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DISASTER POLL: Likud Would Only Receive 22 Seats, Opposition Reaches 61 without Arab Parties
A shocking new poll from Channel 12 News published Monday evening forecasts a disaster for Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, and his coalition partners, including Charedi parties.
According to this new poll, while Likud would still be the largest party in the Knesset, it would only receive 22 seats. Shas would win 10 seats, and United Torah Judaism would win 8 seats. However, the current coalition would only reach 49 seats in total, a staggering 12 seats short of a governing coalition.
Meanwhile, opposition parties, led by the National Unity Party with 21 seats, would be able to reach the 61 seat threshold without needing to rely on Arab parties.
Yesh Atid in the opposition, led by Yair Lapid, would receive 15 seats, and Yisrael Beytenu led by Avigdor Lieberman, would receive 14. The Democrats, a recently formed party with a merger between Meretz and Labor, would receive 11 seats, led by Yair Golan.
While Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit would receive 9 seats, this new poll shows the National Religious party led by Betzalel Smotrich failing to pass the threshold. Gideon Sa’ar would also fail to pass the threshold.
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TRUMP TOWERS: Nate Silver’s Latest Forecast Has Trump Winning Every Single Swing State in Electoral College Blowout
Will it be a blowout?
According to his latest 2024 presidential election forecast, polling pundit Nate Silver believes Donald Trump will defeat Kamala Harris in every battleground state for an electoral college blowout.
As polling stands currently, Silver puts Trump’s electoral college victory at 312 to 226. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 with 304 electoral college votes.
From Mediaite:
Crucially, Silver’s prediction places Trump ahead in all the swing states ahead of Tuesday’s ABC News-host presidential debate — which, the pollster caveats, could blunt the impact of the New York Times/Siena poll.
While Silver’s latest prediction paints a bleak picture for Harris, other models show a more competitive race. RealClearPolitics has Harris narrowly ahead with 273 electoral votes, while Project 538 forecasts a victory for Harris with 281 electoral votes to Trump’s 257. Still, the margin between the two candidates remains razor-thin in key states.
Interestingly, Silver’s forecast still gives Harris a slim edge in the popular vote, with a 56 percent chance to come out on top there compared to Trump’s 44 percent.
“This is one of our highest-rated pollsters, so it has a fair amount of influence on the numbers, reducing Harris’ lead in our national polling average to 2.5 points, which would put her in dangerous territory in the Electoral College,” Silver teased on his Silver Bulletin blog before Monday’s update.
“And our model is more bearish on Harris still because of its convention bounce adjustment and its assessment of economic ‘fundamentals.’”
“You’re welcome to debate the mechanics of the adjustment, but recent polls confirm its basic hypothesis that there’s been a shift in momentum against Harris,” Silver continued.
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KAMALA HAS ISSUES: Harris Campaign Page Finally Adds ‘Issues’ Section, Lies Repeatedly About Trump
Kamala Harris has issues…
According to a Fox News report, Kamala Harris’ official campaign website has finally added a section that attempts to define her policy platform — but it’s mostly a lot of lies about Donald Trump.
(Harris, like other Democrats, continues to try and tie Trump to Project 2025 — an initiative the former president has resoundingly rejected.)
From Fox News:
The website breaks Harris and her vice-presidential running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’ policy proposals into four sections: “Build an Opportunity Economy and Lower Costs for Families,” “Safeguard Our Fundamental Freedoms,” “Ensure Safety and Justice For All,” and “Keep America Safe, Secure, and Prosperous.”
Before the new addition, Harris’ campaign website had pages to buy merchandise, donate and get to know the candidate’s background, but was devoid of any policy plans for weeks even after she formally accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago 17 days ago.
Harris’s website now includes a promise to cut taxes for middle-class families by “ensuring no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in taxes.” The website promises that Harris and Walz “will ensure the wealthiest Americans and the largest corporations pay their fair share, so we can take action to build up the middle class while reducing the deficit,” including by “rolling back Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, enacting a billionaire minimum tax, quadrupling the tax on stock buybacks, and other reforms to ensure the very wealthy are playing by the same rules as the middle class.”
The website touts a plan to give more than 100 million working and middle-class families a tax cut by restoring the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. It says Harris and Walz will also expand the Child Tax Credit to provide a $6,000 credit to families with newborn children.
“Under her plan, the tax rate on long-term capital gains for those earning a million dollars a year or more will be 28 percent, because when the government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth and creates jobs, which makes our economy stronger,” the website says.
The website also claims that Harris’ “lowering costs agenda is a stark contrast to Donald Trump’s plans to jack up prices, weaken the middle class, cut Social Security and Medicare, eliminate the Department of Education and preschool programs like Head Start, and end the Affordable Care Act.”
Kamala’s “Issues” page is live just one day before the much-anticipated first debate between her and former President Donald Trump.
Read the full report over at Fox News:
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COTTON CLOBBERS CHENEY: Former GOP Veep Endorsed Harris Because ‘Trump Beat His Daughter by 39 Points’ [WATCH]
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton spoke with CNN’s Dana Bash over the weekend about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. Cheney’s daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, also endorsed Harris for president.
…and Cotton had some thoughts about that.
“I want to start with some of the endorsements that Kamala Harris got this week, particularly from former Congresswoman Liz Cheney and her father, the former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney,” Bash said.
Cotton said, “You have Dick Cheney endorsing a Democrat, and you have a Kennedy endorsing a Republican. I think what it tells us is that there’s a lot of ferment and American politics, but in the end, endorsements are not going to make the difference in this race.”
Bash said, “You don’t think his endorsement of a Democrat with that kind of pedigree is going to make a difference with swing voters?”
Cotton said, “Well, I mean, some of this is probably Donald Trump beat his daughter in her last election back 39 points. I think most Americans are going to look at this race and compare the records they have against the very unusual race. When you have a president who served in office, who brought good times to America, and you have Kamala Harris, a San Francisco liberal, who has brought to America exactly what you see in San Francisco as well.”
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BLOWOUT? Trump Forecast To Win EVERY SINGLE Swing State In Latest Election Wiz Prediction
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KAMALA GETS BERN’D: Sanders Says Harris Abandoned Far-Left Stances ‘In Order to Win the Election’ [WATCH]
Sanders stopped by NBC to say the quiet part out loud…
“She has previously supported Medicare-For-All, now she does not. She’s previously supported a ban on fracking, now she does not. These, senator, are ideas that you have campaigned on. Do you think she is abandoning her progressive ideals?” Welker asked Sanders.
“No, I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals,” he replied. “I think she’s trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election.”
“She has another approach toward moving to universal health care,” Sanders said about Harris no longer supporting Medicare-For-All.
“But again, I think on issues like expanding Medicare, like expanding Social Security and lifting the cap on taxable income that the rich put so we can raise Social Security benefits… the need to raise the minimum wage from a starvation, $7.25 minimum wage to a living wage… I think if you campaign on those issues, raising questions on billionaires, you know what? She’s going to win, and I think she can win big,” he continued.
“Look, she and I – she is not where I am, but I think, for example, when she talks about making the child tax credit permanent and you know, we did that in the American Rescue Plan. We lowered childhood poverty by 40%. Kristen, we should not have, as the richest country on earth, one of the highest rates of childhood poverty. When she talks about 3 million units of affordable housing, that’s a big deal because we have a major housing crisis in America. When she talks about passing the PRO Act to make it easier for workers to join unions, that’s a big deal because we have to expand the union movement so the workers get decent wages. So yes, her views are not mine, but I do consider her a progressive,” he added.
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Court Rejects Petition to Bar Screening of ‘The Bibi Files’
On Monday, the Yerushalayim District Court dismissed a request filed on behalf of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, seeking to block the public screening of the documentary “The Bibi Files.” This film reveals previously unreleased documents from corruption investigations involving Netanyahu. The documentary is scheduled to debut at the Toronto Film Festival later today.
Netanyahu had called for an “urgent discussion” concerning the film’s release. His petition highlighted the involvement of journalist Raviv Drucker, known for his opposition to the government, as one of the film’s producers. Netanyahu argued that the documentary, which includes police records related to investigations involving him and his family, contains material protected by a gag order and should not be shown. Under Israeli law, releasing such investigative documents is prohibited, as it could lead to a “show trial” and jeopardize Netanyahu’s right to a fair legal proceeding.
The promotional material for the film indicated that the documents to be presented cover the years 2016 to 2018. The film is expected to feature Netanyahu, his wife Sarah, his son Yair, close friends, advisors, and staff at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Yerushalayim.
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Retired Frum Doctor Running to Unseat Radical Leftist State Senator in Georgia
Dr. Barry Zisholtz, who retired last year after 46 years as a urological surgeon and who is known more commonly as “Dr. Z.,” received a knock on his door in March. A woman he didn’t recognize told him that she needed the doctor’s help. He asked what the trouble was.
“Your house was redistricted,” the woman told him. “Do you know who your state House representative is?”
Zisholtz, who had planned to spend more time with his wife and their seven children, learned that Georgia’s 86th District was represented by Imani Barnes, who had been elected with some 90% of the vote in 2023 in what had been a solidly Democratic seat.
In December, Barnes was one of dozens of Democrats who abstained from a mostly bipartisan bill condemning Hamas. In January, she voted against a bipartisan bill, which defines antisemitism in state law and which passed both houses of Georgia’s legislature by wide margins. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed it into law that month.
“Who is this person? What’s she about?” Zisholtz told JNS on the sidelines of the Republican Jewish Coalition Summit in Las Vegas last week.
“She’s a very progressive Democrat, and she’s not a friend of Israel or the Jewish people,” he said. (JNS sought comment from Barnes.)
The retired surgeon asked around to see who was running against Barnes in the district in DeKalb County, just outside Atlanta. He was told that nobody was.
With only three days until the filing deadline, Zisholtz threw his hat in the ring.
“This was not on the agenda,” he told JNS, of his late political foray.
When he researched his opponent more, the retired doctor found that he disagreed with her on almost everything.
“I found she wants illegals to vote. Then I found she’s soft on crime. She’s pro-sanctuary cities,” he told JNS. “So there’s not one thing that I’m really in favor of that she supports, except I’m good with school lunches.”
An Orthodox Jew, who has served on the boards of several Atlanta-area Jewish institutions, Zisholtz knows that Israel and Gaza are not top of mind for most voters in his district.
His campaign platform includes “denouncing all bigotry and racism, including antisemitism” and “calling all terrorists, including Hamas, pure evil in no uncertain terms,” but all are further down the pecking order from kitchen table issues, like affordable health care, lower prescription drug prices and providing school choice and improved math and reading scores.
Zisholtz, who told JNS that he has knocked on some 9,000 doors, acknowledged that the race is an uphill battle.
“When I started, it looked very difficult, but I had three goals in mind. Number one is to win. Number two is to get the word out that it’s OK to fight back. And number three is to expose the individual for what she did,” Zisholtz said, of Barnes.
The retired doctor figures he has accomplished the second and third goals, and if he can pull off the first one, too, he told JNS that he will donate half of his salary to the local police and the other half to area schools.
“I’m not looking at this for a job,” he insisted.
Zisholtz told JNS that he is one of seven Republicans, who have stepped up to run against otherwise-unopposed House Democrats. “Because we stand for reason,” he said.
On May 21, Barnes won the Democratic primary unopposed, with 4,881 votes. Zisholtz secured all 428 votes in the Republican primary.
(JNS)