5 Stories to Watch Next Week: Amid COVID-19 surge across US, states consider next steps; European leaders meeting to discuss COVID-19 rescue plan; US considers sweeping travel ban on Chinese Communist Party members; FBI investigates large-scale Twitter hack; and Biden to address nation’s largest Muslim American PAC.
What Newt’s Reading: Never Trumpers Are Democrats in Republican Clothing; AOC’s Dishonest, Callous Answer to NYC’s Surging Street Violence; Jessica Whitaker, Mother of One, Shot Dead After Saying ‘All Lives Matter’; White House Partners With Apple, IBM to Encourage Americans to Think Outside 4-Year Degrees; and Florida Department of Health Says Some Labs Have Not Reported Negative COVID-19 Results.
China will likely defeat the US in a future war, if one erupts. That’s a difficult fact to accept for many Americans, but it’s the truth. America has a more powerful military now, to be sure. But mounting evidence points to a coming Chinese victory — unless Washington takes bold, aggressive steps today to maintain its dwindling edge. The foundation of these steps is to increase the Pentagon’s budget.
Senator Chuck Schumer’s announcement that he supports getting a vote on Senator Sanders’s amendment to take 10% out of the defense budget brings us to a full circle. “Defund the military” now joins “defund the police” as the key to the modern Democratic Party’s understanding of reality: Weaken America at home by cutting police and weakening America overseas by cutting the military.
Newt Gingrich said on Fox and Friends that President Trump has a “winning message,” so presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is trying to steal it. Watch Now
What Newt’s Reading: Biden Promises to Continue the Democratic Party’s Crusade Against Catholics; Absentee Ballots Didn’t Get Counted Because of Late Delivery, Misdelivery, and Bad Postmarks, Post Office Says; The Fragility of the Woke; AOC & Dems Launch Absurd Boycott of Goya Foods After CEO Joins Trump Pro-Hispanic Initiative; and Police Wrestle With Surge in Crime in US Cities Amid Defunding Efforts.
A major choice in this year’s election will be between defunding or defending police. Most Americans are worried by the rise in crime and dramatic increase in violence in some of our nation’s cities after Democrat leaders withdrew their police forces in the face of radical, violent leftwing protests. Most Americans believe the vacuum created by defunding the police is going to be filled with predators and dangerous criminals — not with social workers and do-gooders.
Looking at recent election polls, it’s not hard to see why Joe Biden feels so confident that he’ll win the election this November. National polling data from almost every prominent outlet indicates that Biden is the candidate favored to win. The excitement of seeing himself in the lead, if only by a few points, seems to have gone straight to his head.
Newt: Charlie Cook’s latest outlook awards Joe Biden 279 electoral votes, which is precisely the minimum he forecast for Hillary the day before the election in 2016. I bet this is equally accurate!
Five Stories to Watch: New coronavirus stimulus is in the works; Harvard, MIT sue Trump admin to block order revoking visas for foreign students; Trump admin seeking who leaked intel on Russian bounties in Afghanistan; Mystery continues to surround explosion at Iranian nuclear facility; and US, allies discussing how to respond to China’s aggression toward Hong Kong.