Left-wing media personality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charlamagne-tha-god" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charlamagne Tha God</a> flamed the Democratic Party this week over reports that the party may not allow 80-year-old President Joe Biden to face primary challengers in his 2024 re-election campaign.
Charlamagne made the remarks while speaking with comedian Andrew Schulz on a podcast this week.
Charlamagne started out mocking Biden&#8217;s campaign announcement video. &#8220;When you start your video off &#8230; and it says &#8230; you&#8217;re in condition to run&#8211;&#8221; Charlamagne said as he burst out in laughter.
“Democrats are goofies, bro. Look how goofy y’all are,” Schulz said. “Y’all really judge Trump and people who like Trump, when you got this motherf***er running again?”
The clip then cuts to Biden&#8217;s video, which shows Biden saying, “Personal freedom is fundamental to who we are as Americans. There’s nothing more important, nothing more sacred. That’s been the work of my first term to fight for our democracy.”
&#8220;Aren&#8217;t you embarrassed to be a Democrat?&#8221; Schulz asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not a Democrat,&#8221; Charlamagne responded. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a Republican, either.&#8221;
Charlamagne later said that it was &#8220;whacked that the DNC won’t let nobody primary.&#8221;
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&#8220;They won’t do no primaries next year, man,” Charlamagne added. “Do a f***ing primary debate!”
“Put Joe Biden up on that stage with Bobby Kennedy [Jr.] who’s challenging him and Marianne Williamson and whoever steps up to the plate,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And let’s have a f***ing discussion, yo!”
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2023 Black Effect Podcast Festival

Charlamagne Tha God Blasts The DNC For Potentially Not Allowing Biden To Be Primaried

2024 Election

Charlamagne Tha God

Democratic National Committee

Elections

Joe Biden

Politics

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
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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’

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Media

MSNBC

U.S.

Wokeness

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-national-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic National Committee</a> has decided to make <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/south-carolina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South Carolina</a> the first voting state for their 2024 presidential primary, a decision it said was made in part to prioritize non-white voters.
Thanks to the move, the Palmetto State has jumped ahead of both <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-hampshire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Hampshire</a>, which have both historically cast their ballots for president before South Carolina. According to the DNC, the decision was made in part to prioritize black and Latino voters.
“This calendar does what is long overdue,” DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democrats-make-south-carolina-first-presidential-primary-voting-state-rcna68918" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;It puts black voters at the front of the process in South Carolina. It keeps Nevada, where Latinos have been building power &#8230; And it adds Michigan, the heartland, where unions built the middle class of this nation. And Georgia, the forefront of the new South.&#8221;
“The Democratic Party looks like America,&#8221; Harrison claimed. &#8220;And so does this proposal.”
Voting for the Democratic presidential nominee is now slated to begin in South Carolina on February 3, 2024, followed on February 6 by New Hampshire and Nevada, Georgia on February 13, and Michigan on February 27. To comply with the DNC&#8217;s recommendation, both Georgia and New Hampshire would need to amend state rules meaning that the schedule has not been officially finalized.
Iowa Democratic Chair Rita Hart was upset with the decision, saying that it showed that Democrats had stopped caring about rural voters. She said the decision demonstrated that Democrats had “turned their back on Iowa and rural America.”
Largely beginning in 2016 with former President Donald Trump’s White House victory, rural areas, especially those places with lower-income white people, have voted overwhelmingly Republican, while cities and suburbs have generally favored Democrats.
The decision came after President Joe Biden had told Democrats that he wanted the move to be made.
“For decades, Black voters in particular have been the backbone of the Democratic Party but have been pushed to the back of the early primary process,” Biden <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/report-biden-wants-south-carolina-as-first-primary-vote-in-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a December letter. “We rely on these voters in elections but have not recognized their importance in our nominating calendar. It is time to stop taking these voters for granted, and time to give them a louder and earlier voice in the process.”
The move could also boost Biden’s chance if he runs again and is contested, as his 2020 campaign was floundering until he won South Carolina where he was backed by key Democrat leaders.
The decision also follows a chaotic 2020 primary in Iowa where no candidate emerged as the clear winner, thanks to counting missteps and delays.

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DNC Ditches Iowa, Chooses South Carolina As First Presidential Primary State To Prioritize Black Voters

DNC Ditches Iowa, Choses South Carolina As First Presidential Primary State To Prioritize Black Voters

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South Carolina

A federal judge in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> has sanctioned former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> and one of his attorneys over a lawsuit deemed frivolous against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> and 30 others.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sues-hillary-clinton-dozens-of-others-over-far-reaching-russian-collusion-conspiracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, the Democratic National Committee, and dozens of others in March 2022. The former president alleged that the defendants orchestrated a plot to spread malicious and false information about Trump regarding his ties to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The judge, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, ordered Trump, his attorney Alina Habba, and Habba’s firm, Habba Madaio &amp; Associates, to pay a $937,989.39 fine for a lawsuit that “needlessly harmed” 31 people and entities “in order to dishonestly advance a political narrative.”
“Here, we are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks <a href="https://static.poder360.com.br/2023/01/trumop-clinton-20jan2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Mr. Trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions.&#8221;
“As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba,” the judge said.
Trump’s lawsuit accused a slew of Democratic groups, operatives, public officials, and others of “nefariously” abusing federal investigative power, media ethics, and the public’s trust to promote a conspiracy about the Trump campaign’s ties to Moscow. “Indeed, their far-reaching conspiracy was designed to cripple Trump’s bid for presidency by fabricating a scandal that would be used to trigger an unfounded federal investigation and ignite a media frenzy,” Trump’s lawsuit said.
Middlebrooks <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/politics/trump-clinton-lawsuit-fine.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threw out</a> the case in September, dismissing Trump’s filing as a “political manifesto” disguised as a lawsuit filled with overwrought claims and hyperbole while lacking substance. The judge fined Trump’s legal team $50,000 over the lawsuit in November.
Many of the defendants together filed a joint request for further punishment against Trump, however. Clinton and others targeted in Trump’s suit asked Middlebrooks for additional sanctions against the former president.
Middlebrooks at the time agreed to consider the additional sanctions and warned Trump’s legal team that additional action may be taken against them by “the bar and disciplinary authorities” over the Trump lawsuit.

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Trump Fined Almost $1M Over Lawsuit Alleging Conspiracy To Push Russian Collusion Hoax

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James Comey

Federal and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington, D.C.</a>, officials are offering a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect who placed pipe bombs outside of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic</a> national headquarters in January 2021.
The FBI Washington Field Office; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Washington Field Division; and the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department increased the amount on Wednesday after a two-year investigation into the incident has failed to identify the suspect.
“For two years, a dedicated team of FBI agents, analysts, and law enforcement partners have been tirelessly reviewing evidence and digital media related to this case,” David Sundberg, assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office, said in a <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/washingtondc/news/fbi-washington-field-office-atf-washington-field-division-and-metropolitan-police-department-raise-reward-for-information-about-capitol-hill-pipe-bomber-to-500000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “With the significantly increased reward, we urge those who may have previously hesitated to contact us — or who may not have realized they had important information — to review the information on our website and come forward with anything relevant.”
“Despite the unprecedented volume of data review involved in this case, the FBI and our partners continue to work relentlessly to bring the perpetrator of these dangerous attempted attacks to justice,” he added.
Investigators have turned up little in the two intervening years. In September 2021, the FBI ramped up an effort to get the American public involved in the search, releasing a virtual map that the suspect took to place the bombs.
“One device was placed in an alley behind the Republican National Committee (RNC) Headquarters, located at 310 First Street SE, and the other was placed next to a park bench near the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Headquarters, located at 430 South Capitol Street SE, #3,” the FBI <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/washingtondc/news/press-releases/fbi-washington-field-office-releases-video-and-additional-information-regarding-the-pipe-bomb-investigation-090821" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time. “<a href="https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/jan-5-pipe-bomb-footage-of-suspect-3-090821.mp4/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New video footage released today</a> shows the pipe bomb suspect sitting on the bench near the DNC, in the area where the suspect later placed the pipe bomb. From this vantage point, a full front view of the suspect can be observed.”
Authorities were offering a $100,000 reward for information on the suspect.
According to Steven D’Antuono, who was then the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, the FBI at the time had “conducted more than 800 interviews, collected more than 23,000 video files, and assessed more than 300 tips” related to the investigation into the attempted bomber.
D’Antuono helped lead the FBI investigations into the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, which took place a day after the pipe bombs were laid. Before his assignment in D.C., D’Antuono worked for the FBI’s Detroit office and led the investigation into militia members who plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D). D’Antuono <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-fbi-official-who-led-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-j6-investigations-to-retire-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> from the bureau late last year.

RNC/DNC pipe bomb suspect

Reward For Info On DNC, RNC Pipe Bomber Jumps To $500,000 As Investigation Nears Two-Year Mark

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)

Crime

Republican National Committee (RNC)

Washington D.C.

Democrats have voted to put South Carolina first in the Democratic primary schedule and move Georgia and Michigan up to be included in the early voting states, according to reporting from the <a href="https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1598778897671327746" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.
The Democratic National Committee Rules and Bylaws Committee <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/02/iowa-may-lose-top-spot-democratic-primaries-dnc-calendar/10803204002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">greenlit</a> the president&#8217;s plan, but New Hampshire and Iowa Democrats weren&#8217;t onboard. The approval pushes the suggestions to the entire Democratic National Committee, which will decide next year.
President Joe Biden previously told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats</a> that he wanted to see South Carolina take the first presidential primary spot, with Georgia and Michigan moving up to become two of the early-voting states.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-iowa-south-carolina-e738592ee088fa4ca5614ba501d63726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Friday that sources familiar with the matter said the president gave Democrats his suggestion of South Carolina going first. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/2024-primaries-biden-democrats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the president’s preferred order of the early voting states.
The committee voted in favor of the new schedule where South Carolina would be first, with New Hampshire and Nevada going second, Georgia next, and <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2022/12/02/democratic-national-committee-considers-moving-michigan-early-state-presidential-primary-biden/69694897007/">Michigan</a> as the final of the early states. The move would put Michigan and Georgia into the top five states, and bump New Hampshire down in the order after it has been the first primary in the country <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/politics/2024-primary-calendar-iowa-dnc/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">since</a> 1920. Iowa was <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/2020-state-primary-election-dates.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">traditionally</a> the first caucus, but it has been <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/01/michigan-poised-to-replace-iowa-as-early-state-00071677" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed</a> out of the early states entirely.
Michigan has been <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2022/12/01/biden-backs-michigan-as-first-presidential-primary-state-in-2024-politico-report/69693361007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempting</a> to be one of the early states and secure its spot as a key primary. The contest has been an intense one. Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin recently <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/30/minnesota-democrats-michigan-presidential-primary-00071551" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> against Michigan getting the slot, claiming Minnesota would be better.
Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) has been a key player in getting Michigan’s status moved up. “This president knows that any road to the White House has to go through the heartland of America,” Dingell <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/01/2024-primaries-biden-democrats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said prior to the vote</a>. “To me this has been a 30-year quest.&#8221;
Like Michigan, Georgia would also be advanced into a top spot in a first-time <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/politics/2024-primary-calendar-iowa-dnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">move</a>. In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdzNF0wxqxY&amp;ab_channel=GeorgiaDemocrat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>, the Georgia Democratic Party positioned the state as diverse with recent Democrat successes as it <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2022/12/02/georgia-democrats-bid-for-an-early-president-primary-to-get-a-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">competed</a> for an early state selection. Georgia, along with South Carolina, would <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/02/democrats-biden-2024-primaries-00071943" target="_blank" rel="noopener">need</a> Republicans&#8217; help to move the primary schedule since Republicans hold the majority in the state legislatures, as well as the governor positions.
The advancement of Georgia and South Carolina appears to be an attempt to include more diverse states in early voting activities.
Since 2008, the first four states in the Democratic nomination process have been Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.
New Hampshire officials were not happy with the president&#8217;s suggestions. Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH) criticized “the White House’s short-sighted decision” before the vote and <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/01/michigan-poised-to-replace-iowa-as-early-state-00071677" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the proposal was “tremendously disappointing.” Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan (NH) said, “I strongly oppose the President’s deeply misguided proposal.”
“But make no mistake,” Hassan noted in a statement. “New Hampshire’s law is clear and our primary will continue to be first in the nation.”
New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley echoed Hassan’s sentiment, saying in a statement that the “news is obviously disappointing, but we will be holding our primary first.”
&#8220;We will always hold the first in the nation primary, and this status is independent of the president’s proposal or any political organization,&#8221; Hassan later said.
Biden <a href="https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DNC_Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent</a> a letter to Democratic National Committee (DNC) members on Thursday, saying, “[w]e must ensure that voters of color have a voice in choosing our nominee much earlier in the process and throughout the entire early window.” He also said there should no longer be caucuses included in the nominations.
“Our early states must reflect the overall diversity of our party and our nation — economically, geographically, demographically. This means more diverse states earlier in the process and more diversity in the overall mix of early states,” he wrote.
“Working class families are the backbone of our economy. Union households must be represented in greater numbers than before,&#8221; Biden added. &#8220;We need to include voters from many backgrounds, not to ratify the choice of the earliest states, but as full stakeholders in making the choice.”
The Republican National Committee already <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rnc-makes-no-changes-to-their-2024-presidential-nominating-calendar-a-day-after-dnc-upends-their-schedule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to maintain its current calendar for the first states.

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Democrats Vote To Make South Carolina First Presidential Primary State, Move Up Georgia, Michigan, And Bump New Hampshire

2024 Primaries

Biden

Executive

The Democratic National Committee and a Michigan congressman in a neck-and-neck election race turned to a virulently anti-gay pastor to help get out the vote in the week before the election, The Daily Wire has learned.
Democrats are desperate to hold onto a Flint, Michigan-based seat represented by Rep. Dan Kildee (D) after the district was <a href="https://about.bgov.com/news/once-safe-michigan-democrat-faces-peril-in-redrawn-district/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">redrawn</a> following the decennial Census to be about 50% Republican, making it a <a href="https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2022-house/">toss-up</a> race between Kildee and Republican Paul Junge. To rally urban Democrat turnout, the DNC Black Caucus and the Michigan Democratic Women&#8217;s Caucus on Wednesday held a &#8220;Flint GOTV Rally&#8221; at the Cathedral of Faith Church headlined by its Bishop Christopher E. Martin and Kildee, according to a flier and video of the event.
Martin caused a furor in the Flint area in June after <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100002918256789/videos/pcb.5162547517185806/755382198931939">video</a> showed Martin speaking with disgust about other preachers who he claimed are gay and were trying to spread the &#8220;spirit of perversion.&#8221; Martin told his parishioners:
<blockquote>&#8220;Look, y&#8217;all quit sitting here in church without the baptism and the Holy Ghost. Because if you got the Holy Ghost, you can tell that some of these preachers y&#8217;all listening to are gay. They just fired one from a church around here the other day. I said they should have never hired him, he gay, they should have voted him out. He been gay. He was gay when they hired him, he was gay when y&#8217;all fired him. Went in there ripping TVs all off the wall, having a little girl tantrum.
These folks gay. This ain&#8217;t no time to be playing like this over the Lord&#8217;s people. Sitting up under these folks. Look, a man, a man pastoring you ought to be married to a woman. There ought to be a first lady somewhere. If not, he might have a first gentleman. We can not have perversion [homosexuality] over the people. Pastor, you mean. I&#8217;m not mean. I&#8217;m telling you, I&#8217;m trying to show you light. Even if the people in the pews are suffering or struggling with their spirit, pray them through. You ain&#8217;t got no business up here dealing with it.
How you gonna preach to them and you got it [homosexuality]? We trying to get people out of what they&#8217;re in. We are trying to love them out of what they&#8217;re in. If you in it, you can&#8217;t love nobody out of it. You&#8217;re going to stay in it. And you&#8217;re going to let that spirit of perversion be all through the church.&#8221;</blockquote>
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Martin&#8217;s comments were well-known in Flint, including being <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tonya.burns.31/posts/5756815161012899" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> by Flint city council member Tonya Burns. When the bishop&#8217;s church got a contract with the city government related to health services, social justice advocate Nayyirah Shariff told officials that gay and transgender individuals were not likely to feel safe at any place connected to him. &#8220;Having a service in a location that is homophobic? That is not a safe space,” Shariff said, <a href="https://flintbeat.com/flint-bishop-says-his-beliefs-regarding-lgbtqia-community-wont-impact-mental-health-services-provided-at-local-churches/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flint Beat</a> reported in June.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/1583426399/videos/491302006365404/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Video</a> shows that at the rally, speakers stood behind a podium that said &#8220;The seal of the Bishop,&#8221; the same one from which Martin made his videotaped anti-gay screed months ago.
Martin received the Lifetime Achievement Community Service award from Barack Obama in 2017, according to <a href="https://nbc25news.com/news/local/flint-pastor-celebrates-elevation-to-bishop-with-church-and-community-members">NBC 25 News,</a> and in April, Kildee joined him to celebrate his promotion to bishop. Martin is a former president of the Flint school board and his church receives government money to run a <a href="https://childcarecenter.us/provider_detail/cathedral_of_faith_ministries_head_start_flint_mi">pre-school</a> program and provide <a href="https://www.michiganradio.org/community/2022-06-13/flint-churches-will-provide-mental-health-services-in-summer-pilot-program">mental health services</a>.
Virgie Rollins, the DNC National Black Caucus chair, spoke, then handed it off to Rev. Dr. Charles Williams, who Rollins praised for being part of Al Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network. Williams, in turn, praised Martin, saying, &#8220;give it up for Virgie, the DNC National Black Caucus chair. We are so grateful, and to the bishop and pastor of this church. Bishop, his reputation precedes him. Christopher Martin, thank you so much. &#8230; He&#8217;s been doing such a wonderful job&#8230; More importantly, I&#8217;ve got the opportunity to see him here&#8230; our Michigan congressperson, that is, brother Kildee.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got about six days to make sure we do the right thing,&#8221; Martin continued. &#8220;As President Biden so eloquently said in 2020, this election is about the soul of the nation&#8230; For the last 40 years Flint has had a fighter by the name of the Kildee family. Dale Kildee served this area with honor and distinction. But what he did understand is that he was going to have an heir to the seat that we delivered him to. He had a nephew that was like a ram in the bush. And this nephew has been a fighter in the fifth for the city of Flint&#8230; and it doesn&#8217;t matter that it has been redistricted&#8230; the federal money came because of Dan Kildee&#8230; Make some noise for our champion, our hero, Mr. Dan Kildee.&#8221;
Kildee then took the stage, saying, &#8220;You know, that&#8217;s a tough act to follow, Bishop.&#8221; Of his district, he said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been with you because I am you.&#8221;
The Kildee campaign did not return a request for comment about Wednesday&#8217;s event.
The flier said that Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Michigan) was also slated to be a speaker, but she did not ultimately attend.
Rollins told The Daily Wire that &#8220;I was not familiar with any remarks the Pastor made. The church was hosting the Rally with many other elected officials. If there are concerns with the Pastor words to his congregation can you please take it up with him. Many of my friends are LGBTQ.&#8221;
Correction: An earlier version of this article said that Rep. Haley Stevens also headlined the event. While she was advertised as a speaker, she did not ultimately attend.

Dan Kildee

DNC, Congressman Hold Rally With Virulently Anti-Gay Pastor To Boost Urban Vote In ‘Toss-Up’ House Race

DNC, Congressman Hold Rally With Virulently Anti-Gay Pastor To Boost Urban Vote In 'Toss-Up' House Race

2022 Election

2022 Midterms

Flint

Homophobia

Michigan

High-powered Democratic attorney Marc Elias took the stand in the government’s case against cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann on Wednesday.
Sussmann is on trial for allegedly lying to the FBI about his motivations for passing severely flawed data on to the law enforcement agency purporting to show a connection between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank. Sussmann’s case is the first courtroom test of special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy that undermined the 2016 election and hounded former President Donald Trump well into his presidency.
Elias is a former partner of the Democratic-linked law firm Perkins Coie and oversaw Sussmann’s work for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Elias also hired Fusion GPS, the original propagators of the infamous Steele dossier, as consultants in Perkins’ work with the Clinton campaign. In practice, Fusion conducted opposition research on Trump and his associates, a description that Elias said he would not “quibble” with during testimony, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/marc-elias-testifies-about-fusion-gpss-trump-russia-dirt-digging-in-sussmann-case">The Washington Examiner</a>.
Elias criticized Trump over his past comments on Russia, and Elias hit former FBI Director James Comey for “putting the thumb on the scale” of the 2016 election in a way that benefited Trump.
Judge Christopher Cooper has instructed jurors to disregard their feelings one way or the other over Trump and Clinton and stick to the facts of the case. Prosecutors have asked jurors to look at the evidence and not allow their political biases to shade their judgment.
Elias called Trump “a bully” who used the legal system and the threat of lawsuits to intimidate others. The Democratic-linked attorney smacked Trump over his response to the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
&#8220;There was clearly an attempt by Russia to ruin the one clean shot that candidates get to talk to the American public,&#8221; Elias said, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/politics/marc-elias-clinton-durham-sussman/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;And instead of doing what any decent human being would do, and condemn it, Donald Trump said, &#8216;I hope Russia is listening and will find the 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails &#8230; and release them.'&#8221;
Elias also hit Comey and claimed that the FBI was not “particularly helpful” in investigating Russian attacks against the DNC during the 2016 campaign.
“The FBI, for a variety of reasons, was not going to do anything to stop these bad things from happening,” Elias said. “James Comey had taken public stances around that time period that were, in my view, unfair, and putting the thumb on the scale against Secretary Clinton.”
The jurors in the case were picked out of the deep blue neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. During jury selection earlier this week, numerous members of the jury pool, some of whom were picked to serve on the jury itself, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sussmann-jury-selected-as-durham-makes-rare-appearance">expressed</a> support for Clinton and disdain for Trump.
While Elias appeared more inclined to support Sussmann, Durham’s team was able to use the attorney to enter into evidence a litany of records of meetings, emails, and billing statements showing Perkins and Fusion’s work on the Alfa Bank claims on behalf of the Clinton campaign.

Marc Elias

Democrats’ High-Powered Attorney Marc Elias Testifies In Sussmann Trial

Marc Elias Testifies In Sussmann Trial

John Durham

Russiagate

A progressive Democrat organization is mulling a petition that would strip Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown of his position on the Democratic National Committee after his write-in campaign successfully defeated self-proclaimed democratic socialist India Walton.
According to a report from <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/08/buffalo-mayor-progressives-dems-520327">Politico</a>, Our Revolution, a progressive advocacy group aligned with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), is planning to organize a campaign to oust Brown after the incumbent won his election against Walton.
Supported by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and formally endorsed by both Democratic New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Walton won the low-turnout June primary by nearly 5 points. But Brown organized a write-in campaign that appealed to moderate Democrats, as well as Republicans, who did not have a candidate on the ballot, and won his fifth consecutive term as mayor. “I think it clearly is a rebuke of defund police. It is a rebuke of socialism,” Brown told CNN after his win, via Politico.
“When you pull a stunt like this, somebody wins a primary, a working-class woman, and you go to every rich donor in both parties to fund a write-in campaign … it’s a disgrace,” said Our Revolution chairman Larry Cohen. Cohen is a member of the DNC, and told Politico he is starting the campaign. Walton vociferously agreed. “Not only do I support the DNC revoking Byron Brown&#8217;s post; I believe it would set a dangerous precedent not to,” she told Politico in a statement.
“You’ve got the establishment Democratic Party trying to block the path forward for progressives, and it’s incredibly challenging and frustrating for the grassroots,” said Joseph Geevarghese, Our Revolution’s executive director.
The left-wing Working Families Party also threw their support behind Our Revolution’s campaign. “I will try to organize something, and so will a lot of other people,” Cohen said. But the progressives were pessimistic about the chances of actually accomplishing their goal. “You’re not likely going to see [Chairman] Jaime Harrison at the DNC or anybody at the White House … do one thing,” said Cohen.
“Mayor Byron Brown’s Democratic Party bona fides are well known and beyond reproach,” Brown’s campaign said in a statement. “Any questions of them by Bernie Sanders or India Walton are without merit, and are simply sour grapes following a decisive write-in defeat in the Buffalo mayoral election last week.”
Party insiders concurred. &#8220;This, to me, sounds like another case of sour grapes out of Our Revolution,&#8221; said Democratic strategist Jon Reinish. “I think that progressives are feeling cornered, which is why you’re seeing a lot of the lashing out. … Where Democrats did badly and it was a bad night [in last week’s election], a lot of it was a loud and clear message from voters that people feel the party is going too far to the left.”
“It’s not going to go anywhere,” New York State Democratic Party Jay Jacobs said. “I’m used to people throwing bombs, and fortunately, most times they are to no effect.”
Brown’s win was one of a series of democratic losses that signal nationwide discontent with the progressive agenda. “Defund the Police” campaigns were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/defund-the-police-is-over">struck down</a> by voters in cities across the country. Former NYPD officer Eric Adams won his mayoral race running on a moderate, pro-police platform. In addition, Republicans swept the governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general races in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-virginia-governors-race-was-won">Virginia</a>, and flipped the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-va-democrats-concede-house-of-delegates-to-gop-after-gop-complete-an-elections-sweep-report-says">Virginia House of Delegates</a>. New Jersey gubernatorial candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-message-to-the-entire-country-new-jersey-govs-race-neck-and-neck-amid-explosive-gop-turnout">Jack Ciattarelli</a> also took his race to the wire, nearly defeating incumbent governor Phil Murphy.

Mayor Byron Brown

Progressive Democrats Want Buffalo Mayor Stripped Of DNC Position After His Re-Election

New York

Since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have been the first electoral test on the road to each party&#8217;s presidential nomination.
But some Democrats think it&#8217;s time to rejigger the order.
&#8220;The caucuses’ reputation has been damaged by high barriers to participation, a dearth of racial diversity, the rightward drift in the state’s electorate and a leftward drift in the Democratic participants,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/iowa-caucuses-democrats/2021/10/08/1402aafa-2770-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The state party’s inability to count the results in 2020 only deepened dismay in the party.&#8221;
In 2020, the Democratic Party&#8217;s caucuses ran well past midnight with no precincts reporting the results, allegedly due to a faulty app. President Donald Trump and the Republican Party were handed victory on a silver platter during their own caucus as the nation watched Democrats implode under the weight of gross incompetence.
In December, an audit commissioned by the Iowa Democratic Party placed blame for the caucus debacle at the feet of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The DNC decided mere weeks before the caucuses to demand a conversion tool for the app that the state party planned to use for reporting results so the DNC could view the raw data in real-time to ensure calculations were correct, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/12/iowa-caucus-dnc-report-444649">Politico.</a>
But the conversion tool, which the state party was not involved in developing, contained coding errors and malfunctioned on the night of the caucus, leading the DNC to demand the state party stop reporting their own caucus results, even though the state party’s own app was later found to have been working as intended, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/audit-finds-dnc-interjection-prompted-iowa-caucus-chaos-report-says">reported</a>. Voters in Iowa and across the nation were then left wondering when official caucus results would begin to roll in.
“The DNC’s interjection was the catalyst for the resulting chaos in the boiler room and in the IDP’s attempts to manually collect and confirm caucus results by hand,” read the audit, according to Politico. “If the DNC had not interjected itself into the results reporting process based on its erroneous data conversion, caucus night could conceivably have proceeded according to the IDP’s initial plan.”
Former Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez has openly expressed opposition to Iowa keeping its first-in-the-nation status.
“We have to be honest with ourselves, and Iowa is not representative of America,” Perez said in an interview last week, the Post reported. “We need a primary process that is reflective of today’s demographics in the Democratic Party.”
Even President Joe Biden &#8212; who won the party’s nomination in 2020 even though he finished fourth in Iowa &#8212; has noted the lack of diversity in the state, which is more than 90% white and just 3.7% black, <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/iowa-population">according</a> to World Population Review.
“It is not suited to normal people, people that actually have daily lives,” said South Carolina State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, a former chairman of that state’s Democratic Party and a longtime Biden ally, the Post reported.
“I just think the caucus process as it exists in Iowa is not suitable in 21st-century America,” he said.

Residents Vote In The First-In-The-Nation Iowa Caucus

Democrats Move Toward Dumping Iowa As First Presidential Vote

Democratic Party

The Democratic National Committee and other allies of President Joe Biden are reportedly planning to &#8220;work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines,&#8221; according to a new report.
The effort, reported Monday in <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278">Politico</a>, comes as the Biden administration struggles to boost vaccination rates after failing to meet its July 4 goal. As Politico reports:
<blockquote>Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages. The goal is to ensure that people who may have difficulty getting a vaccination because of issues like transportation see those barriers lessened or removed entirely.</blockquote>
After the Politico report was published, a spokesperson for the DNC told the Associated Press that they do not have access to private text messages. An author of the Politico report has also clarified on Twitter, in response to questions, that the news report does not say that the government is monitoring anyone&#8217;s text messages.
The White House said Tuesday that it intended to adopt a “door-to-door” vaccination awareness strategy, an announcement that raised alarm among many that the federal government was tapping into private medical records and sending federal agents to the homes of the unvaccinated. The White House has since clarified its operation, saying that it targets communities where vaccination rates are low and uses local “trusted messengers,” not federal agents. Psaki has denied having access to private medical records.
Critics have hammered the White House over the plan. Psaki has accused critics of spreading “inaccurate disinformation” about the White House’s strategy and appeared to push companies to take action against such messaging.
In a Friday press conference, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/07/09/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-july-9-2021/">called</a> the dissemination of “disinformation” a “disservice to the country.” “The failure to provide accurate public health information, including the efficacy of vaccines and the accessibility of them to people across the country … is literally killing people,” she said.
The Politico report cited several instances in which mass messaging services and media platforms were used to amplify messages from GOP politicians or pundits. One conservative group, focusing on college and university campuses, has reportedly used SMS services to push out petitions for its supporters to sign. In one such message, Politico noted, the group used SMS to ask followers to sign a petition blasting the administration&#8217;s &#8220;door-to-door&#8221; vaccine program: “Biden is sending goons DOOR-TO-DOOR to make you take a Covid-19 vaccine. Sign the petition to: No medical raids in America.”
Missouri Governor Mike Parson also slammed Biden’s vaccination campaign strategy in a tweet last week.
“I have directed our health department to let the federal government know that sending government employees or agents door-to-door to compel vaccination would NOT be an effective OR a welcome strategy in Missouri!” Parson <a href="https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1412936318850580481">said</a>.
“We will continue to offer convenient vaccination options to all Missourians for those who want a COVID-19 vaccine. Teresa and I both have received the COVID-19 vaccine, and we encourage anyone age 12 and up to get vaccinated to protect themselves and those around them,” he continued.
White House COVID response director Jeff Zients responded to Parson’s criticism during a press conference, saying, “Organizations that are feeding misinformation and trying to mischaracterize this type of trusted-messenger work, I believe you are doing a disservice to the country and to the doctors, the faith leaders, community leaders, and others who are working to get people vaccinated, save lives, and help end this pandemic.”
A previous version of this article stated that Biden allies were pushing for &#8220;social media companies and SMS carriers to censor vaccine disinformation spread on their platforms.&#8221; It has been revised to quote directly from the Politico report, and updated to include additional information.

Jen Psaki

Report: DNC, Biden Allies Pushing SMS Carriers To Crack Down On Vaccine ‘Misinformation’ Spread Through Private Messages

Biden Administration

COVID-19 Vaccine

A new audit commissioned by the Iowa Democratic Party has placed blame for the Democratic Party’s 2020 Iowa Caucus debacle at the feet of the Democratic National Committee.
According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/12/iowa-caucus-dnc-report-444649">Politico</a>, which obtained a copy of the autopsy report, the DNC decided mere weeks before the caucuses to demand a conversion tool for the app that the state party planned to use for reporting results so the DNC could view the raw data in real-time to ensure calculations were correct.
But the conversion tool, which the state party was not involved in developing, contained coding errors and malfunctioned on the night of the caucus, leading the DNC to demand the state party stop reporting their own caucus results, even though the state party&#8217;s own app was later found to have been working as intended. Voters in Iowa and across the nation were then left wondering when official caucus results would begin to roll in.
“The DNC’s interjection was the catalyst for the resulting chaos in the boiler room and in the IDP’s attempts to manually collect and confirm caucus results by hand,” reads the report, according to Politico. “If the DNC had not interjected itself into the results reporting process based on its erroneous data conversion, caucus night could conceivably have proceeded according to the IDP’s initial plan.”
However, the audit also casts some blame on the state party for waiting to build the original reporting software because it delayed training, which in turn caused people to call in results instead of reporting them in-app as intended. These people were not trained in how to report caucus results by phone and also experienced clogged phone lines when more people than expected started to use them.
According to Politico, the DNC refused to allow officials to be interviewed for the audit — citing the need to focus on the November general election — but requested permission to provide the audit team with written answers. The request was denied by the audit team, which was led by former Iowa Attorney General Bonnie Campbell and a law firm.
The Iowa Caucus debacle became a footnote in a year that has been defined by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Various Democratic presidential candidates made victory-style speeches before results had been reported, and only partial data was released the day after the caucus, data which showed Southbend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (the eventual winner) in the lead.
The partial release was complicated by the fact that Buttigieg, while he had more state delegate equivalents than other candidates, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrats-release-iowa-caucus-results-chaos-gets-even-worse">behind Senator Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT) in the popular vote, which does not hold any weight for declaring a contest winner.
Several days later, with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/total-disaster-associated-press-unable-to-declare-a-winner-in-iowa-caucus">winner still undeclared</a> by The Associated Press, Sanders declared victory: “That screw-up has been extremely unfair to the people of Iowa, it has been unfair to all of the candidates and all of their supporters. So what I want to do, three days late, is thank the people of Iowa for the very strong victory they gave us Monday night.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the eventual winner of the Democratic nomination and the declared winner of the 2020 election’s popular vote, only placed fourth.
And Troy Price, the chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, resigned.

Iowa Caucus app

Audit Finds DNC ‘Interjection’ Prompted Iowa Caucus Chaos, Report Says

Iowa

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