Kari Lake wins Arizona GOP governor primary as Trump slate sweeps top races

“…The Associated Press projected Lake as the winner with about 88.3% of the ballots counted. Lake came in with 46.8% of the vote. Lawyer Karrin Taylor Robson came in second to Lake with 44.0%.

Her victory is also a showdown between former President Trump and former Vice President Pence, the latter of whom endorsed Taylor Robson.

Lake celebrated her victory late Tuesday evening after a source told El American that she is the projected primary winner.

Lake, a former television news journalist, is known for her tough stance on the southern border.

“Kari will make her wonderful family, and the MAGA movement, very proud,” Trump said when he endorsed her.

Lake’s victory marked a perfect record for Trump-endorsed Republicans in the state’s major primary races. Venture capitalist Blake Masters claimed the party’s senatorial nomination while Mark Finchem won the secretary of state primary, and Abe Hamadeh won the attorney general primary contest…”

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Poll: Trump Tops Biden on Jobs, Economy, Crime

President Joe Biden, who is in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19 again, complains about not being able to buy an electric Corvette:

“I can’t drive a vehicle while I’m Vice President…while I’m President." pic.twitter.com/r2Zv908qkF

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) August 4, 2022

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Goldberg says "God doesn't make mistakes" and thus it's in his plan to have women choose abortion."God made us smart enough to know when it wasn't going to work for us. That's the beauty of giving us freedom of choice."
"My relationship [with God] is always choppy," she adds. pic.twitter.com/nUysEfP6zv

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 3, 2022

Parts of Great Barrier Reef show highest coral cover seen in 36 years

• • Two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia recorded the highest amount of coral cover in nearly four decades, though the reef is still vulnerable to climate change and mass bleaching, a monitoring group said on Thursday.
  • Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered from widespread and severe bleaching because of rising ocean temperatures.
  • The northern and central parts of the reef have experienced some recovery while the southern region has seen a loss of coral cover due to crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks, according to the Australian Institute of Marine Science, a government agency.

Gotham’s real life Batman! MMA fighter takes down homeless criminal in NYC’s SoHo after watching him sucker punch strangers

• • Ro Malabanan, 44, was walking in SoHo last week when he saw Samuel Frazier, 28, punch a 50-year-old man and 17-year-old boy
  • Others then told Malabanan that he’d punched ‘six people’ in nearby streets
  • Malabanan is an MMA coach and fighter – he jumped on Frazier’s back and brought him to the ground until police arrived
  • Frazier was charged with two counts of misdemeanor assault but is already free
  • ‘Here, you can shoot someone and go free, so I guarantee you this guy is walking the streets right now,’ an NYPD source told DailyMail.com

Germany considers U-turn on nuclear phaseout

Governor Ron DeSantis makes an announcement about law enforcement. https://t.co/LfTJ4cUxMJ

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) August 4, 2022

“…DeSantis has laid down a marker, refusing to allow any Florida county or municipality to become one of those blue cities overcome by crime and violence due to woke politics and misapplied social justice…”

Media credits Biden for al Qaeda leader’s death after attacking Trump for similar counterterror ops

‘Take these m—–f—–s out’: Rutgers prof rails against white people while defending CRT: Professor Brittney Cooper called Critical Race Theory “the proper teaching of American history” and said that white people are “committed to being villains in the aggregate.”

CBO: Over 90 Percent of Promised Deficit Reduction in Manchin–Schumer Would Come after 2026.

A Wren's real voice.. 🎶

🎥 @LawrenceChatton pic.twitter.com/xB4o9sdGdN

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 3, 2022

Mourning Dove:

 

The San Diego Unified School District wants to overthrow “heteronormativity” and promote “genderqueer,” “non-binary,” “pansexual,” and “two-spirit” identities

Can you imagine paying taxes to support this garbage, or sending your child to a school teaching children to be insane? What do education policies like these result in? See below:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1555069915060523008

At the intersection of multi-issue insanity promoted by wacky liberals

Parents continue desperate search for baby formula as crisis continues.

Mitch McConnell predicts Dems will hold the Senate

Sinema demands CHANGES to $740bn Inflation Reduction Act: Democrat wants more climate funds for her OWN state of Arizona and restructured taxes (after Manchin got gas pipeline for West Virginia)

• • Manchin reached deal with Majority Leader Charles Schumer on package, which raises $739 billion in revenue
  • Most comes from new 15% minimum bracket for large corporations
  • Sinema wants to strike provisions ending carried interest loophole
  • It brings in $14 billion in revenue and is a priority for Biden and Manchin
  • She also reportedly wants $5 billion in drought resiliency funds
  • Democrats need backing by all 50 Democrats to pass under budget ‘reconciliation’ procedures, which provide filibuster protection

I had to hear this so now you do, too pic.twitter.com/70OQjF3Lxp

— Ryan Marino, MD (@RyanMarino) August 1, 2022