The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-national-committee-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican National Committee</a>, along with the Michigan Republican Party, filed a lawsuit against the battleground state&#8217;s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Tuesday, alleging the Democrat violated state law over guidance she issued for absentee ballots.
The RNC&#8217;s lawsuit alleges that Benson issued guidance contradictory to Michigan law that requires absentee ballot stub numbers to match the numbers in the poll book and on the ballot return envelope to be counted, Just The News <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/rnc-michigan-gop-sue-secretary-state-jocelyn-benson-over-primary-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. RNC election integrity staff said that they saw some absentee ballots being counted with missing stub numbers during Michigan&#8217;s August primary elections, the party <a href="https://www.gop.com/press-release/back-to-back-rnc-sues-michigan-secretary-of-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The lawsuit accuses Benson of instructing &#8220;local clerks and election inspectors to process and tabulate absent voter ballots where the stub is missing or the number on the stub does not match the number in the poll book or on the ballot return envelope as &#8216;challenged&#8217; ballots rather than reject them as required by Michigan law.&#8221;
“Secretary Benson continues to expose Michigan’s elections to cheating and fraud, forcing Republicans to file suit again to protect the vote for Michiganders,&#8221; RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. &#8220;We will continue our efforts to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in Michigan &#8211; and around the country &#8211; through November 5.&#8221;
Absentee ballots will start being mailed to voters in the Great Lakes State this week. Christopher Thomas, a former state elections director, <a href="https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2024-09-23/absentee-ballots-to-be-mailed-to-voters-this-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Michigan Public that he expects around 40% of Michigan voters to participate in this year&#8217;s election through mail-in voting, ballot drop box, or early in-person voting.
Benson faces two other election-related lawsuits filed by the RNC earlier this year. In March, the RNC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rnc-sues-michigan-secretary-of-state-over-inflated-voter-rolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the Secretary of State, alleging she has not maintained accurate voter rolls. A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rnc-files-another-election-related-lawsuit-against-democrat-michigan-secretary-of-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second lawsuit</a> filed in March accused Benson of instructing local election officials to presume a voter&#8217;s signature was legitimate.
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&#8220;Suing our Secretary of State to enforce the law she swore an oath to uphold is becoming commonplace in Michigan, because the Michigan Republican Party and the Republican National Committee are committed to ensuring the integrity and security of our elections,&#8221; said Michigan GOP Chairman Pete Hoekstra, who was the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands under President Donald Trump. &#8220;Ballot number matching is a law on the books because it&#8217;s a simple safeguard to protect Michiganders&#8217; fundamental right to vote. While Benson continues to circumvent our election laws for her own political agenda, we will fight tirelessly so Michiganders have no doubts when they start to go to the polls.&#8221;
Michigan is a vital battleground state in the upcoming election and was one of the states whose results in 2020 were heavily scrutinized by Trump and many of his supporters. Biden took the state in the 2020 election after Trump had won Michigan over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Currently, the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/michigan/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average in Michigan shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump by just 1.8 points.
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

Residents Cast Ballots Ahead Of Michigan Primary Election

RNC Sues MI Dem Secretary Of State Over Guidance For Absentee Ballots

RNC Sues Michigan Dem Secretary Of State Over Guidance For Absentee Ballots

2024 Election

ballots

Elections

Michigan

Republican National Committee (RNC)

U.S.

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-national-committee-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican National Committee</a> said Wednesday that a county in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania</a> sent out 2024 election ballots without conducting accuracy testing required by state laws.
RNC Pennsylvania’s Election Integrity Counsel Linda Kerns <a href="https://prod-static.gop.com/media/documents/let_09-18-2024_to_Mont_County_L_and_A_testing_1726715258.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that officials in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania’s third most populous county, had sent out mail-in and absentee ballots without logic and accuracy tests. Kerns said that the county must remedy the situation by hand counting the ballots when returned.
“The Republican National Committee seeks a free and fair election for all voters in this Commonwealth. Montgomery County’s defiance of mandatory testing undermines confidence and trust in the integrity of the election,” Kerns wrote in a letter to Montgomery County Board of Elections Chair Neil Makhija. “Our proposed remedy — to segregate and count by hand the affected ballots — protects the rights of voters who, through no fault of their own, received ballots that the county distributed in violation of law.”
Kerns pointed to <a href="https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/dos/resources/voting-and-elections/directives-and-guidance/2024-Directive-on-Logic-Accuracy-Testing-3.0.pdf">directives</a> from the Pennsylvania secretary of state that say election officials “must conduct pre-election logic and accuracy testing.”
According to the directive, the purpose of these tests is to “ensure that ballots, scanners, ballot-marking devices, and all components of a county’s certified voting system are properly configured and in good working order prior to being used in an election.”
The RNC said that Montgomery County should immediately stop sending out all ballots until the completion of mandatory testing.
Montgomery County told The Daily Wire that the RNC&#8217;s letter was not accurate.
<div>&#8220;The statements from the RNC are not true. We have conducted ballot acceptance testing and are fully complying with the election code and Department of State directives. The RNC letter is misrepresenting the election code and DOS guidance,&#8221; the county told The Daily Wire.</div>
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Kerns added that the RNC had already lodged a complaint with the Montgomery County Election Tip Line.
“Pennsylvania voters deserve to know why these ballots were distributed without testing and be assured Montgomery County is counting them properly,” said RNC Chair Michael Whatley said. “This is an unacceptable breach of election integrity, and all legal options are on the table.”
On Tuesday, Makhija <a href="https://x.com/NeilMakhija/status/1836082080444551429" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X that he had “cast the first 2024 General Election ballot in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” He added that 115,000 ballots would be shipped out this week.
The Daily Wire reached out to Makhija for comment on the RNC’s letter.
Pennsylvania is expected to be one of the battlegrounds that determine whether former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris wins then election.

A woman takes a mail-in ballot from an envelope at a polling

RNC Says Pennsylvania County Ignored State Law Before Sending Out Mail-In Ballots

Donald Trump

Kamala Harris

Mail-In Voting

Pennsylvania

Politics

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed voting-related lawsuits in two different states, Michigan and North Carolina, in a matter of days.
The RNC, run by chairman Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump, is suing the city of Detroit, over a &#8220;deliberate&#8221; refusal to hire an equal number of Republican election inspectors as Democrat election inspectors.
In a suit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), the RNC is seeking to force the board to require identification to prove a potential voter&#8217;s citizenship. RNC officials say the suit is necessary to comply with federal law and keep non-citizens from voting.
The RNC said in a press release sent to The Daily Wire that Michigan law requires election officials to hire an “equal number, as nearly as possible,” of poll workers from each major political party. The GOP nominated 675 election inspectors, but Detroit only appointed 52 of them; in contrast, the city has hired over 2,300 Democrat election inspectors.
&#8220;A ratio of 7 Democrats to every one Republican inspector is not even close to equal,&#8221; the RNC release said.
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“Detroit’s failure to hire Republican poll workers is the kind of bad-faith Democrat interference that drives down faith in elections,&#8221; Whatley said. &#8220;The RNC is bringing suit to remedy this completely unacceptable breach of public trust and our unprecedented election integrity campaign will continue to fight in Michigan and nationwide to protect the rights of every voter to have fair, accurate, secure and transparent elections.”
In the North Carolina suit, the RNC claims the NCSBE is violating the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). A past voter registration form the NCSBE used did not include HAVA-required identification information and NCSBE eventually corrected the noncompliant form.
However, the RNC says about 225,000 people in the state have been registered without the HAVA-required information due to the past form, and NCSBE has refused to reach out to those voters to acquire the necessary identification.
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&#8220;The NCSBE has once again failed in its mandate to keep non-citizens off the voter rolls, fueling distrust and jeopardizing our elections,&#8221; Whatley said in a statement sent to The Daily Wire. &#8220;We are committed to the basic principle – and commonsense law – that only Americans decide American elections.&#8221;
&#8220;Deliberately failing to follow the law, right before our country’s most important election, is inexcusable,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We will fight every day to ensure that NCSBE follows the law, cleans the voter rolls, and protects the vote for North Carolinians.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-allows-part-of-arizona-election-integrity-law-take-effect" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court Allows Part of Arizona Election Integrity Law To Take Effect</a>

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RNC Files Voting-Related Lawsuits In 2 States: ‘Hiring 7 Times As Many Dems’

Lara Trump

North Carolina

The Republican National Committee paid for the domain <a href="https://kamala2024policies.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kamala2024policies.com</a> and created a website listing some of Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; &#8220;dangerously liberal policies&#8221; as her own campaign website still <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-campaign-website-still-lacks-policy-platform-after-start-of-dnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not have</a> a policy platform.
The website features Harris&#8217; leftist record on issues such as criminal justice, immigration, the economy, and the Green New Deal. The Democratic candidate has been blasted by Republicans for her campaign website lacking any policy agenda or list of important issues.
&#8220;Kamala Harris is weak, failed, and dangerously liberal,&#8221; the website <a href="https://kamala2024policies.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>. &#8220;Not only does Kamala Harris own the weakness, failure, and chaos of the Harris-Biden administration, she is so radical that she makes &#8216;the Squad&#8217; look like moderates. She wants to abolish our borders, let criminals control our streets, surrender our communities to cartels and a plague of fentanyl, wage war on American energy, and destroy the American Dream.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; first policy proposal on August 6 was a promise to eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers, the same proposal offered by former President Donald Trump on June 9. The Democratic candidate rolled out economic promises last week, vowing to institute price controls on food items and hand out up to $25,000 to first-time homeowners. Despite making the sweeping promises to voters at a campaign rally in North Carolina, Harris&#8217; <a href="https://kamalaharris.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign website</a> offers no more detail on what these policies entail.
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Trump and Republicans have begun referring to Harris&#8217; economic policies as &#8220;communist,&#8221; and the former president has called his opponent &#8220;Comrade Kamala&#8221; multiple times.
&#8220;After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-slams-harris-call-ban-price-gouging-37-states-already-rcna167158" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a crowd of his supporters in Pennsylvania last weekend.
The RNC highlighted some of Harris&#8217; past comments on health care when she called for the elimination of private health insurance while campaigning during the 2020 Democratic primary. Harris also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamalas-campaign-says-she-will-not-push-medicare-for-all-she-fully-supported-it-5-years-ago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-sponsored</a> a bill put forward by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to switch to a single-payer &#8220;Medicare-for-All&#8221; plan, which would have made the federal government completely responsible for covering health care costs.
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As pointed out on kamala2024policies.com, Harris also <a href="https://x.com/VP/status/1734278791889891624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasted</a> about &#8220;delivering on the most ambitious climate agenda in history&#8221; and has said she supports banning fracking and canceling the Keystone XL pipeline.
As the DNC kicked off earlier this week, the party&#8217;s delegates approved the 2024 Democratic platform, which still <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-release-2024-platform-it-still-says-joe-biden-is-running-to-finish-the-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to President Joe Biden as the nominee. According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/16/harris-dnc-democrats-message-policies-00174195" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>, some congressional Democrats want Harris to keep quiet on her exact platform until after the election, which would be an unprecedented move for a presidential nominee.

RNC Creates Website Laying Out Kamala’s Policies As She Keeps Voters In The Dark

RNC Creates Website Laying Out Kamala's Policies As She Keeps Voters In The Dark

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley said on Tuesday that the RNC has had tremendous success laying the groundwork for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to win the upcoming election this fall.
Whatley made the remarks during an interview with Just The News&#8217;s John Solomon while discussing the aggressive strategy that the RNC has deployed to stave off any problems it encountered in 2020, ranging from having election monitors to filing lawsuits well in advance to ensure that laws are enforced.
&#8220;First off, we want to make sure that the rules of the road are the right rules of the road, and it is absolutely critical for us to ensure that every state is going to enforce the law that only American citizens can vote,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That is the law of the land in federal elections, and we need every single state to enforce it. We also look at states like Arizona, where they say that only US citizens can vote in the state election. That&#8217;s critical, and that&#8217;s why we want to make sure that we&#8217;re working to protect that.&#8221;
He said that the RNC is also working to make voter ID the law of the land and forcing states to clean up their voter rolls so that there is no question about the legitimacy of the election.
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&#8220;The other critical aspect is that we want to make sure that we&#8217;re in the room,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We were very excited to announce earlier this week that we have already recruited over 157,000 volunteers all across the country to our Protect The Vote Campaign.&#8221;
&#8220;We had set an initial goal of 100,000 when Lara Trump and I took over the RNC just four months ago, and the response has been completely overwhelming,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People are going to protectthevote.com signing up. We are getting them registered, we are getting them into training, and we&#8217;re going to have them in a position where we can deploy them as poll workers and poll observers on election day, and frankly, throughout all of the election period.&#8221;
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RNC Chairman Michael Whatley: GOP Has 157,000 Volunteers To Ensure Legitimacy Of Election Results

Michael Whatley

Trump 2024

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Well, the RNC is over! And I think we’ve seen just about enough of what the Republican party has been reduced to under the so-called leadership of Donald Trump. It’s time for America to choose. Do we want a courageous leader like Joe Biden, who when he falls down, gets back up — whether he falls down going up a flight of stairs or trying to go up the flight of stairs again or even just walking across a room — he gets back up as many times as it takes to cross that room.
Or do we want to descend to the level of a man like Donald Trump who when he falls down — because, you know, he’s been shot in the head by a bullet from an AR-15 sniper rifle — sure, he gets back up, but then he spits the bullet out, and shakes his fist at death and shouts, “Fight, fight, fight,” which frankly is just divisive.
I, for one, was appalled by the RNC and its rampant display of Christian white nationalism, and Sikh white nationalism, and bi-racial rapper woman white nationalism, and even black white nationalism from people like Tim Scott who has so internalized white supremacy that he expects to be treated just like everybody else. It’s disgusting.
And then there was Vivek Ramaswamy — and who even knows what the hell color he is with a name like that. It must be seven syllables at least, the guy could be purple for all we know. And this Rama whatever-his-name-is had the gall to stand up at the RNC and say that Americans should be able to disagree with one another openly and then still treat each other with respect, which is against everything the Democrat party stands for. Democrats understand that here in America, people are free to disagree with us, then be called racist, then be banned from YouTube and other social media, then be summoned to HR, fired from their jobs, and have their homes raided in the early morning hours by armed federal agents so they can be charged with any crime we can drum up, then spend the rest of their lives being harassed by screeching men with pink hair, face piercings and tattoos, who are taking female hormones until they turn into screeching women with pink hair, face piercings and tattoos who are indistinguishable from all the other Democrat voters.
We will not allow some purple-faced Vivek Hamahooney to weaponize the First Amendment by using it to give a voice to people with other opinions than our own. That’s not who we are as Americans.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-he-will-not-allow-elites-like-god-almighty-to-push-him-around" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show</a></h4>
While Republicans were at the RNC, wearing silly cowboy hats and screaming belligerently about their radical MAGA agenda of cutting taxes and standing up to our enemies, our president Joe Biden was having a civilized conversation with NBC’s Lester Holt. And sure, we couldn’t understand what he was saying half the time either, but the point is, he was setting a good example by sitting right there in close proximity to an almost black man and condemning Donald Trump for saying there would be a bloodbath and there were good people on both sides of the Charlottesville riots. And it was incredibly inspiring to see how Lester Holt respected this president so much that he didn’t once interrupt him to point out that none of that was true, which is what we expect from journalists. Because as Democrats, we believe that, if you don’t nod with servile conformity while we’re lying to you, you ain’t black. Or whatever Lester Holt is, you ain’t that either. Basically, if you don’t nod with servile conformity while we’re lying to you, as far as we’re concerned, you ain’t a journalist at all, no matter what color you are.
So in conclusion, I am personally calling for four more years of Joe Biden, or whatever fraction of that time he’s got left. Because as President Biden himself said in his speech to the NAACP, “This country is gala-zeeben anyway to garoon the finchin fanchin booben deebee dobby.” And that’s exactly why President Biden will remain the Democrat candidate. Because we Democrats know that if you ever understand what we’re actually saying, we’re in deep trouble.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Vivek Ramaswamy and Tim Scott

The Appalling Display Of Christian White Nationalism At The RNC

Andrew Klavan

Humor

Readers Pass

Republican National Convention

Satire

Tim Scott

Vivek Ramaswamy

The following is an edited transcript of a special <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/fighting-fentanyl-mom-shares-tragic-overdose-story">RNC episode</a> of Morning Wire. Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley sits down with California mom Anne Fundner who brought the tens of thousands of attendees at the Republican National Convention to tears and to their feet on the night of July 16 when she told the tragic story of losing her 15-year-old son Weston to fentanyl. The blame for his death, she said, ultimately falls on President Biden and his administration. 
“I hold Joe Biden, Kamala Harris — the “Border Czar,” what a joke — and Gavin Newsom and every Democrat who supports open borders responsible for the death of my son,” said Fundner.
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JOHN: Joining us now is Anne Fundner, a mother from California who lost her 15-year-old son to fentanyl and who is putting the blame on President Biden and his administration and the governor of her state, Gavin Newsom. Anne, thank you so much for joining us. You courageously took the stage at the RNC, gave a very powerful, emotional statement about your son and your family and the tragedy you guys suffered. I know it&#8217;s difficult to discuss, but can you tell us about what happened to your son, Weston?
ANNE: Well, Weston was a really good kid. We did everything right. We put him in sports and I was room mom. We had such a great relationship. He was my perfect little bouncing baby boy. He taught me what love was, an unconditional love like I had never known existed other than my own parents. He was my firstborn son, it just teaches you that love is so strong. And for the first time I understood what that meant when I looked at him and held him in my arms. He was my everything. He really was. I was so active in his life, his father was active, both of us. We did the family dinners every night, we had outings together, and fun vacations. We had a nice life. Private school. I think of things like we got him braces. He just had braces. Just everything that you do to set somebody up for the perfect life — 3.5 GPA; football, hockey, friends, you know. And fentanyl still found him because kids fall into peer pressure. And, as many conversations as I had with him, he was a teenager who came into his own independence and decided he wanted to fit in with a new crowd at a new school. He had always gone to private school. He wanted to try public school, too. And I think he just wanted these friends who were just fun. I guess he fell into peer pressure and it got a hold of him and it killed my son.
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JOHN: You made a striking statement last night. You said, “Look, this is murder.” Can you unpack that for us? Why do you feel that way?
ANNE: Because the people who deal these drugs know that fentanyl kills. When you try fentanyl one time, it is not a question of if you are going to die, it&#8217;s when. Once you try it, it is very hard to get off of it and never do it again. These drug dealers are like sexual predators. They groom children. They know that if they can get a child to try it once, within three hours they&#8217;re going to get withdrawal symptoms that range from bone aches to fevers to cold sweats to bowel issues to headaches — things that make chemotherapy recovery look like a picnic in the park. It&#8217;s a very, very difficult thing on the body. Within two or three hours of the first time of trying it — one time. It&#8217;s 50 times more addictive than crack and these drug dealers know that, and that&#8217;s when they come around and say, “I got what you need to kind of ease this pain.” So if the child survives the first pill, now the drug dealer has a client. And everyone asks, “Why would they want to, like, kill their client?” Because it&#8217;s so addictive, they&#8217;re gonna have business. If they can get someone to try it one time, they&#8217;re gonna have business. So most kids don&#8217;t live more than a couple weeks. When I say it&#8217;s a groomer mentality, they know they can&#8217;t tell their parents. They&#8217;ve gotten them to do something wrong. They&#8217;re afraid. They&#8217;re struggling with an addiction that they never wanted just because they tried something one time — and by the way, they don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re trying fentanyl. They think they&#8217;re trying something like a Percocet or Xanax which are very popular, unfortunately, with kids these days, as a party drug. And it&#8217;s pure fentanyl. There&#8217;s no Xanax. It&#8217;s a pressed pill with blue powder that you can buy off of Amazon or someone who&#8217;s probably on drugs themselves is packing these pills. It&#8217;s like a chocolate chip cookie. There&#8217;s all these little chocolate chips of fentanyl in it, and you don&#8217;t know which side of the cookie is going to have the most fentanyl. If you get that dose, seven out of ten pills are deadly.
JOHN: And for you, were there any warning signs?
ANNE: No. My son was a really good kid. All kids, when they start walking in a high school situation, you want to make sure they&#8217;re making the best choice. We had conversations, you know, hey, that was really not a good choice the other night. But for the most part, nothing that I thought was concerning enough. I&#8217;ll tell you what, I don&#8217;t know if I was just blind or I just never imagined in a million years this would happen.
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JOHN: I&#8217;ve got two young girls. The most terrifying thing to me is this sense that you cannot see this coming. And how sudden this is, and it really struck me when you spoke – that sense, it strikes terror in every parent. Now, you&#8217;ve blamed two administrations, the Biden administration and the Newsom administration for this tragedy. Can you tell us why?
ANNE: Because President Trump had the factories in China closed that produced the precursor chemicals. He had the borders secured as well as he could without some of the Democrat border cities putting a stop to their border walls. But for the most part, he did as much as he could to get that border wall secured. He had ICE. He had everything on lockdown at the border. He was doing everything he could to stop it. Now, there were Democrats that were doing their Democrat thing and not following along with what they&#8217;re supposed to be doing, so fentanyl still got over the border, but he was stopping it. I mean, he really was coming down on this hard and President Xi knew he meant business and he knew that he couldn&#8217;t get away with things with Trump. So when President Biden came in, the border&#8217;s just opened. You saw caravans flooding over. We don&#8217;t even know who these people are coming into our country. The cartels have just run wild. He allowed those China factories to be reopened under the Biden administration. I mean, this is their exasperated tragedy. They did this. There is no way to look around this. They opened the borders. They do nothing, nothing to stop this crisis at all. They did more to stop you from taking ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine during COVID than they are doing to stop people from coming in with fentanyl. And Gavin Newsom, he should be ashamed. He has children, young ones. And California is the wild, wild west. They will find a car of fentanyl, someone drug-running fentanyl, and they arrest them, the judge lets them out and says, “Come back in two weeks.” And how many people do you think come back? These people should be tried for attempted murder. They should. If they kill someone, they should go to jail for life. And look at what Sarah Huckabee Sanders did. She said, “And if you kill a child, you&#8217;re looking at the death penalty.” When you get strict penalties on this, you will see the fentanyl statistics drop dramatically because drug dealers do not want to go to jail and be sentenced to life. My son&#8217;s case was clear cut, on video. They knew who it was, he was the second person this person had murdered — and nothing, not even a slap on the wrist. Nothing happened. And if they&#8217;re not going to prosecute people, then why…? It doesn&#8217;t make sense. It&#8217;s almost like they want this to happen. Our youth have so many challenges, lots of indoctrination going on. It&#8217;s just one more thing they&#8217;re doing to hurt us and bring down our youth.
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JOHN: It&#8217;s not only hard to hear the tragedy, it is very hard to hear that there&#8217;s no accountability, that there are actually no repercussions for these horrific crimes, as you&#8217;ve described. What can be done to reverse this?
ANNE: Close the borders, number one. Shut the borders. Let&#8217;s increase our ICE officers because they&#8217;re no resources there. Biden has just done a number on ICE. He took away the fentanyl machines that were at the ports of entry, which is a secondary kind of precaution. Because drug dealers don&#8217;t go through the front door, right? He did put some of those back in this weak fentanyl bill. That&#8217;s all he did in the fentanyl bill. But he did give money to Ukraine in that bill — and that&#8217;s really what that bill was about. It was such a weak bill, it was embarrassing. The cartels need to be labeled foreign terrorist organizations. This is a war on American soil and more people are dying than from all of our recent wars combined. On American soil. On 9/11 we attacked a country because they killed 3,000 people on American soil. Where is the attack on the cartels? They are killing our children. And why aren&#8217;t we holding China accountable? Shut those factories again. Fentanyl needs to be considered a weapon of mass destruction. And every community needs harsh, strict laws. You want to deal fentanyl? You&#8217;re going to jail. Period. Zero tolerance whatsoever. You&#8217;re going to jail. And if you kill someone, you&#8217;re going to jail for life or looking at the death penalty. And if you kill a child, you will look at the death penalty. These people know what they&#8217;re doing. They know what they&#8217;re doing. And they&#8217;re still pushing it on our children. They don&#8217;t care about your kids. They don&#8217;t care if they die. These pills come to your door for $7.50. Through Snapchat, through Instagram. They are ordering them online. Underneath your doorstep, leave $7.50 and they&#8217;ll come straight to you. They know they have an income. They have so many clients. And they&#8217;re all expendable. And there&#8217;s more behind them.
JOHN: As you have made clear, this is a true crisis. Something has to change. Thank you so much for sharing your personal tragedy so that some action can be taken. Thank you for joining us.
ANNE: Thank you for having me.

‘It Was Poisoning’: California Mom Shares Tragic Overdose Story At RNC

'It Was Poisoning': California Mom Shares Tragic Overdose Story At RNC

California

Drug Cartels

Fentanyl

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-ben-shapiro-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> broke down the history of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-national-convention" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican National Convention</a> in the latest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/facts-ep-13-what-you-don-t-know-about-the-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facts</a>,” explaining why the convention still mattered today even though it has changed over the years.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/facts-ep-13-what-you-don-t-know-about-the-rnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a>, posted Wednesday as the 2024 RNC takes place in Milwaukee, delves deep into the history of the RNC, highlighting some of the most contentious and interesting conventions from the first one in 1856 to the 2016 convention when Donald Trump was nominated.
“In order to understand the way the Republican Party works today, it&#8217;s important to understand how the RNC worked historically and how that has changed,” Shapiro says in the episode. “That story is the story of the evolution of power from elites inside the Republican Party to broader swaths of the Republican primary electorate.”
The RNC was first established in 1856 and was designed to help the young Republican Party achieve its electoral ambitions. The organization’s first national convention was held in Philadelphia, where delegates chose John C. Fremont to be its nominee.
“Initially, the RNC served as a critical decision-making body where party leaders and delegates from across the country would gather to debate and decide on key issues, including the nomination of presidential and vice presidential candidates,” Shapiro explains in the video.
At the RNC’s second meeting in 1860, the party nominated Abraham Lincoln and solidified the party’s commitment to the abolition of slavery and the principles of equality and liberty.
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In the episode, Shapiro discussed several other RNCs, like the 1912 convention in Chicago where former President Teddy Roosevelt clashed with incumbent President William Taft for the nomination (Taft eventually prevailed).
At the 1952 RNC, World War II hero Dwight Eisenhower was able to secure the nomination despite Senator Robert Taft having more delegates going in, after Eisenhower’s team portrayed Taft as a political insider.
Eventually, the power to choose the nominee shifted more to states through primaries and caucuses.
“While the advent of modern primaries and caucuses has shifted much of the decision-making power away from the convention floor and directly into the hands of voters throughout the primary season, the convention remains an essential event for the Republican Party,” Shapiro explains. “It fulfills several vital functions. First, it nominates candidates. The primary purpose of the convention is to officially nominate the party&#8217;s candidates for president and vice president.”
Shapiro concludes by explaining that the RNC is still a “pivotal moment” because it helps set the tone for the election cycle and helps to mobilize the party’s base.
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American History

Ben Shapiro

Tuesday night at the RNC was a unity night.
Donald Trump promised a unity convention among Republicans. The unity is obviously materializing.
There is a Marxist materialist view of history that says individual figures don&#8217;t matter. It dates back to Hegel, actually predating Marx, and it suggests that we ride the eddies of history, that history is a series of impersonal forces, and that individual figures don&#8217;t matter. It would argue that if there were no Churchill, there would have been somebody similar to Churchill who would have performed the same function; if there were no Hitler, there would have been someone like Hitler who performed that same function.
There&#8217;s a countervailing view, derisively termed the “great man” view of history, which is the idea that individuals matter in history.
And that idea is true.
Donald Trump is one more example of the fact that individual figures actually do shape history, whether for good or for ill.
The way the Republican Party is coming together around Trump is something absolutely unique. Republicans came together around other candidates. They&#8217;ve come together in conventions around Mitt Romney and John McCain.
But the level of enthusiasm for Trump on a personal level, the obvious level of adoration in the hall for him, and the capacity he has to cobble together a coalition that really is non-ideological are unique.
Trump is not an ideological figure, and because he is not, he has not formed an ideological party. That doesn&#8217;t mean the actual policies that come out of his administration won&#8217;t be ideological; his first term was very ideological, a fairly conservative administration — ideologically more conservative than George W. Bush&#8217;s administration, at least when it came to the courts or foreign policy.
But when it comes to Trump’s coalition, it is entirely non-ideological. I&#8217;ve heard a lot of complaints, which I agree with on a moral level: Why are some of the people speaking at the convention as if they have nothing to do with conservatism? They&#8217;re not spokespeople for conservatism.
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But I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what the RNC is for. The RNC is a showcase. It&#8217;s a permission structure for people to join the tent. Politics is all about coalitions. It&#8217;s about coalition building. It&#8217;s about how many people you can give permission to so they can join your side against the other side.
Trump has built a massive anti-Left coalition. As the Left has gone off the rails again, there&#8217;s a reactivity to American politics because Trump is who Trump is. Because the Left went completely off the rails, they forced everybody in the middle to Trump&#8217;s side.
What happened, for example, with Elon Musk is similar to what happened with me. I was not a voter for Donald Trump in 2016. I didn&#8217;t vote for either candidate in 2016 because, frankly, I didn&#8217;t like either candidate. Then the Left went completely off the rails, and Trump gave me more conservative policy than I thought I was going to get.
I voted for him in 2020, and then the Left went even further off the rails. Now, I&#8217;ve donated and held a fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign.
JD Vance, the vice-presidential candidate, did the same sort of thing. Vance was more strenuously anti-Trump than I was in 2016. By 2020, he backed Trump. In 2024, he became a vice presidential candidate.
That’s because Trump has a unique capacity as a non-ideological, larger-than-life figure to hold together coalitions that include people who are both pro-life and pro-choice, people who are pro-gay marriage and anti-gay marriage. He&#8217;s able to cobble together a coalition between union leaders and people who think that right to work is a top priority.
It&#8217;s a non-ideological coalition, and that&#8217;s what the RNC is about. People who are criticizing the RNC platform don’t understand that the RNC platform is not an actual policy statement that matters. It just isn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s not what the RNC is for anymore.
There may have been a time when the RNC platform mattered, but the RNC is not a tool for ideology any longer. It is not where you look to determine what Republicans or conservatives think. It is merely a tool for victory, and it&#8217;s particularly a tool for victory for Donald Trump in this election cycle.
So you&#8217;re seeing an extraordinarily large tent, a tent that&#8217;s largely unsupportable ideologically in the sense that the actual tent poles are so far apart that in any normal circumstance, they would collapse in on themselves.
But because Trump is at the center of that tent and he&#8217;s an extraordinarily large and powerful supporting and buttressing force in the center of that tent, that tent can hold.
That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re seeing at the Republican National Convention right now.

2024 Republican National Convention: Day 1

Trump Builds A Big Tent

J.D. Vance

JD Vance

Opinion

Republicans

The second day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) kicked off under the theme “Make America Safe Once Again,” but the more poignant message appeared to be Republican unity amid Democratic disarray.
Tuesday featured speeches from a number of former President Donald Trump’s vanquished GOP competitors, such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas – both of whom Trump beat for the nomination in 2016 – also addressed the convention.
Haley, who was Trump’s last biggest competitor in the 2024 primary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-gives-trump-strong-endorsement-in-call-for-unity-at-rnc?topStoryPosition=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delivered</a> her “strong endorsement” of Trump during her RNC address. Her message was directed toward voters who don’t “agree with Trump 100% of the time,” encouraging them to unify around the GOP candidate to remove President Joe Biden from office.
“We agree on keeping America strong. We agree on keeping America safe. And we agree that Democrats have moved so far to the Left that they’re putting our freedoms in danger,” Haley said. “We have a country to save, and a unified Republican Party is essential for saving her.”
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DeSantis delivered one of the more memorable lines of the night when he compared Biden’s presidency to “Weekend At Bernie’s,” a 1989 comedy in which two insurance employees prop up their dead boss. The reference earned a wide smile from Trump.
“Let’s send Joe Biden back to his basement and let’s send Donald Trump back to the White House,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-says-america-cannot-afford-a-weekend-at-bernies-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “America cannot afford four more years of a ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’ presidency.”
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Ron DeSantis with the line of the night:
“America cannot afford for more years of a Weekend at Bernie&#39;s presidency.&quot;
Trump’s reaction was priceless. <a href="https://t.co/Os9HTEl9Ae">pic.twitter.com/Os9HTEl9Ae</a>
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From roughly 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. during the evening, the RNC featured GOP Senate candidates attempting to wrestle seats away from the Democratic Party in competitive states. The convention featured speeches from GOP Senate hopefuls Sam Brown of Nevada, Hung Cao of Virginia, Eric Hovde of Wisconsin, Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia, Kari Lake of Arizona, Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania, Bernie Moreno of Ohio, Mike Rogers of Michigan, and Tim Sheehy of Montana.
Attendees at day two of the convention were treated to a minute-long mashup of Trump dancing on the campaign trail right before the former president walked onto the convention floor.
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They played over a minute of Donald Trump dancing at the RNC convention tonight before they introduced him and I can’t stop laughing 😂
It’s so cute 😭 <a href="https://t.co/HR9QoeY0YL">pic.twitter.com/HR9QoeY0YL</a>
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Under the theme of making America safe again, the lineup included personal stories from Americans impacted directly by violent crime and drug addiction. Madeline Brame, a New York resident, lost her son when he was fatally stabbed in Harlem in 2018. Brame blasted soft-on-crime policies by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who opted to use resources to prosecute Trump.
“My son – Sgt. Hason Correa, an Afghanistan War retired veteran – he received enemy fire from the Taliban only to be murdered with a knife on the streets of New York City,” Brame said. “The four assailants responsible for his death initially were facing justice, but that changed when District Attorney Alvin Bragg was elected.”
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&quot;My son… a retired veteran, received enemy fire from the Taliban only to be murdered with a knife on the streets of New York City.&quot;
Madeline Brame shares her story at the RNC on how violent crime and lack of support for law enforcement have affected her and many everyday… <a href="https://t.co/iofpUwVMpg">pic.twitter.com/iofpUwVMpg</a>
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Anne Fundner took the stage and spoke of her first-born son who died from fentanyl-laced pills. Fundner placed the blame for her son’s death on Biden’s border policies and the drug trade that has crossed over the United States’ southern border. Her son, Weston, died in a moment of “peer pressure,” Fundner said.
“On February 27, 2022, our lives were shattered and our baby was gone. This was not an overdose, it was a poisoning. His whole future, everything we ever wanted for him was ripped away in an instant. And Joe Biden does nothing. I hold Joe Biden, Kamala Harris – the ‘border czar,’ what a joke – and Gavin Newsom, and every Democrat who supports open borders for the death of my son,” Fundner said.
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MUST WATCH: Anne Fundner shares the heartbreaking story of the unexpected and devastating loss of her 15-year-old son, who was poisoned by fentanyl-laced pills. 
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Madeline Brame

RNC Day 2: GOP Unity And The Dangers Of Democrat Governance

Nikki Haley

Ron DeSantis

GOP Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elise-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> of New York blasted President Joe Biden’s record in short remarks at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday evening.
Stefanik, the chair of the House Republican Conference, emphasized the importance of November’s election as a battle for the “Constitution and the soul of our very nation.” She ripped Biden’s record from immigration, to the economy, to foreign affairs and national security.
“Under Joe Biden, the American people have suffered crisis after crisis. From the Biden border, the most wide-open border in our nation’s history, to Bidenflation, the highest rate of inflation in my lifetime, devastating hardworking families with skyrocketing prices for groceries, gas, and utilities,” Stefanik said.
“To Biden’s violent crime crisis fueled by Democrats’ pro-criminal sanctuary cities, and defund-the-police policies like we have seen in my home state of New York – all while corrupt Democrat prosecutors and judges wage illegal and unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump in an effort to do Joe Biden’s political bidding,” she continued.
She then pivoted to foreign policy, citing the Afghanistan withdrawal during which 13 U.S. service members died in a terrorist attack alongside dozens of Afghans. The U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan on short notice, leaving behind hundreds of American citizens and thousands of Afghanistan allies who worked with U.S. military personnel against the Taliban, the terror group that blitzed across Afghanistan and took over the country as the U.S. withdrew.
“Around the world the feckless and failed Joe Biden has caused chaos, weakening our national security: from the catastrophic withdrawal of Afghanistan to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to Hamas’ terrorist attack against our most precious ally, Israel,” Stefanik said.
The GOP conference chair urged Americans to vote for former president Donald Trump in November.
“President Trump will bring back moral leadership to the White House, condemning anti-Semitism and standing strong with Israel and the Jewish people,” Stefanik said after condemning the “radical Left” for openly supporting Hamas and threatening Jews across college campuses.
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Stefanik praised Trump’s economic policies, as well as his foreign policy for strengthening relationships with allies such as Israel and containing conflict across the globe.
“President Trump has done it before and he will do it again,” Stefanik said.
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🚨 Watch my full primetime speech from the <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPconvention?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOPconvention</a> in Milwaukee.
I have been proud to always stand in the breach during the toughest moments for President Donald Trump and I will continue to fight alongside him to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveAmerica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SaveAmerica</a>. With President Trump back in the White House… <a href="https://t.co/C67lV6DmeU">pic.twitter.com/C67lV6DmeU</a>
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Elise Stefanik

Elise Stefanik Blisters Biden In RNC Speech: ‘The Soul Of Our Very Nation’ Is On The Ballot

Congress

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The Republican National Convention (RNC) kicked off on Monday, featuring a slate of pro-Trump speakers and former president Donald Trump’s long-awaited decision on his running mate. 
The speakers included longtime GOP fixtures, some previous vice presidential contenders, and newcomers into Trump’s ranks of supporters. The former president also made his first major public appearance since a gunman’s bullet grazed his right ear during a campaign rally over the weekend.
The most sensational moment of the day was Trump’s entrance at the convention. The former president arrived to thunderous applause and a standing ovation. Trump’s right ear, nicked in Saturday’s assassination attempt, was bandaged.
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The day&#8217;s biggest news was Trump’s announcement of his vice presidential pick: Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. After the announcement, Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-d-vance-describes-the-moment-trump-asked-him-to-be-vp-running-mate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> a roughly half-hour interview to Fox News host Sean Hannity on the sidelines of the RNC.
Trump “actually has me put my seven-year-old son on the phone. If you think about this, everything that’s happened, the guy just got shot at a couple of days ago and he takes the time to talk to my seven-year-old. It’s a moment I’ll never forget,” Vance said, describing the call he received from Trump offering the vice presidential slot on the ticket.
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Full Future VP JD Vance interview on Hannity <a href="https://t.co/462uq4WoMv">pic.twitter.com/462uq4WoMv</a>
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Trump and Vance were officially nominated to be the Republican candidates for president and vice president, respectively, for the 2024 election. Trump’s son, Eric, officially put his father over the top with delegate votes to be the next GOP candidate for president. The younger Trump announced Florida’s 125 delegates toward the former president, giving Trump a majority.
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Donald J. Trump is OFFICIALLY the Republican nominee for President of the United States!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNCinMKE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RNCinMKE</a> <a href="https://t.co/PkskM1a4oT">pic.twitter.com/PkskM1a4oT</a>
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Vance was also officially nominated as vice president in a resounding voice vote on the convention floor.
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Just IN 🚨: Senator JD Vance officially nominated as President Trumps VP candidate at todays RNC convention.
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The first day of the convention featured regular faces in Republican circles, with figures such as Turning Point USA CEO Charlie Kirk and Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Tim Scott of South Carolina speaking. Scott was a one-time favorite to be Trump’s vice presidential pick.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who received some vice presidential buzz in the weeks leading up to the convention, also spoke. Youngkin flipped Virginia’s governor’s seat red in 2022, propelled by an explosive debate over biological males having access to girls’ restrooms in schools.
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&quot;I believe this year Virginia will elect ANOTHER Republican, outside businessman as President of the United States&quot; &#8212; <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennYoungkin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GlennYoungkin</a> <a href="https://t.co/H3dZfQblnj">pic.twitter.com/H3dZfQblnj</a>
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Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, a close ally of the president who was present in the VIP box on Monday evening, also spoke.
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Joe Biden &amp; Kamala Harris claim they&#39;re &quot;pro-choice.&quot;
But not if you want a &quot;choice&quot; over what your kids are taught.
Donald Trump believes EVERY PARENT deserves a choice.
And EVERY CHILD deserves a chance. <a href="https://t.co/yLqci0Sx3a">pic.twitter.com/yLqci0Sx3a</a>
&mdash; Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds/status/1813232829838328192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The day also featured newcomers to Trump’s camp – one of the most surprising being Teamsters President Sean O’Brien. O’Brien’s speech hit on fault lines within the Republican coalition, targeting the Chamber of Commerce, “big business,” and “elites,” accusing them of colluding against the interests of American workers.
O’Brien’s address made him the first Teamsters boss to speak at the RNC in the union’s 121 years of existence. The address also stood out for its length—the union president received the largest allocation of speaking time for the evening.
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Teamsters President Sean O&#39;Brien: &quot;I think we all can agree, whether people like him or they don&#39;t like him, in light of what happened to him on Saturday he has proven to be one tough S.O.B.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/co8G2GTCKO">pic.twitter.com/co8G2GTCKO</a>
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Entrepreneur David Sacks, another recent convert to Trump’s base of support, spoke against the U.S. policies regarding Ukraine and the role the U.S. played before and during the war with Russia.
The lineup also featured Amber Rose, a model and rapper, who, according to Democratic strategist Van Jones, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/van-jones-warns-amber-roses-rnc-speech-was-the-most-dangerous-for-democrats-shes-way-more-famous-than-any-of-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> “the most dangerous speech for the Democratic coalition.”
“We all want a better country for our children,” Rose <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/who-is-amber-rose-model-endorses-trump-at-rnc-and-declares-this-is-where-i-belong-031130906.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “But I&#8217;m here tonight to tell you, no matter your political background, that the best chance we have to give our babies a better life is to elect Donald Trump president of the United States.”
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here&#39;s Amber Rose&#39;s full speech at the Republican National Convention <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNC2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RNC2024</a> in Milwaukee about her support for Trump 
“I’m no politician and I don’t want to be, but I do care about the truth, and the truth is that the media has lied to us about Donald Trump&#8230; I know this… <a href="https://t.co/djlAyqM53R">pic.twitter.com/djlAyqM53R</a>
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Donald Trump, J.D. Vance

Here’s What Happened At Day One Of The Republican National Convention

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