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Virginia and Minnesota are in play, Trump pollster John McLaughlin, CEO and partner of McLaughlin & Associates, said during a Tuesday appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
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Former President Donald Trump's entourage of leading Republicans delivered a fiery press conference outside of his "sham" business records trial in Manhattan on Tuesday.
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Former President Donald Trump's defense wasted no time in questioning Michael Cohen about his TikTok page, where he has frequently held live streams that he fundraises from while talking about the case and disparaging Trump.
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Actor Robert De Niro said Tuesday on ABC's "The View" that former President Donald Trump and his supporters were filled with anger and hate.
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The political persecution of former President Donald Trump is "backfiring," Trump pollster John McLaughlin, CEO and partner of McLaughlin & Associates, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.Β
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Donald Trump gained eight percentage points among 2020 swing state voters who cast ballots for Joe Biden, per a poll.
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An agency of the District of Columbia held a training session last month to teach illegal immigrants and other noncitizens how to vote, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.Β
News of the training session held by the local government in the nationβs capital comes as House Republicans push a billβwith the backing of Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.βto require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote.
The D.C. Board of Elections conducted the April 10 event, called βNon-Citizen Voting Education Virtual Training.βΒ
Judicial Watch obtained 13 pages of the training sessionβs PowerPoint presentation through a request under the Freedom of Information Act. On one slide, the presentation says:
Non-U.S. citizen residents can vote in District elections for the offices of Mayor, Attorney General, Chairman or member(s) of the D.C. Council, member(s) of the State Board of Education, or Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner(s) Non-U.S. citizen residents cannot vote for Federal Offices.
The Heritage Foundationβs Oversight Project previously raised concerns about noncitizen voting in the District of Columbia. (Heritage established The Daily Signal in 2014.)
Washington, DCβs Voter Guide for Illegal Aliens is up! pic.twitter.com/COeIpOba5w
β Oversight Project (@OversightPR) May 1, 2024
The District of Columbia is joined by local governments in California, Maryland, and Vermont in allowing foreign citizens to vote in local elections. Federal law allows only U.S. citizens to vote in federal elections.Β
State courts blocked New York City from allowing noncitizen voting there.Β
βIllegal aliens and noncitizens should not vote in any elections,β Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. βThat Congress allows the votes of citizens to be legally stolen by illegal aliens in our nationβs capital is inexcusable.β
The District of Columbia amended its election code last year to allow noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, to vote for local D.C. offices.Β
As noted in my book βThe Myth of Voter Suppression,β Democrats long have sought to change election laws to gain a political advantage. These noncitizen voting laws mimic a tactic used by New York Cityβs legendary Tammany Hall and other political machines that controlled big city politics.Β
The Districtβs presentation explains the qualifications for registering to vote when someone isnβt a U.S. citizen.Β
βTo register to vote in the District of Columbia as a non-citizen, you must: Be at least 17 years old and 18 years old by the next General Election; Maintain residency in the District of Columbia for at least 30 days prior to the election in which you intend to vote; Not claim voting residence or the right to vote in any state, territory, or country; Not been found by a court to be legally incompetent to vote,β the presentation says.
Neither the D.C. Board of Elections nor the office of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, responded to The Daily Signalβs request for comment on this report.Β
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The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is probing a controversial Biden administration executive order tasking the federal government with mobilizing voting groups it says are underrepresented.
In aΒ letterΒ obtained by RealClearPolitics, Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has requested that Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young produce a slew of documents and information concerning the development and implementation of President Joe Bidenβs sweeping βExecutive Order on Promoting Accessing to Votingβ no later than May 28 and a staff-level briefing by May 20.
The demand by the chairman of the House Oversight Committee signals an escalation in Republican lawmakersβ efforts to combat an effort they say may be unlawful, if not unconstitutional.
The administration characterizes its efforts as a remedy to βdiscriminatory policies and other obstacles β¦ disproportionally affect[ing]β black, non-English-speaking, handicapped, and other minority voters. Executive Order 14019 calls on all federal agencies to develop and execute corrective plans to βpromote voter registration and voter participation.β
It instructs officials government-wide to consider βsoliciting and facilitating approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations β¦ to provide voter registration services on agency premises.β
Seeing the order as potentially enabling βthe executive branch to circumvent the legislative process,β Comer is asking Young to clarify the βconstitutional or statutory authority the President relied on,β as well as all βWhite House and OMB documents and communicationsβ pertaining to the drafting of it.
In past oversight letters, includingΒ onesΒ deliveredΒ in June 2022 by then-ranking Republicans on various committees, including Comer, members have also raised concerns that officials could violate the Hatch Act prohibiting their engagement in political activities in carrying out the order.
Senate Republicans have alsoΒ questionedΒ whether the act violates the Antideficiency Act, which precludes federal agencies from using funds βfor a purpose that Congress did not explicitly authorize,β namely βvoter mobilization.β
βOverreach by the federal government often leads to confusion and inconsistencies,β Comer also stated. He cites a recentΒ letterΒ from Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson to Attorney General Merrick Garland to illustrate this issue.
The order mandates that relevant agencies seek to ensure βaccess to voter registration for eligible individuals in federal custody.β
To satisfy that charge, the Magnolia State official notes that the U.S. Marshals Service is modifying contracts and/or intergovernmental agreements with jails βto provide voter registration materials and facilitate voting by mail,β and likewise that the Justice Department is working to βfacilitate voter registration and mail voting for individuals in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons.β
He says these efforts create βnumerous opportunities for ineligible prisoners to be registered to vote in Mississippi.β Illegal aliens, Watson warns, may be among those receiving information on how to register to vote.
The Biden administration issued Executive Order 14019 in March 2021. Despite a raft of oversight requests from House Republicans of agencies within their respective committee jurisdictions, those agencies have largely withheld the strategic plans they were tasked with crafting and implementing, and information regarding the putatively nonpartisan groups with which they have coordinated.
The White House hasΒ rebuffedΒ RealClearInvestigations in its efforts to solicit details about an order that Republicans characterize as little more than a taxpayer-funded Democrat get-out-the-vote effort.
As RealClearInvestigations has previouslyΒ reported, the Biden administration has sought to drive voter registration through agencies as diverse as the departments of Labor and Housing and Urban Development via job training centers, public housing authorities, and child nutrition programs. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has issuedΒ guidanceΒ calling for the agency to register voters at naturalization ceremonies.
The Department of Education hasΒ blessedΒ the use of βfederal work-study funds to pay students for βsupporting broad-based get-out-the-vote activities, voter registration,β and other activities.
In January, over two dozen Pennsylvania legislators filed a federal lawsuit challenging the executive order. TheΒ Foundation for Government Accountabilityβwhich has litigated with the Biden administration to pry loose documents concerning the orderβsubmitted anΒ amicus briefΒ supportive of the suit, asserting that the agenciesβ efforts have one thing in common: βThey provide government welfare benefits and other services to groups of voters the vast majority of which have historically voted Democrat.β
Republicansβ concerns over the order extend to the involvement of the third-party groups with which agencies were to consider coordinating. The order itself was built on aΒ blueprintΒ from progressive think-tank Democrats. In a since-deleted but still archivedΒ analysis, the outfit estimates that if fully implemented, the order could generate 3.5 million new or updated voter registrations annuallyβa significant figure given that recent presidential elections have been determined by thousands of votes across a few states.
Democrats as well as the American Civil Liberties Union have reportedlyΒ workedΒ to implement the directive. Documents obtained by The Heritage Foundationβs Oversight Project and released earlier this monthΒ showΒ that at a July 2021 listening session convened by the Biden administration, left-leaning activist groups encouraged some of the practices federal agencies would ultimately implement to carry out the directive, for example, in targeting prospective voters in prisons and at naturalization ceremonies. (The Daily Signal was foundation by The Heritage Foundation in 2014.)
βEvery participant whose party affiliation or political donation history could be identified by the Oversight Project was identified as a Democrat except for one Green Party member,β the report noted.
While the participants suggested efforts to target constituenciesβincluding criminals, immigrants, low-income families, including those in public housing, and Native Americansβthe Oversight Project observed that βThere is no corresponding evidence of efforts [to] increase voter access and education in likely Republican constituencies.β
As RealClearInvestigations has also recentlyΒ reported, Democrats have made purportedly nonpartisan voter registration targeting groups that vote disproportionately Democrat a linchpin of their plans to prevail in recent election cycles.
βIf the Biden Administration wants to use taxpayer-funded buildings to allow βnonpartisan third-party organizationsβ to engage in voter registration,β Comer writes, βthen the American people deserve to know who these organizations are.β
The Oversight Committeeβs pursuit of information regarding the order comes in the wake of the House Small Business Committeeβs recent escalation of its own probe of the order.
It recently subpoenaed two members of the Small Business Administration who refused to sit for transcribed interviews regarding anΒ unprecedentedΒ partnership the agency inked with the Michigan Department of State. Under the relevant memorandum of understanding, among other things, state officials may conduct in-person voter registration at administration small business outreach events.
Fox News reported that the Small Business Committee found that nearly all, β22 out of 25 such outreach events, have taken place in counties with the highest population of Democratic National Committee target demographics.β
In March, a federal judge dismissed the Pennsylvania legislatorsβ case challenging the executive order on grounds of standing.
In late April, the legislators took their case to the Supreme Court, filing a petition for writ of certiorari and motioning for expedited consideration of their request in hopes the nationβs highest court will rule favorably on the matter of standing prior to the 2024 election.
This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, a candidate for Governor of West Virginia, made a final pitch to voters on Tuesday.
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President Joe Biden and his advisers reportedly denied significant negative polling data, despite media alliesΒ repeatedly warning the administrationΒ toΒ moderate its far-left policies.
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Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Tuesday for partially adopting an America First tariff policy on Chinese goods and vowed to implement harsher tariffs on ChinaΒ upon returning to the White House.
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Former President Donald Trump will remain gagged during his criminal trial in Manhattan, aΒ New York appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos said Tuesday on "The View" that the Senate Republicans who voted not to impeach former President Donald Trump were enabling his un-American "lies about the election."
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Bishop Thomas Paprocki said that Joe Biden makes a βmockery of our Catholic faithβ by using sacred symbols while promoting abortion.
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Among the 52 percent who said they would not vote for Joe Biden, nine percent voted for Biden in 2020, and seven percent are Democrats.
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) travelled to a New York courtroom today to appear by Donald Trump just days after ruling out using his power to aid Trump in the "politically motivated" battle to imprison the president.
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An American PPE manufacturer told Breitbart News that the Biden administration's tariffs on Chinese-made PPE are too little, too late.
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Tuesday on Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria," Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) lamented the Biden administration's handling of the U.S. economy.
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The Trump campaignβs pollster John McLaughlin joins host Mike Slater to discuss Donald Trumpβs latest polling numbers and what they mean for the November election.
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During an interview aired on Mondayβs βPBS NewsHour,β Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) stated that abortion βis the most profound kitchen table issue that we have. Itβs not separate from inflation. Itβs not separate from the economy.β
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Curtis Bashaw, the New Jersey Never Trump Republican, once partnered with a Chinese state-owned construction company that has been accused of corruption and "cyber espionage."
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Former President Donald Trump's team blasted the Joe Biden campaign for releasing a Mother's Day attack ad.
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Attorney George Conway said Monday on CNN's special coverage of former President Donald Trump's New York trial that cable news airing the details was helping Trump politically.
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Republican Senate candidates are within striking distance of vulnerable Democrats in several critical battleground states, per polls.
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Vice President Kamala Harris dropped an f-bomb while dishing out advice during the APAICS Summit in Washington, DC, on Monday.
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"The Breakfast Club" host Charlamagne Tha God is refusing to endorse President Joe Biden for re-election, saying he was "burned" for doing it back in 2020.
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are virtually tied in Virginia, a Fabrizio Ward and Impact Research survey found.
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President Joe Biden's poor economy for Main Street is the number one issue facing voters in the 2024 election.Β
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNALβA foreign national named Paul registered to vote at a local office of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and records show that he voted, although he says his American wife voted after being accidentally checked in under his name.Β
Another noncitizen, Najib, also was registered to vote at a motor vehicles office, and his name was discovered on the voter rolls after a year, but he hadnβt voted in that time.Β
In these and other cases, the city of Boston flagged the noncitizens and removed them from voter registration lists.Β
In fact, the largest city in New Englandβalthough commonly viewed as a liberal bastionβcould serve as a national model on this aspect of election integrity, according to new findings by Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative watchdog group.
βIn Boston, voter registration records disclosed to PILF demonstrate that Boston and other Massachusetts municipal systemsβalthough not perfectβare a good example for how other states could tackle the noncitizen voting question,β says the report, first provided to The Daily Signal.
Public Interest Legal Foundationβs findings come as Congress considers requiring proof of citizenship for voting in federal elections and another bill to restore a citizenship question to the U.S. census form.Β
βWe are not looking at this through an ideological lens so much as a data lens,β J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, told The Daily Signal. βThis illustrates how this population data can be used by states to help in election administration.β
Adams noted that Massachusetts is among a few states that conduct their own census, or population tally, outside the census conducted by the U.S. government every 10 years.Β
The proof-of-citizenship legislation is not likely to pass the Democrat-led Senate, but at least in this narrow area, Massachusetts provides an example for other states on the issue of foreign citizens listed on U.S. voter registration rolls, Adams said.Β
βRather than reimagining the future, states should take this data tool that Massachusetts uses and apply it,β he said.Β
Although every Democrat in the House recently voted against restoring a citizenship question to the census, Massachusetts law requires an annual census, or βannual resident listing,β that includes questions about citizenship status and voter registration and is used by local governments.
βAny registered voter who fails to complete the annual survey is warned that their voting status will be changed to INACTIVE until they comply,β says the report by Public Interest Legal Foundation, which is narrowly focused on tracking citizenship.
Overall, The Heritage Foundationβs Election Integrity Scorecard ranks Massachusetts as 45th out of 50 states. (The Heritage Foundation launched The Daily Signal in 2014.)
The study by Public Interest Legal Foundation concludes that Bostonβs voter registration system manages to βcatch and cancel foreign nationals listed throughout the roll on a roughly two-year churn.β
βUnfortunately, a significant percentage of these disclosed records show that votes are still cast and counted within those years before discovery,β the report says.Β
The Boston city government this year provided information to Public Interest Legal Foundation that showed the city canceled voter registrations of 70 noncitizens. Most canceled registrations occurred in 2016 and 2017, with 13 in each year.Β
On average, foreign citizens were registered to vote for two years before being discovered and dropped from the rolls. But the longest known period was 24 years, and the earliest known year it occurred was 1995.Β
βRoughly 18% of Boston registrants were mailed confirmation notices prior to a reclassification to inactive status during the period,β the foundationβs report says. βAlso, during this time, about 13% of Boston registrants were shed from the voter roll for reasons such as relocation, inactivity, and death.βΒ
The report also points to other specific examples, such as a noncitizen named Hai who was registered to vote for a year and a half before Boston removed him, and Fred, who was registered for two years before being removed. Neither voted and both were registered at a local motor vehicles office.Β
A pattern of ineligible voters being registered at motor vehicle offices is a national problem that can be traced back to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, popularly known as the βmotor voter law,β which allows someone to register to vote while getting a driverβs license.
βForeign nationals are reflexively offered applications to vote and they unwittingly accept,β Public Interest Legal Foundationβs report says, adding:Β
The 24 states plus D.C. that have automatic motor voter [registration], meaning they are not giving the immigrant a chance to decline registration, exacerbate the problem. States giving driverβs licenses to illegal immigrants increase traffic to DMVs. States with higher amounts of legal immigration mean even more driverβs licenses or state IDs are needed for daily life (and increases the risk of screening immigrants for voter registration).Β
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The one way voters can speak up against the "sham" prosecution of Trump is to vote for him in November, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance said.
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Former President Donald Trump is making a "heavy move into Minnesota," hoping to flip the state red after it has consistently voted blue in the presidential election since 1976.
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Former President Donald Trump decried election interference as he arrived at a Manhattan courthouse on Monday to begin the fourth week of his criminal trial.
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A conviction in the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump would boost his support among key swing state voters, a poll shows.
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MSNBC commentator Donny Deutsch said Monday on "Morning Joe" that Republicans supporting former President Donald Trump would be "voting for the end of democracy."
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Some records of phone calls related to the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump were deleted from case files, Manhattan District Attorney Office paralegalΒ Jaden Jarmel-Schneider admitted during the trial.
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Some Biden campaign advisers are reportedly pushing for aspects of a virtual convention to avoid protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
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Former President Donald Trump maintains a strong position among key swing state voters and has made historic inroads with Hispanic, black, and young voters, New York Times/Siena/Philadelphia Inquirer polling found Monday.
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Michael Cohen, the prosecution's "star witness," is expected to take the stand on Monday in former President Donald Trump's business records trial in Manhattan.
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Rishi Sunak outright accused China and "axis of authoritarian states" including Russia of undermining Western security and values.Β
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President Joe Biden will join former President Barack Obama at a star-studded Hollywood fundraiser next month with the likes of George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
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The Republican Party is enjoying an 11-point swing their way against the Democrat Party as the number of Americans expressing affiliation with their party has increased.
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President Joe Biden's policy of mass migration is forcing up housing inflation, so pushing up interest and mortgage rates, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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Biden campaign co-chairman Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be breaking the relationship between the United States and Israel.
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNALβThe White House and its Office of Management and Budget instructed federal agencies to use a βtemplateβ for determining the cost of implementing President Joe Bidenβs executive order to encourage voter participation, according to government emails obtained by The Daily Signal.
Critics use the term βBidenbucksβ to refer to the presidentβs controversial order from 2021, which directs federal agencies such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture to get involved in elections.Β
Several members of Congress contend that Bidenβs order on turning out the vote for elections could violate the Antideficiency Act, a law that has three parts. It prohibits federal employees from obligating tax dollars not authorized by Congress, prohibits officials from not spending money as appropriated by Congress, and prohibits agencies from accepting voluntary service from individuals.
Bidenβs controversial Executive Order 14019 requires federal agencies to participate in voter registration activities and help third-party organizations perform those activities on agency premises.Β
Potentially, this could involve spending government funds, contracting with third parties for the payment of those funds, or accepting voluntary services by these βapprovedβ third-party organizations such as Demos.Β
Bidenβs order appears to violate at least two provisions of the Antidefieicncy Act, said Stewart Whitson, senior director of federal affairs at the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative watchdog group, told The Daily Signal.Β
But, Whitson added, to determine whether the Biden administration is violating that law, itβs necessary to know where the money is coming from, where itβs going, and what itβs being used for.Β
Existing pots of money, for example, could be distributed by the Department of Agriculture to state agencies to help carry out voter registration activities, he suggested.Β
βEven if the Biden administration were to claim that no public funds are spent to carry out EO 14019βa dubious and laughable claimβthis effort would still violate the Antideficiency Act because it would mean federal agencies were accepting voluntary services from these third-party organizations to help carry out EO 14019, who also happen to be politically aligned with the current administration,β Whitson said.
Neither the Agriculture Department nor the Office of Management and Budget responded to The Daily Signalβs request for comment for this report.Β
OMB βcreated a template for budget requests for the Voting EO [executive order] within their equity template in case any funding is needed for implementation,β says a Sept. 23, 2021, email among Department of Agriculture officials.
Bidenβs executive order also directed agencies to team with private organizations to boost voting. Chief among those groups is the liberal think tank Demos, which drafted the executive action before Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2021.Β
Akhil Rajan, then an assistant to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak, sent the September 2021 email message about the OMBβs template to USDA senior adviser Kumar Chandran, now the departmentβs acting undersecretary. Rajan is now a senior policy adviser to the White Houseβs deputy chief of staff.Β
Rajanβs email to Chandran noted, βContact K. Sabeel Rahman,β apparently meaning he was the one to contact with any questions.Β
By that fall, Rahman, who was president of Demos when the liberal think tank drafted the executive order on voting, had joined the Biden administrationβs OMB as part of its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. (Rahman is now a professor at Cornell Law School.)Β
The Daily Signal obtained 73 pages of emails from the Department of Agriculture through a request for public recordsΒ under the Freedom of Information Act.Β
The documents were USDAβs second interim response to a request from The Daily Signal regarding Bidenβs executive order on encouraging voter registration and voting. Some pages are heavily redacted.
The documents also prominently mention meetings and guidance from Demos, which is based in New York. The left-wing think tank drafted Bidenβs executive order to agencies about voter registration in December 2020, the month after Biden defeated Donald Trump before he took office.
Although describing it as βminimal,β USDA acknowledges some budgetary impact from Bidenβs order. Any amount, however, could mean obligating tax dollars without congressional authorization, in violation of the Antideficiency Act.Β
In an email dated Sept. 21, 2021, Anne DeCesaro, chief of staff for the USDAβs Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, wrote to Chandran about several issues, including βassessment of budgetary impact.β
βFor all actions, we expect minimal budgetary impact as providing memos and letters and regular interactions with states are part of our normal business practices,β DeCesaro wrote.Β
In that same email, DeCesaro explained to Chandran how other agencies within USDA could participate: The National School Lunch Program could promote voter registration in high schools, for example, and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, better known as food stamps, could register its beneficiaries to vote.Β
Ten days earlier, on Sept. 10, 2021, Chandran emailed several senior USDA staff about Bidenβs executive order on increasing voter participation.Β
βThank you for your past work to complete our interim strategic plan for the voting rights executive order,β Chandran wrote in the email. βWe are now being asked to submit a final strategic plan, based on what we provided in our interim plan.βΒ
He later added: βThe WH [White House] team leading this effort has put together a template for the final strategic plan. This template largely follows the same format as that for the interim [plan], except it also includes instructions for how to flesh out each proposed action.βΒ
The second interim response from the USDA to The Daily Signalβs FOIA requests didnβt include the departmentβs strategic plan or the template provided by the White House or its Office of Management and Budget.Β
An email dated Aug. 3, 2021, refers to a meeting between USDA officials and Demos executives to discuss Bidenβs order on voting.Β
The Agriculture Department and Demos communicated again about the presidentβs executive order in November 2021.Β
βWeβd love to reconnect soon to learn about your plans and see how Demos and the ACLU [the American Civil Liberties Union] may be able to support you in their continued development and implementation,β Demos senior policy analyst Lauren Williamson wrote Nov. 5 to senior USDA officials.Β
βWhen we met last, we talked about wanting to explore additional programs in more detail to ensure maximal impact of the EO for the communities the USDA serves and weβre eager to continue that conversation,β Williamson said.Β
Four days later, Rajan, assistant to the secretary of agriculture,Β wrote to Chandan, saying: β[D]emos has been extremely helpful in thinking about ways to expand opportunities for voting, and the coalition they assembled for our last call was rich in the types of groups that have assembled rigorously-tested best practices. So from that perspective it may be helpful to hear from them but understand that REDACTED.β
Because USDA redacted Rajanβs next words, it is impossible to know what Vilsakβs assistant wanted Chandran to understand.
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Former President Donald Trump referenced his famous words fromΒ The Apprentice, a reality television show that aired between 2004 and 2017, saying when he won the 2024 presidential election, he would tell President Joe Biden he was "fired."
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Former President Donald Trump will address supporters in Wildwood, New Jersey, at a rally on Saturday, May 11.
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the leading candidate in the stateβs Republican gubernatorial primary, told Sirius XMβs Breitbart News Saturday that he is βthe one proven conservativeβ in a field that features opponents from political families and dynasties.
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A convoy of Mexican National Guard soldiers shot at two female political candidates in the state of Jalisco, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) claimed.
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An enormous crowd descended upon Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday for former President Donald Trump's rally in the traditionally Democrat state, and early estimates of spectators are in the tens of thousands.
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Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden among independents, an I&I/TIPP Poll, released Monday, found.
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It is "incredible" to have an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, Utah Senate candidate Trent Staggs said.
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The Tea Party movement laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's MAGA movement, Georgia RNC candidate Amy Kremer said.
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Former West Virginia State Rep. Derrick Evans said that Rep. Carol Miller brought Bill Gates to the state to roll out his "globalist agenda."
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Opponents waging lawfare against Donald Trump are failing to prevent him from completing the greatest political comeback in history.
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"Don't jump," President Joe Biden shouted for at least the 20th time as president this week, raising concerns about mental acuityΒ on the campaign trail.
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In an interview with Politico, Johnson pointed to Donald Trump's official abortion position, which Trump revealed in April.
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President Joe Biden said during a fundraiser Friday in San Francisco, California, that he wished former President Donald Trump had injected himself with bleach.
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Former Trump administration communications director Anthony ScaramucciΒ saidΒ Friday on CNN's "The Lead" that former President Donald Trump was a "very dangerous guy" who shouldn't be anywhere near the White House.
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Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that his New York business records trial is "election interference" and that "it all comes out of" Washington, DC.
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CNN host Fareed Zakaria said Friday on PBS's "Firing Line" that President Joe Biden should implement former President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
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Former President Donald Trump shredded Justice Juan Merchan, who gagged Trump in his business records trial, as he left court on Friday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuβs domestic support is on the rise as Israelβs war against Hamas advances, according to poll numbers released on Thursday.
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Barron Trump "does like politics" and "is a smart one," former President Donald Trump said during an appearance on a radio show on Friday.
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The following is an updated version of a column originally published in December 2022.
One of the bestselling books of the 1970s was βThe Peter Principle,β a business management book by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull.
The bookβs premise was that employees get promoted based on their performance in their previous jobs until they are ultimately elevated to a position in which theyβre incompetent, since skills and success in one position donβt necessarily ensure success in the next. βIn a hierarchy,β Peter explained, βevery employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.β
If βThe Peter Principleβ were published today, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would be a case study in the phenomenon, now called βfailing upward.β In Jean-Pierreβs case, thatβs reflected in her work for the short-lived Democratic presidential campaigns of John Edwards in 2004 and Martin OβMalley in 2016, and now as the chief spokeswoman for the Biden administration. On Monday, she will mark her second anniversary in that role.
In recent weeks, however, with the 2024 election campaign shifting into high gear, there have been well-sourced reports that high-ranking figures in the Biden administration are not-so-subtly seeking to push Jean-Pierre out of the roleβfor which she was never qualified to begin with. Many of the same administration figures reportedly behind those efforts to oust her are, not surprisingly, denying the accuracy of the reports.
The New York Post quoted a source as saying the high-ranking administration figures ββwere trying to find Karine a graceful exitβ because of the ugly optics of removing her against her will,β especially because she thinks sheβs doing a good job. (One face-saving exit strategy was to offer her the presidency of EMILYβs List, an abortion rights group.)
But as a textbook example of an affirmative-action hire, Jean-Pierre appears not to be going anywhere. An administration so thoroughly wedded to so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion is, in this case, now finding it difficult to divorce itself from DEI. (More on that below.)
The most glaring evidence that Jean-Pierre, 49, has been promoted to her level of incompetence asΒ White HouseΒ press secretary is her near-total dependence on a binder full of administration talking points, which she often reads from directly at her daily news briefings to theΒ White HouseΒ press corps.
Itβs so bad that Fox News commentator Jesse Watters has taken to referring to her derisively as βBinder,β and itβs so, well, cringeworthy that other critics deliberately mispronounce βKarineβ as βCringe.β
Just as an aside, recall how 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was ridiculed mercilessly in the liberal media for saying during the second presidential debate that he had βbinders full of women.β That was his awkward way of referring to files of rΓ©sumΓ©s of women he would consider for staffing his administration were he to win the election. Many of the talking headsβ βbinderβ jokes snarkily suggested that the squeaky-clean Romney was engaged in some form of BDSM with those women.
Itβs standard operating procedure for a press secretary to have notes for ready reference. Itβs quite another thing to stare down at them and read those notes all but verbatim.
As far as we know, none of the talking heads who ridiculed Romney has ever mentionedβmuch less made fun ofβJean-Pierreβs near-complete dependence on her press-briefing binders. Nor have they satirized her oft-repeated deflectionββI donβt have anythingββwhen she doesnβt have answers to questions for which sheβs unprepared.
Nor have the liberal media (or the late-night TV comics) noted, much less lampooned, how Jean-Pierre has mispronounced or mangled words and phrases in the course of her press briefings.
On Dec. 13, 2022, Jean-Pierre touted βbicarmelβ support in Congress for the so-called Respect for Marriage Act. βBicarmel, bipartisan support was had for this piece of legislation,β she said.
But this was no one-off slip of the tongue: She used the term βbicarmelβ three times to describe it in the course of the half-hour press briefing. It should have been βbicameral,β of course; meaning, support in both chambers of Congress.
The officialΒ White HouseΒ transcript of the briefing was dishonestly corrected in all three instances to βbicameralβ with no indication that it was not an accurate reflection of what was actually said.
On Nov. 28, 2022, in congratulating three Americans who had won Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics, and economics, she mispronounced βNobelβ five times in 40 seconds as βnoble.β
Two months to the day earlier, on Sept. 28, Jean-Pierre said that as part of Vice President Kamala Harrisβ then-pending trip to South Korea, the veep would visit the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas. Jean-Pierre helpfully noted that it had been βnearly 70 years since the Korean βarmtisβββnot to be confused with the Korean armistice.
Three weeks before that, on Sept. 6, Jean-Pierre conflated a Russian natural gas pipeline with an upscale American department store chain. She accused Russia of causing an energy crisis in Europe by shutting down its Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which she referred to as the βNordstrom 1β pipeline.
One can only imagine how former President Donald Trumpβs press secretaries, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and later Kayleigh McEnany, would have been pilloried by theΒ liberal White HouseΒ press corps had they made those sorts ofΒ repeated verbal gaffes.
One reason Jean-Pierre still has the high-visibility press secretaryβs job, to which she was elevated on May 13, 2022, despite all ofΒ the gaffes, is because President Joe Biden is legendary for his own innumerable flubs and miscues.
βWhite House communications staff has had to correct President Joe Bidenβs public remarks at least 148 times since the beginning of 2024, a review of official White House transcripts shows,β the Daily Caller reported April 29. Biden couldnβt very well hold Jean-Pierre to a higher standard, could he?
But the real reasonΒ Jean-PierreΒ remains in her post today is because of the identity politics to which the Biden administration and the Democratic Party have sworn undying allegiance. She is immune from criticismβand from reassignment to a less high-profile postβonly because she checks all of the boxes of identity-politics βintersectionalityβ as the first black, first LGBTQ, and first immigrantΒ White HouseΒ press secretary.
In the Biden administration, Jean-Pierre demonstrates daily that meritocracy is an afterthoughtβif itβs thought of at all. The moral of this story: Live by DEI, die by it.
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It is a presidential election year, and a leading candidate for president of the United States, who also happens to be a former president of the United States, is currently a criminal defendant chained to a dingy courtroom four days of the weekβtime that he should be spending interacting with voters out on the campaign trail.
Thatβs terrible. But itβs only the beginning.
The daughter of the presiding judge is a professional political operative for the presidential candidateβs opposition party, and the candidate himself is subject to an over-inclusive and unconstitutional gag order.
The George Soros-funded district attorney, who campaigned on a platform of prosecuting that candidate, only pressed charges after his own left-wing predecessor opted not to do so due to the frivolous nature of the charges. One of the Soros-funded district attorneyβs subordinates curiously joined his teamβjust in time to prosecute the candidateβfrom a high-ranking perch in the Department of Justice that is headed by the candidateβs chief political rival.
And this week, the candidate was subjected to tawdry and salacious testimony from a discredited former porn star, who spoke openly in court about how she βblacked outβ during their alleged 2006 sexual encounter. Due to the sprawling gag order, the candidate was notβand is notβlegally permitted to defend his honor and contest her lurid, legally irrelevant claims.
Welcome to our American banana republic.
America has many real, glaring problems on its hands. Inflation remains stubborn, and Americans widely report feeling pessimistic about the economy, despite nominal low unemployment metrics. Our wide-open southern border is disastrous, leading to artificially suppressed working-class wages and the most rampant illegal alien crime in the nationβs history. Violent and property crime rates remain too high, especially in large urban corridors. Energy prices should be considerably lower, and they would be if our moronic leaders allowed producers to tap into Americaβs great natural wellspring of hydrocarbons.
Around the world, hostile regimes act against our interests in unrestrained and revanchist fashion. At home, childlessness, godlessness, anxiety, and depression are all rising, symptomatic of a broader civilizational rot and a society that has lost confidence in what it claims to stand for.
Amidst all this, it would be ideal to have a normal, competitive presidential race in which the flailing incumbent is directly confronted and his record is challenged for all to see. But Americans are now being deprived of anything remotely resembling a normal presidential race. Donald Trump is physically chained down to Judge Juan Merchanβs New York courtroom, unable to get out on the campaign trail and deliver his signature rallies to adoring fans across the heartland.Β
These often-forgotten Americans are, in a quite literal sense, denied the opportunity to hear the full argument against the Biden Regime due to these insidious workings of the Democrat-lawfare complex.
Instead of permitting the Regimeβs challenger, Trump, to campaign for votes in Wisconsin, he is forced to silently endure the unhinged courtroom musings of a literal porn star and a convicted felon (Michael Cohen)βall in furtherance of a case that suffers from insuperable statute of limitations problems in addition to the structural absurdity of a local district attorney (the Soros-funded Alvin Bragg) prosecuting and attempting to prove a federal crime (a campaign finance violation).
Oh, and if Trump doesnβt shut up and keep quiet, Merchan might throw him in jailβas he has repeatedly threatened to do, if Trump keeps violating his unconstitutional gag order.
What a sick, cruel joke it all is.
Democrats seem not to have given any thought to what happens if they lose. If Trump wins, do Democrats seriously not expect him to respond in kind? Now that the Rubicon has been crossed and we have entered a world in which politicians attempt to not merely defeat their opposition at the ballot box but also prosecute and incarcerate them, there is no going back.
Just as Senate Democratsβ November 2013 invocation of the βnuclear optionβ to end the filibuster for lower-court nominees directly led to Republicans doing the same for Supreme Court nominees just a few years later, so, too, is it impossible to know what may ultimately come from the lawfare precedent Democrats are setting today.
The new rules have been established. Many of us didnβt want these rules, but here we are anyway. So, game on.
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The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip is the most morally clear conflict in modern history.
It pits an actual terrorist group that just engaged in the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust against a democratic country that protects citizensβJewish, Muslim, and Christian. It pits a monstrously evil tentacle of Iranβhanded control of the Gaza strip by Israel in 2005 when Israel pulled out of that area and forced 8,000 Jews out of their homesβagainst a democratic ally of the United States.
It pits an army of atrocity-seeking villainsβwho are attempting to maximize Palestinian casualties by locating themselves among civilians, stealing humanitarian aid, and literally murdering anyone who gets in their wayβagainst an actual professional army risking the lives of its own soldiers in order to protect Palestinian civilians.
And yet Joe Biden canβt quite make up his mind.
On the one hand, Biden mouths platitudinous support for Israel in its battle against Hamas. On the other, he continues to grant the central premise Hamas promotes, which is that Israel is a human rights violator and indiscriminate killer of Palestiniansβeven as Hamas holds Americans hostage in Gaza.
Biden has spent the last several weeks pressuring Israel not to go into Rafah, the sole major repository of the Hamas terror apparatus, where some four brigades of terrorists are digging in. Instead, he has deployed his head of the CIA, his secretary of state, and a wide variety of other officials to promote βnegotiationsβ between Israel and Hamas.
In fact, heβs done more than that for Hamas. While fully articulating his understanding that Hamas seeks a permanent end to the conflict in Gaza, which would leave them in control and hand them a victory they could never earn on the battlefield, Biden has pushed just that: a permanent end to the conflict leaving Hamas in place. Biden has not explained just how this would benefit the United States, Israel, the Palestinians themselves, or the region more broadly. He has simply calculated that an end to conflict is an end in and of itself.
To that end, Biden has been slow-walking aid to the Israelisβincluding ammunition that allows for better targeting, which would minimize civilian casualties. He has deployed his negotiators to play both sides of the table, even going so far as to allow his CIA head, William Burns, to negotiate with Egypt and Qatar a series of terms without submitting them to the Israelisβand then allowing Hamas itself to declare its acceptance of such nonsensical and irrelevant terms, presumably in an effort to humiliate the Israelis into accepting their own quasi-surrender.
Biden has trotted out spokespeople to claim that America continues to back Israel, while simultaneously claimingβfalselyβthat Israel is engaging in human rights abuses.
The result is the worst of all possible worlds for Biden: a dissatisfied radical base convinced that Biden is behind the war in Gaza; an angry pro-Israel citizenry bewildered by Bidenβs inability to call evil by its name; and a stalemate in Gaza, which means that radical protesters will undoubtedly descend on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in order to harass Biden as he receives his renomination.
Itβs all stupid.
But it does raise an obvious question: Why?
Why is this so seemingly tough for Joe Biden? Is it all just a misread of the political momentβadherence to a stunningly imbecilic belief that if Biden appeases extremists within his party, heβll be able to win the 2024 election?
Or is it something deeperβa moral malaise that has taken root in the upper echelons of our politics, in which Western powers, including Israel, are seen as inherently problematic while the Westβs enemies, including Hamas, are seen as inherently victimized?
If the tens of thousands of protesters on Americaβs streets are any indicator, the latter seems more likely than the former. Which spells doom for a West that cannot see the difference between decency and barbarity.
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Apart from the taxpayer-funded lawfare being waged against former President Donald Trump by leftist prosecutors in New York, Atlanta, and Washington, there is no clearer proof that the Left has embraced βby any means necessaryβ as its credo than the politicization ofΒ Secret Service protection of President Joe Bidenβs presidential rivals.
Not only has Bidenβs Department of Homeland Security denied five requests for Secret ServiceΒ protection from independent presidential candidateΒ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the flimsiest of grounds, but now the Democratic congressman from Mississippi who chaired the kangaroo court Jan. 6 committee is proposing to strip Trump of hisΒ Secret Service detail if he were convicted in any of the politically motivated trials heβs facing.
Never mind that this brazen legislation, championed by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., has no chance of being enacted by Congress or that the courts would surely enjoin it as unconstitutional if it were. Its sheer cold-bloodedness is appalling.Β
Thompson knows full well that if any of Trumpβs trialsβwhich the former president calls βwitch huntsββwere to end in a prison sentence and he had noΒ Secret ServiceΒ protection behind bars, he would have a target on his back for attack by other inmates. (Think Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in the killing of George Floyd, who barely survived a Nov. 24 stabbing in prison in Arizona.)Β
Such is the Trump Derangement Syndrome that has suffused the Left. What other possible reason than bloodlust would motivate Thompson to sponsor such sociopathic legislationβeven though he surely knows that it reeks of being an unconstitutional bill of attainder?
The Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School states that courts apply a legal test to determine whether legislation violates the ban on bills of attainder under Article 1, Sections 9 and 10 of the Constitution by determining whether the law βtargets specific named or identifiable individuals or groups.β
Thompsonβs Disgraced Former Protectees Act, introduced April 19, includes only one βidentifiable individualβ: Donald Trump.
Thompson is the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, which brings us back to disgraced Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkasβ repeated denial ofΒ Secret Service protection for Kennedy since he announced his candidacy just over a year ago.
Given that the independent presidential hopefulβs father and uncle were both assassinated, itβs beyond appalling that Biden and Mayorkas canβt even be shamed into authorizingΒ Secret Service protection for him.
Even many of Kennedyβs own relatives who have inexplicably endorsed Bidenβs reelection bid over their own kin have asked for a security detail for himβto no avail.
At an April 18 event in Philadelphia at whichΒ Biden was endorsed for reelection by several members of the extended Kennedy clan (including two of RFK Jr.βs own siblings), the president obliquely alluded to the assassinations. βYour family β¦ has endured such violence,β he said.
If they expected authorization ofΒ Secret Service protection as a show of presidential gratitude for turning their backs on their own relative, they were sadly mistaken.
Mayorkas asserts that Kennedy doesnβt qualify forΒ Secret Service protection. As recently as March 28, the homeland security chief wrote to the Kennedy campaign: βBased on the facts and the recommendation of the advisory committee, I have determined thatΒ Secret Service protection forΒ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not warranted at this time.β
Thatβs patently false, inasmuch as Mayorkas and the president have wide latitude in authorizing the protection. You could ask then-President Jimmy Carter, who in 1980 extended it to then-Sen. Ted Kennedy, RFK Jr.βs uncle, after he launched an insurgent Democratic primary challenge to Carter.
Itβs as if Biden and Mayorkas actually want harm to befall the scion of the legendary political family because they fear his independent candidacy will siphon enough votes away from the incumbent to ensure Trumpβs return to the Oval Office next January.
What is that if not βby any means necessaryβ? One thing is certain: Itβs not as if Bidenβs spendthrift administration is trying to save federal taxpayer dollars by withholding the protection.
Kennedy rightly characterizes the repeated denial of protection as the βweaponization of governmentβ and βa political scandal.β
A day after the most recent denial, his attorney, Aaron Siri, in a letter to Mayorkas, called it βcapricious, an abuse of discretion, and clearly politically motivated,β adding:
If any harm befalls Mr. Kennedy or any other member of the public who may be injured or killed in any incident that arises due to lack ofΒ Secret Service protection to the candidate and the deterrent it affords, we will seek to hold you accountable.
Translation: The president and his lackey Mayorkas will have blood on their hands.
Originally published by The Washington Times
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Why does the Biden administration want open borders so badly? For three very big reasons. One is ideology, which I covered in last weekβs BorderLine column. Another is extortion, which I will cover in next weekβs column. But this week, I look at how the Left uses illegal immigration to give itself an unfair electoral advantage. Β
First, illegal immigration affects congressional representation because the apportionment of members of Congress by state is based on U.S. census data.
As Heritage Foundation Border Security and Immigration Center Director Lora Ries writes, the census currently counts all noncitizensβfrom green card holders to illegal aliensβin addition to U.S. citizens for the purposes of apportioning congressional districts among the states.
The more citizens in a state, the more congressional districtsβi.e., seats in Congressβa state gets. In turn, the number of congressional districts in a state determines how many Electoral College votes that state receives. (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.)
While president, Donald Trump tried to restore the U.S. citizenship question on the 2020 census and exclude all noncitizens from apportionment calculations. Yet court challenges prevented him from doing so prior to the deadline for getting a new census form printed and distributed. Joe Biden then immediately terminated the effort when he took office. That should tell you which states and party benefit most from the population overcount.
The second way mass illegal immigration undermines U.S. elections is through negligence and fraud. Only American citizens can legally vote; it is a crime for a noncitizen to vote. Yet, in many states, noncitizens can easily register and vote with little chance of detection.
The 1993 National Voter Registration Act, known as βMotor Voter,β was intended to make it easier for U.S. citizens to register to vote when they applied for or renewed a driverβs license. However, Motor Voter also made it easier for noncitizens to accidentally or purposefully get on voter rolls.
In December 2022, the Reno Gazette Journal reported that if applicants applying for a Nevada driverβs license check the online box saying they are eligible to vote, their information is sent to Nevadaβs secretary of state for registration. The Washoe County Registrarβs Office told the Gazette Journal that it is possible for a noncitizen to register by falsely claiming citizenship (though this is a felony).
Moreover, Nevada accepts alien work authorization cards as proof of identity. Millions of aliens the Biden administration has released into the country are eligible for such cards and could register to vote in Nevada and other states with similar registration processes with little risk of detection.
It would seem to be common sense for all states to want to close loopholes and maintain confidence in their electoral systems. Yet, one of the biggest canards in American politics today is to equate election integrity effortsβlike ensuring proper identification or limiting mail-in and early votingβwith voter suppression.
There was real and shameful voter suppression in our nationβs past. Efforts in the post-Civil War South to deter blacks from registering included discriminatory literacy tests and poll taxes; police intimidation at polling places; and at the extreme, cross-burnings, bombings, and even killings. But the civil rights movement, strong new laws, and voter-registration drives ended the βJim Crowβ era by the 1960s. Poll taxes and literacy tests were banned.
In 2022, 98.9% of voters in Georgia βfelt safe in their polling locationβ and β98.9% reported no issues casting a ballot,β according to a University of Georgia postelection poll. Nonetheless, legitimate efforts to ensure that voters are legally entitled to vote, that they do so in accordance with the law, and that their votes are properly counted are falsely labeled as voter suppression.
βAmericans need and deserve a system in which it is easy to vote and hard to cheat,β says The Heritage Foundation, which publishes a state-by-state Election Integrity Scorecard to encourage best practices from electoral officials and vigilance by voters.
As Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal, βEnsuring that only American citizens vote in American elections is a straightforward requirement for maintaining election security and public trust.β
And yet, progressive groups seem intent on fighting efforts to ensure that voter rolls contain only eligible voters. The logical inference is that they believe ineligible noncitizens would be more likely to vote for their candidates. As Raffensperger writes, these activists want states βto rely on a personβs wordβ when registering to vote and oppose all efforts to verify citizenship. Unfortunately, in the real world, people sometimes lieβespecially when there are no consequences.
A Heritage database currently records 1,500 cases of proven election fraud nationwideβand that is merely a sampling. When it comes to abusing absentee ballots, most of the perpetrators in the database are Americans. But on just the first page (of five) for one state (North Carolina) are cases of noncitizens from the Congo, Guatemala, Mexico, and Nigeria convicted of falsely claiming American citizenship to register to vote. They committed a fundamental offense against our democracy, and yet most of them got a one-year pretrial βdiversion program,β after completion of which, charges were dropped.
Some states are better than others regarding voter integrity. Virginia cross-references Motor Voter data with the Department of Homeland Securityβs Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, and βsince 2014, has removed 11,000 βdeclared non-citizen[s]ββ from the voter rolls, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation. Meanwhile, the foundation is suing Wisconsin and Minnesota for lack of transparency with their voter rolls.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, recently introduced the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to require states to obtain proof of citizenshipβin personβwhen registering an individual to vote. Further, the bill requires states to remove noncitizens from existing voter rolls. Β
Meanwhile, this week, the House passed the Equal Representation Act, a bill that would restore the U.S. citizenship question to the census and exclude noncitizens from congressional apportionment. The bill passed 206-202 by a completely party-line vote. Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., forced a vote on a similar bill in the Senate in March, but it failed 51-45. All of the Democrats and one Republican voted against it.
Election integrity shouldnβt be a liberal versus conservative issue, and maintaining accurate voter rolls is a national, not a political, goal. Impartial legislation to ensure both integrity and accuracy ahead of our next election and census should receive bipartisan support. Β
The BorderLineΒ is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedentedΒ illegal immigrationΒ crisis at the border to immigrationβs impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more.
The Ideological Roots of the Open Borders Push
US Should Adopt UKβs βRwanda Planβ to Address Illegal Immigration
Bidenβs Precarious Parole Programs for Illegal Immigrants
My Look Inside Bidenβs Illegal Immigrant Catch-and-Release Craziness
What I Saw on My Latest Visit to the Border
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Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) is changing his stance on the Laken Riley Act after voting against it as an amendment in March.
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Hunter Biden failed to successfully appeal his gun charges on Thursday before theΒ United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) is preparing a barrage of lawsuits in the event that former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, studying his agenda and planning to stop it in advance in a repeat of 2017-21.
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President Joe Biden is determined to save Hamas from destruction. The good news: voters understand what it means to break an "ironclad" promise.
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A federal judge in New York threw out a proposed abortion and gender identity amendment that was set to appear on the November ballot.
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Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) is in the mix to be former President Donald Trumpβs vice presidential pick, according to a report.
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Articles to impeach President JoeΒ Biden over his decision to withhold aid to Israel for political reasons are under preparation, freshman Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) announced Thursday.Β
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President Joe Biden's deputies are tweaking the asylum rules to trim their release of killers and criminals into the United States before the 2024 election.
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