President Donald Trump, the Trump campaign, and the Republican National Committee (RNC) all responded to Democrats&#8217; chaotic debate on Wednesday night by declaring that Trump won the debate.
Kayleigh McEnany, Trump 2020 national press secretary, responded to the debate in a statement, saying, &#8220;The Democrat Party is in the midst of a full-scale meltdown. Americans are watching the party of JFK be torn apart by anti-job socialists and anti-worker globalists who want to control every aspect of Americans’ lives. This train wreck is nothing compared to what they would do to our country. None of these candidates will be able to go toe to toe with President Trump in November.&#8221;
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel responded in a separate statement, saying, &#8220;Unfortunately for Democrats, what happened in Las Vegas won’t stay in Vegas. Americans witnessed tonight that today’s Democrat party is willing to gamble away our future with socialist policies. They saw that their party is willing to change debate rules to benefit a liberal billionaire, but not minority candidates who ran. The fact the Democrat field is still so wide open shows how weak it truly is.&#8221;
“Americans are on a winning streak thanks to the Trump Administration’s pro-growth, America first policies,&#8221; McDaniel continued. &#8220;Come November, Nevadans, and voters across the country, will double-down on President Trump’s record of real results and re-elect him to a second term.&#8221;
Trump, who was rallying in Arizona during the debate, wrote on Twitter: &#8220;The Democrat party is the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late-term abortion, socialism, blatant corruption, and the total destruction of your Second Amendment. The Republican Party is the party of the American Worker, the American Family, and the American Dream!&#8221;
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
The Democrat party is the party of high taxes, high crime, open borders, late-term abortion, socialism, blatant corruption, and the total destruction of your Second Amendment. The Republican Party is the party of the American Worker, the American Family, and the American Dream! <a href="https://t.co/GhyS5MD8Q9">pic.twitter.com/GhyS5MD8Q9</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1230349601854504961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Trump later addressed the results of the debate, writing, &#8220;Mini Mike Bloomberg’s debate performance tonight was perhaps the worst in the history of debates, and there have been some really bad ones. He was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent. If this doesn’t knock him out of the race, nothing will. Not so easy to do what I did!&#8221;
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Mini Mike Bloomberg’s debate performance tonight was perhaps the worst in the history of debates, and there have been some really bad ones. He was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent. If this doesn’t knock him out of the race, nothing will. Not so easy to do what I did!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1230376522663391232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale highlighted the success of Trump&#8217;s rally, tweeting: &#8220;Wow, Arizona! Big Phoenix rally. ✅ 67,516 Tickets ✅ 29,990 Voters Identified (87% from AZ) ✅ 26% Didn’t Vote in 2016 ✅ 18% Democrats. Thank You Arizona. Winning Data!&#8221;
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Wow, Arizona! Big Phoenix rally.
✅ 67,516 Tickets
✅ 29,990 Voters Identified (87% from AZ)
✅ 26% Didn’t Vote in 2016
✅ 18% Democrats
Thank You Arizona. Winning Data!
&mdash; Brad Parscale &#8211; Text TRUMP to 88022 (@parscale) <a href="https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1230355403591974912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

US-POLITICS-TRUMP

Trump World Responds To Democrats’ Disastrous Debate Night

Billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg blasted the hypocrisy of socialist Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday during NBC&#8217;s presidential debate by pointing out how Sanders is a millionaire who owns three homes.
&#8220;What a wonderful country we have,&#8221; Bloomberg said. &#8220;The best known socialist happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What&#8217;d I miss here?&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;ll miss that I work in Washington,&#8221; Sanders responded.
&#8220;That&#8217;s the first problem,&#8221; Bloomberg fired back.
WATCH:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Aww, snap. Bloomberg&#39;s best moment calling out socialist Bernie&#39;s three houses. <a href="https://t.co/ncKxkQqSUg">pic.twitter.com/ncKxkQqSUg</a>
&mdash; Scott Whitlock (@ScottJW) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJW/status/1230333791195009025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The exchange started several minutes prior when MSNBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd asked Bloomberg, &#8220;Mayor Bloomberg, should you exist?&#8221;
&#8220;I can&#8217;t speak for all billionaires, all I know is I&#8217;ve been very lucky, made a lot of money and I&#8217;m giving it all away to make this country better and a good chunk of it goes to the Democratic Party as well,&#8221; Bloomberg said.
&#8220;Have you earned too much?&#8221; Todd asked. &#8220;Has it been an obscene amount of money? Should you have earned that amount of money?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, I worked very hard for it,&#8221; Bloomberg responded. &#8220;And I&#8217;m giving it away.&#8221;
Sanders responded by claiming that Bloomberg did not make all that money and that it was his workers who made him the money.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t think of a way that would make it easier for Donald Trump to get re-elected than by listening to this conversation,&#8221; Bloomberg responded. &#8220;This is ridiculous. We&#8217;re not going to throw out capitalism, we tried that, other countries tried that, it was called communism and it just didn&#8217;t work.&#8221;
WATCH:
<iframe title="Democrat debate" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Iz-aZIulRmE?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
The Daily Wire reported the following on Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s background and policy views last December after he declared his candidacy:
<blockquote>On November 24, 2019, Michael Rubens Bloomberg announced his formal entrance into the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primary. To date, he is the latest candidate to enter the primary field. 
Michael Bloomberg served three full terms as mayor of New York City, from 2002 through the end of 2013. He was New York City’s mayoral successor of the failed 2008 Republican presidential candidate and current private attorney for President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg is also the co-founder, CEO, and majority owner of financial services conglomerate Bloomberg L.P., which is perhaps best known for its flagship Bloomberg Terminal hardware. As of November 2019, Bloomberg’s net worth was <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-bloomberg">estimated</a> at $58 billion dollars, which makes him one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. He has been a prolific donator to various charitable and political causes.
Born in Boston in 1942, Bloomberg has degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. A registered Democrat earlier in his career, Bloomberg actually ran for and successfully sought the New York City mayoralty office as a registered Republican before re-registering as an independent in the midst of his second mayoral term. He re-registered as a Democrat in 2018. Since joining the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary field, Bloomberg News — an international news outlet operating as a legal subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P. — has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-news-wont-investigate-bloomberg-democrats-its-journalists-go-to-work-on-bloombergs-campaign">announced</a> that it will not journalistically investigate Bloomberg or his fellow 2020 Democratic Party primary campaign rivals.</blockquote>
Continue reading Bloomberg&#8217;s profile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-michael-bloomberg-stand-on-the-issues-heres-everything-you-need-to-know">here</a>.

Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In Las Vegas Ahead Of Nevada Caucuses

Bloomberg Nails ‘Socialist’ Bernie: You’re ‘A Millionaire With 3 Houses’

Bernie Sanders

Michael Bloomberg

Socialism

During the NBC Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday night, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg ripped into socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over his health care plan.
Buttigieg hammered Sanders over his lack of transparency, hitting the senator for repeatedly stating that he doesn&#8217;t know the cost of this own plan, and has only outlined tax hikes, including on folks in the lower-middle class, to pay for a fraction of the estimated cost.
Sanders &#8220;said it was impossible to even know how much it&#8217;s going to cost, and even after raising taxes on everybody making $29,000, there is still a multi-trillion dollar hole,&#8221; Buttigieg said of Sanders&#8217; pricey Medicare for All plan.
&#8220;Matter of fact,&#8221; the former mayor continued, &#8220;if you add up all his policies together, they come to $50 trillion. He&#8217;s only explained $25 trillion worth of revenue, which means the hole in there is bigger than the size of the entire economy of the United States.&#8221;
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
On if Bernie Sanders&#39;s release of doctors&#39; notes in lieu of full medical records is sufficient, Pete Buttigieg says, &quot;No, it&#39;s not,&quot; says, &quot;I am certainly prepared to get a physical, put out the results, I think everybody here should be willing to do the same.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fgvkHNp4iW">pic.twitter.com/fgvkHNp4iW</a>
&mdash; DJ Judd (@DJJudd) <a href="https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1230324075282812934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
WATCH:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Buttigieg hammers Bernie on lack of transparency on his healthcare plan costs <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/uTq3NeUkqd">pic.twitter.com/uTq3NeUkqd</a>
&mdash; The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1230335591121854467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Earlier in the debate, Buttigieg hit Sanders for being &#8220;polarizing&#8221; and &#8220;not even a Democrat.&#8221;
&#8220;We have got to wake up as a party,&#8221; Buttigieg said, according to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/19/bernie-sanders-turns-red-in-fiery-exchange-with-pete-buttigieg-at-democrat-debate/">Breitbart News</a>. &#8220;We could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, the two most polarizing figures on this stage.&#8221;
&#8220;And most Americans don’t see where they fit if they have got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil, and a billionaire that thinks that money ought to be the root of all power,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Let’s put forward somebody who actually lives and works in a middle-class neighborhood in an industrial Midwestern city. Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat.&#8221;
Sanders responded: &#8220;If speaking to the needs and the pain of a long-neglected working class is &#8216;polarizing&#8217; – I think you have got the wrong word. What we are trying, finally, to do is to give a voice to people who, after 45 years of work, are not making a nickel more than they did 45 years ago. We are giving a voice to people who are saying, we are sick and tired of billionaires like Mr. Bloomberg seeing huge expansions of their wealth while a half a million people sleep out on the street tonight. And that’s all what we are saying, Pete, is maybe it’s time for the working class for this country to have a little bit of power in Washington, rather than your billionaire campaign contributors.&#8221;
&#8220;We can actually deliver health care without taking it away from anyone,&#8221; Buttigieg retorted. &#8220;We can actually empower workers and lift wages without further polarizing this country. And we can build a movement without having legions of our supporters online and in person attacking Democratic figures and union leaders alike.&#8221;
The former mayor also said Sanders was not being transparent enough with his health. &#8220;I am certainly prepared to get a physical, put out the results. I think everybody here should be willing to do the same.&#8221;
WATCH:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
We shouldn&#39;t have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and one candidate who wants to buy this party out. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/iE8syCzv17">pic.twitter.com/iE8syCzv17</a>
&mdash; Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1230316299026300932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
&nbsp;

Democratic presidential debate

WATCH: Buttigieg Demolishes Sanders On Healthcare, Socialist Plans

2020 Election

democratic debate

Health Care

Nevada

Pete Buttigieg

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg was booed during NBC&#8217;s presidential debate on Wednesday night over answers he gave about inappropriate comments that he is alleged to have made about women in the work place.
&#8220;I hope you heard what [Bloomberg&#8217;s] defense was, &#8216;I&#8217;ve been nice to some women,'&#8221; Warren ranted as the crowd laughed. &#8220;That just doesn&#8217;t cut it. The mayor has to stand on his record, and what we need to know is exactly what is lurking out there. He has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign non-disclosure agreements both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.&#8221;
&#8220;So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those non-disclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story?&#8221; Warren asked as the crowd cheered.
&#8220;We have very few non-disclosure agreements,&#8221; Bloomberg answered before being cut off.
&#8220;How many is that?&#8221; Warren pressed.
&#8220;Let me finish,&#8221; Bloomberg snapped.
&#8220;How many is that?&#8221; Warren again pressed.
&#8220;None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn&#8217;t like a joke I told,&#8221; Bloomberg responded. &#8220;There&#8217;s an agreement between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet and that&#8217;s up to them. They signed those agreements, and we&#8217;ll live with it.&#8221;
The crowd was shocked by Bloomberg&#8217;s response.
&#8220;I just want to be clear, some is how many?&#8221; Warren pressed. &#8220;And when you say they signed them and they wanted them, if they wish now to speak out and tell their side of the story about what it is they allege, that&#8217;s now okay with you? You&#8217;re releasing them on television tonight?&#8221;
&#8220;Senator, no,&#8221; Bloomberg responded. &#8220;Senator, the company and somebody else, a man or a woman, or could be even more than that, they decided when they made an agreement that they wanted to keep it quiet for everybody&#8217;s interest. They signed the agreements and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to live with.&#8221;
&#8220;No, the question is, are the women bound by being muzzled by you?&#8221; Warren asked. &#8220;And you could release them from that immediately because understand, this is not just a question of the mayor&#8217;s character, this is also a question about electability. We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many non-disclosure agreements and the drip-drip-drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against.&#8221;
WATCH:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Sen. Warren presses Bloomberg to address his history of treatment of women, and Bloomberg discusses non-disclosure agreements.
Warren presses Bloomberg to say number of women.
Bloomberg declines to release the women from agreements. <a href="https://t.co/vR5OWnJHCO">pic.twitter.com/vR5OWnJHCO</a>
&mdash; MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1230324564355428354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

US-VOTE-2020-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE-POLITICS

WATCH: Bloomberg Implodes After Warren Grills Him On Alleged Inappropriate Comments Toward Women

Elizabeth Warren

Billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg ripped socialist Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to pieces on Wednesday night during NBC&#8217;s presidential debate, saying that Sanders has no shot of beating Trump.
&#8220;Mayor Bloomberg, can Senator Sanders beat President Trump?&#8221; Lester Holt asked.
&#8220;I don’t think there’s any chance of the senator beating President Trump,&#8221; Bloomberg said. &#8220;You don’t start out by saying, &#8216;I’ve got 160 million people, I’m going to take away the insurance plan that they love.&#8217; That’s just not a way that you go and start building the coalition that the Sanders camp thinks that they can do. I don’t think there’s any chance whatsoever. And if he goes and is the candidate, we will have Donald Trump for another four years, and we can’t stand that.&#8221;
WATCH:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
“Mayor Bloomberg, can Senator Sanders beat President Trump?” Lester Holt asked.
“I don’t think there’s any chance of the senator beating President Trump,” Bloomberg said. <a href="https://t.co/GiItjvuMGJ">pic.twitter.com/GiItjvuMGJ</a>
— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1230323344735703041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
The Daily Wire reported the following on Bloomberg&#8217;s background and policy views last September:
<blockquote>On November 24, 2019, Michael Rubens Bloomberg announced his formal entrance into the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primary. To date, he is the latest candidate to enter the primary field.
Michael Bloomberg served three full terms as mayor of New York City, from 2002 through the end of 2013. He was New York City’s mayoral successor of the failed 2008 Republican presidential candidate and current private attorney for President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg is also the co-founder, CEO, and majority owner of financial services conglomerate Bloomberg L.P., which is perhaps best known for its flagship Bloomberg Terminal hardware. As of November 2019, Bloomberg’s net worth was <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-bloomberg">estimated</a> at $58 billion dollars, which makes him one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. He has been a prolific donator to various charitable and political causes.
Born in Boston in 1942, Bloomberg has degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. A registered Democrat earlier in his career, Bloomberg actually ran for and successfully sought the New York City mayoralty office as a registered Republican before re-registering as an independent in the midst of his second mayoral term. He re-registered as a Democrat in 2018. Since joining the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary field, Bloomberg News — an international news outlet operating as a legal subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P. — has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-news-wont-investigate-bloomberg-democrats-its-journalists-go-to-work-on-bloombergs-campaign">announced</a> that it will not journalistically investigate Bloomberg or his fellow 2020 Democratic Party primary campaign rivals.</blockquote>
Continue reading Bloomberg&#8217;s profile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-michael-bloomberg-stand-on-the-issues-heres-everything-you-need-to-know">here</a>.
The Daily Wire reported the following on Sanders&#8217; background and policy views last September:
<blockquote>Bernard Sanders has served as a U.S. senator from Vermont since 2007, and previously served as a U.S. congressman from Vermont from 1991–2007. He is a self-described “democratic socialist” and is presently second — behind only former Vice President Joe Biden — in most <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/">2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination polling</a>. Sanders, who is Jewish by birth, is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and went to college at the University of Chicago. It was during his time in Chicago that Sanders first became active in socialist circles and involved with other far-left causes. Although he has sometimes caucused with the Democratic Party during his time in Congress, Sanders has spent most of his adult political life as a registered political independent.
Sanders’ first marriage ended in divorce, and he has been married since 1988 to Jane O’Meara Sanders, a social worker and college administrator. He has four children and seven grandchildren. If successfully nominated for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination, he would be the oldest nominee for a major American political party in modern history (he is now 77 years old).
Although Sanders’ far-left across-the-board viewpoints were once considered to be an outlier within Democratic/Democratic-adjacent circles, he is now widely reputed to be one of the Democratic Party thought leaders.</blockquote>
Continue reading Sanders&#8217; profile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-bernie-sanders-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">here</a>.

ELECTION 2020

WATCH: Michael Bloomberg Rips Socialist Bernie Sanders To Pieces In Opening Salvo

Far-left California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday that he believes medical doctors should be able to prescribe people housing in the same manner that they prescribe medication to people who are sick.
&#8220;Health care and housing can no longer be divorced. After all, what’s more fundamental to a person’s well-being than a roof over their head?&#8221; Newsom said during his State of the State address. &#8220;Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.&#8221;
&#8220;Why not?&#8221; Newsom continued. &#8220;That’s the aim of CalAIM, transforming Medi-Cal as we know it, backed by a $695 million budget request to make this real.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course, the effectiveness of all of this hinges on an individual being capable of accepting help, to get off the streets and into treatment in the first place,&#8221; Newsom added. &#8220;Some, tragically, are not. That’s why we need better legal tools, ones that allow local governments, health providers, and law enforcement to more effectively help people access the treatment they need.&#8221;
&#8220;California&#8217;s behavioral health laws may have been ahead of their time, but today, call out for reform,&#8221; Newsom continued. &#8220;We must tailor these policies to reflect the realities of street homelessness today, which are so different than they were 50 or even 15 years ago when these laws were enacted.&#8221;
WATCH:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Newsom, getting deep: “Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin and antibiotics. Why not?” <a href="https://t.co/8BD7eSkla8">pic.twitter.com/8BD7eSkla8</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1230211225713283077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
A December <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homelessness-is-on-the-rise-in-the-u-s-and-one-state-is-driving-it">report</a> from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) revealed that homelessness is on the rise in the U.S. and that Democrat-controlled California was the main force driving the increase in the U.S. homelessness rate.
“While the rest of the country experienced a combined decrease in homelessness in 2019, significant increases in unsheltered and chronic homelessness on the West Coast, particularly California and Oregon, offset those nationwide decreases, causing an overall increase in homelessness of 2.7 percent in 2019,” HUD <a href="https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_19_177">said</a> in a statement. “Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported declines in homelessness between 2018 and 2019, while 21 states reported increases in the number of persons experiencing homelessness. Homelessness in California increased by 21,306 people, or 16.4 percent, which is more than the total national increase of every other state combined.”
“As we look across our nation, we see great progress, but we’re also seeing a continued increase in street homelessness along our West Coast where the cost of housing is extremely high,” said HUD Secretary Ben Carson. “In fact, homelessness in California is at a crisis level and needs to be addressed by local and state leaders with crisis-like urgency. Addressing these challenges will require a broader, community-wide response that engages every level of government to compassionately house our fellow citizens who call the streets their home.”
HUD noted the following key findings from its report [emphasis is HUD’s]:
<ul>
<li>567,715 people were homeless, representing an overall 2.7 percent increase from 2018 but a nearly 11 percent decline since 2010.</li>
<li>37,085 Veterans were reported as homeless, a decline of 2.1 percent from 2018 and 50 percent since 2010.</li>
<li>53,692 families with children experienced homelessness last January, down nearly 5 percent from 2018 and more than 32 percent since 2010.</li>
<li>Homelessness increased in California by 21,306 people, or 16.4 percent, accounting for more than the entire national increase.</li>
<li>The estimated number of persons experiencing long-term, chronic homelessness increased 8.5 percent between 2018 and 2019. This increase was concentrated on the West Coast, with the largest increases in California.</li>
<li>The number of unaccompanied homeless youth and children in 2019 is estimated to be 35,038, a 3.6 percent decline since 2018. HUD and local communities are engaged in a more intense effort to more accurately account for this important, difficult-to-count population.</li>
</ul>

California Governor Gavin Newsom

Democrat Gov Gavin Newsom: Doctors Should Be Able To Prescribe Housing Like Medication

California

Gavin Newsom

Homelessness

Housing

The American Petroleum Institute (API) released a new digital advertisement ahead of the Democratic presidential debate tonight on NBC that highlights the devastating economic impacts if Democrats are successful in banning fracking.
The ad, which features Democratic politicians and left-wing media organizations, raises serious concerns about how banning fracking will cost America millions of jobs, will raise costs of goods and services in the U.S., and will threaten U.S. national security.
The Washington Post recently <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/climate-change/fracking-ban/">reported</a> that of the eight remaining Democratic presidential candidates, Tulsi Gabbard, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, and Elizabeth Warren would all ban fracking while Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar would all impose more regulations on fracking.
API Rapid Response Manager Scott Parker told The Daily Wire: “Fracking has been one of the most important technological advancements in American history, and banning it would erase a generation of American progress. A fracking ban would leave working families behind, cost millions of jobs, and deliver a major win to countries like Russia. Presidential candidates who stand with American workers must stand against a ban on fracking.”
WATCH:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
Millions of American jobs lost, higher living costs, and U.S. national security in jeopardy. 
API’s new video addresses what supporters of a fracking ban won’t – its devastating cost to America. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/wJfl1UWzIn">pic.twitter.com/wJfl1UWzIn</a>
&mdash; American Petroleum Institute (@APIenergy) <a href="https://twitter.com/APIenergy/status/1230306188845252608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
API&#8217;s digital ad comes after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) put out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ted-cruz-shreds-bernie-aoc-bill-to-ban-fracking">a similar ad on Tuesday night</a> hammering Democrats&#8217; plans as an attempt to implement socialism in the United States.
“We’re currently experiencing an American energy Renaissance with the United States having now become the number-one producer of oil and the number-one producer of natural gas on the planet,” Cruz says at the start of the video.
“The energy independence of the United States is something that people have been talking about for 50 years, and I never thought it would happen, and here it is,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said next in the video. “It’s in the nature of a miracle.”
“Fracking unlocked massive shale deposits of both natural gas and oils. Totally transformed the geopolitical world,” Cruz continued.
The video then transitions to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) talking about how Democrats want to take away America’s energy independence.
“We need to put an end to fracking, not only in New York and Vermont, but all over this country,” Sanders said.
Cruz continued next in the video, saying, “What is dangerous about the climate movement is it has become an emotional primal scream rather than being driven by science.”
The video then highlighted extremist policy proposals by far-left Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who said at a rally, “By 2030, no more cars. By 2035, no more production of electricity.”
“Political leaders who are advocating it are also advocating massive government control of the economy and socialism,” Cruz continued. “Climate is a good excuse to say you’ve got to have socialism or else all of humanity’s gonna die.”
The video then cuts to extremist rhetoric from socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who said in 2019, “The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”
Far-left Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is featured next, saying, “Imagine if one party disagreed with the other party on whether it was a good idea to treat cancer.”
Cruz then highlighted the impacts of Democrats’ plan to ban fracking, stating, “Policies to ban fracking would cost 14 million jobs nationally. In the state of Texas, would cost one and a half million jobs. It is hard to find something that would be more economically devastating.”
WATCH:
<iframe title="Democrats Have Declared War on America’s Blue-Collar Boom" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iEwQn-iha2U?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Sen. Bernie Sanders And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Housing Green New Deal

WATCH: Digital Ad Highlights Devastating Impacts Of Democrats’ Plan To Ban Fracking

Democrats

Fracking

Oil and Gas

Ted Cruz

The Democratic presidential primary debate was momentarily derailed after Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was asked to explain why she was unable to name the president of Mexico during a recent interview with Telemundo, the American Spanish-language news network. 
“I don’t think that the momentary forgetfulness actually reflects what I know about Mexico and how much I care about it,” Klobuchar told the moderators. “But when it comes to Mexico, I am the one person on this stage that came out first to say I was for the U.S.-Mexican-Canadian trade agreement. That is going to be one of the number one duties of a president – is to implement that.”
After moderator Vanessa Hauc, who works for Telemundo, pressed Klobuchar on the incident further, Klobuchar retorted: “That’s right. I said I made an error. I think that having a president that maybe is humble, and is able to admit that here and there maybe wouldn’t be a bad thing.”
Hauc then asked Pete Buttigieg for his two cents, as the former mayor was actually successful in naming the Mexican president during a recent interview. “I wouldn’t liken this to trivia,” said Buttigieg, who then directed an attack back at Klobuchar. 
“But you’re staking your candidacy on your Washington experience,” said the former mayor. “You’re on the committee that oversees border security. You’re on the committee that does trade. You’re literally part of the committee that oversees those things.”
Klobuchar then issued a strong response to Buttigieg: “Are you trying to say that I’m dumb? Are you mocking me, Pete? I said I made an error.” 
The Minnesota senator then volleyed an attack about electability against Buttigieg: “I am the one, not you, that has won statewide in congressional district after congressional district. And I will say, when you tried to run in Indiana, Pete, what happened to you? You lost by over 20 points.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who was on offense the entire debate, then came to the defense of Klobuchar, calling the ability to memorize a name silly. 
“This is not right. I understand that she forgot a name. It happens. It happens to everybody on this stage,” Warren told the crowd, implying that the question was trivia-like in nature. “Let’s just be clear, missing a name all by itself does not indicate that you do not understand what’s going on. I just think this is unfair.”
During the series of tangents, former Vice President Joe Biden tried to chime in, unsuccessfully, on account that he had previously met the president of Mexico. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT), not wanting to be the only one not to offer his opinion on the matter – aside from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg – responded to Biden with an enthusiastic “Si!”
Following a short break, a debate moderator jokingly asked the primary candidates if they were ready “to play some Nevada trivia.”

Chaos Erupts After Mexico Trivia Question; Klobuchar To Buttigieg: ‘You Trying To Say That I’m Dumb?’

Amy Klobuchar

Mexico

Menu

Chaos Erupts After Mexico Trivia Question; Klobuchar To Buttigieg: ‘You Trying To Say That I’m Dumb?’

Trump World Responds To Democrats’ Disastrous Debate Night

Bloomberg Nails ‘Socialist’ Bernie: You’re ‘A Millionaire With 3 Houses’

WATCH: Buttigieg Demolishes Sanders On Healthcare, Socialist Plans

WATCH: Bloomberg Implodes After Warren Grills Him On Alleged Inappropriate Comments Toward Women

Ep. 847 - Mini Mike vs Crazy Bernie

Ep. 428 - Narcissism Disguised As Enlightenment

Ep. 956 - Pardon Me

Ep. 497 - The Bully Pulpit