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.”

Jean-Pierre To Be First Black White House Press Secretary

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.

GOP Senate Candidate Eric Schmitt Campaigns With Ted Cruz In Missouri

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

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Social Media

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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Poll: Majority Say Mainstream Media A ‘Major Threat’ To Democracy

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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.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Holds Daily Briefing

SHOCKER: Jen Psaki Finally Utters A 100% True Statement

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;

White House Holds Press Briefing

‘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

2022 Election

Democrats

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.’”

Jen Psaki Briefs White House Media Members

Jen Psaki: Biden Ramping Up Attacks On ‘MAGA Republicans’ Because ‘It’s Election Season’ And ‘The Gloves Are Off’

Jen Psaki: Biden Ramping Up Attacks On 'MAGA Republicans' Because 'It's Election Season' 

2022 Midterms

MAGA

Meet the Press

Podcast king <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-suck-at-their-job-joe-rogan-says-after-stelter-canned-theyre-all-on-the-chopping-block" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan</a> blasted ex-Biden administration spokeswoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jen-psaki" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jen Psaki</a> as a liar and said former Trump press secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kayleigh-mcenany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kayleigh McEnany</a> was the &#8220;Michael Jordan&#8221; of the profession.
Rogan’s comments came on Saturday while he discussed COVID vaccines with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aaron-rodgers-blasts-medias-vaccine-witch-hunt-in-chat-with-joe-rogan-reveals-immunized-strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL superstar Aaron Rodgers</a>, who famously declined to get the jab. Rogan accused Psaki of pushing vaccines that many Americans questioned.
“When Jen Psaki said these vaccines are approved by the FDA, which is the gold standard, that was a lie,” Rogan said, noting that the vaccines were initially administered under an “emergency use authorization.&#8221;
“They weren’t approved. But she was a propagandist.”
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Rogan called the White House press secretary position a “weird job” because it requires toeing the administration line even when it may not be accurate or true. But he singled out McEnany, a Harvard-trained lawyer who held the post for Trump’s last year and frequently sparred with a hostile press, as an exception.
“That lady was a f***ing assassin,” Rogan raved. “That lady had like binders, with footnotes. And anyone would say something and she’d be like, ‘That’s interesting, because actually CNN said this.’ And she would like quote it back to them and stuff it in their face.&#8221;
“That lady was the best ever at that job,” Rogan added. “She’s the f***ing Michael Jordan of White House press secretaries.”
The comments echoed prior remarks by left-wing CNN personality Van Jones, who warned liberals in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/politics/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-coronavirus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 interview</a> not to dismiss McEnany’s sharp intellect.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to defend the messaging, but what I hope people can acknowledge is there&#8217;s very few people in either party who can accomplish what Kayleigh has accomplished in such a short time,” Jones said. “People keep taking her lightly, and they keep regretting it.&#8221;
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McEnany is now a co-host on the Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered” show.
While talking to Rodgers, Rogan had praise for another Fox News employee, Peter Doocy. The reporter has long stood out among the Biden-friendly White House press corps for asking tough questions. Rogan praised him for pressing Psaki, who has since left for an MSNBC gig, on the vaccines.
“The hard questions were all by Peter Doocy from Fox News,” Rogan said. “He’s the only guy [who was] pushing back against her. And she just f***ing flat out lied and not just one occasion, multiple occasions.”

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has joined the ranks of leftist women glamorously featured on the pages of Vogue magazine.
Like First Lady Jill Biden and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Jackson was photographed by Vogue&#8217;s Annie Leibovitz, whose most recent project focused on Ukraine&#8217;s First Lady Olena Zelenska.
The photographs show Jackson posing at the Lincoln Memorial dressed in an a brown Aliétte coat. In one of the photos, she leans against a pillar and gazes up at Lincoln&#8217;s second inaugural address etched on the wall.
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Leibovitz also photographed singer Rihanna for Vogue in April, actress Olivia Wilde in December 2021, and former Hilary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin in October 2021.
Vogue has also featured Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Vice President Kamala Harris on its cover, but abstained from featuring former First Lady Melania Trump, First Lady Laura Bush, or First Lady Barbara Bush, or any of Trump&#8217;s high profile female press secretaries on its cover.
“They’re biased and they have likes and dislikes, and it’s so obvious,&#8221; Melania Trump <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-slams-vogue-for-putting-hillary-clinton-michelle-obama-and-jill-biden-on-the-cover-but-not-her">said of Vogue</a> in an interview after she left the White House. &#8220;And I think American people and everyone sees it. It was their decision, and I have much more important things to do — and I did in the White House — than being on the cover of Vogue.&#8221; 
Asked why she is overtly partisan in featuring Democratic women over Republican women on the magazine&#8217;s cover, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-slams-vogue-for-putting-hillary-clinton-michelle-obama-and-jill-biden-on-the-cover-but-not-her">said in 2019</a> that she felt she must stand up for what she believes.
“If you’re talking about the first lady [Michelle Obama] or Senator [Kamala] Harris, obviously these are women that we feel are icons and inspiring to women from a global perspective,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;I also feel even more strongly now that this is not a time to try — and I think one has to be fair, one has to look at all sides — but I don’t think it’s a moment not to take a stand,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I think you can’t be everything to everybody and I think it’s a time that we live in a world, as you would well know, of fake news … [and] those of us that work at Conde Nast believe that you have to stand up for what you believe in and you have to take a point of view.”
Wintour, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire, neglected to speak about Melania Trump as the first lady in a July 2019 podcast interview where she was asked to name something in Trump&#8217;s wardrobe that she admires.
“Well, I think First Lady Michelle Obama was really so incredible in every decision she made about fashion,&#8221; Wintour <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-slams-vogue-for-putting-hillary-clinton-michelle-obama-and-jill-biden-on-the-cover-but-not-her">responded</a>, pivoting from Trump. &#8220;She supported young American designers. She supported designers, indeed, from all over the world. She was the best ambassador this country could possibly have, in many ways, obviously way beyond fashion&#8230; ”
“But she’s not the First Lady now,&#8221; Wintour&#8217;s interviewer reminded the Vogue editor-in-chief. &#8220;What about the one you have now?”
Wintour finished: “And for me, she is the example I admire.&#8221;

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A simple math error may be the reason that drilling permits have been held up in some locations, the Biden administration has revealed.
According to a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/19/biden-administration-oil-gas-drilling-permit-delays/?utm_source=piano&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2680&amp;pnespid=6OZ3FCVXPaAb1ePB.WykT5vUtgnzSJZnLrXhxPRh8EJmc4NGr5f.wxyluKEvHgfZX20uKwAwDA">report</a> from The Daily Caller, the administration acknowledged in a letter to industry leaders that &#8220;a mathematical error is delaying the federal offshore oil and gas program.&#8221;
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) head Richard Spinrad said that permitting delays had been attributed to a miscalculation that resulted when the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) used a flawed model to measure the ecological impact of offshore drilling.
In the letter, which was addressed to National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), Spinrad noted, &#8220;NMFS understands the concerns of industry and is working with [the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)] to expeditiously develop … revised regulations.&#8221;
When pressed to address the skyrocketing gas prices — coupled with concerns that not enough was being done to expedite domestic production of oil and gas — former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was fond of touting the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/it-sounds-like-youre-blaming-putin-peter-doocy-spars-with-psaki-on-gas-prices-she-keeps-blaming-putin/">thousands of leases</a> that had already been approved for drilling in U.S. territories.
But as Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy and others pointed out, having the leases approved did not mean there was any oil to drill. And even if there was oil, in addition to owning the leases, oil companies had to have approved permits in order to legally drill — and the Biden administration already had a massive backlog of permits waiting for approval.
&#8220;Republican congressional candidate Jan Kulmann, who worked in the energy industry for 23 years, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deliberate-effort-to-mislead-the-public-psaki-hit-for-comments-on-unused-drilling-permits-as-gas-prices-skyrocket">explained the situation further</a>.
&#8220;In the course of defending the Biden administration’s refusal to issue new oil and gas leases on federal land, Psaki said that there are over 9,000 unused leases already. So, why issue new ones?” Kulmann <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/jen-psakis-excuse-on-unused-drilling-permits-is-truly-clueless">wrote</a> for the Washington Examiner, adding, &#8220;You might be fooled into thinking this is a valid point, but only if you know nothing about the energy industry, in which I have worked for 23 years.&#8221;
&#8220;An existing lease means nothing if you cannot get surface agreements in place or pipelines close by enough to move the oil and gas,&#8221; Kulmann continued. &#8220;A new lease may be more promising for short-term production than an existing lease. But whenever this issue comes up, Democrats try to make it sound like companies are just sitting on permits, irrationally doing nothing, and therefore no new ones ought to be issued. In short, this is misdirection — a deliberate effort to mislead the public with a falsehood that sounds plausible.&#8221;

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New White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got some support from an unlikely place when &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; co-host Ainsley Earhardt jumped to her defense during Thursday morning&#8217;s broadcast.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade was highly critical of Jean-Pierre – who gave her first official White House press briefing on Monday after taking over the role vacated by Jen Psaki — and Earhardt argued that she should be allowed some time to get used to the job.
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Kilmeade argued that Jean-Pierre appeared <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-flack-claims-only-racists-and-sexists-think-new-press-secretarys-first-day-was-a-train-wreck-it-was/">wholly unprepared</a> for the job, pointing to the fact that she had spent much of the briefing looking through her notes and had at times even resorted to repeating White House <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-white-house-press-sec-claims-disinformation-mischaracterizations-tanked-disinformation-board/">talking points</a> that did not address the questions she was attempting to answer.
&#8220;&#8216;That&#8217;s what it says in my folder, so it must be true.&#8217; She is off to an awful start. I mean, I cannot – I don’t know how she is going to keep that job. She didn’t know anything instinctively, was reading things off,&#8221; Kilmeade critiqued her performance thus far, comparing the way she was answering questions to someone in sales responding to any and all potential objections with the same boilerplate copy that was designed to push the sale.
&#8220;So you just sit there and you read off the board no matter what they said,&#8221; Kilmeade continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s what it was, it was like, okay, Putin&#8217;s Price Hike, let me go find that page. &#8230; You have to understand the issues in order to be able to answer the questions. It makes you think you can’t even use those soundbites for a news story.&#8221;
&#8220;It has to be a very nerve-wracking job though,&#8221; Earhardt pushed back.
&#8220;She’s not prepared for it,&#8221; Kilmeade replied.
Co-host Steve Doocy interjected then, noting that Psaki had often brought the same binder to the lectern with her and consulted it when necessary
But Kilmeade was quick to rebut Doocy as well, saying that Psaki had been &#8220;light-years&#8221; better &#8220;from day one.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe just give her a chance. Maybe in a few weeks &#8230;&#8221; Earhardt tried again.
&#8220;I would not be surprised if she does not get any better,&#8221; Kilmeade said.

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Now former Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed the reason that President Joe Biden&#8217;s White House intentionally avoided all-out war with Fox News during a Wednesday interview.
Psaki, who gave her last White House <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/psaki-claims-white-house-is-on-top-of-baby-formula-shortage-but-hoarding-is-a-enormous-problem/">press briefing</a> on Friday, made an appearance at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago for a forum titled &#8220;Notes from the Frying Pan to the Fire&#8221; — and was asked almost immediately about her often <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/what-is-he-talking-about-peter-doocy-asks-why-biden-thinks-republicans-will-segregate-lgbtq-kids/">contentious exchanges</a> with Fox News reporters like Peter Doocy.
&#8220;So I’m just going to get this out of the way. We’re just going to do the Doocy,&#8221; IOP Speaker Series Director Jennifer Steinhauer began. &#8220;The country was sort of mesmerized by these weekly, or often more than that, sparring that you had with the Fox News reporter in the briefing room.&#8221;
&#8220;Some people think that you hate each other. Some people think you secretly have brunch,&#8221; Steinhauer continued, asking, &#8220;So I’m curious, what was your true role of those moments in the briefing room, and what was your approach there?&#8221;
&#8220;First, let me say that I do like Peter Doocy, and that may not be popular with everybody. That’s okay,&#8221; Psaki began. &#8220;But part of the objective when I came into this job was to reestablish civility in the briefing room and make it a place where people could hear information through the media, to the public, not a place where there wasn’t debate and tough questioning. Actually, when that is happening, in my view, that’s when it’s working. And that’s an important part of our democracy, not just in the United States, but it’s also a message we’re sending to the world. This is not a common thing that other countries do, where there’s three briefings nearly every day that happen in the U.S. government.&#8221;
Although she did not mention former President Donald Trump by name, Psaki made it clear that the White House&#8217;s goal had been to set itself apart from the previous administration — particularly by fostering a civil relationship even with members of the press corps who might work for outlets that were less &#8220;friendly&#8221; to the administration.
&#8220;Peter — so we made a decision from the beginning that part of restoring civility was treating people with respect in the briefing room, with, to calling on everyone, including Fox, which didn’t always have positive reporting about the president or the vice president, and not making a dispute with Fox the story. And there are times when that may be appropriate, but not when you follow an administration where they were disputing the legitimacy of institutions or the media,&#8221; she said.
Her overall conclusion was simple: &#8220;We did not brunch, but we also didn’t hate each other. It was somewhere in between. What I will say is that we had a civil, good relationship.&#8221;
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‘A Civil, Good Relationship’: Jen Psaki Explains Why Biden’s White House Avoided All Out War With Fox News

Jen Psaki Explains Why Biden's White House Avoided All Out War With Fox News

Outgoing White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki recently implied that the president&#8217;s new nickname for Republicans — some variation of MAGA, like &#8220;Ultra-MAGA&#8221; — was something that he created on his own accord. A <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/13/biden-ultra-maga/">new report</a> from The Washington Post casts doubt on that claim as it revealed that the nickname was actually the result of a six-month research project conducted by a progressive group in Washington, D.C., as well as a public relations adviser who <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein">allegedly assisted</a> convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein prior to his trial.
&#8220;Biden’s attempt to appropriate the &#8216;MAGA&#8217; brand as a political attack was hardly accidental,&#8221; The Washington Post reported on Friday. &#8220;It arose from a six-month research project to find the best way to target Republicans, helmed by Biden adviser Anita Dunn and by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a liberal group.&#8221;
Dunn worked for the Biden administration until August of last year. She was recently re-hired by the administration. Now, it appears that during her time away from the executive office, she was in part working on this research study to craft the best way to smear Republicans.
In 2017, she <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein">reportedly</a> helped the disgraced Hollywood mogul Weinstein conduct damage control after it was revealed he had illegally used his immense position to pressure Hollywood actresses to perform sexual favors in exchange for movie roles. He was convicted of rape after six women came forward against him.
The extent to which she helped him during that time remains unclear, but her previous employer <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein">confirmed</a> that a friend had asked Dunn to speak with Weinstein.
Additionally, the Center for American Progress Action Fund assisted in the research project to zero in on Biden&#8217;s new talking points.
&#8220;All of that extremism gets captured in that brand,” Navin Nayak, president and executive director of CAP Action Fund, said of the term. “We are not trying to create a new word. This is how they define themselves.”
&#8220;The polling and focus group research by Hart Research and the Global Strategy Group found that &#8216;MAGA&#8217; was already viewed negatively by voters — more negatively than other phrases like &#8216;Trump Republicans,’” the Post reported.
It was not reported how much capital was spent on this effort, but it might have been a giant waste of money. Many Republicans have already <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-embraces-bidens-great-maga-king-nickname-and-conservatives-follow-suit/">embraced</a> the nickname, including President Donald Trump, whom Biden called &#8220;the Great MAGA King.&#8221;
Regardless of its impact, this story means that when Biden recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/really-joe-this-maga-crowd-is-the-most-extreme-political-organization-in-american-history">said</a> that &#8220;this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history, in recent American history,&#8221; he likely made that claim in part out of a focus-group-tested poll that said the best way to get liberals to view their fellow Americans in a negative light is to call them &#8220;MAGA.&#8221;
That is quite the abandonment of the lofty rhetoric about unity that Biden expressed during his inauguration.
The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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