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• 📺️ The VP debate drew 43.15 million viewers

• 👳‍♂️ 42% of Arab voters support Trump, 41% for Harris

• 🗓️ 45% of women [25-44] project to be single by 2030

• 🗓️ Top companies affected by port strike: Walmart, Ikea, Samsung

^{Sources: Hollywood Reporter, Arab American Institute, Morgan Stanley, CNBC}

Kamala’s husband accused of drunkenly assaulting ex-girlfriend in public

Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, assaulted his ex-girlfriend in public, according to three of her friends. The bombshell report comes just days after he was praised for reshaping "the perception of masculinity."

The Daily Mail does not name the girlfriend but uses the pseudonym ‘Jane.’ We will do the same.

The details: According to the three friends, the assault took place in 2012 when Emhoff and Jane attended the Cannes Film Festival in France. While leaving an event, the pair found themselves in a long taxi line. Jane went to give the valet a $100 euro tip in hopes of skipping the line, and Emhoff, who was drunk, thought she was flirting. He walked over and hit her in the face so hard that she spun around.

Says who? The Daily Mail report cites three of Jane’s friends.

• One, a successful New York businessman, said Jane called him in tears from the taxi after the incident, "She said she was with a guy, her date, she was at the Cannes Film Festival, and he hit her. She was in the car with the guy at the time."

• The second, a female New York attorney, claims: "She said he turned her around by her right shoulder… He hauled up and slapped her so hard she spun around."

• The third, a top female executive, said Jane told her the story in 2018 and claims, "When he hit her, she hit him back... I asked her if he ever apologized. She said ‘No.’"

Pattern of dirtbaggery: It had already been public knowledge that Emhoff cheated on his wife around 2008 with their nanny, who got her pregnant.

• New detail: According to all three friends, Jane said Emhoff nonchalantly told her the nanny accused him of causing her miscarriage [however, they don’t make clear how] and that he paid the nanny $80,000 for a non-disclosure agreement.

Media fawning: Just days ago, MSNBC host and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki praised Emhoff in an interview, saying he “reshaped the perception of masculinity.”

• Emhoff replied, “I've always been like this. To me, it's the right thing to do, support women.”

Big picture: These claims contradict Emhoff's carefully cultivated public persona as a supportive husband and ally for women’s rights.

[Source: Daily Mail]

Natural disaster made worse by federal disaster

The death toll continues to rise along the path of Hurricane Helene, as criticism pile up over the Biden-Harris regime’s federal response.

Zoom out: The death toll due to Hurricane Helene has risen to 190, with many still missing. And as the days go on, the scope of the devastation is coming into focus, with areas like western North Carolina where residents are still stranded in floodwater.

$750 chump change: Kamala Harris, while touring Augusta, Georgia, proudly boasted that FEMA would provide $750 to “folks who need immediate needs being met.”

• Back up: Last week, the Biden-Harris regime announced a new $2.4 billion aid package for Ukraine.

FEMA is broke: Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas, while traveling with Joe Biden in North Carolina, said that FEMA (which falls under DHS) will likely not have enough money to cover the cost of this year's hurrcane season.

Where is the money? In Fiscal Year 2024, FEMA was allocated roughly $20 billion in funding. It turns out more than $1 billion of those tax dollars (5%) were reallocated towards illegal aliens.

Trump steps in: Donald Trump, in addition to bringing trucks of much-needed supplies to storm-ravaged towns, has raised over $2 million for the hurricane victims.

Real talk from G: We seem to have endless funds to accommodate the millions of illegal aliens that have crossed our border and to fund foreign wars in Ukraine, but the best that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden can do for Americans in rural small towns is a $750 tip. Disgusting.

[Source: The National Pulse, The Post Millennial]

Yesterday, I asked who you thought won the VP debate… As you’ll see below, it wasn’t even close. On top of the 2,000+ votes, you also shared hundreds of written responses that I thoroughly enjoyed reading, including the NSFW ones that I couldn’t include in this e-mail 🤣 .

Who won last night's VP debate? 

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔴 JD Vance (2002)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🔵 Tim Walz (17)

💬 Vance: “Although both men exhibited respectful decorum that has become a lost art, Candidate Vance came off as confident and prepared for the job.”

💬 Vance: “He's not friends with school shooters, so there's that...”

💬 Vance: “Anyone with brain cells knows JD Vance wiped the floor with Walz. However, Walz hit all his buzzwords and sayings the liberals love to hear, which is terrifying.”

💬 Walz: “Very articulate and actually talked about solutions.”

💬 Vance: “Aside from Bobby Kennedy’s endorsement, JD might just be the best thing that’s happened to Trump.”

💬 Vance: “Common sense vs Marxist slogans. Proud to support Trump and Vance.”

💬 Vance: “JD Vance by a landslide!! He properly articulated Trump's policies and remained cool, calm, and collected. It was a perfect performance. I will very enthusiastically vote for Vance in 2028 if he decides to run for President!”

💬 Vance: “I am currently taking a college philosophy course. When my class met yesterday afternoon before the debate, my professor taught about common fallacious arguments. He encouraged us to watch the debate and see which ones we noticed. Walz used the fallacy "Appeal to the Person" where you appeal to a person's sense of compassion rather than using evidence to support your claim. The fallacy that i recognized immediately was the Appeal to the Masses which says "everyone is doing it so it is right." I think we all know who used that fallacious reasoning predominantly last night…”

💬 Tie: “It was a toss-up, but it was so nice to have civility.”

👍️ Donald Trump says he’ll go on CBS's '60 Minutes' program only if he get an apology from the network for claiming, in his 2020 interview, that the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation. Read more.

🤡 District Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed a 165-page filing by Biden-Harris attack dog special counsel Jack Smith, arguing Trump lacks presidential immunity in his January 6 case because his actions were as a private citizen. Read more. Dropping this as Trump surges in the polls… You know what they’re doing.

🚨 The Biden DOJ is delaying the release of records from Joe Biden's time as VP, including records relating to Hunter's foreign businesses, until November 6 - the day after the election. Read more.

🚁 A pilot trying to rescue victims of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina was threatened with arrest. Read more.

🏧 Many Bank of America customers found their accounts with a zero balance on Wednesday, as many complained of outages and disruptions online. Read more.

🇮🇱 Israel said eight troops died in combat in Lebanon, where soldiers engaged in close fighting with Hezbollah militants. Read more.

🇱🇧 At least six people have been killed and eight wounded in an Israeli air strike on a Hezbollah-affiliated health center in central Beirut, the first strike close to the capital's center. Read more.

🐑 A Montana livestock rancher was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for cloning giant sheep hybrids to be sold and hunted. Read more.

🤡 Jumaane Williams — next in line to become mayor if Eric Adams resigns — received campaign contributions from a contractor accused by the feds of setting up illegal straw donations. Read more.

☣️ German police shut down a Hamburg train station after a student who recently traveled to Rwanda was suspected of bringing back the deadly, highly contagious Marburg virus. Read more.

💊 The doctor who gave ketamine to the late Friends star, Matthew Perry, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute the drug. Read more.

🤔 The list of Sean 'Diddy' Combs' accomplices includes prominent executives and bankers, according to the victims’ lawyer. Read more.

🎥 Tim Walz is asked about his debate comment [that he is “friends with school shooters”], and his response is a mess. Watch.

🎥 Kamala brags about a measly $750 for Helene victims after sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine. Watch.

🎥 CNN's Jim Acosta gets COOKED by Corey Lewandowski over Kamala's border crisis. Watch.

🎥 Whoa, Chris Cuomo actually defends JD Vance. Watch.

🎥 Rep. Byron Donalds went on one of the biggest hip-hop radio stations in America and explained why Kamala is responsible for inflation. Watch.

🎥 Tampon Tim Walz mocks Trump for paying a mother’s grocery bill. Watch. Tim Walz is an a**hole, despite the ‘aww shucks’ routine he used at the debate.

🎥 Melania: The Deep State is afraid of Donald Trump's strength. Watch.

🎥 Here's what is really happening on the ground in Helene-ravaged North Carolina. Watch.

🎥 This is your typical liberal voter: confidently claiming Biden added 196 million jobs in Pennsylvania, a state of 13 million people. Watch.

🎥 Go long: Trump on the Dave Ramsey show, discussing economics, his kids/grandkids, and loving what you do. Watch. [26 minutes]

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