Elections

Trump paid millions not 750 dollar. The New York Times Is Wrong — Trump Paid Millions in Taxes in 2017.

Trump paid millions not $750. The New York Times’ claim that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 is wrong, based on a flawed understanding of how taxes are paid.

The figures below, drawn from the New York Times’s own analysis of Trump’s tax-return data for 2017, show that Trump paid $7,435,857 in taxes in 2017.

The Timessays the tax return data show that Trump’s earnings were negative for the year, so he owned nothing in regular income taxes. But he was subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), a parallel tax system aimed at making sure wealthy people cannot use deductions to eliminate their tax liability altogether. According to the Times, “the A.M.T. formula disallowed $45 million in losses that Mr. Trump had carried over from prior years.”

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New voter registration favoring GOP in key states. Voter Registration Data in Battleground States Shows Huge Boost for GOP.

Voter registration data bodes well for President Donald Trump in a handful of key states.

The registration data shows Republicans gaining more voters than Democrats, and Democrats lagging their 2016 registration numbers in two cases. The data, which is from March through September, is as follows:

• Florida: Republicans added 195,652 voters while Democrats added 98,262. In 2016 Republicans added 182,983 and Democrats added 163,982 over the same time period.
• Pennsylvania: Republicans added 135,619 voters while Democrats added 57,985. In 2016 Republicans added 177,016 and Democrats added 155,269.
• North Carolina: Republicans added 83,785 voters while Democrats added 38,137. In 2016 Republicans added 54,157 while Democrats added 38,931.
  

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1st debate: Trump vs Wallace/Biden. Trump on Debate: 'Two On One Was Not Surprising'. 'Chris had a tough night,' Trump wrote on Twitter.

President Donald Trump weighed in on Tuesday night’s presidential debate after crossing with the moderator, Chris Wallace.

“Chris had a tough night,” Trump wrote on Twitter, sharing a New York Times article about Wallace’s performance.

“Two on one was not surprising, but fun.”

Trump regularly interrupted former Vice President Joe Biden during the debate, which was followed by an interruption from Wallace to follow the rules.

Biden also told the president to “shut up” and described Trump as a “clown,” and “the worst president America has ever had."

Biden even called Trump a "racist."

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CubanAmerican vote: pro Trump and anti socialism. Cuban Americans Say Threat of Socialism Greatest Factor Affecting Their Vote.

MIAMI—The creeping threat of socialism and communism is a key theme repeatedly brought up by Cuban American voters in Miami—a significant voting block—who say the issue remains one of their top concerns heading into the November election.

Nearly 2.7 million individuals make up the Cuban diaspora in the United States, including those born in Cuba and those who report Cuban ancestry, according to the Census Bureau’s 2018 American Community Survey. While Cubans live all across the United States, about 77 percent reside in the Sunshine State.

The Epoch Times spoke to nearly three dozen Hispanic voters in Miami, the majority of whom are Cubans, as well as a small number of Venezuelans and Colombians. An overwhelming majority said they would vote for President Donald Trump, citing his hardline stance against communist regimes that some older voters had escaped. {loadpositin subscribe}

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