New York Times columnist Tom Friedman&#8217;s proposal that Joe Biden shouldn&#8217;t debate President Donald Trump unless &#8220;a real-time fact-checking team&#8221; is part of the mix is an ironic illustration of the closed-mindedness of the left.
Why would Friedman want a candidate who is eager to contrast his views with Trump&#8217;s to impose conditions that would make a debate less likely, unless, of course, Friedman realizes that the failing Biden would be particularly disastrous in a debate?
That seems to be the case here, as Friedman&#8217;s other condition — that Trump agree to release his tax returns for 2016 through 2018 — is just as unrealistic but not for the reason Democrats would have you believe. It&#8217;s not that they think Trump is concealing some sinister criminality but that the returns would be a gold mine for ginning up class resentment against the mega-wealthy Trump and fodder to smear him with innuendo.
Friedman recommends the fact-checkers be approved by both candidates &#8220;and that 10 minutes before the scheduled conclusion of the debate this team report on any misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies either candidate had uttered. That way no one in that massive television audience can go away easily misled.&#8221;
He arrogantly implies that his candidate — Biden — would automatically win in a truth contest. But why should anyone assume the confessed plagiarist and policy chameleon would have an advantage here?
The answer is that Friedman knows, perhaps subconsciously, that any such process would be rigged. Like so many terms in the liberal lexicon, &#8220;fact-checker&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean what progressives want you to think it means.
Invariably, fact-checkers are adjuncts of the liberal media who depict opinions as facts, such as a conservative&#8217;s assertion (or progressive&#8217;s denial) that we have a crisis on the southern border. At one point, the network-news broadcasts were pregnant with panting anchors apoplectic over the claim and dubbed it an outright lie. As conditions at the border steadily deteriorated to undeniable crisis levels, we heard no retraction from Democrats, much less from the opinion-checkers.
We shouldn&#8217;t ignore Friedman&#8217;s ludicrous proposal simply because it will never be adopted, as it provides a window into the progressive mind. Many progressives are frighteningly narrow-minded, intellectually cloistered and authoritarian. They tend to believe their opinions are facts (or so morally superior that they ought to be treated as such) and so are justified in censoring opposing views as inarguably false, immoral, offensive or politically incorrect.
In institutions they dominate, such as academia and Hollywood (or bar associations), they get to define what is offensive and then ban it — by diktat. For example, Cambridge University rescinded a speaking invitation for psychologist Jordan Peterson because of his skepticism about white privilege and climate change. Compounding foolishness with absurdity, the censors claimed they disinvited him to promote an &#8220;inclusive environment.&#8221;
Similarly, some state bar associations now require, as part of the continuing legal education lawyers must imbibe to retain their licenses, a course in diversity, inclusion and anti-bias. Attorneys must sit through the propaganda, during which certain debatable assumptions are treated as fact and the progressive agenda is advanced. One presenter admonished his captive audience to consider the possibility of bias in every aspect of their law practice — that they should always be mindful of it as they tackle any legal problem, presumably even those that couldn&#8217;t remotely touch on the subject. How&#8217;s that for thought control?
One takeaway from these examples and hundreds more is that the left, at its core, lacks confidence that its views could prevail in the marketplace of ideas, and so it manipulates the playing field. We see this in its support for the destruction of monuments and erasing our history because it wants to control not only the current narrative but also the historical one.
Friedman&#8217;s fearlessness of fact-checkers doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s confident that Trump&#8217;s dishonesty and Biden&#8217;s truthfulness will be exposed but that today&#8217;s&#8221; fact-checkers&#8221; will almost always come down on the side of progressives. Progressives are so used to controlling the narrative that they&#8217;re confident their subjective ideas will be presented as factual. Perhaps even scarier is that they think their opinions are objectively true.
Why must they control people and their thoughts? Why can&#8217;t they allow people to draw their own lessons from history instead of purging it? Why are they afraid of debate viewers deciding for themselves whether Trump&#8217;s or Biden&#8217;s ideas are more compelling and truthful?
How often do conservatives propose that we erase evidence of our history? That we ban certain speech because they find it offensive? Do conservative business owners ever send employees to sensitivity training because their views aren&#8217;t conservative enough?
Tom Friedman&#8217;s laughable idea is no laughing matter because he represents the authoritarian progressive mindset. That many such progressives sincerely believe their ideas are superior isn&#8217;t the problem. The problem is that they want to limit your freedom to oppose them.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is &#8220;Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden came out Thursday with a new plan to &#8220;Buy American.&#8221;
President Trump came out Friday and said Biden stole the plan from him.
“He plagiarized from me but he can never pull it off,&#8221; the president told reporters at the White House just before he took off aboard Marine One en route to Florida. &#8220;He likes plagiarizing. It’s a plan that is very radical left but he says the right things because he’s copying what I’ve done. But the difference is he can’t do it, and he knows he’s not doing that.”
Trump also said that while he&#8217;s spent the last three years stripping away federal regulations, Biden would enact new ones.
“He can’t do the same because he’s raising taxes way too much; he’s raising everybody’s taxes. He’s also putting tremendous amounts of regulations back on, and those two things are two primary reasons that I created the greatest economy we’ve ever had and now we’re creating it again,&#8221; Trump said.
Biden on Thursday rolled out a $700 billion economic plan that would spend $400 billion on a federal “Buy American” project, as well as $300 billion on research and development of technologies such as electric vehicles, 5G cellular networks and artificial intelligence. The &#8220;Buy American&#8221; plan would create at least 5 million new jobs in &#8220;manufacturing and innovation,&#8221; according to an outline provided by the campaign, which touted the “largest mobilization of public investments in procurement, infrastructure and [research and development] since the second world war.&#8221;
The former vice president is well aware that Trump&#8217;s major strength is the economy, at least before the coronavirus swept the nation and cost more than 40 million Americans their jobs. Biden&#8217;s plan, dubbed “Build Back Better,” is an effort to hit Trump directly on his strongest issue.
But even <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/politics/biden-buy-american.html">The New York Times</a> acknowledged that Trump has long pushed the &#8220;Buy American&#8221; idea.
&#8220;In some ways, Mr. Biden was seizing the &#8216;Buy American&#8217; message from Mr. Trump himself, who campaigned on an &#8216;America First&#8217; agenda in 2016 and wrote on Twitter on his Inauguration Day that &#8216;Buy American&#8217; and &#8216;Hire American&#8217; were &#8216;two simple rules&#8217; that would guide his administration,&#8221; the Times wrote Friday.
Biden unveiled his plan while giving a speech at a metalworks factory in Dunmore, PA, not far from his childhood home of Scranton, where he stopped and took a knee in front of his boyhood home.
“I do not buy for one second that the vitality of American manufacturing is a thing of the past,” Biden said in his speech. &#8220;When the federal government spends taxpayers’ money, we should use it to buy American products and support American jobs,” Biden said.
Biden also took aim at Trump.
“Throughout this crisis, Donald Trump has been almost singularly focused on the stock market, the Dow, the Nasdaq – not you, not your families,” he said. “If I am fortunate enough to be elected president, I’ll be laser-focused on working families.”
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Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Delivers Remarks In Pennsylvania

Trump Says Biden Plagiarized His ‘Buy American’ Agenda

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) launched a new ad Friday that features prominent figures criticizing the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate&#8217;s fitness for office.
The ad, titled &#8220;Joe Biden: Unfit To Lead,&#8221; repeatedly highlights Biden struggling to make a coherent statement and includes critical comments from Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Obama senior adviser David Axelrod, and Fox News anchor Bret Baier.
Partial transcript:
<blockquote>Narrator: It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing, something is happening in the world. Your vote will decide will who answers that call.
Booker: There’s a lot of people who are concerned about Joe Biden.
Axelrod: He kind bumps along kind of Mr. Magooing his way through this.
Baier: There were some answers Shannon, that were word salad. I mean they were just all over the map.</blockquote>
The ad ends with the words &#8220;Joe Biden: Unfit To Lead&#8221; appearing on the screen.
&#8220;Americans are starting to see firsthand that Joe Biden is unfit to lead, a concern Democrats themselves have expressed since he launched his campaign,&#8221; RNC spokesman Steve Guest said in a statement. &#8220;At a time when law and order is under attack, the choice is clear: leave the security of our nation in the hands of an incompetent lifelong politician who supports defunding the police, or trust President Trump to prioritize the safety of the American people.&#8221;
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The remarks from Sen. Booker were made during a Democrat debate in September in which then-candidate Julian Castro tore into Biden over the issue of fitness for office after he appeared to contradict himself on healthcare.
“The difference between what I support and what you support, Vice President Biden, is that you require them to opt in, and I would not require them to opt in,” Castro said. “They would automatically be enrolled, they wouldn’t have to buy in.”
“They do not have to buy in,” Biden responded.
“Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?” Castro fired back. “Are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? I can’t believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in, and now you’re saying they don’t have to — you’re forgetting that.”
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Following the debate, Booker appeared on CNN, where he said, “I think we are at a tough point right now, because there’s a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling. And I think that Castro had really legitimate concerns about can he be someone in a long, grueling campaign … and has every right to call out.”
“I think there were a lot of moments where a number of us were looking on the stage when he tends to go on sometimes,” Booker continued. “At one point, he was talking about communities like mine listening to record players. I don’t remember the last time I saw a record player … But there are definitely moments where you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder …”
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Sen. Cory Booker on Julián Castro&#39;s jab at former VP Joe Biden&#39;s memory: &quot;Castro has some really legitimate concerns about, can he be someone in a long grueling campaign that can get the ball over the line? And he has every right to call that out.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/rRxWIV0FmL">pic.twitter.com/rRxWIV0FmL</a>
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Begins Campaign Bus Tour Through Iowa

‘Unfit To Lead’: RNC Releases New Ad Showing Democrats Criticizing Biden’s Fitness

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On Wednesday, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden responded to the Supreme Court ruling that exempted religious organizations from covering their employees’ contraception. Biden said he was “disappointed in today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision” in the case Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, adding, “I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the Hobby Lobby ruling.”
Biden accused the Trump administration of continuing to “strip health care from women,” adding, “I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the Hobby Lobby ruling: providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions. The accommodation will allow women at these organizations to access contraceptive coverage, not through their employer-provided plan, but instead through their insurance company or a third-party administrator.”
As John McCormack of <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/biden-says-he-would-rescind-exemption-for-little-sisters-of-poor/">National Review</a> pointed out, “The so-called ‘accommodation’ is the very policy that the Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Catholic nuns that provide care to the elderly, were fighting in court on the grounds that the policy still required them to violate their moral and religious convictions.”
McCormack cited columnist Charles Krauthammer <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-overreach--obamacare-vs-the-constitution/2012/02/16/gIQAmupcIR_story.html">writing</a> in 2012:
<blockquote>President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide medical insurance that guarantees free birth control, tubal ligation and morning-after abortifacients — all of which violate church doctrine on the sanctity of life. The trick is that these birth control/abortion services will supposedly be provided independently and free of charge by the religious institution’s insurance company. But this changes none of the moral calculus. Holy Cross Hospital, for example, is still required by law to engage an insurance company that is required by law to provide these doctrinally proscribed services to all Holy Cross employees.</blockquote>
Biden’s full statement read:
<blockquote>Health care is a right that should not be dependent on race, gender, income or zip code. Yet as a result of today’s decision, countless women are at risk of losing access to affordable, preventive care.
I am disappointed in today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that will make it easier for the  Trump-Pence Administration to continue to strip health care from women – attempting to carve out broad exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s commitment to giving all women free access to recommended contraception.
As a result of the Affordable Care Act, more than 60 million women – including at least 32 million women of color – gained access to this preventative health care. The Obama-Biden Administration did this while also providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions.
As disappointing as the Supreme Court’s ruling is, there is a clear path to fixing it:  electing a new President who will end Donald Trump’s ceaseless attempts to gut every aspect of the Affordable Care Act.  If I am elected, I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the Hobby Lobby ruling: providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions. The accommodation will allow women at these organizations to access contraceptive coverage, not through their employer-provided plan, but instead through their insurance company or a third-party administrator.</blockquote>
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No mercy for cultural enemies. <a href="https://t.co/7oPmKRIXMe">https://t.co/7oPmKRIXMe</a>
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Not sure how he would do that. 
Ignore the Supreme Court? <a href="https://t.co/8lX7U9O6Mo">https://t.co/8lX7U9O6Mo</a>
&mdash; Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) <a href="https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1281243223726477312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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President Obama attends the National Prayer Breakfast &#8211; DC

Supreme Court Rules For Trump Administration And Religious Organizations. Biden: ‘I Will Restore The Obama-Biden Policy’

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On Tuesday, The New York Times published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/opinion/biden-trump-debate.html">opinion piece</a> by veteran Times writer Thomas L. Friedman titled, “Biden Should Not Debate Trump Unless.” In the piece, Friedman stated that two conditions should be the prerequisite for any debate between President Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden: Trump releasing his tax returns for 2016 through 2018 and that a “real-time fact-checking team approved by both candidates be hired by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates” should deliver a report 10 minutes before the debates end noting any “misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies” either candidate had offered.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), appraising the situation, the fact that Biden has hardly ventured out in public for months, and the fact that sometimes Biden hasn’t looked particularly sharp when he has spoken impromptu, offered two alternative conditions: “Biden’s two conditions: (1) the debate must occur in his basement, and (2) it cannot be televised or broadcast to anyone in America.”
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Biden’s two conditions: (1) the debate must occur in his basement, and (2) it cannot be televised or broadcast to anyone in America. <a href="https://t.co/3lMA5zyv9R">https://t.co/3lMA5zyv9R</a>
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Friedman surmised the reason Biden has rarely been seen outside his home in recent months was the coronavirus, calling him a “responsible individual and role model” as he wrote, “Because of Covid-19, Biden has been sticking close to home, wearing a mask and social distancing. And with the coronavirus now spreading further, and Biden being a responsible individual and role model, it’s likely that he won’t be able to engage with any large groups of voters before Election Day. Therefore, the three scheduled televised debates, which will garner huge audiences, will carry more weight for him than ever.”
Friedman stated that Trump needed the debates far more than Biden: “Trump is badly trailing in the polls, and he needs these debates much more than Biden does to win over undecided voters. So Biden needs to make Trump pay for them in the currency of transparency and fact-checking — universal principles that will level the playing field for him and illuminate and enrich the debates for all citizens.”
He predicted the future: “Of course, Trump will stomp and protest and say, ‘No way.’ Fine. Let Trump cancel. Let Trump look American voters in the eye and say: ‘There will be no debate, because I should be able to continue hiding my tax returns from you all, even though I promised that I wouldn’t and even though Biden has shown you his. And there will be no debate, because I should be able to make any statement I want without any independent fact-checking.’”
Friedman conjectured that one of the reasons Trump hasn’t released his tax returns may be “Trump’s incomprehensible willingness to give Russian President Vladimir Putin the benefit of every doubt for the last three-plus years,” followed by, “The American people need to know if Trump is in debt in any way to Russian banks and financiers who might be close to Putin. Because if Trump is re-elected, and unconstrained from needing to run again, he will most likely act even more slavishly toward Putin, and that is a national security threat.”
He continued, “Trump literally lies as he breathes, and because he has absolutely no shame, there are no guardrails … Biden has been dogged by bone-headed issues of plagiarism in his career, but nothing compared to Trump’s daily fire hose of dishonesty, which has no rival in U.S. presidential history. That’s why it’s so important to insist that the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates hire independent fact-checkers who, after the two candidates give their closing arguments — but before the debate goes off the air — would present a rundown of any statements that were false or only partly true.”
Friedman concluded, “That kind of debate and only that kind of debate would be worthy of voters’ consideration and Biden’s participation. Otherwise, Joe, stay in your basement.”
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Thomas Friedman Of NYT Wants Two Conditions For Trump-Biden Debate. Ted Cruz Fires Back Two Other Ones.

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Presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debuted a series of &#8220;unity&#8221; guidelines, authored with the help of a Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders &#8220;unity task force,&#8221; and while a number of the Vermont socialist&#8217;s most progressive policies aren&#8217;t listed among the &#8220;compromise&#8221; positions, a great deal of the guidance pulls directly from Sanders&#8217; agenda.
The &#8220;unity&#8221; plan is designed to prevent clashes between Biden supporters and Sanders supporters during the Democratic National Convention&#8217;s policy platform sessions, and the task force is charged with making recommendations directly to the DNC to avoid conflicts between moderates and progressives, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/sanders-hails-biden-for-largely-moderate-unity-proposals/">per the New York Post</a>.
Sen. Bernie Sanders backed the proposal in a statement issued Wednesday.
“While Joe Biden and I, and our supporters, have strong disagreements about some of the most important issues facing our country, we also understand that we must come together in order to defeat Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in modern American history,&#8221; he said. “Though the end result is not what I or my supporters would have written alone, the task forces have created a good policy blueprint that will move this country in a much-needed progressive direction and substantially improve the lives of working families throughout our country.&#8221;
But there&#8217;s very little from Sanders&#8217; agenda left off the unity guidelines, aside from his &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; plan, which would have required Biden, one of the primary backers of the Obama administration&#8217;s Affordable Care Act, to abrogate his support for his former boss&#8217;s signature achievement.
The guidelines do not include support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;Green New Deal,&#8221; but the missive is just the first of many and touches only briefly on environmental issues. The guidelines do recommend that Democrats “commit to eliminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035 through technology-neutral standards for clean energy and energy efficiency.”
A primary focus of the first set of &#8220;unity guidelines,&#8221; however, is education &#8212; and for that, they pull extensively from Sanders&#8217; own platform. In fact, the guidelines destroy nearly all competition for public schools.
&#8220;The plan bans for-profit private charter schools, opposes private school vouchers, and any policies that would take taxpayer-funded resources away from the public school system,&#8221; the plan notes. &#8220;The platform aims to put an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and pledges &#8216;adequate resources&#8217; for hiring guidance counselors, social workers, and school psychologists.&#8221;
The plan also calls for &#8220;the reinstatement of Title IX protections for transgender students and protections for LGBT students from discrimination,&#8221; <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-bernie-sanders-unity-task-forces-release-dnc/story?id=71670170">per ABC News</a>.
On criminal justice reform, they guidelines pull directly from Sanders&#8217; policy sheet, recommending a &#8220;civilian corps&#8221; of non-police first responders who can handle 911 calls instead of police, according to Republican strategist Steve Guest.
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Today, Joe Biden’s unity task force released recommendations for the DNC platform that crib straight from Bernie Sanders’ radical agenda.
We found multiple instances of word-for-word copying from Bernie.
Biden’s Criminal Justice Unity Task force copied Bernie. <a href="https://t.co/jPU3BWw3tw">pic.twitter.com/jPU3BWw3tw</a>
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The guidelines also crib generously from Sanders&#8217; social security policy.
As Guest notes, the &#8220;unity&#8221; policy does seem to make one thing clear: Democrats are concerned that progressives will defect from the party and refuse to support Biden as the nominee, even though the specter of President Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election looms large. That concern largely makes Sanders &#8212; not Biden &#8212; the controlling force in the 2020 election and, if Biden wins, could lead to a much more progressive administration than previously predicted.

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Joe Biden And Bernie Sanders Debut ‘Unity’ Guidance That Pulls From Sanders Agenda

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Over the Fourth of July weekend, actress and left-wing activist Debra Messing bashed musical talent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-praises-trump-hammers-planned-parenthood-likens-covid-vaccine-to-mark-of-the-beast">Kanye West</a> for potentially running for the White House in 2020 and &#8220;taking&#8221; &#8220;black voters&#8221; away from former Vice President Joe Biden.
In a tweet from an account that has since been protected, @TheRickyDavila tweeted to Messing: &#8220;To be clear, Kanye West is a redhat [sic] wearing MAGA Lunatic, so if he&#8217;s wanting to run for the Presidency, it&#8217;s probably a plan between [T]rump and Kanye to strip whatever support they can away from Biden as a last ditch effort. That&#8217;s what I believe.&#8221;
Messing was in agreement, and went a step further. The &#8220;Will &amp; Grace&#8221; star said it was &#8220;disgusting&#8221; for West, who is black, to &#8220;take &#8230; black voters from Biden,” who is white.
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Absolutely. He’s playing Jill Stein. He’s trying to take you g black voters from Biden. It’s disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/9tlAkn3JxU">https://t.co/9tlAkn3JxU</a>
&mdash; Debra Messing✍🏻 (@DebraMessing) <a href="https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/1279623081871446017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The comment sparked the ire of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-grills-sanders-campaign-over-socialism-they-respond-by-quoting-shakespeare-making-false-claim">Nina Turner</a>, national co-chair of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) presidential campaign.
&#8220;You just can’t stop dipping can you [Debra Messing]? Your connotation is racist,&#8221; said Turner, who is black.
&#8220;1. Black voters are not owned by anyone,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Our vote should be earned every election cycle. 2. We can think for ourselves &amp; don’t need your help. 3. Sometimes it’s best to stay out of family business.&#8221;
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You just can’t stop dipping can you <a href="https://twitter.com/DebraMessing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DebraMessing</a>? Your connotation is racist🤬. 1. Black voters are not owned by anyone. Our vote should be earned every election cycle. 2. We can think for ourselves &amp; don’t need your help. 3. Sometimes it’s best to stay out of family business. <a href="https://t.co/RVsqJFDbS4">https://t.co/RVsqJFDbS4</a>
&mdash; Nina Turner (@ninaturner) <a href="https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1279742584743759872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Messing landed herself in hot water last year when she posted support for a sign that said black Trump supporters suffer from &#8220;mental illness.&#8221;
&#8220;Debra Messing apologized for &#8216;recklessly supporting&#8217; an Alabama church sign that said &#8216;a black vote for Trump is mental illness,&#8217; and defended herself against accusations of racism in a series of tweets,&#8221; <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/debra-messing-apologizes-defends-herself-000046626.html">Yahoo!</a> reported in September of last year.
“I apologized for liking that church sign. I said I regret it. I shud [sic] have thought before recklessly suppprting [sic],” the actress responded to conservative activist and comedian Terrence K. Williams, a black Trump supporter himself.
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NUMBER 1– I apologized for liking that church sign. I said I regret it. I shud have thought before recklessly suppprting. You won’t accept this but black people are targeted by Trump’s GOP for voter supression. Charlottesville was about Trump supporters hating POC and Jews. <a href="https://t.co/K0ch9YOQ8F">https://t.co/K0ch9YOQ8F</a>
&mdash; Debra Messing✍🏻 (@DebraMessing) <a href="https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/1169341534292127745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, Messing responded to Turner&#8217;s reply.
&#8220;Oh PLEASE, Nina,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Kanye is a [sic] avowed Trump supporter. Trump’s numbers have plummeted, Trump doubles down on his racist platform at Mt Rushmore, and 100 days before election Kanye is going to announce NOW? I thought you were smarter than than [sic] Nina. Clearly it is an attempt to help.&#8221;
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Oh PLEASE, Nina. Kanye is a avowed Trump supporter. Trump’s numbers have plummeted, Trump doubles down on his racist platform at Mt Rushmore, and 100 days before election Kanye is going to announce NOW? I thought you were smarter than than Nina. Clearly it is an attempt to help <a href="https://t.co/Cszxi5dTB0">https://t.co/Cszxi5dTB0</a>
&mdash; Debra Messing✍🏻 (@DebraMessing) <a href="https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/1280174868001153024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In another response to Messing, Turner posted a series of seven tweets blasting the actress for her comments and warning her to never &#8220;fix your mouth to question my love for my people,&#8221; noting that she has &#8220;been a black woman all my life.&#8221; 

&#8220;Debra, Debra, [Debra Messing], so you go from bad to worse,&#8221; wrote Turner. &#8220;The leader of the Karen coalition strikes again!&#8221;
&#8220;Although it is customary for the Karens to call the manager on Black folks, how dare you attempt to create public conflict between two Black women leaders &#8230; in the public space. Not only is it disrespectful to [Stacey Abrams] and me, it is disrepectful [sic] to our Black foremothers who sacrificed so we could have a voice in the first damn place,&#8221; she wrote.
&#8220;Your attempt to use Stacey (as if Black women have not been used enough over the last 400 years) as the &#8216;Black manager friend card&#8217; proves my original point, which is Black people are not a monolith,” Turner stated.
Turner continued: &#8220;You questioning my intellect is one of the oldest smears in the book. Black people have faced this stereotype since the inception of this country &#8230; It is RACIST to continue insisting that Black people (seasoned or young) will vote for [Kanye West] solely because he is Black. In case you didn&#8217;t realize it, Kanye has white &amp; Black fans yet you continue to insult Black voters.&#8221;
&#8220;Further, since you are into NUMBERS &amp; STATISTICS &#8230; over 40% of young Black voters prefer progressive policies over popularity,” said Turner. “My original reply to you was not about Kanye &amp; his intentions to run for president, but about you minimizing Black people&#8217;s power at the polls.&#8221;
&#8220;Lastly,&#8221; she wrote, &#8220;Don’t You Ever Fix Your Mouth to Question My Love for My People. I have been a Black Woman All My Life!&#8221;
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in the public space. Not only is it disrespectful to <a href="https://twitter.com/staceyabrams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@staceyabrams</a> and me, it is disrepectful to our Black foremothers who sacrificed so we could have a voice in the first damn place. 2. Your attempt to use Stacey (as if Black women have not been used enough 2/
&mdash; Nina Turner (@ninaturner) <a href="https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1280647355864354817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It is RACIST to continue insisting that Black people (seasoned or young) will vote for <a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kanyewest</a> solely because he is Black. In case you didn&#39;t realize it, Kanye has white &amp; Black fans yet you continue to insult Black voters. Further, since you are into NUMBERS &amp; STATISTICS 4/
&mdash; Nina Turner (@ninaturner) <a href="https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1280647361442861057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Lastly, Don’t You Ever Fix Your🤬Mouth to Question My Love for My People. I have been a Black Woman All My Life! 6/
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&mdash; Nina Turner (@ninaturner) <a href="https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1280650096376524802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘RACIST’: Debra Messing Dragged For Saying Kanye West Is Acting ‘Disgusting’ For ‘Trying To Take’ ‘Black Voters From Biden’

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Actor Robert Redford endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday after blaming much of the country&#8217;s turmoil on President Donald Trump and warning that his re-election would dip the United States into &#8220;autocracy.&#8221;
In an op-ed for <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/opinions/trump-biden-presidential-election-robert-redford/index.html">CNN</a>, the 83-year-old Redford remembered his childhood during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose leadership he contrasted with the current president. &#8220;For me, the power of FDR&#8217;s example is what it says about the kind of leadership America needs — and can have again, if we choose it,&#8221; Redford wrote. &#8220;But one thing is clear: Instead of a moral compass in the Oval Office, there&#8217;s a moral vacuum.&#8221;
Redford continued, &#8220;Instead of a president who says we&#8217;re all in it together, we have a president who&#8217;s in it for himself. Instead of words that uplift and unite, we hear words that inflame and divide.&#8221; He went on to cite reasons he believes Trump &#8220;sacrifices — again and again — any claim to moral authority.&#8221;
&#8220;Another four years of this would degrade our country beyond repair,&#8221; Redford warned, adding, &#8220;The toll it&#8217;s taking is almost biblical: fires and floods, a literal plague upon the land, an eruption of hatred that&#8217;s being summoned and harnessed, by a leader with no conscience or shame.&#8221;
He further predicted another Trump term would &#8220;accelerate our slide toward autocracy,&#8221; as well as &#8220;bring untold damage to our planet&#8221; because of his administration&#8217;s environmental policies. Conceding the president is not responsible for every division in American culture, Redford nevertheless said Trump &#8220;found every fault line in America and wrenched them wide open.&#8221;
Redford offered up presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden as a solution to the quasi-apocalyptic problems he claims Trump presents, writing that, with Biden, &#8220;unity and empathy are on the ballot. Experience and intelligence are on the ballot.&#8221; He concluded by extolling Biden for his &#8220;fierce compassion&#8221; and likened his qualities to the &#8220;empathy and ethics&#8221; of FDR.
Redford has repeatedly criticized Trump throughout his presidency. During the impeachment hearings last November, Redford alleged &#8220;a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/robert-redford-attacks-trump-for-launching-dictator-like-attack-on-what-america-stands-for">dictator-like attack</a> by President Donald Trump on everything this country stands for,&#8221; which he characterized as &#8220;monarchy in disguise.&#8221;
In April, Redford and his son, James Redford, co-wrote an op-ed for <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-coronavirus-failures-offer-warnings-lessons-about-future-climate-ncna1195931">NBC</a> blasting Trump for his response to the coronavirus and climate change. &#8220;As the pandemic began its global march, President Donald Trump failed to act quickly and decisively, likely increasing its toll and worsening our pain and suffering,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;As he has done with climate change, Trump failed early on to embrace or even understand sound scientific consensus about what must be done to protect this nation and its people.&#8221;
A quote from Redford adorned the back cover of Trump&#8217;s 2015 book &#8220;Crippled America,&#8221; in which the actor said he was &#8220;glad&#8221; Trump had entered the 2016 race. A representative for Redford later denied to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-redford-donald-trump-endorsement-820933">The Hollywood Reporter</a> that his quote was intended as an endorsement.
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Wow! Such nice words from Robert Redford on my running for President. Thank you, Robert. <a href="http://t.co/TpV3w18BW6">pic.twitter.com/TpV3w18BW6</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/641277106052300800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Robert Redford Laments ‘Almost Biblical’ Toll Of Trump, Endorses Biden

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) may be in line with the Democratic Party when it comes to the 2020 contender, but his progressive supporters may not be, according to a Wednesday report in <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/506303-progressives-wary-as-biden-talks-compromise-with-gop">The Hill</a>.
Although the Biden campaign has made every effort to court and win progressive support &#8212; including a push to put progressive and Democratic Socialist superstars like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on its policy teams &#8212; the relationship between the Biden campaign and certain far-left elements of the party is still tenuous and after a week of campaign announcements focusing largely on Republican (and former Republican) support for the former Veep, progressives are speaking out.
“Biden is transparently taking a bet to win over a group of anti-Trump Republicans but at the expense of what? Potentially losing some of the largest movements in history?” progressive activist and Sanders supporter Nomi Kurst told The Hill. “His excitement is extremely low and that should always be alarming for candidates. It’s the Hillary Clinton strategy all over again.&#8221;
Biden has been open about courting &#8220;compromise&#8221; voters, particularly so-called &#8220;Never Trump&#8221; Republicans and other conservatives who fear giving the current president another four years in office. Groups like the Lincoln Project are openly targeting Trump from the center-right, and just last week, a group of former George W. Bush administration staffers announced their own effort to unseat Trump, a super PAC named &#8220;43 Alumni for Biden.&#8221;
Biden has welcomed these efforts with open arms, and speaking over the weekend, stressed his ability to extend an olive branch across the aisle.
&#8220;It’s how our government was designed to work,” Biden told the National Education Association, the nation&#8217;s largest teachers union. “I’ve done it my whole life. No one’s ever doubted my word, and I’ve been able to bring Democrats and Republicans together in the United States Congress to pass big things, to deal with big issues.”
Progressives say they may bolt the party, though, if Biden keeps up efforts to woo Republicans, stressing that partisan rancor is at an all-time high and Republicans are likely to oppose Biden policy efforts once he takes office.
“It’s very hard to understand why after going through eight years of the Obama administration that Joe Biden thinks we’ll be able to carve out grand deals with Republicans,” one activist told The Hill. “The way we’ll get Republicans to the table is by having a progressive movement in the Democratic Party that is strong enough to force them there.&#8221;
That is, of course, unlikely. Although Sanders was the last remaining threat to Biden in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, it appears his market-share has diminished since 2016. The Vermont socialist did not &#8220;expand the electorate&#8221; as he claimed, and his numbers with young voters and voters of color &#8212; two very important 2020 constituencies &#8212; declined from 2016 to 2020.
But if they can&#8217;t force Biden to the left on the campaign trail, progressive groups say, they&#8217;ll try to force Biden to the left in the White House, according to at least one far-left strategist: “We should be investing time in building a much more powerful movement that will have to, without a doubt, fight a President Biden and a tidal wave of corporate interests who never go away and will have the usual access to the White House.&#8221;
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Progressive Biden Supporters Pledge Revolt If Dem Nominee Leans Too Moderate, Courts Republicans

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Kanye West is running for president and the details of his bid for the White House are spectacular.
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<li>His campaign slogan: “YES!”</li>
<li>His vice presidential choice: Michelle Tidball, a preacher from Wyoming.</li>
<li>His platform: The Wakanda Management Model.</li>
<li>His party: The Birthday Party.</li>
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Why The Birthday Party? “Because when we win, it’s everybody’s birthday,&#8221; West told <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2020/07/08/kanye-west-says-hes-done-with-trump-opens-up-about-white-house-bid-damaging-biden-and-everything-in-between/#39af2ab247aa">Forbes</a>.
Getting into specifics, West said he envisions a White House organizational model based on the hidden country of Wakanda in the film &#8220;Black Panther.&#8221;
<blockquote>“A lot of Africans do not like the movie [Black Panther] and representation of themselves in… Wakanda. But I’m gonna&#8217; use the framework of Wakanda right now because it’s the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House… That is a positive idea: you got Kanye West, one of the most powerful humans—I’m not saying the most because you got a lot of alien level superpowers and it’s only collectively that we can set it free. Let’s get back to Wakanda… like in the movie in Wakanda when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes. Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicine — like big pharma — we are going to work, innovate, together.&#8221;</blockquote>
In his announcement, West said he&#8217;s no longer a backer of President Donald Trump. “I’m taking the red hat off,” West told Forbes. The reason? “I don’t like that I caught wind that he hid in the bunker,&#8221; West said, referring to the time Secret Service agents took Trump to an underground safe room on May 29 amid violent riots near the White House (Trump later said he was there just to inspect the site).
But West is still a fan of the president. “Trump is the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation,” he said.
And the famed rapper, now <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2020/04/24/kanye-west-is-now-officially-a-billionaireand-he-really-wants-the-world-to-know/#4609af347b9e">officially a billionaire</a>, won&#8217;t spend much time bashing Trump, although he does plan to take aim at former Vice President Joe Biden. “I’m not saying Trump’s in my way, he may be a part of my way. And Joe Biden? Like come on man, please. You know? Obama’s special. Trump’s special. We say Kanye West is special. America needs special people that lead. Bill Clinton? Special. Joe Biden’s not special.”
West also blasted Democrats, especially Biden&#8217;s contention that blacks should be expected to vote Democratic.
“That is a form of racism and white supremacy and white control to say that all Black people need to be Democrat and to assume that me running is me splitting the vote. All of that information is being charged up on social media platforms by Democrats,&#8221; West said. &#8220;And Democrats used to tell me, the same Democrats have threatened me…. The reason why this is the first day I registered to vote is because I was scared. I was told that if I voted on Trump my music career would be over.&#8221;
&#8220;I was threatened into being in one party. I was threatened as a celebrity into being in one party. I was threatened as a Black man into the Democratic Party. And that’s what the Democrats are doing, emotionally, to my people. Threatening them to the point where this white man can tell a black man if you don’t vote for me, you’re not black.”
The former vice president in May sat down with Charlamagne tha God on his popular radio show “The Breakfast Club,” and at one point told the host, who is black, that &#8220;if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.&#8221;
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‘YES!’ Kanye West To Run On ‘Birthday Party’ Ticket, Use ‘Wakanda Management Model’

A Democrat congressman from Georgia who has been targeted by members of his own party because he is an unabashed supporter of President Trump issued an op-ed on Tuesday in which he declared former Vice President Joe Biden a &#8220;full-blooded bigot.&#8221;
“Since that day in May when I announced I would support Donald Trump for president, my motives have been questioned, my integrity assailed, even my intelligence challenged. That’s okay,&#8221; wrote Georgia Rep. Vernon Jones (D) in an op-ed published by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/jones-i-am-black-and-i-am-a-democrat-but-i-aint-voting-for-joe-biden-this-november/">The Daily Caller</a>. “Since that day in May when I announced I would support Donald Trump for president, my motives have been questioned, my integrity assailed, even my intelligence challenged. That’s okay. I’m a lifelong Democrat, but I am also a black man, the son of a World War II veteran and a proud American.&#8221;
Jones segued to Democrats&#8217; &#8220;absurd&#8221; calls to defund the police, noting that he had formerly served as former Chief Executive Officer of DeKalb County, Georgia, and thus managed “one of the largest police departments in the state.” The &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement, he argued, &#8220;will only lead to more pain and suffering in our most vulnerable communities.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve had the experience of dealing with police shootings and comforting the families of victims,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;But at the same time, I’ve also had the experience of losing two black police officers. I’ve had to comfort their families in the middle of the night and console their young children. I know firsthand when others are running away from chaos, police officers are running into the fight to protect and serve.&#8221;
Jones opined that Trump “was sickened by the death of George Floyd and fully committed to ensuring that he will not have died in vain.”
Jones went on to laud Trump’s executive order on police reform, then turned to Biden, noting that the black unemployment rate while he was vice president &#8220;averaged a horrific 12.8 percent,&#8221; while the number of black Americans fell by just 145,000 over eight years. &#8220;By comparison, more than double that number – 350,000 black Americans – were lifted out of poverty during just the first two years of the Trump administration,&#8221; Jones pointed out.
Jones then turned back the clock:
<blockquote>Even before that, where was Biden for 36 years in the United States Senate on this issue? I’ll tell you. He was too busy shouting “my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle.” That racial jungle he was referring to includes black and brown Americans like me. Right now, President Trump is being defined as a racist by the media, when in reality Joe Biden is the full-blooded bigot.
Don’t take my word for it, take then-Senator Joe Biden’s own words for it. “The truth is, every major crime bill since 1976 that’s come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill, has had the name of the Democratic senator from the State of Delaware: Joe Biden.” Now that Biden is running for president in a woke Democratic Party in 2020, he’s attempting to sweep his racist legacy under the rug. We can’t let him.
Joe Biden is directly responsible for the mass incarceration policies of the 1980s and 1990s, which decimated the black community. Biden authored the 1994 crime bill which imposed mandatory minimum sentences, disproportionately putting hundreds of thousands of young black men in prison.</blockquote>
He closed the piece by addressing the black community. Describing Biden has having &#8220;betrayed black Americans throughout his career&#8221; and Trump as having &#8220;spent his 3.5 years in office fighting to improve the lives of black Americans,&#8221; Jones stressed, &#8220;We cannot be tricked again&#8221; by politicians who &#8220;only care about black people during election years.&#8221; (<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/jones-i-am-black-and-i-am-a-democrat-but-i-aint-voting-for-joe-biden-this-november/">Read Jones&#8217; full op-ed here</a>.)
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Trump-Supporting Dem Congressman: ‘Joe Biden Is The Full-Blooded Bigot’

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Musician and entrepreneur Kanye West unloaded on the Democrat Party and the party’s presumptive presidential nominee in a wide-ranging interview published early on Wednesday that followed West’s recent announcement that he is running for president.
West <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kanye-west-announces-he-is-running-for-president-of-the-united-states">announced</a> his presidential run on Independence Day, writing on Twitter: “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,” West wrote. “I am running for president of the United States! #2020VISION”
In an interview with Forbes, West said that he was no longer a supporter of President Donald Trump, saying that he was &#8220;taking the red hat off.&#8221;
On the possibility that he is siphoning off black votes from the Democrats&#8217; nominee, presumed to be Joe Biden, West told Forbes: &#8220;I’m not denying it, I just told you. To say that the black vote is Democratic is a form of racism and white supremacy.&#8221;
West told Forbes that he is a Republican and would run as a Republican if Trump were not on the ticket and, if Trump is running as an independent, that he would run as an independent.
West unloaded on the Democrat Party in the interview and also took direct shots at Biden over his &#8220;you ain&#8217;t black&#8221; remark.
Speaking about the Democrat Party, Biden said, &#8220;That is a form of racism and white supremacy and white control to say that all Black people need to be Democrat and to assume that me running is me splitting the vote.&#8221;
&#8220;All of that information is being charged up on social media platforms by Democrats,&#8221; West continued. &#8220;And Democrats used to tell me, the same Democrats have threatened me…. The reason why this is the first day I registered to vote is because I was scared. I was told that if I voted on Trump my music career would be over.&#8221;
&#8220;I was threatened into being in one party,&#8221; West continued. &#8220;I was threatened as a celebrity into being in one party. I was threatened as a Black man into the Democratic Party. And that’s what the Democrats are doing, emotionally, to my people. Threatening them to the point where this white man can tell a black man if you don’t vote for me, you’re not black.&#8221;
Speaking about Biden, West said, &#8220;A lot of times just like political parties they feel all Blacks have to be Democrat. This man, Joe Biden, said if you don’t vote for me, then you are not black.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, act like we didn’t hear that? We act like we didn’t hear that man say that? That man said that,&#8221; West continued. &#8220;It’s a rap. We gonna walk, all the people. Jay-Z said it best. For the other candidates, I just gracefully suggest y’all bow out—Trump and Biden, gracefully bow out. It’s God’s country, we are doing everything in service to God, nobody but God no more. I am in service of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, and I put everything I get on the line to serve God.&#8221;
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President Trump Hosts Kanye West And Former Football Player Jim Brown At The White House

Kanye West On His Presidential Run: Democrats ‘Have Threatened Me’; Biden ‘Not Special’

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden rebuked President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization and promised to reverse course should he become president next year, when the United States’ withdrawal from the U.N.-based public health agency is expected to become official. 
“Americans are safer when America is engaged in strengthening global health. On my first day as President, I will rejoin the [World Health Organization] and restore our leadership on the world stage,” Biden tweeted on Tuesday. 
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Americans are safer when America is engaged in strengthening global health. On my first day as President, I will rejoin the <a href="https://twitter.com/WHO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WHO</a> and restore our leadership on the world stage. <a href="https://t.co/8uazVIgPZB">https://t.co/8uazVIgPZB</a>
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1280603719831359489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
The Trump administration formally informed the U.N. of its plans to leave the WHO in a letter on Tuesday, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trump-united-states-withdrawal-world-health-organization-coronavirus/2020/07/07/ae0a25e4-b550-11ea-9a1d-d3db1cbe07ce_story.html">The Washington Post</a>. Trump originally announced that the United States planned to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-terminates-americas-membership-in-world-health-organization-over-china-coronavirus-scandal">terminate</a> its relationship in late May, and would redirect funding to “worldwide and deserving, urgent global public health needs.”
A &#8220;senior administration official&#8221; told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/world/coronavirus-updates.html">The New York Times</a> on Tuesday that the “notice of withdrawal, effective July 6, 2021, has been submitted to the U.N. secretary general, who is the depository for the W.H.O.” According to The Hill, withdrawing from the WHO requires a one-year advanced notice. 
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-united-states-will-withdraw-from-the-world-health-organization">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Tuesday that the pandemic is &#8220;accelerating&#8221; and that &#8220;the case for national unity and global solidarity is undeniable.&#8221;
Chairman of the Senate health committee Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has expressed disagreement with the Trump administration’s decision, citing poor timing in a statement: “I disagree with the president’s decision. Certainly there needs to be a good, hard look at mistakes the World Health Organization might have made in connection with coronavirus, but the time to do that is after the crisis has been dealt with, not in the middle of it.”
“Withdrawing U.S. membership could, among other things, interfere with clinical trials that are essential to the development of vaccines, which citizens of the United States as well as others in the world need. And withdrawing could make it harder to work with other countries to stop viruses before they get to the United States,” said Alexander, who concluded by asking that the Trump administration submit to Congress “specific recommendations” to reform the WHO. 
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate health committee, took a much stronger stance against Trump, accusing him in a statement of putting Americans at risk and abdicating “America’s role as a global leader.”
“Refusing to work with our partners across the world to fight this pandemic will only prolong the crisis, further undermine our international standing, and leave us less prepared for future crises. President Trump needs to realize this crisis doesn’t recognize borders and hiding from it or passing the blame won’t make it go away or make him any less responsible,” said Murray. 
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a potential running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, signaled on Sunday that she was open to tearing down statues of some of America&#8217;s founding fathers.
&#8220;Senator, I know that you support change in the name of military bases named after Confederate leaders,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash said. &#8220;But there are leaders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson who were slave owners, and some people are demanding that their monuments come down, too. So, in your view, where does it end? Should statues, for example, of George Washington come down?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, let me just say that we should start off by having a national dialogue on it at some point,&#8221; Duckworth responded.
Duckworth continued by attacking President Donald Trump, saying that Trump has &#8220;spent all his time talking about dead traitors.&#8221;
&#8220;So, that might be true, but George Washington, I don&#8217;t think anybody would call him a traitor,&#8221; Bash responded. &#8220;And there are moves by some to remove statues of him. Is that a good idea?&#8221;
&#8220;I think we should listen to everybody,&#8221; Duckworth responded. &#8220;I think we should listen to the argument there.&#8221;
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<blockquote>CNN HOST DANA BASH: Tammy Duckworth is blocking more than 1,000 military promotions to try to protect impeachment witness Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, and that as the senator is picking up buzz as a potential running mate for Vice President Joe Biden.
One column this week calling her &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;the anti-Trump, the anti-ugliness he revels in and the cynicism he stokes.&#8221;
So, joining me now is Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, a former Army lieutenant colonel who served as a helicopter pilot in Iraq.
Senator, thank you so much for joining me.
President Trump gave a speech at Mount Rushmore Friday night. He talked about the importance of preserving historical monuments. Take a listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BASH: Senator, I know that you support change in the name of military bases named after Confederate leaders.
But there are leaders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson who were slave owners, and some people are demanding that their monuments come down, too. So, in your view, where does it end? Should statues, for example, of George Washington come down?
SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH (D-IL): Well, let me just say that we should start off by having a national dialogue on it at some point.
But, right now, we&#8217;re in the middle of a global pandemic. And our &#8212; one of our ally &#8212; one of our &#8212; countries that are opposed to us, Russia, has put a bounty on American troops&#8217; head.
What really struck me about this speech that the president gave at Mount Rushmore was that he spent more time worried about honoring dead Confederates than he did talking about the lives of our American &#8212; 130,000 Americans who lost their lives to COVID-19, or by warning Russia off of the bounty they&#8217;re putting on Americans&#8217; heads.
I mean, his priorities are all wrong here. He should be talking about what we&#8217;re going to do to overcome this pandemic. What are we going to do to push Russia back? And, instead, he had no time for that. He spent all his time talking about dead traitors.
BASH: So, that might be &#8212; be true, but George Washington, I don&#8217;t think anybody would call him a traitor. And there are&#8230;
DUCKWORTH: No.
BASH: &#8230; moves by some to remove statues of him. Is that a good idea?
DUCKWORTH: I think we should listen to everybody. I think we should listen to the argument there.
But remember that the president at Mount Rushmore was standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans who had actually been given that land during a treaty.
And, again, let&#8217;s talk about the greater context of where we are in our country right now. We should be talking about the fact that COVID- 19 is experiencing a resurgence, and both this president and the man he put in charge of the pandemic response team, the vice president, have both failed miserably at their jobs.
I&#8217;m more worried about the 130,000 who have lost their lives recently and the thousands and thousands more Americans who are currently sick than I am about the &#8212; our historical past.
We need to talk about what we&#8217;re doing now to bring this country off of the brink of chaos that it&#8217;s in.
BASH: So, I&#8217;m going to ask about that, for sure, in a minute.
I want to ask also about the fact that you announced that you would block Senate confirmations of over 1,000 military officers until the Defense Department confirms that Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who is a key impeachment witness &#8212; he was &#8212; against President Trump, to make sure that he gets his promotion.
Have you heard from the Defense Department?
DUCKWORTH: I have not heard from the Defense Department.
Let me just make it clear. If Lieutenant Colonel Vindman is on that list, he made his way on it through his own job performance. And you can&#8217;t get on the promotion list unless you were recommended to be on it by your rater, your intermediate rater and your senior rater. So, three superior officers have to agree to put you on the promotion list.
And all I&#8217;m saying is, I will not support the promotion of anybody to the rank of colonel or general unless the Defense Department certify to me that, if he is on the list, they won&#8217;t take him off.
The reports that I heard was that he was on the list, but that the White House had directed the secretary of defense to take his name off, a list that he earned his way onto himself.
And I&#8217;m not blocking the promotions of anybody below the rank of lieutenant colonel, so just colonels and generals.
BASH: So, let&#8217;s talk about the coronavirus and the way that leaders are or are not responding.
We spoke around Mother&#8217;s Day about the difficulties of being a mother while also working from home. And there was a recent &#8220;New York Times&#8221; op-ed entitled &#8220;The COVID-19 Economy: You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can&#8217;t Have Both.&#8221;
And the author wrote the following, wrote: &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t anyone talking about this? We &#8212; why are we not hearing a primal scream so deafening that no plodding policy can be implemented without addressing the people buried by it?&#8221;
You&#8217;re the first senator to give birth in office. You have two small children. How are you and other leaders dealing with this? And are you doing enough to address this problem?
DUCKWORTH: Well, child care is part of the Democrats&#8217; proposal for the next COVID-19 relief bill. So, it is part of what our platform is.
And I will tell you, I&#8217;m living this on a firsthand basis. I just found out from my daughter&#8217;s public school that we have a choice come fall of her either being full-time homeschooling. And how do I do that and be a full-time united state senator?
And the other choice is that two days a week in school and three days a week at home. I can figure out how to make things work. But what about the single mom who&#8217;s got to go and work at McDonald&#8217;s or the grocery store? How are they going to put this together?
This is very much something that I&#8217;m talking with the Democratic leadership on. And it is part of the Democratic position that we should have child care for all Americans. BASH: Senator, hundreds of female black leaders across the country signed a letter urging Joe Biden to pick a black woman as his running mate.
And here&#8217;s what they wrote. They wrote &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;It is a fact that the road to the White House is powered by black women, and black women are the key to a Democratic victory in 2020.&#8221;
So, what do you think? Should he pick a black woman as his running mate?
DUCKWORTH: Well, I do think black women are a key to the victory for Democrats. Look at how Doug Jones was elected and will be reelected to the United States Senate.
Listen, the Biden campaign have their own process that they&#8217;re going through. And I&#8217;m sure Vice President Biden will pick the right person to be next to him as he digs this country out of the mess that Donald Trump has put us in.
Remember that we need a leader who&#8217;s going to bind us back together, someone whose resilience &#8212; who has empathy, who has seen so many of the ups and downs through his own life and can connect with the American people.
And Joe Biden is that person. And I believe so strongly that we need to get him into the White House.
BASH: So&#8230;
DUCKWORTH: I will do whatever I need to do. I will do whatever I need to do to support him.
And it&#8217;s one team, one fight. And I &#8212; if that means I have to go sweep floors in a VA hospital, and that&#8217;s the best thing I can do to help him win, then that&#8217;s what I will do.
BASH: So, real quick, you do not think that his running mate has to be an African-American woman?
DUCKWORTH: I think that Joe Biden needs to make his own mind and will make his own mind.
I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s on any of us to dictate to him. He knows best who he needs as a vice president who can help him connect with the American people, who can help him overcome the crises that we&#8217;re &#8212; that we&#8217;re operating under right now, everything from rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic, making sure we can face off the next pandemic, making sure our economy gets turned around, and making sure we push back our folks like the Russians, who are putting bounties on Americans&#8217; heads.
BASH: Senator&#8230;
DUCKWORTH: There&#8217;s a lot of problems that Donald Trump is leading and Joe Biden is going to have to clean up.
And he will pick the right person to help him do that.
BASH: Senator, thank you so much.
Thank you for your service. We really appreciate it, again, especially on this holiday weekend.
DUCKWORTH: Thank you.
BASH: Thank you, Senator.</blockquote>
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Potential Biden VP Pick Tammy Duckworth Signals Openness To Tearing Down Statues Of Founding Fathers

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House Democrats stepped in to save 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden from an embarrassing explanation of his historical support for restricting federal funding for abortions by pulling efforts to undo the Hyde Amendment from all 2020 spending bills according to a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/hyde-amendment-abortion-democrats-348272">report in Politico</a> Sunday.
Joe Biden has been struggling to walk the line between his position on abortion while in Congress &#8212; a position that, at one time, amounted to a nearly &#8220;pro-life&#8221; platform and the Democratic Party&#8217;s increasingly extreme position on the issue &#8212; a position that now includes support for abortion up until the moment of birth, as well as full Federal funding for abortion services.
As recently as June of 2019, according <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/447023-biden-2020-campaign-confirms-he-supports-controversial-abortion-rule-report">to The Hill</a>, Biden&#8217;s campaign claimed they supported the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer money from going to directly fund abortions &#8212; a provision that prevents many taxpayers from taking an active role in what they view as a morally abhorrent procedure.
Just weeks later, though, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/6/22/18713603/joe-biden-hyde-amendment">Vox News recounts</a>, Joe Biden, under fire from far-left competitors for the 2020 presidential nod, flipped on the issue, declaring his full-throated support for abolishing the Hyde Amendment and claiming that the measure &#8220;was designed to try to split the difference here, to make sure women still had access, you can’t have access if everyone’s covered by federal policy.&#8221;
&#8220;If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone&#8217;s zip code,&#8221; Biden added at a Democratic fundraiser.
More recently, Biden appears to have moved even further left on the issue of abortion, endorsing the brutal procedure &#8220;under any circumstance&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-endorses-abortion-under-any-circumstance-in-statement-after-scotus-ruling">in a statement issued</a> following the Supreme Court ruling in June Medical Services v. Russo, in which the nation&#8217;s highest court struck down a Texas law requiring doctors who work at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.
Fortunately for Biden, though, he will be able to dodge questions on the matter at any future debates and will be insulated from progressives&#8217; criticism on the issue, as House Democrats made the decision to pull efforts to abolish the Hyde Amendment from all spending bills presented to the floor during the remainder of the 2020 session.
&#8220;Democratic leaders ultimately decided to keep the language to avoid a brutal fight they were unlikely to win with a GOP-led Senate, according to multiple aides and lawmakers,&#8221; Politico reports. &#8220;Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other Democrats ultimately agreed it wasn&#8217;t the right time to make the push, with the party potentially just one election away from controlling the House, Senate and White House and able to enact more sweeping policy changes.&#8221;
&#8220;Pelosi held a conference call Wednesday with several leaders of the Pro-Choice Caucus, including Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Diana DeGette (D-CP), to discuss the decision, according to several Democratic aides. A draft of the appropriations bill that includes the Hyde language is expected to be unveiled Monday,&#8221; the outlet continued.
Clearly, the party hopes Biden will succeed in November, making it far easier to strip the Hyde Amendment from future spending bills.
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Democrats Save Joe Biden, Take Federal Abortion Funding Off 2020 Spending Bills

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Rapper Kanye West announced Saturday on Twitter that he is running for President of the United States.
&#8220;We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,&#8221; West wrote. &#8220;I am running for president of the United States! #2020VISION&#8221;
Entrepreneur Elon Musk responded by writing: &#8220;You have my full support!&#8221;
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West&#8217;s wife, Kim Kardashian West, quote retweeted her husband&#8217;s tweet with an American flag emoji.
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West has become more political in recent years and has repeatedly met with President Donald Trump.
&#8220;A Kanye presidential run has been teased for years,&#8221; Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/05/kanye-west-says-running-president-2020-348903">reported</a>. &#8220;He and Kardashian West have worked with Trump on several occasions, including on commuting the sentences of individuals convicted of nonviolent offenses.&#8221;
Last year, West repeatedly <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/7/kanye-west-republicans-freed-the-slaves/">praised</a> the Republican Party for ending slavery, saying at a church service, “Abraham Lincoln was the Whig Party, that’s the Republican Party that freed the slaves.”
“That’s the Republican Party that freed the slaves,” West continued.
West told GQ Magazine earlier this year that he is definitely voting in the 2020 election.
&#8220;And we know who I’m voting on,&#8221; West <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kanye-west-implies-he-plans-vote-donald-trump-2020-n1185346">said</a>. &#8220;And I’m not going to be told by the people around me and the people that have their agenda that my career is going to be over. Because guess what: I&#8217;m still here!&#8221;
&#8220;Black people are controlled by emotions through the media,&#8221; West continued. &#8220;The media puts musicians, artists, celebrities, actors in a position to be the face of the race, that really don’t have any power and really are just working for white people. When it’s said like that, it’s kind of obvious, right? We emotionally connect to someone of our color on TV and feel that this person is speaking for us. So let me say this: I am the founder of a $4 billion organization, one of the most Google-searched brands on the planet, and I will not be told who I’m gonna vote on because of my color.&#8221;
&#8220;Both my parents were freedom fighters, and they used to drink from fountains they were told they couldn&#8217;t drink from, and they used to sit in restaurants where they were told they couldn&#8217;t eat from,&#8221; West said. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t fight for me to be told by white people which white person I can vote on.&#8221;
This story has been updated to include additional information.
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Kanye West Announces He Is Running For President Of The United States

I have a friend who despises Donald Trump. Whenever Trump does something he finds outrageous, my friend mocks the president’s supporters by mimicking their frequent defense of him: “At least he fights.”
As I’ve often said, Trump is a great big American character with great big American flaws – and some great big American virtues too, often overlooked.
But you know what? At least he fights.
Never-Trumpers have retreated from the political battle we’re actually in to an imaginary world where they are knightly defenders crossing swords with the Ray Harryhausen skeletons of ideological decay. They call their anti-Trump PAC The Lincoln Project. They call their anti-Trump websites The Remnant or The Ramparts. The idea is that they are the last men standing atop the last redoubt fighting for the party of 1860 against the perfidious President the Donald who has so badly disfigured it.
Well, no.
Black Lives Matter – a small and violent radical organization dedicated to a Marxist revolution and bent on hobbling our police and destroying the American family – has terrorized this country with riots and other ugliness for a long month now. They are not black – only one sixth of the protesters are black – and they don’t care about Black Lives or they wouldn’t be attacking the police. The police killed nine unarmed black men in 2018. Seven thousand four hundred blacks died at the hands of murderers that year. More than 200-thousand died at the hands of abortionists. Black Lives Matter doesn’t give a damn.
And yet what is the response of our elites to these terrorist thugs? Corporations rush to show support for them. Democrat governors, who impose unconstitutional bans on worship in the name of keeping us ever-so-safe from the Chinese Virus, celebrate and join in with their massive demonstrations. Democrat spokesmen – also known as the news media – play down the “mostly peaceful” violence while upbraiding and cancel-mugging any law-abiding citizen who dares to draw a gun to defend himself against it.
So what about the Republicans? The ones who get their ideological ideas from Honest Abe. The ones we’re standing on the ramparts to defend the remnants of.
Well, they’re negotiating. Maybe the Marxist terrorists have a point. Maybe some statues should come down. Maybe some Army bases should be renamed. Some are offering a new federal holiday on Juneteenth. Senator Ron Johnson has a great idea – let’s get rid of Columbus Day so the new Black Lives Matter holiday won’t cost the federal government another day of paid leave. We may be handing over our culture to terrorists, but think of the money we’ll save!
Hundreds of former Bush administration officials are endorsing Joe Biden, now little more than a moderate mask for the radicals who would surely run his administration. That’s who they are. That’s who they always were. Compassionate conservatism was Leftism with a flag on it.
Back in the Obama years, the leadership of the Republican Party told me to my face that they would “use” the Tea Partiers to maintain power while meeting none of their demands for constitutional governance. They announced in public that they would never try to impeach Obama, leaving him free to shred the Constitution with his misuse of the IRS, the State Department, and the FBI. They would not legislate against unbridled illegal immigration. They would not cut entitlements. They would not repeal the oppression of Obamacare.
What Lincolnian principles have these people represented in living memory? What ramparts are we standing on to defend what remnant? If the True Republican Party is an outpost, it’s Jamestown, long gone. Donald Trump did not destroy it. He rose to power because it had been destroyed. He is the emanation of their failures.
Republicans – and conservatives – are now what C. S. Lewis called men without chests. They have high-sounding theories and ideas about our founding and our Constitution, but they will not defend them from the radical destroyers.
Their theories and ideas are worthless. As Lewis pointed out, “In battle it is not syllogisms that will keep the reluctant nerves and muscles to their post in the third hour of the bombardment. The crudest sentimentalism… about a flag or a country or a regiment will be of more use.”
The ancients located such sentiments in the chest. With the help of an intellect trained from youth, those sentiments recall us to our duty when it’s time to face losing an election or profits or a social media platform or a sponsor in the defense of principle.
Instead, “we make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise…” Lewis said. “We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
That’s your Republican Party. That’s your Conservative Movement, too. That’s why Trump is president. Because at least he fights.
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KLAVAN: Republican Men Without Chests

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During an interview on the “Awards Chatter” podcast, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton talked about her documentary series “Hillary,” which the Critics’ Choice Real TV Awards named as the year’s best limited documentary series back in March, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/awards-chatter-podcast-hillary-rodham-clinton-hillary-1301734">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. But when the podcast host asked Clinton whether she would win in a rematch election against President Donald Trump, she didn’t hesitate to offer her thoughts.
“Yes. But I think people believe that this is a referendum on him,” said Clinton, who lost the 2016 election by 70 electoral college votes.
“You know, when he ran before, people who knew him mostly knew him from reality TV. He’d been in their living rooms, and he was a businessman, and he looked like a billionaire, and he rode around in his big plane and all of that,” she said. “So they kinda thought, ‘Well, hey, you know, give the guy a chance. Let’s see what he can do.’ And now everybody, I think, knows what the consequences of that have been.”
Clinton also offered some thoughts on the possibility that Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-warns-trump-will-steal-this-election-predicts-military-may-have-to-remove-trump-from-white-house">may not leave</a> the White House should he lose re-election.
“I think it depends upon how big the loss is, and that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re doing everything they can to prevent people from voting — you know, they want to stop mail-in voting, they want to shrink the number of places where people can actually vote in person — because they know if we have a big turnout, they lose,” said Clinton.
“And so we&#8217;re gonna have lots of fights over actual voting procedures between now and November. And if they can do anything that makes it look questionable, they will. And that&#8217;s why everybody needs to come out and vote — I don&#8217;t care where you live — and have as big a turnout as possible so that there can&#8217;t be any excuse given,” she continued.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Joe Biden speculated that Trump would be escorted from the White House by the military should he lose the election and refuse to leave the premises. Back in June, Trump pushed back against speculation he wouldn’t leave office, telling Fox News’ Harris Faulkner that should he lose, he would simply move on from it, reports <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/12/trump-says-will-leave-office-peacefully-if-he-loses-315736">Politico</a>.
At the end of Clinton’s interview, the former Secretary of State also affirmed her belief that the electoral college should be abolished, and dismissed the notion that she would ever run for president again, calling it “not in the cards.”
Last November, Clinton told <a href="https://twitter.com/bbc5live/status/1194229638425432066">the BBC</a> that she would not run for president again, but then followed up with a clarification — after she was pressed about whether she was 100% decided against running — that she would “never say never to anything.”
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Hillary Clinton Says She Would Beat Trump If She Were On 2020 Ballot

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It&#8217;s been a rough few months for President Trump&#8217;s re-election efforts, with the COVID-19 pandemic/panic toppling the &#8220;Trump Boom&#8221; economy, sending once record-low unemployment numbers skyrocketing at an unprecedented rate, widespread social justice protests spiraling into riots and wreaking havoc in cities, and a steady stream of bruising headlines laying the whole mess at the media-loathed president&#8217;s feet.
The brutal few months have taken a toll on Trump&#8217;s polling numbers and have oddsmakers giving him less and less of a shot at shocking the world once again. For those wanting to get in on the 2020 election action, oddsmakers say presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is the surest bet — and by an increasingly large margin.
Here&#8217;s how <a href="https://www.actionnetwork.com/politics/2020-election-odds-presidential-race-donald-trump-joe-biden">Action Network</a> lays out the current 2020 presidential election odds: Joe Biden now has a 59.3% probability of winning (-189 odds), a 3.2% increase from about a week ago. Donald Trump&#8217;s chances of winning have diminished to 33% (+175 odds), a 3.2% drop from June 22 and a 12.2% decline from the 45.2% odds he enjoyed about a month ago.
For what it&#8217;s worth, the rest of the highly improbable field looks like this: Mike Pence (2.7%/+3,300), Hillary Clinton (1.8%/+5,000), Nikki Haley (1.2%/+7,500), Michelle Obama (0.9%/+10,000), Andrew Cuomo (0.6%/+15,000), Bernie Sanders (0.4%/+20,000), Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson (0.1%/+50,000).
&#8220;Trump’s implied probability has steadily declined since outrage over George Floyd’s death swept the nation, falling from 45.2% on June 2 to 33% on June 30,&#8221; Action Network reports. &#8220;Trump hits this new low just days after The New York Times released new polling that showed him falling six to 11 points behind in six battleground states that helped deliver his 2016 victory.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/upshot/poll-2020-biden-battlegrounds.html">Times study</a>, released on June 25, found Trump far behind in the six key battleground states of Arizona (Biden +7), Florida (Biden +6), Michigan (Biden +11), North Carolina (Biden +9), Pennsylvania (Biden +10), and Wisconsin (Biden +11). <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/wi/wisconsin_trump_vs_biden-6849.html">Real Clear Politics</a>&#8216; current averages of the state polls are slightly better for Trump in some of the states, but still rather grim: Arizona (Biden +3.5), Florida (Biden +6.4), Michigan (Biden +7.5), North Carolina (Biden +3), Pennsylvania (Biden +7), and Wisconsin (Biden +6.5).
As for the national polls, Biden has also managed to pull away more from Trump in recent weeks. Nate Silver&#8217;s <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/national/">FiveThirtyEight</a> currently gives Biden a 9.6% advantage over the president, (51.1 &#8211; 41.5). <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html">Real Clear Politics</a>&#8216; average of the national polls puts the gap at 8.8% (49.3 &#8211; 40.5). On May 17, RCP showed a far more manageable gap for Trump of 4.9 points (48.6 &#8211; 43.7); it&#8217;s generally widened since then.
In the fundraising race, Biden has now twice beaten Trump over the last two months, but both candidates managed record financial hauls, and Trump has far more cash on hand. For the month of June, Biden brought in more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-beats-trump-again-in-june-fundraising-but-both-have-record-hauls">$141 million</a>, helped in part by former President Barack Obama. Trump didn&#8217;t do so badly himself, closing out the month strongly and ultimately amassing $131 million, his biggest fundraising day of the month his birthday. Biden now has around $80 million in cash on hand, while Trump has a whopping $295 million.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden edged out President Donald Trump in fundraising yet again in the month of June, but both candidates reported record fundraising hauls as the 2020 presidential election begins to heat up.
&#8220;Biden and the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s fundraising arm jointly raised more than $141 million in June, his campaign said Wednesday, its most in a single month,&#8221; USA Today reported Thursday. &#8220;The money includes boosts from President Barack Obama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), each of whom hosted virtual fundraisers for Biden in June.&#8221;
Warren actually broke a campaign promise not to engage in high-dollar fundraisers to rake in cash for Biden in June, appearing as part of a high-profile online event that drew a number of big-money Democratic donors. Obama, just like Hillary Clinton before him, headlined another high-dollar event, drawing in donors who, because of a necessary agreement with the Democratic National Committee, were able to give upwards of a quarter-million dollars each to the Biden campaign.
The Obama fundraiser alone raised a reported $11 million, and Obama&#8217;s continued involvement in Biden&#8217;s campaign has become a key element in pushing Biden ahead of Trump both nationally and in certain key battleground states, particularly given that Biden goes for long periods of time with no public appearances &#8212; sometimes as long as two months.
But the Trump campaign wasn&#8217;t far behind Biden; after restarting their fundraising efforts in earnest following coronavirus-related lockdowns, the Trump-Republican National Committee alliance, which benefits from the same sort of agreement Biden has with the DNC, drew in a whopping $131 million in June, just $10 million behind Biden.
The Trump campaign says that their biggest one-day total came on the president&#8217;s birthday; they raised $14 million with a coordinated push to honor Trump&#8217;s 74th.
Biden is making up for time lost while he was competing for the 2020 Democratic nomination, a title he didn&#8217;t officially earn until early June, despite having no competitors. Because of the time spent proving himself against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Biden lags far behind in cash on hand. His war chest has just over $80 million, even though he and the DNC pulled in more than $280 million from February through June.
President Donald Trump, to the contrary, has $295 million cash on hand after raising around $266 million in the second quarter.
There are concerns beyond fundraising for Trump; after a disastrous return to the campaign trail &#8212; a poorly attended event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that was touted as a blockbuster &#8212; the president has been lagging so far behind in the polls that he is reportedly considering a major campaign shakeup.
So far, though, few changes have happened, and with Biden announcing Wednesday that he is not ready to return to the campaign trail and will be avoiding public events &#8212; at least for the time being &#8212; a major change may not be necessary to move both poll and fundraising numbers.
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