A top official on former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> 2020 campaign has flipped to a PAC urging Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to enter the 2024 presidential race.
Erin Perrine, who was the press communications director for Trump&#8217;s 2020 campaign, has joined the &#8220;Never Back Down&#8221; PAC, an organization led by top Trump-era Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli.
&#8220;Erin joining Never Back Down cements our ability to deliver our message and grow our movement effectively,&#8221; said Chris Jankowski, the PAC&#8217;s executive director. &#8220;She will play a leading role in making sure we get Gov. Ron DeSantis to the White House.&#8221;
Perrine&#8217;s decision to join the PAC comes after Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110073261912666853" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> on Thursday that DeSantis was &#8220;being abandoned by his most &#8216;loyal&#8217; people.&#8221;
After her work on the Trump campaign, Perrine went on to serve as the communications director for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
The top political strategist for Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who has been rumored to be considering a campaign for the White House, also joined Never Back Down this week.
Jeff Roe, the founder of Axiom Strategies, was a key part of Youngkin&#8217;s victory in 2021 in what had in recent years become a reliably blue state. The Washington Post reported that Roe has expressed loyalty to Youngkin, but believes DeSantis is the only potential primary opponent who could beat former President Donald Trump. He said last month during a Fox News interview that there was “no room for a third or fourth, or even fifth person in this race.”
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The report noted that Roe, who has previously worked for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), indicated that his firm will only work for one presidential candidate.

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There is an old rap remix by Asher Roth of &#8220;I Love College&#8221; fame that states, &#8220;A million here, a million there. Yeah, you got a mil, but for real dog, nobody cares.&#8221;
Unfortunately, that lyric also describes the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mainstream-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legacy media</a> and Democratic Party&#8217;s reaction to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congressman James Comer&#8217;s (R-KY)</a> bombshell report last week that a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese Communist Party-linked energy company</a> doled out at least a million dollars to members of the Biden family via <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-believes-6-or-7-biden-family-members-involved-in-foreign-business-schemes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden&#8217;s business partner</a> for unexplained reasons in 2017.
Well, screw &#8217;em. Legacy media and the Democrats are not needed to make sure that this potential national embarrassment and security risk of a scandal is fully exposed, with those who allegedly broke the law put on trial.
That being said, you would think — or maybe hope — that at least one member of the media would be curious and think: &#8220;How is it that so many members of the Biden family — including Beau&#8217;s widow Hallie and one relative named only &#8216;Biden&#8217; — are energy and business experts?&#8221;
Well, a much more likely explanation to that question — and one that the lapdog press doesn&#8217;t want to hear — is that the Bidens were selling access to Grandpa Joe&#8217;s political connections.
The president, for his part, has denied that the transactions occurred at all, let alone that any wrongdoing occurred.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not true,&#8221; Biden told reporters when pressed about Comer&#8217;s report this week.
Comer has said that is, for lack of a better descriptor, just pure bullcrap.
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&#8220;President Biden’s statement was misleading and dishonest,&#8221; Comer <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-demands-biden-correct-dishonest-denial-family-hunter-business-partner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a statement</a>. How does he know? Well, again he discovered this transaction based on &#8220;bank documents from a financial institution pursuant to a subpoena.&#8221;
Adding to the evidence this is the real-deal are statements from Hunter&#8217;s legal team.
&#8220;Further undercutting President Biden’s assertion, Hunter Biden’s legal team publicly acknowledged he was involved in a ‘joint venture’ with an &#8216;energy company in China’ and ‘shared&#8217; his portion of the funds with James and Hallie Biden,&#8221; Comer wrote to the House.
Comer has requested that the White House correct the record by March 27, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-demands-biden-correct-dishonest-denial-family-hunter-business-partner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox News.
As Comer has pointed out, this is just one transaction that needs to be explained. There are undoubtedly countless more money exchanges between the Biden family and foreign nations from all over the globe that need to be explained — not just from the CCP.
Now, we all know that if this were former President Trump and his kids, the Democrat-Media complex would justifiably be all over this story. Authorities from every blue state and across the federal government would be scrutinizing every business action ever taken by the Trump family. Republicans would probably support it — based on the alleged amount of evidence available for public consumption.
Instead, the legacy media is virtually ignoring the story. Federal authorities seem to have no interest — except for those like Comer in Congress.
So, the point here is not to say, &#8220;Wow! Imagine if this situation were reversed!&#8221;
Indeed, you should imagine if the situation were reversed, and then wonder why Republicans haven&#8217;t been following the same playbook (minus the dishonesty) if they truly want to win. Ideally, Comer and his team stay on this story until the whole truth and nothing but the truth is unveiled while more GOP officials join hands.
Democrats and their media allies will never care about this story so long as the “Big Guy&#8221; in the White House is politically useful. Yet that does not mean that Republicans and conservative media do not have the agency and proper legal avenues to make sure that the rule of law is upheld and no stone is left unturned.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

TODAY — Pictured: Joe Biden on Monday, November 13, 2017.

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Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> failed Thursday to override the veto issued by President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> which overturned their resolution to nix a Labor Department rule supportive of the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESG</a>.
The Labor Department issued a <a href="https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/fact-sheets/final-rule-on-prudence-and-loyalty-in-selecting-plan-investments-and-exercising-shareholder-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final rule</a> in November which permits retirement fiduciaries to consider climate change and other ESG factors “when they make investment decisions and when they exercise shareholder rights, including voting on shareholder resolutions and board nominations.” Republicans and a handful of Democrats in the House and Senate voted earlier this month to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-and-senate-send-rebuke-of-bidens-esg-agenda-to-his-desk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturn</a> the rule; their resolution was nevertheless <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-uses-first-veto-of-his-presidency-to-kill-rebuke-of-federal-esg-push" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vetoed</a> by Biden on Monday.
Lawmakers could have overturned the veto with supermajorities in both chambers; the resolution <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-joint-resolution/30/all-actions?overview=closed&amp;q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> to meet the threshold in the House on Thursday in a vote of 219-200.
“With his veto, the President once again insists on undermining the financial security of the very people who elected him,” Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said in <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> ahead of the vote. “Republicans will stand with American workers and retirees in protecting their savings. ESG investing puts the future of millions of Americans in jeopardy when they are already facing economic hardships and inflation brought on by this administration’s reckless spending.”
The final rule from the Labor Department overturns a previous <a href="https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20201030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule</a> created by former President Donald Trump, which prevented “fiduciaries from selecting investments based on non-pecuniary considerations” and required them to “base investment decisions on financial factors” alone. Skeptics of the ESG movement contend that the investment philosophy intermixes political and social causes, such as decreasing carbon emissions or diversifying company leadership with respect to race or sex, in a manner that compromises or distracts from profitability.
Members of the House had voted 216-204 earlier this month in favor of the resolution to eliminate the Biden administration rule, while members of the Senate approved the resolution 50-46. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), both of whom face reelection campaigns next year in broadly conservative states, voted to advance the measure, while Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) also voted for the resolution and joined the attempt to overturn the veto.
“West Virginians are under increasing stress as we continue to recover from a once in a generation pandemic, pay the bills amid record inflation, and face the largest land war in Europe since World War II,” Manchin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolutely-infuriating-manchin-blasts-biden-for-vetoing-rebuke-of-esg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the veto. “The administration’s unrelenting campaign to advance a radical social and environmental agenda is only exacerbating these challenges.”
American investors are broadly wary of the ESG movement and desire that their retirement funds are allocated in a politically neutral manner. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive poll</a> from The Daily Wire showed last year that 64% of respondents believe “individual investors whose savings are being invested” should decide whether funds are appropriated according to ESG standards, while a mere 20% believe that “Wall Street asset managers” should make such decisions.
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Republicans had considered the resolution a rebuke of the White House’s recent nods toward the ESG movement. Biden, on the other hand, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/03/20/message-to-the-house-of-representatives-presidents-veto-of-h-j-res-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> on Monday that the “Republican-led resolution would force retirement managers to ignore” risk factors such as climate change, as well as spurn “the principles of free markets” and harm the retirement savings of households.

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Meet the new House Democratic leader, same as the old House Democratic leader!
It appears that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hakeem-jeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Congressman and House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY</a>) is continuing his party&#8217;s time-honored tradition of blatantly lying to the American public about his Republican colleagues&#8217; intentions.
&#8220;Extreme MAGA Republicans don&#8217;t want the children of America to learn about the Holocaust,&#8221; Jeffries said during a hearing on the Parents Bill of Rights Act. The GOP-introduced legislation is intended &#8220;to ensure the rights of parents are honored and protected in the Nation’s public schools.&#8221;
Rather than debate the bill on merit, Jeffries opted to imply that conservatives who want to protect parents&#8217; right to be the primary educator of their children are somehow the bad guys.
The bill, it should be noted, would ensure that <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hakeem-jeffries-blasted-claim-gop-doesnt-want-kids-learn-about-holocaust-disgusting-lie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parents</a> have access to federally-funded public schools&#8217; curricula so that they can know exactly what is being taught. It would also require those schools to obtain parental consent before changing a student&#8217;s pronouns, allowing them to use the bathroom opposite of their sex, and engaging in other radical gender ideologies.
In reaction to the congressman&#8217;s remark, former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted, &#8220;This is an outrageous lie!&#8221;
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This is an outrageous lie!
Hakeem Jeffries: &quot;Extreme MAGA Republicans don&#39;t want the children of America to learn about the Holocaust.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/XGuBI1aTgv">pic.twitter.com/XGuBI1aTgv</a>
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Indeed, Jeffries would be hard-pressed to find any elected federal official who supports banning lessons on the Holocaust. As Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) put it, &#8220;I don’t know ANYONE who &#8216;doesn’t want the children of America to learn about the Holocaust.&#8217; Not one.&#8221;
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I don’t know ANYONE who “doesn’t want the children of America to learn about the Holocaust.” Not one. <a href="https://t.co/t1EdxKVZOL">https://t.co/t1EdxKVZOL</a>
&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1639060045832011776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Lee pointed out that Jeffries&#8217; comments are worse than the typical falsehoods uttered in politics.
&#8220;Broadly smearing Republicans as racists and Holocaust deniers isn’t just a dishonest way to score cheap political points,&#8221; Lee added. &#8220;It cynically numbs some ears to genuine accusations of racism &amp; sometimes might even be used to justify acts of violence against those you defame.&#8221;
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Broadly smearing Republicans as racists and Holocaust deniers isn’t just a dishonest way to score cheap political points. It cynically numbs some ears to genuine accusations of racism &amp; sometimes might even be used to justify acts of violence against those you defame.
&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1639074676709425152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Indeed, this unfortunately has been par for the course for the Democrats. Lord knows that Jeffries&#8217; predecessor, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), has used this tactic repeatedly.
Thankfully, the parental rights bill passed in the House by a vote of 213-208 Friday morning. We&#8217;ll see what lies Democrats come up with next as the legislation works its way to the U.S. Senate.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) arrives for a reception celebrating Black History Month, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2023.

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Senate Republicans are pushing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/west-virginia-governor-jim-justice-says-it-will-take-a-catastrophe-for-unvaccinated-americans-to-get-vaccinated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Virginia Governor Jim Justice</a> to challenge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/absolutely-infuriating-manchin-blasts-biden-for-vetoing-rebuke-of-esg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Manchin</a> for his Senate seat in 2024, setting up what would be a bruising brawl between two popular politicians, <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/justice-manchin-senate-republicans-closing-083000891.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico reported</a>.
Justice, himself a former Democrat who flipped during the Trump administration, has been meeting with top GOP leaders, sources told the outlet. Both men are extremely popular in the Mountaineer State, but given its deeply red constituency, Justice would be a formidable opponent for Manchin, who served as governor before moving to the Senate in 2010.
Republicans have long wooed Manchin to make the same party switch Justice made, but to no avail. Manchin is a conservative Democrat who has often been at odds with his increasingly liberal party.
Sources told Politico Justice could announce his entry into the race as early as next month. The multi-millionaire has reportedly put his coal mining company on the block and met with National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Steve Daines, (R-MT). He has also been in regular contact with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-KY), the outlet reported.
“The governor has a good political sense. So I am assuming that he&#8217;s going to get in,” Sen. Shellet Moore Capito, the state’s other U.S. senate representative, said. “It would change things. He has a huge approval rating, he just passed the biggest tax cut in state history. He’s got a lot of good things to talk about.”
Manchin, 75, has not said if he plans to seek re-election but said he isn’t worried about whom he might face in a general election.
“God bless them, it’ll be entertaining to watch their primary. That’s the greatest thing,” Manchin said.
Winning Manchin’s seat would play a big role in helping the GOP retake the majority in the Senate, where they trail the Democrats 51-49. If Justice jumps in, he would face at least one primary opponent in Rep. Alex Mooney, a member of the House Freedom Caucus. Justice campaigned against Mooney in his successful campaign last year against incumbent David McKinley.
A challenge by Justice could put some GOP senators in an awkward position. Manchin, who has voted with Republicans on some key issues over the years, has endorsed moderate Republicans including Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
“He’s a close friend. Should he choose to run again, I would anticipate endorsing him,” said Sen. Susan Collins, of Maine.

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> responded in an interview that aired Thursday evening to two recent salacious media stories that claimed he ate pudding with his bare hands and that he authorized force feeding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-book-tour-looks-like-amateur-hour?ref=scroll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week that an anonymous source claimed that DeSantis once &#8220;enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert&#8221; on a private jet &#8220;by eating it with three of his fingers.&#8221;
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview on Fox Nation with Piers Morgan, who mocked the report as being ridiculous.
&#8220;It was a very serious allegation,&#8221; Morgan said sarcastically. “In fact, I congratulated the journalist who broke it on the new &#8216;Watergate.’ But I have to put it to you, Governor. Have you ever eaten a chocolate pudding with three fingers?&#8221;
After laughing at the story, DeSantis responded, &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember ever doing that. I&#8217;m telling you. Maybe when I was a kid.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, there&#8217;s a lot of people when they go at you, sometimes they have like really good ammunition, like you&#8217;re a crook, you did this, you did that,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;For me, they&#8217;re talking about pudding like, is that really the best you got? Okay, bring it on.&#8221;
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&quot;Maybe when I was a kid [&#8230;] Sometimes they have really good ammunitation [&#8230;] For me, they&#39;re talking about pudding? Like, is that really the best you got? Ok, bring it on!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/2wU5h9APrk">pic.twitter.com/2wU5h9APrk</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1639012213032894466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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DeSantis responded to a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/19/ron-desantis-guantanamo-bay-force-feeding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Washington Post that suggested he had some kind of a role in force feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay by saying that the report was false.
&#8220;One of the things they said was that you authorized the use of force feeding [for detainees who were on hunger strike],&#8221; Morgan responded.
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&#8220;That&#8217;s not true,&#8221; DeSantis immediately fired back. &#8220;So I was a junior officer, I didn&#8217;t have authority to authorize anything. There may have been a commander that would have done feeding if someone was going to die. But that was not something that I would have even had authority to do.&#8221;
When asked again if the report was wrong, DeSantis responded: &#8220;Yeah, absolutely.&#8221;
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&quot;That&#39;s not true. Yeah, that&#39;s not true [&#8230;] I was a junior officer. I didn&#39;t have the authority to authorize anything. <a href="https://t.co/aKOC8SyjFM">pic.twitter.com/aKOC8SyjFM</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1638999899969826816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Senate Ethics Committee issued a Public Letter of Admonition on Thursday after finding that Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lindsey-graham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lindsey Graham</a> (R-SC) repeatedly violated Senate Rules and &#8220;related standards of conduct by soliciting campaign contributions in a federal building.&#8221;
The Committee launched an investigation after receiving a formal complaint alleging that Graham solicited campaign donations for Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker during a media interview that was conducted in the Russell Senate Office Building on November 30, 2022. At that time, Walker was in a runoff race against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA).
&#8220;The Committee further concluded that during your discussion of the senatorial run-off election, you directly solicited campaign contributions on behalf of Mr. Walker&#8217;s campaign committee &#8230; five separate times,&#8221; the Committee said in a letter to Graham. “Your actions on November 30, 2022, represented a repeat violation of Senate standards of conduct.&#8221;
&#8220;On October 14, 2020, immediately following a Judiciary Committee hearing, you engaged in an unplanned media interview in the Dirksen Senate Office Building,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;In response to a reporter&#8217;s question regarding your reelection campaign fundraising, you directly solicited campaign contributions for your campaign committee. While the Committee concluded your conduct violated Senate standards of conduct, it considered several mitigating factors, and in accordance with the Committee&#8217;s Rules of Procedure, determined your conduct was &#8216;inadvertent, technical, or otherwise of a de minimis nature.&#8217; On March 8, 2021, the Committee dismissed the complaint and notified you of the Committee&#8217;s findings and action by private letter.&#8221;
The Committee said that ethical standards that U.S. senators are held to are &#8220;a responsibility both broader than and distinct from criminal law.&#8221;
&#8220;The specific prohibition on campaign solicitation in federal buildings and the restrictions on the use of official resources for campaign activity have been consistent and clear throughout your years of Senate service, and the Committee is confident the Senate community understands this standard and its rationale,&#8221; the letter said. &#8220;Applying this standard to your conduct, the Committee finds that you did solicit federal campaign contributions and otherwise impermissibly conducted campaign activity in a federal building.&#8221;
The Committee said that Graham&#8217;s decision to solicit campaign funds in a federal building, despite already being warned, resulted in &#8220;harm to the public trust and confidence in the United States Senate.&#8221;
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&#8220;You are hereby admonished,&#8221; the letter concluded.

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Arizona&#8217;s Supreme Court sent part of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kari-lake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kari Lake</a>&#8216;s appeal of her 2022 governor&#8217;s race defeat back to a trial court for review while refusing to hear the rest of the claims.
The remaining piece of the legal challenge concerns how Maricopa County, which includes the capital of Phoenix and is Arizona&#8217;s most populous county, performed signature verifications for early ballots.
<a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyduda/status/1638706398493306883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An order</a> from the high court late Wednesday said the superior court and Arizona Court of Appeals made an &#8220;erroneous&#8221; decision to reject the claim because of their focus on election procedures rather than the application of those procedures in last November&#8217;s contest as cited in Lake&#8217;s claim. Lake now faces the challenge of establishing that mail-in votes were affected &#8220;in sufficient numbers to alter the outcome&#8221; of last November&#8217;s election.
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My statement on the Arizona Supreme Court ruling in favor of our case ⤵️ <a href="https://t.co/pxo8j0Ubs2">pic.twitter.com/pxo8j0Ubs2</a>
&mdash; Kari Lake (@KariLake) <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1638971176088387584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I am thrilled that the Supreme Court has agreed to give our signature verification evidence the appropriate forum for the evaluation it deserves,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1638971176088387584" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lake said in a statement</a>.
The Arizona Supreme Court order, signed by Chief Justice Robert Brutinel, also called on Lake&#8217;s team to file a reply to the defendants&#8217; motions for sanctions in regard to the assertion of there being &#8220;the undisputed fact that 35,563 unaccounted for ballots were added to the total of ballots at a third party facility.”
The order said the &#8220;record does not reflect&#8221; such a claim and noted the motions of sanctions &#8220;will be considered in due course.&#8221;
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The AZ Supreme Court is refusing to hear 6 of 7 claims brought by <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KariLake</a> regarding her loss to <a href="https://twitter.com/katiehobbs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katiehobbs</a>, and is reminding a 7th, which alleges Maricopa County violated signature verification procedures for early ballots, back to trial court. <a href="https://t.co/bB8K0CQ8ns">pic.twitter.com/bB8K0CQ8ns</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Duda (@jeremyduda) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyduda/status/1638706398493306883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Lake, a former journalist who made election integrity a top priority of her campaign, sued after the results showed that she lost the November contest to Democrat Katie Hobbs by roughly 17,000 votes in the governor&#8217;s race. Hobbs was sworn in as governor in early January.
Lake&#8217;s 2022 election complaint raised allegations of misconduct and illegal votes with issues ranging from mail-in ballots, chain-of-custody, and problematic ballot printers. Maricopa County officials <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maricopa-county-arizona-officials-apologize-vote-tabulator-problems-say-7-ballots-affected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> issues with the election, but insisted <a href="https://www.azfamily.com/2023/02/17/appeals-court-denies-kari-lakes-election-contest-2022-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">every valid vote</a> in the contest had been counted.
After Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/24/kari-lake-loses-lawsuit-over-her-defeat-in-arizona-governors-race.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threw out Lake&#8217;s challenge</a>, the appellate rejected the case in February, <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2023/02/16/kari-lake-loses-election-challenge-appeal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a> that voters were &#8220;able to cast their ballots, that votes were counted correctly, and that no other basis justifies setting aside the election results.&#8221;
Throughout, Lake said she would not give in, vowing to take her case to the high court.
Two other Republican candidates, <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/abe-hamadeh-arizona-judge-rules-against-gop-attorney-general-candidate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abe Hamadeh</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/finchem-lawsuit-sanctions-2022-election-arizona-7e7567bdbe90f4c4ab6d4567a128bd0f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Finchem</a>, who ran for attorney general and secretary of state, respectively, also received unfavorable rulings in their legal challenges seeking to challenge their losses.
In the months since the November election, media reports have said Lake is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/kari-lake-is-considering-senate-run-making-some-republicans-nervous-85a80081" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mulling a Senate bid</a> and former President Donald Trump is considering her as a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/07/trump-kari-lake-vice-president-candidates-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">possible vice presidential running mate</a>.

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Arizona Supreme Court Gives Kari Lake’s Signature Verification Claim A Shot

Arizona Supreme Court Gives Kari Lake's Signature Verification Claim A Shot

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> laughed off criticisms in an interview this week from a few critics aligned with some of his political rivals who claim that he does not have enough of a personality to be the next President of the United States.
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview that aired Thursday evening with Piers Morgan on Fox Nation.
&#8220;One of the other criticisms that is used against you about your personality, probably because some people don&#8217;t know you very well, because those who do, who I&#8217;ve spoken to, tell a different story,&#8221; Morgan said. &#8220;But you&#8217;re being depicted in some of the national media as very intense, quite boring, charisma devoid.&#8221;
Morgan said that one critic who reviewed DeSantis&#8217; book said that DeSantis &#8220;would launch any charm offensive unarmed.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I appreciate the knocks on the book, it&#8217;s the number one book in America far and away,&#8221; DeSantis responded after chuckling. &#8220;I&#8217;ve sold more than any non-president in the history of the country in terms of the first week, so we&#8217;ve been doing pretty good, a lot of people like it.&#8221;
DeSantis then addressed the criticisms from some of the political opposition, saying that they are mad that he does not focus on being part of the social clubs that political elites operate in as he instead focuses on doing his job and then going home and being with his family.
&#8220;So here&#8217;s the thing, I think these are people who are in the political class, journalist class, politicians in, like, D.C. in particular, they get mad I don&#8217;t do the cocktail parties,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like rubbing elbows with other people. I like doing my job and then spending time with my family. That&#8217;s just what I do.&#8221;
&#8220;A lot of the people that are criticizing, you know, they would say, &#8216;Oh, he doesn&#8217;t do well with donors. He doesn&#8217;t glad hand with them,’” he said. &#8220;And yet I raise more money than any non-presidential candidate in the history of America! Are you kidding me?&#8221;
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&#8220;So we tend to do well, but I do think that, you know, I deal better with regular people than I do with some of the people in the political class, and I think that has been true for the entire time I&#8217;ve been around,&#8221; he added.
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RON DESANTIS: &quot;They would say, &#39;Oh, he doesn&#39;t do well with donors.&#39; [&#8230;] And yet I raise more money than any nonpresidential candidate in the history of America. Are you kidding me? [&#8230;] I deal better with regular people.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/VoPegI9aYR">pic.twitter.com/VoPegI9aYR</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1638996671731494912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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DeSantis Responds To Opponents Who Claim He Doesn’t Have Enough ‘Personality’ To Be President

DeSantis Responds To Opponents Who Claim He Doesn't Have Enough 'Personality' To Be President

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For the second year in a row, President Biden has <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/23/biden-democracy-summit-turkey-hungary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">snubbed</a> Hungary, excluding them from his “Summit for Democracy,” which has a guest list of 120 countries.
In October 2020, one month before the presidential election, Biden called the conservative, anti-woke Hungarian government led by Viktor Orban “totalitarian,” declaring, “You see what’s happening from Belarus through Poland and Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world.”  Neither Poland nor Hungary recognize gay marriage and they both have laws restricting gay adoption.
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&quot;You see what&#39;s happening in everything from Belarus to Poland to Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world and this president embraces all the thugs in the world,&quot; said <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> at his town hall event last night <a href="https://t.co/Ix8R8bhQNc">pic.twitter.com/Ix8R8bhQNc</a>
&mdash; Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) <a href="https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1317020071374487553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Roughly two weeks ago, Hungary&#8217;s justice minister, Judit Varga <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-anti-lgbt-law-eu-court-varga/32310497.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Orban government would fight in the Court of Justice of the EU to defend an education law that was passed in 2021; it banned the use of materials promoting homosexuality and gender change at schools.
In August 2022, Orban <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/3588530-hungarys-orban-tells-cpac-we-must-coordinate-a-movement-of-our-troops-to-fight-liberal-order/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CPAC, “We must take back the institutions in Washington and in Brussels. &#8230; To sum up, the mother is a woman. The father is a man, and leave our kids alone, full stop, end of discussion.”
Zoltan Koskovics of the Budapest Center for Fundamental Rights told <a href="https://www.heritage.org/europe/commentary/biden-takes-the-culture-war-hungary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Heritage Foundation</a>, “The woke sect that has taken over the Democratic Party does not like the pro-Western stance of our government. We need a strong America in a dangerous international situation. But not a woke America.”
In July 2022, the Hungarian government confirmed the Biden administration’s termination of the 1979 income tax treaty with the United States. It would cease to have effect starting in January 2024. The Biden administration <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-moves-to-end-tax-treaty-with-hungary-11657311739" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly terminated</a> the treaty because Orban’s government opposed the EU Directive, which wanted to force a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%.  The Biden Treasury Department <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0872" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> it terminated the treaty because of Hungary’s “Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income.”
In October 2022, Péter Márki-Zay, Orbán’s biggest opponent, <a href="https://hungarytoday.hu/opinion-will-hungary-be-invited-to-bidens-2023-summit-for-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> that his Hungary for All Movement (MMM) had received millions of euros from the United States during his election campaign, funds reportedly transferred to his movement via an American foundation called Action for Democracy. He admitted his movement used the funds to pay for campaign bills.
Action for Democracy had reportedly <a href="https://hungarytoday.hu/hungarian-opposition-received-millions-from-the-usa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> Italy, Brazil, Hungary, and Poland, all led by conservative governments at the time, as targets of their movement.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Energy</a> Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-granholm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Granholm</a> admitted that she owns a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/oil-and-gas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gas</a> stove on Thursday while she denied that the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> is seeking to prohibit the popular appliances.
A recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-50-of-gas-stoves-could-be-removed-from-market-under-potential-new-energy-standard-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> from the Energy Department indicated that roughly “half of the total gas cooking top market” would be impacted by forthcoming efficiency standards. Granholm said in response to questions from Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) about the policy that there has been “an awful lot of misinformation” about the agency’s intentions.
“This does not impact the majority, and it certainly does not say that anybody who has a gas stove would have their gas stove taken away,” she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ghbIHClYdY&amp;t=3s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Newhouse and other members of the House Appropriations Committee. “There&#8217;s no ban on gas stoves. I have a gas stove. It is just about making the existing electric and gas stoves, and all the other appliances, more efficient.”
Granholm also clarified that a recent Energy Department study in which 96% of gas stoves failed to meet compliance levels was an inaccurate representation of how many stoves could truly be impacted by the regulation since researchers tested outcomes for appliances expected to fall short of the standards. &#8220;The full range of gas stoves absolutely is not affected,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Half of the gas stoves that are on the market right now wouldn&#8217;t even be impacted.&#8221;
The proposed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/regulatory-agency-backs-down-says-there-are-no-plans-to-ban-gas-stoves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regulations</a> would subject gas stoves to a new “maximum integrated annual energy consumption” standard under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. The rules, for which the Energy Department is accepting public comment until early April, would mark a change from previous regulations that prohibited constant burning pilot lights in gas stoves but placed no limits on energy consumption. Officials noted that “products achieving these standard levels are already commercially available for all product classes covered by this proposal” and cited “important and robust” climate benefits in documents justifying the new rules.
Some 38% of households in the United States use gas stoves for cooking, with the figure approaching 70% for states such as California and New Jersey, according to <a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=53439" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Energy Information Administration. Those who use gas stoves often cite the easier temperature control offered by the appliances relative to electric alternatives.
Households which utilize natural gas typically see lower energy expenses than those which utilize electricity: the former power source costs $12.09 per British thermal unit, according to more <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/03/07/2022-04765/energy-conservation-program-for-consumer-products-representative-average-unit-costs-of-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Energy Department, while the latter costs $41.79 per British thermal unit.
Controversy over the potential regulations on gas stoves emerged earlier this year when Consumer Product Safety Commission Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. said in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transparently-political-biden-administration-considering-ban-on-gas-stoves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that gas stoves constitute a “hidden hazard” and declared that “any option is on the table” for a nationwide prohibition. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Alex Hoehn-Saric later posted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/regulatory-agency-backs-down-says-there-are-no-plans-to-ban-gas-stoves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> asserting that neither he nor the agency planned to outlaw gas stoves.
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The attention toward the appliances from the Biden administration follows a <a href="https://www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/booker_beyer_lead_colleagues_in_urging_cpsc_to_address_dangerous_indoor_air_pollutions_emitted_by_gas_stoves.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> written by lawmakers such as Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that expressed concern over the “risks posed to consumers” by air pollution, especially among individuals who reside in low-income, African-American, or Hispanic households.

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Energy Secretary Granholm Admits She Has A Gas Stove While Justifying Push To Regulate Appliances

Energy Secretary Granholm Admits She Has A Gas Stove Amid Discussions Of Ban

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) revealed why she stopped going to what she called &#8220;dumb&#8221; Democrat luncheons with &#8220;old dudes&#8221; sitting around &#8220;eating Jell-O&#8221; and everyone bragging about themselves.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kyrsten-sinema">46-year-old</a> former Democrat-turned-independent reportedly told GOP lobbyists that &#8220;caucus lunches&#8221; were a total waste of time and nothing she had any interest in attending again, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/23/sinema-trashes-dems-gop-00088461">POLITICO</a> reported.
&#8220;Lunches were ridiculous. … Old dudes are eating Jell-O, everyone is talking about how great they are,&#8221; Sinema said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t really need to be there for that. That&#8217;s an hour and a half twice a week that I can get back.&#8221;
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&#8220;The Northerners and the Westerners put cool whip on their Jell-O, and the Southerners put cottage cheese,&#8221; she added as she continued to poke fun at members of her former party.
Sinema also made it clear she wasn&#8217;t caucusing with Democrats and explained that she spends her days doing more &#8220;productive&#8221; things for her constituents.
&#8220;I&#8217;m formally aligned with the Democrats for committee purposes,&#8221; Sinema said. &#8220;But apart from that I am not a part of the caucus.&#8221;
&#8220;I spend my days doing productive work, which is why I&#8217;ve been able to lead every bipartisan vote that&#8217;s happened the last two years,&#8221; she added.
Sinema declared in December that she was leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent.
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&#8220;Arizonans – including many registered as Democrats or Republicans – are eager for leaders who focus on common-sense solutions rather than party doctrine,&#8221; Sinema wrote at the time in an opinion column published in <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2022/12/09/sen-kyrsten-sinema-of-arizona-why-im-registering-as-an-independent/69712395007/">The Arizona Republic</a>.
&#8220;But if the loudest, most extreme voices continue to drive each party toward the fringes – and if party leaders stay more focused on energizing their bases than delivering for all Americans – these kinds of lasting legislative successes will become rarer,&#8221; she added.
&#8220;It&#8217;s no wonder a growing number of Americans are registering as independents. &#8230; When politicians are more focused on denying the opposition party a victory than they are on improving Americans&#8217; lives, the people who lose are everyday Americans,&#8221; Sinema continued. &#8220;I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system in Washington.&#8221;

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