We are only now beginning to understand the true extent of Qatar’s long campaign to subvert the American political establishment, to advance its own interests, and to advance the interests of <a href="https://ahvalnews.com/qatar-turkey/qatar-iran-turkey-alliance-erodes-regional-security-arab-weekly">close allies</a> Iran and Turkey. It seems like every passing month reveals <a href="https://efile.fara.gov/ords/f?p=1381:130:12387682161381::NO::P130_CNTRY:QA">more public figures</a> working to advance the Qatari agenda. The latest to be make headlines is former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar Dana Shell Smith, a senior foreign policy advisor to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.
Following the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Smith raised eyebrows when she <a href="https://twitter.com/ambdana/status/1188446888967786499">objected</a> on Twitter to President Trump’s pitiless description of Baghdadi’s death. She <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbDana/status/1188446071019724803">wrote</a>: “This gruesome, vivid and probably exaggerated description of dogs chasing down Baghdadi will endanger our personnel in the region. … When bin Laden was killed, we were careful to be clear that he had been given a proper Muslim burial.”
To be sure, she <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbDana/status/1188454050372698114">added</a> that, “The killing of Baghdadi was unquestionably good and necessary.” But her larger objection was met with <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/10/28/obamas-qatar-ambassador-has-some-thoughts-on-the-way-president-trump-talked-about-the-death-of-al-baghdadi/">scorn</a> by many who found it hard to believe that Smith wanted due honors given to a violent <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Baghdadi-rapist-led-genocidal-caliphate-died-in-tunnel-606053">murderer and rapist</a> like Baghdadi.
Why, then, does Smith care so much about Baghdadi’s dignity?
Possibly it is not she who cares, but her friends in Qatar. Despite their claims of moderation, many Qataris actually support ISIS. A 2014 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/support-isis-stronger-arabic-social-media-europe-us-than-syria">study</a> found that 47% of Qatari Arabic language social media messages discussing ISIS were supportive — the highest percentage in the world. And this is just one instance of Qatar’s <a href="https://www.counterextremism.com/countries/qatar">long history</a> of supporting extremists, including al-Qaeda and Hamas.
Normally one wouldn’t assume that an ex-diplomat would parrot the opinions of her former host country. But Smith’s case is special. She has a <a href="https://af.reuters.com/article/africaTech/idAFL1N21J0DJ">long history</a> of <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/otaiba-ambassador-uae-leaked-emails_n_5932bf04e4b02478cb9bec1c">advocating for the interests</a> of Qatar. Earlier this year, investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield published a detailed <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/07/qatar-supporter-advising-kamala-harris-daniel-greenfield/">exposé</a> of Smith’s long history of advancing Qatari foreign policy — even while serving as U.S. ambassador.
Canadian businessman Alan Bender went further. Bender, who had spoken with high-level Qatari officials, said that Smith was being paid by Qatar through her <a href="https://www.fp4america.org/dana-shell-smith">consulting firm</a> <a href="https://sccefile.scc.virginia.gov/Business/S655876">Decibel Strategy LLC</a> — which Bender described as “her fake company in the U.S.” (The company has no public presence and does not describe its clients or services.)
Smith is not the only former diplomat to be working for Qatar’s interests. Even if we stick to public data, several former ambassadors have gone so far as to openly take Qatari money.
The list is impressive. Former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar (1995–1998) <a href="https://qataramerica.org/team/ambassador-patrick-theros/">Patrick Theros</a> was the long-serving president of the U.S.-Qatar Business Council, and also was one of the first board members of Qatar Foundation International. Amb. <a href="http://untermeyer.com/resume/">Chase Untermeyer</a> (2004–2007) did business consulting for U.S. firms operating in Qatar before becoming the founding chairman of the Qatar-America Institute in 2017. And Amb. <a href="https://www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/professionals/l/lebaron-joseph">Joseph LeBaron</a> (2008–2011) is now <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lebaron1">vice chair</a> of Daruna, a firm providing housing for migrant workers in Qatar and the chairman of which is Qatari royal family member Shaikh Nasser Al-Thani; LeBaron also became a senior advisor to Squire Patton Boggs, which has <a href="https://efile.fara.gov/docs/2165-Exhibit-AB-19940201-DBKPB503.pdf">lobbied</a> for Qatar since 1994.
Other public figures known to have previously taken Qatari money include <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/23/rudy_giuliani_loves_america_except_when_hes_consulting_for_qatar/">Rudy Giuliani</a> and <a href="https://efile.fara.gov/ords/f?p=1381:130:12387682161381::NO::P130_CNTRY:QA">dozens</a> of lobbying firms in Washington. And Qatar-financed lobbyists Nick Muzin and Joey Allaham were the point-men in a controversial <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-lobbying-qatar-targeted-250-trump-influencers-to-change-u-s-policy-1535554647">Qatari campaign</a> to target some 250 “influencers” in and around the Trump administration, at least some of whom were handsomely paid themselves as a result. Qatar paid the pair $3 million for that effort, and <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/qatari-lobbyists-received-millions-through-shadow-firm/">another</a> $3.9 million for “foster[ing] dialogue” with American business leaders.
It’s not illegal to take foreign money, as long as it is properly disclosed. But if Smith or Decibel Strategies is indeed being paid by Qatar, she has not disclosed it in a Foreign Agent Registration Act (<a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title22/pdf/USCODE-2009-title22-chap11-subchapII.pdf">FARA</a>) filing — though she is mentioned in other entity filings, having <a href="https://efile.fara.gov/docs/2165-Supplemental-Statement-20160714-24.pdf">met</a> with Squire Patton Boggs several times while ambassador.
Whether or not Smith is actually on the Qatari payroll, she appears to be participating in a massive and well-funded effort by Qatar to subvert our foreign policy. This broad-spectrum effort includes <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/16/qatar-georgetown-texas-university/">hundreds of millions</a> of dollars paid to our universities, for which Qatar has gotten <a href="https://twitter.com/Bush41Library/status/922929216953503744">valuable</a> <a href="https://www.qatar.georgetown.edu/news-events/news/report-highlights-georgetown%E2%80%99s-thought-leadership">quid pro quos</a>; the extensive propaganda operations of regime-owned Al Jazeera, which have sparked calls from lawmakers to make it <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/401145-al-jazeera-propagates-hatred-is-it-also-a-foreign-agent">disclose</a> its <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/al-jazeera-pushes-back-on-gop-effort-to-force-it-to-register-as-a-foreign-agent">activities</a> under FARA; and the well-publicized <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/us/politics/foreign-powers-buy-influence-at-think-tanks.html">corrupting</a> of major think tanks such as the Brookings Institute. And that’s merely the legal elements of Qatar’s plan.
Qatar has every right to advocate for its interests, and even to hire American figures to make its case. But there is a difference between advocacy and corruption. American foreign policy needs to be built around America’s interests, not those of foreign countries with large bankrolls.
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Dr. Oren Litwin is a Fellow for <a href="https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/">Islamist Watch</a>, a project of the <a href="https://www.meforum.org">Middle East Forum</a>.

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LITWIN: Former Diplomat And Top Kamala Harris Campaign Advisor Acts As Mouthpiece For Terror-Supporting Qatar

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Speaking on Election Night 2016 after Donald Trump had won the presidency and she had won the California Senate seat to replace Barbara Boxer, Senator Kamala Harris said of  Trump&#8217;s election, &#8220;This is some s***.&#8221;
Harris told her admirers, &#8220;We’re gonna have to figure out a way to go out there and give people something to believe in. So we just had a small family dinner, and many of you have met my nephew, my godson, Alexander. So Alexander came up to me about 20 minutes ago, and he was teary. And I didn&#8217;t know if one of the other kids had done something, I didn&#8217;t know what was going on. I said, &#8216;Come here, little man. What&#8217;s going on?&#8217; And he looked up at me; I swear to God; he looked up at me and he said, &#8216;I don&#8217;t want Trump to win. Did he win?&#8217; And he’s crying. And, I mean, so the tears of joy we shed when we elected Barack Obama, and then my little godson’s tears tonight because we might have elected Donald Trump, this is some sh**.&#8221;
Harris then continued, &#8220;And so once again, our team, I think, will have to do what we always do, which is be prepared to fight and to roll up our sleeves and fight. And us being, y’know, with bravado we say, right, the biggest state, the first open Senate seat in a long time on (sic) this hemisphere, and the fifth largest economy in the world, I need you guys for what we’re gonna need to do now going forward, cause I think our campaign is actually not over.&#8221;
In retrospect, that sounds ironic, as Harris was appealing to her California supporters; a September <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/03/politics/kamala-harris-california-presidential-poll-2020/index.html">Public Policy Institute of California poll</a> found Harris garnering a paltry 8% of voters, trailing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (23%), former Vice President Joe Biden (22%) and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (21%).
On Election Night 2016, Harris sounded as though she was perfectly content to remain a senator at the time, asserting, &#8220;But it’s a different kind of campaign; it’s not to win an office. But it’s gonna be a campaign to fight for everything that motivated us to run for this office in the first place.&#8221;
Then another opportunity to lace her speech with profanity: &#8220;Cause I think that there is no question that everything that we’ve been talking about in terms of everything from criminal justice reform to climate change to immigration, this s*** is now really on the line. There is no guarantee that we are any closer than ever before and we may actually be further behind.&#8221;
Harris then offered a paean to the virtue of emotion rather than facts, adding, &#8220;And when I look up at my little nephew and he looks up at me, he’s looking at me for inspiration and I’m trying to find the words to tell him something that makes him feel better. And so I actually, because he loves superheroes, I started to say, &#8216;You know, how like, your superheroes, when they’re facing a challenge, and like, the mean guys are coming at ’em, what do they do?&#8217; (nephew answered) &#8216;They fight back.&#8221; “And I said, &#8216;yeah, so we have to be like superheroes and it’s okay to have emotion, superheroes, all good ones have emotion, but we’re gonna have to fight.&#8217;”
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On Friday, the personal Twitter account for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) released a video from election night 2016 in which the senator gives a speech to her team about President Trump’s victory.
During the speech, Harris tells a story about her nephew allegedly running up to her and crying about the president’s electoral win:
<blockquote>So, we just had a small family dinner, and many of you have met my nephew, my godson, Alexander. So, Alexander came up to me about 20 minutes ago and he was teary, and I didn&#8217;t know if one of the other kids had kind of done something, I didn’t know what was going on. I said, “Come here, little man. What’s going on?” And he looked up at me, I swear to God, he looked up at me and said, “I don&#8217;t want Trump to win. Did he win?” And he&#8217;s crying. So, the tears of joy we shed when we elected Barack Obama and then my little godson&#8217;s tears tonight ‘cause we might have elected Donald Trump. This is some s***.
And so, once again, our team, I think, will have to do what we always do, which is be prepared to fight, and to roll up our sleeves and fight.</blockquote>
Harris then spoke about how the “campaign” to “fight” would continue:
<blockquote>&#8230;the biggest state, the first open Senate seat a long time on this hemisphere, and the fifth largest economy in the world. I need you guys for what we&#8217;re gonna need to do now going forward because I think our campaign is actually not over – but it&#8217;s a different kind of campaign. It’s not to win an office, but it&#8217;s gonna be a campaign to fight for everything that motivated us to run for this office in the first place because I think there is no question that everything that we have been talking about in terms of everything from criminal justice reform to climate change to immigration, this s*** is now really on the line. There is no guarantee that we are any closer than ever before, and we may actually be further behind.</blockquote>
The senator went back briefly to continue the story about her nephew:
<blockquote>And when I look at my little nephew, and he looks up at me, he&#8217;s looking at me for inspiration, and I&#8217;m trying to find the words to tell him something that makes him feel better, and so I actually, because he loves superheroes, I start to say, “Well, you know how your superheroes, when they&#8217;re facing a challenge and the mean guys are coming at ‘em, what do they do?” And he said, “They fight back,” and I said, “Yeah, so we have to be like superheroes, and it&#8217;s okay to have emotion. Superheroes, all good ones, have emotion, but we’re gonna have to fight.”
So, I think we’re gonna have to figure this stuff out kind of quickly, but we’ve gotta figure out how to go out there and give people a sense of hope&#8230;
It’s interesting how when people are under attack, the people who are being attacked usually do one of two things – they either fight back or they retreat. I&#8217;m so afraid that if this guy actually won, we&#8217;re gonna have whole communities of folks who are just gonna retreat. They’re gonna be so damn scared about what this all means for them.</blockquote>
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After we found out Trump was going to win, there was no question that justice was on the line. I told my team we had to fight. And that’s what I’ve done. <a href="https://t.co/d0gmtdWYtL">pic.twitter.com/d0gmtdWYtL</a>
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1192972068998074368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
Sen. Harris was briefly considered a top-tier candidate. Following the first Democratic primary debate in late-June when Harris sparred with former Vice President Joe Biden, she saw a surge in the polls.
After reaching highs of 14% and 15% in early-July, Harris’ numbers slowly but surely fell to single digits. Harris hasn’t risen above 7% in any national poll since mid-October, and as of publication, sits in fifth place nationally with 4.5%, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> (RCP) average.
Harris’ prospects in early voting states are no better.
In Iowa, the RCP average has Harris in sixth place with 3.3% of the vote. In South Carolina, she’s in fourth with 7% of the vote. In New Hampshire, she’s in fifth with 4% of the vote. In Nevada, she’s also in fifth with 4.3% of the vote. Even in her home state of California, Harris sits in fourth place with just 8% of the vote.

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has now proposed a 10-hour school day, which could give children more time in the classroom than with their parents.
According to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/469226-harris-proposes-keeping-schools-open-for-10-hours-a-day">The Hill</a>, Harris&#8217; Family Friendly Schools Act would create a &#8220;pilot program to give schools funds to stay open during the entire workday throughout the school year, as well as to invest over $1 billion to boost summer learning programs.&#8221;
Harris said that the Act would lift the burden off parents who have to juggle between a working schedule and taking care of children.
&#8220;My mother raised my sister and me while working demanding, long hours,&#8221; said Harris. &#8220;So, I know firsthand that, for many working parents, juggling between school schedules and work schedules is a common cause of stress and financial hardship. But, this does not have to be the case. My bill provides an innovative solution that will help reduce the burden of childcare on working families. It is time we modernize the school schedule to better meet the needs of our students and their families.&#8221;
Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, hailed the bill for addressing a real and persistent problem for working parents.
&#8220;By investing in before, and after school programming, summer enrichment and 21st Century Community Learning Centers, this legislation addresses a chronic and long-neglected problem: too many working parents can’t access affordable care for their kids during the workday,&#8221; said Weingarten. &#8220;Roughly one million mothers of elementary school children cut their hours at work because of a lack of affordable child care. This bill would enable school districts and communities to find solutions that work for them, and would make sure teachers and paraprofessionals aren’t filling in the gaps without respect and fair compensation.&#8221;
The left-leaning site Mother Jones <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/the-school-day-is-two-hours-shorter-than-the-work-day-kamala-harris-wants-to-change-that/">described</a> the bill in further detail:
<blockquote>Her plan: A pilot program that gives money to 500 schools that serve a high proportion of low-income families to develop a school schedule that better matches the work schedule. Each recipient school would receive up to $5 million dollars over five years to keep their doors open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., with no closures except for weekends, federal holidays, and emergencies. Professional development, parent-teacher conferences, and the like would have to happen, at minimum, alongside a full day of enrichment activities. At the end of the five years, the Education Department would publish a report documenting the best practices, as well as changes in parental employment, student performance, and teacher retention rates to be used to inform a future broader program.</blockquote>
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Co-sponsors of the bill include Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Michael Bennet (D-CO).

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) disputed House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) on Monday after he contended a day earlier that some of his constituents are having trouble supporting a presidential candidate who is gay.
During a Sunday morning appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of Union,&#8221; Clyburn was asked whether South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s struggle to gain traction with African-American voters in South Carolina has anything to do with his sexuality.
&#8220;Yes, it is. There&#8217;s no question about that,&#8221; the South Carolina lawmaker responded. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to sit here and tell you otherwise because I think everybody knows that&#8217;s an issue. But I&#8217;m saying, it&#8217;s an issue not the way it used to be.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m never going to buy into that trope and I think it&#8217;s a trope that&#8217;s evolved among some Democrats to suggest that African Americans are homophobic or that there&#8217;s transphobia in the black community as a community &#8212; that&#8217;s just nonsense,&#8221; Harris replied. &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying that about Representative Clyburn, who I respect a lot. I&#8217;m talking about a trope that has developed among some. And the reality is that sadly, and unfortunately, in all communities bias occurs and in particular homophobia and transphobia.&#8221;
&#8220;To label one community in particular as being burdened by this bias as compared to others is misinformed,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s misdirected and it&#8217;s just simply wrong.&#8221;
Buttigieg has been gaining momentum nationally, but still failing to gain traction with African American voters, which is most evident by his low polling numbers throughout South Carolina. In the <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/south-carolina/">most recent poll</a> coming out of the Palmetto State, Buttigieg received only 3% support, putting him in sixth place behind lower tier candidates like Harris and financier Tom Steyer.
Harris&#8217; remarks come as she has been suggesting that the ability for Americans to elect her as president of the United States may ultimately be hindered by her race and her gender, not her politics or personality. Only a week earlier, the California lawmaker put forth that the &#8220;elephant in the room about her campaign&#8221; is her electability, which she argued &#8220;is America ready for a woman, and a woman of color, to be president of the United States?&#8221;
However, polling has not shown neither race nor her gender to be a significant factor in Democrats&#8217; electability during the 2020 election.
Harris&#8217; campaign, which has been described recently as hemorrhaging cash, has been dramatically restructuring its staff nationwide, including both layoffs as well as redeployments. It has not only been struggling to gain momentum, but it has been noticeably slipping in the polls.
After months of stagnant fundraising and steadily declining poll numbers, she slid from the frontrunner in her home state of California to not even placing as one of the top three candidates that Californians prefer. Her campaign has also pivoted to focus on winning Iowa, yet slipped into sixth place in the latest poll coming out of the Hawkeye state.
As of publication, Harris sits at just under 5% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average. She has not hit double digits in the polls since August 2019.

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) responded on Sunday after her Democratic presidential challenger Pete Buttigieg stated that the primary race is beginning to winnow down to only two candidates, himself and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
&#8220;Well, I think that&#8217;s just, that it&#8217;s naive for him to think that at this point that the fate of this election has been determined,&#8221; Harris told CBS News correspondent Ed O&#8217;Keefe. &#8220;Just look at history. He might need to review to know that what&#8217;s happening right now is not necessarily determinative of the outcome.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; remarks come after the South Bend, Indiana, mayor appeared on Showtime&#8217;s &#8220;The Circus,&#8221; where he suggested that voters may ultimately end up having to decide between himself or Warren to represent the Democratic Party in the general election.
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&#8220;I think this is getting to be a two-way,&#8221; Buttigieg said. &#8220;It&#8217;s early to say it. I&#8217;m not saying it is a two-way, but I think – &#8221;
&#8220;But you see that? You see it&#8217;s coming into focus: you and Warren,&#8221; host John Heilemann interrupted.
&#8220;Yeah, and certainly a world where we&#8217;re getting somewhere is that world, where it&#8217;s coming down to the two of us,&#8221; Buttigieg replied. &#8220;Obviously, there&#8217;s a lot of candidates and a lot of things can happen, but I think that as that happens, the contrasts become clear. Look, the contrasts are real. They&#8217;re substantive, respectful policy contrasts, but they&#8217;re real.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; campaign, which has been described recently as hemorrhaging cash, has been dramatically restructuring its staff nationwide, including both layoffs as well as redeployments, according to a memo obtained by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/kamala-harris-campaign-layoffs-061112">Politico</a>. The California lawmaker laid off all of her New Hampshire field organizers and is closing all three field offices in the state as she has been struggling to gain traction. The campaign tried to tamp down alarm bells of an impending end to her presidential run, stating that the move is simply &#8220;a strategic decision to realign resources and go all-in on Iowa.&#8221;
While Harris&#8217; campaign pivots to focus on winning Iowa, the presidential hopeful has slipped into sixth place in the latest poll coming out of the state. Harris is tied with entrepreneur Andrew Yang at 3%, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/iowa/">Siena College/New York Times</a> in late October. Buttigieg, on the other hand, is at 18% and within the margin of error of the frontrunners.
Harris, who has previously vowed to achieve a top three finish in the Hawkeye State, repeatedly dodged O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s attempts to inquire on whether she still has that goal.
&#8220;I&#8217;m all-in in Iowa, I&#8217;m all in,&#8221; Harris said. &#8221; &#8230; we are going to end up in Iowa doing very well.&#8221;
Buttigieg later responded to Harris&#8217;s comments by telling The New York Times that &#8220;she&#8217;s right.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, where we are now is three months ahead of the Iowa primary, and the, or the Iowa Caucuses, and the Iowa Caucuses are just the beginning,&#8221; he said.
As of publication, Harris sits at just under 5% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average. She has not hit double digits in the polls since August 2019.

Presidential Candidates Attend Town Hall Hosted By Formerly Incarcerated People

WATCH: Harris Calls Buttigieg &#8216;Naive&#8217; For Thinking It’s Only A Two Way Race For The Democratic Nomination

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has reportedly laid off all of her New Hampshire field organizers and is closing all three field offices in the state as her presidential campaign has been struggling to gain traction.
&#8220;Senator Harris and this team set out with one goal – to win the nomination and defeat [President] Donald Trump in 2020,&#8221; said Nate Evans, Harris&#8217; communications director in the Granite State. &#8220;To do so, the campaign has made a strategic decision to realign resources and go all-in on Iowa, resulting in office closures and staff realignments and reductions in New Hampshire. The campaign will continue to have a staff presence in New Hampshire but the focus is and will continue to be on Iowa.&#8221;
Accordingly, the campaign revealed that the existing field offices in Keene, Manchester, and Portsmouth would all be closing, laying off more than 20 staffers. However, a campaign spokesperson told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-2020-harris-cuts-entire-new-hampshire-field-team/">CBS News</a> that &#8220;a handful of staffers will run a scaled-down campaign out of the Manchester headquarters.&#8221;
&#8220;We had to lay people off. Yes, we did. We had to lay people off,&#8221; the Democratic presidential hopeful confirmed while campaigning in Iowa on Friday. &#8220;I am very sad about that. It was a very tough decision that we had to make, but frankly a necessary decision. I am all-in in Iowa, and I intend to win.&#8221;
The moves comes as Harris&#8217; campaign has not only been struggling to gain momentum, but has been noticeably slipping in the polls. After months of stagnant fundraising and steadily declining poll numbers, the senator slid from the frontrunner in her home state of California to not even placing in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ca/california_democratic_primary-6879.html">top three</a> in the state.
A poll of likely primary voters commissioned by the <a href="https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-september-2019/">Public Policy Institute of California</a> (PPIC) in October found that former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are leading the rest of the primary field by a wide margin in the Golden State. Around the same time, Emerson released <a href="https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/california-2020-biden-sanders-warren-in-statistical-tie-in-democratic-primary-harris-struggles-in-home-state" rel="noopener">a separate poll</a> that showed Harris in fifth place, slipping even farther behind entrepreneur Andrew Yang and receiving only 6% of the vote.
Harris&#8217; campaign, which has been described recently as hemorrhaging cash, has been dramatically restructuring its staff nationwide, including both layoffs as well as redeployments, according to a memo obtained by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/kamala-harris-campaign-layoffs-061112">Politico</a> on Wednesday. The campaign has also been renegotiating contracts with consultants in an attempt to bring down additional expenses and her campaign manager Juan Rodriguez is also expected to have his salary cut.
While Harris&#8217; campaign pivots to focus on winning Iowa, the California senator has slipped into sixth place in the latest poll coming out of the Hawkeye state. Harris is tied with Yang at 3% according to a poll of likely voters conducted by <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primaries/democratic/iowa/">Siena College/New York Times</a> in late October.
As of publication, Harris sits at just under 5% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average. She has not hit double digits in the polls since August 2019.

Kamala Harris Slashes Her Entire New Hampshire Field Team

New Hampshire

The following is satirical.
It’s Halloween, which means over-excited children pretending to be what they’re not will be coming around your house asking you to give them your stuff, so it’s kind of like the Democratic primaries.
There’ll be monsters, witches, vampires and ghosts everywhere, so it’s kind of like the Democratic primaries. You’ll go out and spend your hard earned money on treats and then spoiled brats will come to your house and demand that you give those treats to them or they’ll pull destructive tricks on you, so it’s sort of like the Democratic primaries.
This year’s popular costumes include a walking dead man who will devour your brains, a screeching harpy whose hideous demeanor will paralyze you with fear and disgust, and a succubus — a female spirit who will drain you of your life force. Those are the Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren costumes, respectively.
There’s also a Pete Buttigieg costume where you look normal until someone gets up close and then you suddenly become terrifying. And, of course, the Joe Biden costume in which you become a ghost of your former self and everyone can see right through you.
Halloween has a long tradition based on ancient superstitions and irrational beliefs — so that is also sort of like the Democratic primaries. The word Halloween means All Hallow’s Eve and comes on the eve of All Hallow’s Day when believers honor the saints, who are dead people whose power is still felt on earth, sort of like Democrat voters, only good.
Over time, the holiday developed its present fun traditions where young people dress up in various costumes and then other young people shriek in their faces about cultural appropriation, then try to get them expelled, then go home and tell themselves what wonderful people they are all the while harboring the secret suspicion that they actually suck which, it turns out, is exactly right.
Thus Halloween has been transformed from an interesting annual event into a riot of rage, guilt and shame — sort of like the Democratic primaries.
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Halloween

Halloween Brings Out The Walking Dead And Other Democrats [Satire]

Bernie Sanders

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Elizabeth Warren

Joe Biden

Satire

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) suggested on Monday that the ability for Americans to elect her as president of the United States may ultimately be hindered by her race and her gender.
&#8220;I have also started to perhaps be more candid talking about what I describe — and what I believe to be, the elephant in the room about my campaign,&#8221; Harris said while speaking with &#8220;Axios on HBO.&#8221;
After questioned about what exactly she was referring to, Harris replied, &#8220;Electability.&#8221;
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&#8220;Essentially, is America ready for a woman, and a woman of color, to be president of the United States,&#8221; she continued.
The California senator further explained that while America was ready to elect an African-American man as commander in chief when they twice elected former President Barack Obama, he too had to have a conversation about his so-called electability prior to his candidacy.
&#8220;This conversation happened for him,&#8221; Harris said, referring to Obama. &#8220;There is a lack of ability or a difficulty in imagining that someone who we have never seen can do a job that has been done 45 times by someone who was not that person.&#8221;
The Democratic presidential hopeful recalled a time when she was stomping for Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign in Iowa. On the night prior to the caucuses, his campaign reportedly asked her to visit a senior citizen residential home to get out the vote. Harris contended that an elderly African-American woman answered the door and told her &#8220;they not gonna let him win&#8221; and that she had experienced too much &#8220;injustice&#8221; and &#8220;indignity&#8221; to &#8220;expose herself to yet another disappointment.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; campaign has not only been struggling to gain traction, it has been noticeably slipping in the polls. After months of stagnant fundraising and steadily declining poll numbers, she slid from the frontrunner in her home state of California to not even placing as one of the top three candidates that Californians prefer.
A poll of likely primary voters commissioned by the <a href="https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-september-2019/">Public Policy Institute of California</a> (PPIC) in October found that former vice president Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are leading the rest of the primary field by a wide margin in the Golden State.
Around the same time, Emerson released <a href="https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/california-2020-biden-sanders-warren-in-statistical-tie-in-democratic-primary-harris-struggles-in-home-state" rel="noopener">a separate poll</a> that placed Harris in fifth place, slipping even farther behind entrepreneur Andrew Yang and receiving only 6% of the vote.
Harris&#8217; campaign stated that they would be expanding operations in California and it subsequently opened a campaign office in Oakland, California. However, it is not clear if the additional resources have impacted her performance.
&#8220;As our operation expands, our plan is to work with our supporters to ensure that Californians up and down the state know Kamala&#8217;s plans to tackle the issues that keep them up at night,&#8221; Maya Humes, Harris&#8217; campaign communications director, said earlier in October.
As of publication, Harris sits at 5.3% support among Democratic primary voters nationwide, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average. She has not hit double digits in the polls since August 2019.

Key Speakers At The Presidential Justice Forum

WATCH: Kamala Harris Implies That Her Electability May Hinge On Americans&#8217; Racism And Sexism

Singer John Legend and model Chrissy Teigen revealed during an interview published Monday that the duo have two frontrunners they are pulling for going into the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
&#8220;My favorite — I&#8217;m going to say it, we&#8217;ll break news today — is Elizabeth Warren,&#8221; Legend replied to <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/10/john-legend-and-chrissy-teigen-cover-story?utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_brand=vf&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;mbid=social_twitter">Vanity Fair</a> when asked who he&#8217;s supporting in the 2020 election. &#8220;She is the best candidate running today and she comes at it with joy and with sincerity and with a wealth of knowledge and experience.&#8221;
&#8220;I love Elizabeth Warren,&#8221; Teigen said. &#8220;I also love Kamala Harris.&#8221;
&#8220;Honestly, I don&#8217;t comprehend why guys hate women so much sometimes,&#8221; Legend continued. &#8220;You see someone as transparently competent and eloquent and on fire as Elizabeth Warren and then you hear some guys just are not into voting for a woman. Why do guys feel so threatened by the idea of a woman president?&#8221;
&#8220;Our menses,&#8221; Teigen mockingly responded in his ear. &#8220;Because there&#8217;s 10 days a month where we&#8217;re just going to war.&#8221;
The husband and wife duo have notably been consistent and vocal critics of President Donald Trump. Trump excoriated Legend and Teigen in September for reportedly taking credit for criminal justice reform legislation that the president helped champion.
&#8220;When all of the people pushing so hard for Criminal Justice Reform were unable to come even close to getting it done, they came to me as a group and asked for my help. I got it done with a group of Senators [and] others who would never have gone for it,&#8221; Trump said in a series of tweets. &#8220;Obama couldn&#8217;t come close. A man named [Van Jones] and many others, were profusely grateful (at the time!).&#8221;
&#8220;I SIGNED IT INTO LAW, no one else did, [and] Republicans deserve much credit. But now that it is passed, people that had virtually nothing to do with it are taking the praise,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Guys like boring musician [John Legend], and his filthy mouthed wife are talking about how great it is &#8212; but I didn&#8217;t see them around when we needed help getting it passed.&#8221;
Teigen responded to the criticism by firing off an expletive-laced tweet calling the president &#8220;a p**** a** b****.&#8221; She revealed to Vanity Fair that a friend of hers framed the tweet and gifted it to the couple — it is currently displayed in the entryway of their Beverly Hills home alongside other family photographs.
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lol what a pussy ass bitch. tagged everyone but me. an honor, mister president.
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Legend, who has referred to the president as &#8220;sad, and petty, and narcissistic and immature,&#8221; accused the president&#8217;s dislike of his wife as being attributable to his racism and sexism.
&#8220;We know this president has a particular aversion to strong women coming after him, particularly women of color,&#8221; he told Vanity Fair. &#8220;So he had to call [Teigen] out. Every time he does something like this, he just makes himself look more terrible.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know that that incrementally convinces anyone not to vote for him, but he just proves himself to be a shitty human being every day,&#8221; Legend added.

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John Legend And Chrissy Teigen Open Up About Who They&#8217;re Rooting For In The Democratic Primaries

Chrissy Teigen

John Legend

President Donald Trump excoriated Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Saturday morning after the Democratic presidential candidate announced she would not take part in a criminal justice forum at a historically black college after the president was given a &#8220;Bipartisan Justice Award.&#8221;
&#8220;Badly failing presidential candidate [Harris] will not go to a very wonderful largely African American event today because yesterday I received a major award, at the same event, for being able to produce [and] sign into law major Criminal Justice Reform legislation,&#8221; Trump wrote in a series of tweets. &#8220;Which will greatly help the African American community (and all other communities), and which was unable to get done in past administrations despite a tremendous desire for it.&#8221;
&#8220;This and best unemployment numbers EVER is more than Kamala will EVER be able to do for African Americans!&#8221; he continued.
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&#8230;.greatly help the African American community (and all other communities), and which was unable to get done in past administrations despite a tremendous desire for it. This and best unemployment numbers EVER is more than Kamala will EVER be able to do for African Americans!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188067369501052929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center, who is slated to host the upcoming forum at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, presented Trump with the Bipartisan Justice Award on Friday. The president received the award for his efforts in championing the First Step Act, which has allowed thousands of non-violent offenders to gain early release from federal prisons and provide programs to help reduce recidivism.
Trump appeared at the event to deliver a keynote address and accept the award, remarking that it was a &#8220;true honor.&#8221;
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It was my great honor to deliver the keynote address at the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum hosted by the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center in South Carolina, and my true honor to receive the Bipartisan Justice Award, thank you! <a href="https://t.co/uF9IWnI1pH">https://t.co/uF9IWnI1pH</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1187819045690773504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Harris was scheduled to speak at Benedict College&#8217;s event on Saturday, but she subsequently withdrew from the forum in protest over Trump&#8217;s award.
&#8220;As the only candidate who attended [a historically black college or university], I know the importance that these spaces hold for young Black Americans,&#8221; Harris wrote in a statement.
&#8220;Today, when it became clear Donald Trump would receive an award after decades of celebrating mass incarceration, pushing the death penalty for innocent Black Americans, rolling back police accountability measures and racist behavior that puts people’s lives at risk, and then learned all but ten Benedict students are excluded from participating, I cannot in good faith be complicit in papering over his record,&#8221; the statement continued.
Rather than participating in the event, Harris&#8217; campaign announced that she will instead hold a criminal justice roundtable at another location on the college&#8217;s campus.
Other Democratic presidential hopefuls will still be taking part in the event over the weekend, including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Housing Secretary Julián Castro, former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
&#8220;My whole life I&#8217;ve fought for justice and for the people &#8212; something you&#8217;d know nothing about,&#8221; Harris responded to Trump on Saturday. &#8220;The only part of criminal justice you can claim credit for is the &#8216;criminal&#8217; part.&#8221;
The move comes as the California senator has been noticeably slipping in the polls. After months of stagnant fundraising and steadily declining poll numbers, she slid from the frontrunner in her home state of California to receiving only single-digit support.
As of publication, Harris sits at 5.3% support among Democratic primary voters, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html#polls">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average. She has not hit double digits in the polls since August 2019.

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Trump Rips Kamala Harris For Boycotting Criminal Justice Forum Over His Award

On Friday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talked about a hilarious text exchange between a Kamala Harris campaign aide and Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith. Video and partial transcript below: 
This is just spectacular. I&#8217;m not sure whether I love it or whether I hate it. So there&#8217;s a BuzzFeed reporter, her name is Katherine Miller, and she was tweeting about the 2020 Democratic presidential debate. She tweeted out, quote:
<blockquote>MILLER: Hard to know if last night harmed or helped Warren, but I think we can all come together and agree a debate highlight was Warren telling Kamala Harris no about banning Trump from Twitter and then continuing with her point in the manner of shrugging off a Greenpeace clipboard person.</blockquote>
So that is what Miller tweeted – and by the way, she&#8217;s right. It was hilarious. Kamala Harris was so desperate for attention, I mean that the entire debate she was just like, “Love me! Why won’t you pay attention to me!? Twitter!”
[The fact that] she thought that her best hit on Elizabeth Warren was not, “You called yourself a Native American for 30 years on official forums.” Her best attack, instead, was, “Why won&#8217;t you ban Trump from Twitter, man?” Kamala Harris is very bad. 
So Kamala Harris’s [campaign aide then sends this insane note to] &#8230; Ben Smith, I guess, the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed. 
<blockquote>AIDE: Hey, I have talked to her directly a few times when she&#8217;s tweeted out stuff like this and I told her I was glad she deleted it&#8230;</blockquote>
So [Miller] deleted the tweet. There&#8217;s nothing inappropriate about the tweet. 
<blockquote>AIDE: But this kind of stuff is just really a horrible look for you guys. Frankly, it&#8217;s whiteness manifest.</blockquote>
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Whiteness manifest? What? What in that tweet has anything to do with race? It just says that Harris is a crazy person who stands outside the supermarket with a Greenpeace clipboard. That&#8217;s 100% correct, and it has nothing to do with race. I know, Greenpeace activists, they come in all races and sizes and sexual orientations – at least they appear to. So like, what?
If Kamala Harris’s people are running to “that’s racism” to call her a Greenpeace activist, pretty weird.
<blockquote>AIDE: If Kamala shrugged off a Warren critique of how she wasn&#8217;t with her on Facebook, we’d get raked and she’d get lauded as taking on corporate power. The blithe mockery here of Kamala, while lauding Warren&#8217;s style, is just not up to par. I say this to you just to be super frank because I really like your guys’ work, the platform, and your reporters. We work well together across the board, but this is a bit problematic.</blockquote>
There&#8217;s that word again: problematic. So problematic! You can&#8217;t name what&#8217;s wrong with it, but it&#8217;s problematic. 
Also, I love the tacit admission right there that we work well together across the board, guys, and if you just have your people delete their tweets, we can continue to work really well together and be bestest of friends. That&#8217;s not corrupt in any way, shape, or form. Well done Kamala Harris&#8217; team, trying too hard.
By the way, points to Ben Smith. He responded, quote:
<blockquote>SMITH: Do you seriously not have real problems? This text makes me think you are totally, totally unready for an actual presidential campaign.</blockquote>
It’s that rare point, that rare time of the day when I am praising Ben Smith. Right on the money, man. 
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SHAPIRO: Buzzfeed Hilariously Slams Harris Campaign For Complaining About Reporter’s Tweets

Ben Shapiro

BuzzFeed

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris claimed during a Friday interview on CNN that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had &#8220;broken many laws,&#8221; but, when pressed on what specific laws she thinks that he has broken, Harris struggled to give any examples.
Harris appeared on &#8220;Anderson Cooper 360°&#8221; where she was asked about recent reports <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/giuliani-counterintelligence-probe/index.html">alleging</a> that Giuliani is under federal investigation over his business dealings in Ukraine after two men that he was allegedly connected to were arrested by federal authorities.
After Harris claimed that Giuliani had &#8220;broken many laws,&#8221; Cooper asked her: &#8220;What are the specific laws you believe Giuliani has broken or may have broken?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I, I, I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Harris answered. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to find out.&#8221;
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Kamala Harris claims that Rudy Giuliani has &#8220;broken many laws&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper asks her what laws he has broken
Harris responds: &#8220;Well, I, I, I don&#8217;t know&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/N2dUg7b2av">pic.twitter.com/N2dUg7b2av</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1185379995130175488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
Harris&#8217; remarks come as she has struggled in the polls, standing at only 5.4% according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> average.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/kamala-harris-restructure-presidential-campaign/index.html">reported</a> at the start of the month that Harris planned to &#8220;restructure her struggling presidential campaign,&#8221; adding that the moves &#8220;represent the clearest sign to date that Harris, who has seen her poll numbers consistently fall over the last three months, feels changes are needed to jumpstart her presidential bid and streamline an operation that one source said has been bogged down by bureaucratic hurdles.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; latest attempt to stay relevant in the news has been <a href="https://reason.com/2019/10/15/kamala-harris-demands-that-warren-promise-to-ban-trump-from-twitter/">calling</a> for Twitter to ban President Donald Trump, which almost certainly will not happen.
Partial <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/18/acd.01.html">transcript</a> of Harris&#8217; interview on CNN:
<blockquote>COOPER: First of all, just what&#8217;s your reaction to this latest reporting about Giuliani trying to override the Ukraine embassy and the State Department to get a visa for this former prosecutor?
HARRIS: Yes. Anderson, it&#8217;s further evidence of corruption by this administration, and the personal attorney of the president of the United States clearly implicitly being given permission to act as though he is an arm of the government and the State Department. And it&#8217;s a violation of an extraordinary number of rules and ethical laws about what – who should do what. And I&#8217;m just glad to see the process is beginning to really do the investigation into Rudy Giuliani. He has clearly broken many laws.
And, you know, I was listening to the report as you were playing it. And it also raises for me questions about, again, who knew what in the administration. As I&#8217;ve been thinking about it, clearly, there are questions to be asked of the chief of staff. We have talked about Mick Mulvaney, but I frankly think that we should also be asking of John Kelly and Reince Priebus, because clearly, for a long time now, we&#8217;ve been talking about bad behaviors coming from the administration and coming from the desk of the President of the United States.
COOPER: What are there specific laws you believe Giuliani has broken or may have broken?
HARRIS: Well, I, I, I don&#8217;t know. We&#8217;re going to find out. But I don&#8217;t – I think the range includes not only abuse of power and perhaps misstatement and mischaracterization of his role and responsibilities, but I also really do wonder just instinctively whether there&#8217;s been bribery associated with Giuliani&#8217;s conduct. I think there are a number of questions to be asked. And once the facts are transparent and have been available for Congress at the very beginning to see, I think we&#8217;ll know the laws that have been broken.</blockquote>

Harris Claims Giuliani Has ‘Broken Many Laws’, Can’t Name Any

Anderson Cooper

Rudy Giuliani

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Violent crime in America, despite experiencing an overall <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/1tabledatadecoverviewpdf/table_1_crime_in_the_united_states_by_volume_and_rate_per_100000_inhabitants_1993-2012.xls">dramatic decline</a> since the 1990s, has started to <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/25-years-crime-wave-back-republicans-refuse-talk/">surge back</a> over the past few years. Amidst this distressing social trend, alas, America&#8217;s <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/rnc-blasts-kamala-harris-not-pro-criminal-enough/">erstwhile</a> &#8220;law-and-order&#8221;/tough-on-crime political party has been ideologically and financially captured by pro-criminal libertarians who ally with the Left to spout hackneyed, outmoded orthodoxies like the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-dont-let-kim-kardashian-fool-you-america-josh-hammer">alleged (non-)issue</a> of &#8220;mass incarceration.&#8221; The most tangible result of this unholy alliance was the bipartisan 2018 passage of the harrowing First Step Act jailbreak law — a law enactment which President Donald Trump, viewing the <a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20191004/he-was-released-early-from-prison-in-february-now-hes-wanted-for-murder-on-federal-hill">murderous early results</a>, apparently already <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-reportedly-regrets-passage-jailbreak-first-step-act-gullible-conservatives-supported/">regrets</a>.
Alas, the leftist/libertarian alliance on &#8220;criminal justice&#8221; issues, just highlighted during last night&#8217;s Democratic Party presidential primary debate when Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) touted her work with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on the crime-abetting issue of &#8220;<a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/jailbreak-epidemic-gang-member-released-6k-bail-now-accused-raping-12-year-old-girl/">bail reform</a>,&#8221;continues unabated. Which brings us to prominent libertarian lawyer/legal commentator <a href="https://www.cato.org/people/clark-neily">Clark Neily</a>, who has been on a roll, of late. Neily, who spent years with the rabidly <a href="https://ij.org/center-for-judicial-engagement/">pro-judicial power</a> libertarian legal group <a href="https://ij.org">Institute for Justice,</a> now works for the equally <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/proper-judging-means-principled-engagement-not-judicial-deference">pro-judicial power</a> libertarian Cato Institute. Neily&#8217;s title at Cato is &#8220;Vice President for Criminal Justice&#8221; and, based on his recent musings, he appears to embody the zealous leftist/libertarian jailbreak alliance.
The precise target of Neily&#8217;s recent ire is the prosecutor. More specifically, Neily is convinced that far too many prosecutors become federal judges — and that not nearly enough criminal defense attorneys become federal judges. In a highly revealing but nonetheless sober-minded recognition of his core readership for such anti-prosecutorial musings, Neily has published on the subject at both <a href="https://www.cato.org/publications/studies/are-disproportionate-number-federal-judges-former-government-advocates">Cato</a> and, just this week, at left-wing <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/too-many-prosecutors-federal-judiciary.html">Slate</a>. The latter piece goes so far as to call for an outright &#8220;moratorium&#8221; on the nomination of former prosecutors to the federal bench.
I am not a former prosecutor. But I do have the benefit of education at a top law school and the experience of serving as a law clerk for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. And I believe Neily is severely misguided in his anti-prosecutor crusade.
Crucially, Neily&#8217;s Cato <a href="https://www.cato.org/publications/studies/are-disproportionate-number-federal-judges-former-government-advocates#summary-previous-studies">study</a> makes no attempt whatsoever to control for education, intellect, or legal credentials. To many lay observers, this may seem anodyne — after all, can&#8217;t former prosecutors and defense attorneys/public defenders, as classes of attorneys, be presumed to have roughly equivalent legal acumens and credentials? Well, no. For generations, gifted law students of all political stripes have seen the prosecutorial career path — be it via the Department of Justice (DOJ), local U.S. attorney&#8217;s offices, state attorneys general offices, or even local district attorneys — as a prominent avenue for vocational success. The DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/legal-careers/entry-level-attorneys">Honors Program</a> has long been viewed as one of the most prestigious entry-level attorney tracks in the nation, and scores of lawyers hoping to one day be considered for a federal judgeship have routinely sought U.S. attorney&#8217;s office experience as a means of padding their resumes and evincing a demonstrable commitment to public service. Again, this holds true for lawyers and judges of all political persuasions and partisan affiliations: As but two prominent examples for those on the Left, 2016 failed Barack Obama U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is a former federal prosecutor and current presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is a former California attorney general.
This is simply not nearly as broadly true for those who pursue careers in the criminal defense bar — be they in private practice or working as public defenders. Leftists and libertarians can gnash their teeth and wail all they&#8217;d like, but the reality, as I <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1176324820771819520">tweeted</a> last month, is that in no sane world is the median defense lawyer of the same acumen and credentials as the median prosecutor. Representing drug traffickers, gangbangers, and felons in possession of firearms is not a dream job. Again, my claim is that this holds true for prosecutors and the defense bar, viewed as a class — obviously, there will be innumerable individual dispensations to such a broad rule, when comparing class sizes of this magnitude. But anecdotally, based on (1) my own personal experience knowing many individuals who have become prosecutors and defense lawyers, (2) my own law clerk experience and thinking back to a comparison of the median prosecutor&#8217;s brief and oral argument versus the median defense attorney&#8217;s brief and oral argument, and (3) discussing the issue with other former federal appellate law clerk friends, I feel eminently comfortable making such a claim. We should feel comfortable establishing a rebuttable presumption that prosecutors, considered as a class, have superior legal credentials to defense attorneys. Based purely on my own experience, I cannot even begin to count the volume of public defender&#8217;s office legal briefs I read that were of an immensely shoddy quality.
At a bare minimum, libertarians and leftists who would seek to place a moratorium on nominating prosecutors to federal judgeships ought to be asked how they can be so sure that they are not sacrificing legal acumen or credentials. I understand that such logic is arguably circular — anti-prosecutor libertarians and leftists could respond that such a moratorium may prophylactically disincentivize smart law school graduates who may aspire for judgeships from pursuing prosecutorial careers. But the salient point is that the general prestige of many prosecutorial career paths is so deeply ingrained in our legal culture. That is not something that can be easily reversed, and I highly suspect the criminal defense bar and its apologists have no particularly compelling argument to offer for how they might be able to do so.
Prosecutors do not write our nation&#8217;s criminal statutes — they merely enforce them. To the extent leftists and libertarians — hooked as they are on the anachronistic talking points of &#8220;mass incarceration&#8221; and &#8220;low-level non-violent offenders&#8221; — have substantive issues with our criminal statutes, they ought to lobby policymakers. By all accounts, considering both <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/needs-leftists-gop-texas-gov-greg-abbott-endorses-radical-ban-box-pro-criminal-mandate-employers/">state-level initiatives</a> and the aforementioned First Step Act, the pro-jailbreak cabal is quite successful in its lobbying efforts. Pro-jailbreak forces are wrong, on the policy merits, but that is an issue that can be debated in the political space. But it would be dangerous for justice and the rule of law, absent pro-jailbreak forces&#8217; ability to overcome the rebuttable presumption about the credentials of disparate vocational classes, for such forces to also take out their frustrations as part of the judicial nominations process.

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During Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, Amy Klobuchar (D-WI) told debate moderator Marc Lacey that opioid manufacturers should be held responsible for the opioid epidemic. 
“The people that should pay for this, that should pay for the treatment, are the very people that got people hooked and killed them in the first place, and that is the people that are manufacturing these opioids,” said Klobuchar. 
Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) agreed with Klobuchar, stating that the opioid crisis would continue “until we hold those responsible accountable.”
But when Lacey asked Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) about what she would do about the opioid crisis, Harris declared that drug company executives should be sent to jail, calling it a “matter of justice.”
<blockquote>LACEY: Senator Harris, you want to hold the drug manufacturers that fueled the crisis accountable. Are you in favor of sending those drug company executives to jail?
HARRIS: I am. And I will tell you, as a former prosecutor, I do think of it as being a matter of justice and accountability because they are nothing more than some high-level dope dealers. They have been engaged &#8212; 
*Applause.*
HARRIS: And I’ve seen it happen before. I’ve taken on the pharmaceutical companies when I was attorney general of California and led the second largest department of justice. I’ve seen what they do. The biggest pharmaceutical companies, the eight biggest companies and insurance companies last year profited $72 billion on the backs of people like the families that we are talking about, that have been overwhelmed by this crisis, which is a public health epidemic. 
And they knew what they were doing, they were marketing false advertising, they knew what they were pushing in communities in states like Ohio, without any concern about the repercussions because they were profiting and making big bucks. And yes, they should be held accountable, this is a matter of justice. 
And so as president of the United States, I would ensure that the United States Department of Justice understands that you want to deal with who is really a criminal? Let’s end mass incarceration and end that failed war on drugs, and let’s go after these pharmaceutical companies for what they’ve been doing to destroy our country in states like Ohio. </blockquote>
Harris has previously been criticized for her failure to promote &#8220;justice&#8221; as Attorney General of California. 
On Monday, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/kamala-harris-offices-fought-payments-to-wrongly-convicted">Bloomberg</a> published a report showing that Kamala Harris’s office refused to pay a man who was wrongfully convicted of rape, and even tried to force him into joining the sex offender registry list. Gerald Schwartzbach, the man’s lawyer, told Bloomberg that Harris’ office “penalized an innocent man with technical arguments,” which he calls “contradictory to the whole purpose of the criminal justice system.”
Last August, as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-most-searched-name-google-once-again-paul-bois">Daily Wire</a> reported, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) became the most-searched Democratic presidential candidate on Google after she brought attention to Harris’ problematic record as a prosecutor. 
<blockquote>GABBARD: I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively impacting black and brown people all across this country today. Now Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president.
But I’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence — she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.</blockquote>

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) stated on Sunday that Congress&#8217; impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump should not take an especially long time because he has already confessed to the necessary &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors&#8221; outlined in the Constitution.
During an appearance at the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) presidential candidate forum in Altoona, Iowa, the California senator was asked, based on her previous experience as a prosecutor, if she would prosecute Trump for impeachment.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s the thing, I have been calling for the impeachment of this president for a long time and for the process to proceed. And based on everything I know, yes,&#8221; Harris responded. &#8220;Here is how I think about it, because we have got a confession and it don&#8217;t take a prosecutor to see that was a confession. I mean, we have a confession, we have a cover-up, right?&#8221;
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives announced in September that they would be moving forward with an impeachment inquiry. The move was in response to a whistleblower&#8217;s testimony accusing Trump of asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for using his position as vice president to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor who was looking into his son&#8217;s business dealings.
The reports were not confirmed at the time of the announcement, and it was not until a day later that the White House released a transcript of Trump&#8217;s exchange with Zelensky. After the transcript was made public, many have argued that it fails to show the direct quid pro quo agreement initially alleged. Democrats, however, have stood their ground on impeachment despite failing to formally vote on an impeachment inquiry or naming a &#8220;high crime or misdemeanor,&#8221; as required by the Constitution.
Harris further cited the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to store the president&#8217;s phone calls with foreign leaders in a classified system as evidence that the Trump administration meets the legal standard of consciousness of guilt. The White House, however, made the move to keep sensitive information from leaking, an issue that has been plaguing the administration.
&#8220;When people say, &#8216;Well, how long do you think this impeachment process is going to be?&#8217; Well, it shouldn&#8217;t take very long because he did it out in the open,&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;And this is the thing, he told us who he is.&#8221;
&#8220;Remember when he was campaigning and he said &#8216;I can shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue&#8217; &#8212; which is a very busy street in New York &#8212; &#8216;and get away with it?&#8217; He told us that. So in his mind, I can do anything, including in the wide open, and get away with it,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Well, on this he will not, because you know what? Dude gotta go. Dude gotta go. He gotta go. And this is the impeachment process.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; claims come as the Democratic presidential hopeful has been struggling to gain traction in her bid for the oval office. Her fundraising has been stagnant, hitting around $12 million for a third quarter in a row, and she has been consistently slipping in the polls. Harris is polling at just under 5% on average, down from the double-digits she was receiving over the summer.

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Donald Trump Jr. mocked Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Friday night over her personality, calling her nearly the &#8220;most disingenuous person in politics.&#8221;
&#8220;Why is @KamalaHarris the only person that laughs at her jokes&#8230; always way to long and way too hard?&#8221; Trump Jr. tweeted. &#8220;The most disingenuous person in politics&#8230; after Hillary.&#8221;
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Why is <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a> the only person that laughs at her jokes&#8230; always way to long and way too hard? The most disingenuous person in politics&#8230; after Hillary. <a href="https://t.co/elskW29XeP">pic.twitter.com/elskW29XeP</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1182814100046471173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
Harris responded: &#8220;You wouldn’t know a joke if one raised you.&#8221;
Trump Jr. fired back, highlighting Harris&#8217; continued struggles on the campaign trail, writing: &#8220;Based on your tanking poll numbers, what’s definitely a joke is your entire campaign. Yikes!&#8221;
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Based on your tanking poll numbers, what’s definitely a joke is your entire campaign 🤣 Yikes! <a href="https://t.co/3vkxo5gUyO">https://t.co/3vkxo5gUyO</a> <a href="https://t.co/oKMCKuscBR">pic.twitter.com/oKMCKuscBR</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1182829968495140864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
Politico reporter Christopher Cadelago tweeted: &#8220;Source close to Don Jr. responds to Harris tweet: &#8216;We feel bad for Kamala at this point &#8230; she’s irrelevant. She’s a phony who should go back to lying about listening to Snoop Dogg before Snoop Dogg was even a rapper.'&#8221;
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Source close to Don Jr. responds to Harris tweet: “We feel bad for Kamala at this point &#8230; she’s irrelevant. She’s a phony who should go back to lying about listening to Snoop Dogg before Snoop Dogg was even a rapper.” <a href="https://t.co/0vzUvykFnO">https://t.co/0vzUvykFnO</a>
— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) <a href="https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1182833414061350915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
Harris&#8217; campaign has been in a downward spiral ever since Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) diced her up during the second presidential debate.
&#8220;She took incoming fire early in the debate from Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who criticized Harris’ record as prosecutor, arguing &#8216;when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in people’s lives, you did not, and worse yet in the case of those who are on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so. There’s no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor — you owe them an apology,'&#8221; Roll Call <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/what-happened-to-kamala-harris">reported</a>. &#8220;The attack seemed to catch Harris by surprise, and she never recovered. Polls quickly showed her sliding back to the single digits in national polls.&#8221;
Just this week, fellow California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein decided to not endorse Harris for president, choosing to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden instead.
&#8220;Feinstein’s endorsement of Biden may seem like a snub to Harris — a first-term senator and former California attorney general — but it hardly comes out of left field, as just last week she held a fundraiser for the former vice president in her home in San Francisco,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dianne-feinstein-endorses-joe-biden-presidential-kamala-harris">reported</a>. &#8220;The endorsement from Feinstein — a longtime liberal lawmaker who was first elected in 1992 — comes as Biden is struggling to hold on to his role as Democratic frontrunner. An average of recent polls compiled by Real Clear Politics has Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren virtually tied at the top of the Democratic race.&#8221;
Harris received a slight bump in the polls following the first Democratic presidential debate after she shredded Biden, who struggled to respond to her attacks.
&#8220;Harris raised $11.6 million last quarter, a decent amount. But her haul was less than half of Sanders’ and Warren’s, and well below Buttigieg’s and Biden’s,&#8221; Roll Call added.

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CNN host Chris Cuomo made a lighthearted joke about his &#8220;preferred pronouns&#8221; during the network&#8217;s LGBT-focused town hall event on Thursday night, but quickly felt compelled to apologize.
Flexing her LGBT chops, Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) told Cuomo at the outset, &#8220;My pronouns are she, her and hers.&#8221;
&#8220;She, her and hers? Mine, too,&#8221; Cuomo quipped.
&#8220;All right,&#8221; the presidential hopeful said back, unamused.
The CNN host was quickly hit with backlash online for his egregious transgression.
&#8220;Chris Cuomo just mocked Sen. Kamala Harris saying her pronouns by responding &#8216;mine too&#8217; and the gasp I let out. Not. Okay,&#8221; said The Advocate&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief Zach Stafford.
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Chris Cuomo just mocked Sen. Kamala Harris saying her pronouns by responding &quot;mine too&quot; and the gasp I let out. 
Not. Okay.
&mdash; Zach Stafford (@ZachStafford) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachStafford/status/1182469418170892288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Anyone else think it&#8217;s uncool for Chris Cuomo to treat pronouns like a joke at a debate centered on LGBTQ issues?&#8221; Fox 13 journalist Rebecca Green asked.
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Anyone else think it&#39;s uncool for Chris Cuomo to treat pronouns like a joke at a debate centered on LGBTQ issues?
&mdash; Rebecca Green (@wordofgreen) <a href="https://twitter.com/wordofgreen/status/1182469179909128192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Cuomo posted a public apology to social media later that night in which he insisted to those now questioning his commitment to the LGBT cause that he truly is &#8220;an ally&#8221;:
<blockquote>&#8220;PLEASE READ: When Sen. Harris said her pronouns were she her and her&#8217;s, I said mine too. I should not have. I apologize. I am an ally of the LGBTQ community, and I am sorry because I am committed to helping us achieve equality. Thank you for watching our townhall.&#8221;</blockquote>
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PLEASE READ: When Sen. Harris said her pronouns were she her and her&#39;s, I said mine too. I should not have. I apologize. I am an ally of the LGBTQ community, and I am sorry because I am committed to helping us achieve equality. Thank you for watching our townhall.
&mdash; Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1182479789518516225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Intercept&#8217;s Glenn Greenwald hit both Harris and Cuomo over the incident.
&#8220;Is Sen. Harris also going to announce her pronouns at the start of events at the Iowa State Fair, farm lunches in New Hampshire, and in churches in South Carolina, or is this just for the LGBT groups?&#8221; the journalist asked. &#8220;That said, I&#8217;m very relieved to learn that Chris Cuomo is a good &#8216;ally.'&#8221; 
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Is Sen. Harris also going to announce her pronouns at the start of events at the Iowa State Fair, farm lunches in New Hampshire, and in churches in South Carolina, or is this just for the LGBT groups? That said, I&#39;m very relieved to learn that Chris Cuomo is a good &quot;ally&quot;: <a href="https://t.co/xUNJuHQZZ6">https://t.co/xUNJuHQZZ6</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1182626059126280193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The town hall also took heat from folks on the Right over their use of two transgender nine-year-old children. One child was accompanied by their mother who posed a question. The other child, Jacob, was met with thunderous applause when the nine-year-old asked a question to Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
“My name&#8217;s Jacob, and I&#8217;m a nine-year-old transgender American,&#8221; the child, a biological female, said.
Warren, as well as the CNN audience, loudly applauded the child’s declaration of transgenderism. &#8220;All right, Jacob!&#8221; the senator gushed.
Jacob asked the senator what she&#8217;ll do her first week as president to make transgender kids &#8220;feel safer in schools&#8221; and what schools should be doing so all the child has to &#8220;worry about&#8221; is &#8220;homework.&#8221;
&#8220;Let me start by saying I want to have a secretary of education that who both believes in public education and believes in the value of every one of our kids and is willing to enforce our civil rights laws,&#8221; the presidential hopeful responded, as reported by The Washington Examiner. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had some secretaries of education who&#8217;ve been better, and we&#8217;ve had one that&#8217;s been a whole lot worse. Her name is Betsy DeVos. So, when I&#8217;m president, she&#8217;ll be gone.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to make sure that the person I think is the right secretary of education meets you and and hears your story, and then I want you to tell me if you think that&#8217;s the right person and then we&#8217;ll make the deal,&#8221; the presidential hopeful told the child.
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Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris panders to CNN&#39;s LGBT town hall, says: &quot;My pronouns are &#39;she/her/hers&#39;&quot;
CNN&#39;s Chris Cuomo mocks her: &quot;Mine too!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/aXX3HNkVLp">pic.twitter.com/aXX3HNkVLp</a>
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During a campaign stop this week in Nevada, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=254433">claimed</a> that women aren’t paid equally to men for the same work:
<blockquote>Look, women are still not paid equal for equal work in America. We&#8217;ve got to deal with that. We have to deal with the fact that we&#8217;re not paying teachers their value and all of our kids in public schools and want to know there will be teachers there who love them and have a passion for the work, but can actually afford to meet their bills every month. There&#8217;s so much that we need to do.</blockquote>
This isn’t the first time the senator has made this claim.
In May, during an appearance on &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,&#8221; Harris was more specific, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2019/may/23/kamala-harris/colbert-kamala-harris-flubs-wage-gap-statistic/">stating</a>:
<blockquote>The law says that men and women should be paid equally for equal work, but what we know is that in America today, women on average are paid 80 cents on the dollar of what men are paid for the same work &#8230; these are actually not debatable points.</blockquote>
They are, in fact, debatable points.
According to the <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-263.html">U.S. Census Bureau</a>, in 2017, the &#8220;female-to-male earnings ratio was 0.805&#8221; when comparing the median annual earnings of men ($52,146) and women ($41,977).
These numbers, however, are broad averages, and don’t take into account the numerous factors unrelated to gender discrimination that create pay disparities. Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-promotes-wage-gap-bill-saying-women-frank-camp">states as much</a> in a 2014 &#8220;Factual Feminist&#8221; video:
<blockquote>There was an analysis of more than 50 peer-reviewed papers commissioned by the Department of Labor. What they found is that the so-called “wage gap” is mostly, perhaps entirely, an artifact of the different choices men and women make – different fields of study, different professions, different balances between and home and work&#8230;</blockquote>
A 2009 <a href="https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/public-policy/hr-public-policy-issues/Documents/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf">report</a> from CONSAD Research Corp backs this up:
<blockquote>There are observable differences in the attributes of men and women that account for most of the wage gap. Statistical analysis that includes those variables has produced results that collectively account for between 65.1 and 76.4 percent of a raw gender wage gap of 20.4 percent, and thereby leave an adjusted gender wage gap that is between 4.8 and 7.1 percent.</blockquote>
A <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bolotnyy/files/be_gender_gap.pdf#page39">paper</a> by Valentin Bolotnyy, PhD, and Natalia Emanuel that examined the working behavior of bus and train operators from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) found much of the wage gap seen in this particular profession was explained not by gender discrimination, but by different choices made by the sexes.
&#8220;&#8230;the earnings gap can be explained by female operators taking, on average, 1.5 fewer hours of overtime and 1.3 more hours of unpaid time-off per week than male operators,&#8221; Bolotnyy and Emanuel write. &#8220;Female operators, especially those who have dependents, pursue schedule conventionality, predictability, and controllability more than male operators.&#8221;
The authors add that two policy changes pertaining to overtime hours and unpaid time off &#8220;narrowed the earnings gap &#8230; from $0.89 in 2015 to $0.94 in 2017.&#8221;
While Sen. Harris and other progressives can repeatedly assert that women aren’t paid equally to men, the above evidence strongly suggests otherwise.

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Kamala Harris: ‘Women Are Still Not Paid Equal’

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United States Senator and  2020 presidential contender Kamala Harris is now calling on Twitter to suspend a sitting president because she doesn&#8217;t like what he says on the platform.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/kamala-harris-trump-twitter-cnntv/index.html">CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper on Monday</a>, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) claimed President Trump is now using his Twitter account to bully people, citing his recent tweets about the &#8220;whistleblower&#8221; in the Ukraine &#8220;scandal&#8221; as evidence.
&#8220;The President&#8217;s tweets and his behaviors about this are just further evidence of the fact that he uses his power in a way that is designed to beat people down instead of lift people up,&#8221; Harris said.
On Monday, President Trump referred to the &#8220;whistleblower&#8221; as a &#8220;fraud&#8221; for pushing the narrative that he pressured Ukraine to dig up dirt on Vice President Joe Biden and Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter.
&#8220;The Fake Whistleblower complaint is not holding up. It is mostly about the call to the Ukrainian President which, in the name of transparency, I immediately released to Congress &amp; the public. The Whistleblower knew almost nothing, its 2ND HAND description of the call is a fraud!&#8221; Trump tweeted.
Kamala Harris said tweets like the one on Monday and others sent over the course of his tenure as president show that he is irresponsible with his words and should be suspended from social media.
&#8220;Frankly, when you look at what he&#8217;s been tweeting today directed at the whistleblower, directed at so many people, you know, I, frankly, think that based on this and all we&#8217;ve seen him do before, including attacking members of Congress, that he, frankly, should be &#8212; his Twitter account should be suspended,&#8221; Harris told Anderson Cooper. &#8220;I think there is plenty of now evidence to suggest that he is irresponsible with his words in a way that could result in harm to other people. And so the privilege of using those words in that way should probably be taken from him.&#8221;
Anderson Cooper suggested that Twitter suspending Trump could potentially result in a backlash by giving off the appearance that the social media giant is silencing the president. Kamala Harris said Trump should be silenced because he is using &#8220;his words in a way that could subject someone to harm.&#8221;
&#8220;If he&#8217;s not going to exercise self-restraint, then, perhaps, there should be other mechanisms in place to make sure that his words do not, in fact, harm anyone,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s my point. What we want to make sure is that his words do not actually result in harm to anyone.&#8221;
The senator&#8217;s demand for Twitter to suspend President Trump was met with criticism from none other than former &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; cast member Rob Schneider, who said her words were un-American.
&#8220;Government officials asking corporations to sensor people is grossly unAmerican,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/1178866495603888128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1178866495603888128&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fentertainment%2F2019%2F09%2F30%2Frob-schneider-slams-kamala-harris-grossly-un-american-to-call-on-twitter-to-suspend-trump%2F">Schneider tweeted</a>. &#8220;Free Speech is to protect not just the speech you like but also the speech you find abhorrent. <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris" data-mentioned-user-id="30354991" data-scribe="element:mention">@KamalaHarris</a> you are either for ALL of it or NONE of it.&#8221;
Kamala Harris is not the only one who has called on Twitter to suspend Trump during this political firestorm. &#8220;Avengers&#8221; director Joss Whedon also said it should be done in the name of national security.
“Can I just add to this crucial thread that in the interests of national security he should be immediately banned from Twitter?” Whedon tweeted.

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