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Some of President Joe Biden’s most prominent backers are funding pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas demonstrators who are protesting U.S. support for Israel.
Activist groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow are in part funded through nonprofit networks involving leftist megadonors such as George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, David Rockefeller Jr., and the Pritzker family, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/pro-palestinian-protests-columbia-university-funding-donors-00156135" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, responsible for organizing protests at universities such as Columbia, are both supported by the Tides Foundation, which is funded by Soros and Gates. Tides also receives money from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, directed by a board that includes David Rockefeller Jr. Nick Pritzker, a wealthy entrepreneur and heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire, and his wife Susan are also donors to Tides.
Tides has given more than half a million dollars to Jewish Voice for Peace over the past five years, according to POLITICO. The foundation claims Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow as “grantee partners.”
The Pritzkers also founded the Libra Foundation, which has financially supported groups such as The Climate Justice Alliance, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, and the Immigrant Defense Project, all of which have expressed opposition to Israel’s actions following Hamas’ October 7 terror attack. The Climate Justice Alliance has organized marches calling Biden “Genocide Joe” over U.S. support for Israel.
Protests have roiled university campuses in recent weeks, resulting in hundreds of arrests after demonstrators took over campus buildings and blocked students from attending classes. Of the roughly 300 people arrested at Columbia University last week, New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/05/01/of-the-300-pro-hamas-agitators-arrested-at-columbia-most-werent-students-n2638521" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that many of them were outside agitators, not students attending the university.
Outside activist groups trained university students for months on civil unrest, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/student-campus-protests-veteran-activist-groups-17ccd094?mod=hp_lead_pos1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>. One of the groups involved in training students, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, has expressed open support for Hamas. The Columbia University administration banned the group from campus twice, accusing it of supporting terrorism.
The protests have canceled classes, shut down campuses, and endangered Jewish students. Last week, a Jewish student was denied entry to an anti-Israel protest at MIT, but police eventually agreed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-student-needs-police-escort-to-enter-mit-anti-israel-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">escort</a> him through the encampment. 
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The unrest over the Israel-Hamas conflict is part of a push from Biden’s left flank to cut off U.S. support for Israel. Biden appears to have made overtures to leftists, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-estimates-gaza-aid-pier-will-cost-us-taxpayers-320m-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investing</a> hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into building a pier to facilitate aid into Gaza and increasing pressure on Israel to provide assistance, as well.
The campus unrest has sparked a backlash from more moderate Democrats. Biden spoke from the White House last week condemning violence and illegality on university campuses. The president condemned “Islamophobia” alongside antisemitism during his remarks.
“There should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students. There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/05/02/remarks-by-president-biden-on-recent-events-on-college-campuses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.

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The following is an edited transcript of a recent interview between Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley and writer, podcast host, and author Coleman Hughes on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/arguments-for-a-colorblind-america-with-coleman-hughes-5-5-24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday Extra edition of Morning Wire</a>. They discuss Coleman’s new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-Race-Politics-Arguments-Colorblind/dp/0593332458/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._h60-qX0FVqYwEkR4727shgT8ZTliBnE-akfWHgvqRM-GrYX2xXpdDyMeBS7txWqiCrkMs40YZDOJq0H8XhQYnFpof7UfQ576iR67iozqBCKO6S_uwsf1Y_NUYhlYq0PvT1R_AJ3jFj2pKZLBtNVN_Db5KHpDQmXLpTySrfa63P672QGuKZz_0gqqqxK0WSQzJKHz8MFi_kNzmIB8C1sGgAzfFGU3mxOgyyV2l0BZCE.qFFTfmVuiIXitZcyJyxXMn-a3F612ji872fykwxuH14&amp;qid=1714698506&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America</a>” and how his push back on DEI is making waves.
JOHN: Joining us now is Coleman Hughes, podcast host and author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-Race-Politics-Arguments-Colorblind/dp/0593332458/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._h60-qX0FVqYwEkR4727shgT8ZTliBnE-akfWHgvqRM-GrYX2xXpdDyMeBS7txWqiCrkMs40YZDOJq0H8XhQYnFpof7UfQ576iR67iozqBCKO6S_uwsf1Y_NUYhlYq0PvT1R_AJ3jFj2pKZLBtNVN_Db5KHpDQmXLpTySrfa63P672QGuKZz_0gqqqxK0WSQzJKHz8MFi_kNzmIB8C1sGgAzfFGU3mxOgyyV2l0BZCE.qFFTfmVuiIXitZcyJyxXMn-a3F612ji872fykwxuH14&amp;qid=1714698506&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America</a>.” Coleman, thanks for coming on. 
COLEMAN: Thanks for having me.
JOHN: So I want to start with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sunny-hostin-gets-wrecked-after-accusing-independent-author-of-being-co-opted-by-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview</a> you did with The View that went viral last month. One of the hosts, Sunny Hostin, branded you a “conservative” and suggested you&#8217;re being used as a pawn by the Right. What do you make of that encounter and the stir it caused – and how would you define your perspective ideologically?
COLEMAN: So, I&#8217;m a political independent, I&#8217;ve only voted twice. I&#8217;m 28-years-old, so that&#8217;s a function of my age. Both times I voted for Democrats – Hillary and Biden, though I&#8217;m not opposed to voting for Republicans. So those are my politics. What I make of that appearance was that Sunny Hostin, rather than address my arguments, she sought to paint me as somehow a compromised individual, either financially compromised or ethically compromised. And instead of attacking her on the same grounds, I just kind of calmly debunked her accusations and then moved back to the topic. I think the contrast between how she was arguing in such bad faith and how I just calmly responded, I think that contrast is what made the moment go semi-viral, because that&#8217;s just something you don&#8217;t see on daytime television. I think people were struck by that.
JOHN: Before we get to your book, I wanted to ask you about something else that’s been in the headlines: the anti-Israel protests we’re seeing at elite universities. You graduated from Columbia, which has been a hub for these protests. Do you see a correlation with the kinds of protests we&#8217;re seeing on campuses and the emphasis on Diversity Equity and Inclusion in academia? Is there a crossover between this Left-wing protest culture and DEI?
COLEMAN: So I think the thing people don&#8217;t understand about DEI and why people criticize DEI is that DEI is an ideology. DEI is the ideology, which says that you can divide the world into oppressors and oppressed. White people are the oppressors, Jews are the oppressors, and the oppressed are black people, brown people, Hispanics, and so forth. DEI departments and DEI bureaucracies are usually clusters of bureaucrats who basically buy into this philosophy. But it&#8217;s the philosophy itself that is the problem and that philosophy is very much synced up with the protests you&#8217;re seeing now on Ivy League campuses where Jews in general are seen as oppressors, as “colonizers,” really. That very much syncs up with the DEI bureaucracies that have generally viewed white people and Jews as oppressors who are not really subject to the same protections as students of “color.”
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JOHN: This gets us to the premise for your book, and many of the statements you&#8217;ve made publicly, which is that we need to strive for a colorblind society. First, how do you define color blindness within the context of modern society?
COLEMAN: For me, color blindness isn&#8217;t pretending not to notice race because, as adults at least, we all notice race. But, what colorblindness really should mean, at its deepest level, is that we try our very best to treat people without regard to race, both in our personal lives and in our public policy. So, I tell you I&#8217;m gonna do my best not to treat you differently because of your race. I&#8217;m going to ask that you do the same to me, and we&#8217;re both going to ask that our government does not treat us differently based upon our skin color. And whenever the government has a legitimate interest in trying to help disadvantaged people, we&#8217;d ask that they do that on the basis of class, income, wealth, socio-economic measures, rather than based on the color of my skin or my racial identity. If you&#8217;re for what I just said, you&#8217;re for colorblindness as I define it in my book.
JOHN: You contrast this colorblind ideal to the concept of what you call “neo-racism” and its emergence in contemporary discourse. How do you define neo-racism and how does it differ from traditional forms of racism? 
COLEMAN: So, the philosophy I just described as DEI is fairly close to the philosophy I call neo-racism in the book. It&#8217;s a philosophy that says Whiteness is inherently bad and anything but whiteness is inherently good, inherently morally superior. This is a philosophy that was pretty marginal in American life for many decades. You could find it in Critical Race Theory seminars for many decades, but you&#8217;d never encounter it if you were just a normal person navigating typical spaces. Until about 2013, when we all got smartphones with cameras, and everyone and their mother was on Facebook, that fundamentally changed how information spread. And that caused a scenario where people were now seeing unrepresentative, misleading clips of police firing on unarmed black Americans, preferentially promoted in their social media algorithms, which gave the false impression that racism was on the rise, when in fact, it&#8217;s been on the decline for many, many decades. When that happened, the ground became fertile in people&#8217;s minds for this philosophy of neo-racism, or DEI, to spread way beyond the narrow corners of the academy where it used to live. It then spread into your social media feeds, into your K-12 classrooms, where now you have kids essentially being taught that whiteness is a bad thing and taught to be ashamed of their race. You have black kids and Hispanic kids taught to exaggerate their victimhood and wear it as a kind of badge of pride. All of this has wreaked havoc on race relations. All of it is a backslide from what is the proper goal, namely the goal of the civil rights movement, which is to denounce racism in all its forms, whoever it&#8217;s directed at, and to emphasize our common humanity. The fact that beneath this skin, we are all more alike than we are different. The essential fact about you is not the race or the group that you belong to, it&#8217;s your personal qualities. It&#8217;s how you treat people. It&#8217;s your values and so forth. So, that&#8217;s how I describe it.
JOHN: You bring up the civil rights movement. There&#8217;s an ongoing attempt to co-opt Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In recent years. We&#8217;re being told that his message was far different than most people remember it — that he doesn&#8217;t want people judged by the color of their skin — but that he actually had a different vision, a much more DEI and sort of Marxism-aligned vision. Can you explain that debate and which side you stand on?
COLEMAN: Well, as for Marxism,  it&#8217;s just a historical fact that he rejected Marxism. Anyone can read his essay called “<a href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/my-pilgrimage-nonviolence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence</a>” where he explicitly talks about why he rejected Marxism. But on this larger question of what did Dr. King believe? Every year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, there&#8217;s a series of articles in the Huffington Post and various liberal outlets, Left-leaning outlets, – and they&#8217;re all the same article, they all say the same thing. They say Dr. Martin Luther King was a radical and they imply that he would kind of agree with woke anti-racists like Ibram X. Kendi, Ta Nehisi Coates, the Black Lives Matter movement, and so forth. But they all do the same thing, which is they lie by doing a bait and switch. They say Martin Luther King was a radical, and then the only quotes and arguments they can pull from to prove that have nothing to do with race. They have to do with other topics, like, for instance, MLK was against the Vietnam War before that was a popular position. So he was considered an anti-war radical, he was a pacifist, which was very controversial at the time, in the mid-60s. And he was also for things like universal health care and a guaranteed minimum wage, what you would call today kind of Democratic Socialism of a Bernie Sanders variety. Again, that was very controversial then too. None of those ideas, however, have anything to do with the issues he is alleged to have been a radical on – namely, racial identity, the importance of race. He never wavered on that issue. He always felt that the important thing was common humanity, not to divide black from white, not to judge people based on the color of their skin, but rather on the content of their character and steadfastly against policies that discriminated in any direction on the basis of race. No one&#8217;s ever been able to show that he supported those things because he didn&#8217;t, and he was very clear about that. So you have many scholars on the Left saying that the Right are the people that have sanitized and co-opted Dr. King&#8217;s legacy. In fact, the opposite is closer to the truth. It&#8217;s the so-called “anti-racists” that have had to ignore half of what Dr. King said in order to make it seem like he would agree with what they&#8217;re doing today, which he wouldn&#8217;t.
JOHN: What do you see as the main drawbacks of anti-racism or neo-racism, particularly in its effects on social progress and its impact on black individuals?
COLEMAN: One of the negative effects it&#8217;s had on black people is to persuade us that current discrimination is the main cause of black standing relative to white Americans. It&#8217;s made a kind of toxic victimhood mentality the norm – where I really don&#8217;t think that that kind of a mindset, which blames white supremacy for everything, is useful. First of all, it&#8217;s not true. And so it&#8217;s a misdiagnosis of the problems that still do pervade, especially intergenerationally poor pockets of black America. The problem in those places is not white supremacy, but neo-racism has so convinced enough people that white supremacy is the problem, that all the efforts have been directed essentially at the sort of anti-racist, DEI programs that do nothing to address the root cause of the problem. The root cause of the problem with intergenerational poverty, both black, white, Hispanic, and so forth, is that we have to do a much better job helping people between the ages of 0 and 18, at the pre-K age, and at the K-12 level. Things like race-based affirmative action at the college level, corporate DEI programs, they don&#8217;t even touch the source of the issue. And yet those have been the focus because neo-racism has misdiagnosed the problem.
JOHN: What are some of the policies or approaches or even philosophies that would be helpful for addressing those ages 0 to 18?
COLEMAN: I think the most important study that I know of that points the direction of where we ought to go is by the economist Roland Fryer at Harvard. He did a study where he was able to essentially take over 11 or 12 of the lowest performing public schools in Houston. He fired half the teachers, fired almost all the principals, and extended the school day. He looked at how the best Charter Schools in New York City operated and he imported those protocols into the public schools. And he was able to raise test scores, all kinds of good results, which are extremely rare to see in public school research. I think that kind of thing is really the direction we have to be moving toward. Unfortunately, in any normal scenario, all of his interventions are impossible due to unions and so forth. I think that&#8217;s really the direction we have to go in.
JOHN: What role do elite American institutions play in perpetuating racism? You have a lot of experience in them, so do I. How can they be transformed into allies in the fight against these issues, this neo-racism?
COLEMAN: Well, unfortunately, elite institutions are the places where neo-racism has taken its firmest and deepest root. So, I&#8217;m talking about elite universities, Ivy League universities, corporations, museums, all these kinds of elite spaces – journalism and media, where it has become normal  to essentially judge people based on the color of their skin. It has become unacceptable to question someone&#8217;s allegation of racism. And so it, it&#8217;s become very normal for there to be false examples of racism. It&#8217;s become difficult to speak or disagree about topics related to race for fear of one&#8217;s career, fear of getting fired, fear of getting canceled. And there has to be a critical mass of people in these institutions who say, “enough.”
JOHN: Are there alternatives now? Or do you see them in the works — these institutions or education models that are providing some hope in terms of really addressing the issues that will actually elevate people who are in poverty status?.
COLEMAN: So, at the K-12 level, you&#8217;ve seen certain charter schools that are extremely successful with precisely the kids that the system has generally given up on. Not to say all charter schools are successful, some are terrible, but the ones that are good are really good and they are better than public schools at dealing with kids that come from disadvantaged backgrounds, single parent homes, and so forth. Someone like Ian Rowe is a great resource on that issue, he runs charter schools in New York. At the college level, you have the University of Austin in Texas, which has tried to pioneer a different approach, a less ideological approach, or rather a classical liberal approach, really. An approach that values free speech and viewpoint diversity, which at this point, most of the elite colleges and universities have abandoned as an ideal – choosing instead social justice, anti-racism, anti-colonialism as their highest ideals. And, yeah, so I think those two educational models at the K through 12 level and at the college level point a direction forward. In terms of media, I write for the Free Press, which Barry Weiss started as an alternative media source, giving people really rigorous journalism, long-form journalism, investigative journalism, the stuff you can only do if you&#8217;re like a legitimate, resourced, journalism outlet – but without the woke bias, without the liberal slant that has been endemic in most journalistic institutions.
JOHN: Well, we’re certainly sympathetic to that view here – trying to provide an alternative to this liberal slant in the media is part of the reason we created this show. Coleman, thank you so much for joining us today.
COLEMAN: Thanks so much.
JOHN: That was Coleman Hughes, author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-Race-Politics-Arguments-Colorblind/dp/0593332458/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._h60-qX0FVqYwEkR4727shgT8ZTliBnE-akfWHgvqRM-GrYX2xXpdDyMeBS7txWqiCrkMs40YZDOJq0H8XhQYnFpof7UfQ576iR67iozqBCKO6S_uwsf1Y_NUYhlYq0PvT1R_AJ3jFj2pKZLBtNVN_Db5KHpDQmXLpTySrfa63P672QGuKZz_0gqqqxK0WSQzJKHz8MFi_kNzmIB8C1sGgAzfFGU3mxOgyyV2l0BZCE.qFFTfmVuiIXitZcyJyxXMn-a3F612ji872fykwxuH14&amp;qid=1714698506&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America</a>” – and this has been a Sunday // Extra edition of Morning Wire.
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Columbia President Minouche Shafik said Friday that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-israel-protesters-at-columbia-take-over-campus-building-barricade-themselves-inside" target="_blank" rel="noopener">occupation</a> of a campus building by anti-Israel protesters was a “violent act” that placed the campus community in danger. 
In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDsfPv0qOA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> put out Friday, Shafik spoke about the unrest that had roiled the campus after students and others protesting Israel’s war with Hamas set up an encampment on campus and demanded the university cut off any ties to Israel. Shafik has faced criticism from some who said she allowed the encampment to go on too long while others accused her of reacting too strongly. 
“These past two weeks have been among the most difficult in Colombia&#8217;s history. The turmoil and tension, division and disruption have impacted the entire community. You, our students, have paid an especially high price,” she said. “We tried very hard to resolve the issue of the encampment through dialogue.”
She then said that the university was ultimately unable to reach an agreement with the protesters before referencing the occupation of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall by anti-Israel protesters. Early Tuesday morning, protesters barricaded themselves inside while they demanded the school to divest from Israel while smashing windows and unfurling an &#8220;intifada&#8221; banner from the building. They used tables, chairs, and other objects to block entry into the building. 
“A group of protesters crossed a new line with the occupation of Hamilton Hall,” Shafik said. “It was a violent act that put our students at risk, as well as putting the protesters at risk. I walked through the building and saw the damage which was distressing.”
The storming came after Shafik said that the university would not be divesting from Israel. 
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Hours after the building was occupied, the New York Police Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nypd-storms-columbias-hamilton-hall-after-pro-hamas-protesters-illegally-took-control-of-building" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stormed</a> the building in riot gear, arresting protesters and clearing out the occupation. Shafik pinned much of the blame of the occupation on outside activists. “We believe that while the group who broke into the building includes students, it is led by individuals who are not affiliated with the University,” she said. 
New York City Mayor Eric Adams <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-adams-says-columbia-anti-israel-protest-was-co-opted-authorities-saw-evidence-of-training" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a>, saying that police found evidence that professionals had shown up and conducted trainings. 
“This is a global problem that young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children and I’m not going to allow that to happen as the mayor of the city of New York,” he said.

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When Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> spoke last month at the University of Utah, he was met with a host of leftist protesters and university-approved transgender flags filling the building he was speaking in — a demonstration that was in part <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBXjhH7EzvQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> by the school faculty. 
The protest took place as Knowles, who had been brought to campus by the Young America’s Foundation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-especially-american-problem-michael-knowles-addresses-the-u-s-establishments-radical-embrace-of-transgenderism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave a speech</a> on the problems with transgender ideology on April 8 at the university. At the same time, Philip Osteen, the dean of Utah’s College of Social Work, reportedly extended the school’s Pride celebration so that it coincided with Knowles’ speech and approved for transgender and LGBT flags and banners to fill the building Knowles was set to speak in. 
Osteen, the dean of the building where Knowles spoke, approved the trans flag demonstration, but said he couldn’t give the go-ahead for students to put up American flags when pressed by YAF representative Breana Marsh. 
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Meet Philip Osteen, the College of Social Work dean at the University of Utah—a public school—who was so bothered by my presence on campus that he prevented <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YAF</a> students from flying American flags in the foyer, where his college had sponsored a trans propaganda extravaganza. <a href="https://t.co/awuioyARWk">pic.twitter.com/awuioyARWk</a>
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“I think it&#8217;s a gross misuse to say that we’re going to make a safe place, we’re going to make students feel represented and protected, and everyone feels safe, at the absolute hanging of your conservative students,&#8221; Marsh said in audio shared by YAF with The Daily Wire. 
Osteen said she should bring her concerns to the dean of students, saying that YAF could put up American flags in the room where Knowles was speaking but “not in the decoration of this building.”
He then said that if YAF got approval from facilities and the dean of students that they could put up American flags. When asked why he could approve Pride flags, but not the American flag, he said “because I approved these to go up as a celebration of our pride.”
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When asked about why Pride week had been continued into a second week, Osteen said it was because the school wanted students to know it was “an inclusive place to support trans rights, LGBTQ2s rights.”
Later, during his speech Knowles commented on the amount of students who had shown up to oppose him. He said he was surprised that even in “meek and mild Utah,” he saw a video of “some wild banshee-like lady accosting, assaulting one of the students here as the student was hanging up flyers for this lecture tonight.”
One protester, who did not listen to Knowles&#8217; speech, sat down with The Daily Wire host after to discuss their views. During their conversation, Knowles pushed him to reconsider his acceptance of transgender ideology. 
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Ben sat down with author Abigail Shrier to discuss her new book 'Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up,' in which Shrier discusses the troubling trend of weaponizing mental health in education and parenting, and explores how an excessive focus on therapy tends to medicalize normal challenges faced by children. So, is the current trend in health practices transforming ordinary childhood challenges into pathological issues? Join us as we delve into this and much more on this episode of The Sunday Special.

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From Iran to UCLA to Barack Obama's CIA to a corrupt NY Judge trying to ensure Trump's conviction, the aim is to destroy American freedom.

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From Iran to UCLA to Barack Obama's CIA to a corrupt NY Judge trying to ensure Trump's conviction, the aim is to destroy American freedom.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a community in Louisiana is accused of racism after seceding from a crumbling, crime-infested city and forming their own. Is this a solution that could be adopted nationwide? Also, the frat boy uprising continues in response to the leftist protests on college campuses across the country. The Biden Administration seems intent on promoting marijuana usage as much as possible. Why is that? And there has been yet another rash of pit bull attacks. You may think you know my opinion about it. But I might surprise you.

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The same students who missed out on their high school graduations due to COVID are getting hit once again. This time, it's their college graduations on the chopping block, all thanks to our country's widespread protests.


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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a community in Louisiana is accused of racism after seceding from a crumbling, crime-infested city and forming their own. Is this a solution that could be adopted nationwide? Also, the frat boy uprising continues in response to the leftist protests on college campuses across the country. The Biden Administration seems intent on promoting marijuana usage as much as possible. Why is that? And there has been yet another rash of pit bull attacks. You may think you know my opinion about it. But I might surprise you.

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Protesters continue to roil American universities as faculty and administration pander to them; Joe Biden goes mealy-mouthed on condemning anti-Semitism; and Donald Trump goes strong against the pro-Hamas protesters.

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Protesters continue to roil American universities as faculty and administration pander to them; Joe Biden goes mealy-mouthed on condemning anti-Semitism; and Donald Trump goes strong against the pro-Hamas protesters.

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The Knicks close out the 76ers on the road; we'll break down the biggest SEC threats for Georgia in '24; and Tim Brando joins us to discuss college football and the NCAA's new antitrust payouts.

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Joe Biden condemns campus protests after they are already shut down, Jeff Goldblum says he won’t leave money to kids, and a Mexican senator ritually sacrifices chicken to a demon tasked with producing rain. 

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> surrounded himself with potential running mates and other allies on Saturday during the Republican National Committee (RNC) spring retreat at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
Among those who joined Trump on stage in the Grand Ballroom for a lunch event were Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tim Scott (R-SC), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, all former 2024 presidential rivals now considered to be in the running for vice president, according to a post to X from his campaign.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Reps. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Wesley Hunt (R-TX), who have all been mentioned as part of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kellyanne-conway-offers-insight-into-trump-veepstakes-suggests-person-of-color" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Veepstakes</a> this election cycle, also attended.
Other Republicans who were present included House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN), who is running for Senate; Michael Waltz (R-FL); Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick; and Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno.
During the event, Trump recognized the RNC&#8217;s fundraising efforts and &#8220;enthusiasm&#8221; for his &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; movement, per his campaign. He spoke for around 90 minutes about the presidential race, election integrity, the economy, the border, and protests taking place on university campuses. He also touted Johnson&#8217;s work as a speaker and advocated for party unity.
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Trump recently suggested that he may select a running mate in the next couple of months before the Republican National Convention, which is scheduled to take place in Milwaukee in mid-July. &#8220;We’ll be making that decision I think closer to Wisconsin time,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=GZhBIHr5v2U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told FOX6 News Milwaukee</a> last week. He added, &#8220;It&#8217;s very early right now.&#8221;
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In the 2016 and 2020 elections, Trump ran with former Vice President Mike Pence, a former governor of Indiana. Pence led his own presidential campaign in the 2024 election cycle but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-pence-suspends-2024-presidential-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped out</a> in late October before the start of the GOP primary contests.
Trump recently met with one of his other former 2024 Republican primary rivals, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Both indicated they had a productive conversation and made plans to defeat President Joe Biden in the November election.

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After being indicted on federal bribery charges last week, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/henry-cuellar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Henry Cuellar</a> (D-TX) is being called on to step down by a Democrat colleague in the House.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dean-phillips" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dean Phillips</a> (D-MN), a former long-shot candidate for president, lumped Cuellar in with former President Donald Trump and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) as part of a list of politicians who he insisted should resign because they have been indicted.
&#8220;While the bar for Federal indictment is high, trust in our government is low,&#8221; Phillips <a href="https://twitter.com/deanbphillips/status/1786544184490381436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X. &#8220;That’s why office holders and candidates under indictment should resign or end their campaigns, including Sen. Bob Menendez, Donald Trump, &amp; Rep. Henry Cuellar.&#8221;
The Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-congressman-henry-cuellar-and-his-wife-charged-bribery-unlawful-foreign-influence-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Friday that Cuellar, a 10-term congressman, and his wife Imelda were charged with allegedly participating in schemes involving bribery, unlawful foreign influence, and money laundering.
Cuellar, 68, accepted $600,000 in bribes from two foreign entities — an energy company controlled by Azerbaijan and a bank headquartered in Mexico City — in exchange for official acts as a member of Congress, the DOJ said.
In a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/03/henry-cuellar-texas-azerbaijan/64373556-0966-11ef-b186-090cb777107e_story.html?ref=upstract.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> responding to the indictment, Cuellar said he and his wife were &#8220;innocent of these allegations,&#8221; taking a similarly defiant stance as Trump and Menendez have as they seek to fend off the charges they face.
“Everything I have done in Congress has been to serve the people of South Texas,” Cuellar said. “Before I took action, I proactively sought legal advice from the House Ethics Committee, who gave me more than one written opinion, along with an additional opinion from a national law firm.&#8221;
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He added, &#8220;Furthermore, we requested a meeting with the Washington D.C. prosecutors to explain the facts and they refused to discuss the case with us or hear our side.&#8221;
The DOJ said the Cuellars, who face decades in prison if convicted, surrendered to authorities on Friday and made an initial appearance before a federal judge in Houston before each being released on $100,000 bond, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/henry-cuellar-bribery-indictment-investigation-texas-ec9904da5c51d11600718a3261f73d0c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Associated Press</a>.
Menendez, who also faces bribery-related charges, has also been pressured to step down by a fellow Democrat — Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) — amid his legal battle.
“Senator Menendez should resign,&#8221; Fetterman <a href="https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/press-releases/fetterman-calls-on-senator-menendez-to-resign/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence under our system, but he is not entitled to continue to wield influence over national policy, especially given the serious and specific nature of the allegations. I hope he chooses an honorable exit and focuses on his trial.&#8221;

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Japan&#8217;s government says it was &#8220;unfortunate&#8221; that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> called Japan, a U.S. ally, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-labels-japan-xenophobic-for-not-following-his-lead-in-importing-hordes-of-third-worlders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;xenophobic&#8221;</a> in remarks last week.
During a campaign reception in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Biden lumped Japan in with U.S. adversaries Russia and China while arguing that immigration can help to create strong economies.
&#8220;One of the reasons why our economy is growing is because of you and many others. Why? Because we welcome immigrants. We look to — the reason — look, think about it,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/05/01/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-reception-7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Immigrants is [sic] what makes us strong,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;Not a joke. That’s not hyperbole. Because we have an influx of workers who want to be here and just contribute.&#8221;
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/japanese-government-responds-biden-claim-japan-xenophobic-unfortunate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Saturday that the Japanese Embassy had given a response to Biden, alluding to a <a href="https://twitter.com/WarMachineRR/status/1786076693909619126" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defense</a> of the president given by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in speaking to reporters.
&#8220;We are aware that the U.S. government has clarified that President Biden&#8217;s comment was made in the context of explaining that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants and that immigrants make the U.S. stronger, and that his comment was not made with the intent of undermining the importance and permanence of the Japan-U.S. relationship,&#8221; the embassy said.
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&#8220;It is unfortunate that some of the comments were not based on an accurate understanding of Japan&#8217;s policies, and we have raised this point to the U.S. government and explained Japan&#8217;s positions and policies once again,&#8221; Japanese officials added.
India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar also <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-japan-immigration-xenophobic-india-modi-biden-b7a488366c583454ed5f6b16f1c56d01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebuffed</a> Biden on Saturday, touting his country&#8217;s GDP growth while insisting that India is a welcoming place during an event organized by the Economic Times newspaper in New Delhi, according to the Associated Press.
&#8220;I haven’t seen such an open, pluralistic, and diverse society anywhere in the world. We are actually not just not xenophobic, we are the most open, most pluralistic and in many ways the most understanding society in the world,” Jaishankar said.

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In a new &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/resisting-indoctrination-abigail-shrier-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday Special</a>&#8221; interview, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro spoke to author Abigail Shrier about the worsening mental health crisis among today&#8217;s youth.
During their hour-long discussion, Shapiro asked Shrier about some of the themes in her latest book, “Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up,” released in February.
Shrier posits that the youngest generation might be less resilient because they are encouraged to focus on their bad feelings under the guise of working them out. Therapy, she suggests, might not be helping as much as we think it is.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about what&#8217;s ailing the kids,&#8221; Shapiro began, noting there has been a &#8220;systemic change in therapy&#8221; in recent years. He asked Shrier whether she believes smartphones and social media could be a significant issue for children as well.
Shrier responded that &#8220;a lot of harms&#8221; come from kids having phones, &#8220;but does it totally explain the mental health decline of young people? No, it clearly doesn&#8217;t.&#8221;
Shrier cited federal <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/data.html#:~:text=1%20in%206%20U.S.%20children,%2C%20behavioral%2C%20or%20developmental%20disorder." target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> showing that children eight and under, who are not usually on social media, also have high rates of mental health or behavioral diagnoses.
&#8220;It isn&#8217;t just a question of the phones,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s also a question of the unhealthy life we&#8217;ve given kids which includes this constant therapy, this constant sense from schools, from parents, and yes from therapists that there&#8217;s something wrong with them, that they have trauma, and that they need a diagnosis and medication.&#8221;
&#8220;Shyness. We never hear a kid described as shy. They have social phobia or social anxiety,&#8221; Shrier added. &#8220;Every child who&#8217;s inattentive is told they have ADHD.&#8221;
Later in the discussion, Shapiro noted, &#8220;We&#8217;re telling kids that they ought to be coddled, because we&#8217;ve told adults that they ought to be coddled.&#8221;
&#8220;No one says to a child, &#8216;Shake it off. You&#8217;re fine,'&#8221; Shrier agreed. &#8220;No one is telling kids even at a small level that they can overcome minor injuries, so they don&#8217;t think they can.&#8221;
Shapiro also asked Shrier for her advice to parents currently considering where to send their children to school.
&#8220;Number one, parental authority. Kids need your authority,&#8221; Shrier said. &#8220;Make sure that we communicate our values to our kids. We&#8217;re doing a lousy job of that in the country, and we send them off to school where teachers can&#8217;t wait to pass on their values to your kids, so don&#8217;t let that happen.&#8221;
&#8220;Everyone&#8217;s obsessed with making kids. happy. We should be more focused on making them strong,&#8221; she said.
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Former U.S. Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-sasse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Sasse</a> (R-NE), now the president of the University of Florida, slammed pro-Hamas demonstrators this week who have created chaos on college campuses across the U.S. and the weak leadership at the universities that has allowed the behavior to happen.
Sasse&#8217;s remarks come after the school released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-florida-slams-leftist-protesters-while-announcing-arrests-not-a-daycare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> early in the week revealing that numerous arrests were made on campus because the school would not tolerate disorderly conduct that was in violation of the school&#8217;s policies.
&#8220;Higher education has for years faced a slow-burning crisis of public trust,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-adults-are-still-in-charge-at-the-university-of-florida-israel-protests-tents-sasse-eca6389b?mod=opinion_lead_pos7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in an op-ed at The Wall Street Journal. &#8220;Mob rule at some of America’s most prestigious universities in recent weeks has thrown gasoline on the fire. Pro-Hamas agitators have fought police, barricaded themselves in university buildings, shut down classes, forced commencement cancellations, and physically impeded Jewish students from attending lectures.&#8221;
Sasse said that parents were right to be angered over the &#8220;asinine entitlement of these activists and the embarrassing timidity of many college administrators.&#8221;
He said that at the University of Florida, the message that the school sends to parents and the future employers of college students is that &#8220;the adults are still in charge.&#8221;
&#8220;To cherish the First Amendment rights of speech and assembly, we draw a hard line at unlawful action,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Speech isn’t violence. Silence isn’t violence. Violence is violence. Just as we have an obligation to protect speech, we have an obligation to keep our students safe. Throwing fists, storming buildings, vandalizing property, spitting on cops and hijacking a university aren’t speech.&#8221;
He said that school&#8217;s making empty threats to quell bad behavior is not effective and only serves to embolden those who are violating policies.
&#8220;Appeasing mobs emboldens agitators elsewhere,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Moving classes online is a retreat that penalizes students and rewards protesters. Participating in live-streamed struggle sessions doesn’t promote honest, good-faith discussion. Universities need to be strong defenders of the entire community, including students in the library on the eve of an exam, and stewards of our fundamental educational mission.&#8221;
He said that the school made the rules clear to the protesters who were on campus, and many of them decided that the consequences were worth it and have since been arrested and thrown off campus.
&#8220;We said it. We meant it. We enforced it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We wish we didn’t have to, but the students weighed the costs, made their decisions, and will own the consequences as adults. We’re a university, not a daycare. We don’t coddle emotions, we wrestle with ideas.&#8221;
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He said that schools needed to &#8220;recommit themselves to real education&#8221; instead of focusing on identity politics and other woke nonsense.
He continued:
<blockquote> Rather than engage a wide range of ideas with curiosity and intellectual humility, many academic disciplines have capitulated to a dogmatic view of identity politics. Students are taught to divide the world into immutable categories of oppressors and oppressed, and to make sweeping judgements accordingly. With little regard for historical complexity, personal agency or individual dignity, much of what passes for sophisticated thought is quasireligious fanaticism.
The results are now on full display. Students steeped in this dogma chant violent slogans like “by any means necessary.” Any? Paraglider memes have replaced Che Guevara T-shirts. But which paragliders—the savages who raped teenage girls at a concert? “From the river to the sea.” Which river? Which sea?
Young men and women with little grasp of geography or history—even recent events like the Palestinians’ rejection of President Clinton’s offer of a two-state solution—wade into geopolitics with bumper-sticker slogans they don’t understand. For a lonely subset of the anxious generation, these protest camps can become a place to find a rare taste of community. This is their stage to role-play revolution. Posting about your “allergen-free” tent on the quad is a lot easier than doing real work to uplift the downtrodden.</blockquote>
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis set the tone in the state regarding what behavior would not be tolerated on college campuses in the aftermath of the October 7 terrorist attack.
Just a couple of weeks after the attack, DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-orders-florida-colleges-to-shut-down-pro-palestinian-student-groups-that-expressed-support-for-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> the state to crack down on collegiate student groups that showed support for Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood terrorist attack.
The governor directed Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, to send notices to the University of Florida and the University of South Florida notifying them that they must deactivate their chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) because they allegedly broke Florida laws about terrorism.
“During a holy Jewish holiday, the recognized terrorist organization, Hamas, launched an unprovoked attack on Israel – among those killed were babies, women, and elderly,” Rodrigues said in a letter to the presidents of Florida’s public universities. “To date, approximately 1,400 Israelis have been killed, including 31 American citizens. Governor DeSantis, our State University System and the Florida College System have condemned these attacks.”
In response to the Palestinian Islamic terrorist attack, “National Students for Justice in Palestine (National SJP) released a ‘toolkit’ which refers to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood as ‘the resistance’ and unequivocally states: ‘Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement,’” the letter said.
The letter noted that under Florida law, it is a felony to “knowingly provide material support . . . to a designated foreign terrorist organization. . .” Hamas is designated by the Untied States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
“Here, National SJP has affirmatively identified it is part of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a terrorist led attack,” the letter continued, later adding: “Based on the National SJP’s support of terrorism, in consultation with Governor DeSantis, the student chapters must be deactivated.”
The letter concluded by saying that Florida will continue to monitor events on college campuses and will be “using all tools at our disposal to crack down on campus demonstrations that delve beyond protected First Amendment speech into harmful support for terrorist groups.”

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X owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> slammed actor Robert De Niro this week for comparing former President Donald Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
De Niro, who has regularly made comments along these lines for nearly the last decade, renewed his attacks on Trump during an interview on MSNBC this week.
&#8220;I think other people are going to have to stand up and just &#8212; because it&#8217;s either that or you&#8217;re gonna find yourself in a situation that is so terrifying,&#8221; De Niro told MNSBC&#8217;s Stephanie Ruhle. &#8220;We always hear about people from Eastern Europe, the Jews from other parts of Eastern Europe, from Western Europe, coming over, look what happened in France with the Nazis and so on.&#8221;
He said that he never thought that someone like Hitler could take power in the U.S., &#8220;but now I see that it&#8217;s possible.&#8221;
De Niro claimed that there was &#8220;not one redeeming thing in him I can see ever&#8221; and that Trump &#8220;can’t be anywhere near the office of the presidency.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t understand it. I don’t, I don’t think they understand how dangerous it will be if he ever, God forbid, becomes president. I don’t think they really understand,&#8221; he said of those who will be voting for Trump in 2024.
He continued, &#8220;And historically, from what I’ve seen, even in Nazi Germany, they had it with Hitler. They don’t take him seriously. ‘He looks like a clown. Acts like a clown.’ Mussolini. Same thing. These guys, I don’t know why, they look like clowns.&#8221;
Musk responded to a clip of De Niro from the segment that went viral on X by noting that Trump did not resemble Hitler during his first term in office and he was a very pro-Israel president.
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&#8220;Well, Trump was actually already president for 4 years and his policies bore no resemblance to those of Hitler, so this makes no sense,&#8221; Musk posted. &#8220;In fact, with the Abraham Accords, he made some progress towards peace in the Middle East, which was definitely not high on Hitler’s agenda.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/google" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a> reportedly removed an ad from former President Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign this week that targeted President Joe Biden on inflation and illegal immigration.
The ad reportedly sought to reach black voters, with whom Biden is struggling recent polling, in rural Georgia.
The ad depicts a woman working for the Biden campaign getting rejected by a voter when trying to see if he is willing to vote again for Biden.
The voter highlights Biden&#8217;s incentives for illegal aliens and inflation as two major reasons he is now voting for Trump.
The following is the dialogue contained in the ad:
<blockquote>BIDEN CAMPAIGN: Hello, I&#8217;m with the Biden campaign.
VOTER: Yeah, yeah, I voted for Biden last time.
BIDEN CAMPAIGN: That&#8217;s fantastic.
VOTER: Is it? Everything costs more: food, gas, rent.
BIDEN CAMPAIGN: Okay, but Biden&#8217;s helping pay rent for &#8220;newcomers&#8221; to America from around the world.
VOTER: You mean illegal immigrants? I&#8217;m struggling to pay my bills, but Biden&#8217;s paying rent for illegals? They get handouts and I&#8217;m paying for it.
BIDEN CAMPAIGN: But Biden can still count on your vote, right?
VOTER: Things were better before Biden. I&#8217;m voting for Trump.</blockquote>
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Trump’s Super PAC is running this ad in rural Georgia counties targeting Black men. <a href="https://t.co/mcRMkGsqLN">pic.twitter.com/mcRMkGsqLN</a>
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1786394088503152782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
Andrew Arenge, director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies and a member of NBC News&#8217; Election Unit, said on X that Google removed the ad.
&#8220;This ad has been removed by Google for a &#8216;policy violation.&#8217; It was live in the Google archive this morning but I just looked and it&#8217;s now been removed,&#8221; Arenge posted. &#8220;Super PAC spent over $15K targeting it at specific communities near Macon, GA after launching it on April 25th.&#8221;
However, after facing significant backlash online, Google appears to have reversed its decision.
&#8220;Google appears to have completely reversed their decision,&#8221; Arenge said. &#8220;The Make America Great Again, Inc. ads are no longer flagged for a policy violation in the Google ad archive.&#8221;
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Google appears to have completely reversed their decision. The Make American Great Again, Inc. ads are no longer flagged for a policy violation in the Google ad archive
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— Andrew Arenge (@MrArenge) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrArenge/status/1786805100465275055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Actor John O&#8217;Hurley, who is known for playing J. Peterman on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Seinfeld,&#8221; slammed woke culture in an interview this week after the show&#8217;s star, Jerry Seinfeld, recently railed against the political Left for ruining television <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comedy</a>.
Seinfeld told The New Yorker this week that people used to be able to turn on television and find a wide range of good comedy shows every night.
“Well, guess what — where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people,” Seinfeld said. “Now they’re going to see stand up comics because we are not policed by anyone. The audience polices us. We know when we’re off track. We know instantly and we adjust to it instantly.”
“But when you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups — ‘Here’s our thought about this joke,'&#8221; he added. “Well, that’s the end of your comedy.”
O&#8217;Hurley responded to Seinfeld&#8217;s remarks during a Fox News interview this week where he recounted numerous jokes they made on the show.
He said that leftists have caused the country to lose &#8220;our ability to be silly.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s a sad thing when you think about it,&#8221; he added.
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O&#8217;Hurley said that Seinfeld was the cleanest comedy there has been in a long time, and the fact that even he won&#8217;t perform for certain groups in today&#8217;s world is significant.
&#8220;There wasn&#8217;t a cleaner comic in the business in the last 50 years of our laughs, and for him to say that — and he said this about 10 years ago, when he said, &#8216;I no longer am doing college campuses.&#8217; He says they&#8217;re they&#8217;re mean-spirited,&#8221; O&#8217;Hurley said.
&#8220;Historically, ethnic groups would be searching to be included in the comic repertoire of our culture,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And now — no, no, no — we can&#8217;t. And it&#8217;s not that they don&#8217;t want it, it&#8217;s that there&#8217;s a select group of those who know better who feel as though they should be deprived of it,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Our comedy is no longer silly. It&#8217;s not about that. It&#8217;s mocking and it&#8217;s sarcasm, and that&#8217;s not comedy,&#8221; he continued.
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Jerry Seinfeld says the extreme left killed comedy. Seinfeld actor, John O&#8217;Hurley, gives Primetime his take. <a href="https://t.co/f8YTMjX14N">pic.twitter.com/f8YTMjX14N</a>
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1785113795087446320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2024</a></blockquote>

Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles – March 14, 2024

‘Seinfeld’ Actor John O’Hurley Rips Woke Culture For Ruining Comedy

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A crowd that gathered at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Michigan&#8217;s</a> Big House — the largest football stadium in the U.S. with a seating capacity of nearly 108,000 — cheered as police officers responded to pro-Palestinian protesters who disrupted the school&#8217;s Saturday commencement ceremony.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestine-gaza-war-colleges-universities-campus-protests-ad9deb304a49edbb52f5ae607f08cecd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the protest — which included about 75 people, many of whom wore keffiyehs — happened at the start of the event in Ann Arbor.
&#8220;Regents, regents, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!&#8221; they chanted while holding up signs with various slogans.
The protesters were prevented by law enforcement from reaching the stage and further disrupting the event. They were moved to the back of the stadium where they remained until the event was over, the report said.
Michigan student Benny Shaevsky, who was at the event, said that the protesters &#8220;continued to disrupt throughout the ceremony.&#8221;
As the leftist protesters attempted to ruin the ceremony for everyone else, numerous people shouted at them.
“You’re ruining our graduation!” one person shouted.
At another point, a group of students chanted at the protesters &#8220;shut the f*** up!&#8221;
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Marching towards the stage. REMOVE THEM NOW <a href="https://twitter.com/UMich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UMich</a> <a href="https://t.co/zLWozsDoko">pic.twitter.com/zLWozsDoko</a>
— Benny Shaevsky (@brshaevsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/brshaevsky/status/1786771545345388660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Large protest <a href="https://twitter.com/UMich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UMich</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RubinReport</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/thestustustudio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thestustustudio</a> <a href="https://t.co/TXKRjHk7gi">pic.twitter.com/TXKRjHk7gi</a>
— Benny Shaevsky (@brshaevsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/brshaevsky/status/1786769921008947579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Pro-Palestine student activists raised slogans at the commencement ceremony of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/classof2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#classof2024</a> at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor today. The police intervened to push back the protestors to a corner of Michigan stadium but let them continue the sloganeering. <a href="https://t.co/9P9TWp4cBs">pic.twitter.com/9P9TWp4cBs</a>
— Bharti Jain (@bhartijainTOI) <a href="https://twitter.com/bhartijainTOI/status/1786867418498789869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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BREAKING: Police Officers Remove Protesters From The University Of Michigan’s Commencement Ceremony
These people are so fòòlish!!! 
Do they not know what country they live in? DISGUSTING <a href="https://t.co/TTR7DByfue">pic.twitter.com/TTR7DByfue</a>
— 🕊 𝓐𝓷𝓷 𝓲𝓼 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 🕊 𝐗𝐋𝐕 (@Ann_Lilyflower) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ann_Lilyflower/status/1786815092173992283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2024</a></blockquote>

Commencement Ceremony Held At University Of Michigan Amid Ongoing Pro Palestinian Protests On Campus

WATCH: Michigan Crowd Cheers As Cops Respond To Pro-Palestinian Protesters At Commencement Ceremony

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South Dakota Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kristi-noem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristi Noem</a> is reportedly going back and correcting things that she wrote in her new book after some of the claims have received scrutiny.
Noem said in her new book, &#8220;No Going Back,&#8221; that she met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un while she was in Congress on the House Armed Services Committee.
&#8220;Through my tenure on the House Armed Services Committee, I had the chance to travel to many countries to meet with world leaders,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/03/kristi-noem-book-excerpt-nikki-haley-dog-00155925" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in the book set to be released this week. &#8220;I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants (I’d been a children’s pastor, after all).&#8221;
Syd Seiler, a former U.S. intelligence officer who spent his career working on America&#8217;s relationship with North Korea, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/south-dakota-gov-noem-erroneously-describes-meeting-north-109911302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Nothing like this happened.&#8221;
The Associated Press reported that Noem&#8217;s team indicated that her claim was made in error and that corrections would be made to future copies that are published.
Another example that Noem mentioned in the book that has drawn scrutiny was her statement that she was going to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron, but decided to cancel on him.
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Macron&#8217;s office told the AP that no &#8220;direct invitation&#8221; was ever made for Noem to meet Macron, although they apparently said she could have been invited to an event at which he was scheduled to also be.
A spokesperson for Noem said that she was &#8220;invited to sit in President Macron’s box for the Armistice Day Parade at Arc de Triomphe. Following his anti-Israel comments, she chose to cancel.&#8221;
Noem also made remarks about former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley that a spokesperson for Haley strongly disputed.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kristi-noem-defends-decision-to-shoot-her-puppy-had-shown-aggressive-behavior" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristi Noem Defends Decision To Shoot Her Puppy: ‘Had Shown Aggressive Behavior’</a>

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David Cone, a co-host of The Daily Wire’s sports podcast “Crain &amp; Co.,” dropped his first country single this week with his song about “blue jeans” and “rock and roll” in “Just What America Needs.”
On Friday, the Daily Wire host announced his new country song, which he worked on with Nashville legend Kent Wells, Dolly Parton’s long-time producer. “Just What American Needs” is the first of six singles Cone will be releasing in the next few months. Cone said that Wells, the legendary music producer who is coming off a hugely successful album release in Dolly Parton’s “Rockstar,” was impressed by what he heard in the “Crain &amp; Co.” hosts new songs.
Cone revealed the song <a href="https://x.com/davidadamcone/status/1786388786462511475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in a post on X</a>, which showcased him rocking out to lyrics about finding a good woman that he loves who is “Just What America Needs.” Cone said the song “intersects with the missional statement of what I want to do in my life now, and with the company I work for with The Daily Wire.”
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“I thought now that I have a platform with this sports show, ‘Crain &amp; Co.’ and the aftermath of our movie ‘Lady Ballers,’ now would be the best time to release new music, especially music that is patriotic,” he added. “‘Just What America Needs’ seemed like the no-brainer song for me to start with.”
Cone said his other five singles will be released over the next few months — one of which is another patriotic song titled “American Made,” which Cone hopes to release around the Fourth of July.
Additionally, Cone will release “Flavors of Kentucky,” “Southward Bound,” “Die in Alabama,” and “Thompson&#8217;s Station Train.” The Daily Wire host taught himself how to play the guitar as a senior at the University of Michigan before he started writing music and playing at venues in Atlanta and Nashville.
One powerful line in “Just What America Needs” features Cone singing about how a woman “proudly raised in the USA” likes “social living, not socialism” and suggests that with “few more like her, this country would be okay.”
The chorus praises the woman because she, “likes blue jeans and rock and roll, raised up right, loving country roads. ‘Free Bird’ on the radio, she’s just what America needs.”
In the song, the “Crain &amp; Co.” host notes that he used to sit and complain “about how there was no use of dating any of these girls today,” until he heard this one woman “singing God bless the USA.”
“‘Just What America Needs’ is as close to me being the actual protagonist as possible. And the woman who he’s loving in the song is as close to being my wife as possible,” Cone said.
Cone revealed that the final hurdle to clear in “Just What America Needs” came at “the last turnaround verse.”
“I came up with the line, ‘But she ain&#8217;t perfect, she loves pizza cold,’ and when I wrote that line I thought it’s now been elevated, and now the song can be complete,” Cone said. “Before that I think it opened itself up to criticism that it was just a cliche patriotic song, but that last part there [shows] I’m not holding people who are just what America needs to a perfect standard because this girl isn’t either. She eats her pizza cold. To me, it was a perfect way to wrap up a song.”
&#8220;Just What America Needs&#8221; is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.

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Daily Wire Host David Cone Releases First Single, ‘Just What America Needs’

Daily Wire Host David Cone Releases First Single, 'Just What America Needs'

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Comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> took a shot at President Joe Biden this week for effectively supporting the anti-Semitic protesters on college campuses with his latest student loan bailout.
Maher made the remarks Friday evening on his HBO show &#8220;Real Time&#8221; while discussing the recent demonstrations that have roiled numerous top universities.
&#8220;When I read about the college loans … &#8216;Biden administration&#8217;s student debt cancelation will cost a combined $870 billion to $1.4 trillion.&#8217; That&#8217;s a lot of debt forgiveness,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;Colleges constantly raise tuition, then the kids take out more loans, then the government comes by and pays those loans. Okay, so my tax dollars are supporting this Jew hating? I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;
Maher discussed the issue with former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent Joshua Green.
&#8220;Yeah, I mean, Trump is winning the youth vote by, I think, 11 points, that&#8217;s pretty astounding to me,&#8221; Maher said, referring to a recent CNN poll. &#8220;What do you make of that?&#8221;
&#8220;What I make of that a lot of it is if you turn on your TV today, you see young people protesting, angry, fighting with cops,&#8221; Green said. &#8220;What you don&#8217;t see is Donald Trump in a criminal trial. What you don&#8217;t see is, you know, one of his blue chip vice presidential candidates murdered dog a week ago and is two weeks into talking about that story. All of these stories that could potentially be damaging for Republicans to help Joe Biden have fallen by the wayside because all of the attention is on these protesters and on these fights, on their behavior, and on the fact that a lot of people don&#8217;t like what they see on the television.&#8221;
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&#8220;Biden was elected to push aside the chaos and the havoc of the Trump years,&#8221; Greene continued. &#8220;I think everybody can agree on that. … You turn on your TV and see what&#8217;s going on on these campuses, it hasn&#8217;t happened. And that&#8217;s one big reason why he&#8217;s losing the vote, one big reason why he&#8217;s losing the youth vote.&#8221;
Conway fired back: &#8220;Yes, chaos and crisis in the Trump administration in a tweet, in a comment here and there, now it&#8217;s chaos and crisis everywhere we look. At the border, on our college campuses, by the way, in our halls of Congress, 31 Democrats voted against the resolution last October 18 to condemn Hezbollah and Hamas.&#8221;
&#8220;And the resolution clearly said, Bill, that they were concerned about institutions of higher education allowing sympathies for Hezbollah and Hamas, which our own government, Biden&#8217;s government, Trump&#8217;s government have declared terrorist groups, and they specifically said in there it was going to hurt, make uncomfortable, if not worse, Jewish students with all this anti-Semitism,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;That was October 18! 31 Democrats, including the most well-known young ones, the Squad that doesn&#8217;t do squat, for example, all voted against that resolution.&#8221;
Maher said that he completely agreed with Conway.
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NEW: Bill Maher says he is “incensed” that his tax dollars are going towards paying off the student loans of “Jew hating” students.
All this criticism of Biden and he will still vote for him.
“I’m so incensed about some of this stuff, because, when I read about the college… <a href="https://t.co/XCKR6bU6RC">pic.twitter.com/XCKR6bU6RC</a>
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1786761546850529626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2024</a></blockquote>

2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones – Inside

Bill Maher Torches Biden Over Student Loan Bailout: ‘My Tax Dollars’ Are Funding ‘Jew Hating’

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An illegal immigrant from Guatemala accused of child molestation was released from prison last month by authorities in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rhode-island" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rhode Island</a> before federal immigration officials could take him into custody.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-boston-apprehends-guatemalan-citizen-arrested-locally-first-degree-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Friday that they had arrested a 22-year-old illegal immigrant wanted on domestic assault and first-degree child molestation on April 10. The arrest came hours after the Sixth District Court of Rhode Island had ordered him released onto the streets of Providence before ICE could take him into custody.
Providence is a sanctuary city and ignored the detainer that had been placed on the illegal immigrant by ICE.
“This unlawfully present individual was arrested locally on first degree child molestation charges and was released back into the community despite an immigration detainer,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons. “We believe it is in the interest of the community that jurisdictions honor our immigration detainers so that ICE can take direct custody of individuals like this who pose a threat to residents.”
“ERO Boston hopes to cooperate with our local partners in Rhode Island to help make safer neighborhoods for everyone in the state and throughout New England,” Lyons added.
According to ICE, the illegal immigrant, who was not named, illegally entered the United States around Nogales, Arizona, where he was apprehended by Border Patrol in November 2018. He would have been around 16-years-old at the time and he was released into the country and given a court date.
Four years later, the Providence Police Department issued a warrant for his arrest on sexual assault and child molestation charges on November 21, 2022. He was not arrested until February 28, 2024 when police nabbed him on domestic assault charges in addition to the previous charges.
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After the arrest, ICE placed an immigration detainer on him, but he was released on April 10 by a Rhode Island court.
“Later that day, ERO Boston deportation officers in Rhode Island arrested him without incident in Providence. He will be held in ICE custody pending a future hearing before a Department of Justice immigration judge,” ICE said.
In recent weeks, ICE has been drawing attention to the release of illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes in New England, The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/03/blue-state-releases-child-molester-ice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Last month, a 26-year-old Honduran <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/19/illegal-alien-sexual-assault-minor-ice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> first-degree sexual assault of a minor was released by Connecticut authorities who ignored an immigration detainer placed on him by ICE.

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The Republican National Committee alongside the Trump presidential campaign filed a lawsuit on Friday against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nevada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nevada</a> for allowing mail-in ballots that arrive up to four days after Election Day to be counted.
The <a href="https://prod-static.gop.com/media/documents/NV_Election_Day_Complaint_filed_05.03.20243_1714757420.pdf?_gl=1*ngtvz6*_gcl_au*NzcyMzM4ODUxLjE3MTQ3NjY3MTA.&amp;_ga=2.197772207.1005609544.1714766711-708067852.1714766710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suit</a>, also joined by the Nevada Republican Party, is challenging a Nevada law that says mail-in ballots can be counted if they are postmarked before the end of the day on Election Day and arrive up to four days after the election. According to the suit, this law violates federal election law and disproportionately harms Republicans. 
“Nevada’s ballot receipt deadline clearly violates federal law and undermines election integrity in the state. Ballots received days after Election Day should not be counted — the RNC and our partners are suing to secure an honest election, support Nevada voters, and oppose unlawful schemes,” <a href="https://gop.com/press-release/rnc-trump-campaign-and-nvgop-files-ballot-deadline-election-integrity-lawsuit-in-nevada/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> RNC Chair Michael Whatley. 
Filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Nevada, the suit names Democratic Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar and the county clerks and registers of Washoe and Clark County. 
One issue raised in the lawsuit is the provision of Nevada law that allows ballots with illegible postmarks to be counted. The suit pointed to a provision of Nevada <a href="https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-293.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> saying that a “mail ballot shall be deemed to have been postmarked on or before the day of the election” if the postmark cannot be read and it was received before 5 p.m. the third day after election day. 
“The result of Nevada’s violation of federal law is that timely, valid ballots are diluted by untimely, invalid ballots, which violates the rights of candidates, campaigns, and voters under federal law,” the suit says. “Counting mail ballots received after Election Day doesn’t just dilute the valid ballots — it specifically and disproportionately harms Republican candidates and voters.” 
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The suit hopes to block state election officials from counting ballots that are received after election day for the November 2024 election. 
&#8220;Our office will not comment on ongoing litigation, but I hope the RNC is putting as much time and energy into educating voters on how to participate in elections as they put into suing the state of Nevada,” Aguilar <a href="https://twitter.com/tabitha_mueller/status/1786495737364152618" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response to the suit’s filing. 
The suit is the latest RNC effort to challenge state election laws ahead of the 2024 election with Nevada expected to be closely contested by both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> announced on Friday that he would make certain illegal immigrants eligible for government-backed health care coverage, prompting criticism from Republicans who said it was a “slap in the face” to American citizens. 
Biden said that illegal immigrants in the United States who had received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status because they had been taken into the country with their parents, would be able to now enroll in Obamacare. In a statement, Biden said that the illegal immigrants might be eligible for financial assistance to give them coverage. 
“While President Biden continues to call on Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship to Dreamers and others, he is committed to protecting and preserving DACA and providing Dreamers with the opportunities and support they need to succeed, including access to affordable, quality health care coverage,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/03/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-expands-health-coverage-to-daca-recipients/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
The decision was made possible by a Biden admin rule changing the definition of “lawfully present” to include DACA recipients for Obamacare and will go into effect just before the presidential election as DACA recipients will be able to register for coverage on November 1. 
“Thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration’s actions, today’s final rule will remove the prohibition on DACA recipients’ eligibility for Affordable Care Act coverage for the first time, and is projected to help more than 100,000 young people gain health insurance,” the president added. 
The decision prompted harsh criticism from conservatives, including former President Donald Trump. 
“This is unfair and unsustainable,” Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://twitter.com/_StephanieMyers/status/1786442978032267429" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Joe Biden‘s handouts for illegal immigrants are especially devastating to Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and union workers who are forced to watch their jobs and public resources stolen by people who illegally entered our country.”
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“President Trump will put America and the American worker first. He will seal the border, stop the invasion, and expand economic opportunity for American citizens, not illegal aliens,” Leavitt added. 
Last summer, Republicans in both the House and Senate <a href="https://tiffany.house.gov/media/editorials-letters-and-articles/gop-lawmakers-urge-biden-admin-not-fund-healthcare-illegal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> Biden to not finalize the rule.
On Friday, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) said that Biden should be focusing on getting the border under control and reducing inflation instead of giving benefits to illegal immigrants. 
“There’s an unprecedented crisis at our southern border, we&#8217;ve got major conflicts around the world, and families all across Ohio are getting crushed by inflation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Joe Biden&#8217;s response to all this is to give your hard-earned money away to illegal immigrants in the form of taxpayer-funded healthcare. This is a slap in the face to every hardworking American who plays by the rules, and it would never happen if Donald Trump were president.”

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