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Week 2 of the College Football sees Michigan play Texas in a long-anticipated game among more storylines

The chief of Israel's largest labor union, the Histadrut Labor Federation, is planning a massive one-day strike on Monday to demand a cease-fire deal after hostages were found dead.

Former President Donald Trump is increasingly courting the fringe instead of the middle, which could potentially cost him the November election. That's according to an email from frustrated Republican donor and reluctant Trump voter Eric LeVine.Jewish Insider reporter Matthew Kassel first tweeted the email on his official X (formerly Twitter) account, which LeVine sent after the former president announced he was adding Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate-turned Fox News regular Tulsi Gabbard to his transition team. According to LeVine — who supported former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley in the Republican primary — those two additions were a significant blunder to Trump's ability to appeal to undecided voters."RFK is an anti-vax kook who sees conspiracies behind every tree and under ever bed, and Gabbard is the former vice-chair of the DNC," Levine wrote. "There is something terribly wrong with this picture... It is hard to imagine a more self-destructive announcement."READ MORE: 'He can be stopped': GOP donor says Trump's 'aura of invincibility' has 'peeled away completely'"Rather than seeking and coveting the endorsement of fringe candidates with fringe policy positions that offend most Republicans and Independents, Trump would be better served by announcing he has added Nikki Haley to the transition team," he continued. "It is her voters he should be focused on."As LeVine noted, Haley's bloc of voters is a not-insignificant chunk of the Republican base. And late into the primary, well after Haley dropped out of the race, thousands of Republican voters still voted for her in their state's respective primaries. This includes must-win battleground states like Georgia and Pennsylvania. Like President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris has made overtures to the moderate bloc of the GOP, and the Democratic National Convention featured primetime speeches each night from lifelong Republicans explaining why they couldn't support Trump's third bid for the White House."[Harris'] entire campaign strategy is to appeal to Haley voters, independents and women; Reagan voters. These should be solid Trump voters," LeVine wrote. "Yet, they are up for grabs because Trump seems to be laser focused on narrowing his base rather than expanding it.""As a former Haley voter and Reagan Republican, I say to you Mr. Trump, speak to me and my fellow Republicans," he added. "Reject the fringes. Fight for the middle. If you do not, you will forever be known from this day forward, as the 'Former president.'"READ MORE: Pennsylvania primary results reveal fatal flaw for Trump in must-win battleground stateWhoever wins the 2024 election will have to win the electoral college votes of roughly a dozen closely contested states that flipped from Obama to Trump, and from Trump to Biden, over the course of the last few election cycles. This includes states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, whose Electoral College votes were decided by a few thousand total ballots statewide. This suggests that whoever wins over Haley's considerable bloc of voters could end up with a narrow Electoral College majority in November.In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton narrowly lost the election after Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all narrowly went for Trump by less than 78,000 votes across all three states. And in 2020, Biden won Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin by less than 50,000 total ballots. Those states, in addition to Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District (Nebraska allocates electoral votes by congressional district) gave Biden the edge over Trump four years ago.Read the full letter in Kassel's tweet below, or by clicking this link.READ MORE: Experts say 'barely relevant' RFK Jr. endorsement of Trump makes GOP ticket 'even weirder'

New York Times reporter Francesca Paris earlier this month noted that "new voter registration data" in Pennsylvania and North Carolina — both battleground states — proves that Vice President Kamala "Harris' candidacy has energized potential Democratic voters."Paris emphasized, "For nearly the entire year, more people had been registering as Republicans than as Democrats when signing up to vote in" the two states, which "use party registration and that release this data regularly."On Wednesday, Tom Bonier, with the data firm Target Smart, shared new numbers with CBS News' Major Garrett, according to Mediate.READ MORE: 'Especially impressive': Harris campaign fires back at Trump attack with two words"We're tracking something really interesting right now — it’s a surge in voter registration in key groups ahead of the November election," Garrett said. "Among young Black women, registration is up more than 175%. You heard that right. More than 175% in 13 states. That’s compared to the same time in 2020. This, according to the data firm Target Smart, registration has also increased among young Latinas and Black Americans." Visit Advertiser websiteGO TO PAGEGarrett then asked Bonier, "Could that possibly be right? If you must have triple-checked this or many more times than that."The data expert replied, "You’re right to repeat the number because I more than triple-checked it. It’s incredibly unusual to see changes in voter registration that are anywhere close to this. I mean, there might be 175% is almost tripling of registration rates among this specific group. You just don’t see that sort of thing happen in elections normally."Responding to the question of what the increase says about voter "enthusiasm," Bonier said, "Tells us a lot. The reason that we look at this voter registration data is because the polls will only tell us so much. The polls tell us how people are going to vote. They don’t tell us if or who is going to vote. It’s a big question.'"READ MORE: Harris has nearly erased Trump’s lead on his 2 strongest campaign issuesHe emphasized, "The best indicator of that is the actions that people are taking. Number one, registering to vote. Someone who says, I want to participate in this election. And so as we’ve seen these questions of which side has the advantage and intensity and enthusiasm, we look for changes in voter registration like this. People who are newly registered to vote are much more likely to vote on Election Day."Watch the video below or at this link.

Mark Zuckerberg this week sent a letter that, in a country with a functioning news media, would have major ramifications.

Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride, a Democrat running for the state’s open Congressional seat, attends the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Tuesday.

The DNC estimates some 50,000 visitors will come to Chicago for the convention, which runs Monday through Thursday at the United Center and McCormick Place.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17.

Top bipartisan lawmakers conducting oversight of homeland security are demanding answers from DHS Secretary Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray after a foiled assassination attempt.

Brentwood will elect a new mayor and several East County council seats up for grabs in the Nov. 5 election.

WASHINGTON — Senators have asked whether the Secret Service needs more funding in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, which appears to have contributed to the delay on a Homeland Security spending bill.

Vice President Kamala Harris has declared herself and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “joyful warriors” as they spent their first full day as running mates rallying Democrats across the Midwest. But they got an idea of just how hotly contested the...

They are spending their first full day as running mates in Wisconsin and Michigan. The trip is aimed at shoring up support among the younger, diverse, labor-friendly voters.

Senators take action to address Beijing's state-sanctioned persecution and forced organ harvesting targeting Falun Gong practitioners.

Donald Trump's campaign intervened in the non-profit Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" to shut down the operation after it began reflecting badly on his candidacy. Non-profits are prohibited from coordinating with political campaigns, the IRS website says. Trump's campaign immediately released a furious statement saying they had nothing to do with plan director Paul Dans' ousting. "Trump Campaign issues a nasty statement after Project 2025 Director resigns, which clearly proves they were the ones who demanded it and are only upset about it because it was so unpopular with the public," quipped MeidasTouch editor Ron Filipkowski.Read also: ‘Creepy weirdos’: Senator fears Trump WH staff would destroy government from ‘inside’Indeed, the angry statement continued to deny any involvement. "President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not associated with the campaign or the President in any way," the statement from the campaign said.“Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign— it will not end well for you," it also claimed. Meanwhile, Heritage Foundation director Kevin Roberts said in comments on X that Project 2025 is still alive and well, and so is Dans. He's merely moving to a different role. It prompted political analysts and experts to quickly post the gif from "The Brady Bunch Movie" with Marsha saying, "Sure, Jan.""It's just too little too late," was another gif posted by national security lawyer Bradley Moss. Others pointed out Trump's frequent denial that he had nothing to do with Project 2025 and knew nothing about it. The fact that his campaign was involved in shoving Dans out would not only cause tax status for the Heritage Foundation. "So, Paul Dans of the Heritage Foundation is OUT," posted Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson on X. "Dans was a key author of Project 2025. It's almost as if...and say it with me, folks...Everything Trump Touches Dies.""In a desperate attempt to distance himself from Project 2025, Trump is threatening 'it will not end well for' anyone calling out his ties to that MAGA manifesto," The Lincoln Project said in a comment from the group. "Anyways, here's a thread of all the Project 2025 creators Trump claims he doesn't know, but have ties to his admin."Former short-lived White House communications director and one-Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci also mocked the statement. "Guys we were just kidding our full on rascist fascist movement (Project 2025) isn’t popular so we are going to pretend it doesn’t exist. The lies will continue until morale improves. Trump is going to lose the election. Cry now to prepare yourself," he posted on X. "They’ll take pieces of it and just move it into the campaign. The unpopular stuff they’ll pretend it never existed and Trump will continue to distance himself. Bad dudes," he also said.Reporter Brian Karem agreed, noting, "in the best MAGA/Project 2025 fashion threatens anyone who won't buy their latest b.s. by saying it 'won't end well' for them. The tragic, dark comedy of MAGA continues."

House lawmakers are asking the Secret Service if it has implemented any new security measures between the Capitol riot and the Trump rally shooting.

A few surprises -- but no clear motive -- were disclosed by the Secret Service and FBI directors at a Senate hearing Tuesday.

Ronald Rowe Jr., acting director of the Secret Service, waits Tuesday to testify at a Senate hearing on the security failures leading to the assassination attempt on Former President Donald Trump.

DALLAS — There they stood. Two men perched at podiums in an audience-free television studio looking to win the first of two presidential debates. They couldn’t have had a clue how extraordinary the June 27 night would be.

The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has requested information from eight federal, state, and local agencies regarding the shooting.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress in the Capitol. In the back are Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.

Law enforcement shot photos of the would-be assassin before the gunman shot bullets at Donald Trump. Bodycam video released Tuesday by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office shows what appears to [...]The post Bodycam Footage Released, Reveals Cop Had Multiple Pics of Shooter Before Trump Attack appeared first on The Western Journal.

The FBI says the gunman acted alone, and the Secret Service says there’s no evidence of a second shooter. That hasn’t stopped the speculation online.

Harris' first effort showed potential on the debate stage but also involved a struggle to find a core message.

A total of 153 Yakima County residents filed to become a precinct committee officer this year. What are these jobs and why are they on the ballot?

Allies of former President Obama called on President Biden to bow out of the 2024 presidential election in the lead-up to the president officially announcing he won't run.

Homophobic and transphobic remarks were unmistakably present throughout the first three days of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., says the Secret Service provided little information to senators and did not take more than four questions, with no follow ups, at a briefing.

“I’m so excited for J.D.,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene added.

The Democratic convention will likely be riddled with "chaos and dysfunction" as calls mount for President Biden to drop out of the presidential race, predicts Rep. Darin Lahood, R-Ill.

Two popular large language models identified rhetoric flagged as being potentially harassing and/or violent in transcripts of Trump’s and Biden’s public events.

The Washington Times' Tim Constantine sits down with Senator Ron Johnson at the RNC to discuss crime, open borders, and inflation.