CHICAGO—The Daily Signal is on the ground at the Democratic National Convention, where Democrats will formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for president and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for vice president. We saw crowds begin to form on Sunday and filmed anti-Israel protesters breaking through the security perimeter on Monday. Here’s a list of what our Daily Signal reporting team has seen so far. 1. A Trans-Woman Pro-Palestine Rabbi Truly a sight to behold. A "trans-woman, Marxist, pro-Palestine, Rabbi" just tried to quote Ecclesiastes and I kid you not I have no idea which chapter or verse he was trying to cite.Will look through @TimKennedyJr1's footage later and parse/translate it on the show, if possible. pic.twitter.com/ANcYeCLkfh— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 18, 2024 2. Reproductive Justice Means What, Exactly? Oh right, the Left’s omni-cause. NEW: At the pro-abortion rally in Chicago: "Reproductive justice means Palestinian liberation." pic.twitter.com/MaTvcxMwFs— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 18, 2024 3. ‘Piggy Piggy Go Back Home’ Confrontation between police and pro-Palestine protestors along Michigan Ave as demonstrators chant: “Piggy, piggy go back home or we’ll bring the war home” pic.twitter.com/R1O6MSUmEr— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 4. ‘Leading’ the Protesters Here we are, right at the front! When will they realize? We are the ring leaders now @TheTonus pic.twitter.com/Krf3Wzf6pL— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 Watch out, Ohio! NEW: I regret to inform you that somehow I'm now leading the Chicago abortion/Palestine/Socialism march.The Christian camp chants and calls to abolish Ohio will start in 5 minutes. pic.twitter.com/6I6tLAe8bO— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 18, 2024 5. A ‘Political Prisoner’ This is the mother of Micheail Ward, one of the speakers at today’s DNC protest.She claims that her son is a “political prisoner.”Micheail Ward was convicted by a jury in 2018 for the 2013 shooting of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton and sentenced to 84 years in prison.She… pic.twitter.com/e2OQLFbusB— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 6. Kamala Not Welcome What’s this we hear about Kamala Harris being popular? Several leaders are laying these stickers on the street. pic.twitter.com/C3Fk0Nb01i— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 19, 2024 7. Protesters in Chaos UPDATE: Protest has frozen, as a group has broken off to throw trash and water bottles at police. Protest's leaders struggling to get crowd moving. pic.twitter.com/1Z9Oyo93hm— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 19, 2024 8. ‘Make It Great Like 68’ For those who need a refresher on what happened the last time the Democratic National Convention took place in Chicago, here’s Jarrett Stepman’s commentary on 1968. Button on several of the marchers. A bit on the nose, tbh. pic.twitter.com/umc32qgPf8— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 19, 2024 9. The Lone Counter-Protester “God bless America” gets a negative response… Lone counter protester holding up an American flag in front of the @MarchOnDNC2024’s stage. He is SURROUNDED by event organizers and pro-Palestine protestors. Before he said: “God bless America” Crowd shouted back: “F—- America.” pic.twitter.com/DHRYHkZaeM— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 10. Blood on Her Hands? These anti-Israel protesters are not exactly fans of the vice president. Effigy of Kamala Harris with blood on her hands less than a mile from the DNC, here in Chicago @DailySignal @MarchOnDNC2024 pic.twitter.com/I9EPpauLHY— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 11. Netanyahu Sighting The barbie Netanyahu, that is… The Barbie Netahlnyahu effigy has made an appearance. pic.twitter.com/hpLOvAiK2V— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 19, 2024 12. Smoke Bombs Body armor, smoke bombs, just another day at the DNC in Chicago. POV from inside the march. Same protester in body armor setting off smoke bombs front the front of @MarchOnDNC2024 https://t.co/zPZGWVst3x pic.twitter.com/2eqT1VBEt2— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 13. No Justice, No… Jungle Gyms? Hmm…. Maybe these people won’t actually be taking over the DNC. BREAKING: The very serious, very adult Marxist/pro-Palestine protesters have paused their march so they could climb jungle gyms at a local playground near the DNC.I'm not joking. This is actually happening. pic.twitter.com/I7ow9lucxP— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 19, 2024 14. Protesters Breached the Perimeter! The protesters broke through the Secret Service perimeter. ??PRO-PALESTINE protesters have broken through the Secret Service perimeter to the United Center. Police are nowhere. There’s one more fence separating them from the DNC. pic.twitter.com/JAdxSq7KOb— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 The Chicago Police Department claimed it “immediately” contained the situation. pic.twitter.com/t0SnSCK0r7— Chicago Police Communications & News Affairs (@CPD_Media) August 19, 2024 They’re breaking in… HAPPENING NOW | Pro-Palestine protesters have broken through the Secret Service perimeter. There is now only one fence separating protesters from the United Center/DNC pic.twitter.com/yRPvIVm3mz— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 ??PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTER cutting part of the Secret Service perimeter for the United Center pic.twitter.com/XyS2YcxFyt— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 Some protesters physically relocated some of the fencing in an attempt to prevent police from restoring it. Protesters are carrying away the barriers they tore down to prevent police from putting them back up here at Park #578 pic.twitter.com/WoAJ25PMOI— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 15. Police Restore Order Authorities work to clear a park after the perimeter breach. ?NEW: Chicago Riot Police clearing out park near Wallcot & Maypole "by lines."Here's what it means and how it works: pic.twitter.com/Q7ElPMIRY6— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) August 19, 2024 Police have all but emptied the park where pro-Palestine protestors broke through the first Secret Service barrier to the United Center earlier today @DaiSignal ly pic.twitter.com/8yCMj2V942— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) August 19, 2024 Follow @TheTonus, @TimKennedyJr, and @DailySignal on X for live updates. The post 15 Things We Saw at the Democratic National Convention appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Monday's Final Word

With Night One of the Democratic National Convention in full swing on Monday, CNN’s Chris Wallace flaunted how much he changed for the worst since leaving Fox News. Following the angry and divisive speech from Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), Wallace parroted the Democratic Party’s BIG LIE that former President Trump told people to inject bleach into themselves to fight COVID. He also claimed it was “revisionist history” for Republicans to blame President Biden and Democrats for lockdowns. During his speech, Garcia falsely proclaimed: What we needed at that moment was national leadership. But instead, we got Donald Trump. While schools closed and dead bodies filled morgues, Donald Trump downplayed the virus. He told us to inject bleach into our bodies. He peddled conspiracy theories across the country. Following the speech, Wallace quipped: “I guess if this is the contrast part of the evening, because we hadn't heard a lot about Donald Trump for the first hours, and particularly on the issue of COVID.” He then parroted the false line about injecting bleach as if it was true: And they actually ran a video, a series of clips of Donald Trump, some would say his greatest non-hits from 2020 when he was downplaying COVID and talking about injecting bleach into you to try to solve it.   CNN's Chris Wallace parrots the lie that Trump told people to inject bleach into themselves. He then claims "the revisionist history" is Republicans pointing out how Biden and the Democrats were for keeping schools and society shut down when it was hurting kids and everyone. pic.twitter.com/eNNGRrBT7y — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 19, 2024   It was just last month that one of the liberal media’s favorite “fact-checkers,” Snopes published an article admitting that narrative was “false.” “[A]t no point did Trump explicitly tell people they could or should inject bleach into their bodies,” they wrote. But Wallace didn’t care about the facts. In fact, he claimed it was “revisionist history” by Republicans to go after Biden and Democrats for pushing lockdowns despite it hurting kids and everyone else: And you know, it's an interesting question, I think COVID is not a surefire winner for Democrats because there's this kind of revisionist history now that the country was shut down too long and that the Biden when he came in in 2021, continued to shut down businesses and continued to shut down schools. My own feeling is it's a revisionist history because, you know, we know a lot more about COVID now than we did back pre-vaccine in 2020 and 2021. “But there are two sides to this argument, and I think Republicans are happy to engage on the issue the handling of COVID,” he lamented. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront August 19, 2024 7:44:27 p.m. Eastern (…) REP. ROBERT GARCIA (D-CA): What we needed at that moment was national leadership. But instead, we got Donald Trump. While schools closed and dead bodies filled morgues, Donald Trump downplayed the virus. He told us to inject bleach into our bodies. He peddled conspiracy theories across the country. (…) 7:48:58 p.m. Eastern CHRIS WALLACE: I guess if this is the contrast part of the evening, because we hadn't heard a lot about Donald Trump for the first hours, and particularly on the issue of COVID. And they actually ran a video, a series of clips of Donald Trump, some would say his greatest non-hits from 2020 when he was downplaying COVID and talking about injecting bleach into you to try to solve it. And you know, it's an interesting question, I think COVID is not a surefire winner for Democrats because there's this kind of revisionist history now that the country was shut down too long and that the Biden when he came in in 2021, continued to shut down businesses and continued to shut down schools. My own feeling is it's a revisionist history because, you know, we know a lot more about COVID now than we did back pre-vaccine in 2020 and 2021. But there are two sides to this argument, and I think Republicans are happy to engage on the issue the handling of COVID. (…)

Protesters breached an outer fence on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, and police responded by arresting four people. Video posted to social media captured the breach and the response of police officers in Chicago, Illinois. One man can be seen carrying a large Palestinian flag. Here's some of the video captured by Blaze Media correspondent Julio Rosas. — (@) Some protesters were able to climb through the breach, but they were detained and arrested by police. Another video on social media showed police arresting a protester while others yell insults at the officers. Capitol police wearing gas masks and riot gear were seen heading into the site of the unrest at about 5 p.m., and they reported that the area was cleared by 6 p.m. The DNC Public Safety Joint Information Center released a statement saying that no one inside was threatened and the inner perimeter was not breached. — (@) Protesters also set up a tent encampment at Union Park as part of a large march planned against the DNC ahead of President Joe Biden's speech. — (@) “Biden, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide,” chanted some protesters while others yelled, "End the occupation now!" referring to the Israeli war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Other protesters didn't want to let Vice President Kamala Harris off the hook for military support given to Israel during Biden's term. “We’re saying to Kamala, she has been complicit in this. People think it’s just Joe Biden, but she is vice president,” said socialist activist Taylor Cook. “So we’re saying, you need to stop if you want our vote.” Axios reported that the protests were "mostly peaceful" and smaller than expected. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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