Trump leads Biden by double digits on three key issues: Pew Research survey
Former President Donald Trump maintains a lead over President Biden following the latter’s disastrous debate performance last month, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. According to the poll, Trump currently holds an approval rate of 44%, while Biden trails with 40% — with Trump leading Biden by double digits on three key issues. Approximately 68% of respondents told Pew Research that they are generally unsatisfied with their available choices for the presidential election. TRUMP APPROVAL RATING TOPS 50% AS HE LEADS BIDEN ON VOTERS’ TOP TWO ISSUES: POLL The report published Thursday is Pew’s first to come out since Biden’s confused and sometimes unintelligible performance at the first 2024 presidential debate. Only about 24% of voters describe Biden as “mentally sharp” — a 6 point drop since January and a whopping 22% decline since Oct. 2020, according to Pew. Approximately 58% of respondents described Trump as such. Trump’s advantage over Biden comes from his dominant position on three issues important to voters: immigration, the economy and foreign policy. POLL COMPARES WHETHER TRUMP, HUNTER BIDEN SHOULD GET PRISON SENTENCES, ACCORDING TO US ADULTS Trump holds a 17 point lead over Biden on immigration policy (52-35%), a 14 point lead over Biden on economic policy (54-40%), and a 10 point lead on foreign policy (49-39). Biden netted an 8 point advantage over Trump on bipartisanship (40-32%) and a 4 point advantage on abortion issues (48-44%). Third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received one of his largest cuts of the electorate in a major poll yet, netting 15% of respondents. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The Pew survey was conducted by live interviewers online or by telephone between July 1 and July 7. Pew Research Center contacted 9,424 adults, 7,729 of which were registered voters. The pool of respondents was weighted to represent “gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other factors” in the U.S. adult population. The poll has a margin of error of approximately 1.3 percentage points.
First on Fox: Leading pro-Trump super PAC hauls in over $100 million past three months
EXCLUSIVE: Make America Great Again Inc., a top super PAC supporting former President Trump’s 2024 White House campaign, says it raked in $104 million during the April-June second quarter of 2024 fundraising. And in figures shared first with Fox News on Friday, MAGA Inc. highlighted that it has nearly $114 million cash-on-hand in its coffers. The announcement from MAGA Inc. comes a week and a half after Trump’s campaign showcased that it and the Republican National Committee hauled in a staggering $331 million in the past three months, topping the massive $264 million raked in by President Biden’s re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the second quarter. Trump’s haul was fueled in part by a fundraising surge following the former president’s history-making guilty verdicts this spring in his criminal trial. SOURCES SAY BIDEN FUNDRAISING TAKES A HIT AMID RISING CALLS FROM DEMOCRATS FOR PRESIDENT TO END 2024 CAMPAIGN The super PAC announced a month ago that it would spend $100 million this summer on a major ad blitz in the key battleground states in support of the former president. And Securing American Greatness, a non-profit advocacy group run by MAGA Inc CEO Taylor Budowich, has also been running ads taking aim at Biden. Budowich and MAGA Inc.’s finance team are expected to huddle for a series of individual meetings with top donors at next week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. TRUMP’S STAGGERING SECOND QUARTER HAUL TOPS BIDEN’S MASSIVE FUNDRAISING IN 2024 REMATCH CASH DASH “MAGA Inc. has been entrusted with a significant responsibility thanks to the historic support of our investors,” Budowich said. “We will continue to execute diligently in support of President Trump and do the work necessary to ensure he is restored to the White House.” The super PAC’s second quarter fundraising haul was fueled by a massive $60 million in contributions from Timothy Mellon, the billionaire donor and an heir to the Mellon banking fortune. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Conservative mega-donors Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, founders of a major shipping supplies company, combined contributed $10 million to MAGA Inc. GOP mega donor and Texas billionaire Kelcy Warren, real estate and aerospace mogul Robert Bigelow, and business executive Linda McMahon, who steered the Small Business Administration during Trump’s tenure in the White House, each contributed $5 million to the super PAC. MAGA Inc. also highlighted that it’s hauled in $275 million since its launch in October 2022. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Four people die in attempt to cross English Channel from France
French coastguard says 63 people were rescued and returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer after trying to sail to Britain. At least four people have died while attempting to cross the English Channel from France to Britain, according to the French coastguard. Their inflatable boat capsized off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France at about 4:30am (02:30 GMT), a coastguard spokesperson said on Friday. Sixty-three people were rescued in an operation involving navy vessels, a fishing boat and a navy helicopter. They were returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer and attended to by emergency services and provided temporary shelter. The prefecture responsible for the north of France said a French Navy patrol boat spotted the overcrowded vessel early on Friday as it deflated off the coast. Many people were in the water, the statement said. Thousands of people arrive in Britain each year on small boats, which are usually flimsy inflatable dinghies. The United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government announced plans this week to deal with the influx of small boats crossing from France through the dangerous waters after scrapping the former Conservative government’s Rwanda deportation plan. The plan, pushed by then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, was set up to dissuade migrants and asylum seekers from arriving in the UK on small boats from France. Under the contentious policy, migrants would be deported to Rwanda to process their asylum claims. On Friday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said “criminal gangs are making vast profit from putting lives at risk”. “We are accelerating action with international partners to pursue & bring down dangerous smuggler gangs,” she wrote on X. The further loss of life in the Channel this morning is truly awful. My thoughts are with all those affected. Criminal gangs are making vast profit from putting lives at risk. We are accelerating action with international partners to pursue & bring down dangerous smuggler gangs. — Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) July 12, 2024 In April, five people, including a child, died trying to cross from France. British opposition Home Secretary James Cleverly said the reports of the deaths in the Channel were a “tragedy”. “As a country, we must do everything in our power to stop the boats and put an end to this vile trade in human suffering,” he wrote on X. Far-right leader Nigel Farage said the government “had better start moving fast”, referring to small boat crossings into the United Kingdom. Cooper announced she would appoint a leader of the UK’s new Border Security Command within weeks, which will “smash the criminal smuggling gangs making millions out of small boat crossings”. According to the Migration Observatory, which is part of Oxford University’s Centre on Migration Policy and Society, about 12,600 small boat arrivals were detected in 2024. In 2023, an estimated 30,000 people made the crossing, according to UK government figures. Latest Home Office figures showed that 419 people journeyed across the Channel from France to the UK on Tuesday in six boats. Adblock test (Why?)
A 12-year-old boxing champ in Mongolia dreams of Olympic glory
Gerelt-Od Kherlen, 12, could not contain his excitement after winning a bronze medal in the children’s national boxing championship in Mongolia. In September, his father heard about the opening of the Mongolian Boxing Academy close to their home in Dambadarjaa, a tent-dotted district on the outskirts of the capital, Ulaanbaatar. The boy had been restless. “We are happy that our son has found his passion and hobby,” said his mother, Narantsetseg Narantsogt. He had been playing chess at school, but the programme was discontinued, she said. They decided to send him to the new boxing school “because it will keep him away from playing on the smartphone and watching too much TV at home”. Mongolia is the land of 13th century conqueror Genghis Khan, who built one of the largest empires in the world, and contact sports are part of a warrior tradition. Mongolians have won Olympic medals in boxing and other individual sports such as wrestling and archery. Gerelt-Od was already strong. Growing up in a district without running water, he fetched water every day for his family. He also chopped firewood, which he said helped him develop patience and resilience. The boxing academy taught him and dozens of other children how to punch and avoid being hit. Gerelt-Od trained for more than two hours every day before going to school. Less than a year later, he was among more than 400 boxers between the ages of 10 and 14 in the national championship. His third-place finish in the 10- to 12-year old, 32kg (70lb) weight category surprised his family. He now wears a T-shirt with pictures of famous Mongolian boxers and dreams of becoming an Olympic champion. Adblock test (Why?)
Did Brazil’s spy agency snoop on Bolsonaro rivals?
EXPLAINER Court records allege that under Bolsonaro’s aide, Brazil’s spy agency snooped on politicians, judges and other officials. Brazilian police arrested five people on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations that the country’s spy agency was weaponised by former President Jair Bolsonaro during his time in office from 2019 to 2023. Federal police allege that Bolsonaro’s spy chief, Alexandre Ramagem, was running a “criminal organisation of high offensive capability” within the Agencia Brasileira de Inteligencia (Abin), the country’s top intelligence agency. Here’s what we know about the investigation: Did Bolsonaro order Ramagem to spy on his rivals? Abin is accused of illegally spying on government officials during the former president’s right-wing administration. While Bolsonaro is not formally accused of ordering any espionage, the court decision that authorised arrests mentioned his name five times, and mentioned how one of the suspects had claimed to have a “direct line” to Bolsonaro. A 187-page police document includes screenshots of WhatsApp message exchanges between those arrested by the police on Thursday. According to the police, Abin used a software called FirstMile, developed by the Israeli company Cognyte, under Ramagem’s watch. The agency was used to illegally spy on tax auditors who were investigating the president’s eldest son, Flavio Bolsonaro, according to prosecutors. The intention was to find dirt on them to halt a corruption probe from when the younger Bolsonaro was a Rio de Janeiro councilman. Who did Abin allegedly spy on? A Supreme Court document contains names of several Brazilian public figures who were allegedly targets of the snooping operation. Some of the people named included Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, former Sao Paulo governor Joao Doria and current head of Brazil’s lower house, Arthur Lira. Names of senior officials from the environmental agency Ibama were also on the list. As president, Bolsonaro cut the budget of Ibama by 30 percent between 2019 and 2020, while also cutting funding for other environmental agencies. When he was in office, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged, and Bolsonaro was accused of facilitating this destruction. Three senators who led a parliamentary investigation into Bolsonaro’s conduct during COVID-19 were also on the list. Journalists Monica Bergamo of Folha de S Paulo newspaper and Vera Magalhaes of O Globo newspaper were also targeted, the document alleges. Who was arrested and on what charges? Police carried out search and seizure raids, and issued preventive, pre-trial arrest warrants on Thursday. The warrants were against: Mateus de Carvalho Sposito, former member of the Secretariat of Social Communication, a government body in charge of public relations; Richards Dyer Pozzer, an entrepreneur; Rogerio Beraldo de Almeida, an influencer; Marcelo Araújo Bormevet, a federal police officer; and Giancarlo Gomes Rodrigues, a military officer. The police said the arrest warrants were issued against individuals suspected of criminal organisation, the clandestine interception of communications and for spying on computer devices belonging to others. Why is this important? The newest allegations add to a slew of probes against Bolsonaro. Already rendered ineligible to run for office in 2030 after a failed 2022 re-election campaign, he is currently embroiled in last week’s jewellery embezzlement case as well as a case pertaining to him forging his COVID-19 vaccine records. What are the reactions to the allegations? The former president’s son, Flavio Bolsonaro denied any links with Abin, saying the details of the investigation were released to hamper former Abin head Ramagem’s intentions to run for Rio de Janeiro mayor this year. Brazilian senator Alessandro Vieira, posted on X that the “criminal espionage and online attacks” were “typical of dictatorial governments.” Senator Randolfe Rodrigues invoked Bolsonaro’s conduct during COVID-19, which he dismissed as a “little flu”, playing down its severity. “While Brazilians were dying, the previous government, instead of worrying about buying vaccines, was concerned with persecuting and monitoring political opponents,” he said. Adblock test (Why?)
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