A California bill working its way through the legislature would make the crime of buying child sex a serious felony, replacing current statute in the far-left state that treats soliciting a minor for sex as a misdemeanor.
A bipartisan <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would raise solicitation of a minor from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by up to four years in prison, and a fine of up to $25,000. The bill would also require a person convicted of soliciting a minor to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
The <a href="https://sr12.senate.ca.gov/content/sen-grove-introduces-bi-partisan-measure-continue-fight-against-human-trafficking-0#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIt%20takes%20two%20criminals%20to,are%20purchasing%20sex%20from%20children.">measure</a>, introduced by Republican State Senator Shannon Grove in February and co-sponsored by two Democrats, is scheduled for a committee vote on Tuesday, but it faces an uphill battle for passage.
As of Thursday, the new bill did not have the votes to make it out of committee. Critics are concerned it could target minorities, she explained, but criticized that point of view.
&#8220;Red, yellow, black, or white, you should be in prison,&#8221; Grove said during a phone interview with The Daily Wire on Thursday, arguing that putting child sex buyers behind bars for two years will keep them off the streets and prevent them from soliciting more children, at least during that period.
She said she is working on negotiating with her colleagues without giving up the meat of the bill. Last year, Grove was able to convince a skeptical Democrat-controlled legislature to pass a similar bill that reclassified child sex trafficking from a misdemeanor to a major felony, establishing harsher criminal penalties for traffickers. That bill went into effect on January 1.
Democrats in the legislature were forced to reconsider and support the sex trafficking bill after scathing social media backlash criticizing their initial reluctance.
California&#8217;s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom voiced support for last year&#8217;s bill, saying he personally called Grove about it and was &#8220;surprised&#8221; when it initially failed to pass the committee vote.
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D) also said at the time that the issue was “something that we are addressing and it’s something we are going to get right.”
Neither Newsom nor Rivas responded to a request for comment on whether they would support Grove&#8217;s new bill targeting buyers.
Before Grove&#8217;s successful bill last year, lawmakers had <a href="https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/07/child-trafficking-bill-california-legislature/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tried</a> at least nine times since 2007 to reclassify child sex trafficking as a more serious crime.
This year, her focus is the purchasers of child sex, Grove said.
&#8220;I want to make the solicitation, the person who&#8217;s going out there going, &#8216;hey little 13-year-old, fourteen-year-old, fifteen-year-old, I want to get that person. I want that person to face felony charges. That&#8217;s what the bill does,&#8221; Grove said during her interview with The Daily Wire.
Grove said she spoke to sex trafficking survivors last year who told her, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to go after the buyers&#8221; in order to really crack down on the child sex trade.
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A group called Exodus Cry, a nonprofit that works to abolish illegal sex trafficking <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5jukB9sN-Y/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a viral video to Instagram last week that featured people reacting with shock and disgust to hearing that buying child sex is only a misdemeanor in California.
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Helen Taylor, vice president of impact at Exodus Cry argued that eliminating sex trafficking requires going after the demand and implementing proper deterrents.
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&#8220;For this to currently be a misdemeanor, and frequently prosecuted as such, reveals an inadequate understanding of how serious of a crime sex trafficking is,&#8221; Taylor told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;We want every child in California to be better protected and receive the justice they deserve should they ever be trafficked and exploited at the hands of a sex buyer,&#8221; she said.
Taylor urged committee members to vote in favor of the bill on Tuesday.
&#8220;Our laws send a message about what behaviors we are willing to tolerate. Paying money to abuse a child is something we will not tolerate,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;It is surely a &#8216;no brainer&#8217; to make buying a child for sex a felony in California and if not, we have a serious problem.&#8221;

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Buying Child Sex Is Only A Misdemeanor In California. This Bill Would Change That.

Soliciting Children For Sex Is Only A Misdemeanor In California. This Bill Would Change That.

California

Child Abuse

Child Sex Abuse

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Gavin Newsom

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On Wednesday, Republicans will introduce a bill in the Senate and House of Representatives that would expedite the Department of Defense’s use of quantum information science.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) will introduce the &#8220;Defense Quantum Acceleration Act.&#8221;
The bill would have the Secretary of Defense “explore and identify QIS technologies that have demonstrated value in advancing the priorities and missions of the Department; and may be applied to address operational problems; develop plans to transition such QIS technologies from the research and development phase to operational use within the Department, including within each of the Armed Forces; and carry out such transition plans,” it <a href="https://admin.govexec.com/media/general/2024/4/stefny_085_xml%5B88%5D.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>.
“Information that’s encrypted on the <a href="https://quantumxc.com/blog/quantum-cryptography-explained/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quantum level</a> can’t be secretly intercepted because attempting to measure a quantum property changes it,” <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2024/04/new-bill-would-greatly-expand-defense-department-quantum-efforts/395604/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Defense One</a> explains, adding, “China has outpaced the Defense Department in terms of investment in quantum technology, dedicating <a href="https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/analysis/china-invests-billions-in-quantum-computing-race-with-us-now-neck-and-neck/2024/02/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$15 billion over the next five years</a>—or $3 billion a year—as opposed to the <a href="https://iq.govwin.com/neo/marketAnalysis/view/FY-2023-Defense-Investment-in-Quantum-Information-Science/6864?researchTypeId=1&amp;researchMarket=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$700 million</a> yearly Defense Department investment.”
“According to NAS (National Academy of Sciences), ‘quantum computers are the only known model for computing that could offer exponential speedup over today’s computers,’” the Congressional Research Service <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11836/7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. NAS also asserted that “the development, standardization, and deployment of post-quantum cryptography is critical for minimizing the chance of a potential security and privacy disaster.”
“Quantum’s impact on our national security will be considerable, and we must take immediate steps to ensure the United States is the first nation to reach quantum advantage. This bill will ensure the Department of Defense, led by the incredible work at [The U.S. Air Force Rome Laboratory in New York] is able to outpace our adversaries and rapidly develop and transition quantum technologies to our service members,” Stefanik <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/4/stefanik-blackburn-introduce-the-defense-quantum-acceleration-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.
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Chris Padilla, vice president of government and regulatory affairs at IBM, said the Defense Quantum Acceleration Act “helps ensure the Department of Defense embraces this revolutionary technology. For national defense and economic security reasons, the United States must maintain a leadership position in quantum computing, and this legislation supports that effort. IBM encourages Congress to pass it and the administration to begin deploying quantum-centric supercomputing.”

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Quantum computing

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said during an interview over the weekend that due to the work that he has done as governor the state has transitioned from being a one-time swing state to a GOP stronghold heading into the 2024 presidential election.
DeSantis made the remarks during a Sunday interview on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; while speaking the significant number of Americans from other states that have moved to Florida in recent years.
&#8220;When I became governor of Florida had never had more registered Republicans than Democrats in state history,&#8221; DeSantis told host Maria Bartiromo. &#8220;And we were close to 300,000 fewer Republicans and Democrats, this is 2018. Today, we have close to 900,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats. So you&#8217;re talking about a million plus voter registration shift.&#8221;
&#8220;And yes, part of that, I think is a response locally, where people are more likely to switch from Democrat to Republican in Florida, non party to Republican than vice versa and that&#8217;s been an important component of it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But I do think that migration has skewed amongst people who come to Florida, not because they want to change the policies to reflect in Illinois, or California or New York, but because they appreciate how Florida has done it different from where they&#8217;re coming to. And so I think that&#8217;s contributed to this really record thing.&#8221;
&#8220;Florida is off the board,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It is a Republican state, you&#8217;ve covered politics. We used to be a one point state, every election hung on how would Florida go, that is not true anymore. And and I think that&#8217;s a good thing for the party.&#8221;
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Florida

According to a Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/02/29/americans-top-policy-priority-for-2024-strengthening-the-economy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> taken just last month, 57% of Americans say that the top priority this year is dealing with illegal immigration. And when it comes to immigration, Joe Biden is 20 points underwater.
This is leading Democrats down a real rabbit hole. They have two choices: Be the moderates on immigration or pretend voters are out of their minds.
And they&#8217;re going to do just what you would think they&#8217;re going to do. They&#8217;re going to pretend voters are crazy and out of their minds.
On Tuesday night, after exit polling revealed how strongly Republicans care about immigration, Democrats like Jen Psaki, the former press secretary for Biden, were mocking Republicans on MSNBC for caring about immigration.
“I mean, if you look at some of these exit polls — I mean, I live in Virginia. Immigration was the number one issue, of course, I mean, again, these could change,” Psaki stated.
“Well,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow laughed, adding, “Virginia does have a border with West Virginia.” As Psaki laughed along, Maddow added, “A very contested area.”
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Jen Psaki, Joy Reid, and Rachel Maddow are laughing on MSNBC at the fact that voters in Virginia care about immigration:
Maddow: “Well, Virginia does have a border with West Virginia.” <a href="https://t.co/MDyjJuUkzn">pic.twitter.com/MDyjJuUkzn</a>
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Perhaps people are worried illegal immigrants are going to show up where they live and might commit crimes. Or perhaps they are worried about the vast cultural changes that could be wrought by importing millions of people who have no familiarity with American concepts of ideas such as free speech and property rights. Or perhaps they are simply worried about generating an entire economic underclass of people, many of whom will be dependent on welfare benefits and many of whom are going to be lowering the wage base and the like.
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There are a multitude of reasons why people in Virginia might be worried about illegal immigration.
But Democrats are disconnected from this issue. According to the polling data from <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/02/29/americans-top-policy-priority-for-2024-strengthening-the-economy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew</a>, 39% of Democrats believe that immigration is a real concern, compared to 57% of independents and 76% of Republicans. That is a high number of independents who are deeply worried about immigration, and that number is up from 53% in 2023 and 49% in 2022. Democrats, meanwhile, are still stuck down in the mid-thirties when it comes to policy goals.
This is a problem for the Democrats and the White House because they are stuck in this legacy media echo chamber in which the idea for them is to double down on the base. They&#8217;re ignoring all of it.
On Tuesday, the White House was asked about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senseless-and-avoidable-tragedy-laken-rileys-mom-speaks-out-cites-christian-faith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laken Riley&#8217;s murder</a>. She was the young woman who was allegedly killed near the University of Georgia by an illegal immigrant. And the White House tried to blame Donald Trump.
That dog is not going to hunt. The president of the United States is Joe Biden. He needs to close the border and everybody knows it.
This relates to the reality of today&#8217;s modern politics. Everyone in the media is convinced that the Right-wing has gone crazy, they&#8217;ve gone too far Right, and they&#8217;re picking crazy candidates — and there is some truth to that. If you look at the last round of senatorial races, Republicans picked some terrible candidates in winnable races, and then they lost those races.
But Democrats are now doing the same. We have a game of chicken in which both sides have decided to put the radical brick on the accelerator and then aim the cars at each other.
The question is, who is going to pull away first before the cars crash? Whoever pulls away first in this case actually wins. It is not as though if you just continue along that path and the other guy pulls away, you win. It&#8217;s the opposite.
In fact, this game of chicken has both cars aimed at the cliff. Which side is going to stop before the cliff at all? Forget about getting close to the edge. Who&#8217;s going to stop at all?
The Democrats threw out Kyrsten Sinema — who left the party and became an independent even though she would still caucus with them — in favor of hard-Left Ruben Gallego. Arizona used to be a largely red state. Then the Arizona Republican Party decided they were going to shoot themselves directly in the chest by embracing every form of election questioning they possibly could, alienating every moderate in the entire state and electing two Democratic senators and a Democratic governor.
The problem is that the underlying political character of the state of Arizona remains purple. There&#8217;s a reason why, until very recently, both senators were purple to red senators. It was John McCain until he passed away and then Jeff Flake, and both were replaced by Democrats who have attempted to act as a sort of bluish purple. Sinema was so purple that she eventually just went purple and decided to declare herself an independent. But then she decided not to run for reelection because the Democratic Party had basically cast her out, and they decided to primary her.
If only Republicans had nominated someone who had not run for governor, lost, and then claimed that she won for the last year and a half. That would have helped. But they didn&#8217;t do that. They ran Kari Lake. So it&#8217;s Kari Lake versus Ruben Gallego, Clash of the Titans.
Whoever seizes the middle ground is going to win these elections. But in some cases, both parties seem to be running away from middle ground.
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And in the presidential race, it&#8217;s Biden who&#8217;s running away from the middle ground while Trump is reaching over and grabbing it.
The secret about Trump is that he is politically moderate and rhetorically extreme. But many of the people who have been running are rhetorically extreme and politically extreme, which is not what Americans prefer.
Rhetorically extreme only works for Donald Trump. It really does not work for anyone else.
Trump is one of one in the same way that Barack Obama for Democrats was one of one.
You cannot be Trump. There is no one who can out-Trump Trump. There&#8217;s nobody who can even be in that same category. Trump is a stand-up comedian who became president of the United States because he&#8217;s extraordinarily entertaining. He is camera-magnetic. He is always funny. He&#8217;s an entertainer who became a politician, not a politician trying to be an entertainer.
All of those things are things no other politician can hold a candle to because he&#8217;s in a completely different category.

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On Immigration, The Democrats Aim Their Car At The Cliff 

Ben Shapiro

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Immigration

Jen Psaki

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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson gave new details during an interview this week about his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/longtime-democrat-dallas-mayor-switching-to-gop-american-cities-need-republicans">decision to switch</a> from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.
Johnson made the remarks during an interview on Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s (R-TX) &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson.
Johnson highlighted his background growing up poor to working class parents and being raised in a family where faith was central to their everyday lives. He said that while his family was not political, they had a very strong sense of right and wrong and put a priority on treating others well, working hard, and following the law.
&#8220;And so, I think I was always politically in a weird posture with the Democratic Party, because at its core — and I didn&#8217;t understand this at the very beginning — &#8230; you sort of inherit the Democratic Party as a cultural heirloom, when you&#8217;re African American in this country, it sort of gets handed to you, as part of who you are,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had more phone calls with people distraught about this party switch than I ever would have gotten if I had told people that I was actually leaving the church. There&#8217;s no question about it. There&#8217;s no doubt about it. I will say that loudly and on the record. I had more panicked phone calls from people genuinely concerned about what I was doing and how I could do this than I would have gotten if I&#8217;d said I just don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m into this Jesus thing anymore.&#8221;
&#8220;At the Democratic Party&#8217;s core, as I was saying, is a belief that how things turn out for you in this country are largely determined by things that are outside of your control, the race you&#8217;re born, the neighborhood you&#8217;re born in, it just kind of excuses away your failures and excuses away your successes to something that&#8217;s out of your control,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;If you&#8217;re successful and you&#8217;re white males, it’s because of course you were. And if you&#8217;re unsuccessful as an African American, it&#8217;s both the deck was stacked against you. And I just wasn&#8217;t a person who ever believed that. And that wasn&#8217;t how I was raised. And it&#8217;s not what I was taught. But it was the overarching political philosophy of my party.&#8221;
Johnson said that politicians need to be more honest about what the &#8220;winning formula&#8221; is often times when it comes to dealing with policy issues.
&#8220;The winning formula ends up being exactly what the conservative ideology would tell you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It has to do with taking upon yourself the responsibility for yourself, and not believing that the Democratic party or any party is there to save you. And the Democratic Party wants you to believe you can&#8217;t get there without them.&#8221;
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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson shocked the world by leaving the Democrat party and becoming a Republican.
His life story of success and hard work was fundamentally at odds with the Democrat party&#39;s opposition to meritocracy.
Listen to his story on Verdict👇<a href="https://t.co/S2x5Gyc3xm">https://t.co/S2x5Gyc3xm</a> <a href="https://t.co/7EVsIVWiwe">pic.twitter.com/7EVsIVWiwe</a>
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Ted Cruz

President Joe Biden reportedly admitted that he had served in the Senate with &#8220;real racists&#8221; and segregationists — mentioning former South Carolina GOP Sen. Strom Thurmond by name — and then claimed that today&#8217;s Republican Party was &#8220;worse.&#8221;
According to a pool report from Wednesday evening, Biden compared Republicans to the men he&#8217;d served with who &#8220;set terrible records on race,&#8221; accusing the GOP of not believing in &#8220;basic democratic principles.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden tonight, per pool,&#8221; Roll Call chief correspondent Niels Lesniewski posted via X. &#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;ve served with real racists. I&#8217;ve served with Strom Thurmond. I&#8217;ve served with all these guys that have set terrible records on race. But guess what? These guys are worse. These guys do not believe in basic democratic principles.'&#8221;
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Biden tonight, per pool:
“I’ve served with real racists. I’ve served with Strom Thurmond. I’ve served with all these guys that  have set terrible records on race. But guess what? These guys are worse. These guys do not believe in basic democratic principles.”
&mdash; Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) <a href="https://twitter.com/nielslesniewski/status/1760496132482809924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Time and again, Republicans show they are the party of chaos and division,&#8221; Biden reportedly added.
But Biden did not elaborate on his own personal history with those &#8220;real racists&#8221; — probably because he has a well-documented history of praising them and even eulogizing them, as several were quick to point out on X.
&#8220;Joe Biden repeatedly praised Strom Thurmond, called him his &#8216;closest friend,&#8217; urged him to run for president, and eulogized him at his funeral. All of these are recorded on video,&#8221; Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, posted.
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Joe Biden repeatedly praised Strom Thurmond, called him his “closest friend,” urged him to run for president, and eulogized him at his funeral. All of these are recorded on video. <a href="https://t.co/ZnhqIfdXJ9">https://t.co/ZnhqIfdXJ9</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1760511913136369918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Video from a birthday dinner for Thurmond in 1993 showed Biden delivering very flattering remarks about the &#8220;son of the south,&#8221; the other half of his &#8220;odd couple.&#8221;
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&#8220;&#8216;Sure, guys like Storm Thurmond didn’t want black people to vote. But at least they believed in democracy, unlike these clowns,'&#8221; social media user Varad Mehta mocked the president in an X post.
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“Sure, guys like Storm Thurmond didn’t want black people to vote. But at least they believed in democracy, unlike these clowns.” <a href="https://t.co/xEMZK5va9h">https://t.co/xEMZK5va9h</a>
&mdash; Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) <a href="https://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/1760502403374239821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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And while Biden did not mention the late senator and KKK Grand Cyclops Robert Byrd (D-WV) by name when he mentioned serving with racists, conservative strategist Steve Guest shared a video of the then-vice president&#8217;s remarks from Byrd&#8217;s funeral in 2010.
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&#8220;Joe Biden is unhinged,&#8221; Guest posted. &#8220;Nearly 14 years ago, he delivered a eulogy for segregationist and former KKK &#8216;Exalted Cyclops&#8217; leader Robert Byrd. Biden called Byrd a &#8216;mentor,&#8217; a &#8216;guide,&#8217; and a &#8216;friend.'&#8221;
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Joe Biden is unhinged. Nearly 14 years ago, he delivered a eulogy for segregationist and former KKK &quot;Exalted Cyclops&quot; leader Robert Byrd. 
Biden called Byrd a &quot;mentor,&quot; a &quot;guide,&quot; and a &quot;friend.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ow5EqSuqyo">pic.twitter.com/ow5EqSuqyo</a> <a href="https://t.co/kQ0eTAdCO1">https://t.co/kQ0eTAdCO1</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1760502909601485087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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President Biden Departs White House For Florida

Biden Admits He Worked Alongside ‘Real Racists,’ Then Claims Today’s GOP Is Worse

Biden Admits He Worked Alongside 'Real Racists,' Then Claims Today's GOP Is Worse

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The Florida Republican Party voted on Monday to elect Evan Power as the party&#8217;s new chairman after members overwhelming to remove Christian Ziegler from the position following a police investigation into a rape allegation.
Power, who was the party&#8217;s vice chairman, filled in for Ziegler after party members voted last month to strip him of his powers and reduce his salary to $1.
&#8220;We have to build that trust back long-term,&#8221; Power said. &#8220;I think we have to do is go to our larger donors right now to ask for their help and assistance. And we can build that trust back because we can prove we are bigger than one person. We moved on as fast and as efficiently as we could. And now we are here in a new chapter and [with] a new chairman.&#8221;
Highlighting the successes of the Florida GOP under Governor Ron DeSantis, Power said that Republicans have experienced record turnout and have flipped seats all the way down to the school board-level.
&#8220;Congratulations to our new Chairman, @EvanPower,&#8221; the Florida GOP said in a statement. &#8220;Under his strong leadership, we will Keep Florida RED, deliver Florida’s 30 electoral votes to the GOP presidential candidate, and elect Republicans up and down the ballot. Let&#8217;s get to work!&#8221;
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Congratulations to our new Chairman, <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanPower?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EvanPower</a>. Under his strong leadership, we will Keep Florida RED, deliver Florida’s 30 electoral votes to the GOP presidential candidate, and elect Republicans up and down the ballot. Let’s get to work! 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/DqceF2gNxa">pic.twitter.com/DqceF2gNxa</a>
&mdash; Florida GOP (@FloridaGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/FloridaGOP/status/1744441228958036312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In an emergency vote on Monday, members <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-gop-removes-party-chairman-amid-rape-accusation">voted</a> 199-3 to oust Ziegler which comes after DeSantis and other top Florida Republican officials had called on him to resign.
Police in Florida are also investigating whether Ziegler recorded the alleged incident, which could constitute video voyeurism, a third-degree felony in Florida. Zeigler, who has not been charged, and his attorney allegedly showed the video to law enforcement with the belief that it proved that the interaction was consensual.
Attorney Bryant Camareno, who is not involved in the case, told local media that showing the video to law enforcement could be proof of a different crime.
“I think number one, it may show that there was consent to have sex,” he said. “Number two, it may show that she knew that she was being recorded, but number three, if he sent it to her with the intent of harassment then that may be another crime which is cyberstalking.”
Ziegler and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, reportedly admitted to police that they previously had a consensual sexual relationship with the woman who made the rape accusation.
The alleged incident occurred on October 2, 2023, when the accuser, Christian Ziegler, and Bridget Ziegler allegedly agreed to have “a sexual encounter,” according to police documents.
When the accuser learned that Bridget Ziegler would not attend, she allegedly changed her mind and cancelled the encounter with Christian Ziegler.
“On 10/02/23, the victim opened her apartment door to walk her dog and Christian was standing outside in the hallway,” the police search warrant says. “Christian entered the apartment, bent the victim over the bar stool and” raped her.

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Florida GOP Elects New Party Chairman

President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, claimed in a podcast interview this week that &#8220;very sick&#8221; Republicans were &#8220;trying to kill&#8221; him to end his father&#8217;s presidency.
Hunter Biden suggested in a rare interview on the podcast &#8220;Moby Pod,&#8221; hosted by the musician Moby, on Friday that Republicans were &#8220;engaging in a public campaign to lure him into a substance abuse relapse in an effort to damage his father&#8217;s presidency,&#8221; NBC News <a href="https://archive.is/O3LBb#selection-1521.117-1521.237">reported</a>.
&#8220;I recognize that none of this is necessarily about me,&#8221; Hunter Biden claimed. &#8220;They are trying to in their most illegitimate way, but rational way, they&#8217;re trying to destroy a presidency. And so it&#8217;s not about me and their most base way, what they&#8217;re trying to do is they&#8217;re trying to kill me knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle and so therefore destroying the presidency in that way.&#8221;
&#8220;And so I realized that, that it&#8217;s not about me,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And then the second thing that I realize is that these people are just sad, very, very sick people that have most likely just faced traumas in their lives, that they&#8217;ve decided that they are going to turn into an evil that they decide that they&#8217;re going to inflict on the rest of the world.&#8221;
Hunter Biden also attacked X owner Elon Musk, claiming that he was a &#8220;very damaged human being&#8221; and that he was &#8220;the dumbest smart person I think that the world has ever known.&#8221;
&#8220;Elon Musk doesn&#8217;t care about the g*****n First Amendment,&#8221; he lashed out. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t care about anybody but himself. And so all of this idea that he&#8217;s a champion for the First Amendment and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Elon Musk doesn&#8217;t care about democracy. Elon Musk doesn&#8217;t care about our freedom to vote. He doesn&#8217;t care about that. Is there any time that you&#8217;ve ever saw anything from him that has any rational defense of democracy of what we&#8217;ve created here as Americans as his adopted country?&#8221;

Hunter Biden leaves Delaware court

Drug Addict Hunter Biden Lashes Out At GOP: They’re ‘Very Sick People’ Who Are ‘Trying To Kill Me’

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In the latest irrelevant political news, President and Venal Houseplant Joe Biden did not attend this week’s U.N. Climate Crisis Conference because he’s been dead for six months and the whole climate thing is crap anyway. Making the announcement to what was either the White House Press Corps or a collection of animatronic Pirates of the Caribbean purchased at the Disney asset fire sale, presidential spokeswoman Karine Jean Identity Hire said, “Speaking as a black lesbian woman, I want to assure you that this is a president who would be fully engaged in this important issue if he were fully engaged and this were an important issue. As it is, the pressing business of pulling the rug out from under our allies in Ukraine and Israel is commanding what would be all of his attention if he were paying attention, speaking as a black lesbian woman.” The press corps responded by drunkenly chasing slave girls around the deck of a burning ship and repeatedly saying, &#8220;Arrrr&#8221; — as usual.
The late houseplant’s failure to show up at the U.N. Conference was greeted with anger by climate activists and other suckers. Mentally ill Swedish Girl Greta Thunberg took time off from calling for the slaughter of Jews to protest the president’s irrelevant inaction in an impassioned speech delivered to a gathering of her hallucinations. Thunberg said, “I’m very disappointed in the president’s remains. He must address this completely invented issue quickly before it develops into a totally imaginary crisis. The world is rapidly growing hotter or colder or whatever it’s supposed to be doing, and if this continues or stops or whatever it’s supposed to do next, we will soon be forced to find some other reason to be hysterical and hand over all our freedoms to faceless international bureaucrats or any of the other magical creatures who appear when I go off my meds.”
The anger over the lamented president’s failure to show up for the U.N.’s urgent gathering of corrupt and sinister grifters is only one of many rifts beginning to appear in the Democrat Party. Polls now show that younger Democrats are becoming disillusioned with the administration because they feel Biden just doesn’t hate Jews enough. The leader of Harvard’s Young Democrat Society, Adolf Jihad, speaking at a riot hosted by the university’s debate club, said, “We denounce the president’s support of genocide because he refuses to join Hamas in their stated mission to exterminate the Jewish people — so, okay, maybe we don’t exactly know what the word genocide means, but then, we’re Ivy Leaguers so total ignorance has never stopped us from holding insane opinions with absolute self-certainty.”
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Karine Jean Identity Hire sought to reassure the Nazi Harvard group, saying “Speaking as a black lesbian woman, I want to assure the Hitlerian half of the Democrat party, that the vocal support for Jews the president would be expressing if he were still with us will always be backed 100% by clandestine and insidious actions meant to undermine Israeli security and strengthen an Iranian nation bent on eradicating first the Jews and then the rest of us, speaking as a black lesbian woman who is speaking for a black homosexual man who is speaking to Anthony Blinken who is secretly running the government.”
Some Democrats fear that the divisions in their party could lower their chances of winning the next election because Biden is now so unpopular that even the mules may cast their packets of forged votes for someone else. But the fact is, the Republican Party is divided as well. Some Republicans, for instance, intend to vote for Donald Trump while others would prefer to shine a magic enlargement ray on Trump and blow him up to the size of Godzilla so he can crush Democrat cities beneath his enormous feet and then devour their inhabitants. Still other Republicans would like to vote for Trump first and then enlarge him so he can unleash his atomic heat ray breath and warm the planet until the rapidly decaying Biden is forced to go to the U.N. climate conference and stink the place up.
The Republicans hope these internal conflicts about Trump will be resolved in the next debate between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available! Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1158-hello-lady-ballers-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

President Biden Holds Summit With Japanese And Korean Premiers At Camp David

Biden Skips Climate Corruption Conference, Filled With Sinister Grifters

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New state abortion bans are resulting in tens of thousands more babies being born per year, a new analysis of the data shows.
About 32,000 more babies were born per year due to state abortion bans enacted since Roe v. Wade was overturned, <a href="https://docs.iza.org/dp16608.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to an analysis published Friday by the Institute of Labor Economics. Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, was overturned in June last year.
Births have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> in every state that has an abortion ban, the analysis found, using birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stretching from 2005 to June.
Between a fifth and a fourth of women living in the 14 states with abortion bans who otherwise may have had an abortion did not get one, data from the first six months of this year shows.
An average of 2.3% more babies were born in states with abortion bans compared to states without bans, the analysis shows.
Nationwide however, the number of legal abortions has remained about the same, even increased slightly, since the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision last year. This is likely due to new clinics opening in states without bans and more ways to order abortion pills online.
The groups that saw the biggest increase in births were women in their 20s, black women, and Hispanic women. These groups tend to be less able to afford to travel out of state for an abortion, the researchers said, and they are more likely to seek abortions.
Driving distances to abortion clinics had a significant effect — the greater the increase in the driving distance, the bigger the spike in the birth rate.
Texas saw a 5.1% spike compared to states that had similar birth trends but did not pass an abortion ban. The average increase in driving distance to the nearest abortion clinic was 453 miles after Texas passed its ban.
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Mississippi had a 4.4% increase in births, and the driving distance there increased by an average of 240 miles.
Abortion pills ordered online also appeared to drive down the birth rate in certain states with bans. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana had big increases in orders for abortion pills from Aid Access, a major overseas abortion pill provider. Researchers had expected the birth rate to jump higher than it did in those states.
“The insinuation of a lot of coverage of such data points is that it’s a bad thing for there to be more children welcomed in states with better laws than in states that fast-track abortion,” Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times.
“It’s a triumph that pro-life policies result in lives saved,” she said.

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State Abortion Bans Result In 32,000 More Babies Born A Year, Research Shows

State Abortion Bans Caused 32,000 More Babies Born A Year, Research Shows

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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) officially ended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday night after failing to gain traction with GOP primary voters.
Scott made the announcement during an interview with former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on Fox News.
&#8220;When I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;I am suspending my campaign. I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear that they&#8217;re telling me, &#8216;not now, Tim.'&#8221;
&#8220;Romans 8:28 is such an important scripture, it says that &#8216;all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose,'&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;I think the message is clear for me right now, I am indeed suspending the campaign.&#8221;
He said that he has no plans to endorse any of the other Republican candidates.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to recommend that the voters study each candidate and their candidacies and frankly their past and make the best decision for the future of the country,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;The best way for me to be helpful is to not weigh in on who they should endorse.&#8221;
He suggested that he does have political ambitions moving forward and could run again for president again in the future.
Gowdy was shocked by the announcement, as was Scott&#8217;s campaign staff.
&#8220;A senior staffer tells me on the condition of anonymity that this is incredibly frustrating for staffers,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP/status/1723906970850095589">said</a> Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard. &#8220;A large portion of the SC team had been sent to Iowa in the last month &#8211; and now they have to find a way to get them back tomorrow. The staffer added they had been operating as though he still planned to win, and were blindsided by Tim Scott&#8217;s announcement on Fox News.&#8221;
Multiple Republican candidates have dropped out in recent weeks, including former Vice President Mike Pence, former Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX), Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, and several lesser-known candidates.
There have been increasing calls in recent days for North Dakota Governor Burgum and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson to drop since neither qualified for the most recent Republican presidential debate.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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Ratings for the third Republican presidential <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsnation-will-host-next-gop-debate-megyn-kelly-to-co-moderate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate</a> on NBC fell even further than the viewership for the second GOP debate and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morgan-wallen-nominated-for-album-of-the-year-banned-from-attending-country-music-awards-over-leaked-n-word-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Country Music Awards</a> (CMA) just barely missed scoring its worst showing ever.
Nielsen data released on Thursday show that the showdown between the five Republican presidential hopefuls brought in 7.5 million viewers on the network compared to the 9.5 million people who tuned in to Fox News, Fox Business, and Univision on September 27, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-ratings-wednesday-nov-8-2023-1235643419/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
The debate, while it was also broadcast on Peacock and other streaming and digital platforms, was not broadcast on NBC&#8217;s sister stations CNBC or MSNBC. The numbers show the viewership not only fell from the second debate where people tuned in to hear what the then-seven GOP candidates had to say, but dramatically from the nearly 13 million who tuned in to watch the first GOP primary debate in August.
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Five presidential candidates face off in Miami as Donald Trump remains a no-show again. Follow live updates on the third GOP debate.<a href="https://t.co/oq0V8lWy6r">https://t.co/oq0V8lWy6r</a>
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To put that into further context, the interest from American people was much higher in 2015 when nearly 24 million people tuned in to watch the first GOP primary debate held by Fox News and the second one, which was hosted by CNN, scored 22.9 million people, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/business/media/republican-debate-ratings.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> noted.
These ratings for the five remaining Republican presidential hopefuls Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and businessmen Vivek Ramaswamy, can&#8217;t be good news for the five who spent the two hours trying to have a breakout moment in hopes of knocking out the current front-runner, former President Donald Trump.
Over on the ABC network, the 2023 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wynonna-judd-addresses-fan-concerns-after-her-shaky-cma-appearance-with-jelly-roll-i-could-cry-right-now" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CMA Awards</a> viewership was down by 10 percent over the previous year, with an average of 6.84 million tuning in to find which of their favorite country music artists would be honored. Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast not only fell in the ratings from the 2022 award show, but managed to barely beat out the lowest viewership ever for the CMA&#8217;s which happened in 2015 when the awards show scored an all-time low of 6.83 million.
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The ratings for the country music awards show also plummeted in the coveted age demographic of adults 18-49, with a record low of 0.9, falling below a 1.0 for the first time, THR noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ratings-tanked-for-second-republican-primary-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ratings Tanked For Second Republican Primary Debate</a>

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