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Updated November 3, 2024 How do the 2024 presidential candidates compare when it comes to foreign policy? With tensions high across the globe, foreign policy is front and center of this year’s presidential race. A majority of Americans support Ukraine against Russia, but isolationism has resonated with a part of the electorate who believe that aid will only fuel a conflict that appears to have no end in sight. Both Trump and Biden agree on seeing China as a world competitor, but...

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The Black Vote Slips In 2016, one of the first signs Hillary Clinton might be in trouble was weak polling among Black voters. Shortly before the election, during an interview on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Barack Obama issued this warning: “The overall vote is up. But the African-American vote, right now, is not as solid as it needs to be.” Clinton ended up winning 89 percent of the Black vote — six points down from the 95 percent Obama won in 2008. But her tepid support among Black voters is a nationwide phenomenon that includes the so-called “blue wall” states. In 2020, the slippage continued when Joe Biden garnered 87 percent. Most Democrats assumed that Kamala Harris would improve on that performance but various polls have shown her drawing far less support among Black voters than they expected. This reality has manifested itself in early turnout. In Georgia, for example, Democrats typically need 30 percent of Black voters to cast early ballots to offset robust Election Day turnout by Republicans. In 2024, early turnout in the Peach State has been strong but the percentage of ballots cast by Black voters was low enough to alarm Georgia Democrats according to a report in the Capital B Atlanta: “State Rep. Carl Gilliard, D-Savannah, joined an emergency Zoom call with about 70 other Black Georgia faith leaders Monday night to discuss their concerns about the state’s latest early voting figures.” As early voting ended last Friday, their percentage was only 26.5 percent. Politico describes a similar story in North Carolina: As of Wednesday, Black voters make up 18 percent of the electorate in early voting, and some Democratic operatives said they must bump that up to about 20 percent for Harris to be competitive statewide. In 2020, Black voters were 19 percent of the electorate, when Donald Trump narrowly won the state. And Democrats acknowledge that without a swing in their favor in the last days of early voting or on Election Day, it may not be good enough … Harris is expected to win a majority of African American voters in North Carolina, and nationally, but any slippage with this group would be a blow to the vice president. As early voting ended Saturday evening, the percentage of Black voters who cast early ballots in North Carolina had stalled at 17.8 percent. Moreover, as is usually the case in Georgia, turnout in the Tar Heel State on Election Day will likely favor Trump. Meanwhile, The Carolina Journal reports, “According to ad tracking firm AdImpact, the Harris-Walz presidential campaign has changed much of its remaining ad spending in North Carolina in the last week of the election, pulling millions of dollars worth of ads from the major North Carolina media markets.” Trump held rallies in the state on Saturday and Sunday. He will return Monday to close the sale while the DNC tries to rouse Black rural voters with a new ad campaign. Georgia and North Carolina are, of course, among the seven crucial swing states in which the election will probably be decided. The RCP Top Battlegrounds average, shows Trump leading in Georgia by 2.3 percent and ahead in North Carolina by 1.4 percent. If he wins in these two states, Harris will be left with only one plausible route to victory in the Electoral College. Because Trump also enjoys modest leads in three of the remaining five swing states, she will probably need to run the table in the Rust Belt — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. But her tepid support among Black voters is a nationwide phenomenon that includes the so-called “blue wall” states. A recent report in the New York Times explains her dilemma: Much of the erosion in support for Ms. Harris is driven by a growing belief that Democrats, who have long celebrated Black voters as the “backbone” of their party, have failed to deliver on their promises … Ms. Harris’s problems with African American voters rest on the same issue that her struggles with other constituencies do: the economy. Nearly three-quarters of Black voters rated the economy fair or poor, and the economy and abortion were rated their most pressing concerns. More than seven in 10 Black voters said they had cut back on groceries because of cost; 56 percent said they had cut back often. It’s Not Only the Black Vote Another phenomenon that has affected lower than normal Black turnout percentages for Harris involves the record-breaking number of early ballots cast by Republican voters. In swing states that report voter registration data, GOP voters outnumbered Democrats. In North Carolina the Raleigh News & Observer reports, “Registered Republicans slightly outnumbered Democrats in early voting and mail-in totals, currently accounting for 33.3 percent of votes cast so far, compared to Democrats’ 32.4 percent.” In Nevada the Reno Gazette Journal reports, “After the final day of early voting, registered Republicans have cast almost 50,000 more votes than Democrats statewide, according to Secretary of State data released at 9 p.m. Friday.” This more or less mirrors what has been happening in most of the seven swing states. Unfortunately, considering their importance to the outcome of the 2024 election, most have clunky election websites that provide incomplete and often incoherent information on early voting. The good news is this: In every state that provides coherent data, the Republicans appear to be ascendant and the Democrat coalition is disintegrating. Black voters are the most obvious defectors, but they are by no means alone. As former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer put it on Sunday, “30 of 31 states that register voters by party have become either more Republican or less Democrat than they were at the time of the 2020 election.” When the Democrat-run states are finally forced to stop creating … er … counting votes, it will already be obvious who will be taking the oath of office on January 20, 2025. READ MORE from David Catron: Whoever Yells ‘Fascist’ First Loses In Georgia, GOP Districts Dominate Early Voting The post Early Turnout: Harris Falters Among Black Voters appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

I never shared the awe of fantastic screen heroes forged by Star Wars and its legacy, though I appreciated the return to nobility after a decade of murky antiheroes. At least you knew where Han Solo and Indiana Jones stood against clear-cut evil like the Empire and the Nazis, which appealed to the kids. Maybe because I was an older movie afficionado, I found both characters and the actor who played them just okay. Harrison Ford was no Sean Connery, Steve McQueen, or Clint Eastwood, but a likeable enough successor. Then, 20 years behind him came a renaissance of superheroes culminating in the asexual Avengers. Their portrayers’ cringeworthy endorsement of cackling empty pantsuit Kamala Harris last week lowered my original opinion of the lot of them. Heroes of Hollywood’s Golden Age Hollywoke, I knew, was a far cry from classic Hollywood. During the four years between 1942 and 1945, there was also a dearth of familiar heroes. Because the actors who embodied them weren’t on the screen, they were in the War, in real combat. When the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, almost every top male star took a huge pay cut to share hardship and mortal danger with nameless grunts. They included Clark Gable — aerial gunner, five missions over Germany; James Stewart — fighter pilot, 20 missions over Europe; David Niven — British Army Lieutenant-Colonel, D-Day Normandy landing; Henry Fonda — Quartermaster 3rd Class on a Navy Destroyer. “I don’t want to be in a fake war in a studio,” Fonda said before he enlisted. Yet even his peers who did fight in the fake war served a patriotic purpose: inspiring men into military or homefront service, and women to cherish them. Audiences cheered John Wayne in The Fighting Seabees and Back to Bataan, Errol Flynn in Desperate Journey and Objective, Burma, Cary Grant in Destination Tokyo, and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca and Across the Pacific. At the end of Across the Pacific, Bogie watches a group of eastbound U.S. warplanes and says to Japanese spy Sidney Greenstreet, “Any of your friends in Tokyo have trouble committing hara-kiri, those boys’d be glad to help them out.” (READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: The Last Halloween for Democrat Witches) While making They Were Expendable in 1945, honoring the brave PT Boat warriors in the Pacific theater, the brilliant yet combative director John Ford constantly tormented star John Wayne for ducking the war still in progress. Wayne was the sole superstar for Republic Pictures, which got him a deferment in order to save hundreds of studio jobs and continue the morale-boosting movie product. Wayne’s costar Robert Montgomery, a genuine naval war hero, chewed Ford out, telling him to cut the crap. Ford complied for the rest of the shoot. Fall of the Hollywood Hero I loved all those guys and their films growing up — even contemplated enlisting myself. Only I was too young for one ongoing war. Everything about the Vietnam War appeared ugly, especially the movies, TV shows, and news referencing it. On Hawaii Five-O, for example, it seemed every other psycho killer was a deranged Vietnam veteran. And America showed little respect for real-life returning servicemen. Students and hippies protested to their faces. By contrast, screen “heroes” were all societal misfits like The Graduate, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Bonnie and Clyde, and the M*A*S*H medics. I didn’t much like them either. The return to the heroic male tradition begun by Star Wars, Superman, and Raiders of the Lost Ark in the late Seventies exploded with the rise of Ronald Reagan. Recognizable macho men and vets were back — Rambo, Thomas Magnum, Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon), Chuck Norris, even Dirty Harry. Not by coincidence, the stars who embodied them — Sylvester Stallone, Tom Selleck, Mel Gibson, Norris, and Eastwood are conservative Republicans. Harrison Ford hung with them through the Nineties, concealing his progressivism until the 21st Century, when the pull to the Left became too much for him to mask. In 2002, he began dating Ally McBeal Calista Flockhart, whom he married in 2010 at a wedding officiated by Bill Richardson, the liberal Democratic then Governor of New Mexico. Soon, Ford went full woke, offscreen and on, turning his two legendarily masculine characters into loser weenies, diminishing their stature and his. In 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, Han Solo suffers the stupidest, most ignoble death imaginable. He doesn’t go down fighting. He enables his villainous son to commit fratricide. But The Force Awakens is Cyrano de Bergerac compared to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Indy spends the entire picture as a worn-out old man bested by his cleverer Girl Boss goddaughter (the inescapable Phoebe Waller-Bridge). Last week, Ford dropped one more career embarrassment — a video ad for Kamala Harris. The video is so artificial and phony: black-and-white photography, dramatic cuts, somber tone, painful overacting, and total BS. “When dozens of former members of the Trump Administration are saying, “For God’s sake, don’t do this again, you have to pay attention.” Would that be anything like 51 former intelligence operatives signing a letter ascribing the Hunter laptop story to Russian disinformation, Professor Jones? (READ MORE: To Be or Not to Be America — After Election Day) Then comes the seppuku thrust. “The truth is this,” Ford says. “Kamala Harris will protect your right to disagree with her.” Which must be why she picked Tim Walz as her Vice-President. “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech,” Walz told MSNBC. “Especially around our democracy.” Good call, Indy. This Tuesday, we don’t have to storm Normandy Beach like David Niven did or land a shot-up bomber like Jimmy Stewart did. But we can sure as hell ignore the sad likes of Harrison Ford and the Avengers actors. We can vote for someone who got shot at for real, unlike them, and stood up in defiance. And we can save America. We can be heroes, just for one day. __________ “If you appreciate Lou Aguilar’s column, Washington, DC intrigue, and film noir mystery, you will also enjoy The Washington Trail. It is a true page turner.” —Leonora Cravotta, The American Spectator, on my new political thriller, The Washington Trail, the perfect Christmas read. Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever exciting mysteries are sold. The post We Can Be Heroes for One Day — Election Day appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.