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Democrat Polls for 2028

Kamala Harris dominates AOC in early 2028 Democratic primary polling

Three years before the next presidential election, Democrats are already polling their bench, and the results tell a familiar story about a party that lost the White House, lost the Senate, and lost House seats, yet keeps circling back to the same names that led them there.

A Lake Research Partners survey of 800 Democratic primary voters, conducted May 6, 11, tested a hypothetical 2028 presidential primary using ranked-choice voting scenarios.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris led a 13-candidate field with 25 percent support. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York finished fourth at 9 percent, a 16-point gap that widened further when the field narrowed.

In a five-candidate ranked-choice simulation, Harris held 30 percent. California Governor Gavin Newsom took 24 percent. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg drew 22 percent. Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Mark Kelly tied for last at 12 percent each.

When elimination rounds played out, Harris beat Newsom in the final matchup, 52 percent to 48 percent. The poll carried a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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Early general election polls taken three years out are historically unreliable. But the Democratic appetite for testing these matchups reveals a party already gaming out 2028 with the same roster that failed in 2024.

Graham Platner’s deleted Reddit comments

The Maine Monitor

Graham Platner’s since-deleted Reddit comments became a flashpoint during his Democratic primary campaign against Gov. Janet Mills for U.S. Senate, but they didn’t prevent him from effectively clinching the nomination after Mills withdrew her candidacy April 30.

Many of those individual comments have been reported on or featured in attack ads by both Mills and Sen. Susan Collins-aligned super PACs, but they represent just a handful of the roughly 2,000 that make up Platner’s Reddit footprint.

Now The Maine Monitor is presenting the full archive so people can read the comments more easily for themselves.

The collection spans more than a decade — from when Platner was ages 24 to 37 — and provides a rare glimpse into the thinking of a candidate at a time when he betrayed no political ambitions and could not have known how future voters might have viewed his online commentary.

He said he “became a communist” as he got older, criticized police officers and asked why Black people don’t tip. But perhaps the most discussed comment was from 2013, when Platner responded to a post titled “shorts that prevent you from being raped” by writing:

“Holy fuck, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to? Men and women, you make a choice to consume enough of a substance to lose your self control. So if you don’t want to be in a comprising situation, act like an adult for fucks sake.”

Read what this repulsive Democrat said

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The Republic is in chains when the government has to create a fund to compensate citizens harmed by its own weaponized machinery.

The $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is not just a settlement mechanism. It is an institutional confession.

The federal government abused power, leaked records, staged raids, destroyed reputations, bankrupted dissidents, pursued political enemies, and turned law into warfare.

Trump, Flynn, Stone, Giuliani, Caputo, Eastman, Clark, McMahon, and countless J6 defendants lived through the machine. Now the monsters must pay.

Restitution is not enough. It is only the beginning. Believe me! [Roger Stone]

Pass the Save Act

If they oppose the SAVE Act, they should be gone. Full stop

Chris Salcedo is right: the fake two-party system survives because Republican voters keep tolerating politicians who campaign like conservatives and govern like Democrat doormen.

The SAVE Act has overwhelming public support because Americans understand the obvious: elections require citizenship, voter ID, clean rolls, and real safeguards.

Yet John Thune, John Cornyn, Bill Cassidy, and the Uniparty crowd keep hiding behind procedure while Democrats protect the fraud machine.

That is not caution. That is betrayal. If Republicans will not secure elections, primary them into retirement.

In short, we’ve been sold out by an elite few who wish to seize power, make elections a non-factor in the keeping of that power, and who wish to sacrifice our children’s future for their dark designs… If that sounds an awful lot like the world domination agenda of the communists, it’s because it is!

Chris Salcedo on Substack

Trump governs for American families and workers

Trump Rolls Back Biden-Era Refrigerant Regulations

Projecting $2.4 Billion in Savings for Americans

Every week, millions of Americans walk into their local grocery store and wince at the total. Chicken costs more. Milk costs more. A bag of frozen vegetables somehow feels like a splurge. Washington loves to blame supply chains, labor shortages, and global instability. But what if one of the real culprits has been hiding in plain sight — buried in the fine print of obscure EPA rules that most shoppers have never heard of?

Here’s what the Biden administration never wanted you to consider: regulation is a stealth tax. It never appears on your receipt, but it inflates the price of everything it touches. One administration believed that federal bureaucrats should dictate how grocery stores cool their produce, down to the chemical compounds inside their refrigeration units. The other believes Americans deserve relief, not more red tape from Washington.

The Biden-era rules at issue — the Technology Transitions Rule and the Emissions Reduction and Reclamation Rule — restricted the use of hydrofluorocarbons in refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pumps. Sounds like routine environmental policy, right? In reality, it landed like a sledgehammer on independent businesses.

These mandates didn’t just require swapping out a refrigerant. Piggly Wiggly owner Kevin McDaniel made that crystal clear at the White House: “It’s just not a refrigerant change, it was an equipment change.” We’re talking millions of dollars per store. “We want to thank President Trump for rolling this terrible Biden legislation back,” McDaniel said, “because without it, there would have been a lot of independents out of business.”

Deregulate, and companies compete to lower prices. Funny how that works.

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Commander in Chief blindsided?

Trump rebuked Hegseth after defense secretary scrapped Poland troop deployment without warning

President Trump called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and demanded to know why the Pentagon chief had abruptly canceled a planned U.S. armored brigade deployment to Poland, a move that blindsided one of America's closest NATO allies and drew bipartisan anger on Capitol Hill, the Daily Mail reported.

Hegseth called off the deployment earlier this month. No public explanation followed. What did follow was a sharp phone call from the commander in chief, a scramble by Polish officials to reach the Oval Office, and, within days, a presidential announcement reversing the damage with an even larger troop commitment.

The episode raises a straightforward question: How does the defense secretary cancel a major allied deployment without the president's knowledge, then leave the White House to clean up the mess?

The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump lectured Hegseth during the call, telling him the United States should not mistreat Poland given the country's close ties to the White House. The Journal's reporting was not denied by either the Pentagon or the White House. Both issued statements insisting the president and his defense secretary were aligned on U.S. troop deployments in Europe.

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The decision was part of a larger plan to draw down forces in Europe and for NATO to start picking up the slack.

Graham Platner pays influencers to promote him

Graham Platner's 'grassroots' Maine Senate campaign paid tens of thousands to firm that pays influencers to promote him

Democrat Graham Platner has built his Maine Senate campaign on the promise of grassroots authenticity, no corporate PACs, just ordinary people powering a populist challenge to Republican incumbent Susan Collins.

But his own campaign finance disclosures tell a different story. Since September, Platner has paid at least $36,437.94 to a Democratic consulting firm that maintains a stable of social media influencers who promote candidates and causes for pay, and at least one of those influencers has repeatedly urged his audience to donate to Platner without disclosing any financial connection.

The Washington Free Beacon reviewed Platner's FEC spending records and found the payments went to Be a Good Influence LLC, a Louisville, Kentucky-based firm commonly known as Good Influence. The company describes itself as "the trusted partner for measurable creator-led campaigns" and says it "bundles elite news and cause-focused online creators together to create a network effect" for its clients.

The gap between Platner's public image and his spending habits is the kind of thing voters in a purple state like Maine deserve to know about, and the kind of thing mainstream outlets have so far failed to report.

Platner built his campaign on the claim that he answers to ordinary people, not moneyed interests. His own FEC filings show he's paying a professional operation to manufacture the appearance of organic enthusiasm. If that's grassroots, the word has lost all meaning.

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Be A Good Influence LLC is a political consulting firm that recruits and pays social media influencers to promote Democratic Party candidates and left-leaning causes to their audiences.

In early 2024, Josh Cook joined the company, Good Influence LLC, as its president. For A long-time Democratic Party digital strategist, Cook had been a digital strategist for President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

Expanding the Immigration Court

Trump Admin Takes Significant Step To Increase Deportations

The Trump administration is moving to further accelerate its deportation agenda by significantly expanding the nation’s immigration court system, according to a report from The Daily Wire.

In its latest effort, the Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has hired 82 immigration judges — the largest single-year class in agency history. The additions bring the total number of immigration judges in the United States to nearly 700.

“The Trump administration is committed to reestablishing an immigration judge corps that is dedicated to restoring the rule [of] law in our nation’s immigration system,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

“Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history,” Blanche added. “This could only happen thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership and commitment to securing our borders. I also applaud EOIR’s leadership team for helping facilitate these hiring efforts and recruiting highly qualified and talented personnel in record time.”

The incoming class consists of 77 permanent judges and five temporary appointments.

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The Democrat Party is gone forever

What Democrats Could Say, but Aren’t. What They Are Saying, but Shouldn’t

The traditional Democrat Party of the last century has been systematically replaced by a radical Jacobin movement that seeks the fundamental transformation of Western civilization.

This new faction mirrors the French Revolution’s extremists by toppling statues, weaponizing race through DEI, and showing open disdain for national borders.

From billionaire socialists to the rejection of law and order, the modern Left has abandoned the working class in favor of a revolutionary agenda that endangers the very foundations of the American Republic, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

Early Morning 5-24-26

The Ball and Chain - 60 votes--breaking the Filibuster

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Peter Navarro walked out of a Miami federal prison in July 2024 and immediately called it "Democrat lawfare."

Trump just proved him right.

And the number Trump chose to do it with will tell you everything about what this moment means. Trump's Justice Department announced Monday the creation of a $1,776,000,000 Anti-Weaponization Fund – the exact figure a deliberate reference to 1776 and the Declaration of Independence.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the fund creates "a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress."

"The machinery of government should never be weaponized against any American," Blanche said, "and it is this department's intention to make right the wrongs that were previously done while ensuring this never happens again." [DeplorableDaily]

Good Night, Patriots! And Hunter says he will take advantage of it.

Ivanka Trump Targeted in Terror Plot

Chilling plot targets Ivanka Trump’s Florida home

A new report says Ivanka Trump was pulled into a dangerous terror plot tied to an IRGC-trained operative. The allegation is simple and chilling. The target was the First Daughter. The motive, according to sources and investigators, was revenge for the U.S. strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi national, was arrested on May 15 in Turkey and later extradited to the United States. Federal officials say he is a senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.

The Justice Department also says he worked as an operative tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was involved in nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States.

According to the New York Post, Al-Saadi had even obtained a blueprint of Ivanka Trump’s Florida home. Sources said he was talking openly about killing her.

“After Qasem was killed, he [Al-Saadi] went around telling people ‘we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house,’” Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attaché in the Iraqi embassy in Washington told The Post.

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The Host who lost perspective.

Variety pans Stephen Colbert's final Late Show as a flat, self-congratulatory farewell

Stephen Colbert's last night behind the desk at New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater drew a brutal review from one of Hollywood's own trade publications, and the critique landed harder than anything the host delivered in his final hour.

Variety TV critic Daniel D'Addario called the finale an underwhelming "letdown," writing that Colbert proved himself "gifted at neither interview nor sketch" across a show that had nearly a year to plan its goodbye.

That verdict, from a publication that has championed late-night television for decades, amounts to a professional obituary for a ten-year run that CBS finally ended by firing its host.

The network reportedly cut Colbert loose after a decade of consistently falling ratings and what Breitbart reported were forty-million-dollar annual budget deficits that had gutted the show's viability.

For viewers who watched Colbert transform a storied comedy franchise into a nightly political therapy session for the left, the finale was a fitting conclusion: more about the host than the audience.

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11 secret Florida beaches locals love and tourists haven't ruined yet

1 OF 11--Lake Worth Beach

Less glitzy than the beaches on the island of Palm Beach, just north, Lake Worth Beach offers just as clear, blue Atlantic waters and lovely golden sands with a far more local crowd.

The main landmark here is the Lake Worth Pier, which extends 1,000 feet out into the ocean and attracts anglers in equal parts as it does brunchers and piña colada sippers, drawn to the great little beach bar, Benny’s on the Beach, where the pier meets the sand.

Just surprised that they did not mention our Casino at the Lake Worth beach.

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