A funny thing happened on the way to the 2020 election – and I do mean funny. Truth began to waft into newsrooms and talk-a lot-shows, like the scent of orange blossoms on a breeze – or the appearance of all those American flags. Have you noticed? Flags are everywhere.
So, the funny bit. Bill Maher, a liberal, comedian-commentator, interviewed two “also-rans,” Pete Buttigieg, former mayor glad not to be one now, and Andrew Yang, Asian-American businessman who got left out the Democratic Convention, until he tweeted on it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/andrew-yang-added-to-dnc-convention-speaker-lineup-after-tweeting-about-being-left-off-it/ar-BB17VmqU?ocid=uxbndlbing. That is inclusion for you!
Anyway, the interview proceeded, until Trump-Biden polls came up. Seems Trump is closing the gap. This unsettled the host, who expressed concern Biden was not “comfortably ahead.”
Looking for comfort from Buttigeig and Yang, he got little. The former mayor tried to explain Trump’s climb. “I think there are a lot of folks who heard a message – fraudulent though it was, a message that here’s somebody who sees you and cares about you.”
Hmmm, interesting. While congressional Democrats delayed aid to Americans and businesses, tying it to socialist spending, Trump just signed four executive orders to extend unemployment assistance, defer payroll taxes, freeze evictions, and pause student loan payments to yearend. See, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/511186-trump-signs-orders-on-unemployment-benefits-payroll-tax-after-talks.
That – along with reliance on medical experts, pushing to reopen the economy and schools, respecting Constitutional limits –sounds like authentic caring. The opposite does not.
Look back. Pelosi and Schumer held up critical small business funds – refusing a renewal of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), to leverage unrelated spending. See, e.g., https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/23/houses-passes-coronavirus-relief-nancy-pelosi-held-small-business-as-leverage-for-weeks/; see also, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/whats-in-democrats-coronavirus-bill-arts-funding-union-help-and-more.
Their March delay – which drove 100,000 businesses under – may have been more insidious. See, https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/497519-more-than-100000-small-businesses-have-permanently. Reports indicate, Pelosi delayed aid so she could run “Super Tuesday” ads against Trump. See, https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/03/03/pelosi-delayed-vote-on-coronavirus-funding-so-dccc-could-run-super-tuesday-ads-against-7-gop-candidates/. The Democrats’ August delay was tied to socialism. See, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/08/10/chris_wallace_vs_pelosi_on_coronavirus_bill_didnt_you_mess_this_one_up.html; see also, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-blames-pelosi-wish-list-coronavirus-stimulus-bill.
Either way, congressional Democrats have the “caring deficit.” Trump, by contrast, is doing what he can – to end COVID-19, get stimulus and tax relief, accelerate vaccines, assure Social Security and Medicare are sound. See, https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/08/09/Kudlow-Trump-wouldnt-end-Social-Security-through-payroll-tax-order/9701596985351/. Trump’s caring extends to law and order in cities and suburbs, preserving life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness wherever he can – within bounds of constitutional authority.
Back to that interview. Buttigieg wants “change.” He looks past Trump’s achievements. Trump lifted every demographic group to record levels of employment. Maybe Democrats want a return to “go-slow” economics, reopening borders, money to Iran, coddling China, rebooting sanctuary cities, raising taxes coast to coast, defunding police, and rolling riots?
Biden’s latest un-bumbled idea is a “national mandate” on Americans to wear masks outside – or else! See, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/13/donald-trump-rips-joe-biden-mask-mandate-push/. Of course, that would gut the 10th Amendment, which forecloses federal power grabs. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Supreme Court has been clear – the amendment lives. That is why Trump pushed no federal mandates.
Biden’s proposal tells us what a Biden-Harris future would look like. Perpetual lockdown, and evisceration of other constitutional rights. If you can gut one amendment, you can gut them all.
What else did Yang say? The host asked if the Democratic Party might be “too captured by its far-left fringe.” Prescient! What did Yang say? Goodness, no, not the problem. Yang told a story. When first running, when he told people he was a “Democrat,” he got a “negative reaction oftentimes.” That came “from truck drivers or waitresses or retail clerks that I thought the Democratic Party was fighting for.”
Or does he mean, owned? Presumably, those are the Americans Hillary Clinton called “deplorables,” and Biden feels – “Come on man!” – must vote for him, as an identity block.
Yang concluded: “Our message is not reaching certain Americans” and – two months left – “Democrats need to do some soul-searching.” Interesting. Perhaps the Democrat message is reaching Americans – and they do not like it. They do not want to swap freedom for socialism, trade work for dependence, security for riots, citizenship for open borders, history for hokum. As for soul-searching, that might be a bit late.
In any event, the latest polls are trouble – for Democrats. As Yang noted, Democrats deliver a “message” and say, “if you do not get that message, it is your fault.” He may be onto something. He regrets Democrats cannot speak so Americans “appreciate and understand.” Idea: Maybe they do understand – and do not appreciate – what Democrats propose for individual liberty.
Yang’s final epiphany: Democrats are “in danger of being perceived as this urban party or the party of the educated elite.” Right – only the danger is to America. The perception is accurate.
Nationally, Democrats have drifted far from their roots – into the “socialist” channel, seeking power at any cost, placing service and individual liberty behind absolute control.
Polls are tightening because Americans value liberty. Political ends never justify anti-American means. If Harry Truman or John Kennedy were alive, they would shake their heads. An increasing number of moderates see the Biden-Harris ticket as a will-o-the-wisp, a ghostly invitation back into the swamp – dangerous for America. That explains the shifting polls.
One footnote, to give the host credit. Trump is closer to Biden today than to Clinton in August 2016. In national polls, Biden leads Trump with a spread of 7 to 11 points. At this point in 2016, Clinton led by a spread of 9 to 15 points – and Trump had no record. See, https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/04/politics/hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump-national-polls/index.html. At this point in 2016, Clinton was gaining. Today, Trump is gaining. Between mid-July and mid-August, Trump tightened in all seven swing states.
Funny thoughts, like picking up a scent on the breeze or seeing American flags everywhere. If Democrats hear footsteps, best not to look back – Trump is gaining.
POLLS DO NOT COUNT! Do NOT fall into the warm and fuzzy feeling of ‘Trump pulling ahead’. GET OFF YER BUTT, GO OUT AND VOTE!!!
The polls lie and the President was never behind. To maintain long term professional credibility they will be more truthful as election day draws near to save face. Their mission is not to inform the public with real news but to manipulate conservative not to vote and contribute to the campaigns.
The more lawlessness is tolerated in Dem run areas, the louder the “something/someone is coming” is going to get. As one of the previously silent majority, I will not be silenced any more. In fact I’m getting ever more assertive about my views on the Democratic Socialist’s behavior and their blatant disregard for our Constitution and American way of life. Trump 2020, Red all the way!
Improving America is almost as easy as tapping your toes together. Vote out all democrats!
What the Dems hear is not footsteps approaching from behind, what they hear is footsteps rapidly fading out in front of them as they are left in the dust.
I am expecting that the Democrats will win this upcoming election, and all elections from now on. With the mail-in voting that they are ramming down our throats, they ensure that they will be able to manufacture more than enough phoney ballots to easily steal this election, and all subsequent elections until they can complete the total destruction of our Republic.
This is a wonderful, informative article. If it could only be made available to everyone and not just the AMAC faithful. However, most of those exposed to it would still vote Democrat as they are not interested in saving America.
Hillary, just like slow Joe, was gonna win! Right up until she didn’t. Expect the “polls” to “show” that Biden is going to win right up until election night when all those poor dour faced talking heads are going to have to say, “We have to project that President Trump has been re-elected.” And Rik was right; when that happens, Antifa and BLM and others will probably start burning everything in site. I recommend a shotgun with rock salt shells. Won’t kill but burns like hell for several hours.
Trump is gaining? Just shaking my head. He’s been ahead all the way. Now it is known that as Obama/Biden interfered with the 2016 election – fraud – just maybe Trump will be give another four more years anyway. These past four years have been the worst part of American history for the people of America. What a sham the media are. What a sham the democrat party is. What a SKAM the Covid lie is. Dear God in heaven, please lead us out of this horror story of lies, trafficking and eating of children, voter fraud, all of this. Please bring this to an end. Amen.
IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN, find an alternative to Public Education. It destroys individual thinking!! Charter and Parochial Schools can be OK but Home Education is best although it may require lifestyle changes. EACH OF US MUST CHOOSE! “IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN…”
The Democrat Party is the Communist Party in our Country!! Stand-up for America!! Remove Every Democrat!!!!!
Become a Counter-Revolutionary! Demand Authority ENFORCE OUR LAWS!! Stand-up for America!! Remove Every Democrat!!!!!
The Democrat Party is being funded by the “One World Government”!! Stand-up for America!! Remove Every Democrat!!!!!
Don’t believe slanted polls. TRUMP will win, because most Americans, even ‘Democrats’ who don’t want socialism => communism, will vote for him. We want a strong America, regulated capitalism, regulated borders, LEGAL immigration, a strong military, no rioting/looting without dire consequences, etc. Are today’s Dems %&$*#(!!! kidding? You’d have to be moronic to vote left.
What is happening with the polls today is exactly what happened in 16. Hillary Clinton was leading in all the polls and the main stream media even predicted she would win in a landslide victory as late as the mid afternoon of election day. They predicted Trump would not even get ten electoral votes. They were very wrong then and may very well be very wrong again.
The election of 2020 is going to go down in history as the election that either made America something each and every real American can be proud of again (by reelecting Trump/Pense) or the one that is responsible for the attempted fundamental transformation into a communist state (by electing Biden/Harris) whether it succeeds or fails at first. Let it be known that is the goal of these indoctrinated make believe democrats. They are, it is now obvious, already communists they are just pretending to be democrats because communism is not yet acceptable in the United States of America.
OMG, Pls ALL Republicans, and Conservatives vote 4 our POTUS and do a STRONG turnout at the Election The crazy millenials do not know what socialism is, and the Liberals are taking advantage of their IGNORANCE!!!, “USA is a VERY sick country, We have to fix it the stakes are HIGH for all of us
Still waiting for the national guard to go into Chicago every weekend and shoot to kill. This would end in 5 weeks.
It will be president Kamala Harris.
After 2 nights, I have heard enough about “lets elect a good man” and nothing about what this “good man” will do.
We need to either stay awake or wake up and understand the overthrow of our govt that will occur when Biden is elected.
Remember what happened to Czar Nicholas and his family in 1917 ? I fully believe that antifa is ready to do this and I fully
believe that the worlds greatest police and military force( based on what I have seen over the last 3 months) will do nothing
to stop it. We need a military that understands that it is responsible to our president. Our generals are part of the swamp.
Anybody who votes for the Biden-Harris ticket needs to have their head examined!
The Postmaster General backed off of USPS changes today, but what happens to changes made since DeJoy was picked by Trump in June. Also, he has no experience with USPS but has donated to Trump election ?? Hmmmm……. Changes made have to be retracted & put back in place, or a lot of damage has already started to show up in postal service. Changes in Washington yesterday made two cities in West side stop taking care of mail to East side? Probably after lot of years, just harassment to slow down mail-in ballots. Enough fooling with USPS.
As near as I can tell AARP has 26 million members & AMAC has +1 million. AARP has action against getting rid of SS & the poll here seems like it leans towards Trump proposal. I think this might be due to all AARP members being over 50 & maybe amac has younger people that have been told they will never seen it anyway after 2034 financial troubles.
The comment in article that” Trump is assuring Social Security and Medicare are sound” Does not sound anything like I read in his Executive order & then his comment he will do away with payroll tax and put in General Fund. How will this make FICA sound? Trump and his people seem very confused in explaining this.
The ONLY poll that counts is the one on election day when Americans turn out to select their leader for the next 4 years. Biden as a leader? Well, yes, people will follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity!
Even so, and I pray you’re right, many, many Americans are war-weary. They hear repeated put-downs, threats, and insults from our President, and Sleepy Joe’s calm, appeasing demeanor is well-calcuated to apply salve to our wounds. Trump needs to tread carefully and stop ranting at every opportunity.
To hell with polls our great President has this in the bag China Joe is done before he ever gets started . A bigger butt kissing fool there has never been go home to the basement Joe and shame yourself no more. Thank you President Trump for all you do look forward to your second term with great hope for the Country!
Conservative Republicans are quickly losing their voice on the mainstream media. We need to demand fair election processes, an end to the radical violence, learn the truth and stop being brainwashed. Wake up America! Socialism is the wolf at the door, especially social media billionaires and their “social engineering.”
All I’m gonna say is GOOOOOOOOO TRUMP GOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Jesus Christ Almighty ! ! These “poles” are skewed, screwed, and tattooed by the communist party. Stop with this poll garbage already.
One thing is VERY CLEAR…the left cares NOTHING about AMERICA or US AMERICANS!!! How many more ways can they show us just how much contempt they have for we AMERICANS and our CONSTITUTION??? HOW MANY? They have promised a lot but since 1968, when I first became aware of politics, what have they actually delivered on that is in OUR best interest??? They have fought tooth and nail for abortions and planned parenthood…and that has benefited us HOW? How many worthy human beings have they MURDERED who could have been the next Einstein or Henry Ford or even the President of the USA? ALL are worthy of life, don’t get me wrong…but how many who could have made vast inroads of progress in our lives? GONE! Sucked out to benefit planned parenthood. And just HOW does it benefit US to put ILLEGALS ahead of AMERICAN CITIZENS??? HOW have they made OUR lives better instead of their own? HOW is it that people get into office poor as Church mice and leave millionaires and billionaires when WE, THE PEOPLE struggle to get by??? HOW many of these democraps do you think would give all their pay to CHARITY as President Trump has??? Go ahead and name ONE…just ONE. Didn’t think so because there isn’t one! All they think about is taxing us to death to pay for their PORK! If I have named anything wrong here…please correct me!
I think increasing his lead in all the false polls.
I don’t think of the DNC as the party of the “educated elite!” What a joke, Yang ! I’m laughing so hard thinking of all the welfare mommas and urban gangsta thugs assaulting patriot grandmas and elderly vets standing alone to protect property, all the basement slugs in black Antifa uniforms supporters of Chinese fireworks suppliers setting public and private property on fire, all the illegals who don’t possess so much as an eighth grade education pushing drugs in America’s middle schools and running side businesses as human traffickers for MS13… all of the voters, legal and illegitimate, dead and alive… all the voters and Democrats if the DNC as any kind of educated educated elite. What a joke.
Election is only about 10-weeks away, & last week Trump threw out two flaming arrows (IMO) with 1) Defer payroll taxes & get rid of this Social Security tax is elected and 2) Attack USPS from many different directions & tells world our postal service is bad & elections full of fraud. What are you thinking Mr. Trump ? Focus on Covid-19 to bring back USA to greatness like the 50-60’s (when US was United)
Biden has been and is leading only in the minds of his “true believers”. I don’t trust “polls” regardless of who is conducting them. Wording can always “lead” the answer. Remember the old joke: “Please answer Yes or No, Have you stopped beating your wife?”
Did Trump call the mayor of NYC a socialist/communist on Fox interview yesterday? That is really a strong thing to say about any American citizen in my opinion, but must be true for POTUS to say on national media of FOX>
I know this happened the last time too. I don’t understand how folks cannot be up in arms about Social security & Medicare & the USPO.
This affects almost all of us. With all the money that is from SS invested in high interest bonds ifrom the government; what do they expect to do with all of that money??? Congress already is spending our SS funds yearly. We paid the FICA tax in good faith that when we retired; the insurance money would be there for us matched dollar for dollar by our employer w/o ANY FEDERAL FUNDS AT ALL in the pot. Every dollar in the fund is OURS. and then after being taxed to get it into the fund, you are taxed again for receiving it when your retire. DOUBLE TAXATION W/O REPRESENTATION. Now if there was such a thing as an HONEST politican; this would be cleaned up and righted. LBJ moved the dedicated fund into his general funds to MAKE his budget look balanced from his escalation of Nam. Congress saw a pot of good and started to spend it. It was origninally set up never to be taxed as we were taxed in the beginning to put it into the fund. But Al Gore got it passed to tax it. Seniors get screwed every which way. We went to war, we raised the families, we invented the things being used today including the cell phone, we paid taxes all those years. We use the PO. We vote by mail all year round. We are REGISTERED VOTERS.
We need a President that CARES about his constituents and do something for them. We also need jobs and such! Democrats want to destroy and control instead of building and creating!!
The push to require mail-in ballots in every state by the Dems and some RINOs has to be a non-starter. There is no such thing as a Federal election. How to conduct elections is not mentioned anyplace in the Constitution. In fact, states, under the tenth amendment, establish the laws for election of their representatives to the Senate and the House, Most states provide for absentee ballots which must be requested by the registered voter and that ballot, when sent in, must be signed by the voter under penalty of law that they are indeed the voter who requested the ballot in the first place. There are some states that practice voting by mail, which is their their choice, not the federal government’s. I would urge you to contact your Senators and Representatives to remind them that the tenth amendment is alive and well and it is not their place to try and skirt it even in the midst of the China virus!
We knew the polling was corrupted and biased, no surprise.
Mr President , drain the swamp, let’s make our representatives be real Patriots instead of money grabbing,self serving, know it all failing politicians!
American Citizens, support this President who’s working FOR You.
Trump was NEVER behind.
I would like to know when we started calling the Democrat Party the Democratic Party. It has always been Republicans and Democrats. There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party.
bill maher is a socialist/dem anti-GOD communist, if he doe’nt believe in GOD that is his right just remember that belief in GOD led the way to honesty, kindness, justice, liberty, freedom, decency, morality, most importantly to FREEDOM OF CHOICE! and the time to choose is fast approaching, in November make your choice count!! Do you want liberty or death? Vote republican!!! Vote trump!!!!
TRUMP 2020. SEND THOSE DEMONUTS PACKING FOR A TRIP OUT OF THE COUNTRY.
Don’t know how it is elsewhere but around here not only are American flags flying everywhere, there are many (and I mean many) “Trump2020” flags flying from poles just below the American flag or displayed on frames and hangers,on houses and in yards. In my opinion, those “polls” must have been taken in DIMocratic headquarters in different states and then not even all those who responded would be blind enough to support Biden.
Trump has never been behind. It’s the Democratic polling that is behind.
Thanks for the optimism in this article! In my suburb of Atlanta, most folks aren’t talking politics. As a matter of fact, most of my friends are sick of what is going on! They HATE these riots and don’t believe anything they see on the virus pandemic cuz the experts keep changing their tunes every few weeks. The only constant in any of this has been Trump. Haven’t seen any signs or bumper stickers for Biden on any home or vehicle. Seen lots of American flags (I have one on my home) and a few Trump stickers on cars. Love seeing patriotism again!
All right and true. But don’t be doing a victory dance just yet. To paraphrase a famous quote, “He who counts the votes controls the election.” And that ain’t us.
Here’s something that puzzles me. There is so much good news about the Trump administration out there, the above article being but a small sample. Here’s one more, the Trump-brokered deal between Israel and the UAE. All great news. But if you look at the news headlines, you might be excused if you believe that Trump’s presidency is a disaster. Today’s headlines? “Republicans For Biden”, including that sorry excuse for a human being, Kasich. Why hasn’t he been expelled from the party? He puts a face to pretty much everything that is wrong with the Republican party. We need elected (and appointed) Republicans at ALL levels boasting about the Trump Presidency, and enumerating its many successes. The time for complacency and “Let George do it” are far behind us. We all need to be doing our part to assure a Trump victory in November. If we don’t we WILL live to regret it.
The democratic party from even a couple of decades ago is unrecognizable compared to this bunch. They espouse anti-police sentiment, open borders, weak defense, socialism & general anarchy. In short, a mirror image of the highly “successful” country of Venezuela. Of course anyone with double digit brain cells can see that. The lefties? Not so much. It would sure be refreshing if these anti-American buffoons would simply pack up & move to their choice of failed socialist states, but even they’re smarter than that.
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