Mike’s Blog Round-up

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The Trump campaign’s eleventh-hour push to rig the Electoral College by changing how Nebraska’s Second Congressional district awards its presidential vote hit a major roadblock on Monday when the key swing vote, state Sen. Mike McDonnell, announced he would not support a winner-take-all system. “In recent weeks, a conversation around whether to change how we allocate our Electoral College votes has returned to the forefront,” McDonnell, a Democrat turned Republican from Omaha, said in a statement on Monday.

Nick Fuentes is a white supremacist, an antisemite, a misogynist, and a lunkish weirdo so radioactive that even the Trump campaign doesn’t want to have anything to do with him. Earlier this summer Fuentes, 26, exercised his growing disenchantment with Trump by rallying his fanbase of similarly trollish and aggrieved young men, the so-called “Groypers,” to do his will against the campaign. New research from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank that studies online extremism, shows how Fuentes mounted what he called a “Groyper war” against the Trump campaign on Twitter and TruthSocial.

New polls published Monday by the New York Times and Siena College show Donald Trump has gained a lead over Kamala Harris in Arizona and remains ahead in Georgia and North Carolina, three crucial battleground states that could determine the outcome of the election. The Times/Siena polls, which surveyed 2,077 likely voters in the Sun Belt states, were conducted from Sept.

Although the mayor complains about the system’s price (which he gets wrong) and about a corporation making money, his real problem is that the system is “racist.”

She's out calling Trump a 'chicken' for declining to debate her in a rigged setting, but she's the real chicken-heart here, scared to face down all those Catholics she persecuted.