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After speaking at a pro-Trump town hall in Phoenix, I got up early the following day to fly back to Los Angeles. I went down to the front of my hotel to get into a private car I ordered from a company that came highly recommended. The shiny black SUV was waiting. The driver, a neatly dressed woman, bounded out to help me with my bag and open the door. She had an Eastern European accent. Her name was Dede. She asked why I was in town. I’m always leery of discussing politics, particularly in this era of Trump. But I know that many legal immigrants, particularly those from communist countries, are political conservatives. “I’m with a conservative Christian radio and television communications company, and I spoke yesterday at a pro-Trump event for the listeners of our Phoenix radio station,” I said. “Oh, I know who you are,” she said. “I’ve listened to you, and I’ve seen you many times on TV. That’s why I wanted to pick you up.” For the next half hour, she told me about her life. She was born in Bulgaria, is 58 years old, an only child, is in her second marriage, and “regrettably” has no children. Her parents’ family was well off, but lost everything “when the communists took over and took everything.” Her father died from a heart attack when she was 10. Her mother ran a government-controlled fruit stand. Dede always wanted to come to America. She waited 15 years before getting a visa and then a green card. She was 36 when she came to America. She came to Phoenix because her uncle lived there and took her in until she got her own apartment. “When I got here, I cleaned airplanes, went to my second job washing dishes, and babysat for two to three hours,” she said. “Then I got up early the next morning and did it all over again. I couldn’t speak English, and now people say I speak too much, especially about politics. But I don’t care. This is America, and we have the First Amendment.” She kept up that schedule for three years. “Then I started my own company and bought my first car.” “This is your car company?” I asked. “Yes, I have 15 other SUVs and several drivers. And my husband and I have other investments.” “Other investments?” “Real estate,” she said. “We own 27 houses. My uncle said, ‘Work hard. Show up on time. Pay your taxes and don’t use credit cards.’ So, that’s what I did. “And I’m a Republican. Already voted for Trump. I’m from a communist country. I see where this country is heading if people don’t wake up. It really isn’t about Republicans versus Democrats. The problem is people who want something for nothing and expect government to take care of them -- and then complain if it doesn’t. And way too many people work for government. Just like communism.” She railed against the millions of illegal aliens “allowed to come in.” I told her about my father who never knew his biological father. “Unlike you,” I said, “He had a mother who, when he was 13, kicked him out of the room they rented. A black boy in the Jim Crow South at the beginning of the Great Depression with literally nothing in his pockets. He was an only child. He became a staff sergeant in the Marines and served in World War II. When I was growing up, my dad worked two full-time jobs cleaning toilets, and he cooked for a family on the weekends to make additional money because he wanted my mother to be a stay-at-home mom. He then went to night school to get a GED. He saved his nickels and dimes and at 47 started a cafe, which he ran until he was in his 80s. When he retired, he owned the cafe property and property next door, as well as the home I was raised in, which is still in our family.” By now, we reached the airport. When she got out of the car, she was crying. “Your story is my story,” she said. We hugged. “God bless you,” I said. “And God bless America,” she said. We hugged again. Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit www.LarryElder.com. 

Are you sure it isn't 900 MILLION? I mean, as long as you're gonna exaggerate, Joe, why not shoot for the moon? On the Election Day episode of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough made a pathetic attempt to build optimism for Kamala Harris. Scarborough told the story of a "life-long Texas Republican voter" who moved to Pennsylvania. The man told Scarborough that he had nine door knocks from Kamala volunteers until he finally voted. And since his wife, even then, hadn't voted, there were nine more Kamala door knocks until she voted, too. But the man didn't receive a single door knock from anyone on behalf of Trump. What Scarborough well knows but didn't disclose is that the final days of a campaign are all about GOTV: getting out the vote of your voters. The self-described "Never Trumper" Texas Republican who moved to Pennsylvania presumably registered there as a Democrat.  During GOTV, volunteers aren't sent out into the field to randomly knock on doors. They're given lists and a walking route that will take them to the doors of people believed to be supporting their party. If a Trump door knocker had turned up at the Never Trumper's door, it would only have been by mistake! Even more deceptively, Scarborough claimed that Kamala has 900,000 door-knocking volunteers in Pennsylvania. A recent Time magazine article indicated the real number is 110,000.  An internet search suggests that Scarborough claimed for Pennsylvania the total number of Kamala volunteers in the entire country!  Here's the transcript. MSNBC Morning Joe 11/5/24 6:06 am EDT WILLIE GEIST: Watching Vice President Harris' day of rallies yesterday -- MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Oh my! GEIST: -- and we'll contrast it with Donald Trump's, all the anxiety we keep hear about -- and it's real among voters about which way this election could go -- clearly has turned into energy and action and purpose for people who have gone out in droves to volunteer for Kamala Harris. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Right. GEIST: To knock on doors. They had more volunteers than shifts. They had to find other jobs for people to do. MIKA: That's amazing. GEIST: Yes, of course there is anxiety. Yes, people are worried about which way this could tip. But people have done the right thing, which is to get into the fight and try to make adifference. SCARBOROUGH: And you're starting to hear, as we get near the end, Jonathan Lemire, some anecdotal evidence that follows up. When you hear 900,000 Harris volunteers knocking on doors across Pennsylvania. I, I heard last night from someone who was a Republican in Texas. Turned into a Never Trumper but didn't tell anybody. Moved up to Pennsylvania. Nine knocks -- had voted Republican his entire life. Nine knocks on the door from Harris people every three days. When he finally voted to say, okay, I'll vote, his wife had not voted. Nine more knocks until the wife went to vote. And he said, that was not the remarkable part. The remarkable part was, a lifelong Texas Republican voter who moved to Pennsylvania didn't get one knock on the door from anybody in the Trump campaign, from any Republican. MIKA: Oh wow.

NBC’s Seth Meyers wrapped up his final pre-election episode of Late Night by claiming Republicans’ only argument against Kamala Harris is that she has a “laugh they don't like.” By contrast, Meyers then launched into a three-and-a-half-minute long list of reasons to not vote for Donald Trump. The list included some jokey bits like Trump “couldn't figure out how to close an umbrella,” but also some grave distortions of Trump’s record on the economy. At the end of his “Closer Look” segment, Meyers concluded, “So, that's the choice Republicans want to present to you. That's their closing message: are going to vote for a woman whose laugh they don't like, or are you going to vote for a guy who fomented a violent coup attempt after a months’ long campaign to overturn the 2020 election, undercut the nation's response to a deadly pandemic that spiraled out of control because he tried to cover it up, lied about its severity.”     Meyers was just getting started. He also claimed that Trump “became the first president since Herbert Hoover to oversee a net job loss,” but didn’t care to mention those losses came about as a result of the lockdowns that liberals like Meyers demanded. Speaking of punishing Trump for enacting COVID policies he demanded, Meyers later added, “The national debt rose by $8 trillion.” Of course, Meyers also had to play the fascist card, “His national security adviser called him a dope. His secretary of State called him a moron, his chief of staff called him an idiot and a fascist who said nice things about Hitler and Hitler’s generals. He suggested shooting protesters in the legs to his secretary of Defense, he reportedly suggested executing rivals and staffers for leaking information. The former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff called him a fascist to the core.” Meyers also recalled how Trump “curtailed access to birth control, picked a running mate who mocked childless cat ladies, creeped out everyone when he tried to order donuts, was accused of having sex with a couch, which he did not do, even though he might have, but he didn't, but maybe he did, but he definitely did not.” First, by “curtailed access to birth control,” Meyers means that Trump did the very unfascist thing of expanding religious and moral exemptions for birth control mandates. Second, the Vance-couch bit just proves that, for the left, some bits of disinformation are better than others. Meyers concluded his list by lamenting the state of the polls, “Said Kamala Harris happened to turn black, claimed his crowd on January 6th was bigger than Martin Luther King's ‘I have a dream’ speech, was banned for doing business in the state of New York for three years, and just recently posed for the single worst photo of any human being that has ever been taken on the face of the [bleep] planet. So, you know, it's a toss-up.” Addressing anyone watching, Meyers hoped, “I've been talking about this man for nearly a decade now as evidenced by the fact that everyone I just listed is in my brain still somehow. The symptoms that gave rise to him will not immediately go away if he loses tomorrow, but we do have an opportunity to say as a nation that we want him to go away, and I really hope that happens.” If the election goes against Meyers and Harris, it won’t be because of her laugh. Rather, it will be that nobody believed her sudden conversion to centrism was genuine or they associate her with Joe Biden’s economic, border security, and foreign policy record and view Trump’s as superior. Here is a transcript for the November 4-taped show: NBC Late Night with Seth Meyers 11/5/2024 12:58 AM ET SETH MEYERS: So, that's the choice Republicans want to present to you. That's their closing message: are going to vote for a woman whose laugh they don't like, or are you going to vote for a guy who fomented a violent coup attempt after a months’ long campaign to overturn the 2020 election, undercut the nation's response to a deadly pandemic that spiraled out of control because he tried to cover it up, lied about its severity.  Promoted sham treatments for it, said we could cure it by injecting disinfectant, and shining powerful lights inside the body, became the first president since Herbert Hoover to oversee a net job loss, couldn't figure out how to close an umbrella, cosplayed as a sanitation worker, even though he almost fell while getting into the truck and pretended to work at McDonald's even though he couldn't remember what the fryer was called, laughed about firing striking workers with the richest man alive, bragged about refusing to pay overtime and said, "I don't want a poor person running the economy," oversaw an increase in corporate profits while manufacturing jobs declined, presided over an unprecedented spike in crime while home prices rose by 30 percent. The national debt rose by $8 trillion, and the number of Americans without health insurance rose by three million. Tried to rip health care away from over 20 million Americans, but reassured everyone by saying he had concepts of a plan, told a story about the size of a dead golfer's penis, regaled boy scouts with stories of sexy yacht parties, humped the American flag not once, but multiple times.  Told women he would protect them whether they liked it or not, and would put a man who is investigated for cutting off the head of a whale with a chainsaw in charge of vaccines and women's health.  Insulted service members, feuded with gold star families, and violated federal law by staging a campaign event at a hallowed military cemetery, doctored a weather map with a sharpie to lie about the path of a hurricane, threw paper towels at hurricane victims, hosted a speaker at a rally who called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage, claimed windmills cause cancer and killed whales, said you had to flush toilets 15 times, called Hannibal Lecter a lovely man.  His national security adviser called him a dope. His secretary of State called him a moron, his chief of staff called him an idiot and a fascist who said nice things about Hitler and Hitler’s generals. He suggested shooting protesters in the legs to his secretary of Defense, he reportedly suggested executing rivals and staffers for leaking information. The former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff called him a fascist to the core. He took millions from foreign officials, including a possible $10 million bribe from Egypt, his lawyers gave a press conference at a landscaping company. He lost the popular vote twice, got impeached twice, got indicted four times and was found guilty of 34 felony counts, falsifying business records to pay hush money to a porn star. He asked a crowd whether they'd rather be electrocuted or eaten by a shark. He possibly farted and definitely fell asleep in court, bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade, called himself the father of IVF, while admitting he didn't know what IVF was. Called the CEO of Apple Tim Apple.  Misspelled his wife's name and his own name, said Nikki Haley was Speaker of the House on January 6th, claimed the price of bacon goes up because the wind doesn't blow, got on Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe. Became the first president in history to stare directly at an eclipse, melted down at a presidential debate where he claimed migrants were eating dogs, spread lies about the federal government's response to a hurricane that caused FEMA workers to relocate due to threats, dances like he's punching a ghost, held a hate-filled rally at Madison Square Garden, stole classified documents, obstructed attempts to get them back. Called climate change a hoax, proposed tariffs that economists say would increase prices and crater the economy, halted an equal pay rule for women, curtailed access to birth control, picked a running mate who mocked childless cat ladies, creeped out everyone when he tried to order donuts, was accused of having sex with a couch, which he did not do, even though he might have, but he didn't, but maybe he did, but he definitely did not. Said Kamala Harris happened to turn black, claimed his crowd on January 6th was bigger than Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, was banned for doing business in the state of New York for three years, and just recently posed for the single worst photo of any human being that has ever been taken on the face of the [bleep] planet. So, you know, it's a toss-up. I'm talking about this man. I've been talking about this man for nearly a decade now as evidenced by the fact that everyone I just listed is in my brain still somehow. The symptoms that gave rise to him will not immediately go away if he loses tomorrow, but we do have an opportunity to say as a nation that we want him to go away, and I really hope that happens. Mainly so I never have to think about this ever again.

ABC’s Good Morning America has spent the presidential election as the undisputed worst morning news show of the broadcast networks and, sure enough, it lived up to it Tuesday on Election Day by oozing hope for Vice President Kamala Harris to emerge victorious thanks to “joy” itself and “a message of unity and optimism, promising to be a president for all Americans.” In contrast, they blasted former President Donald Trump as mired in “dark” and “anti-immigrant language” and his team feeling “a vibe shift” of impending doom. Moments after co-host Michael Strahan boasted in a tease Harris is “looking to chart a new course” with America (ignoring the fact she’s been Vice President for four years), Mary Bruce arrived, fulfilling her unofficial duty as Disney’s in-house Njorth Korean news lady for the Harris campaign, gushing over Harris “sprinting across the finish line, closing out her historic candidacy with a message of unity and optimism, promising to be a president for all Americans.” Bruce continued, swooning over Harris as though her candidacy and policy views are unobjectionable: ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ putting its thumb on the scales for Kamala Harris, boosting voters that she has this election in the bag. Mary Bruce gushed her “historic candidacy” was buoyed by “message of unity,” “optimism,” and “promising to be a president for all Americans”:… pic.twitter.com/8MbsePS8XU — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024 The ABC partisan also cheered Harris fake door knocking: ABC's Mary Bruce has no problem with Kamala Harris's staged door knock in Pennsylvania, touting it as genuine campainging and "joining" her team by being on the ground to help knock on one of "five million doors" They didn't say that about Trump's McDonald's visit! pic.twitter.com/G4iv2jnlw3 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024 Asked about the mood she’s hearing from her comrades inside the Harris campaign, Bruce was effusive in assuring liberal views that she’s got this: The giddiness for Kamala Harris from ABC and Mary Bruce this entire election has been nauseating. By far the biggest pro-Harris network correspondent: Bruce: “Her campaign telling me she is running through the tape on this race.” Michael Strahan: “Yeah, they are sprinting.… pic.twitter.com/mLtX2IvCak — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024 As we’ve seen throughout the election, the stark contrast reared its ugly head with Bruce’s ebullience for Harris giving way to venom toward Trump, whining the “twice-impeached former president who was convicted of a crime” has a “dark” “closing message”: ABC’s @RachelVScott uses her ‘Good Morning America’ report on the Trump campaign to attack the “twice impeached former President who was convicted of a crime” for spending a final day hurling “insults,” using “dark” rhetoric, “spreading false claims about election integrity,”… pic.twitter.com/OLWqzuL0D9 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024 Scott also huffed about Trump as “anti-immigrant” and denounced his promises of mass deportation of illegal immigrants. She also made a direct plea to women voters thinking of backing Trump by boasting Harris “has seized on the former President’s comments that he would protect women whether they like it or not and Trump’s own statements that he would put Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has pushed a range of conspiracy theories, in large of women’s health.” Scott gave an ominous answer about the mood of the Trump campaign, suggesting they’re screwed: More nonsense from ABC’s Rachel Scott kicking dirt on Donald Trump’s election chances, touting Tony Hinchcliffe and lying about his Liz Cheney comments: “[The Trump campaign] feel[s] good about what they’re seeing in the early voting numbers. But there have been a vibe shift in… pic.twitter.com/Tcre8VQgZo — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024 In the second half-hour, co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos had a mini-roundtable with longtime ABC News political analyst and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus, and former New Jersey GOP Governor Chris Christie. All three gave predictable answers, including Christie repeatedly trashing Trump and his campaign to bury them before the voters are counted: Chris Christie goes on ABC's 'Good Morning America' to downplay Donald Trump's election chances, arguing his unfavorables are too high, campaign officials have felt like puking b/c Trump "may have lost it" with the MSG rally, and dismisses GOP early vote gains pic.twitter.com/0EDBuFenVC — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024 Chris Christie tells ABC's 'Good Morning America' he'd put money on Kamala Harris winning the election, arguing Trump's not going accept the results when he loses pic.twitter.com/HeGQ6DqWFe — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024 With commercials and local news breaks, the first hour and 18 minutes were almost exclusively 2024, including stories at the top of the second hour on both the Harris and Trump camps. Instead of bringing back Bruce and Scott, the show had weekend co-host Eva Pilgrim spin for Harris: More last-minute election interference for Kamala Harris on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America.’ This time, weekend co-host Eva Pilgrim, arguing she has on her side a message of “[u]nification, joy, and the future”: “Kamala Harris is waking up in D.C. after what's been an all-out… pic.twitter.com/7geECubkUy — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024 As for Trump, that fell to weekend co-host and Saturday World News Tonight anchor Whit Johnson: ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ weekend co-host Whit Johnson denounces Trump’s “very dark picture” in is final rallies, adding there’s “signs of anxiety” within Team Trump to imply he will lose: “Overnight in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump delivered his closing message in what is… pic.twitter.com/yj2UAcgCcs — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024 To see the relevant ABC transcript from November 5, click here.

Election Day is finally here, and one of the last outrageous comments we’ll hear from a leftist celebrity before the decision is made will not soon be forgotten as not only was it completely untrue but extremely sexist. And it came from former Trump supporter Mark Cuban. “Donald Trump, you never see him around strong intelligent women ever. It’s just that simple,” Cuban said in an interview on “The View.” While Trump-supporting women were offended by the comments, the former president’s response to Cuban’s insane remarks made it all better. “Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s ‘hot stuff’ but he’s absolutely nothing, is now out there saying that I don’t surround myself with strong women,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “Actually, he is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women - with the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong.” Trump went on to explain that Cuban would call him “incessantly” while he was in office to the point where he had to explain that he had "a lot of things to do" and couldn’t be "taking so many pointless calls" from the celebrity. “In any event, that affected him greatly, because he’s a very insecure guy, and a Major LOSER, always has been and always will be! Nobody likes him, nobody respects him, and he’s unattractive both inside and out! He should go back to talk about the person he was forced to support, because I didn’t want it, Lyin’ Kamala Harris. Also, he’s got no clubhead speed,” Trump continued. “He attacked his golf game,” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” laughs. “That’s below the belt.” Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Nate Cohn, chief political analyst at the New York Times, predicts a Donald Trump victory on Election Day could reveal the death of the Democratic Party as we know it.In his Election Day newsletter, Cohn outlined what he believes are the four possible election outcomes: a big Kamala Harris victory, a repeat of 2020 (tight election with small margins in swing states), a repeat of 2022 (in which Republicans won the popular vote but lost key races), or a decisive Trump victory. 'This scenario would reveal the extent that it destroyed the Democratic Party as we knew it, too.'That final outcome, Cohn explained, could be more impactful on the future of American politics than people realize.According to Cohn, this election "should be a Republican victory" if analyzed on paper. The reasons? The poor economy, President Joe Biden's unpopularity, and the fact that voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Cohn, moreover, explained the "signs of a Republican victory have been building for years," citing Republican advantages in party identification, party registration, and Election Day turnout in battleground states.What's worse, Cohn said the polls — like they did in 2016 and 2020 — could be once again underestimating Trump."The pollsters never found a convincing explanation for what went wrong, and the simplest one is that they just can’t reach enough of Mr. Trump’s less engaged supporters. Despite their efforts over the last eight years, there may simply be no fix for this problem," he wrote."In this scenario, Ms. Harris’s apparent strength among white and older voters, or her resilience in the Midwestern battlegrounds, is nothing more than another polling mirage — in exactly the same states where the polls got it wrong four and eight years ago," Cohn explained. "Add in Mr. Trump’s gains among young, Black and Hispanic voters and you end up with a decisive victory for him."If this scenario plays out on Election Day, Cohn predicted that it would initiate a "new era of politics," one defined by a historic voter realignment."The rise of Mr. Trump's brand of conservative populism has transformed American politics. It redefined the basic political conflict between the two parties. It led to major demographic shifts, first with Mr. Trump making huge gains among the white working class and now with nonwhite voters, while Democrats gained among white college graduates," Cohn wrote. "If the shifts endure after Mr. Trump, historians might well look back and say that the 2024 result was the culmination of the populist realignment he unleashed a decade ago."The result of that realignment, according to Cohn, is not only a Republican Party that does not resemble the GOP of old, but the death of the contemporary Democratic Party."It has long been clear that Mr. Trump’s rise destroyed the Republican Party as we knew it," Cohn wrote. "This scenario would reveal the extent that it destroyed the Democratic Party as we knew it, too."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!