The White House reportedly canceled the remaining campaign calls that President Joe Biden had listed on his publicly available calendar after he insulted tens of millions of people this week who voted for former President Donald Trump, calling them “garbage.” The campaign calls were not officially affiliated with the Harris campaign, Fox News reported. The organizations Biden was set to speak to did not disclose whether the calls happened after they were removed from his calendar. Biden has no official events with the Harris campaign before Election Day next week. NEWS: Multiple campaign calls that were publicly advised on President Biden’s schedule yesterday afternoon were cancelled, FOX News has learned. Organizations that expected the President’s attendance did not immediately respond to inquiries about whether the zoom calls still… — Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) November 1, 2024 The move comes after Biden declared Trump supporters “garbage” during a campaign call Tuesday night with a Latino voter outreach group. “Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community,” Biden claimed. “Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage,” Biden continued, referencing remarks that were made at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City over the weekend by an insult comedian. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.” WATCH: President Joe Biden: “The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump] supporters.” pic.twitter.com/9teSUOytqC — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 30, 2024 Officials in the Biden-Harris White House altered the official transcript of Biden’s remarks at the event as they sought to stave off negative news coverage just days before the election. The Associated Press reported that the alteration of official government records drew objections from the federal workers who document all of the president’s remarks for historical reference. Official White House stenographers recorded Biden stating: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ However, Biden-Harris officials altered the quote by adding an apostrophe, changing it to “supporter’s” instead of “supporters.” The change was made only after the White House press team “conferred with the president,” according to an email obtained by the publication. Federal officials pushed back, noting that the interference by the White House was “a breach of protocol and spoilation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.” “If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote. “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.” The supervisor, who is a career White House employee, said that urgency of a transcript’s release was not their concern and that what mattered was that it was authentic and legitimate. The edit came as the administration tried to contain the fallout from Biden’s remarks during the final days of the presidential race. House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday accused White House staff of “releasing a false transcript” of Biden’s remarks, and said that they were considering opening an investigation into the matter. “Unsurprising too were the White House’s actions after he said them,” they said in a joint statement. “Instead of apologizing or clarifying President Biden’s words, the White House instead sought to change them (despite them being recorded on video) by releasing a false transcript of his remarks.” “The move is not only craven, but it also appears to be in violation of federal law, including the Presidential Records Act of 1978,” they added. “White House staff cannot rewrite the words of the President of the United States to be more politically on message. Though President Biden’s relevance continues to diminish, his words continue to matter, even as they become increasingly divisive and erratic.”

The U.S. Department of Defense announced this week that it is moving military assets to the Middle East to deter continued Iranian aggression against the U.S. and Israel after Iran vowed this week to hit Israel following last week’s strikes in Iran. The Pentagon ordered the deployment of “additional ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadron and tanker aircraft, and several U.S. Air Force B-52 long-range strike bombers to the region.” The forces will arrive in the region in the coming months as the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group prepares to leave the region. “These deployments build on the recent decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to Israel as well as DoD’s sustained Amphibious Ready Group Marine Expeditionary Unit (ARG/MEU) posture in the Eastern Mediterranean,” a statement said. Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said that the movements demonstrated the “flexible nature of U.S. global defense posture and U.S. capability to deploy world-wide on short notice to meet evolving national security threats.” The statement added that the U.S. would respond if Iran or its terrorist proxy groups throughout the region targeted U.S. personnel or interests. The repositioning of U.S. forces comes after Iran signaled this week that it would now respond to Israel’s limited strike on Iranian military and missile production facilities last week after it initially sought to downplay the incident because it wanted to avoid escalating a military conflict against a far superior opponent. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Iranian state-controlled media highlighted remarks from two top officials this week who said that they would respond after Israel struck the country following Iran’s decision to fire 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. “Iran’s response to the Zionist aggression is definite,” said General Ali Fadavi, the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). “We have never left an aggression unanswered in 40 years. We are capable of destroying all that the Zionists possess with one operation.” Gholamhossein Mohammadi Golpayegani, head of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office, said that Iran would deliver a “fierce, tooth-breaking response.” Analysts say that Iran is stuck between a rock and a hard place because if it does not respond, it will appear weak and lose credibility with its allies and terrorist proxy groups. Not responding will also embolden opposition groups in the country that are gaining popularity as the country increasingly sours on the regime. However, if Iran responds, it risks provoking a much greater response from Israel after the nation has repeatedly proven that it has significant military and technological advantages over Iran. Israel wiped out Iran’s air defenses during its strikes last week, allowing the Israel Air Force (IAF) to operate freely over Iranian airspace. “We hit its underbelly,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The boastful talk by the Iranian regime’s heads cannot conceal and compensate for the fact that Israel now has greater freedom to operate in Iran than ever before.” The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel has directly conveyed to Iran that if it launches a response, Israel will “mount a far more aggressive attack in return.” Iran is also considering having one of its proxies launch a strike against Israel believing that going that route will protect it from an Israeli response. Kamal Kharrazi, Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations head, said on Friday that the Islamic regime now possesses the technological capabilities to create a nuclear weapon. Iran already has enough enriched uranium that — if it decided to break out — could build a weapon in roughly a week, assuming that they have technological abilities. “We now have the technical capabilities necessary to produce nuclear weapons,” he claimed. “We are ready for war but we do not want to escalate because we have currently proven our ability to deter from doing so.” “The matter is up to the Israelis – if they really want to continue, we will respond to them,” he continued. “Our missile capabilities are clear to everyone and everyone believes in them, and we have proven that during our operations.”

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“The only garbage I see out there is his supporters,” said President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening, referencing a comedian’s comment at former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. Biden said this as Vice President Kamala Harris delivered on the Ellipse, visible from the White House windows, what her campaign described as her campaign’s “closing argument” speech. Calling half the United States’ electorate “garbage” is obviously political malpractice. Recognizing that was the White House press office and a liberal Politico reporter’s insertion of an apostrophe, joined by an apology posted on X in Biden’s name about an hour later. However, these attempts to mislead seem unpersuasive considering the barrage of comparisons by Democrats, up to and including Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of the Trump rally with a 1939 Madison Square Garden rally for the pro-Nazi German American Bund. Actually, that rally was conducted in an earlier Madison Square Garden, demolished in 1968, while the current arena has been the site of the 1976, 1980, and 1992 Democratic National Conventions, all of which I attended. Of course, as Axios’ Alex Thompson quickly noted: “Operatives in both parties instantly saw [Biden’s comment] as a flashback to Hillary Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ comment” in 2016. The difference is, Clinton insulted only half of Trump’s supporters, while Biden seemed to insult all of them. Sensible Democrats understand that. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro apparently surprised by a CNN interviewer’s question, replied: “I’m giving you my fresh reaction to it. I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any Americans if they choose to support a candidate that I didn’t support.” The Trump campaign instantly emailed supporters, “You are not garbage!” Biden’s “garbage” comment, a week before Election Day, stepped all over Harris’ “closing argument,” in which she said, “I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. … I’ll give them a seat at the table.” The Biden comment hurts because it’s indicative of the contempt and hatred many Democratic politicians and voters feel for their fellow citizens who support the other party’s candidate. However, it’s not the first possibly calamitous mistake made by either side’s campaign during this closely contested campaign. The “garbage” comment was evidently a riposte to the comedian’s joke at the Trump rally that Puerto Rico is “a floating island of garbage.” Puerto Rico actually has a landfill shortage problem, but whoever failed to vet the comedian’s text or approved it committed political malpractice. Democrats gleefully hoped to exploit it in the only target state with many voters of Puerto Rican heritage, although polling suggested that much lower shares of Latinos than blacks take offense at arguably disparaging comments. Republican strategists are hoping the Biden remark will augment their side’s advantage in enthusiasm, which has been reflected pretty clearly in early voting in Nevada and perhaps Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina as well. Beyond individual incidents, it’s arguable that both campaigns have made fundamental mistakes that will be considered fatal for whichever of them loses. Not just at Madison Square Garden but in one rally after another, the Trump campaign has taken the risk that invited speakers and, perhaps more likely, the candidate himself will make statements that are politically damaging or can be rendered as such not only by Democrats but a hostile press. Trump’s disjointed sentences, in which, as he said, he “weaves” his ideas together, leave him vulnerable to malicious misinterpretation, such as the argument still peddled by Biden that he did not condemn “neo-Nazis and white nationalists” in Charlottesville in 2017. The Harris campaign, in contrast, has been careful to subject its candidate to only a few challenging or not entirely sympathetic interviews, and even there, she has not always been prepared with politically deft responses. For example, she told the women at “The View” that nothing came to mind when she was asked how she differs from Biden. Although apparently healthy and a comparatively youthful 60 years old, Harris has made fewer public appearances than any candidate in the past five campaigns—except Biden in 2020. Voting for president is a person’s most personal choice, and Harris’ strategy of cagey responses and refusal to give more than perfunctory explanations of changes from her radical 2019 campaign stances risks losing votes another Democrat might win. If Trump risks revealing too much of himself, Harris risks revealing too little. These perhaps unwise risks seem pretty clearly to have been driven by the candidates, not their managers. Lesser decisions may seem unwise in retrospect—Trump’s campaigning in Democratic-leaning New Mexico; Harris’ promoting a rally with Beyoncé in Houston where the singer didn’t sing; both candidates pandering with proposals such as no taxes on tips and spending and trade policies likely to trigger renewed inflation. If Harris loses, an impaired Biden stepping down from pursuing a second term at 81 years old and then clearing the way for a largely unvetted and unpracticed Harris to replace him might seem an obvious mistake. If Trump loses, it might appear obvious that it was a mistake for Trump to insist he really won in 2020 and elbow aside all primary competition this year at 78 years old. It’s tempting to conclude that Trump couldn’t beat any Democrat except Harris and that Harris couldn’t beat any Republican except Trump. All that said, it’s unwise, so close to the election, to be confident that your candidate has made their last mistake or that the opposition’s last mistake will surely be decisive. “There’s a nontrivial chance,” National Review’s Dan McLaughlin tweeted Oct. 29, “that the worst, stupidest & most important things to happen in this election haven’t happened yet.” COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Who’ll Make the Last Mistake in This Flawed Campaign? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Sam Harris was once a key thinker when it came to waking liberals up to the dangers of identity politics on the left. However, that has not stopped him from contracting a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, which he has tragically been unable to shake. “My original claim, Sam, is that Donald Trump is very obvious in his excesses. Democrats and the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris are much more, I would say much more, subtle in their excesses,” Ben Shapiro said in a debate with Sam Harris on Bari Weiss’ “The Free Press” podcast. "But those excesses are no less dangerous for being more subtle, in fact, in some ways I think they are more dangerous." “You can’t use a phrase like ‘no less dangerous.’ Hillary Clinton conceded in 24 hours. That is less dangerous than this continuous provocation that has gone on for years,” Harris responded, referencing Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results. “I disagree with you,” Shapiro shot back. “I think that the attempt by members of the media, by Hillary Clinton who herself said that Donald Trump was illegitimately elected based on Russian interference in the 2016 election, was highly damaging.” Harris then acted as though Clinton no longer says anything of the sort. “She will still claim openly that there was manipulation that took place during the 2016 election,” Shapiro responded, while Harris repeated, “That’s not true.” Harris then went on to make the case that “the sane thing to say is that there is continuous foreign interference in our elections.” “Sam, now you’re proposing a double standard. When Hillary says it, it’s totally subtle and fine, and when Trump says it in the most obvious, foolish way, it’s totally different,” Shapiro said, stifling a laugh. “You’re just missing the relevant details,” Harris concluded. Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is dismayed to see how bad Harris’ TDS has gotten, as Rubin once looked up to him. “He’s not missing the relevant details. Hillary repeatedly, multiple times on Twitter and throughout the media, over the course of the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, referred to him as illegitimate and said that the election was stolen,” Rubin says. “They also had a sham impeachment, they had 51 intelligence officials who claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation,” he continues, noting Big Tech banned the story. “You had an entire machine that was designed to destroy Donald Trump,” he adds. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Ubisoft hopes the recent Assassin’s Creed Shadows delay will help “change the narrative” around the developer, while also addressing the perceived inconsistency of its releases. With Shadows coming off the back of an incredibly tough 2024 for Ubisoft, the studio is doing all it can to right the ship with its most well-known series. Both Prince of Persia The Lost Crown and Star Wars Outlaws didn’t meet Ubisoft’s expectations this year, so the studio is changing its strategy with Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Shadows delay a chance to “change the narrative,” Ubisoft says MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RPGs on PC, Best stealth games, Assassin’s Creed Shadows release date