The U.S. Senate has become more polarized during President Joe Biden&#8217;s tenure, with Democrats and Republicans increasingly playing the role of hard-liners even though leadership on the Republican side of the aisle remains moderate, according to a new study from the CPAC Foundation&#8217;s Center for Legislative Accountability.
The group assigns scores to lawmakers based on how often they took the more conservative position — Democrats voted the conservative position only 2% of the time, whereas Republicans took the conservative position only 80% of the time — a far cry from the 98% that would be expected if Republicans were the mirror image of modern-day Democrats.
Senate Republicans have been led by Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who is one of the most moderate members of the Senate, behind only Mitt Romney (R-UT) at 59%, Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) at 55%, and Susan Collins (R-ME) at 54%, according to the ratings.
But the rank-and-file membership is growing more conservative with each election cycle. Two old-time, big-spending appropriators from southern states were replaced by modern conservatives when Katie Britt replaced Richard Shelby in Alabama, and Eric Schmitt replaced Roy Blunt in Missouri.
In two historically purple states, moderate GOP senators were replaced by more conservative ones as Ted Budd replaced Richard Burr in North Carolina and JD Vance replaced Rob Portman in Ohio.
That means Republican leadership is increasingly out of step with members it represents, and likely will continue to be. The two announced candidates to replace McConnell, who is retiring, are not much more conservative. John Thune (R-SD) has a score of 71%, and John Cornyn (R-TX) has a score of 79%.
Moderates in leadership make it more likely to avoid legislative stalemate by agreeing to compromise with Democrats given that Democrats control the Senate, while Republicans hold the House. But they also mean that leadership is increasingly out of step with the rank-and-file, as moderate Republicans have been replaced by hard-liners, <a href="https://acu-ratings-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/ACU_Ratings_US-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the analysis found</a>.
While both parties still have some senators who are known as moderates, the statistics show that Republican moderates are more likely to take liberal positions than purported Democrat moderates are to take conservative votes.
&#8220;Despite being touted by the media as ‘moderates,’ the highest scoring Democrats in the U.S. Senate received the following paltry scores: Joe Manchin (D-WV-30%), Jon Tester (D-MT-15%), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ-12%),&#8221; CPAC&#8217;s report said. &#8220;The true moderates are not in the Democrat party, but instead are Republicans like Sen. Susan Collins (MA) – 54%, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (AK) &#8211; 55%, and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) &#8211; 59%.&#8221;
The only member with a perfect conservative score on CPAC&#8217;s study in the Senate was Mike Lee of Utah.
A Daily Wire series previously explored why <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deep-red states like Utah and Wyoming often send moderates</a>, like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney, to Washington, even as deep-blue locations send hard-line ideologues.

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Study Finds That GOP Senators Are More Conservative Than Predecessors

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This is a portion of a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pdm3riVNJ4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> delivered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> at CPAC on Thursday, February 22, 2024.
The decline of religion in America has eroded our identity at every level — from national politics all the way down to the basic unit of society: the family. Marriage, after all, is nothing other than a symbol of God’s love for his people. It’s no wonder, then, that many people today don’t even know what marriage is. Many people today seem to think that marriage can be whatever we want it to be. 
They sound like Humpty Dumpty, who tells Alice in Wonderland that when he uses a word “it means just what” he chooses “it to mean — neither more nor less.” When Alice asks Humpty Dumpty “whether one can” really “make words mean so many different things,” Humpty Dumpty responds, “The question is which is to be master — that’s all.”
We’re living through the looking glass and that is precisely the way the liberals think. They really believe that they are masters of the universe. They think they’re gods, who can create the world anew through the power of their words. But they aren’t and they can’t. They can’t really turn men into women. They can’t really turn a couple of men, or a couple of women — or three men and a billy goat, for that matter — into a marriage.
That’s just not what marriage is. No disrespect intended to anyone. Some people don’t want to get married. Okay, there’s no obligation. Marriage is not for everyone. But marriage has a meaning. Marriage is and always has been the union of a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation and education of children. If you don’t like that, don’t blame me. I didn’t make the rules. It wasn’t the mean old conservatives who invented marriage. Marriage is a natural institution. It just is what it is.
The Left will slander us as “hateful” for observing this fact. But there’s nothing hateful about it. There’s nothing hateful about reality. Quite the opposite, the truth sets us free. I’ll tell you what’s hateful. What’s hateful is to live — and to force others to live — according to lies. Liberals can rewrite the definition of any word they please, but they can’t make men give birth, they can’t make women conceive children on their own, and they can’t ultimately change reality.
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So they tell more lies. They claim today that individuals have a “right” to a child. But of course no one can ever have the “right” to a child because children are people. And no one has the “right” to another person — because those people have rights themselves.
In our national identity crisis, we no longer recognize those rights. We no longer recognize people. Increasingly, we treat people as objects. We treat children as commodities to be bought and sold — designer babies to be purchased on the open market of the surrogacy industry so that adults can live out their fantasies. But those fantasies come at a cost — they come at the cost of creating children intentionally to deprive them of their natural mothers and fathers.
Absolutely ghastly but not surprising. We’re talking about people who claim the right to kill babies when the babies are inconvenient. If we have the right to kill babies, surely we have the right to buy and sell them too. If we have the right to give and take innocent human life, then we have the right to do anything — we’re as free as God himself.
But we aren’t God and increasingly we aren’t free. We’re less free today than we’ve ever been in this country. Because there’s no such thing as freedom without limits. Everything in this life comes with a tradeoff. It comes at a cost. People gain the “freedom” to get rid of babies they don’t want; the cost is that babies lose the freedom to live. Men gain the freedom to use the women’s bathroom; women lose the freedom to have their own bathrooms. Foreigners gain the freedom to enter our country as they please; Americans lose the freedom to make our own laws. Drug addicts gain the “freedom” to shoot fentanyl on the sidewalk; citizens lose the “freedom” to walk their sidewalks in safety and peace.
The “freedom” liberals offer is the dubious freedom of the drug addict. It’s the “freedom” to follow our lowest appetites, to deny our reason, and ultimately to destroy ourselves. It’s the “freedom” of Satan in “Paradise Lost” to make “a Hell of Heaven” and “a Heaven of Hell.” It’s the “freedom” of abject slavery, and it has made a hell of our country everywhere it’s taken hold.
The “freedom” the liberals promise is liberation from all limits: liberation from borders, from laws, standards, norms, family — even from biology. It’s a false freedom — a siren song. To liberate a nation from its borders is to erase the nation. To liberate a people from its family and its laws and customs is to erase the people. To liberate a man from his body is to kill the man.
True freedom is not the license to languish alone in ever-stranger fantasies but rather the right to flourish — all of us together — in reality. True freedom, to borrow another <a href="https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/time-choosing-speech-october-27-1964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">phrase</a> from Ronald Reagan, is a “national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.” How do we know what’s morally right? Because we have brains — even the liberals. They don’t always use them. But they have them. (Most of them do. I think.)
We have reason, and we have moral conscience. We know the difference between truth and falsehood, right and wrong. We know the difference between a man and a woman. We know the difference between an American and everyone else. Our problem is not so much one of confusion as cowardice. If we lose our identity, the fault will lie with our refusal to acknowledge our convictions and act on them.
Governor Bradford and <a href="https://pilgrimhall.org/william_bradford.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the earliest</a> Americans faced a similar crisis of identity. So they left a world of charming comforts and false freedom because, “they knew they were pilgrims, and looked not much on those things, but lifted up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits.”
Our forebears knew who they were. The moment we once again follow in their footsteps is the moment we will remember who we are too.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> used his speech at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CPAC</a>) near Washington, D.C., on Saturday to rail against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> in anticipation of a 2020 rematch in November.
The remarks lasted roughly 90 minutes and featured some of Trump&#8217;s trademark antics, such as <a href="https://twitter.com/AFpost/status/1761474995853922700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kissing</a> the American flag, as well as his plans for a second term — including a pledge to <a href="https://twitter.com/CPAC/status/1761484441136881769" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secure the southern border</a> and &#8220;drill, baby, drill&#8221; upon returning to office.
At multiple junctures, Trump employed the &#8220;Crooked Joe Biden&#8221; nickname. He mocked Biden&#8217;s mental state, even throwing in a couple impersonations to the delight of the audience, and insisted that the people running the country are &#8220;destroying it.&#8221;
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“He is the most incompetent…whatever happened to the cocaine that they found at the White House, where is it?“ President Trump delivers remarks at CPAC 2024 in Washington, D.C.
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Trump pitched himself as a <a href="https://twitter.com/CPAC/status/1761493684799918145" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;common sense&#8221;</a> force who can guide the United States out of the &#8220;Biden nightmare&#8221; and restore the country&#8217;s standing in the world if re-elected.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to be respected like we&#8217;ve never been respected before, and it won&#8217;t take long,&#8221; he said.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &quot;I&#39;m conservative, but the words are common sense. Our country is run by people that are destroying it. We&#39;re not going to let it happen again.
We&#39;re going to have a great military. Everything in our country is going to function properly again. It&#39;s going to… <a href="https://t.co/uiaPUHJ3G1">pic.twitter.com/uiaPUHJ3G1</a>
&mdash; CPAC (@CPAC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CPAC/status/1761493684799918145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Trump said &#8220;migrant crime&#8221; has become prevalent during Biden&#8217;s tenure, among other issues with border security. On the topic of foreign policy, Trump criticized Biden over the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine. And Trump dubbed himself a <a href="https://twitter.com/CPAC/status/1761473672760455552" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;political dissident&#8221;</a> as he decried the myriad prosecutions he faces while running his campaign.
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&#8220;To achieve a great future we first have to throw off the chains of our out-of-control political class and that begins with telling Crooked Joe Biden, &#8216;You&#8217;re fired!'&#8221; Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1761474370009223221" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, employing a catchphrase from his reality TV show &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221; on NBC.
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TRUMP: “To achieve a great future we first have to throw off the chains of our out-of-control political class and that begins with telling crooked Joe Biden, ‘YOU’RE FIRED!” <a href="https://t.co/ViBnpm08fu">pic.twitter.com/ViBnpm08fu</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1761474370009223221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Trump took aim at the &#8220;Washington cesspool&#8221; and said the movement behind his 2016 victory &#8220;gave these corrupt insiders their chance to change, and with Biden, they answered with hoaxes and witch hunts, censorship, lockdowns, and with total repression.&#8221;
Looking ahead to the general election, Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1761474521721196983" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;For hard-working Americans, November 5 will be our new liberation day. But, for the liars and cheaters and fraudsters and censors and imposters who have commandeered our government, it will be their judgment day.&#8221;
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“&#8230;November 5th will be our new liberation day. But, for the liars and cheaters…it will be their judgment day!” President Trump delivers remarks at CPAC 2024 in Washington, D.C.
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&mdash; RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) <a href="https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1761474521721196983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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California Governor Gavin Newsom, a top campaign surrogate for Biden who is widely seen as a presidential contender for the Democrats in the future, also got a mention.
Trump said <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1761489888241926556" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;in a certain way,&#8221;</a> he hopes Newsom runs because the governor &#8220;destroyed&#8221; his state.
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Trump takes aim at Gov. Newsom, says he could easily defeat Newsom if he were to launch presidential bid because Newsom has “DESTROYED CALIFORNIA.” <a href="https://t.co/SnJTztO4RJ">pic.twitter.com/SnJTztO4RJ</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1761489888241926556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The speech took place as voters cast ballots South Carolina&#8217;s GOP primary. Trump still has a Republican rival in Nikki Haley, the former governor of the state, but he did not use his CPAC remarks to dwell on the nomination fight for very long.
After contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and the Virgin Islands, Trump has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/republican-primary-delegates-tracker-calendar.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">63 delegates</a> while Haley has 17. A candidate requires 1,215 delegates to win the nomination.

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Trump At CPAC: Let’s Fire ‘Crooked Joe Biden,’ Break Out Of The ‘Nightmare’

Trump At CPAC: Let's Fire 'Crooked Joe Biden,' Break Out Of The 'Nightmare'

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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles&#8217; speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has outraged the Left for the second consecutive year — this time for his remarks on marriage.
Knowles took the CPAC stage on Thursday, where he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-takes-stage-at-cpac-says-democrat-led-invasion-of-southern-border-worsened-americas-identity-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave a speech</a> focusing on America&#8217;s &#8220;identity crisis&#8221; and illegal immigration, among other topics. The speech came a year after his remarks at CPAC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-knew-the-libs-were-going-to-run-with-it-knowles-says-call-to-eradicate-transgender-ideology-cornered-left-wing-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">triggered backlash</a> from leftists when the Daily Wire host said that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life.” Some media outlets falsely reported that Knowles called for the eradication of trans-identifying people when the host had instead <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-to-eradicate-transgenderism-from-public-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focused his speech</a> on ridding society of trans ideology.
During his speech this year, Knowles touched on another social issue and once again sparked the leftists&#8217; rage.
&#8220;They can&#8217;t really turn a couple of men or a couple of women, or three men and a billy goat for that matter, into a marriage,&#8221; Knowles said. &#8220;That&#8217;s just not what marriage is. No disrespect is intended to anyone. Some people don&#8217;t want to get married — okay, there&#8217;s no obligation, but marriage has a meaning.&#8221;
&#8220;Marriage is and always has been the union of a man and a woman, ordered toward the procreation and education of children&#8221; Knowles continued. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t like that, don&#8217;t blame me. I didn&#8217;t set the rules. It wasn&#8217;t the mean old conservatives who did this; we did not invent marriage. Marriage is a natural institution.&#8221;
&#8220;The Left will slander us as hateful for observing this fact,&#8221; Knowles added.
Shortly after Knowles made the comments on marriage, President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign team posted on X: &#8220;Top Trump advocate at CPAC echos MAGA’s Project 2025 plan to go after marriage equality during a second Trump term: Marriage is a man and a woman.&#8221;
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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) also <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1760881126371995732" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the Daily Wire host&#8217;s remarks, writing, &#8220;The <a class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/GOP">@GOP</a> are telling us who they are. We should listen.&#8221;
Knowles responded to the Biden campaign on X, pointing out that then-Sen. Biden said in 2006 that &#8220;marriage is between a man and a woman.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m just paraphrasing you, Mr. President!&#8221; Knowles wrote.
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I’m just paraphrasing you, Mr. President!
“Marriage is between a man and a woman.” —<a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> <a href="https://t.co/xw4iqCPa1L">https://t.co/xw4iqCPa1L</a> <a href="https://t.co/u7fzToT5Qg">pic.twitter.com/u7fzToT5Qg</a>
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Knowles also <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1760888599271047286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot back</a> at Newsom.
&#8220;The GOP is telling you that we believe what the Democrats and everyone else for all of history believed until ~2015. You should, in fact, listen!&#8221; he said.
Biden&#8217;s view on marriage appeared to change drastically following the Supreme Court&#8217;s Obergefell v. Hodges decision in 2015, which ruled that a union of same-sex couples is protected as a marriage under the Constitution. While running for the White House on the ticket with Barack Obama in 2008, Biden <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/elections/2008/president/debates/transcripts/vice-presidential-debate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a debate against Sarah Palin that he didn&#8217;t support gay marriage.
&#8220;Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage,&#8221; Biden stated.
By December of 2022, Biden had completely flipped on the issue. Before signing the &#8220;Respect for Marriage&#8221; Act, which requires the federal government and all 50 states to recognize a same-sex union as a marriage, the president <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/12/13/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-at-signing-of-h-r-8404-the-respect-for-marriage-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Deciding whether to marry, who to marry is one of the most profound decisions a person can make,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Marriage — I mean this with all my heart — marriage is a simple proposition: Who do you love, and will you be loyal with that person you love?  It’s not more complicated than that.&#8221;

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Biden Campaign, Dems Attack Michael Knowles Over Marriage Comments. Biden Has Said The Same Thing.

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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles took the stage at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, where he discussed America’s “identity crisis” and the disunity caused by the illegal immigration crisis.
Knowles’ <a href="https://rumble.com/v4f0r6t-cpac-in-dc-2024-watch-now.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CPAC speech</a> comes a year after his remarks at the conservative event <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-knew-the-libs-were-going-to-run-with-it-knowles-says-call-to-eradicate-transgender-ideology-cornered-left-wing-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">triggered backlash</a> from leftists after the Daily Wire host said that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life.” Some media outlets falsely reported that Knowles called for the eradication of transgender people when the host had instead <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-to-eradicate-transgenderism-from-public-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focused his speech</a> on ridding society of the trans ideology. This year, Knowles focused on how the U.S. must focus on unity, not diversity, arguing that for the country to find its identity, it must get back to acknowledging the principles it was founded upon.
“What that whole little kerfuffle demonstrated,” Knowles said, referring to the Left&#8217;s response to his speech last year, “was that America is experiencing an identity crisis. We no longer know who we are.”
“Lots of little errors have led to our present identity crisis. The most obvious being that we no longer have functional borders,” the Daily Wire host continued. “Over the past three years, Joe Biden has invited almost six million foreigners into our country illegally.”
Knowles then slammed one party in particular for allowing the massive influx of illegal immigrants into the country.
“This Democrat-led invasion is the largest human trafficking operation in human history,” Knowles said. “The vast majority of Americans knows that it&#8217;s wrong. The vast majority of Americans wants it to come to an end, but we are told that we must tolerate the destruction of our borders and the invasion of our country because we are a nation of immigrants.”
The conservative commentator disputed the argument that the U.S. is “a nation of immigrants,” saying that “neither that phrase nor that sentiment appears anywhere in our founding documents.”
He added that the common phrase was hard to find anywhere until the mid-1960s when the Democratic Party instituted its policy in support of mass migration.
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“They believed as they believe today that doing so would give them a permanent electoral majority,” said Knowles. “Even so, we are told, we must tolerate this cynical political trick because ‘diversity is our strength.&#8217;”
The Daily Wire host then argued that America’s strength is not found in its diversity but in its unity. Knowles said that for most of the country’s history, America placed tight restrictions on immigrants, “not because we didn’t like immigrants, we liked them very much … but we had always understood, as all wise statesman had understood, that a country with an unlimited influx of unassimilated foreign people becomes unstable and risks losing its very identity.”

Michael Knowles Takes Stage At CPAC, Says ‘Democrat-Led Invasion’ Of Southern Border Worsened America’s ‘Identity Crisis’

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Democrat state lawmakers are more unified and committed to a leftist ideology than Republican lawmakers are to conservatism, according to a report from the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Republicans voted for conservative policies 77% of the time, while Democrats voted for liberal policies 87% of the time, according to the <a href="https://www.digital.cpac.org/foundation/centers-legislative-accountability">analysis</a> of all 7,400 lawmakers in the 50 statehouses during last year&#8217;s legislative sessions.
The study by CPAC&#8217;s affiliated Center for Legislative Accountability concluded that Democrats were more likely to &#8220;stick together&#8221; on issues important to the party&#8217;s base, while Republicans &#8220;broke apart.&#8221;
&#8220;Republicans run on conservative promises, but after they win more of them abandon the tough votes on key conservative policies when compared to Democrats whose first rule is to stick together,” the group said. “Our analysis shows how moderate Republicans broke apart on key issues like parental choice in education, securing strong voter ID, or putting a stop to COVID mandates.”
The analysis found a mismatch between the desires of the populace and how state representatives acted.
Ranking among the 10 states with the most liberal Republican lawmakers were Mississippi, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Idaho. That&#8217;s despite Republicans holding strong majorities in those legislatures, and the state&#8217;s population overwhelmingly voting for Republican in election after election.
As a group, Mississippi Republican lawmakers had an average conservative score of 58%, making them less conservative than Republicans in New Jersey, Maryland, and Oregon. The state where Republicans voted most conservative was a swing state: Wisconsin.
The findings emphasize that the states advancing conservative legislation are not doing it because of legislative dominance, but because of committed policymaking. Florida, for example, is a traditionally swing state in presidential elections, and Republicans don&#8217;t hold nearly the percentage of seats in the state legislature that they do in places like Wyoming. But those Florida Republicans take full advantage of the majority they do have, with a conservative score of 89%.
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Looking at state lawmakers regardless of party, West Virginia was rated the most conservative in the country. Not only did Republicans dominate the chamber, but they were also complemented by Democrats who were not particularly liberal.
The most-radical Democrats were in New Jersey, where they had a 0% conservative ranking, followed by Colorado, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maine, and Oregon, at 1%.
A 2021 analysis by The Daily Wire, which relied in part on CPAC&#8217;s categorizations of state bills, led to similar conclusions.
“The red states are actually the worst” when it comes to moderate Republicans, Andrew Roth, president of the State Freedom Caucus Network, told The Daily Wire in 2021. “A lot of Democrats know they can’t get elected with a D next to their name, so they put an R next to their name and then vote like liberals.”
The exact reason for the failure of the most conservative state legislatures to behave like conservatives is unknown. Candidates who are more apolitical tend to run as Republicans, since it&#8217;s the only way to win elections in deep red pockets of the country. The result is that statehouses in 2022 follow a similar pattern as local school boards: Often liberal even in conservative places, with few voters paying enough attention to local politics to notice.
Activists say that if the goal is conservative policy rather than just winning elections, voters and big donors alike should shift their focus from congressional seats and the presidency to state laws in red states, where they can notch wins and show the rest of the nation the result of conservative policies.
“Conservatives need to get real that maybe spending all this money on congressional races to get one vote that doesn’t actually affect policy is not nearly as meaningful as spending money in states where the money goes further and they can actually implement policy,” Thomas Bradbury, CPAC&#8217;s director of policy and advocacy, said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it">19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows">Why Did Wyoming Kill School Choice? Deep-Red States Often Don’t Act Like It, Data Shows</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals">Why Legislatures In The Deep-Red States That Sent Romney And Cheney To Washington ‘Vote Like Liberals’</a>
How conservative were the Republicans in your statehouse in 2022?
1. Wisconsin: 94% 
2. Michigan: 93% 
3. New Hampshire: 92% 
4. California: 91% 
5. Iowa: 90% 
6. Maine: 89% 
7. Colorado: 89% 
8. Florida: 89% 
9. North Carolina: 89% 
10. Pennsylvania: 87% 
11. West Virginia: 87% 
12. Georgia: 86% 
13. Ohio: 86% 
14. Kentucky: 86% 
15. Montana: 84% 
16. Tennessee: 84% 
17. Texas*: 83% 
18. Delaware: 82% 
19. Oklahoma: 81% 
20. Arizona: 81% 
21. Kansas: 80% 
22. Arkansas*: 79% 
23. Alabama: 78% 
24. Washington: 78% 
25. Minnesota: 78% 
26. Louisiana: 77% 
27. Missouri: 77% 
28. South Carolina: 77% 
29. Massachusetts: 75% 
30. Indiana: 75% 
31. New York: 74% 
32. Vermont: 74% 
33. Rhode Island: 74% 
34. Utah: 74% 
35. North Dakota*: 73% 
36. Virginia: 73% 
37. Illinois: 72% 
38. New Mexico: 71% 
39. Nevada*: 70% 
40. Idaho: 68% 
41. South Dakota: 68% 
42. Oregon: 68% 
43. Wyoming: 66% 
44. Maryland: 65% 
45. New Jersey: 59% 
46. Mississippi: 58% 
47. Alaska: 57% 
48. Connecticut: 54% 
49. Hawaii: 26%

Texas Legislature Returns For Third Special Session

Dem Lawmakers Vote For Leftism In Lockstep, While Republicans Routinely Abandon Conservatism, Analysis Finds

Florida

Red States

Wyoming

The group behind the Conservative Political Action Committee released its annual analysis of Congress’ voting records and slammed Senate Republicans, giving Minority Leader Mitch McConnell the lowest conservative rating of his 38-year career.
Through the coronavirus-fueled spending spree, Democrats were often “aided by RINO/establishment Republicans, many of them Old Bulls who announced their retirement,” chairman Matt Schlapp wrote, calling it “shameful” that a “$1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill passed two days before Christmas with Republican leadership’s acquiescence.”
The American Conservative Union&#8217;s <a href="http://ratings.conservative.org/people?state=US&amp;year=2022&amp;level=state&amp;orderBy=rating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ratings</a> for 2022 reveal a sharp contrast between the leadership of McConnell, who received a 56%, and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who received a 91%. Scott led the National Republican Senatorial Committee and repeatedly sparred with McConnell, while cultivating his own group of emerging leaders that called themselves the “breakfast club.”
Breakfast Club members included Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana, who both received a perfect 100% rating from CPAC. (<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/breakfast-club-gop-senators-calling-official-conference-meeting-wednes-rcna61597" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC</a> reported that Braun is an “unofficial” member of the club.) Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky also received a perfect score. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, another member of the Breakfast Club, received an honorable mention at 97%.
McConnell’s lieutenants in the current Republican leadership included Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota, who received an 81%, Conference Chairman Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, at 89%, Policy Committee Chair Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, at 74%, and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who was vice chair of the Republican Conference despite having a conservative score of only 53%.
McConnell is 81 years old and joined the Senate in 1985. Scott is 70 and joined the Senate in 2019 after serving as governor of Florida. McConnell&#8217;s ACU score was down eight points from 2021.
Thomas Bradbury, who helped craft the ratings for the American Conservative Union, said who is in leadership is “really important” in part because the tone for what it means to be conservative is set “from the top down.”
In the House, the members who received a perfect score were Reps. Michael Cloud and Chip Roy from Texas, Bob Good of Virginia, Jody Hice and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Debbie Lesko of Arizona, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Mary Miller of Illionis, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Matt Rosendale of Montana, and Greg Steube of Florida.
The average Senate Republican got a 78%, while the average House Republican got an 80%.
Moderate Republican senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine received 43% and 38%, respectively.
The lowest-scoring House Republican was Brian Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent from Pennslyvania, at 24%. Second-worst was John Katko of New York, at 26%. Third-worst was former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed to the anti-Trump January 6 committee and who is now a CNN contributor.
The scores were based on congressmen’s votes on key bills, including ones that CPAC opposed and described as federalizing elections, bailing out the postal service, and nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
The list also included votes on bills that CPAC supported, including ones they described as blocking vaccine mandates, killing earmarks, and sending billions to Ukraine without oversight.
The Senate was split 50-50 among the parties in 2022, meaning that Republicans had little chance of passing a bill unless all of them were united.
Dozens of Senate Republicans voted for a “continuing resolution” that CPAC said gave Democrats leverage by giving them another week to negotiate a spending deal before a government shutdown kicked in.
CPAC’s ratings have proven crucial to determining whether Republicans voted the way they campaigned. The group also rates state lawmakers, and The Daily Wire used those voting scores for a multi-part analysis of state legislatures that found that, shockingly, the more of a majority that Republicans had in a state, the more moderate its Republican lawmakers behaved once in office.
Montana Republican lawmakers, for example, behaved more moderately than California Republicans, essentially just putting an R behind their name so they could win the election.
In some states, an establishment of moderate Republicans allegedly retaliated against conservative members, with the South Carolina legislature booting “Freedom Caucus” members from the Republican caucus.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Did Wyoming Kill School Choice? Deep-Red States Often Don’t Act Like It, Data Shows</a>
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Senators Meet For Policy Luncheons On Capitol Hill

CPAC Releases Conservative Rankings–Mitch McConnell’s Lowest In 38 Years

CPAC Releases Conservative Rankings--Mitch McConnell’s Lowest In 38 Years

Mike Lee

Senate

Thomas Massie

The Daily Wire podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-knowles">Michael Knowles</a> said that he expected the media to come after him for his comments about transgender ideology, but accusations of genocide took him by surprise.
Knowles joined Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his Monday evening broadcast to discuss the comments he made at last weekend&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) — along with the media&#8217;s quick and virulent response.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> on being accused of genocide by media outlets: 
&quot;They just put words into my mouth that I never said&#8230;The libel laws in the United States have quite a high threshold to actually sue. This meets that threshold.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HCMKEt0voK">pic.twitter.com/HCMKEt0voK</a>
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&#8220;The dumber the lie, the more viciously obedience to that lie must be enforced. So now all of a sudden you are expected to believe that anyone, even children can change their biological sex at will,&#8221; Carlson began.
He then shared a clip of Knowles <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/knowles-at-cpac-there-is-no-meeting-halfway-between-truth-and-falsehood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking at CPAC</a>, saying that the approach to transgenderism had to be &#8220;all or nothing&#8221; — it was either true or it wasn&#8217;t, and he was certain that it wasn&#8217;t.
<blockquote>If transgenderism is true — if men really can become women and women really can become men — then it is true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false, as it is — if men really can&#8217;t become women, as they cannot — then it&#8217;s false for everybody too. And if it&#8217;s false, then we should not indulge it, especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people. If it is false, then for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, “transgenderism” must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.</blockquote>
But shortly after Knowles spoke, critics began to accuse him of wanting transgender people to die and promoting genocide — when what he actually said was that the ideology that promotes transgenderism as a real thing was what had to be eradicated.
&#8220;Were you surprised that The Daily Beast, really the filthiest organ in American &#8216;journalism,&#8217; accused you of pushing genocide?&#8221; Carlson asked, turning to Knowles.
&#8220;I have been called all sorts of nasty things by the liberal press, Tucker, so I tend to expect everything,&#8221; Knowles began, conceding, &#8220;But I have to admit being accused of genocide did take me by surprise. That seemed extreme even for the fake news media.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it surprised a lot of lawyers as well,&#8221; Knowles continued, noting that a number of outlets ran with the accusation in bold-type headlines.
&#8220;You heard exactly what I said. I said that for the good of these people in particular — so presumably I don’t want to murder them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I talked about an ideology in particular. I’m not talking about eradicating any human beings. I’m talking about an ideology here. They said I wanted to commit genocide. I said this is libel, this is actionable libel. The libel laws in the United States have quite a high threshold to actually sue. This meets that threshold.&#8221;
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Knowles went on to say that as the day went on and headlines began to change, he got the impression that some of the outlets had received calls from their lawyers advising them to make changes or risk getting sued.

“Candace” Hosted By Candace Owens

Michael Knowles Tells Tucker Carlson Accusations Of Genocide Surprised Him: ‘Extreme Even For The Fake News’

Michael Knowles Said Accusations Of Genocide Surprised Him

Media

The Daily Wire

U.S.

A top official at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-national-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic National Committee</a> (DNC) on Saturday attacked critics of “woke” ideology as “anti-black.”
Lindy Li, the women’s co-chair and mid-Atlantic regional chair at the DNC, appeared on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/msnbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC</a> over the weekend to attack conservatives and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conservative Political Action Conference</a> (CPAC) that took place last week.
“Let’s be clear what anti-woke means. It’s anti-black. And I think people are very reluctant to say it, but I don’t mince any words, and that’s the truth. That&#8217;s their way of, you know, sounding the dog whistle without being extremely explicit,” Li said.
“Woke” as it is currently used refers to leftist policy and ideas, such as Critical Race Theory, transgender ideology, social justice, and political correctness. Many on the political Right use the term to denigrate policies that aim at speech censorship or equity, such as editing books for “sensitivity” or affirmative action policies that take race into account.
Defenders of “woke” policies say they are necessary to help disadvantaged groups.
Li also targeted a series of high-profile Republicans, CPAC, and the American Conservative Union (ACU).
“Let’s also not ignore the fact that CPAC has become a gathering of sexual predators,” Li said, before targeting ACU chairman Matt Schlapp and a group of conservative lawmakers over allegations of misconduct leveled against them — which have yet to be proved.
Li called former President Donald Trump, who delivered a keynote address at CPAC, a “serial rapist.”
“And then finally tonight, we have Trump, a serial rapist. And so this is the party that claims to be the party of Christian family values, and I have nothing to say or do but laugh at that,” Li said.
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After Li’s comment, the host of the show paused for several awkward moments before clarifying the network’s position on Li’s allegation against Trump and the others.
“I just want to be clear here, though, that it’s important to put out there that we understand the accusations that have been made, of course, against the former president,” the host said. “But I want to be clear, of course, that none of that has actually rung true as of yet. They’ve all been accusations, so far.”
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I dropped some truth bombs about the (alleged) sexual predators at CPAC and what &quot;anti-woke&quot; really means
It may not be pretty but this is the unvarnished truth
Please share widely
Huge thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/yasminv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yasminv</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/YasminMSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YasminMSNBC</a> for having me on! Warm shoutout to my friend <a href="https://twitter.com/only1deja_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@only1deja_</a> <a href="https://t.co/AMdjt00t8r">pic.twitter.com/AMdjt00t8r</a>
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Li is a Democratic Party partisan who at times has found herself the target of ire from the Left. She resigned her position as treasurer of the Pennsylvania Young Democrats in 2020 after making a series of social media posts critical of self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (I).
“This is like Bernie Bro behavior in real life,” said Li, blaming aggressive behavior by Sanders supporters for her departure. “I wasn’t always like this. They drove me to this.”

Lindy Li

DNC Official Lindy Li Claims Critics Of Woke Ideology Are ‘Anti-Black’

Democratic National Committee

MSNBC

Wokeness

Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-knowles">Michael Knowles</a> addressed his viral CPAC comments on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transgenderism</a> Monday, saying the remarks would not have been controversial before the Obama administration started pursuing pro-trans policies. 
Knowles opened his podcast on Monday by telling the audience that he was surprised by the firestorm that ensued, considering his comments match what he’s been saying about transgender ideology all along. 
“I was giving a speech on the main stage,” Knowles began. “I said something that I&#8217;ve said for many, many years. Something that everybody in the entire country agreed on until about five minutes ago. And I said that men and women are different and we shouldn&#8217;t pretend otherwise for the purposes of public life.”
“Put simply, eradicating transgenderism from public life would mean behaving as American society did before, say, 2015 &#8230; [when] we did not have any acceptance of transgenderism in public life,” Knowles continued. 
“And it started to be introduced into public life around 2015 when Barack Obama instituted transgender military policies and some liberals in North Carolina decided to invite men into the women&#8217;s bathroom and pass all sorts of weird ordinances about bathrooms.”
Knowles mentioned how several media outlets took the opportunity to distort his remarks, making it sound like he was calling for the eradication of people who identify as transgender when really he was talking about the concept of transgenderism itself.
“The press decided to call me a genocidal maniac. I have been called many crazy things by the libs over the years. I&#8217;ve been called all sorts of nasty names. Genocidal is a first,” he continued. 
Knowles recalled how the original Rolling Stone headline said, “CPAC speaker calls for transgender people to be eradicated,” and also mentioned similar headlines from The Daily Beast and Huffington Post, which were also later revised.
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“The idea that I or anybody else called for trans people to be eradicated is obviously a total lie,” Knowles said. “I choose my words, generally speaking, pretty carefully. I&#8217;m pretty precise in my language.” 
“If you want to eradicate a medical condition, you&#8217;re not saying you want to eradicate the patients. I don&#8217;t see how they could get that,” he continued, claiming the editors likely understood what he meant but intentionally misled their audiences with the erroneous headlines.
“I think they were acting with actual malice to libel me,” Knowles said. 
Knowles said that approving of transgenderism in adults but not in children is a losing strategy for conservatives, too. 
“You can&#8217;t deal with transgenderism only by saying we&#8217;re not going to trans the kids,” Knowles said. “I think there are a lot of conservatives who say, okay, look, if transgender adults, if a man wants to identify as a woman, he&#8217;s an adult, that&#8217;s fine. Just don&#8217;t do it to the kids. That&#8217;s missing the point. I actually think this is what motivated these news outlets to lie about what I said.”
He continued: “… If you want to deal with the transgender issue, it&#8217;s kind of all or nothing. Furthermore, the argument that the liberals make for trans the little kids is they say, transgenderism is real. A man can be a woman secretly, or a woman can be a man born into the wrong body.”
“You&#8217;re born that way. And so if you&#8217;re born that way, if it&#8217;s real, if that&#8217;s a true anthropology, then it&#8217;s got to be real for everybody. If transgenderism is real, then we certainly should trans the kids because the kids are already trans. And so to deny their true nature would be cruel.&#8221;
&#8220;The issue is transgenderism is not real for anybody,” Knowles concluded. “A man can&#8217;t really become a woman, and a woman can&#8217;t really become a man.”

Michael Knowles Doubles Down On Trans CPAC Comments That Set Internet Ablaze

Michael Knowles Doubles Down On CPAC Comments That Set Internet Ablaze

Michael Knowles touched off a firestorm with his call for an end to the ideology of transgenderism Saturday, but many people on social media agreed with him – especially after hearing what he actually said and not the erroneous claims by leftist media sites.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-reveals-what-conservatives-must-do-to-defeat-radical-gender-theory-during-cpac-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowles told a crowd at the conservative event</a>, formally known as the Conservative Political Action Conference, that men simply cannot become women, and women cannot become men, adding that society must help gender dysphoric people, not encourage them to seek sex changes.
“For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology — at every level,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-reveals-what-conservatives-must-do-to-defeat-radical-gender-theory-during-cpac-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowles told the gathering in Maryland</a>.
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He is of course completely right about this. Trangenderism as a concept and an ideology is false, poisonous, and destructive to both the individual and society. It needs to be destroyed entirely. The fight to save children from this lunacy is but one phase in the overall war. <a href="https://t.co/vn2YpIjiLW">https://t.co/vn2YpIjiLW</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1632391192523464705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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By Saturday night, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-falsely-frames-michael-knowles-call-for-end-to-transgenderism-as-genocide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several outlets were falsely reporting</a> that Knowles called for transgender people to be “eradicated,” even though he was clearly targeting an ideology, not a group of people. Some publications, including Rolling Stone and HuffPo, edited their headlines and stories to acknowledge that Knowles never called for “eradication” of any group of people. And when the dust began to settle, it turned out that Knowles had plenty of support for his argument.
“Transgenderism isn&#8217;t an orientation or anything we historically recognize; it&#8217;s an overwhelmingly new mimetic ideology where confrontationally transgressing against norms is part of the kink,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1632447458679595011?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted journalist Mark Hemingway</a>. “The trans community are the aggressors here.”
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Transgenderism isn&#39;t an orientation or anything we historically recognize; it&#39;s an overwhelmingly new mimetic ideology where confrontationally transgressing against norms is part of the kink. The trans community are the aggressors here. <a href="https://t.co/MaMxxH2hjJ">https://t.co/MaMxxH2hjJ</a>
&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1632447458679595011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Podcast star Liz Wheeler seconded Knowles’ call, saying the ideology he spoke out against is destructive toward children.
“Good day to everyone especially michaeljknowles who was absolutely correct when he said we should eradicate transgenderism &#8211; the cultural practice of indulging psychiatric delusion to the point of mutilating children’s healthy bodies &amp; erasing women,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1632462547365376000?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted Wheeler</a>.
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Good day to everyone especially <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> who was absolutely correct when he said we should eradicate transgenderism &#8211; the cultural practice of indulging psychiatric delusion to the point of mutilating children’s healthy bodies &amp; erasing women.<a href="https://t.co/klc9t305HL">pic.twitter.com/klc9t305HL</a>
&mdash; Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1632462547365376000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Joel Berry, managing editor of The Babylon Bee, also echoed Knowles’ appeal.
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Transgenderism has a horrific suicide rate. And radical gender ideology is inducing gender dysphoria in record numbers of autistic kids and kids who are actually gay. Transgender ideology is literally killing kids.
&mdash; Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1632199097015758849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Transgenderism has a horrific suicide rate,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1632199097015758849?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berry tweeted</a>. “And radical gender ideology is inducing gender dysphoria in record numbers of autistic kids and kids who are actually gay. Transgender ideology is literally killing kids.”
Knowles “didn&#8217;t call to ‘eradicate transgender people,’” wrote Jim Hanson, former Army special forces operator and author of “The Myth of White Fragility.” “Rolling Stone changed their headline to avoid a lawsuit. But Transgenderism, better known as Queer pedagogy Should be removed from public schools. It&#8217;s part of the destruction of normal.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> didn&#39;t call to &quot;eradicate transgender people&quot;
Rolling Stone changed their headline to avoid a lawsuit But Transgenderism, better known as Queer pedagogy Should be removed from public schools 
It&#39;s part of the destruction of normal<a href="https://t.co/62wk19FSvm">pic.twitter.com/62wk19FSvm</a>
&mdash; Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1632377565695340549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire has taken a strong stance against what the Left dubs “gender-affirming care” for minors, in which teens are encouraged to change their identities, given puberty blockers and even cross-sex hormones after displaying confusion about their genders. Many experts say these treatments can cause irreversible harm. Girls have even been put through double mastectomies at several clinics around the country.
Knowles&#8217; fellow Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh, who has been a leading voice against the movement to help minors &#8220;transition,&#8221; said Knowles was on target with his comments at CPAC.
&#8220;He is of course completely right about this,&#8221; wrote Walsh. &#8220;Trangenderism as a concept and an ideology is false, poisonous, and destructive to both the individual and society. It needs to be destroyed entirely. The fight to save children from this lunacy is but one phase in the overall war.&#8221;

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‘He Is Of Course Completely Right’: Walsh, Wheeler, Others Back Knowles’ Call To End Transgenderism

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Ousted Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe resurfaced Saturday at CPAC with the whistleblower he said made his former investigative organization’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pfizer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">huge Pfizer sting</a> possible.
O’Keefe, who was ousted last month by Project Veritas’ board of directors, introduced Debbie Bernal at the Maryland event, formally known as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conservative Political Action Conference</a>.
&#8220;Stand up,&#8221; Bernal said. &#8220;Be brave. Do something for this country or we are all doomed.&#8221;
O’Keefe said Bernal helped set up the undercover encounter in which Jordon Walker, who leads research and development for mRNA projects at Pfizer, allegedly revealed that the company’s COVID vaccines are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-exec-appears-to-admit-there-are-concerning-impacts-on-female-reproductive-health-from-vaccine-in-round-two-of-project-veritas-sting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impacting</a> women’s menstrual cycles and that the company uses “directed evolution” to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-pfizer-official-physically-assaults-james-okeefe-destroys-ipad-showing-undercover-recordings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mutate</a> coronaviruses for the creation of more potent variants and vaccines.
&#8220;We need brave whistleblowers,” O’Keefe said. “We need people on the inside. There were people on the inside of Pfizer who helped us obtain this.&#8221;
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“Stand up. Be brave. Do something for this country or we’re all doomed.”<a href="https://t.co/U7hy19psiN">pic.twitter.com/U7hy19psiN</a>
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O’Keefe said Bernal was initially reluctant to come forward, even after tipping off Project Veritas as to Pfizer’s inner workings. He said that in the days after he was ousted from the organization he founded in 2010, she decided to go public with him.
“She was a little reluctant to go public,” O’Keefe said, claiming that she was interrogated and harassed after the story broke. “Rightfully so, she was scared.&#8221;
It was not clear what role Bernal had at Pfizer or specifically what she told Project Veritas to lay the groundwork for its bombshell scoop. Bernal told the crowd the series of events left her &#8220;scared for my life.&#8221;
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&#8220;I was worried that I would end up in a body bag, or in a car accident,” she said. “But I realized that the spirit of fear is not from the Lord. As a believer, I knew that I couldn’t just sit there, I couldn’t just sit there and watch. People get lied to, people get gaslit, it made me angry.&#8221;
O’Keefe, who spearheaded a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exposing-corruption-how-james-okeefe-and-project-veritas-delivered-a-decades-worth-of-bombshell-stories">long list of undercover scoops</a> while heading Project Veritas, has not revealed what he will do next, although he has strongly hinted that he may set up another investigative journalism group.
&#8220;Courage is the virtue that sustains all others, and without that you really can’t do journalism,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not stopping or giving up.&#8221;

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‘I’m Not Stopping’: James O’Keefe Surfaces At CPAC With Alleged Pfizer Whistleblower

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