Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly shelled out major donations — totaling half a million dollars — to a non-profit connected to MSNBC’s Al Sharpton prior to her interview with him. The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross reported on Tuesday that the Harris campaign shelled out two six-figure donations — $250,000 on September 5 and another $250,000 on October 1 — to Sharpton’s National Action Network. Just two days after the second donation went through, Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him a happy birthday — and on October 20, MSNBC aired a very friendly interview of Harris conducted by Sharpton. EXCLUSIVE @FreeBeacon: Kamala Harris campaign gave $500k to Al Sharpton's nonprofit just before a glowing interview with the MSNBC host. The remittance to Rev. Al part of $5.4 million that Harris gave to black and Latino groups. https://t.co/tZfhxfQKun — Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) November 12, 2024 According to Ross’ reporting, neither Harris nor Sharpton told MSNBC that the donations had been made. Harris has faced scrutiny over finances since the campaign ended with her team over $20 million in debt even after raising well over $1 billion in just three months. Payments to celebrities for concerts and appearances at rallies have been questioned, including over $1 million paid to former talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s production team and a six-figure rebuild of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast set so that she could give the interview from Washington, D.C. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Other major expenditures included hundreds of thousands for private air travel, along with six-figure donations to minority groups with whom she was struggling to make headway. According to the Free Beacon’s report: Team Harris donated to the National Urban League ($2 million), the Black Economic Alliance ($150,000), and Black Church PAC ($150,000). The campaign gave donations to lesser-known groups like the Haitian Ladies Fund ($30,000) and International Free and Accepted Modern Masons ($150,000), a black freemasons organization, according to campaign finance disclosures.  The Black Economic Alliance hosted a video call for 5,000 attendees days before the election to urge black men to vote for Harris. Vote to Live Action Fund, which received $275,000 from the Harris campaign, launched a $4 million initiative in October to pressure black men to vote. Harris spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on an initiative to appeal to black church voters. Two of the organizations, Black Church PAC and the Institute of Church Administration and Management ($250,000), are linked to Frederick Haynes, an anti-Israel pastor who has worked with Harris for years on liberal causes. Despite the lingering questions surrounding the Harris campaign’s spending habits, the VP has reportedly suggested that she would be open to running again in 2028 — either for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination or for governor of her home state of California.

Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Tershawn Wharton was in the right place at the right time when he saved a young fan from falling head first out of the stands after the game on Sunday as the team was headed to the locker room in Carolina. In a video that surfaced on X, we see the back of a young fan’s jersey as he’s leaning up against the railing, yelling Wharton’s name before the little guy’s feet slip out from under him and he flips right out of the stands headed to the ground head first. “I would like to reach out to him, get him out to a game.” Chiefs DL Tershawn Wharton caught a kid who fell from the stands on Sunday and wants the chance to meet him ? (via @PatMcAfeeShow, @T__Russ) pic.twitter.com/mBunC7cZk0 — NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) November 26, 2024 With security standing by, Wharton sees the fan falling and reaches out to grab the kid before the child falls to the ground and ends up in the hospital or worse. The next shot is Wharton giving the child a boost back up into the stands. On Tuesday, Wharton appeared on “The Pat McAfee Show” and said that it was just “natural reaction” when he saved the kid from falling. “Usually when I leave the game, I try to throw my glove into the crowd,” Wharton said. “And I think I heard my name a little bit and I see him coming down. It was two security guards right there.” “I don’t think they realized what I was doing,” he added, noting that he was able to grab the child by the back of his jersey to stop him from falling. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE He then said that he hasn’t met the child yet, but he would like to. “I would like to reach out to him, get him out to a game,” Wharton said. “And be able to reflect with him a little bit more. If I could.” Over on social media, there is one post after another labeling Wharton a “real-life hero” and people wishing he was on the X platform so they could thank him. It doesn’t appear, at the time of this publication, that the Chiefs player has an account on the site. “Kansas City Chiefs’ Tershawn Wharton saves the life of a boy who falls headfirst over the railing towards the field,” one person wrote. “The kid was waving in excitement and took the plunge. Amazing lifesaving moment by Wharton!” Another added, “SAVIOR: Kansas City Chiefs DE Tershawn Wharton rescued a young Chiefs fan from injuring himself after falling over the side of the stands in Carolina. Respect to Wharton for being aware enough & instinctively ready to save him!” While a third wrote, “Mr. Tershawn Wharton of the @Chiefs needs an @X account simply so people can say thank you, and well done. Time to put him in receiver corps, @PatrickMahomes?” Wharton signed with the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2020, and has been part of the two Super Bowls the team won in the 2022 and 2023 season. Related: Kansas City Chiefs Player Released From Hospital After Cardiac Arrest At Team Meeting

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In his much decried (from the left) op-ed before the 2024 election, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos explained why his newspaper needed to be “a credible, trusted, independent voice” in American news and not endorse a candidate for president. But a month after that op-ed was published, the paper seemed to still be violating the spirit of Bezos’s comments and vison for his newspaper by continuing to outsource content to left-wing lobbying groups and passing off their propaganda as reporting. One of the larger offenders has been Consumer Reports, which NewsBusters has been documenting for some time. Just last week, The Washington Post published an article written by Consumer Reports’s Kevin Loria targeting the use of plastics (a common target for environmentalists) titled: “What to know about microplastics, phthalates, BPA and PFAS.” Loria warned: “Synthetic chemicals are everywhere — including in the food we eat, the water we drink, the products we use, the dust on our floors and the air that we breathe.” He wrote about why and how to avoid them, but didn’t propose any alternatives or solution. Other recent articles outsourced to Consumer Reports included: How to reduce your exposure to plastics in food (and everywhere else) 6 misleading food label terms and what they really mean How to keep your kidneys working well And despite their financial relationship with Consumer Reports, The Washington Post doesn’t disclose it when their actual reporters write stories about them. “Consumer Reports is calling for the removal of Lunchables from school trays across the country after discovering concerning levels of lead and sodium and a potentially harmful chemical in their packaging in products sold in stores,” Lauren Weber wrote back in April. No were in the article does it mention that Consumer Reports and The Washington Post have a relationship. At the bottom of articles written by CR, there are Copyright notices that purport “Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization…” But that’s not accurate. InfluenceWatch warned: “While billing itself as a nonpartisan publication, Consumer Reports also maintains an advocacy and lobbying arm, the Consumers Union Action Fund, that advocates for left-leaning consumer policies on issues such as environmentalism, food and nutrition, and subsidizing the use of electric vehicles.” In 2019, The New York Times praised left-wing Craigslist founder Craig Newmark for gifting $6 million to Consumer Reports. Additionally, The Washington Post had partnered with The Examination this year to publish: “As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice.” At the very bottom of the over-2,500-word article, the newspaper insists, “The Examination, a new nonprofit newsroom specializing in global public health reporting.” But the discloser doesn’t mention The Examination’s left-wing political leanings. The Examination’s own website boasted that they launched with the help of “Bloomberg Philanthropies and a grant from the Pulitzer Center. Our fiscal sponsor is Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.” NewsBusters previously reported on the insidiousness of left-wing Bloomberg Philanthropies. Meanwhile, InfluenceWatch says this about Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: The Rockefeller Foundation is a major funder of liberal advocacy and public policy efforts, providing major support to New America, a left-of-center think tank; the Urban Institute, a left-of-center hybrid civil rights group and policy advocacy organization; and the Funders Committee on Civic Participation, a project coordinating left-of-center advocacy on Census and electoral issues, among other left-of-center interests. What’s happening at The Washington Post seems similar to what NewsBusters reported back in October about The New York Times publishing propaganda sourced and written by a web of left-wing special interests. But unlike NY Times, where they seemed to have been possibly duped into publishing, The Washington Post was willfully doing it.

As they carve their turkeys this year, Republicans can be grateful for Donald Trump, mapmaker. He’s redrawn America’s political geography — not only winning back the White House for himself but pointing the way to victory for his party four years from now. Before Trump, the major industrial states touching the Great Lakes were out of Republicans’ reach. Only Ohio was winnable for the GOP, but it was a battleground, voting twice for George W. Bush and twice for Barack Obama. Republicans dreamed of a “solid South,” yet that too eluded them: Florida was another battleground, one Bush came within a Supreme Court decision of losing in 2000. The brief window when a Republican like Bush could compete for the White House had closed by 2008. The problem was that even Bush’s one clear win — his 2004 reelection — depended on an electoral map his party couldn’t recreate, as states like Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico moved into the Democrats’ column, where they’ve stayed since 2008. Republicans were in a dire predicament, but few dared admit it. Instead of recognizing the flaws in their own strategy, GOP campaign gurus resorted to exaggerating the other side’s strength: They accepted the progressive myth of Barack Obama as a once-in-a-generation political genius. Who could blame the GOP for losing to a phenom like Obama? Donald Trump could and did. Instead of fighting his elections on the map Republicans had been using, and mostly losing on, since 2000, Trump drew his own. Nothing Republicans had tried since Ronald Reagan left office had succeeded in piercing the “Blue Wall” of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Even if some Republican other than Trump could have won Ohio and Florida in 2016 — when both were still hotly contested swing states — no one else had a clue how to win the Rust Belt, and those blue-since-the-‘90s states would have been enough, on top of what she did wind up winning, to make Hillary Clinton president. GOP nominees before Trump campaigned heavily in Pennsylvania to no avail. Mitt Romney had Michigan roots but couldn’t win there in 2012, just as his running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, was unable to deliver his home state. Trump, on the other hand, turned his adopted home of Florida from a battleground into a reliably red bastion. Thanks to Trump, Florida and Ohio aren’t swing states anymore. He won each three times, and neither seems like a realistic prospect for Democrats in 2028. To be sure, Gov. Ron DeSantis and others deserve credit for Florida’s red shift, too. But the Trump effect is unmistakable: He’s moved the old battlegrounds into the Republican column and made new battlegrounds out of formerly impregnable Blue Wall states. He’s also put in place the two things his party needs to win those Rust Belt battlegrounds again in 2028: a new attitude toward trade and labor, and a vice president named J.D. Vance. Just how far Trump will go in returning America to the kind of wide-ranging tariff regime the nation had in the 19th century remains to be seen, as does the effect his policies will have on the industrial workers he’s courted. But voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin have given Trump the benefit of the doubt twice now, and Vance — an Ohio native himself — is the kind of Republican they’re most likely to trust to keep pressing a pro-worker agenda. To counteract Vance’s appeal to the Rust Belt, Democrats may have to attempt in 2028 what the GOP tried in 2012: running candidates with regional ties. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro are the most plausible contenders. Anyone else — a California yuppie like Gov. Gavin Newsom or a semi-libertarian like Colorado Gov. Jared Polis — could find the Blue Wall has become a Red Wall. Democrats can ill afford to hope that Republican screw-ups will help them win in 2028, the way George W. Bush’s follies, culminating in the Great Recession and ensuing bailouts, propelled Obama to the White House in 2008. The Trump map was already put to the harshest of tests four years ago — when COVID, the recession triggered by the pandemic and the riots following George Floyd’s death created ideal conditions for Democrats, and in Joe Biden they had a candidate with Pennsylvania roots. Despite all that, Trump lost Pennsylvania by a little more than one point and Wisconsin by less than one. Without another pandemic, Democrats may have to reinvent themselves as drastically as Trump reinvented the GOP if they want to beat his map. Republicans shouldn’t be complacent, but they can give thanks that the great political cartographer of our age isn’t Barack Obama — it’s Donald Trump. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com.

A Chicago-area Democratic official was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol, and police said she was "not compliant" during the arrest, which was captured on body cam video. According to the Chicago Police Department, 45-year-old Samantha Steele was arrested at 8:49 p.m. Nov. 10 and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.'Ma’am, if you don’t exit the vehicle ... I’m going to help you to exit, and you don’t want that.'Police discovered Steele — the Democratic commissioner for the Second District of the Cook County Board of Review — lying on the sidewalk, according to the arrest report. Police said they found significant front-end damage to a Honda Accord and a Dodge Charger near Steele's vehicle. Steele reportedly told officers she had been driving south on Ashland Avenue when the car crash occurred. The officer said Steele was "involved in an accident."Police said they noticed a half-empty bottle of red wine near the front passenger seat of Steele's vehicle. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the police body cam video showed the officers joke that the cabernet sauvignon was “good stuff” and that breath mints they also found "didn’t help" cover up the "strong odor of [an] alcoholic beverage" on her breath.Officers also allegedly noted that her eyes appeared "bloodshot and glassy."When officers asked how much she had drunk, Steele reportedly refused to answer and deflected by saying, "I want my lawyer, and I am not talking to you."One of the officers is heard saying, "She smells like alcohol; she's been drinking."She is seen on police body cam video refusing to exit her car; initially, she wouldn't provide her driver's license to officers.An officer is heard on body cam video telling Steele's alleged friend, "So she's not exiting. We're going to have to make her exit. She is not compliant right now, as you can see."An officer told her, “Ma’am, if you don’t exit the vehicle ... I’m going to help you to exit, and you don’t want that.”Steele shot back at the cop, "You don’t want that! I’m an elected official.”The officer asked, “Elected official of what?” Steele said she was an elected official in Cook County but would not provide the officer with her job title. When the officer asked for her name, Steele held out her hand for a handshake and said, “I’m Sam.”The cop responded, “Sam who?” Steele refused to provide her full name to the officer. Steele refused to get out of the car until the arrival of her alleged attorney — Democratic Cook County Commissioner Scott Britton of Glenview.Britton allegedly advised Steele, “Don’t say anything. Don’t say anything.”Police said Steele was "swaying front to back" during questioning.Steele reportedly refused to do a field sobriety test at first.Body cam video shows police handcuffing Steele. Steele allegedly agreed to a field sobriety test after being handcuffed, but then she claimed to have hit her head in the crash and needed medical treatment. The police report stated that she was handcuffed again, placed in an ambulance, and taken to a local hospital. She was later discharged from the hospital. The arrest report noted that Steele made lewd remarks to the arresting officer.Steele allegedly asked a cop, "Is your penis really that small?"Police impounded her vehicle.Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison called for Steele to resign from the Cook County Board of Review for her "aggressive behavior" during her arrest. "This incident raises serious concerns about her conduct and judgment as an elected official," Morrison said in a statement. "If an elected official does not respect our dedicated police officers, then how can we expect the citizens to respect the police?"Steele was first elected to the Cook County Board of Review in 2022. Steele is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 27. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!