Vice President Kamala Harris said one of her flaws was that she cares too much about her team.

During CNN’s town hall Wednesday night, the Democrat presidential nominee was lobbed the most cliché question for any interview when an attendee asked her to identify self-examined weaknesses.

“Perhaps a weakness, some would say, but I actually think it’s a strength, is I really do value having a team of very smart people around me who bring to my decision-making process different perspectives,” Harris said.

“What weaknesses do you bring to the table?”

Kamala Harris: “Perhaps a weakness, some would say, but I actually think it’s a strength. I really do value having a team of very smart people around me!” pic.twitter.com/JEiMAY9dv9

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 24, 2024

The vice president testified to her own virtues with a straight face in prime time despite a nearly 92 percent staff turnover rate, according to an investigation from government watchdog organization Open The Books (OTB) published this summer.

“Chaos reigns on the vice president’s staff,” non-profit founder Adam Andrzejewski said. “Our auditors at OpenTheBooks quantified an extraordinarily high 91.5-percent staff turnover rate.”

As The Federalist has previously reported, “[s]taffers in Harris’ office have reported a toxic work environment since 2021, when The Washington Post spoke with 18 individuals in Harris’ orbit.”

“One of the things we’ve said in our little text groups among each other is what is the common denominator through all this and it’s her,” Democrat strategist Gil Duran, who worked for Harris in 2013

In a split decision Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted voters who improperly cast a “naked” mail-in ballot permission to cast a provisional ballot at their polling place. Three of the seven justices offered dissenting opinions.

To preserve privacy, mail-in ballots are returned in two envelopes: an inner, secrecy envelope, and the outer mailing envelope. Pennsylvania election code requires voters to sign their name and write the date on the outer envelope.

This case started in Butler County where two voters, Faith Genser and Frank Matis, voted by mail in the 2024 primary election. Each put their completed ballots directly inside the mailing envelopes, and did not use the secrecy envelope.

That is a naked ballot. It matters because the name on the exterior of the ballot and the ballot choices can both be seen by the person opening the exterior envelope, destroying the secrecy. It is an incomplete ballot and is not counted.  

When the Butler County election board received these ballots, the envelopes were scanned by a machine that measured their dimensions and predicted that both lacked a secrecy envelope, court papers said. Their votes were cancelled for lacking a secrecy envelope, and that was noted in the statewide computer system. This triggered the state computer system to send an automatic notice from the Department of State to each voter involved.

The notice tells the voter his or her ballot will not be counted due to lack of a secrecy envelope.

“After your ballot was received by

An Illinois K-5 school’s male library director started publicly wearing female clothes Wednesday and insisting students call him “Ms. Madison Sabovik.” Until then, the former fourth-grade teacher had been known to students as Mr. Steve Sabovik.

Parents were alerted to the librarian’s impending transsexual exhibition in a letter Owen Elementary sent two days before it happened, Oct. 20. Many parents pulled their children from the elementary this week, at least temporarily.

Other parents are opting their children out of using the library. On Wednesday alone, more than 100 parents sent the school principal and district leaders emails protesting the public transition and its quick rollout, said Shannon Adcock, founder of the parent advocacy organization Awake Illinois.

Parents are unhappy the school gave them such short notice about exposing their children to inappropriate sexual information, a dad with a child in the school told The Federalist. He asked for anonymity to protect his child.

The school also sent a “talking points” memo to parents about the ongoing public exhibition, made public by Awake Illinois. Here’s a district-suggested response to “student questions or statements”: “Our LMC Director is amazing and continues to do great work here. Let’s support her [sic].”

“Our LMC [library media center] Director has always been amazing and continues to be amazing,” the talking points suggest as a “response to parent questions or statements.” “I fully support the work that they [sic] continue to do here at Owen.”

Starting today, Kinder – 5th grade students