The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history. Here are 10 unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world: 1. How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can’t she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now? 2. Would the media prefer to help her win but lose further credibility themselves by failing to ask why she has disowned her last three decades of leftist agendas, or to reclaim some of their reputations and thereby risk her losing? 3. Does the Left appreciate the new campaign and election protocols it has now established? That is to say: Cancel by fiat their virtual nominee four months before the election when he sinks in the polls? Nullify the outcome of a year of primaries and the will of 14 million voters? Threaten a sitting president with removal by the 25th Amendment process unless he steps aside as his party nominee? Anoint a replacement nominee before the convention and without a single primary—and then prevent any rival candidates from challenging her? 4. After the precedents of 2020 and 2024, is the future orthodox protocol for any Democratic nominee now to avoid all interviews and extempore speaking, and stick to teleprompted speeches and scripted responses only? Is the fear that a transparent progressive messenger with an overt and honest left-wing message will double down on it and thus guarantee defeat? 5. For the next 80 days, has the chameleon-like Harris now become a temporary MAGA candidate, as she expropriates former President Donald Trump’s positions from border security to no taxes on tips? Does the media care to ask the new 80-day MAGA Harris why she has renounced many of her once emphatic beliefs? 6. If Democratic presidential reelection candidate Joe Biden was pronounced fit as a fiddle before June 27, but after July 21 was abruptly forced off the ticket as too debilitated to continue as his party’s nominee, what exactly is his status now? (Half-cognizant and thus able enough to continue his not-so-important task as America’s president, but also half-enfeebled and thus utterly unable to continue as the far more important Democratic nominee, it appears.) 7. Does the new antisemitic Democratic Party prefer to risk losing with the radical nonentity WASP Tim Walz as vice presidential candidate rather than likely win with a popular, successful, and moderate Jewish Josh Shapiro? 8. If one vice presidential candidate went to a war zone to serve with his deployed unit, while his counterpart preferred to retire from the military to avoid doing the same and lies about his abdication, how can the media credibly assert that the former’s tour was militarily suspect and yet pronounce the latter’s absence as heroic? 9. If the current president canceled his reelection bid because he was too debilitated and unpopular, and is now rarely seen or heard, and if the vice president is out of Washington running a campaign in his place, but avoiding all press conferences, interviews, and unscripted addresses, who exactly, if anyone, is running the United States for the next six months of the lame-duck Biden-Harris administration? 10. If Trump all summer has been compared by his enemies to Hitler and his murderous Third Reich, and if a 20-year-old would-be assassin and murderer with ease took up a sniper’s position to kill Trump—without a notified Secret Service or other law enforcement attempting to abort the shooter’s attempted assassination—what signal does that send to other would-be assassins for the next 80 days of the 2024 campaign? Is the message that if a 20-year-old amateur sniper can brazenly and visibly for nearly an hour breach all Secret Service security perimeters to shoot eight times at the president, hit him in the ear, kill one innocent bystander, and wound two others, then almost any future, more-experienced serious shooter could match or exceed the ability of that disturbed amateur to get close enough to Trump to fire more than eight shots at his head? And that shooting Trump in many leftist quarters would subsequently earn the unhinged killer eternal fame, applause, and immortality? And that if there are such anticipated rewards and perceived opportunities, then we may well see more attempts on candidate Trump’s life? In sum, presidential campaigns traditionally kick off after Labor Day and mostly follow accepted protocols. But this warped 2024 version violates every prior precedent and is not just creepy but dangerous—even before the campaign was supposed to formally begin. (C)2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Weird, Creepy, Surreal—and Dangerous—2024 Campaign appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Not to stray from the election strategies of 2016 and 2020, the media is painting Trump as a loser and a liar while Kamala destroys him in the polls. Unlike the mainstream media, Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” is here to tell the truth — and it’s not pretty for Kamala. “What is her campaign even doing other than stealing Donald Trump’s talking points and offering to pay influencers absurd amounts of money for these little inorganic posts about her campaign?” Gonzales asks before answering herself. “Here’s one thing they’re doing: manipulating digital headlines in Google ads to make it appear that she’s getting all this glowing, beautiful coverage from all of these mainstream media outlets.” The ads are sponsored and paid for by the Harris for President presidential campaign — and the headlines are not being written by the media publication they’re linking to. “Deceptive, I would say. It looks like real search results. It looks like it was written by the outlets themselves. I would say that’s deception; that’s manipulation. Is that not election inference?” Gonzales says. Despite the clear manipulation, a recent poll released by the Heritage Foundation illustrates that Americans still agree with Donald Trump’s policies and platforms. When participants were asked what the biggest issue facing the country was, 42% voted cost of living, 27% voted immigration, 25% voted jobs and the economy, 15% voted political corruption, 16% voted the state of democracy, and 13% voted abortion. “They don’t have energy; they can’t afford to care about abortion when they can’t even pay their bills,” Gonzales says, noting that this is why Kamala is working overtime to manipulate voters with propaganda and lies. “I guess I’d try paying influencers up to $20,000 to keep my name in their mouths too,” she adds. And it’s not just the Heritage Foundation poll that spells trouble for the Harris campaign, but a recent CNN segment breaking down polls warns that “we’ve been here before.”By before, they mean 2016. “If you’re a Kamala Harris fan and you want to rip open the champagne bottle, pop that cork, do not do it. Donald Trump is very much in this race. If we have a polling shift like we’ve seen prior years, from now until the final result — Donald Trump would actually win,” the CNN host said. “See how much it pained that man to say that Donald Trump is still in it,” Gonzales says, smirking.Want more from Sara Gonzales? To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Maryland police decried the "deep depravity" they found at a man's home who was charged with 178 counts of animal cruelty. A property owner reported the tenant to police in May after he failed to pay his rent. When police performed a search warrant at the Baltimore home, they found dozens of abused animals, according to documents reviewed by WBAL-TV. 'Animal cruelty is a serious and intolerable offense that reflects a deep depravity.' The Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office said animal control officers found 83 dogs at the home on the 5100 block of Pembridge Avenue. Many were in poor health with heart murmurs and dehydration. They also found one cat. Many of the dogs were kept in crates filled with excrement emitting a strong ammonia smell, according to police. Officials said the dogs were seized and transported to the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter. Police identified the man as 46-year-old Robert Conley and they believe he was selling the animals on Instagram for about $1,500 each. "Animal cruelty is a serious and intolerable offense that reflects a deep depravity and disregard for the well-being of innocent creatures," read a statement from Baltimore City state's attorney Ivan Bates. "The 178 counts of animal cruelty in this case underscores our commitment to holding those who harm animals accountable."The dogs will be provided medical care and put up for adoption or foster. WBAL's news video on YouTube showed scenes from outside the home. 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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