Good morning, Wake Up Right fam! Kamala Harris was mocked on social media for posting this photo on her X account:

Look closely: The earbuds aren’t even plugged into the phone 🤣 . While Kamala was playing pretend, Trump was on the ground with people affected by Hurricane Helene. And when he saw this photo, he responded on X, writing:

• “Another FAKE and STAGED photo from someone who has no clue what she is doing. You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work!”

• 🆚 Tim Walz & J.D. Vance debate at 9 PM ET on CBS

• 🛣️ Average commute time in the U.S. is 27 minutes

• ⚾️ Sports legends Pete Rose (83) and Dikembe Mutombo (58) died

• 🚘️ On this day in 1908, Ford unveiled the Model T

• 🎂 Today is former President Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday

^{Sources: CBS News, Census Bureau, ESPN, History, AP}

Trump leads while Kamala and Biden are missing in action

Donald Trump traveled to storm-ravaged Valdosta, Georgia, to deliver much-needed supplies and spend time with affected families while Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were nowhere to be seen.

The details: Trump joined Samaritan's Purs [a Christian evangelical humanitarian aid group] and its president, Franklin Graham, in Valdosta to assist with relief efforts and distribute essential supplies.

• Trump commented: "We brought truckloads of supplies. Franklin's organization is incredible, and we're getting everything from oil to water to essential equipment."

Trump 🤝 Musk: Trump told reporters he had spoken to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about using his Starlink satellites to provide cell service to areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene.

• Trump said: "I just spoke to Elon... We want to get Starlink hooked up because they have no communication whatsoever."

Zoom out: At least 125 people have died as a result of Hurricane Helene. Entire counties are under feet of water, 1.5 million are still without energy, and an unknown number of people are missing.

Missing leaders: Over the weekend, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris chose not to return to Washington, D.C., to command the hurricane response and instead kept to their schedules. For Biden, that meant a weekend at his Delaware beach home, and for Kamala, a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles.

• Joe Biden plans to visit North Carolina tomorrow.

The last word goes to Donald Trump, who said yesterday: “In our hearts, God is strongly with us and the American people are stronger than any challenge that stands in our way. Working together, we will overcome these hardships, we will endure.”

[Source: The Post Millennial, NBC News]

Tim Walz lied about being at the Tiananmen Square massacre

For decades, Tim Walz has claimed he witnessed the Tiananmen Square crackdown. That has been proven to be a lie — adding to a growing list of lies the VP candidate has told about his past.

Back up: The Tiananmen Square massacre took place on June 4, 1989, when Chinese troops violently suppressed pro-democracy protests, killing hundreds to thousands of demonstrators.

Walz’s claim: During a 2014 congressional hearing to mark the 25th anniversary of the massacre, Tim Walz [a congressman at the time] recalled: "[I] was in Hong Kong in May of ‘89. And as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong Kong."

• This story has been repeated over the years, without scrutiny, by many mainstream media outlets.

Reality check: Walz didn’t leave for China until August 1989, two months after the student protests ended.

• Newspaper archives place Tim Walz in Nebraska in May of 1989, working at a National Guard Armory.

• His campaign could not provide evidence to back up his claim.

Big picture: Walz has previously exaggerated his resume, claiming he is a "retired command sergeant major,” which he is not. His fellow servicemen also exposed him for abandoning them weeks before shipping out to Iraq in 2005.

[Source: Free Beacon]

🏗️ Dockworkers at ports across the US began a strike over wages and automation that could cause supply shortages and increase inflation. Read more.

🇮🇱 The Israeli military pressed its ground incursion into southern Lebanon on Tuesday, calling the operations “limited incursions” targeting Hezbollah militants. Read more.

🐀 Eight migrants were arrested for looting in an area of Tennessee severely impacted by flooding and mudslides caused by Hurricane Helene. Read more.

🚔️ Minneapolis swore in its first non-citizen police officer, a Somali-born legal resident named Lesly Vera. Read more. Foreigners now police American citizens.

🍑 A Georgia judge struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban. Read more.

✈️ The Biden-Harris regime confirmed the loss of another $30 million MQ-9 Reaper drone in Yemen. Read more.

🤡 Ryan Routh pled 'not guilty' to charges stemming from his plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump earlier this month. Read more.

📉 Americans’ confidence in the federal government's ability to ensure food safety reached an all-time low of 57%, down from 68% in 2019 and 85% in 2004. Read more.

💻️ Netflix saw a dramatic cancellation spike after its co-founder Reed Hastings revealed he donated $7 million to Kamala Harris. Read more.

🐝 The Babylon Bee, a satire website that skewers liberals, filed a lawsuit challenging California’s new anti-satire laws, saying Gov. Newsom is trying to take the fun out of politics. Read more.

📈 In 1970, government safety net money (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) accounted for a quarter of income for fewer than 1% of American counties. By 2022, it had grown to 53% of all U.S. counties, driven mostly by an aging population and increased healthcare costs. Read more.

👭 A non-profit women's rights group plans to sue the U.S. Secret Service over an "arbitrary" DEI initiative mandating a 30% quota for female agents, prioritizing ideology over effectiveness. Read more.

🇺🇳 A top Hamas commander killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon was also a United Nations employee on leave. Read more.

🎥 An obscene, naked Trump statue was hung in effigy from a crane near Las Vegas. See it. Despicable.

🎥 Biden's Sec. of Commerce gets OWNED by CNBC host for lying about the Trump economy. Watch.

🎥 CNN is stunned by the latest Kamala Harris polls. Watch.

🎥 Hip-Hop radio host Charlamgne admits Trump's ads during NFL games are very effective. Watch.

🎥 Kari Lake turns the tables on a crooked CNN reporter. Watch.

🎥 A lady who doesn't like Trump because he’s ‘egotistical’ explains why that characteristic makes him a good leader. Watch. I have made this exact argument to liberals.

🎥 The border invasion is hitting NYC hard. Watch.

🎥 This is why Australia is key to the U.S. combatting China. Watch.

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