A non-partisan group has called for an investigation into Democrat Rep. Steven Horsford (NV) after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congressman-steven-horsford-admits-sex-scandal-with-ex-senate-intern-resignation-calls-grow">admitted</a> last week that the allegations that he engaged in an extramarital affair with a former intern for Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) were true.
Americans for Public Trust, a non-partisan government accountability group, wrote a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) earlier this week calling for an investigation into the allegations.
“[Gabriela] Linder said the affair began in 2009, when she met Horsford — then the majority leader of the Nevada state Senate — during her time as an intern in former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Nevada office,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/horsford-admits-to-extramarital-affair-after-podcaster-discloses-relationship-2029503/">reported</a> last week. “They had a sexual relationship that continued intermittently until September 2019, Linder said, though the two remained in contact until April. Linder never worked for Horsford in any capacity.”
In their <a href="https://americansforpublictrust.org/document/rep-horsford-oce-complaint/">letter</a>, Americans for Public Trust wrote:
<blockquote>As an elected official, Representative Horsford has a duty to maintain public trust with his electorate. Any potential use of his influence or authority to conceal the nature of his relationship is a serious abuse of this public trust, as well as a violation of the law. According to a news outlet, Representative Horsford has also previously attempted to use his official office for personal gain with “pay to play” proposals for a video poker company seeking favorable legislation in Nevada. Members also have a duty to maintain trust and reflect properly on the institution of House. This includes behavior prior to serving as a Member of Congress. Representative Horsford’s past behavior of unpaid debts, contractual violations, and traffic citations demonstrates a perpetual history of failing to abide by the law. His lack of transparency in his own life fails to reflect to positively upon the House, warranting investigation.
Representative Steven Horsford’s concealment of an ongoing affair implicates an abuse of his official position and potentially federal law. His use of financial payments, staff time, and repeated run-ins with legal obligations betray the public trust. Ultimately, his conduct for the past ten years destroys the credibility of his office and fails to maintain the integrity of the House. Therefore, we respectfully urge OCE to investigate this matter and any potential violations of federal law and standards of House ethics.</blockquote>
Horsford was elected to the office in 2018, replacing Democrat Rep. Ruben Kihuen (NV), who did not seek re-election after facing <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/12/16/571368835/democrat-ruben-kihuen-won-t-seek-re-election-following-sexual-harassment-allegat">sexual harassment</a> allegations during the height of the #MeToo movement.
Pelosi has yet to address the situation involving Horsford and has not responded to various news organizations that have sought comment from her office.
As The Daily Wire reported, the Horsford scandal follows other similar House Democrat scandals:
<blockquote>Horsford’s sex scandal comes after Democrat Rep. Katie Hill (CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/katie-hills-resignation-impacts-congressional-investigation-into-her">resigned</a> last year due to a sex scandal, and the Republican Party flipped her seat this year, the first time the party flipped a seat in California in over 20 years, when former Navy fighter pilot Mike Garcia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-republican-mike-garcia-wins-u-s-house-race-in-california-first-time-gop-flipped-ca-seat-in-22-years">won</a> last week.
Several other House Democrats have faced allegations of sex scandals or investigations into possible sex scandals during the current congressional term, including Rep. <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7652879/Ilhan-Omar-divorced-husband-double-life-exposed.html">Ilhan Omar</a> (D-MN), Rep. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/politics/house-ethics-committee-investigation-alcee-hastings/index.html">Alcee Hastings</a> (D-FL), and Delegate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-house-democrat-under-investigation-for-alleged-sex-scandal">Michael F. Q. San Nicolas</a> of Guam (non-voting member).</blockquote>
Horsford represents Nevada&#8217;s 4th Congressional District, a competitive district in which an up-and-coming Republican candidate, Lisa Song Sutton, is running to unseat Horsford.
“I call on Steven Horsford to resign from Congress,” Sutton said in a statement. “In addition, I call on the House Ethics Committee to begin an immediate investigation into Congressman Horsford’s actions as they relate to this longtime, extramarital affair, similar to the investigation that occurred with his immediate predecessor, disgraced former Congressman Ruben Kihuen. The people of Nevada’s 4th District deserve to know if any of our taxpayer dollars funded Steven Horsford’s nefarious activities.”
Sutton has been endorsed by prominent Republicans, including Reps. Elise Stefanik (NY) and Dan Crenshaw (TX).
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I am incredibly honored to earn the endorsement of Congressman <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanCrenshawTX</a>!
His leadership inspires young conservatives like myself to stand up for our communities. This is a critical time &amp; I&#39;m so grateful for the strong support. TY <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDanCrenshaw</a>!!<a href="https://t.co/iFSXJMs6On">https://t.co/iFSXJMs6On</a> <a href="https://t.co/9uGR3p6MYy">pic.twitter.com/9uGR3p6MYy</a>
&mdash; Lisa Song Sutton for Congress (R-NV) (@LisaSongSutton) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaSongSutton/status/1256661323909197824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Thank you Congresswoman <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EliseStefanik</a> for your support!
2020 is the year for private sector individuals, like myself, to come off the sidelines, stand up for our communities and protect our liberties. Help me stand up for all Nevadans in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NV04?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NV04</a> &#8212;&#8212;-&gt; <a href="https://t.co/Z19JYq5MDr">https://t.co/Z19JYq5MDr</a> <a href="https://t.co/B1nWQAUGtT">pic.twitter.com/B1nWQAUGtT</a>
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Pelosi Silent As Non-Partisan Group Calls For Investigation Into Democrat Steven Horsford’s Sex Scandal

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Calls for Democrat Rep. Steven Horsford (NV) to resign from the U.S. Congress exploded over the weekend after he admitted to having an affair with an intern who worked for former Senator Harry Reid (D-NV).
Gabriela &#8220;Linder said the affair began in 2009, when she met Horsford — then the majority leader of the Nevada state Senate — during her time as an intern in former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Nevada office,&#8221; the Las Vegas Review-Journal <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/horsford-admits-to-extramarital-affair-after-podcaster-discloses-relationship-2029503/">reported</a>. &#8220;They had a sexual relationship that continued intermittently until September 2019, Linder said, though the two remained in contact until April. Linder never worked for Horsford in any capacity.&#8221;
According to Las Vegas Review-Journal, Linder also indicated that Horsford filmed a video for her son&#8217;s YouTube channel using taxpayer-funded congressional resources.
“If this was a story in 2018, he wouldn’t have run,” Linder said. “He obtained this position under false pretenses that he was a family man and man of God. He should take a step back, atone, and if people are satisfied, then he can come back into politics.”
In a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Horsford admitted to the affair, saying, “It is true that I had a previous relationship outside of my marriage, over the course of several years. I’m deeply sorry to all of those who have been impacted by this very poor decision, most importantly my wife and family. Out of concern for my family during this challenging time, I ask that our privacy is respected.”
Linder made the revelations on a podcast where she also claimed that Horsford “looked out for her over the years, from anything from a job recommendation to financial support.”
The Las Vegas Review-Journal suggested that the reason Linder left Horsford was because he had talked to her about leaving his wife, but never did it.
“I decided I can’t wait, deserved more and didn’t want to be that person anymore,” Linder said. “And I realized someone who could lie that way is not someone who would be honorable to me.”
Horsford ran for Congress in 2018 after Democrat Rep. Ruben Kihuen (NV) did not run for re-election after facing <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/12/16/571368835/democrat-ruben-kihuen-won-t-seek-re-election-following-sexual-harassment-allegat">sexual harassment</a> allegations during the height of the #MeToo movement.
The House Ethics Committee later concluded that Kihuen violated the House&#8217;s code of conduct, writing in a <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/Kihuen%20Com%20Report%20with%20Sigs.pdf">report</a>: “Kihuen made persistent and unwanted advances towards women who were required to interact with him as part of their professional responsibilities.”
Horsford&#8217;s sex scandal comes after Democrat Rep. Katie Hill (CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/katie-hills-resignation-impacts-congressional-investigation-into-her">resigned</a> last year due to a sex scandal, and the Republican Party flipped her seat this year, the first time the party flipped a seat in California in over 20 years, when former Navy fighter pilot Mike Garcia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-republican-mike-garcia-wins-u-s-house-race-in-california-first-time-gop-flipped-ca-seat-in-22-years">won</a> last week.
Several other House Democrats have faced allegations of sex scandals or investigations into possible sex scandals during the current congressional term, including Rep. <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7652879/Ilhan-Omar-divorced-husband-double-life-exposed.html">Ilhan Omar</a> (D-MN), Rep. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/politics/house-ethics-committee-investigation-alcee-hastings/index.html">Alcee Hastings</a> (D-FL), and Delegate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-house-democrat-under-investigation-for-alleged-sex-scandal">Michael F. Q. San Nicolas</a> of Guam (non-voting member).
Horsford&#8217;s sex scandal immediately led to calls for him to resign, including from Republican Congressional candidate Lisa Song Sutton, who is running to unseat Horsford.
&#8220;First, I call on Steven Horsford to resign from Congress,&#8221; Sutton said in a statement. &#8220;In addition, I call on the House Ethics Committee to begin an immediate investigation into Congressman Horsford’s actions as they relate to this longtime, extramarital affair, similar to the investigation that occurred with his immediate predecessor, disgraced former Congressman Ruben Kihuen. The people of Nevada’s 4th District deserve to know if any of our taxpayer dollars funded Steven Horsford’s nefarious activities.&#8221;
Sutton continued, &#8220;I speak to voters every single day who do not feel like they are being heard by Congressman Steven Horsford. His lack of community involvement was a key factor in my deciding to run for this position. Given this news, I am infuriated. I am infuriated for Nevadans of the 4th district. This just solidifies what we already knew: that we deserve better representation. We are in the middle of an economic and health crisis. Nevada&#8217;s economy has taken a beating and our community is on the ropes. We have nearly 500,000 Nevadans on unemployment. Our largest sources of revenue for the state: tourism, hospitality, gaming, and mining, have been severely impacted with a long road to recovery.&#8221;
&#8220;We need a strong leader who is going to be 110 percent focused on rebuilding our economy and taking swift action FOR the people,&#8221; Sutton concluded. &#8220;This seat has been plagued by distractions and scandals by men who cannot stay focused on their responsibilities because they are too busy chasing women. Horsford is not fit to lead us. His family will be in my prayers.&#8221;
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The news about <a href="https://twitter.com/RepHorsford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepHorsford</a>&#39;s long term extramarital affair simply solidifies what we already knew: that we are not a priority to him.
The people of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NV04?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NV04</a> need &amp; deserve a leader who will be fully focused on the tasks at hand: rebuilding our economy &amp; helping Nevadans. <a href="https://t.co/uehRPQgqdv">pic.twitter.com/uehRPQgqdv</a>
&mdash; Lisa Song Sutton for Congress (R-NV) (@LisaSongSutton) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaSongSutton/status/1262163658718633985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Democrat Lawmakers Hold Press Conference Calling On Trump Administration To End Assault On Health Care

Democrat Congressman Steven Horsford Admits Sex Scandal With Ex-Senate Intern. Resignation Calls Grow.

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Nevada Democrat Governor Steve Sisolak reportedly banned the use of anti-malaria drugs for people that test positive for the coronavirus.
&#8220;The governor’s order prohibits the prescribing and dispensing chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for a COVID-19 diagnosis, requires the appropriate prescription coding for their &#8216;legitimate medical purposes,&#8217; and limits prescriptions to a 30-day supply,&#8221; The Las Vegas Review Journal <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/sisolak-signs-restriction-order-for-2-drugs-1990149/">reported</a>.
“At this point in time, there is no known cure for COVID-19 and we must not withhold these drugs from those who need them,” Sisolak said in a statement. “The best way to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is to stay home for Nevada, not to stockpile these drugs.”
The governor&#8217;s executive order comes a day after an Arizona man died and his wife ended up in the hospital after they consumed fish tank cleaner in an apparent effort to prevent themselves from becoming infected with the coronavirus.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/24/coronavirus-chloroquine-poisoning-death/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>That pharmaceutical name matched the label on a bottle of chemicals they used to clean their koi pond &#8230; The fish tank solvent that treats aquatic parasites contains the same active ingredient as the drug, but in a different form that can poison people.
“I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, ‘Hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re talking about on TV?’ ” the wife, who was not named, told the network. “We were afraid of getting sick.”
The couple reportedly poured some of the fish tank cleaning chemical, chloroquine phosphate, into soda and drank it. They hoped it would stave off a coronavirus infection.
“Within thirty minutes of ingestion, the couple experienced immediate effects” that sent them to the emergency room, a Banner Health spokeswoman said in a statement Monday. They felt dizzy and started vomiting. The husband died at the hospital, and the wife is under critical care, according to the statement.</blockquote>
Left-wing media publications and journalists immediately falsely suggested that President Donald Trump was responsible because he touted the anti-malaria drug as something that the government was looking at as a possible treatment.
To be clear, the president never instructed anyone to take any medication and did not tell people to eat fish tank cleaner.
The CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/therapeutic-options.html">reported</a> the following about Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine&#8217;s potential use for treating the coronavirus:
<blockquote>There are no US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs specifically for the treatment of patients with COVID-19.  At present clinical management includes infection prevention and control measures and supportive care, including supplementary oxygen and mechanical ventilatory support when indicated.  An array of drugs approved for other indications as well as several investigational drugs are being studied in several hundred clinical trials that are underway across the globe. The purpose of this document is to provide information on two of the approved drugs (chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine) and one of the investigational agents (remdesivir) currently in use in the United States.</blockquote>
Trump tweeted earlier this week: &#8220;HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE &amp; AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains &#8211; Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents) be put in use IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE ARE DYING, MOVE FAST, and GOD BLESS EVERYONE!&#8221;
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&#8230;.be put in use IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE ARE DYING, MOVE FAST, and GOD BLESS EVERYONE! <a href="https://twitter.com/US_FDA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@US_FDA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveFDA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SteveFDA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CDCgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CDCgov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a>
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Nevada Democrat Governor Bans Using Malaria Drugs To Treat Coronavirus, Report Says

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The police have been called multiple times now on supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over a series of protests targeting officials in the Democratic Party. A video posted online Wednesday shows one of these protests by self-styled &#8220;Berners,&#8221; who showed up late Friday night with a bullhorn and a flashlight at the house of the chair of Nevada&#8217;s Democratic Party to issue warnings against conspiring to undermine Sanders in next day&#8217;s caucuses.
In the video, which was initially live-streamed on her personal Facebook page and has since been posted on Twitter, Maria Estrada, a Los Angeles-based &#8220;Berner,&#8221; stands outside the home of William McCurdy, chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, at around 11 p.m. Friday night and makes a series of declarations through a bullhorn while shining her flashlight on the house. Another &#8220;Berner&#8221; films the protest, which, as <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/26/cops-called-bernie-backers-protest-117782">Politico</a> notes, is one of &#8220;at least three&#8221; such protests targeting individuals in recent days.
&#8220;William McCurdy, Chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, I want to make sure that you understand why we&#8217;re here!&#8221; Estrada declares. &#8220;I want to make sure that you know that we do not want to see the 2016 election.&#8221;
&#8220;I want assurances there isn&#8217;t going to be any shenanigans going on tomorrow!&#8221; she insists. &#8220;The Democratic Party does not control what happens. The will of the people is what controls what happens.&#8221;
A clip of the live-streamed protest was posted on Twitter by a Politico contributor:
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Scoop w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hollyotterbein</a> NV Dem party chair &amp; CA SoS called the police this wknd after svrl Bernie supporters came to their homes w/ bullhorns late at night to warn abt elections/2016 They FB live’d it Jeff Weaver condemned the tactics<a href="https://t.co/BxJPlm9Zn2">https://t.co/BxJPlm9Zn2</a> <a href="https://t.co/xAnyVcKzO7">pic.twitter.com/xAnyVcKzO7</a>
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According to Politico, McCurdy, along with a member of the state Assembly, confronted the Bernie supporters about an hour after they arrived and told them they had &#8220;crossed a line.&#8221;
&#8220;If any bullshit happens tomorrow the only person who crossed the line is you,&#8221; Estrada responded.
The North Las Vegas police department told Politico that McCurdy eventually called them over the disturbance, but the protesters were gone by the time they arrived.
&#8220;At least three other times in recent days, Estrada led a group of Sanders supporters who gathered late at night outside the homes of Democratic Party officials and California lawmakers, including those of Secretary of State Alex Padilla and state Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks,&#8221; Politico reported Wednesday. &#8220;Police were called at least twice.&#8221;
In a message to Politico on Facebook, Estrada defended her and her fellow Bernie supporters&#8217; actions, saying, &#8220;Protesting is our right — whether they called the police or not is irrelevant.&#8221;
Estrada ran for office in California in 2018 and got relatively close to upsetting the Democratic California Assembly speaker, and she is running again this year, Politico notes.
Despite the Bernie supporters paranoia about the Democratic Party thwarting Sanders in the Nevada caucuses, the socialist senator went on to win the state easily on Saturday, securing 47% of the vote and 24 of the state&#8217;s 36 delegates, adding to his growing momentum in the early primary contests.
Former frontrunner Joe Biden came in a distant second in Nevada, earning just 20% of the vote and 9 delegates. Third was former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who gained 14% and 3 delegates. In fourth was Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who, like Biden, once led the Democratic contest in the polls, but received zero delegates and after getting just under 10% of the vote.
Sanders is currently the clear front-runner in both the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">national polls</a> (Sanders 29%, Biden 18%, Michael Bloomberg 14%, Warren 12%, Buttigieg 10%) and the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/democratic_delegate_count.html">delegate count</a> (Sanders 45, Buttigieg 25, Biden 15, Warren 8, Amy Klobuchar 7).

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WATCH: Bernie Supporters Show Up At Democrat Official’s House; Calls Police: ‘Crossed A Line’

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[UPDATE] 60% of precincts have now reported, and the candidate percentages have been changed to reflect that.
Multiple news organizations are reporting that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is projected to win the Nevada caucus this evening.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/22/us/elections/results-nevada-caucus.html">The Associated Press</a>, with 60% of precincts reporting, Sanders leads with a staggering 46%, former Vice President Joe Biden comes in second with 19.6%, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg comes in third with 15.3%, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) comes in fourth with 10.1%, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) comes in fifth with 4.8%.
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/nevada-caucuses-2020/">wrote</a> in the website’s live coverage that the race is now Sanders’ to lose:
<blockquote>The basic takeaway here is that it’s Sanders’s nomination to lose. Exactly how big his margin is, who finishes second, etc., may tell us something about precisely how likely he is to lose it and who is most likely to take it away from him. But it’s his nomination to lose.</blockquote>
This apparent victory, especially if the margins hold, could provide the Sanders campaign with incredible momentum heading into the South Carolina primary on February 29, and then into Super Tuesday on March 3, where 14 states, American Samoa, and Democrats Abroad cast their votes.
Just over two weeks ago, it appeared as though Sanders might take a hit following the unmitigated disaster that was the Iowa caucus in which Pete Buttigieg was able to claim victory and a larger share of delegates than Sanders, despite the agonizingly slow rollout of the vote totals, which now has them tied at 26.2% each. Sanders took the popular vote by just over 2,50o, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/iowa/">Politico</a>.
However, Sanders went on to win the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=new+hampshire+results&amp;rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS876US876&amp;oq=new+hampshire+resu&amp;aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.5299j0j7&amp;hl=en-US&amp;sourceid=chrome-mobile&amp;ie=UTF-8">first primary</a> in New Hampshire with 25.7% compared to second place Buttigieg’s 24.4% and third place Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) 19.8%.
Prior to Saturday’s caucus, Sanders was polling well. The <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nv/nevada_democratic_presidential_caucus-6866.html">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average had Sanders leading the pack with 32.5% support. A distant second place went to Buttigieg and Biden, who were tied at 16%.
During a rally in San Antonio, Texas, Sanders announced his victory in Nevada, stating:
<blockquote>And now, I&#8217;m delighted to bring you some pretty good news I think all of you know. We won the popular vote in Iowa; we won the New Hampshire primary; and according to three networks and the AP, we have now won the Nevada caucus.</blockquote>
Sanders went on to “thank the people of Nevada for their support,” noting that the campaign has “put together a multi-generational, multi-racial coalition” that will propel them forward to victory across the United States.
“We are going to win here in Texas, [and] we are gonna win across the country because the American people are sick and tired of a president who lies all of the time,” Sanders said to the cheering crowd. “They are sick and tired of a corrupt administration; they are sick and tired of a president who is undermining American democracy, who thinks he is above the law, and who apparently has never read the Constitution in this country.”
Sanders continued:
<blockquote>The American people are sick and tired of a government which is based on greed, corruption, and lies. They want an administration which is based on the principles of justice – economic justice, social justice, racial justice, and environmental justice.</blockquote>
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Speaking before a crowd of supporters following the news of his second place finish in Nevada, Joe Biden said: “Y&#8217;all did it for me. Y&#8217;all did it. Now we&#8217;re going on to South Carolina, and win, and then we&#8217;re gonna take this back!”
Biden was long-considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. After a devastating fourth place finish in Iowa, and an even more crushing fifth place finish in New Hampshire, the former vice president has a great deal of momentum to regain.
Pete Buttigieg, who performed well in the first two primary races, is now in a tougher position.
During his own speech following the announcement of the results, Buttigieg said:
<blockquote>This campaign belongs to everyone, ready not only to end the era of Donald Trump, but to launch the era that must come next. Now, that bright, bright future lies before us, but it is far from certain. It will come only if we get this nomination right, and so we are moving on from the Battle Born State with a battle on our hands. I congratulate my competitors on a vigorous campaign here in Nevada, and I congratulate Senator Sanders on a strong showing today knowing that we celebrate many of the same ideals.</blockquote>
The former mayor then took a shot at Sanders:
<blockquote>But before we rush to nominate Senator Sanders in our one shot to take on this president, let us take a sober look at what is at stake for our party, for our values, and for those with the most to lose. There is so much on the line, and one thing we know for sure is that we absolutely must defeat Donald Trump and everything that he represents in November.</blockquote>
Buttigieg continued, contrasting his policies with Sanders’ policies.
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BREAKING: Sanders Projected To Win Nevada

Socialism

Nothing says “transparency” like forcing election volunteers to sign confidentiality agreements insisting they won’t say anything bad about a political party.
Ahead of Saturday’s Nevada caucus, the Nevada State Democratic Party (NSDP) is requiring volunteers leading caucus sites to sign non-disclosure agreements that insist they won’t speak to the media or disclose “confidential information of the NSDP,” CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/politics/nevada-caucus-confidentiality-agreements/index.html">reported</a>. Democrats and election watchers have been wondering whether Democrats will fail spectacularly in counting caucus delegates as they did in Iowa.
To ensure Nevada Democrats don’t fail, operatives tied to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have been put in charge, because we all know that guy never did anything shady in his lifetime. An NSDP official told CNN that non-disclosure agreements are standard procedure and said it also required them in 2018.
A copy of the NDA obtained by the outlet states, in part, &#8220;I will take all measures necessary to protect the secrecy of, and avoid disclosure and unauthorized use of, Confidential Information of the NSDP.&#8221;
As CNN reported, the NDA refers to other NDSP activities and suggested it is used for other purposes as well.
&#8220;If I am a volunteer and answering phones at the NSDP office or volunteering at an official NSDP event, I am a representative of the NSDP and am not authorized to speak to the press unless given permission by the Executive Director or Communications Director,&#8221; the NDA says.
The NDA then reminds volunteers that they may be contacted by members of the media and that any inquiries must be passed on to the Executive Director of Communications Director of the NDSP, saying, “THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS.” It also says volunteers are not allowed to provide background or off-the-record information to reporters.
CNN spoke to volunteer Seth Morrison, who said he was planning to become a site leader but quit after he was presented with the NDA.
&#8220;The wording of that agreement is very broad,&#8221; Morrison told CNN. &#8220;If I were to quote disparage the party or talk to the media without their permission, they could sue me for everything I own.&#8221;
He also told the outlet that the NDA covered more than just election information, including information about the NDSP’s business practices and methods. Further, he said the media should be aware of the NDAs
&#8220;Since I felt that there are elements of this process that need to be reported, I could not in good conscience sign that document,&#8221; Morrison told CNN.
The outlet suggested that the “possibility that even a small number of volunteers could be quitting the day before the Nevada caucuses is yet another cause for concern that vote can been pulled off in the wake of the fiasco with the Iowa caucuses.”
Iowa Democrats didn’t require volunteers to sign NDAs. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrats-release-iowa-caucus-results-chaos-gets-even-worse">reported</a>, the Democrats’ Iowa caucus was marred by chaos and incompetence, as an app designed to collect and report caucus data failed. By Tuesday, just 62% of data had been released, and it would take days for the full results to be tallied.

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DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS: Nevada Democrats Requiring Caucus Volunteers To Sign Non-Disclosure Agreements

During the NBC Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday night, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg ripped into socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over his health care plan.
Buttigieg hammered Sanders over his lack of transparency, hitting the senator for repeatedly stating that he doesn&#8217;t know the cost of this own plan, and has only outlined tax hikes, including on folks in the lower-middle class, to pay for a fraction of the estimated cost.
Sanders &#8220;said it was impossible to even know how much it&#8217;s going to cost, and even after raising taxes on everybody making $29,000, there is still a multi-trillion dollar hole,&#8221; Buttigieg said of Sanders&#8217; pricey Medicare for All plan.
&#8220;Matter of fact,&#8221; the former mayor continued, &#8220;if you add up all his policies together, they come to $50 trillion. He&#8217;s only explained $25 trillion worth of revenue, which means the hole in there is bigger than the size of the entire economy of the United States.&#8221;
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On if Bernie Sanders&#39;s release of doctors&#39; notes in lieu of full medical records is sufficient, Pete Buttigieg says, &quot;No, it&#39;s not,&quot; says, &quot;I am certainly prepared to get a physical, put out the results, I think everybody here should be willing to do the same.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fgvkHNp4iW">pic.twitter.com/fgvkHNp4iW</a>
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Buttigieg hammers Bernie on lack of transparency on his healthcare plan costs <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/uTq3NeUkqd">pic.twitter.com/uTq3NeUkqd</a>
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Earlier in the debate, Buttigieg hit Sanders for being &#8220;polarizing&#8221; and &#8220;not even a Democrat.&#8221;
&#8220;We have got to wake up as a party,&#8221; Buttigieg said, according to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/19/bernie-sanders-turns-red-in-fiery-exchange-with-pete-buttigieg-at-democrat-debate/">Breitbart News</a>. &#8220;We could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, the two most polarizing figures on this stage.&#8221;
&#8220;And most Americans don’t see where they fit if they have got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil, and a billionaire that thinks that money ought to be the root of all power,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Let’s put forward somebody who actually lives and works in a middle-class neighborhood in an industrial Midwestern city. Let’s put forward somebody who’s actually a Democrat.&#8221;
Sanders responded: &#8220;If speaking to the needs and the pain of a long-neglected working class is &#8216;polarizing&#8217; – I think you have got the wrong word. What we are trying, finally, to do is to give a voice to people who, after 45 years of work, are not making a nickel more than they did 45 years ago. We are giving a voice to people who are saying, we are sick and tired of billionaires like Mr. Bloomberg seeing huge expansions of their wealth while a half a million people sleep out on the street tonight. And that’s all what we are saying, Pete, is maybe it’s time for the working class for this country to have a little bit of power in Washington, rather than your billionaire campaign contributors.&#8221;
&#8220;We can actually deliver health care without taking it away from anyone,&#8221; Buttigieg retorted. &#8220;We can actually empower workers and lift wages without further polarizing this country. And we can build a movement without having legions of our supporters online and in person attacking Democratic figures and union leaders alike.&#8221;
The former mayor also said Sanders was not being transparent enough with his health. &#8220;I am certainly prepared to get a physical, put out the results. I think everybody here should be willing to do the same.&#8221;
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We shouldn&#39;t have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and one candidate who wants to buy this party out. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/iE8syCzv17">pic.twitter.com/iE8syCzv17</a>
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Democratic presidential debate

WATCH: Buttigieg Demolishes Sanders On Healthcare, Socialist Plans

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Health Care

Pete Buttigieg

Billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg ripped socialist Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to pieces on Wednesday night during NBC&#8217;s presidential debate, saying that Sanders has no shot of beating Trump.
&#8220;Mayor Bloomberg, can Senator Sanders beat President Trump?&#8221; Lester Holt asked.
&#8220;I don’t think there’s any chance of the senator beating President Trump,&#8221; Bloomberg said. &#8220;You don’t start out by saying, &#8216;I’ve got 160 million people, I’m going to take away the insurance plan that they love.&#8217; That’s just not a way that you go and start building the coalition that the Sanders camp thinks that they can do. I don’t think there’s any chance whatsoever. And if he goes and is the candidate, we will have Donald Trump for another four years, and we can’t stand that.&#8221;
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“Mayor Bloomberg, can Senator Sanders beat President Trump?” Lester Holt asked.
“I don’t think there’s any chance of the senator beating President Trump,” Bloomberg said. <a href="https://t.co/GiItjvuMGJ">pic.twitter.com/GiItjvuMGJ</a>
— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1230323344735703041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
The Daily Wire reported the following on Bloomberg&#8217;s background and policy views last September:
<blockquote>On November 24, 2019, Michael Rubens Bloomberg announced his formal entrance into the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primary. To date, he is the latest candidate to enter the primary field.
Michael Bloomberg served three full terms as mayor of New York City, from 2002 through the end of 2013. He was New York City’s mayoral successor of the failed 2008 Republican presidential candidate and current private attorney for President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg is also the co-founder, CEO, and majority owner of financial services conglomerate Bloomberg L.P., which is perhaps best known for its flagship Bloomberg Terminal hardware. As of November 2019, Bloomberg’s net worth was <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-bloomberg">estimated</a> at $58 billion dollars, which makes him one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. He has been a prolific donator to various charitable and political causes.
Born in Boston in 1942, Bloomberg has degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. A registered Democrat earlier in his career, Bloomberg actually ran for and successfully sought the New York City mayoralty office as a registered Republican before re-registering as an independent in the midst of his second mayoral term. He re-registered as a Democrat in 2018. Since joining the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary field, Bloomberg News — an international news outlet operating as a legal subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P. — has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-news-wont-investigate-bloomberg-democrats-its-journalists-go-to-work-on-bloombergs-campaign">announced</a> that it will not journalistically investigate Bloomberg or his fellow 2020 Democratic Party primary campaign rivals.</blockquote>
Continue reading Bloomberg&#8217;s profile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-michael-bloomberg-stand-on-the-issues-heres-everything-you-need-to-know">here</a>.
The Daily Wire reported the following on Sanders&#8217; background and policy views last September:
<blockquote>Bernard Sanders has served as a U.S. senator from Vermont since 2007, and previously served as a U.S. congressman from Vermont from 1991–2007. He is a self-described “democratic socialist” and is presently second — behind only former Vice President Joe Biden — in most <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/">2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination polling</a>. Sanders, who is Jewish by birth, is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and went to college at the University of Chicago. It was during his time in Chicago that Sanders first became active in socialist circles and involved with other far-left causes. Although he has sometimes caucused with the Democratic Party during his time in Congress, Sanders has spent most of his adult political life as a registered political independent.
Sanders’ first marriage ended in divorce, and he has been married since 1988 to Jane O’Meara Sanders, a social worker and college administrator. He has four children and seven grandchildren. If successfully nominated for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination, he would be the oldest nominee for a major American political party in modern history (he is now 77 years old).
Although Sanders’ far-left across-the-board viewpoints were once considered to be an outlier within Democratic/Democratic-adjacent circles, he is now widely reputed to be one of the Democratic Party thought leaders.</blockquote>
Continue reading Sanders&#8217; profile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-bernie-sanders-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">here</a>.

ELECTION 2020

WATCH: Michael Bloomberg Rips Socialist Bernie Sanders To Pieces In Opening Salvo

Michael Bloomberg

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) immediately went after billionaire Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg during NBC&#8217;s debate on Wednesday night over his previous comments on women.
&#8220;I&#8217;d like to talk about who we are running against, a billionaire who calls women, &#8216;fat broads,&#8217; and &#8216;horse-faced lesbians,'&#8221; Warren said. &#8220;And no, I&#8217;m not talking about Donald Trump. I&#8217;m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.&#8221;
“Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women, and of supporting racist policies like redlining and stop-and-frisk,” Warren continued. “Look, I’ll support whoever the Democratic nominee is. But understand this: Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.”
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Warren came out SWINGING at Bloomberg <a href="https://t.co/3D8bnvvm4m">pic.twitter.com/3D8bnvvm4m</a>
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The Daily Wire reported the following on Bloomberg&#8217;s background and policy views last September:
<blockquote>On November 24, 2019, Michael Rubens Bloomberg announced his formal entrance into the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primary. To date, he is the latest candidate to enter the primary field.
Michael Bloomberg served three full terms as mayor of New York City, from 2002 through the end of 2013. He was New York City’s mayoral successor of the failed 2008 Republican presidential candidate and current private attorney for President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg is also the co-founder, CEO, and majority owner of financial services conglomerate Bloomberg L.P., which is perhaps best known for its flagship Bloomberg Terminal hardware. As of November 2019, Bloomberg’s net worth was <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/michael-bloomberg">estimated</a> at $58 billion dollars, which makes him one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. He has been a prolific donator to various charitable and political causes.
Born in Boston in 1942, Bloomberg has degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. A registered Democrat earlier in his career, Bloomberg actually ran for and successfully sought the New York City mayoralty office as a registered Republican before re-registering as an independent in the midst of his second mayoral term. He re-registered as a Democrat in 2018. Since joining the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary field, Bloomberg News — an international news outlet operating as a legal subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P. — has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-news-wont-investigate-bloomberg-democrats-its-journalists-go-to-work-on-bloombergs-campaign">announced</a> that it will not journalistically investigate Bloomberg or his fellow 2020 Democratic Party primary campaign rivals.
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Continue reading Bloomberg&#8217;s profile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-michael-bloomberg-stand-on-the-issues-heres-everything-you-need-to-know">here</a>.
The Daily Wire reported the following on Warren&#8217;s background and policy views last September:
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Elizabeth Ann Warren has served since 2013 as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party and a former Harvard Law School professor, Warren is a firm progressive who routinely takes far-left, populist-inspired political stances on policies pertaining to the economy and the regulatory state. Warren, who has a checkered and controversial past with respect to her alleged — but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42951/elizabeth-warren-apologizes-cherokee-nation-taking-kassy-dillon">scientifically dubious</a> — Cherokee ancestry, was born in Oklahoma City and grew up in Oklahoma. She attended George Washington University before attaining a bachelor’s degree at the University of Houston. She went to law school at Rutgers University.
Warren’s first marriage ended in divorce, and she is now married to Bruce Mann, who is also a Harvard Law School professor. Warren has two children.
Warren’s debatable claim to partial Cherokee ancestry has been the source of much drama and partisan bickering. In late 2018, Warren released the results of a DNA test that showed she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37118/elizabeth-warren-releases-results-dna-test-just-james-barrett">might be as little as 1/1024th Cherokee</a>. She was subsequently criticized by the Cherokee Nation.
Warren’s far-left economic and social stances, which were somewhat avant-garde at the time of her election to the U.S. Senate, are now mainstream for the Democratic Party. Prior to her election to the Senate, Warren was instrumental in the development and founding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which was created by the 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Conservatives have routinely assailed the CFPB as being unnecessarily intrusive, unconstitutionally funded, and unconstitutionally structured.
She is now running for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination and has recently <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/democratic_nomination_polls/">polled in third place</a>, behind only former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).</blockquote>
Continue reading Warren&#8217;s profile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-elizabeth-warren-stand-issues-heres-josh-hammer">here</a>.

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Warren Nukes Bloomberg: He Calls Women ‘Fat Broads’ And ‘Horse-Faced Lesbians’

Elizabeth Warren

Democratic presidential campaigns and Nevada election volunteers have been anonymously expressing fears about the upcoming Nevada caucuses, leaving many Democrats wondering whether the state party can overcome the shadow cast by the Iowa fiasco earlier this month. 
According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/campaigns-warn-of-chaos-ahead-of-the-nevada-caucuses/2020/02/16/ef78ef52-50c8-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html">Washington Post</a>, as the Nevada Democratic party has decided to buck two apps developed by the tech company responsible for the Iowa app, campaigns have been in the dark about how certain aspects of the caucuses will function — only days before the caucuses are set to begin. 
“It feels like the [state party is] making it up as they go along,” said one Democratic campaign aide, reports the news agency. “That’s not how we need to be running an election.”
“If the party had this process well defined and had confidence in it, I think that we’d know a lot more about it,” said another aide, echoing the sentiments that other campaign staffers expressed to the news agency. Another aide said that their respective campaign has “been learning more about this process from the media than the state party or the DNC.”
In a statement to the Post, DNC spokesperson Xochitl Hinojosa said that the “Nevada State Democratic Party and the DNC are in regular communication with campaigns and will continue to answer questions about the process in the state and the nominating process.” 
Hinojosa also declared that the party remains “confident that they are doing everything they can to implement lessons learned in Iowa, and we have deployed staff to help across the board, including tech support and volunteer recruitment,” reports the news agency.
According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/16/nevada-avoid-iowa-caucus-mess-115437">Politico</a>, volunteers for the Nevada caucuses have also been expressing concern about the upcoming election, saying that it could result in a disaster. 
Some volunteers have told the news agency that the state Democratic party hasn’t trained them how to use the iPads the party bought specifically for tallying caucus results. Another volunteer has since predicted that the caucuses will be a “complete disaster,” and another senior volunteer told the news agency that early voting, which began Saturday, was “disastrous” due to the lack of iPad training. 
Politico has also discovered “conflicting information” in the manuals the party has given to precinct chairs: 
<blockquote>According to screenshots of manuals provided to precinct chairs, the guidelines do not make clear that a candidate who falls short of the 15 percent viability threshold can get there on the second alignment. They can do so by courting supporters of other candidates who fail to make it in the first round.
The manual provides conflicting information: In one instance, it states that supporters of “non-viable” candidates can “join or form” a viable candidate. But in another instance, the manual implies that supporters of non-viable candidates can only switch to a viable candidate.
“Allow up to 15 minutes for non-viable preference group members to align with their second choice,” the manual reads. “People in non-viable groups can choose not to realign, however they will not be awarded any delegates.”</blockquote>
In response to the Washington Post allegation that one campaign aide “feels like [the state party is] making it up as they go along,” Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) told <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6133197298001#sp=show-clips">Fox News</a> that although the state party had “to make some changes,” they had “learned from Iowa” and didn’t foresee any serious problems.

Voters Go To The Polls In Florida Primary

DNC ‘Confident’ Ahead Of Nevada Caucuses. Campaigns, Volunteers Remain Worried: Impending ‘Disaster’

On Friday, a <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/sanders-holds-lead-heading-into-nevadas-democratic-caucuses-poll-finds-1957583/">new poll</a> from Las Vegas Review-Journal and AARP Nevada was released showing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the lead.
The poll, which was conducted between February 11 &#8211; 13 by WPA Intelligence and has a margin of error of +/- 4.8%, asked “413 likely caucus attendees” the following question: “If the Democratic caucuses for nomination for U.S. president were held today, for whom would you vote?”
25% of respondents said that they would vote for Sanders. In second place with 18% support was former Vice President Joe Biden. Third place went to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with 13%. Rounding out the top six were billionaire Tom Steyer with 11%, and Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) tied with 10% each.
It should be noted that 13% of those surveyed were “undecided” or for “other” candidates.
According to the <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/sanders-holds-lead-heading-into-nevadas-democratic-caucuses-poll-finds-1957583/">Las Vegas Review-Journal</a>, WPA research director Trevor Smith said that the debate on Wednesday might have some impact, but possibly nothing significant, given the timing and early voting.
The progressive block is pretty locked up, according to Smith.
“He noted that Sanders had a firm grip on voters who identified as very liberal (33 percent for Sanders) and somewhat liberal (31 percent),” reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Warren is competing for the very liberal with 32 percent of their support, but not anywhere else.”
As for Buttigieg, though he is polling at just 10%, his “support in the poll was evenly split among very liberal (14 percent), somewhat liberal (9 percent) and moderate (11 percent) voters,” showing a cross-ideology appeal.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the poll was that for 56% of respondents, stopping President Trump was priority number one, while Medicare for All was in second with just 9%.
Sanders has been able to ride a wave of Democratic voter enthusiasm despite the Iowa Caucus debacle, which initially looked like it could have sucked the oxygen from his campaign.
In Iowa, Buttigieg narrowly beat out Sanders by 0.1% (26.2% to 26.1%), and was awarded 13 delegates to Sanders’ 12 delegates, according to the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=iowa+caucus+results&amp;rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS876US876&amp;oq=iowa+cau&amp;aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0j69i59j69i60l2j69i61.3492j0j7&amp;hl=en-US&amp;sourceid=chrome-mobile&amp;ie=UTF-8">Associated Press</a>, despite Sanders appearing to win the <a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/iowa/">popular vote</a>.
Sanders went on to win the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS876US876&amp;hl=en-US&amp;sxsrf=ACYBGNT9uhdYdLp3hvMoMhbs7J-GI91QlA%3A1581889998465&amp;ei=zrlJXt2FHJOrytMPmvKJqAk&amp;q=new+hampshire+primary+results&amp;oq=new+hampshire+primary+&amp;gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.1.1.35i39j0i131l2j0j0i131j0i20i263j0i67j0i131.1582.1582..2646...0.1..0.256.256.2-1......0....1.........0i71.MZypSaGX0aQ">New Hampshire primary</a> with 25.7% of the vote to second place Pete Buttigieg’s 24.4% and third place Amy Klubuchar’s 19.8%.
Prior to this latest Nevada poll (as well as one taken in January), surveys showed Joe Biden with a commanding lead dating back to August 2019. Now, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nv/nevada_democratic_presidential_caucus-6866.html">RealClearPolitics</a> average, Sanders sits atop the field by a margin of 3%.
In South Carolina, where Biden needs to do well in order to continue in the Democratic race, new polls show the former vice president falling, with Sanders and Steyer rising. South Carolinians go to the polls on February 29.
Following South Carolina is Super Tuesday, where 14 states and one territory will hold their primaries and caucuses. As of publication (and the polling in many of these states isn’t fresh), Sanders <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/SuperTuesday.html">leads</a> in California, Utah, and Colorado. Biden <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/SuperTuesday.html">leads</a> in Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Oklahoma.
The results in Nevada and South Carolina will certainly have an impact on those numbers moving forward.

POLL: Sanders Leads In Nevada By 7%

Joe Biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden is not happy that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) supporters have been attacking members of one of Nevada&#8217;s biggest unions, the Nevada Culinary Union, over that union&#8217;s decision to forgo endorsing a Democratic candidate &#8212; and Biden wants the Sanders supporters named and shamed.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-calls-out-sanders-after-supporters-reportedly-targeted-union-find-out-who-the-hell-they-are">Fox News reports</a> that Biden said Sanders has &#8220;accountability&#8221; for the way his supporters treat voters on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; Sunday morning, adding that he would &#8220;disown&#8221; any of his supporters who threatened fellow Democrats.
“He may not be responsible for it, but he has some accountability,” Biden told the Sunday morning news program. “You know me well enough to know if any of my supporters did that, I’d disown them. Flat disown them. The stuff that was said online. The way they threatened these two women who are leaders in that Culinary union. It is outrageous.&#8221;
Biden went even further, though, encouraging Sanders to hunt out his errant supporters and ensure none of them are involved in his campaign &#8212; a difficult task for a grassroots presidential operation with arms in many states and perhaps thousands of volunteers. Sanders has not taken his response that far, saying in statements only that he abhors “harassment in all forms” and encouraging “supporters of all campaigns not to engage in bullying or ugly personal attacks.”
“And to say I disassociate is one thing. Find out who the hell they are, if any of them work for me, fire them. Find out, see what’s going on,” Biden added.
The dustup started last week when Nevada&#8217;s Culinary Union, which might typically endorse a pro-worker&#8217;s rights candidate like Sanders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, instead <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/13/nevadas-powerful-culinary-union-declines-to-endorse-a-2020-candidate-115019">declined to issue an endorsement</a> in the all-important Nevada caucuses, which take place next weekend.
The group then released a flier to its membership &#8212; some 60,000 hotel and casino workers, many of them minorities &#8212; deriding Sanders, in both English and Spanish, for looking to “end culinary health care” with his Medicare for All Plan, which would supercede benefits the union had worked hard to get for its members. The document added that &#8220;presidential candidates suggesting forcing millions of hardworking people to give up their health care creates unnecessary division between workers, and will give us four more years of Trump&#8221; &#8212; clearly a jab at Sanders.
In response, the so-called &#8220;Bernie Bros&#8221; &#8212; Sanders&#8217; volunteer army of supporters on social media &#8212; targeted officers of the Culinary Union directly, burying them under an avalanche of profane, often racist and sexist hate mail, <a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/culinary-union-officials-face-profanity-laced-attacks-after-scorecard-says-sanders-would-end-their-health-care">per the Nevada Independent</a>. They received &#8220;dozens of phone calls, more than 300 emails and thousands of tweets&#8221; in the two days following their decision.
&#8220;In tweets, the union and its leadership have been referred to as &#8216;bitches,&#8217; &#8216;whore,&#8217; &#8216;fucking scab&#8217; and &#8216;evil, entitled assholes,'&#8221; among other things, according to the state-based outlet.
“This is your chance to fix your mistake before the millions and millions of Bernie Sanders supporters will find you and end your ability to earn a living,” one email, sent to a Culinary Union official read. “We will find you corrupt mother fuckers of that you can be sure and we will make sure you wallow in poverty and suffering. Apologize and fix your mistake or else you will pay … I know tens of thousands of Bernie supporters and we will come after you fascist imbeciles. #Bernie2020 #NotMeUs.”
Sanders supporters saw the Union&#8217;s decision as an underhanded effort to kneecap the Vermont socialist in the Nevada caucuses, and they are likely right. The Culinary Union has close ties to powerful former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who remains a power player in the state, wielding the votes of casino workers to help more establishment Democrats like Joe Biden, <a href="https://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jul/04/harry-reid-culinary-union-general-election/">according to the Las Vegas Sun</a>.
The Culinary Union works hard to get its 60,000 members to the caucuses &#8212; and they can do a lot of damage. In 2016, for example, the &#8220;Harry Reid-Culinary Union machine&#8221; mobilized tens of thousands of caucus-goers in Nevada to vote for Hillary Clinton, who was in trouble after losing first the Iowa popular vote and then the New Hampshire primary to Sanders. Reid&#8217;s efforts created a &#8220;firewall&#8221; for Clinton, stopping Sanders&#8217; rise dead in its tracks.
&#8220;The week before the caucuses, Reid called D. Taylor, head of Culinary’s parent union, to make sure members (generally thought to be pro-Clinton) would be encouraged to turn out. Reid also spoke with the heads of several Strip resorts to push for workers to be allowed time off to caucus,&#8221; the Sun reported back in 2016. &#8220;The Culinary Union had planned to message its workers about the caucuses, but Reid’s call to Taylor served as a &#8216;reconfirmation,&#8217; said Yvanna Cancela, the union’s political director.&#8221;
Cancela went on to use the Culinary Union&#8217;s power for herself. She&#8217;s now a state senator and has endorsed &#8212; to perhaps no one&#8217;s surprise &#8212; former Vice President Joe Biden.

Joe Biden Freaks Out Over Bernie Sanders Supporters Threatening Nevada Workers: ‘Find Out Who The Hell They Are!’

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A politically powerful union in Nevada said on Wednesday that its members were &#8220;viciously attacked&#8221; by far-left supporters of socialist Bernie Sanders after the union warned members against backing candidates that support the socialist program known as &#8220;Medicare-for-All.&#8221;
The Culinary Union released a flyer this week that said that &#8220;Sanders, if elected president, would &#8216;end Culinary Healthcare,&#8217; &#8216;require ‘Medicare For All,’&#8217; and &#8216;lower drug prices,'&#8221; The Nevada Independent <a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/in-new-flyer-culinary-union-warns-members-sanders-would-end-their-health-care-if-elected-president">reported</a>. &#8220;The Culinary Union, which provides health insurance to 130,000 workers and their family members through a special trust fund, strongly opposes Medicare for all on the basis that it would eliminate the health insurance they have negotiated for over several decades. Health insurance provided by the Culinary Health Fund is considered to be some of the best in the state, and the union even opened a 60,000-square-foot state-of-the-art health clinic a couple of years ago for its members.&#8221;
In a statement, the Culinary Union condemned the attacks that it says that it received from Sanders&#8217; supporters.
&#8220;We have welcomed Senator Bernie Sanders into our union for a town hall with Culinary Union members, and we hosted tours of the Culinary Health Center and the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas with Senator Sanders, to show what we have fought for and won,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Our union believes that everyone has the right to good healthcare and that healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. We have already enacted a vision for what working people need &#8211; and it exists now. Workers should have the right to choose to keep the healthcare Culinary Union members have built, sacrificed for, and went on strike for 6 years, 4 months, and 10 days to protect.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s disappointing that Senator Sanders’ supporters have viciously attacked the Culinary Union and working families in Nevada simply because our union has provided facts on what certain healthcare proposals might do to take away the system of care we have built over 8 decades,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;We have always stood up for what we believe in and will continue to do so. &#8230; Together, we will figure out the best way to fix healthcare in America, and the Culinary Union is committed to fighting until we win for everyone.&#8221;
Sanders&#8217; supporters have been widely criticized by numerous media publications and other politicians for their vicious attacks on other Democrats.
In a series of brutal remarks about Sanders, two-time failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton repeatedly attacked his supporters.
“It’s not only him, it’s the culture around him. It’s his leadership team,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;It’s his prominent supporters. It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.”
“And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture — not only permitted, [he] seems to really be very much supporting it,” Clinton continued. “And I don’t think we want to go down that road again where you campaign by insult and attack and maybe you try to get some distance from it, but you either don’t know what your campaign and supporters are doing or you’re just giving them a wink and you want them to go after Kamala [Harris] or after Elizabeth [Warren]. I think that that’s a pattern that people should take into account when they make their decisions.”
CNN further <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/politics/bernie-sanders-social-media-attacks-invs/index.html">highlighted</a> just some of Sanders&#8217; supporters vicious attacks on others:
<blockquote>On Twitter, Sanders supporters lobbed hundreds of critical messages at the Working Families Party or its leadership, which included personal attacks that called them &#8220;corrupt,&#8221; &#8220;shameless&#8221; and &#8220;bloodless scumbag hacks.&#8221; One pro-Sanders account tweeted that &#8220;slave masters&#8221; had coerced the support of the party&#8217;s national director, who is African American.
Three days after the endorsement, a WFP spokeswoman tweeted a screenshot of one message that wished she and her colleagues would &#8220;all get cancer you are f**king trash.&#8221; She also said they received private messages saying &#8220;eat sh*t and die&#8221; and &#8220;drop dead dumb c*nts.&#8221;</blockquote>
Weighing in on the impact that Sanders’ supporters are having on the election, MSNBC contributor Sam Stein <a href="https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1227737071223263233">wrote</a>: “I&#8217;m not sure Sanders official team has grasped the extent to which their supporters are impacting voter behavior. Lots of people at Warren and Pete town halls I talked to were weighing a Sanders vote but said they were turned off by the culture and crowds”

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Powerful Nevada Union Says Its Members Were ‘Viciously Attacked’ By Bernie Supporters

Rising Nevada Republican congressional candidate Lisa Sutton raised more money during the third quarter than any of the other six Republican primary challengers that she faces in Nevada&#8217;s 4th Congressional District.
Sutton, 34, entered the race during the third quarter and raised more money during the first 90 days of her campaign than any of the other candidates did in their first 90 days and had the highest fundraising quarter overall out of all the Republican candidates.
During the third quarter, the seven GOP candidates raised:
<ol>
<li>Lisa Song Sutton: $127,998.00</li>
<li>Samuel Peters: $111,704.00</li>
<li>Charles Navarro: $80,013.00</li>
<li>Jim Merchant: $58,185.00</li>
<li>Randi Reed: $ 47,595.00</li>
<li>Leo Blundo: $45,398.00</li>
<li>Catherine Prato: $29,585</li>
</ol>
The seven GOP candidates&#8217; first 90 days of fundraising:
<ol>
<li>Lisa Song Sutton: $127,998.00</li>
<li>Randi Reed: $ 47,595.00</li>
<li>Leo Blundo: $45,398.00</li>
<li>Catherine Prato: $29,585</li>
<li>Charles Navarro: $17,850.00</li>
<li>Jim Merchant: $14,647.00</li>
<li>Samuel Peters: $5,000.00</li>
</ol>
The seven GOP candidates&#8217; top fundraising quarter earnings:
<ol>
<li>Lisa Song Sutton: $127,998.00</li>
<li>Samuel Peters: $111,704.00</li>
<li>Jim Merchant: $103,790.00</li>
<li>Charles Navarro: $80,013.00</li>
<li>Randi Reed: $ 47,595.00</li>
<li>Leo Blundo: $45,398.00</li>
<li>Catherine Prato: $29,585</li>
</ol>
Sutton, a business owner and former Miss Nevada United States, has a law degree from the University of Miami and is a self-described lifelong Republican.
“I’m incredibly grateful for the momentum my campaign has received in the first 90 days,” Sutton said in a statement. “I’m a business leader, not a politician, and I have shown in my first quarter that we can raise the money to build the grassroots political support needed to challenge Steven Horsford in the general election.”
“Our wide base of support shows Nevada’s 4th Congressional District is eager to elect a Republican who is a young, female, minority, business leader to Congress. The community is tired of career politicians running for office in districts they don’t care about,” Sutton continued. “I’m here to show the community, and Washington, that I will outwork career politician Steven Horsford, and take back Nevada’s 4th Congressional district.”
Sutton&#8217;s campaign noted that since she announced her candidacy in July 2019, &#8220;Sutton raised $107,998 in money and in-kind donations, plus a personal contribution of $20,000, for a total of $127,998 in campaign receipts in her first quarter of declaring. Her campaign has raised money from nearly 200 individual donors throughout Nevada and across the country, showing widespread support for her candidacy.&#8221;
&#8220;Sutton’s support ranges from traditional Nevada Republican donors, to first-time federal campaign donors,&#8221; the statement concluded. &#8220;The average small-dollar online donation was $58. This wide range of support shows her campaign is able to bring new donors to the Republican party. Her ability to expand beyond the traditional base of supporters and win over a majority-minority house district are anchors to Sutton’s success.&#8221;
Sutton, whose father is a Vietnam veteran and mother a Korean immigrant, told The Daily Wire in an interview last month that small businesses, cutting regulations, the U.S. military, immigrant enforcement, border security, and the Second Amendment were among the issues that were the most important to her.
&#8220;Politics was never in the plan for me. I have previously been focused on my companies and community work,&#8221; Sutton told The Daily Wire. &#8220;However, when I opened the second location of my shipping store last year, I saw how much need was in the community. People have no access to basic amenities, like grocery stores. Veterans aren’t being served, and the community is forgotten.&#8221;
&#8220;This area in the District opened my eyes to a larger problem: communities not being served by career politicians,&#8221; Sutton continued. &#8220;This, coupled with my own examination of our state representatives, and realizing that we don’t have a voice for business owners, we don’t have a voice for millennials, and we don’t have a voice of someone actually engaged in the community, I knew I had to step up.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-miss-nevada-daughter-immigrant-launches-gop-ryan-saavedra">Read the rest of Sutton&#8217;s exclusive interview with The Daily Wire.</a>

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Rising GOP Congressional Candidate Lisa Sutton Dominates Fundraising Efforts In Primary

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Matty Roberts, the California man who launched the viral internet joke &#8220;Storm Area 51&#8221; over the summer, has officially pulled all his involvement from the planned event amid safety concerns.
This past July, the &#8220;Storm Area 51&#8221; Facebook page became a viral sensation, attracting three million people pledging to attend — with another 1.4 million expressing interest.
&#8220;We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry. If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Let&#8217;s see them aliens,&#8221; the page said.
Though Roberts meant it as a joke, the United States government took it as no laughing matter and immediately issued a warning to those believing they could &#8220;naruto run&#8221; their way into the top-secret facility.
&#8220;[Area 51] is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces. &#8230; The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets,&#8221; Spokeswoman Laura McAndrews of the U.S. Air Force told The Washington Post.
As a result, Roberts decided to host a music festival, aptly named &#8220;AlienStock,&#8221; at the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/travel/little-aleinn-storm-area-51-nevada" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Little A&#8217;Le&#8217;Inn</a> in Rachel, Nevada, from September 20 – 22. However, after weeks of working with the local municipalities, Roberts decided to withdraw his involvement from the event, fearing it might become a Fyre Fest 2.0, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/science/storm-area-51-creator-leaves-nevada-alien-themed-festival-downtown-las-vegas-event">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;Due to the lack of infrastructure, poor planning, risk management and blatant disregard for the safety of the expected 10,000+ AlienStock attendees, we decided to pull the plug on the festival,&#8221; Roberts said in a statement.
Roberts said he visited the town of Rachel over the weekend and discovered that the infrastructure simply did not exist to support the number of people planning to attend &#8220;AlienStock&#8221; — an event he never intended to become so big.
&#8220;The permit holder (Connie West) was given multiple opportunities to provide us with the proof that things expected at this festival were in place. In fact, she refused to provide to us, as agreed upon, contracts, proof of deposits or any paper proof of anything,&#8221; Roberts told FOX5.
Now that Roberts has pulled out, his representatives told reporters that &#8220;AlienStock&#8221; is officially no longer associated with him in any capacity.
&#8220;We are not interested in, nor will we tolerate any involvement in a FYREFEST 2.0,&#8221; <a href="https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/storm-area-event-creator-pulls-out-of-alienstock-festival-in/article_b263cbc0-d344-11e9-8588-8b20ca3b7d4a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the statement said</a>. &#8220;We foresee a possible humanitarian disaster in the works, and we can’t participate in any capacity at this point.&#8221;
In a statement <a href="http://www.rachel-nevada.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">posted on its website</a> Monday, the town of Rachel agreed that &#8220;AlienStock&#8221; is quickly portending to be a Fyre Fest 2.0 in the making. People planning to attend have instead been asked to visit Area 51-themed events in Las Vegas.
&#8220;The creator of the Storm Area 51 movement pulled out because he feels the event is not safe and lacks organization. With a week and a half to go no preparations have been made and no bands have been signed,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;If any event still happens it is going to be a pretty sad affair with no bands, very little infrastructure and a lot of unhappy campers.&#8221;
Connie West, the owner of the Little A&#8217;Le&#8217;Inn, told FOX5 that she is sad and brokenhearted the event will not be proceeding as planned. &#8220;I&#8217;m sad and I&#8217;m brokenhearted, but at the same time, it is what it is,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If he chooses to go somewhere else, that&#8217;s his choice. I&#8217;m still having a party because people are still coming to Rachel.&#8221;

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‘Storm Area 51’ Organizer Pulls Plug On ‘AlienStock’ Music Festival Over Safety Concerns

It has never been clearer that the Electoral College is under systemic assault.
It has become de rigueur for 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to casually <a href="https://www.apnews.com/cf09fdabb90c4d9f8e5639d001aa25ac">excoriate</a> the institution in no uncertain terms, and <a href="https://www.axios.com/electoral-college-2020-presidential-election-candidates-94d89ca6-b402-4de3-ae8e-06139592408e.html">oftentimes</a> vow to eliminate it via constitutional amendment. Furthermore, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47520/nevada-passes-bill-give-electoral-votes-national-james-barrett">reported</a> this morning, Nevada is the latest state to pass a bill that adds the Silver State to the <a href="https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/">National Popular Vote Interstate Compact</a> (NPV), which, if upheld as constitutional after 270 Electoral College votes&#8217; worth of states join, would guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. As I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45462/thwarting-tyranny-save-our-states-seeks-protect-josh-hammer">explained</a> last month, the NPV project is largely funded and promoted by partisan Democratic activists, including a California-based computer scientist named <a href="https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/about">John Koza</a>.
The constitutionality of NPV is debatable. Such a backdoor route toward the abolition of a core constitutional structural provision would indubitably violate the Framers&#8217; intent, but the question from a purely textualist perspective is murkier. After all, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii">Article II, Section 1, Clause 2</a> of the Constitution seems to provide that state legislatures have plenary power over allocation of their states&#8217; electors: &#8220;Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.&#8221; As long as NPV amounts to a purely voluntary and non-binding compact for each state that joins, constitutionalists would be severely misguided to rely on our <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44510/hammer-judicial-arrogance-existential-threat-our-josh-hammer">black-robed judicial overlords</a> to save We the People from our own self-inflicted follies.
But NPV ought to be countered on a state-by-state basis, because the Electoral College is an important institution worthy of protection and preservation.
Alexander Hamilton most expressly defended the Electoral College in <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed68.asp">The Federalist No. 68</a>. The Electoral College, Hamilton argued, &#8220;affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.&#8221; Specifically, Hamilton added that &#8220;it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union.&#8221;
More generally, the Constitution&#8217;s Framers envisioned the Electoral College as one of their many structural securities against majoritarian tyranny &#8212; what James Madison described in <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp">The Federalist No. 10</a> as the problem of &#8220;faction&#8221;:
<blockquote>
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
</blockquote>
The Electoral College, in attempting to ensure that smaller, more rural states would not be politically overrun by parochial urban interests, was one means by which the Framers sought to &#8220;control[ the] effects&#8221; of faction. Other examples of counter-majoritarian protections abound, and are woven into our constitutional structure: A bicameral legislature at the national level, a senior legislative chamber whose (pre-17th Amendment) state representative nature was intended as a deliberative counterweight to the more populist proclivities of the people&#8217;s more junior legislative chamber, a tripartite separation of powers framework borrowed from the French political theorist Montesquieu, and the uniquely American political innovation of a federalist system of genuine dual sovereignty.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Michael Knowles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44922/knowles-what-purpose-electoral-college-michael-j-knowles">explained</a> it well on his show in March:
<blockquote>
[The Electoral College] has a few purposes. One, it&#8217;s to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very important, that&#8217;s a wonderful thing. What is another purpose of the electoral college? It doesn&#8217;t just restrain democracy &#8212; let&#8217;s say all of the American people voted for super-duper mecha-Hitler or they elected Stalin Jr. to be president, the Electoral College could then come out and say nope, sorry we are going to disagree with the American people and we&#8217;re going to elect a good candidate, so there&#8217;s that aspect. &#8230; The people participate in votes in their states to choose electors to elect the president, but the people don&#8217;t elect the president. We are not a democracy; we are a democratic republic. We have a representation system of government.
</blockquote>
Rebelling as they did from the tyranny of Britain&#8217;s King George III, the Framers were doubtlessly petrified at the prospect of monarchy &#8212; and all the unpredictability, impulsivity, and tyrannical threats to individual liberty that rule by one necessarily entails. At the same time, the Framers also feared the wrath of unchecked ochlocracy &#8212; the equally petrifying tyranny of mob rule, which is best encapsulated by a plebiscite such as that which NPV aspires to be. Constitutional structural provisions such as the Electoral College and the Senate are not bugs, but features, of the Framers&#8217; genius in securing the people against their own zealous caprices. As Jonah Goldberg succinctly <a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/abolishing-the-electoral-college-would-be-a-mistake/">put it</a>, the Framers understood that &#8220;democracy depends on some undemocratic mechanisms to maintain liberty.&#8221;
At its core, the NPV movement lacks this fundamental, key insight into human nature.
&#8220;If men were angels, no government would be necessary,&#8221; Madison mused in <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp">The Federalist No. 51</a>. But men are not angels. And because men are not angels, structural constitutional provisions are necessary to chasten the whims of the frothing mob. The Electoral College is one such constitutional mechanism and, as such, it is worth preserving.

HAMMER: The Electoral College Is Under Assault. Here’s Why It’s Worth Saving.

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Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) lost his battle against a medical device manufacturer this week, and failed to recover from injuries he says he sustained when an exercise band snapped back at him during a workout.
<a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/harry-reid-finishes-testimony-in-trial-over-exercise-band-injuries-1629248/">The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports</a> that it took jurors only an hour to decide that Reid didn&#8217;t deserve the $50,000 he was demanding from Ohio-based Hygenic Intangible Property Holding Co., The Hygenic Corp. and Performance Health LLC, who make the &#8220;TheraBand,&#8221; a large, physical therapy rubber band used, in Reid&#8217;s case, to strengthen arm muscles.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45267/harry-reid-suing-makers-theraband-over-his-eye-emily-zanotti">The Daily Wire reported</a> on the case last month. Reid was claiming that he was using the band as directed, looped around a doorknob in his bathroom, when the band slipped from his grasp and he fell on a marble floor, sustaining &#8220;a concussion, broken orbital bones, severe disfigurement to his face, bruising and lacerations on his face, hand injuries, scarring and broken ribs.&#8221;
The accident left him nearly blind in his right eye, and, according to Reid, was the impetus behind his retirement from the Senate at age 75.
But Reid&#8217;s case wasn&#8217;t even out of opening statements before things started to turn sour for the career Democrat. Opposing counsel repeatedly reiterated that Reid had been instructed by congressional physical trainers to &#8220;improve his foot stance, balance and technique while using the resistance bands at his doctors&#8217; recommendation,&#8221; but hadn&#8217;t followed orders, and that Reid had thrown out the band that had snapped, so he couldn&#8217;t even be sure it was TheraBand brand.
But the real trouble for Reid seemed to be, as the defendant&#8217;s attorney put it, that he couldn&#8217;t keep his stories straight, even under oath: &#8220;The one thing we do know,&#8221; she said, &#8220;is he struggles with telling the truth.&#8221;
There were two problems with Reid&#8217;s story, it seems. One, that he blamed the injuries he sustained from the broken band for ending his career in the Senate, and two, that he told two different stories about how he was using the band when it snapped.
<a href="https://www.apnews.com/7bb982641b354dbea3899629d7ded61f">The Associated Press reports</a> that the defendant&#8217;s attorney hammered home the part about the Senate.
&#8220;Reid testified last week his injuries were &#8216;the main factor&#8217; why he decided not to seek a sixth Senate term in 2016. [The defense attorney], however, showed the jury a 2015 video news release in which Reid said his decision not to run had &#8216;absolutely nothing to do with my injury,'&#8221; the outlet reported.
Reid was 75 years old when he retired from the Senate in 2015, and, at the time, there was no guarantee that he would emerge victorious from another campaign. Democrats were seeking fresh blood in the Senate and, at the time, it was largely considered a safe seat for the Democratic Party, so Reid retired to his home in Searchlight, Nevada. Since then, he&#8217;s been mostly absent from politics, except for the occasional comment on the current state of Democratic leadership.
Reid also, according to the AP, couldn&#8217;t quite remember whether he&#8217;d hooked the band to a metal hook in his bathroom, or through the handle of his shower door, and testified to both.
&#8220;He noted that Reid at first said the band broke, not that it slipped his grasp, and that it had been attached to a metal hook in the wall of the bathroom in his suburban Las Vegas home,&#8221; the AP said. &#8220;On the witness stand, Reid testified he looped a band through a shower door handle, not a hook, and that he spun around and fell face-first against hard-edged bathroom cabinets.&#8221;
Reid blamed the confusion on his &#8220;concussion state,&#8221; <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/harry-reid-finishes-testimony-in-trial-over-exercise-band-injuries-1629248/">according to the Review-Journal</a>.

Harry Reid Loses Battle Against TheraBand, Accused Of Struggling To Tell The Truth

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Career &#8220;Burners&#8221; or Burning Man attendees are raging over a Bureau of Land Management environmental impact report that accuses Burning Man of being a major environmental nuisance, and requests the weeklong festival in the Nevada desert take major measures to control trash, drug use, and crowds before expanding to accommodate more attendees.
<a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/planAndProjectSite.do?methodName=dispatchToPatternPage&amp;currentPageId=139649">The report, released late last week</a>, is more than 400 pages long and comes in response to a request from festival organizers to grow the event to 100,000 attendees by 2022.
In it, BLM accuses Burning Man of becoming lax in enforcing certain rules during the festival, and demands that Burning Man hire a security force to check vehicles entering and exiting the temporary &#8220;Black Rock City&#8221; where the festival is held for weapons, controlled substances, and other terror threats. It also demands that the &#8220;free spirits&#8221; of Burning Man pay for maintenance to a county road only they use, and that they bring in dumpsters so that attendees can dispose of trash in an environmentally safe way.
The report also says Burning Man will need to put a temporary barrier around the festival city to prevent objects from blowing off into the desert.
Burning Man oganizers and attendees are absolutely incensed at the thought of the Bureau of Land Management daring to question their &#8220;stellar&#8221; record of leaving the Black Rock Desert completely untouched. In a series of posts on websites like <a href="https://www.youredm.com/2019/04/05/new-environmental-impact-statement-from-blm-threatens-future-of-burning-man/">YourEDM and BoingBoing</a>, attendees complained that BLM was being utterly unfair in cracking down on the week-long festival that prides itself on a &#8220;Leave No Trace&#8221; policy.
They also do not understand why they need to pay for road maintenance, terrorism control, and environmental impact abatement when Nevada state and county taxpayers aleady supply plenty of funds for playa protection and upkeep.
Organizers called the report &#8220;unreasonable,&#8221; <a href="https://www.chron.com/burningman/article/Burning-Man-Environmental-Impact-Statement-BLM-13704768.php">according to the Houston Chronicle</a>.
&#8220;Our initial assessment of the Draft EIS determined many of the measures recommended by BLM are unreasonable,&#8221; Burning Man staff said in a statement. &#8220;Some are in direct conflict with our community&#8217;s core principles and would forever negatively change the fabric of the Burning Man event.&#8221;
They found paying for upkeep of a road mainly used by Burning Man attendees particularly &#8220;brazen.&#8221;
&#8220;We know of no other instance in the United States where a private entity is required by the federal government to pay for maintenance of a public county road that is also used year-round by residents, tourists, and businesses,&#8221; they said. &#8220;INevada and Washoe County include a gas tax allocated in part for road repair (which participants have contributed to for 29 years) and Burning Man Project is already working closely in collaboration with Washoe County to find a more permanent solution for CR34.&#8221;
The Bureau of Land Management, it appears, disagrees, and referred to the report not as a critical analysis of Burning Man operations but as a way to handle what they say are are ongoing problems with the festival.
The <a href="https://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2019/04/05/blm-report-highlights-burning-man-environmental-impact-concerns/3294441002/">Reno Gazette-Journal</a>, the paper local to the festival, supports the idea that there are, in fact, issues with the fest. Drug use is fairly common, sure, but a terror threat, the paper says, could result in a &#8220;mass casualty incident&#8221; that might be difficult for emergency personnel to address, since the only road in and out of the festival can sustain no more than 700 vehicles at one time.
Sexual assault at the festival is reportedly on the rise (though all organized sexual activity requires verbal consent to participate), as is air pollution and water use, liquid waste and sewage, and oil leaks. And then there&#8217;s the garbage.
<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4800179/burning-man-trash-2018/">A 2018 report from the Associated Press</a> claims that despite the festival&#8217;s &#8220;Leave No Trace&#8221; policy, there&#8217;s plenty of evidence of Burning Man left after attendees depart. Last year, that debris even included a &#8220;a 747 airplane that was converted into a nightclub then left at the site for weeks.&#8221;
The debate over Burning Man&#8217;s future is ongoing. BLM is reportedly opening the issue to input from festival attendees and interested parties this week.

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Former Senator Harry Reid is in a Nevada court this week, suing the makers of TheraBand, a stretchy physical therapy resistance band that he says robbed him of sight in his right eye.
<a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/jurors-hear-opening-statements-in-harry-reids-exercise-injury-trial-video-1626580/">The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports</a> that Reid is suing Ohio-based Hygenic Intangible Property Holding Co., The Hygenic Corp. and Performance Health LLC, for $50,000, claiming that their faulty product caused him to suffer &#8220;a concussion, broken orbital bones, severe disfigurement to his face, bruising and lacerations on his face, hand injuries, scarring and broken ribs.&#8221;
Reid claims that he was doing physical therapy exercises with the TheraBand in his bathroom on New Years Day 2015 when the band slipped from his grasp, and he fell, sustaining major injuries. Two months later, because he was still contending with blindness in his right eye, he says he was forced to retire from his job in the Senate (at age 75).
Reid, now 79 and suffering from pancreatic cancer, has appeared in court, but it&#8217;s not clear whether he will testify; so far, only a few days into the trial, things don&#8217;t seem to be going Reid&#8217;s way.
According to the Associated Press, the lawyer for Hygenic &#8216;told a civil trial jury that congressional exercise advisers tried for months to teach Reid to improve his foot stance, balance and technique while using the resistance bands at his doctors&#8217; recommendation,&#8221; and that Reid was using the band &#8220;improperly&#8221; when he tied it to his shower door.
Reid claimed at the time that the band broke, which is what caused him to fall forward and smash his face on a hard surface, but his lawyers, in their opening statement, agreed with the defendant that Reid was holding the band in his hand when he lost his grip.
&#8220;The evidence will show that he was using a band &#8230; it slipped from the hand, he spun to the right &#8230; and landed right on the eye,&#8221; his attorney said, adding that Reid&#8217;s bathroom was almost entirely clad in marble and granite &#8212; two very unforgiving surfaces.
Worse still, it seems Reid threw the band out after the incident, meaning that no one involved in the lawsuit has the exact item Reid was using, and it&#8217;s not immediately clear that the product was an actual TheraBand manufactured or sold by Hygenic.
Harry Reid has been mostly absent from politics since leaving Congress in 2015, though he has popped in from time to time to comment on President Donald Trump and Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s now-concluded investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to impact the 2016 elections.
Just a few days ago, Reid took credit for kicking off concerns about Russian election interference, claiming that he wrote a letter to the FBI in August 2016 trying to force then-FBI director James Comey to take note of Russian interference in American elections.
&#8220;I wrote a letter in August [2016] to the Director of the FBI Comey and said Russia is messing with our elections and you need to do something about that. And by October he had done nothing,&#8221; Reid said, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/harry-reid-rips-james-comey-for-doing-nothing-about-russian-election-meddling">according to the Washington Examiner</a>. &#8220;We now know he should have done something.&#8221;
Reid claims Comey didn&#8217;t get involved because everyone in Washington, D.C. was under the assumption that Hillary Clinton would sail to an easy victory.

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Data continue to demonstrate that many Californians are growing weary of their state&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35528/klavan-california-moves-force-women-boardroom-andrew-klavan">highly regulated</a>, fiscally confiscatory, infamously left-wing governance. As the libertarian Cato Institute <a href="https://www.freedominthe50states.org/overall/california">noted</a> in its most recent &#8220;Freedom In The 50 States&#8221; rankings:
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California is one of the least free states in the country, largely because of its long-standing poor performance on economic freedom. Given this, it is likely no surprise that the Golden State is the most cronyist state in the union. &#8230;
Despite Proposition 13, California is one of the highest-taxed states in the country. California&#8217;s combined state and local tax collections were 10.8 percent of adjusted personal income. &#8230;Local taxes are about average nationally, while state taxes are well above average. &#8230;
Regulatory policy is even more of a problem for the state than fiscal policy. California is one of the worst states on land-use freedom. Some cities have rent control, new housing supply is tightly restricted in the coastal areas despite high demand, and eminent domain reform has been nugatory. The state even mandates speech protections in privately owned shopping malls. Labor law is anti-employment &#8230;
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Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-california-loses-people-a-las-vegas-suburb-grows-11551197094?mod=hp_listb_pos3">profiled</a> the extent to which Californians are increasingly willing to flee their state and its government&#8217;s overbearing nature. The Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-california-loses-people-a-las-vegas-suburb-grows-11551197094?mod=hp_listb_pos3">reports</a>:
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California has been losing more residents than it gains from other states for years, even though its population of 40 million keeps growing from births and foreign immigration.
But the outflow has accelerated lately. Net migration to other parts of the U.S. from the nation&#8217;s largest state was more than 100,000 in 2015, 2016 and 2017, according to the Census Bureau. Total emigration from California to other states between 2006 and 2017 was 1.24 million, according to the Census Bureau, third highest in the nation behind only New York and Illinois.
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One locale where Californians seem to be relocating en masse is the rapidly growing Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nevada. As the Journal notes, Henderson&#8217;s population increased 20% over the past decade to more than 300,000 &#8212; which now makes it Nevada&#8217;s second most populous city, surpassing Reno. Incredibly, according to Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles data as reported by the Journal, a whopping 56% of Henderson&#8217;s explosive growth between 2013 and 2017 came in the form of California exiles.
Henderson&#8217;s growth is not without downsides for local citizens. The Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-california-loses-people-a-las-vegas-suburb-grows-11551197094?mod=hp_listb_pos3">continues</a>:
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Henderson is feeling some growing pains from the California influx. Schools are becoming crowded. Enrollment in the Nevada State High School at Henderson rose to 350 from 200 three years ago and is at its full capacity, school officials say.
Two more campuses of the state charter high school system are in the works in Henderson, said John Hawk, chief operations officer for the school district.
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It remains to be seen how Nevada, presently a purple/light blue state, will be politically affected by this influx of disaffected Californians.
But in Texas, the nation&#8217;s most iconic red state, it has recently become a common refrain within conservative political circles to lament their state&#8217;s own influx of Californians. Last September, in the midst of his tight U.S. Senate reelection campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/09/politics/ted-cruz-texas/index.html">warned supporters</a> at a rally that Texans &#8220;are seeing tens of millions of dollars flooding into the state of Texas from liberals all over the country who desperately want to turn the state of Texas blue. They want us to be just like California, right down to tofu and silicon and dyed hair.&#8221;
Today, at National Review, Kevin Williamson <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/california-refugees-flee-to-nevada-texas/">spoke</a> for many conservative Texans when he wrote: &#8220;You crazy Californians are going to love Nevada. Please don&#8217;t come here.&#8221;

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Pelosi Silent As Non-Partisan Group Calls For Investigation Into Democrat Steven Horsford’s Sex Scandal

Democrat Congressman Steven Horsford Admits Sex Scandal With Ex-Senate Intern. Resignation Calls Grow.

Nevada Democrat Governor Bans Using Malaria Drugs To Treat Coronavirus, Report Says

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Warren Nukes Bloomberg: He Calls Women ‘Fat Broads’ And ‘Horse-Faced Lesbians’

DNC ‘Confident’ Ahead Of Nevada Caucuses. Campaigns, Volunteers Remain Worried: Impending ‘Disaster’

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Joe Biden Freaks Out Over Bernie Sanders Supporters Threatening Nevada Workers: ‘Find Out Who The Hell They Are!’

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