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Democrats, Polls Paint a Picture of Election Manipulation
By Robert Knight
With the midterm election looming on Nov. 3, Democrats are determined to dismantle any election safeguards aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting.
This includes making sure that voter registration rolls stay dirty.
On Oct. 20, Democratic congressional leaders and several Democratic groups filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for its directive to states to clean up their voter rolls by removing non-citizens.
Democrats oppose cooperation between state officials and federal officials to share databases to ensure that voter eligibility is limited to U.S. citizens.
They argue that it’s a matter of states’ rights.
This, from a party that now embraces socialism and has treated the states like vassals under the federal government.
The Constitution designates the states to determine when and where to hold elections, but it does not preclude the federal government from making sure that only U.S. citizens 18 and over can vote in federal elections.
Officials in Arlington County, Virginia, a Democratic stronghold, also filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Justice Department and other agencies.
Their goal is to bar federal agents from coming anywhere near polling places, even to collar illegal alien criminals.
The plaintiffs claim that voters would be intimidated if they spot immigration authorities.
Well, certainly anyone ineligible to vote might think twice about doing so upon seeing ICE agents outside the polls. Maybe that’s not such a bad idea.
The lawsuit was filed with the help of two leftwing foundations—Democracy Forward and the Public Rights Project. Both are funded by leftist philanthropy groups, including the Tides network, which is funded by the George Soros family’s Open Society Foundation.
Democracy Forward is chaired by Marc Elias. He was general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and his law firm secured the fraudulent Steele dossier, which was used in the Russian collusion hoax against President Donald Trump.
Mr. Elias has played a major role in the Democrats’ ongoing campaign to weaken or overturn election integrity laws wherever they can. So, it’s no wonder that his Democracy Forward is working to ensure that non-citizens feel comfortable going to the polls.
Democrats are also sowing distrust about the validity of the election in case it goes against them.
The Washington Post on Wednesday ran a front-page story alleging that a group of “U.S. national security officials” has been advising state lawmakers that the Trump administration may try to interfere with the midterms.
Democratic strategy appears to be three-fold:
Sow doubts about the election in case Republicans win.
Accuse anyone asking questions about election integrity in Democratic-run jurisdictions to be part of a Trump plan to subvert the process.
Keep repeating the old chestnut about voter ID laws “suppressing the minority vote.” Democrats insist that minorities can’t be expected to have valid IDs like other citizens.
Current polls show a Democratic tide.
If the GOP manages to hold Congress, Democrats will cry foul and somehow blame Mr. Trump for skullduggery.
The Post ran its own survey, along with ABC News and Ipso, and published an article on Wednesday with this headline:
“Most Americans doubt Trump would accept GOP losses.”
The poll says that 77 percent of independents and 94 percent of Democrats said they were not confident that Mr. Trump “would accept GOP losses.”
That’s a one-two punch: the scary story with anonymous sources on the front page and the poll just inside.
Speaking of polls, you probably have heard about the Wedgewood Polling scandal. A fake company by that name showed Democrats ahead in key races. Several media outlets took the bait, including the New York Times, MS Now, and The Hill.
On Oct. 20, Wedgewood admitted to faking the data after it was outed by polling aggregator FiftyPlusOne. As of this past week, we had yet to learn who funded it.
Wedgewood Polling “gave Democrats multipoint leads beginning in June in all the battleground races: Texas, Michigan, Georgia, Maine, Ohio and Kansas,” according to the Washington Times’ Susan Ferrachio and George Caldwell.
It even made the U.S. Senate race a “toss-up” in staunchly GOP Mississippi, which the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says is “Likely Republican.”
Polls can affect outcomes. Voters who think their candidate has no chance might sit it out or cast a ballot for someone else.
In the Michigan U.S. Senate primary in June, Wedgewood said Democrat Mallory McMorrow’s support had collapsed to less than 10%. She blames this partly for her loss. Abdul El-Sayed, the winner, is shown by most polls to be leading Republican Rep. Mike Rogers.
Or maybe he isn’t.
In 2024, three days before the Nov. 5 election, the final Selzer/Des Moines Register poll showed Democrat Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 47 percent to 44 percent among likely Iowa voters. Mr. Trump wound up winning by 13 points, a 16-point discrepancy.
At the time, most media reported the poll, which was real, with some at least noting that it differed from other Iowa surveys.
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” however, trumpeted it as “a canary in the coal mine.”
It’s this kind of stuff that podcaster Stephen Miller calls “leftist media wish-casting.”
Illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times.
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
Illustration by Alexander Hunter / The Washington Times.