Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) joined MSNBC on Wednesday to tout President Joe Biden&#8217;s record on the economy — specifically pointing to inflation and saying that it was &#8220;down&#8221; — and claimed that &#8220;disinformation&#8221; was the reason so many Americans weren&#8217;t seeing that progress.
Clyburn was still at it when &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski — who agreed with Clyburn that &#8220;disinformation&#8221; was certainly a problem — broke in to point out the fact that inflation had risen more than expected in the last month.
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&#8220;And so the inflation rates are down,&#8221; Clyburn began. &#8220;And people&#8217;s incomes are up. Unemployment is on the decrease. And although we see the prices at the stores costing more money, people are in fact earning greater incomes.&#8221;
&#8220;So what we&#8217;ve got to do is make sure that people see the policies of Biden administration, how they affect their everyday lives and get them to see in his policies that which is real, not what they may hear on social media,&#8221; Clyburn continued, arguing that &#8220;disinformation&#8221; on social media platforms was one of the main reasons people didn&#8217;t believe the Biden economy was working in their favor.
Brzezinski echoed Clyburn&#8217;s concerns about the impact of &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; but then shared a headline showing the most recent Consumer Price Index data — which revealed a greater-than-expected <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-claims-of-economic-victory-slapped-back-by-worse-than-expected-inflation-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increase in the inflation rate</a> for the month of March: 3.5%, the highest increase in 6 months.
&#8220;There&#8217;s also a lack of validation that these voters feel,&#8221; Brzezinski said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m going to bring in Andrew Ross Sorkin right now because we just got breaking news — the Consumer Price Index increased at a faster-than-expected pace last month, a signal that inflation remains stubbornly high.&#8221;
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Despite efforts made by the Biden administration and surrogates to suggest otherwise, the American people also remain largely unconvinced that &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; is working for them. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-favor-gop-to-democrats-on-economy-by-widest-margin-ever-in-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Polls</a> — both formal and informal — suggest that most prefer the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-thinks-hed-be-more-popular-if-media-reported-on-the-economy-the-right-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economy</a> under former President Donald Trump.
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Democrat Tries To Spin Bad Inflation Numbers, But MSNBC Cuts Away To … More Bad Inflation Numbers

Democrat Tries To Spin Bad Inflation Numbers, But MSNBC Cuts Away To ... More Bad Inflation Numbers

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The myriad of gaffes by President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> has &#8220;nothing to do with his brain,&#8221; a veteran Democrat in Congress said on Saturday as he pointed to Biden&#8217;s lifelong fight to overcome a stutter.
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), a co-chair of Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign, defended the 81-year-old president during an <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=461525" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview on CNN</a> as polls <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/86-of-americans-say-biden-too-old-for-another-term-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show up to 86%</a> of Americans believe Biden is too old to serve a second term in the White House.
&#8220;If Joe Biden commits a gaffe, a guy who stuttered all of his childhood, into his adulthood and everybody knows his stuttering is what caused a lot of his speech impediments, and we know that. It has nothing to do with his brain, he stumbles one time and everybody says, &#8216;He’s too old to be the president,'&#8221; Clyburn said.
The congressman then alluded to the <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/presidents-survey-trump-ranks-last-biden-14th" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> last week of a new survey of historians who ranked all the presidents from best to worst, placing Biden in 14 place and Trump in last place.
&#8220;Look, we had a president of these United States, I saw the rankings the other day, who was in the top ten, and some people got him in the top three: Franklin Roosevelt was in a wheelchair. It didn’t bother his brand,&#8221; Clyburn said.
Fresh questions about Biden&#8217;s ability to lead effectively were spurred by this month&#8217;s release of a report by special counsel Robert Hur that criticized Biden&#8217;s handling of classified documents. Although Hur did not recommend charges, the report added that Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-has-significantly-limited-memory-didnt-remember-when-he-was-vp-or-when-son-died" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exhibited memory problems</a> that likely would preclude a jury from convicting him.
Biden responded to Hur&#8217;s findings in an impromptu press conference during which he insisted that his memory was &#8220;fine&#8221; and then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-explodes-during-press-conference-on-his-mental-fitness-makes-several-mental-mistakes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mixed up world leaders</a>. In the days leading up to the report&#8217;s unveiling, Biden made headlines for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-bungles-history-again-says-he-spoke-with-dead-german-chancellor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talking about discussions</a> with European heads of state who had died by the time he said the conversations took place.
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Clyburn suggested former President Donald Trump, who is also running for re-election, does not get the same amount of press as Biden when it comes to gaffes or &#8220;meandering&#8221; remarks.
Although polls do <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/86-of-americans-say-biden-too-old-for-another-term-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not reflect as much concern</a> about the age of 77-year-old Trump, Clyburn insisted, &#8220;There&#8217;s something wrong with Trump, and we noticed something wrong with Trump.&#8221;

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Clyburn Says Biden’s Gaffes Have ‘Nothing To Do With His Brain,’ Points To Struggles With Stuttering

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Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) blamed former President Donald Trump for the 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina by a white supremacist who has since been sentenced to death for murdering nine African-Americans during the attack.
Clyburn made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; while discussing President Joe Biden&#8217;s upcoming trip to the state.
&#8220;Is it fair to tie in any way what happened at the Emanuel AME Church to Donald Trump?&#8221; Tapper asked Clyburn &#8220;Donald Trump had barely launched his campaign when that attack happened.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it is very clear that Donald Trump&#8217;s utterances way back before Charlottesville or at the time of Charlottesville ties him to what happened at Mother Emanuel,&#8221; Clyburn claimed. &#8220;The fact of the matter is, that young man went into that church&#8217;s basement, joined with those worshipers in Bible study, and murdered them.&#8221;
&#8220;And he said at the time that he was attempting to create a race war. But the people of Charleston, South Carolina, the families of the affected victims all came together to get beyond hate and reach out to help continue this pursuit of a more perfect union,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Donald Trump looked at those people in Charlottesville and said that there were good people on both sides. And those people were uttering things like, &#8216;Jews will not replace us.&#8217; That is a religion. The AME Church Emanuel, that is religion. And Donald Trump has said things in support of those activities that ties him closely to what happened at Mother Emanuel.&#8221;
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With discussions now underway about the next <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives">House</a> speaker, a top Democrat offered a couple names from among his GOP peers who could take on the role.
The assistant Democratic leader in the House, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-clyburn">James Clyburn</a> (D-SC), shared a brief list during an <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=442291">appearance on MSNBC</a>, less than a day after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-ousted-from-speakership-after-democrats-side-with-matt-gaetz">chamber ousted</a> Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) from his perch as speaker.
He mentioned House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), who <a href="https://twitter.com/casssemyon/status/1709621676873302355">announced</a> on Wednesday his intent to run for speaker following reports saying he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-majority-leader-steve-scalise-will-run-for-speaker-report">lobbying</a> for support for a bid.
&#8220;There are people on both sides that could do this. I think that their leader &#8230; I know he&#8217;s having some health problems, but Steve Scalise is a great guy,&#8221; Clyburn said.
Scalise has been receiving treatment for blood cancer. Last week, Scalise told reporters that the cancer has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rep-steve-scalise-delivers-update-on-cancer-battle">&#8220;dropped dramatically&#8221;</a> because of chemotherapy.
Clyburn also suggested Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), who is chairman of the House Rules Committee.
&#8220;I think that Cole would be a sort of — the kind of tone that we would like to see,&#8221; Clyburn said.
Clyburn ultimately reasoned that he will &#8220;let&#8221; Republicans &#8220;handle their business and we&#8217;re going to handle ours and hopefully they do something that will make the American people pleased with our activities here in Washington.&#8221;
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The congressman noted that he believes the Democrats have viable candidates, too, to serve as speaker, &#8220;most especially&#8221; Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hakeem-jeffries">Hakeem Jeffries</a> (D-NY).
The House <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023519">voted 216-210</a> on Tuesday to remove McCarthy as speaker, a role he held since January. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-fires-back-at-the-8-republicans-who-upended-his-speakership">Eight Republicans</a> joined with Democrats to vote against McCarthy, citing frustrations with his leadership: Matt Gaetz (FL), Andy Biggs (AZ), Ken Buck (CO), Eli Crane (AZ), Bob Good (VA), Matt Rosendale (MT), Tim Burchett (TN), and Nancy Mace (SC).
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) became temporary speaker as lawmakers hash out who will run for the gavel. A simple majority will be needed to secure victory. The speaker does not have to be a sitting member of the House, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-vote.html">according to the Constitution</a>, and there has been some chatter about nominating former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-enters-race-for-house-speaker">said</a> on Wednesday he will run for speaker, setting up a clash with Scalise.

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Firms the federal government hired to distribute <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/only-2-of-childrens-deaths-were-from-covid-and-school-closures-didnt-reduce-the-number" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coronavirus</a> Paycheck Protection Program loans promised to use high-tech methods to prevent fraud, but failed in part because abuse hurt taxpayers and not their own bottom line, according to a congressional investigation.
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis found that two financial tech, or &#8220;fintech,&#8221; firms allegedly earned billions in profits by taking a percentage of each loan that they processed — often while barely looking at it. Some of the firms involved had little relevant experience, and one was run by a man who pleaded guilty in 2014 to insider trading.
&#8220;The investigation found that two unvetted and unregulated fintechs that, together, facilitated nearly one in every three PPP loans funded in 2021 — Womply and Blueacorn — failed to implement systems capable of consistently detecting and preventing fraudulent and otherwise ineligible PPP applications,&#8221; a <a href="https://coronavirus.house.gov/sites/democrats.coronavirus.house.gov/files/2022.12.01%20How%20Fintechs%20Facilitated%20Fraud%20in%20the%20Paycheck%20Protection%20Program.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committee report</a> released Thursday said.
Blueacorn gave nearly $300 million in profits to its owners but spent only $8.6 million on fraud prevention, the report said. It spent far more on marketing, and Blueacorn advertised &#8220;free money&#8221; in &#8220;30 seconds&#8221; to applicants, according to the report from the committee, which is led by Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-South Carolina).
Blueacorn had a small company called Elev8 Advisors, which was &#8220;run by a member of Blueacorn’s senior leadership,&#8221; review loan applications, and it was staffed with dozens of friends and family of the owner. The owner, Kristen Spencer, wrote in a text message obtained by the committee: “We are doing this for the people we hired to make money. Our friends and family. That is where the money is going. And it will be life changing money for anyone who does it.”
Employees were told that reviewing each loan should take them &#8220;less than 30 seconds,&#8221; employees told the committee.
Elev8&#8217;s owners, Kristen and Adam Spencer, also received $200,000 in PPP loans — even though the pandemic had been a boon for their business, not a hardship — around the same time they purchased an $8 million mansion in cash, the report said. One of the loans claimed Kristen was an &#8220;interior architect&#8221; for her husband&#8217;s company, even though that company was located in a WeWork, according to the investigation.
Blueacorn&#8217;s owners focused on big loans, which brought the largest commissions, and ignored those from small business owners, writing &#8220;who f***ing cares&#8221; and &#8220;delete them,&#8221; the report said. Blueacorn is owned by Nathan Reis and Stephanie Hockridge. The company also received $300,000 in PPP loans for itself, some of which were vetted by itself. And on the application, Reis falsely claimed to be black and a veteran, the report said.
Another fintech company, Womply, had revenue of $2 billion in 2021 and a gross profit margin of nearly 90%. Lending partners said its anti-fraud controls were &#8220;put together with duct tape and gum,&#8221; the report said. Additionally, the SBA said that even the application for $5 million in PPP loans that Womply filed for itself was ineligible.
Womply CEO Toby Scammell was convicted of insider trading in 2014 and led the company&#8217;s fraud prevention efforts. He also instructed the company not to cooperate with federal investigators, the report said.
Criminals quickly realized that they should apply through fintech firms if they wanted fake loans approved, according to the report. One gang member said that &#8220;everybody in the hood&#8221; was using Womply, according to the report. Investigators believe the PPP loans were used to buy guns and drugs.
Another fintech called Kabbage approved more than 300,000 loans. Its employees were concerned that fraud rates were &#8220;wildly underestimated,&#8221; but a manager told them &#8220;the risk here is not ours – it is SBA’s risk,” the report said.
The report concluded that &#8220;Based on these findings, Congress and the SBA should consider carefully whether unregulated businesses such as fintechs, many of which are not subject to the same regulations as financial institutions, should be permitted to play a leading role in future federal lending programs.&#8221;
The PPP program is overseen by the Small Business Administration. The SBA’s Inspector General has said the levels of fraud present in the PPP program were “unprecedented,” and that &#8220;This problem occurred because the agency did not establish a sufficient fraud risk framework at the start of and throughout PPP implementation.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-uses-little-known-covid-waiver-to-write-off-9b-in-student-loans-for-150000-government-nonprofit-workers">Biden Uses Little-Known COVID Waiver To Write Off $9B In Student Loans For 150,000 Government, Nonprofit Workers</a>

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Coronavirus Loan Fraud Prevention Fell To ‘Unvetted’ Firms That Profited Hugely While Ignoring Fraud, Congress Finds

Coronavirus Loan Fraud Prevention Fell To 'Unregulated' Firms That Profited Hugely While Ignoring Fraud, Congress Finds

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Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Sunday that it was &#8220;necessary&#8221; for him to &#8220;stay in power&#8221; because it was &#8220;Biblical&#8221; for him.
Clyburn, 82, made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CBS News&#8217; Margaret Brennan on &#8220;Face the Nation.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrats are holding leadership elections in the coming week, you&#8217;re already in leadership, I know you will be standing for election to a different position,&#8221; Brennan said.
&#8220;But if it is time for a new generation as Speaker Pelosi had said, Why do you think it&#8217;s necessary for you to stay in power?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Do you think the next generation needs you to guide them?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I&#8217;ve always said there is a healthy respect, it&#8217;s Biblical with me,&#8221; Clyburn responded. &#8220;We need to have a healthy blend of strength and knowledge and look at our leadership.&#8221;
&#8220;The South is left out of it and what I&#8217;m doing is trying to make sure that we do not tilt too far to the east or too far to the west,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But maintain what we have here. There&#8217;s no other southerner among the leadership ranks and we need the south. We need these historically black colleges and universities. If it weren&#8217;t for Georgia, where would the Senate be today? And the last time I checked, Georgia is south of South Carolina.&#8221;
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&quot;If it is time for a new generation [in House Democrat leadership]&#8230;why do you think it’s necessary for you to stay in power?&quot;
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<blockquote>MARGARET BRENNAN: Democrats are holding leadership elections in the coming week, you&#8217;re already in leadership, I know you will be standing for election to a different position. But if it is time for a new generation as Speaker Pelosi had said, Why do you think it&#8217;s necessary for you to stay in power? Do you think the next generation needs you to guide them?
REP. CLYBURN: Well, I&#8217;ve always said there is a healthy respect, it&#8217;s Biblical with me. We need to have a healthy blend of strength and knowledge and look at our leadership. The South is left out of it and what I&#8217;m doing is trying to make sure that we do not tilt too far to the east or too far to the west. But maintain what we have here. There&#8217;s no other southerner among the leadership ranks and we need the south. We need these historically black colleges and universities. If it weren&#8217;t for Georgia, where would the Senate be today? And the last time I checked, Georgia is south of South Carolina.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-rep-james-clyburn-if-you-dont-vote-against-election-deniers-youre-a-nazi">Democrat Rep. James Clyburn: If You Don’t Vote Against ‘Election Deniers’ You’re A Nazi</a>

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Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn On Why It’s ‘Necessary’ For Him To ‘Stay In Power’: ‘It’s Biblical With Me’

Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn Explains Why It’s ‘Necessary’ For Him To Remain In Power

The combined age of the top three Democrat leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives is 247.
America is 246 years old. Let that sink in.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is 82. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is 83. And House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) is 82.
And from what we know a week after the 2022 midterm elections, none of them have any intention of leaving office any time soon (after all, they all just won new two-year terms).
But Democrats are trailing in the battle to hold control of the House. Republicans have won 211 seats compared to Democrats&#8217; 206, with 218 needed for a majority in the 435-seat chamber.
&#8220;There are still some 18 outstanding House races, including 13 considered closely competitive, according to a Reuters compilation of the leading nonpartisan forecasters. Ten of the remaining contests were in liberal-leaning California,&#8221; Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-control-hinges-tight-races-after-democrats-take-senate-2022-11-14/">reported</a>.
If the GOP takes control, Pelosi will be out as Speaker and the others will lose leadership roles. At 82 &#8212; with a maximum net wealth of as much as $251 million, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/16/fact-check-house-speaker-nancy-pelosis-net-worth-inflated-meme/4707087001/">according</a> to USA Today &#8212; Pelosi could just walk away and retire to a life of luxury.
But the Speaker&#8217;s fortune has <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/the-stock-market-made-nancy-pelosi-rich-now-she-wants-to-ban-her-colleagues-from-trading/">grown $140 million</a> since 2008, thanks in part to her husband&#8217;s stock trades, and she&#8217;s made clear that she&#8217;s not going anywhere.
&#8220;There are all kinds of ways to exert influence. The speaker has awesome power, but I will always have influence,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pelosi-says-she-does-not-plan-step-away-us-congress-2022-11-13/">told</a> CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; program.
&#8220;My decision will then be rooted in the wishes of my family and the wishes of my caucus. But none of it will be very much considered until we see the outcome of all of this,&#8221; Pelosi told CNN.
The question must be asked: Why not live out your final years in peace and quiet, away from the contentious political struggles and intraparty backbiting inside the Capitol?
One answer is simple: Lying in state.
Politicians are not known for their humility. The hubris permeates even the Supreme Court. Take Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She had battled cancer and health issues for years, and in her mid-80s, Democrats implored her to step down so that President Barack Obama could nominate her replacement.
She didn&#8217;t, and she died in September 2020. President Donald Trump quickly nominated her replacement, Amy Coney Barrett, who was approved by the GOP-controlled Senate before Democrats took control just eight days later.
Ginsberg lay &#8220;in repose&#8221; at the Supreme Court for two days as thousands of mourners lined up to walk past the casket. She then lay in state at the Capitol and was buried beside her husband in Arlington National Cemetery.
That&#8217;s what many politicians want: They crave a lengthy lovefest even after they die &#8212; and it&#8217;s not solely Democrats; Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) orchestrated his own weeklong set of somber remembrances before his death in 2018.
The dinosaur situation is the same in the Senate. Democrat Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is 71. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) is 77. Assistant Democratic Leader Patty Murray (D-WA) is 72. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), chairman of the Policy and Communications Committee, is 72. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), vice chairman of the conference, is 73. And Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chairman of outreach, is 81.
None of them have plans to hand over the reins to a younger generation. In fact, Pelosi over the weekend urged President Joe Biden, who turns 80 later this month, to run for re-election in 2024, saying “he has accomplished so much.&#8221;
“President Biden has been a great president for our country,” Pelosi said on ABC’s “This Week.&#8221; “Over 10 million jobs under his leadership. Working with the private sector, of course. He has just done so many things that are so great. &#8230; He has been a great president and he has a great record to run on.”
So the dinosaurs are here to stay &#8212; at least on the Democrat side of the aisle. A frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is just 44 years old with three young children.
We didn&#8217;t get the Red Wave on Election Day. But let&#8217;s hope for a Youth Wave next time.
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Democrat Dinosaurs Like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Have No Intention Of Giving Up Power

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clyburn-compares-america-to-1930s-germany-in-latest-example-of-democrats-alarmist-rhetoric">James Clyburn</a> (D-SC) said during an interview on Sunday that those who do not vote against so-called &#8220;election deniers&#8221; are Nazis.
Clyburn made the remarks during an interview on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; with host Shannon Bream when asked about remarks that he made last week.
&#8220;This is what happens in a country that follows what happened in Germany in the early &#8217;30s,&#8221; Clyburn said last week. &#8220;This country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, elected a chancellor who then co-opted their media, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on in this country. That is what will lead to the destruction of this democracy.&#8221;
After Bream played the clip, she said to Clyburn, &#8220;Congressman, you&#8217;ve repeatedly made comments about Hitler, about Nazism, about Germany in the 1930s in recent years. You&#8217;ve gotten a lot of pushback from that from Jewish organizations and others who say it belittles the suffering of the Holocaust, of the millions who were lost.&#8221;
After a brief back-and-forth, Bream asked, &#8220;Are voters, though, out there listening to this message to infer from what you&#8217;re saying that if they don&#8217;t vote for Democrats in this election, that they are somehow supporting something akin to the rise of Hitler?&#8221;
&#8220;No, if they don&#8217;t vote against election deniers, if they don&#8217;t vote against liars, people who will lie, know full well they&#8217;re lying, we all know they are lying,&#8221; Clyburn responded. &#8220;This was cleanest election in the history of the country, Donald Trump&#8217;s own appointee said it was the cleanest in the history of the country. So, if they are lying, they&#8217;re denying, they&#8217;re trying to delete, they&#8217;re trying to nullify our votes, vote against that foolishness.&#8221;
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JIM CLYBURN: &quot;What I see here are parallels to what the history was in this world back in the 1930s in Germany.&quot;
&quot;If [voters] don&#39;t vote for Democrats&#8230;they are somehow supporting something akin to Hitler?&quot;
CLYBURN: &quot;If they don’t vote against [election] deniers&quot; <a href="https://t.co/nGAOagvTbT">pic.twitter.com/nGAOagvTbT</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1589283537332625411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Joining me now, South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House.
Congressman, welcome back to &#8220;FOX News Sunday&#8221;.
REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC): Thank you very much for having me back.
BREAM: I want to start here with some comments you made just a couple of days ago.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CLYBURN: This is what happens in a country that follows what happened in Germany in the early &#8217;30s. This country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, elected a chancellor who then co-opted their media, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on in this country. That is what will lead to the destruction of this democracy.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BREAM: Congressman, you&#8217;ve repeatedly made comments about Hitler, about Nazism, about Germany in the 1930s in recent years. You&#8217;ve gotten a lot of pushback from that from Jewish organizations and others who say it belittles the suffering of the Holocaust, of the millions who were lost.
Your response?
CLYBURN: I&#8217;ve talked to many Jews. We have many Jews in my congressional district, and they are very &#8212; supporters of mine. They note that this is a stuff that causes those kinds of deterioration in democracy. This is not anything about whether &#8212; how difficult it was, I talk about slavery and how difficult it was.
But that &#8212; to discuss the facts of what&#8217;s going on here, election deniers setting up positions (ph) by which little (ph) committees by governors can overturn the results of election, to call the press the enemy of the people, to co-op evangelicals &#8212; and I grew up in a Christian faith, in a parsonage, born and raised in a parsonage.
I know a whole lot about religion, and I know there&#8217;s always an attempt to co-op religions and that is going on here.
BREAM: OK, Congressman &#8212;
CLYBURN: And people want to deny it, that&#8217;s fine.
BREAM: OK, but &#8212;
CLYBURN: But the facts are very clear. I studied history all of my life.
BREAM: OK.
CLYBURN: I taught history and I&#8217;m telling you what I see here are parallels to what the history was &#8212;
BREAM: OK.
CLYBURN: &#8212; in this world back in the 1930s &#8212;
BREAM: So, Congressman, then &#8212;
CLYBURN: &#8212; in Germany, in Italy.
BREAM: Okay. Are voters, though, out there listening to this message to infer from what you&#8217;re saying that if they don&#8217;t vote for Democrats in this election, that they are somehow supporting something akin to the rise of Hitler?
CLYBURN: No, if they don&#8217;t vote against election deniers, if they don&#8217;t vote against liars, people who will lie, know full well they&#8217;re lying, we all know they are lying.
This was cleanest election in the history of the country, Donald Trump&#8217;s own appointee said it was the cleanest in the history of the country.
So, if they are lying, they&#8217;re denying, they&#8217;re trying to delete, they&#8217;re trying to nullify our votes, vote against that foolishness.
BREAM: Okay. So, Congressman, to look back on some conversations about election deniers, we&#8217;ve talked about on the show that Democrats have spent more than $40 million making sure that some of those people got through primary &#8212; GOP primaries so that they then could face off in the general election. Do Democrats bear some responsibility for putting those people now on the ballot?
CLYBURN: No, we didn&#8217;t put them up. Those people &#8212;
(CROSSTALK)
BREAM: But you spent millions to get them there.
CLYBURN: I&#8217;m sorry?
BREAM: But you spent millions to get many of them there, where they are in the general election ballot.
CLYBURN: Well, you know, I read about that. I believe that you should always try to best position yourself to win in the general election. I&#8217;m not a proponent of that process. I understand it takes place on both sides. But I&#8217;m just not a proponent of it, but I can understand it.
BREAM: OK. So, I want to play a little bit more language over the last week from Democrats about what is at stake in this election.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT: Democracy as we know it may not survive in Arizona, that&#8217;s not an exaggeration. That is a fact.
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: But, there is something else at stake, democracy itself.
CLYBURN: But losing this democracy could very well be the end of the world.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BREAM: OK. So, were you asking voters to set aside what they feel about the economy?
Because &#8220;The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s&#8221; Kimberley Strassel has this piece: Voters have sat through this apocalyptic movie many times now, and know its anticlimactic ending. Besides they&#8217;re busy searching for spare change to cover their rising grocery bills.
So, set aside economy and worries about crime which are at the top of all of voter polls about what they&#8217;re worried about, and instead vote for you where the world is ending?
CLYBURN: Nobody is saying the world is ending. The world did not end &#8212;
(CROSSTALK)
BREAM: You did say there, though, that it could be the end of the world.
CLYBURN: No, democracy will be ending. The world will continue to exist. The world was here before Hitler and the world was here after Hitler. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re saying.
No, the world will not end. The kind of world we have, the kind of country we have. We&#8217;ve got to decide how do we want to exist in this world, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about.
This hyperbole is not part of what we&#8217;re saying here. We&#8217;re talking about what kind of country we have and what kind of world we have.
BREAM: OK. Congressman, just to be clear, though, I want to read your quote. It says: But losing this democracy could very well be the end of the world. That&#8217;s a direct quote from you.
CLYBURN: End of the world, come on.
(CROSSTALK)
BREAM: Well, a lot of voters feel that way, when you say that. They think &#8212; they have the same reaction.
CLYBURN: Well, if that&#8217;s a quote from me, it &#8212; I misspoke. It won&#8217;t end the world.
BREAM: OK.
CLYBURN: No, I have no idea &#8212;
(CROSSTALK)
BREAM: OK. Well, that&#8217;s good news for everyone heading to the ballot boxes on Tuesday. Finally &#8212;
CLYBURN: But having (AUDIO GAP) one to teach history, we live in worlds that we do not like. My forbearers lived through slavery. They did not like that existence for 250 years. But it was not the end of the world, it may be the end the world as they would have it, but it will not end the world.
BREAM: All right. Well, we are reassured to hear you say that, sir. We thank you for making time for us, Congressman Clyburn. Always good to talk with you.
CLYBURN: Thank you very much for having me.</blockquote>
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Democrat Rep. James Clyburn: If You Don’t Vote Against ‘Election Deniers’ You’re A Nazi

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Democratic House Majority Whip <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-clyburn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Clyburn</a> (D-SC) compared the state of American democracy to Weimar Germany.
In an interview with Fox News Friday, Clyburn reacted to the violent attack on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/paul-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Pelosi</a> last week. Clyburn said that the country was following the path of the Weimar Republic in 1930s Germany, the fall of which led to the rise of an authoritarian leader, Adolf Hitler. Clyburn&#8217;s comments are the latest example of Democrats and media figures&#8217; escalating, alarmist rhetoric about &#8220;threats to democracy&#8221; posed by Republicans.
&#8220;This is what happens in a country that follows what happened in Germany in the early 30s,” Clyburn told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-majority-whip-track-repeat-nazi-germany-downplays-inflation-ahead-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. &#8220;I said this in 2018, and caught a lot of hell from a lot of people for having said it. But it was true then, and it&#8217;s true now: this country is on track to repeat what happened in Germany when it was the greatest democracy going, when it elected a chancellor who then co-opted the media. This past president called the press the enemy of the people. That is a bunch of crap. &#8230; And that is what&#8217;s going on in this country.&#8221;
Clyburn defended rhetoric from President Joe Biden about the &#8220;threats to democracy&#8221; posed by so-called &#8220;MAGA Republicans,&#8221; claiming that while Republicans targeted a person, Biden targeted a philosophy. &#8220;He talked about a philosophy that is taking place in this country,&#8221; said Clyburn. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t attribute it to one person that anyone could go and target, bust in their window, and beat &#8217;em in the head with a hammer. He never demonized any individual. He talked about a philosophy, and I would say the same thing.&#8221;
Clyburn then talked about the 2022 midterms, saying that voters have a right to vote in their own self-interest, but that must not be limited to inflation, but threats to democracy as well. &#8220;The question is, are we going to have a society that everyone can participate in? Or are we going to have an autocracy that&#8217;s run by one person?&#8221;
Clyburn is not the only prominent Democrat to compare Republicans, especially Trump-aligned or so-called &#8220;MAGA Republicans,&#8221; to Nazi Germany in recent weeks. Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton compared a Trump rally in Ohio to a Nazi rally because his supporters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-likens-trump-supporters-to-nazis-because-they-pointed-in-the-air" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed in the air</a> while Trump spoke.
“I remember as a young student, you know, trying to figure out how people get basically drawn in by Hitler,” Clinton <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI98TIm-r_I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the Texas Tribune festival in September. “How did that happen? I’d watch newsreels and I’d see this guy standing up there ranting and raving, and people shouting and raising their arms. I thought, ‘What’s happened to these people?’”
“You saw the rally in Ohio the other night,” Clinton continued. “Trump is there ranting and raving for more than an hour, and you have these rows of young men with their arms raised. I thought, ‘What is going on?’ So, there is a real pressure, and I think it is fair to say we’re in a struggle between democracy and autocracy.”
Democrats, led by Biden, have amped up their rhetoric about the alleged threat to American democracy posed by Republicans. Biden claimed Republicans were motivated by &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/horribly-insulting-gop-gov-demands-biden-apologize-for-saying-some-republicans-motivated-by-semi-fascism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">semi-fascism</a>&#8221; at a donor event in August, then doubled down on his rhetoric in his &#8220;Battle for the Soul of the Nation&#8221; speech on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-demonizes-millions-of-americans-while-calling-for-unity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 1</a>. His rhetoric has been amplified by Democrats on the campaign trail in the final days before the 2022 midterms by campaign surrogates like former President <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/03/obama-warns-democracy-survive-arizona-00064813" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barack Obama</a>, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/11/a-closing-argument-for-democracy/671987/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legacy media outlets</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1588648470465986560?s=20&amp;t=8tzCKJc4XW6CyPRpPVwIrA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic activists</a>, and even Democratic <a href="https://twitter.com/Tony4WI/status/1588653565060317185?s=20&amp;t=9oH_SjzltIHMg6ELaEqV9Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candidates</a> themselves.

Clyburn Compares America To 1930’s Germany In Latest Example Of Democrats’ Alarmist Rhetoric

Clyburn Compares America To 1930's Germany In Latest Example Of Democrats' Alarmist Rhetoric

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MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart said Sunday that it looked very much like the American people were leaning toward giving Republicans a chance to lead the House of Representatives.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jayapal-claims-social-media-promotes-misinformation-calls-marjorie-taylor-greene-suspension-a-little-too-little-and-a-little-too-late/">Capehart</a> made the comment during a conversation on &#8220;The Sunday Show&#8221; with guest and Democratic Majority Whip <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/they-may-be-on-life-support-james-clyburn-insists-democrats-election-overhaul-bills-are-not-dead-yet/">James Clyburn</a> (SC), saying that with just over ten months to go until the 2022 midterm elections, polling did not appear to be moving in a direction favorable to President Joe Biden.
&#8220;Let’s talk about these poll numbers. The president’s poll numbers. And the wrong track,&#8221; Capehart began noting that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-poll-biden-gets-an-f-from-more-than-1-3-of-the-country-at-the-end-of-his-first-year/">Biden&#8217;s approval numbers</a> have continued to slip while the number of Americans who believe the country is headed in the wrong direction has risen. &#8220;One, your reaction to those poll numbers. And, two, what can the president do to turn them around?&#8221;
Clyburn conceded that the poll numbers were &#8220;concerning,&#8221; even &#8220;disconcerting,&#8221; and immediately pivoted to suggest that somehow former President Donald Trump was entirely responsible for the current situation.
&#8220;These two parties have already — always worked together to ensure this democracy keeps moving toward a more perfect union. That’s not what it is today. The Democrats are carrying us along. The Republicans have vacated any pursuit of perfection and have now turned themselves over to a cult leader and their party is no more,&#8221; he claimed.
&#8220;I hear you on that, Whip Clyburn. Yet in the poll it shows, asking the respondents about who they think should have control of Congress. 47% say Democrats should have control. 46% say that Republicans have control. But what I found concerning in that poll is that since April 2021, the number — the percentage of people who believe that Republicans should have control of Congress has been inching up,&#8221; Capehart pushed back. &#8220;So despite what you’re saying about not having a governing partner, the American people seem to be slowly but surely thinking, hey, maybe the Republicans should be given a shot, given the gavel back in the House.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/CapehartJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CapehartJ</a>: &#8220;The American people seem to be slowly but surely thinking, &#8216;Hey, maybe the Republicans should be given a shot, given the gavel back in the House.'&#8221;
Rep. Clyburn (D-SC): &#8220;I&#8217;ve been saying to my party &#8230; let&#8217;s stop mimicking what the Republican talking points are.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/xcJH0zMufS">pic.twitter.com/xcJH0zMufS</a>
— The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1485268284786331652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Clyburn then argued that the main reason anyone believed Republicans should have control was that Democrats weren&#8217;t saying enough about their accomplishments.
&#8220;I’ve been saying to my party quite a bit, let’s stop mimicking what the Republican talking points are. We keep talking about what the Democrats are not doing. No, the glass is not full. It is only half full. So let’s see what we can do by focusing on that part of the glass that is half full, rather than keep concentrating on that half empty part,&#8221; Clyburn said. &#8220;Look at what we have done with the Rescue Act. Look at what we have done with the infrastructure bill. And stop talking about the fact we have not done Build Back Better. No, we haven’t. But we will. We already rescued these families. Let’s talk about that.&#8221;

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House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that his party&#8217;s planned election overhaul bills were not yet dead — but he did admit &#8220;they may be on life support.&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jim-clyburn-says-democrats-will-get-around-filibuster-to-pass-progressive-voting-expansion/">Clyburn</a> joined Tapper for Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; to discuss the bills — the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, both of which are expected to be brought before the Senate later this week — and the fact that Senator <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-will-not-support-changing-the-filibuster-much-to-democrats-dismay/">Kyrsten Sinema</a> (D-AZ) effectively blocked their passage when she announced earlier in the week that she would not support changes to the filibuster.
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Dem. WHIP Rep. James Clyburn says the election reform bills are not dead, but he allows that &#8220;they may be on life support,&#8221; adding, &#8220;we&#8217;re not giving up. We&#8217;re going to fight and we plan to win because the people of goodwill are going to break their silence and help us win.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/gdhjL2OmVx">pic.twitter.com/gdhjL2OmVx</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1482726246937251840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Tapper began the segment by referencing President Joe Biden&#8217;s recent speech in Georgia, where he promoted the two bills by comparing anyone who opposed them to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, segregationist George Wallace, and Bull Connor — who set dogs against Civil Rights protesters.
&#8220;What do you say to Democrats who say that that went too far to compare somebody who opposes changing the filibuster with a traitor who fought a war for slavery?&#8221; Tapper asked, noting that Senate Majority Whip <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/i-will-concede-that-point-dick-durbin-admits-biden-went-too-far-in-speech-comparing-political-opponents-to-traitors-segregationists/">Dick Durbin</a> (D-IL) had conceded exactly that point earlier in the week.
&#8220;I would ask those people, what do you think is going too far?&#8221; Clyburn asked, repeating the false claim that the Georgia voter integrity law prevents anyone from giving water or food to voters who are standing in line and claiming that every part of the Georgia law &#8220;violates the Constitution&#8221; — although he stopped short of explaining how.
Clyburn went on to claim that Biden&#8217;s words should not matter when held up against the &#8220;deeds&#8221; of legislators who were working to pass stricter voter integrity measures.
&#8220;For us to focus on the president’s words and not pay any attention to the deeds of those legislators in Texas, in Georgia and 17 other states that passed 35, 34 laws that are draconian when it comes to voting, that’s where our attention ought to be,&#8221; he said.
Tapper pivoted then to Sinema, who said in a floor speech that she was in favor of voter reform legislation like the two bills in question, but that she did not believe getting rid of — or even modifying — the filibuster was a legitimate option. Instead, she warned that removing that safeguard would likely backfire if and when Republicans were in power again. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has voiced similar thoughts on the issue, and neither was willing to support the filibuster changes Biden called for in his speech.
&#8220;Doesn’t she have a point, the Democrats might need that filibuster as soon as 2025 to stop Republicans from imposing even harsher voting restrictions?&#8221; Tapper asked.
&#8220;She is not right about that,&#8221; Clyburn said. &#8220;We just got around the filibuster to raise the debt limit. Why? Because we don’t want to put the full faith and credit of the United States at risk. No one has asked her to eliminate the filibuster. The filibuster’s there for all of these issues that may be policy issues. But when it comes to the constitution of the United States of America, no one person sitting downtown in a spa ought to be able to pick up the telephone and say you are going to put a hold on my ability to vote. And that’s what’s going on here. So I wish they would stop that foolishness. Because if we do not protect the vote with everything that we’ve got, we will not have a country to protect going forward.&#8221;
Tapper then asked the key question: &#8220;Are the election reform bills dead, do you think?&#8221;
&#8220;No, I don’t. They may be on life support,&#8221; he conceded, adding, &#8220;John Lewis and others did not give up after the ’64 Civil Rights Act. That’s why he got the ’65 Voting Rights Act.&#8221;

‘They May Be On Life Support’: James Clyburn Insists Democrats’ Election Overhaul Bills Are Not Dead Yet

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House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Democrats would find a way to “get around” the filibuster in order to pass their preferred federal voting legislation.
Clyburn made the comments to “Axios on HBO,” <a href="https://www.axios.com/jim-clyburn-voting-rights-filibuster-republicans-5b099f5a-38ed-4284-ac8d-b5301a1ba0c4.html">telling</a> the program that passing the Democrats’ desired legislation “may require some jiu-jitsu, but that&#8217;s not beyond the Senate to do that.”
&#8220;They&#8217;ll come up with some way to get around it,&#8221; Clyburn added. &#8220;We had better come up with some way to get around it, because this democracy is teetering on collapse.&#8221;
Several bills supported by Democrats have passed the House but stalled in the Senate, including the Freedom to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Another bill, the For the People Act, failed to pass the Senate over the summer.
&#8220;We will find a way to get these voting rights bills passed,&#8221; Clyburn told Axios.
The bills pushed by Democrats wouldn’t simply uphold voting rights, but enshrine new rights that Republicans say would ensure Democrats would never lose another election. The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, for example, would undo a Supreme Court decision that determined the federal government could not oversee certain states’ voting laws based on decades-old racism claims. Democrats want to restore the federal government’s control over state voting rules, particularly rules they claim keep people from voting.
Democrats particularly want to go after laws like what was passed in Georgia, even though numerous states have similar laws in place. Democrats compared the Georgia elections law, passed earlier this year, to past Jim Crow laws, even though fact checkers determined the law actually expanded access to the polls. Democrats make the claim any time Republicans try to include provisions ensuring voters prove who they are by showing identification. Democrats claim this disenfranchises voters, and insist that black people in particular can’t easily get identification, even though this thinking infantilizes the very people Democrats claim to care about. As Ami Horowitz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-americans-debunk-liberal-talking-point-that-voter-id-is-racist-theyre-ignorant">showed</a> years ago, black people have no trouble getting an ID to vote.
Democrats’ other legislation, the Freedom to Vote Act, would ensure the expanded voting rules put in place for COVID-19 – like mail-in ballots – remain permanently.
Axios also <a href="https://www.axios.com/democrats-byrd-manchin-senate-rules-1d0a151f-a1aa-4237-baa1-dbf2caabeb39.html">reported</a> that some Senate Democrats have been working privately to get Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to help the party change Senate rules to get progressive legislation passed. Democrats have insisted these rule changes wouldn’t end the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to pass legislation.
Democrats seem to forget that they did not have much of a mandate after winning control of the White House in 2020. The Senate is evenly divided, with Vice President Kamala Harris deciding ties, essentially putting control of the upper chamber in Democrat hands. Democrats have a slim majority in the House, yet the bills they are intent on passing are not what Americans care about most; they are simply progressive wish lists.

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