AS I PREPARED TO PUBLISH THIS BLOG, the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Chris Wray held a press conference to alert Americans that Iran and Russia were involved in attempt to spread false information using the social media to upset our election.

Unfortunately, they didn’t provide examples of the misinformation material, which would be helpful to Americans to understand what they should be looking for in their e-mails and Internet browsing.

In another development, Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife Jill both charged that their campaign was being smeared, mentioning Rudy Giuliani as the instigator, while continuing to deny the validity of the e-mails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.  Reportedly, the FBI has been looking into money laundering charges based on the laptop contents.

WELCOME BACK, BARACK – Your campaign speeches for Joe Biden are terrific reminders of why Donald Trump was elected to restore America after the two of you took us down the path of disaster, domestically and internationally.

President Trump likes to say that he accomplished more in 47 months than Joe did in 47 years, but seeing you in the news coverage again reminds me of how he took your miserable legacy apart piece by piece.

Internationally, he successfully pulled us out of your disastrous Iran nuclear agreement and the ludicrous, and costly Paris Accord. He destroyed the ISIS califate, its members you referred to as Jayvees, and had two key terrorist leaders taken out.

In Europe, he successfully convinced member nations in NATO to pay their fair share of the mission.  He doesn’t apologize for America as you did; he’s simply putting America first.

He moved the Jewish capital to Jerusalem, a promise that you and your two predecessors didn’t keep.  You did a lot of talking about a Middle East peace plan, but it is President Trump who is following through with a plan that has a number of countries on board.

Here at home, his successful removal of your onerous regulations was high on his list when he took office, along with the mandate you imposed on ObamaCare.

Cutting the corporate tax rate with an encouragement to return jobs to this country, especially those manufacturing jobs you said were lost, paved the way for unprecedented job opportunities that led to improved wages and the lowest unemployment numbers in history.  And his tax cut put money in the pockets of all Americans.

Those blacks, who you and Joe left behind during your eight years in office, haven’t been forgotten by the Trump administration, as evidenced by the permanent funding of black colleges and universities, those opportunity zones, criminal justice reform and low unemployment.

Hispanics, too, have fared better under Trump.  Remember the immigration reform you promised them in 2008 and again in 2012?  They do.

“You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” Obama told Biden, who was considering a run, according to the New York Times. 

You can continue to tell those who will still listen to you, that Trump is polarizing the country, but 56 percent of likely voters say they are better off today than when you left office.

WHERE 2020 LOOKS BETTER THAN 2016 for the president’s reelection may surprise you.  Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight site, which came closest to predicting Trump’s win in 2016, compared the percentages of 2016 with current polling done by UCLA Nationscape polling.

While Trump has taken a hit among older white voters (45 and older) by more than 20 points, he isn’t losing ground with all white voters, who back him by 20 points.  He’s also making inroads with college-educated white voters, a group he lost by more than 10 points in 2016.

Many college-educated white voters are leaning Republican, especially in the South.  He currently polls at 49 percent among white college educated voters in the UCLA polling.

He is gained real ground among non-white voters.  Trump’s support among black voters (18 to 44) has gone up to 21 percent from 10 percent in 2016.

“Notably,” FiveThirtyEight reports, “young black voters don’t seem to feel as negatively about Trump as older black Americans do.”  An African American Research Collaborative poll of battleground states found that 35 percent of black adults (18 to 29) agreed that while they didn’t always like Trump’s policies, they liked his strong demeanor and defiance of the establishment.

UCLA polling shows that Trump is attracting 35 percent of Hispanic voters under age 45, up 22 percent from 2016.  His support seems to have risen the most among Hispanic voters with a four-year college degree.

With 24 percent of Hispanic Floridians with a college degree, that group could help offset the loss of some older white voters.

“In a shocking turnaround,” writes Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner, “61.48 percent of the 109 Muslim leaders who represent two million voters, plan to vote for Trump.”  The survey was taken by Aksam Gazetewsi, a Turkish news site, that reported support for Joe Biden at 30.27 percent.

The results represent a dramatic flip of the Muslim vote, which for years has sided with the Democrats.  President Trump, whose Middle East plan is winning support from Arab nations, is gaining strong support from Muslim leaders and their followers who believe that the Democrats haven’t delivered on years of promises, according to the survey.

OF NOTE – Just 10 percent of the Muslim leaders thought Biden was sincere when he used the Arabic phrase for “God willing.”

AND PONDER THIS – Georgetown University has hired former FBI agent Peter Strzok as an adjunct professor.  He will reportedly teach a course in counterintelligence and national security.

Here’s how the DOJ worded Strzok’s discharge letter: “Your excessive, repeated, and politically charged text messages while you were assigned as the lead case agent on the FBI’s two biggest and most politically sensitive investigations in decades, demonstrated a gross lack of professionalism and exceptionally poor judgement.  Your misconduct has cast a pall over the FBI’s Clinton Email and Russia investigations and the work of the Special Counsel.”

And life goes on in the Swamp of Washington DC.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.