7. Alabama Media Group’s fake news masquerading as an important news story is a nakedly political ploy
— The report claimed “hurdles” were put in place by the state of Alabama to keep African-American students from being able to vote. It also repeated claims that hundreds were disenfranchised in 2016.
— Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill slammed the report as a “lie.” He stated, “[I]f you think for one minute that one student, not hundreds, but one student was denied the right to vote at Alabama A&M University in the most controversial presidential election in our lifetime in 2016 and waited until five days before the 2018 gubernatorial general election in 2018 to tell that?”
6. Roger Stone seems like he is in trouble and he wanted to speak to President Donald Trump’s campaign folks about WikiLeaks
— The Trump confidant says he reached out to the Trump campaign to talk to them about WikiLeaks, the website that released Hillary Clinton’s emails. The media claims this shows collusion. It was generally ignored.
— The email shows that former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon asks Stone what was going on at WikiLeaks, saying, “What was that this morning???” after a promoted dump was a publicity stunt. Stone tells Bannon more is coming, but he claims it was from publicly available information and Stone looks like a crank.
5. If Democrats win the House, they are coming for Trump and they will tie him up in investigations
— Impeachment is on the table — as much as they want to hide it. But Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) says they are going to “ramp up” opposition to the current administration with non-stop Congressional investigations.
— They even want to investigate the president’s attempt to send troops to the border ahead of the election. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) says the Democratic House will hold hearings to dig into why the president made the decision.
4. Hollywood vs. the rest of America
— The media loves big dogs campaigning for long shots. Oprah Winfrey spent yesterday campaigning in Georgia for Stacey Abrams and the media is ecstatic, but Vice President Mike Pence said, “[T]his isn’t Hollywood.”
— Comedy Central even mocked the Hollywood attempts to influence, with videos of their own #ShouldWeVote movement.
3. The country is divided and Americans blame both Trump and the media for it
— The media’s tone policing of the current political debate is meant to convince Americans that they are the last group of people standing between the current president and a total fragmentation of American society. America blames the media and the president, but they blame the media more.
— Of those polled, 56 percent say the president is to blame for our current climate, but 64 percent say the media has done more to divide the country. This is not reflective in the mainstream media.
2. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Walt Maddox thinks he is polling “within the margin of error”
— In one of the more amusing comments of the Alabama campaign season, Maddox claimed at the Madison County Democratic Women’s Luncheon that he’s got a shot. He told the attendees, “Yesterday, we had some new data points come back that shows us within the margin of error, with a chance to win.”
— This flies in the face of all public polling that has been seen in 2018. Most polls have shown Governor Kay Ivey with a roughly 20-point lead, but some continue to pretend this race is in striking distance.
1. President Donald Trump wants to continue to pound illegal immigration and wants to make this the final issue for next week’s election
— Trump held a press conference today and declared that he will continue to be the president of real immigration reform, taking up a change to America’s asylum process and promising long-term detention of illegal border crossings.
— Trump declared, “[T]his is an invasion.” He said soldiers may face rock throwing illegals (as seen in videos), and once again said he will end the “endemic abuse” that “makes a mockery of our immigration system.”
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