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Dr. Sebastian Gorka, host of “America First with Sebastian Gorka,” compares the modern Democratic Party is like a “tribe” that would vote for anyone represented by a “D.” “It's a cult. It's the Borg from Star Trek. They would vote for a sack of potatoes if it had the letter 'D' on it,” he says. “That’s basically what they did in 2020. So this election, like all elections, is going to be won in the middle.”

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, host of “America First with Sebastian Gorka,” says Vice President Kamala uses running mate Tim Walz to dilute the challenge of speaking off the cuff with the press. “This woman was a prosecutor. She put people in prison. She was the attorney general of California and she can’t speak extemporaneously for 18 seconds, but she wants to be in command of our nuclear weapons? She’s just not fit for primetime,” he says.

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson says powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party won’t work with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. because of his outspoken advocacy against the pharmaceutical industry. “He knows the names of the people at [the] CDC that he believes are involved in corruption. He’s a lawyer who has litigated vaccine injury cases and autism cases against the government and won them. He knows a lot and they can’t really afford to have him out there,” she says.

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expresses regret amid the Jan. 6 riot about not deploying the National Guard to Capitol Hill ahead of time.

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson says independent researchers validated drugs like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as effective for COVID treatment. Attkisson says her research uncovered that those who advised against these drugs were funded by pharmaceutical companies that produced therapies like Remdesivir.

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson’s says the FDA is consulting with and prioritizing the pharmaceutical industry’s interests over the consumers. “It’s tough because those who could change this formula are also likewise conflicted by the donations from the big drug companies, meaning our political parties both Democrats and Republicans,” she says.

Article III Project Founder and President Mike Davis breaks down the next steps for Special counsel Jack Smith’s new superseding indictment against Donald Trump. Davis says he doesn’t expect the trial to take place before the election and advises the former president to open a probe into Smith’s “obvious criminal conspiracy to violate President Trump’s constitutional rights" if elected in November.

Article III Project Founder and President Mike Davis says Special Counsel Jack Smith knows his new superseding indictment against former President Donald Trump won’t be tried before the November election. “His goal is to have an evidentiary hearing, a mini-trial, in front of D.C.-Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan before the election on presidential immunity to try to interfere in the election,” he says.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) says Vice President Kamala Harris will be a strong advocate for the green energy movement if elected president in November. Sen. Markey says the Biden-Harris administration's building of only 10 out of the 500,000 electric vehicle chargers promised in the Inflation Reduction Act is due to logistics and infrastructure, not Harris’ leadership. “By the time she is being sworn in on January 20 of 2029, all those chargers will be installed in our country and the all-electric vehicle revolution will be irreversibly on its way,” he says.

U.S. Oil and Gas President Tim Stewart explains how Vice President Kamala Harris’ proposed 25% tax on unrealized capital gains will negatively impact the energy industry. “80% of all the new oil and gas brought on line in the United States is brought on by small, independent companies,” he says. “And the unrealized capital gains tax that the Harris campaign floated last week, that is going to create a liquidity nightmare for my industry."

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Mark Schmitz, father of late Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, says Donald Trump has been very accommodating to the families of the 13 soldiers who died during the Afghanistan withdrawal. Schmitz commends the former president for recognizing the importance of laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetary today.

Mark Schmitz, father of late Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, slams President Joe Biden for refusing to take responsibility for the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. “Kamala Harris, she’s just as much to blame for this as well,” he says. “If she’s going to sit there and tote how she’s the last one in the room with Biden and supports his decisions, then she owns this blunder just as much as he does.”

Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) says our Bill of Rights is not a grant of rights but a limitation of government to take away our God-given rights, like free speech. “The reality is, most governments around the world aren’t good governments. They don’t defend freedom. They limit it,” he says. “And you look at the European Union sending threats to Elon Musk for having a televised interview with Donald Trump, how crazy is that. And now the CEO of a messaging platform, Telegram, lands his plane in France and he’s detained, he’s in jail right now because he’s allowing people to speak.”

Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) explains how the America First movement believes the United States is stronger when our military is combat-ready and ready to intervene in areas connected to our country’s interests. “There is, as scripture says, a time for war and that’s why we have a military. But we don’t have to accept every invitation to war. We’re not made stronger for it,” he says.

Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) condemns the Biden administration’s response to the disastrous 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. “This administration came up with a disastrous plan, they’ve held no one to account for coming up with the disastrous plan, and instead they’ve tried to spin it as a great success,” he says.

Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) says Vice President Kamala Harris is running a presidential campaign focused on negativity and smearing former President Donald Trump. “It’s always illuminating when you tear away the screen and look at what politicians’ own staffers have to say about them. And I'll tell you, it’s not very joyful working Kamala Harris’ office,” he says.

Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) says Vice President Kamala Harris will be cornered into debating former President Donald Trump because she’s “hidden so much from the public.” “We now know what Joe Biden was hiding, that he had early dementia. But what is Kamala Harris hiding? We think she’s hiding the fact that there are a lot of questions she doesn’t want to answer,” he says.

Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) says the Washington swamp is “scared to death” of former President Donald Trump because he’s his own man. “He will do what’s right, which is why people like him,” he says. “Like him, dislike him, nobody thinks he’s bought by anybody. He’s his own man and it’s time we had someone like that in Washington.”

Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., each told Just the News that they do not think migrant crisis at the southern border will hurt Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, in the general election.

David Axelrod, former senior advisor to former President Barack Obama, says Vice President Kamala Harris’ rallies have been great “organizing tools” for her campaign. Axelrod advises Harris to focus on delivering her message and not allow former President Donald Trump to distract her during their September 10 debate.

Speaking with Just the News Senior Correspondent Nicholas Ballasy at the Democratic National Convention, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Representative Dan Kildee (D-MI), and former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe defend Vice President Kamala Harris’ price gouging ban. “It’s not price controls. I mean, actually it was a Republican idea. Wage and price controls goes back to Richard Nixon. This is not that,” Rep. Kildee says. “This would be similar to what many of pursued during the COVID when [the] oil and gas industry was spiking gas prices, despite the fact that the barrel price hadn’t changed.”

National Taxpayers Union Executive Vice President Brandon Arnold says raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to Vice President Kamala Harris’ proposed 28% would lead to companies reducing workers’ pay or raising product prices. “Either way or a combination of the two, workers and consumers are getting hosed, we are sending more money to the Treasury, and we’re also encouraging companies to relocate,” he says.

National Taxpayers Union Executive Vice President Brandon Arnold says Vice President Kamala Harris’ proposed price controls will reduce the availability of products and lead to food shortages. “I get that inflation is a huge problem. It’s the number one economic problem facing Americans right now. But the solution is just completely wrong here. Price controls don’t work, they’ve never worked, and they never will work,” he says.