Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered just three words of advice to voters who were disappointed by the idea of a 2024 rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump: &#8220;Get over yourself.&#8221;
Clinton, who lost to Trump in 2016, did not appear to have much sympathy for those who didn&#8217;t like either option, and she made that clear during a Monday evening appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; with host Jimmy Fallon.
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Jimmy Fallon: &quot;It&#39;s Biden vs Trump. What do you say to voters who are upset that those are the two choices.&quot; Hillary Clinton: &quot;Get over yourself. Those are the two choices.&quot; Classic Hillary charm. Hey Hillary, have you &#39;got over&#39; 2016 yet? &quot;Hopefully people will realize what&#39;s… <a href="https://t.co/Lu6vGxdEeb">pic.twitter.com/Lu6vGxdEeb</a>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s Biden vs Trump. All right, we know that,&#8221; Fallon said, asking Clinton, &#8220;What do you say to voters who are upset that those are the two choices?&#8221;
&#8220;Get over yourself,&#8221; Clinton shrugged. &#8220;Those are the two choices.&#8221;
&#8220;And, you know, it&#8217;s kind of like one is old and effective and compassionate, has a heart, and really cares about people,&#8221; Clinton continued. &#8220;And one is old and has been charged with 91 felonies.&#8221;
Fallon and the audience laughed, and Clinton kept going: &#8220;I don&#8217;t even understand why this is even a hard choice, really. I don&#8217;t understand it, but we have to go through the election. Hopefully people will realize what&#8217;s at stake, because it&#8217;s an existential question: What kind of country we&#8217;re going to have, what kind of democracy we&#8217;re going to have, and people who blow that off are not paying attention.&#8221;
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Clinton made no mention of independent presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-biden-absolutely-a-much-worse-threat-to-democracy-than-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a>, who warned during an interview over the weekend that President Biden was a greater threat to democracy than Trump.
&#8220;President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent. I can say that because I just won a case in the federal Court of Appeals and now before the Supreme Court that shows that he started censoring not just me — 37 hours after he took the oath of office, he was censoring me,&#8221; Kennedy explained. &#8220;No president in the country has ever done that.&#8221;
&#8220;The greatest threat to democracy is not somebody who questions election returns, but a president of the United States who uses the power of his office to force the social media companies, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter to open a portal and give access to that portal to the FBI, to the CIA, to the IRS, to CISA, to NIH to censor his political critics,&#8221; he added.

Michelle Obama Campaigns With Hillary Clinton In North Carolina

Hillary Clinton Has Just Three Words Of ‘Advice’ For Voters Disappointed In Trump-Biden Rematch

Hillary Clinton Has Just Three Words Of 'Advice' For Voters Disappointed In Trump-Biden Rematch

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This article is adapted from today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Durham Report Released
Special Counsel John Durham has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/durham-report-makes-sobering-findings-about-fbis-handling-of-trump-russia-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> his long-awaited report investigating the U.S. federal government’s actions during the 2016 election cycle and its monitoring of the Trump campaign. Durham’s team concluded that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” when it began Operation Crossfire Hurricane – that’s the operation seen by many as the U.S. government spying on the Trump 2016 campaign. 
The report also said that Crossfire Hurricane investigators “did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting.” The now-infamous Steele dossier was initially used to gain legal permission to monitor the Trump team. We’ll have more on the Durham report tomorrow morning. 
Biden Pleased With Border Chaos
President Biden said over the weekend that he was pleased with how events unfolded at the southern border after the expiration of Title 42 late last week. The president was also asked if he had any plans to visit the border:
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Bitler is asked about the status of the border invasion and he responds it’s going “better than you all expected”.. 🤡
Then states he still has no intentions to visit the border… 
This is ALL by design. 🖕🏽<a href="https://t.co/EAk5cbPvap">pic.twitter.com/EAk5cbPvap</a>
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In reaction, Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul threw cold water on the idea that there isn’t a crisis and called upon the federal government to build camps to house the growing number of illegal aliens.
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NY GOV. HOCHUL: “I’m asking for federal installations like military installations. […] You&#39;re gonna start seeing people living in tents — not just on the border,l — but on the streets of New York.”
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Secret Service Won&#8217;t Release Biden Visitor Emails
The Secret Service is refusing to hand over emails that <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/secret-service-wont-give-up-emails-naming-biden-delaware-visitors/">identify visitors</a> to President Biden’s homes in Delaware, according to the New York Post. 
The Secret Service denied a Freedom of Information Act request for the emails, saying they’re not legally required to make them available to the public, citing an appeals court ruling in New York regarding visitor information for former President Trump’s residence. But according to the Post, that ruling has no bearing on current elected officials. House Republicans have been requesting the emails for months as they continue their investigation into the Biden family and alleged money-making schemes from his time as Vice President.
Debt Deal Stalling
The President and Congress have yet to reach an agreement regarding the looming national debt default in just a few weeks. President Biden said Sunday that he remains hopeful that a debt ceiling agreement can be reached, while Senator Ted Cruz(R-TX) blasted the president for refusing to negotiate and leaving DC over the weekend instead of staying in town to address the crisis: 
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tedcruz</a>: &quot;What we&#39;re left with is a bunch of young staffers in the White House &#8211; radical children who are perfectly willing a default on the debt because they have no appreciation of the chaos, misery, and damage a default would do.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/LbbO6b9X8X">pic.twitter.com/LbbO6b9X8X</a>
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Talks between the President &amp; congressional leaders will likely resume on Tuesday at the White House.
American Citizen Gets Life In Chinese Prison
The Chinese government has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/china/china-jails-us-citizen-espionage-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> a 78-year-old American citizen to life in prison on spying charges. John Shing-Wan Leung was arrested and detained by Chinese security authorities more than two years ago. The life sentence adds further tension to the already strained relationship between China and the U.S.
Zelensky Says No Peace Talks Anytime Soon
President Volodymyr Zelensky <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/volodymyr-zelensky-vladimir-putin-peace-talks-1800229" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled out peace talks</a> with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, over the weekend. Zelensky is traveling abroad to curry favor with European officials as Ukraine’s counter-offensive gets underway. 
Zelensky told Italian leaders that Putin is “an insane human” and that the war is a “joke” for Putin. He also pushed back on critics who claim that Ukraine doesn’t actually have a plan to win the war or to rebuild. Zelensky said that his country has proposed how to “end the war” while “respecting the UN Charter, international law, people, and values.&#8221; Over the weekend Zelensky held meetings with Pope Francis, German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz in Berlin, and French President Macron in Paris. On Monday Zelensky arrived in London for talks with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak:
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&quot;We are thankful from all our hearts, from Ukrainians, from our soldiers, we are thankful&quot;
Ukraine&#39;s President Zelensky grateful for support from PM Rishi Sunak after arriving in UK for talks
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John Durham

Monday Afternoon Update:  Durham Report Released, Biden Pleased With Border Situation, Zelensky Says No Peace Talks Anytime Soon

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> has &#8220;no plans&#8221; to testify in the grand jury investigation into his involvement in the $130,000 hush payment made to former pornstar Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election, according to his lawyer.
&#8220;We have no plans on participating in that proceeding,&#8221; Trump attorney Joe Tacopina <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-plans-participate-manhattan-grand-jury-probe-attorney/story?id=97821858">told</a> ABC News on Monday. &#8220;Decision needs to be made still. There&#8217;s been no deadline set, so we&#8217;ll wait and see.&#8221;
The criminal investigation into Trump’s payment to Daniels, who says that she had an affair with the former president, has lasted five years. The case involves a payment that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who pled guilty to felony charges related to the payment, made to Daniels during the presidential race.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/nyregion/trump-bragg-cohen-indictment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">reported</a> that Cohen is set to testify this week, describing the move as a &#8220;sign that prosecutors are poised to indict the former president for his role in paying hush money.&#8221;
The report said that it would be highly unlikely at this point for prosecutors to not seek an indictment given the amount of relevant witnesses questioned in front of the grand jury and the offer for Trump to testify.
Daniels’ representatives contacted the National Enquirer about her story during the campaign, but the publication was not interested in buying the exclusive rights to it. The publication’s publisher brokered a deal between Cohen and Daniels.
The potential problem for Trump centers around how his company paid Cohen for the hush payment. The expense was listed as a legal expense and the company cited a retainer agreement with Cohen. The retainer agreement did not exist and the reimbursement was not related to any legal services from Cohen, thus setting up a potential misdemeanor criminal charge of falsifying business records. The report said that Trump personally signed several of the checks to Cohen while he was serving as president.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/nyregion/trump-potential-criminal-charges-bragg.html">reported</a> last week that prosecutors can elevate the misdemeanor to a felony if they can prove that Trump’s “&#8217;intent to defraud’ included an intent to commit or conceal a second crime.”
Prosecutors argue that the second crime is that the $130,000 hush payment was an improper donation to the Trump campaign because the money was used to stop a story for the purpose of benefiting his presidential run.

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Trump Has ‘No Plans’ To Testify In Grand Jury Investigation As Likelihood Of Being Indicted Increases: Report

Trump Has 'No Plans' To Testify In Grand Jury Investigation As Likelihood Of Being Indicted Increases: Report

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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the research firm Fusion GPS to turn over nearly two dozen emails to special counsel John Durham, a victory for the special counsel over Fusion’s and others’ claims that the emails were privileged communications.
Durham asked D.C. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sussmann-judge-to-review-docs-clinton-campaign-tried-to-keep-out-of-courts-sight">review</a> 38 Fusion emails “in camera,” or out of view of the public, to determine whether they were being improperly withheld from Durham’s team. After reviewing the documents, Cooper ruled that over half of them did not fall under attorney-client privilege as cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, and Fusion argued.
Sussmann is set to stand trial next week for allegedly lying to the FBI in 2016 when he approached then-FBI general counsel James Baker about a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, one of the largest private banks in Russia. Durham has alleged that, contrary to Sussmann’s claims, the cybersecurity attorney approached Baker as a Clinton campaign operative to spread now-debunked claims about former President Donald Trump.
While Durham has gained access to the 22 of the 38 emails he requested, Cooper forbid prosecutors from introducing them as evidence in the Sussmann trial. Cooper said that entering the emails into evidence days before the trial would “prejudice Mr. Sussmann’s defense.”
“Still, the record shows that these discussions ended in January 2022—yet the Special Counsel waited to file this motion until April 6, 2022, just over a month before trial was set to begin. And, given the number of privilege holders involved and the fact-bound nature of the issues, resolving the motion has naturally taken us to the eve of trial,” Cooper <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638/gov.uscourts.dcd.235638.129.0_6.pdf">wrote</a>. “Under these circumstances, allowing the Special Counsel to use these documents at trial would prejudice Mr. Sussmann’s defense.”
“Accordingly, the government will not be permitted to introduce the emails and attachments that the Court has ruled are not subject to privilege,” the judge said. “The Court takes no position on the other approximately 1500 documents that Fusion GPS withheld as privileged, as they are not the subject of the government’s motion. However, the Court will apply the principles set forth above to any assertions of privilege during witness testimony at trial.”
The batch of 38 emails Durham originally asked Cooper to review were part of a larger batch of some 1,500 emails that Sussman, the Clinton Campaign, Fusion GPS, and the Perkins Coie law firm claimed fell under attorney-client privilege.
Sussmann was an attorney for Perkins Coie in 2016 when the law firm was representing the Clinton Campaign. He is accused of intentionally hiding his connection to the Clinton campaign when he approached Baker with purported evidence of a Trump-Russia connection. At least part of the supposed evidence Sussmann provided to the FBI was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sussmann-judge-to-review-docs-clinton-campaign-tried-to-keep-out-of-courts-sight">determined</a> by the CIA to be not “technically plausible” and “user created and not machine/tool generated,” Durham revealed in an earlier court filing.

Court Grants Durham Access To 22 Emails Fusion GPS Claimed Were Privileged

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When “The Lost City Of Z” director James Gray announced his latest film “Ad Astra” at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, he made the bold declaration that it would be &#8220;the most realistic depiction of space travel that&#8217;s been put in a movie and to basically say, &#8216;Space is awfully hostile to us.'&#8221; While it is unclear if he succeeded in that regard, the feature is lined with an all-star cast and stunning visuals. The movie, on paper, seems idyllic. Its science fiction story does its best to depict a realistic version of space and space travel with incredible technical skill and stunning effects, but it fails to make an emotional connection.
In the “near future,” Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) works for the United States Space Command. After a series of electric surges begin threatening Earth’s solar system, he is called to a meeting with the brass. There he learns that his thought-dead father, famous astronaut Commander H. Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) may be alive. It is thought the “Project Lima” mission he vanished on sixteen years ago may have something to do with the surges since they are originating from Neptune, where his father’s team vanished in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials.  
Roy is being sent to Mars with his father’s old friend Colonel Thomas Pruitt (Donald Sutherland), who had a falling-out with his dad before the Project Lima mission. They travel first to the moon where they are attacked by space pirates. Surviving the attack, Roy parts ways with Pruitt, who was injured during the assault. However, he gives Roy a message revealing a dark secret about his father and their mission. Roy boards another rocket to Mars as the surges increase in size and frequency. With the danger growing, his only hope is to contact his father before time runs out.
From a technical perspective, the movie is incredible. Everything was done with excellent detail. As Roy makes his journey into deep space, farther than most have gone before, you feel every tense moment of the lack of gravity, confinement, and the claustrophobic nature of the space vessels. There is a moment early on in the film when the character takes a high fall and you watch every moment with anticipation at the realism on screen. In addition, the musical score by Max Richter, who also worked on “Hostiles,” perfectly complemented the plot as it unfolded before you. 
However, while this movie is impressive when it comes to the technical aspects, it ultimately fails to give the viewer a way to connect with it on a personal and emotional level. 
Though brilliantly acted by Pitt, Roy’s character is a cold, distant protagonist who fails at evoking empathy. He follows the career path of his father, becoming an astronaut. This proves to be a detriment in his life, shown when his wife, Eve (played briefly by Liv Tyler) leaves him. His coldhearted nature pushes her away, but instead of feeling a connection with him over the collapse of his marriage, you almost feel relieved she got out when she did. 
Likewise, the tone of the film is incredibly nihilistic. Religion is portrayed as an obsession to “let go” rather than a personal matter of faith to hold tight. Relationships are shown to be nothing more than a mere bumping into each other rather than emotional connections that guide our life. In the end, only the “duty” of fulfilling the mission is shown to give any sense of peace. Give your life to the state, the mission, because even if they deceive you, they are still better than those old fashioned beliefs or relationships. This left the movie with no substance. 
While impressive in its visuals, composition, and even performances, the story of “Ad Astra” gets lost in its emptiness, both metaphorically in its depiction of space and literally in the weightlessness of its plot. 
Check out the trailer below:
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed on Tuesday that even nearly three years after losing to President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, she still constantly thinks about how things would be if she had won.
&#8220;I think about what kind of president I would have been all the time,&#8221; Clinton said during an interview with BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Mishal Husain. &#8220;I think about what I would have done. How, obviously, I would have been different. How I think I would have been a better, more successful president.&#8221;
&#8220;But look, right now we have got a campaign going on,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got people already running, and we have to figure out how we make the case and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m really focused on.&#8221;
The twice-failed presidential candidate bemoaned that she could have been &#8220;gutsier&#8221; while running against Trump. Clinton, who was promoting her recently released book &#8220;The Book of Gutsy Women,&#8221; further noted that she may not have been especially gutsy by avoiding the topic of Russian interference during the election.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a question that I ask myself all the time because trying to live a gusty life doesn&#8217;t mean you are always successful in doing so,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;And I think about the presidential campaign of 2016. I thought I was as gutsy as I could be, but I probably could have been gutsier — if I figured out a way to reveal what was happening in a more effective way.&#8221;
&#8220;You know when we talked about how the Russians were behind the theft of material, a lot of people thought, &#8216;What are they talking about?&#8217; They just dismissed us in both the public and the press,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So, could I have been gutsier in pushing that point and trying to alert people to what is going on.&#8221;
The former first lady has reportedly been considering jumping into the crowded 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary field and running for the presidency for a third time. In October, Clinton teased a possible presidential bid after Trump urged her to enter the race. However, she stated to Husain that it would be a very gusty thing to do.
&#8220;It would be very gutsy, that&#8217;s true,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;That&#8217;s something I think about all the time. I think a lot about what is happening in our country, around the world.&#8221;
&#8220;I try to give the best advice that I can to the candidates who are running because my goal is to help retire the current incumbent,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I think it is imperative that our country regain its leadership and its credibility, so I&#8217;m going to do everything I can to make that happen.&#8221;
If Clinton decided to join the race, she could be jumping in as a frontrunner — a hypothetical match-up between herself and former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary showed that the two would be virtually tied. A <a href="https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HHP_October19_Topline_RegisteredVoters.pdf">Harvard Harris poll</a> conducted in mid-October found that 18% of Democrats would throw their support behind Clinton, trailing Biden by only one point and within the margin of error.
Clinton famously won the popular vote in 2016 by receiving more than 2.8 million more votes than Trump, but she ultimately failed to secure the presidency after she fell far short of the required absolute majority of 270 Electoral College votes needed to win.

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton promote their book in Minneapolis

Hillary Clinton: ‘I Think About What Kind Of President I Would Have Been All The Time’

2020 Election

On Friday, the personal Twitter account for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) released a video from election night 2016 in which the senator gives a speech to her team about President Trump’s victory.
During the speech, Harris tells a story about her nephew allegedly running up to her and crying about the president’s electoral win:
<blockquote>So, we just had a small family dinner, and many of you have met my nephew, my godson, Alexander. So, Alexander came up to me about 20 minutes ago and he was teary, and I didn&#8217;t know if one of the other kids had kind of done something, I didn’t know what was going on. I said, “Come here, little man. What’s going on?” And he looked up at me, I swear to God, he looked up at me and said, “I don&#8217;t want Trump to win. Did he win?” And he&#8217;s crying. So, the tears of joy we shed when we elected Barack Obama and then my little godson&#8217;s tears tonight ‘cause we might have elected Donald Trump. This is some s***.
And so, once again, our team, I think, will have to do what we always do, which is be prepared to fight, and to roll up our sleeves and fight.</blockquote>
Harris then spoke about how the “campaign” to “fight” would continue:
<blockquote>&#8230;the biggest state, the first open Senate seat a long time on this hemisphere, and the fifth largest economy in the world. I need you guys for what we&#8217;re gonna need to do now going forward because I think our campaign is actually not over – but it&#8217;s a different kind of campaign. It’s not to win an office, but it&#8217;s gonna be a campaign to fight for everything that motivated us to run for this office in the first place because I think there is no question that everything that we have been talking about in terms of everything from criminal justice reform to climate change to immigration, this s*** is now really on the line. There is no guarantee that we are any closer than ever before, and we may actually be further behind.</blockquote>
The senator went back briefly to continue the story about her nephew:
<blockquote>And when I look at my little nephew, and he looks up at me, he&#8217;s looking at me for inspiration, and I&#8217;m trying to find the words to tell him something that makes him feel better, and so I actually, because he loves superheroes, I start to say, “Well, you know how your superheroes, when they&#8217;re facing a challenge and the mean guys are coming at ‘em, what do they do?” And he said, “They fight back,” and I said, “Yeah, so we have to be like superheroes, and it&#8217;s okay to have emotion. Superheroes, all good ones, have emotion, but we’re gonna have to fight.”
So, I think we’re gonna have to figure this stuff out kind of quickly, but we’ve gotta figure out how to go out there and give people a sense of hope&#8230;
It’s interesting how when people are under attack, the people who are being attacked usually do one of two things – they either fight back or they retreat. I&#8217;m so afraid that if this guy actually won, we&#8217;re gonna have whole communities of folks who are just gonna retreat. They’re gonna be so damn scared about what this all means for them.</blockquote>
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After we found out Trump was going to win, there was no question that justice was on the line. I told my team we had to fight. And that’s what I’ve done. <a href="https://t.co/d0gmtdWYtL">pic.twitter.com/d0gmtdWYtL</a>
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1192972068998074368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
Sen. Harris was briefly considered a top-tier candidate. Following the first Democratic primary debate in late-June when Harris sparred with former Vice President Joe Biden, she saw a surge in the polls.
After reaching highs of 14% and 15% in early-July, Harris’ numbers slowly but surely fell to single digits. Harris hasn’t risen above 7% in any national poll since mid-October, and as of publication, sits in fifth place nationally with 4.5%, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> (RCP) average.
Harris’ prospects in early voting states are no better.
In Iowa, the RCP average has Harris in sixth place with 3.3% of the vote. In South Carolina, she’s in fourth with 7% of the vote. In New Hampshire, she’s in fifth with 4% of the vote. In Nevada, she’s also in fifth with 4.3% of the vote. Even in her home state of California, Harris sits in fourth place with just 8% of the vote.

Sen. Kamala Harris.

Harris Campaign Releases Video From 2016: Trump Election ‘Some S***’

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GOP Senators Say Hillary, DNC Colluded With Ukraine To Undermine Trump Campaign, Press DOJ To Probe

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