Towards the end of tonight’s campaign roundup on the CBS Evening News, incoming co-anchor John Dickerson gaslit viewers by suggesting that there is some decrease in border crossings relative to the Trump administration. Watch as Dickerson blatantly gaslights his audience on migration: JOHN DICKERSON: And Weijia Jiang joins us now from the Harris rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, a battleground section of a battleground state. Weijia, I want to ask you about the new CBS News poll. Okay, so we know the parties are ideologically opposed, but there’s also a division on basic facts. One example, the border. Migration is at its lowest level since the Trump administration. But the polls show that not everyone sees it that way, do they? WEIJIA JIANG: That's right, John. CBS News asked voters whether the Biden/Harris administration tried to reduce the number of migrants at the southern border. So 67% of Democrats said yes, and 65% of Republicans, almost the exact same number, said the opposite: that the administration actually tried to increase the number of migrants. So that is what is happening now.  The campaign roundup kicked off pretty standard with mentions of new horse race polling in critical Pennsylvania and soundbites from each candidate. Then, the report zeroed in on a Trump-adverse angle: his statements calling for the military to deal with “the enemy within”. The media make this look like it’s a terrible thing but in fact there are certain individuals that require military intervention. Who can forget the 2020 riot at The White House, which forced Trump into the emergency bunker and ended with over 50 Secret Service agents severely wounded? This doesn’t come up, leaving viewers to infer that these actions will be taken against individuals. It is towards the end of the roundup that Dickerson goes for his huge gaslight of the American People. By focusing on the data point about monthly levels of crossings, Dickerson attempts to draw viewers’ attention away from the migrant crisis, and from the fact that well over TEN MILLION MIGRANTS illegally crossed into the United States over the course of the past 3+ years.  Perhaps Dickerson was right. There is, within the nation, a division of facts. Part of the reason for this division of facts is the Regime Media’s insistence in gaslighting the very public they are supposed to inform. Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the CBS Evening News on Monday, October 14th, 2024: JOHN DICKERSON: Election Day is three weeks away and a new CBS poll shows a race that was effectively even is even more so. Vice President Harris leads former President Trump 51 to 48 nationally. Since last month, Trump is one point closer in the national poll, Harris leads 50-49 in battleground states. No state a greater battleground than Pennsylvania which is where we find both candidates, and our Weijia Jiang who leads our coverage from the lakeside city of Erie, Pennsylvania. WEIJIA JIANG: Tonight, both presidential hopefuls are pitching voters in Pennsylvania, a state they are targeting relentlessly. 20 trips for former President Trump and ten for Vice President Harris since becoming the nominee. KAMALA HARRIS: So Pennsylvania, today I ask you: are you ready to make our voices heard? DONALD TRUMP: If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing. It's over. JIANG: The rallies today kick off an intense week of campaigning with Harris hitting Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia. And Trump going to Georgia and Florida. This week he ramped up the rhetoric against political rivals. TRUMP: We have two enemies: we have the outside enemy and then we have the enemy from within. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think that -- and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or if really necessary by the military. Because they can't let that happen. JIANG: Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams: IAN SAMS: Suggesting that the military should be used against his fellow citizens is beyond the pale. It's something that no president should ever do. Presidents should try to bring our country together. JIANG: Harris today focused on shoring up a key constituency, black men. The campaign is concerned that a lack of enthusiasm will lead to low voter turnout. Former President Barack Obama raised the issue last week. BARACK OBAMA: Part of it makes me think that well, you just aren't feeling the idea of having a woman as president. JIANG: Harris announced a new plan aimed at winning them over, including 1 million forgivable small business loans, a focus on health issues that disproportionately affect black men and legalizing recreational marijuana to boost the industry and create new jobs. Meanwhile, a scare on the campaign trail when police arrested Las Vegas resident Ven Miller on his way to Trump's rally in southern California on Saturday. Authorities say he had two loaded unregistered guns in his SUV, but federal investigators say Trump was not in danger and there's no indication this was an assassination attempt. Miller says he is a Trump supporter who is helping the reelection effort. DICKERSON: And Weijia Jiang joins us now from the Harris rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, a battleground section of a battleground state. Weijia, I want to ask you about the new CBS News poll. Okay, so we know the parties are ideologically opposed, but there’s also a division on basic facts. One example, the border. Migration is at its lowest level since the Trump administration. But the polls show that not everyone sees it that way, do they? JIANG: That's right, John. CBS News asked voters whether the Biden/Harris administration tried to reduce the number of migrants at the southern border. So 67% of Democrats said yes, and 65% of Republicans, almost the exact same number, said the opposite: that the administration actually tried to increase the number of migrants. So that is what is happening now. We also asked about what could happen come Election Day. And on the issue of whether there would be voter fraud in the 2024 race, just 6% of Democrats said yes, but John, that number jumped to nearly half for Republicans at 47%. DICKERSON: Weijia Jiang for us on the campaign trail. Thank you so much, Weijia.  

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Politics Kamala Harris Wants to Turn the Page How can an incumbent be the change candidate? In her recent appearance on The View, Kamala Harris was asked if there is anything she would have done differently than President Biden. Harris responded: “There is not a thing that comes to mind … and I’ve been a part of … the decisions that have had impact.” Harris’s fidelity to the Biden agenda is not surprising. She has boasted in the past about being the last person in the room with Biden when he made the disastrous decision to abandon Afghanistan, give up the vital American air base at Bagram, and open the door to a rapid government takeover by the Taliban. Harris also is on record as enthusiastically embracing Bidenomics, with its recklessly high spending and record-high inflation. It is mildly perplexing that Harris would not change a thing from the Biden legacy given that five short years ago she opposed fracking, endorsed an open border, wanted to eliminate the phrase “illegal aliens” from the nomenclature, advocated starting “from scratch” to replace the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), and supported Medicare for all. What seems more curious than her admission that she would not change any of Biden’s policies, despite their unpopular outcomes, is Harris’s attempt to transform the election into a referendum on the president who Biden defeated four years earlier. In the Harris camp (which includes a large share of the media), the Trump administration, not the Biden/Harris regime, is the root cause of all of today’s problems. It’s as though Harris is starring in a sequel to the movie Back to the Future. Time travel makes it possible to turn back the clock to the Trump era and erase the history of the recent past. In the Harris screenplay, the role of Biff, the bully, is assigned to Donald Trump, who becomes the scapegoat for all problems, past and present. Harris’s running mate Tim Walz appeared to embrace the Back to the Future theme when he told a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania audience: “We can’t afford four more years of this!” Was this a Freudian slip? In a literal sense, Walz is correct. We really can’t afford four more years of the disastrous inflation sparked by Bidenomics, which has become synonymous with overspending. More likely, Walz did not mean for us to take him so literally. Like Harris, he really wants to lay the blame for the problems of the recent past on the prior four years of the Trump administration. This is a feat that defies both logic and common sense.  The notion that an incumbent administration can blame all of the nation’s problems on the candidate four years removed from power is opportunistic, but not realistic. Nonetheless, the Back to the Future theme appears to have gained some traction in that recent polls suggest a large share of voters see Harris as the candidate of change. In an October New York Times/Siena poll, Harris took a lead of 46 percent to 44 percent among respondents who saw the vice president, not Trump, as the candidate most likely to provide a departure from the status quo. Even Houdini may have found it difficult to escape this paradox! While Harris’s comments on The View suggest complete agreement with Biden’s policies and programs, her rhetoric on the campaign trail has been all about change. On Day One, lots of stuff is going to happen! She has exclaimed at nearly every campaign stop that “We need to turn the page!” We definitely need to turn the page, but just whose policies are we turning the page on? The compliant media refuse to acknowledge that Harris can’t really turn the page on inflation or illegal immigration, or the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, much as she has tried to attach blame for all of the Biden/Harris era woes to their predecessor. In an interview with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, Harris said: “We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration. But there are still a lot of problems we are trying to fix given the deterioration that happened over the past four years, before we came in.”  Are we turning the page on the open border that Kamala Harris endorsed in 2019? ICE recently released data indicating that the sheer volume of border crossings (which quadrupled under Biden/Harris) has resulted in superficial screening and enforcement of immigration policy. ICE indicates that a large number of illegal immigrants, who have been charged with or convicted of serious crimes in their home countries, are now in the United States. In one such case that received much attention, Victor Martinez Hernandez of El Salvador was charged with the rape and murder of Marylander Rachel Morin. Martinez Hernandez entered the United States illegally in February 2023 after murdering a young woman in El Salvador a month earlier. We do need to turn the page, but not for the reasons Harris presumes. We need to turn the page, for example, on the Biden/Harris administration’s excessive spending, including nearly $1 trillion in the erroneously named “Inflation Reduction Act” of 2022. Under this act, billions were allocated to provide subsidies for electric vehicles, including federal tax credits of up to $7,500 per car for wealthy folks to purchase their new Teslas! Billions of additional dollars were allocated for climate programs, including $22 billion for “Environmental Justice,” broadly defined. The bill also included $80 billion to hire more IRS agents to audit American taxpayers and small businesses, and included provisions to make sure restaurant workers pay taxes on their tips—clearly contradicting Harris’s promise not to tax tips. And of course, Harris would like us to turn the page on the fact that as vice president she boasted about casting the tie-breaking vote for this legislative boondoggle, which helped fuel out-of-control inflation.  The Nixon mantra in 1972 was “Four More Years!” George H.W. Bush’s theme in 1992 was “Stay the Course!’ Those were honest, forthright rallying calls. You either liked the record of the incumbent president and his administration’s policies, or you didn’t. Harris has admitted that she would not have changed any of Biden’s major policies, so how did we reach the point where the second-in-command of a troubled administration can sound the theme “We Need to Turn the Page”? We should not assume that Harris’s concept of “turning the page” means closing the border, or reducing massive federal spending on green energy boondoggles, or permitting fracking in Pennsylvania. The Biden/Harris legacy has largely been written and it will be difficult to delete or edit the fine print of what has occurred since January 20, 2021. We cannot simply turn the page. The post Kamala Harris Wants to Turn the Page appeared first on The American Conservative.

Politics The Vance Vibe Shift? Things have been on the upswing for the GOP since the vice-presidential debate. It appears, with just a little over three weeks to go in the election, that the Trump-Vance ticket is building some momentum. The Republican ticket captured an 10-point lead in Polymarket odds, took important swing state leads in RealClearPolitics polling aggregation, and prompted public concern from leading Democrats. There is a political eternity between now and election day, but halfway through October, Republican “vibes” are decidedly positive.  To date, there have been a handful of distinct “vibes” that have overhung the 2024 election. In the run-up to the Republican National Convention, and certainly after the Butler assassination attempt, Republicans by-and-large felt triumphant. Joe Biden’s fragility, Trump’s personal courage, and the public’s sense of national chaos seemed to guarantee impending victory. After Kamala’s coup, the cringeworthy “brat summer” adrenalized Democrats and delivered marginal polling leads to their candidates.  As Kamala’s basement campaign carried on into the fall, however, vapidity was exposed as an insufficient communications strategy. Polling tightened throughout September and another down-to-the-wire electoral fight, circa 2016 and 2020, felt likely. That was until early October’s vice-presidential debate, which marked the beginning of a fortuitous streak of developments for Republicans. The current vibe shift, which I’ll dub the Vance vibe shift, renewed early-summer’s prospects of a comfortable Republican win.  The vice-presidential debate was a rough one for Democrats. Tim Walz, who carried the manner of a deer in headlights, failed to reassert his campaign’s narrative that Senator J.D. Vance is “weird.” He instead spent a considerable portion of the night agreeing with Vance, subtly discrediting the media’s crafted narratives of extremism. Vance’s relatable persona and command of the issues, by contrast, carried the night for the GOP. Though no polling implied that Vance swayed a critical bloc of voters with his performance, elite media’s subsequent praise for Vance seemed to trigger a strategy change inside of the Harris campaign. The New York Times called Vance’s performance “dominant.” POLITICO dubbed it a “very midwestern debate” before conceding that “Vance won.” The Harris campaign’s ongoing media blitz, consisting mostly of eyeroll-inducing softball interviews, started within days of these Vance-friendly headlines.  The Harris campaign committed to a litany of traditional cable appearances including 60 Minutes, The View, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Notably, Harris started to branch out into non-traditional media, making an appearance on the crass but popular Call Her Daddy podcast among other programs. Harris’s struggles in the polls, immediately following immense media exposure, suggests that sunlight may be the GOP’s best disinfectant. After two election cycles, Vance’s debate forced the DNC out of the “basement” and back into the sunlight.  Barack Obama’s recent comments at a Democratic field office in Pittsburgh reflect liberal unease. Obama warned a smattering of volunteers that “based on reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities, is that we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running.”  Obama added the problem “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.” Recent polling does suggest that black men, in particular, are breaking towards the Trump camp in unusual numbers. They are joining Arab Americans and a steady stream of Latinos in their exit from the Obama coalition. Weakness with previously dependable electoral blocs, combined with decreased mail-in ballot requests in Pennsylvania, provide good reasons for the 44th president’s concern. Left unstated was the incumbent president’s muddle in the southeast, a region that now understands that FEMA’s disaster relief is a tertiary concern for an administration miring the United States in two overseas conflicts. Clearly, the Democratic Party’s electoral woes are many.  Given Donald Trump’s decade-long tenure as the media’s public enemy no.1, it’s doubtful we’ll see any politically damning information about him emerge in the coming weeks. October surprises, if they mean anything in our fractured media environment, are likely to break for Trump’s benefit at this stage of his political saga. Discounting possible Israeli strikes in Iran, which will spiral in unknowable ways, there are no obvious developments that could alter Trump’s current momentum.  Still, a political eternity remains before November 5. Harris is continuing to consolidate her gains with white, college-educated voters. Abortion remains a tough political topic for the GOP. Polling and prediction models are hardly wholly reliable, and campaigns tend to make mistakes. But self-inflicted wounds or egregious polling misses notwithstanding, the Trump ticket is in a better position today than it was in 2016 or 2020. The race is still too close to predict with confidence, but with three weeks to go, conservatives have much to cheer. The post The Vance Vibe Shift? appeared first on The American Conservative.