Jane Fonda compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler at the Women’s Media Awards on Thursday.
“If you’ve read anything about the rise of the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler, you will see the parallels,” Fonda maintained. “Attacking the media is the first step in the move towards fascism.”
Fonda, given her wild misjudgment of the only American to systematically murder scores of his fellow countrymen in an actual concentration camp, strikes as the wrong messenger bearing the wrong message here.
Before Jane Fonda saw Donald Trump as Adolf Hitler, she saw Jim Jones as a hero.
The November 21, 1978 newspaper cover story of the People’s Temple mass suicide under Jim Jones. (AFP/Getty Images)
“We are familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple,” Fonda, along with husband Tom Hayden, San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, reporter Paul Avery, California assemblyman Willie Brown, and other progressives, avowed in 1977, “and have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality in the community and also for providing enormous material assistance to poor, minority and disadvantaged people in every area of human need.”
Fonda denied joining Peoples Temple. She did attend a Temple service. In researching Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco, Jane Fonda’s name came up repeatedly, albeit no less shockingly each time, as a devoted supporter of Jim Jones. And other researchers uncovered a particularly damning letter sent after her visit to Peoples Temple: “I also recommit myself to your congregation as an active full participant—not only for myself, but because I want my two children to have the experience.”
Jim Jones certainly thought of her as a member of his flock. At an anti-suicide event at Golden Gate Bridge in 1977, Jones cited Fonda as a reason for releasing him from the doldrums. The Peoples Temple leader noted, eerily in light of the mass suicide at Jonestown, that “at one time or other we have all felt the alienation and despair. I think the despair got to me yesterday. If it hadn’t been for an Academy Award winning actress joining our church … I think I would have been in a suicidal mood myself today for perhaps the first time in my life, so I have a particular and personal empathy for what we are doing here today.”
In Jonestown, Peoples Temple screened the Jane Fonda film Julia. “I was of course particularly interested,” Temple member Edith Roller reflected in her diary, “because of the connection of Fonda with the Temple.” The Temple viewed Fonda as so important that they assigned her a codename—Xavier—for use on shortwave transmissions between Guyana and the United States.
Like so many who paid tribute to Jim Jones, Fonda eventually did not see her well-wishes reciprocated. One Temple transcript shows Marceline Jones, wife of the leader, unable to reach Fonda by telephone. Did she sour on Jim Jones? Jones surely soured on her.
“She’s a sellout. That’s what pains,” Jones told his flock in Jonestown.
Claiming to read from media reports in the United States, Jones on another occasion fantastically informed his followers: “Jane Fonda will not have anything to do with her former liberal friends, having at one time in her highest moments, gave her body for some fifty thousand dollars to help the [Black] Panthers, she’s now playing it safe, and on a quest in her middle years to be popular and acceptable, and hopes to see her husband become president.”
He labeled Fonda, who launched a series of successful exercise videos and won an Oscar and an Emmy after her dalliance with Peoples Temple, “over the hill.” He lashed out at Tom Hayden as a “stupid, sick punk.”
Just as Fonda’s politics led her to make outlandish claims about the president, her politics led her to make outlandish statements about the preacher. In both instances, she let passion overtake reason. Donald Trump is as much Adolf Hitler as Jim Jones was a man who set “a high standard of ethics and morality.”
Fonda’s interviewers over the years raise such indelicate subjects as her plastic surgeries and her trip to North Vietnam when the United States fought a war against the Communist nation. But her support for America’s most prolific mass murderer remains a subject too far down the memory hole to raise.
A biographer reports Fonda confessing her biggest regret as not jumping into bed with Che Guevara. Remorse for jumping into bed with Peoples Temple, strangely, did not rise to that level.
Facebook said Friday that it “mistakenly” removed a New York City rabbi’s story about being harassed a day earlier by supporters of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Rabbi Avram Mlotek of Base MNHTN posted his account on the social media site about an incident on a train where he was confronted by a man who called him a “f—— fake” Jew and “impostor.”
“This man told me repeatedly that Israel was not mine, that I was a fraud, and that Jews are responsible for the mess we find ourselves in today in the city of New York and all over the world,” Mlotek wrote in a now-viral post.
The man who approached the rabbi went on show a photo of Farrakhan and asked the rabbi if he knew who Farrakhan was. The rabbi said he told the man that Farrakhan is an anti-Semite.
“No, that’s a real Jew. You’re a f——- fake,” came the man’s reply.
Farrakhan has a long history of making anti-Semitic remarks, including once praising Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler as “a very great man.”
The most recent controversy involves Farrakhan commenting on Twitter that “I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-Termite.”
Mlotek said another man on the train joined in to support the first man, with both of them lifting their fists in the Black Power symbol.
“He a photo-copy,” said the second man. “And a bunch of them are gays. F—ing f—-ts. You gonna get off this subway stop, man?” said the first man again.
Mlotek said the man called him a “c——-” as he got off the train. He added that no one else aboard the train spoke out during the incident.
After the rabbi’s post gathered attention, it was struck down by Facebook.
Mlotek wrote in a separate post that the story was removed because it “violates community standards.”[…]
A Facebook spokesperson told the Jewish Journal that the Rabbi’s post was “mistakenly” removed and has been restored. The post doesn’t appear to be live.
Project 21, a black conservative activist group, is calling on CNN to speak out and discuss the racially charged remarks made by one of its anchors.
Anchor Don Lemon was speaking to fellow CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Monday night when he said that white men were the biggest terrorist threat to the U.S. Lemon also mused over why there isn’t a travel ban in place for white men.
Despite receiving heavy criticism, Lemon refused to back down on his comments throughout the week, and instead, doubled down on them Wednesday night. CNN has refused to address the remarks — and the fallout — at the time of this writing.
What is the activist group saying?
In a Thursday news release, the organization called on CNN President Jeff Zucker to participate in a discussion about Lemon’s remarks.
The organization, which is under the umbrella of conservative group The National Center for Public Policy Research, called Lemon’s rhetoric "outrageous" and irresponsible.
In the news release, co-chairs Bishop Council Nedd, Stacy Washington, and Horace Cooper wrote, "Within a space of five seconds, CNN’s Don Lemon went from saying we shouldn’t demonize people to broadly labeling white men as our nation’s ‘biggest terror threat.’"
"That’s not responsible journalism," the release adds. "This cannot stand."
"CNN President Jeff Zucker recently called out the White House for its criticism of the media, saying President Trump doesn’t comprehend the importance of the words he uses," the statement continues. "It’s time for Zucker to put his own house in order — starting with explaining how Don Lemon’s outrageous statement can stand in light of Zucker’s call for civility."
What did Lemon specifically say, anyway?
Lemon made the offending remarks to Cuomo on Monday, pointing to the pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats and the Pittsburgh synagogue mass killing. He also referred to the Kentucky grocery store murders last week, in which a white man gunned down two black individuals.
Lemon explained that it’s time to sit down and examine the root causes of these acts of violence.
“I keep trying to point out to people and not to demonize any one group or any one ethnicity,” Lemon said. “But we keep thinking that the biggest terror threat is something else, some people who are marching, you know, toward the border, like it’s imminent.”
Lemon then went on and demonized white men.
“So, we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men — most of them radicalized to the right — and we have to start doing something about them,” he explained. “There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on — you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no ‘white guy ban.’”
President Donald Trump didn’t take kindly to a question from a reporter about political violence Friday and he threw it right back in her face with his fiery response. “You are creating — you!"
ABC News correspondent Karen Travers asked the president to comment on a poll that said many Americans blamed his rhetoric for inspiring political violence. "Some Americans say you are encouraging politically motivated violence with the way you speak," she said.
"No, no, you know what? You’re creating violence by your questions," he responded. “Me?” she said, stunned. “You are creating — you!" he said, pointing directly at her. "Also a lot of the reporters are creating violence by not writing the truth," he explained. "The fake news is creating violence." "And you know what?" he continued. "The people that support Trump, and the people that support us which is a lot of people, most people, many people, most people know when a story is true and they know when a story is false."
"And I’ll tell you what," Trump said, "if the media would write correctly and write accurately and write fairly you’d have a lot less violence in the country." "The president is not placing blame"
Travers responded to the altercation later with a tweet from her social media account. "Reminder that earlier this week, Sarah Sanders said ‘The president is not placing blame,’" she tweeted. "Today he points a finger at me and says, ‘You’re creating violence by your question. You are creating – you.’" she added. Here’s the video of the altercation with Travers:
In the two years since the 2016 Presidential election, President Donald J. Trump amassed numerous successes. His efforts are arguably the best of any President during this relative time period in spite of massive headwinds from the corrupt prior administration, the Fed, the Democrat Party and their MSM!
Below is a list of President Trump’s major accomplishments.
President Trump won the 2016 Presidential election on November 8th, 2016, two years ago. It was a miracle. The Mainstream Media said he wasn’t supposed to win.
Since that day President Trump’s accomplishments are nothing short of miraculous. In spite of massive attacks from the MSM, an investigation created through the efforts of the prior corrupt administration, and a Democrat Party that does all they can to derail him, the President kept his promises and did all he could to Make America Great Again. The results speak for themselves.
The Economy –
The DOW
The US stock market is a barometer of economic activity and since President Trump was elected President it has skyrocketed.
The stock market on Wednesday, January 17th, 2018, said it all. On that day the Dow broke 26,000 points for the first time in its history. As a result the Dow broke the record for the fastest 500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 and 7,000 point increases between major milestones in the history of the Dow. All of these increases occurred since Donald Trump was elected President.
After President Trump was elected the DOW exploded. On November 8th, 2016, the DOW stood at 18,332. Since that date the DOW has soared and it never looked back.
Not only has the DOW skyrocketed since Donald Trump was elected President, the market’s rise is record breaking. Since the 2016 election, the DOW has closed at new record all-time highs 103 times! (President Obama never saw a new all-time high in the DOW his entire first term and only saw 105 all-time closing highs from his first election win until Trump’s.)
President Trump’s first year in office (2017) saw the most all-time stock market closing highs (71) as well as the largest increase in DOW history (4,956 points). Prior to 2017, no year in the DOW’s more than 100-year history ever saw the DOW increase by more than 3,500 points, let alone 4,900. The most all-time highs in a year prior to 2017 was 69 in 1995.
Since President Trump was elected President the DOW tied the record for the most consecutive all-time closing highs in a row. In January of 1987 President Reagan saw the DOW increase to new all-time highs a record 12 days in a row. In February of 2017, President Trump matched Reagan’s record.
The DOW today stands at nearly 40% up from where it was in November of 2016, the day of the election!
Americans of all walks of life are seeing their 401k’s explode because of President Trump.
GDP and Debt
Rex Sinquefield at Forbes in October of 2016, shortly before the 2016 election, wrote the following –
The Obama recovery of the last seven years remains the worst in postwar American history. Average gross domestic product (GDP) growth since the bottom of the recession in 2009 was barely above 2.1% per year. The average since 1949 is well above 4% per year during the previous 10 expansions.
This result is not just bad, it is catastrophic. The average American should not be wondering if his or her income is a bit above or below 2007 levels. Just by historical averages, the average American should be 20% better off than in 2007. And this slow growth is settling in as a permanent new-abnormal.
I believe the root cause of abysmal growth is the huge tax increases imposed by Obama and the Democrats in Congress since 2008. The most harmful were the increase in the capital gains tax from 15 to 20 percent, the increase in top bracket income from 35 to 39.6 percent, and the new tax of 3.8 percent on investment income in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The massive increase in regulatory burden through the ACA and Dodd-Frank bills are also crushing, but unfortunately are harder to measure.
President Trump however reached a GDP of 4.2% in the 2nd quarter of 2018 and 3.5% in the 3rd quarter. With a GDP in the 4th quarter of around 3%, the GDP for the year will be greater than 3%. Something the prior President Obama never did and said no longer could be done.
In regards to debt, President Obama increased the amount of US debt astronomically. By the time Obama left office he had doubled the US debt to $20 trillion and incurred as much debt as all previous Presidents combined. President Trump is slowing that trend.
President Trump has added about $1.7 to the national debt and spending must come down. But because of the increase in GDP, the Debt to GDP ratio under President Trump is declining. President Obama increased the US debt to GDP ratio by 40% from around 60% in 2009 to over 100% in 2016.
With his increasing GDP and slowing of debt increases, President Trump has managed to decrease the debt to GDP ratio in the 2 years since the 2016 election. This is a very good result that is rarely mentioned by the MSM.
President Trump has done this in spite of headwinds from the Fed. Under President Obama the Fed lowered the Fed Funds rate to 0% and kept it at this rate for seven of Obama’s eight year’s in office. After President Trump was elected President the Fed increased the Fed rate seven times for nearly a 2% increase in rates. Still, the Debt to GDP is decreasing.
Jobs, Employment and Wages
President Trump is the ‘Jobs President’. Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 250,000 new jobs were created in October. In President Trump’s first two years since elected President, the US has gained over 4.3 million jobs. (In President Obama’s first two years the US lost over (4.2) million jobs.) More people are working in the US than ever before and unemployment is at 50 year lows landing at 3.7% last month.
The President’s tax plan passed in late December 2017 is greatly benefiting Americans and American companies. Employees will see increases in their income tax refunds next year due to the lower Federal taxes. Millions of Americans received bonuses due to the tax cuts and major companies announced plans to move capital and operations to the US due to these cuts. On top of income tax refund increases, Americans also are benefiting from the highest wage increases in a decade.
Foreign Policy
President Trump vowed to destroy ISIS. Despite President Obama saying that ISIS will be around for a generation, these murderers and terrorists in the Middle East were decimated over the President’s first year in office. Both Syria and Iraq declared victory over ISIS and due to President Trump’s resolve, less than 1,000 ISIS fighters remain.
President Trump met with the Pope, leaders of 50 Muslim countries and Israeli and European leaders in his first trip abroad. He demanded that the Muslim leaders remove radicals from their countries.
The President refused sending Pakistan security assistance in the millions due to the Pakistani’s harboring terrorists. He stopped an Obama last minute $221 million transfer to Palestine and cut aid to Palestinians in half. He showed that the US is unwilling to work with Muslim entities that support radical Islam.
On President Trump’s successful trip to Asia he bundled an estimated $300 billion in deals for the US. He met with Asian leaders and was the first US President and foreign leader to dine in China’s Forbidden City since the founding of modern China.
The President’s meeting in Singapore with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shocked the world. At the end of the summit they signed an agreement and North Korea is now dismantling their nuclear test sites and facilities.
President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, shake hands as they meet for the first time, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at the Capella Hotel in Singapore. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
US Policy
The President named and successfully put in place Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch in 2017. In his second year he again nominated and put in place a second Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh. In spite of Democrats’ attempt to prevent Kavanaugh’s nomination by accusing him of being a gang rapist nearly 40 years prior, the President stood with Kavanaugh and he is now a Supreme Court Justice.
President Trump signed more than 90 executive actions in his first 100 days alone. The White House.gov site lists 81 pages of Executive Actions in the two years since the President was elected into office. The actions include –
* Dismantling Obama’s climate change initiatives.
* Travel bans for individuals from a select number of countries embroiled in terrorist atrocities.
* Enforcing regulatory reform.
* Protecting Law enforcement.
* Mandating for every new regulation to eliminate two.
* Defeating ISIS.
* Rebuilding the military.
* Building a border wall.
* Cutting funding for sanctuary cities.
* Approving Keystone and Dakota pipelines.
* Reducing regulations on manufacturers.
* Placing a hiring freeze on federal employees.
* Exiting the US from the TPP.
The list of POTUS 45’s successes goes on and on. The Washington Examiner listed 289 accomplishments in the President’s first 20 months alone. This list is amazing, especially when compared to prior Presidents. The Heritage Foundation ranked President Trump’s accomplishments in his first year ahead of Reagan.
Undoubtedly there is more to do. The wall is not yet fully built. The FBI and DOJ are still dysfunctional and involved in corrupt and criminal activities. A bogus investigation was created by these scoundrels and the current AG who recused himself from anything Russia appears to be inept and sleeping. But based on President Trump’s performance to date, he will address these issues successfully as soon as the mid-term election is over.
Overall President Trump’s first two years since the 2016 election are outstanding. He was attacked from all sides at times yet stood tall. America is stronger and greater than ever before. The economy is growing and the world is safer. President Trump kept his promises and has truly Made America Great Again!
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James Woods is back on Twitter, and thank God for it. Without him, who would be owning the libs via memery?
Woods’ latest viral tweet comes courtesy of the migrant caravan working its way up through Mexico toward our southern frontier.
This whole thing was orchestrated by organizers as a media event to draw attention to the “migrant cause.” When the media suddenly realized that this wasn’t quite as popular as it originally looked, they suddenly became angry that American voters were paying attention to the whole thing and didn’t like it.
Woods, however, had a better take on why he thought the media might be sympathetic to the migrant caravan:
Well, them and the denizens of graveyards in major metropolitan areas, yes.
And, of course, there were plenty of tweets in response to Woods’ lib-owning:
At the McAllen Texas Medical Center (2008) forty percent of the children born there, nearly 2,400 last year, were the babies of illegal immigrants. Joe Riley, CEO of the hospital: “We have uncompensated care of over $200 million a year.”https://t.co/YqgFgUyzS1
Don’t be so sure about the last one. Sure, as long as they’re illegal, they’re probably going to hide behind the Democrats. However, once they realize how much money the Democrats have been stealing from them and how the party expects them to stay on the plantation too, they’ll likely see how they’ve been had and #WalkAway, too.
Do you think the caravan should be let into the United States?
Given the tenseness of the situation and the potential for violence, President Donald Trump has made clear that the troops deployed to the border won’t be firing on the caravan members.
“They won’t have to fire,” Trump said Friday, according to the Washington Times.
“I don’t want these people throwing rocks. What they did to the Mexican military is a disgrace. They were throwing rocks in their faces. It’s not going to happen to our soldiers. They do that with us, they’re going to be arrested for a long time. I didn’t say ‘shoot.’”
As for whether U.S. forces will have to use force, Trump was more ambivalent. “I hope they won’t. We’re going to see,” he said. “They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back.”
Either way, however, it looks like these future Democrats probably won’t be making their way in.
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CNN reporter Randi Kaye "randomly" interviewed a woman at an Obama rally for Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum on Friday who indicated that the former president has influenced her to vote for Gillum. The woman was Gillum’s mother, Francis Gillum.
First Man has officially flopped, and not just here at home, but all over the world.
After three full weeks in distribution, the critical darling will barely creep over $40 million domestic and, according to Deadline, has already fallen out of the top ten.
As of Thursday, and after 20 full days in release, First Man had grossed only $39 million domestic. Outside North America, the story about Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is doing even worse, with just $37 million.
With a $60 million production budget and somewhere between $30 and $50 million spent on publicity (a reasonable guess), after exhibitors take their 50 percent (an industry accepted formula), this Ryan Gosling film would have to gross something close to $200 million just to break even.
First Man is not going to reach $100 million worldwide.
Early predictions had First Man opening with $20 to $25 million. Nevertheless, even though it roared out of the festival circuit with a ton of critical acclaim and buzz, it crash landed with a hideous $16 million opening.
The spin, then, was that First Man would have “legs,” would be a sleeper, would eventually reach $75 to $85 million domestic, when the truth is that it might not reach $85 million worldwide.
Because no one has the moral courage to admit that insulting Middle America might be bad for business, no one in the entertainment media will say so, but the controversy about the American flag no doubt soured the public on this movie.
And it was not just writer-director Damien Chazelle’s inexplicable decision to ignore one of the most iconic moments of the last century, Armstrong planting the American flag on the moon — it was the snobbish and tone-deaf way in which both he and his star, Gosling, mishandled it.
My mind still can’t quite grasp Gosling dismissing the most American of American achievements as “a human achievement [and] that’s how we chose to view it.”
Well, after you are done choosing to view it that way, you can go right ahead and choose to kiss my red, white, and blue ass.
Also worthy of note, especially in a world where entertainment writers will come up with every reason to excuse First Man’s dreadful box office — except for the actual one — is how wildly successful First Man-type movies have been.
America loves our astronauts, our modern-day pioneers, and so does the rest of the world. Just look at these box office results (domestic – foreign – total):
The Martian (2015) – $228 million – $401 million – $630 million.
Interstellar (2014) – $188 million – $489 million – $677 million.
Gravity (2013) – $274 million – $449 million – $723 million.
Look at how well these astronaut movies did before the international market really opened up, and these numbers are not adjusted for inflation.
Space Cowboys (2000) – $90 million – $38 million – $129 million.
Contact (1997) – $101 million – $70 million – $171 million.
Apollo 13 (1995) – $172 million – $181 million – $355 million.
Another lie the media like to tell is that international audiences do not like patriotic movies.
And they say this even after two of the most patriotic movies of the last ten years — National Treasure 1 & 2 — grossed over $400 million overseas, and this was before China opened up.
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It’s notoriously hard to describe vulgar speech. There’s a famous quote about obscenity from the late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who admitted in 1964 that he couldn’t define it, but that knew it when he saw it.
In 2018, media outlets are still struggling to find the line between free expression and off-limits speech. It’s something that online platforms in particular have struggled with — and a Christian user on Twitter just found out that hard way that on social media, things sometimes get weird.
On Wednesday, conservative activist and preacher Demetrius Minor, who has over 13,000 followers on Twitter, was banned from the platform.
Twitter did reinstate him after a review, but figuring out what happened has some people scratching their heads and asking questions about bias.
In an email that Minor shared, Twitter informed the conservative that he had been locked out of his account for “violating our rules against hateful conduct.”
His hateful conduct? Well, there wasn’t any. In the tweet referenced by Twitter itself, Minor actually defended himself against a racially charged insult and turned the other cheek in a very Christian way.
More bizarrely, the tweet wasn’t from this year, or even last year. It was dated October of 2012.
“House n—-r kill yourself,” a tweet from another user was hatefully directed at Minor. In reply, the conservative man of faith wrote “I don’t have to die. Jesus already died for you.”
Do you trust platforms like Twitter to be fair to conservatives?
Somehow, that 6-year-old message had caused the conservative to be locked out of his own account.
“Why I got locked out for something I didn’t do 6 years (ago) is beyond me. PLEASE investigate charges before making reckless choices,” Minor posted once he had re-gained access to his account.
Again, it does look like Twitter lifted the ban quickly, and this could have been some sort of automated detection filter that went awry. With that said, there has been an alarming trend of conservatives dealing with all sorts of hoops and pitfalls on social networks.
African-American conservative commentators Diamond and Silk, for instance, were flagged as “unsafe” and blocked by Facebook. Another black conservative, Candace Owens, was hit with a ban on Twitter after she re-posted and criticized a liberal’s hateful comment — while that original didn’t get flagged.
“Twitter is apologizing after ‘Red Pill Black’ pundit and Turning Point USA director of communications Candace Owens was blocked from the platform for tweets she sent out criticizing the social media posts of Sarah Jeong, the controversial new pick for the editorial board of The New York Times,” Conservative Tribune reported in August.
There have also been instances of “shadow banning” by Twitter, which means that certain users’ posts seem normal to them, but are quietly covered up by the system and not shown to other users.
At what point does a sweeping attempt to scrub the internet of anything remotely offensive go too far, and become uncontrollable censorship?
There is no easy answer, but it’s something that society will need to solve soon.
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A plurality of likely midterm election voters in the battleground states of Florida, Arizona, and Indiana say a 7,000 to 10,000-strong migrant caravan headed to the United States is a “threat” to the nation.
In the latest CBS News/YouGov battleground tracker poll, Florida, Indiana, and Arizona likely voters expressed their concern with mass immigration at the country’s southern border. The three states see hotly contested Senate races between Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Gov. Rick Scott (R), Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ), and Sen. Joe Donelly (D-IN) and Mike Braun (R).
In each state, when asked about the migrant caravan, a plurality of likely voters said the group of thousands of Central Americans headed to the U.S.-Mexico border are a threat.
A majority of likely voters in Indiana say the U.S. “should not try to help” the migrants in the caravan, while a majority of Arizona likely voters say the same. By a slim margin, likely Florida voters say that while the caravan is a threat to the country, the U.S. should try to help the migrants.
Likely voters’ concerns with the caravan come as Breitbart News has extensively reported on the violent, chaotic, and criminal nature of the mass group of Central Americans. Nearly two weeks ago, the caravan stormed through Mexico by tearing down the country’s border fence with Guatemala.
Watch–Caravan Migrant Admits to Previously Being Deported from U.S. for Attempted Murderhttps://t.co/r3iA0rt8BR
During an interview with Fox News, one of the migrants with the caravan admitted he had been previously deported from the U.S. for a conviction of attempted murder. Days later, Mexican officials warned that a second group of Central American migrants were building Molotov cocktails to be used against authorities at international borders.
Most recently, Mexican authorities say they arrested two Honduran nationals with the migrant caravan after they say the individuals shot at them while crossing through Chiapas, Mexico.
As Breitbart News has chronicled, though the establishment media has repeatedly claimed that the caravan is seeking to enter the U.S. to seek asylum, the Central American migrants have continuously admitted they are not seeking asylum.
Instead, the migrants are looking for jobs, crime-free communities, and many are previously deported illegal aliens who are looking to go back to their former, illegal life in the U.S. None of these cases is eligible as asylum claims.
President Trump has authorized the deployment of 5,200 troops to the southern border thus far and his administration has signaled that more troops could be sent in the near future.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
