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 PJ Media: In a recent revelation that has caught the attention of the political betting world, a mysterious trader known as the “French Trump Whale” has made headlines by wagering an astonishing $40 million on Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election. In an exclusive interview, Stephan Tompson, the founder of Visegrád 24, tracked down the trader, who identified himself as Theo, to uncover his motivations and insights behind this massive bet. Theo stated unequivocally, “I’m not supporting Trump. I’m just observing that Trump has a 90% chance of winning this election and a 65% chance of winning the popular vote.” This assertion is rooted in his belief that the predictive betting markets significantly differ from traditional polls, which he feels often underestimate Trump’s electoral support. He explained the mechanics of these predictive markets, stating, “One is calculating what are the intentions of the people to vote. The other are bets made by real people with real money about wh

 National Review: In remarks to the New York Times , Western political officials confirmed the rumors swirling around the national-security community over the last several days indicating that Russia is behind an attempted terrorist attack on commercial airliners in Europe. “Russia has been plotting to place incendiary devices on cargo planes in Europe and even performed a test run this summer, setting off fires at shipping hubs in Britain and Germany,” the Times reported on Tuesday. The incendiary devices were planted at DHL shipping hubs in Leipzig, Germany, and Birmingham, England, the Western officials said. The fires caused minimal damage and no injuries, they said, but the blazes raised the frightening specter of bombs potentially being loaded on aircraft. That experiment may have been a prelude to something far more destabilizing: an operation aimed at “destroying planes on American runways, setting off bombs at U.S. warehouses or even blowing up aircraft midair.” That plot, had

  The Blaze: ... According to Cohn, this election "should be a Republican victory" if analyzed on paper. The reasons? The poor economy, President Joe Biden's unpopularity, and the fact that voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Cohn, moreover, explained the "signs of a Republican victory have been building for years," citing Republican advantages in party identification, party registration, and Election Day turnout in battleground states. What's worse, Cohn said the polls — like they did in 2016 and 2020 — could be once again underestimating Trump . "The pollsters never found a convincing explanation for what went wrong, and the simplest one is that they just can’t reach enough of Mr. Trump’s less engaged supporters. Despite their efforts over the last eight years, there may simply be no fix for this problem," he wrote. "In this scenario, Ms. Harris’s apparent strength among white and older voters, or her resilience in t

👍  13 ❤️  4 🤣  1 😮 🤬 It looks like many investors believe the election results will spur the economy.

I happened to be an educated person with a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Texas. I am not holding anyone hostage, but I did support Trump and Republicans running for office in Texas because I think they do a better job.  I believe that Texas has been a better-run state than California.  Many Californians have been voting with their moving vans to states like Texas and Arizona.  I think that the Republican coalition includes Blacks and Hispanics.

 Real Clear Politics: MARK PENN, HARRIS POLL: Well, I think this means a lot to a lot of people. I think the working class are looking for a renewal of American jobs. I think people are looking for a border that is sane and an immigration system that works. I think a lot of people over in the Middle East are looking for Iran to pull back in the face of a president whom they fear. And, you know, look, I think it's going to be incumbent on the Democratic Party to understand that the people have spoken and to dissemble and dismantle this lawfare that they, system that they have built up here, which is going to raise a whole series of questions that are going to have to be answered now. But they cannot say that they are better than Donald Trump and recreate a system that does not recognize that he won and the people have spoken and he is going to be the 47th president. I do see it as a rejection of the Democrats' attempts to criminalize the opposition instead of running on issues i

 Fox News: Fox News projects Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to become 47th president of the United States Trump will be the first president to serve two nonconsecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892 The Fox News Decision Desk projects former President Trump has defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in a stunning victory, delivering him a second term in the White House after a historic election cycle filled with unprecedented twists and turns and two attempts on his life. ... Trump was projected to have breached the 270 electoral vote threshold after stunning wins in the battleground states of North Carolina , Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia. ... See also:   US election: close races to decide control of US Congress Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate with victories in West Virginia and Ohio on Tuesday, ensuring Donald Trump's party will control at least one chamber of Congress next year. Republicans also posted early gains as they battled to retain control of

 Wall Street Journal: Russia Suspected of Plotting to Send Incendiary Devices on U.S.-Bound Planes Two devices that ignited in Europe, officials say, were part of a covert operation to put them on cargo or passenger aircraft Western security officials say they believe that two incendiary devices, shipped via DHL, were part of a covert Russian operation that ultimately aimed to start fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the U.S. and Canada, as Moscow steps up a sabotage campaign against Washington and its allies. The devices ignited at DHL logistics hubs in July, one in Leipzig, Germany, and another in Birmingham, England. The explosions set off a multinational race to find the culprits. Now investigators and spy agencies in Europe have figured out how the devices—electric massagers implanted with a magnesium-based flammable substance—were made and concluded that they were part of a wider Russian plot, according to security officials and people familiar with the probe. ..

 Townhall: A mass voter fraud scheme allegedly involving fraudulent registration forms across multiple Pennsylvania counties was thwarted in the lead-up to Election Day. Local officials are pointing to a Democrat-aligned firm from Arizona run by a Kamala Harris supporter as the culprit orchestrating it. ... Several of these suspicious forms were found to be fraudulent "as they were not authorized by the persons named as applicants," Mancuso wrote in Tuesday's post. On at least one form, the named applicant was, in fact, deceased. Of the fraudulent voter registration forms, some were traced back to a specific person. A company called "Field + Media Corps," a subsidiary of the "minority-owned" Fieldcorps and an Arizona-based organization operating out of Lancaster County, was responsible for submitting the forms in question to county officials, Mancuso revealed. ... Field + Media Corps, whose "voter outreach" work has been flagged before by Ar

 Heritage Foundation @Heritage Only a fool wouldn’t have anticipated that ballot drop boxes, left unguarded and sitting out in the open with people’s ballots, would be vandalized or tampered with. They jeopardize the integrity of citizens’ votes, and no state should be using them. They are an utterly ridiculous idea.  It is really not that hard to vote in a normal way in this country.  I have been doing it for decades in Texas and have never had a problem.  We should not be facilitating vote fraud.

This is a clever way of exposing the Democrats' illegal immigration policy. See also: How the Biden-Harris Administration Used the Media to Convince Voters It Fixed the Border Crisis ... The news was so good that casual readers could easily assume that Biden and Harris had addressed the biggest problems and that the worst of the border crisis was in the past. But a closer look at the state of the border heading into a decisive election reveals a decidedly less rosy picture than Biden, Harris, and that mainstream media are letting on. While it is true that illegal border crossings have plummeted this year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports, CBP data similarly show that the bulk of border crossers have simply been funneled to official ports of entry where they’re increasingly being paroled into the country with a quasi-legal status and likely little vetting. And while the media pin the drop in illegal border crossings on the asylum restrictions Biden approved i

 PJ Media: You won't find it reported on the A-section pages of the New York Times or the Washington Post even though it is quite likely the most significant report produced by any investigative committee in Congress since the Church Committee in 1976. For those who need a refresher, the investigative committee chaired by Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) and vice-chaired by Sen. John Tower (R-Texas) held more than 100 hearings and exposed serious criminal and constitutional abuses by the FBI and various agencies of the Intelligence Community (IC), going back to when FDR was in the White House. “Intelligence agencies have undermined the constitutional rights of citizens,” the  final report  concluded, “primarily  because checks and balances designed by the framers of the Constitution to assure accountability have not been applied. ” (emphasis added). Among the most serious abuses exposed by the Church Committee was the FBI's long-running COINTELPRO program, as well as "a CIA bio

 Ryan Mills: Opponents of the latest effort to approve illegal-immigrant voting in a California city believe they have a winning strategy that will defeat a ballot measure in Santa Ana and that could be used to stymie the noncitizen-voting movement in other parts of the state as well. Measure DD, which is on the Santa Ana ballot on Tuesday, would authorize illegal immigrants who reside in Orange County’s second-largest city to vote in municipal elections. By a 4-3 vote, the city council added the measure to the ballot last fall. More than 300,000 people live in Santa Ana, and the city serves as the county seat. Supporters of the measure, including the American Civil Liberties Union, say that about a quarter of city residents can’t participate in elections because they aren’t citizens, and that allowing them to vote would make “city-wide elections fair and inclusive.” “Many have lived here for decades and contribute greatly to the local economy. They pay taxes, own homes and property, r

 Red State: For decades, Democrats have relied on the votes of black and Hispanic voters to keep them in office. The constant drumbeat of "Republicans are racist!" doesn't seem to be working anymore as those voters struggle in the Biden-Harris economy. While Democrats' wildest dream might be to turn the Lone Star state blue, it's the exact opposite of what appears to be happening. A definite shift happening among Hispanic voters in Texas could spell trouble for the Democrats in the 2024 election and beyond. ... The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) is an area that directly borders Mexico. The population is primarily Hispanic, and traditionally, it has been heavily Democratic. But that appears to be changing. Residents who describe themselves as lifelong Democrats are increasingly at odds with their party. The soaring cost of living in one of the nation's poorest areas and disagreement with Democrats on cultural issues have these lifelong Democrats taking a look at the

 Newsmax: Iran is planning a "strong and complex" attack on Israel that will involve more powerful warheads and other weapons not used in its previous two assaults on the Jewish state this year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Tehran could launch the offensive during the transition between Tuesday's U.S. presidential election and the inauguration held in Washington on Jan. 20, according to the report, which cited Iranian and Arab officials briefed on the plans. According to the sources, the regime will include its conventional army in the attack and not just the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, because four soldiers and a civilian were killed by Israel's Oct. 26 retaliatory strikes on Iran. The IRGC, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, normally handles security matters related to Israel. In retaliation for Iran's Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack on Israel, on Oct. 26, dozens of Israeli aircraft, including refuelers and spy planes, struck targets

 DC Daily Journal: HBO host Bill Maher recently took aim at media outlets for their portrayal of former President Donald Trump’s comments regarding Liz Cheney, the former Republican Representative from Wyoming. During a forum hosted by Tucker Carlson, Trump accused Cheney of consistently pushing for war and suggested that her foreign policy views might change if she had guns “trained on her” at some point in her life. Maher argued that reports claiming Trump wanted Cheney executed were misleading. “I woke up today to the headline that Trump had called for a firing squad for Liz Cheney, and this is what I really don’t like about the media,” Maher said during a panel discussion on Overtime, a webcast following his main show, Real Time with Bill Maher. He emphasized, “No, he didn’t … you don’t have to move me to not like Donald Trump.” Podcaster Michael Moynihan echoed Maher’s sentiments, pointing out, “He says so many sh*tty things, why do you have to do that?” This response came as Mahe

 Newsmax: Israel said Monday that it has terminated the agreement facilitating the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main aid provider in Gaza, in what appeared to be a step to implement legislation passed last month that would sever ties with the agency and prevent it from operating in Israel. Israel says the agency, known as UNRWA, has been infiltrated by Hamas. UNRWA denies the allegations and says it takes measures to ensure its neutrality. On Sunday, Israel said its troops had carried out a ground raid into Syria to seize a Syrian it accuses of working with Iran. It was the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory. Despite growing pressure from the United States and others in the international community for a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon, intensified Israeli strikes against the Hezbollah militant group are expanding beyond Lebanon’s border areas. Israel is also fighting a seemingly endless war against Hamas i

 Elon Musk Vote for @realDonaldTrump or the Dems will legalize so many illegals in swing states that this will be the last real election in America. @JoeRogan agrees. The Democrats have a nefarious plan to destroy US democracy by importing voters who will support their crazy policies. See also: Joe Rogan questions Sen. Fetterman about scheme to use illegal aliens to 'rig' swing states for Democrats  Tens of millions of illegal aliens have stolen into the U.S. since January 2021, killing citizens, tracking in lethal drugs and once-controlled diseases, siphoning taxpayer-funded welfare benefits , displacing schoolchildren, and in some cases, threatening the integrity of American elections. Rather than take ownership for the deadly crisis, border czar Kamala Harris has repeatedly blamed President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers for the failure of the so-called "bipartisan" border bill, which Democrats have memorialized as a kind of would-be panacea. Pennsy