Kamala Harris might not like Catholic charity dinners, but she knows how to throw a Hail Mary, and her latest, that Donald Trump is exhausted or senile, is landing incomplete with a thud among voters.
It has been about a week now that Harris’ campaign, which basically everyone has finally admitted is badly losing steam, started claiming Trump is in mental decline, and it’s no accident that it coincided with the moment when Democrats started outright panicking over her chances.
During most of that week, I was in Virginia and North Carolina talking mostly to Democratic voters, and while many gave me reasons why they wouldn’t vote for Trump, not one suggested he was exhausted or senile. Not a single person.
Even with the lapdog leftist news media barking this lie alongside Harris, nobody is buying it.
I’m sorry, an anonymously sourced Politico story saying Trump is ducking interviews because he is tired is not going to cut it when voters have seen Trump take questions over and over while Harris refuses to do any press conferences.
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On Friday night, ABC, NBC and CBS news all led with this thin gruel, while the New Republic cheered in a headline that “Trump’s alarming mental decline has finally become a big media story.” No significant new reporting was offered; these outlets just echoed the desperate canard from Politico and the Harris camp.
Here’s a tip from behind the scenes in journalism: A big clue that a news outlet is misleading you is when, instead of covering the actual story, they cover that the story is being covered. “We don’t have any real evidence,” these outlets are saying, “but all our journalist buddies are talking about it a lot!”
You know who is not talking about it at all? Voters.
This is because voters are not stupid, and they have seen with their own eyes that Trump has done more interviews, rallies, press conferences, gaggles and impromptu appearances than Harris since the conventions.
Oh, and by the way, that was after being literally shot in the face, and standing, fist in the air, yelling “fight, fight, fight,” with blood streaming down his cheek. That doesn’t exactly scream, “tired, old man.”
A general rule of advertising that transcends politics is that it is very hard to make people care about something they don’t already care about, and this is why Harris’ attempt to manufacture deep concern about Trump’s mental fitness is failing so badly.
Harris isn’t tapping into worries that already exist, such as Jan. 6, or abortion rights or health care. Those are things I hear Democrats talk about. Rather, she and the media have launched a laughable top-down effort to make these voters think Trump is losing it. It’s a failing endeavor.
This past week, Gallup announced that for the third straight year, trust in the news media has declined. At this point, 70% of Americans do not trust the Fourth Estate. Is it any wonder, when they are engaging in this kind of nonsense?
To make matters worse for the pushers of this ignominious lie about Trump’s fitness, we all remember that just six months ago these were the same people, almost to a person, insisting to voters that President Biden was “sharp as a tack” and “running circles around his Millennial staff.”
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Do they really think we have all forgotten that? Were they lying then, or are they lying now? Or is lying in an effort to hurt Trump so natural to them that they don’t even know the difference?
It is now completely clear that Kamala Harris as a candidate brings absolutely nothing positive to the table. Her whole campaign has come down to “I’m not Donald Trump, and I’m not Joe Biden!”
Well, I’m not Donald Trump or Joe Biden, either. It doesn’t mean I should be president of the United States.
Lacking such a positive case, all the campaign has left is to attack Trump as unfit. It hasn’t worked in regard to his policies as he has erased the sugar-high, joy-induced lead Harris enjoyed two months ago, so that only leaves personal attacks.
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This attack is failing badly; many things come to mind when one thinks of Donald Trump. Senile and exhausted are not among them, and no matter how many chattering class talking heads insist they should be, that isn’t going to change in the next 16 days.
Legendary Notre Dame football coach Frank Leahy was once asked if the Blessed Mother roots for the Fighting Irish. He said she roots for teams that can block and tackle. Harris can do neither, and it’s why this final, desperate heave of the pigskin is not going to work.
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Harris responds to diminishing support from male voters with her own ‘experience’
Vice President Kamala Harris dismissed her diminishing support among male voters during an interview with NBC News, who pressed her on why former President Donald Trump had a 16-point lead over the vice president in the key voting bloc.
“Why do you think there is a disconnect for you with men right now?” NBC’s Peter Alexander asked Harris during an interview in Michigan that aired on Saturday.
An NBC poll conducted in early October found that while Harris leads Trump among women voters, 55% to 41%, Trump leads Harris 56% to 40% among male voters.
“You can look at the audience and see there are people of every background and gender who are showing up by the thousands, and I think it is because they know I intend to be a president for all Americans, and that’s how I’m campaigning to earn the vote of every American,” Harris responded.
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Alexander asked again what might explain the gap in support from men and Harris continued, “Not only about their gender, but about their geographic location and unburdened by who they voted for in the past.”
“Just to be clear though, men still say by a 16 percent margin they’re supporting Donald Trump right now. Why do you think that is?” Alexander added.
Harris declared that it wasn’t her experience.
Alexander also asked Harris about how she would be different from President Biden.
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“I mean, to be very candid with you, you know, including Mike Pence, vice presidents are not critical of their presidents. I think, really, actually, that in terms of the tradition of it and also just going forward, it does not make for a productive and important relationship,” she responded.
Former President Obama appeared to admonish Black Americans who have not been as fervent in their support for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid as they were for his in 2008 and 2012 during a pre-campaign-rally stop in Pittsburgh on Thursday.
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell also called out Harris’ issues with male voters during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press” earlier this month.
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“She’s got such a big problem with men,” Mitchell said, adding that support for Trump among that demographic could be underestimated.
“I think that there’s misogynation in all of this. Black and White men, [it’s a] big problem. But also, the business world. They don’t think she is serious. They don’t think she’s a heavyweight. And a lot of this is gender, but she’s got to be more specific about her economic plans,” Mitchell continued. “I think they’ve got to double down on doing more interviews and serious interviews.”
Challenger in key House race scorches Dem opponent with pointed ‘I’m sorry’ question
CINCINNATI — GOP House candidate Orlando Sonza is blasting his Democrat opponent’s response to an ethics complaint related to reporting stock trades that he said is not enough to quell voter concerns on the issue.
“Absolutely not,” Sonza told Fox News Digital when asked if he thinks Ohio voters are satisfied with Democrat Rep. Greg Landsman’s explanation of his stock trading activity that has drawn scrutiny in recent days.
“I mean, giving an answer that I’m not responsible for my own stock transactions does not fly muster. Do you really want that representative representing you in the U.S. Congress that says, ‘I’m sorry? I’m not the one that balances our budget because I’m not on the Budget Committee?’ No, You are responsible for every issue that’s put before you, as voters should expect.”
Landsman was recently hit with an ethics complaint by a former inspector general of the Department of Commerce accusing him of breaking the law by waiting 20 months to disclose stock transactions, far outside the mandatory 45-day period.
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“It was a question of whether or not the stock trades were disclosed,” Landsman said during Wednesday’s debate at Xavier University in Cincinnati. “They’ve all been disclosed. I have nothing to do with my trades. And so I didn’t know. Once I found out when we were putting our financial disclosure together, we disclosed them. It was late and that was wrong. And I took responsibility. It happened to maybe 60, 70, 80 members of Congress in the last term, dozens this term. And we put in place a system to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Sonza told Fox News Digital that “the best way to look at how someone would act in elected office” is to “look at how they treat their own personal life.”
“Their own personal finances, their own life decisions, and that’s a good metric for how they’re acting when cameras are not on and doors are closed, and I think you saw that tonight – so, no, absolutely not satisfied.”
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Sonza also took issue with a comment from Landsman in the debate about his involvement in the “Gang of Five” scandal while serving on the City Council, along with the recent ethics complaint.
“That was a mistake,” Landsman said. “I should not have done that. In both instances, I immediately took responsibility. Politicians don’t do that often, certainly not often enough. I took responsibility and I moved on. I would encourage you to move on
Sonza, who argued that Landsman would be a continuation of the Biden-Harris agenda in Congress, responded,”I mean, you had a politician that was asked point-blank why you violated the law, and his answer was, ‘We got to move on from it.’ No, voters have not moved on from you being part of the Gang of Five on [the] Cincinnati City Council or a judge who said voters should not vote for you ever again, and voters are not moving on to this very fresh allegation that my opponent himself admitted tonight that he violated federal law as a sitting congressman in failing to disclose over 80 stock transactions. I mean, that raises so many questions that really I think voters are now sadly just keying into”
Landsman, who has argued that he did not personally trade the stocks, told Fox News Digital in a statement, “We disclosed the trades, but late, and it’s been fixed. Sonza is desperate. Voters want normal, pragmatic, bipartisan leaders like me and they’re exhausted with the chaos and extremism of far-right politicians like him.”
Sonza told Fox News Digital that while Wednesday’s debate was civil, it highlighted “stark” contrasts between the two candidates.
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“No. 1, there is contrast on how to fix these big problems that our country has, and it comes down to policy,” Sonza said. “You heard on one side that it seems to my opponent, just seems to be invoking a lot of the same rhetoric, political rhetoric and buzzwords and really no substance to it. The very bills that he talks about. … I think we’ve been able to highlight why they were actually wrong for America and why I would have voted differently in these last 20 months and what I will do differently if elected. So, policy-wise, whether it was the economy or the southern border or national security, VA, there were stark policy differences.”
The Cook Political Report ranks the Ohio 1st District race as “likely Democrat,” but Republicans have dedicated resources to the race as they look to protect their slim majority in the House in a race that could play a key role in determining that outcome. Landsman won by just over five points in 2022.
Pro-life protesters shift the narrative with ‘God’ message after Harris mocks them
Two pro-life Wisconsin college students insist they were doing “God’s work” by going into the lion’s den and shouting pro-life, Christian messages at Vice President Harris during a rally on their university’s campus last week.
“We got a lot of backlash,” Grant Beth, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse junior, told Fox News on Sunday.
“I was pushed by an elderly woman. We were heckled at, we were cursed at, we were mocked, and that’s the biggest thing for me personally. In reflection of the event, Jesus was mocked. You know, his disciples were mocked, and that’s okay. In reality, we did God’s work, and we were there for the right reasons, and God is watching us in this moment.
“I’m all about being a cordial person no matter your beliefs, but I do believe that we were sent there by God,” he continued.
Vice President Harris held a rally on UW-La Crosse’s campus last Thursday, where she spoke about the economy and bettering the lives of middle-class Americans. Reproductive freedom also came into the picture as she pledged to the crowd, “When Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, as president of the United States, I will proudly, proudly sign it into law.”
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She also criticized former President Trump for deliberately “hand-selecting” three Supreme Court justices with the ultimate goal of overturning Roe v. Wade.
Luke Polaske, another UW-La Crosse junior, sharply rebuked the remarks made by Harris, decrying abortion as a “sacrament to Satan.”
“When I said that, I deeply do believe that as a Christian,” he said.
“About ten seconds go by, and that’s when the video of my friend Grant and I are proclaiming that ‘Christ is Lord’ and ‘Jesus is king’… [that’s] when we said that.”
In video footage of the rally, the air is rife with commotion as Beth and Polaske’s voices are heard shouting the phrases.
Harris, pausing her speech, turned her attention to them, and said, “You guys are at the wrong rally.”
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She continued as the crowd roared, “I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street.”
Polaske offered a vivid account of the incident from his perspective, stating that he and Beth were approximately 20 to 30 yards away from Harris in the small venue. In detailing the encounter, he described his perceived interaction with the vice president.
“There’s a lot of controversy that says she wasn’t talking to us or [that] we left. We didn’t get kicked out. Well, I can speak on Grant and I’s behalf,” he said.
“On video, Grant’s getting pushed and shoved, and there’s about five seconds before she tells us to go to a small rally down the street. You can see on the video, she waves. She was actually waving to me. I took this cross off my neck that I wear and, as we were getting asked to leave, I held it up in the air and waved at her and pointed at her, and she looked directly in the eye, kind of gave me an evil smirk.”
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“I just want to clear that up and confirm that she 100% was talking to us.”
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With just 16 days left before voters head to the polls to cast their votes for either Trump or Harris, Beth highlighted the incident as a warning sign to Christians to make the right decision.
“[It’s] imperative for young Americans and first time voters like myself to understand that this is what you are going to get with a Kamala Harris presidency. You are going to get the Kamala Harris that alienates over 50% of the U.S. population that is Christian. You’re going to get the Kamala Harris that skips the Al Smith Memorial Dinner that no major presidential candidate has skipped since, I believe, Walter Mondale in 1984… it just proves what type of person Kamala is and what type of leader she will be.”
“Fox & Friends Weekend” reached out to the Harris campaign for comment, but did not hear back in time for the segment.
Mr Wonderful highlights the ‘magic moment’ handed to Harris that she fumbled
During her first Fox News interview, Kamala Harris was pressed about the Biden administration’s immigration strategy, where she missed a potentially “incredible moment” for her campaign, according to ‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary.
On Wednesday night, ‘Special Report’ host Bret Baier pressed the vice president on the tragic deaths of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and Morin, all young women who were assaulted and murdered by suspects who entered the country under the Biden-Harris administration.
“Do you owe their families an apology?” Baier asked.
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“First of all, those are tragic cases. There’s no question about that, and I can’t imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced for a loss that should not have occurred. So, that is true,” Harris replied.
During this “powerful moment” in the interview, O’Leary said he was rooting for Kamala Harris to “apologize to America” and “own” the Biden administration’s past mistakes on immigration policy.
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Instead, the Vice President took what could have been a “magic moment” for her campaign and shifted her focus back to former President Trump.
“It is also true that if border security had actually been passed nine months ago, it would be nine months that we would have had more border agents at the border, more support for the folks who are working around the clock trying to hold it all together to ensure that no future harm would occur, and this election in 20 days will determine whether we have a President of the United States who actually cares more about fixing a problem, even if it is not to their political advantage in an election because there was a solution,” she continued.
O’Leary ripped Harris for this misstep, arguing that it could have been an “incredible” moment for her to add validity to her policy plans.
“It was a huge miss. When you think of history, these interviews for those incredible moments where she could have had that catharsis and said, we own it, we made that mistake, but I will be a new president and not do that again. That could have been her moment. She missed it in a big way,” he concluded.
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Fetterman warns Dems not to underestimate a component to Trump’s strategy
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman is warning fellow Democrats not to dismiss Elon Musk’s support for former President Trump in the Keystone State.
Nineteen Electoral College votes are at stake in Pennsylvania on Nov. 5 and the state is rated a toss up by Fox News’ Power Rankings.
With both Trump and Vice President Harris fiercely competing there, and the winner likely to take the White House, the plain-dressed and plainspoken Fetterman told the New York Post in an interview that “Musk is a concern.”
“Not even just that he has endorsed [Trump], but the fact that now he’s becoming an active participant and showing up and doing rallies and things like that,” Fetterman said, explaining that the enormously successful Tesla and SpaceX CEO is an attractive figure for the kinds of voters Harris needs to win.
“I mean, [Musk] is incredibly successful, and, you know, I think some people would see him as, like, a Tony Stark,” said Fetterman, referencing the popular Marvel Comics character. “Democrats, you know, kind of make light of it, or they make fun of him jumping up and down and things like that. And I would just say that they are doing that at our peril.”
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Musk, the world’s richest man, has described himself as a centrist and voted for Democrats in the past. He has since stated in various social media posts that the Democratic Party has drifted too leftward, embracing what he calls the “woke mind virus.”
He appeared at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, alongside Trump earlier this month, where he told a crowd of Trump supporters that this is the “most important election of our lifetime.”
Musk also posted on X that he would be speaking at a series of town hall events in the battleground state through the weekend.
Additionally, the billionaire has put his money where his mouth is, donating $75 million to a pro-Trump super PAC, which focuses on voter turnout.
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Fetterman, who at times has clashed with the progresive wing of his party, told the Post that while he is not in a panic over 2024, the election in Pennsylvania is “going to be ridiculously close.”
“Trump has a connection that’s undeniable. And anyone that spends any time across Pennsylvania can see that kind of devotion and that’s why it’s going to be very close,” Fetterman said, “Pennsylvania picks the president.”
Fetterman had stood solidly behind President Biden while other Democrats sought to drive the president out of the 2024 race after his widely-panned debate performance against Trump in June. He maintains that Biden would be competitive with Trump had he not withdrawn.
“I’d like to remind everybody that Biden is the only person that’s ever beaten Trump,” Fetterman said,
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He described the effort to put Biden out to pasture as “a total blowtorch.”
“You had the Democratic side, you have the ongoing, right wing media, and then the celebrities got involved in it as well, too. And then the New York Times became the, ‘he’s got to go’ outlet throughout all that as well.”
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Fetterman emphasized that he fully supports Harris now and believes she can win Pennsylvania.
“Harris could not have run a better campaign than she has so far right now,” he told the Post.
Girls soccer team reaches the limit after Obama-appointed judge’s ruling on trans sports
A Catholic school’s girl’s soccer team in New Hampshire is the latest group to take a stand against transgender inclusion in women’s sports, as former president Trump has made the issue a priority of his candidacy.
Bishop Brady High School in Concord, New Hampshire, saw its girl’s soccer Giants boycott a game against Kearsage Regional High School in North Sutton on Friday. Kearsage Regional is a public school with a girls’ soccer team that has a transgender player. Kearsage is only one of two schools in New Hampshire with a player who is a biological male, despite a state law to prevent it.
So Bishop Brady’s players refused to show up to the game, according to multiple reports.
Kearsage’s player, Maelle Jacques, is nearly 6-foot-0 in height, according to multiple reports. Jacques was allowed to play for Kearsage Regional despite a state law in New Hampshire that restricts transgender inclusion in girls’ sports. However, a federal judge’s ruling in September put Maelle right back onto the field and into the locker room with the other girls’ athletes.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed House Bill 1205, also known as the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” into law in July, which prohibits trans girls and women from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams. But then Maelle’s family, along with the family of another transgender athlete, sued to block it.
A federal court granted a preliminary injunction on Sept. 10, which meant that the two athletes would be allowed to play until a final ruling is made. A final ruling has not been made, so they have continued to play despite the state law.
The judge who made the ruling, Landya McCafferty, is a liberal who was appointed to her seat by former president Obama in 2013.
The other athlete involved in the case, Parker Tirrell, was allowed to play for Plymoth Regional High School. A group of New Hampshire families filed a lawsuit against Bow SD officials after allegedly being forced to remove armbands to protest Tirrell’s participation on the team.
Meanwhile, the Kearsarge Regional school board even voted 6-1 to allow Jacques and other trans girls to play on sports teams on August 29, according to The Boston Globe.
The federal ruling that has allowed Maelle and Tirrell to play is one of many legislative chess moves between Republicans and Democrats in opposing efforts addressing transgender inclusion in women’s sports that have taken place during the Biden-Harris administration.
Former president Trump and even his wife, Melania, who has admitted to disagreeing with Republicans on issues of LGBT rights, each announced that they are opposed to letting biological males compete in girls’ and women’s sports. Trump has gone so far to advocate for a full-on ban, in a town hall event on Fox News this past week.
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Meanwhile, Democrats like McCafferty, anchored by the Biden-Harris administration, have gone to great lengths to help enable transgender inclusion in women’s sports.
Multiple states filed lawsuits and enacted their own laws to address this issue after the Biden-Harris administration issued a sweeping rule that clarified that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools covers discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and “pregnancy or related conditions,” in April.
The administration insisted the regulation does not address athletic eligibility. However, multiple experts presented evidence to Fox News Digital in June that it would ultimately put more biological men in women’s sports.
The Supreme Court then voted 5-4 in August to reject an emergency request by the Biden administration to enforce portions of that new rule after more than two dozen Republican attorneys general sued to block the Title IX changes in their own states.
Idaho governor Brad Little even issued an executive order later that month to enforce the “Defending Women’s Sports Act,” which would require schools and colleges to prevent transgender athletes in women’s sports.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Little did not rule out the fear of the order resulting in his public schools losing federal funding if Kamla Harris becomes the 47th president.
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“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” Little said. “From a national standpoint, there are radical little groups that want to implement changes in the rules that we have already. I’m confident in what we have, and we will aggressively (act), as the state of Idaho, both legally and legislatively, to protect women’s athletes and the great advances they’ve made because of Title IX.”
In Nevada, a state law that was passed in 2022 to protect gender identity has caused a rift between the school’s women’s volleyball players and the administration. With a game coming up against San Jose State, which has a transgender player on its roster and has resulted in a lawsuit by one of its other players, Nevada’s players have said they want to forfeit.
Nevada provided a statement to Fox News Digital, saying it cannot officially forfeit because of the law that Nevada passed in 2022.
A total of 23 states in the U.S. have laws to prevent transgender inclusion in women’s sports. But the rest have been at the mercy of the federal government, and it is now obvious that even states with those laws might not be safe either.