Former first lady Michelle Obama is trotting out drag queens and obscene rapper Cardi B to help get out the vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, Breitbart reported. The effort will feature live performances of this sideshow in battleground states until Election Day.
Obama's When We All Vote initiative is behind the events called Party at the Polls. The former first lady's effort is ostensibly nonpartisan, but it advocates for Democrats under the guise of voter registration drives.
Many Hollywood leftists supported the initiative, including Lin Manuel Miranda, husband-and-wife team Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, and Kerry Washington. Now, Obama hopes to help Harris with the most humiliating spectacle with these ridiculous performers who are supposed to spur voters to the polls.
In an appeal to American Family Values, Michelle Obama Enlists Drag Queens, Cardi B to Gin Up Swing-State Turnout Where Kamala’s Losing Ground https://t.co/7xfdBtDuuP via @BreitbartNews
— Tom Corley (@RICHHABITS) October 15, 2024
On October 18, When We All Vote will host a drag show in Phoenix, Arizona. Harris is currently running slightly behind her opponent, former President Donald Trump, in the Grand Canyon State.
When We All Vote and Live Nation Urban will host ONE Musicfest in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 26 and 27. This event features musical acts, including Cardi B, who endorsed Biden in 2020 and has since regretted that and previously vowed not to endorse anyone.
"I’m not endorsing no f---ing president no more," the "WAP" star said in 2023 while complaining of the damage he caused to New York City through funding cuts to the city. "Joe Biden’s talking about, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars.'" she said at the time.
Nevada voters will be treated to a performance on October 29 featuring the drag queen Plasma, who appeared on RuPaul's Drag Race. The state, which went for President Joe Biden in 2020, will be treated to this "Get Out The Vote" event as Trump and Harris are tied.
Harris has attempted to woo voters there with promises of not taxing tips, a policy she lifted directly from Trump's agenda. Of course, Harris is on the record as the deciding vote in a Senate bill that facilitated taxes on tips, but she'll say anything to get elected.
These events reek of desperation as Election Day is just weeks away. Harris's polling has collapsed, as Fox News' Jesse Watters explained on his Jesse Watters Primetime program on Monday.
"Democrats haven't felt this badly since Biden bombed the debate. The party is leaking like crazy. Anxiety, despair, is the mood in Washington. The Harris campaign is stuck in the mud," Watters said.
"And behind the scenes, Democrats are worried she's stalled and her so-called lead has evaporated. At this point in the election, Hillary was up seven, Biden was up nine," he continued. "The betting markets have Trump's chance of winning better than 50-50 and the battlegrounds are all tied up," Watters noted.
"So if the polls are as wrong, as they usually are, we could know the winner on election night. Democrats are jittery. Trump's numbers are historic. The media is preparing for the worst. They're wargaming a Trump sweep. Newsweek is even throwing around the L word: Landslide," Watters noted.
Obama can host as many drag queens and rap stars as she wants on Harris' behalf. The only thing stopping the vice president from running away with this election is herself, as Harris is unlikable, incompetent, and overall unappealing.
Former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign is now broadcasting confidence that he can win enough swing states to be elected president while Vice President Kamala Harris continues to fumble her way through the closing days of her campaign.
Senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles and pollster Tony Fabrizio sent a memo to reporters on Sunday saying that the Harris/Walz campaign is "cracking" and that Democrats are losing momentum at a critical time as voters turn in absentee ballots and vote early in many states.
The latest numbers from Real Clear Politics show Trump gaining momentum as Harris loses it. When looking at an electoral map with no toss-ups, Trump gets 302 electoral votes to Harris's 236, as of Monday.
There are still three weeks until voting day, but the trendlines are becoming clear.
If nothing big surfaces to change things, and if the polling is correct, it will be a big change for the country (which seems to be what voters want).
While the media tried mightily to create momentum for Harris by letting her mostly hide from interviews, slide by in the interviews and debate she did show up for, and trumpeting her as much as they could, voters were able to see through these tactics and have refused to drink the Kool Aid.
In the last month-and-a-half, Harris's approval rating has slipped, and so has her election polling. Where the two candidates were dead even in September, Trump is now up 2% overall.
Trump's internal polling indicates that he is up 5% over Harris with independents and 13% better than in 2020.
His numbers with Blacks, especially Black men, are better. His numbers with Hispanics have swung an estimated 30%.
Former President Barack Obama even tried to shame Black men into voting for Harris, but she has not managed to convince many of them that she isn't tied to the status quo, and ready to drive the country even harder into the ground than her predecessor.
Plus, she comes across as a ditz. Enough men have tied themselves to ditzes and lived to regret it--they don't want to put the fate of the whole country into the hands of one.
Harris may very well be a lot smarter than anyone is giving her credit for, but she's sure not coming across that way.
Trump's internal polling shows voters think he's likely to do a better job than Harris as president (49% to 45%), more likely to bring change (47% to 43%), create jobs (47% to 42%), fight inflation (50% to 40%), improve the economy (50% to 41%) and improve respondents’ personal financial positions (52% to 40%).
Those numbers are hard to overcome, and Election Day could give voters exactly the change they've been asking for.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff has recently been accused of improper -- and indeed violent -- past conduct toward women, and the situation has prompted a discussion of just how much attention the claims should receive from mainstream media outlets.
Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher judged that while more digging needs to be done as to the accuracy of the allegations against Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, the claims do seem to meet the standard used in the past to go public with accusations against conservative figures, as Breitbart reports.
Maher's discussion of media reporting on misconduct allegations stemmed from recent claims leveled against Emhoff, spouse of the current Democratic Party presidential nominee.
It was earlier this month that the Daily Mail reported on claims that back in 2012, Emhoff engaged in improper conduct toward his then-girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival
Witnesses who were present during the alleged incident stated that Emhoff slapped the woman in question when he mistakenly interpreted her conversation with a valet as romantic flirting.
In addition, Emhoff has been accused in recent days of exhibiting a pattern of misogynistic conduct during his time at the head of the Los Angeles office of the Venable law firm.
Emhoff was said to have used demeaning and abusive language in reference to female employees of the firm, and he was also said to have hired an “unqualified” model to work as a legal secretary simply because of her looks and because she was “friendly with the powerful men in the office.”
Delving into the claims against Emhoff and the media's relative silence thus far, Maher opined that, according to “the standard, very often in these cases,” the allegations appear to be grounded in some truth.
Maher went on, however, saying, “I wouldn't go after anybody for not reporting it yet, because these things have to be checked out.”
“There's a lot of scuttlebutt this week about Doug. … Of course, we don't know if that's true,” Maher cautioned.
The Real Time host continued, saying, “But, if it because more credible, certainly on the level of Brett Kavanaugh, which was -- that kind of thing was reported by everybody pretty quickly, does the liberal media keep ignoring it, and wouldn't that make it look worse?”
Seemingly aiding and abetting the liberal media's silence on the claims was MSNBC's Joe Scarborough who, as the New York Post notes, asked whether the second gentleman was upset by what he referred to as “tabloid stories about your personal life.”
Emhoff, who was recently hailed by former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki as an admirable new paradigm of masculinity, replied, “We don't have time to be pissed off. We don't have time to focus on it. It's all a distraction. It's designed to try to get us off our game.”
Critics quickly noted that the statement was not exactly a denial from the man who was already exposed as having an affair with the family nanny during his first marriage that reportedly resulted in a pregnancy, but whether the story will gain further traction in the mainstream press, only time will tell.
Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel accused former President Donald Trump of making "threats against free speech," CNN reported. Trump called for CBS News to face penalties for deceptively editing the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.
Trump hammered CBS News over an interview that aired Monday. Several clips were released leading up to the broadcast that conflicted with what viewers saw during the official broadcast.
As Trump pointed out on Thursday on his Truth Social, the network engaged in "a giant Fake News scam" that changed Harris' responses to "make her look better" for the sake of her campaign. "60 Minutes is a major part of the News Organization of CBS, which has just created the Greatest Fraud in Broadcast History," Trump wrote.
"CBS should lose its license, and it should be bid out to the Highest Bidder, as should all other Broadcast Licenses, because they are just as corrupt as CBS — and maybe even WORSE!" he added. Rosenworcel banned him from action against the network as the FCC "does not and will not revoke licenses for broadcast stations simply because a political candidate disagrees with or dislikes content or coverage."
Trump was trying to convey how biased the network was in favor of a particular political candidate. CBS News had an agenda in editing the show that way, but Rosenworcel claimed that the former president was the problem.
"While repeated attacks against broadcast stations by the former President may now be familiar, these threats against free speech are serious and should not be ignored. As I’ve said before, the First Amendment is a cornerstone of our democracy," Rosenworcel said.
This comes just a month after Trump spoke out against ABC for its bias during the presidential debate. According to USA Today, Rosenworcel claimed the combination of these two complaints amounted to a dangerous worldview.
Still, there's no denying that CBS News edited Harris's remarks to make her look better. University of Maryland journalism professor Mark Feldstein believes that fact is no reason to revoke the network's license, which the FCC is not authorized to do anyway.
"Yes and it's standard procedure in news programming," he told USA Today. "TV news programs regularly edit interviews – as do other news outlets – to fit time and space constraints The question is whether the responses used are out of context or an unfair representation of what the interviewee said,"Feldstein added.
Trump is correct that these networks are meddling in elections by favorably editing content for the Democratic candidate beyond normal television practices. Unfortunately, even with that advantage, not much can be done to make Harris look like a competent candidate.
The side-by-side of the clips shared by comedian Tim Young on X, formerly Twitter, showed how terrible both answers were when asked about the future of the war between Israel and Hamas. The network squandered its integrity to try to help Harris but still failed miserably.
"CBS's 60 minutes didn't just cut Kamala's rambling answer down to make her sound coherent. They completely replaced the answer to the question she was asked. This absolutely has to be against broadcast standards," Young captioned the videos.
CBS's 60 minutes didn't just cut Kamala's rambling answer down to make her sound coherent.
They completely replaced the answer to the question she was asked.
This absolutely has to be against broadcast standards. pic.twitter.com/mVyDAL2uXC
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) October 10, 2024
Democrats are circling the wagons around Harris every step of the way. Even with the full backing and power of the media, they are stuck with a subpar, profoundly unlikeable candidate.
A legal challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program headed to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, The Hill reported. The Obama-era program could find its way to the Supreme Court depending on the lower court's ruling.
The DACA program has faced several legal challenges. The latest to wend its way through the court system comes from Texas and could strike at the heart of the program's legality.
A three-panel judge began hearing arguments this week in a case that could affect half a million residents of the U.S. The Justice Department argued on behalf of the so-called dreamers after Texas District Judge Andrew Hanen had ruled the plan illegal.
"Today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard a case challenging the legality of DACA, threatening the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who rely on the program. These young people have grown up here, built their lives here, and contribute so much to our economy and communities," Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) said in a statement.
According to Fox News, the program was meant as a way to grant legal status to illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. It has been at the center of many legal battles over the years since former President Barack Obama signed it into a 2012 executive order.
DACA has faced several legal challenges over the years. In 2015, Hanen quashed add-ons to the program, including striking down the creation of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program.
Then, in 2021, Hanen ruled that DACA was completely unlawful. The Department of Homeland Security was instructed "to post a public notice, within 3 calendar days of this Injunction, to be displayed prominently on its website and on the websites of all other relevant agencies, that a United States District Court has found the DACA program to be illegal[.]"
President Joe Biden then tried to advance the program again but was similarly thwarted in Hanen's 2023 ruling. The judge wrote that "the Court finds that the Final Rule, like the 2012 DACA Memorandum before it, is subject to this Court's (and the Fifth Circuit's) prior rulings" at the time.
"There are no material differences between the two programs. As such, the Final Rule suffers from the same legal impediments," he added.
After the latest attempt failed, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre expressed dismay at the decision. "We are deeply disappointed in today’s DACA ruling from the District Court in Southern Texas," she said in a September 2023 statement.
"On day one of his Administration, President Biden issued a memorandum directing the federal government to take all appropriate actions to 'preserve and fortify the DACA policy. Consistent with that directive, the Administration has defended the DACA policy from legal challenges, and issued a final rule codifying this longstanding policy," Jean-Pierre added.
However, that may be difficult to uphold if the fight makes it to the Supreme Court. Thanks to former President Donald Trump, the balance of judges leans conservative.
Moreover, Trump may win the White House in November and will likely maintain his tough immigration stance in his second term. The fight over the program could end there.
The problems of unchecked illegal immigration continue to plague America. A program like DACA is good on paper, but in practice, it becomes yet another loophole to allow more unvetted migrants into the U.S.
Vice President Kamala Harris has trotted out yet another fake accent while pandering to voters, the New York Post reported. Harris humiliated herself this way during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday.
Colbert asked Harris about comments her opponent, former President Donald Trump, made about FEMA's response to Hurricane Helene. Something about that made Harris slip into a quasi-Jamaican accent.
"Have you no empathy, man? You know? For the, the suffering of other people. Have you no sense of purpose?" Harris said in her newly adopted manner of speaking.
Harris often shifts in and out of bizarre accents, and the internet noticed this one just the same. "Obsessed with Jamaican Kamala," a user captioned a meme of Harris wearing a Bob Marley beanie on X, formerly Twitter.
Republican commentator Savanah Hernandez noted a change in Harris as well. "Wake up babe, new Kamala Harris accent just dropped," Hernandez tweeted.
"I know Kamala is an expert at code switching, but is Stephen Colbert Jamaican and nobody told us?" Ian Miller, writer at Outkick, posted to X, formerly Twitter. Harris was born to a Jamaican father, but this was the first time she sounded like a person from the island nation.
This strange manner of speaking is a continuation of her habit of emulating the speech patterns of others. On Sept. 2, Harris spoke with a Southern accent while speaking in Michigan to a crowd of teacher union members.
Less than two weeks later, Harris trotted out another accent for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. She has faced criticism for this habit that many find condescending, especially when it appears that she's trying to pander to black audiences.
Although her accent usage was terrible, one of the worst moments of the night was when Harris tried to be relatable by drinking a beer. In a transparent effort to appeal to Midwesterners, Harris popped a can of Miller High Life and took a sip.
It seemed as if Colbert was about to ask her when she last had a beer. He never got the question, but Harris answered it anyway, likely because it was arranged beforehand.
"The last time I had a beer was at a baseball game with Doug," Harris said, referring to her husband, Doug Emhoff. "Cheers."
After a tiny sip of suds, Harris looked at the can and repeated the brand's tagline. "The champagne of beers," she said, punctuating the line with her signature cackle.
It's a well-established fact that Harris is the worst kind of pandering politician. Still, just when it seems she's reached her lowest point, Harris somehow goes even lower.
Emma Brungardt, who was named Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas 2024, was killed in a single-vehicle crash Friday, KAKE-TV reported. The 19-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene after the vehicle she was riding in hit a tree.
Brungardt and five others were traveling on County Road 21 near Colby at 9:45 p.m. when the accident occurred. The Ford F250 pickup they were riding in veered out of its lane and smashed into a tree.
The driver and other passengers were taken to the hospital, but Brungardt was pronounced dead at the scene. The other passengers included four members of her rodeo team. Nobody has been charged in the crash.
As a sophomore at Colby Community College, Brungardt was studying equine management and production. Her rodeo events included breakaway, goat tying, and team roping.
Brungardt's death came as a shock to her community. As the current title holder of Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas, the pageant memorialized the young woman on social media.
"The Miss Rodeo Kansas Pageant would like to express our deepest condolences to the family of Emma Brungardt, our beautiful Miss Teen Rodeo Kansas 2024. Emma was a true gem and horsewoman who embodied what it meant to be a rodeo queen, always going above and beyond what was expected of her," the organization posted to Facebook on Saturday.
"We will miss her contagious smile and one in a million personality. Please keep her family and friends in your prayers as they navigate through this unimaginable loss," Miss Rodeo Kansas wrote.
Colby Community College Rodeo similarly memorialized the teen in a post on Facebook. "Emma was a sweet soul who picked up other people and always had a positive attitude. Her light will live on in and around the rodeo arena," the Colby CC Rodeo account said.
According to USA Today, Brungardt was a young woman with big dreams and a bright future. "In my family, I am the first generation to rodeo," Brungardt stated in her Miss Rodeo Kansas Pageant biography.
"Rodeo became a part of my life after the loss of my brother, Joseph," Brungardt said. There are seven children in her family, and the late rodeo star was the fifth born.
Brungardt won grand champion at the Kansas Wild Horse Youth Challenge in 2019 and 2021, competing for four years in the contest. The young woman was also proud of attending college on a scholarship.
"I dream of becoming the first person in my family to complete a college degree," Brungardt said. She also enjoyed being outdoors and taking care of her Mustang horses, which she would ride often.
The passing of this bright young woman with a promising future is a terrible tragedy. Her life was cut short just as it was becoming the woman she wanted to be.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas hospitals do not have to provide abortion care in violation of the state's law, the Associated Press reported. President Joe Biden's administration has sought to override state laws with a federal mandate.
This ruling represents another affirmation of the Texas abortion ban that Democrats have hoped to chip away at with these challenges. The administration appealed a lower court's decision to uphold the state law, but the court's ruling Monday will allow it to stand.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called the decision "a major victory at SCOTUS that will protect Texas medical providers from being forced to violate State law" in a post to X, formerly Twitter Monday. "No Texas doctor should be forced to violate his or her conscience or the law just to do their job."
This is a major victory at SCOTUS that will protect Texas medical providers from being forced to violate State law. No Texas doctor should be forced to violate his or her conscience or the law just to do their job. We successfully sued and stopped the Biden-Harris… https://t.co/H6QNMyUERm
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 7, 2024
The ban on abortions in Texas has been in effect for more than two years. Several legal challenges have sought to overturn the law protecting the unborn in favor of a woman's right to kill her baby in the womb.
Monday's decision was the latest attempt to fail. The Biden administration claimed that the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act was enough to compel doctors to commit abortions if there was a threat to the mother's life or health.
It applied in hospital emergency rooms that accept Medicare funding, which means most facilities in the U.S. Still, the justices agreed with a lower court to keep the law protecting the conscience rights of doctors and the lives of the unborn.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who has staked her chances at the White House on the bodies of those children, railed against the decision. "I will never stop fighting for a woman’s right to emergency medical care — and to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade so that women in every state have access to the care they need," Harris said following the decision.
Harris and her GOP opponent, former President Donald Trump, are using this issue as leverage in their respective campaigns. Trump was responsible for appointing the justices who overturned the Roe v. Wade decision in 2022.
Besides the national race, two candidates for Senate have similarly used the issue to motivate their respective voters in Texas. GOP Rep. Colin Allred's pro-abortion stance is pivotal to his challenge against Sen. Ted Cuz for his U.S. Senate seat.
"When I’m in the Senate, we’re going to restore Roe v. Wade," Allred said at a Fort Worth, Texas, campaign event. The Democrat's crowd heartily cheered for the slaughter of the unborn, as many leftists are fond of doing.
Notably, Cruz did not use the issue against his opponent in a campaign event on the same day. However, opponents of the law claim that women will die over this decision.
"Reproductive rights are under assault in this country, and women’s health and lives remain in danger from the chaos and confusion caused by overturning Roe," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra claimed. Even if it were true, that does not address how liberal abortion laws cost millions of babies their lives.
The debate over abortion is ugly and disturbing to those who value human life. Unfortunately, an entire political party and its constituents believe that a woman's right to kill her child in the womb is paramount to all else.
A new report from Energy Policy Research Foundation analysis by researcher Max Pyziur blames California's high gas prices on its onerous climate change policies despite insistence from Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom that "Big Oil" was to blame for the state's higher than average prices on fuel.
AAA reported that the average gas price nationwide was around $3.17 a gallon, but in California the average price is $4.67 a gallon.
The study by Pyzier pointed out that gasoline formulations exceeding EPA standards account for 16 cents a gallon of added cost.
California's Cap and Trade program, an attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions, is another cause of the higher prices. This program caps greenhouse gas emissions and charges a fee for those who exceed the "caps."
California also has an excise tax of 58 cents per gallon, which was only 18 cents a gallon in 2000.
The combination of these policies has made gas cost an average of $1 more per gallon in 2022 and 2023. So far in 2024, gas in California has averaged around 90 cents a gallon higher than the national average.
Despite this clear evidence that climate change policies are making gas in California more expensive, Newsom continues to blame oil companies for the discrepancy.
Oil refineries are moving out of the state due to the abuse and overregulation. Out of 43 refineries that existed in 1982, only 14 remain in 2024.
Chevron is the latest to move out of California; it moved to Texas in August.
Newsom has been actively trying to drive refineries out of the state even if it's detrimental to the people and to tax revenue in the state. He wants gas-powered cars banned in the state in the next 20 years or less.
Unfortunately, to an extent the rest of the country follows after California because it is the largest and has had a powerful economy in the past.
Their reputation won't last if things continue in the same way, however.
The U.S. is in no way ready to ditch gasoline-powered cars. The power grid would be strained to the breaking point, if not beyond it, and lots of electric cars would be sitting on the side of the road inoperable because of the strain.
There may be a time in the future when electric cars can work, but for now, oil is a needed resource to make our economy go--even in California, whether people like Newsom like it or not.
The scope and existence of limitations on abortion remains a pressing question in states across the country in the post-Roe landscape, and one southern jurisdiction's stringent restrictions were just rejected by a judge, much to the disappointment of pro-life activists there.
As Breitbart reports, Judge Robert McBurney of Fulton County (Georgia) Superior Court blocked enforcement of the state's Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act late last month, dealing a victory to pro-abortion forces who also hope the issue will play an outsized role in November's presidential election and beyond.
McBurney's decision signals the death knell for Georgia's so-called “heartbeat law,” which prohibited abortions after six weeks' gestation unless certain, specified exceptions applied.
The judge determined, as Fox News noted, that the issue of abortion in the Peach State would be subject to regulation under the terms that prevailed prior to the enactment of the statute at issue, meaning that abortion was permissible up until 22 weeks gestation.
In the order announcing his decision, McBurney declared, “The authors of our Constitutions, state and federal, entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.”
He went on, “A review of our higher courts' interpretations of 'liberty' demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices.”
McBurney did, however, acknowledge that the power as articulated is not without limits, noting that “When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then – and only then – may society intervene.”
The LIFE Act came into existence when Gov. Brian Kemp signed it into law back in 2019, but did not take effect until 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the precedent of Roe v. Wade.
Though critics complained that the six-week abortion ban would require women to have the procedure before many even realize they are pregnant, the statute did include exceptions for cases of incest, rape, and when the life of the mother is deemed to be in danger.
Notably, McBurney halted enforcement law once before, back in 2022, prompting the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his decision and allow it to be implemented until the case was heard on its merits, a process which has now been completed.
In the wake of McBurney's ruling, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr filed an appeal to the state's high court, declaring that a reversal of the judge's “barely veiled judicial policymaking” was likely.
The state's appeal asserted that the “superior court's new order is just as erroneous as its first” and that it was filled with “political arguments, irrelevant (and erroneous) legal tangents, and ad hominem attacks” without ever isolating “a genuine constitutional flaw” in the legislation.
With abortion once again playing a significant role in the current presidential election cycle, some believe that McBurney's decision on the LIFE Act at this particular juncture amounts to undue interference.
Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council made this very claim, saying, “With his October Surprise, it looks like McBurney is attempting to curry favor with Kamala Harris to get appointed to a lifetime federal judgeship if Harris wins the presidency,” offering a seemingly cynical -- yet potentially quite accurate -- take on the current state of play.