The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; freaked out during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast, panning The New Yorker&#8217;s latest cover art over its apparent insinuation that former House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA) was &#8220;too old&#8221; for elected office.
Cohost Joy Behar started the conversation about the cover, which was meant to show politicians too old for public office and included — alongside Pelosi — President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
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Whoopi claims Biden is &quot;doing more than showing up to work and functioning.&quot; &quot;Joe Biden can fall down 55 times, that&#39;s not going to make me think he can&#39;t do the job,&quot; she boasts. She also claims Social Security is fine and is not and has never been in danger of going bankrupt. <a href="https://t.co/ovNdZdgiHH">pic.twitter.com/ovNdZdgiHH</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1706689329903403113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Whoopi Goldberg referenced the Axios report published early Tuesday — which said Biden&#8217;s team was pulling out all the stops to remove trip-hazards from his path and keep him from falling and getting hurt — and then pivoted to the magazine&#8217;s cover art.
&#8220;I hate that cover. Why do they have to put Nancy Pelosi in there?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;Nancy Pelosi, if you watch any of her interviews, she&#8217;s as sharp as a tack, as they say. She makes sense, she keeps getting re-elected by 80% of the constituency.&#8221;
Goldberg suggested that it didn&#8217;t matter whether or not Biden fell down, adding, &#8220;Joe Biden can fall down 55 times, that&#8217;s not going to make me think he can&#8217;t do the job.&#8221;
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Cohost Sunny Hostin once again complained that Americans didn&#8217;t revere their elders the way other cultures did, and argued that Pelosi&#8217;s experience made her more valuable.
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Joy declares that it&#39;s better Biden gets reelected and &quot;dies in office&quot; because &quot;the country will survive it, but if Trump wins, the country will not survive it. That&#39;s a fact.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/XcLlEmPx0o">pic.twitter.com/XcLlEmPx0o</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1706691524346462346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Behar jumped back in then, pivoting to Trump and arguing that Biden&#8217;s age was of no consequence — the only thing that mattered was preventing Trump from winning a second term in office.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s say Joe Biden, God forbid, dies in office,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that still okay for the country? The country will survive it, but if Trump wins, the country will not survive it. That&#8217;s a fact.&#8221;

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‘The View’ Freaks Out Over New Yorker Cover Calling Pelosi ‘Old’

'The View' Freaks Out Over New Yorker Cover Calling Pelosi 'Old'

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that his state has already won the debate against California ahead of his upcoming debate later this year against California Governor Gavin Newsom.
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview with Newsmax while discussing a recent poll that showed former President Donald Trump blowing out President Joe Biden in a hypothetical rematch in 2024.
&#8220;Just understand, the media, if [Trump] ends up being the nominee, they will not be putting polls out like that,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be the opposite. I mean, they use this to juice a narrative. I think people were showing that that poll had Trump beating Biden with under 35 by 20 points. No Republican has ever won that. So when you see that, you wonder, okay, what are they trying to do?&#8221;
&#8220;I think they&#8217;re trying to do two things. I think the corporate press does want Trump to be the nominee. I think you see that in the coverage, I think you see it how they attack me,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But I also think they&#8217;re trying to get the Democrats to dislodge Biden. They want to show that Biden is weak, and they would like to see a Newsom or somebody else. So I think when the corporate press is doing this, I think people should take it with a grain of salt.&#8221;
DeSantis was then asked if he thought Democrats were going to nominate someone else in 2024 like Newsom.
&#8220;Well, that&#8217;s why he said he would debate me, so I said, let&#8217;s do it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s an important debate for the country. Not like saying who&#8217;s better, Florida or California, because that debate is over because people have voted with their feet. They&#8217;ve left California and come to Florida, not the other way around. He has lost massive amounts of population. No governor in California history has ever witnessed population loss at all on net.&#8221;
&#8220;The future for the country, for what the left would want to do, is just double down on the California policies,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And so, I think it&#8217;s going to be an important debate. I think, I mean, I think he&#8217;s definitely angling for it. I think Biden, I don&#8217;t think Biden is going to step down willingly. I think it&#8217;s harder to dislodge somebody who&#8217;s an incumbent president than people assume it would be. But I think the Democrat establishment really, really is concerned, particularly if they have to run against somebody like me. I think that their view on Trump is that he will help energize their base to come out in ways that maybe some other Republicans won&#8217;t.&#8221;
DeSantis concluded by saying that it was &#8220;really embarrassing&#8221; to see Biden &#8220;floundering on the world stage.&#8221;
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“It’s an important debate for the country,” <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a> says about his November debate with Gavin Newsom.
It’s not about “who&#39;s better, Florida or California, because that debate is over…People have voted with their feet. They&#39;ve left California and come to Florida, not the… <a href="https://t.co/4II3LbXdjA">pic.twitter.com/4II3LbXdjA</a>
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The hosts of ABC’s midday talk show “The View” aired their grievances about a recent poll showing former President Donald Trump beating President Joe Biden in a head-to-head match-up.
The cohosts addressed the poll in question — which showed Trump holding a ten-point lead over Biden — during Monday’s broadcast.
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The View freaks out and attacks a poll from their own network (ABC) because it shows Trump up 10 points over Biden. Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin calls the poll &quot;an outlier.&quot; But she warns that Biden has a reelection problem with poor approval ratings and other things. <a href="https://t.co/2qr5AEnbSR">pic.twitter.com/2qr5AEnbSR</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1706342172839104738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Republican cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin attempted to qualify the results, suggesting that the poll was “an outlier” — but she did note that Biden certainly has some weak points going into his 2024 reelection campaign.
Griffin pointed to his consistently low job approval ratings — and concerns from both sides of the political aisle about his advanced age and mental acuity.
Cohost Sunny Hostin turned the attack on Trump then, arguing that the polls meant nothing as long as Trump’s trials had not yet begun.
Ana Navarro suggested that the pollsters had been “high” when they gave their responses, and went on to claim that the economy was in better shape under Biden — despite other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/weekend-media-wrap-vol-10-what-you-missed-if-you-werent-glued-to-the-sunday-shows">polls</a> showing that nearly half of Americans believed that they were worse off financially since Biden had taken office.
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Whoopi says the &quot;problem&quot; is the &quot;messaging&quot; from the news media is off and they&#39;re not striking enough fear of Trump getting reelected. Sunny is forced to read a legal note saying ABC&#39;s pollsters were not &quot;high&quot; when conducting the poll and they abruptly ended the segment. <a href="https://t.co/SaHmFVpyIL">pic.twitter.com/SaHmFVpyIL</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1706344222423478672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Whoopi Goldberg weighed in next, blaming the media for not doing enough to scare people off from voting for former President Trump and suggesting that if media outlets were better at “messaging,” no one would support him anyway.
Hostin spoke up again then, saying that the network had called on her to read a legal note — after which she conceded that the people polled had not, in fact, been “high” (as Navarro had suggested) when they gave their responses on the ABC poll.

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‘The View’ Hosts Go Off On Their Own Network Over Poll That’s Bad For Biden

'The View' Hosts Go Off On Their Own Network Over Poll That's Bad For Biden

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MSNBC political analyst Cornell Belcher claimed over the weekend that President Joe Biden&#8217;s age was not only not a concern, but a benefit.
Belcher attempted to take a page from the playbook of former President Ronald Reagan — who also faced criticism about his age when he ran for president — and equate Biden&#8217;s age with experience and accomplishments that the other candidates could not match.
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MSNBC’s ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/cornellbelcher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cornellbelcher</a>⁩: “Biden’s even better positioned than Obama … He [has] a story to tell about his old age; you know what his age &amp; wisdom has been able to do? It’s been able to pass transformative pieces of legislation no president has ever been able to do before” <a href="https://t.co/EYu8zxC46e">pic.twitter.com/EYu8zxC46e</a>
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Belcher began by addressing recent polls that show Biden struggling, and in some cases failing, to come out ahead of Republican candidates like former President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and former South Carolina Governor <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/10/politics/nikki-haley-lead-biden-2024-poll-cnntv/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley</a> — and he said that Biden was in much the same predicament as former President Barack Obama had been at the same point in his presidency.
&#8220;If you look at where Biden is right now, it&#8217;s not that dramatically different from where the president campaign who I worked on at this time going into 2011, right?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Obama was running behind Mitt Romney and basically tied or running behind the whole cast of characters who were running at that time.&#8221;
Belcher went on to say that he wasn&#8217;t overly concerned with poll numbers because those were likely to change over time. His concern, he explained, was &#8220;the story&#8221; that each candidate brought to the table.
&#8220;Biden’s even better positioned than Obama,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He [has] a story to tell about his old age; you know what his age &amp; wisdom has been able to do? It’s been able to move transformative pieces of legislation no president has ever been able to do before.&#8221;
President Biden has indeed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gallup-biden-polls-significantly-lower-in-six-key-character-traits-than-he-did-before-taking-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-poll-shows-grim-numbers-for-biden-on-age-question" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent polls</a>, most of which have indicated that a majority of Americans believe he either does not possess the mental faculties or is simply too old to serve a second term in the White House.
Reagan once played off the same criticism during a debate, telling the moderator, &#8220;I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue on this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent&#8217;s youth and inexperience.&#8221;
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MSNBC Guest Says Biden’s Age Is A Benefit. Seriously.

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Controversial author Michael Wolff claimed in an interview this week that Tucker Carlson was the source of his reporting that alleged Florida Governor Ron DeSantis kicked Carlson’s dog while meeting with Carlson and his wife, Susie Carlson.
Carlson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-debunks-totally-made-up-story-that-claimed-desantis-kicked-his-dog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> the claims in &#8220;The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty&#8221; last week, telling The Daily Wire that the &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; story was &#8220;totally made up&#8221; and that DeSantis &#8220;never touched my dog, obviously.&#8221;
DeSantis&#8217; presidential campaign also slammed the story, calling it “absurd and false.”
Wolff <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/michael-wolff-fox-news-rupert-murdoch-tucker-carlson-book-excerpt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in his book:
<blockquote>The Carlsons are dog people with four spaniels, the progeny of other spaniels they have had before, who sleep in their bed. DeSantis pushed the dog under the table. Had he kicked the dog? Susie Carlson’s judgment was clear: She did not ever want to be anywhere near anybody like that ever again. Her husband agreed. DeSantis, in Carlson’s view, was a “fascist.” Forget Ron DeSantis.</blockquote>
In an interview on Monday, Wolff claimed that Carlson was the source for the story: “The source on this is Tucker himself. I just reflect what he told me.”
When asked if Carlson was lying, Wolff said: &#8220;I don’t know, maybe he exaggerated. Maybe he lied. I don’t know. Maybe he regrets saying that. I have no idea.&#8221;
&#8220;I think what I am accurately reflecting is his feelings about Ron DeSantis, and at the moment he seemed to have felt that he kicked the dog,&#8221; Wolff claimed. &#8220;I can’t tell you whether that happened or not. I can tell you with the greatest authority that that’s what he said happened.&#8221;
A spokesperson for Carlson said that Wolff&#8217;s claims that Carlson was behind the story was false.
The spokesperson also responded with the following video of Wolff:
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In response to a request for comment on this story, a spokesperson for Tucker Carlson sent the following video clip: <a href="https://t.co/td7fm3t047">https://t.co/td7fm3t047</a> <a href="https://t.co/MXyPW6xxWh">pic.twitter.com/MXyPW6xxWh</a>
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Every Sunday morning, legacy media outlets are taken over by elected officials, aspiring elected officials, administration insiders, and the usual collection of talking heads — all of whom are there to discuss specific policies, push talking points, or simply promote their own campaigns.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to unravel a full week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
<h3>ABC News, &#8220;This Week&#8221;:</h3>
More trouble may be on the horizon for President Joe Biden&#8217;s reelection efforts after the results of the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll — which was highlighted on Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;This Week.&#8221;
The poll indicated that 44% of respondents believed their financial situations had changed for the worse since Biden took office in January of 2021 — the highest number to give that response in that particular poll since 1986. Another 39% said that their financial situations had not changed at all during the Biden administration, and just 15% said that theirs had improved during that same time frame.
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THE BREAKDOWN: Forty-four percent of Americans in the latest <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC</a> News/Washington Post poll say they&#39;ve gotten worse off financially under Biden&#39;s presidency, the most for any president in ABC/Post polls since 1986.
ABC News&#39; <a href="https://twitter.com/rickklein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rickklein</a> breaks it down. <a href="https://t.co/s5XgPCE3k0">https://t.co/s5XgPCE3k0</a> <a href="https://t.co/shN1d7zQMy">pic.twitter.com/shN1d7zQMy</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1705972737544532439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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ABC News contributor Sarah Isgur also pointed to a lack of depth on the Democratic side, saying that the party was essentially &#8220;stuck&#8221; with President Joe Biden because there was no one else ready for prime time.
&#8220;The Democrats have had a historically weak bench for the last 10-plus years because everyone is Joe Biden&#8217;s age &#8230; There&#8217;s no one to replace him on the ticket and they&#8217;re stuck with him,&#8221; she said.
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ABC News contributor <a href="https://twitter.com/whignewtons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@whignewtons</a> on the Democratic party: “The Democrats have had a historically weak bench for the last 10-plus years because everyone is Joe Biden&#39;s age … there&#39;s no one to replace him on the ticket and they&#39;re stuck with him.”<a href="https://t.co/s5XgPCE3k0">https://t.co/s5XgPCE3k0</a> <a href="https://t.co/jAWJof89s2">pic.twitter.com/jAWJof89s2</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1705977074815529357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>CBS News, &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221;:</h3>
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called on Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to resign in the wake of the federal bribery charges against him, arguing that it was the only way he could &#8220;maintain the integrity of the seat.&#8221;
&#8220;It shouldn&#8217;t matter whether it&#8217;s a Republican or a Democrat,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez told &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; host Margaret Brennan, adding, &#8220;The details in the indictment are extremely serious.&#8221;
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> calls on Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to resign following his indictment on federal bribery charges, &quot;to maintain the integrity of the seat.”
“It shouldn&#39;t matter whether it&#39;s a Republican or a Democrat. The details in this indictment are extremely serious.” <a href="https://t.co/QAe2H0qmJi">pic.twitter.com/QAe2H0qmJi</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1705956588257730967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) stopped short of calling for Menendez to resign, but did say that the embattled senator should take a hard look at himself and the &#8220;serious and shocking&#8221; charges against him.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this,&#8221; Kelly said of the New Jersey senator, adding that Menendez &#8220;must figure out whether he can adequately serve the people&#8221; going forward.
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Sen. Mark Kelly does not say whether Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) should resign, but calls the bribery charges against him &quot;serious and shocking.&quot;
&quot;I&#39;ve never seen anything like this,&quot; Kelly says, adding that Menendez &quot;must figure out whether he can adequately serve the people.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/b12JLQCvXd">pic.twitter.com/b12JLQCvXd</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1705962782305165576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>CNN, &#8220;State of the Union&#8221;:</h3>
&#8220;State of the Union&#8221; anchor Dana Bash questioned Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) about the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, noting that the surge of migrants was something that President Biden&#8217;s administration certainly needed to deal with.
Durbin said that the situation was certainly &#8220;a very serious challenge,&#8221; saying that he supported the Biden administration&#8217;s move to extend considerations to Venezuelan migrants because he had been to Venezuela and understood that the people there were fleeing for very real reasons.
Durbin went on to say that the majority of the migrants he had spoken to were not looking for handouts, they were looking for jobs. &#8220;The bottom line for the border is the chaos — the chaotic situation there has to end, and we need to do that on a bipartisan basis.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorDurbin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorDurbin</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a> that ‘the chaotic situation” at the southern border “has to end.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/ETD4tg9Bzy">https://t.co/ETD4tg9Bzy</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSotu) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1705980179808448893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>NBC News, &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221;:</h3>
Former Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-christie-reveals-whether-he-will-run-against-bob-menendez-in-the-u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Christie</a> (R-NJ) joined new anchor Kristen Welker on &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; where he put the kibosh on any possibility that he would challenge recently-indicted Senator Bob Menendez for his current seat.
&#8220;I had a chance to appoint myself to the U.S. Senate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If I didn&#8217;t appoint myself — the easiest way to get there — I sure as heck am not going to run for it.&#8221;
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WATCH: Fmr. N.J. Gov. Chris Christie rules out a run for Senate if Sen. Menendez (D) runs for re-election.<a href="https://twitter.com/GovChristie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovChristie</a>: “I had a chance to appoint myself to the U.S. Senate … If I didn’t appoint myself, the easiest way to get there, I sure as heck am not going to run for it.” <a href="https://t.co/k0tCZvbd4x">pic.twitter.com/k0tCZvbd4x</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1705987036144931325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) was not quite ready to give his full-throated endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party&#8217;s future. When asked directly by Welker whether he viewed Harris as the future of the party, Clyburn would only say that he saw her as &#8220;part of that future.&#8221;
&#8220;She could very well be, I think she is running a very good campaign … It’s not a given. You don’t automatically move up. She’ll have to compete,&#8221; he said, saying that he did &#8220;look to her as a successor to this president.&#8221;
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WATCH: Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) stops short of calling Vice President Harris the future of the Democratic Party.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesClyburn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesClyburn</a>: “She could very well be … It’s not a given. You don’t automatically move up. She’ll have to compete.” <a href="https://t.co/lttqy5OgHw">pic.twitter.com/lttqy5OgHw</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1705997147135422611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>FOX, &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221;:</h3>
On &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; guest host Bill Hemmer brought in his regular co-anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-so-wrong-dana-perino-gives-geraldo-rivera-an-earful-over-dhs-plans-to-punish-border-agents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dana Perino</a> — who just happens to be one of the moderators for the next Republican presidential primary debate happening later this week.
&#8220;You told me over the weekend &#8216;this is where the rubber meets the road in this debate,'&#8221; Hemmer began. &#8220;What do you mean by that?&#8221;
Perino explained that she saw the first debate as a chance for the candidates to &#8220;introduce themselves&#8221; to their potential voters and the second gave them room to lay out more specific policy positions.
&#8220;The standards in order to get in were a little bit tougher,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;You have seven people on that stage, and you have President Trump with a commanding lead in this race, so right now, this is the moment where all of them realize, &#8216;If I don&#8217;t have some sort of breakout moment to show that I could be the rival, the alternative to President Trump,&#8217; their campaigns probably start to lose more steam.&#8221;
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WATCH: Co-moderator of the second GOP primary debate <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaPerino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaPerino</a> joined the show to break down what to look forward to during Wednesdays debate. Tune in! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FoxNewsSunday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FoxNewsSunday</a> <a href="https://t.co/YfaiaVL29i">pic.twitter.com/YfaiaVL29i</a>
&mdash; Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1705965972291482059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>MSNBC, &#8220;Inside With Jen Psaki&#8221;:</h3>
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined White House Press Secretary-turned MSNBC host on Sunday for &#8220;Inside with Jen Psaki,&#8221; and the failed presidential candidate weighed in on the looming impeachment hearings in the Republican-controlled House.
Psaki framed the question in mocking tones, saying, &#8220;the impeachment hearings, so-called, I&#8217;m going to put them in quotes.&#8221; She then asked Clinton what she made of the situation, adding, &#8220;There&#8217;s a disagreement in the Democratic Party on how to deal with this because there&#8217;s no proof, they&#8217;re in pursuit of a reason &#8230; What do you think they should be doing?&#8221;
Clinton began by suggesting that the hearings were somehow illegitimate because the House had not yet held a vote on the matter — despite the fact that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/15/impeachment-nancy-pelosi-says-house-vote-inquiry/3934394002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved forward</a> with the first impeachment inquiry of then-President Donald Trump without holding a vote.
&#8220;Sadly, the Speaker of the House is too weak to stand up against the most rabid block of his members who don’t care what the truth or the facts are,&#8221; Clinton claimed, suggesting that a handful of Republicans were forcing McCarthy to move forward. &#8220;They want a political problem that they can try to use for their own benefit.&#8221;
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&quot;Sadly, the Speaker of the House is too weak to stand up against the most rabid block of his members who don’t care what the truth or the facts are… They want a political problem that they can try to use for their own benefit.” <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a> on GOP&#39;s impeachment inquiry. <a href="https://t.co/vQCwbE8ICG">pic.twitter.com/vQCwbE8ICG</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1705985763601535322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment broadcast on Sunday caused an uproar after the show reported that American taxpayers are &#8220;subsidizing&#8221; Ukraine&#8217;s economy and paying for all of Ukraine&#8217;s first responders.
The news comes as a recent Fox News <a href="https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/08/Fox_August-11-14-2023_Complete_Cross-Tabs_August-17-Release.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> found that 56% of Republicans say the U.S. should be sending less support to Ukraine. A recent CNN poll <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/politics/cnn-poll-ukraine/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that 55% of Americans say Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine.
&#8220;American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons. We discovered the U.S. government&#8217;s buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers… and covering the salaries of Ukraine&#8217;s first responders – all 57,000 of them,&#8221; the CBS News show reported. &#8220;That includes the team that trains this rescue dog – named Joy – to comb through the wreckage of Russian strikes looking for survivors.&#8221;
&#8220;And the U.S. also funds the divers who we saw clearing unexploded ammunition from the country&#8217;s rivers – to make them safe again for swimming and fishing,&#8221; the segment continued. &#8220;Russia&#8217;s invasion shrank Ukraine&#8217;s economy by about a third. We were surprised to find that to keep it afloat the U.S. government is subsidizing small businesses.&#8221;
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60 Minutes discovered the U.S. is financing more than weapons in Ukraine. The government is buying seeds/fertilizer for farmers, paying the salaries of 57,000 first responders and subsidizing small businesses. <a href="https://t.co/vKWwWDqUwM">https://t.co/vKWwWDqUwM</a> <a href="https://t.co/BxXItNgQce">pic.twitter.com/BxXItNgQce</a>
&mdash; 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) <a href="https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1706088303970152541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell responded to the video: &#8220;Billions for Ukrainian farmers, first responders and Ukrainian entrepreneurs?! Why? The U.S. should be doing the tough work of peacemaking. We need aggressive diplomats if you want to avoid war. Where is the draft peace plan?&#8221;
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&#8220;Such things shouldn’t need to be discovered by media outlets,&#8221; said Fox News contributor Guy Benson. &#8220;If this is what we are subsidizing, make a fully transparent case for it.&#8221;
Fox News co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy added: &#8220;As American farmers, ranchers &amp; small businesses suffer from Biden’s climate/energy policies &amp; basic city services are strained &amp; cut because of his open border policies, Joe Biden is subsidizing THIS!!??!! Don’t tell me Biden isn’t compromised.&#8221;

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‘60 Minutes’ Segment: U.S. Taxpayers ‘Subsidizing’ Ukraine’s Economy, Paying All Of Their First Responders

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Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott said on Sunday that his goal for the next Republican presidential debate was &#8220;being authentically&#8221; himself.
Scott talked about the upcoming second debate this week in California during an interview with Bill Hemmer on &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221;
&#8220;[What I] hope you see on Wednesday night is a guy being authentically who he is. I wanna be myself,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The goal is for us to be able to have a conversation about the most important issues facing this nation and frankly defend the next generation of kids who are losing hope that the American dream will work for a kid in rural Iowa or inner city Chicago.&#8221;
Hemmer asked Scott about his poll numbers, noting that former President Donald Trump has not slipped in the polls.
&#8220;Do you need a breakout moment?&#8221; Hemmer asked.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think so. What I need to do is to continue to do what I have been doing, showing up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The more time I spend in Iowa, the better off I will be. The more time I spend in New Hampshire, the better off I will be. The good news is polls don&#8217;t vote, but people do.&#8221;
&#8220;And so I need to make sure that I find myself in front of the most people as possible on a consistent basis,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The more I do that, the better off we will be. The good news is this campaign is just getting ready to see the fourth quarter. I love football season. I love football and I like the fourth quarter.&#8221;
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Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), whose district is on the U.S.-Mexico border, said in an interview over the weekend that the U.S. must put &#8220;repercussions&#8221; in place to disincentivize illegal aliens from entering the U.S.
Cuellar made the remarks during a Sunday interview on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; as the southern border has seen a massive surge in illegal immigration over the last couple of months.
&#8220;We need to have repercussions at the border. What does that mean? You’ve got to deport people, and you’ve got to show images of people being deported,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When was the last time we saw people going the other way instead of just seeing people flow in?&#8221;
Cuellar said that he thought former President Donald Trump went too far in trying to disincentivize illegal immigration and that President Joe Biden was &#8220;not doing enough.&#8221;
&#8220;We’ve got find the right balance,” he claimed. “You’ve got to listen to the community leaders.”
He said that migrants should be stopped from ever reaching the U.S. southern border and that getting Mexico&#8217;s help would be key in stopping the issue.
“I’ve been saying this for years,” Cuellar said, “we as Democrats and Republicans can continue playing defense on the 1-yard line, or we can play defense on their 20-yard line — and that is getting Mexico to do more.”
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden over the weekend for the worsening crisis on the U.S. southern border as tens of thousands of illegal aliens are flooding communities every few days in an unprecedented onslaught.
Gonzales made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; while discussing how federal immigration officials have been completely overwhelmed by Biden&#8217;s border crisis.
&#8220;Right now, Border Patrol agents are showing up to operate in processing centers,&#8221; Gonzales said. &#8220;They&#8217;re not out in the field, so they&#8217;re not really doing their jobs. And they haven&#8217;t been doing their jobs.&#8221;
When asked what he meant by his remarks, he said that numerous agents have told him that they are forced to handle the processing of illegal aliens instead of being out on the border stopping drugs, criminals, weapons, and terrorists from coming into the U.S.
&#8220;It&#8217;s the failed Biden administration,&#8221; Gonzales said. &#8220;You know, when we talk about the border crisis, we know what the problem is. The problem is Joe Biden&#8217;s failed immigration policies. We see the images. We hear the stories, but we never hear solutions. Let&#8217;s talk some solutions.&#8221;
Gonzales said that what Biden was doing with extending the Temporary Protected Status of the 500,000 Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. was &#8220;encouraging&#8221; even more migrants to come to the U.S. illegally.
&#8220;These people have come over illegally into our country, and you&#8217;re giving them the access to work,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It undermines everything that we&#8217;re doing in Congress to try to come together.
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Tony Gonzales Slams Biden Extending TPS For 500,000 Venezuelan Migrants: He’s ‘Encouraged’ Illegal Migrants To Come

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House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) slammed President Joe Biden over the weekend for the renewed explosion of illegal immigration on the U.S. southern border, saying that Biden is &#8220;encouraging&#8221; this to happen by offering incentives to illegal aliens and effectively communicating that the border is open.
Turner made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Martha Raddatz on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221;.
&#8220;Well, the Biden administration has been encouraging, and the manner in which they have &#8212; have provided assistance to migrants, not really communicating that our borders should be closed. Instead, have encouraging an open border policy,&#8221; Turner said. &#8220;You know, this is a national security and an economic security threat. On national security, we’ve seen individuals on the terrorist watch list be apprehended. We certainly see fentanyl and other drugs coming across the border. On economic security, you even have the mayor of New York saying that it’s destroying his city.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s why the Republicans put forth a border protecting bill, House Bill 2, which would put physical barriers on the border, but also change our asylum rules. And at the same time, put more border agents,&#8221; Turner continued. &#8220;And to contrast that with the Biden administration just in the last 10 days took action to give 200,000 Venezuelans temporary protective status, which includes that they cannot be deported and work privileges.&#8221;
Turner said that if Biden would close the border and &#8220;stop encouraging, providing people incentives to come,&#8221; that others would be dissuaded from making the trek to the southern border.
&#8220;If we had the right policies, they wouldn’t be here. By providing them these — the open assistance, what you’re seeing is an encouragement for others to come,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Wherefore, House Bill 2 makes certain that we close the border for immigration, this migrant immigration, makes certain that provide border security and at the same time change our asylum rules to give us the legal tools to send people home.&#8221;
Turner said that the proof that the border was wide open was in the 1.9 million people that have crossed the border over the last year.
&#8220;That’s more people that live in the cities of Columbus, Cincinnati, and Dayton, Ohio, and southeast Ohio, combined,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These numbers speak for themselves. They surely show that the administration’s policies encouraging people to come across the border. We need to stop this.&#8221;
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House Intel Chairman Hits Biden Over Border Disaster: He’s ‘Encouraging’ It By Offering Incentives

Former Hawaii Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-is-just-a-front-man-tulsi-gabbard-connects-the-dots-between-what-obama-wants-and-what-biden-does" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tulsi Gabbard</a>, who recently split with the Democratic Party, unloaded on her former colleagues over the persistent prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.
Gabbard shared a brief video via X, arguing that the prosecutions amounted to a concerted effort — on the parts of both President Joe Biden specifically and the Democratic Party in general — to keep Trump busy and distracted because they were afraid he could potentially win in 2024.
&#8220;The political prosecution of Trump is an obvious attempt by Biden/Dem elite to drain Trump’s attention and resources,&#8221; Gabbard captioned the clip. &#8220;Their actions expose their utter contempt for democracy and the rule of law — and makes laughable all of their verbiage about &#8216;protecting democracies around the world.'&#8221;
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&#8220;Anyone who&#8217;s looking at what&#8217;s happening with clear eyes and an open mind can recognize how overtly they are trying to keep President Trump off of the campaign trail, to keep him away from being able to make his case to voters in this country of why they should elect him as President and Commander in Chief once again,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;They&#8217;re afraid that he actually could win, which is why they&#8217;re committing this such egregious abuse of power that cuts so much deeper than just going after President Trump,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;What they&#8217;re really doing is setting this precedent that puts the United States of America not on a high platform of trying to be an example of democracy to the world, but of reducing our great country to none other than a banana republic and an abuse of power that we see happening in other countries around the world.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-torches-biden-over-trump-prosecution-the-death-rattle-of-any-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabbard</a> has been openly critical of President Joe Biden — and other members of her former party — for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-not-america-tulsi-gabbard-slams-jan-6-hearings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adopting policies</a> and strategies that fly in the face of constitutional principles like free speech and expression and attempt to use the power of government to punish their political opposition.

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‘Utter Contempt For Democracy’: Tulsi Gabbard Destroys Her Former Party Over Trump Prosecution

'Utter Contempt For Democracy': Tulsi Gabbard Destroys Her Former Party Over Trump Prosecution

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