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Voters in Obama’s backyard weigh in on ‘dangerous’ Kamala and 2024 race: ‘I’m a Trump fan’

Voters in Obama’s backyard weigh in on ‘dangerous’ Kamala and 2024 race: ‘I’m a Trump fan’

CHICAGO — Voters in former President Barack Obama’s old backyard gave varying opinions on the 2024 presidential race, with several Black voters giving a vehement defense of former President Trump and suggesting that his recent uptick in Black support in the polls is legitimate.  “I’m a Trump fan,” Lavar Williams told Fox News Digital outside a Walmart on Doty Avenue on Chicago’s South Side as Democrats gathered for their convention at the nearby United Center. “Everybody else I feel like they have a leash on them. Trump don’t have no leash on him.” When asked if life was better under Trump’s presidency, Williams said, “I love Trump. I loved when he was in office. A lot of people say ‘Why do you say that?’ because I’m Black. But still, I loved when Trump was in office.” DNC CHICAGO: FBI REPORTEDLY INVESTIGATING MAGGOTS FOUND IN FOOD AT BREAKFAST FOR DELEGATES Williams, who has lived in Chicago his entire life, also told Fox News Digital that Harris will have a hard time separating herself from Biden’s unpopular policies. “You was the vice president, so everything this man did, you was approving of, everything that’s going on now, you was approving of, so why am I going to vote for you?” Williams said. “I’m not going to vote for her. I’m just letting you know where I’m at. I’m a Trump fan. Trump 2024.” MICHELLE OBAMA’S 3RD CONSECUTIVE DNC SPEECH SLAMMING TRUMP RIPS HIS ‘RACIST LIES,’ ‘NARROW VIEW OF THE WORLD’ Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket last month, when President Biden dropped out of the race amid mounting concerns over his mental acuity and age. Harris is in Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention, where she will deliver a speech Thursday evening accepting her nomination.  Fox News Digital spoke with locals on the South Side of Chicago, where Obama worked as a community organizer before launching his political career, about their thoughts on the election, and if the last three and a half years under the Biden-Harris administration has benefited them and the Windy City at large.  “Me personally, I’m still up in the air,” disabled Navy veteran and Englewood neighborhood property owner Billy Johnson told Fox Digital. “I’m trying to see how all of this is going to play out. You know, I’m waiting to hear what the new candidate’s policies are in relationship to – compared to – Biden’s. I disagreed with a lot of things.”  DNC IN CHICAGO: 12 SHOT, 1 MURDERED IN WINDY CITY SHOOTINGS ON DAY 2 OF CONVENTION Though Johnson has not yet landed on who he will vote for come Nov. 5, he praised Trump as an economic “genius,” while saying Harris is “dangerous.”  “That lady is dangerous. I mean, [Kamala] Harris can pull up information on you that most presidents can’t. You know, she can pull things, documents and stuff. It’s scary. Her access to Secret Service, CIA and all of that makes her one of the most dangerous presidents we might ever have. I wouldn’t worry about her foreign affairs policy, I would just fear for whoever comes up against her,” Johnson said.  He offered more favorable comments on Trump, while stopping short of endorsing him for a return to the Oval Office.  “Trump was a good president. He was inexperienced because he wasn’t a politician. The reason we elected him is because he’s a businessman, and we felt like that’s what we needed.… We need someone who is going to reignite our industrial prowess.” “Trump, he’s a genius when it comes down to finance, I gotta tell you. You can say anything you want. He was the first president who ever gave his opinion while sitting on the toilet through Twitter. That really won him a big favor with the American public, because you got a president that communicates openly with the public,” he added.  Immigration is a top concern in the city of Chicago, alongside the nation overall, with Johnson arguing that the U.S. accepting millions of illegal immigrants and providing them with “privileges” is “crazy.”  JD VANCE SENDS MESSAGE TO BLACK VOTERS AS THEY WEIGH TRUMP, HARRIS: ‘WE’RE GOING TO FIGHT FOR YOU’ “Now you see why Trump kept the borders closed. Now that the border is open, we see an indifference in the privileges that are given to people that are noncitizens, which that’s not fair. Those opportunities were supposed to be given to citizens first – not immigrants. And the millions of dollars that’s being given to them, it makes the Black community feel like, ‘Wow, really? So us asking for reparations was too much.’ But yet, still, you provide housing, you giving these people stipends… that’s crazy.” Another Chicagoan, Nas, the owner of Z-Best catering who was selling meals outside of a far South Side Walmart, told Fox News Digital he hasn’t decided who he is voting for but was not a fan of some of Harris’ policies. HILLARY CLINTON BLASTS TRUMP’S LEGAL WOES AMID ‘LOCK HIM UP’ CHANTS IN DNC SPEECH: ‘ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMSELF’ “I ain’t goin’ to lie to you, I know her background, what she has done, I know she’s locked up a lot of people off of just weed cases and stuff like that, just sending people away, so I really don’t care for her to be honest with you.” Nas added that crime over the last four years under the Biden administration has gotten much worse and said life under Trump was better than now. “I feel like he has done a better job than Biden has for sure.” Johnny Williams, who spoke to Fox News Digital at a bus stop just steps from Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam house, said, “I plan on voting for Mr. Trump.” “He’s about the money… when he was in the election we was eating.” BLACK MALE VOTERS HAVE SURPRISING REACTION DURING MSNBC ROUNDTABLE WHEN ASKED ABOUT COMMUNITY TRUMP SUPPORT Williams added that it is “rough for jobs”

Gus Walz brought to tears, shares emotional moment with father Tim during DNC speech: ‘That’s my Dad’

Gus Walz brought to tears, shares emotional moment with father Tim during DNC speech: ‘That’s my Dad’

CHICAGO — Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz’s son Gus stole the show during his father’s speech to the DNC on Wednesday night after he was brought to tears and the two shared an emotional moment. “Hope, Gus and Gwen, you are my entire world,” Walz told his family during his speech after discussing fertility treatments his wife received to have children and the camera showed Walz’s family becoming emotional and his son Gus shedding tears and pointing at his dad. Gus then stood up and began clapping and continuing to shed tears. “That’s my Dad,” Gus Walz appeared to say.  GOVERNOR TIM WALZ GOES VIRAL AFTER POSTING FAMILY’S RECIPE FOR ‘TURKEY TROT TATER-TOT HOTDISH’ The moment drew praise from social media users in the political arena. “Forget politics,” MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle posted on X. “If you aren’t moved seeing 17yr old Gus Walz in tears watching his Dad walk on stage as the Vice Presidential nominee…. then please just move on.” “Team Gus Walz,” former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki posted on X. WALZ UNKNOWN BY 4 IN 10 AMERICANS, BUT FAVORABILITY RATING TOPS VANCE: POLL Gus, 17, is Walz’s younger child and he is currently a senior at St. Paul Central High in Minnesota. “My son Gus just passed his (what do you call it? A drivers license exam?). Proud dad moment,” Tim Walz posted on Instagram last year.

Clinton lauds Biden as modern-day George Washington and president who ‘healed our sick’ in DNC speech

Clinton lauds Biden as modern-day George Washington and president who ‘healed our sick’ in DNC speech

CHICAGO – Former President Bill Clinton took the Democratic National Convention’s stage on Wednesday evening where he lauded President Biden as a modern-day George Washington who “healed our sick.” “I do want to say one word about President Biden,” Clinton said towards the start of his speech in Chicago. “Remember, he had an improbable turn that made him president. And we were in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crash. He healed our sick, and put the rest of us back to work. And he strengthened our alliances for peace and security, stood up for Ukraine, trying desperately to get a ceasefire in the Middle East.” “And then he did something it’s really hard for a politician to do: He voluntarily gave up political power. And George Washington knew that. And he did it. And he set the standard for us, serving two terms before it was mandatory. It helped his legacy, and it will enhance Joe Biden’s legacy,” Clinton added.  Biden joined the DNC on Monday evening, where he delivered a speech touting his record in office while praising his vice president, Kamala Harris, after she rose to the top of the Democratic ticket after Biden exited the race last month.  TRUMP CAMPAIGN TROLLS HARRIS, RELEASES POLICY WEBSITE FOR HER AFTER WEEKS OF SILENCE “Selecting Kamala was the very first decision I made before I became when I became our nominee, and it was the best decision I made my whole career,” Biden said.  OBAMA LAUDS ‘BROTHER’ BIDEN AT DNC WEEKS AFTER REPORTED ROLE OUSTING HIM FOR KAMALA HARRIS “We’ve not only gotten to know each other, we’ve become close friends. She’s tough, she’s experienced, and she has enormous integrity, enormous integrity. Her story represents the best American story.” Democrats who have taken the stage across the week have praised both Biden and Harris as the newly-formed Harris-Walz ticket works to earn support from voters in the final months of the election.  HARRIS CAMPAIGN WEBSITE STILL MISSING POLICY POSITIONS AS DNC KICKS OFF Clinton continued in his remarks that Biden is a man of compassion and courage, before switching gears to praise Harris.  HARRIS CELEBRATES ‘CEREMONIAL’ CHICAGO DNC ROLL CALL VOTE FROM MILWAUKEE RALLY “I want to thank him for his courage, compassion, his class, his service, his sacrifice,” he said. “Joe Biden. Thank you. And. He kept the faith, and he’s infected a lot of the rest of us.” Clinton lauded the vice president as a politician who will represent voters no matter their political party.  “Kamala Harris will work to solve our problems, seize our opportunities, ease our fears, and make sure every single American, however they vote, has a chance to chase their dreams,” he said.  The DNC will wrap up on Thursday evening with Harris’ acceptance speech for the nomination.  Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

After Obamas get personal at DNC, Trump asks ‘Do I still have to stick to policy?’

After Obamas get personal at DNC, Trump asks ‘Do I still have to stick to policy?’

Former President Trump is pointing to personal attacks at the Democratic convention by former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as justification to disregard advice from allies to cut out insults and stick to policy attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris. “Did you see Barack Hussein Obama last night? He was taking shots at your president. And so was Michelle,” Trump told supporters at a rally in battleground North Carolina on Wednesday. Pointing to Trump, the former first lady emphasized during her address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that “going small is petty, it’s unhealthy, and, quite frankly, it’s unpresidential.” And she argued that “it’s his same old con: doubling down on ugly, misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will actually make people’s lives better.” TRUMP SPOTLIGHTS JOBS REPORT REVISION TO TAKE AIM AT BIDEN AND HARRIS Minutes later, former President Obama called his successor in the White House “a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.” “It has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually been getting worse now that he is afraid of losing to Kamala. There’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes,” Obama added, as he made a hand gesture which seemed to imply he was mocking Trump’s manhood. Trump, spotlighting the verbal attacks on him from the previous night, seemed to mock advice from Republican allies. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: LIVE UPDATES “You know, they always say, ‘Sir, please stick to policy, don’t get personal,’” Trump said.” And yet they’re getting personal all night long, these people.” “Do I still have to stick to policy?” Trump asked his supporters in the crowd. While criticizing Harris over key issues such as border security, crime and inflation, Trump in the past four weeks has also continuously slammed the vice president and insulted her during speeches, news conferences and in social media posts. Sources in Trump’s political orbit have told Fox News that top advisers to the former president are quietly aiming to persuade him to tamp down the insults to Harris and the questioning of the vice president’s racial identity and instead focus on branding her an ultra-liberal. Trump allies have publicly pitched the former president to refocus his attention. “You’ve got to make this race not on personalities,” former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said last week in an interview on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “Stop questioning the size of her crowds and start questioning her position.” McCarthy emphasized that Trump has “a short time frame to do it, so don’t sit back. Get out there and start making the case.” During an interview last week with Bret Baier on Fox News’ “Special Report,” former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley — Trump’s top rival from the Republican presidential primaries earlier this year — also had some unsolicited advice for her former boss. Haley, who reiterated that she wants Trump to win the presidential election, emphasized that “the campaign is not going to win talking about crowd sizes. It’s not going to win talking about what race Kamala Harris is. It’s not going to win talking about whether she’s dumb. It’s not. You can’t win on those things. The American people are smart. Treat them like they’re smart.” Trump, at his rally on Wednesday, imitated allies who have urged him to avoid personal insults.  “Sir, you must stick to policy. You’ll win it on the border. You’ll win it with inflation. You’ll win it with your great military that you built,” Trump said. And minutes later, Trump surveyed his supporters in the crowd, asking “should I get personal, or should I not get personal?”  Getting personal won by a very clear margin. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Most Americans reject push by Biden, Dems to change Supreme Court: poll

Most Americans reject push by Biden, Dems to change Supreme Court: poll

A new nationwide survey highlighted in a Wall Street Journal opinion editorial found that most Americans don’t support sweeping changes to the Supreme Court, despite President Joe Biden’s last-minute push for such a measure.  The WSJ cited a Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy survey that found that “support for the separation of powers just as many of the speakers at this week’s Democratic National Convention seek to undermine it.” President Biden, after abruptly leaving the presidential race a month ago, endorsed legislation that would impose term limits for justices, among other things, that would drastically alter the makeup of the high court. His plan is also of questionable constitutionality. According to the Journal, the Mason-Dixon poll found that after asking likely voters if they “support or oppose amending the U.S. Constitution to change the structure of the U.S. Supreme Court,” that 52% of them oppose the idea, while 41% of likely voters support the idea of amending the constitution to change the court’s structure. BIDEN TO ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR MAJOR CHANGES TO SUPREME COURT AMID OUTRAGE OVER RECENT DECISIONS: REPORT Noting that for “over 150 years, the United States Supreme Court has had nine justices” and that court-packing “is generally defined as increasing the number of Supreme Court seats, primarily to alter the ideological balance of the court,” the poll asked respondents if they agree with “court-packing.” TRUMP IMMUNITY CASE: SUPREME COURT RULES EX-PRESIDENTS HAVE SUBSTANTIAL PROTECTION FROM PROSECUTION  Only 34% supported such a plan, while 59% opposed and 7% of likely voters were undecided. The poll also found that an overwhelming number of voters supported this statement: “Plans to expand the membership of the U.S. Supreme Court are primarily motivated by political objectives.” Additionally, a full 87% of likely voters — including 84% of Democrats — agree with the following statement: “An independent judiciary is a crucial safeguard of our civil liberties.” Democrats in Congress, in conjunction with the White House, have pushed to make radical changes to the high court. And Democrats at the Democratic National Convention this week have already leveled attacks against the high court.  BIDEN ‘PLAYING TO THE LEFT’ WITH SUPREME COURT REFORM REEKS OF ‘DESPERATION,’ NBC’S CHUCK TODD SAYS Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow falsely claimed that the Supreme Court has made Trump “completely immune from prosecution” in its presidential immunity decision. “Sadly, such poisonous attacks on the highest court are likely to be a staple of this week’s convention,” the Wall Street Journal wrote about the comment. “Thank goodness most Americans still don’t endorse them, according to the new Mason-Dixon poll commissioned by the First Liberty Institute, which advocates for religious freedom.”