The only option that polls as beating Trump is Michelle Obama. At least as the Presidential candidate. As VP, I don't think Michelle Obama would have the same weight in the polls, or even be interested.
I frankly think it's not over yet, and am not certain Kamala Harris will be the candidate. I think (like Joe Biden in his debate with Trump a month ago) they are similarly setting Kamala Harris up to fail. And when she inevitably has an endless series of gaffes and proves enormously unpopular over the next few weeks, they will leverage her aside in a brokered convention. Where the Democrat-Bolshevik party elites will decide who the presidential nominee will be, and to hell with what 14 million Democrat primary voters who selected Biden think.
The only other that seems logical to me for the Democrats to pick is Hillary Clinton. The prospect of a re-match between her and Trump is just too tempting. And in Hillary's case, I think she would eagerly take the VP slot, so Frau Hitlery could somehow leverage Kamala aside after the election, to become president herself, at a later date. Perhaps by Kamala's death in a sudden unexpected suicide.
Kelly would be good. Shapiro (PA) or Cooper (NC) would be strong choices too. I do expect an older white man to anchor the ticket like Joe did in '08. I'd like to think it isn't needed but, it will still salve some people's more racist or sexist instincts so I get why.
Agree. Although I think we may be entering into an era where both parties will be looking for women on the ticket too. I wouldn’t be shocked if Trump dumped Vance for Haley at this point.
Definitely. I think a woman on the ticket is fairly normalized now and so is a minority. Think we still have a little ways to go for trusty old white guy to not be necessary. We're getting there though and that's cool to see.
There seems to be growing angst about the Vance choice so it would be interesting to see another of the "best people" gets dropped. He's already calling for his handpicked FBI director to go.
Surprised to see gov Walz on the list. He’s awesome but Minnesota is hardly a battleground state now. Trump btw keeps flat out lying about being the one that called the national guard instead of Walz back during the riots.
Minnesota is mostly safe from turning red so I think picking a relatively secure state could work so long as he can appeal to the average voter in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. I'm guessing that's the strategy here and polling at the moment seems to show it working. Helps keep Penn blue at the state level too.
He was definitely not chosen because of his state. But he’s a big burly older white guy that oozes heartland. He’s definitely progressive but when it came to the defund the police movement Walz increased funding for law enforcement and called in the guard when the riots got violent. I don’t see his addition grabbing up more conservative voters but it seems to be working as them being the change candidates. Right now they’re drawing the huge crowds that used to be Trumps. If this is just a honeymoon period it’s turning into an extended one.
Walz is a proud progressive that got free feminine hygiene products in schools as well as free lunches. MN also has paid family leave. You however got the guy who partied with Epstein and was found guilty for sexual assault among other things.. He thinks his daughter is hot.
Walz is a proud progressive that got free feminine hygiene products in schools as well as free lunches. MN also has paid family leave. You however got the guy who partied with Epstein and was found guilty for sexual assault among other things.. He thinks his daughter is hot.
To be fair, she is kind of hot.
We have a verb here: "daggy". Kind of means amusingly dated or out of style. "Mate, what is with that fucking daggy cardigan?" Walz is daggy as fuck. Then again, I'm 55 this year, so perhaps I should keep my mouth shut.
Comes across as a nice guy. Strong dad vibes. I don't really understand the faux controversy of his military record (I know each side's position on it, but I don't understand why it is a controversy - who can fault decades of service?).
I loved how Josh Shapiro, relatively center-left, Democrat governor of Pennsylvania, energetic and eloquent and the logical choice to lock up a key must-have swing state, how Shapiro even distanced himself from his former stated pro-Israel stance, that [rightly] a two-state solution is impossible because the Palestinians can not be trusted and will always break any agreement.
But Josh Shapiro basically abandoned Israel to align politically with Kamala Harris, in anticipation of being selected as the logical VP choice, saying he now favors a "two-state solution" . Which given the bloodthirsty Jew-killing tendencies of Palestinians over the 45 years of my adult life, breaking every cease-fire for decades, the Palestinians are infinitely unworthy of being given their own state for the next 100 years, and likely the next 1,000 years. Any concession by Israel toward peace with the Palestinians is perceived as weakness by Palestinians, that just invites the next rocket attack on Israel, invites the next suicide bombing, invites the next tunnel raid or para-glider raid into Israel, to kill more Israeli civilians.
But Shapiro lowered himself to supporting that "two-state" impossible lie, to appeal to Kamala Harris, who had just snubbed Netanyahu when he was in the U.S. just a few weeks ago. Josh Shapiro aligned himself with that open anti-semitism. Which is to say, abandoning Israel and witholding U.S. military supplies, to pressure Israel not to finish off Hamas, so Hamas can rebuild and attack Israel over and over again. And also advocates kidnapping another 42 American hostages too, I guess.
And the beauty of it is... Shapiro humiliated himself for nothing, Kamala Harris picked crazy-left Tim Walz over him anyway
Shapiro might think this will blow over by 2028 or 2032, and he will be better off not having been selected to lose on a Kamala Harris ticket. But a Jewish politician abandoning Israel is not something a Jewish voter base is likely to forget. I think he has destroyed his political future.
Walz is a proud progressive that got free feminine hygiene products in schools as well as free lunches.
Okay, getting past the evasive soft language, and to the actual facts about Walz, it means he put tampon-machines in 4h grade boys' bathrooms. Not high school boys, but grade-school and middle school bathrooms. Because, y'know, boys have such a big problem with menstruation.
Instead of celebrating that, it should disturb you. Boys don't menstruate. It's only about brainwashing kids at a young age, so the Democrat/Left can ingrain Marxist indoctrination for life. Turn their brains into tapioca, by teaching them to accept unscientific fact as truth, to prepare them to accept anything George Orwell's news media and Democrat party tells them to believe, indoctrinating them to bypass any development of independent thought and critical thinking. Or, y'know, be widely scorned as a bigot against transgenders/gays. So indoctrinated to, for the rest of their lives, just accept any Newspeak non-facts as truth. Or else. Same as in Soviet Russia, China, Cuba, or Venezuela.
If you need clarification, any 5-year-old can brief you on the actual biological facts...
Gov Walz just made sure free tampons were provided in schools. It doesn’t mandate which bathrooms so there probably are some male bathrooms with tampons in them. And it would allow a biological girl who is trans to get a tampon in a male restroom if needed. To me the main thing is it’s something kids don’t have to worry about not having enough money to cover it. Likewise with free breakfast and lunch. I remember hard times when I was a kid and was fortunate enough to be able to get a job in the school cafeteria during lunch hour so I didn’t have to have my folks sacrifice even more than they already were so I could eat. Glad and proud that MN helps families in this way!
Assuming that's correct - and I haven't bothered to check it out - does it matter?
At worst it is a waste of money.
Check out WHAT ? It's a biological fact that men and boys don't menstruate. Walz's action as governor, putting tampon machines in boys' bathrooms, is just pure fake narrative and indoctrination in crazy far-Left ideas. To young boys who are are not psychologically mature enough to resist such indoctrination.
Gov Walz just made sure free tampons were provided in schools. It doesn’t mandate which bathrooms so there probably are some male bathrooms with tampons in them. And it would allow a biological girl who is trans to get a tampon in a male restroom if needed. To me the main thing is it’s something kids don’t have to worry about not having enough money to cover it. Likewise with free breakfast and lunch. I remember hard times when I was a kid and was fortunate enough to be able to get a job in the school cafeteria during lunch hour so I didn’t have to have my folks sacrifice even more than they already were so I could eat. Glad and proud that MN helps families in this way!
It is a FACT that kids who are indoctrinated in transgender ideology, and who go on to take puberty blockers or get transgender surgery, are 12 times more likely to commit suicide.
The OPPOSITE of saving their lives, parents or schools encouraging them toward a gay/trans lifestyle INCREASES their risk of suicide. And the puberty blockers and transgender surgery also vastly increases their risk of various kinds of cancer. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/n...r-adult-transgender-patients/ar-BB1mAhZL
That is what Walz's policy encourages, a higher rate of child suicide or cancer death. Not to mention how much it messes them up psychologically.
There are a lot of children who have gone through this, realized it was a mistake, and gone public in books and TV interviews about their frustration with the [Marxist/Leftist/Democrat/LGBT] adults who encouraged them to do it in he first place. Often indoctrinating them WITHOUT the consent of their parents, and indoctrinating them behind heir parents' backs. In states like California, if the parents don't encourage their children into puberty blockers and transgender surgery, the state can take away their child and put them with [Marxist/Leftist/Democrat] foster parents.
If an adult tells a 6-year-old "you can become a butterfly" they believe it because an adult told them they could. They aren't naturally inclined to believe they are a butterfly, their soft 6-year-old minds are brainwashed by someone they trust to believe that idea. And a lot of kids who aren't gay or trans are being brainwashed down a path that is really going to mess them up over the course of their lives.
And even if they become uncomfortable in the trans lifestyle, there is a lot of pressure on them to not leave that gay/trans path, and there are only a select few media sources (like Fox and Newsmax) that will let the victims of this brainwashing even speak out in interviews about how they were misled, when they manage to leave it. And limits their ability to warn others, from being seduced into the same indoctrination and puberty blockers.
A day and a half after President Joe Biden announced he was ending his run for a second term, his vice president and presumed successor reportedly had raked in an eye-popping campaign contribution haul — north of $100 million. Within the first 24 hours, Kamala Harris’ campaign had reported more than $80 million in donations, record-smashing numbers all around.
At the end of July, just 11 days after Biden dropped out and endorsed Harris, the Democratic Party’s new standard bearer had raised an incredible monthly total of $310 million, according to the Harris campaign, more than tripling the cash the Biden-Harris campaign had on hand.
It wasn’t just unprecedented. It was curious. Harris, one of the most unpopular vice presidents in U.S. history with an executive record more laughable than the word salad sentences she’s tossed over her undistinguished tenure, had instantaneously transformed into a political titan. From buffoon to “brat,” at least on the fundraising cash count.
Maybe the cash bonanza was just a case of Kamala fever, an incredible wave of enthusiasm for the old “border czar” after the 81-year-old, cognitively diminished Biden finally stepped aside. Or, “Weeks of pent-up Democratic panic” giving way to a “historic flood” of campaign donations, from some 1.1 million donors in the first 41 hours alone, as The Washington Post put it.
Maybe.
Or just maybe, as some allege, the massive haul was assisted by “fraudulent, deceptive, and potentially illegal behavior” by the Democratic Party’s fundraising platform, ActBlue. Several Republican lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., are taking a closer look at allegations of “smurfing” — a cute blue way of describing political money laundering — ahead of a five-alarm presidential election.
Steil, chairman of the House Committee on Administration, says that at the very least “negligent identity security practices involving the use of credit, prepaid, and gift cards for political donations could enable bad actors to circumvent” election integrity laws. Some allege the deed has already been done for myriad Democrat campaigns.
But getting feckless federal election regulators to investigate and hold anybody accountable may be a tall order in the current political climate.
MONEY LAUNDERING, BY ANY OTHER NAME
In criminal circles, they call it smurfing. It’s the practice of breaking up large transactions into smaller ones — little like the Smurfs, the blue cartoon creatures that inhabited Saturday morning TV screens in the 1980s. The illicit goal of smurfing is to get around current banking regulations requiring financial institutions to report transactions exceeding $10,000 through federal suspicious activity reports (SAR). It’s money laundering by any other name, and it’s often conducted over many accounts.
In campaign finance land, smurfing entails “breaking up large-scale donations in a way that disguises who the money is actually coming from, so the contribution limits on how much money can be donated to a particular candidate can be skirted,” explained former Federal Election Commission member Hans von Spakovsky in a recent column for Fox News.
“It may involve widespread mail and wire fraud and the fraudulent use of the identities of unwitting members of the public to violate federal and state campaign finance laws,” von Spakovsky, a Heritage Foundation election law expert, notes.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who was among the first to raise alarms about ActBlue, asserted on Turning Point Action Charlie Kirk’s podcast in July that the Democrat fundraising machine “has become a money laundering operation.”
ActBlue is a fundraising Colossus. The platform has hauled in more than $14.6 billion in contributions since it launched 20 years ago, on par with the gross domestic product of the country of Moldova.
'MULTIPLE SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS'
Earlier this month, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares sent a letter to ActBlue officials demanding answers about accusations that donors have been making “multiple daily contributions over the course of multiple years amounting to tens of thousands of dollars in aggregate.”
“My office has become aware of multiple serious allegations that ActBlue, ActBlue Civics, Inc., and ActBlue Charities, Inc. (together ‘ActBlue’) have engaged in fraudulent, deceptive, and/or otherwise illegal activities in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or have aided and abetted others in doing so,” Miyares wrote. “This includes hundreds of thousands of dollars of contributions through individual donors in the Commonwealth in volumes that are facially implausible and appear suspicious.”
In Virginia, as elsewhere, there have been reports of senior citizens, who are listed as “retired” or not employed and at “suspicious addresses,” contributing significant amounts to Democrats and liberal causes, the attorney general asserts. He said it appears donations may have been made without the knowledge or consent of Virginia residents.
In a statement posted on X, ActBlue officials assert the platform is the victim of a “years-long disinformation and harassment campaign targeting ActBlue based on frivolous and false accusations.”
“This investigation is nothing more than a partisan political attack and scare tactic to undermine the power of Democratic and progressive small-dollar donors,” the statement added. “We welcome the opportunity to respond to these frivolous claims.”
ActBlue did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
Last week, Miyares gave ActBlue more time to respond to his questions.
“ActBlue responded and is cooperating. The inquiry is ongoing. We do not have any further comment,” Chloe Smith, press secretary for the Virginia AG’s office told The Federalist in an email response.
‘URGENT CONCERN’
Congressional committees, too, are looking into ActBlue’s activities.
Steil earlier this month announced the House Administration Committee was expanding its investigation into the Democratic fundraising platform. The Wisconsin congressman also sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission asking commissioners to start an emergency rulemaking proceeding requiring political campaigns to verify online donors’ Card Verification Value (CVV) and “to prohibit political committees from accepting online contributions from gift cards” or other prepaid credit and debit cards.
Last year, ActBlue confirmed it did not require a CVV to donate on its platform. It has since reportedly changed that policy. On Aug. 8, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a press release announcing that ActBlue now requires the codes. Paxton opened an investigation into the platform in December. Rubio introduced a bill back in 2022 demanding fundraising platforms require CVV codes to donate. The bill has gone nowhere in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Questions and concerns persist. Are individuals and groups, including foreign actors, using prepaid credit cards to fraudulently schedule donations in someone else’s name? Are straw donors making donations in individuals’ names without their knowledge or consent? Sources have contacted the Administration Committee complaining that their information has been fraudulently used.
As of this week, the FEC had not responded to Steil’s letter. The committee held a briefing with the commission last week. Don’t expect the six-member FEC, made up of three Republicans and three Democrats, to resolve this serious campaign finance issue or any other. It has been effectively impotent for years.
Steil has asked the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to investigate the matter and for a briefing next month on “an urgent concern regarding potential illicit election funding, possibly by foreign actors.”
“Negligent identity security practices involving the use of credit, prepaid, and gift cards for political donations could enable bad actors to circumvent laws designed to protect the integrity of our elections,” Steil wrote in the letter, dated Aug. 16. In it, the chairman raised concerns that the agency “has not provided the necessary guidance to financial institutions in regard to potential illicit campaign contributions.”
In his column, von Spakovsky wrote that investigations are the only way to get at the truth.
“That means both the FEC and the Justice Department – and state attorneys general under applicable state fraud laws – need to get busy, including talking to the donors listed in the filed reports to see if they actually made these donations and were not barred from making them,” the former FEC commissioner wrote. ________________________________________
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
The Carolina Journal covered this story last year, but it has suddenly gained a lot more traction. In short, ActBlue, a digital platform for Democratic Party fundraising, is attributing extremely high contributions, generally through frequent small donations, to individuals who do not appear to be the actual donors and will readily admit this to anyone in the media who cares enough to ask.
Stephen Horn, an independent journalist covering politics in the Triangle and North Carolina generally, did a lot of the early reporting on the issue.
In one video, Horn visits a North Carolina man living in a modest apartment and asks him about the $26,000 he’s reportedly made to Democrat groups, including $15,000 through ActBlue. The man, who has made donations to Democrats in the past, is shocked, saying he’s retired and on a limited income and could never afford donations like that.
He’s said that at times he gave more than he thought he should, but that it was $15 or $20, nothing in the range in the FEC documents. He said that he would have definitely noticed if that kind of money had been deducted from any of his accounts.
So where did the money donated under his name come from then?
That’s what many want to know. The issue laid dormant for a while, but after Kamala Harris raised over $100 million in 36 hours of her taking over the reigns of the Democratic presidential nomination, much of it through ActBlue, questions reemerged. One recent viral TikTok video, shown below, pulled heavily from the Carolina Journal’s coverage and Stephen Horn’s reporting from last year.
People began to notice more widely beyond North Carolina, and it burst onto the national stage, with similar patters emerging in other states. Charlie Kirk, a major conservative media personality, posted on the issue and asked why state attorneys general were not taking action.
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In Virginia, where a few especially fishy examples were exposed, their state attorney general, Jason Miyares, told Kirk they are aware and are “looking into it.”
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Current US Congressman Dan Bishop, R-NC8, who is running to be our attorney general, simply said, “January 1,” suggesting if he were to win his race, it would be one of his first priorities once sworn in.
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Could there be a simple, innocent explanation for why people who gave small amounts a few times are listed as giving large amounts many times? Maybe. Maybe in these cases, ActBlue accidentally duplicated the same name over and over again in their reports instead of recording the legal and legitimate donor. Or, maybe ActBlue recorded the correct names and donation amounts, but the FEC got their wires crossed somehow and jumbled the data.
There could even be other non-nefarious explanations that are not as simple. But there is also the possibility that the Democratic Party has tapped into large funding sources that can’t be legally accepted. And rather than turn down these funds, they decided to launder that money through ActBlue and similar platforms, splitting the money into many small donations and attributing it to real (but minor) donors.
It almost seems too stupid to believe they’d try to pull something like that off. Maybe they assumed that if anybody ever asked these real Democrat donors, “Did you donate to ActBlue,” the person would just say, “Yes,” and that would be that. But whoever was supposed to spread these donations around must not have done so thinly enough, or the money needing laundering may have just grown too large to effectively escape notice.
If they were stupid enough to pull off campaign-finance fraud of this magnitude, they will have undoubtedly left a paper trail, considering how poorly hidden this conspiracy was. I would not be surprised to see congressional hearings investigating the issue in addition to the attorneys general of a few states demanding these records.
If Bishop wins his race in November, it appears North Carolina’s attorney general will be among them. _________________________________
David Larson is opinion editor of the Carolina Journal.
Aside from Tim Walz being : (1) a guy who evaded combat deployment a he last minute, and is hated for it by the troops he served with, (2) being a gung-ho transgender social justice warrior who as governor put tampon machines in Minnesota elementary school bathrooms to sell that agenda that many parents in those schools despised and were ourraged by, (3) Walz having been arrested for drunk driving and not reporting it to his military superior officers (that would have gotten just about anyone else dishonorably discharged, and (4) further with the arresting officer, Walz PRETENDED he was deaf from actually serving in combat by artillery fire (which we all know, he was never actually in combat, and resigned from the military at the last minute to avoid actually serving in combat, to the shock and disgust of the soldiers Walz served with.)
Well, you've got to hand it to Tim Walz: Usually, when he makes disgusting comments, it's on purpose.
For instance, take his first speech as Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate. He used the quite serious occasion to make a disgusting joke regarding a fake internet rumor about Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, once having sexual relations with a couch -- because that's what you want to think about when you think about the man who's a heartbeat away from the presidency.
This time, however, the Minnesota governor appears to have gotten a bit, ahem, inappropriate accidentally.
According to WXMI, Walz made the remarks during a stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a city he said the race for the presidency "could very well go right through."
What got reported, of course, was all the joy and vibes stuff.
"This guy is stuck in the past," Walz said regarding Trump. "[Harris] is focused on the future of this country, the bright future that each and every one of us get to partake in."
"What is unforgivable is him stealing our joy. So here's the thing, Kamala Harris is bringing not only solutions that focus on you, she's doing it with a smile and joy on her face."
Uh, yes. So about that last part.
While giving a paean to the woman atop the ticket, Walz recounted the early years of her career.
Kamala's career "started -- and I love this story -- as a young prostitutor, Kamala Harris talked about going in that courtroom for the first time."
You can tell from the halting nature of his speech after that gaffe that he knows he screwed up -- bigly:
Tim Walz just called Kamala a “young prostitute-r” when relaying a story about her younger days. pic.twitter.com/sM14b9blmv — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 12, 2024
So, in case you don't know the context here -- and believe you me, the Harris campaign has desperately attempted to make sure nobody does -- back when she was in her 20s, Harris dated former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who was then in his 60s and the speaker of the California Assembly.
Mr. Brown was a flamboyant figure in California politics, best known for a procession of girlfriends who were, um, definitely not his wife. (To be fair, the two [Brown and his wife] seem to have an arrangement where they've been estranged since 1981, with her giving him approval to pursue what, in a video game context, might be called "side quests.")
"A 1994 Los Angeles Times report about then-California Assembly Speaker Brown's 'rush to hand out patronage jobs' described Harris as Brown's 'frequent companion' and said several people referred to her as Brown's girlfriend," USA Today reported.
"That report also cited a column from the Chronicle's Herb Caen that called Harris 'the Speaker's new steady.' When they met, she was 29 and Brown was 60."
In a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2019, Brown admitted he "may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker."
NEW: Governor Tim Walz refers to Kamala Harris' early career as a "young prostitutor."
"Because this started, and I love this story. As a young prostitutor, Kamala Harris talked about going in that courtroom for the first time."
Walz claim is incorrect as Kamala Harris started… pic.twitter.com/VaUllUVHZr
Now, in perfect fairness, Harris would acknowledge that her relationship with Brown was an "albatross hanging around my neck," in part because of the patronage scandals and in part because of other corruption allegations that he faced during his time in office, according to USA Today.
"His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing," she told SF Weekly when she was running for San Francisco district attorney in 2003. "If there is corruption, it will be prosecuted."
It's worth noting that, while they had broken up eight years prior, Brown also still supported her in that race.
"I have also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians," he said in the letter to the Chronicle.
Yes, but to the best of my knowledge, he didn't give any of them a BMW \-- which, um, he did with Harris. Just saying.
That being said, if entering into such a relationship with Willie Brown ensured you the same career trajectory as Kamala Harris, California would have 573 U.S. senators, all female. However, it doesn't hurt to get leg up at the beginning of one's career from a man who was old enough that someone once mistook Kamala for his daughter, according to the New York Post.
[ he NY Post story is more than reported, i was recorded happening on nvideo you can watch, where someone asks her if she is Willie Brown's daughter, and Kamala with an embarassed smile answers "Uh... no." ]
And also, it's good to see Tim Walz shocking a crowd by accidentally being inappropriate. Finally, an untoward laugh that wasn't intentional.
It's hilarious, because we're talking about a female presidential candidate who had sexual affairs wih two famous men ( Willie Brown, and Montel Williams) from both of which she received a degree of media fame and notoriety.
And from Willie Brown, she received advancement and endorsement that arguably lifted her politically way beyond her proven abilitty. That arguably... jump-startted her poliical rise. Trading sexual favors for those positions and endorsements.
That Tim Walz now said was "Her time as a young prostitute-er."
The office of Vice President Kamala Harris experienced a turnover rate higher than 90% across the past three years, a watchdog report published Monday detailed, a continuation of a staff attrition rate that has followed her since even before the Biden administration officially assumed power.
Open the Books, a watchdog organization that reports on government expenditure, found some 91.5 percent of her staff headed for the exit since she was sworn in.
The report stated the straight facts of the departure numbers:
Elected in November 2020, Harris took the oath of office in January 2021.
As of March 31, 2024, only four of the initial 47 staffers from the first year are still employed – consistently and without interruption – by the Vice President.
Furthermore, the turnover chaos isn’t getting better. In the trailing 12-month period, 24 staffers left — that’s almost half the employees.
The findings came a day after the vice president launched her campaign for the White House during which she has pledged to unite the Democratic Party.
This is not the first time dysfunction has been highlighted amongst the Harris team.
The “top-to-bottom dysfunction” the Atlantic referenced in October 2023 is shown in the reported payrolls Open the Books captured.
“In her first year and a half as vice president, Harris saw the departure of her chief of staff, communications director, domestic-policy adviser, national security adviser, and other aides,” the magazine wrote at the time, shining a spotlight on an issue that seems to have plagued her vice presidential tenure.
In the last year alone, (April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024) 24 people left their jobs with Harris.
As Breitbart News reported, in 2021 her staff reported they endured constant backstabbing, chaos, and dissatisfaction in the time since she assumed office.
The lack of office organization reportedly left staffers angry about being “treated like shit” in a work environment of “abuse.”
Oh yeah, she's such a leader. This lady would make a great president !
Her first demonstrably awful executive decision ability was picking Tim Walz as her running mate.
lol, we live in a world where Tim Walz isn’t worried about getting treated like Pence did with Trump especially after loser Trump sent his mob after his own VP on Jan 6th. Vance probably thinks he’s safe because he’ll follow orders but Trump has already thrown him under the bus a couple of times already.
lol, we live in a world where Tim Walz isn’t worried about getting treated like Pence did with Trump especially after loser Trump sent his mob after his own VP on Jan 6th. Vance probably thinks he’s safe because he’ll follow orders but Trump has already thrown him under the bus a couple of times already.
Yeah, Trump "incited" his supporters on January 6h by instructing them: "I know you're all going to march over to the Capitol, to PEACEFULLY and patriotically voice your support" for the the Republican House and Senate members who were LEGALLY and CONSTITUTIONALLY challenging the highly irregular (at best) if not overtly rigged Nov 2020 presidential election.
Wow, what a madman Donald Trump was, urgung peaceful and patriotic support for Republican legislators. What a tyrant, clearly "HITLER", and an "EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO DEMOCRACY". PEACEFULLY and CONSTITUTIONALLY challenging an election, through the prescribed legal channels. What a madman.
You're ridiculous trying to still fly that false canard, M E M. So much has come out to prove that Democrat / liberal media lie is a false narrative.
Not to menttion the at least 20 undercover FBI agents (that FBI admits to, so far), the 20 undercover DHS agents, the 10 undercover DC Metro police officers, the at least 20 false-flag Antifa led by John Earle Sullivan, ALL there hidden in the crowd on January 6th, disguised as Trump supporters, to frame Trump supporters.
Democrats' frame of Trump supporters on Jan 6th was comparable to the Reichstag burning in 1933 (that Hermaan Goering openly boasted about a parties after it occurred, that Nazis blamed he Communists for, so they could arrest them, and anyone else who was in their way). January 6th was a Democrat trick to frame Trump supporters, so Biden, Pelosi and Schumer could similarly do a complete national lockdown, make arrests, and ram through their Stalinist executive orders and other leftist agenda, and purge federal agencies of all dissenters, so as to govern unopposed during the opening year of Biden's presidency.
And that Democrat authoritarianism shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone, because I've been citing for close to 20 years the quotes of Democrat elected leaders and their staffers how much they WORSHIP similar power grabs and brutal purges and tactics by Stalin, Mao, Saul Alinsky, Castro, Che Gueverra, and Xi Xinping. Pretty much everyone in the Biden and Hillary Clinton staffs, as well as most House and Senate Democrats and their staff as well.
Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
Besides not making any calls after the violence started that day to actually get more help in for the outnumbered law enforcement Trump didn’t express any concern for his VP either. Nor has he since. Trump did very little to try to stop the violence that he was watching on tv after his rally. The unfit pos knew those were his people.
Besides not making any calls after the violence started that day to actually get more help in for the outnumbered law enforcement Trump didn’t express any concern for his VP either. Nor has he since. Trump did very little to try to stop the violence that he was watching on tv after his rally. The unfit pos knew those were his people.
And Pence isn’t a democrat btw.
That's a lying Democrat/Left propaganda narrative, completely disproven by the facts, that I've sourced and cited here at least 100 times. And yet you keep repeating a PROVEN lie.
WB what time on Jan 6 did Trump call anyone to try to get help for the overwhelmed law enforcement? Or the call to Pence to check on his safety?
Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
Originally Posted by Matter-eater Man
Besides not making any calls after the violence started that day to actually get more help in for the outnumbered law enforcement Trump didn’t express any concern for his VP either. Nor has he since. Trump did very little to try to stop the violence that he was watching on tv after his rally. The unfit pos knew those were his people.
And Pence isn’t a democrat btw.
That's a lying Democrat/Left propaganda narrative, completely disproven by the facts, that I've sourced and cited here at least 100 times. And yet you keep repeating a PROVEN lie.
WB what time on Jan 6 did Trump call anyone to try to get help for the overwhelmed law enforcement? Or the call to Pence to check on his safety?
Anyone sensible would have been on the phone immediately to seek the deployment of the national guard. But I don't think that Trump thinks that way.
I don't actually think he intended to lead an insurrection. I think he pushed a snow ball and it quickly went completely out of his control. He wanted a big and loud protest. He couldn't understand why Pence was going to certify the election result when Pence was his VP. I think that is because Trump as a political outsider, tribalist, and transaction-orientated person could not understand the process.
I think when the Secret Service refused his command to take him to Capitol Hill they saved him not just from violence, from being physically present as the rioters smashed their way into the building. It would have been beyond doubt at that stage that he was leading an insurrection.
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