 trillion), Saudi Aramco ($1.817 trillion), and Meta ($1.280 trillion). The report from Informa Connect Academy also named companies that could soon climb to the trillion-dollar business club.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited — the third-largest manufacturer of semiconductors in the world — currently has a market cap of $893 billion but could be worth a trillion by next year. Berkshire Hathaway — the holding company led by billionaire investor Warren Buffett — has a current market cap of $874 billion and could reach a trillion in 2025. Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical giant, has a market cap of $823 billion and is estimated to be worth a trillion dollars next year. Musk's Tesla has a current market cap of $669 billion. Tesla has an annual growth rate of 173%, which would enable the electric car manufacturer to become a trillion-dollar company in 2025. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The release date for the new range of Intel Arrow Lake CPUs has been reportedly pushed back to the end of October, 2024. While there’s been no official announcement about the Intel Core Ultra 200 launch date, there have been plenty of leaks and rumors. A date of October 10 was originally mooted on the grapevine, but hardware leakers are now suggesting that Intel has postponed the launch date. These new Intel Core Ultra 200-series CPUs potentially offer the company its best chance to dethrone AMD and produce the best gaming CPU after a few years of sitting in second place. So far, it hasn’t had a response to the performance gains that AMD’s 3D V-Cache provides for gamers since AMD released the tech back in 2022. Continue reading Intel’s Arrow Lake CPU launch just got pushed back, says new leak MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Core i5 14600K review, Best gaming CPU, Core i9 14900K review

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