Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose.It’s running in short supply in the Biden White House and the Harris presidential campaign by extension. After a head-spinning July, the Harris campaign has 93 days to stand up a national political operation. The trust deficit threatens to subsume Vice President Harris’ admittedly strong start, even...
Americans should decide American elections. This is common sense and fundamental to our democracy. But Democrats are allergic to common sense, and they do not want our elections to be secure. They have put America last, and non-citizens first, by opening our borders, dismantling election safeguards and embracing non-citizen voting. We deserve a secure system...
From the sidewalks of Oakland to the halls of the White House, Kamala Harris’ story is the stuff dreams are made of…the American Dream. Because where else could the daughter of immigrants rise to the highest office in the land, shattering glass ceilings all along the way? Only in America. Of course, she had plenty...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Penn., has had to defend his stance on Israel after an op-ed he penned more than three decades ago, in which he wrote of being an Israeli army volunteer and disparaged the Palestinian people, resurfaced. “Since he wrote this piece as a 20-year-old student, Gov. Shapiro has built close, meaningful, informative...
“Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus said that she is “delighted” by the resurgence of the political satire show since Vice President Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and thinks that it could help her campaign. “It’s been a wild thing to witness. Viewership went up something insane, like 350 percent,” Louis-Dreyfus told Entertainment Weekly. “I’m...
Election polling shows that a large percentage ofAmericans are concerned about threatstotheir democracy. Not surprisingly,theperceived source of that threat is different for those ontheLeft than ontheRight. Partisanship aside,Americans would do welltoheadtherealrisks ahead fortheAmericanrepublic. TheAmericanhistorian Will Durant once correctly described democracies as “hectic interludes” inthehistory of governments. Understanding that, long before Durant, Benjamin Franklin respondedtothequestion of...
Former President Trump announced Friday night that he has agreed to Fox News’ proposal for a debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump said the debate would be held on Sept. 4 in Pennsylvania, although the location of the event has not yet been determined. The former president also noted that an ABC News debate...
I have spent several years now thinking about the idea of authenticity, because I believe it is the quality that American society most craves, but also one that is rare and incredibly hard to define. We clearly see this in our presidential race, in which Donald Trump’s supporters view him as a straight shooter who...
Prominent comedian Andrew Schulz thinks former President Trump is the much more “enticing” presidential candidate this election cycle. During a segment of “The Brilliant Idiots” podcast, which Schulz co-hosts along with African American radio host Charlamagne tha God, the comedian gave his unvarnished opinion of the former president, admitting that voting for him is an...
In 1958,theNational Election Study began surveying Americans’trustingovernment, revealing that approximately 75% believedthefederalgovernmentwould dotheright thing almost always or most ofthetime. However, according to Pew Research in 2023, thistrusthas plummeted to a seven-decade low of merely 16%. Alarmingly, only 2% of Americans now believe thatthegovernmentconsistently acts correctly, and confidence in elected officials continues to erode.Theprimary reason for...
