Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) mocked Vice President Kamala Harris this week over her failed presidential campaign, saying that it was like the Fyre Festival.
Cruz made the remarks during the most recent episode of his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson while talking about the disastrous campaign that Harris ran, including how her campaign ended up $20 million in debt.
&#8220;Kamala Harris ran the Fyre Festival of campaigns, and it points out that Trump&#8217;s campaign spent roughly $488 million, and Kamala spent more than a billion,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;So, she outspent Trump more than two-to-one, and Kamala campaign ended up $20 million in debt.&#8221;
The Fyre Festival is the name of a hyped festival that was supposed to take place in 2017 that ended up falling so far below what was expected that the term &#8220;Frye Festival&#8221; is now a meme for something that is an epic disaster.
&#8220;Where did that money go? Well, one of the things that it went to is they paid many of [the] &#8216;celebrities&#8217; who supported her,&#8221; Cruz noted, adding that they were given &#8220;significant sums&#8221; of money.
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&#8220;Look, I&#8217;m a fiscal conservative, damn it,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;If you want to be there and you believe in saving the country, stand up and save the country, and if not, get the hell out.&#8221;
&#8220;Like, what is it with these lefties who, ironically, they want to put socialists in office who make it impossible for people to earn a living, and yet they&#8217;re such capitalists that they&#8217;re like, show me the money to do it. I mean, there is an intense hypocrisy on this,&#8221; he added.
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After she spent millions bribing celebrities to endorse her, Kamala Harris&#8217;s campaign is millions of dollars in debt.
This is going to deeply demoralize Democrat donors. It is outrageous that donors gave their hard-earned cash to enrich celebrities.<a href="https://t.co/Et7wlOPde5">https://t.co/Et7wlOPde5</a> <a href="https://t.co/UhImgKVSAl">pic.twitter.com/UhImgKVSAl</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1856791694710116702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Ted Cruz: ‘Kamala Harris Ran The Fyre Festival Of Campaigns’

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Try to think back, if you can, to the transition period of the Biden-Harris administration. I&#8217;m talking about the personnel decisions — and particularly the key Cabinet appointments — that the incoming administration made in the weeks after the media called the race for Joe Biden, back at the end of 2020.
Those personnel decisions were treated as non-stories. They came and went, and the media didn’t talk much about them. There wasn&#8217;t a lot of outrage or debate. Pete Buttigieg, for example, became the Transportation Secretary because he likes trains and was vaguely interested in airplanes. And he’s gay. Those were his qualifications. So they put him in charge of the Department of Transportation, which has a budget of tens of billions of dollars and oversees the nation&#8217;s railways and airports. Why not? It made sense to Democrats at the time. What&#8217;s the worst that could happen? A train carrying toxic chemicals might derail somewhere in Ohio? What are the odds of that?
And then there was the nomination of Lloyd Austin to lead the Defense Department. That was really inspiring. You see, Lloyd Austin was serving on the board of Raytheon, one of the biggest defense contractors in the world. Raytheon was paying him a lot of money. And then, without much fanfare, the Biden-Harris administration appointed Lloyd Austin to run the Pentagon. What could go wrong? Surely Lloyd Austin wouldn&#8217;t try to enrich his former colleagues in the defense industry by, say, sending billions of dollars worth of weaponry to a tiny, corrupt country in Eastern Europe. That would be unthinkable.
And then there was the appointment of someone using the name Rachel Levine — a biological male originally named Richard who decided in middle age to start wearing a dress and rebrand himself as Rachel. It made perfect sense, we were told, for a man deeply confused about the basic realities of human biology to oversee the nation&#8217;s healthcare system. Sure, he might pressure hospitals to castrate and sterilize as many children as possible. He might pose for some uncomfortable photographs with Sam Brinton, the cross-dressing nuclear waste expert and kleptomaniac who’d been terrorizing airport baggage claims all across the Eastern seaboard for years, before also being appointed for a role in the Biden Administration. But that&#8217;s the cost of human progress, the transition team told us.
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I&#8217;m going through these appointments to make a couple of points. The first point is that all of these appointments — and many others like them, including the appointment of an open-borders advocate to run the Department of Homeland Security — were grotesque. None of them should have been allowed to go through. But they did, and the country paid the predictable consequences. Biden appointed more cross dressers that we’d been used to seeing in government at that point, but otherwise his picks were exactly what we’ve come to expect. A bunch of corrupt and useless bureaucrats, who went on to do what corrupt and useless bureaucrats always do.
Thankfully, it’s clear that Donald Trump is not going to follow that typical strategy. Donald Trump&#8217;s incoming administration is already unlike any other in American history. This is a transition team that&#8217;s making a concerted effort to select competent, independent Cabinet officials — people who aren&#8217;t self-interested cronies, or morons who are selected on the basis of identity politics. He’s picking people who are actually competent and who might actually advance the agenda that the American people voted for. Imagine that.
Let&#8217;s start with one of the selections that was announced last night. Donald Trump revealed that Pete Hegseth, a Bronze Star recipient who served nearly two decades in the military — including in Iraq and Afghanistan — will be nominated as Secretary of Defense. 
Hegseth is most recognizable at the moment as a Fox News host, where he often advocates on behalf of veterans. He&#8217;s also used his platform to outline changes that, in his view, need to be made to the military immediately. Watch:
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This is all common-sense stuff. The overwhelming majority of countries don&#8217;t allow women in combat roles, for obvious reasons. And no, the military shouldn&#8217;t be teaching its soldiers about &#8220;white rage,&#8221; nor should the Pentagon be focused on recruiting girl bosses or &#8220;diverse&#8221; applicants. That strategy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-military-is-collapsing-under-the-weight-of-its-own-wokeness">isn&#8217;t working</a>. The military is now regularly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-military-is-collapsing-under-the-weight-of-its-own-wokeness">missing</a> its recruitment goals primarily because they&#8217;ve gone out of their way to alienate white men for political reasons. As a result, our military is much smaller than China&#8217;s. Morale is terrible. We&#8217;re constantly losing war games, as Hegseth pointed out. And making matters worse, our military leaders are clearly inept, as evidenced by the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
With this track record, the absolute last person you&#8217;d want to pick for the job of Defense Secretary is another Lloyd Austin. The Lloyd Austins of the world are the ones who created the very situation that Hegseth was talking about in the clip. That’s why you need someone who&#8217;s motivated and equipped to make some radical changes. You want someone who knows what it&#8217;s like to be a soldier in a warzone, and who hasn&#8217;t been corrupted by his connections to the military-industrial complex. In short, you want someone like Pete Hegseth.
As you&#8217;d expect, Democrats don&#8217;t see it that way. They lost their minds when Trump briefly paused the flow of military weapons to Ukraine, and now they&#8217;re losing their minds because Pete Hegseth might spurn the defense industry, too. Elizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts, was particularly enraged. She was sneering last night, along with a lot of her colleagues. She <a href="https://x.com/SenWarren/status/1856502912551158049">wrote</a>: &#8220;A Fox &amp; Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our servicemembers. Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected.&#8221;
So right away, the woman who pretended to be an Indian tries to dismiss Hegseth as a &#8220;weekend co-host.&#8221; She completely ignores his military service, his ideas, and his advocacy for veterans. We&#8217;re supposed to believe that, if Hegseth had served on the board of Raytheon, he would somehow be vastly more equipped for the job. We apparently want Defense Secretaries who are bureaucrats or defense contractors. Because that has obviously worked out so well over the past three decades.
And in the context of a second Trump administration, the criticisms of Pete Hegseth make even less sense. Recall that, under the first Trump administration, the Pentagon actively sabotaged Trump&#8217;s policy objectives. Our envoy to Syria has admitted this. It&#8217;s one of the most incredible admissions ever printed, but it never got much attention. The envoy stated that officials in the first Trump administration <a href="https://theohiostar.com/news/special-representative-for-syria-james-jeffrey-we-were-always-playing-shell-games-to-hide-the-number-of-u-s-troops-in-syria/ohstarstaff/2020/11/16/">were</a>, &#8220;always playing shell games&#8221; in order to hide the actual number of U.S. troops in Syria from Trump.” That&#8217;s an actual quote — &#8220;shell games.&#8221; In other words, they were lying to the commander in chief. Trump wanted troops to leave Syria, and they told him the troops were gone. And it wasn&#8217;t true.
People should&#8217;ve been put on trial for that. But it just faded from memory. Given that background, you can understand why — this time around — Trump wants someone he can actually depend upon. He wants to work with people he can trust. That&#8217;s the single most important quality that a Cabinet pick can have. And that&#8217;s very obvious to Trump now, after what he experienced in his first term.
But Democrats are still going to resist this nomination anyway, for reasons that they can&#8217;t even articulate. They just know that it would be a disaster for them if an outsider took control of the Defense Department. 
That&#8217;s why one of CNN&#8217;s hosts tried to push back on Scott Jennings&#8217; arguments for Hegseth last night. Watch:
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For starters, it&#8217;s pretty amusing — as Jennings points out — for television pundits to attack Hegseth for being a &#8220;TV host,&#8221; when they&#8217;re all television personalities too. Either being on television makes you an idiot, or it doesn&#8217;t. And if it does, then all of these people should quit their jobs now, before CNN closes down and fires them anyway (which appears more likely to happen with each passing day).
And then the anchor says that civilians give the orders in the military, which is obviously true. But it&#8217;s the Pentagon — which is also run by civilians — that has the job of carrying out those orders. And as Jennings pointed out, the Pentagon has repeatedly failed to do its job. They were wrong about the spy balloon and what it was doing. They were wrong about the logistics of the Afghanistan pullout, which resulted in the deaths of American servicemembers. They couldn&#8217;t even build a pier properly. So what exactly is the argument for keeping these kinds of people in control of the Defense Department? How could we possibly do any worse than they&#8217;ve been doing?
That&#8217;s a point that Tom Homan, the incoming border czar, just made on Fox News. He was asked whether he was worried about having the title of &#8220;border czar,&#8221; given that Kamala Harris has done everything she can to run away from that title. Here&#8217;s how Homan responded:
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🚨 HOST: &quot;The last person who was &#39;border czar&#39; didn&#39;t want to be called border czar. You&#39;re proud of it, right?&quot;
HOMAN: &quot;I&#39;m going to look like a genius. Because when you follow up failure you can&#39;t help but succeed.&quot; 😂 lmao <a href="https://t.co/fyCbWbXqTs">pic.twitter.com/fyCbWbXqTs</a>
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&#8220;I&#8217;m going to look like a genius. Because when you follow up failure you can&#8217;t help but succeed.&#8221; 
That pretty much sums up the entire transition so far.
We&#8217;re so used to administration officials who lie to us — who try to use emotional blackmail and manipulation — that it&#8217;s pretty much impossible to be disappointed by the incoming Trump administration at this point. Just by demonstrating that they don&#8217;t care about the media&#8217;s manipulation and false narratives, they&#8217;re already well ahead of their predecessors.
It&#8217;s also clear that the federal bureaucracy, which functioned to undermine Trump at every possible opportunity, isn&#8217;t going to exist in the same form the second time around. Last night Trump officially announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be running the Department of Government Efficiency, (DOGE). Trump said the goal of this new department will be to &#8220;dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.&#8221; He said they&#8217;ll be done within two years — what he called the &#8220;perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence.&#8221;
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The task of &#8220;dismantling government bureaucracy&#8221; should be the number-one focus of Trump&#8217;s second term. And Elon Musk is just the guy to do it. He showed up to Twitter and immediately axed 80% of the staff. Everyone in the media said it would destroy the company. They said the whole site would crash and be forgotten. And yet, here we are. Two years later, the place is running better than ever. The problem in the federal government is like Twitter, multiplied by a million.
Unlike every other company on the planet, the federal government doesn&#8217;t undergo layoffs. It just grows and grows, year after year. It siphons more and more money from taxpayers, without any accountability. These bureaucrats call themselves &#8220;public servants,&#8221; but really the public is serving them. We&#8217;re the ones who go to work every day to pay their salaries. And what exactly do they do for us? Do we really need these people to spend tens of thousands of dollars on &#8220;gender equity&#8221; in places like Honduras? Do we need them to develop new bat coronaviruses in secret labs in Wuhan? Do we need them to use our money to subsidize some of the most useless college degrees in existence? Do we need them to conduct fraudulent criminal trials of the leading presidential candidate? Do we need them to issue insane new regulations banning the sale of gas-powered vehicles?
Of course we don&#8217;t. We&#8217;ve never needed any of that.
What we have needed, for a long time now, is for the government to get out of the way of human progress. They need to stop spending and printing money as if it&#8217;s endless. They need to do what every American in the private sector has to do, which is to justify their salaries. They need to explain how exactly they&#8217;re serving the public, instead of the other way around.
This is a reckoning that would&#8217;ve been unthinkable if Kamala Harris had won this election. We&#8217;d be dealing with another parade of useless, BIPOC-transgender-whatever appointees who exist only to check boxes. Now things are different. And giving Musk and Ramaswamy the hacksaw with a directive to go to town on the federal bureaucracy means that maybe, for the first time ever, some real and substantial cuts will actually be made. No Republican president in modern times has ever actually done anything to cut the size of government. Much less have they taken any steps to gut the federal bureaucracy and get rid of all the useless people and their useless departments and programs. In fact, Republicans have only contributed to the problem.
There is good reason to think that this time will be different. Trump has picked the two right guys for the job. Which is why the federal bureaucrats are panicking, and their panic will only become more unhinged in the days ahead.
For everyone else — for people who actually earn their living — it&#8217;s a time to celebrate something that&#8217;s never happened before in modern American history. The behemoth federal bureaucracy is about to get what it deserves. What’s been coming to it for decades.
If Trump fulfills his promises and simply lets the people he’s hiring do the jobs they’ve been hired to do, it will mean ultimately that America becomes a freer, safer, more prosperous place. If this is the &#8220;fascism&#8221; they warned us about, it can&#8217;t come soon enough.

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The Media Panics Over Trump’s Administration Picks

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President-elect Donald Trump met with President Joe Biden at the White House Wednesday, a strikingly cordial reunion between the longtime political rivals. 
“Well, Mr. President-elect, and former President, Donald, congratulations,” Biden said in the Oval Office, noting that he was “looking forward to … a smooth transition.”
“So, welcome,” Biden added. “Welcome back.”
Trump was similarly cordial in his response.
“Politics is tough, and in many cases, it’s not a very nice world. But it is a nice world today, and I appreciate it very much,” Trump said. “A transition that’s so smooth, it’ll be as smooth as it can get.”
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After Trump finished speaking, members of the media — who were only allowed in the Oval Office for these brief opening moments — began shouting questions at the two presidents, who shared a knowing smirk amid the cacophony.
Trump arrived at the White House after a triumphant meeting with House Republicans, where he touted Republicans’ electoral victories and threw his support behind House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
Wednesday’s meeting comes at the end of an often-fiery relationship between the two presidents. Biden successfully campaigned against Trump in 2020 by repeatedly calling him a threat to democracy. Biden’s successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, picked up and intensified in the final days of her presidential campaign, calling Trump and his supporters “fascists.”
Biden, who repeatedly claimed that he was the only candidate capable of defeating Trump, withdrew from the presidential race over the summer after a disastrous debate performance against Trump highlighted the president’s age and faltering mental state.
Trump handily defeated Harris at the ballot box, sweeping all seven swing states and 312 electoral votes.
Though it is tradition for outgoing presidents to meet with their successors in the White House, today’s meeting was unique. Not since Grover Cleveland’s 1892 defeat of Benjamin Harrison has an outgoing president handed power over to a former president.
While Trump and Biden kept with tradition, their First Ladies did not. Melania Trump declined Jill Biden’s invitation to the traditional First Ladies’ tea, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/11/us-news/melania-trump-declines-to-meet-with-jill-biden-at-white-house-citing-mar-a-lago-raid-source/">reportedly</a> a response to the Biden administration’s raid on Mar-a-Lago.

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President-elect Donald Trump has made a number of appointments over several days as he prepares for his team&#8217;s transition into the White House in January, but one position he has yet to fill is that of White House Press Secretary.
While typically Trump&#8217;s fans and critics simply respond to his choices after they are announced, a number of conservatives have flooded X to make suggestions as well — and when it comes to a potential press secretary, many of them are on the same page in asking for CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings.
&#8220;Scott Jennings is just toying with the libs at this point. Make this dude press secretary and don’t think another second about it,&#8221; RedState&#8217;s Bonchie posted.
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Scott Jennings is just toying with the libs at this point.
Make this dude press secretary and don’t think another second about it. 
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&#8220;Scott Jennings should 100% be press secretary,&#8221; Jenna Ellis agreed.
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Scott Jennings should 100% be press secretary. <a href="https://t.co/fjGfJN7SlM">https://t.co/fjGfJN7SlM</a>
&mdash; Jenna Ellis 🐊 (@realJennaEllis) <a href="https://twitter.com/realJennaEllis/status/1856472757879619674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;m thinking Scott Jennings would make a great press secretary. Who&#8217;s with me?&#8221; another posted.
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I&#39;m thinking Scott Jennings would make a great press secretary. Who&#39;s with me? 
Here is some of his best work. 🤣😂 <a href="https://t.co/2L6s2JhPHA">pic.twitter.com/2L6s2JhPHA</a>
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Guy Benson posted a clip of Jennings defending Trump&#8217;s pick for Defense Secretary, decorated Army veteran Pete Hegseth, and referred to the CNN pundit as the &#8220;should-be Press Sec.&#8221;
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Should-be Press Sec goes to bat for nominated SecDef: <a href="https://t.co/Ig8mv8IpCY">https://t.co/Ig8mv8IpCY</a>
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&#8220;Scott Jennings = strong candidate for White House press secretary or communications director. He has been excellent throughout this campaign, arguing effectively as the lone GOP voice on a hostile, biased CNN panel, while keeping his cool and class. Bravo Zulu!&#8221; Real Clear Investigations&#8217; Paul Sperry said.
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Scott Jennings = strong candidate for White House press secretary or communications director. He has been excellent throughout this campaign, arguing effectively as the lone GOP voice on a hostile, biased CNN panel, while keeping his cool and class. Bravo Zulu! <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@scottjenningsky</a> <a href="https://t.co/fOd6flW2Gb">https://t.co/fOd6flW2Gb</a>
&mdash; Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) <a href="https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1854228464175399412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I wish I could buy stock in Scott Jennings because there’s not really anyone else like him right now: 1. He debates 5 on 1 basically all the time. He never complains about being ganged up on; 2. He doesn’t lose his cool or resort to cheap shots. He debates aggressively and stays on point; 3. He seems like he’s having the time of his life. He knows when he’s won and deploys The Office Jim Stares at the Camera face to signal to the viewers that it’s over; 4. He’s not a partisan talking point bot. He has his own interesting things to say; 5. He protects and promotes his own brand on Twitter. Most people don’t watch cable news so he clips his hits and posts them online. Lots of other talking heads come off as exasperated, tired, grumpy, highly partisan, and boring. CNN has a good thing on its hands with the Scott Versus The World dynamic,&#8221; another explained just what made Jennings so good at what he does — which would likely translate to success in what will likely be a combative briefing room.
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I wish I could buy stock in Scott Jennings because there’s not really anyone else like him right now: 
1. He debates 5 on 1 basically all the time. He never complains about being ganged up on. 
2. He doesn’t lose his cool or resort to cheap shots. He debates aggressively and… <a href="https://t.co/azVodofF5D">https://t.co/azVodofF5D</a>
&mdash; Jarvis (@jarvis_best) <a href="https://twitter.com/jarvis_best/status/1854924606744019063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Jennings certainly has the resume to make himself a contender. The Kentucky native is a veteran of the White House under former President George W. Bush, where he served as a special assistant to the president after working on both his 2000 and 2004 campaigns. He has also previously advised current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), managing his 2002 reelection campaign. He is a founding partner for RunSwitch Public Relations.

Republican Nominee Donald Trump Campaigns For President Across Pennsylvania

X Flooded With Conservatives Begging Trump To Make CNN Pundit His Press Sec

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Daily Wire host and author Michael Knowles gave a speech titled, “We Are So Back: How The Libs Lost Everything,” at the University of Iowa Monday night, where he was met with dozens of protesters. 
The protesters at the event, which was hosted by Young America’s Foundation (YAF), <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2024/11/12/protesters-gather-on-ui-campus-as-daily-wires-michael-knowles-visits/76223743007/?taid=6733b746f5c1290001e1b6f2&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">chanted</a>, “F*** you, fascists,” &#8220;Transphobes you better beware, we&#8217;re not going anywhere,&#8221; &#8220;We will not be silenced by transphobic violence,” and other left-wing slogans. 
Knowles reacted to some of the protests online, writing, “Do all my protesters have COVID?” — a reference to the many students wearing masks. 
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Do all my protesters have COVID? <a href="https://t.co/Jrry11KtC7">pic.twitter.com/Jrry11KtC7</a>
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1856197178214986178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
During the speech, Knowles also addressed the protests that had been taking place at the university leading up to his speech. Knowles referenced a reporter who claimed it was the conservative who “incited” the pushback on campus, which included vandalism. 
“Apparently, my very presence stirs in liberals an irrepressible urge to commit violence,” Knowles mocked. “How dare I! How dare all of us conservatives ever speak!” 
Transitioning to the media, Knowles explained how the “libs lost everything” this election cycle. 
&#8220;How did the libs lose everything? I think the press, as much as any other person or institution &#8230; deserves credit for the landslide victory last Tuesday,” he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a>: &#8220;How did the libs lose everything? I think the press, as much as any other person or institution&#8230;deserves credit for the landslide victory last Tuesday. The press&#8230;overplayed its hand.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/oLq52Hjyzx">pic.twitter.com/oLq52Hjyzx</a>
— YAF (@yaf) <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1856144838078370036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
Knowles also talked about transgender politics, which has been dubbed the “sleeper issue” of the 2024 election. 
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&#8220;The trans issue has taken on such national prominence because it reveals the extent to which our political elites are willing to lie to us,” Knowles said. “The transgender issue revealed that the Left had lost common sense.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a>: &#8220;The trans issue has taken on such national prominence because it reveals the extent to which our political elites are willing to lie to us&#8230;The transgender issue revealed that the left had lost the common sense.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/bR6ve8fpAV">pic.twitter.com/bR6ve8fpAV</a>
— YAF (@yaf) <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1856148570816024988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
The trans issue was further discussed after one female student suggested Knowles and other conservatives are mean to people who say they are transgender and need to merely open their hearts. Knowles rejected the premise and explained why transgenderism, as the Left understands it, does not actually exist since men cannot be women and women cannot be men. 
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&#8220;&#8216;Transgenderism is normal&#8217; seems to undercut the transgender ideology.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> responds to transgender advocate. <a href="https://t.co/t6EkSSjnHw">pic.twitter.com/t6EkSSjnHw</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1856152348193693783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
WATCH the full speech <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/qsCgSoP3uHs?si=bS7aHVbuZII1bfGS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HERE</a>.

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President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are set to meet at the White House on Wednesday as Trump prepares for his second term.
The meeting, which is scheduled for 11 a.m. ET, will take place just over a week after Trump cruised to a landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, the candidate who replaced Biden on the ticket in July after the president&#8217;s fellow Democrats urged him to drop out of the race. It will be a rare meeting between the two presidents. After the 2020 election, Trump declined to invite Biden to the White House as he continued to challenge the election results.
Trump&#8217;s visit with Biden in the Oval Office also marks his first return to the White House since the end of his first term on January 20, 2021.
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🚨 PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP MAKES HIS TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO WASHINGTON, D.C. <a href="https://t.co/F6FCVuppU5">pic.twitter.com/F6FCVuppU5</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1856708793544921439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I’m sure it will be a bitter pill for President Biden but a moment of sweet revenge in some ways for President Trump, to come back to the place he had to give up four years ago but come back with a truly significant victory, including the popular vote, which a Republican hasn’t won in a long time,” a former Trump campaign official, who remained anonymous, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4986808-trump-biden-meeting-white-house/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Hill.
During the 2024 campaign, Biden repeatedly <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-argue-trump-remains-threat-democracy-case-campaign-thinks-resona-rcna132151" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labeled</a> Trump a &#8220;threat to democracy,&#8221; claiming last January that Trump is &#8220;willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power.&#8221; Just days after an assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly killed Trump, Biden again <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-labels-trump-threat-to-democracy-after-urging-americans-to-tone-down-heated-rhetoric/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that Trump represented a threat to the U.S. A week before the election, Biden also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-declares-trump-supporters-are-garbage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to Trump&#8217;s supporters as &#8220;garbage,&#8221; sparking outrage among Republicans, including Trump.
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Last week, Biden called Trump to congratulate him on his election victory and promise a smooth transition of power.
&#8220;I assured him that I would direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. That’s what the American people deserve,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/11/07/remarks-by-president-biden-in-address-to-the-nation-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
After talking with Biden, Trump is expected to meet with Republicans in Congress as GOP senators gather to pick their new leader. Along with Trump&#8217;s election victory, Republicans also flipped control of the Senate and maintained control of the House.
Trump has already nominated multiple people for positions in his new cabinet, including combat veteran and Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-pete-hegseth-fox-host-and-army-vet-as-defense-secretary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Hegseth</a> for Defense Secretary, South Dakota Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-kristi-noem-to-lead-department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristi Noem</a> for Homeland Security Secretary, and Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-offers-elise-stefanik-u-n-ambassadorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) for U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tried to trash U.S. Army veteran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-hegseth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Hegseth</a> — President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s choice for incoming Defense Secretary — but instead she got a quick lesson on who he really is.
Warren took to X to voice her grievances with Hegseth — who, in addition to his military service, has spent a fair amount of time as a host on Fox News — and she suggested in her post that his tenure at the network was the only reason Trump could have for choosing him.
&#8220;A Fox &amp; Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense,&#8221; she posted. &#8220;I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our servicemembers. Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected.&#8221;
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A Fox &amp; Friends weekend co-host is not qualified to be the Secretary of Defense.
I lead the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our servicemembers.
Donald Trump’s pick will make us less safe and must be rejected. <a href="https://t.co/6ADUJSm8x6">https://t.co/6ADUJSm8x6</a>
&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1856502912551158049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But as critics pointed out, Hegseth had also put on the uniform — and had served multiple combat tours — and had earned an Ivy League education to boot.
&#8220;You left out some of his resume: 20 years of military service. 2 bronze stars. Degrees from Princeton and Harvard. Active with veterans organizations since leaving active duty. You can go ahead and sit this one out, Senator,&#8221; Evan Berryhill posted.
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You left out some of his resume:
20 years of military service. 
2 bronze stars.
Degrees from Princeton and Harvard.
Active with veterans organizations since leaving active duty.
You can go ahead and sit this one out, Senator. <a href="https://t.co/tcNm71tuaB">https://t.co/tcNm71tuaB</a>
&mdash; Evan Berryhill (@EvBerryhill) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvBerryhill/status/1856519035493478887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Federalist&#8217;s Sean Davis had a similar thought: &#8220;Pete Hegseth is a 20-year military veteran, a decorated combat veteran, a recipient of the Bronze Star (2x), and graduated from both Harvard and Princeton. You falsely claimed to be an Indian to get a job you couldn’t get on the merits. Sit down, Pocahontas.&#8221;
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Pete Hegseth is a 20-year military veteran, a decorated combat veteran, a recipient of the Bronze Star (2x), and graduated from both Harvard and Princeton.
You falsely claimed to be an Indian to get a job you couldn’t get on the merits. Sit down, Pocahontas. <a href="https://t.co/BjCiROQVGn">https://t.co/BjCiROQVGn</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1856522470573973616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You left out that Hegseth is twice a bronze star recipient, served 20 years in the military including Iraq and Afghanistan, is a veterans’ advocate, and is Ivy League educated,&#8221; another posted, going on to tie Warren&#8217;s comments to the sentiment that left so many Americans fed up with Democrats in last week&#8217;s general election. &#8220;Characterizing him as simply a Fox News host is a despicable lie of omission. This bulls*** is why your party was wiped out in the election. Are you all not capable of learning anything, or do you plan to just keep imploding?&#8221;
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You left out that Hegseth is twice a bronze star recipient, served 20 years in the military including Iraq and Afghanistan, is a veterans’ advocate, and is Ivy League educated.
Characterizing him as simply a Fox News host is a despicable lie of omission.
This bullshit is why…
&mdash; IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) <a href="https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1856506071562534974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;By framing veteran and double bronze-star recipient Pete Hegseth as &#8216;weekend co-host,&#8217; you prove you don&#8217;t respect everyone one of our servicemembers,&#8221; Margot Cleveland added.
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By framing veteran and double bronze-star recipient Pete Hegseth as &quot;weekend co-host,&quot; you prove you don&#39;t respect everyone one of our servicemembers.
&mdash; Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1856503942836039742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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During his military career, Hegseth — who achieved the rank of Major — served tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay and was awarded two Bronze Stars. He also earned the <a href="https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Combat%20Infantryman%20Badge%20CIB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Combat Infantryman&#8217;s Badge</a> (CIB), which is only given to soldiers assigned either to an infantry unit or to a Special Forces unit who have taken enemy fire while engaged in ground combat.
Hegseth is still a member of the Minnesota National Guard&#8217;s Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR).

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I am not yet tired of winning. The winning just continues. 
I am truly enjoying the staffing of the new Trump administration so far. According to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-selects-florida-rep-mike-waltz-as-national-security-adviser-104414fe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a>, there are a couple of picks that have been made. One has been announced: Florida GOP Representative Mike Waltz, a Green Beret veteran, to be White House national security adviser. The Journal also reported that President-elect Trump is expected to nominate Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as Secretary of State.
President Trump is moving fast. He is staffing professionally. He&#8217;s finding people who are loyal to the Trump vision, the “peace through strength” vision.
President Trump was on this show two weeks before Election Day, and I specifically asked him about his foreign policy. He said repeatedly that peace through strength is his foreign policy.
That’s what over 75 million Americans voted for: Trump&#8217;s peace through strength.
Trump’s picks are going to do his bidding in the foreign policy realm; they will reinforce his Trump doctrine, which is, “Cross this line and I will punch you so hard in the face you will not want to do it again.” 
That is the Trump doctrine and it is a great doctrine, an excellent foreign policy doctrine, which is why we had four years with no wars. Contrary to certain popular opinions, war is only prevented by preparing for war so you don&#8217;t have to do it. That is the actual way that you prevent war. 
Submission and cowardice were tried with Joe Biden. It didn&#8217;t go particularly well.
Donald Trump does precisely the reverse. As I said on Fox Business, President Trump is the best foreign policy president of my lifetime, bar none.
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Marco Rubio entered with the Tea Party wave back in 2010, and then ran for president against Donald Trump in 2016.
Trump has a unique capacity to let bygones be bygones, which is why, of course, despite the fact that JD Vance said some unkind things about him back in 2016, Vance is his vice president. Rubio has proven himself to be a formidable asset on the campaign trail; he was loyal to President Trump&#8217;s vision and was an early Trump endorser in the primaries.
Not only that, Rubio has proven himself on foreign policy. He&#8217;s on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he&#8217;s great on television, and he knows all the players. In one instance, he was walking down a hallway being harassed by a pro-Hamas heckler from Code Pink.
It didn&#8217;t go well for <a href="https://x.com/yashar/status/1856171518994329616" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the heckler:</a>
<blockquote>Heckler: Senator Rubio, will you call for a ceasefire?
Rubio: No, I will not. (turning to someone accompanying the heckler) Are you filming this? I want you guys to get this. (turning back to heckler) I want them to destroy every element of Hamas they can get their hands on. These people are vicious animals who did horrifying crimes. And I hope you guys post that.
Heckler: What about the civilians killed every day?
Rubio: I blame Hamas. Hamas should stop hiding behind civilians, putting civilians in the way. Hamas knew that this was going to lead to this, so Hamas should stop building their military installations underneath hospitals.
Heckler: So you don&#8217;t care that 15,000 died. You don&#8217;t care about the babies that are being killed every day.
Rubio: Absolutely I care. I think it’s horrifying. I think it&#8217;s terrible. I think Hamas is 100% to blame. That&#8217;s what I think. Make sure you post that, please.</blockquote>
Rubio has also said that if you come to the United States on a visa and you proceed to spew anti-American, anti-Semitic nonsense, you should be gone. 
He <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/english-espanol-senate-democrats-block-rubio-resolution-calling-on-biden-to-revoke-visas-of-hamas-sympathizers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> on the Senate floor: 
<blockquote>What I am saying is common sense. You’re a visitor. You are not even American. You’re a foreign national. You’re here because we gave you a visa to be here temporarily, and now you’re out there defending and supporting Hamas, a terrorist organization? You need to go. That’s what this resolution asks the administration to do. I hope we can get a vote on it in the Senate, so everyone will know where everyone here stands.</blockquote>
Rubio is repeating the Trump line with regard to Ukraine, which, contrary to popular opinion, is not that the United States is going to cut and run from Ukraine.
Trump does not like losing. He likes to win, as we have noticed. And what does that mean?
It doesn&#8217;t mean endless war in Ukraine. What it means is that the United States supports Ukraine sufficient to prevent a Russian invasion of Kyiv, but also looks for an off-ramp with Putin settling the lines where they are already settled. That is what the deal has looked like since 2022.
Rubio pointed out that the Biden administration had no plan in Ukraine, <a href="https://x.com/SenMarcoRubio/status/1854252665418772536" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying:</a>
<blockquote>If you ask the Biden administration, they will tell you we are funding a stalemate. I think the Ukrainians have been incredibly brave and strong in standing up to Russia. But at the end of the day, what we are funding here is a stalemate war, and it needs to be brought to a conclusion because that country is going to be set back 100 years. Now, that doesn&#8217;t mean that we celebrate what Vladimir Putin did or are excited about it. But I think there has to also be some common sense here, and that is that right now what we are funding is a stalemate that&#8217;s costing lives. It&#8217;s going to take 100 years to rebuild that poor country with everything they are facing now.</blockquote>
He is not wrong about that. And that is why President Trump is attempting to seek an offramp there.
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Mike Waltz has been a bulldog on national security. Waltz slammed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to his face in a hearing, saying:
<blockquote>Mr. Secretary, I have here the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, the invasion of Ukraine, the unholy alliance between Russia and China, Hamas and Hezbollah attacks on Israel, Houthi attacking international shipping, hostages in Gaza, Iran flush with cash, the reemergence of ISIS-K now six thwarted attacks in Europe, increased Chinese aggression and the collapse of our influence in central Africa … You&#8217;re going to tell the American people with this list they&#8217;re safer?</blockquote>
Peace through strength.
Trump means it.

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Imagine being a strategist for the Democrat Party right now. You&#8217;re tasked with conducting a post-mortem analysis of an election in which virtually every single demographic group in the country, in all 50 states, turned very sharply against you. Tens of millions of Americans ignored the endorsements of modern-day oracles like Taylor Swift and Queen Latifah and voted for the candidate you&#8217;ve been calling a Hitler-loving &#8220;threat to democracy.&#8221; How do you even begin to catalog all of the various failures that led your party to this point? 
Up until now, the prevailing excuse in the Democrat Party has been pretty clear. As I&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-millions-of-minority-voters-are-ditching-the-democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined</a> before, many Democrats are happy to dismiss the entire country as racist and sexist. In fact, Hispanics are apparently racist against themselves. This is the kind of theory you come up with when you don&#8217;t want to actually talk to Hispanic people, or be anywhere near them for that matter. But you have to find some way to explain why they might want to build a wall and enforce the law, so you conclude that they must hate themselves. That must be it.
At the same time, there is at least one Democrat-aligned group that’s taking a different and more serious approach. I&#8217;m talking about something called Blueprint, which I hadn&#8217;t heard of until a day ago. Blueprint <a href="https://blueprint2024.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> itself as a &#8220;vital tool&#8221; that can help Democrats win elections in the future. This is a Left-wing group that basically tries to craft messaging for the DNC.
Over the past week, Blueprint has employed pollsters and strategists to figure out how Democrats lost so badly on Election Day. They&#8217;ve been tasked with sifting through the wreckage to identify what caused the implosion. And what they&#8217;ve found is remarkable. Even given all the endless polls and analysis we&#8217;ve been subjected to this month, this one stands out.
I hadn&#8217;t seen these results until Charlie Kirk <a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1855081000386412677" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> them out the other day, in a post on X. He posted this chart of Blueprint&#8217;s findings. It shows all the issues that voters cared about in this election, ranked by their level of relative importance. They calculated this by asking voters to compare a bunch of issues, in a kind of round-robin analysis.
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As you can see, there are a lot of issues on that list. Voters had many options to choose from. And according to Blueprint&#8217;s findings, swing voters who ultimately voted for Trump — meaning, the people who determined the outcome of this election — were very unhappy with Kamala Harris&#8217; focus on transgender issues. In fact, Kamala&#8217;s views on topics like transgenderism, at the expense of substantive issues, was the number-one, most important issue on these swing voters&#8217; minds.
Just so we&#8217;re clear on the terms, Blueprint defines a &#8220;swing voter&#8221; as:
<blockquote>those who are undecided in the presidential race, have changed their voting preference since 2020 (voting Democrat in one election and Republican in the other), or are independents who either indicate they split their votes between Democrats and Republicans, or who hold either favorable or unfavorable views of both Trump and Harris.</blockquote>
If you go to Blueprint&#8217;s <a href="https://blueprint2024.com/polling/why-trump-reasons-11-8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crosstabs</a>, here&#8217;s what they found specifically about this group of voters. Among swing voters who ultimately voted for Trump, the top reason for voting for Trump over Kamala was:
<blockquote>Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.</blockquote>
That was the single most important issue for these swing voters, relative to all the others. The next most important issue was inflation, followed closely by illegal migration.
This is a finding that, if you had floated it as a possibility prior to the election, would&#8217;ve gotten you laughed out of the room. But now that Democrats realize that most voters think they&#8217;re crazy, they&#8217;re finally talking about it. Democrat-aligned pollsters are openly recognizing that transgenderism — including the associated government policies that have been championed by trans activists and the Biden-Harris administration — is a massive problem for the Democrat Party.
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And yet, this is a problem that — certainly at least in a pre-”<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is A Woman?</a>” world — very few Republicans wanted to touch. In fact, plenty of Republicans still don&#8217;t want to talk about this. It&#8217;s an issue that for years I was personally ridiculed for pursuing, including by many on the Right. Even among people who believe we&#8217;re on the correct side of the whole debate, a lot of them still said it was a waste of time to talk about it.
These people think that so-called &#8220;culture war issues&#8221; are a side show. They&#8217;re &#8220;irrelevant distractions,&#8221; supposedly. But they aren’t. Culture is everything. It’s the stuff that a nation is made of. And that matters politically. People vote for culture. People don&#8217;t just vote based on candidates&#8217; personalities, or on specific proposals. They vote for the country they want to live in. And now, a critical mass of those voters have decided that they don&#8217;t want to live in a country that can&#8217;t even define the word &#8220;woman.&#8221;
To be clear, this result isn&#8217;t saying that transgenderism was at the top of voters&#8217; minds all by itself. Instead, what this result reveals is that trans issue is about much more than just transgenderism. It’s symptomatic of something larger and deeper. Voters see the trans agenda as an assault on truth and basic common sense, which is exactly what it is. It&#8217;s a destructive set of beliefs that serves only to derail human progress while harming a lot of people.
Trans ideology requires that Americans affirm what is not true and reject objective reality, on the theory that this is somehow the more &#8220;humane&#8221; approach. But there&#8217;s nothing humane or sustainable about lying — especially when the point of the lying is to obscure something as fundamental as human biology and human nature. If you tolerate lies about that, then you will tolerate lies about anything. 
If a white guy wants to identify as black, then you can&#8217;t object. 
If a politician wants to claim that crime is down when it&#8217;s clearly not, then you can&#8217;t complain about that, either. 
If the government wants to claim the economy is doing fine when no one can find a job or afford groceries, then you have to shut up and take it.
Once reality is subjective, you can&#8217;t communicate anymore in any meaningful way, much less fix problems. All you can do is spiral down further and further into delusions. Trans ideology is built on the premise that we all have our own truth. That there is no objective reality or universal truth that we are all expected to acknowledge.
<h3><a href="https://www.amiracist.com/?_gl=1*jtghwp*_gcl_au*ODQ1NjYzNTg2LjE3Mjg5MDk3OTE.*_ga*MTc2NzM0NDQ2NS4xNzI4OTA5Nzkx*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTczMDEyMDgwOS40OS4xLjE3MzAxMjA4MzkuMzAuMC4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MATT WALSH&#8217;S &#8216;AM I RACIST?&#8217; NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+</a></h3>
If we accept trans ideology, we accept this premise. And if we accept this premise, we have tacitly accepted every other Left-wing premise, because now we have no basis to deny any of it. We cannot call anything untrue. Now there is nothing that can be called untrue. Which means there is also nothing that can be called true. This is the fundamental reason why the fight against trans ideology matters. It’s the case that some of us have been making for many years, even against the objections of our own side. But now the voters see it and agree. And it’s one of the main reasons why Democrats were just obliterated in the election.
The Trump campaign understood that this issue would resonate with voters. That’s why they released this ad, which may have been the single most effective ad in the entire campaign. In fact it may be one of the best ads ever produced by a political campaign. Watch:
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When she spoke to Fox News — in the only hostile interview she participated in during the entire campaign — Kamala was asked directly about this ad. She had the opportunity to disavow all of this nonsense. She could&#8217;ve admitted that it was a terrible idea to use taxpayer money to fund sex changes for illegals, or for anyone else. She could&#8217;ve acknowledged that people can&#8217;t change their gender or pick their pronouns. She also could&#8217;ve laid out a clear definition of the word &#8220;woman&#8221; — which is a pretty important word to define, since she was campaigning to be the first woman president.
In other words, Kamala had the opportunity to do what the African tribesmen did when I spoke to them in &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>&#8220;. She could have laughed in the face of this absurdity, as anyone with common sense would do. She could have demonstrated to Americans that she&#8217;s not going to surrender the federal government to a small number of radical, anti-truth activists. But Kamala didn&#8217;t do any of that.
Instead, here&#8217;s how she addressed this ad when Bret Baier brought it up:
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So she mocks the Trump campaign for spending so much money on the ad. This is the candidate whose campaign raised a billion dollars and ended up in debt by tens of millions of dollars because they hired a bunch of celebrity influencers who, it turns out, have no influence. Yet she’s lecturing the Trump campaign on how they should&#8217;ve spent their money. Maybe the Trump campaign should&#8217;ve gone bankrupt in order to get Megan Thee Stallion to twerk on stage. That strategy obviously worked out so well for Kamala.
And then Kamala goes on to dismiss the whole issue as unimportant. She claims that Americans don&#8217;t really care about all of this trans stuff. But they do. They care about it because they care about truth. And they care about truth because if you don’t have that, literally nothing else matters.
Already, there are some signs that Left-wing media is coming around, ever so begrudgingly, to this reality. Here&#8217;s Joe Scarborough, for example. 
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You can imagine how well this monologue went over among the various LGBTQ alphabet activist groups and publications. 
The Advocate, for example, wrote an entire article attacking Scarborough for this. They <a href="https://www.advocate.com/voices/morning-joe-transphobia-trump-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated </a>that, 
<blockquote>&#8220;If you voted for Donald Trump and against Kamala Harris because you had something against the trans community, you were beyond an outlier. You were not even a blip on the radar. So why are people like Joe and Mika callously targeting the trans community for Harris’s loss? And why are they doing it so brazenly? Instead of discussing the real reasons why Harris lost to Trump, they trash innocent human beings. The most vulnerable in society.&#8221;</blockquote>
So again, they assume this is a fringe issue, when it&#8217;s obviously not. They think voters who are tired of trans nonsense are a &#8220;blip on the radar.&#8221; But the truth is — as this Blueprint poll demonstrates — Americans don&#8217;t want to affirm lies anymore. They are tired of having their culture held hostage by these people. It doesn&#8217;t matter how much you try to berate these voters for &#8220;trashing innocent human beings&#8221; or whatever. Something is either true or it&#8217;s not. Affirming the truth is not &#8220;trashing&#8221; anyone. It&#8217;s the bare minimum necessary to ensure that society can continue to function.
On CNN, they still haven&#8217;t come around to this realization. Instead, they just hosted a live on-air struggle session after a guest pointed out that Americans don&#8217;t like the idea of boys competing in women&#8217;s sports. Watch:
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Yes, it&#8217;s now a &#8220;slur&#8221; to refer to a boy as a boy. If a 12-year-old boy says he feels like a girl, you don&#8217;t get to substitute your bigoted opinions for the well-informed judgment of a preteen. Who do you think you are? All you get to do is nod your head and ask a doctor to pump his body full of sterilizing hormones. This is the position of CNN. It&#8217;s the position of the woman hosting this show. But it&#8217;s the position of a vanishingly small amount of the electorate.
That clip goes on for a while, by the way. The first guy says something that&#8217;s obviously true — that boys are competing in women&#8217;s sports, and they shouldn&#8217;t be — and then gets relentlessly heckled for it. He&#8217;s eventually told that the &#8220;American Medical Association&#8221; says that children can change their gender, so therefore, you don&#8217;t get to have an opinion on the topic. You have to accept their judgment or else you&#8217;ll get banned from CNN, just like the last guest who tried to speak his mind on this same panel.
This is the divide that the Democrats are experiencing right now as a party. This is the choice they have. They can either choose to acknowledge reality, or they can double down on absurdities and falsehoods. If they go with the absurdities and falsehoods, then they&#8217;re going to keep haranguing Americans, calling for censorship, and screaming at an audience that&#8217;s rapidly becoming nonexistent. Whatever they decide, it&#8217;s now clear that voters have made up their minds. On Tuesday, swing voters decided that affirming reality is the single most important issue in this country. This is the political victory that we&#8217;ve been seeking from the moment we began fighting the deranged excesses of gender ideology several years ago. And now it’s here. But as long as the Left keeps pushing it, the fight will continue.

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How Kamala’s Focus On Gender Ideology Cost Her The Election

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a>, who are now projected to keep control of the lower chamber, are demanding that top officials across the outgoing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> retain documents and communications for potential investigations in the next session of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a>.
Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) announced on Tuesday that he and other GOP leaders sent a letter to every Cabinet secretary, telling each one to preserve records ahead of President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> beginning his second term in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> early next year.
&#8220;As we begin preparation for a new Trump Administration and new Congress, we fully expect your cooperation in a smooth transition of power. To that end, it is imperative that during the transition you fully comply with all statutory record retention requirements, including but not limited to the Federal Records Act. In addition to compliance with federal record retention laws, we are also expressly directing that all necessary steps be taken to preserve relevant Department documents and communications,&#8221; they wrote.
&#8220;During the 118th Congress, House Committees conducted robust oversight concerning the Biden-Harris Administration’s disastrous border policies, tragic Afghanistan withdrawal, collusion with social media companies to suppress free speech, and weaponization of federal agencies against its political opponents, as well as the antisemitism at our nation’s universities enabled by leading Democrats,&#8221; the GOP lawmakers added.
&#8220;In the waning days of this Congress, House Committees will continue to seek compliance with many of the subpoenas with which you largely declined to cooperate. Likewise, as the 119th Congress begins, the Committees may determine that it is necessary to reissue certain subpoenas as they continue with their oversight efforts,&#8221; they continued, before signing off: &#8220;Thank you in advance for your compliance with this request.&#8221;
Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) announced on Monday, nearly one week after Election Day, that Republicans were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-projected-to-win-house-complete-2024-sweep" target="_blank" rel="noopener">projected to retain</a> command of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a>. As of press time, the GOP will have <a href="https://election.dailywire.com/?_gl=1*1d2dz3j*_gcl_au*MjE0Mjc3Mjk2OC4xNzMwMDM5MjE4*_ga*MTEyNTQ2Njg5Ni4xNjgyODYyMjcx*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTczMTQ0NjU5MS4xMTQ3LjEuMTczMTQ0NjU5Mi41OS4wLjA." target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least a two-seat majority</a>. A handful of races have yet to be called. The Republicans completed a 2024 sweep that also included the GOP retaking the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> and Trump winning back the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a>.
GOP leadership elections in the House are expected to take place on Wednesday. House Democrats are <a href="https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1854642092674318387" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slated</a> to hold their leadership elections next week. Johnson is running to keep the speaker&#8217;s gavel, but the House likely will not vote on that role until January. It remains to be seen if anyone challenges him.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> Republican commentator Scott Jennings roasted late-night comedians for their obvious descent — fueled by President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s landslide victory on Tuesday — into naked Democratic activism, arguing that &#8220;at some point, people might expect it to be funny.&#8221;
Jennings ripped into the comedians — name-dropping Jimmy Kimmel, who was brought to tears after Trump won — and argued that they were alienating half the country by telling them that only the Trump-hating people in their audience really mattered.
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Jennings noted that liberal comedian and HBO host Bill Maher — who has repeatedly swiped at his own side for going too far with regard to gender surgeries, COVID lockdowns, and more — seemed to understand that going all-in on activism instead of comedy — and in the process, potentially alienating half the country &#8212; was not the wisest course of action.
&#8220;The rest of these people have become pathetic. I mean, they stopped being comedians and they started becoming political activists. I mean, Jimmy Kimmel out here crying? I mean, it’s pathetic,&#8221; Jennings said. &#8220;And so my my question is, if you’re going to have a late-night comedy show, at some point, people might expect it to be funny and not just a constant political screed against one party, and I don’t — I don’t know that this activism for four more years is sustainable if you’re going to market something as comedy, but the actual product is nothing more than sort of a lowbrow political activism.&#8221;
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&#8220;These people represent the way a lot of people feel, so it’d actually be interesting if the Trump folks could actually make us feel like, ‘we’re not going to take away your rights,’ and that doesn’t make sense, you think it doesn’t make sense a lot of people actually think that makes sense. That’s the way a lot of people feel,&#8221; Touré protested.
&#8220;That is their audience,&#8221; CNN host Abby Phillip said.
“Is that their mission? To be activists and not comedians?” Jennings pressed.
“Well, sometimes the comedian does stop telling jokes and says serious things,&#8221; Touré replied.
Jennings pushed on, adding, &#8220;During the Biden years, there was nobody who provided more comedy fodder possible than Joe Biden.&#8221;
That was enough for the rest of the panel, who all began protesting at once that Biden had been on the receiving end of plenty of criticism and mockery.

JIMMY KIMMEL

Scott Jennings Roasts Late-Night Comedians: ‘At Some Point, People Might Expect It To Be Funny’

Scott Jennings Roasts Late-Night Comedians: 'At Some Point, People Might Expect It To Be Funny'

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&#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; host Gayle King had to remind House Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hakeem-jeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hakeem Jeffries</a> (D-NY) that Vice President Kamala Harris — and Democrats across the board — had lost, and lost big, in the general election held just a week earlier.
King had to interrupt and correct Jeffries, who was poised to take the gavel if control of the House of Representatives had passed into Democrats&#8217; hands, when he suggested that the race had been a close one.
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CBS: “It sounds like you are still processing… It wasn’t close.”
HAKEEM: “I think… the popular vote will be close.”
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Cohost Tony Doukopil suggested that Democrats had some good policies and successes, but had ultimately failed to present them in a way that resonated with the voters. He also argued that the Democratic Party&#8217;s presentation had made especially working class voters feel as though they were not really respected.
&#8220;Well, we clearly care about making life better for everyday Americans, and it drives everything that we do from a policy perspective,&#8221; Jeffreis replied. &#8220;But of course, we’ve got to figure out how we can better connect the policies that we’ve worked hard to implement under the leadership of President Biden and Vice President Harris. You know, infrastructure, fixing our crumbling bridges, roads, and tunnels, creating millions of good-paying union jobs. That’s putting people first. That was a policy that actually happened. But we have to better connect why we are doing these things and how it will lead to improving the quality of life of every American.&#8221;
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&#8220;It sounds like you’re still processing, but were you stunned last Tuesday night? I’m just curious. I know lessons learned and all of that, but were you stunned by what happened?” King asked.
&#8220;Well, we knew going into the election, as Vice President Harris repeatedly stated, including at the convention, this is close and it’s going to be close —&#8221; Jeffries said.
&#8220;But it wasn’t close,&#8221; King interrupted.
&#8221; — all the way through. I think at the end of the day, the popular vote will be close. I think it was, you know, an Electoral College outcome that most people on the Democratic side didn’t expect because everything broke at the presidential level in terms of Donald Trump’s direction.&#8221;
As of Tuesday, November 12, the popular vote totals stand at 71,898,818 (48.1%) for Vice President Kamala Harris and 75,158,912 (50.3%) for Trump — a difference of more than three million votes.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

Gayle King Has To Remind Hakeem Jeffries That Democrats Lost, And Lost Big

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