Dem Presidential candidate Joe Biden has chosen California Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice President nominee.
Politico reported that Joe Biden has selected Sen. Kamala Harris to be his running mate, elevating a charismatic blue-state senator, former prosecutor and onetime 2020 primary rival who has built a reputation as an unyielding antagonist of the Trump administration.
Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, was the wire-to-wire frontrunner for Biden’s No. 2 job. Her experience as a battle-tested presidential contender, her efforts leading major law enforcement offices and her political track record of three election wins in California helped her overcome a crowded list of contenders.
Joe Biden also made the announcement on his official Twitter account.
“I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate.”
“Back when Kamala was Attorney General, she worked closely with Beau. I watched as they took on the big banks, lifted up working people, and protected women and kids from abuse.”
“I was proud then, and I’m proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign,” Biden added.
Back when Kamala was Attorney General, she worked closely with Beau. I watched as they took on the big banks, lifted up working people, and protected women and kids from abuse. I was proud then, and I'm proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign.
Not long after Joe Biden’s announcement that he was picking Kamala Harris as his running mate, Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano wasted no time before “talking smack” to Trump supporters.
Alyssa Milano warned “Hey, Trump Trolls! Your boy is going to lose in November.”
Milano was not finished there, and added that “Trump is the worst President in American history and has done so much damage in the last 4 years.”
“And this election is about restoring the soul of America,” she posted.
Milano then blocked Trump supporters from actually replying to her to counter her taunt by only allowing replies from accounts who follow her.
Christina, a Twitter user that Milano apparently follows, replied with “Woohoooo”
Another Twitter user who Milano apparently follows replied to Christina “Aren’t these replies fantastic now?”
MSNBC host Nicole Wallace gave her reaction to Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate by praising the former Vice President’s decision.
“This was the pick that scared them the most,” Wallace said of the Trump campaign adding “they thought she would more than go toe-to-toe with Pence.”
Wallace also praised Joe Biden for picking a formal rival as his partner.
“What this says about Joe Biden is a really good thing. There was no-one tougher on him,” she claimed.
“If you remember those earliest debates, when there were so many Democratic candidates for the nomination, they took up two stages.”
“She was the toughest on him in what has become the issue that has become the beating heart of this country around questions of race.”
Biden’s pick for VP was praised by every Democrat, including the left winged media.
President Trump said that he was pleased with Joe Biden’s choice, adding that Kamala Harris did “very, very poorly” in her effort to become the Democratic nominee.
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President Trump blasted the NBA and the NFL and took a shot at baseball as well in comments disapproving of the latest social justice stands across the sports leagues.
President Trump referred to the “nastiness” in the NBA and criticism of him personally by team members as he spoke with Outkick, told host Clay Travis on Tuesday, also targeting the NFL players and others for protesting during the national anthem.
“Well, they wanna open and they wanna open badly. They’ve been working with government,” Trump said in response to a question about the NFL season opener.
“I would say this, if they don’t stand for the national anthem I hope they don’t open,” he added.
“But other than that I would love to see them open and we’re doing everything possible for them getting them open. I think they can protest in other ways. They shouldn’t protest our flag or our country,” Trump said.
Trump chuckled when asked if he talked to sports team owners about whether their players would end up standing for the playing of the national anthem, saying how the owners know “very well” how he feels about the issue.
He also pointed to the lower ratings for the games, saying that the teams have taken a hit because of the choice to politicize the sports.
“I think it’s been horrible for basketball. Look at the basketball ratings. They’re down to very low numbers. People are angry about it. They don’t realize … They have enough politics with guys like me. They don’t need more as they’re driving down, going up for the shot. They don’t need it,” he said.
“There’s a nastiness about the NBA about the way it was done too. So I think the NBA is in trouble. It’s in big trouble. Bigger trouble than they understand,” the President continued, adding that ice hockey was doing well because they showed respect where necessary.
“I did not like what baseball did even a little bit. Again, you have to stand for your flag and you have to stand for your flag and your country,” he contended.
“They’re making millions of dollars a year to play a sport you’d be playing anyway if you didn’t make … they’d be playing it on the weekends. They have to respect their country,” he said.
“If they don’t, frankly, if the NFL didn’t open I’d be very happy. If they don’t stand for the flag and stand strongly I’d be happier if they didn’t open. Without that and with that being said, I’d love to see them open.”
Travis questioned whether the president thought it was “hypocritical” for the NBA to attack him personally, often lashing out on social media, while remaining blatantly silent on human rights violations in China. The league has come under some heat recently over a reluctance to speak out against the Communist Party in China, a country with a large international market for the sports league.
“The NBA is taking billions from China. There are all sorts of human rights violations going on in China right now and none of the players, and none of the coaches will say a word about that,” Travis said. “They won’t stand for the anthem, they’ll rip you as the president but they won’t say a negative word about China at all.”
“I haven’t noticed them sending things back at me, but I will say that I wouldn’t be that surprised,” President Trump replied. “Some are very nasty. Very, very nasty, and frankly, very dumb.”
“The way they catered to China, the way they bowed to China, it’s a disgrace, frankly,” Trump continued.
“And they make a lot more money here than they do from China. But we have a system that allows you to disrespect your system,” the president said, driving home the reality that the high-paid players ignore.
“And that’s too bad for them. Too bad for them,” he said. “They don’t appreciate what they have here.”
On Monday, Mary Trump, the author of the “tell all” book “Too much and never enough” suggested that Attorney General William Barr is the greatest traitor since Robert E. Lee.
Mary Trump also called for Attorney General Barr to be impeached.
Her post on Twitter went viral with over 150k likes and over 30k users talking about it.
Mary Trump also tweeted a photo of a ballot drop box and wrote “we need to put one of these on every corner, right next to the taco truck.”
On the same day, the niece of the President also tweeted an anti-Trump video and added “Co-sign.”
In her book, Mary Trump describes President Trump as a “sociopath” who grew up in a dysfunctional family that fostered his greed and cruelty, which he is now inflicting on the world.
The White House has disputed such claims and dismissed the book as a work full of “falsehoods” and “absurd allegations.”
“Mary Trump and her book’s publisher may claim to be acting in the public interest, but this book is clearly in the author’s own financial self-interest,” the White House said in a statement.
“President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people – why speak out now? The President describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said his father was very good to him. He said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child,” the statement continued.
President Donald Trump stated that he doesn’t want the NFL season to take place if the players don’t plan on standing for the national anthem.
During a Tuesday morning interview with Fox Sports Radio, President Trump continued his long-standing feud with the NFL over the issue of standing during the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
“Well, they want to open, and they want to open badly, and they’ve been working with government,” he said.
“And I would say this, if they don’t stand for the national anthem, I hope they don’t open.”
“But other than that, I want to see them open, and we’re doing everything possible for getting them open, and they can protest in other ways. They shouldn’t protest our flag or our country,” President Trump added.
Kneeling during the national anthem as a form of silent protest has been happening among professional athletes for a couple of years.
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the “Star-Spangled Banner” in 2016 to raise awareness about police brutality and systemic racism.
He was out of the league after that season, but, dozens of players carried on the tradition the following season. The former player drew the ire of President Trump while many conservatives accused him and others of disrespecting the flag.
The league is expected to host the season opener in less than a month. Several players have opted out of the upcoming season over concerns about spreading the coronavirus.
Many athletes are expected to kneel during this upcoming season after the issue of racial injustice was thrust back into the country’s spotlight following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery.
Fox News contributor Juan Williams appeared in a new Op-Ed for The Hill and argued that President Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic will hurt him with older voters.
Williams brings up the examples of Stacey Nagy, who wrote in her husband’s newspaper obituary.
“They blame his death…on Trump, Abbott and all the politicians who did not take this pandemic seriously and were more concerned with their popularity and votes than lives.”
Juan also brings up Herman Cain, and puts blame for his death on his attendance at a Trump rally in Tulsa with lack of social distancing.
Williams writes: “Now the death total is more than 160,000 and rising. And 80% of those fatalities are people over the age of 65, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
“In 2016, voters 65 and older voted for Trump over Hillary Clinton by about seven percentage points,” he continued.
“The senior vote was critical to Trump’s wins in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida.”
“But in a July Fox News poll, Trump had only a one-point lead over his presumptive Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, among the over-65s.”
“What was a strength for Trump in 2016 is now a split vote, not giving a clear edge to one side or the other in 2020.”
AG Bill Barr appeared in an in-depth interview with Mark Levin, and made the case that when it comes to the violence in Portland from demonstrators “the American people are being told a lie by the media.”
Attorney General William Barr: “They are projecting a narrative. When the word narrative came into currency, I knew we were in trouble because the word narrative really suggests there is no objective truth.”
“There is no real story of what happened, it’s just everyone has their own narrative, and you get to then the press can justify presenting a story that doesn’t really correspond to the objective truth, but it’s our narrative.”
“We have a narrative. You have a narrative,” AG Barr explained.
“I’ve been appalled … on this violence because it’s happening right out in the streets. Anyone with eyes can see what’s happening. They see the violence,” he argued.
“They see these groups of agitators and their black outfits, their helmets and their shields, which, incidentally, have the hammer and sickle on them most of the time, are rushing the police, causing violence, throwing rocks, people showing up with the rocks and frozen bottles.”
“That’s happening. That’s happening in front of people. You don’t see it on any of the national news. You don’t see it on the networks. You don’t see it on the cable stations. And yet you hear about these peaceful demonstrators, so it’s a lie.”
“The American people are being told a lie by the media,” said AG Barr.
On Monday, Senator Ted Cruz, chairing a hearing titled, “Hearing on Protecting Free Speech and Preventing Violent Protests,” triggered Hawaii Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono as he criticized the seven Democratic senators who refused to condemn Antifa at the hearing.
At the end of the hearing, Hirono declared that Cruz was “not listening” and snapped, “We don’t have to listen to any more of your rhetorical speeches” before walking out. The move prompted Cruz to swipe back, “Well, I appreciate as always, the kind and uplifting words of Senator Hirono, and I would note that throughout her remarks, she still did not say a negative word about Antifa nor has any Democrat here.”
Before that exchange (video below), Cruz said, “It’s fairly striking that elected Democrats want to ignore the violence of Antifa; they want to ignore the violence on the Left and they just scream ‘White supremacist, white supremacist,’ rather than condemn violence from wherever it is coming. The 277 injuries of federal law enforcement officers in Portland are coming from the Left. And not a single Democrat on this committee acknowledges that.”
In her next turn to speak, Hirono added, “Senator, I have to say, sometimes I don’t think you listen. How many times have I had to say that we all should be denouncing violent extremists of every stripe.”
Cruz interrupted, “Does that include Antifa?”
Hirono added: “By the way, the Republicans are constantly using, I have to say, you brought it up yourself, the deaths of these black police officers, Patrick Underwood and David Dorn, for making political points. And the fact that it was right-wing extremists who killed Officer Underwood, that seems to be lost in this argument. And now there are all these attacks about Black Lives Matter and what they’re saying, I mean how many of us even think that defunding police departments should be taken literally? I certainly don’t.”
She continued, “So we have this pesky thing called freedom of speech. And I’d say that the people who support Black Lives Matter and they’re calling boycotts and all that, that’s called freedom of speech and that’s what this hearing’s title is. Protecting speech.”
Hirono avoided naming Antifa yet again: “So all I can say is we should all join hands in denouncing and whatever words you want to use about violent extremism of all stripes and I think we can all agree on that. So to constantly accuse Democrats of not caring about that is really, I can only say that you are not listening.”
“I hope this is the end of this hearing, Mr. Chairman, and that we don’t have to listen to any more of your rhetorical speeches,” said Hirono. “Thank you very much, I’m leaving.”
As Hirono got up to leave, Cruz said, “Well, I appreciate as always, the kind and uplifting words of Senator Hirono, and I would note that throughout her remarks, she still did not say a negative word about Antifa nor has any Democrat here. They instead engage in a political game where they depend—” Cruz looked at Hirono as she stood up to leave and said, “You’re welcome to say something negative about Antifa right now.”
“I think that I covered the subject quite well. You were not listening,” she replied before leaving the hearing.
“She declined to speak. So that is the position of the Democratic Party,” Cruz concluded. “I would note also that of the seven Democratic senators who spoke, not one of them apologized for or denounced multiple Democrats calling law enforcement officers, Nazis — ‘stormtroopers’ and ‘Gestapo’ — to be fair, I have not heard the word Nazi — but ‘stormtrooper’ was Nancy Pelosi and ‘Gestapo’ was another Democratic leader. That is less than helpful.”
Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL legend Herschel Walker questioned the Black Lives Matter movement multiple times Monday, saying that “American Lives Matter” would be a more meaningful movement.
“Why does a player need to decide who he is for?” Walker asked Fox News’s Laura Ingraham about professional athletes kneeling for the national anthem in support of Black Lives Matter during an appearance on her show Monday night “What BLM are you supporting? … The organization is not something that speaks for a lot of people.”
“I’m for ‘American Lives Matter’ because I’m an American.”
Walker also shared a video on Twitter that same night asking America to “wake up.”
“America wake up…if we love our Country, let’s speak up, stand up and protect it!
“I saw a bunch of people holding a BLM sign burning the Holy Bible, burning the flag of the United States of America, and also burning a cross,” he said in the post. “And I started thinking, NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB — is this the people you’re supporting right now? Is it the movement? Is it the organization? Because I don’t think that’s right.”
“We cannot continue to sweep stuff underneath the rug because sooner or later we’re going to stumble. People, are we being fooled?” Walker added.
Walker has been a constant critic of the movement joining several other notable black voices, including Marcellus Wiley, Jason Whitlock, Carol Swain, and Niger Innis, who have spoken out against the group’s messaging and Marxist ties.
“I was watching some kids, African American and Caucasian kids, playing the other day, and I started thinking about their future,” Walker said last month. “And then, I listened to a BLM protester who was speaking for the black people, and I said, ‘Wait a minute. He don’t speak for me. He don’t speak for a lot of other people that I know.'”
“Why is these companies giving money to these groups — for what?” Walker said of businesses contributing financially to Black Lives Matter. “Where’s my freedom? Where’s my freedom that I don’t want to tear down statues. … I want to do it the right way.”
