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Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too “Nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father’s life,” writes Caroline Giuliani, announcing her support for Kamala Harris. By Caroline Rose Giuliani September 30, 2024 "While Kamala Harris has gained extraordinary momentum by infusing this election with vitality and hope, I worry that too many Americans remain disconnected from the visceral, psychologically draining memory of Trump’s deeply destabilizing presidency. If enough people truly remembered what that chaos felt like, another Trump term wouldn’t even be on the table. But for those open to seeing the bare and unvarnished truth, there are unmistakable reminders of Trump’s destructive trail all around us, and it has broken my heart to watch my dad become one of them. As Rudy Giuliani’s daughter, I’m unfortunately well-suited to remind Americans of just how calamitous being associated with Trump can be, even for those who are convinced he’s on their side. Watching my dad’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his demise feels linked to a dark force that threatens to once again consume America. Not to disregard individual accountability in the slightest, but it would be naive for us to ignore the fact that many of those closest to Trump have descended into catastrophic downward spirals. If we let Trump back into the driver’s seat this fall, our country will be no exception." (more) https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/caroline-giuliani-trump-kamala-harris# For the record, Giuliani's daughter is an avowed liberal: Political views "Despite coming from a prominent Republican family, Giuliani has supported Democratic candidates.[28] During the 2008 United States presidential election, while her father was seeking the Republican nomination, she joined a Facebook group supporting Barack Obama called One Million Strong for Barack, and posted on her profile that she was a "liberal."[29][30][31] Giuliani left the Facebook group after online activity was reported in the media.[32] She supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election, while her father was a vocal supporter of Donald Trump.[29][22][33] In 2016, when questioned about her political beliefs conflicting with her father's, she stated, "he knows and is fully comfortable with it and thinks I have a right to my opinion."[34][35][36] ... She accused the Trump administration of stoking "the injustice that already permeated" society, and criticized Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and his policies that rolled back protections for the LGBTQ community, women, immigrants, people with disabilities, and people of color.[29][38][39] She went on to endorse former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris for the 2020 United States presidential election, and praised Biden's plans to combat climate change.[29][22][40] ... On September 30, 2024, Giuliani endorsed vice president Kamala Harris for the 2024 United States presidential election, writing in Vanity Fair: "I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too."[42][43] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Giuliani

How and why Smith's current indictment can prevail even in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that presidents have sweeping immunity for "official acts." Jack Smith shows his cards just in time: January 6 case looks like the winning hand against Trump October 3, 2024 ... "To those who thought that the immunity decision would leave Smith nothing to prosecute, his new filing asks in essence “what can be retained?” The answer: Just about everything. As the filing states, “The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct.” “Not so,” Smith insists. “Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies,” Smith explains, “his scheme was fundamentally a private one. Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted—a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role.” [emphasis added] (more) https://www.yahoo.com/news/jack-smith-shows-cards-just-101003123.html

11 damning details in Jack Smith’s new brief in the Trump election case From Trump’s fictitious stats about voter fraud to the FBI’s forensic analysis of Trump’s phone, prosecutors previewed how they would make their case at trial. ... Much of Smith’s brief focused on Trump’s state of mind in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Smith described a slew of conversations suggesting that the then-president knew his claims of election fraud were spurious. And Smith laid out evidence that Trump’s sole objective was to stay in power — not, as he and his lawyers have claimed, to exercise legitimate authority over election integrity. ... Inventing statistics Prosecutors said they would prove at trial that Trump and his allies often made up statistics about voter fraud “from whole cloth.” For example, Trump and allies alleged that 36,000 noncitizens had cast ballots in Arizona, changing the figure to “a few hundred thousand” five days later, eventually revising it back to “bare minimum … 40 or 50,000,” then to 32,000 and back up to the original number of 36,000. Broken promises of evidence One week after Election Day in 2020, Trump told then-Gov. Doug Ducey (R-Ariz.) that he was “packaging up” fraud evidence to share with him, prosecutors wrote. But Trump never provided it. Ducey told Trump that Arizona was all but lost, comparing it to being in “the ninth inning, two outs, and [the defendant] was several runs down,” Smith’s brief recounted. (more) https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/02/jack-smith-trump-election-brief-details-00182287#

Prosecutors lay out new evidence in Trump election case, accuse him of having ‘resorted to crimes’ October 3, 2024 ... “The details don’t matter,” Trump said, when told by an adviser that a lawyer who was mounting his legal challenges wouldn’t be able to prove the false allegations in court, the filing states. ... Prosecutors also alleged that Trump advanced claims of fraud despite knowing they were false, recounting how he conceded to others that allegations of election irregularities made by attorney Sidney Powell were “crazy” and referenced the science fiction series “Star Trek.” Even so, days later, he promoted on Twitter a lawsuit she was about to file. In demonstrating his apparent indifference to the accuracy of the election fraud claims, prosecutors also cite an account of a White House staffer who after the election overheard Trump telling his wife, daughter and son-in-law on Marine One: “It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell.” (more) https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-election-supreme-court-0b9969b480036bb1f7c61a73980d406c#

Another facet of Smith's legal filing, per Forbes: New Jack Smith Claims: Trump Hired Giuliani Because He Would Lie About Election Fraud Claims "Former President Donald Trump fired his attorneys after the 2020 election and replaced them with Rudy Giuliani because he would be willing to “spread knowingly false claims of election fraud,” Special Counsel Jack Smith alleged in a wide-ranging filing on Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, which claims Trump knew full well his election claims were false. ... The filing alleges Trump knew his claims of election fraud were false, with a different Trump attorney telling the then-president that they would get “slaughtered” if they tried to litigate the claims in court because the allegations were “bull<deleted>”—with Smith also claiming that when the lawyer told Trump they couldn’t prove his claims in court, Trump responded, “The details don’t matter.” [emphasis added] Trump and his allies invented their fraud claims “out of whole cloth,” Smith alleges, noting prosecutors would show at trial how they “repeatedly changed the numbers in their baseless fraud allegations from day to day” and made up “false figure[s] that they never verified or corroborated.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-jack-smith-claims-trump-hired-giuliani-because-he-would-lie-about-election-fraud-claims/ar-AA1rBu72

About 13 BILLION doses of the COVID vaccines have been given since the start of the pandemic. If there was any actual legitimacy to the issue you're raising, you wouldn't need to be scouring the internet for isolated reports from 2-3 years ago where something happened to happen to people after vaccination. People develop aneurysms, and did long before COVID vaccines came along, for all kinds of well established reasons that have nothing to do with COVID vaccinations. In fact, COVID the illness has been found to cause aneurysms in some cases. Even your cited article from Japan didnt find vaccination was the definite cause, but its authors did find the benefits of vaccination outweighed the risks.

'I've never liked him': See how JD Vance changed his tune on Trump "Ohio Sen. JD Vance has been formally nominated to become Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election. But back in 2016, he was a fierce opponent, saying Trump could be "America's Hitler." " July 15, 2024 [past Vance comments on Trump reported in this CNN video report] https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/video/jd-vance-trump-pivot-digvid

ABC News' fact check of the VP debate comments: "WALZ CLAIM: Gov. Walz said, "The persons closest to them, to Donald Trump, said he is unfit for the highest office. That is Senator Vance." FACT-CHECK: True Vance has shifted his view toward Trump since he first rose to prominence. Early in his career, Vance made a number of comments that were disparaging toward Trump. The specific comment that Walz seems to be referencing here is from a 2016 New York Times op-ed written by Vance ahead of the release of his book "Hillbilly Elegy." In the op-ed, Vance wrote, "Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office." [emphasis added] In years since the op-ed was published, Vance has said his views on Trump changed." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fact-checking-tim-walz-jd-vances-vp-debate/story?id=114405195

Vance has been a willing and active echo chamber for all of Trump's most recent notable and well documented lies: --the [not] stolen 2020 presidential election --Haitians immigrants [not] eating stolen dogs and cats --the false claims about vast numbers of undocumented resident/criminals running loose because of the Biden admin. And that's just the short list.... Vance has been an active participant and in some cases instigator of them. JD Vance spreads debunked claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets September 10, 2024 "Vance, who represents Ohio in the U.S. Senate, spread a debunked claim about Haitian migrants living in the city of Springfield, Ohio, on Monday, accusing them of abducting pets and eating them. The claim, which local police say is baseless, was made by far-right activists, local Republicans and neo-Nazis before being picked up by Vance." https://www.npr.org/2024/09/10/nx-s1-5107320/jd-vance-springfield-ohio-haitians-pets

The video exchange excerpt between Walz and Vance over the stolen election lies: https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/walz-presses-vance-on-jan-6-and-2020-election-loss-220632133537

From the Hollywood Reporter on Walz' comments and challenge to Vance: "Walz later brought up the fact that Trump’s attempts to overthrow the results of the 2020 election and the subsequent actions of Vice President Mike Pence were ultimately the very reason that Vance was standing across from him on Tuesday night. “When Mike Pence made the decision to certify that election, that’s why Mike Pence isn’t on this stage,” Walz said. “What I’m concerned about is: where is the firewall with Donald Trump? If he knows he could do anything, including taking an election and his vice president’s not going to stand to it, that’s what we’re asking you, America: will you stand by your oath of office, even if the President doesn’t?” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/vice-president-debate-tim-walz-jd-vance-trump-jan-6-election-lies-1236019582/

The only moment from the VP debate that mattered Vance’s “damning non-answer” on the 2020 election exposed the true stakes for democracy in 2024. Oct 2, 2024 At the end of the vice presidential debate, Gov. Tim Walz asked Sen. JD Vance a pointed question: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election? Vance’s response: “Tim, I’m focused on the future. Did Kamala Harris censor Americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 Covid situation?” There is a clear right answer — that the 2020 presidential election was in fact legitimate — and Vance refused to offer it. It was, as Walz immediately noted, “A damning non-answer,” one that showed viewers who JD Vance is and what he stands for. Ultimately, every issue discussed earlier that night comes in second to the fundamental question of whether America’s democratic institutions deserve to endure. On that question, Vance truly is radical, and his exposure as such was the only truly important moment of the night. https://www.vox.com/politics/375285/vp-debate-vance-walz-democracy-2020-who-won

Former RNC Chair Michael Steele on Vance's refusal to reject Trump's 2020 stolen election lies -- says it makes Vance "unfit for office."

JD Vance dodged questions about Jan. 6 and claimed social media censorship was "a bigger threat to democracy" than anything in the past 40 years in his debate with Tim Walz. Oct. 2, 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance refused to acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election during the vice presidential debate Tuesday and downplayed the seriousness of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which injured more than 140 law enforcement officers. He also declined to say whether he would seek to challenge the results of this year's election. ... Walz noted that the reason former Vice President Mike Pence — who was the target of "hang Mike Pence" chants from pro-Trump rioters who invaded the Capitol in 2021 — wasn't on the debate stage is that he refused to overturn the election on Trump's behalf. (more) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/damning-non-answer-vance-refuses-acknowledge-trump-lost-2020-election-rcna173569 One of the rules about being on Team Trump is those people have to swallow and support his ridiculous lies, no many how many times they've been proven false. To be part of Team Trump means you lose your soul, any sense of self-respect, and any regard for the truth.

Oct 01, 2024 Authorities in Erie, Pennsylvania, are still seeking $40,330 from Donald Trump's presidential campaign to pay for assistance they provided for his 2018 and 2023 campaign visits, bringing the total debt five cities say he owes them to over $740,000. The Erie claim was made by a spokesman for the city's Democratic Mayor Joe Schember during a conversation with the Erie Times-News and confirmed to Newsweek by a spokesperson. It is in addition to more than $700,000 of unpaid debts that four cities—El Paso, Texas; Spokane, Washington; Mesa, Arizona; and Green Bay, Wisconsin—were still seeking last month for rallies that took place between 2016 and 2019, a Newsweek investigation found. (more) https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-chased-over-unpaid-debts-his-rallies-1961765 Once a grifter, always a grifter, no matter how many billions he claims to have....

from your OP article: "When taking questions from reporters during the event, a journalist asked Trump if he thought Israel should retaliate against Iran’s Oct. 1 missile attacks against the nation. The reporter also asked if Trump believed he should have been “tougher on Iran” during his presidency “after they had launched ballistic missiles in 2020 on U.S. forces in Iraq,” which left “more than 100 U.S. soldiers injured.” The Republican candidate bristled at the idea of taking accountability for the tragic event, and instead mocked U.S. troops. “What does injured mean?” he retorted. “Injured means, you mean, because they had a headache? Because the bombs never hit the fort.” [emphasis added] ... "In 2020, the Defense Department confirmed that 109 U.S. service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after Iran attacked the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq. At the time, Trump appeared to dismiss the severity of the injuries and said, “I heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things, but I would say, and I can report, it is not very serious.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-mocks-100-u-troops-011555031.html Another in a long series of anti U.S. soldier comments by Trump, as the article elaborates on his history in that area. His kind of comments as quoted above should bring shame to the list of retired military officers who publicly endorsed Trump the other day. Those retired officers obviously have no true respect for their country or its Constitution, as they are publicly supporting an attempted insurrectionist for president. But now, it appears those officers likewise have no respect for the men and women who served under them, given that they continue to support a politician who continually disrespects the military's ordinary soldiers who defend the U.S. and its citizens.

Funny how the various unnamed sources in the Post article are giving their guesstimates of the share of crime that is supposedly being committed by so-called migrants... When as the article itself notes: "An NYPD spokesperson said overall crime is down so far this year compared to last year, and added, “New Yorkers can count on the NYPD’s ongoing vigilance in every neighborhood.” However, the spokesperson also noted, “Police officers are prohibited from asking about the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses, or suspects and therefore the NYPD doesn’t track data pertaining to immigration statuses.” [emphasis added] But then again, the NY Post has never particularly concerned itself with being a factual, credible news source as opposed to being an unfailingly right-wing, Trump echoing propaganda peddler.

This is who the retired military signers supporting Trump are endorsing: Trump indicted again in election subversion case brought by Jack Smith 08/27/2024 A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. has reindicted Donald Trump on four felony charges related to his effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election. The 36-page indictment, secured Tuesday by special counsel Jack Smith, is an attempt by prosecutors to streamline the case against Trump to address the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that concluded presidents enjoy sweeping immunity from prosecution for their official conduct. ... Trump also faces criminal charges in Georgia for interfering with the 2020 election results in that state. And in May, he was convicted in New York of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star. (more) https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/27/trump-indicted-2020-election-subversion-00176503

As regards to active duty U.S. military fomenting insurrection: What Happened to Members of the Military Accused of Storming the Capitol on January 6? November 05, 2021 At least five service members allegedly were part of the deadly pro-Trump mob that assaulted the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, leaving behind a ransacked house of government and injured police. The attack shook the core of democracy in America, with looting and violence as Congress certified the presidential election results. The sudden unrest forced lawmakers to hide in offices and barricade doors as rioters chanted threats. ... "I think the way the military is handling insurrectionists, treating them with kid gloves, is another great example of how broken the system is," Kristofer Goldsmith, an Army veteran and CEO of Sparverius, an intelligence firm that researches online extremism and disinformation campaigns, said in an interview. "There's no excuse for insurrection; it should be treated as the most serious crime someone who swore an oath to the Constitution can commit." [emphasis added] (more) https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/11/05/what-happened-members-of-military-accused-of-storming-capitol-january-6.html

Never knew that a number of retired U.S. generals and admirals, who swore an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution as officers, would be so friendly toward an attempted insurrectionist presidential candidate. Obviously, many are NOT! More than 700 national security officials endorse Kamala Harris for president Public letter calls VP a candidate who ‘defends America’s democratic ideals’ and says Donald Trump is ‘unfit’ for job 22 Sep 2024 More than 700 national security leaders and former military officials publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president in a letter released on Sunday, calling her a candidate who “defends America’s democratic ideals”. They also said her Republican rival, Donald Trump, was “unfit” for the job. The letter, signed by retired US navy R Adm Michael Smith and hundreds of others, criticized the former president’s remarks about “terminating” the US constitution over his lie that the 2020 election was stolen and his suggestion of becoming a “dictator” if re-elected. (more) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/22/national-security-officials-endorse-harris A clear case of HER letter is bigger than HIS! 🙂

Apart from all the other Comer falsehoods above, he also was in on Trump's false, long debunked "stolen election" lies from 2020. He has less than zero credibility. Rep. James Comer calls for investigation of “outright fraud” in presidential election Published: Dec. 11, 2020 BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Representative James Comer took to the Oversight Committee Republicans Twitter today to address the presidential election. ... According to the post, Comer said he is calling for immediate hearings to ensure that Americans can be confident in the final outcome. “Concerns shared by constituents that widespread voting irregularities and even reports of outright fraud may have disenfranchised their votes. So I want to echo his call for this committee to hold hearings to examine this election to ensure that our constituents can be confident that their vote counts.” https://www.wbko.com/2020/12/10/rep-james-comer-calls-for-investigation-of-outright-fraud-in-presidential-election/ Fact check: How we know the 2020 election results were legitimate, not 'rigged' as Donald Trump claims Jan. 6, 2022 ... "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its partners said in a November 2020 statement. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised." ... Dozens of lawsuits by Trump and his allies aimed at overturning the election, some of which inspired misinformation about results in contested states like Nevada, failed. The Supreme Court refused to take up several cases challenging results in battleground states that played a key role in the outcome of the election. ... Our rating: False Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged." Lawsuits, recounts, forensic audits and partisan reviews have all affirmed the election results. Officials from both parties have repeatedly debunked claims of widespread voter fraud. With 306 electoral votes, Biden beat Trump in the election. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/01/06/fact-check-donald-trump-2020-election-results/9115875002/

Somehow, I find it entirely unsurprising that some Trump supporters here think mocking comedy about a current affairs topic (ABC's handling of the debate) somehow translates into reality (which it doesn't). For my part, I'd call the ABC debate a good day (night) for quality journalism and that increasingly rare quality in U.S. political discourse -- the truth. ABC debate moderators live fact-checked Trump’s false claims from the stage New York (CNN) — ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked Donald Trump during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, quickly correcting the record for millions watching at home after the Republican pushed falsehoods on abortion, migrants and the 2020 election. [emphasis added] ... Following the debate, CNN’s Daniel Dale reported Trump made at least 33 false claims during the debate, compared with one from Harris. “This was a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from Trump. Just lie after lie on subject after subject,” Dale said. [emphasis added] https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/11/media/abc-moderators-debate-fact-check-trump-harris-false-claims/index.html By Fact-Checking Trump, ABC News Changed the Format of Presidential Debates Analysis: David Muir, Linsey Davis injected real-time corrections into a format that is rapidly evolving amid an era of polarized politics and eroding traditions. Sep 11, 2024 It’s official: TV-news anchors can fact-check presidential candidates during a national debate. In an era when news outlets have been loath to make themselves the target of invective from partisans, ABC News on Tuesday night opted to allow moderators in a broadcast of a presidential debate to correct the participating candidates — mostly former President Donald Trump — in real time, an element often missing from such events. ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis often gave in to Trump’s demand for more time to respond to Vice President Kamala Harris’ comments, but they also stopped him short by telling him in no uncertain terms that some of the stuff he was peddling — rants about babies being killed after delivery and immigrants in Ohio eating animals — were pure hogwash. https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/abc-news-fact-checks-presidential-debates-trump-harris-1236140699/ And one of the more important facts pertaining to all this is -- AFAIK, none of the fact checking details that the ABC moderators presented to Trump during the debate have been proven in retrospect to be wrong, whereas in Trump's case, he continues to set new lows almost daily for a wide range of claims that continue to be shown by numerous sources as being false, misleading and plain bogus. ABC's different from tradition handling of the recent presidential candidates debate was a necessary but sad reflection of just how far divorced from reality, facts and truth Trump and his campaign have become.

Here's all anyone needs to know about the above NY Post report being partisan political nonsense: "House Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. and Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., sent a letter to FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel Friday raising concerns about the deal." Maybe they'd be better served investigating the political influence of Australian born Rupurt Murdock's right wing empire that includes Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and others -- which probably provide more news content in the U.S. than the collection of Audacy radio stations being bought by Soros. And last time I checked, Soros' corporate entities, unlike Murdock's, haven't had to pay out a $787 million settlement to voting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems because of Fox hosts' pervasive attempts to undermine the credibility of the U.S. presidential election system during the 2020 cycle with known false claims in an attempt to favor their favored candidate (Trump) and echoing his likewise false claims. It was the largest known media settlement for defamation in U.S. history. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox_News_Network If anyone's looking for malevolent attempts to influence the U.S. political system and election process through media influence, the Murdock empire is right at the top of the list. But of course, Comer won't be rushing to investigate the malevolent influence and misdeeds of Murdock's U.S. propaganda operations and misinformation peddling, since he himself was a brother-in-arms proponent for much of their misinformation. [weblinks embedded into each image below]

As for so-called sanctuary cities and their supposed correlation with crime rates: "In an August 2016 study of roughly 80 jurisdictions, University of California at Riverside and Highline College researchers used FBI city-level crime data to see how violent and property crime rates changed after sanctuary policies were adopted. Then they compared each sanctuary city to a similarly situated, non-sanctuary city, based on census data and other variables. They found that “a sanctuary policy itself has no statistically meaningful effect on crime.” [emphasis added] University of California at San Diego professor Tom Wong looked at 608 sanctuary counties and found lower rates of crime in those counties than in non-sanctuary counties. His research was published in January by the progressive think tank Center for American Progress. [emphasis added] Other studies showed that in some jurisdictions, immigrant-friendly policies led to a decrease in crime, PolitiFact found. Washington Post https://archive.ph/McbRw https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/02/08/trumps-claim-that-sanctuary-cities-breed-crime/ "Researchers from the study Sessions cited found that sanctuary policies do not affect crime rates either way. The study analyzed crime data from jurisdictions that "expressly forbid city officials or police departments from inquiring into immigration status" and analyzed it in two methods. [emphasis added] First, researchers compared cities’ crime rate in the year before and the year after a policy’s implementation. In the second approach, they "matched each sanctuary city to a similarly situated non-sanctuary city based on relevant census and political variables," the authors explained in an October 2016 post in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. At the end, "We find no statistically discernible difference in violent crime rate, rape, or property crime across the cities. Our findings provide evidence that sanctuary policies have no effect on crime rates, despite narratives to the contrary," said the 2016 study, titled "The Politics of Refuge: Sanctuary Cities, Crime, and Undocumented Immigration." The researchers were from the University of California at Riverside and Highline College. [emphasis added] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/jul/24/jeff-sessions/jeff-sessions-mischaracterizes-study-sanctuary-cit/ "...a January 2017 report that considered more than 600 counties to be sanctuary locales. The report by the Washington-based Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy research and advocacy group, "The Effects of Sanctuary Policies on Crime and the Economy," states that crime in 2015 was significantly lower in 608 "sanctuary" counties than in counties where law officers were more compliant with requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to detain locally-held suspects. [emphasis added] Tom K. Wong, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, wrote: "There are, on average, 35.5 fewer crimes committed per 10,000 people in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties. Altogether, the data suggest that when local law enforcement focuses on keeping communities safe, rather than becoming entangled in federal immigration enforcement efforts, communities are safer," the report says, plus there are other advantages such as stronger economies." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/10/sally-hernandez/sally-hernandez-says-cities-labeled-sanctuaries-ha/

From what I'm reading below, the issue with these voters in Arizona has nothing to do with whether they could or should be able to vote in the upcoming federal presidential election -- but only about whether they were entitled to vote in state and local contests: AZ Supreme Court won’t limit 97,000 improperly registered voters The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that roughly 97,000 voters who are improperly registered to vote because of a glitch in the state’s driver’s license database won’t be limited on who they can vote for in November because no law authorizes county recorders to change their registration status. The voters are erroneously registered to vote because of the way the Motor Vehicle Division provides driver’s license information to the state’s voter registration system. The voters affected by this particular coding error are people who first obtained their Arizona driver’s license before October 1996 and then were issued a duplicate replacement before registering to vote sometime after 2004. [emphasis added] ... Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer flagged the problem with the driver’s license database earlier this week, then asked the Arizona Supreme Court to limit those voters — who have been casting ballots for decades and aren’t suspected of being noncitizens — to voting only in federal contests unless they provide proof of citizenship in the coming weeks. https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/09/20/az-supreme-court-wont-limit-97000-improperly-registered-voters/ Arizona Supreme Court decides nearly 100,000 voters will get full ballot access after clerical error The clerical error might have seen the roughly 98,000 Arizonans unable to participate in state legislature, county, school board, and city elections, including ballot measures. ... With just a few weeks before early voting kicks off in Arizona, Fontes’ office argued the 98,000 voters should be able to vote on the full ballots, casting their votes at both the federal and local levels. Richer’s office argued these voters could only participate at the federal level. Arizona GOP Chair Gina Swoboda joined them in applauding the court’s decision. In an interview with NBC News on Friday night, Swoboda said, “I could not be happier with this result." "We’re very grateful to the state Supreme Court for protecting the voices of almost 98,000 voters who were in danger of being disenfranchised in this election,” she added. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-supreme-court-decides-nearly-100000-voters-will-get-full-ballo-rcna172081