After former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-republican-party-fundraising-fc057119f3bb5cb2a34a00ccd93fbb13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touted</a> a record-breaking fundraiser in Florida this weekend, leaders of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-national-committee-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican National Committee (RNC)</a> said they are focused on &#8220;key&#8221; battleground states — including one where <a href="https://georgiarecorder.com/briefs/trump-plans-atlanta-fundraiser-this-month-as-georgia-gop-2020-campaign-allies-plan-to-share-stage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another fundraiser</a> is planned — and districts.
The former president&#8217;s daughter-in-law, RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ueJ8b-ix3M" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke on Sunday</a> with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo along with RNC Chairman Michael Whatley about how they are pressing forward after a reported $50.5 million draw at the fundraiser, a figure that almost doubles the amount President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign said it <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-raises-record-26-million-at-star-studded-new-york-campaign-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised at a glitzy New York event</a>, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-whatley-lara-trump-elected-to-lead-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">month into their tenure</a>.
&#8220;There are the key battleground states &#8230; that we really do have to focus on,&#8221; Lara Trump said on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures,&#8221; listing Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Michigan as priorities. She said Georgia, which President Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020, is another <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/the-2024-swing-states-why-georgia-could-sway-the-presidential-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">swing state</a> where her father-in-law is setting his sights while another high-dollar fundraiser is <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-05/billionaires-marcus-sprecher-to-host-trump-atlanta-fundraiser" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set to take place in Atlanta</a> this week.
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&#8220;You&#8217;re going to see another huge fund-raising haul out of that state next week as well from President Trump,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And so, listen, all the battleground states, we&#8217;re highly focused on. There are 19 key counties around the country we must win in order to ensure Donald Trump becomes the 47th president. We are incredibly focused on doing all that.&#8221;
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-republican-party-fundraising-fc057119f3bb5cb2a34a00ccd93fbb13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the $50.5 million figure reported by Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign from a donor event in Palm Beach, Florida, would be a single-event record that far outmatch Biden&#8217;s the $26 million said to be raised at a recent event at Radio City Music Hall in New York that featured celebrities and former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
In the days prior, data <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/03/trump-rnc-raised-65-6-million-march-00150300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by POLITICO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rnc-posts-impressive-fundraising-haul-in-march-but-remain-far-behind-bidens-war-chest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> Trump and the RNC gathered $65.6 million in March and had $93.1 cash on hand by the end of the month. Those may be strong numbers, but a good deal of money is going toward <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/politics/trump-legal-bills-rnc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump&#8217;s legal bills</a> as he tries to fight off criminal and civil cases. And overall, they would appear to be lagging behind the Biden campaign, which <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/06/biden-campaign-march-fundraising-90-million-00150868" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that it raised $90 million in March and had $192 million on hand.
Whatley said funds raised will be allocated to &#8220;core missions&#8221; for the RNC, which he described as &#8220;getting out the vote and protecting the ballot. He added, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to make sure that we are focusing on the battleground states and districts where we need to be competitive and making sure that every dollar that we raise is going to be putting lead on target.&#8221;

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RNC Chiefs Share ‘Key’ Areas Of Focus After Monster Trump Fundraiser

RNC Chiefs Share 'Key' Areas Of Focus After Monster Trump Fundraiser

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On Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-national-committee-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican National Committee (RNC)</a> launched a website that is a nod to former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> predicting a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; for the United States if he does not win a second term in the 2024 election — comments that drew controversy because legacy media coverage downplayed how he was talking about the auto industry.
The <a href="https://bidenbloodbath.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, BidenBloodbath.com, is focused on highlighting the &#8220;horrors&#8221; of the border crisis under the leadership of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>, <a href="https://www.gop.com/press-release/rnc-launches-bidenbloodbathcom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the RNC</a>. A statement said the website provides the &#8220;latest data&#8221; and &#8220;real-time messaging&#8221; to activists who sign up for updates. It also features subpages with statistics for various battleground states and a link to a fundraising page that says &#8220;Biden Bloodbath&#8221; in all caps.
&#8220;Biden is allowing vicious criminals, illegal drugs, gangs and terrorists into the United States. He alone has the power to reverse course and secure our border to protect our communities, yet he refuses to take action,&#8221; said Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez. &#8220;Biden is prioritizing illegal immigrants over Americans. That’s why in November, we will vote to send President Donald J. Trump back to the White House to put an end to Biden&#8217;s border bloodbath.&#8221;
The move comes weeks after Lara Trump, the former president&#8217;s daughter-in-law, and Michael Whatley <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-whatley-lara-trump-elected-to-lead-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were elected</a> to lead the RNC after Ronna McDaniel announced she would be stepping down as chairwoman. It also follows polling from Gallup that showed immigration <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/611135/immigration-surges-top-important-problem-list.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rose to the top</a> of the list of what Americans view as the most important problem facing the United States.
Last month, legacy media outlets <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/complete-propaganda-media-and-biden-campaign-blasted-over-coverage-of-trumps-bloodbath-prediction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced blowback</a> for highlighting Trump&#8217;s warning of a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if he does not win re-election with headlines that failed to mention he was talking about the auto industry. Biden&#8217;s campaign <a href="https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1769163262283706801" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a statement</a> on the &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; remark without a single mention of cars but repeated mentions of violence, alleging Trump &#8220;wants another January 6.&#8221;
“The Fake News Media, and their Democrat Partners in the destruction of our Nation, pretended to be shocked at my use of the word BLOODBATH, even though they fully understood that I was simply referring to imports allowed by Crooked Joe Biden, which are killing the automobile industry,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-slams-fake-news-media-after-spin-on-auto-industry-bloodbath-prediction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on his Truth Social platform. “The United Auto Workers, but not their leadership, fully understand what I mean.”
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Biden&#8217;s campaign also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qbj5e0pea1I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released an ad</a> that featured Trump&#8217;s &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; comment — again without context — with dramatic music as well as clips related to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/confederate-monuments-at-center-of-deadly-unite-the-right-rally-to-come-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Unite the Right&#8221; rally</a> in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 and the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021.
&#8220;The Trump campaign can try to spin all they want, but the context is clear: their candidate has spent every moment since his first campaign encouraging and excusing political violence. Repeatedly,&#8221; said Biden campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/18/biden-trump-bloodbath-2024-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Axios</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a bug, it&#8217;s a feature of Donald Trump&#8217;s extremism. We take Trump at his word — and voters will too.&#8221;

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Just months before the state could play a crucial role in the 2024 election, the Michigan Republican Party is in turmoil.
Republicans in Michigan — a state the GOP nominee for president in 2024 will rely on for a much-needed boost to take down President Joe Biden — are divided on who exactly is running the state party at the moment. Earlier this month, committee members from the Michigan GOP <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/group-of-michigan-gop-committee-members-vote-to-oust-state-party-chair-she-says-they-have-no-authority-to-remove-her">gathered for a special meeting to vote</a> on the removal of party chair, Kristina Karamo. Nearly 90% of those attending the special meeting voted to oust Karamo as she faces criticism for her fundraising strategy, failing to address the party’s debt, and surrounding herself with questionable advisers.
But Karamo is refusing to step down. She holds that those who voted to remove her have no authority to do so. And Karamo’s supporters continue to fight the rest of the state party, claiming she remains the rightful leader of the Michigan GOP.
<div id="attachment_689933" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-689933" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-689933" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-1235845914-864x576.jpg" alt="LANSING, MI - OCTOBER 12: Michigan Secretary of State candidate Kristina Karamo speaks at the Michigan State Capitol on October 12, 2021 in Lansing, Michigan. Several hundred demonstrators gathered at the capitol demanding a forensic audit of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-1235845914-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-1235845914-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-1235845914-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/GettyImages-1235845914.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Nic Antaya/Getty Images</div>
Meanwhile, the faction of Michigan Republicans who voted to oust Karamo chose Peter Hoekstra, a former congressman and Ambassador to the Netherlands under Trump, to replace her as party chair.
Hoekstra boasts the endorsement of Trump, his former boss, as he seeks to unify Michigan Republicans around him and move on from Karamo. Lawyers for the Republican National Committee chimed in on the crisis last Wednesday, writing that they had conducted an “initial review” of the fight over state chair and found that “Karamo was properly removed in accordance with the MI GOP bylaws.” The RNC lawyers, however, said their determination was not a final ruling and could change if additional information is provided, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-gop-chair-karamo-was-properly-removed-from-position-national-republican-party-says/">reported</a>. The RNC later removed Karamo’s name and photo from its <a href="https://gop.com/about-our-party/rnc-members/">website</a>, no longer recognizing her as state party chair. 
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In a phone interview with The Daily Wire last week, Karamo said the opposition to her and the battle over the state party chair has distracted Republicans from their “mission.”
“We need to be focused on the mission and not ourselves,” she said. “And that’s kind of been the problem in the Republican Party. I got involved in the party in college, and since that time in the party, I’ve watched Republicans cannibalize each other repeatedly because we’re radical individualists.”
Karamo also took jabs at Hoekstra during her conversation with The Daily Wire, calling him a “goofball” who is “wasting everybody’s time because he wants to throw his own weight around.”
“Even though the majority of the committee wants me as chair, Pete [Hoekstra] doesn’t care about that. He’s got a little faction. He’s got the money people behind him, and he’s just going to attempt to keep bullying everybody until he gets his way,” Karamo added.
Karamo’s claim that she still holds a majority of the support within the Michigan GOP is the crux of her argument to remain as chair. While many of the <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/13/separate-michigan-gop-group-votes-to-keep-kristina-karamo-as-chair/72216510007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">107</a> GOP committee members voted in favor of keeping Karamo during a gathering on January 13, those opposed to her leadership and the RNC’s lawyers hold that she was successfully removed from her position on January 6, making her special meeting a week later null and void.
The special meeting held on January 6 by those seeking Karamo’s removal saw 40 members of the committee vote to remove her, which represented 88% of those in attendance as many of Karamo’s supporters refused to attend the meeting. Karamo has since <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/karamo-demands-michigan-gop-foes-cease-and-desist-defaming-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> to take legal action against the Republicans who say they have rightfully removed her as the state GOP chair.
The back-and-forth has sparked a civil war within the Michigan Republican Party as Karamo and her faithful followers argue that the effort to remove her was “illegal” while those who voted to oust Karamo, led by Acting Chair Malinda Pego, <a href="https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/michigan/kristina-karamo-faces-lawsuit-by-michigan-republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a lawsuit</a> against her and requested a temporary restraining order, seeking to force her removal. The anti-Karamo faction is seeking to have its position recognized either by the courts or by the Republican National Committee, hoping to bring back donors who jumped ship under Karamo, Hoekstra said, <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-gop-faction-sues-karamo-picks-hoekstra-replace-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Bridge Michigan.
JD Glaser, the GOP chair for Michigan’s 5th District told The Daily Wire that Karamo’s removal perfectly followed the GOP’s bylaws.
“I would stake my entire reputation that the rules were followed precisely,” Glaser said. “There were several attorneys that worked on it, several parliamentarians that worked on it. Everyone made sure that everything was done exactly by the rules.”
Karamo, a former community college teacher, took over as party chair in early 2023 following her 2022 election loss in the secretary of state race to Democrat Jocelyn Benson. During her SoS campaign, Karamo aligned herself with Trump — who endorsed her — and focused on challenging the 2020 presidential results in Michigan, arguing that Trump won the state. While she came up short in her effort to win the SoS race, Karamo won the hearts of many conservatives in the state who viewed her as a rising star in the GOP.
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Less than a year after taking control of the state party, however, the feelings toward Karamo have shifted among many conservatives, and Trump, who backed her run for SoS, wants a change. But not even a Trump endorsement of Hoekstra as Michigan GOP chair last Friday has seemed to faze Karamo in her attempt to stay at the party&#8217;s helm. Asked by Detroit News reporter Craig Mauger if Trump’s backing of Hoekstra changes her thinking, Karamo <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigDMauger/status/1751039124599963894" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>, “Absolutely not.”
For many of the committee members who oppose Karamo, the cracks within the Michigan GOP started to show months before the opposing meetings held on January 6 and 13. Michigan Republicans began to distrust Karamo after the former chair of the 9th district, Warren Carpenter, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/draft-report-alleges-michigan-gop-is-more-than-half-a-million-dollars-in-debt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> shocking info about the Michigan GOP’s financial instability.
In September 2023, the party had invited multiple high-profile speakers — such as actor Jim Caviezel — to be featured at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, but there was one problem. The Michigan GOP couldn’t afford the speakers, so it took out a loan to cover Caviezel’s $110,000 speaker fee. The Mackinac event, which the party usually relies on for a huge fundraising haul, didn’t raise any money for the Michigan GOP. 
&#8220;We had a goal to raise money for that event, and unfortunately that did not occur,&#8221; Karamo <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/karamo-blames-deep-state-mackinac-fundraiser-drives-gop-deeper-debt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in October.
The party’s financial troubles continued as it went into debt and <a href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/bank-michigan-gop-defaulted-500k-loan-hasnt-made-payment-months" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defaulted</a> on a half-a-million-dollar loan. Soon, more committee members would voice their frustrations with Karamo, and it wasn’t just the party’s financial problems that had them worked up.
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Five committee members of the Michigan GOP, including Carpenter, recently sounded alarm bells, telling investigative journalist Scott McMahan with <a href="https://biggertruthmedia.com/five-whistleblowers-expose-covert-operation-to-brainwash-christian-grassroots-in-effort-to-destroy-michigan-gop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bigger Truth Media</a> that the controversy surrounding Karamo extends to those within her inner circle. According to the committee members who spoke to Bigger Truth Media, Karamo is being influenced by an operative named Mike Labadie, who was reportedly registered as a Democrat in California as recently as 2016 before he moved to Michigan and got involved with Republican politics.
Glaser told McMahan that, initially, he worked with Labadie on developing a curriculum for <a href="https://miprecinctfirst.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Precinct First</a>, an organization Labadie created to help first-time precinct delegates who were elected in 2022.
Glaser said he became disillusioned after seeing how Labadie allegedly sought to exert control over those around him and alleged that Labadie created a cult-like environment surrounding Karamo.
“He’s the kind of person who doesn’t make himself known,” Glaser said, according to Bigger Truth Media. “He is really good at staying in the background. He chooses people after observing them. He’s very disciplined about it. He discards you if you don’t fit his profile.”
“That’s how he’s able to keep such control,” Glaser added.
Carpenter told Bigger Truth Media that he first met Labadie during Karamo’s secretary of state campaign. According to Carpenter, Labadie told him he “was sent here to recruit SoS candidates,” adding, “We have big plans for her,” speaking of Karamo.
“[Labadie] built her from nothing,” Carpenter said. “He was everything to her at her lowest point. He put her out there to run as secretary of state, became her number one confidante, ostracized everyone closest to her and for everyone he pushed out, he put new people in their place.”
Karamo told The Daily Wire that any claims surrounding Labadie’s control over her and the party are just “hearsay,” adding that “nobody” controls her.
Labadie did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry.
Whether Karamo is officially forced to hand over control of the party to her opposition or she continues her fight to remain as GOP chair is yet to be seen as the party waits for the court to weigh in on the issue.
Until then, the Michigan Republican Party has a lot to figure out before a vital 2024 election.

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The chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, an ally of former President Donald Trump, resigned on Wednesday after audio emerged this week of him offering money to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kari-lake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kari Lake</a> to stay out of the U.S. Senate race in the state. But in his statement of resignation, the now-former chairman suggested that Lake had acted nefariously.
Chairman Jeff DeWit called the secret audio recording from Lake &#8220;deceptive&#8221; and &#8220;a selectively edited audio recording of our private conversation.&#8221; He went on to suggest that Lake had &#8220;orchestrated&#8221; the exchange in an attempt to &#8220;have control over the state party.&#8221; Lake&#8217;s campaign responded in a statement to The Daily Wire by denying having &#8220;threatened or blackmailed&#8221; DeWit.
&#8220;The recording, from over ten months ago, is not only taken out of context but also undermines the integrity of private discussions critical for party leadership,&#8221; DeWit said in his <a href="https://twitter.com/AZGOP/status/1750234611890971064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1750234611890971064%7Ctwgr%5E2f09447f34146f58caec836720ffc7549589fc75%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Farizona-gop-chair-resigns-over-release-of-alleged-bribery-recording" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a>, adding that at the time the recording was made, he was employing Lake at his private company.
&#8220;In fact, for over a year and a half we had many conversations where I was looking out for her financial interests,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The ethical breach in her recording of our conversation, while Lake was my employee, raises serious legal and moral concerns. This act of recording was not just a betrayal of trust but also a violation of the fiduciary responsibilities of an employee. Contrary to accusations of bribery, my discussions were transparent and intended to offer perspective, not coercion. Our relationship was based on friendship, and the conversation that is now being scrutinized was an open, unguarded exchange between friends in the living room of her house. I genuinely believed I was offering a helpful perspective to someone I considered a friend.&#8221;
DeWit said that ever since he advised that Lake postpone her desire for elected office for another two years so she could run again for the state&#8217;s governorship, she has &#8220;been on a mission to destroy me.&#8221;
&#8220;The release of our conversation by Lake confirms a disturbing tendency to exploit private interactions for personal gain and increases concerns about her habit of secretly recording personal and private conversations,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is obviously a concern given how much interaction she has with high profile people including President Trump. I question how effective a United States Senator can be when they cannot be trusted to engage in private and confidential conversations.&#8221;
DeWit said that he regretted some of the things that he said in the recording, but realized when he went back and listened to the tape that it was a &#8220;set up.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe she orchestrated this entire situation to have control over the state party, and it is obvious from the recording that she crafted her performance responses with the knowledge that she was recording it, intending to use this recording later to portray herself as a hero in her own story,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This morning, I was determined to fight for my position. However, a few hours ago, I received an ultimatum from Lake&#8217;s team: resign today or face the release of a new, more damaging recording.&#8221;
&#8220;I am truly unsure of its contents, but considering our numerous past open conversations as friends, I have decided not to take the risk,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am resigning as Lake requested, in the hope that she will honor her commitment to cease her attacks, allowing me to return to the business sector&#8211;a field I find much more logical and prefer over politics.&#8221;
DeWit noted in his statement that he was a &#8220;proud supporter&#8221; of Trump and had worked as &#8220;the COO &amp; CFO of his 2016 campaign, served in his Administration for two years, and returned as the COO of the 2020 campaign.&#8221;
In response to DeWit&#8217;s satement, the Lake campaign told The Daily Wire, &#8220;The tape speaks for itself: The Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit attempted to bribe Kari Lake. Thankfully Kari is an extremely ethical person who rejected DeWit’s multiple attempts to offer her money and corporate board seats in exchange for Kari not running for public office. She will be an incredible Senator for Arizonans. No one from the Kari Lake campaign threatened or blackmailed DeWit. It is unfortunate that Dewit hasn’t recognized how unethical his behavior was and still hasn’t apologized to Arizona Republicans. DeWit’s false claims are just par for the course. The Arizona GOP must be relieved to have his resignation. Now we can focus on getting ethical leadership and win big in 2024.&#8221;

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Law enforcement officials in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> will not charge former state Republican Party chairman Christian Ziegler with rape after conducting a months-long investigation.
Florida Republicans stripped Ziegler of his authority and reduced his salary to $1 last month after he refused to resign following accusations that he raped a woman last October. In an emergency vote earlier this month, they voted 199-3 to oust him, which comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other top Florida Republican officials had called on him to resign.
The Sarasota Police Department said that after an extensive investigation, they concluded that the sexual encounter &#8220;was likely consensual.&#8221;
&#8220;Therefore, detectives were unable to develop probable cause to charge Ziegler with Sexual Battery,&#8221; police <a href="https://www.sarasotapd.org/Home/Components/News/News/3519/5080?fsiteid=9#!/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Friday.
However, police said that they are seeking a felony charge for Video Voyeurism against Ziegler &#8220;after conducting an additional follow-up interview with the victim and after showing the victim the video recording of the sex act&#8221; in which the victim &#8220;advised Sarasota Police detectives that she was unaware and did not consent to being video recorded.&#8221;
Police said that they prepared a probable cause affidavit for Video Voyeurism and forwarded it to the State Attorney’s Office for further review. Police said that Ziegler has cooperated with law enforcement throughout the investigation.
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Ziegler attorney Derek Byrd said in a statement that “since day one, we have been confident Mr. Ziegler would be exonerated from these baseless allegations.”
“He has been completely honest, forthright, and has been fully cooperative with law enforcement at every stage of this investigation,” Byrd said. “While we are disappointed that the Sarasota Police Department ‘punted’ the decision on the remaining portion of the case to the State Attorney’s office, we strongly believe that the State Attorney will not prosecute Mr. Ziegler for any crime.”

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The Florida Republican Party voted on Monday to elect Evan Power as the party&#8217;s new chairman after members overwhelming to remove Christian Ziegler from the position following a police investigation into a rape allegation.
Power, who was the party&#8217;s vice chairman, filled in for Ziegler after party members voted last month to strip him of his powers and reduce his salary to $1.
&#8220;We have to build that trust back long-term,&#8221; Power said. &#8220;I think we have to do is go to our larger donors right now to ask for their help and assistance. And we can build that trust back because we can prove we are bigger than one person. We moved on as fast and as efficiently as we could. And now we are here in a new chapter and [with] a new chairman.&#8221;
Highlighting the successes of the Florida GOP under Governor Ron DeSantis, Power said that Republicans have experienced record turnout and have flipped seats all the way down to the school board-level.
&#8220;Congratulations to our new Chairman, @EvanPower,&#8221; the Florida GOP said in a statement. &#8220;Under his strong leadership, we will Keep Florida RED, deliver Florida’s 30 electoral votes to the GOP presidential candidate, and elect Republicans up and down the ballot. Let&#8217;s get to work!&#8221;
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Congratulations to our new Chairman, <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanPower?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EvanPower</a>. Under his strong leadership, we will Keep Florida RED, deliver Florida’s 30 electoral votes to the GOP presidential candidate, and elect Republicans up and down the ballot. Let’s get to work! 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/DqceF2gNxa">pic.twitter.com/DqceF2gNxa</a>
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In an emergency vote on Monday, members <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-gop-removes-party-chairman-amid-rape-accusation">voted</a> 199-3 to oust Ziegler which comes after DeSantis and other top Florida Republican officials had called on him to resign.
Police in Florida are also investigating whether Ziegler recorded the alleged incident, which could constitute video voyeurism, a third-degree felony in Florida. Zeigler, who has not been charged, and his attorney allegedly showed the video to law enforcement with the belief that it proved that the interaction was consensual.
Attorney Bryant Camareno, who is not involved in the case, told local media that showing the video to law enforcement could be proof of a different crime.
“I think number one, it may show that there was consent to have sex,” he said. “Number two, it may show that she knew that she was being recorded, but number three, if he sent it to her with the intent of harassment then that may be another crime which is cyberstalking.”
Ziegler and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, reportedly admitted to police that they previously had a consensual sexual relationship with the woman who made the rape accusation.
The alleged incident occurred on October 2, 2023, when the accuser, Christian Ziegler, and Bridget Ziegler allegedly agreed to have “a sexual encounter,” according to police documents.
When the accuser learned that Bridget Ziegler would not attend, she allegedly changed her mind and cancelled the encounter with Christian Ziegler.
“On 10/02/23, the victim opened her apartment door to walk her dog and Christian was standing outside in the hallway,” the police search warrant says. “Christian entered the apartment, bent the victim over the bar stool and” raped her.

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The Florida Republican Party voted this week to remove Christian Ziegler as party chairman following allegations that he raped a woman last year.
Florida Republicans stripped Ziegler of his authority and reduced his salary to $1 last month after he refused to resign. In an emergency vote on Monday, they <a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-republicans-expected-to-remove-and-replace-chairman-accused-of-sexual-assault/">voted</a> 199-3 to oust him which comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other top Florida Republican officials had called on him to resign.
Police in Florida are also <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2024/01/02/christian-ziegler-republican-investigation-video-voyeurism-police-rape/">investigating</a> whether Ziegler recorded the alleged incident, which could constitute video voyeurism, a third-degree felony in Florida. Zeigler, who has not been charged, and his attorney allegedly showed the video to law enforcement with the belief that it proved that the interaction was consensual.
Attorney Bryant Camareno, who is not involved in the case, <a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/sarasota-county/christian-ziegler-also-under-investigation-for-video-voyeurism-amid-rape-accusation-probe/">told</a> local media that showing the video to law enforcement could be proof of a different crime.
“I think number one, it may show that there was consent to have sex,” he said. “Number two, it may show that she knew that she was being recorded, but number three, if he sent it to her with the intent of harassment then that may be another crime which is cyberstalking.”
Ziegler and his wife, Bridget Ziegler, reportedly admitted to police that they previously had a consensual sexual relationship with the woman who made the rape accusation.
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The alleged incident occurred on October 2, 2023, when the accuser, Christian Ziegler, and Bridget Ziegler <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24180397/search-warrant-affidavit-christian-ziegler.pdf">allegedly</a> agreed to have &#8220;a sexual encounter,&#8221; according to police documents.
When the accuser learned that Bridget Ziegler would not attend, she allegedly changed her mind and cancelled the encounter with Christian Ziegler.
&#8220;On 10/02/23, the victim opened her apartment door to walk her dog and Christian was standing outside in the hallway,&#8221; the police search warrant says. &#8220;Christian entered the apartment, bent the victim over the bar stool and&#8221; raped her.

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Florida GOP Removes Party Chairman Amid Rape Accusation

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A group of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> Republican Party committee members gathered Saturday afternoon and voted to remove state party chair Kristina Karamo — but Karamo said she would not recognize their authority.
Forty of the 45 Republicans at the special meeting voted <a href="https://twitter.com/Simon_Schuster/status/1743730725617070361">via secret ballot</a> in favor of Karamo’s removal, according to multiple sources and a video announcement, The Detroit News <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/06/republicans-vote-to-oust-karamo-as-state-party-chair-meeting-not-recognized/72121544007/">reported</a>. Karamo and her team said that the Republicans seeking her removal have not abided by the party’s bylaws, and she scheduled a special meeting on January 13, which she says is the actual special meeting.
&#8220;These individuals have not followed the MIGOP bylaws to call a meeting, change bylaws or remove any member,&#8221; Karamo told The Detroit News earlier this week. &#8220;They have zero legal authority to conduct business regarding the Michigan Republican Party or its state committee.&#8221;
Karamo rose to prominence within the Michigan GOP after challenging the results of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. She then ran for Michigan secretary of state with Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 election cycle, a race she <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-michigan-secretary-of-state.html">lost</a> by 14 percentage points to incumbent Democrat Jocelyn Benson. Karamo was elected to state party chair in February, largely riding the support of conservative grassroots activists.
Party members have criticized Karamo for doing too little to unite Republicans in the state and address the party’s debt — which <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-republicans-vote-gop-chair-kristina-karamo-removal/">stood</a> at around $500,000 as of October. Last week, eight of Michigan’s 13 GOP congressional district chairs <a href="https://apnews.com/article/michigan-republican-party-karamo-removal-0f4c85738f2f675f36ebe1df839c5239">asked</a> Karamo to step down and “put an end to the chaos in our party.”
&#8220;Please have the grace, courage and love of our state to accept the fact that at this most critical time in our nation’s history, the Michigan Republican Party needs someone else in leadership,” the district chairs <a href="https://www.mlive.com/politics/2024/01/breakaway-faction-of-michigan-gop-leaders-votes-to-remove-kristina-karamo-as-chair.html">wrote</a> in a letter. “Someone who can unite the entire party, raise the funds needed to run the party, and help our candidates win.”
Bree Moeggenberg, a Michigan GOP committee member who led the effort to call for Saturday’s special meeting, celebrated the vote.
&#8220;We have made history today. With over 88% of the members that were present and voting, we have taken the first step to engage and protect the various voices and liberties of all Republicans,&#8221; Moeggenberg said.
Following the vote, party co-chair Malinda Pego told those gathered, “I am now the acting chair,” The Detroit News reported.
State GOP committee member Darlene Doetzel, one of Karamo&#8217;s supporters who did not attend the special meeting, said the votes of missing members were assigned to proxies who opposed Karamo without the approval of the absent committee members.
&#8220;They are trying to hoodwink the entire state party,&#8221; Doetzel said, <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/01/06/republican-state-committee-vote-remove-kristina-karamo/72122500007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Detroit Free Press.
 Karamo remained unmoved by the result of the special meeting, setting up a potential court battle between the Republican factions.
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&#8220;Their performance has no legal standing,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I am still chair of the Michigan Republican Party.&#8221;

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The migrant crisis currently plaguing the border and America&#8217;s major cities could end up costing taxpayers up to $451 billion, according to a new report from House Republicans.
In a Monday report, the House Homeland Security Committee <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/news/house-gop-report-cites-historic-451-billion-cost-of-migrant-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tallied</a> up the costs to taxpayers of illegal migrants who were released into the country or escaped from custody.
&#8220;Every day, millions of American taxpayer dollars are spent on costs directly associated with illegal immigration and the unprecedented crisis at the Southwest border sparked by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ policies,&#8221; reads the <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Phase4Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.
&#8220;Only a small fraction is ever recouped from the taxes paid by illegal aliens, with the rest falling on the shoulders of American citizens and lawful residents,&#8221; the report states.
Each taxpayer is on the hook for an average of $956 due to illegal immigration, the report said.
The 50-page report looked at federal and state records, media reports, nonprofit reports, and other public information.
For all migrants who have entered the U.S. since 2021, the cost of government housing and care could end up being as high as $451 billion a year, the report notes, citing numbers from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a think tank that <a href="https://cis.org/Center-For-Immigration-Studies-Background" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> its vision as &#8220;pro-immigrant, low-immigration.&#8221;
The report noted that federal, state, and local costs of illegal immigration total about $182 billion a year, according to a study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a nonprofit that seeks to reduce illegal immigration. Back in 2017, the cost was $135 billion, FAIR found.
Illegal immigrants make only a $31 billion dent in that cost with their tax revenue, the group said.
Education costs amount to $59 billion for at least 3.8 million illegal migrants who have limited English proficiency, according to numbers from FAIR that the report cited.
State police costs on illegal immigration have risen to $19 billion, up from $10.5 billion in 2017, according to data from the National Institute of Corrections and the Justice Department, the report notes.
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The report also pointed out that the opioid crisis cost $1.5 trillion in 2020 alone and was largely driven by the fentanyl flooding over the border through drug cartels.
There are currently between 16.8 million and 29 million illegal migrants living in the country, the report says, citing numbers from FAIR and Yale University.
About 3.8 million of those migrants have entered the country under the Biden administration, the data indicates.
Some of those migrants are the 900,000 people who entered the country legally and applied for asylum before they were released, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows.
Also, more than 600,000 migrants have entered the country since October last year without being apprehended by border agents, Mayorkas said during a congressional hearing last month.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott</a> (R-SC) revealed the woman he is dating at the end of the third Republican presidential debate on Wednesday in Miami.
&#8220;Sen @VoteTimScott ’s campaign confirms to me that the woman seen on stage with him after tonight’s GOP debate is his girlfriend, Mindy,&#8221; said Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard.
It is the first time that the two appeared together publicly.
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Sen <a href="https://twitter.com/votetimscott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VoteTimScott</a>’s campaign confirms to me that the woman seen on stage with him after tonight’s GOP debate is his girlfriend, Mindy. <a href="https://t.co/cSLtnATRRv">pic.twitter.com/cSLtnATRRv</a>
&mdash; Meg Kinnard (@MegKinnardAP) <a href="https://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP/status/1722464128990683344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Scott talked about his girlfriend in some interviews back in September while discussing his status as an unmarried man while running for president.
Scott told Fox News that he has a “wonderful girlfriend,” who he described as a “smart Christian woman.”
Scott later told The Washington Post that he started dating the woman late last year after his friend from church set him up. The senator said he initially declined his friend’s setup attempt, but then changed his mind after the friend showed him a picture of the woman.
He said that he did not plan on dragging her onto the campaign trail “unless I have the intention of marrying her.”
“I hope that happens, to be honest with you,” he added.
“I have been very protective of my family and my loved ones,” the senator said. “I signed up for this. If we make it, she will be signing up for it as well, but at least then she’ll know what she’s getting into. But until then, the only conversation I’m going to have about her in any form or fashion is right now.”
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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For nearly a month now, pretty much every college campus in the country has made it clear that &#8220;decolonization&#8221; means &#8220;kill whitey.&#8221; It&#8217;s long been obvious that this is always what the Left meant by &#8220;decolonization,&#8221; as I outlined a few weeks ago. But after Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel, activist groups have made it explicit. They want similar murders to happen in this country. They don&#8217;t view their enemies as human, and they want them exterminated.
For its part, the establishment Left didn&#8217;t join in on these calls for violence, at least not directly. But that all changed yesterday, when the online outlet Salon — which passes for mainstream among Leftists — published an <a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/11/02/maga-and-christian-nationalism-bigger-to-america-than-hamas-could-ever-be/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> from a journalist named Brian Karem. In no uncertain terms, the point of this op-ed is to justify the murder of the conservatives, and in particular conservative Christians. Karem&#8217;s piece is entitled, &#8220;MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be.&#8221;
This article went viral the other day. Elon Musk tweeted about it a few times. It caused a lot of outrage. What a lot of people are missing is that this op-ed is just the latest iteration of a long line of Brian Karem op-eds in Salon that accuse conservatives of being terrorists. In fact, just a month ago, Karem <a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/10/12/hamas-and-the-are-both-terrorist-groups--its-just-a-matter-of-degree/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> a piece in Salon entitled, &#8220;Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it&#8217;s just a matter of degree.&#8221;
In that article, Karem asserted, &#8220;There is little or no difference between most of the GOP leadership, including Jim Jordan and Donald Trump, and the leaders of Hamas. Both groups will do anything they can to win. Both groups have engaged in atrocities. Both groups continue to lie. Both groups use human beings as hostages. Both groups are extremely dangerous. Both groups threaten the world’s internal and external peace. The fact is, many Americans viscerally understand this: Donald Trump and his followers are terrorists.&#8221;
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As melodramatic and deranged as that op-ed was, no one paid any attention to it whatsoever. So this week, Karem basically rewrote the same article, except he added a little more bite to it this time around. Before I get any further into specifics of the unhinged screeds of Brian Karem, it&#8217;s important to emphasize a couple of things. First of all, Karem is not an intern, or a random troll or anything like that. He&#8217;s the former senior White House Correspondent for Playboy, and for years he&#8217;s been a credentialed member of the White House press pool. This is one of the most coveted positions among mainstream journalists. Back when we had journalistic standards, it used to mean something to be a White House correspondent. But we don&#8217;t have journalistic standards anymore, and so Brian Karem is free to publish op-eds saying that his domestic political opponents are worse than Hamas terrorists who kill civilians, while retaining his White House press credentials.
The other important point to emphasize is that, while I&#8217;m going to refer to Karem&#8217;s writing specifically, he&#8217;s far from the only prominent figure on the Left who feels this way. First of all, whatever editors still work at Salon had to approve his pieces and publish them. But more to the point, the leaders of the Democratic Party have been demonizing their political opponents for years, in ways that aren&#8217;t that dissimilar to what Karem is doing.
It was just a year ago that Joe Biden all but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHfbuwBifbU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared war</a> on &#8220;MAGA Republicans,&#8221; calling them a threat to democracy for disagreeing with him. Let’s relive that moment together: 
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There&#8217;s Joe Biden, standing in front of the Marines with the blood-red backdrop, shaking his fists and telling the country that democracy means voting for Joe Biden. Everyone who doesn&#8217;t vote for Joe Biden, by contrast, is a terrorist.
We saw that kind of rhetoric constantly last year. Around the same time as Joe Biden&#8217;s diatribe about MAGA Republicans, various outlets, including The Daily Beast, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dont-act-surprised-we-knew-the-right-was-stoking-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labeled</a> me a &#8220;stochastic terrorist.&#8221; They used the same term to describe &#8220;Libs of TikTok&#8221; and many others. That&#8217;s a term that means nothing but sounds vaguely intelligent, so you hear it all the time now. It also have very clear implications. Everyone instinctively agrees that terrorists should be killed. They’re a threat to the country. So when you call someone a terrorist, well it’s not hard to connect the dots.
But this Salon piece stands out for how blatant and flagrant it is. Here&#8217;s how the piece begins: &#8220;The House of Representatives, now run by [Mike] Johnson, offers a discount version of the apocalyptic orgasm the holy rollers have dreamed of for years. They’ve renewed the Inquisition and seem determined to convert the U.S. into a theocracy run by people who will thump you with the Bible, but haven’t read much of it.&#8221;
At this point, you&#8217;re probably wondering: Where has that happened? What is he talking about? Where have Republicans done anything that could be remotely compared to the Inquisition? In what way is Mike Johnson ushering in a theocracy? Has he proposed making church attendance compulsory? Has he tried to pass a law forbidding the practice of non-Christian religions? Has he burned any atheists at the stake recently? As far as I know, the answer is “No” on all accounts.
It appears that he has earned the label of theocrat simply because he is a Christian with conservative political views. That might not seem like a big deal to you if you&#8217;re a well-adjusted, sane person, but the Left-wing media, of course, is comprised of people who are neither of those things. For a long time now, Brian Karem specifically has viewed Christians who hold conservative political views as demonic. Here he was in the White House Rose Garden just a couple of years ago, during the Trump presidency, explaining that conservatives are &#8220;eager for demonic possession&#8221;:
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VIDEO FLASHBACK: This insane article was written by the same radical leftwing clown that almost got into a physical altercation at a Trump press event.
Brian Karem is not a journalist, he is a hyper-partisan, unhinged activist.
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&mdash; Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1720161581470761136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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I’m not exactly sure what “eager for demonic possession” is even supposed to mean, to be honest. At the time, a handful of commentators chastised Brian Karem for acting out. They praised Sebastian Gorka for putting him in his place. But in reality, Karem&#8217;s outburst was a revealing moment. He was echoing an increasingly common view on the Left, which is that conservatives — and in particular Christians — need to be eliminated. They need to be exorcised.
This is a view that wasn&#8217;t widely advertised a couple of years ago, but you see all over the place now. A couple of days ago, for example, Rolling Stone ran a detailed <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mike-johnson-alliance-defending-freedom-anti-lgbtq-1234865340/">hit piece</a> on Johnson, focusing on his work at Alliance Defending Freedom for nearly a decade. In that capacity, Johnson advanced legal positions that are completely consistent with his faith. He opposed sodomy. He rejected the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage. And he wrote an <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-kfile/134019997/">op-ed</a> predicting — correctly — that the so-called LGBTQ movement, left unchallenged, will be the “the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.”
You can disagree with Mike Johnson&#8217;s views, but there&#8217;s no denying that every single one of them is consistent with a Christian worldview. He was also undeniably correct in his prediction, as recent events have shown. In fact, his views are completely consistent with the Democratic Party&#8217;s platform circa 2006. The 2008 version of Barack Obama wouldn&#8217;t take issue with any of it. And yet — back when most people thought like this, across the political spectrum —  we were not living, as the media now predicts, in a theocratic dystopian wasteland.
Karem&#8217;s piece doesn&#8217;t grapple with any of this. Instead, in something of a manic rage, Karem goes on to ramble about everything from Israel bombing a refugee camp in Gaza, to artificial intelligence, to the dangers of climate change: &#8220;That is our world today. It took an asteroid the size of a modern city to wipe out the dinosaurs. People, being smarter than dinosaurs, have figured out how to destroy everything all by ourselves. Climate change is slowly creeping up on us and we are killing each other at an increasing rate. It took a Category 5 hurricane to kill 40-odd people in Acapulco last week. We killed that many in two mass shootings in the U.S. in about the same amount of time — and spared the property. Pogo was right: We have met the enemy and he is us.&#8221;
Keep in mind that when the Left talks about &#8220;mass shootings,&#8221; they love to imply it&#8217;s always MAGA Republicans doing the shooting. They get a lot of mileage out of that. But in the overwhelming number of cases — including one of the shootings that Karem appears to be referencing there — these mass shootings are taking place in overwhelmingly black neighborhoods. According to authorities, more than a dozen people were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/us/chicago-mass-shooting-halloween-suspect-charged/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot</a> by a felon at a Halloween party in Chicago just a couple of days ago. That&#8217;s not the result of Christianity, or Christian nationalism, or Trump supporters. Maybe the reason the media buries any mention of these mass shootings in black communities is that, if they covered them, then everyone would realize what an absurd and counterfactual talking point this is.
But even if you accept everything Karem says — even if you suspend reality for a second, and agree that MAGA Republicans are somehow doing all the mass shootings — it still wouldn&#8217;t come close to supporting his thesis, which is that conservatives are a terrorist group that&#8217;s more dangerous to Americans than Hamas. There are well over 200 million Christians in this country. If you polled those Christians, you would find 0% support for murdering nonbelievers. There would not be any enthusiasm for gunning down elderly women at bus stops.
By contrast, the founding charter of Hamas calls for genocide. Every single militant of Hamas wants to murder non-Muslims and in particular Jews. And, as we&#8217;ve learned recently, some of these militants <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hamas-militants-potentially-crossing-southern-border-us-officials/story?id=104236095" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could easily be entering</a> this country through the southern border.
Brian Karem knows that, and so do his editors, and so does the rest of the media. The reason there will be no condemnation from anyone — from the Left-wing media, to the White House press corps, to the Biden administration — is that they understand what he is really getting at here. He&#8217;s not really trying to make any meaningful point about Hamas, or artificial intelligence, or climate change. He&#8217;s trying to communicate the same message that Joe Biden did one year ago, except he&#8217;s putting a finer point on it — that many on the Left want their political opponents to die. They don&#8217;t just want them to lose elections. They don&#8217;t just want to censor them. They want to dehumanize them. Criminalize them. And worse.
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A Republican senator is calling for the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco to be shut down over the open-air drug market and dangerous conditions that plague the area just outside.
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) sent a letter Tuesday to the General Services Administration, which manages the building, suggesting it &#8220;shuttered for the foreseeable future.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m calling to shut down the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building,&#8221; Ernst said in a statement. &#8220;After all, they’ve already been forced to abandon it, so why should taxpayers keep the lights on in Nancy Pelosi’s haunted house?&#8221;
In August, hundreds of employees who work at the Nancy Pelosi building were told to work from home indefinitely due to public safety concerns right outside.
Outside, one of San Francisco’s worst open-air drug markets rages, with dealers and addicts doing business in broad daylight daily. Addicts often hang out and use drugs on the federal building’s concrete benches, the San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/drugs-crime-nancy-pelosi-federal-building-18292237.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The block around the federal building had 525 drug-related incidents over the past year, city data <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/08/nancy-pelosi-federal-building-security-increased-drug-dealing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.
In recent months, federal employees had knives pulled on them three times, and one person was chased with a hammer, the San Francisco Standard <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/08/nancy-pelosi-federal-building-security-increased-drug-dealing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Recently, a fence was <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/08/nancy-pelosi-federal-building-security-increased-drug-dealing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put up</a> along part of the building to block people from sitting on a concrete ledge where drug dealers were frequently spotted.
In June, two men were charged with attempting to deal drugs in full view of the federal building’s surveillance cameras, the U.S. Attorney <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-francisco-residents-charged-allegedly-committing-crimes-front-surveillance-cameras" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release. One of the men was in possession of a gun when he was arrested and may have fired a gun at someone near the building months earlier, the release said.
Meanwhile, the Federal Protective Service has <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/25/news/sen-ernst-pushes-to-close-the-nancy-pelosi-federal-building/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> its activity in the area, and some employees have asked to be escorted in and out of the building.
Ernst said the building is now a dangerous place to work thanks to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) herself as well as &#8220;the other liberal politicians that have allowed criminal chaos to overtake the streets of San Francisco.&#8221;
&#8220;Ironically, the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building is a symbol of the way government doesn’t work, &#8230; if it’s not safe for federal employees to work here, it certainly can’t be safe for businesses to operate and families to live here,&#8221; Ernst said.
The 18-story federal building includes Pelosi’s local office as well as the offices of several federal agencies, including HHS, the Labor Department, and the Transportation Department.
Ernst said the San Francisco area has at least five other federal buildings where federal employees could work, allowing taxpayers to interact with government agencies face-to-face &#8220;without fearing for their lives.&#8221;

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GOP Senator Calls To ‘Shut Down’ Nancy Pelosi Federal Building In San Francisco Over Drugs, Crime Outside

GOP Senator Calls To 'Shut Down' Nancy Pelosi Federal Building In San Francisco Over Drugs, Crime Outside

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