A new set of swing state surveys by Morning Consult finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading disgraced former President Trump by 1 percent in Arizona and Pennsylvania, 2 percent in Michigan, and 4 percent in Nevada, while Trump leads by 1 percent in Georgia, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.

Running low on options to avoid testifying in his impeachment trial, Kenya Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Thursday tried the old “too sick to be impeached” excuse, and checked into a hospital in order to duck the angry senators who want him removed from office yesterday, the BBC reports.

“The sad reality is that the deputy president of the Republic of Kenya has been taken sick, very sick, and is… in hospital,” said Gachagua’s lawyer Paul Muite. The Senate rejected a proposal to extend the trial another few days and will continue without Gachagua present. The deputy president is facing removal over the usual corruption and bribery charges common to African politics.

Continuing on his non-speaking tour of canceled public appearances and media engagements, Republican presidential nominee and convicted fraudster Donald Trump’s campaign announced he was canceling a planned speech at a National Rifle Association conference in Savannah, Georgia next Tuesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

No specific reason was given other than a generic “schedule conflict,” but neither Trump’s campaign schedule or his court docket have other events listed for October 22nd.  Trump canceling a campaign speech to a friendly audience in a battleground state

A new Howard University survey of Black swing state voters finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 84 to 8 percent, with the rest undecided, which is kind of close to the 90 to 8 percent margin President Joe Biden won the Black vote by in 2020.

But you know the Blacks love Trump because, um, he’s anti-immigration or something.

Convicted felon former President Trump told some ballsucking podcaster on Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “should never have let that war start” as if he had a choice in the matter when Donald’s boss Vlad decided to invade his smaller, democratic neighbor.

Israeli military officials are trying to determine whether or not Hamas terrorist in chief Yahya Sinwar is dead after a gunfight with IDF troops in Gaza on Thursday, Axios reports.

“Hi, this is Nikki Haley calling on behalf of President Donald Trump’s campaign. I don’t agree with President Trump 100% of the time. You might not either. But we have a decision to make, and I’m looking at what we know about each candidate,” says either the former South Carolina governor or an artificial intelligence-generated simulacrum of her voice in a robocall, CNN reports.

Question to all the “KaMaLA wULdn’t oF gONe On CHaRLaMaGnE TeH g0d’S sHOw iF sHe wASn’t wuRRiEd Ab0uT tEh BLaCk v0tErs!” people: Why is Nikki Haley doing a robocall for the Orange God Emperor if Trump isn’t worried about her primary voters defecting to the veep’s campaign?

🚨@GOPoversight has held over 130 hearings with over 100 government witnesses to date. We issued over 50 subpoenas. But it’s not just about the numbers; it’s about the results.

Our effective oversight in the 118th Congress has led to transparency, accountability, & solutions.👇 pic.twitter.com/LKyF4LYX37

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) October 17, 2024

Ahead of the expected unsealing of a large cache of evidence against convicted felon former President Trump in the DC coup attempt conspiracy case on Thursday afternoon, his piece of shit lawyers this morning begged circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan to push it back past Election Day, writing in a motion that “President Donald J Trump respectfully requests that the Court temporarily continue the stay of its October 10, 2024, Order through November 14, 2024, to allow for the concurrent filing of the parties’ respective immunity appendices. In support, President Trump states as follows:”

[About five pages of jargon and nonsense before they get to their actual motivation]

“Whether or not the Special Counsel is politically motivated, the asymmetric release of charged allegations and related documents during early voting creates a concerning appearance of election interference, as noted by recognized legal commentators with vast prosecutorial experience [they cite some douchebag’s New York Times op-ed] These concerns are particularly poignant given the incumbent Vice President’s targeted and ongoing, and false, use of these proceedings in election advertising [More citations from The Hill and other outlets]. Although the Court has decided, over President Trump’s objections, that the ”political consequences of these proceedings’ is not a cognizable legal prejudice,’ the Court has not addressed the public’s interest in ensuring that this case does not unduly interfere, or appear to interfere, with the ongoing election.”

“A temporary stay would serve that interest by ensuring that the redacted SA Appendix is accompanied by President Trump’s rebuttal, reducing (but again not eliminating) this case’s improper impact on the election, as well as the potential for voter confusion. Additionally, a stay would promote public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings and a court’s duty to remain apolitical.” Lol at these twats and their “the public’s interest in ensuring that this case does not unduly interfere” concern-signaling. Irony’s dead, you don’t need to keep desecrating its remains.

Convicted felon former President Trump backed out of yet another mainstream media interview this week, CNN’s Brian Stelter writes in his daily newsletter that, on top of the hit CNBC announced on air Tuesday that the fat bastard had fucked off from, Stelter’s “learned of another planned Trump interview that was suddenly scrapped. NBC News thought it had secured a sit-down with Trump to discuss the economy and other matters, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter.”

“The interview was expected to take place in Philadelphia on Monday and correspondent Christine Romans (a CNN alum) was set to be the interviewer, I’m told. But then it was called off by the Trump team,” Stelter continues, adding that “The interview was ‘postponed,’ one of the sources said, and NBC is in discussions to reschedule it.” All the luck in the world with NBC on that one.

We have no opinion on whether Vice President Kamala Harris’s light media schedule during the the first two months or so of her campaign was more of the risk aversion the MSM said it was or if they were just being whiny, entitled cocksuckers complaining they weren’t getting the access they demanded. Well there definitely was a lot of the latter, it’s just we can’t tell exactly where one ended and the other began. No such dilemma presents itself with Trump now though in the final stretch. He really is “in bubble wrap” the way the tickledicks in the horserace industrial complex said Harris was a month ago. His campaign’s first, last, and only mission every day is to shield him from the kind of clusterfucks that were the NABJ interview and the ABC News debate. Were another bad cycle on that scale to happen again at this point then The Narrative™ would call the election for Harris.

Under the cheeky headline of “Young Americans swipe left on Trump voters,” probably deliberately written to understate the self-perpetuating incel-dom of Gen-Z Trump fanboys, Axios “exclusively” reports that a Generation Lab survey finds 45 percent of women under 35 saying their opinion would change negatively if they’d found that their date had voted for convicted felon former President Trump compared to 39 percent of men saying the same. On the other side, 35 percent of young women saying they’d feel good about a Harris voter, compared with 28 percent of men.

Axios didn’t provide the gender breakdown of the anti-Harris dating set, but overall the numbers are 19 percent negative for her vs 43 percent negative for Trump. The positives are 32 percent for Harris overall to Trump’s 17 percent. “Not voting at all seems to matter less in the dating game than voting for Trump,” the normally GOP-friendly media outlet writes about his appeal to 18-34s.

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— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 17, 2024

A “person close to” Vice President Kamala Harris texted Politico Playbook to assess her performance in the interview-ish segment with Fox News’s Bret Baier on Wednesday, writing Harris’s mission was accomplished amid “constant interruptions and 20 straight minutes of attempted Fox-style gotchas, and she schooled him, shut him down, and got hits that Fox’s audience literally never gets to hear.”

“Even in difficult moments, Harris found a landing. When Baier played clips of Americans whose loved ones had been killed by an illegal immigrant and asked the VP whether she owed those families an apology, Harris showed empathy and admitted that illegal immigration was a big problem before pivoting to Trump: ‘But let’s talk about… an individual who does not want to participate into solutions,'” Playbook writes, plainly kind of disappointed that it wasn’t a trainwreck for the veep.

A new University of Massachusetts Lowell/YouGov survey of likely voters in Pennsylvania finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 46 to 45 percent. Harris holds a 5 percent net edge on favorability at 44/50 favorable/unfav to Trump’s 42/53 fav/unfav.

Taylor Swift is 45 percent underwater with GOP voters at 16 percent favorable to 61 unfavorable, lol.

The pollster also conducted a New Hampshire survey and found Harris leading the fat demented old fuck 50 to 41 percent, which is pretty close to Joe Biden’s +8 win in the Granite State in 2020.

BUSTED!!

Kamala was just caught using a teleprompter at her Univision town hall! Producers panic and turn off the prompter midway through her answer.

Why did Univision allow this?! This is egregious journalistic malpractice. pic.twitter.com/tH5Bh2clBx

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 11, 2024

Wow this was pretty damning last week even if you couldn’t see the text on the screen and discern whether it was in English or Spanish much less what it actually said, right?

There is pretty much zero doubt, the way Punchbowl News tells it, that spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan is angling for a position in House GOP leadership given his recent habit of handing out unsolicited donations to other members’ campaigns as well as asking if they want him to show up for them in person – since Jordan doesn’t have to campaign for himself in a district gerrymandered into a malformation that would make the 19th century German Empire blush.

“We’re going to win. I’m going to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee. We’re going to use reconciliation to cut the taxes. We’re going to get back to common sense energy policy and we’re going to secure the border. While we’re doing all that, we’re going to be focused on protecting your right to ask me this question five more times,” said Jordan, non-denying his ambitions.

A Bangladeshi court on Thursday ordered the arrest of disgraced former dictator Sheikh Hasina over the deaths of protesters during the clashes that forced her exit earlier this year, the AP reports.

We’re going to ask you to watch this clip, because you must see the crowd’s reaction to Donald Trump.  Asked by a former Republican to justify his unlawful actions on January 6th and after he left office, Trump tries brushing off the violence and then, at around the 2:00 mark says, “Nobody was killed.  Ashlii Babbitt was killed,” a contradiction that brings a noticeable “Wha–?” from at least one audience member.

Along with telling the largely Spanish-speaking Univision audience that he didn’t like the Haitian refugees living in Springfield, Ohio because “they didn’t speak the language,” Trump was largely evasive and unimpressive during the town hall, as evidenced by the disinterested and skeptical looks in the crowd.

In response to a bunch of fuckery in the Red Sea and in Israel, US military B-2 “stealth” Spirit bombers struck Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen where they stored weapons used to target civilian shipping in the region, NBC News reports.  It was the first time the B-2s were used in the operation protecting shipping.

Donald Trump reportedly is trying to again pay porn star for her silence, Rachel Maddow reports.  Appearing on MSNBC’s All in with Chris Hayes, Maddow explains that as Daniels was preparing to settle the amount of legal fees owed to Donald Trump for lost defamation case Daniels filed, Trump’s lawyers wanted to negotiate Daniels’ silence once again.

In a strangely convenient fashion–like she was self-filming a documentary or something (no shade for the hustle)–Daniels filmed herself receiving a call from her lawyer, Clark Brewster, who told Daniels “they want to cut some kind of deal where they silence you.”  Daniels laughs, adding, “Don’t they know that shit won’t work?”

Daniels wired Trump the money–a sum totalling something near $600,000 when multiple suits and interests were added in–without signing another NDA.