Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) suggested moving 128 military bases solely because they were located in red states that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/west-virginia-passes-new-law-banning-most-abortions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned abortion</a>.
Speier took to the House floor on Tuesday with a color-coded map showing which states had already moved to further <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/midterm-elections-heat-up-as-democrats-refuse-to-position-on-abortion-gop-softens-rhetoric/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restrict abortion</a> or ban it entirely following the recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization — which resulted in the overturning of landmark abortion rulings in both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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Rep. Jackie speier (D-CA): &quot;We have 128 military bases in red states that ban abortion. Maybe we should just move these bases.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/hXv94AbOyd">pic.twitter.com/hXv94AbOyd</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1572335782395772930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Speier noted that in the wake of the decision, the Department of Defense (DoD) might be required torrent leave or <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/democrats-introduce-legislation-to-offer-military-leave-for-service-members-to-get-abortions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pay travel expenses</a> for service members who needed &#8220;abortion care&#8221; – and then appeared to argue that because some service members might now be required to travel to another state for abortions, it would make more sense to simply move all military bases into states where they were legal.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a part of me that says we have 128 bases and installations in these red states, in these states that ban abortion,&#8221; Speier said. &#8220;Maybe we should just move these bases.&#8221;
After a long pause, Speier continued, &#8220;Now, that&#8217;s highly unlikely because we&#8217;ve invested so much, but it just begs the question about what are we really all about if we&#8217;re going to treat these service women so poorly?&#8221;
What Speier did not mention was the fact that the Department of Defense — while allowing for leave time and travel for service members who did require abortion services — actually places greater restrictions on abortions than a number of the red states she was complaining about.
As noted in a <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jun/28/2003026770/-1/-1/1/MEMORANDUM-ENSURING-ACCESS-TO-ESSENTIAL-WOMENS-HEALTH-CARE-SERVICES-FOR-SERVICE-MEMBERS-DEPENDENTS-BENEFICIARIES-AND-DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE-CIVILIAN-EMPLOYEES.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> from Under-Secretary of Defense Gilbert R. Cisneros Jr., immediately following the Dobbs decision, the DoD only funds — or allows military doctors to perform — abortions under very specific circumstances.
&#8220;Federal law restricts the Department from performing abortions or paying to have them performed unless the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or unless the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest (&#8216;covered abortions&#8217;),&#8221; the memo read in part. &#8220;The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision does not prohibit the Department from continuing to perform covered abortions, consistent with federal law. There will be no interruption to this care.&#8221;

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Democratic Congresswoman Wants To Move 128 Military Bases Closer To Abortion Clinics

Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier Wants To Move 128 Military Bases To States That Don't Ban Abortion

Abortion

Jackie Speier

Pro-Abortion

A California <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democrats">Democrat</a>, calling for new firearms laws, claimed to be the only <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives">House</a> member to have been a victim of gun violence &#8211; apparently forgetting that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/steve-scalise">Minority Whip Steve Scalise</a> (R-LA)  was nearly shot to death by a Bernie Sanders-backing maniac in 2017.
The history-challenged claim by Rep. Jackie Speier referred to her brush with death more than 40 years ago in the Jonestown massacre in Guyana. While Speier was shot as she fled the compound where more than 900 people died in a mass murder-suicide, her claim to exclusivity was not accurate.
&#8220;I believe I&#8217;m the only member of this House that is a victim of gun violence,&#8221; Speier said Wednesday on the House floor. &#8220;My body is riddled with bullets. I have a divot in my leg that’s the size of a football. I have skin grafts on all parts of my body. I live with that every single day.”
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Wasn&#39;t aware that Rep. Steve Scalise had left office. Someone on Rep. Speier&#39;s staff didn&#39;t do their homework. <a href="https://t.co/5tDbCoZxen">https://t.co/5tDbCoZxen</a>
&mdash; Paul Ladd (@PaulLadd1) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulLadd1/status/1534955215744643072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Speier, who was an aide to then-Rep. Leo Ryan (D-CA) — who was in Jonestown on a fact-finding mission and was killed — was calling for raising the age to buy AR-15-style rifles to 21, <a href="https://thehill.com/news/house/3517932-jonestown-survivor-jackie-speier-details-shooting-trauma-stop-shielding-your-eyes/#:~:text=Jonestown%20settlement%2C%20then%2D-,Rep.%20Leo%20Ryan,-(D)%20of%20California">reported</a> The Hill.
“I’m a victim of gun violence. I know what it does to a body, and I cannot believe that my colleagues don’t recognize that prohibiting the sale of an assault weapon until the age of 21 isn’t going to save lives,” she said.
Speier&#8217;s personal testimony was dramatic, but it left out Scalise&#8217;s near-death experience. The Louisiana lawmaker was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-multiple-shooting-congressional-baseball-joseph-curl">grievously wounded</a> in a mass shooting in 2017 as he and other Congressional Republicans were holding an early morning practice for the annual Congressional baseball game. Scalise sustained a gunshot wound to his hip that “traveled across his pelvis, fracturing bones, injuring internal organs, and causing severe bleeding,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/politics-has-no-place-for-violence-steve-scalise-slams-capitol-attacks-in-wsj-essay">according</a> to a press release from Scalise’s medical team.
<div id="attachment_394224" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-394224" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-394224 size-large" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1241200186-864x576.jpg" alt="House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was nearly killed by a gun-toting Bernie Sanders supporter in 2017" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/GettyImages-1241200186-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/GettyImages-1241200186-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/GettyImages-1241200186-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/GettyImages-1241200186-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/GettyImages-1241200186-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/GettyImages-1241200186-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/06/GettyImages-1241200186-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was nearly killed by a gun-toting Bernie Sanders supporter in 2017. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)</div>
Twitter users were quick to correct the record.
&#8220;Wasn&#8217;t aware that Rep. Steve Scalise had left office,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulLadd1/status/1534955215744643072?s=20&amp;t=ad0D3EiPUvVghDuSoDKKKQ">tweeted</a> journalist Paul Ladd. &#8220;Someone on Rep. Speier&#8216;s staff didn&#8217;t do their homework.&#8221;
&#8220;Jackie Speier was shot by radical democrats in 1978,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/popcornsutton3/status/1534954577203699713?s=20&amp;t=_TwCZNrHPEdOMRRv8rt7GQ">tweeted</a> the user popcorn sutton. &#8220;Steve Scalise was shot by a radical democrat in 2017.&#8221;
Speier &#8220;only thinks what happened to her is important,&#8221; the Twitter account @Truth Wins <a href="https://twitter.com/nanci1028/status/1534962485165297664?s=20&amp;t=_TwCZNrHPEdOMRRv8rt7GQ">wrote</a>. &#8220;It’s a &#8216;Dem&#8217; thing I guess.&#8221;
The House <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/house-passes-sweeping-gun-package-in-largely-party-line-vote/">passed</a> the Protecting Our Kids Act, which would raise the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21. Its fate in the Senate is uncertain. The push for new gun control laws follows mass shootings in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shooter-kills-10-wounds-three-in-buffalo-grocery-store-authorities-investigating-as-racially-motivated-attack">Buffalo</a>, on May 14, where 10 people were killed, and at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uvalde-is-the-second-deadliest-school-shooting-on-record-heres-what-we-know">Uvalde, Texas elementary school</a> 10 days later, where 19 children and two teachers were killed. Both were carried out by 18-year-old males <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/06/03/1102587642/gun-raffles-uvalde-buffalo-mass-shootings">armed</a> with semi-automatic rifles.

California Dem Claims To Be House’s Sole Victim Of Gun Violence, Forgetting Scalise’s Near Death At Hands Of Leftist Maniac

California Dem Claims To Be House's Sole Victim Of Gun Violence, Forgetting Scalise's Near Death At Hands Of Leftist Maniac

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U.S. House of Representatives

As President Biden’s approval ratings sink lower and lower, House and Senate Democrats are bolting the ship, leaving a stronger and stronger chance that the GOP takes back the House and may even take back the Senate. The latest case in point: on Wednesday, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) announced she would <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3kvyFAtztE">not run for reelection</a> in 2022. With the precarious lead the Democrats hold in the House of Representatives, every seat matters, although Speier’s heavily Democratic district will likely send another Democrat in her place.
On Monday, the president pro tempore of the Senate, Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who is the longest-serving sitting senator, announced he would not seek reelection next year. Joe Biden won Vermont by 35 points in 2020; no prominent Republican from Vermont has launched a 2022 bid for the Senate as yet.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/democrats-2022-retirements-congress/2021/11/11/aed573de-4172-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html">noted</a> on Friday, “Eight Democrats have chosen not to run for reelection in 2022, with more probably on the way.” The Post added:
<blockquote>Members of Congress … don&#8217;t usually leave their jobs unless they are pushed out by voters, or feel like they are about to be relegated to permanent minority status. Like a Waffle House closing ahead of a hurricane, the Retiree Index can be a sign for Congress watchers — along with ominous polling and a surprise loss in what was supposed to be a safe election (in this case, Democrat Terry McAuliffe&#8217;s defeat in the Virginia governor&#8217;s race) — that the majority is about to get walloped. Some members may be getting out before their work situations go from intense to intolerable.</blockquote>
After the elections in Virginian and New Jersey earlier this month in which the GOP performed extraordinarily well, Nathaniel Rakich of fivethirtyeight.com <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-virginias-and-new-jerseys-elections-could-suggest-a-red-wave-in-2022/">noted</a>:
<blockquote>If I were the Democratic Party, I’d be feeling less comforted by that number after Tuesday. While polls are usually in the right ballpark, they are still subject to a margin of error, as Democrats themselves discovered in 2020, when the generic-ballot polls <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-was-the-national-polling-environment-so-off-in-2020/">overestimated their margin</a> by 4.2 points. Plus, there was already good reason to think that generic-ballot polls right now are overestimating Democrats: Almost all so far have surveyed registered voters rather than likely voters, who tend to be a <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/registered-voter-polls-will-usually-overrate-democrats/">more Republican-leaning group</a>, especially in a midterm election when the <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/do-republicans-really-have-a-big-turnout-advantage-in-midterms/">president is a Democrat</a>.</blockquote>
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/opinion/republicans-biden-virginia-trump.html">opined</a> on November 9, “As Democrats make sense of their losses, ‘one fact stands out as one of the easiest explanations,’ The Times’s Nate Cohn <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/02/us/elections/results-new-jersey.html">wrote</a>. ‘Joe Biden has lower approval ratings at this stage of his presidency than nearly any president in the era of modern polling.’”
Derek Thompson of The Atlantic <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/democrats-economy-election/620626/">echoed</a>, “Compared with the 2020 election, support for Democrats decayed across states, genders, ethnicities, and counties. Democrats lost because of something bigger than any demographic or issue. They lost a vibes war. Despite many positive economic trends, Americans are feeling rotten about the state of things—and, understandably, they’re <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/11/biden-democrats-trouble-build-back-better/620624/">blaming the party in power</a>.”

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As Biden Sinks In Polls, Another House Dem Says She’s Out In 2022

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Joe Biden

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) said in a Monday tweet that since Republicans sometimes use the term &#8220;radical left&#8221; to refer to Democrats, Democrats should label the GOP with an even more extreme moniker.
&#8220;The Republicans have been calling Democrats the radical left. Time to call Republicans the terrorist right?&#8221; she tweeted.
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The Republicans have been calling Democrats the radical left. Time to call Republicans the terrorist right?
&mdash; Jackie Speier (@RepSpeier) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSpeier/status/1356262039073685504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Speier&#8217;s tweet was met with a swell of support on social media, including from &#8220;One Tree Hill&#8221; actress Sophia Bush, who said in response, &#8220;It’s been time.&#8221;
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It’s been time. <a href="https://t.co/5mqe6VmGa1">https://t.co/5mqe6VmGa1</a>
&mdash; Sophia Bush (@SophiaBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/SophiaBush/status/1356263250254557189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Agree. Nothing &#8216;good&#8217; about my former party now. Those decent folks who remain in it should exit,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/MelodyKayYoung/status/1356264031032659974?s=20">said one</a> Twitter user.
&#8220;The Republican Party has shown that they supports the over throw of our &#8216;America&#8217;s Democracy&#8217; and is now part of Trump&#8217;s new party &#8216;The Insurrectionists Party,'&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/adkins381/status/1356262914727038979?s=20">said another</a> user.
&#8220;Absolutely. I&#8217;ve been calling them terrorists for weeks. Unrepentant terrorists, actually. They are the American Taliban and they need to be stopped,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/SeriousOrchid/status/1356271849806712838?s=20">tweeted another</a>.
Some Democrats have been broadly painting Trump supporters as extremists since the Capitol riot. Singer Nancy Sinatra, for instance, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-sinatra-ill-never-forgive-trump-voters">told The Guardian</a> she will &#8220;never forgive&#8221; Trump voters.
“We squeaked by [in the election]. I don’t know what I would have done if Biden had lost. It crossed my mind to move to another country,” she said. “I couldn’t believe that this great nation had sunk so low. I’ll never forgive the people that voted for him, ever. I have an angry place inside of me now. I hope it doesn’t kill me.”
Following Biden&#8217;s inauguration, comedian Billy Eichner said “f**k every single Trump voter.”
“F**k Trump, f**k his whole family, f**k anyone that chose to work with him and f**k every single Trump voter. The rest of us need to make sure this never happens again. We’ve been warned. And guess what – I’m STILL with her you misogynist American dummies!!! Onwards!” he said.
Model Chrissy Teigen, the wife of musician John Legend, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chrissy-teigen-our-great-national-f-up-is-over-but-the-shame-will-last-forever">declared Trump</a> to be “the f***ing worst.”
“Today our great national f***up is over, but the shame will last forever,” she declared. “With 2 impeachments, the creation of 3 million LESS jobs, 403,000 dead, a record low approval rating and God knows how many crimes, we can officially say Donald J Trump is the greatest at being the f***ing worst. Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to have the guy with barely enough well-done steak with ketchup fueled brainpower to power a lightbulb who doesn’t even know how to close an umbrella run the country. History will not be kind to you, you absolute psychopath. But I never was anyhow.”
“Arrested Development” star David Cross also rejected Joe Biden’s call for unity by suggesting he wants “blood.”
“After a year of pain and loss, it’s time to unite, heal, and rebuild,” Biden tweeted.
“F*** that. I want blood,” Cross responded.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-sinatra-ill-never-forgive-trump-voters">Nancy Sinatra: ‘I’ll Never Forgive’ Trump Voters</a>

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Rep. Jackie Speier Suggests Labeling Republicans Terrorists

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) told MSNBC on Sunday that President Donald Trump should cancel his campaign rallies due to the coronavirus, but said nothing about the Democratic candidates needing to cancel their rallies.
In a highly politicized interview, Speier said that the biggest problem with the coronavirus outbreak was that the American public does not &#8220;have any confidence in the president,” and that Trump was responsible for &#8220;more and more people&#8221; who are &#8220;getting sick,&#8221; despite having no evidence to substantiate her claims.
&#8220;The fact that he is not willing to cancel his various rallies suggests that he is willing to place even his most ardent supporters at risk,&#8221; Speier said. &#8220;Because we’re supposed to stay six feet away from other persons in order to mitigate the exchange of those viruses. I think that he is showing, unfortunately, why he is so ill-prepared to guide our country during this time of crisis.&#8221;
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Rep Jackie Speier (D-CA) stokes fears over coronavirus. She claims <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> wants his own supporters to get sick by going to his rallies (though she coincidentally makes no mention of Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden saying they won&#39;t cancel their rallies). What a monster. <a href="https://t.co/XCv5bQ3Vb1">pic.twitter.com/XCv5bQ3Vb1</a>
&mdash; Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1236811974702325761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>ALEX WITT: Joining me now California representative, Jackie Speier, a member of the intelligence and oversight and reform committees. Congresswoman, welcome to you.
REP. JACKIE SPEIER (D-CA): Thank you, Alex.
WITT: Your district, as you know, very near Oakland there across the bay where the grand princess docks tomorrow. Are you getting any sense alarm and fear from your constituents over this? I’m curious how concerned you are about the situation. Let me just tell you anecdotally I have a staff writer on my show who parents live in San Francisco and he said, &#8216;they’re freaking out.&#8217;
SPEIER: Well I don’t think freaking out is what we should be doing. But we have taken this very seriously. And we have really shut down most large events in the area. I had two speeches yesterday that were canceled. So the responsible thing to do is cancel these events that have large numbers of people. I also think that California is a hot spot. We have about 25% of all of the cases in the country. And I want to make sure that the resources are going to be there to do the testing. You know what is most disturbing to me, Alex, is that South Korea and the United States found out on the same day, January 20th, that they had a Coronavirus case. In that interim, South Korea has tested 140,000 people and the United States has tested less than 1,500. It is an abysmal failure and I think the administration has done a very poor job of indicating to the American people that this is serious. This is not just the flu. We have people working from home now. We have ICUs that are full. We don’t have the requisite number of respirators. We have not taken this seriously enough and frankly the fact that we have not tested large numbers of potentially sick people is a serious crisis.
WITT: Those numbers are stunning. I wish you could have seen my jaw drop when you put out the numbers in the difference between the United States and South Korea testing but is there anything you could give to the administration, is it possible that lack of preparation in terms of tests, is there anything that the administration can give to you that explains why the discrepancy in these numbers?
SPEIER: You know, Anthony Fauci has been forthright about this and I give him credit. The biggest problem we have right now is that we don’t have any confidence in the president because he doesn’t tell the truth. And because he doesn’t tell the truth, more and more people are getting sick, there is more community spread, it is time for us to recognize that this is serious.
WITT: I have an indication of how you’re going to react to this nonetheless, ma’am, I want to play what the president said about the grand princess while visiting the CDC on Friday. Here it is, everyone.
TRUMP: They would like to have the people come off. I would rather have them stay but I go with them and I told them to make the final decision. I would rather, because I like the numbers being where they are, I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.
WITT: What is your reaction to that?
SPEIER: He talks about numbers. These are people’s lives. These cruise ships are petri — petri dishes for the virus to spread. I appreciate that Vice President Pence said that he wants them to take precaution and frankly I think the CDC should issuing guidance cruise ship because the industry is going to collapse out of its own negligence and the fact that we don’t have leadership with in our national institute of health providing the keep of guidance that is necessary. Think about the number of people that tested positive on the grand princess. Vast number of them are crew. How many of those crew were actually touching food? How many of them were in the kitchens? How many of them were in communication with so many of the persons on that ship that were touching them. I think — this is not just the flu and I think that message has got to get through to all of us. We have to take this seriously. We have to take precautions. We have got to prevent community spread and for the president to say that he’s talking about numbers an the cruise ship should just stay out there, I mean it shows you his absolute disregard for his job.
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WITT: Last question to, you, ma’am, what do you need to hear from the president and do you think you’ll hear it regarding the Coronavirus.
SPEIER: I don’t think the president is capable of telling us the truth about the coronavirus. And I regret saying that. I think we have to rely on the scientists who are attempting to tell the truth even when they have to contradict the president. The fact that he is not willing to cancel his various rallies suggests that he is willing to place even his most ardent supporters at risk. Because we’re supposed to stay six feet away from other persons in order to mitigate the exchange of those viruses. I think that he is showing, unfortunately, why he is so ill-prepared to guide our country during this time of crisis.</blockquote>

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Jackie Speier Demands Trump Cancel Rallies Over Coronavirus, Silent On Democrat Rallies

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