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Trump Makes Final Plea for Catholic Votes

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is making a final pitch for Catholic support in the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign.

“From marching for civil rights to educating millions of children, serving the poor and helping define the pro-life movement, clergy and lay Catholics across the country have made countless contributions to the American success and the American success story,” said Trump, who discussed Christianity, his comments about women and other issues with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo last month.

Describing as many in Washington as “hostile” to Catholics and “to members of Catholicism,” Trump said that his administration “will stand side by side with American Catholics” for values they hold as “Christians and Americans.”

Recent polls show radically different levels of support for Trump and his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among Catholics. One tracking poll says Trump is ahead by 13 points, while another poll says Clinton has an 11-point margin among the faithful.

Support for Trump among Catholics has been more complicated than for past GOP presidential nominees. Typically, practicing socially conservative Catholics back the GOP nominee while liberal and less-practicing Catholics go for Democrats. This year, many practicing Catholics are concerned about whether Trump’s recent conversion on the issue of abortion is genuine, though most appear to be standing with him against the openly pro-abortion Clinton. Clinton, for her part, has said she will repeal the Hyde Amendment, which prevents most taxpayer funding of abortion, and has campaign staffers who have attempted to subvert the U.S. Church.

Both Clinton and Trump have been criticized by clergy for their proposed policies and some rhetoric on the campaign trail. Clinton’s campaign manager and Vice President nominee are both Catholic, though running mate Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) has said he supports women ordination and changing the Church’s teachings on homosexual relationships. (For more from the author of “Trump Makes Final Plea for Catholic Votes” please click HERE)

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What a Trump Win Would Mean

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Sometimes it’s hard to know how history really played out.

Those who keep the record books usually have an agenda. Thus the Orwell maxim: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

In an election year of deplorables, WikiLeaks, “Access Hollywood” hot mics, FBI investigations, another round of Obamacare failures, and party-wide disarray, it is a wonder how future generations will be made to understand the forces that have culminated in Trump v. Hillary.

Soon the partisan dust will settle, and everyone will again have a stake in manipulating the recent past, selectively remembering the mood of the nation. Before that day comes, let’s stipulate a few, true things.

Neither of these candidates is likable. Americans’ faith in their political leaders is at a record low, while the belief that we are, as a country, “on the wrong track,” soars higher and higher.

Considering these immutable conditions of the electorate, I would submit that most votes cast on November 8 will not be party or candidate driven. They will be votes of utter rejection. Rejection of the established order. Of all that the election cycle has revealed. Rejection of the very despair driving the rejection.

The most popular choice on the ballot will not be a specific candidate, but a sentiment. More than ever before, Americans have been made to realize how both parties are willingly failing them. This understanding informs how little they have come to expect from their political leaders. Even many of those who support Hillary Clinton consider her untrustworthy or blatantly corrupt. And further research continues to reveal what a misnomer “Trump supporter” actually is: These voters aren’t diehard Trumpians. They are desperately, bitterly opposed to everything Trump pledges to decimate. They hate that which he has sworn to defeat. They have bonded over mutual enemies: the vociferous Left, a sycophantic media, a spineless GOP, and a feckless president.

A masterfully plotted political thriller could not deliver a final chapter as layered and metaphorical as this election’s. How pitch-perfectly reflective of the mood driving the votes. The president’s defining, progressive achievement collapses underneath the weight of its own inept construction in the same week that the FBI finally realizes it has been had by an eminently indictable presidential candidate. You could not orchestrate a finale so in tune with vox populi. That both the Obamacare collapse and Director Comey’s reengagement are resuscitating Trump’s poll numbers lend a perfect symmetry to the rejection storyline. He is once again being saved by the interconnected ugliness of the powerbrokers and Americans’ inability to stare at them for another second.

If Trump wins, it will not be because he was successful. It will be because the rebellion used him as the cudgel to smash open the empire gates.

And yet the media continue to treat his supporters as anomalous racists and xenophobes to be disregarded the morning of November 9. The mainstream media lack the perspective to understand the motivating factors for close to half of the electorate. The fact that Hillary cannot outpace Trump by more than a few points at a time has nothing to do — they insist — with the culture of liberal orthodoxy dominating the mainstream. No one is surprised by the WikiLeaks uncovering of the collusion between camp Clinton and top news networks.

Surely, no one is dismayed by the media’s utter refusal to report on her triangulations, all the while morally outraged at Trump’s every tweet. No, the only feasible way to explain any support the GOP ticket has in 2016 is that those Americans simply haven’t listened to reason. It is this trademark, leftist condescension that so much of the country can no longer stand to marinate in.

“Make America Great Again” means little more than make it different. Most people called upon to interpret the slogan simply rail against the established order. And yet the utter question mark that is Donald Trump is, to many, preferable than the answer everyone already knows. The Clintons will do what the Clintons will do, and the media, apparently, will support, protect and extol them.

For history to dismiss a Trump win as the work of a reasonless mob of deplorables is to deprive future generations of a terrific lesson. Whenever a ruling class confirms the people’s worst fears — that they really do scratch one another’s backs, that they really are all in it for money, that they really can live by another set of rules — the people will turn to whatever alternative they have to protect themselves.

Should Trump win on Tuesday, against all odds and despite the opposition of the entire aristocracy, the American people will have sent a reminder to the establishment of corruption it desperately needed and ought not soon forget: You work for us. (For more from the author of “What a Trump Win Would Mean” please click HERE)

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THE EPIC #NEVERTRUMP FAIL: Drudge, Breitbart See Massive Traffic Surges as NRO, Weekly Standard Melt Down

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Whatever you might think of Donald Trump as a candidate, it’s clear there’s a significant chunk of the American population with whom his message resonates.

For ostensibly conservative- and/or Republican-leaning sites like National Review and Weekly Standard to utterly reject Mr. Trump is curious, to be sure. For the pro-life constituency, embracing the #NeverTrump position is to, in effect, support partial-birth abortions. That is because rejecting Trump is tacit support for the ultra-progressive Obama/Clinton doctrine that states a baby can be ripped to pieces in the womb one second before birth.

Aside from being completely illogical, championing #NeverTrump also appears to be a very, very bad business decision.

According to the Alexa traffic analysis service, the leading #NeverTrump websites are hemoragging visitors and, by extension, ad revenue. For digital properties focusing on politics, this meltdown is especially damaging because the last few months should have been advertising bonanzas.

Instead, the last few months have been catastrophes.

Meanwhile, pro-GOP/pro-Trump sites like Drudge Report, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit and The Conservative Treehosue are seeing — in some cases — astonishing traffic spikes.

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It’s clear that the #NeverTrump position isn’t just illogical, it’s also bad business. (For more from the author of “THE EPIC #NEVERTRUMP FAIL: Drudge, Breitbart See Massive Traffic Surges as NRO, Weekly Standard Melt Down” please click HERE)

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FOUND! Joe Miller Volunteers in Alaska Locate HEROIC Homeless Trump #StarProtector

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On an Alaskan island over 2,200 miles north of Los Angeles, Eric and Vickie Weaver answered the phone to hear the voice of a homeless woman in California they’d never met, a voice bubbling over with happiness at the caring of strangers and expressing her unwavering support for Presidential candidate Donald Trump. It was an emotional moment for the Weavers as well.

This call was the finale to an intense quest that was triggered by the shocking video of an attack by leftist thugs on a homeless woman who had courageously “guarded” the Trump Star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame after a Hillary supporter had vandalized the star. Immediately following the attack, the homeless lady, whose identity was yet unknown, disappeared from sight. Despite many social media announcements issued by the Trump campaign asking for assistance in locating her, she had simply vanished.

Well, that is until two Alaskans from the island town of Ketchikan got involved. Eric Weaver, a Systems Administrator for the City of Ketchikan, and his wife Vickie, who is working on an Information Technology degree, responded to the call to action issued by Donald Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen.

The Weavers, who are involved in politics working to elect Trump and actively volunteering in Alaska on Joe Miller’s campaign for U.S. Senate, had followed the story from the outset and were alarmed at the aggressive response of the leftist thugs. The Weavers worried that if the wrong people found her first, they might harm her again. But Eric and Vickie were thousands of miles away in Alaska and no one, not even the Trump campaign, knew the name of the homeless woman who had vanished back into the streets of Los Angeles.

Fortunately Alaskans are tenacious – Eric and Vickie unleashed a marathon of online searches, data sorting and cold-calling that resulted in the discovery of her identity and garnered the involvement of an outreach worker that Eric characterizes as a “long-time street warrior” who does phenomenal work with the homeless in Los Angeles. The first real break in the search came Monday morning after many hours of online work, when Vickie discovered an article from 2013 that included a photo of the homeless lady she was looking for, identified in the article as Denise Scott and who was speaking to an outreach worker, Chris Mack.

When Eric related the story to his fellow volunteers on Joe Miller’s U.S. Senate campaign, he recounted that once a trusted working relationship was established, Chris responded immediately to Eric’s request for assistance on the streets of Los Angeles.

So when Chris and Denise’s call came in Wednesday afternoon, Eric and Vickie were elated. The search was over and the team immediately contacted Brunell Kyei, Trump’s Vice Chair of Diversity Outreach and Justin Best, the reporter who set up a GoFundMe account for Denise, that, as of this writing, had raised over $25,000 and was trending.

After notifying the Trump team, the Weaver’s broke the story on their Facebook page “Reload” which is a source for “conservative news and all things Trump and Alaska politics.”

Volunteers with the Joe Miller campaign contacted Jerry Ward, the Trump Campaign’s State Director for Alaska to share the breaking news. Mr. Ward was excited to hear that Denise Scott had been found saying “It is great Alaskans were able to find her!” and he condemned the “disgusting attack by thug bullies on the lady protecting the Donald Trump star in Hollywood.”

Disgusting indeed. During the attack, the thugs involved can be heard taunting 63-year old and homeless Denise Scott with “where is Donald Trump to protect you now?!” It goes without saying at this point that Denise Scott will enjoy the last laugh with The Donald by her side.

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No Ties Between Trump and Russia, New York Times Reports

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The FBI has found no direct links between Donald Trump and the Russian government, The New York Times reported Sunday.

The report came shortly after Mother Jones cited an anonymous “former spy,” who claimed that “there was an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit.”

Unnamed senior FBI officials quoted in the Times indicated otherwise.

What Do Comey, Russia and Harry Reid Have to Do With Each Other?

Over the weekend, Democrats hurled criticism toward FBI Director James Comey for announcing Friday the discovery of more emails related to the federal investigation of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. Amid the firestorm of condemnation came one particularly harsh letter from Sen. Harry Reid, who accused Comey of a “double standard” for going public with information related to the FBI investigation of Clinton’s emails, but not the FBI investigation of Trump’s possible connections to Russia.

Earlier this month, Comey did not sign the statement issued by the Department of Homeland Security and The Office of the Director of National Intelligence claiming Russia guided the Wikileaks hacks, because he said it was too close to the election.

A former FBI official suggested that Comey chose to break that protocol and announce the discovery of the new emails since he had already testified publicly about the matter in July, unlike the ongoing Russia investigation.

In Reid’s letter to Comey Saturday, he demanded more information:

In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers, and the Russian government. … The public has a right to know this information.

What Was the Trump-Russia Investigation All About?

The officials cited in the Times noted that Trump himself has not been the subject of any FBI investigation.

Some of Trump’s acquaintances have been investigated, the Times reported. One was Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman. The investigation centered on his personal business ties, and “not necessarily on any Russian influence over Mr. Trump’s campaign,” the Times reported.

Others targeted by the FBI investigations have been Carter Page, an early campaign adviser, and Roger Stone, “Republican strategist and Trump confidant.” The Times reported that Page called the allegations against him a “witch hunt,” and Stone denied the implied Russia connection in a Breitbart op-ed earlier this month.

Federal investigations of people close to the Republican presidential nominee began earlier this year, with Democrats accusing Trump and his campaign of cahoots with Russia to tip Election Day results.

It didn’t help that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly praised each other. The blame intensified as Wikileaks, evidently linked to Russian hackers, continued to release batches of emails stolen from Democrats.

But a senior official at the FBI told the Times they don’t believe the Russians are attempting to get Trump elected through the Wikileaks hacks.

“It isn’t about the election,” he said, “It’s about a threat to democracy.” (For more from the author of “No Ties Between Trump and Russia, New York Times Reports” please click HERE)

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Homeless Trump Supporter Attacked by Pro-Clinton Mob

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There’s a toxic myth in the culture that Christians and other pro-lifers need to debunk. Let’s call it the Seamless Snuggie, since it makes so many people so very comfortable. The Seamless Snuggie teaches:

The Left is the voice of compassion and empathy toward the vulnerable.

The Right is more attached to abstract rules than to concrete human beings.

So the Left is willing to trash abstractions such as property rights and national borders, for the sake of protecting the weak. The Right pushes back, defending the ideas which it cares about more than people.

However, the Left has a soft spot when it comes to sexual freedom, which gives it a blind spot on abortion. It misses the fact that the unborn are vulnerable and deserve protection.

The Right, because of its fetish for abstract rules (such as “Thou Shalt Not Murder”), opposes abortion. It is right, but only by accident.

So the Left is a much better candidate for protecting unborn children than the Right. We need to keep on electing pro-choice leftists like Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, but quietly try to help them see that the unborn deserve protection — just like illegal immigrants, Ivy grads with unpayable student loans, and transgender athletes.

Freedom Begins Below the Belt

Who wears the Seamless Snuggie? Bishops like Blaise Cupich of Chicago, members of groups like Democrats for Life, and all those “social justice Christians” out there who still insist that they are really pro-life, because while their candidates do want to keep abortion legal and taxpayer-funded for all nine months of pregnancy and for any reason including sex selection and killing the handicapped — they’re willing to offer bigger government programs for pregnant women. Of course, they want bigger government programs everywhere and for everyone, with the state taking ever greater control over every part of our lives — except in the bedroom. Freedom begins below the belt, and ends just above the thighs. So maybe the Seamless Snuggie is more like an astronaut diaper.

But we saw the Snuggie ripped off this weekend, trampled on the ground, and left in shreds on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard. Watch this video, which shows a mob of Hillary Clinton supporters confronting an elderly, homeless woman — who was holding up a Trump sign, trying to protect his “star” on the Walk of Fame from further vandalism. They surround her, assault, knock her down and taunt her. (WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS DISTURBING AND CONTAINS PROFANITY.)

The leftist who originally posted this video was part of the mob, and he put it on Youtube because he was proud of it, as Gateway Pundit reports. That site preserved his original commentary, which sneered at the beaten homeless woman — comments he later took down, before making the video private. His comments were seconded over and over again by anonymous cowards willing to gloat on the Internet over the violent assault on a homeless old lady, an American citizen who was stating her political views.

Life Unworthy of Life

This is the face of the Left today: Intolerant without being coherent, self-righteous without any rectitude, self-satisfied but insatiable. The Left wants to be seen as the face of compassion, but in fact there’s a long list of real human beings whom it has decided are beyond the pale of empathy — people who are, in the words of a long-ago German socialist party, “lives unworthy of life”:

Unborn children, especially those who are mentally handicapped or whose parents are poor.

The “deplorables” who reject liberal pieties on ethnicity, sex, and religion — who make up one fourth of the population, according to candidate Clinton.

Believers in the “middle ages dictatorship” of the Catholic church, according to email exchanges with Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta.

Blue collar Americans who fear the impact of massive low-skill immigration on their neighborhoods and tax bills.

College professors who tell students to act like draft-age adults, and stop pretending that harmless Halloween costumes make them “feel unsafe.”

Cops risking their necks in neighborhoods pulverized by the Sexual Revolution and the welfare state

Nuns who don’t want to pay for the abortion pill

Christian bakers, florists, and college officials who object to same-sex marriage — a practice which both the Clintons and the Obamas claimed to oppose eight years ago.

Religious believers whose stance on unborn life threatens the “fundamental rights” of women, as Hillary told the United Nations, so it will “have to change.”

These are the people whom the Right wants to protect, along with everyone else, by insisting on “abstractions” like individual rights, human dignity, the natural law, and all the rest of those precious discoveries that our ancestors made and defended with their lives — from the Magna Carta through the American Revolution, from D-Day through the fight against ISIS. It is these precious safeguards, not smart phones or Netflix, that separate us from blood-crazed mobs that gloat over public executions, or theocratic rapists who cite sacred texts as pretexts for turning pre-teen girls into sex slaves. The Left has been assaulting such mores as hypocritical fictions for decades, and now we see what results: Naked, vicious tribalism, hatred, and blood in the streets.

I am the Image of God

The pro-life mission I Am Whole Life affirms the human dignity of every precious human being, from the persecuted Nubans of Sudan to the homeless in America’s city streets. I Am Whole Life conducts the “Imago Dei” outreach, sharing food, drug-store essentials, and t-shirts that remind these Americans down on their luck, or worn down by mental illness: “I am the image of God.” Here’s a video from one of those missions, conducted on the same street where that homeless American was attacked.

Anyone who can’t see that homeless people, unborn children, and people who disagree with their politics are really human beings too, with the same rights from the same God, has no place in public office. (For more from the author of “Homeless Trump Supporter Attacked by Pro-Clinton Mob” please click HERE)

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The 240 Reagan Alumni Are Supporting Donald Trump

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As the 2016 presidential election enters the home stretch, Donald Trump is gaining support from a group of people that have — up to now — stayed silent: members of Ronald Reagan’s administration. Throughout the campaign, many Republicans have been on the sidelines, and some have openly gone over to Hillary Clinton’s team. The weekend’s announcement by the Trump campaign could go a long way toward convincing on-the-fence conservatives to vote for the Trump-Pence ticket on Nov. 8.

The list of alumni is headlined by former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese III.

“Many of us remember 1980, a time when, as today, America suffered from high unemployment and even higher interest rates, a military that needed to be strengthened and rebuilt, and diminished stature in the world of nations,” said Meese, per DonaldJTrump.com.

“Ronald Reagan turned that around with resolute policies, such as the most significant tax cut in American history, which stimulated the national economy and created 20 million jobs, and a visionary foreign policy of ‘peace through strength,’ whereby he rebuilt our military and won the Cold War without firing a shot.”

Meese continued, “We need a Trump-Pence Administration to change the direction of our country. We all know that Hillary Clinton will continue Obama’s failed policies, growing the size, scope and cost of the federal government, and endangering our national security.”

[Click HERE for the] full list of those Reagan administration alumni supporting Trump.

With narrowing polls, and Hillary Clinton’s renewed legal troubles, this endorsement list may be just what Trump needs to get wavering conservatives to pull the ballot for him. (For more from the author of “The 240 Reagan Alumni Are Supporting Donald Trump” please click HERE)

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4 Reasons Why Trump Could Still Win the Election

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My Democratic friends are all smiles these days. They are happily spiking the election football, but are they doing so on the one-yard line? For it might be too early to write off Donald Trump.

Here are four reasons why “President Donald J. Trump” could still happen.

1. Polls show Trump within striking distance

The polling data are not good for Trump, yet polls don’t win elections — votes do. The polls indicate that Trump is going to lose, but the Republican nominee has repeatedly made the point that the turn-out model being used to gauge who is actually going to head to the polls may be flawed. And he may be right.

With only 270 electoral votes needed to secure the election, RealClearPolitics (RCP) has Clinton/Kaine with 272 as of this writing — but a large number of the ticket’s electoral votes are states still listed in the “undecided” category.

As of this writing, RCP average has the national vote at 45.8 percent for Hillary Clinton and 39.9 percent for Trump, with Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson, pulling 5.6 percent and Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, at 2 percent. One obvious problem with the polling data being used to gauge support is the inflated numbers for Johnson and Stein. Both ran in the last presidential cycle, and — when the final results were in — Johnson received just 0.99 percent and Stein 0.36 percent of the national vote. It is hard to believe that these two candidates will jump approximately 4 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively.

Looking back at 2012, the polling data was inflated for Johnson and Stein. A CNN poll released on September 10, 2012 had Johnson polling at 3 percent and Stein at 1 percent with likely voters at 4 percent and 2 percent, respectively. Those numbers didn’t pan out then, and we should expect the same distortion in this election.

Currently, Nat Silver’s site, FiveThirtyEight, has Trump with only a 15.3 percent chance of victory. Its map has Clinton winning Nevada, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Iowa in a blowout election. But when you drill down into the numbers, FiveThirtyEight has Clinton up only 3.1 percent in Florida, 0.6 percent in Ohio, and 0.3 percent in Arizona. Those low percentages indicate a very close race that are not reflected in the low probability the website gives Trump.

Looking into Johnson’s numbers state by state, it appears that there may be defects to Silver’s calculations as well. FiveThirtyEight has Johnson at 3.9 percent in Florida, yet he received only 0.5 percent in actual votes in 2012. The same flaw also exists in predictions for Ohio: Johnson has 5.7 percent there, yet in 2012 he pulled only 0.9 percent in actual votes. Arizona is even more extreme. FiveThirtyEight is predicting a 6.1 percent vote for Johnson in the state, yet he received 1.39 percent in actual votes in 2012.

This throws all of the swing states into question and may indicate a bias toward third-party candidates that does not really exist in states that have already been allocated to Clinton.

Furthermore, FiveThirtyEight incorrectly predicted that Trump had no chance of getting the Republican nomination, so it seems more than possible it might have this one wrong too. Silver wrote the following on November 23, 2015:

So, could Trump win? We confront two stubborn facts: first, that nobody remotely like Trump has won a major-party nomination in the modern era. And second, as is always a problem in analysis of presidential campaigns, we don’t have all that many data points, so unprecedented events can occur with some regularity. For my money, that adds up to Trump’s chances being higher than 0 but (considerably) less than 20 percent. Your mileage may vary. But you probably shouldn’t rely solely on the polls to make your case; it’s still too soon for that.

Also, look at recent polls from the LA Times and Investor’s Business Daily, and they have Trump ahead.

All of these data points speak to the fact that this race is still undecided.

2. It’s the economy, stupid

The economy sucks, and traditionally the old James Carville adage “It’s the economy, stupid” rings true on Election Day. The American people may be evenly divided on the record of President Barack Obama, yet no one is happy with the state of the economy.

Alex Wagner detailed this at “The Atlantic” on October 21, 2016 in his piece, “Why Economic Growth Is So Lackluster”:

U.S. economic growth is anemic, and the country needs to do something about it, quickly. This was one of the central themes of the third presidential debate. “China is growing at 7 percent. And that for them is a catastrophically low number. We are growing — our last report came out, and it is right around the 1 percent level,” Trump said Wednesday night. “Look, our country is stagnant.”

Trump is right that U.S. growth has not been very impressive of late, especially when compared to rates of the past. Though the United States gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a rate of more than 3 percent for much of the 1980s and 1990s, the rate has slowed significantly since the recession, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter of this year, for instance, GDP increased at a rate of just 1.4 percent. After a recession, an economy should come roaring back, but this time around, it hasn’t, and that’s left many concerned about the state of the economy. GDP growth, economists say, helps raise wages and living standards, and increases the size of the entire economic pie — making it possible for more people to have a bigger share.

The American middle class feels squeezed, and people in lower income brackets are hurting. Right or wrong, they blame the federal government for their woes and get enraged by politicians who claim that the economy is doing great. President Obama is constantly bragging that he is responsible for bringing unemployment numbers down, but people who are hurting don’t give a rip about economic numbers. They care about making rent or mortgage payments.

Trump’s economic plans include a massive tax cut that will help the engine of our economy create jobs. Trump also wants to reduce the regulatory burden that is holding back many small businesses. Whether you agree or not, he has tagged the Bill Clinton era’s North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as one reason why the Rust Belt is in depression.

The one poll number that points favorably to Trump is from CNN/ORC and has Trump over Clinton as the candidate who would better handle the economy. That just may be the tie breaker when voters make last-minute decisions.

3. Hillary is extremely unpopular

Nothing can help Hillary’s serious lack of popularity and the fact that there is a massive trust deficit between her and the voters. From her bogus claim that she was under sniper fire as first lady when she landed in Bosnia to her ever-changing lies about the handling of classified information while head of the State Department to her flip-flopping on the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, voters just don’t trust Hillary.

In addition to not being trustworthy, she’s just not funny or likeable. Remember Hillary’s wipe-with-a-cloth joke about hidden emails and a secret server that bombed spectacularly? WikiLeaks disclosures also show she’s tough to deal with as a person, and her staff questions her judgment.

There is also very little enthusiasm for Hillary’s candidacy. The embarrassingly low turnout at her rallies — and for those of her surrogates — speaks to the problem. Just look at how poorly she did in the primaries against Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (F, 17%). If Hillary had been challenged by a high-profile Democrat like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. (F, 18%) or Vice President Joe Biden, she surely would not have won the nomination.

Hillary’s ‘unlikeability’ may outweigh or matter more than Trump’s own high negatives when it comes to Election Day.

4. Trump’s message resonates with voters who hate Congress and the political elite

Donald Trump has run a nontraditional campaign. He beats the drum that he can “Make America Great Again,” and that is a powerful slogan. Trump has campaigned against politicians in Washington from both parties. Most Americans agree — they loathe politicians at the national level.

RCP polling shows that the 64 percent of American people believe the country is on the wrong track, while other polling indicates that an enormous 35.4 percent of the electorate may vote for change. The congressional approval rating is even worse, with only 15.2 percent approving of the work of politicians in D.C. These numbers indicate that the American people may want to flip the bird to Washington and elect a bombastic individual who will come to Washington and create political bedlam.

Hillary is part of the political establishment that the American people hate. One could argue that Hillary Clinton is the poster child for insider Washington establishment rage. She has lived her life in the D.C. political bubble for decades and has no connection to average Americans. That is why she makes dumb political pronouncements, such as when she said that she would put “a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

Is there a silent majority in America that is willing to go into the election booth, look over both shoulders, then grin while voting for Donald Trump as a way to tell Washington to GFY? We shall see.

When your smiling liberal friends try to rub in the idea of Hillary being sworn in on January 20, 2017, tell them to simmer down and wait for the actual tally of the votes. (For more from the author of “4 Reasons Why Trump Could Still Win the Election” please click HERE)

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Donald Trump and the Alt-Right: How Dead Is That Moose?

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As I said on a recent British Christian radio show, I would vote for a dead moose strapped to a car hood to stop Hillary Clinton. She has told the UN that Christian beliefs on abortion will have “to be changed” because they threaten the “fundamental rights” of women. That’s legal language, a promise that the U.S. will correct a human rights “violation” under international law. Her profoundly corrupt foundation has taken tens of millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, where rape victims are tortured. Her closest aide, Huma Abedin, is a Muslim Brotherhood ally. Clinton’s policies would flood America with jihadists and “rapefugees.” Her team is trying to infiltrate and destroy my church. Do I really need to go on? Voting to stop her is an act as justified as halting a home invader.

That said, we need to know just how long the moose has been dead, since it’s oozing all over our car. Yes, there is Donald Trump’s personal squalor. But the only difference between him and John F. Kennedy is a live microphone — and the lack of reporters willing to turn aside as the president’s mistresses shuttle back between him, his brother, and various Mafia dons. Bill Clinton has credibly been accused of forcible rape. So let’s have no lectures about the “dignity” of the presidency. That beast died in the barn a long time ago. If you want a respectable head of state where grabby demagogues can’t sully that elevated office, set up a constitutional monarchy. The Brits, Swedes and Danes seem pretty fond of theirs. I bet we could snag a Habsburg.

The Alt-Right: Trump Whisperers

What really worries me about Donald Trump is what some of his most fervent Alt-Right supporters may be telling him: That Christianity is a self-destructive suicide cult that’s destroying Western society. It demands open borders, affirmative action, massive welfare programs that transfer wealth to recent immigrants, legal or not, and will end up exposing any Christian country to mass colonization by thuggish, theocratic Muslims.

Where would the neopagans and atheists of the Alt-Right get such crackpot ideas? Maybe from the words of some U.S. Catholic bishops, “progressive” evangelicals funded by George Soros, and a goodly number of orthodox evangelicals who take most or all of the stances I listed above, but who are also pro-life and pro-marriage. (That’s nice of them!)

The Alt-Right is the repulsive shadow cast by the preening of left wing Christians — the equal and opposite heresy such as Screwtape loves to gin up, to make sure that half of our ship is under water, while the other half is on fire.

The Other Faction of Margaret Sanger Fans

The Alt-Right, unhinged from real Christian doctrines — like equality before God, the brotherhood of man, and charity toward all — has proved to be a nasty reptile indeed. Let’s set aside the online trolls who send Jewish conservatives little cartoons of those writers dying inside a gas chamber. Dismiss as sociopaths those who troll National Review writer David French and his wife, referring to the child they adopted from Ethiopia as a “simian” (or worse), and calling French a “cuckold” or “race traitor.”

Let’s focus on those who want to rehabilitate “eugenics,” and rejigger our country’s welfare policies to discourage the birth of children to blacks and Latinos. Or how about those who go ever further, and wish to keep abortion legal, because they want to cut down the number of non-white children? Just reading what these people write will make you want to take a shower. If they sound like Margaret Sanger, that’s because they admire her ideas and want to carry them out, with a slightly different emphasis than Hillary Clinton.

Could the Alt-Right Lose the Election for Trump?

That we know, but could it be that the Alt-Right also is having a deeply destructive impact on the struggling Trump campaign, by blocking the candidate from genuinely appealing to conservative Christians? How else to explain his failure to highlight the frequent attacks on religious liberty, which is a burning issue for millions of Christians? How else to explain his bizarre failure to show genuine contrition when caught on tape saying grotesque things about a woman? Has he no idea what effect this has on many millions of Christian voters?

We are one of his natural constituencies, as the former majority now targeted by elites for official discrimination. But will he listen to us and shape his policies accordingly? A number of evangelical leaders have worked long hours speaking to Donald Trump, explaining our deep concerns about religious liberty, the First Amendment Defense Act, and solid protections for Christian schools, hospitals, and charities. When pressed, he has promised to support us and denounced the Johnson Amendment. But it has always seemed slightly grudging — especially compared to Hillary Clinton’s full-throated support of partial birth abortion and transgender madness. Trump has never spoken out in defense of beleaguered North Carolina, for instance, whose women and girls might lose their last shred of privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms, if the rich and haughty LGBT movement has its way.

Despite media caricatures, there’s no evidence that Trump holds Alt-Right views. He held conventional liberal views from much of his adult life. But have Alt-Right-sympathizing staffers convinced Donald Trump that Christianity really is nothing but pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die? That, say, showing contrition and asking for forgiveness is not noble and endearing, but ignoble and effeminate?

This is admittedly speculative, but how else to explain why Trump has not said and done such obvious things to appeal to Christian voters? If this is right, then it’s past time for him to correct course, shove aside the embittered tribalists, and embrace the real concerns of people of faith. If he doesn’t, millions of us might decide to sit out this ugly, embittered election. (For more from the author of “Donald Trump and the Alt-Right: How Dead Is That Moose?” please click HERE)

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Why ‘Never Trumpers’ Should Reconsider

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While Democrats perpetually circle the wagons, Republicans engage a perpetual circular firing squad. The same holds true for many evangelicals. Democrats and secularists count on it.

And we never disappoint.

Full disclosure: I went from a dogged “Never Trumper” to a “Maybe Trumper,” and, finally, settled as a “Reluctant Trumper.” I, like any God-fearing father of daughters was, and remain, appalled by Donald Trump’s sordid past, and his 11-year-old vulgar video in which he objectified women. His words are indefensible and I fully expect the Clinton camp to strategically release additional revolting and embarrassing opposition research about the Republican nominee before election day.

Still, I will be voting against Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8 in what is objectively and irrefutably the most effective way possible: by casting a vote, for better or worse, for the policies and promises of Donald Trump — and for the vice presidency of Gov. Mike Pence.

Regrettably, with many of my Never Trump friends I’m reminded of the fanatic who refuses his daughter chemotherapy and watches her die in an effort to convince himself (and others) of the strength of his own faith. Pride is an awful thing. We are to be “wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16). Foolishness called “faith” is just foolishness.

Even so, there are Christian Pharisees on both extremes of this Trump fiasco: those Trumpian cultists who buy the “Make America great again!” pablum and deride any person who, while not casting judgment upon others, makes, with all sincerity, what they view as the principled decision. The latter say they’ll sit this one out (or go through the motions by voting third party — a wasted vote by any objective standard). While I appreciate this milder strain of Never Trumper’s sincerity, I nonetheless believe it is sincerely wrong.

And then there are the self-righteous, plank-in-the-eye Never Trump prigs who slander as having “lost their saltiness,” “sinned against God,” and “compromised their principles,” brothers and sisters who recognize the empirical reality that a vote for a horribly flawed (Lord knows I’m the worst sinner of all) baby Christian as president is a vote against Hillary Clinton’s tyranny in perpetuity.

Hillary and the Horror of Partial-Birth Abortion

The Media Research Center has done America a tremendous service. In 2014 the watchdog organization released a video of an actual partial birth abortion — something Hillary Clinton stood on stage during the final presidential debate, stared into the camera with cold, callous eyes, and then both lied about and defended unequivocally. I plead with Never Trumpers to watch the video and then prayerfully reassess their plans for Nov. 8.

Mrs. Clinton’s beloved late-term abortion practice is one so brutal and needless that even the left-leaning American Medical Association has admitted that it is dangerous to the mother and never necessary under any circumstances, not the least of which is for “the life or health of the mother.”

During a partial-birth abortion, the abortionist pulls a fully “viable” child — often kicking and thrashing — feet first from her mother’s womb, leaving only the top of her head in the birth canal. This is so the abortionist can technically claim to be performing an abortion, rather than committing murder.

He then stabs the child through the base of her skull with scissors, piercing her brain until her kicking and moving about suddenly and violently jerks to a halt. Next, he opens the scissors to enlarge the wound as blood and brainstem fluid gush down his hands, inserts a vacuum tube and sucks out her brains, thereby collapsing her skull.

Her now limp and lifeless body is then cast away like so much garbage.

This is homicide, plain and simple. Hillary Clinton supports it. Donald Trump opposes it.

We deserve God’s wrath and judgment as a nation for allowing this abortion holocaust to occur on our watch. In my estimation, Mrs. Clinton is a bloodthirsty monster who enthusiastically supports this barbarity. Her Supreme Court appointees will ensure that tens of millions of precious babies like the one in the video are murdered in the same brutal manner.

My conscience tells me that I must vote in such a way that exercising my civic duty will have the strongest net effect against Mrs. Clinton and ensure that she is stopped. She must not be elected president. To not vote — or to vote for a non-starter third party candidate, which is effectively the same thing — while not an actual vote for Mrs. Clinton, still puts this Mengele in a pantsuit one step closer to the White House and the Supreme Court.

It’s simple math and it’s undeniable. The most effective thing you can personally do as a citizen is to vote against Mrs. Clinton by voting for Mr. Trump. This does the most electoral damage possible to Candidate Clinton and offers the best chance for life that you can provide future generations.

With its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court put the government’s official stamp of approval on mass murder. Since then, the battle lines have been drawn. This is war. “Pro-choicers” are the bad guys and pro-lifers, the good guys. It really is that simple — that black and white. It’s good versus evil.

History will reflect as much.

Under a President Hillary Clinton, millions more babies will be tortured and dismembered alive. Under a President Donald Trump, these millions might live.

The Devil and Democrats: Oh, how they love derision and division within the body of Christ. (For more from the author of “Why ‘Never Trumpers’ Should Reconsider” please click HERE)

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