In a move that &#8220;could enhance her chances of becoming vice president but could also anger liberals in California,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/us/politics/kamala-harris-joe-biden-endorsement.html">The New York Times</a> puts it, former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris appears to be moving closer to making a public endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden.
Citing &#8220;multiple Democratic officials familiar with her deliberations,&#8221; the Times reported Thursday that Harris is &#8220;weighing an endorsement&#8221; of the man she famously targeted in a racially charged exchange during the first Democratic primary debate.
&#8220;Such a move could lift Mr. Biden’s campaign and perhaps do even more to enhance Ms. Harris’s chances of becoming vice president, but it could also anger her liberal base in California,&#8221; the Times&#8217; Jonathan Martin notes.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Times that if she does end up endorsing Biden, or any candidate for that matter, she will likely hold off until the Senate impeachment trial is over.
&#8220;Yet she and Mr. Biden, the former vice president, have remained in contact since she exited the race and had a long conversation in the immediate aftermath of her departure,&#8221; Martin writes.
Democrats &#8220;close&#8221; to Harris told the Times that she is &#8220;mindful&#8221; that her endorsement would impact the remaining female senators in the race, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and is &#8220;uneasy about the prospect of backing a candidate only to see him or her lose California.&#8221;
A spokesman for Harris insisted that Harris has not decided yet about whether she will endorse a candidate. “Senator Harris remains focused on the ongoing impeachment trial of President Trump,” Harris spokesman Chris Harris told the Times. “No decisions have been made about whether she will endorse, which candidate, nor when an endorsement decision will be made.”
Harris&#8217;s consideration of throwing her support behind Biden follows some head-turning comments by the frontrunner a day after she announced that she was ending her campaign in early December. Asked if he would consider her on the ticket, Biden said, “Of course I would.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, Sen. Harris has the capacity to be anything she wants to be,&#8221; said Biden, who&#8217;s enjoyed a healthy lead in the national polls until recent weeks as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has closed the gap. &#8220;I mean it sincerely. I talked to her yesterday. She’s solid, she can be president someday herself, she can be vice president, she could go on to be a Supreme Court justice, she could be attorney general. I mean she has enormous capability.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-says-hes-considering-kamala-harris-as-a-running-mate">noted</a> at the time, Biden particularly benefited from Harris’ departure. &#8220;With Harris gone, Biden can consolidate support among minority voters, increasing his margin of victory in places like South Carolina and Nevada, giving him a commanding lead in places he’s already expected to win,&#8221; Zanotti wrote.
While Biden and Sanders contend for the top spot, the woman with the best shot at the nomination, Warren, has steadily lost ground after a brief bump in the polls in early fall.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-father-asks-elizabeth-warren-if-hes-going-to-get-his-money-back-after-paying-for-daughters-education">WATCH: Father Asks Elizabeth Warren If He’s Going To Get His Money Back After Paying For Daughter’s Education</a>
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Kamala Harris

NYT: Kamala Harris Considers Major Move, Backing Biden; Follows Biden’s VP Comments

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Bernie Sanders&#8217; presidential campaign in South Carolina contacted law enforcement officials on Thursday after undercover journalists with James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas pressed the campaign to answer questions about violent remarks made by a paid Sanders campaign staffer.
The move by the Sanders campaign to call the police on reporters for asking them tough questions comes after Project Veritas released video earlier this week that allegedly showed Sanders field organizer Martin Weissgerber saying he wanted to kill wealthy people and throw Republicans into camps.
The police officer who responded told Project Veritas, &#8220;They said they are going to have no comment. If you try to make contact with them, it’s no comment &#8230; it’s one of those things where they wish he hadn’t said that, but they’re standing by him.&#8221;
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> Campaign calls the police on <a href="https://twitter.com/PVeritas_Action?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PVeritas_Action</a>. 
Officer: ‘They said they are going to have no comment. If you try to make contact with them it’s no comment&#8230;it’s one of those things where they wish he hadn’t said that, but they’re standing by him’ <a href="https://t.co/JF3KJfW0zI">pic.twitter.com/JF3KJfW0zI</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1220345634655477760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-bernie-staffer-allegedly-promotes-violence-kill-the-rich-put-republicans-in-camps">Quotes</a> from Weissgerber that were featured in the video provided by Project Veritas include:
<ul>
<li>“Let’s force them (billionaires) to build roads … rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges. Let’s force them to do that.”</li>
<li>“Well, the gulags were founded as re-education camps. … What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the re-education camps.”</li>
<li>“I’m already on Twitter, following numerous groups around the country that are ready to organize yellow vest protests. I’m ready … I’m ready to start tearing bricks up and start fighting. … I’m not — no cap, bro. I’ll straight up — I’ll straight up get armed, I want to learn how to shoot, and go train. I’m ready for the f***ing revolution, bro. … I’m telling you. Guillotine the rich.”</li>
<li>“I think I was radicalized from the day; first day I was born … my dad, is a Marxist. Like, straight-up from Belgium … he took part in Paris ’68 and all that, which is really cool. … I’ve always made it, I’ve always been unapologetic about it since I was younger, I always said, you know I’m a Communist … in my house, we had, you know Das Kapital, Engels, and Marx and all that sh*t. … I’m a Communist that believes in direct democracy, direct communes on everything. Pretty much, anarcho-syndicalism. Unions everything. I hope, but I don’t know how effective that is in addressing climate change, for instance.”</li>
<li>“Oh, yeah. My dad is real; my mom is, but my mom is really left as well. But she can’t make her views known, because she works for WBUR, which is NPR, so she’s more held back. But you know … But then I went, I started studying it. That’s what I studied in college, I studied Russian his–., Soviet history … I became the resident Marxist. … But, yeah, I’m all about the complete seizure of the means of production, nationalizing everything.”</li>
<li>“I only learned this sh*t in college when I started studying the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not horrible … I mean, for women’s rights, the Soviet Union — I think — the most progressive place to date in the world.”</li>
<li>“The first gulag that was opened; have you heard about Belomorkanal? They dug a canal; the plan was, in 1922, I think, to dig a Canal from the White Sea all the way to Saint Petersburg … a long way, if you look on a map … and, the whole point — it was going to be called the Belomorkanal, and I read — I spent a whole semester actually studying primary accounts from the Belomorkanal. The whole point of the Belomorkanal, there were no machines allowed. They forced the people to dig with shovels and hoe the whole canal, right? You should see the people writing about their time at the Belomorkanal. There’s this one guy, he was a thief from Georgia who had been captured. He was sent to the Belomorkanal to work and in his writing, like ‘I reject all thievery, I reject that past life.’ He said, capitalism made me into this thief, because when there’s poor people, there’s going to be crime. He said, ‘I went to the Belomorkanal and I worked.’ He became a shock worker, which is what they call the leading workers, people who always met the quota and exceeded the quota … and, like people came from America to work at the Belomorkanal for the Soviet project, the communist project. It was a beautiful thing.”</li>
<li>“Leave it to the Soviets to make the most badass f***ing, most effective gun in the world … AK-47 … the destroyer of imperialism and coloniali[sm] … that’s why I want to get it [AK-47] tattooed on me.”</li>
<li>“So, do we just cease — do we just dissolve the Senate, House of Representatives, the judicial branch, and have something Bernie Sanders and a cabinet of people, make all decisions for the climate? I mean, I’m serious.”</li>
</ul>
WATCH:
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BREAKING: 2ND PAID STAFFER PRAISES GULAGS
South Carolina <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> Field Organizer <a href="https://twitter.com/martinthemanic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@martinthemanic</a>: &quot;I&#39;ll straight up get armed&#8230;I&#39;m ready for the &quot;f**king revolution&quot;; &quot;Guillotine the rich&quot;; &#39;send Republicans to re-education camps&#39;
FULL RELEASE 12:00PM<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Expose2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Expose2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/tUCeKEY6aM">pic.twitter.com/tUCeKEY6aM</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1219620664505593856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bernie Campaign Calls Police On Reporters For Asking Questions About His Staff Talking About Killing People

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Hillary Clinton backtracked on comments she made about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in a documentary on her life set to premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival, insisting that despite trashing the Vermont Senator and 2020 presidential contender, she&#8217;ll &#8220;support&#8221; him if he becomes the Democrats&#8217; eventual nominee.
&#8220;I thought everyone wanted my authentic, unvarnished views!&#8221; Clinton tweeted Tuesday night, after enduring a torrent of social media abuse from Bernie Sanders supporters.
&#8220;But to be serious, the number one priority for our country and world is retiring Trump, and, as I always have, I will do whatever I can to support our nominee,&#8221; she added, though she did not commit to supporting Sanders explicitly.
In the documentary, which will air as a four-part limited series on the streaming network, Hulu, Clinton lashes out at her former rival for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, calling him unlikeable and fake, and lamenting that people were taken in by Sanders&#8217; folksy demeanor and progressive veneer.
&#8220;He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him. Nobody wants to work with him. He got nothing done. He was a career politician. It&#8217;s all just baloney, and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it,” Hillary says in the film.
Hillary&#8217;s sentiments probably aren&#8217;t shocking to Democrats, who noted the acrimony between the two candidates during the 2016 election. Sanders is often taken to task for being publicly bitter about losing the nomination to Clinton, despite putting up solid early showings in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. But he and his supporters have reason to be angry: Clinton locked up the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination before either candidate even hit the campaign trail, courting and winning the support of so-called &#8220;superdelegates&#8221; who could override primary results, and earning the total support of the Democratic National Committee, which seemed to do everything in its power to marginalize Sanders.
The result has been a growing rift within the Democratic Party, between progressives and &#8220;Democratic socialists,&#8221; and traditional, moderate, and &#8220;establishment&#8221; Democrats, which is playing out even now in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nobody-likes-him-clinton-wont-say-whether-shell-endorse-sanders-if-he-wins-nomination">In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter</a>, Clinton was asked if she stood behind her on-screen assessment of Sanders, and she said she did, even refusing to commit to supporting Sanders if he were the party&#8217;s choice to take on President Donald Trump.
“I’m not going to go there yet. We’re still in a very vigorous primary season. I will say, however, that it’s not only him, it’s the culture around him. It’s his leadership team,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;It’s his prominent supporters. It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women. And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture.&#8221;
Trouble started immediately. Bernie Sanders supporters on Twitter pressed an &#8220;#ILikeBernie&#8221; hashtag, and assailed Clinton in her mentions. Prominent Bernie Sanders supporters took Clinton to task for abandoning the Democratic party over sour grapes. The response was so bitter and sustained, it seems, Clinton did her best to clear her name (even though the damage seems to have been done).
Lucky for Clinton, she probably isn&#8217;t in danger of having to endorse Bernie Sanders for president. Although he&#8217;s pulled ahead of former president Joe Biden in some states, like New Hampshire, Biden is still comfortably ahead of Sanders nationally.

Michelle Obama Campaigns With Hillary Clinton In North Carolina

Hillary Clinton Backtracks After Bashing Bernie Sanders, Says She’ll Support The Nominee

Hillary Clinton

Even though President Trump is currently facing removal from the presidency — and is busy meeting with foreign leaders in Switzerland — he still has time to mix things up on social media.
Trump fired out more than a dozen tweets and retweets on Twitter early Wednesday morning, covering every subject from the U.S. economy to the &#8220;impeachment charade&#8221; to the Iowa caucuses.
Then he tossed out a Molotov cocktail.
&#8220;They are taking the nomination away from Bernie for a second time. Rigged!&#8221; Trump wrote.
The latest CNN poll shows Sen. Bernie Sanders atop the heap at 27%, with former Vice President Joe Biden at 24% and Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 14%. Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg stands at 11%, but all other candidates are in single digits, including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at just 5%.
And in a Boston Globe poll, Sanders leads Biden in New Hampshire, 16% to 15%. But Biden leads Sanders in Iowa 24% to Sanders&#8217; 14%. Warren comes in between the two at 18%, with Buttigieg at 16%.
But The New York Times on Sunday weighed in on the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, endorsing Warren and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is barely a blip on the polls. And few bigtime Democratic leaders have endorsed Sanders for the nomination.
Hillary Clinton even went out of her way to throw shade at Sanders.
“He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it,&#8221; Hillary says in a new documentary about Sanders.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Tuesday, Clinton was asked if she would endorse Sanders and campaign for him if he wins the nomination. “I’m not going to go there yet,&#8221; she said. “We’re still in a very vigorous primary season.&#8221;
Then she returned to bashing the Vermont democratic socialist.
“I will say, however, that it’s not only him, it’s the culture around him,” Clinton said. “It’s his leadership team. It’s his prominent supporters. It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.”
Trump&#8217;s charge that Democrats took the nomination away from Sanders in 2016 is supported by none other than the former interim chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
“If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead,” Donna Brazile wrote in November 2016, days after the election.
“This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity,” she wrote in her book, &#8220;Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House.&#8221; Brazile added that while it may not have been illegal, “it sure looked unethical.”
Brazile said she found a memo that gave Clinton virtual control of the DNC to Clinton. The memo &#8220;specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.&#8221;
But there was more. Everything from the primary and debate schedule to the excessive power of super-delegates helped Clinton secure the nomination, even though Sanders was drawing far larger crowds and had massive support from all wings of the party. Even Brazile, for all her honesty about what happened to Bernie, helped her longtime friend Hillary: At one point, the former CNN contributor delivered the network’s prepared questions to Clinton’s campaign just before a crucial primary debate.
So Trump might just be on to something.

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‘RIGGED’: Trump Says Democrats Taking Nomination Away From Sanders ‘For A Second Time’

Donald Trump

James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas released new bombshell undercover footage on Tuesday that appeared to show another paid member of 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders&#8217; campaign promoting violence against political opponents and against successful people.
The undercover video produced by Project Veritas allegedly shows Martin Weissgerber, South Carolina field organizer for the campaign, talking about wanting to kill wealthy people and wanting to throw Republicans into camps.
Qutoes from the video provided by Project Veritas include:
<ul>
<li>“Let’s force them (billionaires) to build roads … rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges. Let’s force them to do that.”</li>
<li>“Well, the gulags were founded as re-education camps. … What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the re-education camps.”</li>
<li>“I’m already on Twitter, following numerous groups around the country that are ready to organize yellow vest protests. I’m ready … I’m ready to start tearing bricks up and start fighting. … I’m not — no cap, bro. I’ll straight up — I’ll straight up get armed, I want to learn how to shoot, and go train. I’m ready for the f***ing revolution, bro. … I’m telling you. Guillotine the rich.”</li>
<li>“I think I was radicalized from the day; first day I was born … my dad, is a Marxist. Like, straight-up from Belgium … he took part in Paris &#8217;68 and all that, which is really cool. … I’ve always made it, I’ve always been unapologetic about it since I was younger, I always said, you know I’m a Communist … in my house, we had, you know Das Kapital, Engels, and Marx and all that sh*t. … I’m a Communist that believes in direct democracy, direct communes on everything. Pretty much, anarcho-syndicalism. Unions everything. I hope, but I don’t know how effective that is in addressing climate change, for instance.”</li>
<li>“Oh, yeah. My dad is real; my mom is, but my mom is really left as well. But she can’t make her views known, because she works for WBUR, which is NPR, so she’s more held back. But you know … But then I went, I started studying it. That’s what I studied in college, I studied Russian his–., Soviet history … I became the resident Marxist. … But, yeah, I’m all about the complete seizure of the means of production, nationalizing everything.”</li>
<li>“I only learned this sh*t in college when I started studying the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not horrible … I mean, for women’s rights, the Soviet Union — I think — the most progressive place to date in the world.”</li>
<li>“The first gulag that was opened; have you heard about Belomorkanal? They dug a canal; the plan was, in 1922, I think, to dig a Canal from the White Sea all the way to Saint Petersburg &#8230; a long way, if you look on a map … and, the whole point — it was going to be called the Belomorkanal, and I read — I spent a whole semester actually studying primary accounts from the Belomorkanal. The whole point of the Belomorkanal, there were no machines allowed. They forced the people to dig with shovels and hoe the whole canal, right? You should see the people writing about their time at the Belomorkanal. There’s this one guy, he was a thief from Georgia who had been captured. He was sent to the Belomorkanal to work and in his writing, like ‘I reject all thievery, I reject that past life.’ He said, capitalism made me into this thief, because when there’s poor people, there’s going to be crime. He said, ‘I went to the Belomorkanal and I worked.’ He became a shock worker, which is what they call the leading workers, people who always met the quota and exceeded the quota … and, like people came from America to work at the Belomorkanal for the Soviet project, the communist project. It was a beautiful thing.”</li>
<li>“Leave it to the Soviets to make the most badass f***ing, most effective gun in the world … AK-47 &#8230; the destroyer of imperialism and coloniali[sm] … that’s why I want to get it [AK-47] tattooed on me.”</li>
<li>“So, do we just cease — do we just dissolve the Senate, House of Representatives, the judicial branch, and have something Bernie Sanders and a cabinet of people, make all decisions for the climate? I mean, I’m serious.”</li>
</ul>
The stunning footage comes a week after Project Veritas released footage of Sanders campaign Iowa field organizer Kyle Jurek allegedly making numerous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-staff-bernies-a-legit-socialist-masquerading-as-a-democratic-socialist">inflammatory</a> statements, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-staff-people-who-push-back-on-revolution-should-expect-a-violent-response">promoting violence</a> against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-staff-free-education-about-indoctrinating-people-gulags-not-bad-cities-burn-if-trump-wins">political opponents</a>.
WATCH:
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BREAKING: 2ND PAID STAFFER PRAISES GULAGS
South Carolina <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> Field Organizer <a href="https://twitter.com/martinthemanic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@martinthemanic</a>: &quot;I&#39;ll straight up get armed&#8230;I&#39;m ready for the &quot;f**king revolution&quot;; &quot;Guillotine the rich&quot;; &#39;send Republicans to re-education camps&#39;
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&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1219620664505593856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Attend MLK Rally At South Carolina Capitol Dome

Another Bernie Staffer Allegedly Promotes Violence: Kill The Rich, Put Republicans In Camps

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will, in fact, charter a private plane this week to return to the campaign trail, jetting back and forth to Iowa from Washington, D.C., where he&#8217;s attending President Donald Trump&#8217;s Senate impeachment trial.
All Senators are required to be present for the trial, which may take weeks, pulling several of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders off the campaign trail, just as the primary race is heating up. The Iowa Caucuses, the first contest of the 2020 presidential campaign season, takes place on February 3rd. New Hampshire goes to the polls on February 11th.
Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) will have to do double time, sitting in session in the Senate from 1pm until midnight or 1am six days a week to hear arguments and discussion, and conducting a traditional presidential campaign in whatever spare time they have left.
Warren and Klobuchar will likely stay in D.C. and send surrogates out into the field, or try to attend events by video conference during breaks in the Senate trial. The pair don&#8217;t have enough cash on hand to travel back and forth from Washington, D.C., to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.
Sanders, however, does. According to a report from the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sanders-chartering-private-jet-to-wednesday-campaign-rally">Washington Examiner&#8217;s Joe Simonson</a>, Sanders&#8217; campaign will charter a private plane to whisk Bernie from Washington to Cedar Falls, Iowa, on Wednesday so that he can attend a campaign rally in person.
&#8220;The Sanders campaign is not comfortable with disclosing its candidate&#8217;s new form of transportation, worried about the optics of flying private as a left-wing populist, according to people close to the campaign,&#8221; Simonson says. &#8220;Instead, the campaign has taken an official &#8216;no comment&#8217; position when receiving inquiries.&#8221;
Word of possible private jet plans bubbled to the surface earlier this month <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-bernie-sanders-will-use-private-jets-to-ferry-him-out-to-campaign-events-during-senate-impeachment-trial">in a report from NBC News</a>.
“Sanders’ war chest, including his field-leading $34.5 million haul in the last quarter of 2019, allows him flexibility that other contenders can’t match — including the use of private jets to ferry him back and forth for late rallies in early states,” the outlet reported back on January 8th.
At the time, Sanders staffers were fairly open about the candidate&#8217;s plan to keep up his breakneck pace of campaign events.
“They’re not going to be meeting at night [for the trial], so we can obviously fly from D.C. to states and hold events in the evening and fly back, you know, so he can be back in the morning to do his work in the Senate,” one source told the network. “He’s an energetic candidate. He has a very vigorous schedule, and, you know, he can do that.”
It turns out they will be meeting at night, per Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s (R-KY) strict new rules, but there will be breaks, nights off, and morning&#8217;s free while Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the Senate trial, does his regular job in the Supreme Court.
Despite being an ardent socialist, Sanders, who has a net worth of more than a million and owns three homes, is familiar with the concept of private air travel, even though the environmentally conscious Vermont Senator must recognize that private planes are a significant contributor to climate change. When the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign was courting Sanders&#8217; support in 2016, Sanders, they said, demanded to be ferried to Clinton&#8217;s events aboard a private jet.
&#8220;I’m not shocked that while thousands of volunteers braved the heat and cold to knock on doors until their fingers bled in a desperate effort to stop Donald Trump, his Royal Majesty King Bernie Sanders would only deign to leave his plush D.C. office or his brand new second home on the lake if he was flown around on a cushy private jet like a billionaire master of the universe,” one particularly bitter Clinton aid said at the time.
Sanders&#8217; Clinton-related travel cost the campaign an estimated $342,000, per the Examiner.
This also won&#8217;t be the first time Sanders has chartered a private plane to jet him around. His Senate campaign had an account with Apollo Jets &#8212; a high-end private jet charter service &#8212; and used it.
“According to federal campaign finance reports, Friends of Bernie Sanders, the senator’s official 2018 Senate campaign committee, spent $297,685.50 with Apollo Jets, a private charter jet service headquartered in New York,” The Daily Wire reported back in December of 2018, right before Sanders declared his intent to run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. “The report does not break down the number of trips or where they were taken. The check was issued on Oct. 10, according to the report.”
They do, at least, try to be environmentally conscious. In the same report, aides indicated that &#8220;the campaign paid $4,980.00 to NativeEnergy for carbon offsets.”

Report: Bernie Sanders IS Chartering A Private Jet To Attend A Campaign Event In Iowa

As President Trump recently pointed out, there&#8217;s a &#8220;feud brewing&#8221; between radical progressive Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — and members of the media don&#8217;t appear to be trying very hard to conceal their bias in the internecine quarrel.
&#8220;Bernie Sander’s volunteers are trashing Elizabeth &#8216;Pocahontas&#8217; Warren,&#8221; Trump tweeted last week. &#8220;Everybody knows her campaign is dead and want her potential voters. Mini Mike B is also trying, but getting tiny crowds which are all leaving fast. Elizabeth is very angry at Bernie. Do I see a feud brewing?&#8221;
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Bernie Sander’s volunteers are trashing Elizabeth “Pocahontus” Warren. Everybody knows her campaign is dead and want her potential voters. Mini Mike B is also trying, but getting tiny crowds which are all leaving fast. Elizabeth is very angry at Bernie. Do I see a feud brewing?
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216743062543663105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A feud is indeed &#8220;brewing&#8221; — and now boiling over — and many on the left, including CNN debate moderators and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, are jumping in to take shots at Sanders.
Following a glaring example of CNN making painfully clear to its viewers during a primary debate that they believe Warren over Sanders regarding his alleged &#8220;sexist&#8221; comments about the 2020 election, NBC News&#8217; &#8220;THINK&#8221; section got in on the trashing Bernie action, publishing a piece that compares Sanders&#8217; supporters to the worst of the worst, at least according to mainstream media standards.
In the piece, published over the weekend, NBC News THINK contributor Kurt Bardella gave Warren an assist by taking full aim at &#8220;(some) supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders,&#8221; who, Bardella suggests, are racist, sexist bullies almost indistinguishable in their &#8220;tone and tactics&#8221; from the scum of the earth — that&#8217;s right, Trump supporters &#8230;
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On the morning after Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, the#NeverWarren hashtag starting trending as (some) supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders went on the attack (and the media amplified those attacks). The anti-Sen. Elizabeth Warren missives took many forms, including a small snake emojis mob. But the aggressive tenor was familiar. &#8230;
The attacks against Warren come from the same corners of social media that disparage Democrats (like myself) as being “puppets,” “centrist,” “anti-Semitic, and “ageist” for having the audacity to question or scrutinize their chosen leader. People of color and women who dare to disagree with Sanders’ political assertions have often borne the brunt of this abuse.
This hyper-vocal faction of Sanders supporters — colloquially known as “Bernie Bros” — never went away after the 2016 presidential election. In my personal experience, these bros are almost overwhelmingly white men. And they share, like Trump&#8217;s ardent supporters, a desire to “put me in my place.” Disturbingly, there are times where you really can’t distinguish between the tone and tactics of Trump’s #MAGA nation and Sanders’ “Bros.”
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Clinton heaped on more fuel to the already party unity-damaging fire in an interview with <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hillary-clinton-full-a-fiery-new-documentary-trump-regrets-harsh-words-bernie-1271551">The Hollywood Reporter</a> published Tuesday. Asked if she stood by her statements trashing Sanders in the new Hulu docuseries &#8220;Hillary,&#8221; the former Secretary of State doubled down.
&#8220;In the doc, you’re brutally honest on Sanders: ‘He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it,’&#8221; THR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-attacks-bernie-no-one-likes-him-or-his-prominent-supporters-has-culture-problem">asked</a> Clinton. &#8220;That assessment still hold?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, it does,&#8221; said Clinton.
Like Bardella, Clinton also took aim at Sanders&#8217; supporters. &#8220;[I]t’s not only him, it’s the culture around him,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It’s his leadership team. It’s his prominent supporters. It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.&#8221;
&#8220;And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture — not only permitted, [he] seems to really be very much supporting it,&#8221; Clinton added. &#8220;And I don&#8217;t think we want to go down that road again where you campaign by insult and attack and maybe you try to get some distance from it, but you either don&#8217;t know what your campaign and supporters are doing or you&#8217;re just giving them a wink and you want them to go after Kamala [Harris] or after Elizabeth [Warren]. I think that that&#8217;s a pattern that people should take into account when they make their decisions.&#8221;
Sanders has since responded by taking the high road. “My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history: The impeachment trial of Donald Trump,” said Bernie in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-sanders-responds-to-hillary-clintons-attack-while-his-supporters-trash-her">statement</a> Tuesday. “Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history.”

NBC News ‘THINK’ Trashes Bernie Supporters: Just Like Trump Fans In This ‘Ugly Tactic’

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The Democratic Party is doing a heck of a job making it look like the entire party establishment is out to sabotage Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from clinching the party&#8217;s 2020 presidential nomination. Between <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-even-far-left-samantha-bee-torches-cnn-for-bias-against-bernie-sanders-at-the-debate">CNN&#8217;s bias</a> against him in the debate and now Hillary Clinton publicly scolding him as an unlikable stooge, the game is increasingly beginning to look rather rigged.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hillary Clinton said that she stood by a statement she made severely criticizing Bernie Sanders in the four-part Hulu docuseries &#8220;Hillary.&#8221;
&#8220;He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him,&#8221; she said in the series. &#8220;Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.&#8221;
According to Holly Otterbein of Politico, Bernie Sanders has since responded to Hillary&#8217;s statement with a call to unity.
“My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history: The impeachment trial of Donald Trump,&#8221; said Bernie in a statement. &#8220;Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history.”
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Bernie Sanders releases a statement on Hillary Clinton’s comments: “My focus today is on a monumental moment in American history: the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Together, we are going to go forward and defeat the most dangerous president in American history.”
&mdash; Holly Otterbein (@hollyotterbein) <a href="https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1219659489785405440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In response to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s bashing, the socialist senator&#8217;s supporters and other prominent media figures took to Twitter to blast the failed presidential candidate as an establishment shill who is still bitter about the 2016 election.
&#8220;Hillary Clinton lost to the dumbest and least qualified candidate of all time. Yet she has the audacity to refer to this election&#8217;s frontrunner as &#8216;unlikable.&#8217; Many PEOPLE — not D.C. politicos — love Bernie because of what he represents: U.S.,&#8221; tweeted Ana Kasparian of <a href="https://twitter.com/AnaKasparian/status/1219631675019350025?s=20">The Young Turks</a>. 
&#8220;Bernie Sanders gave Hillary Clinton a complete pass on the emails when he didn’t need to. When he lost the primary, he endorsed and campaigned for her, too. But how quickly we forget,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1219631712256319490?s=20">tweeted</a> Jon Levine of the New York Post. 
&#8220;If you don&#8217;t condemn Hillary Clinton&#8216;s comments today, I don&#8217;t want to ever hear you talk about unity again,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/johniadarola/status/1219666598992023552?s=20">tweeted</a> John Laderolla of The Young Turks. &#8220;Willing to bet Hillary Clinton doesn&#8217;t receive 1% the condemnation for refusing to say she&#8217;d support Bernie Sanders than Bernie got for working his ass off to try to get her elected.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a damn shame. [Bernie] did 41 events for Clinton in 2016 and pressed his supporters to get behind her campaign. (I know because I was there.) Being divisive at this point is wrong and only plays into the hands of those we need to defeat in November,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/jjz1600/status/1219630564376043520?s=20">tweeted</a> James J. Zogby. 
The Democratic Party establishment&#8217;s bias against Bernie Sanders became readily apparent last week during the presidential debate when CNN moderator Abby Phillip asked him to address a recent report alleging that he told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) back in 2018 that a woman could not win the presidency against Donald Trump.
“So, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?” Phillip asked the Vermont senator.
“That is correct,” Sanders replied.
Phillip then proceeded to ask Warren how she felt during her conversation with Bernie as if the story were clearly true.
“Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?” asked Phillip, tacitly painting Sanders as a liar.

Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Bernie Sanders Responds To Hillary Clinton’s Attack While His Supporters Trash Her

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As we approach the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, former Vice President Joe Biden continues to hold a sizable lead over the rest of the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary field in national polling. <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">Biden currently stands 8.0% above second-place Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)</a> in the average of recent national polling. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg round out the top five in most recent national polling. Sanders&#8217; lead over third-place Warren is now substantial: 5.6%.
Buttigieg and Sanders have both been surging in the crucial early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire over the past couple of months, although Buttigieg&#8217;s moment may have finally passed. Sanders can always reliably count on the fact that his supporters are the most enthusiastic and loyal of any candidate&#8217;s in this 2020 Democratic presidential primary field. The septuagenarian socialist Sanders is likely the candidate with the most momentum at the present moment, although Biden himself has slowly crept back up in both the Iowa and New Hampshire statewide polling averages. Alas, never count out Joe Biden.
Warren emerged over the latter parts of the summer as a national frontrunner, but her moment has passed — she will all but assuredly need a surprise victory in Iowa or New Hampshire to resuscitate her campaign&#8217;s fading hopes. Biden&#8217;s consistent polling has remained relatively unaffected by the onset of the Ukraine scandal and subsequent impeachment imbroglio — perhaps to the surprise of many pundits who thought he would ultimately have to be dumped by Democrats as a sacrificial lamb of sorts.
At this point, pundits should be hard-pressed to predict anyone other than Biden as the likely Democratic presidential nominee — at least until we get results from Iowa and New Hampshire. But Bernie Sanders, with his rabid base of Soviet Union-nostalgic radicals, has now positioned himself as a very serious contender. The uniquely wealthy Bloomberg is also a candidate to still keep a close eye upon, despite the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s recurring outside donation debate criterion that portends to box out the self-funding Bloomberg from the debate stage for the foreseeable future.
Electoral prediction market website <a href="https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3633/Who-will-win-the-2020-Democratic-presidential-nomination">PredictIt</a> now has Biden as its frontrunner, although Sanders is in second by a wide margin. After that large gap, Bloomberg, Warren, and Buttigieg then all distantly follow. The Warren campaign collapse from its erstwhile frontrunner perch, with now even Bloomberg leading her in the electoral betting market, is truly something to behold.
The <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average for 1/06/20 – 1/16/20 shows Biden with an average national polling lead of 8.0%.
A recent <a href="http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=b4747822-277e-4d2c-b896-eb4e04672c09">SurveyUSA</a> national poll conducted from 1/14/20 – 1/16/20 showed Biden, at 32%, with an 11-point lead over Sanders. Sanders was up seven points on Warren, and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/ueji3eha6i/econTabReport.pdf">Economist/YouGov</a> national poll conducted from 1/11/20 – 1/14/20 showed Biden, at 27%, with a seven-point lead over Sanders. Sanders was up one point on Warren, and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/478208-sanders-hits-highest-support-since-august">Hill/HarrisX</a> national poll conducted from 1/13/20 – 1/14/20 showed Biden, at 29%, with a 10-point lead over Sanders. Sanders was up eight points on Warren, and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3653">Quinnipiac</a> national poll conducted from 1/08/20 – 1/12/20 showed Biden, at 25%, with a six-point lead over Sanders. Sanders was up three points on Warren, and no one else polled in double digits.
A recent <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/">Morning Consult</a> national poll conducted from 1/06/20 – 1/12/20 showed Biden, at 29%, with a six-point lead over Sanders. Sanders was up nine points on Warren, and no one else polled in double digits.
Will Biden remain the frontrunner? Can Sanders sustain his early state surge? Stay tuned.
Latest Aggregate Early State-By-State Polling Data
Iowa: Biden 21.0%, Sanders 17.3%, Warren 16.7%, Buttigieg 16.3%, Klobuchar 8.3%
New Hampshire: Sanders 19.8%, Biden 18.5%, Buttigieg 14.3%, Warren 14.3%, Klobuchar 5.8%
Nevada: Biden 25.0%, Sanders 19.3%, Warren 14.7%, Buttigieg 7.7%, Steyer 7.3%
South Carolina: Biden 32.0%, Sanders 15.0%, Warren 14.0%, Steyer 8.3%, Buttigieg 6.3%
This article has been updated to reflect the most recent survey data.

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The Iowa caucuses are less than two weeks away. Plus, it snows a lot in Iowa.
Those two things have combined in a weird way in Davenport, Iowa.
Homeowner Donald Hesseltine, who says he&#8217;s an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, made a display in the snow in front of his house. A mannequin in an Army helmet and sunglasses holds a chainsaw in one hand and a rifle in the other (which also props up a can of Busch Light beer). The rifle is pointed above a figure — carved out of snow and lying on its back — that is wearing a “Bernie 2020” T-shirt. Its eyes are X&#8217;s and red dye surrounds its head.
Another snowman nearby is wearing a blue hat emblazoned with the donkey symbol of the Democratic Party. On both sides of the mannequin are American flags planted in the snow and deer head skeletons with antlers mounted on poles. A sign leaned up against a tree reads: “HESSELTINE 2020.”
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Hesseltine, not a fan of Sen. Bernie Sanders, said he put up the display as a goof. “It’s just to make people cry I guess,” Hesseltine told the <a href="https://qctimes.com/news/local/free-speech-or-hate-speech-yard-display-in-davenport-depicts/article_7b10eb97-e305-5c0a-8e1d-4c0b57fb95cb.html#tracking-source=home-breaking">Quad-City Times</a>. “They’re crying, so I win.”
He said some of his friends “love Bernie,” so &#8220;I put it up there to mess with them.&#8221;
But he said it has nothing to do with hate or violence.
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Mike Matson, mayor of Davenport, said he has asked the city&#8217;s chief of police to investigate the display, which he called &#8220;an embarrassment to our city.&#8221;
&#8220;My personal reaction is that it’s terribly wrong,&#8221; Matson told the Quad-City Times. &#8220;All hate speech is wrong.&#8221;
Davenport Alderwoman Marion Meginnis also called the depiction &#8220;bad taste, unneighborly,&#8221; while Elesha Gayman, chair of the Iowa based Scott County Democrats, said the display was &#8220;a hate crime and hate speech.&#8221;
“It’s as bad as if someone burned a cross in someone’s yard,” Gayman said. “We have got to stop this. This is not the Wild West. We should be able to civilly disagree with one another, where you’re not displaying acts of murder on your front lawn.”
But McGinnis said there may be nothing the city can do. &#8220;If it does not violate a city ordinance, there is no action the city can take,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We are a country that allows people to have opinions.&#8221;
David Millage, chairman of the Scott County Republican Party, said he, too, finds the display “terrible” — but protected as free speech.
“We find it to be in extremely poor taste, and there’s no affiliation between what it depicts and the Republican Party,” Millage said.
Iowa voters will caucus on Feb. 3, the nation&#8217;s first to weigh in on the 2020 race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In the latest poll in the state, former vice president Joe Biden pulled in 24%, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 18% and Sanders at 14%. But Sanders is leading in New Hampshire in the newest poll with 16%, while Biden comes in at 15%, former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg at 12% and Warren at 10%.

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Iowa Man’s Graphic, Anti-Democrat Snow Display Angers City Leaders

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Two-time failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton viciously attacked Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in an interview published on Tuesday, saying that no one likes him or the people who surround him and that she has advised nearly all of the other candidates except for Sanders.
Clinton made the remarks in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter (THR), which partially centered around the new four-part Hulu series &#8220;Hillary,&#8221; which is set to premier at Sundance.
THR asked Clinton: &#8220;In the doc, you&#8217;re brutally honest on Sanders: &#8216;He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It&#8217;s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.&#8217; That assessment still hold?&#8221;
Clinton responded, &#8220;Yes, it does.&#8221;
Clinton then laid the dagger into Sanders, saying, &#8220;it&#8217;s not only him, it&#8217;s the culture around him. It&#8217;s his leadership team. It&#8217;s his prominent supporters. It&#8217;s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.&#8221;
&#8220;And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture — not only permitted, [he] seems to really be very much supporting it,&#8221; Clinton continued. &#8220;And I don&#8217;t think we want to go down that road again where you campaign by insult and attack and maybe you try to get some distance from it, but you either don&#8217;t know what your campaign and supporters are doing or you&#8217;re just giving them a wink and you want them to go after Kamala [Harris] or after Elizabeth [Warren]. I think that that&#8217;s a pattern that people should take into account when they make their decisions.&#8221;
Clinton later told THR that she has &#8220;practically&#8221; talked to and advised all the Democrat presidential candidates who are running, except for Sanders.
The Democrat Party and the media have started to launch an all out offensive in recent weeks aimed at destroying Sanders.
The attacks escalated earlier this month when Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s campaign planted a story at CNN, days ahead of the CNN presidential debate, accusing Sanders of telling Warren that he did not believe that a woman could be elected president.
During the debate, CNN activist Abby Phillips took Warren&#8217;s side on the issue and completely dismissed Sanders&#8217; claim that Warren was lying.
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CNN: “Sen. Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?&quot; SANDERS: &quot;That is correct.&quot; CNN: “Sen. Warren, what did you think when senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BZ1NajmQE9">pic.twitter.com/BZ1NajmQE9</a>
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Left-wing MSNBC host Joy Reid ran a whole segment on the issue on her Saturday show when she brought on a body language expert to declare that Sanders was the one who was lying because he was &#8220;turtling&#8221; in his interaction with Warren after the debate.
Leftist writer Meagan Day responded by writing: &#8220;This is unhinged. Genuinely divorced from reality. I know there’s a big push to move on but if the mainstream media is gonna broadcast this fraudulent garbage then I don’t feel particularly compelled to drop it.&#8221;
Sanders National Press Secretary Briahna Joy Gray added: &#8220;This campaign is owed an apology. What are they going to do next, phrenology? This is why no one trusts the media. These people are digging their own professional graves.&#8221;
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This campaign is owed an apology. 
What are they going to do next, phrenology? 
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&mdash; Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) <a href="https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1218593839633633286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hillary Attacks Bernie: ‘No One Likes Him’ Or ‘His Prominent Supporters,’ Has ‘Culture’ Problem

Supporters of Bernie Sanders in Colorado are threatening other Democrats in the state that they are going to take over. Speaking on Sunday at the opening of Sanders’ state office in Denver&#8217;s Capitol Hill neighborhood, state Rep. Joe Salazar, who endorsed Sanders in 2016, boasted:
<blockquote>The progressive movement has grown, and it&#8217;s grown up here in Colorado … In 2016, we were laughed at, the progressive movement. We were laughed at; we were chided; we were made fun of at the caucus. The establishment didn&#8217;t think that there was a real movement happening … Here we are, four years later, and we have the same candidate, who doesn&#8217;t shift based on the political winds, who&#8217;s saying the same things he said four years ago, that other candidates are trying to attach themselves to. We have him leading in states where he needs to lead, and he&#8217;s coming to Colorado to whoop some ass.</blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2020-election/bernie-sanders-presidential-campaign-opens-colorado-office-ahead-of-super/article_a3e7c4d6-3b57-11ea-adff-e7db861356ca.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share">Colorado Politics</a> reported, Salazar continued, &#8220;It&#8217;s to show the establishment, it&#8217;s to show those people who believe in incrementalism — who are moderates — that not only are we here, we are the backbone of the party, And if you don&#8217;t want to listen to us, there will be consequences to that. Because the true Democrats are in this room … We are willing to stand up to them and say, &#8216;Your days are over with, and we are coming.’”
Pilar Chapa, the Sanders campaign&#8217;s state director, bragged, &#8220;We are going to win this fight. It&#8217;s a long battle, and this is a rare opportunity for us. We get to elect someone who stands for the values that we believe in.&#8221; She added, &#8220;We have to infiltrate the party.  If you look at the platform, the Democratic platform, they have had to follow Bernie&#8217;s lead.&#8221;
Journalist David Sirota, a senior adviser and speech writer with the national Sanders campaign whose wife,State Rep. Emily Sirota, was endorsed by Sanders in 2018, then defeated a moderate Democrat, said critics of Sanders &#8220;are terrified — and they should be terrified, because they can see the polls that show their nonsense, the attacks they have been throwing at us, are not working … It&#8217;s not working, because we&#8217;ve built an unprecedented grassroots campaign.&#8221;
An <a href="https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/colorado-2020-sanders-biden-and-warren-lead-democratic-field-democrats-look-to-gain-senate-seat">Emerson poll</a> was conducted last August of Colorado voters. Sanders led with 26%; former Vice president Joe Biden garnered 25% of the vote, followed by Senator Elizabeth Warren with 20%, and Senator Kamala Harris with 13%.
<a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/12/colorado-primary-warren-sanders-bloomberg-biden/">The Denver Post</a> reported:
<blockquote>Of Colorado’s 80 delegates, 67 “pledged” spots will be apportioned based on the results of the March 3 primary. That same day, five states offer larger bounties, including 416 up for grabs in California, 228 in Texas and 110 in North Carolina … Here’s where it gets more complex: In the Democrats’ all-proportional system, any candidate who finishes above 15% in a congressional district or statewide will earn delegates, giving each state some importance. But it’s up to candidates to decide whether to build large staff operations, splurge on targeted TV and digital ads without much of a local presence, or rely on momentum out of early contests to hurriedly shift resources to new states.</blockquote>
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Sen. Bernie Sanders Makes First Campaign Stop In Colorado For 2020 Race

Sanders’ Colorado Supporters Warn Other Dems: ‘Your Days Are Over And We Are Coming’

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) no longer wants to talk about her own allegations that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), her Democratic primary rival, is sexist after her claims last week backfired.
A reporter asked Warren in Iowa about Sanders’ recent comments to NHPR about whether gender is an obstacle for female politicians. Sanders said: “Look, I, th- the answer is yes. But I think everybody has their own sets of problems. I’m 78 years of age. That’s a problem.”
Warren refused to respond to Sanders statement, saying: “I have no further comment on this. I have no further comment on this. I have been friends with Bernie for a long time. We worked together on many, many issues and I’ve said all I’m going to say on this.”
Another reporter pointed out that Warren and Sanders’ camps have been talking about this issue for the past week, to which Warren responded again by saying she had nothing more to say on the issue.
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Warren responds: “I have no further comment on this. I have no further comment on this&#8230;I have been friends with Bernie for a long time. <a href="https://t.co/LxrJPVaLXG">https://t.co/LxrJPVaLXG</a> <a href="https://t.co/9pKVV7M2s4">pic.twitter.com/9pKVV7M2s4</a>
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That’s a definite change from last week, when Warren accused Sanders of sexism after CNN reported Sanders told Warren during a meeting in December 2018 that a woman couldn’t be president. Political observers were quick to suggest Warren’s camps started the rumor themselves for political gain over Sanders, whose policies are similar to Warren’s.
Warren appears to be trying to fill some non-existent void between Sanders and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. She has tacked on to numerous proposals from Sanders, but rarely comes up with her own that he then follows.
The problem for Warren’s claim last week about Sanders is that Sanders vehemently denied saying it and Warren has a history of lying and using her gender (and alleged heritage) for personal gain. Sanders does not. That’s not to say Sanders is always honest, but he does sincerely believe his claims about socialism and health care and college (even if he is wildly wrong).
Nothing about Sanders’ past suggest he’s so sexist as to suggest to Warren’s face that a woman couldn’t be president. Based on what he said to NHPR, it’s more likely he said something like gender might be an issue (making a comment that he believes America is sexist), that Warren turned around to use against him.
The issue came up during last week’s Democratic debate. After the debate, Warren went up to Sanders and told him, “I think you called me a liar on national TV,” as if she hadn’t done the same.
Sanders replied to her by saying, “What?”
Warren repeated her claim.
“No, let’s not do it right now,” Sanders responded. “You want to have that discussion, we’ll have that discussion.”
Warren concluded the conversation by saying, “Anytime.”
The comments <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cnn-releases-audio-of-post-debate-confrontation-between-warren-sanders">were caught</a> by CNN audio and video, leading writer Aaron Mate to speculate that it was all coordinated by the Warren campaign.
“CNN just aired the post-debate Sanders-Warren exchange. Both accuse the other of calling the other a liar. Warren intitiated [sic]. The fact that this was done on stage w/ camera &amp; audio, and the fact that Warren’s camp started this whole thing, makes me wonder if they staged this too,” he tweeted.
Warren&#8217;s desire to avoid the conversation comes after former Obama official Stephen Cobb <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-official-warren-sanders-spat-didnt-play-out-well-for-either-of-them-biden-could-benefit">suggested</a> the spat didn&#8217;t play &#8220;out well for either of them&#8221; and only helped their rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.

Warren Refuses To Answer Any More Questions About Sanders Being Sexist After Earlier Claim Backfires

Sexism

Actor John Cusack is a big fan of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders&#8217; particular brand of socialism. In fact, as the &#8217;80s actor made alarmingly clear at a Bernie rally in Exeter, NH on Saturday, he believes if we don&#8217;t stop &#8220;predatory capitalism&#8221; in the next &#8220;ten or twelve years,&#8221; we&#8217;re all toast.
&#8220;[T]he billionaires are getting nervous and all the corporate media is — they hate us, they don’t hate us, they&#8217;re confused. And it seems like every conceivable power structure on earth is trying to kill or derail our movement, but we’re still here,&#8221; declared Cusack, in remarks reported by <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-john-cusack-we-have-10-12-years-save-planet-climate-capitali">Grabien</a>.
&#8220;We know this form of capitalism takes and takes; it takes whatever, whenever, however it wants,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’ll take our lives, it’ll take our labor, our spirit, our air and water, even our earth.&#8221;
Cusack then echoed an alarmist line often repeated by global warming activist Greta Thunberg, but specifically tying the sentiment to Sanders&#8217; policies.
&#8220;Bernie respects us enough to tell the truth, the hard truth: We have a ten to twelve year window to radically transform our energy systems, or climate change, predatory capitalism, and endless war economies will rob us of the right to any future at all,&#8221; said the actor. &#8220;And as we can see literally every day, the house is on fire.&#8221;
Bernie, suggested Cusack, is our only hope in these desperate times.
&#8220;But as Bernie tells us, this is no time for despair, it&#8217;s no time for anything but action,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because if we stand together, with him, the future is still indeed unwritten. And there’s nothing more powerful than a movement whose time has come.&#8221;
Cusack then invoked a vaguely defined &#8220;movement,&#8221; by which he appears to mean democratic socialism, which he says is now finally &#8220;close&#8221; to power.
&#8220;We have never had a movement candidate this close to power with a revolutionary movement he’s led and built, ready-to-go, all the way to change the country and help heal the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;With people of every race, creed, gender, everybody stands together in solidarity when all of us whose labor powers this economy, stop the profiteering and tell the billionaires and the  corporate tyrannies that it&#8217;s time to start treating all human beings with respect and dignity.&#8221;
Video of Cusack&#8217;s remarks below (via <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-john-cusack-we-have-10-12-years-save-planet-climate-capitali">Grabien</a>):
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Other celebrities who&#8217;ve made millions from Hollywood&#8217;s &#8220;predatory capitalism&#8221; have resorted to Thunbergian rhetoric about climate change in recent months, including &#8220;Aquaman&#8221; (which blew up at the box office) star Jason Momoa, who told the United Nations in September that humanity is &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-aquaman-jason-momoa-says-we-are-a-disease-infecting-our-planet-rips-trump-at-u-n">a disease that is infecting our planet.</a>&#8221;
&#8220;From the atmosphere to the abyssal zone, we are polluted,&#8221; said the &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; star. &#8220;It is a known fact that the great garbage patch floating in the Pacific is larger than the country of France. Even at the depths of the Mariana Trench we are discovering nano plastics. And shockingly, there are more particles of plastic in the ocean than there are stars in the Milky Way. It is shameful.&#8221;
&#8220;Yet, the greatest threat to small island developing states is that entire islands are drowning into the sea due to the enormous volume of emissions generated by the first world countries,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Island nations contribute the least to this disaster but are made to suffer the weight of its consequences.&#8221;
Similar to Cusack, Momoa laid the blame at the feet of capitalism and failure of the government to intervene enough.
&#8220;Our governments and corporate entities have known for decades that immediate change is needed, yet change still has not come,&#8221; said the actor. &#8220;And when the front line is gone, we are doomed. There is no undoing. If you continue to watch unsympathetic to the issues of island nations, this realization will soon come — that you stood by and witnessed the world cross the critical tipping point, ushering in the death of our planet.&#8221;
Momoa&#8217;s speech the U.N. below:
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John Cusack

WATCH: Actor John Cusack Goes Full Greta At Bernie Rally: ‘The House Is On Fire’

Capitalism

Climate Change

Global Warming

Greta Thunberg

Hollywood

Jason Momoa

On Saturday, former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden snapped that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) presidential campaign should “disown” what Biden referred to as a “doctored video” that some Sanders supporters argued revealed Biden favoring the reduction of Social Security and Medicare.
Speaking in Indianola, Iowa, Biden stated, “Let’s get the record straight. There’s a little doctored video going around put out by one of Bernie’s peoples saying I agreed with Paul Ryan, the former vice presidential candidate, about wanting to privatize Social Security. It is simply a lie, that video that’s going around. And ask anybody in the press, it’s a flat lie. They acknowledged that. This is a doctored tape. And I think it’s beneath him. And I’m looking for his campaign to come forward and disown it. But they haven’t done it yet.”
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/18/joe-biden-falsely-attacks-bernie-sanders-100811">Politico</a> noted that Biden added, “PolitiFact looked at it and they doctored the photo, they doctored the piece, and it’s acknowledged that it’s a fake.”
As <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/19/biden-sanders-doctored-video-social-security-medicare">The Guardian</a> reported, “The video in question, circulated on Twitter by a top Sanders adviser, does not appear to be altered. But the short clip omits Biden’s larger argument over how Ryan handled the 2017 tax cuts and subsequent budget debates.”
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-demands-apology-sanders-over-doctored-video-social-security-n1118481">NBC News</a> reported that a Biden campaign official stated, &#8220;The Sanders campaign has pushed a video and transcript that were intentionally, deceptively edited to make it seem like Vice President Biden was praising and agreeing with Paul Ryan, when it is clear he was doing the exact opposite. In the speech, Biden was reiterating his core belief that we need to undo Trump&#8217;s tax cuts for the super wealthy and replace them with a tax code that rewards work, not just wealth.&#8221;
Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir fired back at Biden, “Joe Biden should be honest with voters and stop trying to doctor his own public record of consistently and repeatedly trying to cut Social Security. The facts are very clear: Biden not only pushed to cut Social Security – he is on tape proudly bragging about it on multiple occasions … The vice president must stop dodging questions about his record, and start explaining why he has so aggressively pushed to slash one of the most significant and successful social programs in American history, which millions of Americans rely on for survival.”
A Sanders adviser pushed forward a video showing Biden favoring a reduction in the two entitlement programs in 1995 and 2007.
In a January 1 tweet, Sanders adviser Warren Gunnels wrote, “Ever since Paul Ryan 1st proposed paying for Trump’s tax beaks to the top 1% by cutting Social Security &amp; Medicare, I’ve been proud to be by @BernieSanders side fighting against it. To hear Biden say ‘Ryan was correct’ to go after Social Security &amp; Medicare is soul-wrenching.”
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Ever since Paul Ryan 1st proposed paying for Trump&#39;s tax breaks to the top 1% by cutting Social Security &amp; Medicare, I&#39;ve been proud to be by <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> side fighting against it.
To hear Biden say &quot;Ryan was correct&quot; to go after Social Security &amp; Medicare is soul-wrenching. <a href="https://t.co/kfZz9qlqJd">https://t.co/kfZz9qlqJd</a>
&mdash; Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/GunnelsWarren/status/1212532213989949441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Shortly before the Biden official made his remarks about the video, Sanders told a crowd in New Hampshire, &#8220;I think the best thing for all Democratic candidates, and what we&#8217;re going to do in our campaign, as you heard me tonight, you didn&#8217;t hear me say a word about any of the other candidates. We are going to focus on the issues of the working families of America and bring them together.&#8221;

Biden and Sanders.

Biden Rips Sanders Campaign For ‘Doctored Video’

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) campaign has reportedly been researching the possibility of offering fellow contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) two top Cabinet positions if Sanders wins the nomination and the general election against President Donald Trump.
Multiple sources within the Sanders campaign <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/01/17/sanders-warren-vice-president-treasury-secretary/">told</a> The Intercept, a hard-left publication that is plugged in to the far-left of the Democratic Party, that Sanders&#8217; campaign has been researching if they legally can make Warren vice president and treasury secretary at the same time.
The Intercept reported:
<blockquote>The answer is yes: There is nothing in the Constitution that bars the vice president from also serving as treasury secretary. Sanders has made no final decisions on a potential running mate or cabinet officers, and did not direct the inquiry, nor was he involved in it, as he considers such questions premature and presumptuous. &#8230; The research into the question of Warren’s dual eligibility reflects the political affinity that has long existed between the two — an affinity that was dealt a setback over the past week, as the pair clashed over the contents of a year-old private conversation. The sources were not authorized to speak publicly about internal deliberations.</blockquote>
The report says that Sanders was a big supporter of Warren&#8217;s efforts in creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has been described as the most unaccountable governmental agency in the U.S. federal government.
The Daily Caller News Foundation <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/exclusive-gravy-train-flows-wide-and-deep-at-elizabeth-warrens-consumer-agency/">reported</a> in February 2017 that numerous government employees at the CFPB were making even more money than the top leaders in the U.S. Senate:
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<blockquote>The Senate majority and minority leaders are paid $193,000 annually. Two hundred and one CFPB employees outdo Sens. Mitch McConnell and Charles Schumer in pay.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Speaker of the House Paul Ryan of Wisconsin receives $223,000 per year, but that’s less than what 54 CFPB employees are paid.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Another 170 CFPB employees earn more than the secretaries of defense and state, the attorney general and the director of national intelligence. All cabinet salaries are capped at $199,700, but not at the bureau. Thirty-nine CFPB employees earn more than the $230,000 paid to Vice President Mike Pence.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>A total of 198 CFPB employees also earn more than their ultimate boss, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellin, who is paid $201,700.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Overall, 449 CFPB employees get at least $100,000 per year and 228 CFPB are paid more than $200,000, according to publicly available 2016 data.</blockquote>
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The Intercept further noted that the Sanders campaign’s interest in the dual position for Warren comes after their recent fight over an alleged conversation from December 2018 in which Warren claims that Sanders told her that a woman could not be elected president.
&#8220;Ideologically, Sanders and Warren are largely aligned when it comes to Wall Street, though Warren has concentrated more attention on bankers, meaning the two different skill sets could complement each other in the same administration,&#8221; The Intercept added. &#8220;Warren’s is the type of oversight and policymaking Sanders could envision leading from the perch at the Treasury Department, sources said, with the added power of being vice president, as well. Though no serious discussions have begun about a cabinet or running mate, the campaign wanted to know whether such a scenario was constitutionally permissible.&#8221;

Bernie Warren

Sanders’ Campaign Considering Warren For 2 Top Cabinet Positions If He Wins, Report Suggests

On Friday, <a href="http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=b4747822-277e-4d2c-b896-eb4e04672c09">SurveyUSA</a> released a new national Democratic primary poll, which was conducted between January 14 &#8211; 16 on 5,000 adults, 4,069 of whom “are registered voters,” with “1,086 likely to vote in a Democratic Primary.”
The survey asked: “Where you live, if there were a Democratic primary today, which Democrat would you vote for to be the Democratic Party&#8217;s nominee for President of the United States?”
In first place is former Vice President Joe Biden with 32%. In a distant second place is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with 21%, and in third place is Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with 14%.
In fourth and fifth place are Mayor Pete Buttigieg and billionaire Michael Bloomberg, each with 9% support.
When broken down by age, Biden still leads in three of four groups. 27% of the 35-49 age group support Biden compared to 25% for Sanders, and 16% for Warren. 45% of the 50-64 age group support Biden compared to just 12% for Sanders and 13% for Warren. Biden’s support dips a bit to 37% among the 65+ group, but Sanders tanks with the elderly voters with just 8%. Warren nabs 13%.
However, among the 18-34 age group, Sanders explodes with 38% support compared to Biden’s 20% and Warren’s 16%.
Biden also dominates among African American voters, where he has 50% support compared to second-place Sanders’ 18%, and Warren’s 9%. Among Hispanic voters, Biden and Sanders are virtually tied with 31% and 30%, respectively. Warren sits in a distant third with 10% Hispanic support.
Another area where Biden triumphs over the rest of the field is among religious individuals who attend regular services.
46% of those who attend religious services “regularly” support Biden compared to 14% who support Sanders and 13% who support Warren.
Among those who “almost never” attend religious services, the field is much more open. 26% of those who “almost never” attend religious services support Biden compared to 22% who support Sanders, and 17% who support Warren.
“Strongly pro-life” respondents also side with Biden in a major way, giving him 44% support over second-place Sanders’ 16% and Warren’s 8%. The “strongly pro-choice” respondents are more spread out, with 27% supporting Biden, 24% supporting Sanders, and 17% supporting Warren.
According to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> average of national polls, Biden remains in the lead with 28.4% to Sanders’ 20.4%, and Warren’s 14.8%.
In Iowa, Biden and Sanders are in a near tie with 20.7% and 20.3%, respectively. In New Hampshire, which votes second, Sanders actually leads Biden 22.5% to 21%. Warren sits in third place in the state with 16.3% support, with Buttigieg nipping at her heels with 14.5% support.
Biden’s largest advantage is still in South Carolina, where he leads Sanders by 17% (32% to 15%).
What this new SurveyUSA poll appears to indicate is that while Sen. Bernie Sanders is on the rise nationally, and Biden remains in a healthy first position, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was once considered a potential threat to the former vice president, continues on her steep tumble.
With Iowa just 15 days away, the candidates are losing time to change the numbers before the caucus state sets the tone of what’s to come afterward.

Joe Biden.

Biden Flies High In Post-Debate Poll; Warren Continues Months-Long Tumble

Donald Trump Jr. told Fox News&#8217; Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did not delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate because of anything pertaining to President Donald Trump, but allegedly to harm Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
While discussing the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, Trump Jr. said, &#8220;The other thing I think Nancy&#8217;s trying to do with the delay is prevent other people, like Bernie, from actually being on the campaign trail.&#8221;
&#8220;Right,&#8221; Bartiromo responded.
&#8220;In other words, to try to guarantee&#8230;” Trump Jr. continued.
&#8220;Once again, they&#8217;re colluding against Bernie Sanders,&#8221; Bartiromo responded.
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Trump Jr. replied. &#8220;By the way, I love that they collude against themselves in this way, because the last time they colluded to rig the Democrat primary, it worked out perfectly for us because we got Hillary, and that was a godsend.&#8221;
Political analyst Ari Fleicher also believes that is what Pelosi was doing in delaying sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1215623354738065413">writing</a>, &#8220;Don’t rule out that the reason Pelosi hasn’t sent impeachment to the Senate is to hurt Warren and Sanders, and to help Biden. She knows she has no leverage over Sen. McConnell, but by timing the trial so it takes place during the Iowa lead-up, she has leverage over the liberals.&#8221;
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President Trump also agreed, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1218195021930926082">writing</a> on Twitter: &#8220;They are rigging the election again against Bernie Sanders, just like last time, only even more obviously. They are bringing him out of so important Iowa in order that, as a Senator, he sit through the Impeachment Hoax Trial. Crazy Nancy thereby gives the strong edge to Sleepy Joe Biden, and Bernie is shut out again. Very unfair, but that’s the way the Democrats play the game. Anyway, it’s a lot of fun to watch!&#8221;
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox News&#8217; Maria Bartiromo: “This is the dirty little secret nobody is talking about: why the Speaker held these papers. This benefits Joe Biden. This harms Senator Sanders, who is in first place and could become their nominee.”
The Federalist ran a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/16/is-impeachment-delay-how-democrats-are-rigging-iowa-against-bernie-again/">piece</a> recently that floated the same reason for Pelosi&#8217;s actions, writing: &#8220;Sanders, however, clearly has momentum at a critical point in the primary that will now be interrupted by the impeachment proceedings. The fact that the impeachment trial will trap Sanders, Warren, and Klobuchar in the nation’s capital for the final days before the caucus leave the state wide open to Biden and Buttigieg in the senators’ absence.&#8221;
The Federalist added, &#8220;Pelosi’s bizarre and politically unwise decision to delay impeachment until this crucial moment provokes the question, then, of whether Pelosi deliberately held up the impeachment trial to sabotage the far-left senators’ campaigns.&#8221;
The New York Times said in a report last week that the idea was a conspiracy theory and said there was no evidence suggesting that it was true.
Fleischer responded: &#8220;Conspiracy theory? My NYT-labeled &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; tweet re why Speaker Pelosi delayed sending impeachment to the Sen is more plausible than the Speaker’s own words. Everyone knows she had no leverage over McConnell. So why do it? To help Biden.&#8221;
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Conspiracy theory? My NYT-labeled “conspiracy theory” tweet re why Speaker Pelosi delayed sending impeachment to the Sen is more plausible than the Speaker’s own words. Everyone knows she had no leverage over McConnell. So why do it? To help Biden. <a href="https://t.co/1ZjUNq40OC">https://t.co/1ZjUNq40OC</a>
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1218608891422027776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I, along with other Rs, made a plausible case. The NYT labels my case a &#8216;conspiracy theory.&#8217; When Ds cited the Steele dossier, or collusion, or Michael Cohen in Prague, the media typically called those &#8216;allegations&#8217;,&#8221; Fleischer responded. &#8220;Back to my tweet. It&#8217;s no conspiracy theory to say Pelosi delayed the trial so Warren and Sanders would be in DC while Biden (and others) are in Iowa. Nothing is more important to her than winning the WH. That&#8217;s not a conspiracy theory. It&#8217;s a good analysis.&#8221;
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Back to my tweet. It&#39;s no conspiracy theory to say Pelosi delayed the trial so Warren and Sanders would be in DC while Biden (and others) are in Iowa. Nothing is more important to her than winning the WH. That&#39;s not a conspiracy theory. It&#39;s a good analysis.
&mdash; Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1218610657148506112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr.

Donald Trump Jr: Pelosi Had Devious Plan In Holding Articles Of Impeachment, Had Nothing To Do With Trump

Nancy Pelosi

On Sunday, conservative author and radio host Hugh Hewitt appeared on NBC’s “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-january-19-2020-n1116261">Meet the Press</a>” with host Chuck Todd.
During one of the segments with Hewitt, Todd played the clip from Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate in which Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) approached rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and accused him of calling her “a liar on national TV.”
Rewind.
The feud between Warren and Sanders <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-official-warren-sanders-spat-didnt-play-out-well-for-either-of-them-biden-could-benefit">began in earnest</a> with a report from Politico on January 11 in which it was claimed the Sanders campaign was instructing its personnel to tell voters that Warren was a candidate who couldn’t broaden her appeal beyond the “highly educated” and “more affluent.”
Warren responded to the report, saying that she was “disappointed to hear that Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me.”
Then, CNN dropped a bombshell story claiming that during a private meeting in 2018, Sanders told Warren that he “did not believe a woman could win.”
In response to CNN’s report, Warren said: 
<blockquote>Among the topics that came up was what would happen if Democrats nominated a female candidate. I thought a woman could win; he disagreed. I have no interest in discussing this private meeting any further because Bernie and I have far more in common than our differences on punditry.</blockquote>
At Tuesday’s debate, CNN’s Abby Phillip asked Sanders about the alleged exchange, and Sanders denied that it ever happened. Phillip then turned right around and asked Warren: “What did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?” Sanders appeared confounded that Phillip would state her question in such a way, and the audience notably laughed.
Warren replied: “I disagreed. Bernie is my friend, and I am not here to try to fight with Bernie. But, look, this question about whether or not a woman can be president has been raised, and it’s time for us to attack it head-on.”
After the debate, while mics were still recording and cameras on, Warren approached Sanders, refused his handshake, and confronted him over the debate exchange. Sanders replied that it was Warren who had called him a “liar,” but that they shouldn’t have such a discussion then and there.
On Sunday, Todd asked Hewitt his opinion on the feud as a conservative, noting that it might end up helping former Vice President Joe Biden, “who might be the tougher foe” in the general election.
Hewitt stated that he believes it is Mayor Pete Buttigieg who would benefit from the internecine fighting:
<blockquote>I thought the winner of the split was Pete Buttigieg because either the Warren voter or the Sanders voter who is turned off, they&#8217;re not going to go to Joe Biden. They&#8217;ve already committed to a progressive.</blockquote>
Hewitt then added that he will be voting for Sen. Sanders in the Virginia primary:
<blockquote>I can tell you one thing. Because Virginia allows early voting and because I don&#8217;t know where NBC or Salem will have me on March 3rd, I&#8217;m voting this week. And because it&#8217;s Virginia, I get to vote in the Democratic primary. I&#8217;m voting for Bernie Sanders. And I think a lot of people will because he&#8217;s authentic –</blockquote>
Todd asked if Hewitt’s Sanders vote was “calculated voting.” Hewitt replied that it’s because he believes Sanders to be “authentic,” and that he wants a clear distinction between a real “socialist” and those who are simply imitators.
<blockquote>TODD: Yeah? You&#8217;re going to vote for Bernie Sanders against Donald Trump?
HEWITT: No. I&#8217;m going to vote for Donald Trump. But I want a clear choice between the authentic, traditional socialist and all the people who just pretend to be.
TODD: Oh wow.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Hugh Hewitt announces that he will vote in the Democratic primary in Virginia on March 3rd. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MTP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MTP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IfItsSunday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IfItsSunday</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hughhewitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hughhewitt</a>: &#8220;I&#8217;m voting for Bernie Sanders.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/AiqCDukM7T">pic.twitter.com/AiqCDukM7T</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1218938634805616641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2020</a></blockquote>

Hugh Hewitt.

WATCH: Conservative Hugh Hewitt Explains His Decision To Vote For Bernie Sanders In VA Primary

Hugh Hewitt

On Friday, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh retweeted a post from NPR in which the news organization writes: “Elizabeth Warren has pledged to cancel up to $50,000 of debt for 95% of student loan borrowers if she&#8217;s elected president – and she says she could cancel those debts all on her own.”
Walsh wrote above the tweet:
<blockquote>No such thing as &#8220;canceling&#8221; debt. If we&#8217;re being honest, we&#8217;d call it what it is: debt transfer. We&#8217;d be transferring debt from the people who took out the loans to people who did not take out the loans. Of course it sounds utterly unjust and crazy when you put it like that.</blockquote>
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No such thing as &#8220;canceling&#8221; debt. If we&#8217;re being honest, we&#8217;d call it what it is: debt transfer. We&#8217;d be transferring debt from the people who took out the loans to people who did not take out the loans. Of course it sounds utterly unjust and crazy when you put it like that. <a href="https://t.co/evrD4phn2O">https://t.co/evrD4phn2O</a>
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1218162030236008454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
The article linked in NPR’s <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796329598/cancelling-student-debt-is-easier-than-it-sounds?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=nprnews">tweet</a> suggests that Warren could accomplish the alleged “cancellation” of student debt without Congress.
Here’s the <a href="https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/student-loan-debt-day-one?source=soc-WB-ew-tw-rollout-20200114">direct text</a> from Warren’s own website:
<blockquote>But the Department of Education already has broad legal authority to cancel student debt, and we can’t afford to wait for Congress to act. So I will start to use existing laws on day one of my presidency to implement my student loan debt cancellation plan that offers relief to 42 million Americans – in addition to using all available tools to address racial disparities in higher education, crack down on for-profit institutions, and eliminate predatory lending&#8230;
When I am president &#8230; I’ll direct the Secretary of Education to use their authority to begin to compromise and modify federal student loans consistent with my plan to cancel up to $50,000 in debt for 95% of student loan borrowers (about 42 million people).</blockquote>
While Walsh’s tweet has more than 13,400 “likes” as of publication, and approximately 3,700 retweets, some commenters don’t seem to understand the idea that the government cannot “cancel” debt.
User @EllenGirl71 wrote: “There *is* debt forgiveness. It means that no one will be paying it back. The US government federal student loan debt can be forgiven any time the US govt decides to forgive it.”
There were numerous commenters who tried to argue with @EllenGirl71, but the following two exchanges were some of the more illuminating ones.
@MarkFidelman wrote: “Sorry Ellen, the money came from tax dollars or private investors. Someone lost in that transaction. It also sends a chilling message to future taxpayers and investors that the government can’t be trusted.”
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Sorry Ellen, the money came from tax dollars or private investors. Someone lost in that transaction. It also sends a chilling message to future taxpayers and investors that the government can’t be trusted.
— Mark Fidelman (@markfidelman) <a href="https://twitter.com/markfidelman/status/1218553641616867329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
Ellen replied: “The borrowers are also taxpayers, and they and the country are losing in this transaction. I would prefer that they spend that $1 trillion in the economy. The status quo of high household debt is the one unacceptable choice.”
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The borrowers are also taxpayers, and they and the country are losing in this transaction. I would prefer that they spend that $1 trillion in the economy. The status quo of high household debt is the one unacceptable choice.
— Ellen (@EllenGirl71) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenGirl71/status/1218608123830849536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
In another exchange, @TheProbableMatt wrote: “It is absolutely magic. Grants &amp; gifts also cost money. Where is that money coming from? It has to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is almost always future taxation rather than budget cut somewhere else. even then the federal govt does not generate income. They take ours.”
Ellen replied: “Nothing magical about forgiving a loan. It does not get transferred to someone else. No one else owes that money now. If I forgive you the 500 I lent you, no one else has to pay me back. The money just stays in your pocket.”
Matt shot back: “And it still came out of your pocket. You are expecting the government to eat the $500. The govt doesn&#8217;t eat money. They tax. This is how economics work.”
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Nothing magical about forgiving a loan. It does not get transferred to someone else. No one else owes that money now. If I forgive you the 500 I lent you, no one else has to pay me back. The money just stays in your pocket.
— Ellen (@EllenGirl71) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenGirl71/status/1218257303708880897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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And it still came out of your pocket. You are expecting the government to eat the $500. The govt doesn&#8217;t eat money. They tax. This is how economics work.
— Matt Meyer (@TheProbableMatt) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheProbableMatt/status/1218258168511434752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
As Walsh and others stated, debt cannot simply vanish. It must be shifted.
Here’s an imperfect and very simplified, but apt analogy.
There are five siblings. Two of the five went to college, while the other three started their adult lives working in trades. All five siblings live at home with their parents in their large house, and pay rent.
The two who went to college each borrowed $50,000 from their parents in order to obtain their degrees. So, in addition to paying their parents $700/month for rent, they shell out an additional $300/month in loan payments. That’s $1,000/month, respectively.
The two college-educated siblings are struggling, so their parents decide to “cancel” their collective debt. At this point, the combined debt of the two siblings stands at $60,000.
In order to recoup their investment, the parents who have “cancelled” the debts of their college-educated children raise the rent on all five siblings to $820/month, thus equally distributing the collective debt. Now, the college-educated siblings only pay an additional $120/month, but the three siblings who never borrowed any money in the first place have the $120/month burden as well.
This is a stripped down version of how such debt “cancellation” would work in a system in which individuals borrow money from the government.
Debt does not disappear, but is simply redistributed.

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