President Joe Biden’s campaign boasted the “largest, earliest” Black media buy for an ad targeting Black voters that aired during the Colorado v. University of Southern California football game, among other major sporting events.

The ad, entitled “Get Ahead,” features a voiceover that urges voters to go with “a president, Joe Biden, who’s putting in the work for Black America”:

Getting ahead means getting the same chance to succeed as everyone else.

It’s why on his first day, President Biden signed an executive order to address racial inequity, working to narrow the racial wealth gap by creating millions of new good paying jobs and more funding for Black businesses.

But it’s also lowering the cost of living, including health premiums, prescription drugs and the cost of insulin. Getting ahead with a president, Joe Biden, who’s putting in the work for Black America.

In a press release, the Biden/Harris campaign noted the outreach to Black media companies:

Biden-Harris 2024 is announcing a new ad targeting Black Americans focused on how President Biden and Vice President Harris have made equity a cornerstone of their administration’s policy agenda, and are lowering costs and creating economic opportunity for Black America. The ad, “Get Ahead,” will air during today’s Colorado v. University of Southern California game as a part of Team Biden-Harris’ efforts to reach a general election audience. “Get Ahead” is the second African American-specific creative of this ad buy.

“Get Ahead” will run on TV and digital in key battlegrounds. The buy includes a mix of news, entertainment and sports programming, including: NFL, NBA and NCAA programming in select markets. The buy also includes a significant investment in Black-owned media properties. Last week’s Colorado game on ABC was the most watched college football game of the season so far on TV, and Colorado’s first three games of the season were rated 77% higher among Black viewers than anywhere else in the country.

This ad is part of Team Biden-Harris’ 16-week, $25 million advertising campaign that is reaching key voters in battleground states and is the largest and earliest investment in Black media for a reelection campaign in history.

“Get Ahead” will run on TV and digital in the following markets: Atlanta, Georgia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Detroit, Michigan; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Charlotte, North Carolina. Additionally, the spot will run digitally in Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona.

“The Coach Prime phenomenon reaches well beyond Boulder and well beyond the traditional college football fanbase,” said Michael Tyler, Biden-Harris 2024 Communications Director. “It just so happens that many among the millions of fans tuning in every Saturday to watch Colorado football represent the Biden-Harris coalition. So as millions tune in Saturday afternoon, we’re making sure that we’re tapping into moments like these and presenting audiences with President Biden’s historic record of accomplishment for Black families. Actions matter far more than words — and it’s what this campaign is demonstrating by making critical early investments in the Black community more than a year out from Election Day.”

Just days ago, the Biden campaign released another sports-themed spot — an attack ad featuring clips of ex-President Donald Trump playing golf.

Watch above via Biden for President.

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Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was reportedly “caught on camera” pulling the Cannon House Office fire alarm to delay the vote on the House continuing resolution that would avoid the government shutdown, according to a report by Poltico’s Olivia Beavers.

The Democratic lawmaker reportedly pulled the alarm in the House office as his party attempted to a delay a vote on Speaker Kevin McCarthy‘s 45-day stopgap spending bill that would avoid a shutdown at midnight.

Moreover, a panel for the GOP-controlled Administration Committee claimed Bowman “pulled a fire alarm in Cannon this morning” and that “an investigation into why it was pulled is underway.”

The official footage of Bowman pulling the alarm has not been released at this time.

NEWS: Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was caught on camera pulling the Cannon fire alarm ahead of this motion to adjourn vote as Dems tried to delay the CR vote, multiple sources tell me.

We have reached out to him for comment – we haven’t viewed footage ourselves.

— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) September 30, 2023

Beavers added that an “alert” had been sent out to Capitol Police officers to locate Bowman.

The attempt to delay was not successful; the House began voting on the CR not long after Beavers’ tweets were posted.

The the House scrambles to keep the government from shutting down at midnight, one of the House offices is being evacuated due to a fire alarm: pic.twitter.com/OarWyJjuVD

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) September 30, 2023

Capitol Police released a photo of the alleged suspect believed to have pulled the Cannon fire alarm.

NEW — Capitol Police are circulating this photo of a man pulling the fire alarm in Cannon. Looks a lot like Jamaal Bowman pic.twitter.com/khzpigSvWI

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 30, 2023

Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY), the ranking Democratic member of the House Administration Committee, said the allegations are a “serious matter” and that “it appears from the footage to be him, but I haven’t talked to him.”

Rep. Joe Morelle, top Dem on House Admin, says allegations that Rep. Bowman pulled the fire alarm are a “serious matter.”

“It appears from the footage to be him, but I haven’t talked to him.”

Says he wants to hear Bowman’s explanation.

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) September 30, 2023

Following reports of Bowman pulling the fire alarm, his spokesperson released a statement claiming he “did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The Congressman regrets any confusion.”

NEW: Bowman spox Emma Simon on him pulling the fire alarm.

“Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The Congressman regrets any confusion.”

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) September 30, 2023

This story is developing and has been updated.

A pro-Trump crowd went wild when ex-President Donald Trump promised he would send federal law enforcement to cities with orders to shoot shoplifters as they exit stores.

Trump gave a speech to the California GOP convention in Anaheim, CA Friday night that was chock full of outrageous moments, including ridiculing the attack on Paul Pelosi that was committed by a Trump supporter to appreciative laughter.

One of the most stunning moments came as Trump ranted about crime, and promised his federal law enforcement officers would be empowered to shoot shoplifters — which prompted wild cheers and chanting from the crowd that took a long time to subside:

DONALD TRUMP: But in places where there is a true breakdown in the rule of law such as Oakland. Oh, Oakland is so bad, I will use every power at my disposal. But it’s not Oakland. It’s in Los Angeles. It’s all over. I mean, it’s terrible. It’s in places that you wouldn’t even believe.

But I will use every– everything I can, every single power at my disposal, including sending as many federal law enforcement assets as required to restore safe safety and peace. And we will immediately stop. And some people will say, oh, this is terrible. I can’t believe, you know, these people are killing people when they go into the stores. You’ll have 300 young people who are not looking for a good future, walk into a store, a big department store, and just pillage it. And if you happen to be there when they’re there, they’ll knock the hell out of you and kill you in some cases.

And we will immediately stop all of the pillaging and theft. Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store!

(CROWD CHEERS WILDLY).

Shot!

(CROWD QHISTLES AND CHEERS WILDLY).

CROWD: TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!

DONALD TRUMP: And everything will immediately stop. You won’t have any more of that.

And, you know, our law enforcement is great, but they’re not allowed to do anything. They’re told to stand by. Stand back. Don’t touch. Don’t touch! They watch hundreds of kids walk out with television sets. And if they do anything, they lose their family. They lose their house, they lose their pension. They get fired.

Watch above via RSBN.

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2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce he will run as an independent on October 9 in Pennsylvania, Mediaite has learned.

Kennedy’s campaign machine is now planning “attack ads” against the Democratic National Committee in order to “pave the way” for his announcement in Philadelphia about running as an independent, according to a text reviewed by Mediaite.

“Bobby feels that the DNC is changing the rules to exclude his candidacy so an independent run is the only way to go,” a Kennedy campaign insider told Mediaite.

Kennedy, a notorious anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist challenging incumbent President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, has been flirting with a third party run in recent weeks. The New York Times reported last week that he met with the chair of the Libertarian Party, raising the prospect of a departure from the party that decades ago became synonymous with his family name.

Kennedy remains far behind Biden in the polls. Yet while the Times reported “Democrats worry that a third-party run by Mr. Kennedy could draw votes away from Mr. Biden and help elect former President Donald J. Trump,” it’s unclear whether such a run would hurt the current president more than the Republican nominee.

Indeed, polls show Republicans have a far more favorable view of Kennedy than Democrats. As the National Review’s Jim Geraghty pointed out in July, when a survey asked New Hampshire Democrats to describe Kennedy in one word, the top responses were “crazy,” “dangerous,” “insane,” “conspiracy,” and “unknown.”

Conservative media has been far more supportive of Kennedy’s campaign as well. Fox News host Greg Gutfeld proposed that the political scion run as third party in July.

“I think he should run as a third party candidate because I do think he should, he would win, is because his party’s radical elements, what we call the woke, have embraced this fascist clampdown on language,” Gutfeld said.

General Mark Milley stepped down as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Friday after decades of military service, but not without taking an apparent parting shot at his former boss Donald Trump.

During his farewell speech, Milley said, “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We don’t take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that is America, and we’re willing to die to protect it.”

In deranged posts on Truth Social that raised alarm in Washington D.C. this week, Trump accused Milley of treason and suggested he would’ve been executed for his actions “in times gone by.” One of those actions was a phone call Milley had with his Chinese counterpart. Former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper explained on CNN this week that he called China first, then instructed Milley to follow suit.

And it was in a separate meeting that I directed General Milley to to reach out to his counterpart as well, to send the same message that, ‘Nothing going on here. We have no aims against you, that it’s going to be steady as she goes,’ and that’s what we did typically in these types of situations.

He conveyed that message. But somehow it got portrayed that he was a rogue general acting on his own, and sent wrong messages to the Chinese. And again, it’s an incomplete story. Mark Milley did what I directed him to do, he did what other chairmen had done in the past, which, I think is responsible diplomacy and statecraft to prevent mishaps from happening.

CNN’s Br1anna Keilar noted Friday that Milley “may have the distinction of being the first chairman of the joint chiefs seen off with violent threats from a former commander in chief.”

Milley told 60 Minutes in a new interview that he has taken security measures to protect himself and his family.

“As much as these comments are directed at me, it’s directed at the institution of the military. And there are 2.1 million of us in uniform. The American people can take it to the bank that all of us, every one of us from private to general, are loyal to that Constitution and we’ll never turn our back on it no matter the threats, the humiliation, no matter what,” Milley said.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) is reportedly hearing out donors who want him to mount an 11th hour campaign to beat GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

“He [Youngkin] appears to be leaving the door open,” billionaire donor Thomas Peterffy told the Washington Post‘s Robert Costa. “And if Republicans win in Virginia, maybe we can talk him into it. He obviously wants to see what emerges, what the state of play is. The money would be there.”

According to Costa, Youngkin will hear out a crowd of supportive donors at a gathering in mid-October. He reportedly is being encouraged by a number of notable Republicans, including former Attorney General Bill Barr and Rupert Murdoch.

Here’s the theory of the race according to Youngkin’s supporters, as relayed by Costa:

If Virginia’s state legislature goes Republican on Nov. 7, Youngkin could claim he flipped a state that Joe Biden won in 2020. If the governor then signaled interest in exploring a run, supporters could rush to collect signatures for him to get on the ballot in delegate-rich states, many of which have December deadlines. If he got in, he’d make a play for Iowa and build a campaign with an eye on staying in until the convention.

In the past, Youngkin has insisted he will not throw his hat in the ring. But in remarks earlier this week, he professed to be “humbled” and said he was not going to endorse a candidate at this time. The governor became a national figure in 2021 when he upset Terry McAuliffe, the popular former chief executive of Old Dominion, in the gubernatorial race.

The calls for Youngkin’s entrance into the race come as the candidates presently in the race have struggled to gain ground on Trump since this spring, when it seemed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had established himself as the most — and perhaps the only — formidable challenger to Trump.

Since then, Trump has extended his lead, while the portion of the party not committed to voting for Trump has been dispersed among several candidates, although DeSantis remains in second place.

Still, polling indicates that the other candidates still have a chance if the field winnows and a single non-Trump candidate is able to consolidate support. According to one recent CBS News/YouGov survey, 79% of Republicans in Iowa and 77% in New Hampshire — the first two primary states — are considering candidates other than Trump.

A greater proportion of voters in both states have resolved to vote for another candidate than are firmly committed to voting for Trump.

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A right-wing television network suspended two hosts who made crude and inappropriate comments about a female journalist.

On Wednesday, British news network GB News — founded in 2021 as a U.K. version of Fox News — suspended presenter Dan Wootton over a segment with fellow co-host Laurence Fox about Ava Evans, a reporter for PoliticsJOE.

The subject of the segment was Evans’ recent appearance on BBC Politics Live where she discussed men’s mental health.

Fox embarked on a shockingly sexist tirade about Evans, first saying: “Show me a single, self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman, ever. That wasn’t an incel.”

It got worse from there:

That little woman has been spoon-fed oppression day after day after day, starting with the lie about the gender pay gap. She sat there, and I’m going like, if I met you at a bar and that was like sentence three, chances of me just walking away are just huge We need powerful, strong, amazing women who make great points for themselves. We don’t need these feminist 4.0. They’re pathetic and embarrassing. Who’d want to shag that?

Wootton chuckled through Fox’s commentary before calling Evans a “beautiful woman” and noting that she partially walked back her comments.

Evans took to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to share the segment, commenting: “I feel physically sick.”

Fox was suspended by GB News the morning after the segment. The network announced later on that Wootton was also suspended.

“We are conducting a full investigation,” the network said.

Before his suspension, Wootton got on social media twice to apologize over the segment.

Having looked at the footage, I can see how inappropriate my reaction to his totally unacceptable remarks appears to be and want to be clear that I was in no way amused by the comments.

I reacted as I did out of shock and surprise in an off guard moment while working out how to respond as he continued to speak by searching for tweets @AvaSantina had sent earlier in the day while having them read out in my ear at the same time.

However, I should have intervened immediately to challenge offensive and misogynistic remarks.

I apologise unreservedly for what was a very unfortunate lapse in judgement on my part under the intense pressure of a bizarre exchange.

I know I should have done better. I’m devastated that I let down the team and our supportive GBN family.
We seek to tackle the issue and not the person, which I intend to stress again on air tonight.

“I think you’re brilliant,” Wootton said of Evans:

Meanwhile, Fox offered no contrition in light of his suspension, declaring “I stand by every word of what I said. If a woman wants to go on television and belittle male suicide, she is totally within her rights to do so and not apologise, just as I am totally within my rights to say that I wouldn’t want to shag a hyper offended 4th wave feminist and not apologise…”

Fox also shared his text messages with Wootton, showing his co-host’s private reaction to the segment.

Evans also reacted to the controversy in an appearance on the Evening Standard Wednesday, saying she was “speechless” and “really hurt” over Fox’s comments.

“I’m shocked by it, actually. I’m shocked that it went out.” She said. “This is the sort of talk that you worry that men have about you when you’re not in the room. There’s always a worry in the back of your mind which is ‘Are people actually interested in what I’m saying or what I’m doing, or are they just looking at me physically?’ And I think that clip proves there are some men who are.”

This isn’t the first time Wootton has found himself at the center of controversy this year. Over the summer, Wootton was accused of using an alias to message his former colleagues at The Sun, offering them money in exchange for sexually explicit images. Wootton denied the criminal accusations against him, and GB News chief Angelos Frangopoulos said they would keep him on air because “as far we are aware, none of these allegations have been admitted or proved by an independent body. GB News continues to monitor the situation. Were a formal complaint to be raised by a member of our staff, then GB News would, of course, take appropriate steps.”

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Controversial author Michael Wolff defended the reporting in his latest book on Fox News and the Murdoch media empire, responding to criticism that it’s a compendium of thinly sourced, uncorroborated gossip in an interview with Mediaite.

On this week’s episode of The Interview, hosted by myself and Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin, Wolff argued that everything he published is “100 percent” true.

“This book is my version of the experience that I had, of what I know, of what people have told me,” Wolff said of The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty, which is out on Tuesday. “This is the story through my eyes. There will be other stories and other accounts and other books. What I tried to deliver is not the public story, not the story for public consumption, but the private story.”

A source familiar said Wolff, who has faced intense scrutiny for his reporting methods in previous books, including his blockbuster series on the Trump White House, did not reach out to Fox News or its parent company Fox Corporation to confirm his reporting with a fact-check.

When questioned by Mediaite on this, the bestselling author confirmed he did not do so – but claimed it was to avoid having to “negotiate” with Fox’s PR arm.

“Fox has said that I didn’t call them to fact-check, and they’re absolutely right. I did not call Fox PR people to fact-check because that just means you put yourself in a position to negotiate with them,” Wolff said. “I don’t want to negotiate the truth as so many journalists actually find themselves in that position to have to talk to the Fox PR people, and be badgered and threatened by them.”

Wolff did claim, however, that he reached out to “every principal” in the book. But a source at Fox told Mediaite he did not reach out to either Sean Hannity or Laura Ingraham, two prime time hosts who have entire chapters written about them in the book.

Wolff’s book is packed with mountains of juicy gossip on the Murdoch media empire, the succession fight that may follow his death, and the inner workings of Fox News. But some of his claims read as fantastical. Indeed, as the Daily Beast noted last week, the book includes “absurd anecdotes that occasionally strain credulity.”

Mediaite asked Wolff about one of those fantastical claims, namely that Tucker Carlson was fired as a secret condition of the $787 million settlement between Fox News and Dominion. Carlson, Mediaite noted, was not a major figure in the Dominion case, and it makes little sense that Dominion would score such a major scalp from Fox without crowing about it. Both Fox News and Dominion have denied that Carlson was ousted as a condition of the settlement.

Wolff stood by his reporting, insisting to Mediaite: “For Dominion it’s like, ‘We really want this money and we really want to get more and Hannity is not enough. Okay, they’re offering Tucker okay, $787 million yes, we’ll take that.’ So, just think about it in the context of this suited everyone’s needs at that moment in time, and remember that the paramount needs here are the money.”

There is one bit of reporting from the book that has already been disputed by the subjects involved: A lunch between Tucker Carlson and Ron DeSantis, in which the Florida governor and 2024 hopeful allegedly shoved – and possibly kicked – Carlson’s dog. Both Carlson and the DeSantis campaign denied the story outright.

Yet Wolff revealed in his interview with Mediaite that Carlson himself was the source of the story.

“Maybe he exaggerated. Maybe he lied. I don’t know. Maybe he regrets saying that. I have no idea,” Wolff said when asked about Carlson’s denial.

Carlson did not respond to Mediaite’s request for comment.

The New York Times, in a review by A.O. Scott, pointed out that Wolff almost entirely avoids describing where his reporting is sourced from. “Instead, assertions of fact and judgments of character emerge through a hazy collective consciousness. Lachlan Murdoch is a ‘chucklehead’; his brother James is a ‘hothead’; Laura Ingraham is a ‘drunk’; Sean Hannity is ‘a moron.’ Who says so?”

Mediaite asked Wolff about the flimsiness of his sourcing, specifically pointing to gossip about Ingraham’s alleged drinking, as well as a scene in which a former Fox News host is described as wearing a revealing outfit to Roger Ailes’s funeral.

“I include here what I believe is incontrovertible truth,” Wolff said. “That’s on the basis of it coming from people that I trust, I’ve dealt with before, I know well. Or on the basis, speaking of revealing outfits, of what I might have personally witnessed.”

Watch the full interview above. Subscribe to The Interview on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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Spotify is launching a new pilot program that will bring the power of AI into the world of podcasting.

On Monday, Spotify’s CEO and Founder Daniel Ek announced on Twitter that it was debuting “voice translation” which would take AI technology and translate podcast episodes for audiences around the globe using the original host’s voice.

“Podcasters – what if I told you could offer your pod to any listener around the world, in their own local language but still keep it in your own voice? That’s the pilot we’re launching @Spotify!” Ek tweeted.

This means that at some point in the near future, fans of popular Spotify podcasts like Joe Rogan’s The Joe Rogan Experience can listen to him speak in fluent Spanish, French, or German.

So far, there are only a select group of podcast hosts that are a part of the testing trial including, Lex Fridman, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and Monica Padman, and Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett.

According to Variety, Spotify’s VP of personalization, Ziad Sultan says the program will aim to share inspiration in a more authentic way.

“By matching the creator’s own voice, Voice Translation gives listeners around the world the power to discover and be inspired by new podcasters in a more authentic way than ever before,” Sultan said in a statement.

“We believe that a thoughtful approach to AI can help build deeper connections between listeners and creators, a key component of Spotify’s mission to unlock the potential of human creativity,” Sultan concluded.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) refused to answer if she would assist Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz in ousting his own party’s Speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy from House leadership.

Republican lawmakers and McCarthy have battled in recent weeks as the likeliness of a government shutdown becomes a real possibility if not resolved by the end of the month.

Gaetz and Rep. Lauren Boebert led the effort to make McCarthy’s ascension to the speakership a long-difficult battle. If Democrats such as AOC were across the aisle with the GOP, it could spell doom for McCarthy’s career in leadership.

During an interview on CBS News’s Face the Nation, anchor Margaret Brennan asked Ocasio-Cortez if she would work Gaetz to vote out McCarthy.

“We would have to cross that bridge when we get to it. Speaker McCarthy has been very weak,” she responded. “I think that he has also engaged in just absolutely terrible decision making for the American people from continuing to try to cement denying the right to an abortion among women, to the denial of to a policy that denies the reality of climate change, to basic fiscal irresponsibility and recklessness.”

She added, “We are at the brink of a shutdown right now. And so absolutely, I think there is grounds. However, we are also in the midst of an extremely chaotic Republican Party, and we do not want chaos to reign in Washington either. I think that is a bridge that we’d cross if we get to it.”

Other Democratic House lawmakers such as Maxine Waters noted in a Sunday interview she would not vote to save McCarthy as Speaker if Republicans turned against him.

Watch the full clip above via CBS News.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg dodged ABC’s Martha Raddatz Sunday on the question of why Americans are so overwhelming dissatisfied with the job President Joe Biden is doing, and whether he should be able to keep doing it after the next election.

Like NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, the latest This Week from ABC News covered some of the recent and devastating poll results showing Biden is not just bad off among Americans broadly and his own party specifically, but worse off even than Donald Trump was at the same point ahead of the last election — an election Trump lost.

In fact, as Rick Klein reported, the ABC news/Washington Post poll had Democrat voters preferring “someone else” be the party’s nominee.

When Raddatz confronted Buttigieg with those numbers he dissembled and claimed that Americans in fact do support Biden’s vision for the economy, despite the poll showing the exact opposite.

“What do you say to the 44 percent of Americans who say they are worse off now than they were before Biden took office?” Raddatz asked after the report Biden’s terrible poll numbers.

“Well, look, we all know the economic pressure that Americans have felt. When the president took office, the economy was flat on its back,” said Buttigieg. “But we’re also getting extraordinary results, more than 13 million jobs created. That’s more than any presidential term in American history.”

He continued to say the ways in which he thinks the American electorate are wrong about their economic conditions before claiming, “the American people agree with us and not with congressional Republicans on what to do about” that economic situation that he said they are wrong to be dissatisfied with.

And what it is that he says Americans want the Biden administration to do is to “keep pushing” on the things they are doing that the polls show the voters say isn’t enough.

Raddatz continued to press in the interview, saying Americans are feeling high prices and economic pressure in their daily lives, and Buttigieg continued to explain that actually Biden is doing a great job. He also attempted several times to pin a possible government shutdown on Republicans, but in the same poll, voters in fact blamed Democrats for that, too.

RADDATZ: As you heard from Rick, the poll, the vast majority of American people are not happy with President Biden’s leadership on a range of topics and issues.

So, what do you say to the 44 percent of Americans who say they are worse off now than they were before Biden took office?

BUTTIGIEG: Well, look, we all know the economic pressure that Americans have felt. When the president took office, the economy was flat on its back. But we’re also getting extraordinary results, more than 13 million jobs created. That’s more than any presidential term in American history. And, yes, it takes a while for people to feel the full benefits of those results, just like it’s going to take a while to build all of the infrastructure that we’re now underway on with the president’s generational infrastructure build.

But he got the bill done after president after president, congress after congress couldn’t make it happen. He did. We’re getting the results on the economy.

And one other thing that I think is really important is that the American people agree with us and not with congressional Republicans on what to do about it. So, when you look at the economy, the most important thing, in the president’s view, is to support families and support workers, not just with the job creation that’s going on, but lowering costs. That’s why, for example, lowering the cost of insulin to $35 for seniors is something that the president pushed for, got, wants to do for all Americans, but congressional Republicans are blocking him.

We’re going to keep pushing on that because, in the end, what we are seeing to do, versus prioritizing tax cuts for the wealthy, let alone driving this country toward a government shutdown, is not what the American people want to see in response to these conditions.

Some in the media are not happy with the poll result from the Washington Post and ABC News, insisting that the results can’t be correct and they don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon.

Watch the videos above via This Week on ABC.

As Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) faces criminal charges for bribery along with calls to leave office from his fellow Democrats, one House Republican on Capitol Hill is actually willing to defend him — George Santos.

On Friday, federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York charged the New Jersey lawmaker  along with his wife Nadine Menendez — in connection with three associates in a scheme to benefit the government of Egypt. During a raid on Menendez’s home, three gold bars estimated to be worth $100,000 as well as $480,000 in cash stuffed into various clothing and a safe were found by law enforcement.

Many prominent Democrats in Congress and political leaders in New Jersey have called on Menendez to resign amid his ongoing legal issues.

However, Santos, who is also facing federal criminal charges, believes Menendez should remain in office, noting that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

“Do you think Senator Menendez should resign, given his indictment,” NBC News correspondent Julie Tsirkin asked Santos as he made his way through the Capitol.

“I think due process is important and I think he has a right to defend himself,” Santos said. “He’s innocent until proven guilty. The media has to stop acting like everybody is guilty before they’re even judged by a jury. So, no, I think everybody is innocent until proven guilty. When did we walk away from the fabric of our Constitution that everybody has a presumption of innocence before anything else? So I don’t think he should resign.”

Watch the full clip above via MSNBC.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was grilled by NBC anchor Kristen Welker for his past support for Donald Trump during the 2016 election despite his claims of election fraud.

Christie was one of the first major Republicans back to Trump for president after dropping out of the 2016 primary. However, after losing the Iowa Caucus to Ted Cruz, Trump floated claims of election fraud and Christie continued to support his candidacy because he “didn’t want Hillary Clinton” to win.

During a Sunday interview on Meet The Press, Welker confronted Christie — nowadays one of Trump’s most outspoken critics — for his shift from friend to foe over the few years. Welker noted that Christie supported Trump through many of his scandals during and after 2016, including during Charlottesville riot and the Access Hollywood tape.

“I supported him in 2016 because he was going to be the nominee because I didn’t want Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States. And I make no apologies for that. I still don’t want Hillary Clinton to be president, United States. But I broke from the president very clearly for President Trump on election night 2020,” Christie responded.

Christie then stumbled when Welker noted he helped Trump prepare for a debate against Clinton after he said he would not accept the election results if he lost.

“You helped prepare him for a debate in 2016 against Hillary Clinton when he said he wouldn’t accept the election results, governor,” she told Christie.

“Well, look, Kirsten, the fact of the matter is that I didn’t want Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States. And this is much different, much different when you’re president of United States and people think you actually know something,” he claimed. “That’s what made what he did in 2020 so destructive. And we know from looking at what’s happened since then that a lot of American people believed it because he was president, because they thought he knew things they didn’t know.”

Watch the full segment above via NBC.

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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) published a shockingly violent and homophobic tirade against General Mark Milley, suggesting the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff be put to death.

Gosar’s Congressional office released a newsletter on Sunday which claimed that the FBI, the DHS, and other federal agencies allowed the U.S. Capitol to be attacked by Donald Trump’s rioting supporters on January 6. From there, the newsletter blasted Milley for speaking with Nancy Pelosi after the riot, agreeing with her that Trump was “crazy,” and assuring the former House speaker that Trump wouldn’t be able to seize control of America’s nuclear arsenal during his last days in office.

In addition, the newsletter called Milley “homosexual promoting” and “sodomy-promoting.”

Here’s what Gosar’s newsletter had to say about the general, including the call for him to be hanged:

After the riot was in full swing, the Chief’s request for National Guard was finally approved. But even after approval was given, General Milley, the homosexual-promoting-BLM-activist Chairman of the military joint chiefs, delayed. Of course, we now know that the deviant Milley was coordinating with Nancy Pelosi to hurt President Trump, and treasonously working behind Trump’s back. In a better society, quislings like the strange sodomy-promoting General Milley would be hung. He had one boss: President Trump, and instead he was secretly meeting with Pelosi and coordinating with her to hurt Trump. That is, when he wasn’t also secretly coordinating and sharing intelligence with the Chinese military. How this traitor remains in office is a question we need answered.

The Gosar newsletter echoes a Truth Social rant Trump put out two days ago, where the ex-president said Milley deserved capital punishment for his attempts to deescalate Chinese fears that Trump was going to start a war against them. Gosar has branded Milley a “traitor” in the past.

Today News Africa’s Simon Ateba on Saturday shared a video on social media in which he confronted a woman who he says “attacked” him on a Washington, D.C. bus “because of” Donald Trump.

Ateba, who has become an internet sensation over his many clashes with White House press secretaries, posted the video and his account to X (formerly Twitter) Saturday, saying that he was attacked as the result of a video call he was on with a friend in Florida.

According to Ateba, his friend was wearing a Trump hat on the call, and “a lady who joined me at the bus stop went into a rage.”

“he called my friend a white b..tch wearing the m..fckr devil. Are you supporting him? Are you? She asked me. She said it was the worst thing she has seen today,” he wrote.

“It was so shocking that after we got off the bus I asked her to repeat what she said, she went into a rage, threatened to even ‘lock me up’ for recording her. Haha!” he said. “This is for you to understand how deep has propaganda has spread here and how tough the battle ahead will be.”

In the video, Ateba follows the woman off the bus and away from the bus stop. When he catches up he asks, “What were you saying to me?”

“I wasn’t saying anything to you. I said I don’t like people who wear Donald Trump hats. That’s what I said. I’d didn’t say shit to you,” the woman replied.

After saying a bit more on the subject, she added that she could have Ateba “locked up” for recording her without her consent.

I was just attacked in Washington DC because of Trump. After my morning jog, I was on a video call with a friend in Florida who was wearing Trump cap and a lady who joined me at the bus stop went into a rage. She called my friend a white b..tch wearing the m..fckr devil. Are you… pic.twitter.com/Vn8cCUq7Ps

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 23, 2023

In a follow-up post on X, Ateba added:

Remember, I was not the one wearing the cap. She saw it very briefly on my phone and went into a rage. I don’t know what would have happened if I were the one wearing it. It’s a bit unbelievable that Trump could get a fair trial here as the judges may also face consequences if ruling does not go as widely ‘expected’ here…..My friend who was on the phone with me is also a journalist connected with me here on X. Just so you understand, people are being attacked for simply wearing a hat or cap, for their political views, not for saying or doing anything to anyone, just minding their business! Tough election ahead, folks! Just support independent journalists and others as much as you can. Propaganda is deep!!!!

Remember, I was not the one wearing the cap. She saw it very briefly on my phone and went into a rage. I don't know what would have happened if I were the one wearing it. It's a bit unbelievable that Trump could get a fair trial here as the judges may also face consequences if…

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 23, 2023

Watch the video above via Simon Ateba on X.

Peter Navarro, former trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, called former White House female colleagues “pimp ladies” in bizarre tweet defending Rudy Giuliani from sexual assault claims.

Cassidy Hutchinson, the former chief of staff to Mark Meadows, claimed earlier this week in her new book that Giuliani sexually assaulted her on January 6th.

Another former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin backed up Hutchinson’s claims, triggering an angry, typo-riddled response from Navarro on Twitter.

“Watched Hutchinson in West Wing suck candy daily outside Meadows office doing NOTHING. Pimping new ‘book’ with White House loser Alyssa Farah. Hutchinson sold soul to J6 witch hunt. This her next 15 minutes of fame. Rudy Giuliani hero, Cassidy trash,” Navarro wrote.

On Friday, Navarro responded to his own post by attacking some of the most notable female aides to serve in the Trump administration by calling them “pimp ladies.”

“Why would White House men – prez, vp, senior aide – EVER hire a woman after watching book pimps Cassiday(sic) Hutchinson, Alyssa Farah, Stephanie Grisham, Kayleigh McEnany, Olivia Troye throw mud at Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani et. al. Pimp ladies be giving real MAGA WOMEN bad name,” he concluded.

Why would White House men – prez, vp, senior aide – EVER hire a woman after watching book pimps Cassiday Hutchinson, Alyssa Farah, Stephanie Grisham, Kayleigh McEnany, Olivia Troye throw mud @realDonaldTrump @RudyGiuliani et. al.
Pimp ladies be giving real MAGA WOMEN bad name https://t.co/gofMPqmrb5

— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) September 23, 2023

Navarro, an ardent Trump loyalist, recently became the second former Trump official convicted for contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the January 6th Committee.

It is unclear why Navarro chose to target McEnany in his rant because the former press secretary turned Fox News pundit has not been vocally anti-Trump since leaving the administration.

Meanwhile, Giuliani faces multiple lawsuits as well as criminal charges stemming from his alleged attempts to overturn the election results in Georgia in favor of Trump during the 2020 election.

Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy is battling members of his own caucus over spending, debt, and talk of a possible government “shutdown” all week, and in a press gaggle on Saturday indicated it has been easier in some ways to negotiate with President Joe Biden’s White House than the holdouts in the GOP.

And he pointedly implied that some of those House Republicans are not acting in “good faith.”

The California Republican took questions for several minutes on Saturday, mostly on the subject of the negotiations. One reporter asked whether he feels it has been “easier to negotiate with a Democratic White House in some respects than it is with members of [his] own party.”

“Well, when you’re negotiating with a Democratic White House, you’re negotiating with one-on-one persons with a few of the staff,” McCarthy said. “When you’re negotiating here, everybody’s king. Because one person can close it down, then once one person gets something, everybody has to get something, then somebody else has to get something now.”

Another reporter then asked, “Do you think these people are negotiating in good faith?”

“Who?” replied McCarthy.

“Some of the [GOP] holdouts,” the reporter answered.

“I think some are, yeah,” McCarthy replied, pointedly.

The reporter started to ask another question, then stopped and clarified, “Some? Not all?”

“Everybody has their different reasons why,” said McCarthy.

The Speaker was decidedly more direct earlier this week when he said that some of those Republican holdouts “just want to burn the whole place down.”

One of those currently fighting McCarthy on the spending negotiations is Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, who caught attention on Friday for admitting “failure” on the part of his party to hammer out their issues before it got to this point.

Watch the clip above, via MSNBC.

Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead told SiriusXM host and MSNBC author Dean Obeidallah that hiring Hasan Minhaj as host could “taint” her creation’s brand.

Minhaj has been taking fire for his admission that stories he tells onstage are “seventy percent emotional truth—this happened—and then thirty percent hyperbole, exaggeration, fiction” after The New Yorker’s Clare Malone confronted him about not being able to confirm things he’s said in his act. Minhaj also has his defenders.

On Friday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, Obeidallah asked Winstead if the issue would affect Hasan being hired to host The Daily Show:

DEAN OBEIDALLAH: This is someone, you’re not with The Daily Show now, but as someone who co-created, would that impact having Hasan as the new host of it?

LIZZ WINSTEAD: I mean, he’s reporting on the news. So I think that if he’s a good comic, that can be, that can be directed by an executive producer and a research team. And he’s bringing the truth.

I mean, I sure. I think that like you are, you sit in that chair as a character. I think that it would maybe taint the show because there’s somebody there who has taken a lot of liberties with their own truth.

You know, what do people again, what do viewers value about The Daily Show? Because The Daily Show is not a Weekend update. Let’s be clear. It has presented itself as something different. It always was something different.

And so if what– if the franchise is not just being funny, but also speaking truth to power and like exposing stuff and hypocrisy and and being satirical, the brand has to ask itself what does its audience want out of the host? Do they want that same, those same values out of the host?

Watch above via SiriusXM’s The Dean Obeidallah Show.

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The Democratic party is losing one of its big-city mayors. Eric Johnson, the mayor of Dallas, Texas, announced in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he is switching parties and “will leave office as a Republican.”

Johnson started his essay in the WSJ by citing a few of his strongest policies while serving as a Democratic mayor for four years: making the city safer, standing up against calls to defund the police, “lower taxes and a friendlier business climate.” He also stated that while he wants to change his party affiliation, his “approach is working,” so he doesn’t plan on changing the way he operates. But that said, he explained: “I don’t believe I can stay on the sidelines any longer.”

Johnson wrote:

The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism. Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.

In other words, American cities need Republicans — and Republicans need American cities. When my political hero Theodore Roosevelt was born, only 20% of Americans lived in urban areas. By the time he was elected president, that share had doubled to 40%. Today, it stands at 80%. As America’s cities go, so goes America.

Unfortunately, many of our cities are in disarray. Mayors and other local elected officials have failed to make public safety a priority or to exercise fiscal restraint. Most of these local leaders are proud Democrats who view cities as laboratories for liberalism rather than as havens for opportunity and free enterprise.

Too often, local tax dollars are spent on policies that exacerbate homelessness, coddle criminals and make it harder for ordinary people to make a living. And too many local Democrats insist on virtue signaling — proposing half-baked government programs that aim to solve every single societal ill — and on finding new ways to thumb their noses at Republicans at the state or federal level. Enough. This makes for good headlines, but not for safer, stronger, more vibrant cities.

Despite also saying he will be voting in the Republican primary in the spring, Johnson said he will uphold his promise to voters that he will not publicly endorse a candidate of a specific political party: “This is about promoting policies and principles, not personalities and politicians.”

Read the full op-ed at the Wall Street Journal.

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During a Newsmax discussion about Rupert Murdoch stepping down at Fox, pro-Trump activist Matt Schlapp provided a dubious explanation for why he was dropped from the network: his own politics.

That explanation ignores that Schlapp and his wife Mercedes Schlapp stopped appearing on Fox after he was accused in a lawsuit of groping a male staffer.

“I was on Fox practically every day for years and years and years,” Schlapp said on Newsmax Thursday. “And then something happened in the country; the BLM riots happened, the virus happened, and then this crazy presidential election with all this voter fraud happened, and Fox seemed to want to be at war with its viewers. And people who have opinions and voices like me, became a less hospitable place.”

Schlapp, who is head of the American Conservative Union, was accused in January of groping GOP operative Carlton Huffman. Schlapp denied the allegations, and Huffman filed a lawsuit. Schlapp’s attempts to settle the suit were reportedly rebuffed.

Since the allegations became public, Schlapp has not appeared on Fox News. Other allegations against him by male staffers have also been reported on.

Members of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which Schlapp runs, have called for a formal investigation into the allegations. The Post reported:

In addition to that lawsuit, some board members and staffers have been told about other incidents involving Schlapp, 55, and two younger men, multiple people with direct knowledge of the situation said.

In one incident, a staffer said Schlapp attempted to kiss him while drinking late after a work function in 2017. The staffer also provided documentation from that night to The Washington Post showing physical contact that the staffer said was unsolicited.

In another incident, Schlapp allegedly made unwanted physical advances on someone else’s employee during a CPAC business trip in Palm Beach, Fla., in early 2022, according to multiple people informed of the incident. The alleged victim did not respond to requests for comment.

Fox News did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Watch the clip above via Newsmax.

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