AOC Lies About McEnany and Accuses Her of Racism, Too

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‘@PressSec wouldn’t be the first person to mistake a women of color for having a lower position or title than she does…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-N.Y., accused White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany of racism after McEnany referred to her as a “Biden adviser.”

“[McEnany] wouldn’t be the first person to mistake a women of color for having a lower position or title than she does,” Ocasio–Cortez tweeted on Monday, “but Kayleigh – in case you haven’t picked up a newspaper in two years, I’m a Congresswoman.”

Ocasio–Cortez has a long history of exploitatively invoking race to deflect criticism and bludgeon the critics.

Although she is of Puerto Rican descent, she grew up comfortably in a middle-class suburb of New York City and attended the private Boston University. Her Latino background helped her secure an internship working with then-Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Facing Serious Allegations of $1M Campaign Slush Fund
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / IMAGE: The View via Youtube

While Ocasio–Cortez’s mother worked in service positions such as house-cleaning, there is no record of the congresswoman having worked as an adult in any service industry apart from the relatively lucrative field of bartending.

In addition to taking credit for oppression she never witnessed firsthand, Ocasio–Cortez also deliberately distorted the press secretary’s words.

Not only does Ocasio–Cortez sit on presidential candidate Joe Biden’s advisory board—which means it is entirely accurate to refer to her as a “Biden adviser”—but McEnany also directly referred to Ocasio–Cortez as a congresswoman during the press conference in question.

McEnany’s full quote states: “The president is appalled by the ‘defund the police’ movement. The fact that you have sitting congresswomen wanting to defund the police — notably Rashida Tlaib, notably Biden adviser Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former Clinton and Eric Holder spokesperson Brian Fallon wanting to defund our police across this country, it is extraordinary.”


Ocasio–Cortez has been a vocal advocate for the “Defund the Police” movement, which has drawn the ire of mainstream Democrats due to the movement’s radical intent. Biden repudiated the effort after widespread backlash revealed it to be a potential weapon for the Trump campaign.

Reminiscent of her backpedaling on earlier proposals, like the radical Green New Deal, Ocasio–Cortez and other activists have since claimed that the evolving movement doesn’t aim to completely dissolve police departments.

But confusion over the hashtag-driven slogan, echoing prior attempts to eliminate the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, has effectively helped to mobilize outrage and opposition.

As well as defunding law-enforcement, several of AOC’s fellow “Squad” members have endorsed a radical criminal-justice package, introduced by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., that would drastically altar and weaken the prison system.

Liberty Headlines’ Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Facebook Silent as Looters Seek to Sell Stolen Goods

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‘I don’t give no [expletive] about this s**t. I upload stolen [expletive] 365 a year. This ain’t [expletive] first time I did this…’

Facebook Silent as Looters Seek to Sell Stolen Goods
Rioters celebrate acts of destruction during nationwide protests last week triggered by the police killing of George Floyd. / IMAGE: CBS Chicago via YouTube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Although Facebook has been reluctant to publicly join sites like Twitter and Snapchat in censoring President Donald Trump, it has continued to suppress other mostly right-wing voices during recent race riots.

But the company’s moral posturing appears, yet again, to be a one-way street.

After flagging for removal legal activity it disagreed with, Facebook revealed its double-standard by ignoring those who illegally sought to sell stolen merchandise, according to CBS Chicago.

The CBS affiliate said it had uncovered several photos and videos on the social-media site that showed people openly discussing the sale of looted goods.

“I don’t give no [expletive] about this s**t,” says a woman in one of the videos it reviewed. “I upload stolen [expletive] 365 a year. This ain’t [expletive] first time I did this.”

Another video, broadcast via Facebook Live on Sunday, May 31, documented looters at a local strip mall as they filled a van to the brim with contraband.

CBS Chicago said it referred the videos to Chicago police, who are investigating all leads alongside the FBI.

“The FBI is currently reviewing all tips to help us identify actors who are actively instigating violence in the wake of George Floyd’s death,” an FBI special agent said in a statement to CBS.

Federal investigators encourage anyone who witnesses unlawful activity, such as theft, vandalism or violence, to submit any photos, videos or other information to fbi.gov/violence.

“The continued violence & destruction of property nationwide interferes with the rights & safety of First Amendment-protected peaceful demonstrators,” said the FBI statement.

Meanwhile, Facebook last week claimed to have waged its own ideologically-driven counter-terrorism operation by deplatforming some 200 accounts linked to right-wing groups like the Proud Boys and American Guard, which it labeled as white supremacists.

Facebook accused them of threatening to escalate, rather than de-escalate the lawlessness.

“We saw that these groups were planning to rally supporters and members to physically go to the protests and in some cases were preparing to go with weapons,” Brian Fishman, Facebook’s director of counter-terrorism and dangerous organizations policy, breathlessly told the Associated Press.

The groups have garnered a name for themselves by engaging in counter-demonstrations against leftist radical organizations like Antifa.

Trump has endorsed naming Antifa as an official terrorist organization following its role in the recent violence, which has killed more than a dozen innocent victims nationwide.

Undercover videos have shown Antifa-linked activists conducting training sessions in how to resist police and engage in hand-to-hand-combat techniques from liver-punching to eyeball-gouging.

However, many mainstream media outlets have celebrated the rioters and vilified the determent effort. Some are incredulously denying the involvement of Antifa and other radical anarchist groups, despite confirmation from the FBI and law enforcement.

“There have been ‘multiple instances’ in which people who have been arrested have identified themselves to law enforcement as members of antifa,” the Associated Press reported last week, citing a senior Justice Department official who could not elaborate about ongoing investigations.

In response, anti-crime vigilante groups have patrolled cities like Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Crown Point, Indiana, respecting and upholding local laws peacefully with no known reports of having instigated any incidents.

“We came here as a show of force and as a deterrent to prevent that from happening,” said Trevor Treller, a participant in the Idaho patrol.

“Nobody here wants a confrontation,” he said. “And everyone here is wiling to engage in one if it ever should it come to that, or need to be—but nobody wants it, and everyone prays it will never happen.”

Liberty Headlines reached out to Facebook for comment and will update with any response.

Black Activists Rip NFL for Kneeling to ‘Woke’ Players’ Demands

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‘Neither the NFL nor any organization should let protests or riots be an excuse to encourage this unpatriotic behavior…’

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(Liberty Headlines, Michael Barnes) Contrary to what’s portrayed in the mainstream news media, there is plenty of viewpoint diversity in the black community—and the pro-American activist group Project 21 let the NFL know about it on Monday.

“No, Roger Goodell, disrespecting the flag is not justified,” said Horace Cooper, co-chairman of Project 21.

“Too many Americans—black, white and brown—have given their lives fighting for our nation’s flag. Neither the NFL nor any organization should let protests or riots be an excuse to encourage this unpatriotic behavior,” he said.

The backlash from the black leadership network came as a result of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s submission to the demands of activist football players.

In a social-media video meant as outreach to disgraced former quarterback Colin Kaeparnick and other players who knelt during the national anthem, Goodell said, “We were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier.”

“Will be reaching out to players who have raised their voices and others on how we can improve,” he added.

Goodell also issued an obligatory “Black Lives Matter” endorsement.

But that didn’t sit well with Project 21 member Martin Baker. In a statement, Baker said that the NFL, along with other sports leagues and large corporations, is taking a calculated risk based on the direction of current political winds.

“This is a move to ingratiate itself to the over 70 percent of the league’s players who are black. This also is an attempt to entice those younger protestors who sympathize with the struggle to buy League merchandise,” he said.

Project 21 cannot endorse political issues or engage in campaign activity due to its 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, but members like Stacey Washington and Donna Jackson are free to offer their opinions about the NFL.

“As a black mother, my heart aches every time I think of George Floyd calling out for his own mother with his last breaths of life,” said Jackson. “But kneeling against the flag in the NFL is not in earnest when its main objective is directed—as it often has been—at vilifying the president.”

While the strategy of taking an activist stance seems to have panned out for the Kaepernick-sponsored Nike and other virtue-signaling corporations, Washington noted that it may backfire by alienating a large portion of the NFL’s audience, as prior boycotts have suggested.

“The NFL is committing economic suicide. Americans don’t want politics injected into sports or entertainment,” said Washington.

“As more connections are made between the violent riots and property destruction and the Black Lives Matter movement, the NFL will grow to regret bowing to their demands,” she said.

Pro Sports Teams Cancel Contracts w/ Co. After CEO Dares to Question Leftist Police Claims

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‘A better use of time would be to focus on the black-on-black crime and senseless killing of our young men by other young men…’

Pro Sports Teams Cancel Security Company CEO for Challenging BLM Narrative
The Luke Kuechly Gnome, part of the Carolina Panthers’ promotional partnership with CPI Security, which lost its contract with several North Carolina sports teams after rejecting the demands of an activist group to apologize / IMAGE: CPI Security via YouTube

(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Multiple professional sports teams said Saturday that they will stop doing business with CPI Security after the company’s CEO failed to adequately apologize for police brutality.
Cancel culture struck again when Queen City Unity, a left-wing activist organization in North Carolina, sent a letter to Charlotte’s city officials in which the group called for a “complete overhaul and transformation of our local police department,” WRAL reported.
CPI Security CEO Ken Gill responded to the executive director of Queen City Unity in an email, which the group then published in an attempt to “cancel” Gill and the company.
“Please spend your time in a more productive way,” Gill wrote. “I challenge your statistics. A better use of time would be to focus on the black-on-black crime and senseless killing of our young men by other young men.”
The Carolina Panthers, the Charlotte Hornets, and the Charlotte Knights all agreed to cancel their contracts with CPI Security, the Charlotte Observer reported.
The North Carolina State University Athletics department announced that it would also end its relationship with CPI Security because it “values and embraces diversity and inclusion.”
None of these organizations tried to rebuff Gill’s factual claims that black-on-black crime in inner cities presents a far greater threat to black men than so-called system racism in America’s policing.
Instead, Gill bent the knee to the mob.
“Let me say that CPI—and I, personally—stand against racism and discrimination of any kind, and we are actively supporting solutions like the new Charlotte–Mecklenburg Police Department de-escalation training facility that will bring positive change to our community,” he said. “In addition, I fully support the call for racial equality and justice in our community and our country.”

HBO Reboots ‘Looney Tunes’ and Strips Elmer Fudd of His Shotgun

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‘We’re not doing guns…’

HBO Reboots ‘Looney Tunes’ and Strips Elmer Fudd of His Shotgun
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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) HBO Max has rebooted the classic Warner Bros. animated series “Looney Toons” for the benefit of 21st-century children.

But the entertainment juggernaut adapted the cartoons to fit the company’s anti-gun political agenda, and Elmer Fudd has been stripped of his signature shotgun.

“We’re not doing guns,” Peter Browngardt, the series’ executive producer told the New York Times last week.

“But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in,” he said.

Elmer Fudd was traditionally portrayed as a hapless big-game hunter, armed with a double-barreled shotgun. Now, he’ll hunt Bug Bunny with a toilet plunger, or in some cases, a scythe.

Yosemite Sam, the pistol-wielding mustachioed gold prospector intent of shooting troublesome varmints, has also been disarmed.

Ironically, Browngardt told the Times that he vowed to keep the original feel of the cartoons because they are “among the greatest cartoons in history.”

“I always thought, ‘What if Warner Bros. had never stopped making ‘Looney Tunes’ cartoons?’” he said. “As much as we possibly could, we treated the production in that way.”

“There was something about the energy of those early cartoons,” Browngardt continued.

The throwback premiered this week on HBO Max, a streaming service that combines shows and movies from the Time Warner entertainment company, which includes HBO, TNT, CNN and Warner Bros. film and television. AT&T bought Time Warner in 2018.

Notably, Browngardt hired Hollywood story editor Johnny Ryan to create the cartoon’s storylines. Ryan is best known for his Indie Comic books, “Angry Youth Comix” and “Prison Pit,” which feature “frequent scenes of nudity, torture, bodily excretions and random violence,” the Times reported.

So why get involved in kids’ cartoons?

“I thought it would be fun,” Ryan said.

In the interview, Browngardt stuggled to explain the obvious hypocrisy of banishing guns for political reasons while professing to remain true to the original series. “Looney Tunes” is both timeless and yet not of this time, he said.

“We’re going through this wave of anti-bullying, everybody needs to be friends, everybody needs to get along,” he said. “‘Looney Tunes’ is pretty much the antithesis of that.”

Armed Citizens Peacefully, Successfully Defend City from Race Riots

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‘I just want to protect my favorite bar…’

Armed Citizens Defend Streets of Idaho City Without Violence
A well-regulated militia of citizens bearing firearms patrols the streets of Coeur d Alene, Idaho during recent race riots. / IMAGE: KREM 2 News via YouTube

(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Armed citizens patrolled the streets of Coeur d’Alene, a city of 51,000 in northwest Idaho, last Monday in response to rumors that rioters had threatened their city.
Dan Carson, who guarded the street with a 12-gauge shotgun, AR-15 and backup handguns, said he “heard there are some people on the way who shouldn’t be here,” the Coeur d’Alene Press reported.
He mentioned both the radical-leftist Antifa and the far-right Proud Boys as personae non grata in the picturesque waterfront town, just across the state border from Spokane, Washington.
Carson and the other armed citizens said they were in Coeur d’Alene to protect businesses, fellow citizens and the right to peaceful protest.
“By all means. I’m on their side. I disagree with what happened,” he said about George Floyd’s death. “What I don’t agree with is when you turn to violence, and you start rioting and destroying businesses and hurting people who have nothing to do with anything.”
“That’s what I’m here to hopefully prevent,” he said. “I’m not going to be alone. There’s a lot more on the way.”
 
Hundreds of armed citizens with handguns, rifles, shotguns and more patrolled the streets, and there were no incidents of violence.
Austin Machado and Arick Machado, both armed with long rifles, stood in front of the Moose Lounge bar at 10 p.m.
“I just want to protect my favorite bar,” Austin Machado said. “I used to be a bouncer here. It’s my favorite bar and I’m going to protect it.”
Some protesters showed up in downtown Coeur d’Alene. They protested peacefully, chanted “I can’t breathe” among other slogans, and held “Black Lives Matter” signs.
“It’s making me angrier and angrier,” said Christy Robinson, who said she came to protest racial injustice. “Instead of a horrible outlet like burning things or destroying them, I’m trying to have a positive outlet and just get my message out there.”
Meanwhile, an estimated 40 armed citizens stood outside a WinCo supermarket.
“We came here as a show of force and as a deterrent to prevent that from happening,” said Trevor Treller, who carried an AR-15 and a Glock 19 handgun.
“Nobody here wants a confrontation,” he continued. “And everyone here is wiling to engage in one if it ever should it come to that, or need to be—but nobody wants it, and everyone prays it will never happen.”

Trump’s Top Cabinet Officials Push Back on Leftist Narrative of ‘Systemic Racism’

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‘We have policemen who are rogue, but the vast majority of policemen are wonderful…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Attorney General William Barr and several other top Trump administration officials are pushing back on the left-wing narrative that law enforcement is plagued by “systemic racism.”

“I think there’s racism in the United States still, but I don’t think that the law enforcement system is systemically racist,” Barr told CBS News this weekend.

“I understand the distrust, however, of the African–American community [toward authorities] given the history in this country,” he added.

The comments came amid an alarming new push from Democrats to defund police departments. It is unclear what local municipalities would do to preserve law and order instead, but one Minneapolis city counselor claimed that it was a “privilege” to be able to rely on police.

Simultaneously, leftist leaders have advocated for widespread prison releases, particularly in the wake of the recent coronavirus panic.

The U.S. has been reforming its institutions to better promote equality since the 1960s, Barr argued, and although the criminal-justice system isn’t perfect, it has come a long way in ensuring that government institutions are “in sync with our laws and aren’t fighting a rearguard action to impose inequities.”

Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf also dismissed the narrative that racism runs rampant in law enforcement, arguing that abuses committed of a select few cops doesn’t make every cop a racist.

“Painting law enforcement with a broad brush of systemic racism is really a disservice to the men and women who put on the badge, the uniform every day, risk their lives every day to protect the American people,” Wolf told ABC News.

Similarly, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, a self-made African American who raised himself up from the poverty of inner-city Detroit to become a world-renowned brain surgeon, rejected the idea that systemic racism is something to fear.

Carson, whose autobiographical memoir Gifted Hands was turned into a movie staring Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr., reminded Americans that he grew up in a time when there was “real systemic racism.”

AG Barr, Other Top Trump Officials Push Back on 'Systemic Racism' Narrative
Ben Carson / IMAGE: CBS This Morning via YouTube

“We have policemen who are rogue,” he said. “But the vast majority of policemen are wonderful.”

Democrats, on the other hand, have spent the past week accusing law enforcement of disproportionately targeting African Americans.

Presidential candidate Joe Biden, himself rebounding from racially offensive remarks just thee days before the Memorial Day death of George Floyd launched nationwide race riots, asserted that black citizens naturally fear for their safety from “bad police.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, whose state Floyd died in and where the riots first originated, denounced the “stain of fundamental, institutional” racism that plagues police departments.

However, there is little evidence that supports this charge, according to conservative scholar Heather Mac Donald, who explained in the Wall Street Journal that the statistics simply do not support the “systemic racism” narrative.

According to the data, black Americans killed by cops represent 0.1% of all African Americans killed in 2019, Mac Donald wrote. By contrast, a police officer is 18 times more likely to be killed by a black male.

Liberty Headlines’ Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Black Caucus Banks on Its ‘Moment’ to Push for Reparations, Police Reform

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‘I’m inclined to push the envelope as far as we can because we have a moment now…’

Dems Want to Use George Floyd Outrage to Pass Sweeping, Liberal Policies
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) House Democrats intend to use the crisis over George Floyd’s death to push leftist reforms—starting with a criminal-justice reform package that also happens to address health care, education and environmental measures.

They also sought to cash in on the opportunity to re-open, yet again, a long rejected demand for reparations to the ancestors of black slaves.

The Congressional Black Caucus, backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., planned to channel the public outrage sweeping the nation to move the bill through Congress, according to The Hill.

“I’m inclined to push the envelope as far as we can because we have a moment now,” CBC Chairwoman Karen Bass, D-Calif., told CBS News last week.

Bass argued that “systemic racism” within law enforcement is not the only disparity African Americans face.

Black are more likely to live in poverty, less likely to own their own homes, more likely to have higher mortality rate, and less likely to be thoroughly educated, she said.

All of this needs to be comprehensively addressed, according to Pelosi.

“We want to see this as a time where we can go forward in a very drastic way—not incrementally, but in an important way to redress those problems,” Pelosi said last week. “We’re talking a long way back and a lot of injustice in it all.”

One bill that could feature some of these liberal policies is the Justice in Policing Act, which Democrats plan to introduce this week.

The bill itself will revise the federal criminal police misconduct statute to make it easier to prosecute officers who are involved in misconduct “knowingly or with reckless disregard.”

It also would change “qualified immunity” protections for police “to enable individuals to recover damages when law enforcement officers violate their constitutional rights,” it says.

Bass said it’s likely that a reparations package will also be included in the bill—and if not in this bill, then definitely in a different piece of legislation.

“It will be voted on out of committee and on the floor before this session is over,” she said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Disgraced FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Joins NBC News, MSNBC

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TRUMP: ‘You must be kidding??? This is a total disgrace!’…

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Disgraced FBI lawyer Lisa Page is now a national security and legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Page made her debut during Deadline: White House alongside former Mueller probe prosecutor Andrew Weissman, offering legal analysis on President Trump response to Washington, D.C. protesters.

Responding to the news of Page’s hire, Trump slammed the decision as a “disgrace.”

Page, who is best known for her publicized text messages with former FBI agent Peter Strzok, with whom she was having an affair, has regularly complained about the Trump administration and the Justice Department for “betraying” her.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz, however, concluded that the texts sent between Page and Strzok were indicative of “bias or improper considerations” and deserved to be treated as such.

In their texts, Strzok and Page vowed to “stop” Trump’s election and reassured each other that the FBI would have an “insurance policy” for them.

When asked what Strzok meant by “insurance policy,” Page said last December that it was just an “analogy.”

Page went on to argue that she was a “useful foil” for DOJ officials who wanted to get back into the good graces of the Trump administration.

“I mean, it’s deeply unfair. We are all public servants,” Page said. “This is simply not the way — even with wrongdoing, even if you think my text messages were a mistake — this is not how public servants should be treated.”

NYTimes: Bush, Romney, Other RINOs Won’t Back Trump for Reelection

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‘Hard to believe, with this kind of political talent, his numbers would “tank” so badly in Utah!’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Former President George W. Bush and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, will not support President Donald Trump for reelection, according to the New York Times.

While the move is likely to be hyped in leftist media outlets like the Times, it comes as little surprise since both have publicly feuded with the incumbent GOP president. Neither endorsed Trump during his 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton.

Bush, the 43rd president, said he did not vote for either major candidate last election. His father, 41st president George H.W. Bush, voted for Clinton, calling Trump a “blowhard” after the heated primary led to one-time front-runner Jeb Bush‘s humiliating defeat.

Despite the acrimonious history, people familiar with Bush 43’s thinking said Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the protests over George Floyd’s death had convinced him not to support the president in November, the Times reported.

The former president, however, does not plan to get involved in the election and will only speak on policy issues when need be, as he did last week when he said the U.S. must “examine our tragic failures” on race.

As he did in 2016, Romney said he will likely write in his wife’s name again. The failed 2012 GOP nominee has been saying he won’t support Trump since February, when he voted to convict the president of abuse of power during the Senate’s impeachment trial.

Trump took to Twitter on Monday to mock Romney, once again, after the Republican senator marched with radical Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, D.C.

Other specters from the GOP’s former swamp-loving past joined the two erstwhile party leaders in signaling their disdain for the party’s new direction.

Retired Gen. Colin Powell—Bush 43’s one-time secretary of State, who has not supported a Republican for years—said he will vote for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden because Trump “lies about things.”

In response, Trump blasted Powell as a “real stiff who was very responsible for getting us into the disastrous Middle East Wars.”

Biden has been called out repeatedly on the campaign trail for his own falsehoods, corruption and immoral conduct.

Another well-known GOP member, Cindy McCain, the widow of former Sen. John McCain, will likely back Biden, as well, the Times said.

Meanwhile, Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and dynasty heir whom Trump defeated in the 2016 primary, said he hasn’t yet made up his mind how he will vote.

Jeb’s son, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, was the only member if the family to endorse Trump in 2016.

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