I am thinking these pollster guys are going to have to find a new line of work.

The venue for President Donald Trump’s political rally in Minnesota scheduled for Friday will be restricted to only 250 people after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison put pressure on the business owners of multiple locations.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...nnesota-trump-rally/

The rally was initially planned at the Rochester airport, but Ellison’s office demanded a “COVID preparedness plan” from officials from the City of Rochester, Olmsted County, and the Rochester airport, as well as the Republican National Committee to ensure the event was safe.

The event was then moved to Dodge Center, prompting Ellison’s office to ask the Trump campaign and the owner of the building McNeilus Steel for their “COVID Preparedness Plan.”

That prompted the Trump campaign to move the event again, back to the airport.

“Thanks to the free speech-stifling dictates of Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, only the first 250 people will be admitted,” the campaign said in a statement sent late Thursday night.

“Without question, Minnesota Democrats had hoped that the President would simply cancel the event, but he will not allow partisan politicians to deprive people of their First Amendment rights to gather peacefully to hear directly from the President of the United States,” the statement continued.

Trump supporters volunteering for the event immediately expressed their outrage on social media when they found out from organizers that the rally location was canceled. Comparisons were made with the large crowds of protesters last summer over the death of George Floyd.

Minnesota Republican chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan called out Ellison and Gov. Tim Waltz for suppressing the First Amendment right to free assembly.

“Suppression. Interference with our first amendment rights,” she wrote on Twitter. “This is what Gov Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison are doing by abusing the power of their offices to block us from seeing our President!”

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The venue for President Donald Trump’s political rally in Minnesota scheduled for Friday will be restricted to only 250 people after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison put pressure on the business owners of multiple locations.

Only difference it will make is it will further the resolve of the already strong support for Trump in Minnesota. They tried the same thing in Duluth a few months back trying to limit the number of people for Covid compliance. They still had somewhere near 3000 people show up and I bet the same thing happens here. Can't remember the last time Minnesota was actually considered among the swing states. I firmly believe Trump flips the state this time.

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Can't remember the last time Minnesota was actually considered among the swing states. I firmly believe Trump flips the state this time.

From your lips to God's ears.

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The venue for President Donald Trump’s political rally in Minnesota scheduled for Friday will be restricted to only 250 people after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison put pressure on the business owners of multiple locations

Do these people REALLY think this will somehow discourage people from showing up? Laughable! It will be just like every other Trump rally so far- only a certain number can actually get in but there will be thousands outside showing their support. I imagine Trump will make damn sure there are cameras aplenty recording the people outside.

This is a repeat post. Ackks posted this back on p 279

It is so worth the 40 minutes.

You will be reminded of things you forgot. You will learn things you never knew.

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The venue for President Donald Trump’s political rally in Minnesota scheduled for Friday will be restricted to only 250 people after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison put pressure on the business owners of multiple locations

Do these people REALLY think this will somehow discourage people from showing up? Laughable! It will be just like every other Trump rally so far- only a certain number can actually get in but there will be thousands outside showing their support. I imagine Trump will make damn sure there are cameras aplenty recording the people outside.

As long as they are out there protesting, all should be ok.

There'll be a Trump rally at the airport in my town today at 13:00. Since it'll be close by I briefly entertained the thought of going. Ha! People started lining up, thousands of them, at 04:00!

I think I'll pass

Related: They showed Trump and Biden rallies on the "news" last night. Florida, I think? The difference in attendance was astounding. Ok, maybe the rally attendances and Trump vs. Biden signs around here aren't accurate forecasts, but, if they are: Trump's gonna bury Biden.

Infuriating, but not surprising. This election shouldn't even be close.

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CNN, MSNBC prime-time shows skip historic 33.1% GDP growth amid economic recovery
Both anti-Trump networks have a history of ignoring headlines that benefit the president during prime time

CNN and MSNBC may still call themselves 24-hour news networks, but their most-watched shows in prime time continue to avoid some of the biggest headlines.

On Thursday morning, the Commerce Department announced that the gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the U.S. economy, surged by 33.1% on an annualized basis in the three-month period from July through September. The previous post-World War II record was a 16.7% increase in 1950.

Refinitiv economists expected the report to show the economy had expanded by 31%.

However, despite the encouraging and historic economic figures amid the nation's recovery from the coronavirus shutdowns, it received no mention on CNN's and MSNBC's biggest programs Thursday night.

Despite being billed as straight news shows, CNN anchors Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon kept up their unrelenting coverage of President Trump as did the opinion stars on MSNBC. "All In" host Chris Hayes did manage to squeeze in a brief mention about unemployment being "nearly 8%" as a dig to the president's reelection campaign.


They also skipped the breaking news of the mass shooting that took place in Chicago outside of a funeral home that left at least 15 injured.

More recently, CNN and MSNBC chose not to air the historic Senate vote confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

FOX Business' Megan Henney contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/...g-RZPj9KrulU3GkExwr4

Ensigmatic....any chance UAW guys might have Biden signs in their yards for "solidarity" but actually vote for Trump? Because it sounds like he will win a fair amount of union votes.

The Democratic Party is the Dark Winter

By J. Robert Smith

We are, indeed, at a crossroads in America. Next Tuesday, we’ll learn the choice of direction. Will voters stick with President Trump, who, in saner times, would be a slam-dunk for reelection -- or do they embrace Joe Biden and his grim vision of a dark winter? We have to believe that most Americans haven’t cast off common sense, along with their used masks and empty hand sanitizer bottles. But for voters on the fence -- as inexplicable as that is -- let’s evaluate what the Democratic Party is showing us about itself.

Biden’s claim in the last debate that the U.S. is moving toward a dark winter, thanks to COVID, was revealing. It exposed more than Biden’s cynicism in trying to manipulate people’s fear of the virus, it exposed an irony.

The dark winter tag speaks to the Democratic Party’s condition, not America’s. Democrats are ominous. Their worldview is antithetical to the American experience, and it’s rotted. Worse is that they’re destructive. We see it in their language and actions. 2020 is showcasing the Democrats accelerating descent into a mean-spirited, grudge-filled aggression toward traditional America -- the America of the Revolution and the founding. They despise that immense swath of red, white, and blue between the Northeast and West Coast. And anywhere patriots live.

Perhaps 2020 is providential, in that the Good Lord chose an election year to lay bare the Democrats’ grim plots? Maybe this is a chance for the broader electorate to get a strong read on the party that’s dumped Happy Days are Here Again for its rendition of Eve of Destruction?

The Democratic Party is a cancer making systemic attacks on the nation. The attacks are political, cultural, and moral. The left, which is ascendent in the party, has over many years, infiltrated major institutions: education, the media, arts and entertainment, corporate executive suites, government bureaucracies. The fight to restore traditional America won’t end after the president’s hoped for reelection. With Trump, though, our chances of winning the fight increase dramatically.

Let’s focus on two big, foreboding developments that are transpiring this year. They’re pincers in the Democrats ambition to impose tyranny -- a tyranny that leftists and globalists plan to fully unfold should the corrupted and compromised Joe Biden win.

COVID and the Shutdowns

In March, the COVID crisis struck, but for Democrats, it had little to do with public health. It was an opportunity to impose and exercise raw political power. 15-day state closures to assess and formulate approaches to grappling with the infection turned into open-ended blue state shutdowns. New York, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Oregon, Wisconsin, Washington State -- blue states all – are still closed to varying degrees. Businesses have been erased and millions are unemployed. The rights to worship, to assemble (except for protests and riots), and to function as free citizens, have been curtailed.

Democrats are previewing their preferred model of governance -- and it should chill patriots. Theirs isn’t bigger government as an expediency to deal with a temporary crisis. How Andrew Cuomo, Tom Wolf, Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, et al, are governing sets precedents. Democrats are demonstrating top-down, strongman government as their choice. It has the stink of Xi Jinping and the PRC.

Conventional wisdom claims that the lockdowns may ease when the elections end. After all, shuttering blue state economies was meant to hurt Trump. Collateral damage to Democrat leaders’ own constituents? A necessary price to defeat the president.

But will the shutdowns end? Why, when they’re so useful to undermining rights and allowing governments’ grips to tighten? Biden has declared for more shutdowns until the virus is beaten. Of course, viruses are never beaten. Biden’s handlers are trying to be clever.

Biden in the White House means a national shutdown. The U.S. economy has taken a multitrillion-dollar hit this year. More blows in 2021 would send the nation careening into a depression that would surpass the 1930s.

But a depression would accomplish much for power-hungry Democrats and globalists. The Great Reset initiative, advanced by the World Economic Forum, is poorly disguised fascism. “Manmade climate change” failed to trigger a “reset.” The COVID crisis is the globalists’ new lodestar.

Race and Mob Violence

In late May came George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. There, cringing leftist mayor Jacob Frey was joined by the leftist city council in withdrawing police protection, thereby handing over their city to mobs, though gaslighting that peaceful protests are a right. Mobs acted as mobs act: with violence -- ransacking, smashing, and burning Minneapolis. Leftist BLM and Antifa provocateurs did their parts, inciting rioters to even more mayhem.

Minnesota governor Tim Waltz, in Nero fashion, decided to stand down as Minneapolis burned -- though he had the cheekiness to seek federal aid to recoup millions of dollars in clean-up costs, smartly denied by the Trump administration.

Not to be outdone, Seattle and Portland followed Minneapolis’ lead. It was all rinse and reap as mobs ran loose. Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan’s impotence and endless rationalizations for her city being destroyed were surpassed finally by her embrace of something called the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).” It was a haven for lawlessness in a broader jurisdiction of lawlessness. Washington State’s chief eunuch, Jay Inslee, jabbered about protests and rights from the comfort and safety of the governor’s mansion in Olympia.

South of Seattle, Portland ignited. Mobs took the streets. Mayor Ted Wheeler wasn’t to be out-soyboyed by Jacob Frey. Whereas Frey, like a conquered potentate, groveled before a BLM mob in Minneapolis to show contrition, Wheeler went into the streets seeking dialogue with the barbarians, only to suffer a tear gassing before retreating. Oregon’s progressive governor Kate Brown jabbered about protests and rights from the comfort and safety of the governor’s mansion in Salem.

Do you see the pattern? Blue states and blue cities alone have sunk into dystopia. We can attribute some of this to Democrats’ gutlessness and moral desolation, but there’s more here.

One way of interpreting what’s occurring in blue cities is that anarchy creates vacuums, and power -- goes the saying -- abhors vacuums. So, it’s a twofer. Democrats have exploited COVID to push tyranny and have opened the doors to chaos to create the conditions for yet more tyranny. Their Brave New World is comprised of zombie apocalypses as a precondition for Orwell’s Big Brother.

George Floyd’s killing sparked yet other opportunities to spew venom and lambast decent Americans as racists. Only blacks (except defiant Larry Elders) and “woke” affluent progressive whites are exempt from the vitriol and coming recriminations -- if the haters prevail.

Robert Reich has floated the idea of a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” should Biden win. That would be a redo of Soviet show trials and Mao’s shaming of Chinese during his Cultural Revolution.

In race matters, America itself doesn’t get a pass. No, America was racist from its inception, that being 1619, not 1776. The founders were nothing more than well-heeled white overlords. Say Democrats and leftists, Americans must pay for the sins of racism. Critical Race Theory is indoctrination through shaming and bare-knuckled intimidation. It was being introduced in federal agencies and the military before the president took steps to halt it.

A Biden presidency dooms this nation to tyranny -- or, more likely, protracted conflict. How could patriots ever meekly surrender their God-given rights and the noble -- and ennobling -- ideals of our Revolution and founding? Ronald Reagan made the case powerfully: patriots will not surrender. Donald Trump is the only man standing between us and tyranny and conflict.

https://www.americanthinker.co...he_dark_winter_.html

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...os-board-up-windows/

Businesses throughout major cities in America, particularly in California and Washington D.C., are bracing for what is expected to be a chaotic Election Day full of protests.

Bill Melugin, a journalist for Fox 11 Los Angeles, shared photos to Twitter on Thursday that showed concerned business owners boarding up their windows to avoid damage from protesters and looters on Election Day.

I clicked on CNN last night, Jon Leemon. They were going full covid, covid covid and blaming it on Trump rallies, no facts just talk. Trump isn't taking the plandemic seriously, OMG!!!!!!
The 80000bajillion folks who have tested positive in the last day but no mention of deaths or anything else. Had to change the channel, lying sacks of shit

I knew it was going to be crap but they are going full retard on Trump and the plandemic

Oh, and all white Trump supporters are going to kill everyone if Biden wins, ya know, with our guns we bought a walmart

Saw the same thing on the local news here. I told my that after election day we won't hear anymore bad news about the Vid and she said I'm nuts.

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Ensigmatic....any chance UAW guys might have Biden signs in their yards for "solidarity" but actually vote for Trump? Because it sounds like he will win a fair amount of union votes.

Dunno. I know only one guy who's in a union, and he's definitely anti-Trump. When I point out it was primarily Democrats responsible for NAFTA and other poor trade deals, and it was Trump who fixed those inequities, he goes silent.

Not liking Trump for some of his personal traits I get. But the obsessive hating of Trump for no rational reason I can discern: There's just no arguing with that, because argument is rational, and the hate these people are experiencing has no basis in rationality.

I have IBEW buddy's, the union has supported Trump in 2016 and again in 2020. At least their local.

Turley has some great insight on Florida and the national popular vote. He starts slowly for the first few minutes, but it is worth your time. (Skip to the 5:35 mark)

Here are the early-vote totals by party that he is referencing in Florida. Biden is slightly behind in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. Both counties had Hillary up by huge numbers in the early voting 4 years ago.

https://joeisdone.github.io/florida/

Trump California sign

video at

https://twitter.com/i/status/1322204363775864833

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Is this now the "what are you drinking thread" or what?

Looks like alcoholics advertising what they imbibe. !