MSNBC anchor Symone Sanders claimed on Saturday that the deportation of Salvadoran citizen and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia was just one step on the road toward President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration deporting black American citizens.
Sanders began with an article written for The Nation earlier in the week — in which the author had suggested the deportation of criminal aliens, designated terrorists, and gang members effectively heralded the fall of democracy in the United States — and argued that &#8220;people of color and vulnerable communities &#8230; are next in line.&#8221;
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&#8220;We&#8217;ve been talking about this all week, but Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, she penned an op-ed in The Nation this week,&#8221; Sanders began. &#8220;And her op-ed talked about that we think democracies are — the way they die is dramatically, through these wars, and blood is shed, and it&#8217;s cinematic in a sense. But really, the realistic way in which democracies die, is it is dismantled brick by brick, piece by piece.&#8221;
&#8220;And she says that what we are seeing now with the lawlessness from this administration are really the canaries in the coal mine gasping for air,&#8221; Sanders continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m paraphrasing here. But to me, that is why Kilmar Abrego-Garcia&#8217;s specific case, the case of the gentleman who&#8217;s a make-up artist out of California who was also sent to that prison, that&#8217;s what the more — the 75% of the folks who have been sent, the men who have been sent there that don&#8217;t have criminal records — that is why this is so important.&#8221;
Sanders then pivoted to suggest that if illegal immigrants could be deported, it would not be long before citizens could also be deported.
&#8220;If they can do it to them, if they can snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us,&#8221; she declared. &#8220;To be very clear, it&#8217;s going to be the people of color, and vulnerable communities that are next in line.&#8221;
Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) agreed with Sanders&#8217; assessment, saying that was why the black community appeared largely supportive of bringing Abrego-Garcia back to the United States.

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MSNBC Host Says Black American Citizens ‘Next In Line’ If Deportations Are Allowed To Continue

MSNBC Host Says Black American Citizens 'Next In Line' If Deportations Are Allowed To Continue

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CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten poured cold water on the mainstream media narrative that Trump voters “regret” their decision, revealing a new poll showing just 2% of the president&#8217;s 2024 voters would “vote differently” if given the chance.
Enten&#8217;s remarks came during a segment on &#8220;CNN News Central,&#8221; where he presented findings from a University of Massachusetts Amherst/YouGov poll <a href="https://umass-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/personal/poll_umass_edu/Documents/Poll%20materials%20uploaded%20to%20website/Views%20of%20President%20Trump%20at%20Three%20Months,%20National%20Poll%20-%20April%2014,%202025/Toplines%20Views%20of%20President%20Trump%20at%20Three%20Months%20National%20Poll%20-%20April%2014,%202025.pdf?csf=1&amp;web=1&amp;e=ddLTEN">published</a> Monday
&#8220;I hear all these stories, all these articles, &#8216;All the Trump voters, they regret what they did back in 2024.&#8217; I&#8217;m here to tell you, &#8216;Uh uh.&#8217; Very few of them regret what they did back in 2024,&#8221; Enten explained during his segment.
He emphasized the minimal regret among Trump supporters, saying, &#8220;What percentage would change their vote to a different candidate? We&#8217;re talking just 2%. Just 2%. That&#8217;s not even a wide spot on the road,&#8221; with the numbers being “rather similar” for Harris.
The data analyst estimated that, based on this poll, if the 2024 election were held again, Trump would likely still defeat former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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&quot;I hear all these stories, all these articles, &#39;All the Trump voters, they regret what they did back in 2024.&#39; I&#39;m here to tell you, &#39;Uh uh.&#39; Very few of them regret what they did… <a href="https://t.co/0IPvrpk0VS">pic.twitter.com/0IPvrpk0VS</a>
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“So if there was a repeat, if folks got to be able to redo their vote that they had back in 2024, would the result be any different? I doubt it would be. I doubt it would be, or it would still be extremely close. The bottom line is for all this talk of Trump voters regretting their vote, in the numbers, it really just doesn’t show up,” Enten <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/16/cnns-harry-enten-dumps-cold-water-narrative-trump-voters-regret-backing-him/">said</a>.
Enten also mentioned this pattern is not unique to the 2024 election, as Trump voters similarly showed minimal regret following their choice in 2016.
“So the bottom line is this: If there’s some idea out there that Trump voters are going around, ‘Man, I wish I had voted for Kamala Harris instead of Donald Trump,’ the numbers say that is a fanciful universe,” he added. “It really, for the most part, does not exist.”
Since Trump’s inauguration, the mainstream media have incessantly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/video/federal-workers-trump-voters-fired-regrets-west-virginia-kaye-dnt-ac360-digvid">spotlighted</a> estranged Trump voters who allegedly had <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/edmazza/maga-junkie-regrets-voting-for-trump">second thoughts</a> about backing Trump following his executive actions on immigration and federal bureaucracy cuts, all of which were frequent talking points on the campaign trail.
The president&#8217;s approval rating currently <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating">stands</a> at approximately 47% overall, according to RealClearPolitics polling averages.
This marks a significant improvement from his first term, when ratings hovered in the low 40s throughout most of his tenure, further reinforcing Enten’s analysis of the YouGov poll&#8217;s findings that his base remains firmly supportive despite contrary media narratives.

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CNN Data Analyst Shreds ‘Trump Voter Regret’ Narrative: Only 2% Would Switch Votes

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Former Vice President and failed 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris suggested on Thursday that she is sticking around the political scene.
In one of her few public appearances since losing in an electoral landslide to President Donald Trump in November, Harris spoke at the Leading Women Defined Summit in Dana Point, California, and left the door open for a future political campaign.
&#8220;We can’t go out there and do battle if we don’t take care of ourselves and each other. I’ll see you out there. I’m not going anywhere,&#8221; Harris said, according to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-03/in-o-c-former-vice-president-harris-says-shell-stay-politically-active-im-not-going-anywhere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Los Angeles Times</a>.
During her speech, Harris didn&#8217;t mention any specific position she&#8217;s gunning for, but the former California attorney general and senator has <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/07/kamala-harris-california-governor-decision-deadline-00216737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> been seriously considering a run for governor of the Golden State. According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/07/kamala-harris-california-governor-decision-deadline-00216737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>, Harris set a deadline for the end of summer to officially make a decision.
Current California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is term-limited in 2026 and is being floated as a potential leading candidate for the Democrats in the 2028 presidential election. A handful of Democrats have already jumped into the governor&#8217;s race in California, including former California Attorney General and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-hhs-secretary-jumps-into-california-governors-race?row=0&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;title=Biden%E2%80%99s+HHS+Secretary+Jumps+Into+California+Governor%E2%80%99s+Race&amp;category=News" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> his campaign for governor earlier this week.
Becerra joins former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Lieutenant Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former State Controller Betty Yee, former state legislator Toni Atkins, and state schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond in what is already becoming a crowded Democratic primary.
Harris didn&#8217;t mention Trump by name during her speech on Thursday, but she did allude to the president&#8217;s administration and lamented that organizations are &#8220;capitulating&#8221; to Trump&#8217;s orders.
“There is a sense of fear that is taking hold in our country, and I understand it,” she said. “These are the things that we are witnessing each day in these last few months in our country, and it understandably creates a great sense of fear. Because, you know, there were many things that we knew would happen, many things.”
She also suggested that the concerns she discussed about another Trump presidency on the campaign trail are becoming a reality. “I’m not here to say, ‘I told you so.&#8217; I swore I wasn’t going to say that,” she remarked.

Kamala Harris Hints At Future Political Run: ‘I’m Not Going Anywhere’

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According to the co-author of the new book “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” former President Obama did not want former Vice-President Kamala Harris to be the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee and worked against the possibility.
Journalist Jonathan Allen, who currently works for NBC News, has co-authored “HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton,”  “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,” and “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won The Presidency.” He appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday.
“President Obama absolutely did not think that Joe Biden should continue, according to our sources close to President Obama,” Allen stated, as Mediaite <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-worked-behind-the-scenes-to-derail-kamala-harris-2024-candidacy-report/">reported</a>. “And he also didn’t want Kamala Harris to be the replacement for Biden. He didn’t think that she was the best choice for Democrats. And he worked really behind the scenes for a long time to try to have a mini-primary or an open convention or mini-primary leading to an open convention, did not have faith in her ability to win the election. So and as it turned out, she didn’t win, but he was really working against her.”
“In one moment, he had set up a phone call with Congressman [Jim] Clyburn from South Carolina on the day that Joe Biden handed off the baton to Kamala Harris,” he continued. “And Obama had set up a call with Clyburn for like 5:30 that afternoon. And Clyburn thought to himself, ‘This guy is going to try to rope me into the open convention thing. I better get my endorsement of Harris out there fast so that this is a short conversation.’ And when Harris talked to Obama on the day that Biden handed off to her, Obama was unwilling to give his endorsement then.”
In the book, Allen writes, “In private conversations, Obama flat-out told allies she would lose to Trump &#8230; ‘He did not think she should be the candidate,’ said one confidant. He liked the idea of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer at the top of the ticket and Maryland Governor Wes Moore at the bottom. &#8230; he didn’t want a coronation of Harris.”
Allen told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tby-HsN5qhU">Fox News</a> that Obama said to Harris when Biden dropped out, “I don’t want to put my thumb on the scale.”
“She was disappointed but not necessarily shocked because he’d been behind the scenes trying to undermine her for the last several weeks before Biden even got out,” Allen added.

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President Donald Trump labeled George Clooney a “second rate movie star” following the actor’s interview on “60 Minutes” in which he claimed there was an attack on freedom of the press.
“Why would the now highly discredited ‘60 Minutes’ be doing a total ‘puff piece’ on George Clooney, a second rate movie ‘star,’ and failed political pundit,” Trump wrote in a post on his <a href="https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1904054631187333472">Truth Social</a>.
“He [Clooney] fought hard for Sleepy Joe’s election and then, right after the debate, dumped him like a dog,” he added. “Later, I assume under orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ only to soon realize that that was not going to work out to well.”
“‘60 Minutes’ even fraudulently inserted fake answers into her disastrous interview, aired just before Election Day, in one of the most embarrassing and dishonest events in broadcast history,” Trump continued. “And now George Clooney again? His press agent should be making a fortune!&#8221;
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Why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes be doing a total “puff piece” on George Clooney, a second rate movie “star,” and failed political pundit. He fought hard for Sleepy Joe’s election and then, right after the Debate, dumped him like a dog. Later, I assume under orders…
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Trump&#8217;s comments came after the 63-year-old actor’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoaLYLOps8I">interview</a> in which he referenced the president’s $20 billion defamation suit against CBS for its &#8220;60 Minutes” interview with the former vice president before the election, which Trump has said was deceptively edited.
“When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed,&#8221; Clooney said on CBS. &#8220;Has to succeed, as ‘60 Minutes’ is here right now on our first day.&#8221;
“We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations — to make journalists smaller,” he added. “Governments don’t like the freedom of the press. They never have. And that goes for whether you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you’re on. They don’t like the press.”
“Journalism and telling truth to power has to be waged like war is waged,” Clooney <a href="https://ew.com/donald-trump-responds-george-clooney-60-minutes-interview-free-press-11702167">continued</a>. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t just happen accidentally. You know, it takes people saying, we&#8217;re gonna do these stories and you&#8217;re gonna have to come after us. And that&#8217;s the way it is.&#8221;
At one point in the interview, the “Oceans 11” star and longtime Democrat supporter doubled-down on writing his New York Times op-ed when he said President Biden needed to step down, allowing for the party to get behind now-failed Democrat candidate Harris.
 &#8220;I was raised to tell the truth,&#8221; Clooney said. &#8220;I had seen the president up close for this fundraiser, and I was surprised. And so I feel as if there was a lot of profiles in cowardice in my party through all of that. And I was not proud of that. And I also believed I had to tell the truth.&#8221; 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-clooney-offers-unexpected-message-to-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Clooney Offers Unexpected Message To Trump</a>

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Vice President JD Vance absolutely roasted his predecessor, former Vice President Kamala Harris, during a radio interview with host Vince Coglianese on Thursday.
When presented with the chance to compare his approach to the vice presidency to what Americans saw from Harris, Vance referenced her penchant for &#8220;word salads&#8221; and hinted at rumors that the former vice president had been under the influence during public appearances.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> on how he&#39;s different from <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a>: &quot;Well, I don&#39;t have four shots of vodka before every meeting.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/VinceCoglianese?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VinceCoglianese</a> <a href="https://t.co/gWnh5mzQLB">pic.twitter.com/gWnh5mzQLB</a>
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&#8220;You talked earlier about the role of the vice president and how it&#8217;s different with each presidency,&#8221; Coglianese began, adding, &#8220;How are you doing the job differently than Kamala did it?&#8221;
Vance laughed, and then said, &#8220;Well, I don’t have, you know, four shots of vodka before every meeting. That&#8217;s one way I think Kamala tried to bring herself into the role is these word salads, and I think that I would need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer a question like Kamala Harris answered questions.&#8221;
&#8220;My sense is, and this is a little bit of guesswork obviously, I don&#8217;t talk to Kamala Harris or Joe Biden very often,&#8221; Vance said then, pivoting to give a slightly more serious answer. &#8220;My sense is that there wasn&#8217;t a level of trust between Biden and Harris, and so — she was just less empowered to do her job. And luckily, I&#8217;m in a situation where the president trusts me, where if he asks me to do something, he believes it&#8217;s going to happen. And obviously we&#8217;ll talk about it and check in, but I feel empowered in way that I think a lot of vice presidents haven&#8217;t been — but that&#8217;s all in the service of accomplishing the president&#8217;s vision.&#8221;
Vance went on to say that he stopped every day to remind himself that the American people had chosen Trump for a reason, and that for Trump to be successful as a president, &#8220;the people around him, starting at the top with the vice president, have to do their jobs well.&#8221;
Vance also recalled an awkward situation during the transition when his kids had not been allowed to see the house where they would be living after the inauguration. Noting that he was unsure as to the reason — whether it had to do with staffing or with Harris herself — he said that they had tried to arrange a time for his kids to see the house and it had never happened.

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JD Vance Roasts Kamala In Radio Hit: ‘I Would Need The Help Of A Lot Of Alcohol’ To Be Like Her

JD Vance Roasts Kamala In Radio Hit: 'I Would Need The Help Of A Lot Of Alcohol' To Be Like Her

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Former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris got torched on social media for the bizarre word salad she gave about her love of Doritos while attempting to talk about innovation at an artificial intelligence conference.
In a video that surfaced on <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1899175321640824937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1899175321640824937%7Ctwgr%5E7ab8588dbab5720abcef9f6ddc6d31871104f1f3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fkamala-harris-roasted-trying-tie-love-doritos-big-tech-innovation-during-ai-conference">X</a>, the former vice president talked about skipping the Oscars and staying home. However, she noted that she was in a predicament because the red carpet was about to start and she wanted Doritos, so she decided to use DoorDash, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/11/us-news/kamala-harris-mocked-over-bizarre-doritos-word-salad-during-ai-speech-three-wines-deep/">Page Six</a> reported.
“So I was willing to give up whatever might be the tracking of Kamala Harris’ particular fondness for nacho cheese Doritos for the sake of getting a big bag of Doritos as I watched the Oscars,” Harris told the group.
The interviewer, Nuno Sebastiao, CEO of data science company Feedzai, tried to help Harris out by suggesting she was making an reference to “consumer behavior,” but she continued to ramble.
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“But here’s the thing: At what point do we also uplift and highlight the consumer’s right to also expect — and you can debate with me if it should be a right — I think it should,” Harris said, though it was unclear exactly what she was talking about, before she attempted to round back to “innovation.”
“To expect that the innovation would also be weighted in terms of solving their everyday problems, which are beyond my craving for Doritos, but about whatever — and I know the work is happening — around, you know, scientific discoveries, for example, to cure longstanding diseases,” she added. “But I’m going to throw out another one.”
The former VP then completely changed the subject and started talking about affordable housing.
“I would love it if there would be an investment of resources in solving the affordable housing issue in America,&#8221; Harris aid. &#8220;Like, help me with that. Help me with that.”
Social media users mocked Harris, with many pointing out just how close she was to getting the highest office in the land, the outlet noted.
“Kamala Harris tries to explain what scientific innovation looks like and it sounds like the dumbest thing imaginable,” one person wrote. “She’s three glasses of wine deep.”
Another person added, “Kamala is drunk again.”
“Imagine if we had to endure four years of Doritos anecdotes,” Daily Wire host Matt Walsh wrote on X.
Another person added, “Kamala Harris used DoorDash to get Doritos delivered so she could do that cringe photo-op.”
While a third person wrote, “We dodged a missile, not a bullet,” noting the 2024 election and her loss to President Donald Trump.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-suck-right-now-stephen-a-smith-tells-dems-not-to-even-think-about-running-kamala-in-4-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘They Suck Right Now’: Stephen A. Smith Tells Dems Not To Even Think About Running Kamala In 4 Years</a>

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has set an end-of-summer deadline to decide on a California gubernatorial bid, sources revealed today.
Harris has been telling supporters at private gatherings and through phone calls, &#8220;I am staying in this fight,&#8221; as she weighs her political future after her unsuccessful bid for president, according to Politico.
The revelation about her timeline came during a pre-Oscars party last weekend when Harris definitively told another attendee she would make her gubernatorial decision by summer&#8217;s end, two sources <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/07/kamala-harris-california-governor-decision-deadline-00216737">told</a> Politico.
The sources also said that a Harris victory in the California governor’s race would most likely take a 2028 presidential run off the table, despite early polls indicating a strong lead for Harris in the primary field.
Harris maintains significant leads in early national polls of potential candidates for California governor and has kept her political operation intact through her newly formed organization Pioneer49, with several top aides remaining on board.
The commitment of top aides is seen as a strong sign for Harris, as the VP had previously had a revolving door of staff due to a reportedly harsh management style.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/06/harris-veep-boss-management/">reported</a> in September 2024, “More than 90 percent of Harris’s vice-presidential staff who started working for her in early 2021 have since left the office.”
The mere prospect of Harris entering the race has already reshaped the Democratic field, with nearly every other top Dem prospect considering bowing out if Harris announces her run.
State Attorney General Rob Bonta didn’t even see the need to wait for Harris’s announcement, dropping any exploration of a governor’s bid, and announced he will seek reelection instead.
Asked about whether Harris should run, Bonta said, &#8220;I hope she does. I have already raised my hand to endorse her, if she does,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Her name recognition, her favorables, her ability to run a successful campaign would have the impact of clearing the field on the Democratic side.&#8221;
Former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis would likely avoid challenging Harris in the state&#8217;s primary, while former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has suggested he might stay in the race despite doubts from people close to him, Politico reports.
While the Democratic field adjusts to Harris&#8217; potential candidacy, the field of Republican candidates is somewhat sparse, with the frontrunner appearing to be Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a veteran of law enforcement who has been praised for his handling of crime in the county of 2.5 million despite policing restrictions from Newsom’s government and staffing shortages.
Harris has been increasing her public profile in recent weeks, accepting the Chairman&#8217;s Prize at the NAACP Image Awards last month and planning a trip to Las Vegas this weekend for a moderated conversation about artificial intelligence, signaling she intends to maintain her presence in national political discussions.

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Harris Reportedly Gives Summer Deadline For Cali Gov Bid Announcement, Shaking Up Primary Field

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The summer of 2024 was one of those whirlwinds of breaking news and total chaos where everything blends together. Over time, dates from that period get mixed up and transposed, just because so many things were happening all at once. So it can be useful to take a step back and think about the timeline a little bit. 
For example, you might not remember that, when Joe Biden officially announced he wasn&#8217;t running for president last year, it took just a couple of hours for the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, to make his own announcement. Newsom <a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2024/07/21/gov-gavin-newsom-says-vp-kamala-harris-can-guide-our-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>, in no uncertain terms, that he wouldn&#8217;t make a bid for the presidency. Instead, he threw his full endorsement behind Kamala Harris, one of the least appealing and most uncharismatic candidates that Democrats have ever nominated for high office.
If you understand Gavin Newsom as the extremely calculating politician that he is, this kind of quick, knee-jerk decision-making raises a few questions. After all, it was an extraordinary move by Newsom, for a couple of reasons. First of all, most of the most important figures in the Democrat Party, like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, didn&#8217;t endorse Kamala Harris on the same day that Joe Biden was forced out. It took Obama nearly a week to come around to the idea. And secondly, of course, Gavin Newsom was correctly seen as a far more talented politician than Kamala Harris. He was almost certain to outperform her in every swing state. So why would he take himself out of the running so quickly?
If there was any doubt about Newsom&#8217;s intentions, we don&#8217;t have to wonder anymore. Gavin Newsom will run for president in 2028. He determined a long time ago that it&#8217;s better to run on his own, rather than try to defend a record as unpopular and destructive as Joe Biden&#8217;s. And Newsom will challenge the Republican candidate — most likely JD Vance — using a platform of faux moderation, rather than any kind of principle. Newsom&#8217;s plan is to stake out an untenable, inauthentic middle ground, on the theory that voters will come to see the Trump administration as too inflexible on social issues.
We don&#8217;t have to guess about this. In case you haven&#8217;t heard, Gavin Newsom has just launched his own podcast. It&#8217;s a show that makes the game plan pretty clear. One of Newsom&#8217;s first guests was Charlie Kirk, who proceeded to press Newsom on some of his party&#8217;s most unpopular positions.
Here&#8217;s one of the most important moments from the show, for example. Watch how Newsom responds when Kirk brings up the fundamental insanity of forcing women to compete against men in sporting competitions:
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Will Governor Gavin Newsom EVER say “No Men in Women’s Sports?” 
I asked him. <a href="https://t.co/xVlJSag0Bq">pic.twitter.com/xVlJSag0Bq</a>
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1897652344558584276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s a pretty incredible surrender, even if Newsom doesn&#8217;t admit that he&#8217;s surrendering. He suggests that it&#8217;s profoundly unfair for a man to compete in women&#8217;s sports, as any sane person must. But then he still tries to find some kind of middle ground with the bit about how we have to have &#8220;grace&#8221; for self-identified trans people because &#8220;they&#8217;re more likely to commit suicide.&#8221; 
This is classic Newsom doublespeak. He&#8217;s not actually committing to any particular position.
He&#8217;s not saying anything that suggests he&#8217;ll comply with any of Trump&#8217;s orders on gender ideology. Nor is Newsom saying anything relevant to men like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-fathers-tragic-fight-to-save-his-son-from-gender-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Younger,</a> who just lost custody of his child because Newsom declared California a &#8220;sanctuary state&#8221; for child sex-changes. Instead, Newsom is using language that he thinks will resonate with conservatives — invoking the idea of &#8220;grace,&#8221; for example — without committing to any actual position.
But it falls flat because it&#8217;s a non sequitur. The concept of grace has nothing to do with affirming delusions. And that&#8217;s the central question here: Either we&#8217;re giving into the false claims of self-identified trans people, or we&#8217;re siding with reality and sanity. &#8220;Having grace,&#8221; to Democrats, has always meant giving into the falsehood. It means forcing women and girls to endure humiliation — and even brain damage, in some cases — for the benefit of narcissistic men.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1551-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
In this interview, rather than committing to an answer, Newsom is using a common rhetorical tactic among Democrats. It&#8217;s a tactic that Obama — who&#8217;s clearly Newsom&#8217;s mentor — perfected long ago. Newsom is essentially saying, incorrectly, that conservatives are offering a false choice. He&#8217;s saying we don&#8217;t really need to choose between affirming reality or affirming falsehood. He&#8217;s suggesting that somehow we can do both, without explaining how.
It&#8217;s reminiscent of a line from Obama&#8217;s inaugural address all the way back in 2009, when Obama said, &#8220;We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.&#8221; Obama wanted to pretend that defending this country from terrorists didn&#8217;t involve making uncomfortable decisions about, say, the rights of Al Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. But during his term, Obama went on to make those decisions. And he did it because, in the real world, you actually have to make choices. On the other hand, in speeches (and in podcasts), you can pretend that there are no hard choices. Although, of course, in the case of the trans issue, this is not a hard choice. Men shouldn’t compete against women or be affirmed as women, period, no matter what. It’s not difficult.
To be clear about this, Newsom is not merely a slick talker. He&#8217;s not just someone who will use rhetorical tricks to avoid committing to anything. He will also lie — unapologetically and pathologically.
Later on in this podcast, Charlie brings up Newsom&#8217;s record as governor of California. Specifically, Charlie mentions Newsom&#8217;s decision to sign a law that enables school teachers to hide students&#8217; so-called &#8220;gender identity&#8221; from their parents. Watch how Newsom — who now claims he&#8217;s concerned about the &#8220;unfairness&#8221; of men playing in women&#8217;s sports — explains the law:
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So, Newsom is claiming that the law merely protects the rights of teachers to keep information to themselves. If a teacher notices that a student is using they/them pronouns, or identifying as a non-binary furry, then the law allows the teacher to remain silent, and hide that information from parents. That&#8217;s what Newsom&#8217;s saying. Of course, even if that were true, it would still be an outrageous piece of legislation. Under no circumstances should teachers be allowed to hide any relevant information from parents — including the fact that their child is demonstrating the symptoms of a serious mental health condition like gender dysphoria.
But just as a factual matter, the law Newsom signed actually goes a lot further than that. You can pull up <a href="https://lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/sites/lgbtqcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/files/AB%201955%20SAFETY%20Act%20FAQs%20UPDATED%20%28002%29%20__0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">materials</a> directly from the California legislature and the California attorney general, which explain the law in detail. This is also what the state of California, under Gavin Newsom, is arguing in court. From the California legislature: &#8220;Students have a constitutional right to privacy when it comes to sensitive information about them. &#8230; Under existing law, school staff are prohibited from outing students unless they have the student’s consent or are required to in a limited set of circumstances under state or federal law. &#8230; The SAFETY Act is necessary now because there has been a significant increase in policies and actions targeting LGBTQ+ students and the school personnel who support them. Some of these policies would require school staff to &#8216;out&#8217; students to their parents/guardians, in violation of existing law.&#8221;
In other words, they&#8217;re passing this law because they believe that children have an affirmative, constitutional right to keep information hidden from their parents. If Gavin Newsom didn&#8217;t believe this, he wouldn&#8217;t have signed the law, and he&#8217;d instruct his attorney general to stop saying this in court. Instead, he&#8217;s trying to have it both ways. He&#8217;s telling Charlie that teachers don&#8217;t have to hide anything from parents — and at the same time, the state of California says children have a constitutional right to hide their alleged &#8220;gender identity&#8221; from their parents. And that constitutional right, of course, can be enforced against teachers.
I&#8217;ll play some more clips from this interview in a second, but first I need to show you how the Democrats&#8217; leader in the House responded to Newsom&#8217;s answer here. This is yet another illustration that Newsom is clearly going to be the party&#8217;s nominee in four years. Newsom is the only prominent member of the party who&#8217;s capable of articulating a coherent sentence, even if the sentences are pathological lies. Here&#8217;s Hakeem Jeffries, for comparison:
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It&#8217;s not even worth dissecting what the dollar-store Obama was saying there. It just makes no sense. Say what you will about Newsom, but he doesn&#8217;t have this problem. When Newsom is confronted with a question he doesn&#8217;t want to answer, he has an uncanny ability to worm his way out of it.
Consider this exchange from the podcast, for example. Charlie asks Newsom why he was able to clean up San Francisco for the arrival of China&#8217;s president a couple of years ago, but not for American citizens. Here&#8217;s Newsom&#8217;s response, followed by his comments back in 2023 in response to a similar question:
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I challenged Gavin Newsom to explain why California Dems cleaned up San Francisco for Xi Jinping.
Gavin Newsom says I&#39;m weaponizing the issue. I say regular Americans deserve clean streets, not just when Chinese dictators show up.
Crime, chaos, and homelessness is a choice. San… <a href="https://t.co/kdmXoFnfJ5">pic.twitter.com/kdmXoFnfJ5</a>
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1897686702212444447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And here&#8217;s the flashback to Newsom&#8217;s statement at the time:
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NEW &#8211; Newsom on Xi&#39;s visit: &quot;I know folks say, &#39;Oh, they&#39;re just cleaning up this place because all these fancy leaders are coming into town.&#39; That&#39;s true because it&#39;s true.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/qxp8UXZUuW">pic.twitter.com/qxp8UXZUuW</a>
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When he&#8217;s talking to Charlie Kirk in 2025, Newsom says he&#8217;s not the mayor of San Francisco. He&#8217;s just the governor of the state. So how can you hold him responsible for the level of filth in the city? But, just two years earlier, Newsom came out and admitted that yes, he made sure San Francisco was clean for the Chinese president.
This is utter shamelessness. And it&#8217;s why Newsom is the most effective candidate that Democrats can run in four years. He has no reservations, whatsoever, about lying at every available opportunity. It&#8217;s difficult to pin him down on anything, because he snakes his way out of it. And at the same time, Newsom understands that, if Democrats are going to win another election, they need to rethink the way they communicate with voters — particularly young voters. He is the only mainstream Democrat who&#8217;s come up with a new media strategy. Watch:
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Charlie Kirk FORCES Newsom to Admit Democrats are LOSING the Media War, and have a fear of Unscripted, Long-Form Podcasts:
NEWSOM: “We&#39;re losing. You dominate the media. We are toast.”
KIRK: “They can&#39;t survive without scripts. Haven&#39;t built intellectual muscle in 30 years.” <a href="https://t.co/5PsJPL4DgU">pic.twitter.com/5PsJPL4DgU</a>
&mdash; Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1897714079474893192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Republicans are flooding the zone with content, policy, and messaging — every. single. day. 
We can’t just sit back or “play dead”. Time to flip the script. <a href="https://t.co/JFQ2MQcwRV">pic.twitter.com/JFQ2MQcwRV</a>
&mdash; Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1897654648640782548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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This is the opposite of the Kamala Harris approach, which was to hide from Joe Rogan and do a handful of hits on NBC. And from a strategic perspective, it&#8217;s a much better approach than whatever every other Democrat is doing. It&#8217;s a lot smarter than holding up a paddle in Congress, or interrupting the president, or vomiting out random words like Hakeem Jeffries.
And Newsom, uniquely, is good at it. The lawyer Laura Powell just unearthed this interview from a few years ago. It shows Newsom explaining his leadership philosophy. And about mid-way through, he references an essay from George Orwell called &#8220;Shooting an Elephant.&#8221; Watch:
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As Newsom understands the metaphor, you put a mask on — a fake persona — and then you warp your actual persona to match it. This is the Gavin Newsom origin story, in a sense. It&#8217;s a window into how he sees his political career. It&#8217;s not about authenticity. It&#8217;s not about good governance — about making sure that Los Angeles doesn&#8217;t burn to the ground, or that women aren&#8217;t assaulted during sporting competitions, or any of that. Instead, it&#8217;s about adopting a fake persona, and then making it work.
That&#8217;s a strategy that has clearly served Newsom well, up until this point in his career. But it won&#8217;t work anymore. In the context of gender ideology in particular, the approach falls apart completely. That&#8217;s because the trans issue is all or nothing. Either trans ideology is true and a person&#8217;s gender is fluid and determined by their self-perception, or it&#8217;s not true and a person&#8217;s gender is a biological reality that cannot be changed. If the former is the case, then there&#8217;s nothing unfair about having &#8220;trans women&#8221; in women&#8217;s sports. If the latter is the case, then &#8220;trans women&#8221; are not women and should not be treated as women or recognized as women in any context at all, ever.
But as this interview with Charlie Kirk makes clear, Newsom is trying to have his cake and eat it too. This is the untenable &#8220;middle ground&#8221; Democrats will try to stake out over the next few years on this issue, just like they&#8217;re going to shoot for a fake &#8220;middle ground&#8221; on so many other issues. Newsom is going to be leading this effort for the Democrat Party. The good news is that it won&#8217;t last. It can&#8217;t last. No ideology that depends on fraud and meaningless platitudes can ever serve as a substitute for the truth. People can see through lies far more easily than Gavin Newsom seems to think. He may not realize that now. But relatively soon — say, in about four years — it&#8217;ll be extremely obvious, even to him.

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A former top aide to Kamala Harris is now under criminal investigation, accused of forging paperwork to try to take advantage of Elon Musk’s &#8220;Fork in the Road&#8221; buyout offer, The Daily Wire has learned.
The probe is likely to explore whether high-level officials — potentially including Harris herself and Lina Khan, Joe Biden’s chair of the Federal Trade Commission — conspired to embed Nathaniel Segal into a job at the FTC just before Trump’s inauguration. The placement involved a series of maneuvers that appear to have been designed to evade personnel and ethics regulations, hide that Segal was a political appointee, and prevent the Trump administration from firing him.
Segal, who worked as a Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor to Harris when she was Vice President, was installed as Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the FTC on January 18, two days before Trump’s inauguration. He was placed on the payroll on direct orders of Khan despite the fact that he was missing essential paperwork about his career history, three Trump administration officials told The Daily Wire.
But as the scheme began to unravel in mid-February, Segal tried to pull the rip-cord by doctoring a document to try to secure the Deferred Resignation Program buyout, despite its deadline having passed and Segal not having received the offer in the first place, the officials said. The buyout program gives eligible employees benefits worth as much as $200,000 in exchange for leaving the government.
A Department of Justice official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the department received a criminal referral from the FTC outlining Segal&#8217;s alleged scheme. The official confirmed the department was taking a “broad” look at it. Segal did not return a request for comment.
Numerous apparent sleights of hand resulted in Segal being hired and classified as a tenured, non-political civil servant, which had the effect of making it harder for the Trump administration to fire him.
Beginning in May 2024, Segal worked as Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor to Harris in the legislative-branch office, where the vice president maintains as presiding officer of the Senate, according to <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-118sdoc13/pdf/GPO-CDOC-118sdoc13.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate records</a>.
But on January 7, 2025, after Harris lost the election, he was hired by the Executive Office of the President, where his title was Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Advisor to the Vice President. He was in that role for just 11 days before he was hired at the FTC.
The strange detour from the Senate — which seemingly would have required the involvement of multiple of Harris’ uppermost staff, if not the vice president herself — meant the FTC would have to get his personnel file, which is used to determine his hiring suitability and eligibility for various protections, from the Biden administration. But the Biden White House never sent it, despite numerous requests. Khan ordered him to be placed on the payroll anyway, and he was enrolled as a non-probationary employee, as if he was a longtime career employee transferring from another executive-branch agency, they said.
It wasn’t until after Trump took over that the FTC finally got a response from the Executive Office of the President, which said Segal was a political appointee and did not meet the criteria to be a tenured civil servant.
By then, it was becoming clear why Democrats seemed to go to lengths to make Segal a &#8220;non-probationary&#8221; employee. Trump ordered agencies to consider laying off probationary employees, since they have fewer job protections. Meanwhile, harder-to-get-rid-of tenured career employees could elect to resign in exchange for eight months’ pay and benefits, if they sent an email saying “Resign” by February 10.
On February 14, the FTC’s human resources department told Segal that it was classifying him as a new employee who needed to serve a one-year probationary period. Segal expressed concern that his job would no longer be safe, then suddenly claimed to have already accepted the buyout offer, which had closed four days prior, they said.
The Office of Personnel Management had no record of Segal accepting the buyout, so the FTC asked him for proof. He sent a screenshot purporting to show him emailing OPM on February 10 with the word “resign.” It asked him to forward the actual email, but he did not. The FTC determined that such an email was never sent from its servers, they said.
On February 26, Segal pressed the human resources department about the money. The human resources department set up a meeting with him about it for the next day. When Segal saw that a top lawyer for the agency was invited, he got squirrelly and resigned on the spot, they said.
According to his LinkedIn, Segal attended Yale, Harvard, and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before working for Harris, Segal worked for the Obama White House &#8220;as a presidential appointee, working across the National Economic Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy as senior advisor to President Obama on issues of economics, technology, investing and finance,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/newsroom/school-news/five-mba-students-recognized-2020-siebel-scholars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanford</a>. He also &#8220;held roles in the private sector at T. Rowe Price, Bain Capital, Eli Lilly, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs.&#8221;
At Yale, he <a href="https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/newsroom/school-news/five-mba-students-recognized-2020-siebel-scholars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">majored</a> in &#8220;history of medicine, ethnicity, race, and migration.&#8221; He serves on the board of <a href="https://alumni.yale.edu/people/nathan-segal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale&#8217;s Alumni Association</a> and &#8220;is a founding member of Native American Yale Alumni, chief financial officer of the Yale Latino Alumni Association, [and] a member of the AYA Diversity &amp; Inclusion Task Force.&#8221;

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AUSTIN, Texas – Following Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration, it took his new administration all of an hour to bring the greatest mass migration border crisis in American history to a shuddering halt, with the first full month of apprehension numbers in February hitting <a href="https://x.com/USBPChief/status/1896009220333375909" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the lowest levels in decades</a>. The great mass migration crisis is, <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Greatest-Mass-Migration-Border-Crisis-US-History-Over" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in my estimation</a>, over thanks to a simple combination of Trump’s restoration of lawful detentions, rapid expulsions, interior deportations, and an end to releases. RIP to January 2021 — January 2025.
But before anyone moves on from this funeral, however, a different ceremony is necessary, an autopsy for the high purpose of serious national reflection. One for the pantheon of border security ideas and theories the Democratic Party and its academic, pro-migration think tank allies relentlessly sold the American public for years on end as the only means to save the Republic from the unmitigated mass border migration it started as soon as Joe Biden took office.
Now debunked, disgraced, and shot full of holes by what Trump accomplished in an hour on is first day in office, may all of us bury these pseudo-scientific political theories and ideas forevermore in the dung heap of political scams where they belong, and to salt the Earth around them.
<h3>The Scam ‘Senate Bill’</h3>
In retrospect, Democrats used these untested, yet seemingly plausible immigration policy ideas to distract Americans from what they were really doing, which was dismantling the despised policies that actually worked to keep illegal border crossers at bay.
Start with the most emblematic of these bait-and-switch ideas, the “bipartisan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-stunt-senate-rejects-border-security-bill-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lankford senate bill</a>.” Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris relentlessly sold this piece of legislation to the American public as the only possible panacea to control the border. Trump and Republicans had the bill killed, which set the stage for Harris and many Democrats running for office to promise its resurrection as a central plank of the party’s immigration policy platforms.
Harris, Biden himself, and Democratic Party influencers would chant almost in unison, for instance, that the legislation’s provisions would finally give a President the absent necessary authorities to really crack down on illegal immigration. Under the Biden administration enforcement encounters at the Southern border averaged more than 200,000 a month, and more than 7,000 per day. Remember they would cite how it would even provide more Border Patrol agents and CBP officers to seize more fentanyl and blamed Trump for killing the bill to perpetuate the border crisis for political advantage?
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“I will make sure that it comes to my desk, and I would sign it,” <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-said-shed-sign-the-bipartisan-border-bill-that-trump-stopped-heres-whats-in-it-183310125.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harris told CNN</a> during a typical August 2024 interview about the desperate need for a big piece of legislation like the Lankford bill.
But here’s what we can all now see on naked obvious display with Trump’s border crossings averaging south of 300 per day, on track for an historically low 8,300 per month (all quickly expelled back into Mexico): No legislation providing extra presidential authorities were then, now or in the future ever needed for a president to substantially reduce illegal immigrant crossings. It was all a big fat lie.
Those <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-crossings-plunge-90-to-historic-lows-under-trump-crackdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lowest numbers</a> in recorded American history are happening because everything that Trump (or Biden) needed to drive them down was already available in the existing Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA), which required authorities to use them to achieve zero illegal entries. By contrast, the envisioned Lankford bill would have statutorily okayed the releases into the country of 5,000 alien border crossers per day – up 1.8 million per year – before a president could, if she or he felt like it, crack down with expulsions.
And all those new Border Patrol agents? Their real purpose was to process those 5,000 per day for release into the country, not to catch and expel.
Now that Trump’s plan is working magic, the whole “we-must-have-legislation” narrative or something called “comprehensive immigration reform” must never be let out of its crypt.
<h3>Digging Up ‘Root Causes’</h3>
You&#8217;ll have to dig a deep hole in the dung heap of tin foil hat ideas to find one of the most pernicious of the Democratic Party’s immigration theories that Trump’s border has now exposed: the so-called “Root Causes Strategy.” The Biden administration appropriated this idea from European progressive liberals <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/29/u-s-strategy-for-addressing-the-root-causes-of-migration-in-central-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as its central immigration policy</a> with a <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-strategy-address-the-root-causes-migration-central-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2021 Executive Order</a> that claimed this was the best way to control the U.S. southern border. Biden appointed Vice President Harris to oversee the whole stupid thing.
The theory held that fewer citizens of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador would want to emigrate if the United States invested billions in tax and development money to rebuild those troubled Central American sending countries.
During an April 2021 state visit to Central America, the new border czar laid blame for the already surging illegal crossings on “extensive storm damage because of extreme climate.” And kept going.
“We’re looking at drought in a region where agriculture is one of the most traditionally important bases for their economy,” she explained. “We’re looking at what’s happening in terms of food scarcity as a result of that.”
After billions in U.S. foreign aid, it worked about as well as the idea worked for European liberals who first concocted the bizarre notion in the early 1980s. The most cursory glance at Europe’s experience would have shown it failed miserably there, just as it has here. For example, the European Union-funded policy think tank MIGNEX <a href="https://www.mignex.org/publications/throwing-development-money-migration-problem-it-completely-misguided" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewed some 10 studies</a> spanning more than a decade where development aid was invested to reduce Europe-bound emigration from poor countries.
“In its current form, development aid does not seem to be big enough to create the underlying changes that effect migration decisions,” the MIGNEX report concluded, in part. “In cases where we do see a deterrent effect of aid on migration, a noticeable impact would require an unrealistic increase in aid.”
Writing for the International Institute of Social Studies in 2007, social scientist Hein de Haas <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00435.x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concluded that</a>, “Besides the limited scope and credibility of such policies, empirical and theoretical evidence strongly suggests that economic and human development increases people’s capabilities and aspirations and therefore tends to coincide with an increase rather than a decrease in emigration.”
We now know the Biden administration dangled the root-causes strategy like a shiny bauble over here, while opening the border over there.
America must now strike this idea dead and bury it deep.
<h3>Simple Causes, Simple Solutions</h3>
Trump’s quick border closure now requires that the American public, lawmakers, students of immigration policy and policy practitioners finally and forever accept that starting and stopping mass migration events was never the complex undertaking that Democrats constantly asserted while keeping the southern border wide open. 
Neither the border nor the “immigration system” were ever “broken” like they always claimed in need of drastic “comprehensive immigration reform.”
<div id="attachment_862069" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-862069" class="size-large wp-image-862069" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2194393473-864x576.jpg" alt="WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Donald Trump is sworn into office by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson - Pool/Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2194393473-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2194393473-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2194393473-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2194393473.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Julia Demaree Nikhinson &#8211; Pool/Getty Images</div>
On Trump&#8217;s inauguration day, supposed emigration-driving climate change, foreign government persecution, gang crime and all the other Democrat-claimed causes of the American border crisis did not – all of a sudden –relent. 
Trump used a few policy tools that past Congresses provided presidents under existing law to address the only real and simple “root cause” of mass migration, which was to dramatically lower the chances that smuggling fee money will buy entry into the United States for a long enough time to pay it back many times over. 
They’re coming in mass when the payoff odds of release-and-stay are high like Biden-Harris mass-release policies made them. They’re staying home when the payoff odds are really low, like Trump just made them with detention, expulsion, and deportation. 
That’s the only idea now proven and left standing for all of America to see and know. The rest of them should be pronounced dead on arrival and then be buried, hopefully forever.
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Todd Bensman is a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a two-time <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/awards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Press Club award winner.</a> He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a 23-year veteran newspaper reporter. He is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Covert-Border-War-Infiltration/dp/1642937258/ref=sr_1_2?crid=BP7S7BH2VBFB&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O6ZnUZYfSlVsoiHcdjPhFHfMHLUTDwW2ZnKSAJboBbE5kdYf_h7sD08-h6YkTqOaoX3BwNswbUMPbnTbwQYA0OPgQiI3nLoLjosQWsEhFf5KFAPB4F0DTwUsSoJFgmaEF7V1rMQnOPvLvOLapFQ1ESD-D7UVwCNHsSGEs2XzEa9rmO1CLoVV277SrmlPOkJf.15UkCaAoqCyd7hpP16dl7D3_ZWawrd1RcN3D_ZSFo4w&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=todd+bensman&amp;qid=1730314546&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=todd+bensman%2Cstripbooks%2C100&amp;sr=1-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America’s Covert Border War</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Overrun-Unleashed-Greatest-Border-History-ebook/dp/B0BS1R9LCP?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History</a>.”
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Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville told his party that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration was poised to collapse — and soon — and that it would be in their best interest to back off and allow nature to take its course.
Carville, who helped former President Bill Clinton win the White House in 1992, told <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/its-over-james-carville-tells-dan-abrams-the-trump-white-house-will-suffer-a-massive-collapse-in-less-than-30-days/">Mediaite</a> founder Dan Abrams that Trump&#8217;s admin would implode within the next four to six weeks — and advised Democrats to stop distracting from that by engaging in knee-jerk protests after his every move.
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🚨James Carville issues wild prediction that the Trump admin will experience a “massive collapse” in the next 30 days:
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Abrams began the conversation, noting that Democrats had been playing into the hands of conservative media outlets by reacting to every appointment, every executive order, as though they would be the end of democracy as Americans know it.
&#8220;So you got a lot of Democrats who have been sort of yelling and screaming about a lot of these nominations, and in some cases, I think rightly so. And in other cases, I think it’s a little bit been a bit overwrought,&#8221; Abrams said. &#8220;But, you know, it seems that the angrier Democrats get, the more it feeds into exactly what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and some of these other folks want – meaning Fox News plays sound bites of Democrats heads exploding as sort of sport.&#8221;
Carville said the obvious solution was for Democrats to back off: &#8220;What I have said very publicly is that Democrats need to play possum. This whole thing is collapsing. It doesn’t need Elizabeth Warren and somebody screaming to pacify some progressive advocacy groups in Washington, which, by the way, I wish these people were just useless. They’re actually worse than useless, that they’re detrimental. And they never, ever learn to shut up.&#8221;
&#8220;And so then this is what I believe. I believe that this administration, in less than 30 days is in the midst of a massive collapse and particularly a collapse in public opinion,&#8221; Carville said, adding that for Democrats, it would be &#8220;easy pickings here in six weeks. Just lay back.&#8221;
Abrams pressed Carville on the matter, and he doubled down, arguing that in a month or so, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would be looking across the aisle for support from Democrats because Trump&#8217;s agenda had lost the support of his own party.
&#8220;We’re in the midst of a collapse. It’s over,&#8221; Carville assured him.

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