By Glynn Wilson – No matter how this election turns out, my retirement from political news and journalism is imminent. Social media has made news, journalism and facts irrelevant, even as Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are making the first big social media program Facebook irrelevant, by ignoring and downplaying news and politics. No matter that…
By Glynn Wilson – With less than four weeks to go before the critical election on Nov. 5, anxiety is off the charts in the United States, especially in hurricane ravaged Florida and North Carolina where Hurricanes Helene and Milton are making it hard for people to even think about voting. Thousands of weary residents…
By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – Minnesota Governor and Vice Presidential contender Tim Walz shamed Senator and Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance of Ohio Wednesday night in the only vice presidential debate of 2024 on CBS, when Vance had no answer for the most basic of questions: Did Trump lose the 2020 election?…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – With only five weeks to go until the election on Nov. 5, the stakes could not be higher as the latest public opinion polls still show a close race for president. Although the latest compilation average of all the polls show that Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican…
Trump Says He Won’t Debate Harris Again. She Hauls in $47 Million in 24 Hours – By Nathaniel Rakich – ABC/538 On Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris met for their first, and potentially only, presidential debate, with each candidate hoping to gain a crucial advantage over the other in…
By Glynn Wilson – From the first moment when Vice President Kamala Harris walked on stage in Philadelphia, approached Donald Trump and extended her hand to shake his in their first face-to-face meeting, to the last when she talked about the Biden administration’s work to fight climate change and create millions of high paying jobs,…
Editor’s Note: In case you haven’t been paying attention, the critical 2024 election is just over two months away. There is good news for Democrats as surveys show a surge in voter enthusiasm since President Joe Biden dropped out and Vice President Kamala Harris took over the campaign, and polls already show her catching Trump…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump and his campaign staff distastefully used the war dead at Arlington National Cemetery for political purposes on Monday, in direct violation of federal law, clashing with an official at the cemetery who confronted them and demanded that they stop taking pictures. The military cemetery said in…
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In one more effort to save American democracy from Donald Trump and his conservative Supreme Court, special prosecutor Jack Smith filed another indictment against the former president in federal court on Tuesday, once again accused him of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.…
By Glynn Wilson – Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president Thursday night in Chicago in a near perfect presidential address peppered with calls for national unity and a prosecutor’s arguments against electing former President Donald Trump as an “unserious man” whose return to the White House would have devastating consequences…
By Glynn Wilson – The third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was mostly about telling the story of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the vice presidential nominee and keynote speaker, with the theme of American freedom. But it was not the laissez-faire economic free market capitalism of libertarians and conservative Republicans of old…
By Glynn Wilson – Michelle Obama stole the show on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. She delivered a rousing call for Democrats to get behind the campaign of Kamala Harris and work harder than they’ve ever worked before, while also giving Republican candidate Donald Trump, the former president, the tongue…
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden finally took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and delivered an energetic address urging people to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to defeat the hateful selfishness of Donald Trump one more time, to save…
By Glynn Wilson – As the Democrats begin arriving in Chicago for a national convention like no other, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, are arriving by way of a bus tour through Pennsylvania, a critical swing state with the potential to decide the presidential election in November. They…
By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – From on top of the mountain looking down at the world over the internet, it looks like a blue sea change is rolling across the country. Even Mother Nature on this blue planet appears to be cooperating somehow, if the weather around here is any indication. It’s…
Breaking News – Staff Report – Vice President Kamala Harris appeared for the first time alongside her newly-announced running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, introducing him on Tuesday evening at a packed rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Thank you for bringing back the joy,” Walz said as he turned and beamed at Kamala Harris after she…
Breaking News – Staff Report – Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, has apparently picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, according to The New York Times and other news outlets, after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro seemed to have the momentum going into the weekend. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro Leads…
Announcement Could Be Made Over the Weekend – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Democrats in Pennsylvania are bullish on their popular governor Josh Shapiro, whose moderate views on some issues might not be hugely popular on the far left around the country, but also to some extent isolates him from some of the…
By Glynn Wilson – The conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, also inspired by the radical Catholic cult Opus Dei, could be the albatross hanging around Trump’s neck that drags him down into icy defeat come November. The ice is already cracking. Paul Dans, who directed the Heritage Foundation’s controversial 2025 Presidential Transition Project, or Project…
Who would you like to see her pick and why? – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Kamala Harris is on track to pick a vice presidential running mate by August 7, according to the schedule established by the Democratic Party to formally nominate its ticket in preparation for the national convention in Chicago…
