With help from Lara Trump, Scott Presler pressured Pennsylvania to reschedule ‘maintenance’ on their voter registration website. It was a clear case of election interference. The Pennsylvania Department of State planned to conduct maintenance from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. on October 5, the day Donald Trump, accompanied by Elon Musk, will hold his rally […] The post Election Interference in Pennsylvania appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Democrats are continuing to lose ground among Hispanic voters, which could end up hurting Vice President Kamala Harris in November. The Cook Political Report’s database of crosstabs from polls shows that Harris currently leads Trump among Hispanic voters by an average of 12 points – a significant drop from President Joe Biden’s 23-point lead among Hispanics in 2020. Biden’s lead was also a drop from Hillary Clinton’s 39-point lead in 2016. Ruy Teixeira, a political scientist and commentator, wrote in his Liberal Patriot newsletter this week that Democrats underestimate the “seriousness” of the problem for three reasons. “(1) they don’t realize how big the shift is; (2) they don’t realize how thoroughly it undermines the most influential Democratic theory of the case for building their coalition; and (3) they believe that any Hispanic flirtation with the GOP is merely temporary—they will “come back home” to the Democrats,” he wrote. Teixeira also noted that the U.S. Census shows that Hispanics are the largest nonwhite population in the nation – and growing. Hispanics currently account for roughly 19% of the U.S. population, with African Americans making up about 14%. Harris is likely to still win Hispanics overall, just as Biden did in 2020, but Republicans’ continued gains among this voting bloc mean Democrats will have to make up the votes elsewhere, which may explain why so many Harris ads are focused on abortion. Even though Biden won Hispanics in 2020, then-President Donald Trump improved his vote share in 78 of America’s 100 majority-Hispanic counties, The Daily Wire reported at the time. In writing about the phenomenon, POLITICO’s Marc Caputo noted that Trump also did better with Hispanics “in exit polls of each of the top 10 battleground states.” “Joe Biden still won Latino voters overall. But as post-election data trickles in, Democrats are growing concerned. Trump’s notable gains weren’t limited to Miami’s Cuban Americans or border-region Tejanos. Although Florida and Texas stood out for the notable shift, Puerto Ricans as far away as Philadelphia and Mexican Americans in Milwaukee drifted Trump-ward,” Caputo wrote. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! The trend has continued nearly four years into the Biden administration, with Hispanic support in New Mexico dropping due to their disapproval of the president, The Daily Wire reported earlier this year. Polls in April also showed Biden’s support for Hispanics eroding, leading to speculation Democrats could lose Nevada and Arizona – two critical swing states. So, why are Hispanics leaving the Democrat party? This was explained following the 2020 election by Josh Zaragoza, a top Democratic data specialist in Arizona, who told POLITICO, “Most Latinos identify first as working-class Americans, and Trump spoke to that.” He also said that Hispanic men “are very entrepreneurial. Their economic language is more aligned with the way Republicans speak: pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, owning your own business.” Further, Democrats’ embrace of socialism can turn off Hispanic voters, who often escaped socialist dictatorships. After the 2020 election, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) said during a Democrat conference call that “Defund police, open borders, socialism — it’s killing us,” according to The New York Times. Gonzalez added during that call that the “average white person” may think of Nordic countries when they hear the word “socialism,” but Asians and Hispanics associate the word with despotic “left-wing regimes.” It appears Democrats have not learned from that call.

Women who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting them criticized liberal media outlets for their silence on allegations against second gentleman Doug Emhoff, telling The Daily Wire that there is a double standard when it comes to allegations against powerful Democrats.  “Doesn’t this absolutely sum up the presence of the double standard?” asked Leslie Millwee, who accused Clinton of sexually assaulting her repeatedly when she worked at an Arkansas TV station in her twenties. “This is a glaring reminder of how your political affiliation determines your guilt or innocence — or silence by the MSM.”  Juanita Broaddrick, who alleged that Clinton raped her when he was the 31-year-old Arkansas attorney general running for governor and she was 35 and working as a volunteer for his campaign, said that the media silence on the matter reminds her of why she initially held her tongue about her allegations against Clinton.  “It reminds me of when I didn’t come forward due to being afraid, especially after Hillary threatened me,” she added. Though Broaddrick’s and Millwee’s allegations of sexual assault are much graver than the new allegation that Emhoff forcefully slapped his ex-girlfriend, the Clinton accusers pointed to similarities in how their allegations were treated by media and politicians.  In an explosive story published Wednesday, The Daily Mail reported that Emhoff had drunkenly and “forcefully slapped” his ex-girlfriend in 2012 at the Cannes Film Festival because he thought she was flirting with another man. Three friends confirmed the story to the Daily Mail, which did not identify Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend and only revealed that she is a “successful New York attorney. The publication included a photo of the couple, with the woman’s face blurred out, as well as a travel itinerary and email showing details about their stay in Nice, France. The Daily Wire reached out to both the White House and the Harris campaign without response. An unnamed spokesman for Emhoff told Semafor that the report is “untrue” and that “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.” “Of course he will deny,” said Broaddrick, when she learned of the statement. “Learned that from Bill Clinton.”  Millwee argued that when it comes to allegations against powerful politicians, “accountability is doled out based on the whims of the 90% liberal media, and your worthiness is then determined — whether it’s never reported, or like Hunter’s laptop or the Russian dossier, you are automatically evil and called a liar if you call them out with a reality check and the facts.”  She also pointed to The Daily Mail’s past reporting on Emhoff’s affair with his nanny.  “He, like Clinton, has a history including incredibly poor choices and lack of accountability,” she said. “While we don’t know exactly what he’s willing to fess up to regarding this slapping allegation, we do know about inappropriate behaviors, infidelities and impregnating his children’s nanny. What else don’t we know!? We know with certainty the MSM kills or hides anything they fear will hurt their left wing positions.”  “Wouldn’t it be terrific if facts mattered?” she asked. “If men in power were held accountable for their actions? If they didn’t sickeningly hide behind a powerful wife?”  Broaddrick made her allegations against Clinton public in 1999, telling the Washington Post that Clinton raped her while she was volunteering for his campaign. He allegedly asked her to chat but then changed the location of their chat repeatedly until they were alone in her hotel room.  She alleges that he began forcefully kissing her, pulled her onto the bed and raped her. During the alleged rape, Broaddrick says, Clinton allegedly bruised her lip with his mouth. She alleges that Clinton said as he departed: “You better get some ice for that,” before putting on his sunglasses and walking out the door.  Clinton’s legal team denied her allegations. Broaddrick has further said that Hillarly Clinton approached her after the alleged incident and told her, “I just want you to know how appreciative that Bill and I are for all that you’re doing for his campaign.” “She grabbed my arm very strongly and pulled me back to her, pulled me down to her face and said, ‘Do you understand everything you do?’” Broaddrick told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “And at that moment in time, I thought she knew. To me that was a threat.”  Millwee went public with her allegations against Clinton when she spoke to Breitbart News in October 2016. She accused Clinton of sexually assaulting her multiple times in 1980 while she was working at an Arkansas TV station.  “He followed me into an editing room,” Millwee told Breitbart. “It was very small. There was a chair. I was sitting in a chair. He came up behind me and started rubbing my shoulders and running his hands down toward my breasts. And I was just stunned. I froze. I asked him to stop. He laughed.” She described Clinton allegedly assaulting her a second time at the TV station, saying, “He came in behind me. Started hunching me to the point that he had an orgasm. He’s trying to touch my breasts. And I’m just sitting there very stiffly, just waiting for him to leave me alone. And I’m asking him the whole time, ‘Please do not do this. Do not touch me. Do not hunch me. I do not want this.’” There was a third occasion where Clinton allegedly performed the same assault on Millwee, and on a fourth occasion, he allegedly came to her home and repeatedly knocked on the door, telling her, “I know you are home. Please answer the door.” She told Breitbart that she did not answer the door.  The Clintons did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story. 

Country singer Garth Brooks has been accused of sexual assault by a former hair and makeup artist who worked for his family. The 27-page lawsuit was filed on Thursday on behalf of “Jane Roe,” who claims the incidents occurred over several years. Roe said one of the alleged incidents included Brooks forcing her to touch his erect penis while she was styling his hair.  The suit also includes details of Brooks allegedly raping her in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2019 while she was helping him get ready for a Grammy tribute, per NPR. Roe accused Brooks of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks to her, talking about sex, sharing sexual fantasies, and sending sexually explicit text messages, per Today. The country singer also stands accused of “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” with his wife, singer Tricia Yearwood. The plaintiff said she had initially worked for Yearwood beginning in 1999 and started working for Brooks beginning in 2017. Roe’s legal team noted that the “Friends in Low Places” singer filed a preemptive lawsuit anonymously in September, saying he was being extorted for money from a former employee because he had refused to give her a raise or pay for health insurance. Brooks has denied the allegations. A statement from his legal team said, “(Roe’s) false allegations and her threats to wrongfully assassinate (Brooks’) character through the public airing of such revulsive and untrue allegations have caused (Brooks) emotional distress including anxiety and fear for himself and his family.” It continues, “(Roe’s) attempted extortion of (Brooks) for millions of dollars through such untrue, lewd allegations constitutes intentional, outrageous conduct that was intended to and did in fact cause (Brooks) serious mental injury, amounting to an intentional infliction of emotional distress.” “For the last two months, I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars,” Brooks said in the statement. “ It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face. Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of — ugly acts no human should ever do to another.” “We filed suit against this person nearly a month ago to speak out against extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the sake of families on both sides, ” he added. “I want to play music tonight. I want to continue our good deeds going forward. It breaks my heart these wonderful things are in question now,” the country singer’s statement concludes. “I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Roe announced her intention to move forward with a jury trial. She is seeking monetary and punitive damages plus attorney’s fees. “We applaud our client’s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks,” Roe’s legal team wrote in a statement. “The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood and in the rap and rock and roll industries but also in the world of country music.” “We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and his efforts to silence our client through the filing of a preemptive complaint in Mississippi was nothing other than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation,” the statement says. “We encourage others who may have been victimized to contact us as no survivor should suffer in silence.” Brooks performed in Las Vegas on Thursday night just after the news broke. He addressed the drama with an Instagram post, writing in the caption, “If there was ever a night that I really needed this, TONIGHT was that night! Thank you for my life!!!!!”

Democratic strategists are starting to have “alarm bells” about retaining Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin’s seat in November as polls show her lead over Republican challenger Eric Hovde diminishing.  Axios reported Thursday that there is “growing fear” among Democrats about Baldwin’s re-election campaign as her lead in internal polls has shrunk to just two points. According to the report, strategists believe the race is much closer than some polls indicate.  “Tammy Baldwin and her allies are panicking because momentum is on our side and they know we can WIN this race,” Hovde posted on X in response to the report.  A recent survey by the Cook Political Report also found Baldwin, vying for her third Senate term, with just a two-point lead. In the poll, Baldwin held a 49%-47% lead, a large drop from her seven-point lead in their previous poll.  “Both sides have largely consolidated their bases, and Baldwin leads among independent voters 50%-42%, though that’s an 11-point move toward Hovde since August,” Cook reported Hovde and Baldwin are set to debate on October 18 in Madison, just weeks before Election Day.  The Democratic fears come as Hovde has benefited from a recent influx of cash backing his campaign. The Republican Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC linked to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is committing $17 million to elect Hovde.  Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! With Democrats currently holding a 51-49 advantage in the Senate, both parties are gearing up for what is expected to be a tight battle for the majority. Republicans are currently expected to pick up seats in West Virginia and Montana, while races in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are all expected to be competitive.  The Republican Senate Leadership Fund recently put $28 million into Pennsylvania and $22.5 million in Michigan to back the GOP candidates in its latest cash infusion. Former President Donald Trump is also focusing much of his attention on those same battleground states and currently trails Vice President Kamala Harris by about 0.8 percentage points in Wisconsin, according to an average of polls. Harris campaigned in Ripon on Thursday, while Trump is set to hold a rally in Juneau on Sunday.

Matt Walsh sat down with comedian John Crist to discuss some of the funnier aspects of the film “Am I Racist?” including how attendees of a white guild support group read The Daily Wire host’s Wikipedia page to police officers in an attempt to get him arrested. “I went to the cry room and while I was gone… they went to my Wikipedia page,” Walsh said on the “Net Positive with John Crist” podcast. “They’re reading my sins off my Wikipedia.” According to Walsh, only a brief moment of that incident is shown in the film’s final cut. But he told Crist about how other support group attendees tried to state their case to law enforcement. “The cops came in, and they talked to some of the people, and they were reading my Wikipedia page to the cops to try to explain,” Walsh told Crist, who started laughing.  “The cops were like, ‘He didn’t commit a crime,’” Walsh said. “So there was nothing they could do.” Walsh later discussed how toward the end of the film, he held a “Do the Work Workshop” which included a nine-step process to “decenter your whiteness.”  “Just for timing reasons, we had to cut out most of the steps,” Walsh said. “So that’s something that maybe I’d like to do one of these days is release the whole seminar with all the steps.”  https://www.instagram.com/p/DArZKS-yIwE/?hl=en  Crist and Walsh also discussed how audiences often take the “What Is A Woman?” star’s jokes too seriously — like his recent comment that adults should never take sick days. “It’s embarrassing,” he said of sick days for adults. “You have to call your boss and say, ‘My tummy doesn’t feel too good, I can’t make it in,’ it’s embarrassing,” Walsh said. “I stand by that,” he added. “I didn’t say you shouldn’t take it. But you should be embarrassed.” “I mostly am serious about that but not entirely,” he said of the sick day comment, which prompted social media backlash. “That’s one of those, it’s 80% serious and 20% joking.”  Walsh said he also caught heat for saying raw milk is “disgusting.”  Crist said something similar happened to him when he said essential oils were a “hoax.” He said he didn’t think it was a big deal if people wanted to use them, but didn’t think they had any real positive benefits. “I agree with you about essential oils,” Walsh said. “It’s a total scam.” “I don’t even know what they are,” he continued. “Like, what makes them essential? As opposed to other oils?  “Am I Racist?” debuted at number four in the national box office the week of its release, and remained in the top ten the following weekend, making it the top grossing documentary of the year and a top 5 political documentary in the last decade.  The film made three times its production budget, clearing more than $9 million in total gross revenue. It has a 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, with more than 2,500 verified reviews.

Toyota joined the growing list of companies that are dialing back their LGBTQ sponsorships and diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments following exposés from conservative activist Robby Starbuck. The Japan-based car manufacturer told its 50,000 U.S. employees and 1,500 dealers on Thursday that it would “narrow our community activities to align with STEM education and workforce readiness,” Bloomberg reported. Starbuck revealed last week that Toyota was sponsoring pro-LGBTQ events, including a children’s LGBTQ summer camp. A company spokesman told Bloomberg that following Starbuck’s exposé, the company received a few hundred queries from employees, questions from a “small population” of dealers, and around 30 calls from customers. The spokesman claimed that Starbuck’s revelations about Toyota were “negligible.” “Huge news: Last week we exposed @Toyota + @Lexus for going woke and now just one week later they’re announcing BIG changes!” Starbuck wrote on X. “Some highlights: No more involvement in pride parades, pride events or LGBTQ children’s summer camps. They will not participate in the @HRC’s [Human Rights Campaign] woke Corporate Equality Index social credit system. All BRG activities must be focused on the core business of Toyota and be open to all.” “I have to give the executives credit for taking this unifying action. It’s not easy to do but they’re preparing their business for future success by adopting corporate neutrality,” he added. “The companies who adopt neutrality will win the future because they don’t violate the core beliefs of the consumers they rely on.” Following Starbuck’s posts on social media about Toyota, the company said that the LGBTQ programs mentioned by Starbuck were led by employee groups, not the company itself. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! “We will work to ensure that the activities and events are focused on professional development, networking, mentoring and volunteering—team member engagement that drives our business. Furthermore, we will work to ensure all company activities are aligned with our values and create an inclusive environment for our team members,” Toyota’s memo to employees stated, according to Fox Business. Toyota joins Ford, Harley-Davidson, Lowe’s, and Tractor Supply as another company that has responded to Starbuck’s revelations by walking back DEI commitments. “Our campaigns are so effective that we’re getting some of the biggest corporations on earth to change their policies. The landscape of corporate America is quickly shifting to sanity and neutrality. We are the trend now, not the anomaly,” Starbuck wrote. “We’re winning and one by one we WILL bring sanity back to corporate America.”

Film star Chris Pratt called on Americans to assist victims of Hurricane Helene however they could, noting that “it’s not government, it’s us” that makes our “country great.” “I think what makes this country great has always been the people in the community,” the “Guardians of the Galaxy” said in a Thursday post on Instagram. “And the people who are willing to step up. It’s not up to other people, it’s up to us.” “I’ll be making a donation on the side,” Pratt added. “But to anybody out there watching this, $5 bucks, $10 bucks, anything you can do. And if you can’t that’s okay…just let this be an inspiration to you that you can go out there. You can do something. There’s someone out there who needs help.” “We are the fabric of this society. It’s not government. It’s us,” Pratt continued. “We make this country great. Today, November 5th. and Nov. 6th, no matter what happens, it’s on us to be strong in our country. People showing up and putting boots on the ground.” At least 180 people across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia have already been confirmed dead in the wake of the hurricane, with the death toll expected to rise. Millions were left without power, internet access, and cell phone service. Pratt’s comments came in a video in which the actor and former SEAL team member John Gretton “Jocko” Willink Jr. spoke to  Green Beret Tim Kennedy about teams “working round the clock” to get aide to those who have lost everything because of the hurricane that hit southeastern states late last week. “This storm has wreaked havoc on so many people’s lives and it’s important we are informed,” he added. “Please watch the video and head to @saveourallies to help. Anything helps. God bless.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Chris Pratt (@prattprattpratt) Near the end of the clip, Kennedy told Pratt where people could go to donate supplies and money, and put a call out to those who have EMT, paramedics, or search and rescue skills, to volunteer their time. In a later post, Pratt said “our fellow Americans are suffering. Children, the elderly, entire families still with no food, no water, no hope. They need our help. Thank you.” Related: Ivanka Trump Delivers Starlink Terminals To Flood-Ravaged North Carolina