Republican Utah Congressman Burgess Owens delivered a powerful pro-life testimonial at a Congressional hearing on abortion Wednesday.
During witness testimony at a hearing of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0ZGOuR3p8">House Judiciary Committee</a> discussing abortion rights, Owens spoke about the value of life, firing back at Treasury Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/treasury-secretary-yellen-claims-restricting-abortion-access-would-have-damaging-effects-on-americas-economy">Janet Yellen</a>, who claimed at a Senate Banking Committee hearing that &#8220;eliminating the rights of women to make decisions about women, whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades.&#8221;
Owens opened his statement by taking aim at Yellen over her comments. He accused Yellen of parroting Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger&#8217;s ideology. &#8220;Secretary Yellen argued that ending the life of an unborn child is a good thing for the labor force participation rate,&#8221; Owens said. &#8220;Since I&#8217;m very aware of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, I find the parroting of her manifesto by Secretary Yellen, the devaluation of life of unborn poor, black, and minority children, very concerning.&#8221; Owens praised Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott for pushing back on Yellen&#8217;s comments during that hearing, as well as in an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/17/tim-scott-abortion-single-black-mothers-economic-problems/">op-ed</a> that the senator wrote for The Washington Post Tuesday.
&#8220;Secretary Yellen&#8217;s comments [are] also deeply offensive to me,&#8221; Owens continued. &#8220;For years, the black community has been disproportionately targeted by the abortion industry. I&#8217;ve watched it happen. We&#8217;ve lost over 20 million black babies over the last 40 years. That&#8217;s 40% of my race exterminated before given a chance to bless our nation with their innate talents. Based on [Yellen&#8217;s] conclusion, their demise is a good thing for our labor force participation rate. Secretary Yellen has obviously concluded that these 20 million black lives would have been an economic drain on our society.&#8221;
Owens then cited a <a href="https://www.lifeissues.org/2017/02/investigation-planned-parenthood-speeds-targeting-minorities/">2017 report</a> by the pro-life think tank Life Issues Institute, which found that 88% of Planned Parenthood &#8220;mega-centers&#8221; target women of color, including 80% that target black communities and 56% that target Hispanic or Latino communities. &#8220;For those who love the concept of equity in everything under the sun including test score outcomes, when it comes to the death of unborn, the abortion equity seems pretty racist to me. Abortion is not health care. Health care does not result in the intentional death of over 60 million human beings. It undermines the dignity and worth of every individual and their God-given right to life. If a woman feels that abortion is her only and best option, I believe that woman has been failed by her family, her partner, her community, and her health care providers.”
&#8220;I&#8217;m the father of six children and 16 grandchildren,&#8221; Owens went on. &#8220;My pride comes from the joy of watching them grow and start families of their own, even if their circumstances are imperfect, or as Ms. Yellen would have us believe, an economic burden. Now two of my beautiful, loving, talented children [were] born after my NFL career, after I lost everything due to a failed business, and after a brief job stint as a chimney sweep and a security guard. Thank goodness I was raised by a generation of proud black Americans who taught me that [in] America, our financial status does not define us. It can be temporary. Our children and family relationships, on the other hand, are not only eternal, but a valuable treasure during our brief time on this Earth. They are the only legacy at the end of our lives that really matter.&#8221;
&#8220;Our children are the most precious gifts and blessings from a loving God,&#8221; Owens concluded. &#8220;The fight to defend life has never been more important. The fight to defend the founding ideals of our nation, that all people are &#8216;created equal, that they are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,&#8217; has never been more important.&#8221;

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‘Most Precious Gifts And Blessing From A Loving God’: Rep. Burgess Owens Delivers Powerful Pro-Life Testimonial At Congressional Hearing On Abortion

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The National Football League has come under fire for its hiring practices over the past two months, following the news that former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores is suing the league for racial discrimination. 
In the class-action lawsuit, Flores alleges that the New York Giants and the Denver Broncos only brought him in to interview for their open head coach positions in order to satisfy the Rooney Rule, a <a href="https://nflcommunications.com/Pages/NFL-EXPANDS-ROONEY-RULE-REQUIREMENTS-TO-STRENGTHEN-DIVERSITY.aspx">policy</a> that requires &#8220;every team with a head coaching vacancy&#8221; to interview one &#8220;diverse&#8221; candidate. Flores, who is black, alleges the Giants interviewed him when they had already decided to hire someone else.
The suit shows text messages between Flores and New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, texts in which Belichick “mistakenly disclosed” to Flores that the Giants had decided to hire Brian Daboll, who is white. Belichick reportedly believed he was texting Daboll instead of Flores. 
Flores also alleges that in a 2019 interview for the Broncos head coaching position, “then-General Manager, John Elway, President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Ellis and others, showed up an hour late to the interview.”
“They looked completely disheveled, and it was obvious that they had [been] drinking heavily the night before,” the suit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-miami-dolphins-head-coach-brian-flores-sues-nfl-alleging-racial-discrimination-in-hiring-process">states</a>. “It was clear from the substance of the interview that Mr. Flores was interviewed only because of the Rooney Rule, and that the Broncos never had any intention to consider him as a legitimate candidate for the job. Shortly thereafter, Vic Fangio, a white man, was hired to be the Head Coach of the Broncos.”
The NFL’s response has been to double down, implementing a rule last week which requires all 32 teams to hire a minority assistant coach on the offensive staff, according to <a href="https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-forming-new-committee-to-review-league-and-team-policies-regarding-diversity">NFL.com</a>. The individual can be a minority or a female, and will be signed to a one-year deal, partially paid from a league-wide fund.
“Well, I know what Brian [Flores] is doing,” Congressman Burgess Owens (R-UT) told The Daily Wire in an exclusive interview. “First of all, I applaud him because what he has done is exactly right. I&#8217;ve seen this for years. I&#8217;ve had teammates of mine that left the game, wanted to coach — talented young people — and they never got an opportunity. Or they brought them in, they went through the same process of interviewing them and they just moved right along. What racists do when caught with racist policies, is they double down with more racism.”
“So, no. They&#8217;re not going to apologize, they&#8217;re not going to change their ways,&#8221; Owens continued. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to now say, ‘OK, we&#8217;re not going to just interview. We&#8217;re now going to hire. We&#8217;re going to move this to a different level. We&#8217;re going to truly show how great we are, how magnificent we are. We&#8217;re not going to just interview people. We&#8217;ll guarantee we&#8217;ll hire at least one [minority candidate].'&#8221;
Owens, now a U.S. Congressman representing a district in Utah, played 10 years in the NFL after being selected by the New York Jets in the first round of the 1973 NFL Draft. Owens was chosen for the All-Rookie Team and won a Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders in 1980. He is fully against the NFL’s Rooney Rule, saying that — like NFL rosters — coaching positions should be based on a meritocracy.  
“Whenever you&#8217;re dealing with affirmative action and you&#8217;re picking people based on their skin color &#8230; then it is racist,” Owens told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Let’s just call it for what it is. At the end of the day, it starts off with an idea that the only reason that blacks can actually get into this environment, they can actually lead, become the commissioner, the only way they can do that is based on a quota system.”
“It takes away the opportunities from other good, talented people to show up and to get that position,” he continued. “And to be honest with you, it&#8217;s so well-entrenched into the NFL, I don&#8217;t know exactly how to change that other than changing from the very top.” 
“I&#8217;m going to go back now to the way I&#8217;ve seen affirmative action for a long time,” Owens added. “If you find out that a team is acting with racist policies, how do they change the scenario, the conversation? By saying we&#8217;re going to do affirmative action. We’re going to give X amount of black people or females an opportunity moving forward. At the end of the day, they should be saying, &#8216;we&#8217;re going to get the very best talent.&#8217; Period. And seeing that there are so many black athletes coming through this environment, it would make sense that at some point we&#8217;re going to see a trend where you have more black involvement. Because there&#8217;re so many players who understand the game, they study the game, they’re great at the game.”
Owens, who grew up in an era much different than the one we live in now, blames the NFL and the “elitist class” for dividing the country with policies such as the Rooney Rule and Critical Race Theory. 
“I think the blessings that I&#8217;ve had is that I grew up in an era when it&#8217;s so different than today,” Owens told The Daily Wire. “Now, I grew up in the era when I was the third black to get a scholarship to the University of Miami.” 
“We have an elitist class that gets their power out of dividing us,” he continued. “Whether it be political power, whether it be financial power, they get their power out of making sure that we&#8217;re looking at each other from outside in rather than inside out. And for the NFL to do what they did years ago, and divide our nation on whether we should be standing for our flag, that to me is an affront to who we are. It is an affront to the league itself. And I think Americans need to figure out a way — sad to say, we love the sport, we get caught up in it — I have not watched a game in three years. I refuse to watch an organization that’s trying to turn our country against each other.” 
While the NFL may be putting systems in place which require teams to hire coaches based on the color of their skin, Owens believes that the American people are “waking up,” knowing that coming together is the only way moving forward. 
“I think Americans are waking up to realize we don&#8217;t want that anymore,” Owens said. “We show up 70,000 people in the stadium and stands [a reference to the Final Four in New Orleans]. The last thing we want to think about is all the divisiveness. We want to come together. That&#8217;s where we drift. So, I have faith that American people will continue to drift back to the light of harmony, of looking at each other based on meritocracy. And we&#8217;re going to have discussions that if things like the NFL is putting in place, that shows the true heart of racism, is when you find people that divide, that hire based on color instead of meritocracy &#8212; only in the office, by the way. They do meritocracy on the field, because they know that’s where they gotta get paid, but they get away with it in their offices.”
Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill Thursday to prevent federal funding of Critical Race Theory (CRT) training at workplaces.
&#8220;The federal government has no right to force a political agenda onto Americans, especially one that aims to tear down our institutions and divide us based on race. Critical Race Theory originated out of the critical race studies movement,&#8221; Cruz said in a <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&amp;id=5907">press release</a>. &#8220;It is a Marxist ideology that sees the world as a battle, not between the classes — as classical Marxism does — but between the races. This is inherently bigoted.&#8221;
&#8220;On President Biden&#8217;s first day in office, he rescinded the Trump administration&#8217;s commonsense executive order ensuring no government funding goes to anti-American or racist and sexist training, like CRT, in the workplace. President Biden&#8217;s decision was unsurprising but shows the Democratic Party will stop at nothing to indoctrinate Americans. I am proud to introduce this bill to block federal funding for CRT and ensure the U.S. government doesn&#8217;t contribute to this radical ideology,&#8221; Cruz continued.
Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), who introduced a similar bill in the House of Representatives last month, likewise blasted CRT and its effects on society.
&#8220;I grew up attending segregated schools in the Jim Crow South during a time when people were treated differently based on the color of their skin,&#8221; said Owens. &#8220;Critical Race Theory preserves this way of thinking and undermines civil rights, constitutionally guaranteed equal protection before the law, and U.S. institutions at large. This is the United States of America, and no one should ever be subjected to the discrimination that our laws so clearly prohibit.&#8221;
Cruz also excoriated CRT at a recent conference, during which he laid bare the Marxist roots of the ideology. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-ted-cruz-says-critical-race-theory-every-bit-as-racist-as-the-klansmen-in-white-sheets" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Speaking at the Faith &amp; Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference in Orlando, Cruz first recounted how a reporter scurried up to him on Capitol Hill this week asking him to define CRT. “Apparently he thought I would turn to him and say, ‘Gosh I have no idea,’” he said.
“It’s a theory that derives from Marxism,” Cruz said he explained to the reporter. “Karl Marx viewed the entire world as a conflict between classes, between the owners of capital and the working men and women, the proletariat; a fundamental battle in society. Critical Race Theory takes that same Marxist concept, except it replaces class with race.”
“And it says all of America and all of the world is a battle between the races. Critical Race Theory says every white person is a racist. Critical Race Theory says America is fundamentally racist and irredeemably racist. Critical Race Theory seeks to turn us against each other, and if someone has a different color skin, seeks to make us hate that person.”
“And let me tell you right now, Critical Race Theory is bigoted, it is a lie, and it is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets,” Cruz said to applause from the crowd.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-about-power-black-theologian-voddie-t-baucham-exposes-demonic-ideology-behind-crt-blm-anti-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘This Is About Power’: Black Theologian Voddie T. Baucham Exposes ‘Demonic Ideology’ Behind CRT, BLM, Antiracism</a>

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Seven House Republicans on Wednesday signed a pledge stating they would not accept political donations from Big Tech companies, their Political Action Committees, or their executive employees.
The &#8220;<a href="https://buckforcolorado.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PLEDGE-FOR-AMERICA-1.pdf">Pledge for America</a>,&#8221; launched by Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO), specifically cites Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Twitter as companies that have a &#8220;monopoly&#8221; on various markets. Other pledge co-signers include Chip Roy (R-TX), Greg Steube (R-FL), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Dan Bishop (R-NC), Burgess Owens (R-UT), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ).
According to the pledge, &#8220;each one of these companies has used their monopoly power to stifle innovation and destroy competitors.&#8221;
One of the main issues the coalition has with the Big Tech companies is their &#8220;unprecedented actions to silence political speech they disagree with.&#8221; The congressmen cited various examples including YouTube deleting conservative channels, Twitter and Facebook permanently banning former President Donald Trump from their platforms, Amazon booting Parler from its web hosting services, and Google and Apple pulling the Parler app from their mobile stores.
&#8220;As conservatives, we firmly believe in the free market and the free exchange of ideas. We will not continue to accept donations from companies who violate those convictions,&#8221; the pledge states, later noting: &#8220;The threat posed by these monopolies is a real and present danger to conservatives, libertarians, and anyone who does not agree with these corporations’ ultra-liberal points of view.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/technology/republican-lawmakers-big-tech.html">The New York Times</a>, four of the seven congressmen previously received political donations from Big Tech PACs.
&#8220;Representatives Chip Roy of Texas, Gregory Steube of Florida and Andy Biggs of Arizona received a combined $3,500 in donations. Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina (not Oklahoma, as previously reported here) received $1,000 from Amazon’s political committee,&#8221; the Times reported.
Even without the pledge, it is highly unlikely Big Tech companies would have sent donations to the representatives. Many of those corporations put a freeze on donations to those who objected to certifying the election results on January 6, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/facebook-halts-political-donations-after-capitol-riot.html">CNBC</a> reported. Congressmen Steube, Norman, Bishop, Owens, and Biggs voted against certifying the results in favor of President Joe Biden.

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Congressman Burgess Owens (R-UT) on Tuesday slammed Democrats&#8217; claims that Georgia&#8217;s new voter integrity laws are somehow comparable to Jim Crow laws. The freshman congressman shared his personal experience under Jim Crow, saying that it&#8217;s &#8220;extremely offensive&#8221; to make the assumption black Americans aren&#8217;t capable of getting a form of identification.
&#8220;As someone who’s actually experienced Jim Crow laws, I’d like to set the record straight on the myth regarding the recently passed Georgia State law, and why any comparison between this law and Jim Crow is absolutely outrageous,&#8221; Owens said during a congressional hearing. &#8220;I’ll give you a few examples from my own life of what Jim Crow laws actually looked like.&#8221;
&#8220;At the age of 12, my father allowed me to participate in a demonstration with college students in front of the segregated Florida State Theater, where because of our color, we could not enter. I was the youngest participant there,&#8221; he recounted. &#8220;Only 50 years later did I learn that my father parked across the street to watch and make sure I was safe.&#8221;
&#8220;In the seventh grade, my school never received new books. Instead, we received books from the all-white school across town,&#8221; the Utah congressman said. &#8220;At service stations, there were white-men-only restrooms, white-women-only restrooms, and a filthy restroom in the back of the station for black Americans designated as &#8216;colored.'&#8221;
&#8220;In addition, Jim Crow laws, like poll taxes, property tests, literacy tests, and violence and intimidation at the polls made it nearly impossible for black Americans to vote,&#8221; Owens stated.
According to the congressman, Democrats are disingenuous when they mention Georgia&#8217;s voter ID laws, saying it&#8217;s a form of suppression. Residents have the ability to provide other government-issued documents to prove their identity, including utility bills, bank statements, or paychecks that include the person&#8217;s name and address. Even if a voter doesn&#8217;t have one of these documents, he or she can still vote provisionally, Owens stated.
&#8220;By the way – 97% of Georgia voters already have a government-issued ID,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;What I find extremely offensive is the narrative from the left that black people are not smart enough, not educated enough, not desirous enough of education to do what every other culture and race does in this country: get an ID.&#8221;
Owens stated &#8220;true racism&#8221; in the United States comes from the Democratic Party having low expectations of black Americans. That same thought process, according to the congressman, is also coming from the White House.
&#8220;President Biden said of the Georgia law, this is &#8216;Jim Crow on steroids.&#8217; With all due respect, Mr. President, you know better,&#8221; the congressman said. &#8220;It is disgusting and offensive to compare the actual voter suppression and violence of that era that we grew up in with a state law that only asks that people show their ID. This is the type of fear-mongering I would expect in the 1960s, not today.&#8221;
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Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BurgessOwens</a> rips comparisons of Georgia&#39;s voting law to Jim Crow:
&quot;What I find extremely offensive is the narrative from the left that black people are not smart enough, not educated education&#8230; to do what every other culture and race does in this country: get an ID.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/oZzSD3wovB">pic.twitter.com/oZzSD3wovB</a>
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On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee is set to hold a vote on a bill that would address slavery in the United States and create a commission in order to study potential slavery reparations.
The current <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/40/text">bill under consideration is H.R. 40 and its purpose is:</a>
<blockquote>To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.</blockquote>
The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to make potential adjustments to the bill and vote on it on Wednesday. The measure was first introduced in 1989 by Democratic Representative John Conyers, and if it makes it out of the committee, it will have its first vote on the House floor since then.
According to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/04/14/986853285/bill-to-create-commission-on-reparations-nears-historic-house-vote">NPR</a>, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), the sponsor of the current bill, described H.R. 40 as &#8220;enabling legislation to address the deep-seated racism and historic and systemic elements of mistreatment of African Americans through the centuries.&#8221;
&#8220;We think it will be cleansing for this nation, and we think that it will be a step moving America forward to see us debate this question on the floor of the House,&#8221; she said.
At a hearing for the bill earlier this year, opponents of the idea of slavery reparations spoke about the issue. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/herschel-walker-and-others-say-no-to-slavery-reparations">The Daily Wire</a> reported that Rep. Jackson Lee called out Republicans for choosing black witnesses to speak out against her proposed legislation.
She said, “Like our last hearing, the minority has selected two African-American witnesses to speak against HR 40. That is their privilege. But we know that justice, facts and that life that was led and continues to be led by African Americans is on our side.”
Utah Republican Representative Burgess Owens, who is black, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/herschel-walker-and-others-say-no-to-slavery-reparations">reportedly</a> argued that reparations would amount to “socialism” and were “impractical,” and that it is “unfair and heartless to give black Americans the hope that this is a reality.”
Owens counter-proposed that politicians should “give us back our history” and that “as we accept our lineage as victors, the same history will command the respect of our fellow Americans — an example of how to overcome the most overwhelming odds.”
The bill is expected to face a difficult journey with Republican opponents in the House and Senate. In order to get past the filibuster in the Senate, the bill would need 60 votes, which some believe to be unlikely.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus for the first time. NPR reported that legislators who attended the meeting said that the issue of reparations was discussed. Rep. Jackson Lee told the media that &#8220;we have heard from not only the president, but the White House and his team, that he is committed to this concept.&#8221;

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Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) was overcome with emotion while speaking this week about the horrors he witnessed at the southern border.
Owens spoke of the struggles he witnessed of children, including one young girl who no longer speaks because she was allegedly gang-raped. The former NFL star blasted the &#8220;complicit media&#8221; and the Biden-Harris administration for neglecting to see those suffering as &#8220;humans,&#8221; but as a political &#8220;strategy.&#8221;
&#8220;It breaks my heart to see these young people, sitting on the floor &#8230; These —,&#8221; Owens started to say as he was overcome with emotion. &#8220;I have 15 grandkids; I have one autistic grandson. To see these young babies sitting on the floor &#8212; to see this one young girl, autistic, seven-years-old, and the entire time we&#8217;re there, she had tears in her eyes the entire time.&#8221;
&#8220;And we have people in D.C. who couldn&#8217;t care less when they see a three and five-year-old girl dropped from a fourteen-foot high wall, when they see a nine-year-old young boy abandoned,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;I heard a story last night,&#8221; Owens recalled. A young girl, he said, cannot speak anymore because of the trauma she faced while being gang-raped. &#8220;These are the stories that we&#8217;re not being told. And we have a complicit media, who refuses to talk about this journey, this magnet, of these young girls and boys &#8212; many will not make it, many will never talk to their parents again &#8230; because we have an administration that does not look at these people as people, but as a strategy.&#8221;
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Owens made similar comments this week in Texas following his border visit, emphasizing his disgust for the Biden-Harris administration.
&#8220;To President Biden and Vice President Harris: Get some backbone,&#8221; he blasted the Democrats, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/burgess-owens-tells-biden-harris-to-get-some-backbone-visit-border-region">according</a> to Fox News. &#8220;Get some compassion. Come down to the border and see what mess you&#8217;ve made.&#8221;
&#8220;Whether you’re American or Mexican or Guatemalan, it doesn’t matter,&#8221; the Republican continued. &#8220;These are our children. And we have an administration that does not have the backbone to come down here and give encouragement to these great men and women (U.S. Border Patrol agents) who are doing the job and are being overwhelmed right now.&#8221;
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Outstanding speech today by <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BurgessOwens</a> <a href="https://t.co/63Gp5CPdOM">pic.twitter.com/63Gp5CPdOM</a>
&mdash; Jake Bequette (@JakeBequette91) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeBequette91/status/1379966713085751299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote>
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A crisis at the southern border has exploded under President Joe Biden. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-officials-blame-former-president-trump-for-crisis-at-southern-border">The Daily Wire</a>, the president quickly moved to do away with Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which held foreigners who tried to enter the U.S. illegally in camps in Mexico while they awaited hearings. Biden, instead, returned to the so-called “catch-and-release” policy in which illegal migrants are allowed to enter the U.S.
Earlier this month, secretly recorded video <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-secretly-recorded-video-reportedly-shows-migrant-children-held-under-bridge-at-makeshift-cbp-processing-center">obtained</a> by Project Veritas reportedly showed migrants, including children, being held under a bridge in a “makeshift” processing center for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).
According to a <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-secretly-recorded-video-shows-migrants-including-children-held/">report</a> from the undercover journalist group, an insider secretly recorded footage under the Anzalduas International Bridge “in an effort to illustrate the inhumane conditions illegal immigrants — many of them minors – face while in custody.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-secretly-recorded-video-reportedly-shows-migrant-children-held-under-bridge-at-makeshift-cbp-processing-center">Secretly Recorded Video Reportedly Shows Migrant Children Held Under Bridge At ‘Makeshift’ CBP Processing Center</a>

‘Get Some Compassion’: Burgess Owens Breaks Down Talking Border Crisis, Blasts Biden, Harris

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On Thursday, Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) directly confronted a critic who accused him of “bias” because he opposed two gun-control bills while approving of requiring voters to show an I.D. in order to vote. Owens fired back, “You know what&#8217;s racist? Assuming because I&#8217;m black that ‘I just don&#8217;t have the capability of getting an I-D.’ Disclaimer: We are capable of getting and I-D (and even using the internet!)”
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You know what&#39;s racist? Assuming because I&#39;m black that &quot;I just don&#39;t have the capability of getting an I-D.&quot;
Disclaimer: We are capable of getting and I-D (and even using the internet!) <a href="https://t.co/WpF2zQ4KYX">https://t.co/WpF2zQ4KYX</a>
&mdash; Burgess Owens (@BurgessOwens) <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens/status/1370079449610289153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Ownes added,“I used my I.D. to drive a car, to get a job, to board a plane, pick up prescriptions, and virtually everything else in life … So tell me again, why is showing an I.D. ‘Voter suppression’?”
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I use my I.D. to drive a car, to get a job, to board a plane, pick up prescriptions, and virtually everything else in life&#8230;
So tell me again, why is showing an I.D. &quot;voter suppression&quot;?
&mdash; Burgess Owens (@BurgessOwens) <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens/status/1370047901993345029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, Owens tweeted, “Want to see some serious racism? Study the history of how gun control laws have been used.”
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Want to see some serious racism? Study the history of how gun control laws have been used.
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Speaking on the House floor on Wednesday, Owens ripped the Biden administration’s support of bills that would expand background checks and make private sales of guns more difficult. Speaking of gun rights, he stated:
<blockquote>These rights protect my life, liberty and property, were granted to me by God, and cannot be taken away from me by D.C. bureaucrats. I grew up in the Deep South at a time when black Americans were unable to defend themselves. After the Civil War, black codes and Jim Crow laws prevented prohibited people of color from owning firearms. In the mid-1950’s Martin Luther King Jr. carried firearms for self-protection but his application for concealed weapon permit was denied because of racist gun control laws in his state.
As a child, my dad witnessed an altercation between his father and a southern white man who thought my grandfather was being disrespectful and threatened to teach him a lesson. Later that night he drove up to my grandfather’s home with a bunch of his friends, standing on the floor-runner of a Model-T Ford. My grandfather was prepared; he and his brothers had hidden around his front porch. As these bullies and cowards approached the house, they heard the click of rifles and left as fast as they came. Without firing his gun on another human being, my grandfather’s right to own a firearm ensured his rights to protect his life, liberty and property.</blockquote>
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STOP WHAT YOU&#39;RE DOING &amp; listen to Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BurgessOwens</a> oppose Biden-pushed gun control.
&quot;As bullies and cowards approached his house, they heard the click of rifles and left as fast as they came&#8230; My grandfather&#39;s right to own a firearm ensured his right to protect his life&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/rZskVHUxhw">pic.twitter.com/rZskVHUxhw</a>
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After a critic slammed Owens, remarking, “The NRA wasn’t on your side then and surely isn’t now. Systemic racism is real and you will never get in the rich while guys club,” Owens fired back. “Racism in the old days hid behind white hoods. Now it hides behind fake profile pictures and fake names on Twitter espousing ‘woke’ ideals.”
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Racism in the old days hid behind white hoods. Now it hides behind fake profile pictures and fake names on Twitter espousing &quot;woke&quot; ideals. <a href="https://t.co/0GIoebqxH4">https://t.co/0GIoebqxH4</a>
&mdash; Burgess Owens (@BurgessOwens) <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens/status/1369812168992956418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Last July, after it was reported that the NFL would play “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing,” dubbed the “Black National Anthem,&#8221; before all Week 1 games in the 2020 season,   Owens, who starred in the NFL, commented, &#8220;There is no &#8216;black national anthem.’ Why does it feel like the country is trying to segregate again sometimes?&#8221;
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There is no &quot;black national anthem&quot;. Why does it feel like the country is trying to segregate again sometimes?
&mdash; Burgess Owens (@BurgessOwens) <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens/status/1278867288582582273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘Tell Me Again, Why Is Showing A Voter I.D. Voter Suppression’: Burgess Owens Slams Critics Of Voter I.D. Laws

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Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night that the greatest threat to the political left was more black Americans joining the middle class and having faith.
Owens made the remarks during a segment about the impacts that illegal immigration has on the country, in particular on the black community.
&#8220;The greatest threat to the left is a middle class black American, those who have have faith, they have a family, they&#8217;re educated, and they believe in a God, and they believe in the free market,&#8221; Owens said.
Owens said that &#8220;leftists have never been&#8221; friends of the black community and that the policies pushed by the left &#8220;end up hurting those that are trying to get that first ladder up to middle class.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re against anything, any policy that helps us to become independent,&#8221; Owens said. &#8220;And that is what the left is trying to do to our country. So, I want to be the greatest warning boy, to let you know from from a community that was remarkably competitive, the most competitive in our country during the 60s, that is now not competitive because of what the left has done, what they&#8217;ve done to us is a preview of what they&#8217;re trying to do our country.&#8221;
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<blockquote>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, in 2019, we interviewed the Secretary of Homeland Security on the show, Kirsten Nielsen. And we asked, Does the government have any idea just how many illegal aliens live in this country? Politicians have claimed for more than 10 years that there are 11 million of them? Do we really know? Watch.
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CARLSON: Does the US government know exactly how many people are living in this country illegally? I&#8217;ve seen academic studies that put that number between 11 million and 22 million, maybe more, what is the real number?
KIRSTEN NIELSEN: We debate it and I think that&#8217;s accurate. 
CARLSON: So, we don&#8217;t know?
NIELSEN: We do not know.
CARLSON: That must be a grave concern to you that we potentially have more than 10 million people here whose identities we don&#8217;t know, could be over 20 [million] whose identities we don&#8217;t know. And like, they could be anybody.
NIELSEN: Yes. 
CARLSON: And so why is that not the single most pressing problem the country has? In my opinion, right now, this is one of, if not the biggest crisis this country has faced in a decade. 
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CARLSON: So the best estimate we have, the firmest, puts the number at about 22 million people living here illegally, there are informed estimates that put the number about 30 million. Anyone who repeats the 11 million number is either ignorant or lying. But today, no matter what the number is, the Biden administration committed to making every one of these foreign nationals living here illegally into a voting citizen. So we have no idea how many there are. But the Biden administration wants to introduce tens of millions of people into the labor force to compete for jobs with Americans as quickly as possible.
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JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Certainly, as part of the proposal that the President outlined and proposed on day one is an earned path to citizenship, right? For 11 million immigrants who are undocumented immigrants who are living in the country.
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CARLSON: Again, the 11 million number is a lie. Do not let it pass without questioning it. But no matter what the number is, more than 10 million new voters is going to change the political balance of this country dramatically, and it will disempower some people quite a bit. Not all of them Republicans, possibly African American voters, if you think it through a little bit, but if you ask Congresswoman Yvette Clarke of New York, amnesty is great news for African American voters, quote, &#8216;this comprehensive immigration bill would give dreamers and TPS/DED holders a pathway to citizenship, never forget that immigration is a black issue!&#8217;. She never explained what she meant by that. Of course, it&#8217;s a lie and a total the betrayal of her voters. Unrestricted immigration hurts all Americans, but it especially hurts people at the bottom of the income scale. According to a 2006 study by a top economist at Harvard University, immigration dramatically lowered the employment rate of African American men and increase their incarceration rate. Those are not small things. And that&#8217;s not even touching on the question of political power, which is a real question. Congressman Burgess Owens joins us tonight to assess all of this. Congressman, I appreciate your coming on tonight. I just did an absolutely amazing that labor unions and leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus could endorse something that&#8217;s so obviously hurts their own members. Why do you think they&#8217;re doing this?
REP. BURGESS OWENS (R-UT): Well, what we have to understand is what the real thrill threat to the hard left, and growing up in a remarkably successful, segregated, but middle class family in the 60s and went across our country in terms of our black community, the greatest threat to the left is a middle class black American, those who have have faith, they have a family, they&#8217;re educated, and they believe in a God. And they believe in the free market. What has happened to my community. And by the way, these leftists have never been our friends, they&#8217;re the ones that are anti-choice, they&#8217;re the ones that want open borders that they know, is going to end up hurting those that are trying to get that first ladder up to middle class. They&#8217;re against anything, any policy that helps us to become independent. And that is what that&#8217;s what the left is trying to do to our country. So, I want to be the greatest warning boy, to let you know from from a community that was remarkably competitive, the most competitive and our country during the 60s, that is now not competitive because of what the left has done. What they&#8217;ve done to us is a preview of what they&#8217;re trying to do our country. So we need to wake up Americans, doesn&#8217;t matter&#8211;Democrat, independent Republican, doesn&#8217;t matter what party&#8211;those who love our nation need to know that there&#8217;s a leftist ideology that hates everything we stand for, and they&#8217;re coming at us big time. We need to pull ourselves together, start communicating, and realize that the policies that Biden&#8217;s put together right now is all about defeating the dream of Americans to live the American dream and may get to the middle class.
CARLSON: I got to ask you, Congressman quickly, what percentage of actual black voters do you think are in favor of giving amnesty to foreign nationals who are illegally giving voting rights and benefits? Is that super popular among blacks?
OWENS: No, no, it&#8217;s a very, very small minority of those who get to have a chance to have this conversation. Only the black elitist, those are the ones that have really done the most damage, those who live the American dream, The Black Caucus right now that literally the American Dream, that tell the rest of us we can&#8217;t do it. They&#8217;re all about doing anything they can to keep the lowest, those that are trying to get the middle class, dependent so that the elitist class gets more power. And it doesn&#8217;t matter what color they are, Tucker. Elitists, are the worst threat to our nation, no matter what color, and the worst are those who look like me and tell black Americans like myself, we can&#8217;t do what others Americans do because whatever our skin color, or whatever their excuse might be. The dream America, we can overcome all obstacles. We need to make sure we spread that news big time.
CARLSON: It&#8217;s such a betrayal, one of many, but a bad one. Congressman Owens of Utah. Great to see you tonight. Thank you.
OWENS: Thank you. Thank you, Tucker.</blockquote>

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Congressman Owens: ‘The Greatest Threat To The Left Is A Middle Class Black American’

A group of black Republican lawmakers and leaders are pushing the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to overhaul its exhibit on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, saying the current one “falls short.”
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) wrote a letter to the museum’s leaders, pushing them to add to Thomas’ exhibit as the second black American to sit on the Supreme Court. Donalds’ letter was also signed by fellow black lawmakers Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT). Dr. Alveda King, The Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James, GOP commentator Paris Dennard, and others also signed on to the letter, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/black-gop-lawmakers-national-museum-of-african-american-history-clarence-thomas">Fox News</a>.
“This museum is a national treasure for our nation’s fabric – this is especially true for me as a Black American and Republican,” Donalds wrote. Donalds sent his letter to the museum at the beginning of February, which is also celebrated as Black History Month.
“Black History transcends political correctness and partisanship,” he continued. “Overall, the NMAAHC honors its mission, but it is unfortunate to see pitfalls likely driven by irresponsible bias.”
“Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is a notable figure in Black history and American history as one of only two Black men to serve on the nation’s highest court,” he wrote. Thomas “persevered to become a stalwart figure in the American judicial system and history.”
Thomas, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/02/us/from-poverty-to-the-bench-clarence-thomas.html">descendant</a> of slaves, was sent at a young age to live with his grandparents because his single mother struggled to provide for him and his younger brother.
“As a Black man who has a profound respect for the contributions Justice Thomas has propitiated for generations to come, this museum must encapsulate his life as it does for hundreds of other monumental Black figures,” Donalds wrote. He concluded his letter saying that Thomas’ exhibit in the museum “falls short” of honoring the contributions of the supreme court justice when compared to his predecessor, former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Thomas’ place in the museum has been controversial since the museum’s opening in 2016. When the museum first opened its doors, Thomas’ contributions to the legal profession were not mentioned in what some critics alleged was evidence of the political bias of the museum’s curators.
The late Ronald Rotunda, then a law professor at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law at Chapman University, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/25/clarence-thomas-spot-african-american-museum/">slammed</a> the museum in 2017 after it added mention of Thomas’ work in an exhibit with Marshall.
“Like Thurgood Marshall, he has been a very influential justice, and like Thurgood Marshall, he has risen from humble beginnings,” Rotunda said. “His father left him, his grandparents raised him. The 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. turned him to the law. He left a successful corporate law practice and turned to public service. That path led him to the Supreme Court.”
Rotunda said he was surprised “that it has taken so long” for the museum add Thomas to an exhibit and honor him as a “seminal figure on the U.S. Supreme Court.”

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Black Lawmakers, Leaders Slam Black History Museum, Say Clarence Thomas Exhibit ‘Falls Short’

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Last week, I was invited to meet with the Utah House and Senate Democrats to both introduce myself and give them insight into the conservative values I hold dear. Serendipitously, it gave me the opportunity to discuss my upbringing only a few days ahead of the federally marked “Black History Month” of February.
I was fortunate to have been raised during the 1960s south in a remarkably successful black community. At that time, my race — in much the same way as many others — was decades away from experiencing anything close to the present cultural assimilation we see today.
Although segregated, each community shared common ground; they were proud Americans who felt meritocracy was the pathway to respect. These past generations framed their cultures on basic truths: love of God, family, country and a respect for women and authority.
Nationwide, the black community commanded respect through their commitment to education and success. Across two decades after World War II, they represented our nations’ ​most competitive community by leading the nation with its growth of the middle class, men graduating from college, men committed to marriage and the percentage of risk-taking business owners. Growing up with this experience has given me a platform to speak in real terms, not hypothetically, about the present state of the black community and the lessons that apply to our nation today.
For the last six decades, this community of promise has been in a precipitous free-fall. The death, destruction and systemic racism found in every majority black communities — such as Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, and Oakland — is not caused by some form of 1960​’​s-style white supremacy. Instead, responsibility lays at the feet of the radical leftist ideologies of politicians, both black and white, who wielded complete policy control over these communities. The same policies that upended my community of promise are now being unleashed by what I call the “AOC and Bernie Wing” of government.
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Thinking of my younger self and the liberal philosophy I believed in over 30 years ago, I realized that, though we seek a different path, conservatives and traditional liberals have the same general objective: a bright future for our children where they can thrive in a society of sensible foreign policy, freedom of religion and thought, access to quality education, opportunity for rewarding careers and successful businesses, respect for the nuclear family unit, criminal justice reform, and safety.
This realization also lead to the recognization of the ever-present existence of the dark, destructive and divisive side of the Democratic party. Having failed to articulate this more effectively earlier, I took the opportunity to apologize to my many liberal friends last week in the Utah State Capitol building, for inadvertently mischaracterizing them as members of the aforementioned “AOC &amp; Bernie Wing,” something which never have been done.
What exactly is the “AOC &amp; Bernie Wing?” It can be summarized within the tenants and action items of the Marxist organization, Black Lives Matter. Their goal has been to disrupt the nuclear family, destroy capitalism through global liberation movements, defund the police and end our right to worship God. Its strategy remains consistent over the decades: to impose misery upon those they claim to protect in exchange for political power.
President Biden​’s​ first week of executive orders exposed the callus heart of the “AOC &amp; Bernie Wing.” With the stroke of a pen, Biden​ eliminated tens of thousands of good paying jobs, disrespected the sovereignty of thousands of Ute Native Americans, forced the American taxpayer to fund abortions worldwide, and opened our southern borders to illegal immigrants, thereby exposing Americans to COVID-19, crime and lethal drugs.
Emboldened by this wing, millions of Americans have been labeled as domestic terrorists, Big Tech has cancelled free speech, and Big Hedge Funds have eliminated main street investors.
It was this wing that allowed small businesses in their minority communities to be destroyed while giving rioters room to “express” themselves.
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It is this wing of heartless, greedy and wealthy teachers’ union leaders who seek to use our children as bargaining chips as they refuse to go back to work, although they’ve already been paid over $64 billion to do so.
It is this wing that — through edict — took away the American Democrat, Independent and Republicans’ right to worship, or to open their small business or schools.
My liberal friends, it is the “AOC &amp; Bernie Wing,” deep within your ranks, that has given you a bad name. Hidden for decades behind the mantra of a ​“c​aring” Democratic party, it works to destroy our fellow Americans under anonymity of white sheets, behind black masks, behind the safety of college tenures, behind bureaucratic titles and the credibility of once respected brand name companies or newspapers.
To this wing which has become well ensconced within the Democrat Party, I will never apologize, but will instead do all within my power to defeat. To my liberal friends who love this country, I hope you​’​ll take the time to recognize that we have a common goal, and that your Republican friends are not your enemy when it comes to achieving such an objective.
Let’s not allow the extremism of the “AOC &amp; Bernie Wing” to divide us. Let’s continue to talk, debate and respectfully ​“a​gree to disagree” as proud Americans. As we do so, we will defeat the dark and destructive anti-American ideology that has kept us divided for too long.
United, ​“​We The People” can give our children the American promise fought so hard for by every previous generation.
My liberal Friends, welcome to the party.
Burgess Owens is a former NFL star and Super Bowl Champion who now serves Utah&#8217;s 4th District in Congress.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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On Monday, Burgess Owens, a former NFL player and vocal critic of Colin Kaepernick, was declared the winner of Utah’s 4th Congressional District. 
Despite running against an incumbent and trailing by 11% in final polling, Owens prevailed in a race deemed a “toss-up” by Cook Political Report, a “nonpartisan” election and campaign analysis group popular among legacy media outlets. 
Ahead of the 2020 election, Cook <a href="https://cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">listed</a> 27 races as “toss-ups,” meaning they were too close to predict one way or the other. Republicans won all 27.
That’s not a typo. Despite being assured by that conservatism was about to drown beneath an impending “blue wave,” Republicans won every single close race.
Republicans also won all 26 races deemed “leaning or likely Republican,” and even picked up 7 of the 36 seats listed as “leaning or likely Democrat.” 
Despite nearly unanimous predictions that Democrats would further cement control of the House, they now hold just a 218-204 advantage, with Republicans poised to pick up more seats, as they lead in 8 of the remaining 13 races.
Republican dominance in supposedly 50-50 districts is yet another reminder of just how wrong polls were in 2020, and how wrong they have been for some time. What should embarrass pollsters most, though, is not the fact that they were wrong, but how one-sided they were in the process.
Across the board, pollsters routinely underrepresented support for Republicans while falsely painting a picture of impending Democrat dominance. Are the American people supposed to think that it’s a coincidence that nearly every time a poll missed the mark in 2020 — which was often — it was in favor of Democrats? 
How many state and federal races were impacted by incorrect polling that showed stronger support for Democrats than actually existed? Think of the donors who refrained from giving to a candidate because the polls indicated that the race was already over. How many candidates missed out on key endorsements or support from outside entities because they were viewed as a lost cause? 
We’ll never know the answer to these questions, but what we do know is that pollsters will continue to mislead and misinform so long as they have a media willing to prop them up. It’s a cycle we’ve seen far too often: the leftist legacy media creates a narrative, then promotes polls which reinforce that narrative. When the polls turn out to be an inaccurate representation of reality — like in 2016, 2018 and 2020 — the media quickly moves on to the next news cycle, never taking responsibility or facing retribution for the error in their ways. 
Will the American people ever wake up and demand more? Will they stop funding the legacy media which propagates the failed predictions of pollsters en masse? Right now, it’s hard to say. I guess you could call it a toss-up.
Cabot Phillips is Managing Editor of the Daily Wire’s Readers Pass. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/cabot_phillips">@cabot_phillips</a>
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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