Wake Up Right - October 16, 2024

Good morning, Wake Up Right fam! In late August, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed Donald Trump. After nearly two months of re-assessing their options, RFK voters have made their choice.

A new poll found that 56% of his supporters now support Trump, while just 34% support Kamala.

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  • ✝️ Battleground state Catholics: 50% Trump, 45% Kamala

  • 🏝️ 28% of workers say they've taken a 'quiet vacation

  • 🆘 Nearly 100 still missing in North Carolina after Helene

  • 🇫🇷 Marie Antoinette was beheaded on this day in 1793

Sources: National Catholic Register, Harvard Harris, Axios, History

Classless: Kamala mocks Trump for pausing rally during supporter's medical emergency

Kamala Harris and her surrogates on social media are stooping to new lows, using out-of-context clips of Donald Trump pausing his Pennsylvania when two supporters fainted and suggesting the former president is having a mental episode.

The details: On Monday, Trump appeared with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for a rally in Oaks, Pennsylvania. Roughly 30 minutes into the event, an attendee suffered a medical emergency, and 10 minutes later, a second attendee fell ill. In both instances, Trump paused the event while the medical staff attended to the rallygoers.

  • Trump noted that the event space was very hot, and at this point, likely due to the unsafe conditions, he decided to wrap up the event early and began playing some of his favorite music. 

Kamala’s snark: The presidential hopeful reposted a deceptively edited clip of Trump at the event, made to look like he was having a “senior moment,” lost on stage. Kamala snarkily added: “Hope he’s OK.”

ABC News fact-checks the lie: A reporter who attended the Trump rally said: "In certain quarters of social media, people had a field day with that, and I guess on the screens, it might have looked quite strange. Inside that hall, however, people were having a good time [while Trump played music at the end]... It seemed almost intimate.”

Zoom out: Kamala’s comment is part of a last-ditch campaign strategy to paint Trump as too old/unfit to be president, recently calling on him to release his medical records (which he has).

Back up: While Kamala takes this line of attack, it’s worth noting she spent months defending Joe Biden’s mental fitness while he clearly was in decline.

Big picture: This all went down in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, where just days ago, Trump took the lead over Kamala in the Real Clear Politics average of polls in the state for the first time since August.

[Source: Fox News]

Juvenile illegals terrorize Times Square

Juvenile illegal aliens, part of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, have been terrorizing Times Square with armed robberies, all while avoiding jail due to lenient New York criminal justice laws.

The details: The group of roughly two dozen teens, some as young as 11, operate out of a New York City taxpayer-funded migrant shelters and call themselves "Los Diablos de la 42" (Little Devils of 42nd Street).

  • The crew has committed at least 50 robberies, some with guns, in tourist hotspots like Times Square and Central Park

Escalating crimes: Detective Bureau Assistant Chief Jason Savino explained that the teens “started as snatches and then went to strong-armed robberies, and then started brandishing knives in a pack format.”

  • Guns: Savino added: “We know they have access to guns, evident by the fact that they’ve done gunpoint robberies and they’ve been brazen enough to showcase pistols in and around their social media.

Exploiting taxpayer-funded freebies: The gangbangers use their rent-free shelters to traffic drugs, guns, and sex workers. They use their taxpayer-funded free smartphones to coordinate their attacks and boast about their crimes on social media.

Free reign: Because of the boys' age and New York state's recent bail reforms, none of the juvenile terrors are in jail.

Back up: Tren de Aragua slipped into the United States under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, posing as “asylum seekers.” Over the past year, the brutal gang has gained a foothold in New York City’s five boroughs.

Zoom out: Tren de Aragua is the same gang operating in Colorado that has been violently taking over apartment complexes. One recent report details a landlord’s bloody encounter with the gang when he refused to let them live in a vacant apartment.

Big picture: Donald Trump pledged to carry out ‘Operation Aurora’ if elected — where he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and deport "every criminal network" operating on U.S. soil.

[Source: NY Post]

Learn how you can help secure the election

The most important election of our lifetime is just three weeks away. If you want to help ensure election integrity, I encourage you to join tomorrow's Election Security call to learn how you can protect your vote - and the votes of folks in your community.

The details: The call will feature expert insights and strategies from MAGA speakers like Steve Stern, Bill McGinley, Wayne Root, Cleta Mitchell, and many more.

  • Wednesday, October 16th at 2 pm ET

FYI: I will be on the call.

🍟 Donald Trump is expected to work the french fry cooker at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania this weekend after raising doubts over Kamala's claim she worked there as a kid. Read more.

👿 Nancy Pelosi says she has not spoken to Joe Biden since she helped push him out of the presidential race. Read more.

👎️ A judge in a key battleground state has ruled that county election officials must certify results by the legal deadline even if they suspect fraud or mistakes. Read more.

🎞️ The daughter of famed filmmaker Stanley Kubrick announced her late father would be a supporter of former President Trump after the Republican presidential candidate used footage from Kubrick's military film, "Full Metal Jacket." Read more.

🤡 Former first lady Michelle Obama is deploying drag queens and musician Cardi B. to drum up support for Kamala Harris in swing states. Read more.

🎦 30% of security cameras that monitor the border are reportedly broken — meaning the number of illegal “gotaways” is “way more than reported.” Read more.

🎮️ A new feature in Fortnite, a popular kids’ video game, allows players to “sell their soul” to the devil to revive themselves and their teammates. Read more.

🇨🇳 Chinese scientists have figured out how to use quantum computing to crack a popular encryption method used by banks, e-mails, and more. Read more.

Detroit will fix its poll worker selection process to balance party representation after the RNC sued them for having way more Democrats than Republicans. Read more.

💊 Walgreens plans to close at least 1,200 stores over the next three years as the pharmacy giant seeks to reduce costs. Read more.

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🏛️ Court packer: Did you know Kamala Harris has supported adding new Supreme Court Justices to override the current conservative majority? Our Supreme Court has been the only check on Democrats’ radical policies for the last four years. Sign the pledge to stand with our Supreme Court!*.

🎥 Donald Trump destroys the head of Bloomberg News right to his smug face, and the audience loves it. Watch.

🎥 Kamala says she is considering using your tax dollars to fund reparations. Watch.

🎥 Sen. Ted Cruz exposes his opponents during their debate for his abysmal record of supporting WOKE trans policies. Watch.

🎥 Mark Halperin tells Tucker that a Trump win will cause the largest mental health crisis in American history. Watch.

🎥 College campus liberal is stumped when Charlie Kirk asks for a single reason to vote for Kamala. Watch.

🎥 A Democrat sheriff in Georgia calls for backup over a wrong Burger King order. Watch.

🎥 Billionaire Howard Lutnick explains to CNBC why Trump's tariffs work. Watch.

🎥 North Korea blows up parts of a road connecting to South Korea in a symbolic display of anger. Watch.

🎥 Go long: Josh Selter, former Bachelorette star who spent the last six months as trans, reveals he did it all to show how ridiculous the trans movement is. Watch.

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