Arizona state officials confirmed on Monday that a proposal seeking to make abortion a “fundamental right” easily cleared the signature threshold for ballot placement, meaning voters will decide whether to add abortion protections to the state constitution in the November general election. The Arizona Abortion Access Act received nearly 578,000 signatures, according to state officials, which was around 50% more than the 383,923 signatures required, local media reported. The state’s Republican-controlled legislature voted earlier this year to repeal a near-total abortion ban after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that it could go into effect. Under current state law, abortion is outlawed after 15 weeks. If approved by voters, the Arizona Abortion Access Act would make abortions legal up until 24 weeks, an arbitrary point in time that doctors use to determine when an unborn baby has reached the point of viability. However, some babies as young as 22 weeks have also survived outside the womb thanks to advances in medical technology. Pro-abortion activists cheered the proposal making it onto the November ballot. Arizona for Abortion Access campaign manager Cheryl Bruce said, “This is a huge win for Arizona voters who will now get to vote YES on restoring and protecting the right to access abortion care, free from political interference, once and for all.” The proposal will appear on the November ballot as Proposition 139. Pro-life advocates argue that if passed, Prop 139 will push Arizona closer to unregulated abortion and make the state one of the most radical pro-abortion states in the U.S. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Abortion remains a top issue for Democratic candidates heading into the 2024 election. Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have sought to energize their base on the issue of abortion, promising they will “fight for a woman’s right to choose” and attacking former President Donald Trump for appointing three justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade. Only around one in eight voters list abortion as the top issue in the 2024 election, according to KFF polling conducted earlier this year, The Washington Post reported. Trump said last week at his Mar-a-Lago press conference that he doesn’t think abortion will have much of an effect on the upcoming election. “I think that abortion has become much less of an issue. It’s a very I think it’s actually going to be very small issue,” he said, adding, “I think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches. I don’t think it’s a big factor anymore, really.” Even if abortion remains a minor issue for most voters, Democrats welcome the addition of Prop 139 to the ballot in Arizona, a vital battleground state. Trump currently leads in the polls in Arizona by 1.5 points, according to RealClearPolitics, but the race has become closer since Harris took over as the Democrats’ nominee.

Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) explained in an interview with The Daily Wire why he supports cryptocurrency, and how the Democratic Party could threaten its success if Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats win in November. “If we don’t see the next generation of innovation occurring here in America, if we push it offshore, someone else will hold a competitive advantage,” Hagerty said. “The United States of America has been the hub of innovation. That’s been a huge source of our success. We should not shove it offshore.” Hagerty, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, told The Daily Wire he is concerned that the crypto industry could be pushed overseas by the Democratic Party’s policies. “The Democrats, I think, are most resistant to this because of its decentralized nature,” the senator said. “What they’re pushing is a centralized digital currency, a CBDC, a central bank digital currency, which they could issue, and by having it centralized by custody, by not allowing us to have our own custody they could, in essence, track, monitor and control our transactions.” “That is the last thing we want to see happen here in America,” Hagerty said. Democrats oppose cryptocurrency because it offers consumers a freedom not granted by central currency, Hagerty said. “I think whether you’re Democrat, Independent, or Republican, you inherently want freedom. You inherently seek freedom in liberty and opportunity,” he said. “Central Bank digital currency cuts in the exact opposite direction. We have a class and a bureaucratic class in Washington that has a very different view.” Hagerty told The Daily Wire that he hopes to “make America an attractive place for this industry to thrive,” adding that “there’s a huge difference between the two parties, and frankly, I think in November, the success or failure of this industry is on the ballot.” The senator’s statements come after former President Donald Trump embraced the industry and spoke at Nashville, Tennessee’s Bitcoin conference in July. “If we don’t embrace crypto and Bitcoin technology, China will, other countries will, they’ll dominate, and we cannot let China dominate,” Trump told the crowd. “If Bitcoin is going to the moon, as we say, it’s going to the moon, I want America to be the nation that leads the way.” Cryptocurrency holders have become increasingly politically mobilized this year, with companies from the industry preparing $160 million to back candidates who support the industry. Hagerty also spoke at the Bitcoin conference, as did Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Cynthia Lumis (R-WY), and Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA).

Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk shot back at the United Auto Works (UAW) on Tuesday after the union filed labor charges against him and former President Donald Trump. During the Monday evening discussion on X Spaces, Trump called Musk “the greatest cutter” and touted him as someone who fires employees going on strike. Musk laughed and responded, “Yeah,” as Trump spoke. Although he declined to mention a specific company, CNBC reported that Trump had been referring to a time when Musk fired a great deal of the staff at Twitter, the social media platform he purchased in 2022 and rebranded as X. The UAW, in response to the exchange, announced that it had filed federal labor charges against Musk and Trump for allegedly making illegal attempts to threaten and intimidate workers engaging in protected activity. CNN noted that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) would investigate the labor union’s charges and could help settle the case if wrongdoing is found, and might even sue Trump and Musk on behalf of UAW. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI On X, remarking on a post about the labor charges and featuring a photo of UAW President Shawn Fain, Musk suggested the union boss may end up incarcerated for criminal activity. “The last two UAW presidents went to prison for bribery & corruption and, based on recent news, it looks like this guy will join them!” Musk quipped. The last two UAW presidents went to prison for bribery & corruption and, based on recent news, it looks like this guy will join them! — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024 Gary Jones and Dennis Williams are two former UAW presidents who received prison time for a corruption scheme; however, they are not Fain’s direct predecessors in leading the union. The UAW recently endorsed Trump’s rival in the 2024 race, Vice President Kamala Harris. Earlier this year, Trump said Fain should be fired and insisted that “every single” auto worker should be voting for him. Musk, whose other companies, Tesla and SpaceX, have clashed with the NLRB and Big Labor, endorsed Trump last month after the former president survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The comment about firing employees came up during the X Spaces talk on Monday, right after Trump said he would “love” for Musk to help out with a prospective Government Efficiency Commission to cut wasteful spending. RELATED: Trump Says He’d ‘Love’ To Have Elon Musk Lead New Proposed Government Commission

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, comparing her campaign promise to secure the U.S. southern border to O.J. Simpson saying he would find the killer of his former wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman. During a rally in Arizona last week, Harris said that if elected president, she would push for “strong border security” and a “comprehensive reform” of the immigration system. At the beginning of President Joe Biden’s first term, he tapped Harris to lead the effort to address the “root causes” of illegal immigration. In June of 2021 when Harris had still not visited the southern border since becoming vice president, she deflected when asked why she had not made the trek to the border, saying, “And I haven’t been to Europe.” Cotton responded to Harris’ new campaign vow, writing, “Kamala Harris promising to secure the border is like O.J. Simpson promising to find the real killer.” Kamala Harris promising to secure the border is like O.J. Simpson promising to find the real killer. — Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) August 13, 2024 Harris has been blasted by Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, for her dismal record on the border. Under the Biden-Harris administration, reported border encounters have skyrocketed to around 10 million, according to Customs and Border Protection data. Despite being a seemingly uncomfortable topic for Democrats, Harris has waded into the issue of illegal immigration, an area of policy on which former President Donald Trump has based much of his campaign. A recent voice-over ad for the Democratic presidential nominee stated, “As vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades. And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is tough. So is Kamala Harris.” WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI Harris’ messaging on immigration appears to show a big shift for the Democratic nominee, who when running for president in 2020, said that entering the U.S. without proper documentation should not be a criminal offense. The Harris campaign now says that her position is “the same as the administration’s — unauthorized border crossings are illegal,” POLITICO reported. Harris’ exact stance on illegal immigration and her proposals for how she will “secure the border” have been impossible to nail down as the vice president has yet to sit down for a major interview or hold a press conference since becoming the Democrats’ nominee. Her campaign website also does not list a policy platform. Sen. Cotton remarked earlier on Tuesday, “Kamala Harris is hiding from the press because every time she speaks, she reminds the American people she is a radical San Francisco liberal.” He added, “We don’t need to speculate what Kamala would do as President–just look at the Biden-Harris record. Inflation, an open border, and chaos around the world.”

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