ESPN host Stephen A Smith called out former First Lady Michelle Obama for contributing significantly to Kamala Harris's defeat in the presidential election.
During an episode of 'The Stephen A Smith Show' podcast, Smith pointed to tone-deaf celebrity endorsements Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, and Oprah Winfrey as factors that contributed to Harris's failure.
Harris was endorsed by Hollywood celebrities by the dozen and that turned off many Americans struggling with economic hardship who didn't want the opinions of the elite and ultrawealthy.
Smith pointed out Michelle Obama in particular as someone who did serious damage to Harris's campaign with her 'alienation' of male voters.
During a rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Obama took aim at male voters, specifically black male voters, in an attempt to shame them into supporting Harris which led to many male voters going the opposite direction.
Not only did Democrats throw celebrity endorsements in the face of struggling Americans, but they also had the audacity to lecture American men on how they needed to put the interests of women above their own interests.
Smith picked out a quote from Obama where she said that a black man’s “vote for [Trump] is a vote against us." Smith immediately blasted that comment saying, “If we don’t agree with you, we’re against you?"
Smith continued saying, "How do you think the men felt about that? So we have to do what you tell us to do; otherwise, we’re anti-you? You thought that worked? Do y’all know anything about most men? You think that’s going to work?”
Smith, who typically comments on sports, has been on a tear lately doing multiple interviews weighing in on the election with his scathing takedowns of Democrats and their behavior that led to Harris's loss.
During another episode of his podcast, Smith stated, "I expected a tough, tight race. What we witnessed was an annihilation. This was supposed to last, this debate about the election and how many votes, it was supposed to last probably until Thursday, Friday, maybe even into the weekend. Ladies and gentlemen, Fox News called it at 2am."
What was supposed to be a tight race was anything but and Trump achieved a massive political comeback to become just the 2nd president to serve non-consecutive terms, the other being Grover Cleveland.
Harris's loss and the GOP's dominating win has ignited calls among Democrats for soul-searching and change in order to determine what went so horribly wrong. Democrats like Smith are rightly pointing out that shaming voters isn't a sound strategy for winning elections.
However, Smith is very much in the minority as many leftists have determined that they didn't shame male voters enough and that they must become even more radical in order to win.
Leftists have further embraced misandry and even racism in response to nearly half of Latino men voting for Trump.
Unless something changes, the Democrat Party will lose its hold on key minority voter blocks which could make it difficult for Democrats to win any national election.
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his victory and confirmed Russia is ready to hold peace talks to end the Ukraine war.
Putin made those comments congratulating Trump during a policy forum in Sochi, Russia, on Thursday. After a long speech, Putin said that he would like to "take this opportunity to congratulate [Trump] on his election as president of the United States."
He went on to say Russia is ready for talks but stated, "Russia didn't ruin relations with the U.S. and is open to reviving them, but the ball is in the Americans' court."
Putin's comments are a direct shot at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris who oversaw the beginning of the war in Ukraine. It was Harris who dared Russia to attack Ukraine just days before Russian troops invaded.
Under the Biden-Harris regime, there has been little hope of peace. However, with Trump set to begin his 2nd term in January, there is hope that a peace can be negotiated.
Trump has promised the American people that he will work tirelessly to end the devastating war in Ukraine which has senselessly cost the lives of thousands of soldiers as well as costing Americans billions in foreign aid.
The war should never have happened but thanks to establishment Republicans and Democrats with much to gain financially from the war, little was done to prevent the outbreak of hostilities.
Under Biden and Harris, Americans ate the cost of billions in aid to be sent to Ukraine while young men on both sides were senselessly butchered and there was little to no urgency to end the conflict.
Trump has been a strong critic of the billions of dollars being sent to Ukraine as he believed Washington D.C. was doing nothing to stop the war while pilfering taxpayers to enrich themselves via the military-industrial complex.
Trump has promised to end the war in Ukraine quickly and that could come at Ukraine's expense. Trump will likely call on Ukraine to make concessions which he believes are necessary to end the further loss of life and money.
The war in Ukraine has been horrific beyond compare and has given the world a glimpse into what peer-to-peer conflict would look like. The loss of life and the conditions that both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers are facing make it imperative that peace is established as soon as possible.
Trump is going to work with both Russia and Ukraine and make it a top priority to end the war but this won't be easy. Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy has been insistent that Ukraine will make no concessions despite only being able to wage this war with Western support.
Without aid from Europe and the United States, Ukraine would likely have fallen before Russia's grinding war machine.
So Trump is going to have to find a way to force Ukraine to see reason and make concessions that will lead to peace. Trump has a good working relationship with Putin so there is a chance that he can also get concessions out of Russia.
However, all of this will have to wait until Trump is officially sworn in as President in January. Until then, the carnage will continue in Ukraine and taxpayer dollars will continue to fund a brutal war.
A new report from the Rio Grande Valley Sector Intelligence Unit (SIU) of the Border Patrol said that Venezuela is sending released prisoners and intelligence officers into the U.S. interior to eliminate human targets, according to an official who leaked the report to Breitbart News.
The report said that released inmates from Venezuelan prisons are being accompanied across the border into the U.S. by Venezuelan intelligence officers to track down former Venezuelan military members, politicians, and law enforcement officials who are now in the U.S. and kill them to prevent them from sharing classified information they may have.
The leak came from a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), but that source was not authorized to speak to the media.
The source of the report was interviews done with criminal suspects and persons of interest.
It's a preliminary report that has not been fully verified, the source said.
“This is not the first report we have developed related to Venezuelan prison releases from sources we have interviewed,” the source explained. “This is alarming, considering we have a new administration entering office in January.”
The source further explained that the Venezuelan government fears that the 600,000 Venezuelans who crossed the border into the U.S. under the Biden administration will face new deportation proceedings and that some will offer to share information damaging to the government to avoid being deported or imprisoned in the U.S.
“The report’s timing raises more questions as the Maduro regime may fear some Venezuelans may trade information to avoid removal,” the source emphasized. “It certainly merits more investigation."
President-elect Donald Trump has referenced Venezuela releasing prison inmates in some of his campaign speeches.
Breitbart Texas broke the story of Venezuela's possible actions to release prisoners in 2022 based on another source that leaked a previous Border Patrol report.
The previous actions of releasing prisoners, if such actions did occur, were not related to any intelligence or counter-intelligence operations in Venezuela.
Still another report, this one from the U.N. in 2022, said that Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), Venezuela’s equivalent to the CIA, previously committed crimes against its own people to quell dissent.
“Our investigations and analysis show that the Venezuelan State relies on the intelligence services and its agents to repress dissent in the country. In doing so, grave crimes and human rights violations are being committed, including acts of torture and sexual violence," Marta Valiñas, Chair of the United Nations Fact Finding Commission said at the time.
"These practices must stop immediately, and the individuals responsible must be investigated and prosecuted in accordance with the law,” she added.
The recall that was directed toward the chief prosecutor in Alameda County was successful on Tuesday night, which has the potential to deal a blow to the principles of progressivism in the criminal justice system across one of the bluest areas in the state of California.
District Attorney Pamela Price became the first elected district attorney in the history of Alameda County to be recalled from office, according to the unofficial final results that were provided by the county early on Wednesday morning, as Breitbart News reported.
Even left-leaning locals disapproved of Price, a prosecutor supported by George Soros, for implementing "criminal justice reform" policies.
Even though city and county election officials are still counting ballots cast on Election Day, voters have expressed their support for removing her from office less than two years into her first six-year term. However, it may take several days for the final results to be certified because of the continuation of the counting process.
Price's self-proclaimed "exclamation point in history" as the first Black woman elected to the post ended in a historic whimper with the election of the next president.
Alameda County Board of Supervisors, which consists of five members, will be saddled with the responsibility of picking a replacement to serve until the next general election, which will take place in 2026.
As a result of Oakland's adoption of policies that "defund the police," the city's crime rate increased to the point where Price's own laptop was taken from her vehicle.
Also, Price was accused of engaging in nepotism after she hired her boyfriend despite reservations regarding his previous employment history.
On Tuesday, her counterpart in Los Angeles County, George Gascón, was defeated in his bid for reelection by significant proportions.
In June of 2022, voters in San Francisco also recalled the radical District Attorney Chesa Boudin, which was the first indication of a backlash in the state.
Prop 36, which overturned many of the most problematic "reforms" of Proposition 47 of 2014, which is generally criticized for increasing crime, particularly retail theft and looting, was approved by voters across the state of California with an overwhelming majority.
According to a report that was released prior to the election, there are seventy-five radical left-wing prosecutors who are connected to a rich Democrat mega-donor.
Over the past few years, Soros has been spending an enormous amount of money to elect individuals who advocate for "criminal justice reform" around the country.
This is the first report of its kind to place such a significant amount of emphasis on Soros's role, and it was compiled by the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF).
When the role that Soros played in these elections was first reported during the election cycle of 2018, the Los Angeles Times identified 21 races in which he was involved. The newspaper also suggested that he might have been involved in a much larger number of races that were difficult to identify due to laws that protect the identities of donors to nonprofit organizations that are permitted to engage in limited political activity.
Tragedy struck the musical community and a rising star was cut down, just days ago, ending a life, a budding career, and the hopes of her fans.
According to The New York Post, Thalia Castillo was shot and killed while on her tour bus. Her body was then tossed into a ditch.
Six armed assailants attacked the van of Alezka Thalia Manrique, better known as Thalia Castillo, immediately after she and her band, Hermanos Guerreros, had finished performing early Sunday morning.
As a message to the rest of the band, the assailants removed Manrique off the bus and dumped her body in a nearby ditch after the attack.
The band's instruments and the money they had made from the concert were looted from the bus after the attack.
Despite the band members' best efforts, Manrique passed away while being rushed to the hospital.
Jair Enrique, Manrique's brother, later explained on RPP radio that the police have already identified the perpetrators and are currently awaiting an arrest warrant in order to bring them to justice. Authorities are still trying to figure out what motivated the attack.
Just two months after joining Hermanos Guerreros, Manrique was already a brilliant student who was on track to earn his bachelor's degree in business administration later this month. He was also a gifted singer.
A heartfelt post commenting saw, Vallejo sharing: “Thalia was a person full of joy, always with a smile. Her talent and dedication to music made her special.”
In another tribute, Hermanos Guerreros issued a statement: “Your face, your smile, and your voice will always remain in our memory.”
Fans who remembered the singer noted their impressions of the singer, as well as how her music made them feel, and what they hoped to take away from her enduring career in the music industry.
The comments about the later singer have flooded Facebook posts by the band, and one of the later singer's fans said: "My deepest condolences to the family of the beautiful singer Talia."
A second person said: "My heartfelt condolences to the Castillo family and the Hnos Guerrero group."
A third person added: "My deepest condolences to the Manrique Castillo family for the irreparable loss of Thalia and the Guerreros."
Kimberly Van Der Beek posted a supportive message for her husband, actor James Van Der Beek, after he revealed Sunday that he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and was undergoing treatment for the condition.
“I love you baby," Kimberly posted with a heart after "baby" in a show of support for her famous husband.
Van Der Beek said in the post that he hadn't planned to reveal the diagnosis publicly, but that media outlets got wind of the news and threatened to go public with it against his objections.
He apologized for not telling everyone in person because of the media threats to take the news public.
“Apologies to all the people in my life who I’d planned on telling myself. Nothing about this process has occurred on my preferred timeline,” Van Der Beek said. “But we roll with it, taking each surprise as a signpost, pointing us toward a greater destiny than we would have discovered without divine intervention.”
He concluded, “Please know that my family and I deeply appreciate all the love and support.”
Colorectal cancer occurs when growths in the colon's lining become malignant, the Cleveland Clinic said. While Van Der Beek said in his post that 2 billion people worldwide are diagnosed with the cancer each year, the actual number is more like 1.9 million.
The Van Der Beeks have been married since 2010 and have six children ages 14 to 3.
James is not the only one in his family who has suffered a major health issue.
Kimberly suffered miscarriages in 2019 and 2020 before their youngest child, Jeremiah, was born.
She said in 2019 that she "almost lost her life" while miscarrying their son late in the pregnancy.
Just days before James announced his cancer diagnosis, Kimberly posted a throwback photo of the couple on Instagram, captioned, “We were babies. So much life lived since then. Grateful for it all.”
James is best known for playing Dawson Leery on the popular teen show "Dawson's Creek" from 1998 to 2003.
The couple moved their family to Texas from California in 2020.
Watergate journalist Bob Woodward, who now writes for the Washington Post, predicted that President Joe Biden will pardon his son Hunter Biden before leaving office in January, despite saying repeatedly that he would not do so.
Hunter Biden will be sentenced next month on drug and gun charges, and faces tax charges in an upcoming trial.
Woodward said that research for his forthcoming book "War" revealed that the president's mind is frequently on Hunter Biden's future, and that he has talked about a pardon with close friends.
"He worries about, where is this going to go? He has said he would not pardon him. There are a couple of trials coming up. Quite frankly, I know enough about Biden I don't believe that. I think he will pardon his son," Woodward told The Late Show's Stephen Colbert.
Biden also has fears his son will relapse into drug use if he is sent to prison, or just from the stress of multiple trials.
Presidents have the ability to pardon or commute the federal prison sentence of anyone they want to, without restriction. It has even been suggested that former President Donald Trump could pardon himself from federal crimes if he is re-elected.
While Bill Clinton was president, he pardoned his brother Roger Clinton for a 1985 drug possession charge for which Roger had served one year in jail.
One drawback of a pardon is that Biden may harm his party's reputation and hurt chances in future elections.
But do we really think people will remember something that long, or care about it as much after some time has passed?
The American people have a relatively short attention span for negative political news or activity--maybe because there is so much of it.
No loving parent wants their child to go to prison, even if they deserve it.
It's likely that Trump would pardon his children if they were ever convicted of a federal crime, and would give as a reason that the charges were unfair.
While those who don't like Biden anyway will be angry that he let his son off the hook for a lot of bad things, others may understand that parental instinct to protect their children from harm.
Trump even said he could possibly pardon Hunter Biden, while noting that the First Son had been a "bad boy."
Vice President Kamala Harris teased her first executive actions should she win Tuesday's presidential election.
Harris announced on Friday that her first potential executive order would be to eliminate college degree requirements for specific federal jobs.
There has been a lot of speculation about what Harris will actually do in the event that she wins Tuesday's presidential election.
Harris has come under fire for flip-flopping on a handful of left-wing policies she once campaigned on before 2020. Her flip-flipping has earned her the ire of many leftists who want to see her enact radical policies if she becomes president.
Harris's plan to slash college degree requirements is far from a radical idea and likely won't excite many of her supporters who want to see her enact more radical changes.
Kamala Harris was as radical as they came when she was a Senator from California but when she was selected as President Joe Biden's running mate in 2020, Harris completely shed her radical image.
That issue has only gotten worse ever since Harris took over for Biden in July as she has become even more malleable and fluid in what she supports.
Harris announced her plans to slash degree requirements during an event at an IBEW local union hall in Janesville, Wisconsin. Harris was in Wisconsin in order to try and shore up her support base in a state she can't afford to lose as Republicans are making gains.
Harris stated during her appearance in Wisconsin that, "The press is always asking me, ‘What are you going to do on day one?’ One of the things I’m doing on day one — because I can do it by executive order — is I will eliminate unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs. And then I will challenge the private sector to do the same.”
Harris has been talking about reducing degree requirements for certain federal jobs to expand opportunities for individuals without a four-year degree.
Harris hopes to extend this idea to the private sector but obviously, she has no power to enact such policies. She wants to use the federal government to lead a change that will lead to less need for four-year degrees.
Harris's decision to confirm reducing degree requirements as her first executive action is a safe move designed to make her presidency seem as centrist as possible.
It is the other executive actions that Harris could take that would be absolutely catastrophic. Harris has repeatedly discussed using price controls to combat rising food costs, a policy that would have terrible consequences.
However, going into an election she isn't favored to win, Harris needs to play it safe and try and make Americans forget that she is an extreme radical.
The Trump campaign has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against the Washington Post for making “illegal corporate in-kind contributions to Harris for President.”
Trump's FEC complaint comes after a Semafor report on how the Washington Post pays to boost stories “critical of Trump as subscribers flee,” a story that mentions how the Washington Post “aggressively ramped up its paid advertising campaign, boosting dozens of articles related to the election."
Trump's complaint stated, "The facts support a reasonable inference that The Washington Post made, and Harris for President accepted, an illegal corporate contribution in the form of coordinated communications."
The mainstream media has been cooperating with Democrats for years but now it appears that they have crossed a serious line.
Trump's complaint continued saying, "Therefore, the Commission should find reason to believe a violation has occurred, conduct an immediate investigation, and assess an appropriate sanction for this corporate interference in our elections."
Trump deputy general counsel Gary Lawkowski accused The Washington Post of “conducting a dark money corporate campaign in opposition to President Donald J. Trump — pretextually using its own online advertising efforts to promote Kamala Harris’s presidential candidacy.”
This FEC complaint is more bad news for The Washington Post after they angered leftists last week by refusing to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for President.
This led to a spree of subscribers leaving as the target audience for The Washington Post is decidedly leftist.
Reportedly, the decision not to endorse Harris came from the very top as Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was the one who gave the order to keep The Washington Post "non-partisan" this election cycle.
Bezos defended his decision saying, "Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election," which may be true but that didn't make his leftist subscribers any happier.
So not only is The Washington Post seeing an exodus of subscribers, but they could also face serious litigation for violating The Federal Election Campaign Act.
The election has come down to the wire with just days to go and the mainstream media is doing everything in its power to boost Kamala Harris over the finish line.
The electioneering from The Washington Post is a fraction of what is happening right now as Democrats desperately try and stop Donald Trump from achieving victory.
Election fraud, voter suppression, and other shenanigans are afoot and the RNC and the Trump campaign are hard at work trying to stay on top of everything.
The question is, will it be enough to stop the Democrat machine and prevent four more years of Democrat rule?
U.S. District Judge Richard Myers dealt another blow to fair elections in the important swing state of North Carolina on Thursday, ruling that a case involving how to count absentee ballots should remain in federal prosecution and guaranteeing that it won't be resolved before the 2024 election.
Myers said in a two-page ruling that the State Board of Elections was correct to remove a lawsuit challenging the state election board's guidance to federal court, rather than return it to state court as requested by the RNC.
Republicans say the board's guidance goes against a state voting law passed last year that requires absentee ballots to be submitted in a sealed, two-envelope package to keep the ballot and required identifying information secure.
The guidance states that ballots missing the second, sealed envelope should still be counted.
The RNC, the state's organization, and a voter filed the suit in late September in state court, but it was removed to federal court in October.
The board said if it followed the RNC's demands it would have to violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
There have been multiple legal challenges to North Carolina's voter rules in the lead-up to the 2024 election.
Last week, the appeals court ruled that the RNC's challenge to 225,000 overseas voter registrations in the state would also have to be heard in federal court, effectively barring any action there.
The only win the RNC has gotten is to prevent students and staff from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from using digital ID to vote.
It makes the state more of a toss-up than it would be, because there are potentially hundreds of thousands of voters on the rolls that shouldn't be.
Considering that the last election came down to three states and not more than 25,000 votes in any one of them, this is highly concerning.
RealClearPolitics polling average has Trump up 1.5% in North Carolina with just days until the election.
It's a bigger margin than he had over President Joe Biden in 2020, when he won the state by 1.34%.
Trump holds a slight lead in almost all of the seven swing states that are most at play in this year's contest, but most of his leads are within a poll's usual margin of error.