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

U.S. intelligence officials appear “clueless” about an alleged campaign money-laundering scheme on behalf of Democrat candidates now the subject of several lawsuits and soon lawmaker subpoenas, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson tells The Federalist. 

For the better part of the past two years, the Wisconsin Republican has been raising alarm bells about alleged “smurfing” activities through ActBlue, Democrats’ online donation platform that has taken in millions of dollars for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. As Johnson notes in a recent column in The Daily Caller, the practice appears to involve hundreds, even thousands, of low-dollar donations made in the names of individuals without their knowledge. Some suspect the money is coming from wealthy foreign actors looking to affect U.S. elections — especially next month’s presidential election. 

As Just the News first reported, Wisconsin conservative strategist Mark Block, who claims he’s a victim of the alleged scheme, names ActBlue in a recent racketeering lawsuit charging that unnamed participants have violated the Wisconsin Organized Control Act. 

‘Straw Donations’

On Thursday, Johnson and fellow Badger State Republican Rep. Bryan Steil sent letters to the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) seeking a classified briefing on “potential election interference through fraudulent donations by foreign actors.”

Johnson, ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Steil, chairman of the House Administration Committee, requested Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) related to ActBlue. They also requested that all three agencies provide classified briefings on the matter.

Steil’s committee has been investigating