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Big Decision: Should I stay or should I go? RFK Jr weighs staying in the race or dropping out and backing Trump

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Important Takeaways:

  • Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering ending his campaign to join forces with Republican rival Donald Trump, Kennedy’s running mate said in an interview posted online on Tuesday.
  • The vice presidential candidate, Nicole Shanahan, said that as independents, she and Kennedy ran the risk of drawing support from would-be Trump voters and clearing the way for Democrats Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to win the November election.
  • “Or we walk away right now and join forces with Donald Trump,” she told Los Angeles media company Impact Theory. When asked about the timing of their decision, she did not say.
  • “Not easy, not an easy decision,” she added.
  • Earlier in the interview, Shanahan stated, “I did not put in tens of millions of dollars to be a spoiler candidate.”
  • “I put in tens of millions of dollars to win, to fix this country, to do the right thing,” she said. “We don’t want to be a spoiler.”
  • “We wanted to win. We wanted a fair shot,” Shanahan added.
  • Trump told CNN on Tuesday he would “certainly be open” to Kennedy playing a role in his administration if the independent candidate drops out of the race and endorses him.
  • “I like him, and I respect him,” Trump told the network in an interview after a campaign stop in Michigan.

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Dangerous Times: US Secret Service sniper warns of another assassination attempt as agency’s failures exposed

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Important Takeaways:

  • A Secret Service sniper claims that another assassination attempt against a presidential candidate seems inevitable before Election Day because the attack on former President Donald Trump exposed the weakness in Secret Service security, according to a scathing letter circulating within the agency.
  • “This agency NEEDS to change, if not now, WHEN? The NEXT assassination attempt in 30 days?” read the letter, first published by RealClearPolitics.
  • “We all SHOULD expect another attempt to happen before November. We’ve exposed our inability to protect our leaders due to our leadership.”
  • Law enforcement sources verified the authenticity of the letter to The Post.
  • It was sent Monday to the entirety of the Secret Service Uniformed Division — the agency’s police force that secures the White House.
  • The sniper demanded the resignation of high-level supervisors, whom the agent accused of failing rank-and-file Secret Service staff.
  • “Sadly we have fallen short for YEARS. We just got lucky and looked good doing it. I have conveyed these thoughts to not only supervisors … Only to be brushed off as those with less experience somehow knew more than me,” the letter read.
  • “Secret Service SUPERVISORS ‘knew better’ and the foot soldiers working, made the best of a BAD situation.”
  • It went on to say that the reputation of the Secret Service and all its agents had been marred by the failures of July 13, which resulted in Trump being shot in the ear and a hero firefighter behind him being killed. The sniper said the day was “a stain I will never be able to cleanse.”
  • The identity of the counter-sniper who wrote the letter is unclear. They described themselves as a veteran of the Marine Corps, and a member of Secret Service’s counter-sniper team for more than 20 years.
  • Law enforcement sources previously told The Post that a full 30 seconds elapsed between when local police confronted gunman Thomas Crooks and the first shots he fired at Trump — prompting questions as to why Trump was allowed to remain onstage.
  • The acting Secret Service director said Tuesday agents were never warned that Crooks was on the roof with a rifle.
  • Meanwhile, newly revealed footage from the site of the shooting showed local cops encircling the building he shot from for more than two minutes before the attack, reinforcing that baffling question.
  • Local police were in charge of the grounds from where Crooks fired, but the Secret Service was ultimately in charge of coordinating the day’s security.

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Danger ahead as individual states arbitrarily rule a presidential candidate ineligible

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Important Takeaways:

  • Whether you stand with Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., or a candidate who has to emerge from our time-tested democracy, the idea that a court in an individual state can arbitrarily rule a presidential candidate as ineligible to be on the ballot is a dagger thrust into the heart of our nation.
  • To be clear, the threat is so grave that, if allowed to stand, it could topple the very foundation of a “united” United States, where individual states would then determine whether they will participate in national elections based on four unelected individuals in black robes to determine for whom we can vote. The U.S. is not Iran, where voters are presented with a “sanitized” slate that has anyone who might disagree with the regime purged from appearing on it.
  • Even Trump’s most vicious opponent, fellow Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, sees the move for what it is. Responding to the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to prevent Trump from being on the state’s ballot, Christie says it must be the voters, not the courts, who should decide if Trump should return to the White House.
  • Unfortunately, the cancer on our democracy is growing. Now Maine’s Secretary of State says he has the authority to prevent Trump’s name from being on his state’s primary ballot.
  • The encouraging news is that courts have ruled against similar efforts in the states of Arizona, Minnesota and Michigan, but at a time when our nation is facing both domestic and global challenges, the stakes are enormously high.

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Ecuadorian presidential candidate fatally shot at political rally

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Important Takeaways:

  • Anti-corruption presidential candidate is assassinated in Ecuador as country reels from violence
  • An Ecuadorian presidential candidate who recently pledged to root out corruption and lock up the country’s “thieves” was fatally shot at a political rally in the capital as the South American country reels from drug-related crime and violence.
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  • Fernando Villavicencio, 59, who was known for speaking up against cartels, was assassinated Wednesday, less than two weeks before a special presidential election.
  • The candidate had received at least three death threats before the shooting and reported them to authorities, resulting in one detention.
  • “Politics cannot lead to the death of any member of society.”
  • Lasso suggested the slaying could be linked to organized crime and insisted on proceeding with the election scheduled for Aug. 20. He declared three days of national mourning and a state of emergency that involves deploying additional military personnel throughout the country.

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U.S. Senator John McCain loses fight with brain cancer, age 81

FILE PHOTO - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain points to his head during his Carolina kickoff rally at Presbyterian College February 2, 2000. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Senator John McCain’s brave fight against cancer came to an end on Saturday afternoon.  The Senator had been battling glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, diagnosed by his doctors in 2017.

A statement from his office on Saturday said: “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28 p.m. on August 25, 2018. With the senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their family. At his death, he had served the United States of America faithfully for sixty years.”

McCain served in the military and was a prisoner of war for 5 1/2 years in Vietnam.  He was nominated as the 2008 Republican Presidential candidate with his running mate Sarah Palin and served as a U.S. Senator for the state of Arizona for close to three decades.  

“My heart is broken. I am so lucky to have lived the adventure of loving this incredible man for 38 years,” Cindy McCain wrote on Twitter. “He passed the way he lived, on his own terms, surrounded by the people he loved, in the place he loved best.”

Our deepest prayers are with his family.    

Ted Cruz Declares Bold Faith in Christ

While most of the nation focused on the fact Texas Senator Ted Cruz officially announced his candidacy for President in 2016, several people noticed the bold faith expressed by the Senator in his speech announcing the move.

Much of the speech consisted of Cruz saying that God was not done with America and that God has blessed America for years.

“God’s blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn’t done with America yet,” he said. “I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America, and that is why today I am announcing that I’m running for president of the United States.”

Cruz shared how God reached his father after he had left his mother and brought him home to be a Godly man.

“When I was three, my father decided to leave my mother and me,” he said. “We were living in Calgary at the time. He got on a plane and he flew back to Texas, and he decided he didn’t want to be married anymore and he didn’t want to be a father to his three-year-old son.”

“And yet when he was in Houston, a friend, a colleague from the oil and gas business, invited him to a Bible study— invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church—and there my father gave his life to Jesus Christ,” Cruz continued. “And God transformed his heart. And he drove to the airport, he bought a plane ticket, and he flew back to be with my mother and me.”

Cruz said that because of God moving in his father’s life, he knows Christ is real.

“There are people who wonder if faith is real,” Cruz said. “I can tell you, in my family there’s not a second of doubt, because were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been saved and I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household.”