Taylor Swift Endorsing Kamala Harris Backfires as Poll Shows More Voters ‘Much More Likely’ to Vote Trump Over Harris
A new poll shows that pop star Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president may not have moved the needle in the candidate’s favor, and, in fact, may have backfired.
Surveying 1,120 potential voters between September 11-12 with a ± 3.8% margin of error, the YouGov poll showed that a majority of voters (66 percent) said that Swift’s endorsement made no difference while only 8 percent of voters would either be “somewhat” or “much more likely” to vote for Kamala Harris due to Swift’s endorsement. Conversely, a full 20 percent said they are “somewhat” or “much more likely” to vote for former President Donald Trump.
Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president following the first debate last week, though she advised Americans to do their own research. Perhaps, many already have.
“I think the best thing about a football locker room, and kind of how I grew up in baseball locker rooms, is that people can come together and achieve a common goal,” said Mahomes. “I think that if we can do that as a nation, I think we can get the best out of each other. I think that is something I do every single day.”
“When I hang out with other people I don’t think about political views,” he continued. “I think about how they treat people. And I was with a lot of great people this weekend.”
Despite the polling, some good news did yield for Harris as a result of Swift’s endorsement, with reports indicating that she drove over 400,000 people to register on vote.gov.
Per USA Today:
As of Wednesday evening, a custom URL shared by Swift on her Instagram story that expired after 24 hours had directed 405,999 visitors to vote.gov, according to a spokesperson from the General Services Administration (GSA) speaking to USA TODAY on Thursday.
By comparison, in the week leading up to the debate, from Sep 3-9, 2024, vote.gov received about 30,000 visitors a day.
The Democrats are taking advantage of the pop star’s backing, erecting billboards in Las Vegas and New York City that read “We’re in Our Kamala Era,” a play on Swift Eras Tour.
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Last week, Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes said he will not endorse a candidate for president this election cycle, even though his wife Brittany has liked pro-Trump posts on social media.
“I’ve always said, I don’t want my place and my platform to be used to endorse a candidate — either way,” Mahomes told reporters last week. “I think my place is to get people registered [to vote], do their research and make their best decision for them and their family. Every time I get asked these questions, I’m going to refer back to that because I think that’s what makes America so great.”
Patrick Mahomes emphasized his appreciation for the fact that Americans can see people of different stripes coming together, such as when he and Brittany were seen with Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Travis Kelce at the US Open tennis tournament in New York.
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Netherlands declares state of emergency over migrant crisis
The Netherlands, under the leadership of Geert Wilders’ right-wing party, announced on Friday that it would be declaring a national state of emergency in an effort to reduce the influx of asylum seekers.
The government plans to end its policy of granting open-ended asylum permits and limit the circumstances under which those granted asylum can bring family members into the country. Currently, around 40,000 asylum seekers enter the Netherlands each year, according to DW.
The emergency law will also allow the Dutch government to suspend decisions on new asylum applications for the next two years and limit the facilities available to asylum seekers.
“We are taking measures to make the Netherlands as unattractive as possible for asylum seekers,” explained Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber in a statement.
To implement these emergency powers to combat its ongoing migrant crisis, the Dutch government will issue a royal decree, allowing it to bypass parliamentary approval, similar to actions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it will need to prove that these policies are legally justified.
The move comes after Geert Wilders’ election victory last year, which was driven by his promise to implement the strictest migration laws in the European Union (EU). In response to the Dutch government’s aims, the EU will likely push back on such policies as members have previously agreed to the EU’s migration pact, and opt-outs are typically discussed during the negotiating phase.
However, the Dutch government has reaffirmed its intention to seek an exemption from the pact.
In response to the Dutch government’s announcement, EU spokesperson Eric Mamer stated, “We have adopted legislation, you don’t opt out of adopted legislation in the EU, that is a general principle.”
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Report: Most of Michigan’s ‘Uncommitted’ Won’t Support Kamala Harris
It appears Most of Michigan’s “uncommitted” community, which protested the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in the Democrat primary, will not back Vice President Kamala Harris in the general election, according to a report.
Ryan Grim, the co-host of Counter Points and editor of Drop Site News, wrote in his newsletter on Substack Friday that the temperature at the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee conference in the Arab-dense city of Dearborn, Michigan, was cold toward Harris:
Much of the talk at the conference was about whether the community would wind up supporting Kamala Harris in the general election. The consensus seemed to be that the vast majority will not do so. Green Party nominee Jill Stein, ahead of Harris in some polls of Muslim voters here, even spoke on opening night and was given quite a warm welcome.
Michigan was notably where the uncommitted movement began. The “Listen to Michigan” campaign aimed to get 10,000 uncommitted votes in the Democrat primary to protest the Biden-Harris administration for a ceasefire in the war.
Listen to Michigan smashed its goal, as the uncommitted option garnered 100,000 votes, approaching the 154,188 vote margin that Biden won Michigan by against former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The movement includes Muslims, Arab Americans, young voters, and far-left progressives.
In Dearborn, Biden actually lost to the uncommitted option by a wide margin. Uncommitted drew 6,432 votes (57 percent), while Biden followed with 4,526 votes (40 percent).
The movement spread to other states, like Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania, as the Biden-Harris administration failed to secure a ceasefire deal. What is more, Biden signed legislation sending $26.3 billion in defense support to Israel in April, even after the uncommitted movement had made waves in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
The divide on the left has persisted, if not worsened, despite Harris supplanting Biden at the top of the ticket in July. During her first interview with CNN, well over a month after becoming the presumptive Democrat nominee, Harris doubled down on her and Biden’s Israel policies.
She initially skirted a question from CNN’s Dana Bash about potentially withholding “some U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.” Bash followed up, asking, “But no change in policy in terms of arms and so forth?”
“No, we have to get a deal done,” Harris said.
“I remain committed — since I’ve been on October 8 — to what we must do to work toward a two-state solution where Israel is secure and, in equal measure, the Palestinians have security, self-determination, and dignity,” she went on to add.
Grim analyzed the interview the next day while hosting Breaking Points alongside the show’s regular host, Krystal Ball, and drilled down on Bash’s use of “some” in her line of question.
“The Biden administration has even said they would restrict ‘some’ weapons, like the 2,000-pound bombs used for offensive purposes,” he said.
“People keep saying that Harris is better rhetorically and more empathetic. Where’s the empathy there, when you’re actually not even standing by the tiniest of concessions that the Biden administration, her administration has made?” he added.
Grim’s report Friday also comes as Harris is losing to the Green Party’s Jill Stein and Trump with Muslim voters in Michigan, according to a poll from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The survey found that 40 percent of the Muslims who responded back Stein, 18 percent support Trump, and 12 percent back Harris. Another 21 percent are undecided.
The United Arab Emirates has notably categorized CAIR as a terrorist organization, and a U.S. federal judge ruled in 2009 that evidence existed “to establish” ties between CAIR and Hamas, as Breitbart News has noted:
In 2007-8, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. That case, in turn, led the FBI to discontinue its work with the organization. In 2009, a federal judge ruled that the government “produced ample evidence to establish” the ties of CAIR with Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization. The United Arab Emirates labeled CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014 (a decision that the Obama administration opposed).
The August 25-27 CAIR/Molitical Consulting LLC survey included 1,478 responses, “1076 of which were verified and matched to the national voter file,” and the margin of error is ±2.95 percentage points.
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Exclusive–Bernie Moreno: Sherrod Brown Resorts to Attacks Because ‘His Record Is So Abysmal’
Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday that his opponent, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), is opting for attacks over substance because “his record is so abysmal.”
Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle asked Moreno, a very successful businessman who built one of the largest auto dealership groups in the United States, about attacks Brown has levied against him regarding a lawsuit over wages at a Massachusetts dealership he used to own.
The lawsuit, from two former employees, came after the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in a separate case, unrelated to Moreno, that commissioned salespeople were entitled to overtime, and the ruling was retroactively applied statewide, according to the Republican Senate nominee.
“Sherrod Brown’s never had a job that wasn’t being an elected official. So, of course, he’s going to vilify anybody who had a real job that wasn’t being paid for by the taxpayer with no accountability. So let’s just get that out of the way,” Moreno said.
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He detailed how he built his business from one dealership into fifteen, with thirty brands company-wide.
“We succeeded because I had great people working in my company,” he said. “I knew that my job was to take care of my people, and then the people who worked with me would take care of my clients. And that recipe worked.”
“We were one of the most awarded dealer groups in the country, not just because we sold a lot of cars, but because we took great care of our team members and our clients,” he added. “In fact, the Cleveland Plain Dealer rated my company one of the best places to work in Northeast Ohio multiple years in a row.”
Moreno said that Brown has “latched on to one particular case at a Massachusetts dealership in which the salespeople at a furniture store, nothing to do with me, sued the furniture store saying that commissioned salespeople were entitled to overtime.”
The lawsuit reached the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which ruled, long after Moreno had sold his dealership, that commissioned salespeople are entitled to retroactive overtime pay, affecting all commissioned businesses in the Bay State.
“The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled a year after I sold my dealership, by the way, they ruled that in Massachusetts, commission salespeople are entitled to overtime, which would have been perfectly fine because, of course, we would have followed whatever law existed at that moment in time,” he detailed.
“But they made the ruling retroactive, so they went backward and said, ‘If you don’t agree with our interpretation of wage law, you owe all this overtime,’” he continued. “Every commission business in Massachusetts was affected whether it’s a furniture store, a car dealership, not just my business,” he added.
Following that Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling, two of Moreno’s former employees brought a lawsuit against him.
“I had probably 60 salespeople during the four years I owned that dealership,” he said. “Two of them that, by the way, were the worst performing salespeople in terms of showing up on time–these were salespeople that made $150,000 to $200,000 a year. If they showed up 35 hours in the week, it was a big deal; in fact, one of them was fired because he didn’t show up to work on time. They sued me.”
“Of course, an uber-liberal Boston jury heard the case for a week and, in seven to ten minutes, decided exactly how much overtime these two salespeople were entitled to,” Moreno continued. “It was in the teens, you know, maybe 12, 13,14, $15,000 over three and a half years, between the two of them; they awarded that. And, of course, in Massachusetts, you’re subjected to crazy penalties and attorney fees, and that’s how it got $400,000.”
Moreno said the process demonstrates the importance of Supreme Court races in states that have them, like Ohio, emphasizing, “If you put radical lunatics in these courts, they’re going destroy this country.”
He added that Brown has to resort to bogus attacks instead of focusing on substance because Brown’s “record is so abysmal.”
“His record is open borders, high prices, instability all over the world, an assault on American energy, and a failure to stand up to China,” Moreno said. “That’s how we’re going to win this race: by focusing on that.”
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Mark Matson: Kamala’s Tax Policies Are an ‘American Dream Destroyer’
Mark Matson, a financial expert and author of Experiencing the American Dream, told Breitbart News Saturday Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposed policies are an “American Dream destroyer.”
Maston wrote Experiencing the American Dream: How to Invest Your Time, Energy, and Money to Create an Extraordinary Life, a book on how to invest to cultivate Americans’ financial future. The book releases on Sunday.
Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle asked if the American dream is slipping away for many Americans.
Matson responded, “We have to fight for it. This is really a fight for the future of the country. Are we going to go down the socialist, Communist road and have the Communist dream? Or, are we going to have the American Dream that’s funded by capitalism and free markets and entrepreneurship?”
The author then cited a Wall Street Journal study that the American dream largely includes:
- Owning a home
- Having a family and children
- Being able to send one’s children to college
- Being able to retire
“All of these things became more difficult under this administration,” Matson said.
Matson said that Harris has proposed many harmful policies, including higher taxes, price controls, and regulations, which run counter to the American dream.
He said these policies are “an American dream destroyer.”
Boyle then asked what policies a potential future Trump administration would have to enact to help Americans achieve their dream.
Matson said that they have to keep the Trump tax cuts, noting that if they expired, Americans may experience 20 to 30 percent higher taxes.
He also called to reduce capital gains and keep taxes on corporations low.
Matson said that Trump should have “capital gains stay at 20 percent or go down to zero. That’s already your money, you grew it to fulfill your family dreams. You should not be putting a 28 percent on corporations.”
With lower corporate rates, Matson said that more businesses would “want to come to America and create jobs.”
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Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on X @SeanMoran3.
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NYT Removes Nazi Language from Headline of Criticism of JD Vance
The New York Times removed a controversial headline of a column critical of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s running mate.
The original headline – “JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Nationalism Finds Its Target” – used a term closely associated with the Nazi Party during Adolf Hitler’s reign of Germany.
The use of “blood and soil” generated an immediate backlash of accusations that the paper tied Vance’s America First policies with German nationalism espoused by the Nazi party.
The heat appears to have spurred the paper to edit its headline to “Shouldn’t JD Vance Represent All of Ohio?”
But screenshots of the original headline live on.
The New York Times and other establishment media outlets have overwhelmingly given Trump and Vance negative coverage, while praising Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN).
The outlet praised Harris for her supposed decisive debate night victory Tuesday, despite polls conducted after the debate showing Trump continued to rise.
Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye.
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UK man released early from prison assaults female prison worker within one hour of release
A 31-year-old man in the UK who was recently released from prison has been charged with sexually assaulting a female prison worker within an hour of his release. According to the Daily Mail, which did not publish his name, the offender allegedly assaulted the worker as he was being driven to a train station following his release from HMP Swaleside, a medium-security prison.
The offender in question was one of several inmates being driven to Sittingbourne station as a “gesture of goodwill” by the prison staff. A log of the incident, first reported by the Daily Mail, stated, “at approx 10.30hrs [the released prisoner] was being escorted by an OSG [operational support grade] in a pool car to Sittingbourne station following his release under SDS40.”
“During the journey it was alleged that [he] sexually assaulted the OSG,” it continued. “[He] vacated the vehicle and his whereabouts are unknown at this time. The victim is understood to have had their thigh allegedly groped by the criminal.”
The offender had been serving time at HMP Swaleside, a facility housing approximately 1,100 male inmates. Following the assault, the offender was immediately recalled to prison and has since been charged with sexual assault, according to a spokesman for the British Transport Police.
The incident comes amid criticism of the UK government’s policy of early prisoner release, particularly a program known as SDS40, introduced by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood. The program allows inmates to be released after serving just 40 percent of their sentence due to overcrowding in the prison system.
National Chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association, Mark Fairhurst, condemned the incident, saying, “I’m appalled that out of sheer goodwill a member of staff gave a released prisoner a lift and was allegedly sexually assaulted as a result.”
“Clearly our members are at risk and this should never be allowed to happen again,” Fairhurst stated.
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ERIN ELMORE: 1 in 3 public school students in US behind grade level: report
Recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has found that nearly one-third of students in public schools across the United States are behind their current grade level. This finding highlights the ongoing educational challenges in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The data comes from the School Pulse Panel, a study designed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on education. This study collects information from elementary, middle, and high schools nationwide, with a focus on grade proficiency in subjects like English, social studies, math, and science.
The results indicate that an average of 32 percent of students are currently behind their grade level. Regional differences are stark: in the Northeast, the percentage of students behind grade level rose from 26 percent to 31 percent over the past two years. The Midwest saw a slight increase from 30 percent to 31 percent. The West, which has the highest number of students lagging, reported an increase from 37 percent to 39 percent. The South was the only region to show improvement, with a decrease from 34 percent to 29 percent.
School choice advocate Corey DeAngelis responded to the report’s findings, stating to Fox News that “The government school system has become more of a jobs program for adults than an education initiative for kids.”
“The government school system is failing too many students while spending nearly $20,000 per student per year. No child should be trapped in a one-size-fits-all failure factory any longer. The money should follow the child to the school that best meets their needs. That would give the assigned government-run schools a real incentive to do a better job,” he explained.
One significant factor contributing to the educational delays following COVID-19 may be the increase in chronic absenteeism exacerbated by the pandemic. DeAngelis pointed to teachers’ unions as part of the problem, arguing, “The kids learned from the power-hungry teachers unions who did everything they could to avoid going back to school starting in 2020. The teachers unions told everyone that school wasn’t important and we’re still seeing the consequences.”
This piece first appeared at TPUSA.
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