A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Democrat</a> said former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> should be &#8220;eliminated&#8221; moments after he decried the use of &#8220;dangerous&#8221; rhetoric, an ironic choice of words that prompted blowback and led the congressman to issue an apology.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reporter-calls-out-rep-dan-goldman-over-archer-testimony-claim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Goldman</a> (D-NY), who served as <a href="https://goldman.house.gov/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lead counsel</a> in the first impeachment of Trump, alluded to Trump&#8217;s 2024 bid to return to the White House while issuing a warning about the former president&#8217;s comments in relation to January 6 and legal cases.
&#8220;His rhetoric is really getting dangerous,&#8221; Goldman told MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jen-psaki-to-leave-white-house-join-msnbc-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jen Psaki</a>, a former Biden White House press secretary, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/inside-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-could-ultimately-face-jail-time-rep-goldman-on-trump-violating-gag-order-198259781987" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during an interview</a> that aired on Sunday.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanGoldman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDanGoldman</a>: &quot;His rhetoric is really getting dangerous&#8230; It is just unquestionable at this point that [Trump] cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit. He is destructive to our democracy. He has to be eliminated.” <a href="https://t.co/9hS6NHlOB5">pic.twitter.com/9hS6NHlOB5</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1726287783424143713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It is just unquestionable at this point that that man [Trump] cannot see public office again,&#8221; Goldman also said. &#8220;He is not only unfit. He is destructive to our democracy. And he has to be eliminated.&#8221;
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The exchange, promoted by the X account for Psaki&#8217;s show &#8220;Inside with Jen Psaki,&#8221; drew a wave of backlash, particularly among Trump&#8217;s allies. Some even argued that what Goldman said amounted to a threat.
Goldman&#8217;s comments &#8220;are dangerous, inflammatory, and most probably illegal. They always accuse us of exactly what they are doing,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/1726679270226014398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Roger Stone, a longtime GOP operative and Trump confidant.
Tom Fitton, president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, <a href="https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1726658413822931300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;In the least, Goldman should be investigated by the Secret Service for this threat.&#8221; Collin Rugg, co-owner of Trending Politics, <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1726630685224620129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;By using his own ‘logic,’ Goldman should never see public office again.&#8221;
Goldman issued a <a href="https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1726595276289581288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to X on Monday, apologizing for his rhetoric.
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&#8220;Yesterday on TV, I mistakenly used the wrong word to express the importance for America that Donald Trump doesn’t become President again,&#8221; he said. &#8220;While he must be defeated, I certainly wish no harm to him and do not condone political violence. I apologize for the poor choice of words.&#8221;
Trump is facing four criminal cases and civil litigation, some of which have led to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-reinstates-gag-order-against-trump-in-federal-election-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gag orders</a>, as he runs a 2024 campaign seeking a second term in the White House. The former president has denied any wrongdoing and claims the prosecutions are politically motivated.

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House Dem Calls For Trump To Be ‘Eliminated’ — After Condemning ‘Dangerous’ Rhetoric

House Dem Calls For Trump To Be 'Eliminated' — After Condemning 'Dangerous' Rhetoric

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Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki slammed new House Speaker Mike Johnson for his evangelical Christianity, saying his political ideology should “scare us.”
Speaking to Fox News, Johnson had said, “I am a Bible-believing Christian. Someone asked me today in the media; they said, ‘It’s curious; people are curious. What does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?’ I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it.’ That’s my worldview.”
In his first speech as House Speaker, Johnson stated:
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I believe that scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you. All of us. And I believe that God has allowed and ordained each and every one of us to be here at this specific moment. This is my belief. I believe that each one of us has a huge responsibility today to use the gifts God has given us to serve the extraordinary people of this great nation, and they deserve it.
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“You heard that right,” Psaki <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=445737&amp;utm_source=cliplist&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist20231030&amp;utm_content=story445737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quavered</a> on MSNBC. “The Bible doesn’t just inform his worldview, it is his worldview. In fact, during his first speech in his new job, Johnson suggested that his election as speaker was an act of God. Talk about a bit of a humblebrag there. So what exactly has God apparently called on Mike Johnson to do? Well, his views on policy are essentially what you’d expect from a religious fundamentalist. They’re more divisive than they are divine.
“But it’s not just his political ideology that should scare us,” Psaki <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/inside-with-jen-psaki/gops-new-house-speaker-mike-johnson-trump-wolf-suit-rcna122551" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on the MSNBC website. “Johnson is basically a Christian fundamentalist. He believes that America is a Christian nation, and that those values should be reflected in our interpretation of the Constitution.”
“His ideas of what America should be are completely out of line with what America actually is,” she insisted.
Johnson’s Christian faith was <a href="https://www.nola.com/news/politics/mike-johnsons-politics-are-defined-by-his-christian-faith/article_8e533446-74ee-11ee-ab51-a3876f070acc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forged</a> at the age of 12, in September 1984. He was the oldest child of firefighter James “Pat” Johnson, who went into a warehouse to cap a leak. An explosion left Pat Johnson with burns over 80% of his body and he was given a 10% chance to live. His recovery after six operations and numerous infections inspired his son, who recalled in 2015, &#8220;I saw an actual miracle of my father surviving when they said that he shouldn&#8217;t. It made me a person of very deep faith.&#8221;
“His personal commitment to Jesus Christ is at the core of who he is and the foundation of the work he does,” Gene Mills, the president of Louisiana Family Forum, the state’s top faith-based conservative group, stated of Johnson.

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‘Humblebrag’: Jen Psaki Mocks Mike Johnson’s Christian Faith

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White House Press Secretary-turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki faced a virtual tsunami of backlash over what she apparently believed was a simple claim about abortion rights in the United States.
The comment stemmed from a conversation that took place Wednesday evening at the first GOP debate of the 2024 primary. Former Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) led off with a challenge directed at the White House.
&#8220;I would love for someone to ask Biden and Kamala Harris: Are they for 38 weeks, are they for 39 weeks, are they for 40 weeks? Because that’s what the media needs to be asking,&#8221; Haley said.
&#8220;What the Democrats are trying to do on this issue is wrong — to allow abortion all the way up to the moment of birth,&#8221; Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) added.
&#8220;No one supports abortion up until birth,&#8221; Psaki posted via X. The deluge that followed was swift and immediate from critics pointing out that, yes, there were people who supported abortion up until the moment of birth — and all of them were from her side of the political aisle.
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No one supports abortion up until birth.
&mdash; Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/1694525055663747157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Yes, they do. And they’re all democrats,&#8221; podcast host Megyn Kelly <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1694537817353769148" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;A Virginia delegate proposed a bill in 2019 that would’ve made an abortion legal even if the mother was dilating,&#8221; Delano Squires <a href="https://twitter.com/DelanoSquires/status/1694553958528802989" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;46 Democrat Senators voted for it on Feb. 28, 2022,&#8221; John Hasson replied, sharing a link to the Democrat-supported Women&#8217;s Health Protection Act — which would have allowed abortion up to the moment of birth and <a href="https://www.heritage.org/life/report/the-truth-about-the-so-called-womens-health-protection-act-radical-proposal-mandate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced</a> American taxpayers to foot the bill for them.
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Women’s health protection act allowed abortion up til birth: <a href="https://t.co/pQjar6oD8P">https://t.co/pQjar6oD8P</a>
And here was the vote on it: <a href="https://t.co/6oGJal2miq">https://t.co/6oGJal2miq</a>
&mdash; John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1694546837137441035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Sure, Jan,&#8221; @TRHLOfficial posted, sharing a map that showed seven U.S. states where there are <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Abortion_regulations_by_state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no restrictions</a> on abortion during any stage of pregnancy.
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Sure Jan. <a href="https://t.co/17BrxmovhX">pic.twitter.com/17BrxmovhX</a>
&mdash; The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1694685746542624944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The DeSantis War Room shared a compilation video of Democrat officials saying that there should be no restrictions on abortion. Among them were sitting Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Mayor Eric Adams (D-NYC), Governor Michell Lujan Grisham (D-NM), former Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
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Oh really?
Here are five straight minutes of Democrats admitting they support abortion until birth. <a href="https://t.co/5k1aZIlv4l">pic.twitter.com/5k1aZIlv4l</a>
&mdash; DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1694714540259475836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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But then Greg Price shared video of Psaki herself touting the Women&#8217;s Health Protection Act – which, again, would have allowed abortions up until the moment of birth and would also have put taxpayers on the hook to fund them.
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Here is Jen Psaki pushing for support for the &quot;Women&#39;s Health Protection Act,&quot; which would have legalized abortion in America up until the moment of birth. <a href="https://t.co/018Ezc3dFb">https://t.co/018Ezc3dFb</a> <a href="https://t.co/IRKKs4fCzb">pic.twitter.com/IRKKs4fCzb</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1694547301396619286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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’46 Democrat Senators Voted For It’: Jen Psaki Faces Fact-Check Tidal Wave Over Abortion Claim

'46 Democrat Senators Voted For It': Jen Psaki Faces Fact-Check Tidal Wave Over Abortion Claim

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As the great Tina Turner once said, &#8220;What&#8217;s love got to do with it?&#8221; Well, as it relates to the GOP&#8217;s &#8220;dogged investigation&#8221; of the Biden family crime saga, love doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with it.
Yet for former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), that&#8217;s what the entire fuss is about — as she sees it.
On Wednesday evening, after Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal completely derailed thanks to Judge Maryellen Noreika, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki used her MSNBC prime time show to push propaganda for her old boss. She brought on her comrade McCaskill as a guest.
At no point in the interview did Psaki inform her viewers that on Wednesday the Department of Justice admitted Hunter is being <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-reveals-hunter-biden-still-under-federal-investigation-potential-fara-violations">investigated</a> for potential Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) violations and could be charged.
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Psaki did not inform her viewers that the DOJ admitted Hunter is being investigated for potential Foreign Agent Registration Act violations and could be charged (not good for Joe).
And she left out that the plea agreement would grant him near-universal immunity for future… <a href="https://t.co/izvArNxJjp">https://t.co/izvArNxJjp</a>
&mdash; Tim Meads (@TimMeadsUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimMeadsUSA/status/1684376328806494209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Furthermore, Psaki left out that the plea agreement in its past form would have granted Biden near-universal immunity for future charges — which is a major reason why the judge didn&#8217;t accept the deal.  However, as several former federal prosecutors have pointed out, Noreika did not accept the deal because the DOJ-Biden agreement was unprecedented and would have effectively been universal immunity, tying her and other judge&#8217;s hands in the event Hunter receives future charges. Yet Psaki used the segment to push the notion that it was former President Donald J. Trump&#8217;s DOJ — not Biden&#8217;s DOJ — that was corrupt and did the president&#8217;s bidding.
If you thought that was bad, it paled in comparison to McCaskill&#8217;s take on the situation. The ex-senator claimed that Republicans would respond to the entire fiasco by trying &#8220;to indict a father for loving his son, who has been addicted to drugs and/or alcohol and without evidence of the father doing anything other than loving his son.&#8221;
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CLAIRE MCCASKILL TO JEN PSAKI:
&quot;They’re going to try to indict a father for loving his son, who has been addicted to drugs and/or alcohol.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/LNDo6OyzU2">pic.twitter.com/LNDo6OyzU2</a>
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She also said that the DOJ and Hunter&#8217;s attorneys were worried that Trump would get re-elected and revoke the plea deal. So, she argued, this plea deal was arranged so that the judge would be the arbiter if Hunter violated his diversion program. The judge wasn&#8217;t comfortable with that — as McCaskill saw it — thus rejecting the plea deal.
Of course, that doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test. As William Shipley, an attorney and former federal prosecutor saw it, Noreika knew something was amiss with the deal.
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&#8220;Judges see so many plea agreements in the course of just a single year they realize immediately when something isn&#8217;t right, and then they ask questions,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;That&#8217;s what happened here. She realized something wasn&#8217;t kosher and she may issue a &#8216;Show Cause&#8217; Order asking for an explanation of why the two linked issues were placed in separate documents and then did not call attention to one another.&#8221;
&#8220;This was a &#8216;hidden&#8217; global plea agreement — and the fact that they tried to pull that off is all the GOP House needs to impeach Merrick Garland,&#8221; he added.
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That is a way to play &quot;hide the ball&quot; from the public, but Judges see so many plea agreements in the course of just a single year they realize immediately when something isn&#39;t right, and then they ask questions. 
That&#39;s what happened here. She realized something wasn&#39;t kosher… <a href="https://t.co/1g6KzirWg6">https://t.co/1g6KzirWg6</a>
&mdash; Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) <a href="https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1684343206903959553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It appears that the broad nature of the deal was &#8220;hidden&#8221; to shield from the public that Hunter would be effectively granted immunity for any future FARA violations.
Yet, in McCaskill&#8217;s telling, the FARA portion of it is a small matter.
&#8220;And frankly, they&#8217;ll probably work out if he&#8217;s got immunity from FARA, the federal lobbying statute,&#8221; McCaskill said of what Biden&#8217;s legal team and the DOJ will do next.
Psaki never asked why that would need to be worked out — nor why Hunter would be in violation of FARA.
Nobody should have expected anything different from the likes of Psaki and McCaskill, but the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-passport-propaganda-and-trump-beware-the-government-media-complex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Government-Media Complex</a> in action is always breathtaking to watch.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Indict A Father For Loving His Son’: Biden Pravda On Display Like Never Before With Claire McCaskill, Jen Psaki

'Indict A Father For Loving His Son': Biden Pravda Like Never Before With Claire McCaskill, Jen Psaki

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The potential banking crisis is so bad that it got President Joe Biden out of bed at 9 a.m. to do his job.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, now a host on MSNBC, said Monday she was surprised to see her old boss delivering a speech on the state of the U.S. banking system. Biden likely wanted to assure the public before the stock market opened, although bank stocks were promptly pummeled anyway.
&#8220;Now, it&#8217;s important to note, President Biden does nothing at 9 a.m. He is a night owl,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So the fact that he is doing this at 9 a.m. speaks to how vital the White House recognizes it is.&#8221;
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Psaki: “President Biden does nothing at 9 AM… The fact that he [giving a speech about the bank failure] at 9 AM speaks to how vital the White House recognizes it is.” <a href="https://t.co/mZxMAsUW9j">pic.twitter.com/mZxMAsUW9j</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1635320430931382272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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But Psaki&#8217;s claim that Biden&#8217;s work habits differed from those of former presidents Obama and Trump, who were known to work late into the night, did not jibe with prior reports.
&#8220;Unlike his most recent predecessors – night owls who spent the dark hours reading briefing materials, Biden is more of an early-to-bed type,&#8221; a 2021 CNN article claimed.
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Also, on her claim that Biden is a &quot;night owl,&quot; here&#39;s an article from 2021: &quot;Unlike his most recent predecessors – night owls who spent the dark hours reading briefing materials, Biden is more of an early-to-bed type.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/UlIjsGrLRM">https://t.co/UlIjsGrLRM</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1635323012349304832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Other reports indicate that Biden has a pretty leisurely morning: Maybe a cup of coffee. Some early <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-daily-routine-gatorade/2021/05/23/b6f608c2-b40e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">morning workouts</a>. A nice chat with Jill. Then he strolls over for his daily briefing after 9 a.m. His daily schedule sounds more like that of a retirement home resident than the commander-in-chief.
When Biden isn&#8217;t at the White House, he can often be found taking long weekends at his Delaware beach house. Biden has now spent roughly 40% of his time in the Oval Office on vacation. On those trips, there&#8217;s reason to believe that he&#8217;s using classified documents to house-train his newest dog, Commander.
Whatever the case, Biden was up and at &#8217;em Monday morning to make sure that Silicon Valley Bank&#8217;s depositors were taken care of. It seems that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/too-woke-to-fail-the-perfect-leftist-storm-preceding-silicon-valley-bank-bailout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">when his potential donors</a> are troubled, nothing can stop him from coming to the rescue.
In his haste though, Biden could actually be making the situation worse in the long haul. Since the Biden administration is moving to make Silicon Valley Bank whole, 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy argued the president was sending the wrong message to bankers.
&#8220;Crony capitalism &amp; fear-mongering reign supreme in America,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;The FDIC only insures deposits up to $250,000. By selectively changing the rules after the fact for SVB, the U.S. government now incentivizes greater risk-taking by banks &amp; depositors in the future&#8230;&#8221;
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Crony capitalism &amp; fear-mongering reign supreme in America. The FDIC only insures deposits up to $250,000. By selectively changing the rules after the fact for SVB, the U.S. government now incentivizes greater risk-taking by banks &amp; depositors in the future, teaching large… <a href="https://t.co/hZ6E7aNnUx">https://t.co/hZ6E7aNnUx</a>
&mdash; Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1635078083077103617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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So, maybe it would have been better if Biden had got some extra shut-eye this weekend instead of working overtime for once in his life. Instead, he chose to put his best foot forward today and earned the praise for going to work at 9 o&#8217;clock like the rest of us.
What a leader.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

US Vice President Joe Biden listens during a farewell ceremony during a farewell ceremony for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at the Ronald Reagan Building September 6, 2013 in Washington, DC. Napolitano is leaving her post to become president of the University of California system. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI

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Former White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jen-psaki" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jen Psaki</a> has landed her own Sunday talk show.
In a press release Thursday, MSNBC announced that the Biden administration&#8217;s former top communicator will debut her own talk show, &#8220;Inside with Jen Psaki,&#8221; beginning March 19. The network also announced that she will debut a show on streaming platforms and social media, and will contribute a regular column to its morning newsletter. Psaki left the Biden administration to join the liberal cable news network <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jen-psaki-to-leave-white-house-join-msnbc-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last year</a>.
&#8220;Inside with Jen Psaki will leverage Psaki’s wide-ranging expertise to tackle the biggest issues of the week, featuring one-on-one interviews with newsmakers,&#8221; MSNBC said in its <a href="https://www.nbcumv.com/mediavillage/interactive/2929fed4187b40648b79a9839e70e91fproduct169208/index.html#/brand/283f55c2-f92b-4425-afc2-1d901cd2c77b/press-releases/7f0fed9f-d8ec-4b30-a808-b5b37c5631ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. &#8220;Each Sunday, she will break down and make sense of the most complex public policy discussions happening in the Nation’s Capital from the debt ceiling to the political campaign trail to the war in Ukraine and more.&#8221;
The new show will also have an original segment entitled &#8220;Weekend Routine,&#8221; in which Psaki will follow public figures around to see a day in their lives. &#8220;Psaki will pull back the curtain on the everyday lives of notable lawmakers and influential thought leaders,&#8221; the press release stated. &#8220;She will shadow each newsmaker as they move through their usual activities discussing their work, careers and personal lives, spotlighting a unique and often unseen side.&#8221;
Psaki will continue to be a regular contributor and panelist across the left-wing cable network&#8217;s regular programming, especially with regard to the 2024 presidential election, the network continued. She will continue her presence in MSNBC&#8217;s primetime coverage of major news events, and will continue to appear on NBC News&#8217; broadcast TV mainstays like the “TODAY” show and “Meet the Press.”
Psaki reacted to the press release on <a href="https://twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/1628056468204277760" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>. &#8220;Let&#8217;s do this&#8230;looking forward to Sunday, March 19th,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;We have been working on some fun and different features&#8230;and can&#8217;t wait to dig into all of the news.. [sic] see you soon.&#8221;
Psaki&#8217;s new show adds to MSNBC&#8217;s Sunday lineup, which already includes “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.” Psaki has also been a regular panelist on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jen-psaki-biden-ramping-up-attacks-on-maga-republicans-because-its-election-season-and-the-gloves-are-off" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meet the Press</a>,” NBC News&#8217; long-running Sunday talk show. And Psaki is not the first former member of the Biden administration to receive a hosting gig on MSNBC: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-hires-former-kamala-harris-spokesperson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Symone Sanders</a>, former senior adviser and chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, was hired by the network to host her own show, “The Choice from MSNBC,” on NBC&#8217;s Peacock streaming service. NBC has not stopped there: former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/business/media/jen-psaki-msnbc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> that NBC reached out to him about taking an on-air position, but he turned them down.
Psaki&#8217;s hiring was met with some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-staffers-complain-about-msnbc-hiring-jen-psaki-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">controversy</a> among NBC staffers when it was first announced last year, so much so that network President Noah Oppenheim held an impromptu phone meeting with staffers who felt that hiring her tarnished the NBC News brand. “Here’s what he was saying: They have perspective programming,&#8221; one person who was on the call told CNN at the time. &#8220;This was done on the perspective programming side. Not anything that reflects on NBC News.”
“People wanted answers on what NBC’s role was in this and NBC News had no role in this,&#8221; the person added. &#8220;This is MSNBC’s perspective programming.”

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White House Press Secretary <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> insisted on Friday that the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> did not involve itself with content moderation decisions at <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, even though her predecessor said the opposite.
One reporter asked during a press briefing whether officials were in contact with former Twitter General Counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-baker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Baker</a>, the former FBI attorney who aided with Russia-related investigations into former President Donald Trump. Jean-Pierre repeatedly answered that the administration was “not involved” with decisions to censor users.
&#8220;It&#8217;s up to private companies to make these type[s] of decisions,&#8221; she insisted, according to a <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/white-house-denies-involvement-twitter-censorship-direct-contact-covid-misinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Fox Business. &#8220;We were not involved. I can say that we were not involved.&#8221;
The description of the administration’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/psaki-if-you-post-misinformation-online-you-should-be-banned-from-all-social-media-platforms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">involvement</a> with content moderation differs from the summary provided as recently as last year by former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who said that officials were in “regular touch with social media platforms” to make them aware of “the latest narratives dangerous to public health.” She asserted that no proponent of “misinformation” should be banned from one major platform and not others.
The release of the initial installment of the Twitter Files, which recount the social media platform’s censorship efforts before Elon Musk recently acquired the company, was reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-twitter-files-compromised-after-lawyer-involved-in-the-controversy-was-behind-vetting-the-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compromised</a> last week after reporter Matt Taibbi revealed that Baker vetted the files without the knowledge of new management before sending them to journalists, even though he had been embroiled in the censorship controversy himself.
Baker’s decision to vet the files ultimately triggered his ouster and the delay of the second installment of the Twitter Files. “In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today,” Musk said.
Baker, who teaches at Harvard Law School and formerly served as a Brookings Institution visiting fellow, had encouraged the social media company to suppress the New York Post’s report on Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 election. The attorney was the subject of a criminal investigation five years ago over allegations that he made unauthorized leaks to the media; the probe ended with no charges.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-releases-hunter-biden-files-tweets-deleted-at-behest-of-team-biden-exec-was-key-behind-censorship-decision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first edition</a> of the Twitter Files showed that Biden campaign officials routinely asked executives to remove posts, often from the accounts of prominent conservatives critical of the then-Democratic presidential nominee. “By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine,” Taibbi wrote. “One executive would write to another: ‘More to review from the Biden team.’ The reply would come back: ‘Handled.’”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitters-underhanded-actions-targeting-libs-of-tiktok-revealed-in-new-twitter-files-release" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second edition</a> of the Twitter Files, shared by journalist Bari Weiss on Thursday evening, revealed that the social media company built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending on the platform, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts and trending topics without telling users. Former company bosses such as founder Jack Dorsey, chief executive Parag Agrawal, and head of legal Vijaya Gadde collaborated to censor multiple popular conservative accounts. The latter two executives were recently dismissed by Musk.
For years, however, Twitter executives had repeatedly claimed that no such censorship had occurred. “People are asking us if we shadow ban. We do not,” a blog <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/Setting-the-record-straight-on-shadow-banning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> from 2018 co-authored by Gadde herself said. Dorsey answered with a simple “No” when <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1316537705023578115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> by commentator Dave Rubin in 2020 whether the firm shadow bans “based on political beliefs.”

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Jean-Pierre Insists White House ‘Not Involved’ With Twitter Censorship. Psaki Said The Opposite Last Year.

Jean-Pierre Denies White House Was 'Involved' With Twitter Censorship

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) said Friday afternoon that a federal court granted the state&#8217;s request for depositions from top-ranking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> officials.
&#8220;The court has granted our request to depose Dr. Anthony Fauci, former White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan, and other Biden Administration officials relating to collusion with social media to suppress free speech,&#8221; said Schmitt, who is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in the state.
U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty in the Western District of Louisiana granted depositions from NIAID Director and White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci; Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of White House Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty or former White House Senior COVID-19 Advisory Andrew Slavitt; former White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki; FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan; CISA Director Jen Easterly or CISA official Lauren Protentis; Surgeon General Vivek Murthy; CDC Chief of the Digital Media Branch Carol Crawford; and Acting Coordinator of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center Daniel Kimmage.
The officials are accused of colluding with social media companies to censor freedom of speech on a number of topics, including COVID.
“After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,” Schmitt said in a statement. “It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.”
Doughty previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/court-orders-biden-admin-to-produce-records-over-alleged-censorship-coordination-with-tech-companies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> last month that the plaintiffs in the case were &#8220;entitled to external communications by Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. [Anthony] Fauci in their capacities as White House Press Secretary and Chief Medical Advisor to the President to third-party social media platforms.&#8221;
Doughty also ordered that the Biden administration must produce records from HHS’ deputy assistant secretary for public engagement, the head of HHS’ digital engagement team, the deputy director of the Office of Communications in HRSA, and HHS’ deputy digital director.
Schmitt then tweeted out examples of records that have been disclosed so far.
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A senior FB official sent an email to the Surgeon General stating, “I know our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.” This email chain follows the SG’s “misinformation health advisory” in July 2021. <a href="https://t.co/PeqglHalRI">pic.twitter.com/PeqglHalRI</a>
&mdash; Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGEricSchmitt/status/1565346281459163137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Further communications show that Facebook is “increasing the strength of our demotions for COVID and vaccine-related content that third party fact checkers rate as ‘Partly False’ or ‘Missing Context.’
&mdash; Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGEricSchmitt/status/1565346302967578630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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There are several instances where Facebook wouldn’t proceed with censoring freedom of speech on their platform until they had input, or a “debunking” from the CDC. Twitter followed the same course in at least one email. <a href="https://t.co/7rIId8Unsa">pic.twitter.com/7rIId8Unsa</a>
&mdash; Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGEricSchmitt/status/1565346329068351490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A White House official was even concerned about parody Fauci accounts and coordinated with Facebook to take them down. <a href="https://t.co/e14x6nHOzm">pic.twitter.com/e14x6nHOzm</a>
&mdash; Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGEricSchmitt/status/1565346350266343426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Deputy Secretary at Treasury sought to connect with social media platforms and influence operations on social media. <a href="https://t.co/i6Wy13dNgK">pic.twitter.com/i6Wy13dNgK</a>
&mdash; Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGEricSchmitt/status/1565346370608721921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In August, House Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) called out Meta, Facebook’s parent company, over its decision to decrease the reach of political content on Facebook, accusing the tech giant of being politically biased.
“Facebook made sure no one saw the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election,” the House Republican tweeted. “But now that America has record inflation, rising crime, &amp; a border crisis—all as a result of Dem policies—Facebook is shutting down more ‘political content’ to hide the truth from Americans.”
The company originally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccarthy-blasts-decision-decreasing-reach-of-facebook-political-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> these changes in February 2021, shortly after Democrat President Joe Biden was inaugurated, saying that it was hoping to decrease political content in news feeds. These changes included moves to “rank political content in people’s feeds using different signals.”
Meta announced in late July, just ahead of the 2022 midterms, that it would be implementing the changes around the world to decrease “political content” in users’ Facebook feeds.

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Federal Court Grants Depositions From Fauci, Psaki, Other Top Biden Officials Over Social Media Censorship

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According to the latest New York Times/Siena poll, a healthy majority of Americans believe that democracy is under threat — and over half of those who believe democracy is at risk say the “mainstream media” presents a &#8220;major threat.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/18/upshot/times-siena-poll-toplines.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The poll</a>, which surveyed 792 registered voters between October 9 and October 12, asked respondents to select one of the two following statements as aligning closest to their views — even if they did not match exactly: American democracy is currently under threat (71%); American democracy is not currently under threat (21%).
The poll then directed the 71% who believed democracy was under threat in the United States to answer a few more specific questions about where they thought the greatest threats were coming from. The answers were as follows:
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<li>Republicans: major threat — 28%; minor threat — 39%; not a threat — 29%</li>
<li>Democrats: major threat — 33%; minor threat — 30%; not a threat — 34%</li>
<li>Donald Trump: major threat — 45%; minor threat — 22%; not a threat — 31%</li>
<li>Joe Biden: major threat — 38%; minor threat — 22%; not a threat — 37%</li>
<li>Mainstream media: major threat — 59%; minor threat — 25%; not a threat — 15%</li>
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Fewer of those polled believed Republicans in general presented a major threat (28%) compared to Democrats (33%), but more believed that former President Donald Trump presented a major threat (45%) compared to President Joe Biden (38%). But the mainstream media — with 59% of respondents calling it a major threat and an additional 25% calling it a minor threat — was ranked as the greatest danger to democracy among the listed options.
The poll also addressed a number of other issues, indicating as a number of others have that President Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/wolf-blitzer-to-karine-jean-pierre-is-biden-setting-himself-up-for-failure-by-focusing-on-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laser-like focus</a> on abortion and climate change going into November&#8217;s midterm elections might result in a dramatic misfire.
Respondents to the NYT/Siena poll ranked major issues by importance, and abortion was fifth (4%) behind the economy (26%), inflation (19%), the state of democracy (7%) and immigration (5%). Climate change (3%) was ranked sixth, in a three-way tie with &#8220;Trump/Republicans&#8221; and crime.
The Democrats&#8217; insistent focus on issues that voters have repeatedly ranked lower on their everyday list of concerns appears to be impacting the predictive polls as well, as the most recent prediction maps from RealClearPolitics show enough of a shift to flip control of both the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/house/elections-map.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House of Representatives</a> and the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/elections-map-rcp-projection.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> into Republican hands.

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To be a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/search/news?query=&amp;page=1&amp;refinementList%5Btaxonomies.post_tag%5D%5B0%5D=White%20House">White House</a> press secretary, you need to be a skilled liar.
I covered the White House for a dozen years as a correspondent for a national newspaper and have watched a couple dozen secretaries come and go over my 30+ years covering politics, so trust me.
Another skill the official spokespeople need is the ability to obfuscate. When Ari Fleischer, press secretary for President George W. Bush, would hold daily briefings, I remember plenty of times when he&#8217;d say something and I&#8217;d think, &#8220;OK, that&#8217;s a good quote to build a story around.&#8221;
Then I&#8217;d read the transcript later only to find out that he didn&#8217;t say what I thought he said, that he talked all around a subject without really saying anything at all.
So it&#8217;s unusual when you get a press secretary to utter a declarative sentence &#8212; especially if it&#8217;s a frank admission that&#8217;s detrimental to their own party. That&#8217;s just what Jen Psaki, former press secretary for President Joe Biden, did this week.
In an appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press,&#8221; Psaki referenced a video clip that had just played with House Republican Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
&#8220;Look, I think that Democrats, if the election is about who is the most extreme, as we saw, you know, Kevin McCarthy touch on there with Marjorie Taylor Greene, I’ll say her name, sitting over his left side, then they&#8217;re going to win,&#8221; she said.
Then she went there. &#8220;If it is a referendum on the president, they will lose, and they know that,&#8221; Psaki said. &#8220;Crime is a huge vulnerability for Democrats, I would say, one of the biggest vulnerabilities.&#8221;
Indeed it is. And Psaki is exactly right: If voters go to the polls in a mid-term election to express their displeasure with the president, it&#8217;ll be a bloodbath for Democrats.
Biden&#8217;s approval ratings have been in the dumper ever since he took office, dipping all the way down to the mid-30s. Americans are being crushed by inflation, skyrocketing gasoline and food prices, but soaring crime rates across the country will also be a big driving factor in the November elections, too.
Nationwide polling shows voters see Republicans as more capable to handle public safety &#8212; a recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/16/upshot/september-2022-times-siena-poll-crosstabs.html">survey</a> by The New York Times/Siena College released earlier this month showed the GOP holds a 10-point margin.
&#8220;The full picture on crime rates is nuanced. Homicides soared in 2020 and 2021 before decreasing slightly this year,&#8221; the Times wrote. &#8220;An analysis of crime trends in the first half of 2022 by the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan policy and research group, found that murders and gun assaults in major American cities fell slightly during the first half of 2022, but remained nearly 40 percent higher than before the pandemic. Robberies and some property offenses posted double-digit increases.&#8221;
The party in the White House almost always loses House and Senate seats in the midterm elections, in which voters often cast their ballots based on kitchen table issues like the economy &#8212; another point Psaki, now a contributor to MSNBC, conceded.
&#8220;So, yes, the economy is hanging over everything, but you have [to] look at state-by-state factors, and crime is a huge issue in the Pennsylvania race,&#8221; Psaki said.
Right again. And a frank admission from a die-hard Democrat.
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Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Former Joe Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki Finally Utters A 100% True Statement

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Former White House Press Secretary <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/jen-psaki/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jen Psaki</a> conceded on Sunday that if the Democratic Party allowed the fast-approaching midterm elections to be a referendum on President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>, they would certainly lose.
Psaki, who just recently transitioned from her gig at the Biden White House to a position at MSNBC, joined Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; — and she told anchor Chuck Todd that if the Democrats were wise, they would intentionally try to keep the focus on extremism, particularly within the Republican Party.
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“If [the midterms] are a referendum on the president, Democrats will lose.” <a href="https://t.co/laydYLdT2w">pic.twitter.com/laydYLdT2w</a>
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Todd began the segment with an ad put out by the Democratic Party against Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake — which appeared to connect abortion rights and crime — and asked whether Democrats were trying too hard to make the two issues meet.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure how this is either — really effective, or you&#8217;re trying to get the voter to take two issues and tie them together, you&#8217;re trying too hard, I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Todd reacted to the ad. &#8220;But an interesting response.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, I think that Democrats — if the election is about who is the most extreme, as we saw, you know, Kevin McCarthy touch on there with Marjorie Taylor Greene, I&#8217;ll say her name, sitting over his left side, then they&#8217;re going to win,&#8221; Psaki said. &#8220;If it is a referendum on the president, they will lose.&#8221;
Psaki went on to name a few key issues — namely crime and the economy — and states in which those specific issues might play a pivotal role in driving people to the polls.
&#8220;Crime is a huge vulnerability for Democrats,&#8221; Psaki continued. &#8220;I would say one of the biggest vulnerabilities. And if you look at Pennsylvania, for example, what’s been interesting to me is it’s always you follow the money, and where are people spending money. And in Pennsylvania, the Republicans have been spending millions of dollars on the air on crime ads against [Democrat John] Fetterman because that’s where they see his vulnerability.&#8221;
&#8220;So, yes, the economy is hanging over everything,&#8221; Psaki concluded. &#8220;But you do have to look at state by state factors. And crime is a huge issue in the Pennsylvania race.&#8221;

‘They Will Lose’: Jen Psaki Concedes Democrats Can’t Let Midterms Be About Biden

Jen Psaki Concedes Democrats Can't Let Midterms Be About Joe Biden

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Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden is going after so-called &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; to help Democrats win in the November midterms.
Appearing as a panelist on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-mace-there-s-a-lot-of-pressure-on-republicans-to-have-an-impeachment-vote-on-president-biden-149215301515">Meet the Press</a>&#8221; Sunday, Psaki said that in the early stages of Biden&#8217;s presidency, the American people did not want him to attack former President Donald Trump and his supporters. But now that many of Biden&#8217;s major agenda items have been passed, he is taking a harder line in hopes of holding Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.
&#8220;You were there [at a time] when you didn&#8217;t say [Trump&#8217;s] name,&#8221; Todd began his interview with Psaki. &#8220;&#8216;Don&#8217;t say their names.&#8217; It&#8217;s like Beetlejuice, somehow it won&#8217;t show up if you don&#8217;t say their name. Now [Biden] leans into it more. Why?&#8221;
&#8220;There was a strategic decision made when he came into office that &#8216;that&#8217;s not what the public wanted,'&#8221; Psaki replied. &#8220;The public wanted a President who was going to &#8230; kind of expand the base of people who [are] interested in them. But now, it&#8217;s election season again, he did a lot of what he wanted to do, much of it in a bipartisan way, getting legislation done. And now the gloves are off. He&#8217;s got to maintain control of at least one house of Congress.&#8221;
Biden has stepped up his rhetoric over the summer, saying that Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party are 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. He went on to brand them as threats to American democracy in his now-infamous &#8220;Soul of the Nation&#8221; address on September 1, which was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-slammed-across-political-spectrum-for-optics-of-divisive-speech-satanic-ghoul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">widely decried</a> as one of the most <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grim-old-man-screaming-ben-shapiro-others-react-to-bidens-dark-speech-before-eerie-red-backdrop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divisive political speeches</a> by an American president.
Biden&#8217;s heated rhetoric, however, might not help him or the Democratic Party retain control of Congress. An <a href="https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1226a1MidtermPolitics.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News/Washington Post poll</a> of likely voters released Sunday found that Republicans have a five-point advantage in the generic Congressional ballot in 2022, and former President Trump holds a two-point advantage in a hypothetical 2024 matchup among registered voters.
Last week, one of the nation&#8217;s leading independent pollsters pointed out that Biden&#8217;s divisive tone would likely make polling Trump supporters even more complicated, meaning pollsters could undercount Trump voters, and GOP turnout would be even higher than expected in 2022.
&#8220;Now [the] Biden administration has essentially classified ‘MAGA Republicans’ as a threat to democracy marshaling federal law enforcement to focus on them,&#8221; Trafalgar Group chief pollster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leading-pollster-gop-voters-will-be-virtually-impossible-to-poll-after-bidens-maga-republicans-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Cahaly</a> said in a Twitter thread. &#8220;This move has created a new type of voter that will be even harder to poll or even estimate.”
“I call this new group ‘submerged voters,’” Cahaly said. “They aren’t putting stickers on their cars, signs in their yards, posting their opinions, or even answering polls.  At this point I think it’s fair to say that Biden’s pursuit of and attacks on ‘MAGA Republicans’ has created an army of voters who will be virtually impossible to poll (even for us) and more difficult still to estimate.”
”The 2022 Republican turnout will likely be higher than any of the polls or models are showing,” he concluded. “All polls (including ours) will understate the impact of these ‘submerged voters.’”

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