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News EXCLUSIVE: Poll Reveals Hillary Clinton’s ‘Shocking’ Bad Start With Jewish Voters
Hillary Clinton is doing great with Jewish voters, right? Not necessarily. An internal poll conducted in May and kept away from the public eye, found Clinton’s favorability among Jewish voters at a relatively low level. Clinton’s approval rate among Jewish voters in May stood at 54% while 45% of Jews held a negative view of…
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News Jill Stein to Israel: You’re Not So Special
Jill Stein has a message to Israel: You’re not that special. The Green Party presidential candidate, who was raised Jewish, says she would take a tough love stance toward the Jewish state, slashing the $4 billion annual military aid package and pressing for a peace deal with the Palestinians. Stein says her stance will actually…
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Fast Forward Grieving Dad Says Seth Rich Scored Dream Job With Clinton Campaign Days Before Murder
Joel Rich, the father of slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich, has revealed that his son landed his dream job just days before being killed — a gig with the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Rich told Britain’s Daily Mail that his son’s bosses at the Democratic National Committee selected him to work on the national campaign…
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News Has Donald Trump’s Campaign Reshuffle Pushed Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Aside?
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, have long enjoyed a reputation as his closest advisers. Yet when Trump fired his campaign manager and installed two new operatives in his place, the Jewish power couple was far from the action, enjoying the good life in Croatia and hanging out with Vladimir Putin’s…
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News Catskills Congressional Candidate Takes Aim at Republican Donor Paul Singer
Eliminating the middleman, a Democratic candidate for a upstate New York seat in Congress is going after her Republican rival’s financial backer, Jewish billionaire Paul Singer. Zephyr Teachout, a progressive Democrat running for an open seat in New York’s 19th congressional district, has challenged Singer to debate her personally after the hedge fund titan sunk…
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News Could Donald Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ for Immigrants Bar Orthodox Jews and Israelis?
Would your Jewish grandparents pass Donald Trump’s “extreme vetting” for potential immigrants to America? Would their country of origin fall under those “most dangerous and volatile regions of the world” from which immigration to the United States should be barred? Would they pass the bar of “those who share our values?” For at least one…
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News Newt Gingrich Just Fanned the Flames of Seth Rich Conspiracy Theories
Newt Gingrich has raised questions about the murder of Democratic staffer Seth Rich, fanning the flames of conspiracy theories that link the unsolved slaying to the hacking scandal that has roiled the presidential campaign. In an appearance on The Mike Gallagher Show last week, the former Republican presidential candidate Gingrich appeared to give credence to…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Waves Anti-Semitic Graphic Tweeted by David Duke
Donald Trump used another graphic initially published by an anti-Semitic site last week at a rally in Sunrise, Florida. He held up a chart that purported to show the amount of money several countries in North Africa and the Middle East had paid in order to receive money from the State Department, calling it a…
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