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President TrumpDonald John TrumpForget the spin: Five unrefuted Mueller Report revelations Lara Trump: Merkel admitting migrants ‘one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany’ Financial satisfaction hits record high: survey MORE on Thursday dismissed the threats posed by former Vice President Joe BidenJoseph (Joe) Robinette BidenElection analyst says Biden could face uphill battle attracting small-dollar donors Biden’s announcement was a general election message, says political analyst Gillibrand ‘not worried’ about being ‘discounted’ in 2020 race MORE, Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisThe symbol of ‘Wakanda’ and black political vision Seven big decisions facing Biden in 2020 primary Sanders dominates, Buttigieg surges in 2020 social media battle MORE (D-Calif.), former Rep. Beto O’RourkeRobert (Beto) Francis O’RourkeCory Booker releases 10 years of tax returns Buttigieg gets first congressional endorsement O’Rourke to give commencement address at Texas’s oldest black college MORE (D-Texas) and others as they seek the Democratic nomination to challenge him in 2020.

Trump called Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, where the two men engaged in a roughly 45-minute conversation railing against the president’s detractors and floating allegations about improper behavior by federal law enforcement.

At the conclusion of the discussion, Hannity asked Trump to respond to the names of a handful of Democratic candidates with a couple words that came to mind.

Trump shared a rare public critique of Harris, telling Hannity that “she’s got a little bit of a nasty wit, but that might be it.”

Of Biden, he said he’s landed on the derisive nickname “Sleepy Joe,” suggesting that the former vice president lacks the energy to handle the presidency.

Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersElection analyst says Biden could face uphill battle attracting small-dollar donors Gillibrand ‘not worried’ about being ‘discounted’ in 2020 race Biden’s sloppy launch may cost him MORE (I-Vt.), who along with Biden is polling at or near the top of most Democratic primary polls, has “a lot of energy,” Trump said.

“But he’s got misguided energy, and he’s done very poorly in terms of the Senate,” Trump said.

Trump cast doubt on the chances of O’Rourke’s candidacy, calling it a “fluke” and arguing the former Texas congressman is “fading very fast.”

“And Mayor Pete is not going to make it,” Trump said of South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegColbert links large 2020 Dem field to Avengers: ‘A group of every available person in the universe’ The Hill’s Morning Report – Trump tells House investigators ‘no’ Buttigieg draws new scrutiny, criticism MORE, who has surged in recent polling. “I’m rooting for him, but he’s not going to make it.”

The president has publicly expressed confidence about his abilities to defeat any candidate that emerges from a field of roughly 20 candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.

Recent polling of hypothetical 2020 matchups have shown Biden and Sanders leading or running neck-and-neck with Trump.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440780-trump-offers-critiques-of-2020-democratic-candidates

President Trump’s decision Thursday morning to surrender to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s demand that he wait until after the government shutdown is resolved to deliver his State of the Union speech in the House chamber is going to make it a lot less likely that Pelosi, D-Calif., gives in on the funding for a border wall.

Sure, in the larger scheme of things, this childish skirmish doesn’t matter much. No lives are going to be affected by whether the date of a speech is on Jan. 29 on some other time. But in an ongoing negotiation with no real movement, any standoff is going to become a proxy battle.

In this case, Pelosi’s petulant action of rescinding her invitation to the State of the Union was an effort to flex her muscles. Trump responded, first, by canceling a congressional delegation’s overseas trip and then sending a letter on Wednesday signaling he was going to show up anyway, widely seen as an attempt to force her hand. But Pelosi didn’t flinch — she has the power to block a resolution calling a joint session of Congress and was willing to use it. Instead of trying to call her bluff by showing up, and forcing her to shut off the lights on him, or delivering the speech an an alternate venue, he instead announced he was completely capitulating.

As Mark Levin noted, Pelosi is now going to see this as weakness. Trump lashed out, he tut-tutted, but ultimately he gave Pelosi exactly what she wanted without getting anything in return.

At this point, there’s very little reason to believe that Pelosi will give in. Her party is unified behind her, Trump is the one who’s getting more blame for the shutdown, and her base would flip out if she agreed to fund the border wall. Now, on top of this, she has even more reason to believe that he’ll eventually cave.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps-surrender-on-the-state-of-the-union-makes-it-even-less-likely-pelosi-will-give-in-on-border-wall

Ukrainian forces in the south of the country say they have struck key bridges in the Kherson region as their counteroffensive to retake the Russian-occupied city gathers pace.

In an update on Facebook, Ukraine’s Operational Command “South” said that missile and artillery units had carried out four strikes on Russian control and command points as well as four “logistical arteries” into Kherson — the Kakhovsky, Darivsky, and two Antonivsky bridges — with the damage inflicted on the bridges restricting the Russians’ use of them as supply routes for their forces in the city.

Ukraine’s military also said that its forces had killed almost 160 Russian troops in the region and destroyed 60 pieces of enemy equipment overnight.

“In our operating area, the environment is steadily complex but controlled. The destruction of hostile logistic paths, reserves and control points continues,” the operational update from the unit said. It added that Russia’s occupying force was “mostly demoralized, but continues to resist.”

Ukraine had flagged earlier this summer that it planned a counteroffensive to retake lost territory in southern Ukraine but some officials have become more tight-lipped about the offensive since it began earlier this week, wary of giving away tactical information or of building expectations of a quick victory in Kherson.

Nataliya Humenyuk, the head of the United Coordinating Center of Security and Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine, said during a press conference on Monday that “the most important thing to know at the moment is that any military operation requires conditions of silence, and the fact that any news from the front causes such a stir is actually very wrong.”

“In the conditions of a hybrid war, in the conditions of an information war, one must realize that any actions, even if they are very inspiring, must be carried out and have a logical conclusion, and only then will they be effective.”

While the counteroffensive had “inspired everyone,” she said, “you need to be patient and understand the rules and sequence of actions of military units.”

— Holly Ellyatt

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/31/russia-ukraine-war-updates.html

Rep. Greg Steube R-Fla., said Sunday that House Democrats are unlikely to work with President Trump on immigration and won’t meet the Trump’s deadline to solve the crisis on the Mexico border.

Trump originally announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids would start in several major cities with the goal of apprehending thousands of illegal immigrants, but called off the operation at the last minute at the request of congressional Democrats. He then said Saturday he’d give Congress two weeks to come up with a solution before giving ICE the green light to proceed.

“I was in the Rose Garden with the president when he announced his immigration plan and then hours later Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi said it’s dead on arrival,” Steube said Sunday on “America’s News HQ.” 

“We have had a Congress where Democrats have absolutely stalled on doing anything as it relates to the crisis on the border. Even now Democrats and the left are saying that we have a crisis on the border.”

Steube suggested House Democrats had no interest in attacking the issue head-on.

PRINCETON PROFESSOR CALLS TRUMP’S TWEET ABOUT ICE RAIDS A ‘TERRORISTIC ACT’

“I sit on the immigration subcommittee on [the House Judiciary Committee] — they’ve done nothing as it relates to fixing this problem,” he said. “And, we as Republicans are fighting to do it. We have bills filed but they’re not wanting to move anything forward.”

Fox News’ Leland Vittert challenged Steube, saying Republicans had a chance to pass immigration reform after the 2016 elections when they had control of both congressional chambers and the White House.

“I wasn’t in Congress when that happened but I will tell you that people in my district were upset that when the Republicans had the majority, they weren’t able to get that done, and I think — I’m certainly going to be fighting to bring the majority back to Republicans in the House and if we do win the majority in 2020 you will see all of us focus on this immigration issue,” he replied.

Vittert continued to press Steube asking why voters should trust Republicans to follow through when they couldn’t deliver on immigration the first time.

TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON EXPECTED ICE RAID AMID PUSHBACK FROM LOCAL DEM POLITICIANS

“I think you have a president who is very focused on this issue,” he replied. “I wasn’t there so I can’t speak of what he was telling congressional leaders but… I came into Congress with a very conservative class of leaders from all across the country, and we all feel very strongly about this issue.”

Steube also said Trump’s willingness to compromise with Democrats gave him hope that Congress could stem the tide of illegal immigrants pouring across the border, and finally find a permanent fix to the immigration crisis.

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“The president certainly is willing to make a deal. Look at the things that he offered. I mean, he’s willing to go a lot farther than the probably more conservative members of the House are willing to go to get a deal. I think with the president’s leadership on this, hopefully, we can get something done,” he said.

“But, all the Democrats are doing is stalling and doing nothing on this issue right now while hundreds of thousands of people every month are coming illegally into our country.”

Fox News’ Leland Vittert contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrats-stalling-immigration-ice-raids-steube

Oxford — A football player, a volleyball striker, a captain of the bowling team and an aspiring artist.

Those were the four students tragically killed in Tuesday afternoon’s mass shooting at Oxford High School and who were identified by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.

Late Tuesday, authorities said Hana St. Juliana, 14, Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and Tate Myre, 16, were the three students who initially lost their lives following a five-minute rampage at the Oakland County high school. A fourth student died Wednesday morning: Justin Shilling was 17, authorities said.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said their families have been notified and each family has been assigned a deputy to remain as long as they need and “to provide the protection they deserve.”

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Myre, a football player and honor roll student, died in a patrol car as a deputy rushed him to a local hospital, Bouchard said in a 10 p.m. Tuesday update on the investigation.

“One of our deputies, due to the severity of wounds, loaded up one of the children in his car and, sadly, that child died in the car,” Bouchard said. “One of our employees who was in the 911 center as part of the team taking the emergency calls, had a relative killed. This touches us all personally, deeply and will for a long time.

“We will leave no stone unturned.”

Shilling was a senior and co-captain of the school’s bowling team and was an employee at Anita’s Kitchen in Lake Orion.

The restaurant posted a tribute to Shilling Wednesday afternoon, saying “he was an exemplary employee, a devoted friend and co-worker, co-captain of his bowling team, and simply a pleasure to be around.”

“Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time,” the restaurant said, adding that since opening its Lake Orion doors in December 2019, much of its staff has consisted of Oxford High students. “We often marvel at how blessed we are to have such amazing kids as part of our Lake Orion team. Simply put — we would not be a restaurant without them. Our heart aches for them all today, as they begin to heal from this terrible tragedy.”

In online tributes, friends said Baldwin, a senior, was expected to graduate this year. She had already been accepted into several colleges, some with a full scholarship.

“She was an artist who loved to draw, read and write. She was the eldest of three siblings,” friends wrote.

Juliana, a freshman, was the youngest victim killed. She was No. 9 on the Oxford volleyball team and had been playing front row in volleyball since middle school. She also played on the school’s basketball team and made her high school debut the night before she was killed.

Source Article from https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2021/12/01/victims-oxford-high-school-shooting-identified-hana-st-julian-madisyn-baldwin-tate-myre/8817875002/

A Central Point father of four who wished President Joe Biden and the first lady a wonderful Christmas and added “Let’s go, Brandon,” at the end of a live streamed Santa tracker call told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he didn’t intend his parting message to be vulgar.

“At the end of the day, I have nothing against Mr. Biden, but I am frustrated because I think he can be doing a better job,” said Jared Schmeck, 35, who works for an electric company and was previously a Medford police officer for six years until he resigned in July 2018. “I mean no disrespect to him.”

The phrase “Let’s Go, Brandon” has become a conservative dig at the Democratic president, a code for “F— Joe Biden,” which resulted from an Oct. 2 NASCAR race in Alabama, where a crowd was shouting the vulgar chant, but a TV reporter suggested during an interview with the driver, Brandon Brown, who had just won his first Xfinity Series, that the crowd actually was chanting, “Let’s go, Brandon.”

Schmeck said he’s not a “Trumper,” but described himself as “free-thinking American and follower of Jesus Christ.”

Schmeck said he and his family call into the NORAD Santa tracker every Christmas Eve. He said he wasn’t aware the call would be livestreamed.

When he called Friday night from his sons’ Christmas-decorated bedroom, he was told First Lady Jill Biden would be taking calls.

“I thought it would be automated. We just waited on hold and then they answered,” he said. “And I thought, ‘wow, this is real.’ “

When Jared shared the names of his children, President Biden immediately honed in on the boy named Hunter, sharing that they have a son and grandson named Hunter as well.

Jared’s 11-year-old Griffin told the president he wanted a piano for Christmas. His son Hunter said he wanted a Switch.

“Switch?” Biden questioned.

Schmeck, kneeling between his sons’ beds and holding his cell phone out so all could hear, explained to the president that it’s short for Ninetendo Switch. Schmeck went on to share that his daughter Piper wanted a Barbie doll airplane and his 2-year-old daughter Penelope would be happy with any presents from Santa. Schmeck asked for a “quiet night.” The president retorted, “Lucks of luck dad,” and all laughed.

Biden urged all the children to get to bed by 9 p.m. and stay asleep until midnight or Santa wouldn’t show.

“Well, have a Merry Christmas. Have a wonderful Christmas,” the First Lady said.

“I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well,” Schmeck responded, and added, “Merry Christmas and Let’s Go Brandon!”

The First Lady winced, and the president immediately responded, “Let’s Go Brandon, I agree.”

Then President Biden attempted to find out if Jared was calling from Oregon.

“By the way are you in Oregon? Where’s your home?” the president asked. With no response, Biden said, “I think we lost him,” and moved on.

By then, though, Schmeck had gotten off the phone. He said he didn’t hang up on the president but that he was disconnected.

Soon afterward, Schmeck’s wife on Instagram posted, “My husband may or may not have just told joe and jill Biden ‘let’s go Brandon’ on the phone,’ “ punctuated by two crying emojis. Schmeck also posted a video of their conversation with Biden and the First Lady on his YouTube channel, writing, “We talked to President Joe Biden on Christmas Eve! #letsgobrandon”

From Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, Schmeck’s parting remark to Biden fueled fury on social media.

U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-CA, wrote on Twitter, “I refuse to believe we are this indecent as people. Not on Christmas Eve. And not to a person who lost his wife and daughter at Christmastime. We are better than this. Be kind and #Merry Christmas.”

Another on Twitter wrote: “Imagine being a grown man so infantile and disrespectful that you say the slur ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ to the president in front of your own kids and dozens of others. This is a sad time.”

Others lambasted his remark. One person wrote on Twitter, “Some of us celebrate Christmas Eve w gratitude for the birth of Jesus, others shout obscenities to entertain their son and @YouTube audience.”

“Wow. #jaredschmeck is gonna trend for the first time in his life, and not in a good way,” wrote another on the social media site.

Schmeck called his remark a “joke,” and a reflection of his frustration with Biden’s policies, including the federal vaccine mandates, inflation and global supply chain problems that have caused shortages in consumer products.

“And now I am being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech,” Schmeck said, adding that he’s been receiving some vague but threatening phone calls since the Santa tracker call.

“I understand there is a vulgar meaning to ‘Lets go Brandon,’ but I’m not that simple minded, no matter how I feel about him,” the 35-year-old father said Christmas morning. “He seems likes he’s a cordial guy. There’s no animosity or anything like that. It was merely just an innocent jest to also express my God-given right to express my frustrations in a joking manner…I love him just like I love any other brother or sister.”

Asked why he resigned from Medford police on July 15, 2018, Schmeck wouldn’t say.

He went on to say he “stood 100% behind what I did and what I said.”

— Maxine Bernstein

Email at mbernstein@oregonian.com; 503-221-8212

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Source Article from https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/12/oregon-father-of-four-who-told-president-biden-lets-go-brandon-on-christmas-eve-call-said-he-meant-it-in-jest.html

(CNN Español) – Cada semana, CNN en Español te plantea la pregunta sobre cuál fue la noticia de la semana.

Alejandra Oraa analizará las tres primeras noticias de la semana y presentará el resultado de la votación.

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La familia de César Arellano Chumacero pide ayuda para trasladar el cuerpo del vigilante a su natal Piura.

El vigilante asesinado trabajaba en la discoteca donde Eduardo Glicerio Romero Naupay disparó a quemarropa a los presentes. | Fuente: RPP

César Arellano Chumacero trabajaba como seguridad en la discoteca Zeven de Independencia, cuando Eduardo Romero lo asesinó  a él y a otras dos personas la noche de este viernes. Su tía, Diosa Arellano, le dijo a RPP Noticias que su sobrino ha dejado a 3 hijos en la orfandad y pidió ayuda para llevar el cuerpo a su natal Piura.

“Nos enteramos por la televisión, pero no queríamos creer que era él. César trabajaba hace seis años en la discoteca, es un padre de familia de 3 niños, que han quedado en la orfandad. Mi sobrino es de Piura, pero vive en Lima. Allá tiene dos hijos de su primer compromiso y del segundo tiene una hijita que vive acá”, comentó en RPP Noticias.

Diosa Arellano pidió “que se haga justicia” y que se sanciones a los responsables que le permitieron a Eduardo Romero portar un arma de fuego. “En Piura, su papá aún no se entera. No puede venir a Lima porque está delicado de salud, por eso necesitamos ayuda para llevar el cuerpo allá”.

La tía del vigilante César Arellano Chumacero llegó a la Morgue Central de Lima, donde está el cadáver de su familiar. | Fuente: RPP

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Actualizado a las 19:10

Culminó la votación en Ecuador y ahora sus ciudadanos se mantienen a la espera de resultados oficiales de la segunda vuelta electoral.

El CNE entregará datos oficiales a las 20:00, acaba de decir el presidente del CNE, Juan Pablo Pozo.

Ambos candidatos se declaran ganadores del balotaje de este domingo 2 de abril.

Según el exit poll de la empresa Cedatos, el candidato Guillermo Lasso (CREO-SUMA) ganó la elección.

De acuerdo a las respuestas de 36 mil ecuatorianos, los resultados de Cedatos son:

GUILLERMO LASSO 53,02 %
LENÍN MORENO 46,98 %

Pero, también en Quito hay festejos en la tribuna de los Shyris por parte de los seguidores de Alianza País, porque de acuerdo a un exit poll de la empresa Perfiles de Opinión, contratada por el régimen, los resultados son:

LENÍN MORENO 52,2 %
GUILLERMO LASSO 47,8 %

La decisiva jornada electoral en que los ecuatorianos eligieron un nuevo mandatario entre Lenín Moreno, representante del Movimiento Alianza PAIS, y Guillermo Lasso, postulante de la alianza CREO-SUMA, transcurrió este domingo con relativa normalidad, en medio de la expectativa de los votantes.

La normalidad la confirmó el presidente del CNE, Juan Pablo Pozo, al realizar un tercer corte del proceso, alrededor de las 16:30 de este domingo.

En España, se conocieron de inmediato los resultados, donde el candidato oficialista Lenín Moreno ganó en la elección.

A pesar de la lluvia en varias provincias de Ecuador, los votantes acudieron desde temprano a los recintos para asentar el voto, que en esta elección de segunda vuelta solo consta de una papeleta. Ya a media mañana mejoró el clima.

Los candidatos

En el colegio donde acudió a votar en Quito, el candidato Lenín Moreno, (AP), dijo estar seguro de que “Ecuador va a votar por continuar por un proceso que le marca un derrotero de futuro”. El candidato, su vicepresidente Jorge Glas, y sus simpatizantes esperan resultados en el hotel Quito, en la capital ecuatoriana.

Poco antes, Guillermo Lasso, (CREO-SUMA), aseguró tras votar en Guayaquil, que este balotaje es “crucial” para elegir entre el “camino de Venezuela o el camino de la democracia y de la libertad”. Junto a su vicepresidente Andrés Páez, sus seguidores y su familia, Lasso espera los resultados oficiales desde el hotel HIlton en Guayaquil.

Tras entregar su voto, el actual mandatario Rafael Correa destacó que las elecciones ecuatorianas son “muy importantes para ver si continúa esa tendencia (en la región de dar un giro a la derecha) o retoma fuerza la tendencia progresista”.

Se refiere al giro conservador que ha experimentado la región con el triunfo presidencial de Mauricio Macri, en Argentina; la destitución de Dilma Rousseff, en Brasil y el abultado triunfo parlamentario de la oposición venezolana, entre otros.

Consultado acerca de la transición con el nuevo gobierno, Correa dijo que “va a ser una transición pacífica informada sin sobresaltos y con la mayoría de los problemas resueltos”.

Los resultados oficiales se esperan a partir de las de 20:00 locales (01H00 GMT del lunes). (I)

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The only thing uglier than an angry Washington is a fearful Washington. And fear is what’s driving this week’s blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr.

Mr. Barr tolerantly sat through hours of Democratic insults at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. His reward for his patience was to be labeled, in the space of a news cycle, a lawbreaking, dishonest, obstructing hack. Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly accused Mr. Barr of lying to Congress, which, she added, is “considered a crime.” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he will move to hold Mr. Barr in contempt unless the attorney general acquiesces to the unprecedented demand that he submit to cross-examination by committee staff attorneys. James Comey, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, lamented that Donald Trump had “eaten” Mr. Barr’s “soul.” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren demands the attorney general resign. California Rep. Eric Swalwell wants him impeached.

These attacks aren’t about special counsel Robert Mueller, his report or even the surreal debate over Mr. Barr’s first letter describing the report. The attorney general delivered the transparency Democrats demanded: He quickly released a lightly redacted report, which portrayed the president in a negative light. What do Democrats have to object to?

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Some of this is frustration. Democrats foolishly invested two years of political capital in the idea that Mr. Mueller would prove President Trump had colluded with Russia, and Mr. Mueller left them empty-handed. Some of it is personal. Democrats resent that Mr. Barr won’t cower or apologize for doing his job. Some is bitterness that Mr. Barr is performing like a real attorney general, making the call against obstruction-of-justice charges rather than sitting back and letting Democrats have their fun with Mr. Mueller’s obstruction innuendo.

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But most of it is likely fear. Mr. Barr made real news in that Senate hearing, and while the press didn’t notice, Democrats did. The attorney general said he’d already assigned people at the Justice Department to assist his investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. He said his review would be far-reaching – that he was obtaining details from congressional investigations, from the ongoing probe by the department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, and even from Mr. Mueller’s work. Mr. Barr said the investigation wouldn’t focus only on the fall 2016 justifications for secret surveillance warrants against Trump team members but would go back months earlier.

He also said he’d focus on the infamous “dossier” concocted by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS and British former spy Christopher Steele, on which the FBI relied so heavily in its probe. Mr. Barr acknowledged his concern that the dossier itself could be Russian disinformation, a possibility he described as not “entirely speculative.” He also revealed that the department has “multiple criminal leak investigations under way” into the disclosure of classified details about the Trump-Russia investigation.

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On Thursday night, the third Democratic debate will be the first to put all the major Democratic candidates on one stage together. But among the 10 candidates, only three have been consistently registering frontrunner status in the polls: Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

And that’s been pretty consistent for several months now.

Between the two rounds — and four nights — of debates, there have been a lot of break out moments for those three and some of the other seven candidates who will be on stage Thursday (Sen. Kamala Harris, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Sen. Cory Booker, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and former US housing secretary Julián Castro).

There was the time Harris took Biden to task over his comments about working with southern Democratic segregationists in the Senate. Booker tried to have a repeat viral moment over Biden’s criminal justice record in the second debate. O’Rourke surprised everyone by whipping out some broken Spanish. Sanders found a catch phrase when pushed back on criticism on his signature proposal, the Medicare for All Act, by declaring he wrote the “damn” bill. Or Warren asked why moderate John Delaney even bothered to run for president.

But these moments haven’t really changed the fundamental polling outcomes going into Thursday:

  1. Joe Biden is still leading nationally.
  2. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are basically tied for second, and nipping closely at Biden’s heels in a few early states.
  3. Everyone else needs a break-through moment that will stick.

There have been ongoing trends that are worth keeping a close eye on. Warren’s upward trajectory in polling continues. Sanders, meanwhile has remained pretty stable, while showing some good showings in early state polls. And there are a lot of undecided voters among key demographics that could make or break these candidates chances.

This is looking increasingly like a three-way race

Recent polls all seem to paint a similar picture.

Biden is winning overall. Going into this week, an ABC/Washington Post from September 2-5, found Biden with 27 percent of the vote, Sanders with 19 percent and Warren with 17 percent. None of the other candidates registered double digits. Biden was overwhelmingly seen as the most electable candidate against Trump in that poll. A CNN poll during the same time found similar results: Biden at 24 percent, and Warren and Sanders at 18 and 17 percent respectively.

That’s consistent with the polling averages overall, that puts Biden at roughly 28 percent of national support — roughly 10 points ahead of the rest of the field. Compared to the very beginning of his campaign, when he was polling in the low 40s, Biden’s clout in the field has dropped substantially, but he’s remained a stable lead throughout the summer. The exception is in South Carolina, where Biden has 43 percent of the support — a full 25 points ahead of second-place Sanders, according to the most recent late August, early September YouGov poll.

Biden has been put on the defensive throughout the primary cycle as candidates across the ideological spectrum have attacked his record and past comments. Some of these moments have affected Biden’s poll numbers — he took a dip after Harris publicly called him out for his position on school busing in the 1970s — but he’s always bounced back. And despite talking himself into a seemingly never ending “gaffe” news cycle, Biden remains in the lead.

That said, Biden’s frontrunner status isn’t going unchallenged. Sanders and Warren are also registering double digits in the polls and they’ve increasingly seen their strength come in state polls in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. The Real Clear Politics polling average puts the two in a dead heat, as did an early September YouGov poll which saw Warren and Biden in a tie at 24 percent and Sanders behind at 17 percent.

A Franklin Pierce-Boston Herald New Hampshire poll this week, in fact, put Sanders up 7 points ahead of the rest of the field, with 29 percent of the vote. Biden came in second with 21 percent, followed by Warren (17 percent). Another YouGov New Hampshire poll from late August into early September put Warren ahead of the three, with 27 percent, with Sanders and Biden essentially tied for second and third. Sanders led the latest YouGov poll out of Nevada, another early state, by two points, with Biden and Warren trailing closely behind.

Sanders and Warren support similar policies and have occupied the most progressive flank of the Democratic party, but as Vox’s Andrew Prokop noted, they have had different trajectories in the race. Sanders, who had high name recognition going into this election from his 2016 run, has remained relatively stagnant in second place. Meanwhile, Warren has seen a steady rise.

There are a lot of undecided voters

About a quarter of the Democratic electorate is still undecided — a share of voters that hasn’t substantially shrunk since April, when Biden first jumped in.

Poll after poll has shown that Democratic voters are more willing to pick a candidate that they think will win against Donald Trump than a candidate they are more ideologically aligned to. In other words, electability matters to Democrats this election cycle, a lot.

The good news for the candidates in the Democratic field is that in hypothetical match-ups, Trump loses to almost all of them. As Vox’s Sean Collins pointed out, a September 10 New Hampshire Emerson poll even found Yang — who hasn’t substantially topped 2 percent of support — defeating Trump comfortably. The ABC-Washington Post poll found Biden, Warren, Sanders, and Harris beating Trump by double-digit margins. But that doesn’t always match up with voters’ perceptions.

The number of undecided voters could have interesting implications for some of the top candidates, particularly in demographics that represent a core part of the Democratic base. For example, an Essence poll of black women found while older generations primarily supported Biden, and younger black women supported Sanders, 26 percent were still undecided. In states like South Carolina, where black voters make up 60 percent of the Democratic base, that could make or break some candidate’s chances. Candidates like Warren who has struggled to shore up support among black voters so far.

There’s still a big field of candidates who haven’t had breakthroughs

Meanwhile, the rest of the field needs a break out moment that will actually stick.

Harris had some momentum after the first debate when she took on Biden. State polls in Iowa and South Carolina offered a little more light for Harris in July. She outpaced Warren and Sanders in a mid-July Monmouth poll of South Carolina voters and essentially tied with Warren in a YouGov poll of Iowa in July. But in national polls, that was a fleeting moment of electoral success, and in the past two months she’s slipped back solidly into fourth place.

Similarly, Buttigieg, who enjoyed a major media frenzy early on, hasn’t been able to substantially make a dent in the crowded field. And not far behind Harris and Buttigieg sit a tier of candidates, from O’Rourke, to Booker and Yang stuck at around 2 to 3 percent of the vote.

The debates, as always, give these candidates a chance to break out. But they’ll need to have a moment that actually sticks.

Correction: This article incorrectly identified the Franklin Pierce-Boston Herald New Hampshire poll as a poll with The Boston Globe.

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(CNN)It’s hard to think of anywhere else in the world right now where Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would get such a warm welcome.

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    El “escape” de Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán nuevamente es noticias, al menos en las redes sociales. El famosos narcotraficante se “fugó”, en una noticia falsa que se corrió en las redes sociales. En Honduras, decomisan un arsenal valorado en medio millón de lempiras.

    En este resumen de noticias de este viernes, te presentamos las que mayor impacto tuvieron en Honduras y el planeta entero:


    Falso escape del Chapo Guzmán enciende las redes sociales

    El narcotraficante Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán ha vuelto a encender las alertas este viernes tras difundirse su supuesta tercera fuga.
    Un sitio que se hace pasar por el portal de noticias ABC News publicó información falsa de que el líder del cartel de Sinaloa se había fugado.

    La página real de noticias es abcnews.go.com, mientras que el portal falso tiene como dirección abcnews.com.co pero muchos se creyeron la falsa noticia.


    Revelan forma en que operaban los cachiros

    La organización especializada en el análisis de la violencia y el crimen organizado en Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos, InSight Crime, ofreció detalles de cómo operaba y encajaban Los Cachiros en una red internacional de tráfico de drogas.
    “Los Cachiros financiaron partidos políticos de todas las tendencias, desde candidatos a alcaldías hasta congresistas y quizá incluso en niveles más altos. Sabotearon las investigaciones locales contra ellos y otros grupos, infiltrándose en la policía, las procuradurías locales y los juzgados de todo el país. Compraron empresas constructoras, para así poder ganar contratos con el gobierno y luego pagarles sobornos a los políticos que habían apoyado sus postulaciones durante las licitaciones. Apoyaron invasiones de terrenos de empresas rivales. Y asesinaron impunemente a sus rivales en el negocio del narcotráfico y a otras personas que se les opusieron”, detalló teven Dudley, codirector de InSight Crime.

    Según la información “Los Cachiros habían acumulado entre US$500 y 800 millones en activos”.


    Decomisan armas valoradas en medio millón de lempiras

    Más de diez potentes armas de fuego fueron decomisadas en las últimas horas en tres operativos en la colonia Las Torres de Comayagüela, en la capital de Honduras.
    “Este tipo de armas es utilizada únicamente por las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado, un arma de corte ilegal, en manos de particulares”, indicó el portavoz de la Secretaría de Seguridad, Luis Osavas.

    “Son armas con alto poder de fuego. Es una incautación que su valor oscila en medio millón de lempiras”, explicó Osavas.


    Portada del desnudo de Kim Kardashian rompe récord

    Parece que todo lo que Kim Kardashian toca se convierte en oro y es que no es de extrañar viendo la increíble cantidad de legiones de fans que tiene repartidos a lo largo y ancho del mundo. En Facebook, cuenta ya con casi 29 millones de fans en su página, mientras que en Twitter, su número de seguidores asciende hasta los más de 41 millones. Así que no es de extrañar que las marcas se la rifen para que sea embajadora de sus productos.

    Ahora, la que ha roto todos los récords habidos y por haber en el mundo de los medios de comunicación impresos ha sido la revista GQ, en cuya portada aparecía la Kardashian muy ligerita de ropa, algo a lo que ya tiene acostumbrados a todos los mortales.


    Atacante de Dallas era veterano de guerra

    Estados Unidos era un país conmocionado este viernes ante el tiroteo que provocó la muerte de cinco agentes de policía en Dallas, al fin de una semana de furia a raíz de la violencia policial contra ciudadanos negros.
    El único sospechoso abatido por la policía luego de la matanza del jueves en Dallas fue Micah Johnson, un negro de 25 años que carecía de antecedentes policiales y reservista del Ejército, que estuvo movilizado en Afganistán entre noviembre de 2013 y julio de 2014.

    Johnson fue muerto al fin de un gigantesco cerco policial que incluyó el uso de un robot con explosivos.


    Honduras, el 52 país más peligroso del mundo, según GPI

    Según un informe del Global Peace Index (GPI), Honduras es el segundo país más peligroso de Centroamérica.
    El mundo es hoy más peligroso que hace un año, ha indicado el último informe del Global Peace Index (GPI) del Instituto de para la Economía y la Paz en este 2016.
    La décima edición de este informe incluye a 163 país donde concluye que Islandia es el país donde menos violencia existe en todo el mundo.
    Los 163 estados cubren más del 99% de la población mundial y se evaluó a través de 23 indicadores. El índice mide la paz mundial mediante tres grandes temas: el nivel de seguridad y protección en la sociedad, en la medida de conflicto nacional e internacional, y el grado de militarización que existe en cada estado.
    Los conflictos regionales en el Oriente Medio y el Norte de África se intensificaron lo que significa que los países más peligrosos del mundo de 2015 se hizo aún más grande.
    Siria, Sudán del Sur e Irak son los países más peligrosos del mundo, destaca el informe. Otros estados frágiles y que están en los primeros lugares son Afganistán, Somalia, Yemen y la República Centroafricana.
    Mientras que Pakistán y Corea del Norte salieron del top 10 y sorprendentemente Ucrania, país europeo, hora ocupa el octavo lugar debido al conflicto con los separatistas pro-rusos en la región de Donbass.

    20% de la población de Somalia y Sudán del Sur, respectivamente, y más del 60% de la de Siria “.
    Europa sigue siendo la región geográfica más tranquila y destaca Islandia, Dinamarca y Austria como los países más pacíficos del mundo. Sin embargo, a pesar de la tranquilidad relativa de Europa, la puntuación media en Europa se deterioró debido a los incidentes de terrorismo en París y Bruselas, así como el aumento de la violencia y la inestabilidad en Turquía, un país que también ha sufrido profundamente y se ubica en la 19 posición.

    Los países más peligrosos del mundo
    1. Siria
    2. Sudán del Sur
    3. Irak
    4. Afghanistan
    5. Afghanistan
    6. Yemén
    7. República Central Africana
    8. Ucrania
    9. Sudán
    10 Libia
    11. Pakistan
    12. República Democrática del Congo
    13. Rusia
    14. Corea del Norte
    15. Nigeria
    16. Palestina
    17. Colombia
    18. Líbano
    19. Turquía
    20. Israel
    21. Venezuela
    22. Egipto
    23. India
    24. México
    25. Filipinas
    26. Burundi
    27. Mali
    28. Chad
    29. Eritrea
    30. Azerbaiyán
    31. Irán
    32. Bahrein
    33. Kenia
    34. Camerún
    35. Arabia Saudita
    36. Ruanda
    37. Zimbaue
    38. Sudáfrica
    39. Tailandia
    40. Kirguistán
    41. Mauritania
    42. Tayikistán
    43. Djibouti
    44. China
    45. Ethiopía
    46. Costa de Marfil
    47. Guatemala
    48. Guinea-Bissau
    49. Myanmar
    50. Republica de Congo
    51. Nigeria
    52. Honduras
    53. El Salvador

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    Dr. Deborah Birx, member of President Trump’s coronavirus task force, discussed some of the latest revelations learned from data that her team continues to collect, pointing to what they have been able to learn from those infected with the virus who have not shown symptoms.

    Birx said that especially within certain limited populations that have experienced outbreaks, examining those who never knew they had it can be vital to advancing the White House’s strategy for monitoring COVID-19.

    TOP PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERT SAYS U.S. ‘NOT OUT OF THE WOODS’ IN CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

    “I think we’re getting a lot of information out of these isolated outbreaks that are occurring, whether they’re occurring in prisons or among essential workers in packing plants, or specifically gatherings that came together — whether it was a wedding or event — and when you look at those epidemics it isn’t until you start seeing symptomatic groups, so when you go in there and test you find a lot of people have the virus and may not ever develop symptoms,” Birx told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” noting that she thinks “we’re really starting to look at this in a very careful way to understand how we do surveillance.”

    Birx said that the administration’s plan for monitoring the pandemic is to conduct both diagnoses and surveillance of at-risk populations. By finding asymptomatic cases early in places like inner cities and long-term care facilities, she said, the government can better determine where the virus has spread before a large number of people get sick.

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    Antibody tests can also help achieve this by determining whether asymptomatic people have already been infected. Birx said that the government is working on a method for people to have two antibody tests to increase “the specificity and sensitivity of the test to make it more accurate,” with details potentially coming later this week.

    Birx further discussed antibody testing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” particularly the World Health Organization’s warning that people who have recovered and have antibodies may not actually be immune to COVID-19.

    “WHO is being very cautious,” Birx said, explaining that there are different types of antibodies that have different impacts when it comes to fighting off illness.

    “I think what WHO was saying, we don’t know how long that effective antibody lasts,” Birx said, recognizing that “that is a question that we have to explore over the next few months and over the next few years.”

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    Birx also appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” addressing how states and individuals should handle the coming reopening of certain parts of the country. While Vice President Pence predicted that the worst of the pandemic will be “behind us” by Memorial Day in late May, Birx told NBC’s Chuck Todd that “social distancing will be with us through the summer to really ensure that we protect one another as we move through these phases.”

    Birx specifically cautioned at-risk individuals such as the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions should still shelter in place, even if their states are following the White House’s guidelines for gradually reopening in phases.

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      • Pro-Trump protesters were scheduled to demonstrate in front of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters on Monday morning after the company banned the president from its platform.
      • City police set up a barricade on the street outside the building, and organizers reportedly used the far-right online community TheDonald to plan the demonstration.
      • But local outlets report that the protest was a bust — at most, two protesters showed up, per one report.
      • Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made the decision to permanently suspend Trump from the platform on Friday based on the president’s response to the siege on the US Capitol carried out by far-right rioters.
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      Since Twitter banned President Donald Trump from its platform, his supporters began planning to protest the decision at the tech company’s San Francisco headquarters on Monday.

      Dozens of San Francisco police officers were called in for security. They erected a barricade outside of the Twitter building near the city’s downtown area to prepare for what was anticipated to be a major demonstration in defense of the president. The Chronicle reported that supporters organized the protest on TheDonald, a far-right website that was once a Reddit forum until the company banned it for hate speech violations.

      But the protest was a total bust — some outlets, like SF Gate, reported pro-Trump demonstrators to be nowhere in sight, while others reported only some speaking out against Dorsey’s crackdown on the president.

      “I don’t like being censored,” one protester told KTVU. “And I feel conservative voices are being censored.” ABC7 News reported that two people showed up.

      ABC7News reporter Dan Noyes was on the scene Monday morning, and at 9:20 a.m. local time, said in a video on Twitter that the protest was “a bust,” and a police source told him they don’t think anything is going to happen after all today. 

      The Verge video director Vjeran Pavic posted photos of the building before and after the protest was scheduled to take place.

      There were counter-protestors as well, like one man who brandished a sign reading “Impeach! Remove! Today!” Another held a sign reading “counter Trump’s coup attempts.”

      Protester Kenneth Lundgreen holds up a sign calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump as police put together barricades outside Twitter corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California on January 11, 2021.

      JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images


      On Friday, Twitter made the unprecedented decision to permanently suspend Trump from its platform. Trump has been an ardent Twitter user throughout his presidency, posting regularly from his account @realDonaldTrump, whose page is now blank.

      Trump’s posts, which reached upwards of 86 million of his followers, often prompted Twitter to add warning labels due to the baseless claims of election fraud or other misinformation made therein. One of the first times Twitter did so was in May, when Trump tweeted that mail-in voting necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic would be “substantially fraudulent” and will lead to a “Rigged Election.”

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