New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu said on Sunday that the bump in the polls that Democrats have enjoyed in recent days after Vice President Kamala Harris effectively secured the party’s presidential nomination will soon come to an end. Sununu made the remarks during an interview on ABC News’s “This Week” while discussing the fallout from President Joe Biden ending his re-election campaign. “This is the honeymoon,” Sununu said. “I mean, this is the honeymoon period. [Democrats] had the — if you will, the courage to push him off of the ballot. Vice President Harris is in there. The media is fawning. Everyone’s excited.” “It’s a whole new race. That’s all very true. And that’s going to last for about 30 days. There’s no question. I think the Democrats can take that momentum into the convention,” he continued. “The first poll, I believe, that will actually matter, if I may, is the Wednesday after Labor Day. So, you’re going to have this 30-day honeymoon period. Things will settle. Folks will get back, talk to their family and friends, come off a summer vacation, put their kids in school, all that sort of stuff.” He said once people get back into the swing of their normal lives they will start to think about what the change in the race means and how this election will impact them. “And you’re going to get back to numbers you saw about a month before the original debates, which is essentially a neck in neck race, or at least within the margin of error. Probably Trump up by a little bit nationally. Some of the swing states all in play. And it’s going to come back to issues,” he said. “The border issue, the inflation issue, these are some very real issues. It isn’t just going to be about, well, we need to vote for Vice President Harris because she’s a woman or she — we need to vote for her because it’s just a change and it’s not Donald Trump.” WATCH:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned on Sunday that President Joe Biden’s push to “reform” the U.S. Supreme Court is about destroying it because the institution stands in the way of the Democratic Party’s agenda. Graham made the remarks during an interview on CBS News’s “Face The Nation” when asked about the renewed push from Biden. When asked if he could back the idea being pushed by Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Graham responded: “No, because he wants to destroy the court. They want to pack the court. They want her to undercut the conservative court.” “They’ve tried to marginalize the court and destroy the Roberts court,” he said. “The Roberts court has brought constitutional balance back to the court, and the liberals in this country want to pack the court. They want to destroy the court. So their initiatives coming from Biden will be dead on arrival in the Senate. They have no desire to make the court better. They’re just trying to make it more liberal.” When asked about instituting term limits for Supreme Court justices, which is something that the political Left wants, Graham responded: “No, no, no, no, no, no. They didn’t complain about any of this when the court was pumping out opinions they liked. Only when we brought constitutional balance back from having a conservative court was the court a threat to the country.” “What’s been a threat to the country is an out-of-control liberal court issuing opinions that basically take over every phase of American life based on nine people’s judgment,” he said. “So this Roberts court has brought constitutional balance back to the country. And one of the issues on the ballot in 2024 is, what kind of court do you want? If you left it up to Elizabeth Warren to pick the court, you’d had the most liberal court in the history of the world, and Kamala Harris will be right there with her.” WATCH: The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roberts has brought constitutional balance back to the country. Kamala Harris and her liberal Democrat colleagues want to do away with that. pic.twitter.com/nHRYLeRCH6 — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 28, 2024  

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Sunday that deadly terrorist attacks against Israel will continue until Iran is directly held responsible for sponsoring the attacks. Graham made the remarks during an interview on CBS News’s “Face The Nation” when asked about the Hezbollah attack on Saturday that killed at least 12 children and wounded dozens more. “Iran is behind all of this,” Graham noted. “And until we put Iran on notice that we’re going to hold you accountable for attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas against Israel, you’re going to get more of the same. The attack of October the 7th was designed to stop normalization, in my view, between Saudi Arabia and Israel.” “So, until the Iranians believe they’re going to get hit, that we start putting their oil refineries on a target list, you’re going to get more of this,” he continued. “When it comes to Iran, Biden/Harris have been a colossal failure in terms of controlling the ayatollah. They’ve enriched him, and Israel’s paying the price.” When asked if he thought the conflict could rapidly escalate with Hezbollah, Graham answered: “Yes, what I worry the most about is a sprint to a nuclear weapon. The director of national intelligence gave the Senate a report last week about the status of the Iranian nuclear program and their malign activities, helping their proxies, like Hezbollah and Hamas throughout the Mideast. It was stunning.” “I am very worried that not only you could open up a second front, but they could use these three or four months before our election to sprint to a nuclear weapon,” he added. “And we have to put them on notice that cannot happen.” WATCH:

There are moments in life when being particularly tall pays off. Height especially comes in handy at events like concerts. That was certainly the case for the man in the video below. Here, you’ll find a short clip that took place during Gettysburg Bike Week. Folks who attend can expect fun activities like stunt shows and bike games to helicopter rides and, as already mentioned, concerts! At one of the concerts, a particularly tall man found himself standing next to a much shorter stranger. This was something he likely didn’t take note of until a particular moment during the show. At some point, a hat was thrown into the audience with the intention that whoever catches it gets to keep it. Although the woman next to him did her best, she was simply too short to reach it in time. The genuine look of disappointment on her face is so sad… but it’s also brief. Find out why in the heartwarming video below! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gettysburg Bike Week (@gettysburgbikeweek) As soon as the man takes note of the disappointed woman, he offers the hat to her instead. The only thing better than this moment is the one where the woman realizes what’s happening. Truly, nothing can beat the look of pure shock on her face when she asks the kind stranger, “Are you serious?” Concert Goer’s Random Act of Kindness for Stranger Warms Hearts Everywhere This sweet moment between two total strangers is reminding folks of two things. One, that there are and will always be good people in the world. Second, that even the smallest random acts of kindness can spread hope and positivity. “Someone’s parents raised them right,” one person writes in the comment section of the video, with another adding, “The look on her face of hesitation like she’s never had someone do something nice for her before. As simple as a hat … you can tell it meant so much.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Stranger’s Gesture For Woman Next To Him At Concert Leaves Her Stunned appeared first on InspireMore.

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With rising case numbers, COVID-19 seems to be everywhere right now. But did you know the virus might also be literally lurking in your back yard? A new study from scientists at Virginia Tech found SARS-CoV-2 in six of Virginia’s most recognizable animal species, many of which can be found across the United States. We’ve known for a while that a COVID-afflicted human can pose a risk to their pets. Two domestic cats were the first pets to test positive for the virus in the US way back in early 2020, and the most recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that dogs, hamsters, and ferrets could also be at risk.Numerous wild species and others held in zoos and sanctuaries have also been reported to be infected, leading the team at Virginia Tech to question just how widespread this virus could be within the local fauna.“This study was really motivated by seeing a large, important gap in our knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a broader wildlife community,” explained Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Joseph Hoyt, one of the corresponding authors, in a statement. They sampled 23 species and detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA in six of them: the deer mouse, Virginia opossum, raccoon, groundhog, Eastern cottontail rabbit, and Eastern red bat. A total of 798 nasal and oral swabs were collected between May 2022 and September 2023, from either wild-caught animals that were later released or animals that were being treated in rehabilitation centers. A further 126 blood samples were also collected from six species. The researchers wanted to compare animals found in areas with different levels of human contact, from remote rural locations to right in our back yards. The data suggests that the virus has spread into wildlife populations in places with high human activity.“The virus can jump from humans to wildlife when we are in contact with them, like a hitchhiker switching rides to a new, more suitable host,” said co-corresponding author and Professor of Biological Sciences Carla Finkielstein. “The goal of the virus is to spread in order to survive. The virus aims to infect more humans, but vaccinations protect many humans. So, the virus turns to animals, adapting and mutating to thrive in the new hosts.”We often speak about the risks of viruses spilling over from animals into the human population – not least when discussing the origins of COVID itself – but rarely do we stop to think about the opposite scenario. A recent study found that viruses jump from humans to animals more often than the other way round, and now this data is showing that we have helped spread SARS-CoV-2 into more animal species than we might think.“I think the big take home message is the virus is pretty ubiquitous,” said first author Amanda Goldberg.It’s not clear exactly how the animals caught the infection from humans, but the authors believe that garbage and discarded food are the most likely sources. Two of the mice sampled from the same location on the same day during the study were found to be infected with the exact same variant of the virus, meaning they either caught it from the same human or one infected the other.Understanding how the virus is spreading in different animal populations is important to gain a more detailed picture of how it is evolving. How might it be spreading from one species to another? Which wild species might serve as reservoirs for human-pathogenic strains?The black "root" of this evolutionary tree is the original Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 sequence isolated at the end of 2019. Arranged on the tree are 90 different virus sequences isolated in humans since then, and highlighted in red are nine wild animal isolates from species included in this study.Image credit: figure courtesy of Carla Finkielstein/Virginia Tech“We understood the critical importance of sequencing the genome of the virus infecting those species,” said Finkielstein, praising the work of the multidisciplinary team who came together for this study. One result, from an opossum, revealed virus mutations that have previously been unreported, underlining the wealth of useful data that these types of studies can provide.Finkielstein said, “The virus is indifferent to whether its host walks on two legs or four. Its primary objective is survival,” adding that “SARS-CoV-2 is not only a human problem.”The study is published in Nature Communications.