Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro warned Navy personnel against engaging in political activity just a day before he was found to have violated federal law by voicing his support for President Joe Biden over other potential candidates, The Daily Wire has learned. Del Toro’s support of Biden was found to have “crossed a legal line” in violation of the Hatch Act, a federal law that bars federal employees from engaging in political activities while participating in work duties, during a taxpayer-funded trip to the United Kingdom in January, the Office of the Special Counsel said this week. Just one day before it was revealed that Del Toro violated the law, he sent out an unclassified document to Navy personnel, personally warning them against engaging in political activity. The guidance sent out to Navy sailors, obtained by The Daily Wire, is titled “Guidance on Political Activities of DON Personnel,” and includes a warning to personnel from Del Toro himself. “Now that the 2024 election season is upon us, it is more important than ever for us to remember that the DON is an apolitical body and our members cannot participate in activities that could appear to imply sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of a political candidate, campaign, or cause,” a quote from Del Toro reads. “Public trust and confidence depend on this.” When he sent the guidance, Del Toro was just one day away from being cited for engaging in partisan activity himself. “When speaking in his official capacity on a taxpayer-funded trip, Secretary Del Toro encouraged electoral support for one candidate over another in the upcoming presidential election,” Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger noted this week. “By doing so, he crossed a legal line and violated the Hatch Act.” “Rules for thee but not for me is the unofficial slogan of the woke Biden-Harris DOD. Secretary Del Toro is correct that ‘public trust and confidence’ depend on an apolitical military,” Rep. Jim Banks, Chairman of the Anti-Woke Caucus, told The Daily Wire. “That’s why trust in our military has dropped to an all-time low under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.” The Office of Special Counsel explained that Del Toro violated the Hatch Act while partaking in interviews while on the trip. “I’m confident that the American people will step up to the plate come November and support President Biden for a second term as our Commander-in-Chief, so that we can continue to work together as free democratic countries respect each other around the globe,” Del Toro said in response to one interview question. “Secretary Del Toro’s statements with overt reference to the election conveyed electoral support for one candidate and opposition to another candidate, and thus, constituted political activity,” the Office of Special Counsel report explains.  The Biden-Harris administration has consistently worked to embed their ideology throughout the military and our national security institutions, namely through the implementation of leftwing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, as a series of investigations from The Daily Wire has revealed.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged an illegal immigrant from Guatemala for illegally voting in American elections and stealing the identity of an American citizen. The Justice Department brought the charges against Angelica Maria Francisco, a 42-year old Guatemalan national illegally residing in Alabama, after it was found that she illegally voted in both the 2016 and 2020 primary and general elections despite not being an American citizen. The DOJ stated in a press release that Francisco was charged with “false claims of citizenship in connection with voting, false statements in application for a United States passport, use of a United States passport obtained by false statements, and aggravated identity theft.” Francisco has agreed to plead guilty to all charges. The plea agreement reveals that the Guatemalan national illegally assumed the identity of an American citizen in about 2011 before using that identity to illegally procure a passport and register to vote. “She subsequently used the United States passport to travel to and from her native country of Guatemala in 2012, 2015, and 2018,” the DOJ explained. “Using the same false identity, Francisco also registered to vote in Alabama in 2016 and voted in the 2016 and 2020 primary and general elections.” The charge from the DOJ comes as Republicans in the House and Senate are attempting to pass the SAVE Act, a piece of legislation that intends to further safeguard federal elections against illegal immigrant voting. Democrats like Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, however, have claimed that the problem of illegal immigrant voting “doesn’t exist” and that the act is unnecessary. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently warned that mass illegal immigration could mean that “Democrats win every election forever,” also accusing Vice President Kamala Harris and others in her party of leveraging illegal immigration “to fundamentally shift the policies of the United States of America and to move them dramatically to the left.” Fraudulent voting by illegal immigrants, or a mass amnesty that allows those illegally in the country to become citizens and vote in our elections, could disproportionately affect some swing states. All 15 counties in Arizona, for example, were just named in a lawsuit from America First Legal, which claimed that they failed to remove illegal immigrants from the voter rolls. Arizona, which is worth 11 electoral college votes, is a crucial swing state that could determine the fate of the 2024 presidential election. Elon Musk, meanwhile, has warned that even illegal immigrants who do not themselves vote could shift the balance of power in Congress in favor of the Democrats simply by being present in the country. The census does not account for citizenship status, meaning that the population figures that determine Congressional apportionment could result in the creation of additional Congressional districts in heavily Democratic areas. The concerns that illegal immigration could influence our elections come as the Biden-Harris administration has presided over an unprecedented spike in illegal immigration. More than 10 million people have crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, with an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded since Biden was inaugurated in 2021. There were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 during the Trump administration.

Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said on Thursday that she’s “nervous” about polls giving Vice President Kamala Harris a clear advantage over former President Donald Trump in the Great Lakes State. Speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival, Whitmer mentioned a CNN poll of battleground states that was released earlier this week that was very favorable toward Harris in Michigan and Wisconsin. According to the poll, Harris leads Trump 48% to 43% in Michigan and 50% to 44% in Wisconsin. “It makes me nervous to see any poll that says there’s a five-point lead for Kamala Harris in Michigan now. It’s just not true,” Whitmer said, according to Fox News. “It’s gonna be a very close race. I believe we can win it. And I believe we wlll, but it’s gonna be very close.” Whitmer incorrectly stated that the CNN poll didn’t take third-party and independent candidates into account. The latest CNN poll factored in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who has dropped out — Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. None of them polled above 4% in Michigan. “In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump by 11,000 votes. Jill Stein was also on our ballot and earned more than 11,000 votes,” Whitmer said. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Kennedy has been polling the highest among independent and third-party candidates in Michigan, even after suspending his campaign. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said late last month that Kennedy had to remain on the Michigan ballot despite dropping out of the race. The Michigan Court of Appeals, however, ruled on Friday that Kennedy’s name should be removed from the Michigan ballot. Judges in North Carolina also ruled in favor of Kennedy removing his name from the ballot. The independent candidate endorsed Trump last month and said he would seek to remove his name from ballots in battleground states where he could potentially act as a “spoiler.” Whitmer discussed the unpredictable political direction of Michigan, saying, “I do think, you know, in Michigan over my lifetime, we take big swings. We’ve had 12 years of a Republican governor, and then we have term limits so eight years of a Democrat, then eight years of a Republican, then eight years of a Democrat. So it is a state that is notoriously kind of independent. We split our ticket a lot. And that’s who we are in Michigan.” Trump won the state in 2016 over Hillary Clinton and lost to President Joe Biden in 2020. According to the latest RealClearPolitics polling average, Harris leads Trump in Michigan by just over 1 point.

There are a lot of ways you can tell that a political campaign is in trouble. Of course you can look at the polls, and the various models that aggregate those polls. And right now the models do not look good for Kamala Harris. Right now, for example, Nate Silver’s model gives Donald Trump a 60% chance of winning, with a projected 277 electoral votes. ?NEW: Democrat-voting pollster Nate Silver releases new Presidential prediction model showing commanding Trump lead: ELECTORAL COLLEGE ODDS: ?Trump: 60.1% (+20.4) ?Harris: 39.7% pic.twitter.com/md7Co7lkGQ — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 5, 2024   Who knows whether any of this is particularly accurate. It’ll all change by next week, most likely, and there’s still plenty of time to go. But the more interesting thing about Silver’s projection isn’t the specific figures. It’s that his data, which aggregates all the polls, shows a very clear trend. Kamala Harris is losing ground, quickly, as you can see from that chart. And it’s not hard to see why. When you’re only capable of giving one interview to a friendly news outlet in more than a month — and when you manage to bomb that interview — then people lose confidence in your campaign very quickly. And that’s what’s happening to Kamala Harris right now. She barely got a bounce from the convention. And now she’s in free fall. The media built up a elaborate hype train for Kamala, hoping it would carry her on those tracks to November. But the whole thing was so absurdly fake, so phony, that it couldn’t last. It ran out of steam. And now they’re stuck with Kamala Harris. Not the idea of Kamala Harris — the idea they constructed. But the fact of her as a person. Kamala Harris, the lame, unimpressive, inarticulate politician we all have known.  At the same time, if you’re not a believer in polls or statistical models, there are plenty of other signs that things have taken a very bad turn for Kamala Harris’ candidacy. One of them is that the campaign’s lying is becoming more flagrant and shameless by the day. There’s clear desperation everywhere you look.  Last night for instance, Kamala’s account tweeted an accusation that JD Vance had downplayed school shootings as just a “fact of life.” Here’s what Kamala’s handlers posted to her account, above a video of Vance’s speech: “School shootings are not just a fact of life. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can take action to protect our children—and we will.” So she’s telling off JD Vance for supposedly saying that school shootings are inevitable and we should all get used to them. Predictably, the Associated Press also promoted the lie about what Vance said. They ran this headline: “JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life.'” Deleted post: 2.2 million impressions Corrected post: 100k impressions pic.twitter.com/4Q5tpIoGXn — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 6, 2024   Several million people saw this smear and repeated it. The outrage machine kicked into gear, as expected. Eventually Twitter’s community notes feature corrected it, and the AP finally deleted their original post, and updated their headline. Now the AP’s headline reads very differently. It says,: “JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life.'”  So they suggested that Vance was minimizing the fact that a school shooting had occurred, when in fact he was doing the opposite. As far as lies go, this one was extremely transparent. Anyone could just watch the video to see what JD Vance actually said. But the AP, and the Kamala Harris campaign, went ahead with the lie anyway. And that tells us that they’re desperate — obviously so. They’re in a very bad position and they know it. Campaigns that are confident, and surging in the polls, don’t need to invent fake quotes that are easy to disprove in about five seconds. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show And for that matter, campaigns that aren’t collapsing don’t have surrogates who go wildly off-message all the time. But that’s happening to Kamala’s campaign too. People who are supposed to be promoting Kamala are, instead, sabotaging her messaging at every opportunity.  Here for example is Joe Biden the other day, talking about the Inflation Reduction Act. This is the law that Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on. But instead of arguing that the Inflation Reduction Act reduced inflation, Biden instead admitted that the law in fact had nothing to do with inflation. Instead he said it was a climate bill. Watch: Joe Biden just STRAIGHT UP ADMITTED that the Inflation Reduction Act was a TOTAL SCAM that had NOTHING to do with reducing inflation! Does Kamala Harris agree with this? "We should've named it what it was!" pic.twitter.com/2WL7N1exN2 — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 5, 2024   “We should’ve named it what it was.”  If you’re Kamala, that’s not exactly something you want to hear one of your surrogates say on the campaign trail. It’s an admission that Kamala Harris deceived the entire country about the one major legislative accomplishment she claims to have. And once you admit that, there’s no reason for anyone to trust her ever again. There’s certainly no reason to trust her when she says that she can implement her economic agenda — including taxing unrealized capital gains — without destroying the U.S. economy.  And just to underscore that point, another prominent supporter of Kamala — Mark Cuban — just went on CNBC to explain that taxing unrealized capital gains would be a disaster. Watch: NEW: Mark Cuban gets flustered & says "no" 16 times after CNBC host Rebecca Quick said Kamala is just telling people what they want to hear. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no," Cuban said. The "no" comment came after Cuban said Harris' plan to tax… pic.twitter.com/6B1WeqsqvC — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 5, 2024   Cuban went on to say that he’s supposedly spoken with Harris’ team and that they now understand that taxing unrealized capital gains may not be a great idea. But that doesn’t explain why they proposed it in the first place. It also doesn’t explain why they’re still pushing it. Kamala hasn’t explained, in detail, why she still wants a tax on unrealized capital gains. Her team has walked back some of the numbers, but she’s still proposing the tax. Why is that exactly? How can she support a tax that even her own supporters recognized would be a disaster?  We all know the answer to that question. Kamala Harris doesn’t know anything about economics. Ask her one question about unrealized capital gains and she’ll start babbling about equity. She won’t be able to defend the policy even for a moment. Everyone — even her surrogates — understands this. And now they’re comfortable coming out on television and admitting it. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. These are not great signs for the Kamala Harris campaign. But maybe the worst sign of all is what took place earlier this week. Kamala received an endorsement from Liz Cheney, who recently lost her House seat by a margin that was almost unparalleled in modern politics. If there was ever an endorsement that qualified as the kiss of death, this is it. Here’s the awkwardly filmed cellphone footage of the big moment: Finally, Liz Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris! Let's go! ??????#HarrisWalz2024 #LizCheney #CountryOverParty pic.twitter.com/wm5n9nXWZu — ?????? ??????? (@Bannerman104) September 4, 2024   Liz Cheney goes on and on about how Kamala Harris will save democracy and freedom in the United States. And people in the audience pretend to be excited about this endorsement. But if you go back just a couple of years, Liz Cheney had a very different perspective on Kamala Harris. She pointed out that Kamala had explicitly promised to suspend Americans’ constitutional rights via executive order. She explained that Kamala Harris wants to spend trillions of dollars on universal healthcare. And she concluded that she’s a “Radical” to the left of Bernie Sanders who no one should vote for. Watch: WATCH: Just as Liz Cheney announced her endorsement of Kamala Harris, a video has resurfaced of her SLAMMING Kamala, calling her a radical "Her voting record is to the left of Bernie Sanders… It's very clear, she [Kamala] is a radical liberal" pic.twitter.com/fIQFVkyKsS — George (@BehizyTweets) September 4, 2024   This is the kind of endorsement you’d probably rather refuse, if you had the choice. There is no one, on either side of the political spectrum, who covets an endorsement from Liz Cheney. But now it’s the endorsement that Kamala Harris is stuck with. This is the caliber of endorsement her candidacy is attracting, as her surrogates are publicly disavowing her policy positions. As the ship sinks, Kamala Harris is quite literally getting endorsed by the biggest losers in all of politics.  Of course Kamala Harris has no one to blame for this but herself. Because she’s not appearing for interviews, she has to rely on surrogates to explain what she stands for, and why. Kamala Harris herself is nowhere to be found. That’s why people are still digging up clips of her speeches from several years ago, to try to figure out what a Kamala Harris administration would look like. That’s what we’re reduced to, when the candidate is incapable of speaking. Here’s one of those clips that’s now making the rounds, which is apparently from 2019: Elon Musk, RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard are raising concerns of free speech under Kamala Harris. In 2019, Harris vowed to use the DOJ and law enforcement to 'hold social media platforms responsible' for 'misinformation' as part of the 'fight against this threat to our Democracy' pic.twitter.com/3XwD8lcoQb — Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) September 5, 2024   As I outlined yesterday, politicians like Kamala Harris demand censorship because without it, their candidacy falls apart. There are just too many obvious problems with her platform that don’t withstand any scrutiny. So she wants to shut down the Internet to prevent people from talking about them. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Frankly, we are now at the point where Kamala Harris would probably censor her own surrogates if she could. A candidate who isn’t capable of speaking for herself is now struggling to contain the people she’s sending out to do her messaging for her. With just a couple of months to go until the election, more than any poll or statistical model, that’s just about the worst imaginable sign for the Kamala Harris campaign. What that means is very clear, based on what we’ve seen so far: The lying, and the panic, are only going to intensify from here.

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