11Major Court Victory Boosts Election Integrity in Georgia Runoffs

In the vital lead-up to the Georgia Senate runoff elections on January 5, a pro-Trump PAC announced a key legal victory for election integrity. Janine Eveler, elections director at the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration, had allegedly restricted Republican poll watchers. After the local Republican Party filed a lawsuit alongside the pro-Trump PAC Committee to Defend the President, Eveler signed a consent decree guaranteeing poll watchers’ access.

Ted Harvey, the PAC’s chairman, applauded Judge George Kreeger of the Cobb County Superior Court for “helping us bring accuracy, fairness, and transparency to Georgia. Because of this ruling, the county’s ballot observation process will no longer stink of secrecy and corruption.”

“However, the fight goes on: The Committee won’t rest until we hold each of these arrogant, abusive, and partisan election officials accountable and get to the bottom of unprecedented voting irregularities in the Peach State,” Harvey added.

The Committee to Defend the President joined the Cobb County GOP and Georgia elector Jason Shepherd in suing Eveler and the elections board for allegedly enforcing different rules when it comes to allowing or restricting poll watchers.

Eveler allegedly picked ballot monitors overnight and posted her selections early the next morning, while selecting only two people to monitor a 25,000-square-foot facility with three separate rooms.

Judge Kreeger’s ruling requires Eveler to interpret election laws as they were originally written, allowing Republican poll watchers to oversee the ballot counting process without the constraints of recent weeks.

According to the committee, “The ruling ensures that Eveler cannot abuse her power to undermine Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.”

Kreeger’s order requires the elections board to allow Republican poll watchers throughout the ballot counting process, specifically allowing them to “observe the process of absentee ballot signature verification.”

In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s apparent narrow victory in Georgia in the November 3 presidential election, the Trump campaign had repeatedly alleged that election officials abused the signature verification on absentee ballots, verifying signatures that did not match the signature on file for the voter in question.

Since the ballot envelopes with the signatures were cast away after this verification process, it was likely impossible for the Trump campaign to separate votes illegally counted from those legally counted. However, if poll watchers have guaranteed access to observe the count, they can prevent or call out any such shenanigans in the January 5 runoff.

This legal victory only applies to Cobb County, but it does mark an important step in the right direction of restoring election integrity after the numerous irregularities that opened the November 3 election to potential fraud. Whatever Americans think of President Donald Trump’s attempts to challenge the election results, it is essential to address these irregularities and reform the system to bolster election integrity.

This ruling represents a crucial step in that direction, right before the runoffs.

11Cobb County enters into consent agreement to settle Republican suit over monitor access

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Cobb County this week entered into a consent agreement with the county Republican Party and a national veterans voter group to settle a lawsuit over election monitor access.

A pro-Trump election group, the Committee to Defend the President, billed it as the first the first legal victory for Republicans in Georgia ahead of the Senate runoffs.

The consent agreement did not, as the suit had sought, declare Cobb County’s procedures to “not be fair and honest.” Its language does not acknowledge fault on the county’s behalf.

The original complaint had alleged two poll watchers designated by the Cobb County Republican Party and National Defense Committee, a Virginia-based group, were not being given sufficient access by the county for the Senate runoff proceedings.

The suit argued there was a particular violation of special protections for military and overseas voters, because the National Defense Committee specifically advocates on behalf of military voters.

The suit included five principal accusations:

  • That the monitors were not being allowed to observe or view absentee ballot processing as it happened.
  • That they were “corralled at the entryway with no way to view absentee ballots at any station in the vast processing hall.”
  • That the county “set up too many stations, spread too far apart, for actual monitoring.”
  • That monitors were improperly blocked from viewing the signature verification process.
  • And that the Cobb County Republican Party and National Defense Committee were not being allowed to rotate in new monitors as relief.

The language of the agreement stipulates that Cobb County will allow monitors to be rotated in accordance with Georgia law.

The Cobb County Republican Party and National Defense Committee monitors will be “permitted to substitute poll watchers specifically assigned to the particular advance voting or absentee processing location, as long as they are properly credentialed and there are no more than two per polling location at any given time.”

The agreement adds that monitoring of absentee ballot processing and signature verification will be allowed, as currently provided for under Georgia election laws and rules. It also says voting day poll watchers shall be governed under existing Georgia law.

The chairman of the Committee to Defend the President, Ted Harvey, said in a statement that he applauded Cobb Superior Court Judge George H. Kreeger for “helping us bring accuracy, fairness, and transparency to Georgia.”

11Pro-Trump PAC launches $500,000 ad buy for Loeffler, Perdue

A PAC aligned with President Trump is investing in the Georgia Senate runoff elections this week with a $500,000 ad campaign in support of Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

The two races will determine the upcoming Senate majority, with Democrats needing to win both to take back the Senate.

Representatives for the Committee to Defend the President PAC told The Hill that an ad starring Trump supporter and retired NFL star Herschel Walker would run on cable networks and digital platforms from Dec. 26 through election day. The ad is set to premiere online Wednesday.

Walker is a former college football star at the University of Georgia.

“Georgia is the home stretch for the 2020 election, and Republicans cannot afford to lose. If we lose our Senate majority and the White House, it won’t be long before the tides of socialism sweep across our country,” said the group’s chairman, Ted Harvey, in an emailed statement.

“However, with Georgia in hand, Republicans can defend President Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda from left-wing attacks and preserve Georgia’s traditional values in Washington, D.C. With Herschel’s help, we will get the ball across the goal line,” he added.

Republican outside groups have thus far outspent their Democratic counterparts in the Georgia runoffs, according to a Politico analysis.

An Emerson College poll of the race last week indicated that Loeffler and Perdue hold a slim advantage over their respective Democratic challengers, the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

11Republicans, Hold the Line and Keep the Faith in Georgia

After the electors met and formally backed Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate’s media backers could not contain their excitement.

Referring to President Trump as the “Troll-Warrior-in-Chief,” one New York Times story suggested his “ratings ragetweets [will] simply echo in some musty corner of the internet.”

CNN’s Chris Cillizza celebrated “Republicans’ current illogic,” while Slate’s merry band of radicals focused on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who purportedly “[threw] in the towel on his pet political project.”

When the likes of Slate blast President Trump for refusing to concede an election riddled with voter fraud, you know that he’s not in the wrong. For weeks, the Trump campaign’s primary goal has been to ensure accuracy, fairness, and transparency in the electoral process.

President Trump and his supporters have been leaving no stone unturned in their quest to determine the actual winner of the 2020 election. There was never a reason to concede prematurely.

But, regardless of the presidential election outcome, it is imperative for Republicans to hold the line and keep faith in democracy. Georgia’s two run-off elections will be here in less than a month, and the stakes could not be higher.

If Biden wins and Republicans lose the Senate, the radical Left will control all three branches of government. On Election Day, American voters sent a clear message that they refuse to give power-hungry Democrats too much control over the lives, but run-off losses in Georgia could render that message irrelevant.

Even worse, the prospect of socialism looms larger than ever before. There is a reason why Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is facing Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in one of the run-offs, refuses to renounce Marxism. There is a reason why the Black Lives Matter movement, led by Marxist organizer Patrisse Cullors, is mobilizing in Georgia.

The radical Left sees an opportunity to mold America in a collectivist image, chipping away at the free enterprise beloved by most Americans. For Georgia Democrats, this is a chance to expand the scope of government to an extreme, despite increasing concern about public officials restricting individual liberties in the name of the coronavirus.

As President Trump explained to Georgia voters, “You will decide whether your children will grow up in a socialist country or free country.”

If you’re concerned about the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party, you need to vote Republican on Tuesday, January 5th. If you’re worried about the rise of socialism, you need to vote Republican on Tuesday, January 5th. A vote for Republicans is a vote for the America we know and love. It is a vote for the “America First” agenda that values free markets.

Vote Republican, and you are voting for small businesses that Democrats continue to shut down. You are voting for entrepreneurship and private-sector innovation — the same private sector that is delivering the COVID-19 vaccine.

Whatever happens in the presidential election, Republicans desperately need to retain control of the Senate. Otherwise, left-wing Democrats will stop at nothing to reverse President Trump’s many successes, such as tax and regulatory reform.

Democrats may play dirty (again), but Republicans should control what they can control: Vote on Tuesday, January 5th. We’re all depending on you.

11Holding the line in Georgia

As the electors prepare to meet next week, many states remain undecided, including Georgia.  The final outcome of the election will not be known until each state gives its Electoral College votes to either President Trump or Joe Biden.

Nevertheless, the liberal media are partying like it’s 1999.  Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, recently called Georgia for Biden, while lamenting “Trump’s ongoing battering of American democracy.”

What is his crime?  Requesting accuracy, fairness, and transparency in the electoral process.  Due to credible allegations of voter fraud, President Trump is leaving no stone unturned in his quest to determine the actual winner of the 2020 election.  He will not concede until there is a reason to concede.

Indeed, the Trump campaign has filed a legal challenge to the election results in Georgia, asking a state court to vacate the official certification and order a new vote.  Over the weekend, four Republican state senators petitioned their colleagues to hold a special session of the General Assembly.  At the same time, the secretary of state’s office is currently investigating about 250 cases of alleged improprieties involving 2020 elections.  This election is not over.

But, regardless of the presidential election outcome, it is imperative for Republicans to hold the line and keep faith in democracy.  Georgia’s two runoff elections will be here in less than a month, and the stakes could not be higher.  If Biden wins and Republicans lose the Senate, the radical left will control all three branches of government.  On Election Day, American voters sent a clear message that they refuse to give power-hungry Democrats too much control over their lives, but runoff losses in Georgia could render that message irrelevant.

Even worse, the prospect of socialism looms larger than ever before.  There is a reason why Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is facing Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in one of the run-offs, refuses to renounce Marxism.  There is a reason why the Black Lives Matter movement, led by Marxist organizer Patrisse Cullors, is mobilizing in Georgia.

The radical left sees an opportunity to mold America in a collectivist image, chipping away at the free enterprise beloved by most Americans.  For Georgia Democrats, this is a chance to expand the scope of government to an extreme, despite increasing concern about public officials restricting individual liberties in the name of the coronavirus.  As President Trump explained to Georgia voters, “[y]ou will decide whether your children will grow up in a socialist country or free country.”

If you’re concerned about the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party, you need to vote Republican on Tuesday, January 5.  A vote for Republicans is a vote for the America we know and love.  It is a vote for the “America First” agenda that values free markets.  Vote Republican, and you are voting for small businesses that Democrats continue to shut down.  You are voting for entrepreneurship and private-sector innovation — the same private sector that is delivering the COVID-19 vaccine.

Whatever happens in the presidential election, Republicans desperately need to retain control of the Senate.  Otherwise, left-wing Democrats will stop at nothing to reverse President Trump’s many successes, such as tax and regulatory reform.

Democrats may play dirty (again), but Republicans should control what they can control.  Vote on Tuesday, January 5.  We’re all depending on you.

Ted Harvey serves as chairman of the pro-Trump Committee to Defend the President.

11Post-2020, Where Republicans Go from Here

With recounts and run-offs pending, the 2020 election is in the home stretch. Most of the votes are counted, and the liberal media has already named its preferred candidate, Joe Biden, the president-elect.

But the 2020 election is not over—far from it. President Trump has not yet conceded, nor should he until the legal process runs its course. In Georgia, voting irregularities and potential fraud have been discovered, raising questions about Biden’s presumed victory in the Peach State. For example, more than 2,600 ballots in Floyd Countywere recently found uncounted, and they are likely to help President Trump narrow his 14,000-vote deficit to Biden.

To ensure accuracy, fairness, and transparency in America’s electoral process, the Trump campaign should leave no stone unturned in Georgia or elsewhere. We certainly won’t: The Committee to Defend the President recently invested more than $100,000 in the Georgia recount effort, simply to ensure that all legal votes are properly counted. Despite Biden and his media allies putting pressure on the Trump campaign to concede, Americans won’t know the final outcome until the electors’ December 14th meeting—and there is nothing wrong with that.

Look at it this way: 70 percent of Republicans believe that the 2020 election was not conducted fairly or freely. Why would President Trump abandon his voters to prematurely admit defeat?

No matter the final outcome, the Republican coalition is stronger than ever. President Trump received more than 72 million votes in the 2020 election, the most for a sitting president in U.S. history.

In 2008, Barack Obama received fewer than 70 million votes. In 2012, then-President Obama picked up fewer than 66 million. And the Obama campaign was universally praised (by the liberal media, that is) for putting together the most diverse coalition ever.

President Trump just smashed the Obama totals, adding to his minority support in the process. Over the course of four years, President Trump became even more popularamong African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Hispanics. In Florida, 55 percent of Cuban-Americans voted for President Trump, in addition to 30 percent of Puerto Ricans and 48 percent of “other Latinos.” That is diversity.

Beyond 2020, Republicans need to take a page out of the Trump playbook. Gone are the days of establishment politics, exercised by Republicans In Name Only who are all too eager to compromise with left-wing Democrats. Gone are the days of political correctness, when Republicans were crucified by a biased media and played along with it. Gone are the days of flip-flopping, when Republicans campaigned on issues like border security but governed as open-borders advocates.

President Trump showed Republicans the way: Don’t make excuses for high taxes, burdensome regulations, runaway healthcare costs, globalist trade deals, illegal immigration, and other issues long accepted as the status quo. Don’t apologize for contrived scandals, propagated by Democrats with an axe to grind or liberal activists masquerading as “journalists.”

Always speak your mind—from the heart, to the people. The Trump rally is the blueprint for Republicans to message traditional conservatism to the masses, not like politicians, but as fellow Americans.

Which brings up the last point: Be proud of America. There is a reason why slogans like “America First” or “Make America Great Again” resonate with tens of millions of Americans—because tens of millions of Americans love this country. Regardless of skin color, those Americans are ready to support political leaders who believe in common-sense principles, such as free speech or law and order. When Democrats resort to anti-Americanism, as they increasingly do, the Republican Party needs to position itself as the party of the people.

Whether President Trump wins or loses in the weeks to come, the future is bright for Republicans. Our party is in a better place than it was a decade ago—but only if we learn the right lessons.

11Control of the Senate will hinge on January runoff races in Georgia

Exclusive: Fox News has learned that the pro-Trump super PAC ‘Committee to Defend the President’ is pledging to spend $100,000 to support the recount effort in Georgia. The group says its resources will be used to ensure that military ballots are properly counted and that “Democrats do not undermine the electoral process.”

Georgia’s secretary of state announced on Wednesday that the state will conduct a hand recount of the millions of ballots cast in the presidential election. With 99% of the vote counted, President-elect Joe Biden leads President Trump by 14,045 votes in Georgia.

“During Georgia’s recount process, all voters deserve to have their voices heard, and we will do our best to secure accuracy, fairness, and transparency for those voters,” Committee to Defend the President chairman Ted Harvey told Fox News. “With so much on the line this election cycle, we refuse to go down without a fight. Under no circumstance will the radical Left steal an election from President Trump and the 70 million Americans who supported him.”

The super PAC says it’s contributed to Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who face Democratic challenges in twin Senate runoff elections that will determine if the GOP keeps its majority in the chamber or if the Democrats will control both houses of Congress as well as the White House.

– Paul Steinhauser

11Republicans Highlight Public Safety in Campaign Ads

The May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the nationwide protests that followed, introduced racial justice and policing as major issues in this year’s political campaigns. Eleven days later, 2020 campaign advertisements on those topics began hitting television airwaves.

Republicans seeking federal office have aired more than twice as many TV ads with a public-safety message as Democrats this year, a Kantar/CMAG analysis for The Wall Street Journal found. The ad tracker’s public-safety category includes most ads about racial justice, protests and policing.

Republicans have kept up a steady pace of ads since this summer accusing Democrats of seeking to defund police and tying them to the “radical left.” Some of the groups involved in racial-justice protests this year have called for abolishing or shrinking police departments, while others endorse shifting funds to mental health and other services or other changes.

On the Democratic side, candidates aired a burst of ads this summer praising protesters—and, in many cases, distancing themselves from activist efforts to defund police. Democrats have largely returned to other topics, such as health care, in their advertising late in the campaign, the analysis showed.

The difference in advertising strategy suggests that Republicans see a political opportunity in supporting the police and saying that Democrats want to cut police funding, while Democrats appear to be more cautious on topics like racial justice.

“Republicans know how to talk to Republicans, especially Trump-era Republicans, about the cops, and they’re very comfortable doing it. Democrats have not learned how to talk to Democrats about police reform,” said Adrian Hemond, a Democratic strategist in Michigan, a key battleground state.

Mr. Hemond said Democrats have been slow to settle on a policing message that satisfies the diverse coalition the party has sought to energize for this year’s elections, from younger progressive activists in big cities to well-to-do suburban families. And he said the party has long taken one of its strongest bases—Black Americans—for granted, leaving many Democratic politicians unaware of how to talk to them about the police.

“George Floyd’s murder has forced the issue. Democrats have to learn how to talk about issues like this now,” Mr. Hemond said, adding that some of his clients commissioned polls this summer to figure out whether defunding the police had wide support among Michigan Democrats (it doesn’t, his internal surveys found).

Police body-camera footage showed that a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on Mr. Floyd’s neck for at least eight minutes. The county medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.

Overall, ads with a public-safety message make up about 20% of all presidential ad spots, compared with about 9% four years ago. About 20% of all House ads talk about public safety, more than double the percentage in each of the past two congressional elections. Democratic Senate candidates maintained about the same level of public-safety ads as in previous election cycles.

Some of the most memorable campaign ads over the years have played on fears of crime. In 1988, President George H.W. Bush famously battered Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis with ads about convicted murderer Willie Horton, who raped a woman and stabbed her partner while he was out of prison on a furlough program that Massachusetts had in place while Mr. Dukakis was governor.

An ad for President Trump about defunding the police.

President Trump suggests in ads that electing Democratic nominee Joe Biden would touch off a crime wave. One ad from the Republican’s campaign shows Mr. Biden kneeling in front of footage that appears to show people breaking into buildings. “With Biden kneeling to the left, we’d have chaos in the streets,” the voiceover says.

Mr. Trump also was the first candidate or political group to advertise about the push from some to defund the police, on June 11.

“While President Trump always puts the safety and security of the American people first, voters can’t trust Biden to be strong on crime and support law enforcement if he can’t stand up to his supporters’ violent riots and he’s compromised by foreign entities,” spokeswoman Samantha Zager said.

The law and order ads are just one piece of Mr. Trump’s messaging strategy, she said. The campaign also has dozens of different ads about his response to the coronavirus pandemic, the economy and policies he has implemented in his four years.

Mr. Biden has said throughout the campaign that he wants to boost police funding for programs like community patrols. He has separately called for increasing funding for mental health and drug treatment services, which he said would ease some of the burden police officers face.

Mr. Biden has spent more than $7.5 million on ads that reference racial justice protests and Black Lives Matter, more than any other individual campaign or political group. The Biden campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment.

One such ad from his campaign blends footage from civil rights protests and Black Lives Matter marches. “We choose to bring back justice, respect and dignity to this country,” the voiceover says.

An ad for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden referenced Black Lives Matter and civil rights protests.

Democrats in House and Senate races have defended against GOP accusations that they would defund the police.

Sen. David Perdue (R., Ga.), who is in a hotly contested re-election fight with Democrat Jon Ossoff, aired two ads criticizing the notion of defunding the police. The first, on July 8, called for some reforms to policing but said defunding was a step too far. A subsequent ad on Sept. 22 was blunter, calling Mr. Ossoff a “radical” and “dangerous.”

“Ossoff would defund the police, confiscate your guns, close Georgia’s military bases,” the ad said.

Four days later, Mr. Ossoff was up with an ad refuting the idea that he wants to defund the police. In a follow-up ad two days after that, Mr. Ossoff said he didn’t support defunding police but would take steps to build trust between law enforcement and citizens. “That’s how we keep Georgians safe,” Mr. Ossoff said in the ad.

Republican Sen. David Perdue aired two ads criticizing the notion of defunding the police.

Mr. Trump and Republicans have sought to portray Democrats as sympathetic toward antifa, a loose network of antiracist, antifascist protesters. They also sometimes refer more broadly to “lawless mobs” and the “radical left” in their ads about protests, without mentioning “antifa,” the CMAG analysis found. Many Democrats, including Mr. Biden, have condemned violence by antifa activists or anyone else.

The first ad this year mentioning antifa aired June 5, during the height of the civil unrest—including some violence and looting, as well as many nonviolent demonstrations—following Mr. Floyd’s killing.

It was paid for by Georgia congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene, a supporter of the far-right QAnon, the fringe conspiracy theory that a “deep-state” cabal tied to sex trafficking is working against Mr. Trump. Ms. Greene has talked repeatedly about the deep state and in now-deleted online videos discussed “Q,” a purported high-level government intelligence official whose online posts drive QAnon conspiracy theories, calling the person a patriot.

The biggest spender on ads mentioning antifa is the Committee to Defend the President, a pro-Trump group.

Democrats up and down the ballot have tried to balance supporting law enforcement and praising them for helping keep communities safe while also calling for changes to how they use force on citizens. Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, in an early September ad from the Biden campaign, said their administration would create “a national standard on use of force … and hold police officers accountable.”

Democratic messaging about the protests peaked in July, making up about 12% of the presidential ads and 10% of House ads, but they have largely faded away since this summer, now appearing in less than 1% of presidential ads and 2% of House ads

11Pro-Trump super PAC spending $1M to target Biden over Antifa

EXCLUSIVE: A super PAC backing President Trump’s re-election bid is taking aim at Joe Biden for what they say is the Democratic presidential nominee’s refusal to recognize “the threat Antifa poses to American society.”

The outside group – the Committee to Defend the President – tells Fox News that it’s launching a new ad-blitz in the crucial general election battleground of Arizona, a state Trump won four years ago but is currently trailing Biden according to the latest public opinion polls.

BIDEN SAYS ‘ANTIFA’S AN IDEA, NOT AN ORGANIZATION’

The organization says they’ll spend $1 million to run TV commercials statewide and an additional $100,000 to run the ads on digital. The ads are expected to start running this week and will air through the end of the month, the group says.

One of the spots showcases Biden’s comment from last month’s first presidential debate that “Antifa’s an idea, not an organization.”

“Ideas don’t smash windows. Ideas don’t wreck police cars. Ideas don’t burn car dealerships, loot minority-owned businesses,” the announcer in the commercial says. “The Antifa threat is real and must be stopped. If Joe Biden can’t see the danger, he can’t lead America.”

Biden’s comments during the debate came when he was asked by the moderator – “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace – to condemn left-wing extremism. The former vice president appeared to be referencing comments earlier in September from FBI Director Christopher Wray, in which Wray said “we look at Antifa as more of an ideology or a movement than an organization.”

But the FBI director added, “to be clear we do have quite a number of properly predicated domestic terrorism investigations into violent anarchist extremists, any number of whom self-identify with the Antifa movement.”

The president last month introduced a plan that would designate Antifa a terrorist organization, something he had suggested doing in the past.

Antifa – which traces its roots back 13 years ago to Portland, Ore. — is a loose movement of far-left anti-fascist activists. The name Antifa is an abbreviation of the phrase anti-fascist. Federal and local authorities say both Antifa followers, along with White supremacists, have been behind some of the violence and looting that’s flared at protests against racial inequity that sprang up in cities across the country this spring and summer.

The super PAC’s second ad spotlights that “13 Biden staffers contributed to bail fund that put violent protesters back on the street.”

The commercial is referring to reports that more than a dozen staffers on the Biden presidential campaign donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, a nonprofit organization that pays criminal bail and cash bonds for those who cannot afford them. The fund grabbed national attention earlier this year after several celebrities donated to the group to bail out protesters arrested during demonstrations sparked by the death of Black man George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

At least 13 Biden staffers tweeted in May that they donated to the fund. Biden’s team noted that the staffers made their contributions on their own and weren’t organized by the campaign

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The announcer in the commercial says that “even Kamala Harris pitches in.”

The announcer was referring to a tweet from Sen. Kamala Harris of California in early June saying “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota.” The tweet by the senator came more than two months before she was named by Biden as his running mate.

The Committee to Defend the President chairman Ted Harvey, in a statement, charged that “for months, Joe Biden has been cozying up to the radical Left, refusing to recognize the very real threat that Antifa poses to American society. Even worse, Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, has personally raised money for a left-wing bail fund that put violent criminals back on the streets, while Biden staffers contributed to it. A vote for the Biden ticket is a vote for rioting, looting, and nationwide chaos.”

The super PAC says its spent more than $7 million on pro-Trump independent expenditures from the begining of the year through the end of September.

Except for President Bill Clinton’s victory in 1996, Arizona has been carried by the GOP in presidential elections since 1952. In 2012, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney topped President Obama by 9 points in the state. But in 2016, Trump carried Arizona by just 3.5 points over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

An average of the latest public opinion polls in the state indicates Biden holding a single-digit edge over the president. Both campaigns have poured plenty of time and money into the state. Both Biden and Vice President Mike Pence campaigned in-person in Arizona last Friday.

Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report

11Joe Biden Is The Wrong Choice For Arizona

It’s no secret that Joe Biden is desperate to win Arizona. The Biden campaign recently launched a new advertising campaign in the state, touting his long history of fighting for the African-American community—or so he claims.

It’s also no secret that winning Arizona is an uphill battle for any Democrat, especially one with a deeply flawed record on race-related issues. Lest we forget: Biden endorsed segregationists in the 1970s, arguing that desegregation would lead his children to grow up in a “racial jungle.” He also supported the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which accelerated the mass incarceration of inner-city youths—or, as Biden calls them, “predators on our streets.”

Not surprisingly, Biden currently trails President Trump in Arizona, despite spending millions of dollars in the state and being propped up by the left-leaning mainstream media on a daily basis. (In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost the state resoundingly.) Nor does it help Biden that “Never Trump” Republicans like Arizona’s own Jeff Flake continue to endorse him, since the state’s traditional conservatives can tell the difference between actual Republicans and those in name only.

The list goes on. This is the same Joe Biden who has shown signs of mental decline, even referring to Arizona as “an important city.”

But Biden’s greatest weakness is his willingness to align himself with the radical Left. The Democratic candidate is reluctant to denounce the rioting and looting sweeping across America. This rioting and looting is masqueraded as “peaceful protests,” but is really nothing more than chaos and destruction. In Arizona, the so-called “New Age Liberation Movement Party” regularly “protests” outside the Phoenix Police Department Headquarters, undermining the efforts of law enforcement and destabilizing the downtown area. Yet liberal Democrats like Biden refuse to make any stand for law and order, choosing instead to appease left-wing radicals whom they perceive as potential base voters in 2020.

Over the course of four days and countless speeches at the Democratic National Convention, not a single word was spoken in opposition to the riots and looting that have impacted Arizona and other parts of the country. Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), has even promoted a bail fund for violent protestors. Only recently, as he struggles with suburban voters, did Biden condemn the violence.

Why would Arizonans, who are proud of their country, support a candidate in bed with the liberal mob?

Americans used to agree, in good faith, that peaceful protests are a necessary component of democracy, but rioting and looting are out of bounds. Today, we have lost that consensus because Biden Democrats refuse to call a spade a spade. It is simply unacceptable.

Biden’s leftward lurch is only amplified by President Trump’s traditional conservatism. In 2016, the Trump campaign focused on the evils of illegal immigration, promising Arizonans that a Trump administration would secure the border on behalf of American citizens. And President Trump has delivered: Since Inauguration Day, the federal government has constructed 300 miles of border wall, protecting Arizonans from the scourge of illegal drug trafficking and the violence that stems from it. Under the Trump administration, illegal border crossings have predictably plummeted.

Promise, kept. As the 2020 election nears, Biden is proving to be as liberal as any Democrat, while President Trump continues to govern the way that Arizonans hoped he would four years ago. That is the difference between victory and failure.

At a time when civil unrest dominates our discourse, there is only one man who can rein it all in: President Trump. He is the only person who can give us back the America we know and love.