It is early in the cycle to see real polling, as opposed to push-polling, and because there is so little real polling available, it is hard to evaluate the results of this poll. My estimate is that this is a fairly accurate picture of the electorate at this moment. Early-cycle, liberal media push-polling is designed to shape opinion, not measure it.

MATTHEW BOYLE:

“…A new poll released this weekend shows President Donald Trump, the incumbent GOP president, has taken a national and battleground states lead over his Democrat challenger presumptive nominee former Vice President Joe Biden.

The survey, from the Democracy Institute commissioned by the Sunday Express newspaper, shows Trump leading Biden 48 percent to 46 percent. What’s more, Trump has opened up a bigger lead according to this poll in the crucial battleground states, meaning the president by this pollster’s estimates currently is projected to win 309 electoral votes—more than he did in 2016.

Overall, this poll has Trump nationally at 48 percent to Biden’s 46 percent with six percent undecided. Among white voters, Trump leads 53 percent to 46 percent. Trump is surprisingly strong with black voters at 20 percent in this poll—he got about eight percent of the black vote in 2016—while this survey has Biden at 77 percent. Hispanic voters in this poll break for Biden 51 percent to 38 percent, which would also represent an increase for the president over his 2016 performance with Hispanics.

“Crucially, President Trump has a lead of 48 percent to 43 percent in the swing states Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin which would put him back in the White House with an electoral college tally of 309 to Biden’s 229,” David Maddox, the political editor for the Sunday Express, wrote about his newspaper’s survey.

The poll has Trump leading in Florida 47 to 45 percent, leading in Minnesota 46 percent to 45 percent, and in New Hampshire 46 percent to 43 percent. “The polling suggests Mr Trump is emerging as the race leader because of a belief he is best in handling the economy,” Maddox wrote. “With a third of voters putting the economy as the top election issue and 66 percent thinking that the economy is bouncing back after coronavirus, voters believe that Trump is better for the economy by 57 percent to 43 percent.”

When it comes to the electoral college, this pollster argues that Trump will pick up Minnesota and New Hampshire but that Biden would pick up Wisconsin.

Democracy Institute Director Patrick Basham is quoted as saying the survey data seems to demonstrate that Biden’s campaign may have “reached its high water mark.”…”

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Ratings Crash for NBA, MLB After Protest-Filled Debuts

Normally I would say that owners will right this ship quickly to protect their businesses. Now, I don’t know. They seem to have adopted the position that virtue-signalling to elite peers is more important that profits in their businesses.

We’ll see how long they are willing to ride this slow-motion crash before they jump off the train.

For me, sports is gone.

The case for Trump will come down to his record. It’s a strong one

Hugh Hewitt:

“…President Trump’s record of accomplishments is easy to compile.

Most significantly, he has brought the existential threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party into the sunlight. No more nice words. No more treating the Tiananmen Square massacre as a bug, not a feature. The light is on. Trump has pulled the cord.

With huge help from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Trump has put two justices on the Supreme Court, 53 judges on the federal courts of appeals, 144 and counting on the District courts, and more than 20 on the specialty courts. The Constitution has been buttressed.

Trump’s tax cuts, along with the massive deregulation he orchestrated, led to 3.5 percent unemployment until the regime in Beijing acted with criminal recklessness toward a virus that has devastated the world. Economic recovery depends on those rule rollbacks, and not just grotesque overreaches such as the Clean Power Plan and “Waters of the United States” rule, but on hundreds of other intrusions into the private businesses and onto the private property of Americans.

Trump took a military operating in President Barack Obama’s last years at about $600 billion and moved that budget by his third year to $738 billion, with more in the budget coming soon. The Navy necessary to meet China on the high seas, all 355 ships of it, is being planned and built.

Trump tore up the so-called Iran nuclear deal, which was a tower of absurd hopes built on a policy of appeasement and a foundation of hostility to Israel.

Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and blessed Israel’s necessary annexation of the Golan Heights. His peace plan is the closest to reality of any since Oslo.

Trump took the United States out of the unbalanced, absurd, doomed-to-fail Paris Climate Agreement and has instead focused on and delivered American energy independence. People have real job security in Pennsylvania as a result, if not in jetting off to Paris for follow-up seminars.

Trump ordered Iran’s master terrorist, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, killed, accomplished the complete physical destruction of the Islamic State caliphate and successfully hunted down its terrorist chieftain, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The former was never contemplated by Obama, the latter couldn’t get done by him even though his scampering from Iraq in 2011 led to the rise of Islamic State and its thousand barbarities. The Syrian butcher, Bashar al-Assad, has twice used chemical weapons and twice had cruise missiles remind him that the red line is back and is real. Russian mercenaries attacked U.S. troops in Syria and were mowed down. Not an American was killed. Those are “Trump rules of engagement.” Even Cuba is back in its box, joined there by Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

At home, Trump pushed through the long-overdue justice reform legislation and the reorganization of Veterans Affairs, and, this year, the Great American Outdoors Act that fully funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund. House Democrats passed a piffling bill when covid-19 arrived, while Trump, McConnell and Senate Republicans advanced the innovative and massive Paycheck Protection Program that kept the U.S. economy from collapsing even as it contracted by nearly 10 percent in the second quarter as the China’s principal export, covid-19, ravaged the country.

Trump’s border wall, proceeding apace, makes obvious sense. More than 200 miles completed, with Trump tweeting Thursday the length with be 300 miles by September. . . .

Trump’s brawling, slugging, tempestuous approach to everything in every hour has worn down many, but his road is marked by these accomplishments. Former vice president Joe Biden’s near-50-year run in government is marked by . . . well, you fill that in. Polls say Biden is far ahead. We shall see.

There’s an aesthetic critique of Trump that has convinced elites that he must be beaten, that he is cruel and beneath the office. But Americans want their jobs and security back. They like the police. And, yes, most of the time they mostly admire Trump’s style and, almost always, his results…”

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Veronika Kyrylenko and Igor Kyrylenko:

“…Today’s Democratic political elite is beginning to resemble the USSR Politburo in the 1970–’80s. It is rapidly aging and becoming demented, which inevitably reflects not just its bizarre behavior, but, most importantly, the quality of strategic and tactical decision-making. A degraded establishment that practiced socialism cost the Soviet empire its existence. It will not end differently for the U.S. if it follows this path.

This path is personified by many prominent Democrats.

The most talked about right now is, naturally, Joe Biden, who is poised to secure his presidential nomination bid in August. At the age of 77 and having had brain surgery, he constantly demonstrates signs of dementia, which is acknowledged by 38 percent of likely voters. Sixty-one percent of them believe that it is important for Biden to address the dementia issue publicly, with 41 percent saying it is “very important,” according to the Rasmussen Report. At the same time, polls constantly reassure Democrats that their presumptive candidate beats his contender…”

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Navy SEALs investigating staged episode where military dogs attack Kaepernick impersonator

Sounds like some SEALS have a sense of humor

NJ becomes first state to allow ILLEGALS to obtain ‘professional licenses’

Democrats cannot help themselves. Their policies get crazier and crazier.

Clyburn — ‘Trump doesn’t plan to leave the White House’

He also said Trump is Mussolini, Putin is Hitler.

Trump is the latest republican presidential candidate (since the last one) to be called Hitler (Okay, Mussolini, but in this case he is trying to insult Trump by saying he is the lesser of the two bad men) by Democrats.

Democrat. This is what they have. This is who they are.

All of these videos were from over the weekend in Portland and were filmed by @ShelbyTalcott, @RichieMcGinniss, @VenturaReport, @livesmattershow, and @MrOlmos

Check out more of the Daily Caller's reporting on Portland.https://t.co/OEvge6DAPQ

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/KyleHooten2/status/1289590876717690880

You can’t make this up. This is Democrat governance. This is who Democrats are.

I don’t see this ending well.

Ron Johnson: ‘Corruption at the Highest Levels’ During Obama Admin Investigation of Trump’s 2016 Campaign

The fake Trump/Russia investigation was operated from the White House.

Congratulations to these two and the men and women who supported their mission

Minneapolis Police advise ‘surrendering your property’ to criminals

Public gatherings to burn Bibles: OK

Public gatherings to read Bibles: BANNED https://t.co/pOySao961L

— Razor (@hale_razor) August 1, 2020

Disgusting freaks.

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1289442419990081536

Lawmakers returning from John Lewis funeral exempt from D.C. quarantine order

Related:

When the Democrat/media alliance didn’t care about viruses.

hat tip to Kane

It’s the same tricks every election year.