“Republicans pounce!” In a variety of forms, this simple phrase has been part of the biased media’s lexicon for years. As described by Noah Rothman in 2015, “The story is never the story; for political reporters and editors alike, the Republican reaction to the story is the preferred prism through which to view events Democrats find… discomforting.” The pattern is as follows. If a Republican does something “bad,” the story is that the Republican did something “bad.” When a Democrat does something “bad,” the story is that Republicans “pounced,” drawing focus away from the actions Democrats would rather obscure.
There are so many examples that “Republicans pounce” has become a Leftist cliché. “Ocasio-Cortez Team Flubs a Green New Deal Summary, and Republicans Pounce” is one wonderful <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/climate/green-new-deal-faq.html">example</a>. The phrase is so hilariously overused that Tucker Carlson <a href="https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/02/19/republicans-pounce-tucker-carlson-takes-medias-favorite-word-describe-gop">joked</a> in 2019 that “the symbol of the Republican party might have to be switched from an elephant to a tiger” due to its apparent propensity for pouncing.
Unfortunately, this clear strategy of redirecting the misbehavior of the Left by focusing on the mischaracterized critical reaction of the Right has now crossed a line.
Our society’s open sexualization of children has been at the forefront of multiple arenas of political debate, with several branches of the American Right opposing this growing and impactful cultural change. Some fights involve actual legislation, such as California’s decision to effectively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-false-equality-new-california-law-places-more-children-at-risk">weaken</a> protections for vulnerable youth under the absurd banner of “achieving equality.” Other fights involve the “culture war,” such as the <a href="https://youtu.be/77pWTBMbszU">widespread condemnation</a> of “Cuties,” a French movie distributed by Netflix which depicts an 11-year old girl joining a “<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/cuties-cancel-netflix-controversy-explained_ca_5f5ba5cac5b67602f604a4c4">twerking dance crew</a>.”
Describing the “backlash” to &#8220;Cuties,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/11/cuties-netflix-cancel-movie/">reported</a>, “Conservative commentators circulated a clip of Amy and the &#8216;Cuties&#8217; performing in their spandex outfits, while others pounced on parental guidance noting that there is a scene in which one girl’s underwear is exposed,” and Axios <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1305611325494697997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1305611325494697997%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fthe-obamas-and-susan-rice-are-silent-on-netflixs-cuties">tweeted</a>, “GOP politicians are jumpstarting a Netflix boycott in response to the film &#8216;Cuties&#8217;&#8230;Their stance is linked to a child sex trafficking conspiracy theory central to the QAnon movement.”
Yet again, the story is not Netflix’s choice to distribute content which could arguably be classed as child pornography, but the Republican reaction to Netflix’s choice to distribute content which could arguably be classed as child pornography.
Beyond the moral depravity required to use “Republicans pounce” for stories involving obvious ethical questions, the Left are now partnering this strategy with a clear effort to delegitimize such criticism by predefining any such reaction as inherently conspiratorial.
This combined effort was exemplified by Melissa Ryan, a “writer, organizer, and digital strategist” who boasts on her <a href="https://twitter.com/MelissaRyan">Twitter profile</a> that she organizes “to combat disinformation and extremism.” When Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard criticized Netflix for distributing what she identified as child pornography and pointed out that this would “help fuel the child sex trafficking trade,” Ryan delegitimized the argument against “Cuties” as “going QAnon.” Perhaps Ryan should consider “organizing” against herself?
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Tulsi going QAnon is the least surprising thing to happen in 2020. <a href="https://t.co/9ZriBWrYJH">https://t.co/9ZriBWrYJH</a>
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Again, the story is not the story. The reaction is the story. Not only that, the mischaracterized reaction is the story.
To link any mainstream conservative (or even non-conservative) criticism of a movie which arguably glorifies the sexualization of prepubescent girls with a fringe conspiracy theory is to discredit the debate entirely, providing us with yet another one of the Left’s favorite binary choices: you must either celebrate the sexualization of children or submit to ideological self flagellation and accept the label of “conspiracy theorist.”
When you see “Republicans pounce” in a headline or report, it is a sign that the leftist media are attempting to dilute the underlying story. The fact that they would use this previously amusing strategy to distract from the abuse of children has crossed a line. The fact that others are claiming that the mere utterance of protest is proof of allegiance with a conspiracy theory pushes that line beyond our reach.
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A recent <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/democrats-may-not-be-able-concede/616321/">op-ed in The Atlantic</a> from Shadi Hamid argued that the current spate of rioting across America is likely to worsen in the event that Trump wins the November election, boldly claiming that &#8220;law-and-order Republicans&#8221; have a vested interest in seeing Joe Biden win.
According to Hamid, Democrats may not be able to concede this coming election if Trump wins, forever undermining their faith in democracy and the American electoral system. Numerous factors would contribute to that belief, such as Russian interference, winning the popular vote while losing the Electoral College, and other things. In the event of this loss of faith, Hamid feared that unrest in the streets might increase.
&#8220;I find myself truly worried about only one scenario: that Trump will win reelection and Democrats and others on the left will be unwilling, even unable, to accept the result,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;A loss by Joe Biden under these circumstances is the worst case not because Trump will destroy America (he can’t), but because it is the outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy, resulting in more of the social unrest and street battles that cities including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/portland-shooting-explained.html" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'2',r'None'">Portland, Oregon,</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/chop-chaz-cleared-violence-explained" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'3',r'None'">Seattle</a> have seen in recent months.&#8221;
In what can only be described as a veiled threat, Hamid then says Republicans have an &#8220;interest&#8221; in seeing Joe Biden pull out a victory this coming November.
&#8220;For this reason, strictly law-and-order Republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in Biden winning—even if they could never bring themselves to vote for him,&#8221; he writes.
Though Hamid doesn&#8217;t explicitly admit this, in many ways, the Democrats&#8217; unwillingness to concede another election loss to Donald Trump may stem from the fact that the media has been pushing the narrative that Joe Biden has already won.
&#8220;A loss for Biden, after having been the clear favorite all summer, would provoke mass disillusion with electoral politics as a means of change—at a time when disillusion is already dangerously high,&#8221; he writes.&#8221;Because Biden’s poll numbers this year have mostly been higher than Clinton’s were in 2016, a Trump victory will be even harder for the left to absorb,&#8221; he continued later.  &#8220;Until Democrats (and commentators like myself) started panicking recently, overconfidence had set in. The polls offered good reason to think that a Trump victory was drifting out of reach—and they still show the former vice president with a significant, if diminished, advantage. No matter how the polls shift, a Trump win means a squandered lead and shattered expectations.&#8221;
Though Trump&#8217;s brash demeanor has certainly contributed to this unrest, Hamid argues that another loss in the Electoral College while winning the popular vote will be too much for the Democrats to handle, since it would be the third time within 20 years that such has happened. Beyond that, argues Hamid, &#8220;liberals have convinced themselves that Republicans are, in one way or another, cheating.&#8221;
Republicans, conversely, will not have the same reaction if they were to lose, argues Hamid. Though a Biden victory would certainly spark anger among the GOP, they would at least have the benefit of being better prepared for it. Those mentally unprepared for such a loss, as in Democrats, may fall subject to &#8220;revolutionary sentiment.&#8221;
&#8220;For anyone who had been following the polls, a Biden victory will prompt little surprise. It is easier to accept the things you had already come to expect,&#8221; he writes.  &#8220;Accepting the things that never should have happened is far more difficult. A certain kind of cognitive dissonance—the gap between what is and what should be—can fuel revolutionary sentiment, and not just in a fluffy, <a href="https://www.thechestore.com/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'17',r'None'">radical-chic</a> kind of way. In such situations, acting outside the political process, including through nonpeaceful means, becomes more attractive, not necessarily out of hope but out of despair.&#8221;
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The Democratic candidate for North Carolina&#8217;s 11th Congressional District is drawing scrutiny after profane tweets he made have resurfaced in the wake of his recent debate against his Republican opponent.
Moe Davis, a retired Air Force colonel who is running against 25-year-old <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-fighter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Madison Cawthorn</a> to represent western North Carolina in the House of Representatives, was asked to explain vulgar posts he made on social media in recent years after local radio host Pete Kaliner brought them up to him during the Sept. 4 debate.
&#8220;Colonel Davis, on social media you&#8217;ve suggested Mr. Cawthorn&#8217;s a white supremacist, a racist, a Nazi, a Nazi sympathizer, or all of those things,&#8221; Kaliner said. &#8220;You&#8217;ve called him a far-right hateful extremist, alt-right, a bigot, ignorant, a liar, a poster child for Donald Trump&#8217;s fascism, uneducated, unable to compete, pretty and pampered, lacking any moral core.&#8221;
Kaliner went on to list some of the epithets Davis has hurled toward the president, as well, in which he claimed Trump is &#8220;a 100% purebred worthless scumbag [expletive]&#8221; with a racist agenda and described first lady Melania Trump as his &#8220;foreign-born nude model 3rd wife.&#8221;
Kaliner also laid out the times Davis demonized Trump supporters, likening the Republican Party to the KKK, the MAGA hat to a <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1088620647205535751" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Klan hood</a>, and a rally held by evangelist Franklin Graham <a href="https://www.facebook.com/473220790132973/posts/democrat-congressional-candidate-moe-davis-mocks-christians-and-rev-franklin-gra/762100151245034/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">to a Klan rally</a>.
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You’ve got to be a 100% purebred worthless scumbag asshole to do a grinning photo doing a thumbs up while your foreign-born nude model 3rd wife holds the baby of 2 parents who were slaughtered by another asshole who was carrying out your racist asshole agenda!<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://t.co/WOoYjfS1Gv">pic.twitter.com/WOoYjfS1Gv</a>
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1159950116444430344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You are obviously entitled to your opinions,&#8221; Kaliner <a href="https://youtu.be/whCBRzsinuQ?t=725" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a>. &#8220;But those examples are obviously in contrast to your promise to represent all of North Carolinians&#8217; 11th District, many of whom are Republicans.&#8221;
Offering him the opportunity to outright accuse his opponent of being a neo-Nazi after he has implied it, Kaliner then asked Davis, &#8220;Do you think this improves the level of discourse in our politics? Isn&#8217;t this the very kind of behavior that you accuse and condemn President Trump of engaging in?&#8221;
Kaliner also offered Cawthorn the opportunity to condemn Trump&#8217;s penchant for personal attacks.
Davis, who did not directly answer Kaliner&#8217;s question, deflected by bringing up accusations against Cawthorn, such as when he allegedly called his friend <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1299470371062796294" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a variation of the N word</a> in high school.
Cawthorn described Davis&#8217;s responses as &#8220;character assassinations,&#8221; and noted, &#8220;My opponent seems fascinated with going through my old text messages and my old history, because I don&#8217;t believe that he really wants to talk about his positions. When he gave his answer, he didn&#8217;t really answer any of the part of the questions from Mr. Kaliner, which was asking him, &#8216;Why did you call a Franklin Graham rally a Klan rally?'&#8221;
Cawthorn went on to describe Davis as &#8220;a pseudo-carpetbagger&#8221; from Shelby, North Carolina, which is outside of the 11th Congressional District. As The Asheville Citizen-Times <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2020/09/08/moe-davis-military-prosecutor-congressional-candidate/5743421002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>, Davis studied law at the historically black North Carolina Central University, which he said he attended because his status as a white minority in a majority-black school allowed him financial assistance from the state.
&#8220;I qualified as a minority student (at NCCU) because I am white, and so my tuition and a stipend were paid by the state,&#8221; he said.
Davis has <a href="https://nsjonline.com/article/2020/09/nc-11s-democratic-candidate-has-a-number-of-disturbing-tweets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">taken flak</a> for since-viral tweets in which he savaged his opponent in personal terms, attacking him for being homeschooled and accusing him of being a misogynist and a Nazi sympathizer.
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My 25 year old homeschooled, college-dropout, lying, white nationalist friendly, misogynistic, sexual aggressive, multimillionaire (with no job) opponent with policy views that would make George Wallace proud has the full weight of the Republican Party behind him.
Must be nice. <a href="https://t.co/wsVwbnrzoB">https://t.co/wsVwbnrzoB</a>
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1297569136067973125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Davis also described in graphic detail what he imagines as the proper punishment for &#8220;extremists&#8221; in the North Carolina Republican Party. &#8220;Screw they go low, we go high bullsh*t,&#8221; Davis tweeted a year ago in a tweet that is still up as of publishing. &#8220;When @NCGOP extremists go low, we stomp their scrawny pasty necks with our heels and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap you grind your heel hard and twist it slowly side to side for good measure. He needs to know who whupped his ass.&#8221;
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Screw they go low, we go high bullsh*t. When <a href="https://twitter.com/NCGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NCGOP</a> extremists go low, we stomp their scrawny pasty necks with our heels and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap you grind your heel hard and twist it slowly side to side for good measure. He needs to know who whupped his ass.
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1171977530741526528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Among other tweets Davis has yet to delete since filing to run to replace White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in Congress, he seemed to question Secretary of State Mike Pompeo&#8217;s Christian faith and also attacked the boys from Covington Catholic High School by calling them a variation of maggots.
&#8220;If you think you’ve been called by Christ while you’re serving as the lead fluffer for the profane, serial adultering, immoral, habitual lying, narcissistic, draft-dodging, grifter [Trump] then it’s obvious Jesus butt-dialed you by mistake,&#8221; Davis tweeted about Pompeo.
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If you think you’ve been called by Christ while you’re serving as the lead fluffer for the profane, serial adultering, immoral, habitual lying, narcissistic, draft-dodging, grifter <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> then it’s obvious Jesus butt-dialed you by mistake. <a href="https://t.co/8c6u1vQudA">https://t.co/8c6u1vQudA</a>
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1183200935713148928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Regarding the Covington boys, Davis wrote on Jan. 19, 2019, &#8220;This is how the [Trump] MAGAts treat an American Veteran. It’s time to kick him and his immoral minority to the curb.&#8221; Nicholas Sandmann, the most visible boy from that incident, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covington-catholic-hs-student-nick-sandmann-settles-250-million-lawsuit-with-the-washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recently settled</a> a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post for $250 million.
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This is how the <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> MAGAts treat an American Veteran. It’s time to kick him and his immoral minority to the curb. <a href="https://t.co/1cl2GphpWH">https://t.co/1cl2GphpWH</a>
&mdash; Moe Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1086762811471159297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The race between Davis and Cawthorn has become <a href="https://mountainx.com/news/from-avl-watchdog-debate-fact-checker-zingers-jabs-and-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">acrimonious</a> as allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced against Cawthorn, according to <a href="https://world.wng.org/2020/08/rising_republican_star_faces_accusations_from_women" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">World Magazine</a>. Cawthorn <a href="https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20200905/guantanamo-guns-sexual-allegations-health-care-topics-of-cawthorn-davis-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claimed</a>, &#8220;I have never done anything sexually inappropriate in my life.&#8221;
Cawthorn also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/madison-cawthorn-social-media-post/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">took heat</a> for photos depicting him and his brother during a trip to Europe during which they visited the Eagle&#8217;s Nest, which was once Hitler&#8217;s retreat. He has also been attacked for allegedly sending a <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/rnc-2020/article244872697.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">white supremacist message</a> through the number of people he follows on Twitter and for doing interviews in front of a Betsy Ross flag.
Cawthorn, who stands poised to become the youngest member of Congress after beating Trump-backed candidate Lynda Bennet in a June 23 runoff election, has since risen to national prominence after visiting Trump at the White House in July and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-pbs-journalist-slams-young-paralyzed-gop-candidate-standing-at-rnc-to-recite-pledge-of-allegiance-social-media-erupts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">delivering a speech</a> at the Republican National Convention.
In a statement provided to The Daily Wire, a spokesman for the Cawthorn campaign said:
<blockquote>Moe Davis’ perverse and graphic call for violence against his political opponents isn’t just an assault against Republicans but our republic. The ability to resolve our differences peacefully isn’t an aspect of our system of government, but its foundation. Thousands of Americans have served and died defending that right, which Davis ridicules. The DCCC’s willingness to tolerate this rhetoric because the candidate has a ‘D’ next to his name illustrates what Madison Cawthorn warned against during his convention speech &#8211; a digital dark ages, a time of tribalism without truth.</blockquote>
The Davis campaign did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
This story has been updated to include comment from the Cawthorn campaign.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cawthorn-reparations-will-not-heal-america-but-divide-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CAWTHORN: Reparations Will Not Heal America, But Divide It</a>
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The Republican National Convention featured a number of influential black Americans, from NFL great Herschel Walker to civil rights figure Clarence Henderson to Kentucky&#8217;s first Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Despite their passionate and unifying speeches, Joy Reid of MSNBC feels they were invited to make white people &#8220;feel good about white nationalism.&#8221;
In a tweet on Thursday, Reid shared an article from Elie Mystal at the far-left publication <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/rnc-black-republicans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Nation</a>, which argued that the black speakers were simply there to put white people at ease when supporting &#8220;a bigot.&#8221;
&#8220;If you read one thing today, this would be a good choice. ⁦[Elie] writes about the outrage and pathos of the Black people the <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNCConvention?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#RNCConvention</a> trotted out to make white Americans feel good about white nationalism,&#8221; she tweeted. 
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If you read one thing today, this would be a good choice. ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/ElieNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElieNYC</a>⁩ writes about the outrage and pathos of the Black people the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNCConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RNCConvention</a> trotted out to make white Americans feel good about white nationalism. <a href="https://t.co/V2xJzf87Dr">https://t.co/V2xJzf87Dr</a>
&mdash; Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1299027467546628096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In the piece, Elie disparaged Walker, Henderson, and others, describing them as &#8220;black tokens&#8221; who were there to simply say &#8220;thank you&#8221; to their white overlords.
&#8220;The Black people who were allowed to speak at this convention were there to transmit one message to white listeners: &#8216;It’s OK.&#8217; Trump’s racism is OK, because here’s one of Trump’s Black golfing buddies,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Cops and vigilantes’ shooting black people is OK, because here’s a Black ex-con who complied with the police and is still alive. Caring only about your own pocketbook and 401(k) is OK, because here’s a Black guy who started his own business and made a lot of money. All of them wanted to talk about their individual experiences with Trump. None of them wanted to talk about systemic issues facing Black people who don’t have the benefit of knowing a Trump (or a Kardashian) personally.&#8221;
As supposed evidence for this, Elie pointed out that the black speakers &#8220;wanted nothing&#8221; and offered no agenda.
&#8220;The banality of these Black validators can be seen most clearly when you compare their roles to what the white speakers were allowed to do at the convention,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Think of it this way: Most of the white speakers came armed with some agenda. They wanted more farm subsidies or fewer abortions or more Jesus in schools or the right to shoot Black people walking past their homes. But the Black speakers seemingly wanted nothing. There were no additional policies they desired or issues they wanted addressed. They had no goals they wanted the next Trump administration to accomplish and no legislation they wanted Republicans to pass. Instead of an agenda, the Black people were just there to say, &#8216;Thank you, white [sic] folks,&#8217; and fade off-screen.&#8221;
Elie writes that he feels much &#8220;anger&#8221; for these &#8220;tokens,&#8221; mostly due to the fact that they spoke out in defense of President Trump allegedly for profit, going as far as comparing them to Judas Iscariot.
&#8220;What anger I have for this particular crop of Black tokens comes from the fact that so many of them volunteered,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;These were not schoolboys trying to get by at prep school or single moms trying to hang onto their jobs. These were grown-ass adults, predominantly men, who could have sat this grift out but raised their hands to confirm white bias and quote scripture while doing it. We know Trump doesn’t like to pay his debts, so I hope they got their 30 pieces of silver up front.&#8221;
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) released a new digital ad on Sunday contrasting the difference between the Republican vision for America and the current road that the Democrat Party is headed down.
The ad shows violent riots breaking out in Democrat-controlled cities across the U.S. compared to the strong economic growth that happened during the Trump administration before the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the global economy.
The ad highlights the &#8220;three Rs&#8221; that Republicans see as their vision for the future vs &#8220;three Ds” that they say represent the Democrat Party’s current trajectory.
&#8220;Democrats want to Deface, Destroy, and Dismantle our country,&#8221; McCarthy, a California Republican, said in the video. &#8220;Republicans want to Renew, Restore, and Rebuild America.&#8221;
&#8220;We’ve done it once with President Donald Trump, and we will do it again,&#8221; McCarthy added.
McCarthy <a href="https://www.axios.com/exclusive-inside-mccarthy-new-gop-messaging-platform-218302b5-dd73-4747-bdf1-e01c52c11c00.html">told</a> Axios that this message represents what the Republicans will do if they win back the majority in the House of Representatives.
Axios expanded on the &#8220;three Rs” and the &#8220;three Ds&#8221; that McCarthy highlighted in the new digital ad.
The &#8220;three Rs” that Republicans stand for:
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<li>&#8220;Renew the American Dream&#8221; (focused on individuals): School choice, workforce training, expanding broadband in rural communities &amp; 5G, protecting individual freedoms.</li>
<li>&#8220;Restore our Way of Life&#8221; (focused on communities): Defeating the coronavirus, protecting Americans&#8217; health, reopening safely and responsibly, ensuring safe neighborhoods.</li>
<li>&#8220;Rebuild the Greatest Economy Ever&#8221; (a nationwide goal): Tax deregulation, fixing roads &amp; bridges, &#8220;America First&#8221; and China-critical messaging around trade and supply chains.</li>
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The &#8220;three Ds” the ad pins on the Democrats:
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<li>&#8220;Defund our police, border patrol, and military.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Dismantle our social, economic, and political institutions.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Destroy our small businesses and entrepreneurs with crushing taxes and regulation&#8221; — the GOP leader pointed to the destruction of monuments during recent protests.</li>
</ul>
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DDD Vs. RRR: Kevin McCarthy Releases New Video Contrasting GOP Vision For America With Democrats’ Vision

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John Kasich, who ran a failed Republican presidential campaign in 2016, told CNN this week that he has a &#8220;right&#8221; to define what it means to be a conservative as he prepares to speak at the Democratic National Convention next week.
CNN host Erin Burnett highlighted examples in the past of politicians who crossed over the aisle to endorse a presidential nominee from an opposing party and then asked Kasich if he was worried about being &#8220;blackballed&#8221; by the GOP.
&#8220;I think I have a right to define what it means to be a conservative, and that means a government when necessary, not opposed to it. That what the conservative movement ought to be is opportunity for everyone,&#8221; Kasich said. &#8220;The Republican Party ought to be a party that has a positive message of lifting everyone.&#8221;
&#8220;But, you know, Erin, look. Leaders walk a lonely road. If you&#8217;re not prepared to walk a lonely road and do the things that your conscience tells you to do, then how do you think about yourself when you look in the mirror?&#8221; Kasich continued. &#8220;I mean, I&#8217;m comfortable with the decisions I make. Of course, there&#8217;s blowback. Republicans are critical. Some are praising me. Democrats are debating themselves. Should he be able to do this?&#8221;
&#8220;But this is not an unusual place for me to be,&#8221; Kasich added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a reformer almost all of my life. I&#8217;ve been very independent. I&#8217;m a Republican, but the Republican Party has always been my vehicle, but never my master. You have to do what you think is right in your heart, and I&#8217;m comfortable here.&#8221;
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<blockquote>CNN HOST ERIN BURNETT: Tonight, one of the headline speakers during next week&#8217;s DNC will be a Republican, former Ohio governor and current CNN senior political commentator John Kasich will give a speech to make the case for Joe Biden. Governor Kasich is now OUTFRONT.
And, Governor, I appreciate your time.
So, you know, last time around obviously, you didn&#8217;t support Donald Trump. You wrote in another Republican, John McCain, for president, which is a far cry from actually supporting the Democratic candidate for president, right? You were anti-Trump but you were not taking that extra step. What changed?
JOHN KASICH, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Conscience, Erin. You know, the reason I didn&#8217;t support Trump the last time is I was afraid that he would be a divider and not a unifier, and our best leaders, historically, have been unifiers, Republicans and Democrats. But, unfortunately, as I&#8217;ve watched him over the last three and a half years now, he&#8217;s continued to do that. And I don&#8217;t think the country does well when we&#8217;re divided. And so I had to search my conscience. When the Democrats asked me to speak, I had to think about it. And I believe we need a new direction.
We just can&#8217;t keep going the way that we&#8217;re going because I know historically – and I served in the Congress, I was governor – what I&#8217;ve known is that when people work together, remarkable and good things can happen. But when we constantly are divided, when we can&#8217;t work together, you know, we can see what&#8217;s happening when we look at Washington even today.
So, it was necessary to do this, and I felt it&#8217;s the right thing to do, and I would encourage other Republicans to know that it’s okay to take off a partisan hat, take off your partisan hat and vote on the basis of what your conscience tells you about the future of our country, not just for yourself, but for your kids as well.
BURNETT: You are a moderate, right? You are not someone who represents the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which is hugely influential right now. Yet you are comfortable with Joe Biden. Why is that? What has made you come to the conclusion?
KASICH: First of all, I’m a conservative, which is the interesting thing. Why would I say that? Well, I was the chairman of the Budget Committee when we balanced the budget in Washington.
BURNETT: Yeah.
KASICH: We ran surpluses for a number of years and surpluses. And over here in Ohio, we fixed the state and cut taxes and grew almost a half a million jobs and left almost 3 billion in our rainy day fund for the governor we have now.
So I’m conservative. And people are going to say, ‘Oh, well, he&#8217;s really not.’ Yes I have been. But I believe that Biden can bring us together.
I&#8217;m going to disagree with Joe on things, and they expected that when they asked me to do this. I said, ‘Yeah, there&#8217;s things I&#8217;m going to disagree with Biden on. There&#8217;s things I&#8217;m concerned about.’
But at the end of the day, I think he’s a man of faith. I think he is a man – look, his history has been an ability to bring people together. That&#8217;s the way it was when I was in Congress, when we balanced the budget, [when we] were able to do welfare reform.
And I think he can restore civility, and I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll go hard left. I think he is a pretty tough guy. So I&#8217;m comfortable with the fact that he would be our leader. And I expect he&#8217;ll have Republicans that will be part of anything he does going forward. That&#8217;s the way – that’s his nature; that’s been his history. And he’s a man of deep faith and, you know, a man that has suffered some tremendous grief that has shaped his character. All some of the things I will talk about in my speech.
BURNETT: So, you know, what you’re doing is going to stand out. And it has when it has happened before. I&#8217;m thinking of Zell Miller, then Democratic senator, you know, who spoke for President Bush at the RNC in 2004. And then it was Joe Lieberman, who was an independent but caucused with the Democrats and in 2008, he spoke at the RNC and supported John McCain.
You know, they both became persona non grata in their party, right? They were, you know, blackballed. Are you worried the same could happen to you?
KASICH: I think I have a right to define what it means to be a conservative, and that means a government when necessary, not opposed to it. That what the conservative movement ought to be is opportunity for everyone. The Republican Party ought to be a party that has a positive message of lifting everyone.
But, you know, Erin, look. Leaders walk a lonely road. If you&#8217;re not prepared to walk a lonely road and do the things that your conscience tells you to do, then how do you think about yourself when you look in the mirror?
I mean, I&#8217;m comfortable with the decisions I make. Of course, there&#8217;s blowback. Republicans are critical. Some are praising me. Democrats are debating themselves. Should he be able to do this?
But this is not an unusual place for me to be. I&#8217;ve been a reformer almost all of my life. I&#8217;ve been very independent. I&#8217;m a Republican, but the Republican Party has always been my vehicle, but never my master. You have to do what you think is right in your heart,j and I&#8217;m comfortable here.
BURNETT: So, Southern Baptist minister, he’s ordained, Mike Huckabee, said the other day in part, ‘I don&#8217;t know if anybody, people of faith who think Joe Biden is a great choice. I tell you they&#8217;re not going to go with Biden. That&#8217;s not an option.’
What do you say?
KASICH: Well, I&#8217;m clued into a lot of people of faith, a number of them, who are very happy that I&#8217;m making this decision. I can give you names. I don&#8217;t want to say it on the air, but I can give you names of them if we have to come back and do that.
And the fact is, is that, you know, faith is a matter of your personal relationship. And so, I don&#8217;t know why that&#8217;s been said about Joe. I think he is a man of faith. I don&#8217;t sit down and talk about all of his religion with him. But I&#8217;m comfortable with him.
And like I say, I consider myself to be a man of faith. A flawed man of faith for sure, but aren&#8217;t we all? So I don&#8217;t think anybody can speak for the entire faith community and try to say that this person’s good and that person isn&#8217;t. A lot of people scratch their heads about why some of these very conservative evangelicals support Trump. It seems not to be consistent with the things that they believe in, as promoted in the Old and New Testament.
BURNETT: Right. Thank you very much, Governor Kasich. I appreciate your time.
KASICH: All right, Erin.
BURNETT: And, of course, Governor Kasich [is] going to be speaking next week at the convention for Joe Biden.</blockquote>
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Failed Presidential Candidate John Kasich: ‘I Have A Right To Define What It Means To Be A Conservative’

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A reader emailed to ask, &#8220;An honest question: how do you balance opinion vs. hope. As a pastor I always emphasize hope (though admittedly I am offering Christ) yet I also clearly emphasize reality. &#8230; Yet the question remains: where does responsibility lie with those who speak publicly &amp; are heard?&#8221;
Whether writing my daily emails, newspaper columns or the five hours a day of radio I do, I try to start with reality. A frustration of mine for years has been the media treating the conservative movement and Republican Party as the same. They are, in my mind, distinct entities that live in a symbiotic relationship.
Lately, however, much of the conservative movement exists only to advance President Donald Trump. It is no longer distinct. Many of the institutional and outside voices of conservatism have abandoned their distinct credibility to serve as cheerleaders for Trump in ways they would never have dared less than two decades ago when George W. Bush was President. In 2008, conservatives mounted efforts to fight Bush&#8217;s bailouts of General Motors and American financial institutions, arguing, among other things, that bailing them out would create moral hazards.
Fast-forward just over a decade and many of the same conservatives who stood up to Bush and fought President Barack Obama for sequestration have bent over backward to add multiple more trillions of dollars to the national debt under Trump. Deficits and debt no longer matter to an intellectual movement that, less than a decade ago, forced the first real spending cuts by holding hostage a debt ceiling increase.
My personal opinion is that conservatives made this shift because they, like much of the media, have given up seeing themselves as distinct from power and, more troubling, have been infected with a postmodernism that makes the chief end of man about the acquisition and preservation of power. American conservatives who once championed the individual and the reduction of the state are, in some quarters, now presuming that the fight against the leviathan is lost and that conservatives should use the leviathan as the left would. Those who pilloried Fred Barnes, an editor of The Weekly Standard, in 2004 for arguing George W. Bush was a &#8220;big-government conservative&#8221; have now become that oxymoron; they fear Trump is all that stands between them and the left unleashing a civilizational reordering on America.
The reality is that there is nothing permanent in American politics, and that shapes my thinking and my opinions. The left will institutionally be as unable to permanently reshape the American landscape as the right has been unable to do. When Trump leaves office in January of next year or in 2025, the left will rapidly undo what Trump has done by executive fiat, just as Trump undid much from the Obama era. Then a future Republican will undo that. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
I have been disturbed by those on both sides of the political spectrum who have shaped their opinions of COVID-19 based on willful distortions of reality. Both sides now selectively advance facts because both sides believe narrative storytelling is more important than truth. I endeavor, sometimes better than others, to provide complete fact patterns without selective edits. Truth should matter more than narrative. Encountering difficult truths forces more thought in shaping opinions and public policies.
All of it, however, is supported by hope. That hope comes from my worldview. I believe there is a God of all creation who redeemed humanity through a death on a cross and a resurrection. Those who put their faith in Jesus will be saved. Truth, reality and opinion must be grounded in redemption. I have read the end of the book, and I know which side wins. That must force me to recognize we live in a fallen world; it must force me to offer more grace; it must force me to remember eternity matters more than now.
In an increasingly chaotic world filled with half-truths, narrative distortions and cultlike tribalism, hope is found still in knowing the best days lie ahead, just beyond the eastern sky, in anticipation of the coming son.
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit House Republicans brought against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over a proxy-voting rule change that would allow, for the first time in American history, lawmakers to vote on legislation without actually showing up.
According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/06/republican-lawsuit-proxy-voting-dismissed-392425">Politico</a>, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the Washington, D.C., federal district court did not weigh the merits of the case but instead dismissed it after determining he could not legally review it due to the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause.
&#8220;The Court can conceive of few other actions, besides actually debating, speaking, or voting, that could more accurately be described as &#8216;legislative&#8217; than the regulation of how votes may be cast,&#8221; wrote Contreras, reports the news agency.
In a statement, Pelosi called the lawsuit’s dismissal “welcome news,” and said she hoped it would be “the end of this sad Republican effort to obstruct the House from meeting the needs of the American people during the coronavirus crisis.”
“Remote voting by proxy is fully consistent with the Constitution and more than a century of legal precedent, including Supreme Court cases, that make clear that the House can determine its own rules. The nation is in the middle of a pandemic and the House of Representatives must continue to work,&#8221; said the speaker.
Under the terms of the rule change, which three Democrats voted against, Pelosi can establish a 45-day proxy voting period where members of congress can authorize another member of congress to vote on their behalf. Each member of congress must receive specific instructions on how to vote but can vote for up to ten lawmakers. The rule change also allowed the speaker to extend, or shorten, the voting period based on public health circumstances.
A spokesperson for Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who was named in the suit, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/politics/house-proxy-voting-coronavirus.html">The New York Times</a> that the congressman plans to submit an appeal.
Nearly two dozen Republican members of Congress signed onto the lawsuit as plaintiffs back in May, and accused Pelosi of ending the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-house-republicans-sue-pelosi-for-defying-231-year-constitutional-tradition-with-proxy-voting-pelosi-responds">“231-year constitutional tradition</a> of in-person assembly, deliberation, and voting.”
<blockquote>It is simply impossible to read the constitution and overlook its repeated and emphatic requirement that Members of Congress actually assemble in their respective chambers when they vote, whether on matters as weighty as declaring war or as ordinary as naming a bridge….That requirement is no less mandatory in the midst of a pandemic, see INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 959 (1983), as the House’s forebears amply demonstrated when facing a far more deadly pandemic a little more than a century ago.</blockquote>
The lawsuit also cited numerous examples of lawmakers meeting in person despite extenuating circumstances, such as in the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, and in 1861 during the outbreak of the Civil War.
While dozens of Democratic lawmakers have submitted letters to the House clerk so that they can vote by proxy, only one Republican lawmaker, Congressman Francis Rooney (R-FL) has done so. He has been a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-blasts-house-dems-for-precedent-breaking-rule-change-never-ending-spring-break">public supporter</a> of the rule change.
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In a Daily Wire exclusive interview, Lt. Col. Allen West sat down with Ben Shapiro to discuss how to push back on the identity politics and &#8220;victim culture&#8221; dominating American discourse and what it&#8217;ll take to keep the red states from turning blue.
Allen West grew up in the same neighborhood as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an area more commonly known as the “Old Fourth Ward Neighborhood.” Despite being born a generation later, former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, former U.S. Representative and now Texas Republican Party Chairman, Allen West continues to echo the same transformative message of Dr. King  — content of character and not the color of your skin.
But in a January 2019 “Sunday Special Interview” with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, Allen West stated that the narrative has since shifted. 
“For whatever reason, America has reversed and we&#8217;ve gone back to talking more so about the color of skin issues instead of the character of people,” West explained. 
With a family history of service to the country, West acknowledged that his value system is distinct from the rest of society. From a young age his father instructed him, “Son, when you go into the military, it ain&#8217;t about the color of your skin, it is all about what you can do out there on the battlefield.”
“And that&#8217;s how it should be,” West argued.
As a college campus speaker who tours the country with Young America’s Foundation, West has witnessed a different perspective sweeping the halls of higher education, one that promotes victimhood and “dependency on the Left.” 
After one night speaking on the Obama-era Iranian nuclear deal and American foreign policy, West was shocked by the first question he received from a young black female. “Do you identify as black?” she asked. 
Such thinking, West told Shapiro, is the product of the Left pushing people into an ideological box based upon their ethnicity or gender. There is an “effort on college campuses to say that if you&#8217;re Jewish, you&#8217;re supposed to think a certain way. If you&#8217;re black, you&#8217;re supposed to think of a certain way,” commented West.
And if you have any opinions that run contrary to the Left’s, then “you&#8217;re bad or you’re confused or, you know, maybe you&#8217;re mentally disturbed,” he remarked.
West said the Left’s message is clear: “No matter where you come from, we need more people to be victims.” 
“Why? Because the Left needs more people to be dependent upon them,” he explained.
According to the retired congressman, the way to counter this thinking is two-fold. First, “start to fight that culture war.” And second, “stop allowing the Left to define everything.”
West is confident there is more to the story than the Left’s dominant societal narrative. “Everybody wants to be a part of an American dream,” he asserted.
“I don&#8217;t believe that people wake up every day in life and say, ‘I want to stay here in Section 8 housing and get a check from the government.’ But if that&#8217;s the only message that they hear, if that&#8217;s the only people that are going into those communities and talking to them about being victims and not victors, then the Republicans are always chasing their tails.”
Victors look like West’s wife. She is the daughter of immigrant parents from Jamaica and her father fought in the U.S Military for 24 years. They laid a foundation for her to earn her PhD, MBA, and go on to teach as a business professor. 
“But those aren&#8217;t the stories that the other side wants to have,” West pointed out.
Rising above victimhood includes shaking off what West views is equally as repulsive as racism — “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
To be told by someone, “Well, you probably can&#8217;t achieve it, so we&#8217;re going to lower the standards so you can get out there and play.” To this West responded bluntly, “That’s racist.”
Counteracting low expectations with high expectations is key. “You know, you find out what the standard is, what it means to get to the A, and then you get an A-plus,” asserted West. “And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m driven to do.” 
For West, this means even if he has to brave the hate. 
“You know if you&#8217;re not willing to sit down, have that intellectual debate, then you&#8217;re irrelevant. I don&#8217;t hear names. I&#8217;ve been shot at. Okay. Names don&#8217;t bother me,” West told Shapiro.
This level of perseverance is evident by his recent mid-July win for Texas Republican Party Chairman. 
West is the author of, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Texas-Nation-Victory-Death/dp/1612542980">Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory Or Death</a>” and its pages point to Texas as the crux of future conservative election victories.
West said that Texas is following the same path that Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada went down, a path that leads to red states becoming blue. One of the causes, he told Shapiro, is California residents moving to red states because of their own state’s “failed tax and regulatory policies.” 
“And what is happening is that the greatest export that comes out of California is not avocados, wine, or walnuts — it&#8217;s progressive socialism.” West is sure that “they&#8217;re flipping them because they&#8217;re, once again, holding onto these same failed policies.”
The looming danger is that Texas, along with California, which the Left already dominates, are the two largest electoral states. “And the Left without a doubt have their sights on Texas. As a matter of fact their mantra is ‘Turn Texas Blue,’” West said.
“And if the Left is successful in turning Texas, the national-level elections, they’re done. You&#8217;re never gonna be able to reverse that cycle,” he warned.
West believes this calls for serious action by the Republican Party to intentionally fight for voters in large urban cities and present them with the rationale of conservative policies and values. 
“And so we need to challenge the status quo,” he urged, “and we need to have a whole-hearted effort to go into these communities and show ourselves and show these policies.”
But for some reason, this seems to come easier to the Left than the Right, West noted. And he respects them for it. 
“One of the things that I admire about the Left and the Democrat Party — they&#8217;re tenacious, even in the minority. They&#8217;re tenacious because they&#8217;re true believers in what they believe in, even if it&#8217;s wrong,” he said. “But for us, we don&#8217;t show that we&#8217;re true believers. And I think at some point in time we have to have those elected representatives in the Republican Party that are true believers. I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;re going to get there within the next four years, but this is my real vision that I think will happen.”
West’s confidence in the party stems from his larger positive vision for the country. “I&#8217;m always optimistic, man, because if you’re pessimistic why wake up,” he told Shapiro.
After all, West stated, “we didn&#8217;t fight for America to look like a Venezuela.”
Lt. Col. West believes that fighting for America is a privilege and passionately seeks to make the next generation better than the last. To that generation, he said, “stand on a mountain.”
“Sometimes you&#8217;re going to be down in the valley — but always keep your eyes on the mountain.”
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Allen West On Living As ‘Victors Not Victims’

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In a Daily Wire exclusive interview, Lt. Col. Allen West sat down with Ben Shapiro to discuss how to push back on the identity politics and &quot;victim

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Republican lawmakers have rebuked the idea of moving the 2020 presidential election after President Donald Trump openly pondered whether it should proceed as planned — a change that would require action from Congress — due to voter-fraud concerns.
“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE &amp; FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???,” said Trump in a tweet that has since been pinned to his Twitter profile.
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With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE &amp; FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told WNKY-TV in an interview that “never in the history of the country, through wars, depressions, and the Civil War, have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time, and we’ll find a way to do that again this November third.”
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JUST IN: Here is the <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@senatemajldr</a>’s response to the question about changing the date of the election. <a href="https://twitter.com/wnkytv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wnkytv</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBSNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/Z0nWrsoktl">pic.twitter.com/Z0nWrsoktl</a>
— Max Winitz (@MaxWinitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxWinitz/status/1288875891985129480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/30/mcconnell-gop-say-election-day-not-moving-after-trump-floated-delay/5545609002/">USA Today</a>, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters during a news conference that while he understood the president’s vote-by-mail concerns, the country had never not held a federal election, “and we should go forward” with it as planned.
Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) expressed that he was unequivocally against the idea: “No, it’s not even a question. No delays.”
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No, it’s not even a question. No delays.
We should demand safe and secure elections.
If you requested an absentee ballot, you should use it. And states should not use universal mail-in, which is indeed vulnerable to mistakes and abuse. <a href="https://t.co/gttmGnC1hB">https://t.co/gttmGnC1hB</a>
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1288885821374955521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
Later in the afternoon, Trump suggested that he wasn’t seriously considering plans to move the election, but was rather trying to get the media to focus on the risks of mail-in ballots.
&#8220;Glad I was able to get the very dishonest LameStream media to finally start talking about the risks to our Democracy from dangerous Universal Mail-In-Voting (not Absentee Voting, which I totally support!),&#8221; tweeted Trump.
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Glad I was able to get the very dishonest LameStream Media to finally start talking about the RISKS to our Democracy from dangerous Universal Mail-In-Voting (not Absentee Voting, which I totally support!).
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288932940337090561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
Over the past several months, high-profile Democrats have floated the idea that Trump would try to delay the 2020 general election, which, again, cannot be done through the executive branch.
Back in April, former Vice President Joe Biden suggested that Trump would try to push back the date of the election out of fear of losing, reports <a href="https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-trump-postpone-2020-election-coronavirus-cf898832-6286-49a3-9e8d-dec5ddf1b136.html">Axios</a>. Former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, however, went even further by suggesting that White House advisor Jared Kushner could somehow find himself involved in an election-moving plan.
“I can’t believe I have to write this sentence, but the president’s son-in-law doesn’t get to decide when the election is,” said Clinton, <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1260572655515811840">tweeting</a> a link to a New York Times article that directly refuted the idea that Kushner, or the executive branch for that matter, could move the date of the general election.
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I can’t believe I have to write this sentence, but the president&#8217;s son-in-law doesn&#8217;t get to decide when the election is. <a href="https://t.co/7CrpHny6TF">https://t.co/7CrpHny6TF</a>
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1260572655515811840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
In a statement to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/politics/kushner-election-november.html">The New York Times</a>, Kushner later clarified that he has “not been involved in, nor am I aware of, any discussions about trying to change the date of the presidential election.”
But this is the first time Trump has floated the idea, albeit without any indication that he was saying the action could come from the executive branch rather than from Congress.
“He can suggest whatever he wants,” said Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, of Trump’s election tweet on Thursday, reports <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/trump-delay-election-gop-388290">Politico</a>. “The law is what it is. We’re going to have an election that’s legitimate, it’s going to be credible, it’s going to be the same as we’ve always done it.”
“I wish he hadn’t said that. But it’s not going to change,” he added. “We’re going to have an election in November. And people should have confidence in it.”
“It doesn’t matter what one individual in this country says,” said Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), reports the news agency. “We still are a country based on the rule of law. And we must follow the law until either the Constitution is changed or until the law is changed.”
After Biden’s remarks in April about Trump possibly trying to move the election, the Trump campaign called Biden’s theory the “incoherent, conspiracy theory ramblings of a lost candidate who is out of touch with reality,” according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/494452-biden-predicts-trump-will-try-to-delay-november-election">The Hill</a>.
In June, after Biden said that he was concerned Trump would try to steal the election and that military officials may have to escort him from the White House if he refuses to leave, Trump told <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ja8QEp0SkA">Fox News</a> anchor Harris Faulkner that while he hadn&#8217;t heard about those remarks, he would simply go on and &#8220;do other things&#8221; if he were to lose in November.
“Look, Joe’s not all there, everybody knows it,” Trump told Faulkner during the interview. “It’s sad when you look at it, and you see it for yourself. He’s created his own sanctuary city in the basement of wherever he is, and he doesn’t come out.”
Trump then responded directly to the former vice president&#8217;s speculation: “And certainly if I don’t win, I don’t win. I mean, you know, go on and do other things. I think it would be a very sad thing for our country.”
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Republican Lawmakers Rebuke Idea Of Moving 2020 Election After Trump Tweet

Republican lawmakers have rebuked the idea of moving the 2020 presidential election after President Donald Trump openly pondered whether it should proceed

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez says the Democratic National Convention will still take place next month in Milwaukee, but the event will be scaled down because of fears over COVID-19.
“We are putting nobody in harm&#8217;s way,” Perez said Friday on <a href="https://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/0469a9b1-fd7d-4257-ab28-f76acc8fa2aa/35fff9dc-3584-444d-9f2d-2e4b34f732c7">SiriusXM</a>. “Safety is job one for us in this convention and that’s why it will be considerably smaller, but it will be no less exciting &#8212; not less inspiring because frankly, this is still the most important election of our lifetime.”
“We are anchored in Milwaukee and we will have exciting programming in Milwaukee. The vice president will accept the nomination from Milwaukee,” Perez said, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/24/tom-perez-virtual-dnc-381207">Politico</a>. Perez also said that the convention will be nearly entirely virtual and &#8220;have a lot less people at it” than previous years.
Per Politico:
<blockquote>Earlier this summer, the party instructed delegates not to come to Milwaukee, after first delaying it from July to August, and is allowing delegates to vote for the presumptive nominee Joe Biden remotely from satellite “mini conventions.” Still, as cases of coronavirus continue to rise around the country, some Democrats have expressed pause about even holding the smaller gatherings.</blockquote>
In his interview, Perez took a swipe at President Trump, saying: “We will honor the values of the Democratic Party. We will highlight the values of Joe Biden, and one of the values of Joe Biden is humility. Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t need the ego gratification of being surrounded by 20,000 people, and that is why we’re doing it in a safe way.”
The Democratic convention will now be held Aug. 17-20, while the Republican convention will be Aug. 24-27. But the GOP has also altered its plans.
First, the Republican National Convention was set for Charlotte, NC, but the state&#8217;s Democratic governor said the quadrennial gathering might not happen because of COVID-19. So Trump bailed on that state and announced the RNC would be held in Jacksonville, FL.
But last week, the president scrapped that plan as well, deciding against hosting the convention in-person as planned.
“I looked at my team and I said, ‘The timing for this event is not right.’ It’s just not right with what’s happened recently, the flair-up in Florida, to have a big convention, it’s not the right time,” Trump said. “For me, I have to protect the American people. That’s what I’ve always done, that’s what I always will do.”
Trump did say that some festivities in Jacksonville will still occur, and the official activities that go on at the convention will still happen for select delegates – and Trump still plans to make a splash.
“I’ll still do a convention speech, in a different form, but we won’t do a big crowded convention per se. It’s just not the right time for that,” Trump said. “I care deeply about the people of Florida, and everywhere else, frankly, in this country, and even in the world, who would be coming into this state, and I don’t want to do anything to upset it.”
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Romney Accepts Party Nomination At The Republican National Convention

Biden, Democrats Will Hold Scaled-Back Convention, DNC Says

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez says the Democratic National Convention will still take place next month in Milwaukee, but the event will

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The Nebraska Republican Party is calling on the state Senate to expel longtime Sen. Ernie Chambers (I) after he hypothesized about enslaving a female senator and trafficked in baseless, vulgar rumors about her.
“These are disgusting remarks, clearly out of bounds. His misogyny was on full display when he publicly indulged this grossly offensive inference. He owes Senator Slama an apology, as does every Senator who yielded time so he could continue his vile, misogynistic rant against Senator Slama. He should be censured and expelled immediately — there ought to be no place in Nebraska’s legislature for this abhorrent language and mistreatment,” Ryan Hamilton, executive director of the Nebraska Republican Party, said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nebraskagop/posts/10157848180354086">statement</a> on Facebook.
Chambers took to the Senate floor on Tuesday and attacked one of his colleagues, 24-year-old Sen. Julie Slama (R), for a flyer that the Nebraska Republican Party ran on her behalf. The flyer cast Slama’s primary opponent, Janet Palmtag, side-by-side with Chambers, and said that Palmtag “sides with Lincoln liberals, atheists, and radical extremists.”
Chambers and others have claimed that the flyer is racist because it features him, a black man, alongside Palmtag, who is white. Notably, Chambers is a common foil used in Nebraska politics, likely because of his long history of controversial remarks, such as a February 2019 <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nebraska-state-senator-compares-american-flag-to-nazi-swastika">instance</a> in which he compared the American flag to the Nazi swastika.
Nebraska Republican Party Chairman Dan Welch has <a href="https://omaha.com/news/local/nebraska-gop-chairman-party-flyer-targeting-legislative-candidate-crossed-the-line/article_7e3db3a8-98df-5e21-be99-c4cc793b23fa.html">apologized</a> for aspects of the flyer and said it “was not in good taste” and “crossed the line.” He has denied that the flyer is racist, but says that it was wrong to associate Palmtag with atheists as he understands her to be a Christian.
Chambers used the flyer to target Slama, as well as several historical American figures such as founding father Thomas Jefferson and former President Andrew Jackson, in several instances on Monday.
Andrew Jackson is a “lying, sniveling, cowardly, treacherous, rat. You all see him as a hero. I don’t,” Chambers said, speaking on the Senate floor.
He went on to attack Jefferson for his relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemmings. He compared Jefferson’s treatment of Hemmings to a hypothetical scenario in which Chambers “raped white women” and “enslaved Sen. Slama and used her the way that I had wanted to.”
Chambers continued:
<blockquote>You think Thomas Jefferson was a great man? Do you realize he had a room in Monticello for Sally Hemmings? And he had six children by that woman in the house where his wife lived. One of his descendants said they need to stop deifying Thomas Jefferson and take down every monument and memorial to him. He was a mere man and he was not a good man. How could a man be good if he was a rapist? A child molester? A pedophile? And you all deify him and I’m supposed to go along with it? Then his descendants – I use that term advisedly – like Sen. Slama, Gov. Ricketts, all the Republican Party mucky-mucks, doing what they are doing right now.</blockquote>
Chambers insisted that the attacks on him showed that “white people” are “terrified” of him. In a later statement, he again returned to attacking Slama and trafficking in baseless rumors that she had exchanged “fleshy” favors in order to become a senator.
<blockquote>These lowdown people who I have named – Sen. Slama, [Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts], and all the Republicans – have decided to destroy [Palmtag’s] reputation, destroy her by using my name. That is not what I appreciate and I feel an obligation, which they will take to show how she and I are in league with each other, to lift her up in the minds of the people who live down there with her, who have known her, who have never, to my way of thinking and understanding since we’re playing dirty, said that she was given favors because favors of a fleshy nature were expected in return. Now, I don’t know if Sen. Slama has heard what they are saying about her and why the governor picked a very young person with no life experiences. I didn’t know they traveled together. How would I know that if white people didn’t tell me? They want to play dirty? Well, let’s get dirt out here on everybody.</blockquote>
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Slama <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorSlama/status/1285623602495332352">responded</a> to Chambers’ remarks on Twitter on Monday, saying that Chambers&#8217; comment is “despicable, nauseating, and has no place in the Nebraska Legislature.&#8221;
Ricketts, who has endorsed Slama for reelection, <a href="https://governor.nebraska.gov/press/gov-ricketts-appoints-slama-ld1">appointed</a> Slama to fill the seat of Dan Watermeier in January 2019 after Watermeier stepped down to join the Public Service Commission. Slama worked for Ricketts as his press secretary during his 2018 reelection campaign.
Chambers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Nebraska GOP Says State Senator Should Be ‘Expelled Immediately’ After ‘Vile, Misogynistic Rant’

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The Nebraska Republican Party is calling on the state Senate to expel longtime Sen. Ernie Chambers (I) after he hypothesized about enslaving a female

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The following is satirical, if by satirical you mean exposing the Democrats&#8217; propensity for throwing cash at useless garbage then lighting it all on fire in a fit of demoniacal jubilation.
Senators continue to debate a new relief bill to deal with fallout from the Chinese Flu, or Wuflu, or Kung Flu, or Flu Manchu, or Chinese Act of Bacteriological Warfare, or as they call it in Hollywood, “Thank You For The Covid 19, Mr. Producer Sir.”
The Republicans are offering a bill that would provide stimulus for damaged businesses and allow workers to return to their jobs.
The Democrats, conversely, are proposing a bill that would pay each worker two thousand dollars more than his highest salary to stay home in order to prevent anyone from going to work and recovering his dignity as a human being when they haven’t even finished watching the entire catalogue of videos on Porn Hub.
The Democrats then propose to gather up all the make-believe trillions of dollars they’ve been spending on useless garbage for the last 27 years, set it on fire, and use the flames to burn down every city in the country while blaming it on the evil principle of whiteness that has stifled the hopes and dreams of every black man in their imaginations.
The Democrat bill would further impose an indefinite moratorium on singing in church, praying at home, yearning for human freedom, experiencing individual joy and anything else that gets in the way of the government’s complete control of every corner of the known universe.
In a speech made while hanging upside down from the Capitol rotunda, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded that Republicans add a measure to the relief bill that would defund all police protection across the country so that mostly peaceful murderers, rioters and looters might exercise their First Amendment right to drive the nation into chaos and destruction.
With that said, Schumer spread two leathery wings, erupted into white-hot flame and flew out the window accompanied by enormous bats with the faces of shrieking women before they all vanished in a green explosion of sulphuric smoke.
Republicans said they would consider Schumer’s proposal and seek to reach a compromise bill.
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Democrats Seek To Amend Covid Relief Bill To Include Complete Destruction Of Every American Principle [Satire]

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The following is satirical, if by satirical you mean exposing the Democrats&#039; propensity for throwing cash at useless garbage then lighting it all on fire

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Wellness queen Marianne Williamson, the former Democratic candidate for president who became a viral sensation for her colorful performances on the debate stage, claims that the DNC and the mainstream media conspired to make her look like a crazy person.
Speaking with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach during a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9EScprpIMg&amp;feature=youtu.be">Facebook Live discussion</a> (video below), Williamson said that &#8220;political-media-industrial-complex&#8221; protected the establishment and suppressed outside voices.
&#8220;There were talking points that were everywhere. That I was crazy, that I told AIDS patients not to take their medicine. The most crazy things were said,&#8221; exclaimed Williamson.
&#8220;To whatever extent I know, I don&#8217;t want to say, I just think there is a political and media establishment elite,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s Democrat or Republican. And I think that they have a way of protecting their own and suppressing voices that they don&#8217;t wish to be on the stage with them.&#8221;
“The job of the DNC should not be to, in any way, dictate the process. The job of the DNC is to facilitate the process,&#8221; she added.
During the same interview, Marianne Williamson hit at the country&#8217;s two-party system and claimed that both Democrats and Republicans are working together to prevent third-party influence.
&#8220;Political parties were not mentioned in the Constitution, and George Washington warned us against them when leaving office,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He said in his Farewell Address that parties were formed factions of men who would care more about their faction than about their country. And when you look at the history of the United States, third-party voices have been extremely influential.&#8221;
&#8220;Abolition came from the Abolitionist Party. Women&#8217;s suffrage came from the Women&#8217;s Party. Social Security came from the Socialist Party,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But back in the 1960s, in response to the candidacy and the influence of George Wallace, the Democrats and the Republicans formed a pretty unholy alliance.&#8221;
Williamson concluded that the current Democratic Party is almost just as corporatist as the Republican Party.
&#8220;The Democratic Party that I grew up with, I am beginning to think more and more is very different than the Democratic Party that&#8217;s become not as corporatist as the Republican Party, but &#8230; dominated by corporate money and corporate policies,&#8221; she said.
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Williamson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-donate-money-keep-marianne-williamson-paul-bois">made a huge splash</a> at the first Democratic presidential debate when she vowed to harness the “power of love” to defeat Trump’s supposed harnessing of the power of &#8220;hate.&#8221; She also lit up the internet with scores of memes when she promised that her first move as president would be to call the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
“My first call is to the prime minister of New Zealand, who said her goal was to make New Zealand the place where it’s the best place in the world for a child to grow up. And I will tell her, ‘Girlfriend, you are so on.’ Because the United States of America is going to be the best place in the world for a child to grow up,” she said to thunderous applause.
Though much of the mainstream dismissed her as a fringe candidate, some Democrats argued she may be the perfect embodiment of a left-wing Trump: An ultra-feminine, media-savvy outsider who appeals to the &#8220;wellness mom&#8221; voter bloc. Tessa Stuart of <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marianne-williamson-is-the-cosmic-sorceress-we-need-now-853058/">Rolling Stone</a> described her as the “cosmic sorceress we need now.”
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders Campaigns In Texas

Marianne Williamson: Democrats, Media Made Me Look Crazy

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Wellness queen Marianne Williamson, the former Democratic candidate for president who became a viral sensation for her colorful performances on the debate

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President Donald Trump suggested to Voice of America host Greta Van Susteren on Tuesday that the 2020 Republican Convention in Jacksonville, Florida, which was previously scheduled to take place in North Carolina, could undergo alternative arrangements should the coronavirus pandemic make the current plans unfeasible.
“If the numbers continue to go up in Florida, and they continue to spike — may be testing or whatever but numbers going up — would you consider not having as big a convention,” Susteren asked Trump during an interview at the White House, reports <a href="https://www.1011now.com/2020/07/08/gray-televisions-greta-van-susteren-interviews-president-trump/">1011Now</a>.
“Well, we’re always looking at different things,” responded Trump, who explained that the first location choice of North Carolina fell through amidst coronavirus concerns. “Then we went to Florida, and when we went, we signed a few weeks ago, it looked good, and now all of a sudden it&#8217;s spiking up a little bit.”
While Trump did not detail any alternative plans, he maintained that the GOP is “very flexible,” and that the timing of the convention will be key.
The convention, which is planned for late-August, was scheduled to happen in North Carolina until Governor Roy Cooper (D) informed the Republican Party in a letter that he could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jacksonville-is-frontrunner-for-gop-convention-after-north-carolina-rejected-trump-demands">not guarantee</a> the convention could be hosted in full due to coronavirus concerns.
“With the nation, the state of North Carolina and the City of Charlotte still under states of emergency, it’s important to conduct the RNC convention accordingly,” wrote Cooper in <a href="https://files.nc.gov/governor/documents/files/2020_06_02_RNC-Response-Letter.pdf">the letter</a>. “As much as we want the conditions surrounding COVID-19 to be favorable enough for you to hold the Convention you describe in late August, it is very unlikely.”
As The Daily Wire previously reported, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel criticized the governor’s decision at the time, saying that convention attendees were “ready to go and fill their hotels and fill their restaurants, and he made a decision politically to not help us. I know that if I were the DNC it would have been a different decision.”
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/07/coronavirus-republican-convention-florida-trump-351483">reports</a> that “Republicans familiar with the event’s planning” have been working on back-up plans should the full convention become unfeasible. Those plans have not yet been publicly advertised, at least for the time being. However, the news agency notes that the GOP has already said in a memo that “everyone attending the convention within the perimeter will be tested and temperature checked each day.”
While five GOP senators have expressed that they will not be attending the convention — per <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/sen-alexander-becomes-second-senior-republican-lawmaker-to-announce-plans-to-skip-gop-convention/2020/07/07/d240ac88-c060-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html">The Washington Post&#8217;s</a> count — only one person, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), 86, has cited coronavirus concerns as their reason for not attending the event.
&#8220;I’m not going to go. And I’m not going to go because of the virus situation,” Grassley, the oldest Republican in the Senate, and who has attended every Republican convention in the last four decades, told reporters in a conference call Monday, reports the <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/06/chuck-grassley-wont-attend-republican-national-convention-rnc-jacksonville-florida-coronavirus-covid/5383466002/">Des Moines Register</a>.
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I have a friend who despises Donald Trump. Whenever Trump does something he finds outrageous, my friend mocks the president’s supporters by mimicking their frequent defense of him: “At least he fights.”
As I’ve often said, Trump is a great big American character with great big American flaws – and some great big American virtues too, often overlooked.
But you know what? At least he fights.
Never-Trumpers have retreated from the political battle we’re actually in to an imaginary world where they are knightly defenders crossing swords with the Ray Harryhausen skeletons of ideological decay. They call their anti-Trump PAC The Lincoln Project. They call their anti-Trump websites The Remnant or The Ramparts. The idea is that they are the last men standing atop the last redoubt fighting for the party of 1860 against the perfidious President the Donald who has so badly disfigured it.
Well, no.
Black Lives Matter – a small and violent radical organization dedicated to a Marxist revolution and bent on hobbling our police and destroying the American family – has terrorized this country with riots and other ugliness for a long month now. They are not black – only one sixth of the protesters are black – and they don’t care about Black Lives or they wouldn’t be attacking the police. The police killed nine unarmed black men in 2018. Seven thousand four hundred blacks died at the hands of murderers that year. More than 200,000 died at the hands of abortionists. Black Lives Matter doesn’t give a damn.
And yet what is the response of our elites to these terrorist thugs? Corporations rush to show support for them. Democrat governors, who impose unconstitutional bans on worship in the name of keeping us ever-so-safe from the Chinese Virus, celebrate and join in with their massive demonstrations. Democrat spokesmen – also known as the news media – play down the “mostly peaceful” violence while upbraiding and cancel-mugging any law-abiding citizen who dares to draw a gun to defend himself against it.
So what about the Republicans? The ones who get their ideological ideas from Honest Abe. The ones we’re standing on the ramparts to defend the remnants of.
Well, they’re negotiating. Maybe the Marxist terrorists have a point. Maybe some statues should come down. Maybe some Army bases should be renamed. Some are offering a new federal holiday on Juneteenth. Senator Ron Johnson has a great idea – let’s get rid of Columbus Day so the new Black Lives Matter holiday won’t cost the federal government another day of paid leave. We may be handing over our culture to terrorists, but think of the money we’ll save!
Hundreds of former Bush administration officials are endorsing Joe Biden, now little more than a moderate mask for the radicals who would surely run his administration. That’s who they are. That’s who they always were. Compassionate conservatism was Leftism with a flag on it.
Back in the Obama years, the leadership of the Republican Party told me to my face that they would “use” the Tea Partiers to maintain power while meeting none of their demands for constitutional governance. They announced in public that they would never try to impeach Obama, leaving him free to shred the Constitution with his misuse of the IRS, the State Department, and the FBI. They would not legislate against unbridled illegal immigration. They would not cut entitlements. They would not repeal the oppression of Obamacare.
What Lincolnian principles have these people represented in living memory? What ramparts are we standing on to defend what remnant? If the True Republican Party is an outpost, it’s Jamestown, long gone. Donald Trump did not destroy it. He rose to power because it had been destroyed. He is the emanation of their failures.
Republicans – and conservatives – are now what C. S. Lewis called men without chests. They have high-sounding theories and ideas about our founding and our Constitution, but they will not defend them from the radical destroyers.
Their theories and ideas are worthless. As Lewis pointed out, “In battle it is not syllogisms that will keep the reluctant nerves and muscles to their post in the third hour of the bombardment. The crudest sentimentalism… about a flag or a country or a regiment will be of more use.”
The ancients located such sentiments in the chest. With the help of an intellect trained from youth, those sentiments recall us to our duty when it’s time to face losing an election or profits or a social media platform or a sponsor in the defense of principle.
Instead, “we make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise…” Lewis said. “We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
That’s your Republican Party. That’s your Conservative Movement, too. That’s why Trump is president. Because at least he fights.
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Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced on Thursday that the party has moved its celebration of the re-nomination of President Donald Trump to Jacksonville, Florida, after running into problems in North Carolina.
The Charlotte Observer <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/rnc-2020/article243453231.html">reported</a> that the official business of the convention will still take place in Charlotte this August, but after the first day, the remaining three days of the event will take place in Jacksonville.
&#8220;We are thrilled to celebrate this momentous occasion in the great city of Jacksonville,&#8221; McDaniel said in a statement.  &#8220;Not only does Florida hold a special place in President Trump’s heart as his home state, but it is crucial in the path to victory in 2020.  We look forward to bringing this great celebration and economic boon to the Sunshine State in just a few short months.&#8221;
The RNC said in a statement that it moved the celebration portion of the convention because Democrat Governor Roy Cooper &#8220;refused to provide assurances&#8221; that the celebration could take place in Charlotte due to social distancing measures over the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China.
The move could generate over $100 million in revenue for Jacksonville, the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/79a9c3b999f908fffb218bc0c8afd69d">reported</a>, adding that the city has a population of 1.5 million people and is home to a major military base.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) responded to the news in a tweet, writing: &#8220;I’m biased, but this is a great choice! The state of Florida and the city of Jacksonville are ready and excited to host President @realDonaldTrump for the fun part of the Republican Convention. It’s the first step towards a big win in November!&#8221;
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The state of Florida and the city of Jacksonville are ready and excited to host President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> for the fun part of the Republican Convention. It’s the first step towards a big win in November! <a href="https://t.co/T9NosKbsID">https://t.co/T9NosKbsID</a>
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis responded to the news by saying in a statement: &#8220;Florida is honored to host this special event where we will celebrate the re-nomination of President Donald J. Trump. Jacksonville is a great city that will showcase Florida’s energy, facilities, entrepreneurship and commitment to bring together the delegates of the Republican Party at a historic time in our nation’s history.&#8221;
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-jacksonville-convention-site-alternative-trump">noted</a> that Jacksonville was attractive to Republican officials from the start because the city has a Republican mayor, Lenny Curry, who made a strong pitch for the city to host the celebration by offering up the same venue that the city has used to host a major UFC fight—VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.
Curry responded to the news by saying, &#8220;Today&#8217;s announcement is a huge win for the City of Jacksonville to host the celebration of President Trump’s acceptance of the nomination. The opportunity to highlight all our city has to offer and the tremendous economic impact is one I enthusiastically welcome, and we look forward to hosting an exciting event for all delegates and guests to enjoy.&#8221;
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Republican National Committee Announces New Location To Celebrate Trump’s Re-Nomination

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Jacksonville, Florida, is the frontrunner to host the GOP convention this year after Republican officials scrapped plans to hold the full affair in North Carolina.
GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel appeared on conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Wednesday and said that Florida’s chances to host the quadrennial event looked promising. She and other officials have stipulated though that no final decision has been made.
“There’s a couple more things we need to do before we can announce that, but Jacksonville is absolutely in the front-running position,” McDaniel told Hewitt, according to the <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article243428921.html">Miami Herald</a>.
Several other sites are still under consideration, however. Republican National Committee (RNC) spokesman Steve Guest told <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/10/rnc-washington-post-jacksonville-2020-convention-charlotte/">The Daily Caller</a> that along with Jacksonville, officials have also toured potential sites in Phoenix, Savannah, Georgia, and Dallas.
“We have been in conversations with several other potential locations,” Guest said.
The RNC has been making last-minute plans to move the bulk of the convention activities to a new location in the United States after North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said that the convention, originally expected to take place in Charlotte, must follow coronavirus guidelines and cut the amount of people allowed to attend. President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-nc-governor-rejects-gop-convention-demand-trump-you-just-lost-your-state-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-jobs">announced</a> on June 2 that the convention would move to a new city.
“Had long planned to have the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, a place I love,” Trump began in a pair of tweets. “Now, [NC Gov.] Roy Cooper and his representatives refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena — [s]pend millions of dollars, have everybody arrive, and then tell them they will not be able to gain entry.”
“Governor Cooper is still in Shelter-In-Place Mode, and not allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised,” Trump said. “Would have showcased beautiful North Carolina to the World, and brought in hundreds of millions of dollars, and jobs, for the State. Because of [Cooper], we are now forced to seek another State to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.”
McDaniel also criticized Cooper’s decision in her Wednesday interview, saying that his decision was political and would not have happened to the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
“We were ready to go and fill their hotels and fill their restaurants, and he made a decision politically to not help us. I know that if I were the DNC it would have been a different decision,” McDaniel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItnMXs3XVtw">said</a>. “So shame on him because he put politics over the people of his state.”
Cooper sent a letter to McDaniel on June 2 saying that allowing the RNC to have a full convention in Charlotte would put the rest of the state at risk of the coronavirus.
“With the Nation, the State of North Carolina, and the city of Charlotte still under states of emergency, it’s important to conduct the RNC convention accordingly,” Cooper wrote. “As much as we want the conditions surrounding COVID-19 to be favorable enough for you to hold the Convention you describe in late August, it is very unlikely. Neither public health officials nor I will risk the health and safety of North Carolinians by providing the guarantee you seek.”
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Jacksonville Is ‘Frontrunner’ For GOP Convention After North Carolina Rejected Trump Demands

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After President Trump suddenly announced last week that the Republican National Convention wouldn&#8217;t be held in North Carolina, GOP leaders have been left scrambling to find a new site.
One possible solution is holding a multistate convention with major speeches and rallies in a number of different cities, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/republicans-look-multi-city-convention-trump-s-renomination-n1225331">NBC News</a>.
&#8220;GOP officials are already on the ground in places like Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; Dallas; Phoenix; and New Orleans. They may also schedule scouting visits to Atlanta; Savannah, Georgia; and Las Vegas in the weeks to come,&#8221; NBC reported.
The convention, which will re-nominate the president as the 2020 Republican contender, is set to begin on Aug. 24. The four-day soiree is used to reward hard-core Republicans who have worked to drum up support for the party&#8217;s nominee. The conventions are typically held in massive arenas &#8212; all of which have been closed down due to COVID-19. But with the advent of Zoom and other platforms, perhaps the time has come for an online virtual convention.
On Saturday, The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/republican-convention-charlotte-2020.html">New York Times</a> reported that Republicans are even having a hard time finding delegates to attend the convention.
&#8220;Adding to the uncertainty surrounding the convention is the trepidation delegates are feeling about attending a crowded gathering,&#8221; reported Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman. &#8220;Already, states like Indiana are having difficulty filling both their delegate and alternate spots. Many convention delegates are over 60 and therefore more vulnerable to the virus.&#8221;
&#8220;Indiana, Vice President Mike Pence&#8217;s home state, has struggled to fill its slots with the party donors and activists who typically compete for the highly coveted positions to represent the state on the convention floor,&#8221; the NYT said.
Trump got annoyed last week after North Carolina&#8217;s governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, and other officials “refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena” and were not “allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised.”
“Because of @NC_Governor, we are now forced to seek another State to host the 2020 Republican National Convention,” he wrote on Twitter.
&#8220;Had long planned to have the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, a place I love. Now, @NC_Governor Roy Cooper and his representatives refused to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena &#8211; Spend millions of dollars, have everybody arrive, and&#8230; then tell them they will not be able to gain entry. Governor Cooper is still in Shelter-In-Place Mode, and not allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised. Would have showcased beautiful North Carolina to the World, and brought in hundreds of&#8230; millions of dollars, and jobs, for the State. Because of @NC_Governor, we are now forced to seek another State to host the 2020 Republican National Convention,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
But <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/501359-why-republicans-arent-likely-to-move-their-convention-out-of-charlotte">The Hill</a> reported on Sunday that &#8220;veterans of conventions past say it is almost certain that Republicans will have to keep the bulk of their convention activities&#8221; in Charlotte, N.C.
&#8220;The RNC’s Executive Committee has voted unanimously to allow the official business of the national convention to continue in Charlotte. Many other cities are eager to host the president’s acceptance of the nomination, and we are currently in talks with several of them to host that celebration,&#8221; Michael Ahrens, the RNC&#8217;s communications director, said in a statement.
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Republicans Look At Multi-City Convention For Trump’s Renomination

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In a series of incensed social media posts blasted out early Tuesday morning, President Trump listed the &#8220;failures&#8221; of a group of &#8220;RINO&#8221; (Republican in name only) &#8220;losers&#8221; behind a new ad that mockingly echoes arguably the most famous political ad in American history, Ronald Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Morning in America&#8221; ad, to criticize Trump. In the process of knocking around the folks behind the ad, the Lincoln Project, Trump also made sure to remind everyone that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and suggested that the revered figure is &#8220;smiling&#8221; about how Trump is handling the presidency.
In a 60-second ad titled &#8220;Mourning in America,&#8221; the Lincoln Project, headed by vocal Trump critic George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;positive impact&#8221; on the country in his first four years is contrasted with Trump&#8217;s first term, which the Trump-critical group portrays as a &#8220;failure.&#8221;
&#8220;[President Trump&#8217;s] failed presidency has left the nation weaker, sicker, and teetering on the verge of a new Great Depression,&#8221; the Lincoln Project tweeted Monday along with its new ad. &#8220;There’s mourning in America.&#8221;
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📺 NEW VIDEO <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdonaldtrump</a>’s failed presidency has left the nation weaker, sicker, and teetering on the verge of a new Great Depression.
There’s mourning in America. <a href="https://t.co/QoEWJVNEXc">pic.twitter.com/QoEWJVNEXc</a>
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Trump wasn&#8217;t amused, responding early Tuesday in a series of caps-filled tweets slamming Conway and his crew and pointing out all the achievements of his first four years, particularly related to the court system, the military, Second Amendment rights and slashing taxes and regulations.
&#8220;A group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago, have copied (no imagination) the concept of an ad from Ronald Reagan, &#8216;Morning in America&#8217;, doing everything possible to get even for all of their many failures,&#8221; Trump wrote.
&#8220;You see, these loser types don’t care about 252 new Federal Judges, 2 great Supreme Court Justices, a rebuilt military, a protected 2nd Amendment, biggest EVER Tax &amp; Regulation cuts, and much more,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;I didn’t use any of them because they don’t know how to win, and their so-called Lincoln Project is a disgrace to Honest Abe,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;I don’t know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband, Moonface, but it must have been really bad. John Weaver lost big for Kasich (to me). Crazed Rick Wilson lost for Evan &#8216;McMuffin&#8217; McMullin (to me). Steve Schmidt [and] Reed Galvin lost for John McCain, Romney’s campaign manager (?) lost big to &#8216;O&#8217;, [and] Jennifer Horn got thrown out of the New Hampshire Republican Party.&#8221;
&#8220;They’re all LOSERS, but Abe Lincoln, Republican, is all smiles!&#8221; Trump concluded.
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&#8230;.get even for all of their many failures. You see, these loser types don’t care about 252 new Federal Judges, 2 great Supreme Court Justices, a rebuilt military, a protected 2nd Amendment, biggest EVER Tax &amp; Regulation cuts, and much more. I didn’t use any of them&#8230;.
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257532110971318274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;.lost for Evan “McMuffin” McMullin (to me). Steve Schmidt &amp; Reed Galvin lost for John McCain, Romney’s campaign manager (?) lost big to “O”, &amp; Jennifer Horn got thrown out of the New Hampshire Republican Party. They’re all LOSERS, but Abe Lincoln, Republican, is all smiles!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257532114666508291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Lincoln Project&#8217;s ad wasn&#8217;t the only Trump-themed ad drama on Monday. CNN announced the same day that it has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-sends-trump-campaign-cease-and-desist-letter-for-deceptive-ad-showing-cnn-agreeing-his-actions-saved-lives-campaign-slaps-back">sent a cease-and-desist letter</a> to the Trump campaign over an ad that shows a CNN analyst appearing to praise the actions of the president in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trump campaign has since responded by standing by its ad and slamming CNN for finding a reason to &#8220;once again&#8221; block an ad from the campaign.
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Trump Lists The Failures Of ‘Loser’ RINOs After Their Famous Reagan Ad Mockery, Says Lincoln Is ‘Smiling’

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