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CLAY TRAVIS: When the Dems lose a Kennedy, they’ve lost the plot

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Yesterday in Arizona, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. and the best-known surviving scion of the Kennedy family dynasty, took the stage to endorse Donald Trump for president of the United States. It was an iconic and consequential moment: A member of the Kennedy family, royalty in Democratic politics for generations, turning his back on the party of his family’s legacy to endorse a Republican candidate. In so doing, Kennedy did something extraordinary; he stood on principle over politics and embraced actual democracy instead of the rigged candidate system created by the Democratic National Committee.

In the space of a few sentences, Kennedy erased four days of speeches at the DNC. His clarion call for truth, accountability and the democratic system, has reverberated loudly for many middle of the road voters, people who feel alienated by the politics of both left and right, folks who no longer believe that people in positions of power care about their concerns at all. 

Having initially sought the nomination of the Democratic Party, Kennedy was blocked at every turn by President Joe Biden’s supporters in the DNC. They wouldn’t allow debates, wouldn’t allow a full contest for the party’s nomination. Even though Biden was mentally and physically a shell of the man he’d once been, the DNC protected Biden, arguing anyone sharing videos of his clear mental and physical deterioration was participating in ‘cheap fakes.’

So too did their allies in the left-wing media. 

Remember, it was only 60 days ago that CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other left-wing media allies attacked anyone who dared to suggest Biden was anything other than sharp as a tack behind closed doors.

Kennedy lambasted this in his address Friday afternoon endorsing Trump for president, and articulating the primary challenge of our times quite clearly.

‘When a U.S. president colludes with, or outright coerces, media companies to censor political speech, it’s an attack on our most sacred right of free expression,’ he said. ‘And that’s the very right upon which all of our constitutional rights rest.’

Democrats have become so corrupt that even a Kennedy can’t support them any longer.

RFK Jr. asserted that in the 16 months of his campaign, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined gave him only two live interviews.

‘The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democrat principles, but has since joined the systemic attack on democracy,’ he said.

To bring this point into clear focus, after ignoring him for 16 months, as soon as he endorsed Trump, CNN had a member of the Kennedy family on last night in primetime to attack RFK Jr. The network that wouldn’t carry Kennedy himself or any of his arguments was happy to offer live primetime guest spots to members of his family who would trash him. 

All of this led to what I believe will be seen as an important legacy of the 2024 campaign. Democrats have become so corrupt that even a Kennedy can’t support them any longer. Kennedy’s embrace of Trump, which he compared to Abraham Lincoln’s team of rivals in his address, represents yet another incredible twist in an election season that has so far been propelled by the unexpected.   

Less than two months ago, on June 27, Trump took the stage to debate Biden in Atlanta.

I know it feels like two years since then, but consider what has happened since that night. Trump knocked out Biden, ending his political career. It was the first true knockout we’ve ever seen in the history of American presidential debates. It took several weeks — including Trump becoming the first president to be shot by a would-be assassin since Ronald Reagan in 1981 — for Biden to realize he couldn’t get back up off the electoral canvas, but on July 21 — three weeks and three days after the debate — the Biden campaign finally waved the towel in the corner of the ring. 

Biden was done. 

He withdrew from the race and has barely been seen since.

Next up, Kamala Harris. Yes, the same Kamala Harris who Democrats spent months arguing should be dropped from the political ticket because she was the least popular vice president in the history of modern American politics. Hell, Dick Cheney shot someone in the face while he was vice president(!), and was still more popular than Harris. In one fell swoop, without receiving a single vote for president, Democrats canceled the expressed will of 14 million primary voters and elevated Harris to the nomination. 

Amazingly, Harris, who has never received a single vote for president, is the nominee. 

Yes, the same Harris who dropped out of the 2020 presidential race before a single vote had been cast. The same Harris who most with functional brains realize would have never been the Democrat nominee if Biden had done what he should have done and announced he wasn’t running in the late spring of 2023. That would have allowed an actual Democratic primary but, alas, we’ve all come to realize Democrats don’t want elections, they want selections. 

Hillary Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020, now Harris in 2024. They’re all the product of the people running the DNC, the hand-selected nominees of the party, will of the voters be damned. 

The party that claims Trump is a threat to democracy has now, incredibly, charged Trump with felonies in three different states and Washington, D.C., seeking jail time in each case, removed the president who received the Democrat nomination for president and replaced him with a nominee who received not a single vote for that nomination, fought every third party challenger, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the green party, Cornel West, and the libertarian party, who has sought ballot access in the 2024 election, and dutifully hidden Harris from all media, refusing all interview requests and all press conference availabilities. 

This is not the democratic process. This is not how candidates should be chosen. 

Kennedy realized all of this. 

It’s why he couldn’t stand silently by and allow himself to be a spoiler in this race. It’s why he felt compelled to speak out, stand on principle, and endorse the only presidential candidate who actually won a primary, to support the only presidential candidate who supports free speech and believes in sharing his vision for the world. 

Ultimately, even if it required him to turn his back on the party that made his family a mythological heir to Camelot, Kennedy had only one choice. 

The result — Trump and Kennedy are now a team. 

Thanks to the bevy of interviews, press conferences, and public events both men have had, we know exactly where Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy stand on all the issues. But we still don’t have a single policy page on Harris’ website. Her team has spent more time telling us what she doesn’t believe than what she does.

Harris is the phantom candidate, a smiley-faced emoticon gazing back at you from a computer screen as her videos play on social media influencer pages fed to our young by an algorithmic rig job perpetrated by our online billionaire lords, a constant loop of vacuous nothingness, as deep and complex as the number of votes she received for the most important job in the world — a rigged candidate from a rigged party, the antithesis of American democracy, the only person in any of our lives to ever run for president without a single person voting for them.

So now, here we are, it’s Harris vs. Trump and Kennedy, and if you’re paying attention to the slightest degree, even if you’re a lifelong Democrat like Kennedy, it isn’t a tough call at all. 

It’s Trump or nothing.

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Pro-Palestinian group ‘Abandon Biden’ changes to ‘Abandon Harris’ ahead of election

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‘Abandon Biden’ is now ‘Abandon Harris.’

The pro-Palestinian group opposing the Democratic Party announced on Friday that its members were ‘now mobilizing under the banner of ‘Abandon Harris.”

‘While we will keep the registered name of Abandon Biden, our mission is now laser-focused on exposing and opposing Kamala Harris and her complicity in genocide,’ the statement from the group explained. ‘We call on all people of conscience to join us in holding the Democratic Party accountable for the bloodshed in Gaza.’

‘The DNC’s recent actions have only confirmed what we’ve been saying all along: the Democratic Party has no interest in ending the genocide in Gaza,’ the group continued. ‘They are not mere bystanders; they are active participants in this brutal, unforgivable violence.’

Abandon Harris is part of a larger movement on the left opposing the Democratic Party due to its continued support of Israel in the Jewish state’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

Anti-Israel demonstrators expressed their discontent with Harris’ campaign throughout this week’s Democratic National Convention with marches, protests, and demonstrations against speakers.

The Democratic presidential nominee attempted to extend an olive branch to the anti-Israel protesters during her speech at the convention, telling the crowd that President Biden’s administration is ‘working around the clock because now is the time to get a hostage deal and a cease-fire deal done.’

‘And let me be clear – I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself, because the people of Israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on Oct. 7.’

At the same time, Harris said, ‘what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating,’ referring to the war casualties of innocent Palestinian people.

In July, Harris met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reiterate the administration’s support for Israel, while also expressing her ‘serious concern about the dire humanitarian situation there.’ There was an apparent cease-fire deal also discussed at the time. 

Fox News Digital’s Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.

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On Ukrainian Independence Day, over 100 POWs swapped with Russia

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Ukraine exchanged over 100 individuals with Russia this week as the country celebrated its third Independence Day since the invasion began.

The two nations swapped an even number of prisoners — 115 soldiers for 115 soldiers — on Saturday, the 55th such exchange of the ongoing conflict.

‘Another 115 of our defenders have returned home today. These are warriors of the National Guard, the Armed Forces, the Navy, and the State Border Guard Service,’ Zelenskyy said in a statement on the exchange. ‘We remember everyone. We are searching for them and making every effort to bring them all back.’

The agreement was struck via negotiations facilitated by the United Arab Emirates. 

Zelenskyy praised those soldiers responsible for capturing Russian combatants, stating that such successes on the battlefield give the much smaller nation leverage in negotiations for their own men’s return.

‘I am grateful to each unit that replenishes our exchange fund. This helps to advance the release of our military personnel and civilians from Russian captivity,’ Zelenskyy said. ‘I thank our team and partners, the UAE, for bringing our people back home.’

Officials in the Kremlin are scrambling to downplay Ukraine’s invasion into the Kursk region as Russian President Vladimir Putin has failed for a second week to stop Kyiv’s advances on his home turf, according to a report by independent Russian news outlet Meduza.

The report, which first emerged last week, claimed that sources in the Kremlin have begun pushing government-funded media agencies to minimize the severity of the Ukrainian incursion and to start employing a propaganda campaign that encourages Russians to embrace the ‘new normal.’

Fox News Digital could not independently verify the report, which comes as Ukraine continues to tout its success in capturing more than 780 square miles of Kursk, including the town of Sudhza, as well as nearly 100 Russian villages, according to Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi on Tuesday. 

Fox News Digital’s Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.

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As Kamala gets coronated, Chicago gets democracy stress test

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One day, airports will figure out a civilized method for catching an Uber after your flight, but that day was not last Sunday at O’Hare as a maelstrom of confused travelers stared into an endless stream of gray Toyota Camrys. Having made facial contact with my driver and exchanged names, I settled in for a bumper to bumper drive to my hotel and we began chatting.

‘Do you mind if I ask what your accent is?’ I queried. ‘I travel a lot but I can’t place it.’

‘Siberian,’ he laughed. ‘I know it’s confusing, I look Chinese and sound Russian. I hit the green card lottery.’

It turns out that the green card lottery is a few select spots for his area that he applied for on a whim and won. Four years ago he arrived, speaking no English, made his way to Chicago, and is thrilled to be here.

‘There is no democracy in Russia,’ he said. ‘Putin is dictator, and if you want a car like this you have to have a good job and that takes connections. It’s completely different.’

He doesn’t travel back to see his parents anymore, for fear of being arrested or conscripted.

It was a sobering way to enter Chicago on the week of the Democratic National Convention, and I wondered if the people here who hit the ‘born in America lottery,’ had quite such a sense of how special that is.

Chicago being Chicago, I mostly met Democrats, but not only Democrats. On my first night, I met a guy in a white and gold MAGA hat who loves trolling his hometown by wearing it. There are also many types of Democrats with their own priorities.

Several of the bartenders and hotel employees I spoke to emphasized unions. Most belonged to Local 1 of the Service Employees International Union, and they are worried about Donald Trump’s positions on the labor issue, and unclear where Harris stands on everything else. These were not woke progressives, and they also emphasized the difference between private and public unions.

‘We know the business,’ one told me. ‘We know if we ask too high, the business will shut down, the government has endless money.’

For these workers, as for so many others, their vote for president is directly tied to their jobs and bank accounts; for others, loftier notions take center stage.

One millennial couple I met was on their way to a concert sponsored by the DNC. Both Harris supporters, their political lifestyles were a bit different. In the dim-lit Chicago steakhouse, I asked if they had any friends voting for Trump. She didn’t, but he had a more rural upbringing and did.

‘We can talk politics,’ he told me of his friends back home. ‘It doesn’t get too heated, usually. We all try to listen.’ 

For these voters, in the upper middle class and beyond, the kitchen table politics of President Joe Biden’s composite financially struggling dad are not the core issues. They talk about abortion, and saving democracy, and Trump being horrible.

Another guy I met who was traveling for work and has a job in sports didn’t hold out too much hope that either side was much better than the other. ‘I don’t know, man, I’m not sure it matters much,’ he sighed, not angry, maybe a bit exasperated by it all.

Without exception, everyone I spoke to who was not a delegate told me that, of course, Harris should do interviews and press conferences. But as those who were delegates were quick to point out, it is not a dealbreaker for them, Trump, after all, being Trump.

On my Uber ride back to the airport on Wednesday, I was driven by another recent immigrant to our country, this time from Kuwait. ‘Why you vote?’ he bluntly asked me, referring to the convention. ‘The one with the most votes doesn’t even win.’

On this shorter midday jaunt, we talked about the electoral college, why every state has two senators, and all the other oddities of our republic.

‘In Kuwait, sometimes the prince gives us democracy, sometimes he takes it away,’ he said. ‘What’s the difference?’ 

It was clear that I wasn’t going to convince him, and I realized that there is no empirical way to prove the superiority of democracy, the dignity that comes with casting a ballot to have a say, being part of the citizenry at whose pleasure our politicians serve. 

My first immigrant driver got it, my second didn’t. And in between, in the Windy City, everyone had their own unique take on what it means to live and vote in our democratic republic. 

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Venezuelans will keep fighting for democracy. They have no choice

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If you asked Venezuelans how they felt at the beginning of 2023, most would answer hopeless and resigned. Nicolás Maduro, the socialist dictator, had just crushed and co-opted many of the opposition leaders. More than 9 million people were starving, not able to eat three meals a day. Over 350,000 Venezuelans had recently fled the country through the Darien Gap, and the regime was bombarding those who stayed with propaganda that ‘Venezuela is fixed.’ For many, the dictatorship was seen as unbeatable. The dilemma was now whether to get used to the new normal or leave the country.  
 
In this context, the fragmented opposition decided to solve its problem of unified leadership through primary elections. No one was betting on their success. But Venezuelans gave a lesson in democracy when 2.6 million stood against the regime on October 22 and nominated María Corina Machado with a 93% turnout. ‘Havana we have a problem!’ was probably heard in the hallways of Miraflores, the presidential palace, as an unprecedented social movement was now focused on restoring freedom and democracy.   

The reaction of the dictatorship was predictable. Machado was illegally banned from running for office and Professor Corina Yoris, the first opposition replacement, was blocked by the Electoral Council.  

Almost 5 million Venezuelan migrants were ruled out from voting, more than 120 activists were illegally detained during the campaign, and the electoral observation mission from the European Union was not allowed to enter the country. The Barbados Accords, signed a few days before the primary elections, were not fulfilled by Jorge Rodríguez, the chief of the regime’s negotiating team.  

Unfortunately, none of this was surprising.  

From this authoritarian haze, Edmundo González was the only democratic opposition candidate left that was ‘allowed’ to run. A long-serving diplomat, he was unknown by the majority of Venezuelans, and critically underestimated by the regime. His candidacy was registered on a voting ballot that featured the face of Maduro no less than 15 times and the faces of alacranes, so-called opposition candidates promoted by the regime, to confuse voters.  

Despite the omnipresent censorship of TV networks, radio stations and websites, González was recognized throughout the country in a matter of days. He formed a powerful duo alongside Machado who had not stopped rallying the country since she was banned from running by the regime.  

The country that was once hopeless and submerged in darkness recovered its faith. Venezuelans started to see a light at the end of the tunnel, but it was still a campaign within a dictatorship. The regime would not allow billboards or stages for rallies. Maduro’s intelligence apparatus employed brutal persecution against those who dared to speak out.  

The National Guard deployed checkpoints to control movement within the country. Restaurants were even shut down after Machado and González stopped by to eat. None of this mattered to the Venezuelan people who saw this moment as their last chance to return to democracy and reunite their families after decades of oppression.  

Ahead of the presidential election, the largest civic organization in Venezuela’s history was formed with more than 600,000 people signing up to become poll watchers, volunteers and mobilizers. These everyday heroes secured voting tallies despite the regime’s efforts to steal the election.  

They broadcast the reality of the people’s vote on a website that now serves as concrete evidence that González defeated Maduro in a landslide. Competing against a dictatorship and against all odds, González won 70% of the vote, the largest victory in the history of Venezuelan presidential elections. With a free and fair election, that number could have been closer to 90%. 

In the aftermath of the vote, election observers from the Carter Center and a panel of experts from the United Nations agreed on a lack of electoral transparency and were unable to declare Maduro as the victor.  

Despite the omnipresent censorship of TV networks, radio stations and websites, González was recognized throughout the country in a matter of days. He formed a powerful duo alongside Machado who had not stopped rallying the country since she was banned from running by the regime.  

The regime’s reaction has been brutal. In their so-called Operation Knock-Knock, Maduro’s thugs are targeting anyone who dares to speak out. Twenty-three people have been killed so far. Two thousand two hundred innocent Venezuelans have been arrested. Access to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, was shut down. Thousands of new police checkpoints were deployed across the country. And criminal investigations were launched against González and Machado.  
 
The real outcome of the election is plain to see behind Maduro’s lies: democracy won and the dictatorship lost. But as the regime holds on to power by force, Venezuelans have not lost faith. The movement that started last year against all odds and reached its peak on July 28 is unstoppable. The voice of the Venezuelan people cannot be silenced.  

Increasing pressure with non-violent protests within the country, peaceful gatherings across the world with the diaspora, and protecting the leadership of Machado and González will be decisive to achieve what Venezuelans deserve — freedom.  

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Lila Rose: Kamala Harris, Democrats’ abortion extremism would be a human rights disaster

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Less than 24 hours after President Joe Biden announced his decision to drop out of the upcoming presidential election, Vice President and now-Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, couldn’t wait to talk about abortion.  

Using euphemisms like ‘reproductive freedom’ and touting the same old ‘bodily autonomy’ rhetoric, Harris’ message is nothing new. It’s one she’s been sending for decades: abortion should be legal in any circumstance through all nine months.  

A Harris presidency would be disastrous for human rights.  

The science is clear: a new and distinct human being comes into existence at fertilization. At that moment, a baby’s sex, ethnicity, hair color, eye color and countless traits are already determined. Life at this stage, and every stage, is precious and should be protected and defended.  

Equal protection for all people is the bedrock of our legal system. Our leaders should fight to defend the human rights of all people – and life, the right not to be killed – is the first human right.  

Harris refuses to protect the human rights of the most vulnerable Americans. In fact, she is all too willing to partner with the abortion industry, which profits from the killing of our most vulnerable children. 

The vice president has become the administration’s ‘abortion czar’ – the media thinks she will ‘supercharge’ the Democrats’ message on abortion.  

But that’s not all.  

Perhaps the only political issue Harris has approached with more enthusiasm than abortion is using the legal system to persecute Americans who engage in efforts to protect preborn children.  

Harris has staked her entire political career on targeting preborn children and the brave citizens who speak on their behalf. If given the powers of the American presidency, which has authority over the Department of Justice and the FBI, the results for the cause of human life — the defining human rights issue of our time — would be nothing short of catastrophic.  

We’ve already seen what she does with that kind of power.  

Kamala Harris chose to use the influence of her position as California’s attorney general to prosecute journalists who exposed alleged federal crimes rather than those who allegedly committed crimes — all in violation of her oath of office as attorney general. 

This cannot be allowed to escalate. Free speech is a cornerstone of American liberty. Investigative and undercover journalism are vital aspects of the speech protected by the First Amendment. Every public official has a duty to defend the rights we are guaranteed in our Constitution, and any act contrary to those rights should disqualify someone from serving in public office.  

Another cause for concern is Harris’ track record of supporting efforts to undermine the mission of California’s pregnancy resource centers.  

These centers exist to lovingly embrace pregnant mothers and offer tangible resources to help these families, often including medical care, diapers and other material assistance ranging from housing aid to job placement.  

Pro-life resource centers are crucial to help equip women to successfully become mothers, especially in California which is known for having some of the most pro-abortion policies in the nation. And it’s no surprise Harris has been at the heart of many of them. 

For example, in 2015, then-Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that required pro-life and faith-based pregnancy centers to provide abortion information, even if it’s against their deeply held religious beliefs to do so. Violators faced fines of up to $1,000 for each infraction if they refused to promote abortion in their facilities. 

Harris co-sponsored the law in California and made it a part of her platform as she ran for the U.S. Senate. Thankfully, this law was struck down in 2018 by the Supreme Court, which ruled that it was unconstitutional. 

Reality is stark: It took action from the highest judiciary body in the United States to ensure the fundamental rights of the most vulnerable in our nation.  

Perhaps the only political issue Harris has approached with more enthusiasm than abortion is using the legal system to persecute Americans who engage in efforts to protect preborn children.  

It should never be questioned whether every human being has the right to life and equal protection under the law from the moment of fertilization. We shouldn’t have to wonder if every American really has the right to speak up and advocate on behalf of those society casts aside.  

Americans deserve a leader committed to preserving our fundamental rights, not one who wants to deny protection to our youngest children and jail Americans for life-saving activism. That’s what will happen if Kamala Harris becomes president. She’s done it before, and she’ll do it again. 

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‘Nail in the coffin’: Grocer turned House lawmaker trashes Kamala Harris’ price control plan

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A first-term House Republican who runs a small chain of grocery stores in Ohio is worried Vice President Kamala Harris’ grocery price control proposal would hurt family-owned businesses like his.

‘We’re dealing with a lot. The net profit in grocery stores is about one and a half [percent] — if you’re doing really good, one and three quarters. Just in layman’s terms, it’s about a $1.50 for every $100 that you go through the registers. And what we’ve seen in the last three to four years has been pretty horrific,’ Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview.

‘This will be a nail in the coffin of this industry that no one can imagine.’

Rulli won a special election in June to succeed retired Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio. 

Before that, he was a Republican state senator and helped run Rulli Bros., the mid-sized grocery chain his father started in 1917.

To explain what effect he argues price controls will have on his business, Rulli held up a bottle of Tide laundry detergent made by Procter & Gamble.

If the Harris administration tells Procter & Gamble, which is based in Cincinnati, that this Tide right here that I’m selling today for $4.99 has to stay $4.99 for the next four years, what will happen is that Procter & Gamble will just simply choose not to make this product,’ Rulli said. ‘And so that’s going to happen a lot.’

He pointed to the bar code, known as the stock keeping unit (SKU), denoting the individual product and said his stores, for example, carry items with 38,000 different bar codes, whereas larger grocery chains carry more.

‘Well, why would that matter to your viewers? It’s going to matter to your viewers, because this is the luxury of living in the United States of America, where the average blue-collar worker, Joe Bag of Donuts, would have an opportunity to buy some nice things in life,’ Rulli said.

‘What will happen in four years of a Harris administration is those 38,000 SKUs will go all the way down to 5,000 SKUs, and you will be living in Cuba or Venezuela.’

It comes as Harris begins rolling out her presidential platform with roughly three months until the election in November.

Part of that is a pledge to enact the first-ever ban on food ‘price gouging,’ which critics on the right have argued would stifle economic growth in the same style as authoritarian governments like the former Soviet Union and Venezuela.

Harris’ allies have pointed out that large food manufacturing companies have made record profits in recent years — Hershey has seen a 62% jump in net profits between 2019 and 2023, while companies like General Mills and Kraft Heinz both saw 48% growth, according to The Wall Street Journal.

But groups like the National Grocers Association have called the plan ‘a solution in search of a problem.’

‘Our independent grocers, already operating on extremely thin margins, are hurting from the same inflationary pressure points as their customers,’ the group said earlier this month.

When Harris unveiled the plan in North Carolina, she pledged to ‘make clear that big corporations can’t unfairly exploit consumers.’

But Rulli argued it would hurt small and mid-sized grocers, as well.

‘Many of these smaller and independent grocery stores will go out of business. You’ve already seen it happening gradually over the last 20 or 30 years, but I would say just recently within the 80-mile circumference I’m sitting in right now, there’s been five grocery stores that have gone out of business in the last two years,’ he said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.

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This Housing-Related Stock Just Printed a 5 for the Trend Composite

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The Home Construction ETF (ITB) is leading the market as it surged to a new closing high this week. While this high is certainly bullish and points to upside leadership, the real signal triggered back in early July as the Trend Composite turned bullish with an outsized move. Let’s review this signal and then look at a recent signal in Home Depot.

The chart below shows ITB with the Trend Composite and Normalized ROC. The Trend Composite aggregates signals in five trend-following indicators. Normalized ROC is the 5 period point change divided by ATR(5), which shows price moves in ATR terms. Values greater than +3 indicate that price advanced more than 3 ATR(5) values in five days. This is an outsized move that can kick start an extended uptrend. Note that these indicators are part of the TIP Indicator Edge for StockCharts ACP (here).

The chart above shows three signals coming together in mid November 2023 and mid July 2024. Notice how ITB broke resistance with an outsized move in early November and the Trend Composite followed with a bullish signal in mid November. ITB corrected into early July and another bullish trio triggered in mid July. This most recent signal was highlighted in the ChartTrader reports at TrendInvestorPro.

The next chart shows Home Depot with the signal trio occurring in November-December and June-July. Rarely do we get all three signals at the same time. Usually the price breakout and outsized move occur first. The Trend Composite is a trend-following indicator that triggers when there is upside follow through.

All trend-following indicators lag and produce some whipsaws. The Trend Composite is no different as it whipsawed with by turning negative twice in August. This is normal given the broad market volatility we saw over the last six weeks. The Trend Composite surged to +5 on Friday and this means all five indicators are on bullish signals. The blue lines show support levels from July and now August.

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2024 showdown: What happens next in the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump face-off

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Vice President Kamala Harris, urged her supporters to ‘get out there, let’s fight for it,’ as she concluded her presidential nomination acceptance speech at this week’s Democratic National Convention.

With both major party national nominating conventions now in the books, the 2024 edition of the race for the White House enters the final sprint.

Both Harris and former President Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee, will be back on the campaign trail in the upcoming week, along with their running mates, making stops across some of the seven crucial battleground states that will likely determine the outcome of the November election.

It’s a process that will be repeated each and every week until Election Day.

The former president, his running mate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, and their campaign and allied Republicans have repeatedly criticized Harris for not holding a major news conference or sitting for an interview since replacing Biden atop their party’s 2024 ticket over a month ago.

So all eyes will be on Harris to see if she lives up to her promise to do a national news media interview in the week left in the month of August.

There’s just one week left in August, and the end of the month will bring anticipation of the latest fundraising figures from both the Trump and Harris campaigns.

President Biden enjoyed the fundraising lead over Trump earlier this year, but the former president saw his fundraising soar in the late spring and early summer.

But after Biden’s blockbuster move to end his re-election bid and Harris replacing him as the Democrats’ standard-bearer, the campaign and the party’s fundraising surged and Harris walloped Trump in fundraising during July. 

The August numbers, which the campaigns could release as early as September 1, will be closely watched and scrutinized, as fundraising along with polling is a crucial metric.

The first and possibly the only presidential debate between Harris and Trump is scheduled for Sept. 10 in Philadelphia.

The face-off could be the most important evening in the 2024 presidential election, with the power to potentially shift or transform the current margin-of-error race between the vice president and the former president.

Need proof – just look back to the late June debate between Biden and Trump. The president’s disastrous performance fueled questions about whether the 81-year-old president had the mental and physical stamina to handle another four years in the White House. And it sparked calls from within his own party for Biden to drop out of the race. 

Less than a month after the clash in Atlanta, the president was out of the race.

There are 73 days to go until Election Day, but some voters will start casting ballots next month. 

In swing state North Carolina, mail-in voting begins on Sept. 6. And early voting begins on Sept. 16 in Pennsylvania and Sept. 26 in Michigan, two other crucial electoral battlegrounds.

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Tennessee man charged with threatening to assassinate Biden, Harris and Obama in online posts

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A 37-year-old Memphis-area man was charged with making threats against President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Obama, the Justice Department announced Friday. 

Kyl Alton Hall, 37, allegedly posted on X several times last month, threatening to shoot, kill and assassinate Biden and crash his plane and threatening to assassinate Harris and Obama. 

Hall was federally indicted Tuesday and charged with two counts of threats to a sitting president and vice president and one count of a threat to a former president. He was arrested and booked in Mississippi July 30 by the Southaven Police Department.

He could face up to five years in prison on each count if found guilty. 

Earlier this week, an Arizona man who allegedly threatened to kill former President Trump was arrested after a manhunt as the Republican presidential nominee headed to the state for an event on the southern border Thursday. 

Trump’s ear was also grazed in an attempted assassination attempt by a 20-year-old shooter last month while the former president spoke at an outdoor rally. The shooter was killed by law enforcement. 

Multiple U.S. Secret Service agents have been placed on leave as the investigation into the failed assassination attempt continues. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office and the Justice Department for comment on the charges against Hall. 

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