Former adviser to Vice President Pence Olivia Troye and former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, both Republicans, spoke at Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, calling on fellow Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris instead of Donald Trump in November.
If it weren’t for Trump… The DNC would have had nothing to talk about… All they have done at this convention is slam and biatch about Trump… What a wasted opportunity… It appears the whole campaign is about Trump and not the American people… Let that sink in…
Polymarket - Trump at 53% | Harris at 46%… … Quick… Change the subject… Bad Man Orange…
Last month, Trump posted on Truth Social that he knew “nothing about” the right-wing blueprint for a second Trump administration — that would expand the president’s executive authority and replace civil servants with Trump loyalists. However, flying in the face of Trump’s denial, Vance recently praised the leader of Project 2025 in a foreword for the leader’s upcoming book.
The Minnesota Governor told the crowd on Wednesday: “Their Project 2025 will make things much, much harder for people who are just trying to live their lives. They spent a lot of time pretending they know nothing about this.”
In response to Walz’s remarks, Trump spoke for five minutes straight. He repeatedly called Walz a “total lightweight,” alleged that he wasn’t a real coach but a “semi coach,” and labeled Walz’s claims about Project 2025 “disgraceful.”
“They know I have nothing to do with it. I had no idea what it was. A group of people got together. They drew up some conservative values, very conservative values, and in some case, perhaps they went over the line. Perhaps they didn’t. I have no idea what Project 25 is, but they use it and they know it,” the former president said.
Seemingly not taking a breath between sentences, Trump then equated the claims about Project 2025 to Charlottesville, where neo-Nazis and white supremacists held a rally after a Robert E Lee statue was taken down. At the time Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides.” On Fox & Friends, the former president said: “Just like Charlottesville, totally discredited.”
Trump goes on unhinged five-minute tear when asked about Tim Walz’s DNC speech on Fox & Friends
On Thursday, US time, Vice President Harris is due to give perhaps the most important speech of her career at the DNC. She will try and persuade a deeply divided America to elect her as their President…
That momentum could be stolen the very next day as Robert F Kennedy Jr, also known as RFK has hinted he will withdraw from the race and throw his weight behind not the Democrats, but the Republicans…
The prospect of Kennedy’s voters giving a boost to Trump is jangling nerves at the DNC…
But Kamala Harris’ national lead over Trump is so narrow that 3 per cent may be all the former President needs to become the next President…Some pollsters have also suggested that much of Harris’ current positive polling is due to former Kennedy voters swinging back to the Democrats after Joe Biden dropped out…
That means the rump of Kennedy’s current voters could be far more conducive to the idea of voting for Trump.
This week RFK’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, said that if they remained in the race it ran “the risk of a Harris and Walz Presidency”…
The pathological liar gets called out.
Donald Trump backed out of an interview after a local paper asked him for data to back up his continued baseless claims that crime is on the rise under President Joe Biden.
The Detroit News reported that Trump’s campaign had agreed to an interview with the former president on Tuesday after a campaign speech. However, the campaign suddenly claimed Trump no longer had time for the interview after a reporter began probing them on crime data.
“The Trump campaign had initially agreed that Trump would participate in an interview with The Detroit News on Tuesday,” state politics reporter Craig Mauger wrote. “But after the newspaper began asking about the Michigan crime data before the event, a campaign aide said the presidential candidate no longer had time for an interview after the speech.”
At the Howell, Michigan campaign event, Trump claimed there is a “crime wave” going on at levels “nobody has ever seen before.”
“The amount of crime that we have is unbelievable,” Trump said, later labeling this perceived rise the “Kamala crime wave.”
Trump has made a similar claim countless times — including in April in the same state, when he claimed the crime rate is only going up.
As The Detroit News and other outlets have pointed out, national violent and property crime rates have fallen since Trump left office.
@SmallPaul You posting rubbish once again… Trump is spot on…
Detroit, Michigan, has the third-highest murder rate in the United States of 40.4 per 100,000 .
Detroit is the 5th most dangerous city in the US… Often cited in discussions about urban decay and crime in America. With a violent crime rate that remains significantly high at 20.59 per 1,000 residents, the city faces challenges, with aggravated assaults and robberies being particularly prevalent.
Economic hardships and population decline have contributed to these high rates. Nonetheless, Detroit has been working toward revitalization and crime reduction through various social programs and community initiatives to curb violence and promote a safer community.
The Detroit Crime Rate was falling in 2018… Even when Trump was in Office…
You live in constant state of delusion and total denial of reality…
Nationwide is crime up or down after Trump left office
BTW, How Crime is handled is locally and by the state government, A president really can’t change that.
As I stated above
@SmallPaul You’re Rambling again… I provide evidence that you are posting misinformation and you change your story…
You post a link about Trump backing out of one interview…
Really… How many interviews has the Democrat candidate done so far…
It’s a fact that Trump talks about crime as if he can change what goes on in a state or locally on crime, if so tell me what he has done to lower state and local crime, crime trend up and down.
Trump wasn’t the one running the country when all the idiot Democrat Governors were defunding the Police… Seriously, you just don’t make any sense…
pretty sure defunding in the cities had the same crime rate or went up, but not every city where crime was heavy was defunded, again do a president have control over that
Kamala Harris praised ‘defund the police’ movement in June 2020 radio interview…
Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support for “defund the police” in a radio interview in June 2020 amidst nationwide protests for police reform, just months before denouncing the movement after she had joined the Biden presidential campaign…
Harris said in the June radio interview the movement “rightly” called out the amount of money spent on police departments instead of community services such as education, housing, and healthcare, emphasizing that more police did not equate to more public safety…
So even the VP was in on the act… You have no idea what you are talking about…
when things don’t go their way. I’m not a fan of defunding the police no matter who it is, democrats or republicans
But I’m also not a fan of Project 2025.
No one cares if you aren’t a fan of Project 2025… It hardly rates a mention anymore in the media…
Democrats NOT Republicans called for the defunding of Police…
Between you and Toxicity… At times you both post nonsense as if it is pure fact…
In early February of this year, the Trump administration proposed a 58 percent cut in the federal government’s COPS Hiring Program, a federal program that supports police department staffing. That’s not a one-off; his administration’s budget proposals have routinely called for huge cuts to this program, which was inaugurated in the 1990s as part of Bill Clinton’s pledge to hire 100,000 new police officers (Congress keeps declining to do this).
Police staffing levels have stagnated and fallen since the heyday of this program in part as a result of the general trend toward state and local budget cuts in the wake of the Great Recession and huge GOP electoral wins in the 2010 midterms.
@SmallPaul Wowwww… It must be true if it was posted on X… Formally Twitter.… Give up…
Stop wasting my time… The Nikkei is flying… Time to get back to making some money…
Go and make your money, 
President Biden has stood with law enforcement his entire career, and worked to ensure law enforcement serves all communities his entire career. And he has the results to show for it.
The President inherited a violent crime rate that surged under the prior administration. After taking office, President Biden immediately took action and signed the American Rescue Plan – which led to the largest federal investment in public safety in history, giving state and local governments resources to reduce crime and prevent violence. Even though leaders on the ground sided with the President, the Plan passed without a single Republican vote.
The President also signed one of the most significant gun violence prevention reforms in 30 years, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which has helped keep guns out of the hands of individuals with felony convictions, and those who have a serious mental illness and are a danger to themselves or others.
These swift actions paid off. FBI 2023 data shows that the prior administration’s crime wave has turned around under President Biden, resulting in a record drop in crime.
In his State of the Union, President Biden described how cities across the country have used the American Rescue Plan to make historic investments in public safety and urged Congress to build on that progress, including by hiring over 100,000 new police officers accountable to the public, investing in mental health workers and community violence intervention programs across the country, and cracking down on gun crime.
But the Republican Study Committee – which speaks for 100% of House Republican leadership and 80% of its members – just released a dangerous plan that would defund law enforcement:
The Republican Study Committee is proposing defunding the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program on top of other efforts to undermine law enforcement. President Biden voted to create COPS while a Senator, and the COPS Hiring Program is one of the primary ways the federal government supports local law enforcement. Each year, communities seek funding they need to hire officers to engage in community policing and crime prevention, and during this Administration, nearly 500 communities have received awards that put more than 3,700 officers on the beat.
The Republican Study Committee budget would also gut the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and take steps that prioritize gun industry profits over the lives of the American people.
Numerous House Republicans also support abolishing the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). Although the Border Patrol Union endorses President Biden’s tough bipartisan border security deal, congressional Republicans are blocking it, to the detriment of law enforcement and the benefit of fentanyl traffickers.
By contrast, President Biden backs law enforcement and supports programs that reduce crime:
Through President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, more than 1,000 communities across the country have invested over $15 billion to keep their communities safe and prevent crime. These include investments to avoid cuts to police budgets, hire more police officers for safe, effective, and accountable community policing, ensure first responders have the equipment they need to do their jobs, and expand community violence intervention and prevention programs.
President Biden’s budget includes $1.2 billion over five years to launch a new Violent Crime Reduction and Prevention Fund.
The President’s budget also funds his Safer American Plan, including providing for hiring 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing.
President Biden wants to deploy $17.7 billion for DOJ law enforcement, including $2.0 billion, an increase of over 30 percent since 2021, for the ATF.
