Democrats are returning to an old, underhanded method in order to try and siphon votes away from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in South Carolina.
Liberal groups from outside the state are spending money on mailers for a third-party candidate who already dropped out of the senate race, the Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/liberal-groups-spend-big-to-boost-third-party-conservative/">reported</a>.
“A political action committee founded by national Democratic operatives to help Harrison&#8217;s campaign—Lindsey Must Go PAC—recently <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202010149285888104">spent</a> more than $133,000 on mailers highlighting former Constitution Party candidate Bill Bledsoe, who has dropped out of the race and thrown his support behind Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. The mailers say Bledsoe is ‘the only true conservative on the ballot,’&#8221; the outlet reported.
Bledsoe dropped out of the race weeks ago.
Graham’s opponent, Democrat Jaime Harrison, used the same tactic earlier this week when his campaign launched ads supporting Bledsoe.
“The ads call Bledsoe ‘the only Senate candidate who stood with President Trump on day one’ and note that he ‘opposes all abortions’ and ‘believes that any gun-control law infringes upon the Second Amendment.’ The ads also link to a <a href="https://www.scvoterguide.com/">website</a> paid for by the South Carolina Democratic Party, which calls Bledsoe ‘pro-Trump,’ ‘pro-gun,’ and ‘anti-abortion,’&#8221; the Free Beacon reported.
Bledsoe dropped out of the race on October 1 after his campaign failed to raise even $1.
As the Free Beacon reported, South Carolina is not the only state where Democrats are trying this tactic:
<blockquote>Harrison is not the only red-state Democrat working to siphon votes away from a Republican opponent by boosting a third-party candidate. A liberal super PAC backing Kentucky Senate nominee Amy McGrath—Fire Mitch Save America—<a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00732172/1454315/se">spent</a> more than $77,000 on mailers propping up libertarian candidate Brad Barron. The mailers call Barron, whose campaign has <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00723270/?tab=spending">disbursed</a> less than $17,000, a &#8220;better choice for U.S. Senate&#8221; who &#8220;believes in freedom, liberty, and individual rights.&#8221; McGrath&#8217;s campaign <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/mcconnell-challenger-denounces-excessive-money-in-politics-days-after-soliciting-super-pac-donations/">asked</a> &#8220;people who are interested in contributing beyond the legal limits&#8221; to give to Fire Mitch Save America in January.</blockquote>
Graham claimed the effort was “unprecedented.”
&#8220;This is an unprecedented effort for a Democrat to campaign for the constitutional conservative when the constitutional conservative is supporting the Republican,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;It tells a lot about the state of the race.&#8221;
This is not the first election cycle where Democrats have used such an underhanded technique. In 2010, Democrats in several states allegedly recruited fake candidates to pose as members of the Tea Party in order to siphon votes from Republican candidates. In Michigan, multiple candidates ran claiming to be members of The Tea Party, yet they <a href="https://archive.vn/20130121214633/http:/detnews.com/article/20100902/POLITICS02/9020422/Tea-Party-candidates-deny-Democratic-link">had voted</a> Democrat in previous elections. Republicans in Florida claimed people running as Tea party candidates <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2010/06/republicans-claim-florida-tea-party-democratic-front/">were former Democrats</a>. Similar allegations occurred in Pennsylvania.
In New Jersey, then-incumbent Democratic congressman John Adler’s campaign allegedly propped up “Tea Party” candidate Peter DeStefano. Democratic operatives confirmed the party was behind the nomination. Numerous signatures on the petition to get DeStefano on the ballot were from Democrats, including a member of Adler’s campaign. The Republican in the race, John Runyan, ended up winning that election.
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On Monday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) published an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/joe-biden-packing-supreme-court-democrats-marco-rubio">opinion column</a> for Fox News in which he asserted that the Democratic Party, which has been making noise about packing the Supreme Court with additional justices if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed for the Court, has a “dirty little secret”: they’ve been planning to pack the Court for a long time.
Rubio began: “You don’t need to wait for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s long-promised and still-elusive answer to know that a Biden administration would sign legislation into law allowing them to pack the Supreme Court with left-wing activists. Biden may claim that he is ‘not a fan’ of court-packing, but when asked directly last week whether he would support it, he acknowledged ‘it depends’ on how Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination ‘turns out.’”
After Rubio wrote bluntly that Barrett would be confirmed and that Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, said Barrett’s confirmation process was “illegitimate” and “reckless,” he opined that Biden would pack the Court “because his radical base demands it,” adding, “And here is the dirty little secret that Democrats do not want the American people to know: it has always been their plan to pack the Supreme Court with liberal judges.”
Rubio pointed out that in March 2019, he and other Senate Republicans, knowing the predilections of the Democrats, proposed a constitutional amendment limiting the Supreme Court to nine justices.
When Rubio introduced the amendment, he <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/3/rubio-colleagues-introduce-constitutional-amendment-to-keep-scotus-at-nine-justices">stated,</a> &#8220;The Democrats&#8217; court packing proposal represents the latest shortsighted effort to undermine America&#8217;s confidence in our institutions and our democracy. America’s institutions are far from perfect. But over the past two centuries, they have provided a framework for our nation to become the most dynamic, most vibrant, and most exceptional nation in all of human history. To prevent the delegitimizing of the Supreme Court, I am introducing a constitutional amendment to keep the number of seats at nine. Our institutions matter. Our Constitution matters. And we should fight to protect them.”
In his Fox opinion piece,  Rubio noted sardonically, “It is telling that no Democratic senator has cosponsored my constitutional amendment, which would merely keep the Supreme Court at the same number of seats it has had since 1869.”
“Protecting our legal institutions is critical,” Rubio stated. “Over the past two centuries, they have defended and upheld Americans’ natural rights and made the United States the most exceptional nation in all of human history.  But this is about more than our institutions &#8212; it is about what happens to our country, our communities, and our way of life if the radical left and the Democratic Party destroy them. It is clear they don’t want to pack the Supreme Court just to cancel out the votes of Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and soon Amy Coney Barrett. They want to pack the Court to cancel out your ability to resist their radical agenda.”
“The truth is that this is a major part of the Democratic Party’s desire to manipulate and coerce our public institutions into being an arm of their radical progressive agenda,” Rubio continued, adding, “And that radical agenda is part and parcel to Joe Biden, who said earlier this year that he would be the ‘most progressive president in history.’”
Rubio spoke of the American Founders&#8217; belief that all men are created equal and that their rights came from God, writing that it was “increasingly under assault from the left. They would have you believe that America and its founding is irredeemably racist, and that nothing short of a revolution is acceptable.”
Then he segued to why protecting the Court was paramount: “This cultural revolution will come at a great cost to our personal freedoms and natural rights, but our nation’s institutions stand as a bulwark against the effort to remake America. If the left succeeds in packing the Supreme Court, they will be one step closer to erasing our founding and values in pursuit of progressive utopias such as Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.”
He concluded, “To protect our people, we need to protect our institutions and ensure no one can ever pack the Supreme Court for partisan gains.”
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on judge Amy Coney Barrett&#8217;s nomination to the Supreme Court on Thursday, but some Republican Senators are warning that Democrats could try a number of procedural and legislative delays to push the vote further into October.
Fox News reports that the committee is giving its members a week to mull the nomination, &#8220;as is custom,&#8221; and plans to meet to &#8220;consider Barrett&#8217;s nomination at 1 pm ET on Thursday, Oct. 22.&#8221;
&#8220;The committee will vote to send the nomination to the floor (technically the &#8216;calendar,&#8217; but that’s another story),&#8221; the outlet reported late Saturday. &#8220;A nominee does not have to have a &#8216;favorable; recommendation from the committee to go to the floor. Robert Bork received an &#8216;unfavorable&#8217; recommendation from the committee in 1987 (and was defeated on the floor). Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was sent to the floor with &#8216;no recommendation&#8217; in 1991 before being confirmed.&#8221;
&#8220;The committee will need a simple majority vote to advance the nomination to the full Senate,&#8221; Fox continued.
Barrett&#8217;s nomination is expected to pass out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on a strict party-line vote, but questions remain as to whether Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) might join with Republican colleagues, after being on the receiving end of waves of hatred last week, simply for complimenting Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on his expedient handling of Barrett&#8217;s hearings.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he plans to move on the Judiciary Committee&#8217;s recommendation immediately and send Barrett&#8217;s nomination to the full Senate for a vote on Friday.
In order to force the Senate to consider Barrett&#8217;s nomination, Fox notes, McConnell needs to take the Senate out of &#8220;legislative session&#8221; and move it into an &#8220;executive session,&#8221; and that&#8217;s where Democrats can trigger a number of roadblocks designed to delay Barrett&#8217;s vote. They will not, however, be able to delay the process for very long; McConnell needs a simple majority vote to move forward with Barrett&#8217;s nomination and McConnell needs the same number of votes to file for cloture, ending Senate debate on the subject and putting Barrett to vote a maximum of 30 hours later.
Last week, Democrats, through Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), indicated their willingness to throw up procedural roadblocks in order to push back Barrett&#8217;s confirmation. Durbin was the only Democratic legislator to show up for hearings on Thursday, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senators-clash-at-barrett-confirmation-hearing-as-dems-try-to-introduce-procedural-roadblocks">Fox News reported</a> at the time, and openly challenged the GOP&#8217;s decision to proceed with testimony from Barrett&#8217;s witnesses regardless.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) also made a &#8220;motion to indefinitely delay the vote on Barrett, which tipped off debate from multiple senators, including from Democrats and accusations of hypocrisy, criticism of Barrett, criticism of the process this close to the election and reprisals of Democrats warnings that Barrett might decide to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA).&#8221;
Blumenthal&#8217;s motion failed.
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Attention readers: Dennis Prager co-authored this column with Tim Groseclose, a professor of economics at George Mason University, where he holds the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center.
Exponential growth. It&#8217;s why plagues are so dangerous and compound interest is so wonderful.
It&#8217;s also why the Democrats&#8217; flirting with court packing could destroy the Supreme Court and, with it, America as we know it.
The following is a reasonable scenario:
Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, which gives conservatives a 6-3 advantage (or 5-4, given that Chief Justice John Roberts has essentially become a swing vote).
Then, in January, having retained the Democrat-majority House, a President Joe Biden and a newly Democrat-controlled Senate decide to undo the advantage. Congress passes and Biden signs a new law expanding the Court to 15 members. Biden appoints six new liberal justices, handing the Left a 9-6 majority—a 60% advantage.
What happens when the Republicans regain power and they want a 60% conservative advantage? As a bit of algebra shows, to reverse the Democrats&#8217; 9-6 advantage, they&#8217;d have to expand the Court by 7.5 members. Of course, they can&#8217;t nominate half a justice, so they&#8217;d probably round up to eight. Regardless, the Republicans, to gain a 60% advantage, must expand the Court by more than the Democrats did—by eight, as opposed to six.
The parties would surely continue to insist upon a 60% advantage, meaning that, with each switch in power, they&#8217;d have to expand the Court&#8217;s size by 50%. The key thing to note is that they would have to expand the court not by a constant number but by a constant percentage. This is what would cause exponential growth. If, for example, one side insisted on a 65% advantage and the other followed suit, they&#8217;d have to expand the Court by 86% at each switch in power.
How often would such switches in power occur? One occurred in 1992, when Democrats won the House, Senate and presidency. Others occurred in 2000, 2008 and 2016. And if the polls are right, another will occur in 2020. Such power switches occur about every eight years, perhaps slightly more frequently.
Let&#8217;s err on the side of being less alarmist and assume that the switch would only occur every 10 years. Let&#8217;s similarly assume that the parties would only insist upon a 60% advantage.
Under these minimal parameters, the Court would expand by 50% every 10 years. In 100 years, the Court would grow by a factor of approximately 58 (1.5 raised to the power of 10), and instead of nine justices, the Supreme Court would consist of 522 justices.
Surely, one would be tempted to think, voters and the two parties would see these problems, and accordingly, such growth wouldn&#8217;t continue. But why not? Imagine the following scenario: In the year 2120, the Court comprises 522 justices (313 conservatives and 209 liberals). That November, the Democrats retake the House, Senate and presidency. Following precedent, they decide to regain their advantage and expand the Court to 783 justices (470 liberals and 313 conservatives).
Some voters might say, &#8220;Enough is enough.&#8221; However, Democrats could reasonably counter that (1) &#8220;It&#8217;s what the Republicans did last time. It&#8217;s our turn now&#8221;; (2) &#8220;Is 783 really that much larger than 522?&#8221;; (3) &#8220;Only by expanding the Court can we do things such as guarantee a woman&#8217;s right to choose and ensure racial and social justice. Do we really want to sacrifice those goals just to keep the Court a smaller size?&#8221;
Further, in such a scenario, no voter would be able to remember when the Court was smaller than 40 justices, much less just nine. Would they really care if it were expanded a little more?
Of course, the scenario would continue to repeat.
In other words, if the Democrats do as many of their leading members want them to do (including Gov. Jay Inslee, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Pete Buttigieg), as The Atlantic urges them to do, as vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris told The New York Times she is &#8220;absolutely open to,&#8221; and as at least one New York Times columnist advocates, we will no longer have a legislature and a supreme judicial branch. We will essentially have two legislatures (at least when Democratic appointees—justices willing to read left-wing political and social goals into the Constitution—hold the majority of seats).
It will be the end of the Supreme Court as we know it, the end of the balance of power among the three branches of government and, therefore, the end of America as we know it.
Would the Democrats do it? Given the Left’s record of destroying whatever it touches—most obviously, the universities, high schools and journalism, and most recently, sports and the sciences—if you are a betting person, you should bet on it.
This is yet another reason everything is at stake in this election.
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Suddenly, after Judge Amy Coney Barrett used the term “sexual preference” in her confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court on Tuesday and Democrats slammed her for using the term, the Merriam-Webster dictionary declared the term &#8220;preference&#8221; could be &#8220;offensive.”
<a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/14/sexual-preference-merriam-webster-dictionary-definition-offensive-amy-coney-barrett/">Pink News</a> noted that the dictionary updated its definition with an addendum stating,  “The term preference as used to refer to sexual orientation is widely considered offensive in its implied suggestion that a person can choose who they are sexually or romantically attracted to.”
Steve Krakauer, the executive producer of Megyn Kelly’s podcast, noted, “As recently as last month, Webster’s Dictionary included a definition of ‘preference’ as ‘orientation’ or ‘sexual preference.’ TODAY they changed it and added the word &#8216;offensive.'&#8221;
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As recently as last month, Webster’s Dictionary included a definition of “preference” as “orientation” or “sexual preference.” TODAY they changed it and added the word “offensive.&quot;
Insane &#8211; I just checked through Wayback Machine and it’s real. 
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Krakauer noted, “I mean this is all just complete insanity. Here’s Leon Panetta, Obama’s Defense Sec, writing in 2018 for CNN about how ‘Trump is not who we are’ since ‘we are all created equal under God, regardless of our race, creed, religion, color, sexual preference.’&#8221;
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I mean this is all just complete insanity. Here’s Leon Panetta, Obama’s Defense Sec, writing in 2018 for CNN about how “Trump is not who we are” since “we are all created equal under God, regardless of our race, creed, religion, color, sexual preference.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/CUgrQjDKF8">https://t.co/CUgrQjDKF8</a> <a href="https://t.co/jWSX4f3hrf">pic.twitter.com/jWSX4f3hrf</a>
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“This new definition was made in real time, after Senator Mazie Hirono claimed the long standing, inoffensive term, was offensive, on the Senate floor. This claim was made to discredit Judge Amy Coney Barrett&#8217;s Supreme Court nomination, and for no other reason,” <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/websters-dictionary-changes-definition-of-preference-to-match-democrats-attack-on-amy-coney-barrett">The Post-Millenial</a> noted.
This is not the first time the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has responded to pressure to change a listing in its text; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/merriam-webster-changes-definition-of-racism-after-22-year-old-womans-complaint">The Daily Wire</a> reported in June, after a 22-year-old woman made a complaint about the definition of the word &#8220;racism,&#8221; the dictionary company said it would change its text, including a more broad and &#8220;systemic&#8221; understanding of the term.
The young woman, a recent college graduate from Missouri, stated that the Merriam-Webster definition of &#8220;racism&#8221; was too simple. She stated: &#8220;So, a couple weeks ago, I said this is the last argument I&#8217;m going to have about this. I know what racism is; I&#8217;ve experienced it time and time and time again in a lot of different ways, so enough is enough. So, I emailed about how I felt about it. Saying this needs to change. I basically told them they need to include that there is systematic oppression on people. It&#8217;s not just &#8216;I don&#8217;t like someone,&#8217; it&#8217;s a system of oppression for a certain group of people.&#8221;
The editor of Merriam-Webster, Alex Chambers, responded, &#8220;While our focus will always be on faithfully reflecting the real-world usage of a word, not on promoting any particular viewpoint, we have concluded that omitting any mention of the systemic aspects of racism promotes a certain viewpoint in itself.&#8221; She continued, &#8220;This revision would not have been made without your persistence in contacting us about this problem. We sincerely thank you for repeatedly writing in and apologize for the harm and offense we have caused in failing to address the issue sooner. I will see to it that the entry for racism is given the attention it sorely needs.&#8221;
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On Tuesday, Democrats attacked Judge Amy Coney Barrett for using the term “sexual preference” at her confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, with Hawaii Democrat senator Mazie Hirono snapping, “Sexual preference is an offensive and outdated term.” Other Democrats <a href="https://twitter.com/davidcicilline/status/1316027475382595586">also</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1316032305744543744">carped</a> at Coney Barrett for using the term.
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Let me make clear &#8211; sexual preference is an offensive and outdated term.
To suggest sexual orientation is a choice? It&#39;s not. It&#39;s a key part of a person&#39;s identity.
The LGBTQ+ community should be concerned with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatsAtStake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhatsAtStake</a> with Judge Barrett on the Supreme Court. <a href="https://t.co/4TWyATMX0Y">pic.twitter.com/4TWyATMX0Y</a>
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The Democrats ignored the fact that their own presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, used the very same term in May at a virtual roundtable with African American representatives in Florida, <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/transcript-joe-biden-virtual-roundtable-with-african-american-florida-representatives">stating</a>:
<blockquote>America’s the only nation in the world that when we’ve gone through a major crisis, we’ve almost always been able to come get through it and come out stronger. I’m hopeful. I’m going to need you if we win. I’m going to need you to help this time rebuild the backbone of this country, the middle class, but this time bring everybody along regardless of color, sexual preference, their backgrounds, whether they have any … Just bring everybody along.</blockquote>
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The Left said Amy Coney Barrett was bigoted because she used the term &quot;sexual preference.&quot;
Here&#39;s Joe Biden using the same term in May. <a href="https://t.co/u7k4MqHCSU">pic.twitter.com/u7k4MqHCSU</a>
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The Washington Post admitted, “Plenty of figures on the left — including Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom Barrett is hoping to replace on the high court — have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsYGOAVqmQI">also used the phrase</a>, which was considered acceptable as recently as a decade or two ago.”
The Washington Free Beacon released a video of Biden, other Democrats, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg using the term “sexual preference&#8221;:
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Barrett later apologized for using the term “sexual preference,” asserting, “I certainly didn’t mean and would never mean to use a term that would cause any offense in the LGBTQ community.”
At the hearing, there was this exchange between California Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein and Coney Barrett:
<blockquote>Feinstein: Now, you said in your acceptance speech for this nomination, that Justice Scalia’s philosophy is your philosophy. Do you agree with this particular point of Justice Scalia’s view that the US Constitution does not afford gay people the fundamental right to marry?
Barrett: Senator Feinstein, as I said to Senator Graham at the outset, if I were confirmed, you would be getting Justice Barrett, not Justice Scalia. So I don’t think that anybody should assume that just because justice Scalia decided a decision a certain way, that I would too, but I’m not going to express a view on whether I agree or disagree with Justice Scalia, for the same reasons that I’ve been giving. Justice Ginsburg with her characteristic pithiness used this to describe how a nominee should comport herself at a hearing: “No hints, no previews, no forecasts.” That had been the practice of nominees before her, but everybody calls it the Ginsburg Rule because she stated it so concisely, and it’s been the practice of every nominee since. So I can’t, and I’m sorry to not be able to embrace or disavow Justice Scalia’s position, but I really can’t do that on any point of law.
Feinstein: Well, that’s really too bad because it’s rather a fundamental point for large numbers of people, I think in this country. I understand you don’t want to answer these questions directly, but you identify yourself with a justice that, you, like him, would be a consistent vote to roll back hard-fought freedoms and protections for the LGBT community. And what I was hoping you would say is that this would be a point of difference where those freedoms would be respected, and you haven’t said that.
Barrett: Senator, I have no agenda, and I do want to be clear that I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference and would not ever discriminate on the basis of sexual preference. Like racism, I think discrimination is important. On the questions of law, however, I just, because I’m a sitting judge and because you can’t answer questions without going through the judicial process, can’t give answers to those very specific questions.</blockquote>
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Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Amy Coney Barrett To Be Supreme Court Justice

Dems Attack Coney Barrett For Saying ‘Sexual Preference.’ Look At All The Dems, Plus Bader Ginsburg, Who Said ‘Sexual Preference’

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On Tuesday, Democrats attacked Judge Amy Coney Barrett for using the term “sexual preference” at her confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, with

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A newly-released undercover sting video from James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas allegedly showed a &#8220;member of the Colorado Democratic Party Executive and Central Committees&#8221; advocating for the use of violence to achieve political ends and arguing that it is &#8220;morally acceptable&#8221; to &#8220;lie,&#8221; &#8220;cheat,&#8221; and &#8220;steal&#8221; in order to win.
Kristopher Jacks <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SxGG1X5OpmcJ:https://www.weldcountydems.org/2019/08/the-climate-crisis-and-colorado/+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">was</a> listed on the Weld County Democratic Party&#8217;s website as the &#8220;chair of our revolution weld county, and a member of the Colorado Democratic Party Executive and Central Committees.&#8221;
“We’ve been following Kris Jacks for a long time. We first met him, during the presidential primary race. Now, we have caught up with him in Colorado,” O’Keefe said in a statement. “Jacks represents the radical wing of the Democratic Party in Colorado&#8211;he is someone most Americans should be afraid of.”
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/WeldDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WeldDems</a> have REMOVED Kristopher Jacks from their website! 
Before Jacks was listed as a member of the &quot;Colorado Democratic Party Executive and Central Committee&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ArmedRevolution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ArmedRevolution</a> <a href="https://t.co/fCD9spQehr">pic.twitter.com/fCD9spQehr</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1316200423167070208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“I want to make this point very loudly and very clearly. I said it nicely before, but I’ll say it more curtly now. 2020 is a political revolution,” Jacks said in the video. &#8220;I am going to do everything morally acceptable to win. I will lie. I will cheat. I will steal. Because that’s morally acceptable in this political environment.&#8221;
“Well, when it comes to civil war, violence type stuff there’s always military guys, like former guys that stand up for the right thing&#8211;when that time comes, then we gotta get some of those type people involved,” Jacks said. “If you want to do some Versailles shit. If you want to do some Antifa shit. You really want to change this country that way, with violence, there’s only one way to do it. You gotta get people that are close to billionaires and start just, random billionaires start turning up dead. And nobody knows what the f**ks going on. Nobody knows. Nope, I don’t know. They just turned up dead. And just three or four of ‘em is all it’s going to take.&#8221;
&#8220;All it’s going to take is a pattern of I don’t know, I don’t know man. I don’t know what happened,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Just showed up that way. I walked in. That’s how it was. That’s the only way that’s, you do that to three or four people enough to say that this is a pattern, and this is why – draw a dollar sign on their desk or whatever you do, that’s what it’s going to take. It’s going to take a strategic hit against the .1% that’s in charge, cause that’s who it is. Killing random Nazis in the street, random f**king bootlickers.”
&#8220;I do think there needs to be a militant group and I love Antifa for that reason,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I love that there&#8217;s &#8211; you always have to have somebody that&#8217;s willing to hold up the flag and say nope, this is the line in the sand and we&#8217;re the ones holding that line.&#8221;
In the video, Jacks says that Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has a &#8220;functioning signing hand&#8221; and that Biden will sign far-left legislation that comes across his desk or else he will face relentless protests.
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Colorado Democrat Party Member Suggests Using Violence: ‘Morally Acceptable’ To ‘Lie,’ ‘Cheat,’ ‘Steal’

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A newly-released undercover sting video from James O&#039;Keefe&#039;s Project Veritas allegedly showed a &quot;member of the Colorado Democratic Party Executive and

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The strangest thing about Joe Biden’s campaign for the presidency is its weird areas of silence, the issues that no one is talking about.
This goes beyond the lies-by-omission of our now completely corrupt and degraded news media. At this point, none of us expects our so-called journalists to cover Biden honestly, to speak of his clearly failing faculties, to explore his role in Obamagate—the greatest political scandal in a generation—to plumb the suspicious dealings of his son Hunter or find out why Obama’s former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the former Veep “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.&#8221; No one even expects these useless scoundrels with press passes to insist that Biden tell us whether he will try to pack the Supreme Court after he gets elected. &#8220;You&#8217;ll know my opinion on court packing when the election is over,&#8221; Biden said the other day. And “Yap yap yap,” answered the poodles of the press.
But while the silence of what used to be journalism is disturbing, we’re used to it by now. We’ve learned that Donald Trump is precisely correct when he called corporate reporters “enemies of the people,” and “fake news.”
What is really strange, however, is what the Democrats themselves aren’t discussing. After all, this is it, the big fight for the big prize. If they’ve got mud to throw at Donald Trump, now is the time to throw it. Even if the ticket doesn’t want to do the dirty work themselves, they can always have their surrogates and spokesmen do it for them. Why not? Those surrogates include George Stephanopoulos, Chuck Todd, Nora O’Donnell, and the entire staff of The New York Times. It wouldn’t be hard for them to get the word out.
And yet, there has not been one mention of the horrific scandal of Donald Trump’s phone call to the president of the Ukraine. The Democrats didn’t even talk about it during their convention. How strange is that? After all, this was wrongdoing so evil that the Democrats brought the business of the country to a standstill in order to impeach the president for only the third time in our history. This was in December, too, when they could have been passing a law. Or debating an issue. Nancy Pelosi could have been in San Francisco, feeding the homeless who crowd the sidewalks of her district. But no. The mind-shattering fact that Donald Trump said something-something-something to the Ukrainian president was such an urgent matter that the anchors at CNN could not look serious enough when they told us how historic it was.
And yet—now, when you’d think the Democrats would want to remind us of that awful, awful scandal—crickets. Why, it’s almost as if they feel that it’s they who should be ashamed of their behavior during that time instead of Trump.
Same with the unthinkable crimes of Brett Kavanaugh. Not a word about them now. Yet back in September of 2018, Kavanaugh was accused of multiple acts of rape, including some casual gang rapes. As the election enters its final weeks, shouldn’t the Democrats be reminding voters that Donald Trump elevated this Hannibal Lecter character to the highest court in the land? Yet again—crickets. As if they’re the ones who acted badly instead of Trump and Kavanaugh.
There are still a few lunatic commentators who bring up Russian collusion now and then, but that’s gone kind of quiet too. As if the Democrats don’t want us to look too closely at just how that three-year farce actually came to be.
You know, a person with a less credulous, more cynical disposition than my sweet self might almost begin to think the Democrats had just wasted four years of our time, tax dollars and emotional energy on bupkis, that they’ve been terrorizing the nation instead of helping to govern it, and for no other reason than to regain power.
Not that they’ve stopped accusing Trump altogether, of course. They still say he called the pandemic a hoax. That he said there were fine people among the neo-Nazis. That he’s like a Nazi himself. They’re still lying, in other words. They just hope we’ll forget the fact that they’ve been lying all this time.
Really, there has been so much dishonesty, malfeasance, and pure treachery in the Democratic Party these past four years that exposing it would be a field day for journalists.
If there were journalists.
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KLAVAN: The Weird Silence Of The Democrats

The strangest thing about Joe Biden’s campaign for the presidency is its weird areas of silence, the issues that no one is talking about.

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Even before Amy Coney Barrett has gone before the Senate committee on her Supreme Court nomination, some in the media are already attacking the Catholic mother of seven over her faith.
&#8220;Amy Coney Barrett served as a ‘handmaid’ in Christian group People of Praise,&#8221; The Washington Post wrote in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/amy-coney-barrett-people-of-praise/2020/10/06/5f497d8c-0781-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html">headline</a> on Tuesday.
The liberal paper owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos said Barrett &#8220;has not spoken publicly about her involvement in People of Praise, a small Christian group founded in the 1970s and based in South Bend, Ind.&#8221;
<blockquote>Barrett, a federal appellate judge, has disclosed serving on the board of a network of private Christian schools affiliated with the group. The organization, however, has declined to confirm that she is a member. In recent years, it removed from its website editions of a People of Praise magazine — first those that included her name and photograph and then all archives of the magazine itself.</blockquote>
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The paper also said the group holds a &#8220;male-dominated hierarchy and view of gender roles&#8221; and &#8220;has conservative stances on the role of women in society and other social issues.&#8221;
But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has come to the defense of Barrett, blasting &#8220;ongoing attacks by Senate Democrats and the media.&#8221;
&#8220;Our coastal elites are so disconnected from their own country that they treat religious Americans like strange animals in a menagerie,&#8221; McConnell said in a statement.
&#8220;The Washington Post decided to report on terminology in an old directory from Judge Barrett’s religious community. The word &#8216;handmaid&#8217; appears dozens of times in the King James Bible. It was good enough for the Virgin Mary. But now, because one liberal author put it in the title of an anti-religious novel in the 1980s, the press tries to imply that one of the most brilliant and powerful women in the legal world is anti-woman,&#8221; McConnell said.
&#8220;Sadly, the press is only following the lead of Senate Democrats,&#8221; he said, citing two examples.
<ul>
<li>Last week, just after trying to claim that Judge Barrett’s religion is not relevant, one Judiciary Committee Democrat proceeded to baselessly question whether Judge Barrett could look past private “closely held” views to rule impartially.</li>
<li>Four days ago, another Senate Democrat wrote a letter declaring Judge Barrett unfit because she once signed a short pro-life statement as a private citizen, and because the organization that wrote the statement may adhere to traditional Christian teaching about when life begins.</li>
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Read McConnell&#8217;s full statement below:
<blockquote>The ongoing attacks by Senate Democrats and the media on Judge Barrett’s faith are a disgrace. They demean the confirmation process, disrespect the Constitution, and insult millions of American believers.
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<li>Yesterday, the Guardian claimed it “rais[es] new questions” that Judge Barrett chose faith-centered student housing while attending a Catholic law school. Only our self-parodying liberal media would call it a scandal that a young person in graduate school found community in shared religious beliefs and met their future spouse. Most Americans would call that a beautiful story.</li>
<li>Hours later, the Washington Post decided to report on terminology in an old directory from Judge Barrett’s religious community. The word “handmaid” appears dozens of times in the King James Bible. It was good enough for the Virgin Mary. But now, because one liberal author put it in the title of an anti-religious novel in the 1980s, the press tries to imply that one of the most brilliant and powerful women in the legal world is anti-woman.</li>
<li>Last week, Politico had a contributing editor physically snoop around a faith group in Indiana and report what a youth group had left on their whiteboard.</li>
</ul>
Our coastal elites are so disconnected from their own country that they treat religious Americans like strange animals in a menagerie.
Sadly, the press is only following the lead of Senate Democrats.
<ul>
<li>Last week, just after trying to claim that Judge Barrett’s religion is not relevant, one Judiciary Committee Democrat proceeded to baselessly question whether Judge Barrett could look past private “closely held” views to rule impartially.</li>
<li>Four days ago, another Senate Democrat wrote a letter declaring Judge Barrett unfit because she once signed a short pro-life statement as a private citizen, and because the organization that wrote the statement may adhere to traditional Christian teaching about when life begins.</li>
</ul>
These euphemisms fool no one. United States Senators are suggesting that Judge Barrett is too Christian, or the wrong kind of Christian, to be a good judge.
Every Supreme Court Justice in history has possessed personal views. Judges have a job to do and they swear to do it impartially. It is the definition of discrimination to assert that Justice Barrett’s particular faith makes her uniquely unqualified for this promotion.
The secular left says they’re for progress, but they’ve just wandered back into the embarrassing tropes of the 1960s, when some argued John F. Kennedy would obey the Pope over the national interest.
Judge Barrett’s brilliant legal career and her stellar record on the Seventh Circuit tell us exactly how she does her job: with excellence. Those are the objective qualifications on which she deserves to be evaluated.
These disgraceful attacks only reinforce why it is crucial to confirm judges like Judge Barrett who understand and respect our Constitution, including its protections for all Americans’ religious liberty.</blockquote>
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Attacks On Barrett’s Faith By Democrats, Media ‘Are A Disgrace’ McConnell Says

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Even before Amy Coney Barrett has gone before the Senate committee on her Supreme Court nomination, some in the media are already attacking the Catholic

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A Democratic congressman is requesting a briefing from the Secret Service on President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent ride past supporters gathered outside Walter Reed Medical Center on Sunday.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) claimed Trump is being &#8220;increasingly reckless&#8221; regarding the coronavirus, according to Jackson, Mississippi, NBC affiliate <a href="https://www.wlbt.com/2020/10/05/rep-thompson-requests-briefing-secret-service-after-trumps-sunday-afternoon-joyride/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WLBT</a>. Thompson accused the president of placing Secret Service agents and their families &#8220;at risk&#8221; when he rode in a hermetically sealed car, despite the fact that the president was masked and the agents with him were decked out in necessary PPE.
Trump&#8217;s brief drive-by sparked outrage among many others, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/04/trump-hospital-drive-criticism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post</a>, which reported that &#8220;current and former Secret Service agents and medical professionals were aghast&#8221; at the move.
James Phillips, whose Twitter bio used to list him as an attending physician at Walter Reed, <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPhillipsMD/status/1312867868028141568" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted on Sunday</a>, &#8220;That Presidential SUV is not only bulletproof but hermetically sealed against chemical attack. The risk of COVID19 transmission inside is as high as it gets outside of medical procedures. The irresponsibility is astounding. My thoughts are with the Secret Service forced to play.&#8221;
Trump hit back at his media detractors, saying there is nothing he could have done in that situation that would not have drawn their criticism. &#8220;It is reported that the Media is upset because I got into a secure vehicle to say thank you to the many fans and supporters who were standing outside of the hospital for many hours, and even days, to pay their respect to their President,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;If I didn’t do it, Media would say RUDE!!!&#8221;
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It is reported that the Media is upset because I got into a secure vehicle to say thank you to the many fans and supporters who were standing outside of the hospital for many hours, and even days, to pay their respect to their President. If I didn’t do it, Media would say RUDE!!!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313183801732890624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In his full statement, Thompson said:
<blockquote>The President has spent the year downplaying the coronavirus and denying its danger. His actions over the past few weeks show that – even with his own illness, so many of his staff infected, and 210,000 Americans dead on his watch – he has not learned a thing. President Trump is being increasingly reckless with the health of the American people and those around him, including the men and women of the Secret Service.
Because the President must constantly feed his desire for political theater and photo ops for his reelection campaign, he created a super-spreader event at the White House – that flouted CDC guidelines – with more staffers and U.S. Senators testing positive daily. The President’s demand that the use of masks be minimized, even at the White House, defies science and has put people’s lives in danger.
The height of reckless disregard for others was the President’s ‘joyride’ yesterday where Secret Service agents were required to drive him around in a hermetically sealed vehicle. Exposing Secret Service personnel to the virus does not just put them at risk, it puts their families and the public at risk.
So we can know more about how these events have affected the Secret Service and national security, I have requested a briefing from the agency on the current safeguards in place for their employees — including on the President’s protective detail — and how Secret Service agents can be kept safe from coronavirus-related threats, including apparently the President himself.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-going-to-kill-people-cnn-host-tries-to-stop-video-of-trump-taking-mask-off-from-being-aired" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘That’s Going To Kill People!’: CNN Host Tries To Stop Video Of Trump Taking Mask Off From Being Aired</a>
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Democrat Congressman Requests Briefing On Trump’s ‘Joyride’ Outside Walter Reed

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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lindsey-graham">Lindsay Graham</a> (R-SC) in a letter Wednesday to delay the nomination of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/amy-coney-barrett">Judge Amy Coney Barrett</a> of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court">Supreme Court</a>, saying that the timeline as presented by Graham was “incompatible” with the Senate’s constitutional duty. 
“Now that Judge Barrett has formally been nominated, we write to object to the timeline you unilaterally laid out for consideration of her nomination, and we renew our objections to processing Judge Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court,” wrote Feinstein in a letter signed by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, which include Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA). 
“The timeline for consideration of Judge Barrett’s nomination is incompatible with the Senate’s constitutional role. We again urge you to delay consideration of this nomination until after the presidential inauguration. The Senate and the American public deserve a deliberative, thorough process, and this falls far short,” said the letter. 
In late September, Graham said the Senate Judiciary Committee would formally begin confirmation hearings on Monday, October 12, with the questioning period beginning the following day. The South Carolina senator, who is vying for re-election, said he hopes to have Barrett out of the committee hearings process by October 26. 
The group of senate Democrats, however, said in the letter Wednesday that the current nomination timeline was a “sharp departure from past practice.” The letter continues: 
<blockquote>Specifically, the timeline you have set calls into question the following:</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The FBI’s ability to thoroughly vet the nominee and her background as part of the background investigation (BI) process;</blockquote>
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<blockquote>The production and review of documents that may bear on the nominee’s fitness for appointment to the Supreme Court;</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Adequate time to review the nominee’s entire record;</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Adequate time for questioning the nominee, including through the submission of written Questions for the Record (QFRs).</blockquote>
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On the same day the Democrats sent the letter calling for the hearings to be delayed until after inauguration day, Graham’s office posted a video of him meeting with Barrett.  
“I think she’s one of the most qualified people who will ever be nominated to the Supreme Court,” said Graham <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siat_HMUHJE&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=19">in a meeting</a> with Barrett. 
“I think she’s done everything anybody could hope a nominee for the Supreme Court would do in their life. You’ve lived an incredibly eventful life, you’re really good at everything you’ve chosen to do — from being a law professor to being a law clerk to being a judge at the circuit level — so I think you’re well-prepared,” he added. 
Graham has cautioned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-says-barrett-hearings-will-begin-oct-12-lays-out-rough-timeline">Democrats against trying to pull any stunts</a> in the nomination hearings to derail Barrett’s chances, arguing that such tactics would backfire anyway. 
“It’s going to blow up in their faces big time,” Graham told Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro of any derailment attempts back in late September, also adding: “If they continue this pattern of trying to demean this outstanding nominee, I think the American people will push back and push back hard.”
“Kavanaugh really did help Republicans pick up Senate seats because they went too far,” added Graham. 
At least one Democratic senator reportedly holds similar sentiments to Graham, telling <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/dianne-feinstein-supreme-court-battle-420357">Politico</a> only days before Graham’s comments, on the condition of anonymity, that Democrats may have lost two senate seats because of how the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were handled. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-dems-toss-feinstein-under-the-bus-ahead-of-scotus-battle-she-cant-pull-this-off">Senate Dems Toss Feinstein Under The Bus Ahead Of SCOTUS Battle: ‘She Can’t Pull This Off’ </a>
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Feinstein, Nine Other Senate Dems, Call For Barrett Confirmation Hearings To Be Delayed

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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham (R-SC) in a letter Wednesday to delay the nomination of Judge

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Democrats are reportedly considering a plan to boycott upcoming Senate Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and at least two Democratic Senators &#8212; Hawaii&#8217;s Mazie Hirono and Connecticut&#8217;s Richard Blumenthal &#8212; say they will not meet with nominee Amy Coney Barrett because it would &#8220;legitimize&#8221; President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to kick off a nomination process just weeks from a presidential election.
<a href="https://www.chron.com/news/article/Democrats-debate-whether-to-engage-or-withdraw-15599222.php">The Houston Chronicle reports</a> that Democratic senators are &#8220;mapping out how they will wield their limited procedural weapons in the fight over President Donald Trump&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee&#8221; and are &#8220;grappling with a central question: How much legitimacy do they give his candidate?&#8221;
&#8220;With little power to actually derail Trump&#8217;s pick, Democrats are coming under considerable pressure from their activist base to use every tactic at their disposal to not just throw sand in the gears of the confirmation fight, but to portray the consideration of expected nominee Amy Coney Barrett as a farce that shouldn&#8217;t even occur,&#8221; the outlet notes.
Over the last week, Democrats have tried a variety of approaches, from attacking Republicans as &#8220;hypocrites&#8221; for nominating a new jurist to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg &#8212; even though at this point, Republicans control both the White House and the Senate and it is possible the president will shortly earn an additional term &#8212; to attacking Amy Coney Barrett for her large family, adopted children, and faith community.
Sunday morning, Democratic leaders tried again to redirect the argument, focusing instead on upcoming oral arguments questioning the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act scheduled to take place at the start of the Supreme Court&#8217;s next term.
Most Democrats &#8212; like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) &#8212; are relying on the latter argument to swing voters, but at least two Senators, Hirono and Blumenthal, told media Saturday that they have no plans to &#8220;legitimize&#8221; Coney Barrett and will not even accept a casual meeting with the nominee, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hirono-blumenthal-amy-coney-barrett">per Fox News</a>.
&#8220;If Judge Barrett’s views become law, hundreds of millions of Americans living w/pre-existing conditions would lose access to their health care. In the middle of a pandemic, rushing confirmation of an extreme jurist who will decimate health care is unconscionable,&#8221; Blumenthal said on Twitter. “I will refuse to treat this process as legitimate &amp; will not meet with Judge Amy Coney Barrett.&#8221;
Hirono, at least, left open the possibility of questioning Barrett during a Senate confirmation hearing: “I will not be meeting with her, I will take the opportunity to question her when she is under oath.&#8221;
After a contentious week, however, Republicans are unlikely to take Democrats&#8217; feelings into consideration. As of Sunday, the GOP has enough votes to pass Barrett out of committee and approve her nomination on the Senate floor without Democratic defections. Republicans can afford at least three defections from their own party before Vice President Mike Pence is forced to cast a tie-breaking vote.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-says-barrett-hearings-will-begin-oct-12-lays-out-rough-timeline">The Daily Wire reported Saturday</a>, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says the Senate plans to bring Barrett&#8217;s nomination to the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 12.
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Democrats Considering ‘Boycott’ Of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, Refuse To Meet With Amy Coney Barrett

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Democrats are reportedly considering a plan to boycott upcoming Senate Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and at least two Democratic Senators --

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Democrats, Media Immediately Attack Amy Coney Barrett, Move To Delegitimize Her Nomination

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Democrats and their allies in the media immediately began attacking Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett for her Catholic faith and smeared her

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On Friday, in the wake of news that President Trump planned to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy left following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week, a Democrat operative used the opportunity to speculate on the way Barrett’s two adopted Haitian children were adopted — this prompted a barrage of criticism from conservatives who were outraged at the operative for seeming to use Barrett’s children against her.
Dana Houle, who served as Chief of Staff for Democratic New Hampshire Rep. Paul Hodes and campaign manager for Hodes and for Democratic Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, according to <a href="http://bostonreview.net/Dana-houle">Boston Review</a>, tweeted, “I would love to know which adoption agency Amy Coney Barrett &amp; her husband used to adopt the two children they brought here from Haiti.”
“So, here’s a Q: does the press even investigate details of Barrett’s adoptions from Haiti? Some adoptions from Haiti were legit,” Houle continued. “Many were sketchy as hell. And if press learned they were unethical &amp; maybe illegal adoptions, would they report it? Or not bc it involves her children. Would it matter if her kids were scooped up by ultra-religious Americans, or Americans weren’t scrupulous intermediaries &amp; the kids were taken when there was family in Haiti? I dunno. I think it does, but maybe it doesn’t, or shouldn’t.”
He added, “I hope the adoptions were fully legit &amp; ethical. I hope if press investigates that’s whay [sic] find. But if the adoptions were sketchy, reporting it would really screw w the lives of her 2 adopted kids (&amp; maybe the 5 bio kids too).”
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Reaction came fast and furious: Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded, “Dem operative’s opening salvo at Judge Barrett: attacking her young children. This is twisted. Leave the kids alone.”
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Dem operative’s opening salvo at Judge Barrett: attacking her young children. 
This is twisted. Leave the kids alone. <a href="https://t.co/LHE5aOVVi6">pic.twitter.com/LHE5aOVVi6</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1309623047482036225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway ripped Houle, writing:
<blockquote>&#8220;Nice children you&#8217;ve got. Shame if something happened to them.&#8221; You know what you&#8217;re doing is disgusting. You know it&#8217;s indefensible and wrong. Stop doing it immediately. Have the barest amount of decency as a human and stop going after children for political reasons.</blockquote>
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&quot;Nice children you&#39;ve got. Shame if something happened to them.&quot; You know what you&#39;re doing is disgusting. You know it&#39;s indefensible and wrong. Stop doing it immediately. Have the barest amount of decency as a human and stop going after children for political reasons.
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1309615044121047040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Columnist Bethany Mandel, who has four children of her own: “This is f***ing evil as hell.”
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This is fucking evil as hell
&mdash; Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) <a href="https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1309620145539645441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Barrett has seven children, two of whom were adopted from Haiti.
The <a href="https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-amy-coney-barrett/article_79a482ca-fbc0-11ea-8f70-b3134dc4bab7.html">South Bend Tribune</a> reported:
<blockquote>In a 2019 discussion before the Notre Dame Club of Washington, D.C., Barrett said she and Jesse decided to adopt from Haiti because it was an impoverished country and because it was close enough to be able to visit as the kids became older. She and her husband debated over the years whether one should stay home with the children &#8212; she described plenty of &#8220;soul-searching and anxiety about balancing kids and work &#8212; but Jesse&#8217;s aunt has helped watch the kids for years, and Jesse took on more home duties after she became a judge. &#8220;What greater thing can you do than raise children?&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s where you have your greatest impact on the world.[”]</blockquote>
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Dem Strategist Questions Whether Amy Coney Barrett Adopted Her Haitian Children Illegally. Social Media Slams Him.

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On Friday, in the wake of news that President Trump planned to nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy left following the death of Justice

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Speaking with Tucker Carlson of Fox News on Thursday, Candace Owens slammed leftists who attacked Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is black, as a traitor to his race after a Kentucky grand jury announced that one former officer involved in the death of Breonna Taylor had been indicted on three charges of first-degree wanton endangerment while two other officers had not been indicted.
On Wednesday, retired Los Angeles police sergeant Cheryl Dorsey, a black woman, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-guest-says-black-kentucky-ag-skin-folk-but-not-kinfolk-after-charges-in-breonna-taylor-case?%3Futm_source=twitter">slammed</a> Cameron. Dorsey said of Cameron, “Well, listen. Not only is he being intellectually dishonest about that, you know, I find all of his remarks with regards to this whole entire press conference offensive. … Let me say this as a black woman. He does not speak for black folks. He’s skin-folk, but he is not kinfolk. And so just like he thinks they can’t speak for Kentucky, because he is up there with a black face, he does not speak for all of us. This was not a tragedy. This was a murder. He should be ashamed of himself.
Carlson said to Owens, “You saw the Attorney General of Kentucky, and I think I’d be honest enough to say that even if I disagreed with him, he certainly made a rational case for his position, and a pretty traditionally American case: rioting is not justice. And then you see him attacked as a race traitor. What do you make of that?”
“For me, it&#8217;s absolutely infuriating to watch,” Owens answered. “And you are correct in saying that I&#8217;ve been on the receiving end of the same sorts of attacks. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s so fundamentally wrong and backwards about it, is that if you actually look at what they are saying and what the deeper implications are here, it&#8217;s that there is a right way, a correct way and a wrong way to be black. Meaning that you can look at me, Tucker, and say, ‘Candace Owens is black, and therefore I can assign a bunch of characteristics and expectations upon to her based on her skin color.’ Ironically, that&#8217;s the very definition of racism and it&#8217;s coming from the liberals who like to say that they see racism everywhere but they can&#8217;t recognize it when it&#8217;s coming out of their own mouths.”
“I’ve often said the Democrat party has built almost a prototype of what it means to be a black American; that prototype means a black American must vote Democrat,” Owens continued. “You must react emotionally and not rationally and not pause to think. We must be faithful and abide by cultural icons, meaning we must worship the words and advice of ‘King’ Lebron James, as he’s called, and ‘Queen’ Beyonce. ‘Queen’ Beyonce being the person, I will remind your listeners and viewers, who actually wrote a letter to hurry up the Attorney General in his investigation and said that she wanted her kind of justice delivered in the Breonna Taylor case.”
“He did the right thing by ignoring her; he did the right thing by ignoring various pressures coming from culture and the mainstream media, and for that you’re seeing him being socially lynched and stripped of his identity because he acted professionally and rationally,” Owens asserted. “This guy should be commended by both sides and instead he’s being attacked racially by the left.”
Carlson pointed out, “It’s beyond belief how patronizing it is, but it’s also an attack on the most basic freedom of all, which is the right of every American to think for himself: ‘That’s my view; I disagree.’ That’s the most American thing you can say, but they don’t recognize that right.”
Owens concluded:
<blockquote>They don’t. And what I get especially frustrated with, Tucker, is this kind of a thought process. It only exists — it only is placed on black Americans. You can’t imagine a scenario in which Joe Biden would say, “If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t white. Why, that doesn’t even sound right.  Suddenly you’re like, “What are you talking about? You have to come to us with ideas and get us to see your perspective. But when it’s black Americans’ they view it as proprietary. There is something proprietary about black skin to Democrats, and they get super-angry at people who think independently, like myself, like the Attorney General, and like various other black Americans who are waking up to this delusion.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Candace Owens Rips Dems: ‘There Is Something Proprietary About Black Skin To Democrats’

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Speaking with Tucker Carlson of Fox News on Thursday, Candace Owens slammed leftists who attacked Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is black,

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Democratic politicians and groups are beginning to push voters to vote in person or hand deliver their absentee ballots as concerns grow over what a flood of mail-in ballots may mean for the election.
Democrats are more likely to vote absentee or mail-in historically than Republicans, and that difference has been amplified this year with the outbreak of the coronavirus as well as a Democratic legal push to loosen voting laws in a number of states, including many swing states.
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is running for Senate against GOP Sen. Cory Gardner, as well as Democratic candidate for Senate in Idaho Paulette Jordan, are both encouraging voters to turn in their mail-in ballots in person. A number of Democratic-aligned organizations have shifted their messaging to include or primarily push in-person voting, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/democrats-mail-voting-pivot-838522b7-8dac-42b4-a566-1ba93818654d.html">Axios</a>.
Black PAC and The Collective PAC have both shifted voter outreach strategies to encourage more in-person voting rather than mailing of ballots.
“We’re shifting away from making plans to vote by mail to voting early in person,” The Collective PAC founder Quentin James told Axios.
Voting by mail has become increasingly risky this year due to a high demand for absentee and mail-in ballots. During presidential primaries alone this year, hundreds of thousands of ballots cast by mail were lost, effectively disenfranchising over half a million voters.
As NPR reported on Aug. 22:
<blockquote>An extraordinarily high number of ballots — more than 550,000 — have been rejected in this year&#8217;s presidential primaries, according to a new analysis by NPR.
That&#8217;s far more than <a href="https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/2016_EAVS_Comprehensive_Report.pdf">the 318,728 ballots rejected</a> in the 2016 general election and has raised alarms about what might happen in November when tens of millions of more voters are expected to cast their ballots by mail, many for the first time.</blockquote>
A flood of mail-in ballots has caused primary election problems in states such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-1600-new-jersey-primary-ballots-found-in-misplaced-bin-2-months-later">New Jersey</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wisconsins-vote-by-mail-debacle-was-worse-than-you-think">Wisconsin</a>. In New Jersey, election officials found roughly 1,600 primary ballots stuffed in a bin and uncounted months after the July primary.
As The Daily Wire reported:
<blockquote>The votes were reportedly placed in a “mislabeled” bin in a “secure area” of the county election office, according to the <a href="https://www.njherald.com/news/20200914/16k-uncounted-july-ballots-discovered-in-sussex-county">New Jersey Herald</a>. Sussex County Board of Elections Administrator Marge McCabe maintained that the 1,666 extra votes did not change the outcome of the July 7 primary race. “The Board of Elections is confident that all ballots received have been processed and the security of all the ballots has remained in place,” she said.</blockquote>
In Wisconsin, problems hit almost every level of the mail-in voting process, from requests for ballots not being processed to voters’ ballots not getting to the proper election officials to be counted.
Democrats have put a heavy emphasis on mail-in voting and one Democratic data firm has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-data-firm-says-apparent-trump-election-landslide-could-turn-into-biden-win-days-later-with-mail-in-ballots">predicted</a> a “red mirage” outcome in the presidential election where President Trump appears to win on election night, only to slowly lose ground and eventually be defeated by Democratic candidate Joe Biden as mailed ballots are processed.
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Democrats Pivot To In-Person Voting, Fear Mail-In Could Lead To Problems

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Democratic politicians and groups are beginning to push voters to vote in person or hand deliver their absentee ballots as concerns grow over what a flood

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Ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee battle over President Donald Trump’s soon-to-be third Supreme Court nominee, Democratic senators have reportedly started to worry that Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 87, the ranking member of the judiciary committee, may botch the hearings to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the court.
“She’s not sure what she’s doing,” a Democratic senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Politico. “If you take a look at Kavanaugh, we may be short two senators because of that. And if this gets [messed] up, it may be the same result.”
According to Politico, two other Democratic senators have expressed concerns, both also on the condition of anonymity, about Feinstein botching the committee hearing.
“She can’t pull this off,” said another Democratic senator, while yet another reportedly told Politico that the Democratic leadership were in “an impossible position” because they couldn’t risk the optics of having to replace her.
Feinstein told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/dianne-feinstein-supreme-court-battle-420357">Politico</a> in an interview that she was “surprised and taken aback” by suggestions she was incapable of serving in her role, saying “my attendance is good, I do the homework, I try to ask hard questions. I stand up for what I believe in.”
“Let me say this — I know it’s going to be a fight. I understand that,” said Feinstein, reports the news agency. “I don’t have a lot of tools to use, but I’m going to use what I have. We can try to delay and obstruct but they can run this process through. That doesn’t mean that we won’t fight tooth and nail.”
Furthermore, Politico reports:
<blockquote>Feinstein sometimes gets confused by reporters’ questions, or will offer different answers to the same question depending on where or when she’s asked. Her appearance is frail. And Feinstein&#8217;s genteel demeanor, which seems like it belongs to a bygone Senate era, can lead to trouble with an increasingly hard-line Democratic base uninterested in collegiality or bipartisan platitudes.</blockquote>
The attacks against Feinstein come after the long-time California senator has refused to endorse an abolition of the filibuster.
“Well, I don’t believe in doing that, I think. I think the filibuster serves a purpose,” Feinstein told reporters, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/517704-democrats-shoot-down-talk-of-expanding-supreme-court">The Hill</a>. “I think it’s part of the Senate that differentiates itself.”
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) has previously said he’s leaning toward <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/high-ranking-dem-says-hes-leaning-toward-abolishing-filibuster">abolishing the filibuster</a>, and in the past, Democratic vice presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has previously said she would support abolishing the filibuster to pass the Green New Deal, reports <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/politics/kamala-harris-eliminate-filibuster-green-new-deal-climate-town-hall/index.html">CNN</a>.
In a eulogy for the late Congressman John Lewis, former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-move-to-instantly-kill-filibuster-to-ram-through-far-left-agenda-if-they-sweep-2020-races-report-says">President Barack Obama</a> called the filibuster a “Jim Crow relic” and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) later advocated for its end, citing the former president’s eulogy.
“President Obama is absolutely right,” said Sanders in a statement at the time. “It is an outrage that modern-day poll taxes, gerrymandering, I.D. requirements, and other forms of voter suppression still exist today.”
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Senate Dems Toss Feinstein Under The Bus Ahead Of SCOTUS Battle: ‘She Can’t Pull This Off’

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Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Georgia, used his position at the head of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to attack police officers and claim “spiritual wickedness” allowed one officer to escape charges in the 2014 death of Michael Brown.
In a series of 2015 sermons first <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1308212219449147392">reported</a> by Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night, Warnock used the pulpit to spread fear among black churchgoers that the police represent a “danger” to their children. The recently unearthed sermons come as racially-charged protests have swept the United States, and subsequent riots have cost <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history/">billions of dollars</a> in estimated damage.
Warnock is the leading competitor to challenge GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who has largely been distracted by a challenge to her seat from the right from GOP Georgia Rep. Doug Collins. In an apparent bid to force other Democrats out of the race, Warnock’s campaign <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/warnock-rises-in-polls-as-allies-urge-other-democrats-to-quit-senate-race/V7Z5ACWICRCR7KSZVE26RUZ74E/">released</a> internal polling numbers on Monday showing Warnock in second place, trailing Loeffler 25% to 29%. Collins came in third at 19%.
When asked if Warnock stood by his 2015 comments, a Warnock campaign spokesman directed The Daily Wire to a <a href="https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/loeffler-takes-aim-warnock-over-defund-police/O7SwGftNNpFcm3rr9e9SPK/">June 29 article</a> in which Warnock came out in favor of “responsibly fund[ing] law enforcement” rather than defunding the police as many in the Black Lives Matter movement have called for.
“We need to reimagine policing and reimagine the relationships between law enforcement and communities,” Warnock said. “We certainly need to demilitarize the police so we can rebuild the trust between the police and the community.”
During a March 8, 2015, sermon, Warnock addressed a report released by then-Attorney General Eric Holder four days prior to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, by Darren Wilson, then a police officer with the Ferguson, Missouri, police department. Holder had <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-holder-delivers-update-investigations-ferguson-missouri">announced</a> on March 4 “that the facts do not support the filing of criminal charges against Officer Darren Wilson in this case. Michael Brown’s death, though a tragedy, did not involve prosecutable conduct on the part of Officer Wilson.”
Warnock compared unrest that broke out in Ferguson over Brown’s death to Rev. Martin Luther King’s 1965 civil rights march through Selma, Alabama. “The road to Ferguson goes through Selma,” Warnock said. He continued:
<blockquote>Can I tell you what spiritual wickedness looks like in high places? I know you read the Bible, but if you want to know what spiritual wickedness in high places looks like, you need to read the attorney general’s report this week on Ferguson because that is spiritual wickedness in high places. It is a report that talks about the use of police force and police violence to crush the poor, to crush the most vulnerable citizens of a small town, all of these little municipalities all within the county of St. Louis because America has not yet beaten the demon of racism.</blockquote>
He went on to say that the police officers in Ferguson that cracked down on riots that scarred the city in the wake of Brown’s death acted with “a kind of gangster and thug mentality.”
“So in Ferguson, police power showing up in a kind of gangster and thug mentality. You know, you can wear all kinds of colors and be a thug. You can sometimes wear the colors of the state and behave like a thug,” Warnock said.
The full sermon can be found <a href="https://livestream.com/historicebenezerbaptistchurch/events/3870165/videos/79514763">here</a>. (relevant portion begins around 1:28:00)
Later that year in a June 14 sermon, Warnock suggested that cases of police brutality are widespread and suggest a deeper, systemic problem with U.S. law enforcement. Warnock also suggested that racism in the United States is a significant obstacle faced by black people. “The problem is black bodies in the public space. That’s the problem,” he said, citing it as a reason for police brutality.
Warnock said that law enforcement represented a “danger” to black children, apparently referencing a June 2015 <a href="https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2015-06-09/mckinney-officer-resigns-after-pointing-gun-at-teens-at-pool-party">incident</a> where a Texas police officer wrestled to the ground a black teen girl in a bikini at a pool party. He said:
<blockquote>We are seeing the mean and ugly clutches of America’s prison industrial complex, and we are witnessing each week the ways in which its pernicious tentacles make their way into our neighborhoods and it doesn’t matter what kind of hood you live in. There is somebody always trying to steal our joy. Doesn’t matter whether you live in Ferguson or New York, Baltimore or McKinney, Texas. It’s children&#8217;s day and we got to lift up our children because our children are in trouble, and it’s often those who are sworn to protect who cause more trouble. Not everybody, but did it not break your heart, it broke mine, to see an officer of the law manhandle a 14-year-old child in a bikini? It hearkened back to the ugliest days down south and up south. And if you&#8217;re not careful it can steal your joy when you think about the fact that our children are in danger, and it doesn’t matter whether they are male or female, whether they live in the Bronx or a gated community, whether they are wearing a hood or a bikini.</blockquote>
The full sermon can be found <a href="https://livestream.com/historicebenezerbaptistchurch/events/4127076/videos/90267290">here</a>. (relevant portion begins around 1:12:00)
In a Nov. 29 sermon, Warnock said that the United States has a relatively high prison population compared to the rest of the world and that the high number of prisoners is a direct result of harsh police tactics. He said:
<blockquote>Don’t ever talk about police brutality without talking about America’s prison industrial complex. The land of the free is the incarceration capital of the world. When you think about the fact that America still warehouses 25% of the world’s prisoners, we shouldn’t be surprised when we see police officers act like bullies on the street. You don’t get to be the incarceration capital of the world by playing nice on the streets. You have to work for that distinction.</blockquote>
The full sermon can be found <a href="https://livestream.com/historicebenezerbaptistchurch/events/4546143/videos/105815185">here</a>. (relevant portion begins around 36:00)
National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Nathan Brand slammed Warnock’s past comments in a statement, saying, “Democrat Raphael Warnock&#8217;s radical views about the men and women keeping Georgia communities safe are completely out-of-touch with the principles and priorities of Georgia families. To refer to police officers as ‘thugs,’ ‘bullies,’ and ‘gangsters’ shows that Warnock is in line with the most extreme elements of the Democratic Party that are funding his campaign.”
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Leading Democratic Senate Candidate In Georgia Railed Against ‘Gangster’ Police From The Pulpit

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Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Georgia, used his position at the head of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to attack police

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The Republican National Committee released a video on Sunday highlighting the words of many top Democrats in 2016 on the issue of filling a Supreme Court seat during an election year.
The digital ad follows the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday after the 87-year-old associate justice lost the fight in her fifth bout with cancer.
Democrats made the following remarks in 2016 following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia:
<blockquote>Joe Biden: &#8220;The American people deserve a fully-staffed court of nine.&#8221;
Hillary Clinton: &#8220;The president nominates and then the Senate advises and consents, or not, but they go forward with the process.&#8221;
Nancy Pelosi: &#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing here, and I hope this is temporary, is a disrespect for the Constitution. &#8230; The American people expect the president&#8217;s nominee to be given a fair hearing and a timely vote in the Senate.&#8221;
Bernie Sanders: &#8220;The Constitution is 100% clear. The President of the United States has the right to nominate someone to be a justice of the Supreme Court. Senate’s function is to hold hearings and to vote.&#8221;
Tim Kaine: &#8220;The blockade on filling a naturally occurring vacancy, in my view, is harmful to the independence of the Article Three branch. Even in the three months since Justice Scalia’s death, the court rulings have shown the challenges of an eight member court. &#8230; Instead of just saying the blanket rule is no matter who you are, no matter what your qualifications, because you were sent by this president, we will create a unique rule for you and refuse to entertain you.&#8221;
Patrick Leahy: &#8220;You cannot keep a seat on the Supreme Court, which represents all of us, you cannot keep it vacant against the Constitution.&#8221;
Elizabeth Warren: “&#8230;do pretty much everything they can to avoid acknowledging the legitimacy of our democratically-elected president … I say to you, do your job, vote for a Supreme Court nominee. … If you want to stop extremism in your party, you can start by showing the American people that you respect the President of the United States and the Constitution.”
Chuck Schumer: “Every day that goes by without a ninth justice is another day the American people’s business is not getting done.”</blockquote>
RNC Rapid Response Director Steve Guest said that Democrats should follow their previous statements and move to immediately fill the vacancy.
&#8220;&#8216;The American people deserve a fully-staffed court of nine.&#8217; Those are Joe Biden’s words, and we agree,&#8221; Guest said. &#8220;As precedent and Democrats&#8217; own words dictate, President Trump has an obligation to fill the vacancy without delay.&#8221;
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WATCH: Republican Party Highlights What Top Democrats Said About Filling SCOTUS Seat In 2016

The Republican National Committee released a video on Sunday highlighting the words of many top Democrats in 2016 on the issue of filling a Supreme Court

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Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert announced this week that he has changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican following months of violent riots and attacks on law enforcement by leftists.
“It was a really difficult decision and I’ve thought long and hard about it, but I feel I stand for the ideals of the Republican Party platform more than the Democrats today,” Albert said. “I’ve been a lifelong Democrat, but a conservative Democrat at that. I’m pro-life, a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, a lifetime member of the NRA and, today, I feel my ideals are closer to the Republican Party than Democrats.”
Albert, 77, has worked for more than four decades in both law enforcement and as a judge.
TribLIVE.com <a href="https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/westmoreland-sheriff-albert-explains-switch-to-gop-i-have-not-left-the-democratic-party-the-democratic-party-has-left-me/">said</a> that Albert&#8217;s decision came after he watched months of news coverage showing “arson, mob rule and attacks against law enforcement.”
“I was saddened and enraged by the murder of David Dorn, a 77-year-old African American retired police captain, who was shot by a pawn shop looter during a protest in St. Louis,” Albert said. “These outrageous, lawless acts have been met with silence, acquiescence and, in some instances, outright support from the local, state and national leadership of the Democratic Party.”
A recent report found that there have been approximately 570 violent riots in nearly 220 locations spread across the U.S.
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Princeton University group studies 3 months of Black Lives Matter protests. Intent is to show they are &#39;overwhelmingly peaceful.&#39; But report reveals nearly 570 violent demonstrations&#8211;riots&#8211;in nearly 220 locations spread all across country. <a href="https://t.co/it60GBbTZT">https://t.co/it60GBbTZT</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ph8iECyHIf">pic.twitter.com/Ph8iECyHIf</a>
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Albert&#8217;s switch comes after six mayors in Minnesota formerly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/six-democrat-mn-mayors-endorse-trump-democrats-left-us-moved-so-far-left-we-dont-recognize-the-party">endorsed</a> President Donald Trump for re-election late last month.
“Today, we write to formally endorse President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for four more years,” the letter said. It was signed by Virginia Mayor Larry Cuffe, Chisholm Mayor John Champa, Ely Mayor Chuck Novak, Two Harbors Mayor Chris Swanson, Eveleth Mayor Robert Vlaisavljevich, and Babbitt Mayor Andrea Zupancich.
“Like many in our region, we have voted for Democrats over many decades,” the letter said. “We have watched as our constituents’ jobs left not only the Iron Range, but our country. By putting tariffs on our products and supporting bad trade deals, politicians like Joe Biden did nothing to help the working class. We lost thousands of jobs, and generations of young people have left the Iron Range in order to provide for their families with good paying jobs elsewhere. Today, we don’t recognize the Democratic Party. It has been moved so far to the left it can no longer claim to be advocates of the working class. The hard-working Minnesotans that built their lives and supported their families here on the Range have been abandoned by radical Democrats. We didn’t choose to leave the Democratic Party, the party left us.”
“Yet, four years ago, something wonderful happened. Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States, and he stood up to China, implemented tax cuts and fought for the working class,” the letter continued. “Now, four years later, the Iron Range is roaring back to life and for the first time in a very long time, locals are hopeful because of this President’s policies and willingness to fight for us.”
“Lifelong politicians like Joe Biden are out of touch with the working class, out of touch with what the country needs, and out of touch with those of us here on the Iron Range and in small towns like ours across our nation,” the letter concluded. “In this election, there is a lot at stake, but the biggest risk is our jobs, our economy, and our way of life. President Trump delivered the best economy in our nation’s history, and President Trump will deliver for us again. He will continue to fight for every American regardless of party affiliation and continue to stand up for the working class.”
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Philadelphians Kneel In Protest To Systemic Police Violence

Pennsylvania Sheriff Changes To Republican After Violent Riots: ‘Democratic Party Has Left Me’

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Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert announced this week that he has changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican following months of

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