Widespread online reaction followed a message from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praising pro-Hamas American university students protesting Israel, welcoming them to the terrorist βResistance Front,β and encouraging them to βbecome familiar with the Quran.β
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An 11-year-old California girl has broken the record for youngest student to graduate from Irvine Valley College, just a year after her older brother set it.
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Twin brothers at a high school in St. Louis, Missouri, have achieved something incredible that will help them on their educational journey.
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Shilo Sanders, the son of Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, is facing accusations that he is trying to hide is networth.
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Bill Walton, who starred for John Wooden's UCLA Bruins before becoming a Hall of Famer and one of the biggest stars in basketball broadcasting, died Monday, the league announced on behalf of his family.
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CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed during a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy West Point that he turned down an offer to play football at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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The NCAA and the nation's five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed toΒ pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model that could start steering millions of dollars directly to athletes as soon as the 2025 fall semester.
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New polling from Scott Rasmussen reveals that Americaβs elite 1%βthose with high incomes, urban residences, and postgraduate degreesβare significantly out of step with the rest of the country on a range of issues.
Itβs a troubling trend for America, and it doesnβt bode well for our future considering the elite 1% occupy many of the leadership roles in our cultural, educational, and government institutions.
Thereβs perhaps no statistic more shocking than the 69% of politically obsessed elites who think it would be better if only people with college degrees could vote. By comparison, just 15% of all voters hold that view. (Rasmussen defines βpolitically obsessedβ as elites who talk about politics every day.)
Rasmussenβs latest survey, conducted by RMG Research, asked other questions ranging from government censorship to gun ownership. On nearly every issue, thereβs a wide gulf between the ruling class and everyday Americans.
You can learn more about work on the elite 1% by tuning into βThe Scott Rasmussen Show,β which airs Sunday at 10 a.m. ET on Merit Street Media.
In the meantime, listen to our full interview on βThe Daily Signal Podcastβ or read an edited transcript below.
Rob Bluey: What are the headlines coming out of your latest research?
Scott Rasmussen: As a reminder, the last time we talked about how the politically obsessed elites think the American people have too much individual freedom and people in this elite world really trust the federal government.
What we did this time is began to ask some of these same groups, the elite 1 % and the politically obsessed, what do they think America looks like?
Perhaps the funniest finding of all is we ask the question, βDo most Americans agree with you on most important issues?β Now, if we ask voters, about half say, βYeah, I think most people agree with me.β Among the politically obsessed elites, 82% of that group thinks that most Americans agree with them on most issues. Itβs not even close to true, but theyβre looking in a mirror. They see what they want to see.
Whatβs scary about that, if you think about it in context of the administrative state, if these people believe that their views are representative of America, it justifies them cheating a little bit or bending the rules because they can say, βWeβre fighting for the American people.β In fact, theyβre fighting against the American people.
Bluey: Are there particular policy issues where you see that playing out more so than others? For instance, one that comes to mind is climate change.
Rasmussen: Itβs actually harder to find places where the American people are with the elite. You mentioned climate change. About 2 out of 3 of this politically obsessed elite think that most voters are willing to pay $250 a year or more to fight climate change.
When we do polling to ask people how much theyβre willing to payβin terms of taxes or higher pricesβabout half say theyβre not willing to pay anything, and 72% say nothing more than $100.
If you think about that in a policy sense, these influencers believe the American people are willing to pay something theyβre not, and thatβs why they can support some different policy ideas.
But look, itβs starts with a very basic thing: 71% of the politically obsessed elites think most Americans trust the federal government most of the time. That has not been true for 50 years. Itβs been a half century since people tended to trust the government that much. Today, only 22% of voters voiced that much trust in government.
That is one of the core distinctions. If you trust the federal government, you trust the regulatory apparatus a lot more. You trust other rules and regulations, and voters just arenβt there.
Bluey: Another area that you polled had to do with social media. What did you find when you surveyed the elite 1% on that particular topic?
Rasmussen: Everybody, whether youβre in the elite or not, has some concern about disinformation and fake news. Where the difference comes is what to do about it.
Among most voters, they say that having the government decide what is misinformation and fake news is a bigger threat than the fake news itself. Among the elites, they say just the opposite.
Should the federal government be allowed to censor social media posts? Among all voters, 16% say yes. Among the politically obsessed elites, just over 50 % say, βOf course, we should have the right to censor social media.β Fundamentally different views.
The views of the elite 1% amount to a rejection of Americaβs founding ideals. Even on something as simple as, βDoes the federal government listen too much or not enough to the American people?β Overwhelmingly, voters say the government is not listening to us and the elites are saying itβs listening too much.
Bluey: There seems to be a wide discrepancy of views when it comes to who should vote and who should have a say in our countryβs future. That number to me was one that stood out and was quite alarming.
Rasmussen: Absolutely alarming.
We asked a question that seemed to me to be absurd, Would it be better if only people with a college degree were allowed to vote?β
Appropriately, most Americans just soundly reject that idea. But among the elites, they heavily believe this country would be better off if all those deplorables who didnβt go to college werenβt allowed to vote.
Bluey: And one issue where thereβs also quite a big disparity is gun ownership. How do the elite view guns?
Rasmussen: Consistently for decades, voters say they want to live in a community where guns are allowed. Sometimes itβs in the low 60s, sometimes after a horrific shooting event, it moves down to the low 50s, but consistently a majority of Americans can support that.
Among the elite 1 % that politically obsessed portion of it, about 70% of them say, βNo, we want to live where guns are outlawed.β And 76% of them want to ban the private ownership of guns.
If you are in that politically obsessed elite and you believe strongly that we should ban guns, and if you believe that most American people want to live in a community where guns are outlawed, then you take an almost religious fervor to the fight to ban guns because you can convince yourself that youβre fighting on behalf of the public. And once again, youβre actually fighting against what the American people are looking for.
Bluey: Do you feel that the elite 1 % are more out of touch in 2024 than maybe they were in past generations?
Rasmussen: First, I donβt have data from past generations, so I canβt make a clear assessment on that. But I think itβs probably a little bit different.
There have always been elites. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were clearly elites of their era, but they also had a commitment to something larger than themselves. Thomas Jefferson, in writing the Declaration of Independence, said he was just articulating what the American people were feeling. At the same time, Alexander Hamilton said, βWe need to establish a monarchy.β If you actually read his plan, itβs horrific.
So there have always been some people and elites who kind of rejected the founding ideals, who rejected the concepts of the Declaration of Independence.
>>> βMost Terrifying Poll Result Iβve Ever Seenβ: Scott Rasmussen Surveys Americaβs Elite 1%
Whatβs changed in the last couple of generations are two things.
No. 1, weβre a little bit more sorted geographically. Members of the elite arenβt encountering non-elites on a regular basis. Itβs not just that we live in gated communities or separate areas. Public transportation has been replaced by Uber. Thereβs not a lot of contact with people who arenβt like you.
The second part is there has been the rise of what a lot of people view as the global elite, where people begin to see others from other countries as more like them than they do their own countrymen.
Bluey: The use of pronouns has become quite pronounced in a lot of corporate settings, even in our federal government. There are some departments and agencies that now include them in email signatures and things of that nature. Is there a difference of how elites view pronouns vs. the rest of America?
Rasmussen: Letβs start with the fact that most Americans donβt even know what youβre talking about when youβre expressing your preferred pronouns. Only about 1 out of 10 voters has ever introduced themselves in that manner.
When they hear talk of it, it seems very foreign. But among the politically obsessed elite, about 60%, have introduced themselves expressing their preferred pronouns. And itβs hard to overstate the cultural difference at that point.
If youβre in this elite worldβif youβre in the elite schools or many agencies of the federal governmentβit is absolutely normal and an everyday occurrence that you meet somebody and they tell you not only their name and their position, but their preferred pronouns. In the rest of America, that just doesnβt happen.
When you get into discussions about misgendering somebody, there are regulations being pushed right now that would require employers to punish somebody for misgenderingβfor not using somebodyβs preferred pronouns. Only 9% of voters think thatβs a fireable offense, but even more than that, they donβt even know what the discussion is about.
This is where that glaring gap between the elites and most Americans is quite visible. It is the cultural world theyβre in, whether weβre talking about guns, or climate change policies, or preferred pronouns, or even the topic of should biological males be allowed to play in womenβs sports.
Among the politically obsessed elite, 41% say they should. Now, thatβs not a majority, but essentially, the politically obsessed elite is evenly divided on this question, whereas to most Americans, itβs ridiculous. Of course, biological males have a physical advantage. Of course, it is dangerous to let biological males into the womenβs locker room. But the elite is having a discussion about it. That is out of step with the country. It is dangerous.
Itβs fine to have different views. We all live on our own bubbles. Your bubble is a little different than mine, but probably has some overlap. But you have to be able to look outside your bubble and see what the rest of the country is doing.
If youβre in this elite world, you have enormous influence and you think your views are reflecting the public at large, thatβs a really dangerous combination.
Bluey: One of the most notable examples of the last decade is when Donald Trump was elected president. It seemed that the elites were in shock. What might happen if Trump is victorious in November and how might they react?
Rasmussen: On Election Day 2016, most of the conversation was Hillary Clinton is up by three in the polls, but thereβs a margin of error, sheβll probably win by six. There was a shock. They couldnβt believe it. They couldnβt imagine what was happening. And because in their mind, Hillary Clinton was the ideally prepared person.
Looking ahead to this year, first thing I will tell you is if the election is at all close, the way the last nine elections have been in, whichever team loses, theyβll believe the election was stolen. If Donald Trump wins, we will hear an awful lot about how he stole the election from these elites.
But something else is happening thatβs playing a part in the election. Itβs a distorted view of the public.
When we see the campus protests about the Palestinian situation, 62% of the elites have a favorable opinion. They think itβs great what these protesters are doing. Most voters donβt. Only 24% of voters support the protesters.
That leaves the pundits to misread the way a situation has played out. In fact, since the campus protest started, support for Israel has gone upβnot what some of the protesters might have hoped for.
A lot of the elites are misreading the dynamics going on right now. About 80 % of the elite 1% approve of the way Joe Biden is doing his job.
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Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders has engaged in a social media squabble with recent transfer Gavin Kuld.
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The Biden administration must investigate reports of communist China and Cuba directly funding and influencing radical left-wing organizations to incite anti-Israel and anti-American protests across the U.S., according to Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz who noted the goal of such externally funded subversion campaigns is to create chaos, weaken the country, and βtear us apart.β
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The protests in the summer of 2020 after George Floydβs death in police custody and todayβs antisemitic, pro-Palestine protests on college campuses are rooted in the same ideology of Marxism, Katharine Gorka says.Β
Marxism preaches that the world βis divided between oppressor and oppressed,β says Gorka, co-author with Heritage Foundation scholar Mike Gonzalez of the new book βNextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It.βΒ (Heritage launched The Daily Signal in 20014.)
German-born philosopher Karl Marx believed that the oppressors were the business owners and the oppressed were the workers. But Gorka says that Marxism today, or βNextGen Marxism,β holds that the βoppressors are white, Americans, Israelis, [but] some Asians β¦ kind of the successful.β
βAnd the oppressed is everybody else, right?β she asks rhetorically. βAnybody whoβs a minority of any sort, whether itβs based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, [or] having once been colonized.β
This movement of Marxism today has its roots in the 1960s, Gorka explains, as the student activists of those says became the community organizers who influence young people today, often via social media.Β
Gorka joins βThe Daily Signal Podcastβ to outline the progression of Marxism and to discuss philanthropyβs significant role in furthering Marxist ideology in America.
Listen to the podcast below:Β
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A bill proposed by House Republicans seeks to send individuals convicted of illegal activities at anti-Israel college protests to Gaza for a minimum six-month community service sentence, asserting that βpro-Hamasβ campus activists βshould get a taste of [their] own medicine.β
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Occidental College, which former President Barack Obama attended before transferring to Columbia University, capitulated to a pro-Hamas "encampment" this week -- and violated California "anti-BDS" laws in doing so.
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On Tuesdayβs broadcast of βCNN News Central,β Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) stated that Hamas is βemboldenedβ by the protests and violence on college campuses and thatβs why they engaged in a βPR stuntβ on a ceasefire on Monday and that
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A βSummer of Jihadβ awaits the United States as a result of escalating anti-Israel protests financed by the same people who funded BLM riots, according to Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. She warned Monday βAntifa is backβ and now supports Hamas and is βprepared to declare jihad.βΒ
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Former Michigan football star linebacker Obi Ezeh is dead at only 36, according to his mother who announced the passing on Sunday.
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After replacing the elite schoolβs American flag with a Palestinian one, anti-Israel activists at George Washington University called to βliberateβ the world from βcolonialism, imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and Zionism,β as pro-Palestinian activists on college campuses continue to reveal the true agenda behind the spreading demonstrations.
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As frat boys counter-protesting radical Palestinian supporters marching on the University of Mississippi campus are accused of βracismβ for mocking the left-wing anti-Israel activists, virtually no condemnations are heard from these same voices in response to a pro-Palestinian woman outright denouncing βwhite peopleβ at the UCLA encampment in Southern California.
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The time has come for student visa holders in America expressing support for Hamas to be expelled, according to Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who called such a policy βcommon sense.β
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On Saturday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Biden 2024 Principal Deputy Campaign ManagerΒ Quentin Fulks stated that President Joe Biden will not accept violence or antisemitism and "believes in what these protesters are saying and he is working to bring peace to the Middle East and bring the situation to a close."
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On Fridayβs broadcast of Bloombergβs βWall Street Week,β Harvard Professor and President Emeritus and former Harvard President Larry Summers said that Americaβs enemies must βbe taking great encouragement from the spectacle that is being made by our young future elites
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Activists erected an encampment at Trinity College Dublin in protest over the conflict in Gaza and to demand the university divests from Israel.
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On Fridayβs broadcast of HBOβs βReal Time,β Bloomberg Businessweek National CorrespondentΒ Joshua Green stated that the turmoil on campuses is βthe chaos and the havocβ that President Joe Biden was supposed to fix and hasnβt. Green said, βWhat I make of
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On Thursdayβs broadcast of Newsmax TVβs βThe Record,β Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt urged President Joe Biden to βencourage campuses to coordinate with law enforcementβ to restore order on campuses. Greenblatt said, βPresident Biden did the right thing today in
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On Wednesdayβs broadcast of CNBCβs βSquawk Box,β Rep.Β Ritchie Torres (D-NY) stated that he fears βcollege campuses are indoctrinating the next generation of Americans with, not only hatred for Israel, but also hatred for their own country, and Iβm not aware
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