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>

President Biden And Vice President Harris Speak At Democratic National Committee’s Holiday Reception

‘We Dodged A Missile’: Kamala Torched Over Latest Word Salad About Doritos

2024 Election

California

Democrats

General

Hollywood

Kamala Harris

Politics

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.

56th NAACP Image Awards – Press Room

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2026 Midterms

Elections

Gavin Newsom

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. 
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&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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Barack Obama

Charlie Kirk

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Presidential nomination

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?
<div id="attachment_745779" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-745779" class="size-large wp-image-745779" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Untitled-design-117-1024x576.jpg" alt="A group of migrants are processed by Border Patrol after crossing the river illegally near the highway on February 4, 2024 outside Eagle Pass, Texas." width="1024" height="576" />(Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images)</div>
“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.”
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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>.”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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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:
“This whole thing is collapsing….the analogy I use is Pickett is 500 yards from the stone wall. Hold your fire. It&#39;s going to be easy pickings here in six… <a href="https://t.co/1Rx7trZ07P">pic.twitter.com/1Rx7trZ07P</a>
&mdash; Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1893818238959567021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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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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MSNBC may be dropping Joy Reid&#8217;s daily show &#8220;The Reidout&#8221; at the end of February, but a wide selection of the far-left host&#8217;s hot takes will live forever on the internet.
With just days to go before Reid is replaced by a trio of leftists — Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez — here are a few of the hottest of Reid&#8217;s hot takes from recent years.
<h4>That time she claimed that Joe Biden surviving COVID was no less bada** than Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt.</h4>
&#8220;These two men are both elderly. Donald Trump is an elderly man who for whatever reason was given nine seconds to take a … iconic photo op during an active shooter situation — weird situation, we’ll figure that out one day,&#8221; Reid began.
&#8220;But his survival of that, and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This current President of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID. Should he be fine in a couple of days, doesn’t that convey exactly the same thing? That he’s strong enough — older than Trump — to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age. So if he does fine out of it and comes back and he rallies, isn’t that exactly the same?&#8221;
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Throwback to when Joy Reid suggested that Trump surviving the shooting and going immediately to the RNC was be exactly the same as Joe Biden beating Covid and going to the DNC. Unsurprising her show is cancelled. <a href="https://t.co/gL0zENSuSf">pic.twitter.com/gL0zENSuSf</a>
&mdash; T.J. Moe (@TJMoe28) <a href="https://twitter.com/TJMoe28/status/1893656955316486633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<h4>Then there was the time she scolded minorities who supported Trump, claiming that they signed up for the &#8220;humiliation&#8221; that came with being in his orbit.</h4>
&#8220;Part of the price of MAGAdom, particularly if you are a person of color is to take the humiliation, you know? I mean, Nikki Haley was not even invited, she was ostentatiously disinvited from this convention. Yet, she still said, ‘I pledge all my delegates to Trump,’&#8221; Reid said.
&#8220;Tim Scott humiliated himself daily and then has continued to do so on this stage. I am stunned. And sad for him in the display he just did. But the humiliation of Tim Scott is part of the game and it’s part of the price,&#8221; she added, arguing that they also allowed Trump to &#8220;abuse&#8221; their communities. &#8220;Marco Rubio has been allowing himself to be humiliated by Donald Trump since he drank the tiny water bottle. Like, he’s never going to stop letting Trump humiliate him.&#8221;
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Joy Reid claims &quot;part of the price&quot; to be minority and in the MAGA movement is &quot;to take the humiliation.&quot; She lashes out at Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, and Byron Donalds and accuses them of enabling &quot;an abuse of these communities to make these people walk the plank.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4lvK50T9uc">pic.twitter.com/4lvK50T9uc</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1813052352594694473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h4>Who could forget the time she complained that Trump got a PR boost from getting shot during the rally in Butler, PA.</h4>
Demanding that the media stand up and &#8220;be the guardians of memory,&#8221; she fretted that the shooting would &#8220;allow Donald Trump, as he’s you know bathed in the glory and grandeur of his party to rewrite himself as both a hero and a victim that people who are the most vulnerable to not just the things he’s done but the things he’s promising to do, and that that will happen without a guardian saying wait, stop, and then the media will acquiesce to this rewrite.&#8221;
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Joy Reid fears that, after the assassination attempt on Trump, &quot;the media will acquiesce&quot; to Republicans and not label Trump &quot;the greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence&#8230;since George Wallace.&quot;
She doesn&#39;t want Trump to &quot;rewrite himself as a victim.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/f5QSVcYwkO">pic.twitter.com/f5QSVcYwkO</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1812991398758486524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h4>She not only bought into the notion that the legal cases against Trump would be what ended his political career, but was convinced that they were evidence of &#8220;racially-based vengeance.&#8221;</h4>
&#8220;But for me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact … the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad,” Reid said. “The very kind of person that his former staff, the people who worked for him, Steven Miller, etc., want to never be at Harvard Law School. But he was. And he came out and graduated, and he’s prosecuting you, Donald.”
Reid went on to reference Willis in Georgia and New York Attorney General Letitia James, noting their roles in other cases against the former president.
“And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia and a black woman forced you to pay a $175 million fine,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he’s trying to dismantle. … It says something good about our country that we’re still capable of having that happen. Go, DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.&#8221;
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Joy Reid suggests that the criminal cases brought against Trump is racially-based vengeance by black officials:
&quot;Go DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/r9THOyWMGn">pic.twitter.com/r9THOyWMGn</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1780345671163273582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h4>She even compared calls to protect the southern border to the old south&#8217;s resistance to racial integration.</h4>
Reid complained that Republicans had the ability to come up with a real solution to the illegal immigration problem, but &#8220;they just refuse to do it because many Republicans now see calling for zero tolerance on the border as the only way to animate their base.”
She concluded the thought by claiming that Texas Republicans sounded “like the old southerners who said that we will resist integration by any means necessary.&#8221;
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MSNBC&#39;s Joy Reid compares <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chiproytx</a>&#39;s call to protect the southern border to &quot;the old Southerners who said that we will resist integration by any means necessary&quot;. To the racial demagogue, everything looks like racism. <a href="https://t.co/a876itUHCb">pic.twitter.com/a876itUHCb</a>
&mdash; Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/1750358635534848375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On Saturday, former Vice President Kamala Harris took a not-so-subtle rhetorical jab at President Donald Trump, who defeated her in the 2024 election last November, and Elon Musk.
Harris delivered remarks upon receiving the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unwavering-commitment-to-justice-equity-naacp-bestows-award-on-kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chairman&#8217;s Award</a>, which <a href="https://www.naacpimageawards.net/press/pressRelease/144" target="_blank" rel="noopener">honors</a> people who &#8220;excel in public service and leverage their unique platforms to ignite and drive meaningful change&#8221; at the NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, California.
&#8220;Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask &#8216;What do we do now?'&#8221; Harris said a few minutes into her speech.
&#8220;But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate and we advocate. Because, you see, our power has never come from having an easy path.&#8221;
Harris later needled Trump and Elon Musk, a wealthy tech executive who is overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), without mentioning them by name.
&#8220;While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the Oval Office nor by the wealthiest among us,&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people.&#8221;
Reports <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-is-a-young-politician-and-will-be-back-ex-adviser-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emerged</a> after Trump won the 2024 election indicating that Harris, 60, was signaling to her confidants that she wants to keep her future political options open, including a potential 2026 campaign for governor of California or a presidential run in 2028.
&#8220;I don’t think the world has seen the last of Vice President Kamala Harris,&#8221; Symone Sanders, a former adviser to Harris who became a host on MSNBC, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-is-a-young-politician-and-will-be-back-ex-adviser-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in December. &#8220;I don’t know how she will show up again, but she is a young politician who garnered over 75 million votes in this election, and she will be back.&#8221;
Harris has not formally embarked on any campaigns in the intervening months, but last week she made <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/19/kamala-harris-caa-creative-artists-agency/79216896007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headlines</a> by signing with Hollywood talent agency CAA, joining former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
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Kamala Swipes At Trump And Elon Musk In NAACP Award Acceptance Speech

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“Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup.” — Gloria Swanson
&#8220;Fasten your seatbelt, it&#8217;s going to be a bumpy night.&#8221; — Bette Davis
“It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day.” — Kamala Harris
Yes, the former vice president <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/19/kamala-harris-caa-creative-artists-agency/79216896007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is going Hollywood</a>.
The Queen of Brat Summer inked a deal with CAA, one of Hollywood’s top talent agencies. She’ll be in heady company. Former President Joe Biden also joined CAA in recent weeks, proving the company knows talent when it sees it.
The CAA move likely means a possible book deal, speaking gigs and other politically-charged possibilities for Harris.
Why stop there?
Hollywood knows a star when it sees one and, during her brief presidential run, Harris proved she’s got charisma to burn. With that in mind, here are some possible gigs to keep Harris busy before she starts her 2028 presidential run.
<h2>MOVIES</h2>
<h3>“How To Lose an Election In 100 Days”</h3>
Harris takes the baton from Kate Hudson in this adorable, 21st century reboot. She’ll play a politician who can cinch the big election by pairing with a smart, handsome state governor. But who will she choose? Will she choose the smart Jewish boy from Pennsylvania or fall for the Jim Gaffigan look-a-like who ducked his military obligations?
<h3>“Weekend at Joey’s”</h3>
This ‘80s comedy remake finds Harris, playing herself, trying to convince voters that President Joe Biden is very much alive, thank you. Hilarity ensues when Biden is forced to do a second presidential debate with President Donald Trump and Harris has only hours to rig the leader’s body with enough marionette strings to convince viewers he’s awake. “Bernie’s” alums Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy make cameos as Biden officials telling journalists that Biden’s funeral announcements were merely “cheap fakes.”
<h3>“Harris’ Millions”</h3>
Richard Pryor’s 1985 comedy gets the reboot treatment. Pryor’s character, now an empowered cisgender black woman played by Harris, must spend every dollar of her $1 billion-plus presidential war chest in 100 days or lose the presidency.
<h3>“Talk Fear”</h3>
Kamala plays a political star targeted by a dude-bro podcaster. The misogynist dares to invite her onto his podcast, knowing she’ll crash and burn under the show’s withering spotlight. He’ll stop at nothing to get her in his studio. But does she really have to be in-studio? Really? Either way, will she be able to avoid his intense line of questions about MMA fighting, nutritional supplements and, gasp, vaccines? First, he&#8217;ll have to find her.
<h3>“White Dudes for Harris: The Movie”</h3>
Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Jeff Bridges and Mark Hamill co-star in this raucous comedy set on the Harris campaign trail. The main players try to explain to everyday Americans why they should vote for Harris, but their subjects keep running away.
<h3>“Butch Cassidy and The DEI Kid”</h3>
This neo-western casts Harris as a train-robbing outlaw from Wyoming who steals from the poor to give to the rich. After witnessing an egregious example of unconscious bias and cultural appropriation, however, Harris becomes an ally of under-represented groups and vows to fight disrespectful cultural and racial stereotypes while robbing trains. But when she and Butch encounter a band of clever Latinx caballeros who effortlessly guilt corporations out of their cold, hard cash, they quickly trade in their six shooters for pant suits.
<h2>REALITY SHOWS</h2>
<h3>“The Real Housewives of DC”</h3>
The latest version of the hot reality franchise finds Harris and beau Douglas Emhoff struggling to rekindle their old marital magic after he’s spotted with Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s daughter at Starbucks.
<h3>“Off the Record” </h3>
This contest asks wannabe politicians to spend 48 straight hours dodging journalists’ questions. The speed round finds contestants sprinting through a mile-long red-carpet event. Whoever goes the longest without uttering an answer wins.
<h3>“VP and the Duchess”</h3>
Harris teams with former actress Meghan Markle for an episodic comedy series about a couple of oppressed, crazy old friends reconnecting on America’s wide-open roadways. Along the way, they protest an anti-abortion nonprofit office, deface a military recruitment billboard, and lecture citizens in every small town they visit, all the while squandering their life savings.
<h3>“Huh?” </h3>
Harris hosts this deeply personal show where contestants win big prizes by deciphering her classic speeches. The bonus round challenges players to decode her campaign text alerts.
<h3>“Top Chef: Word Salad” </h3>
The former VP oversees this cooking challenge where amateur chefs explore healthy salads made from locally sourced gardens. The focus is on health, not taste. Chefs lose points if they inject flavor into their salads.
<h2>BOOKS</h2>
<h3>“Dummies Guide to Border Czar-ing”</h3>
Harris shares how to duck all responsibilities when assigned one of the most challenging tasks. “If I can do it, so can you,” reads the author’s blurb.
<h3>“Laughter Is the Best Medicine”</h3>
In this self-help tome, Harris explores how humor and uncontrollable laughter can not only pave over the roughest patches in our lives, but also propel us to the top. Bonus chapter includes instructions on how to snag a gig solely due to immutable characteristics like sex, skin color, or online intimidation.
<h3>“Kamala’s Guide to Venn Diagrams”</h3>
It’s math made easy by the former vice president. Drawing from her vast experience calling for Venn diagrams in public, Harris guides us through the mystery behind overlapping circles in ways even Daily Kos readers can understand.
<h3>“It&#8217;s Pronounced KAMala”</h3>
Harris takes a page from Michael Knowles’s “Reasons to Vote for Democrats” with this cheeky tome. The content? The first page tells readers to emphasize KAM-a-la, not Ka-Ma-la in Harris’ first name. The rest of the 500-page book repeats those instructions.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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ESPN host Stephen A. Smith said Democrats have no one right now who could run for president in four years and said that former Vice President Kamala Harris should not even think about running in 2028.
During “The Stephen A. Smith Show” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrXqnGXVyPM">podcast</a>, Smith shut down the idea of running for President of the United States himself after his name started polling as a possible candidate to run for the top of the Democrat party.
The host said that while he has “zero desire” to be a politician, if he also said, &#8220;If I had a really, really good shot to win, I can’t deny that it’s something I would consider.”
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&#8220;Let me tell y’all something, if you’re the Democrats,” Smith said. “That is why Stephen A. Smith is in the news – because y’all don’t have anybody. Who you got? Who you got? Kamala Harris better not run.”
“She better not run. She’s not going to win the presidency in 2028!” he added. “Keep in mind — respect for her. I’m not going to disrespect the former Vice President of the United States. I will never do that, but we gotta be real about something here. When she ran for election on her own, she couldn’t make it to Iowa in 2020.”
“She ultimately positions herself [and] gets the vice presidency,” Smith continued. “They win the election in 2020. Joe Biden is feeling himself after the liberals won the midterms. And instead of being a transitional president like he promised, the man backstabbed the liberal party, and turned around and said, ‘I’m staying.’ They wanted him out.&#8221;
The sports host then turned his ire towards the Democratic party as a whole and said that Trump won because Democrats depended “on the legal system to wipe him out” instead of beating him at the ballot box.
&#8220;One of the reasons I think he won, because he was saying, ‘You can’t beat me! You’re using this to get help because you can&#8217;t beat me on your own!’” Smith said of Trump. &#8220;Who else you got? [House Minority Leader] Hakeem Jeffries?&#8221;
“I personally support Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, but I don’t know how much of a national figure he is. I already interviewed [Pennsylvania governor] Josh Shapiro,” he added. &#8220;I’m in the news because the Democratic Party is here. Dammit, lower than that. Down to the bottom. They suck right now. Horrible. Because they don’t have a voice. Where the hell is the voice?&#8221;
&#8220;That’s why Stephen A. Smith is a candidate,” Smith continued. “Who the hell told y’all I’d wanna be a Democrat? I have conservative ideas. I believe in free market capitalism. I believe in patrolling our borders. I believe in strong national security. But you are right, I’d probably be a Democrat. A moderate. A centrist leaning left.”
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The NAACP will bestow its Chairman’s Award, which honors people who “excel in public service and leverage their unique platforms to ignite and drive meaningful change,” on former Vice President Kamala Harris.
The award will be presented at the NAACP Image Awards on February 22.
“Vice President Kamala Harris is more than a leader – she is a force of change, driven by an unwavering passion to shape a brighter, more equitable future. It is with great honor that we present her with the Chairman’s Award at this year’s NAACP Image Awards, celebrating her relentless dedication to justice, equality, and the betterment of our society. Her legacy is built on courage, compassion, and a profound commitment to uplifting those who need it most. Her tireless advocacy for the most vulnerable among us has made her a beacon of hope and progress,” Leon W. Russell, chair of the NAACP National Board of Directors, stated, according to <a href="applewebdata://0998756A-5C7B-4C1D-9D8C-D513B7552BD5/v">Variety</a>.
“Vice President Harris embodies the power, grace, and unyielding courage that Black women have long brought to the heart of the United States,” NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson echoed. “With bold determination, Vice President Harris fights for justice, amplifies the voices of the marginalized, and stands as a beacon of hope. She embodies the resilience and brilliance of black women, uplifting their legacy as the driving force behind change in this country. VP Harris reminds us all that when black women lead, the entire nation rises.”
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“Her unwavering commitment to justice, equity, and progress has inspired millions, and her journey is a powerful testament to that which can be achieved through resilience, strength, and brilliance,” Scott Mills, president and CEO of BET Media Group, declared.
The Chairman’s Award has been given to leftists galore, including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Al Gore, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, U.S. Congressman John Lewis, Congressman Bennie G. Thompson, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters. It has never been given to famed conservative economist Thomas Sowell or Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> abruptly exited the 2024 presidential race in late July — after a disastrous debate performance and a series of troubling interviews and public appearances — but he did still manage to etch his name in the presidential record books.
Biden, according to data compiled and published by the Republican National Committee, took 577 vacation days out of the 1,463 days he spent holding the office of the presidency. By percentages, that amounts to 39% of his total time in office — more vacation than any modern president has taken.
The RNC was already tracking Biden&#8217;s excessive vacation habits long before he left office.
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Biden spent today — his 16th straight day on vacation — lounging on the beach.
He has spent a total of 532 days (40.3% of his presidency) on vacation.
Who&#39;s running the country? <a href="https://t.co/YIStPQR3Vl">pic.twitter.com/YIStPQR3Vl</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1830025501190373610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/us-news/biden-took-off-577-days-in-4-years-tops-modern-era-presidents/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>, average Americans would have to put in 52 years of work — without ever using a vacation day — to accrue the number of days, at a rate of 11 days per year, that Biden blew through in just four years.
&#8220;That&#8217;s a day off for every 2.5 days on,&#8221; Noam Blum added.
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That&#39;s a day off for every 2.5 days on. <a href="https://t.co/OwKU0bh6up">https://t.co/OwKU0bh6up</a>
&mdash; Noam Blum (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1890770377095172547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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David Limbaugh also added context, saying, &#8220;These are apparently the days identified as vacation days. But in truth I doubt that 10% of his days in office were anything remotely approaching working days.&#8221;
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These are apparently the days identified as vacation days. But in truth I doubt that 10% of his days in office were anything remotely approaching working days. <a href="https://t.co/9aYOxUMnhl">https://t.co/9aYOxUMnhl</a>
&mdash; David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidLimbaugh/status/1890773072820552174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Biden&#8217;s vacation days outnumbered the 381 taken by President Donald Trump during his first term of 1,461 days — which comes out to approximately 26% of his time in office — and even managed to surpass the previous record set by the late George H.W. Bush, who spent 543 of his 1,461 days as president, or 37%, on vacation.
Former President George W. Bush had a slightly lower vacation-to-work ratio, taking 1020 vacation days out of his 2,922 days in office (35%). The late President Ronald Reagan and former President Barack Obama came in at 11%, and the late President Jimmy Carter vacationed for just 5% of his presidency.
Biden put them all to shame when, after being unceremoniously ousted from the Democrats&#8217; 2024 presidential ticket, he took 23 days off in a row beginning on August 8th.
Biden also made headlines when he issued 39 pardons and nearly 1,500 sentence commutations on December 12, 2024 — the &#8220;largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.&#8221;
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America is a nation of second chances.
Today, President Biden is pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. <a href="https://t.co/Hzg4nWcfkE">pic.twitter.com/Hzg4nWcfkE</a>
&mdash; The White House 46 Archived (@WhiteHouse46) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse46/status/1867234211066748973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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